User Unknown
Hello everyone. I would really appreciate any help that can be offered. First, in the interest of full disclosure let me say that I am a newbie to Linux and qmail. I have managed to install our Redhat 6.1 system and get it connected to our LAN and the Internet. I now would like to set up the Linux machine as a mail server. Following the instructures given on Life with qmail, I am trying to install qmail using the source codes. So far I a have downloaded qmail and the two add-ons (daemontools and ucspi-tcp), and followed the steps up to building (Section 2.5.5 in Life with qmail). In the qmail-1.03 subdirectory, I typed make setup check After a series of compling, I get the following response: fatal: unable to find user alias make: ***[auto_iods/c] Error 111 , and end up back at the root prompt. Then, following the next directions, I typed ./config and then ./config-fast our.full.hostname at this prompt. I got the following response: bash: ./config: No such file or directory bash* ./config-fast: No such file or directory I have checked the user account tab in linuxconf treemenu and there are users and aliases. My user account is Caroline and my e-mail alias is MAILER-DAEMON. The user account is there. My questions are: 1. Why did the make setup check command not find user alias file? How do I create one? 2. Is the make+***[auto_iods/c}Error 111 warning a different problem. If so, how do I correct this? 3. Why doesn't the ./config or ./config-fast command work? Will it work once the user alias problem is fixed? Thanks in advance for any advice. I sure need it. CarolineT
linux and reiserfs
Hi, I've two questions: 1) I'm planning on using qmail with Redhat linux for a high-load machine (hardware raid scsi disks). Now I don't want to know which linux is better, but I would like to know what extra tuning the operating system requires? Does hdparm can boost the HW raid I/O performance? Do I need to fiddle in the /proc VFS for file-max,inode-max and stuff? A guideline for getting the most out of qmail+linux would be great. 2) I've found many remarks on qmail and reiserfs, but nobody agrees on wether it's good or bad. So I won't start that here all over again but I would like to ask: does anybody use qmail+reiserfs on a high-load production machine? If so, what OS do you recommend and which extra patches to qmail do you suggest/apply? Is it running stable, can it survive crashes? How did you mount/created your reiserfs? Franky
qmail Digest 16 Nov 2000 11:00:00 -0000 Issue 1185
qmail Digest 16 Nov 2000 11:00:00 - Issue 1185 Topics (messages 52230 through 52310): socket sending to qmail problem... please help... 52230 by: Luke Chiam Re: Qmailanalog ... 52231 by: Michael Maier Forwarding with same envelope address 52232 by: mark.sidell.org 52239 by: Brett Randall 52264 by: mark.sidell.org Help - It's urgently - about .qmail-default 52233 by: Expert A doubt about Qmailadmin 52234 by: Expert 52235 by: Mark Anderson 52236 by: James Raftery Help with qmail and ezmlm 52237 by: Pedro Pires 52251 by: Ricardo Cerqueira maildirmake query 52238 by: suresh Re: secrets and lies 52240 by: Matthias Andree 52241 by: Matthias Andree 52249 by: Paul Jarc 52250 by: Paul Jarc 52252 by: Lipscomb, Al 52253 by: Paul Jarc 52254 by: Michael T. Babcock 52255 by: Michael T. Babcock 52257 by: David Dyer-Bennet 52258 by: David Dyer-Bennet 52263 by: Adam McKenna 52268 by: Dave Sill 52270 by: Dave Sill 52271 by: Dave Sill 52273 by: Adam McKenna 52274 by: Paul Jarc 52276 by: Michael T. Babcock 52277 by: Robin S. Socha 52278 by: Adam McKenna 52282 by: Ryan Russell 52283 by: David Dyer-Bennet 52285 by: Dave Sill 52287 by: Matthias Andree 52291 by: Adam McKenna 52293 by: Andre Oppermann how to set the rights for maildir to be secure 52242 by: Ruprecht Helms 52243 by: Ruprecht Helms 52247 by: Brett Randall 52265 by: Dave Sill 52288 by: Brett Randall tcpserver & virtual domain 52244 by: Kiran 52262 by: Dave Sill maildrop-filter-query 52245 by: suresh AUTOMAILDIRMAKE 52246 by: suresh 52267 by: Dave Sill 52275 by: Ricardo Cerqueira adding an outgoing-only smtp server? 52248 by: James T. Perry 52266 by: Dave Sill 52280 by: James T. Perry 52289 by: Dave Sill 52306 by: James T. Perry Re: running daemontools on qmail with large locals and rcpthosts files 52256 by: clemensF 52261 by: Dave Sill Re: Alias - .qmail-default 52259 by: Dave Sill Re: accepting and delivering locally for a different IP ... 52260 by: Dave Sill 52272 by: Wolfgang Zeikat Tired of this virus 52269 by: Eric Garff resend incoming mail to specific doamin 52279 by: Shakaib Sayyid 52286 by: Dave Sill removing Delivered-To header...? 52281 by: Peter Cavender 52297 by: Aaron L. Meehan cr.yp.to delays 52284 by: D. J. Bernstein qmail and pgsql 52290 by: Dean Browett Re: accessing $local in fastforward alias file 52292 by: Brian Reichert re-process delivered mail 52294 by: Colin Humphreys 52305 by: Markus Stumpf max number of virt. domains 52295 by: Marco Leeflang qmailadmin add pop-account failure 52296 by: Marco Leeflang Leave this lista 52298 by: Frederiko dos Santos Costa 52299 by: Jerry Lynde Delivering mail locally 52300 by: Oliver Menzel 52301 by: Alex Pennace rbl users beware: MSN blocked 52302 by: Jon Rust 52303 by: Scott D. Yelich 52308 by: Bruce Guenter Duplicate messages. 52304 by: Andy Abshagen Very strange timeout 52307 by: Kornyakov Yevgeniy User Unknown 52309 by: CB linux and reiserfs 52310 by: Van Liedekerke Franky 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] -- Thank you first. I am writing a linux application trying to send email to a qmail server. I am able to send a very small sized data across successfully and receive in in a mailbox ok, but when the data size becomes larger, it seems that the email vanished in the air! Any idea? Below is the code... == sockfd = socket ( PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0 ); ina.sin_family = AF_INET; ina.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr ( server ); ina.sin_port = htons ( portnum ); memset ( ina.sin_zero, 0, 8 ); connect ( sockfd, ( struct sockaddr * ) &ina, sizeof ( struct sockaddr ) ); slen = strlen ( pstr ); ptmp = pstr; sentlen = 0; leftover = slen; do { sentlen = send ( sockfd, ptmp, slen-sentlen, 0 ); ptmp += sentlen; } while ( ptmp < ( pstr + slen ) ); shutdown ( sockfd, 2 ); close ( sockfd ); == Daniel POGAC wrote: > Can you help me with use qmail analog ??? I have installed qmailanalog and > have log file without time stamps..
Implementation of ETRN
Has anybody tried implementations of ETRN on QMail? If yes, what would be a good choice and where can I get more information on it? Thanks in advance.
Re: how to set the rights for maildir to be secure
Brett Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm not sure you actually understand how unix works. All the folders >in /home shouldn't be accessible to other users anyhow. I'm not sure you're aware of how systems are actually configured. All the user directories on my systems are world readable/executable, and they're that way by default, not because I did something to make it that way. Now maybe your favorite Linux distro does otherwise, which is fine, but that doesn't constitute a universal truth. >I think you should go and read a small book on unix administration >before you go any further... I'm getting visions of a talking pot... It's saying something to a kettle... -Dave
Re: Delivering mail locally
Oliver Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So if my server's domain is domain.com, and I try to send >mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from my own local account (ie: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED]), qmail complaints that in the >MX list for domain.com, the first MX record points back to the original >server.. Put domain.com in control/locals. -Dave
Re: Duplicate messages.
"Andy Abshagen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Duplicate delivery: >Nov 15 21:24:27 mail qmail: 974341467.158027 delivery 34992: success: >did_0+0+2/ Single delivery: >Nov 15 21:24:28 mail qmail: 974341468.155358 delivery 34993: success: >did_0+0+1/ See the difference? The +2 vs. +1? That is the number of "program" deliveries. The user receiving duplicates has a .qmail file that's delivering the message twice. -Dave
RE: Duplicate messages.
OK. And what if there is not a .qmail- for each user??? Andy -Original Message- From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 8:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Duplicate messages. "Andy Abshagen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Duplicate delivery: >Nov 15 21:24:27 mail qmail: 974341467.158027 delivery 34992: success: >did_0+0+2/ Single delivery: >Nov 15 21:24:28 mail qmail: 974341468.155358 delivery 34993: success: >did_0+0+1/ See the difference? The +2 vs. +1? That is the number of "program" deliveries. The user receiving duplicates has a .qmail file that's delivering the message twice. -Dave
Re: User Unknown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Following the instructures given on Life with qmail, I am trying to >install qmail using the source codes. So far I a have downloaded qmail >and the two add-ons (daemontools and ucspi-tcp), and followed the steps >up to building (Section 2.5.5 in Life with qmail). > >In the qmail-1.03 subdirectory, I typed make setup check > >After a series of compling, I get the following response: > > fatal: unable to find user alias > make: ***[auto_iods/c] Error 111 , > >and end up back at the root prompt. What does this show: grep qmail /etc/passwd >Then, following the next directions, When following a set of instructions, if one of the steps fails, *don't* continue on to the next step and expect anything sane to happen. >I have checked the user account tab in linuxconf treemenu and there are >users and aliases. That's great, but are the users qmail requires there? You should have created them in 2.5.4. > My user account is Caroline and my e-mail alias is >MAILER-DAEMON. The user account is there. Mixed case usernames are a bad idea in general, and don't work with qmail. >1. Why did the make setup check command not find user alias file? How >do I create one? It's looking for a user named "alias", not an alias file. You create it and the other qmail users by following the directions in section 2.5.4 of LWQ. >2. Is the make+***[auto_iods/c}Error 111 warning a different problem. >If so, how do I correct this? No. >3. Why doesn't the ./config or ./config-fast command work? Will it work >once the user alias problem is fixed? Most likely. -Dave
RE: Duplicate messages.
"Andy Abshagen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >OK. And what if there is not a .qmail- for each user??? There's *always* a .qmail file, even if it's just the one specified on the qmail-start command line. I don't know exactly how vpopmail sets things up, but there's some difference between the configuration of the two domains in question. -Dave
Re: how to set the rights for maildir to be secure
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not sure you're aware of how systems are actually > configured. All the user directories on my systems are world > readable/executable, and they're that way by default, not because I > did something to make it that way. > > Now maybe your favorite Linux distro does otherwise, which is fine, > but that doesn't constitute a universal truth. Yes...well...I just realised how much I shot myself in the foot. The only distros I've ever used (which isn't many) have had 700 permissions on the home dirs...Now I have learnt otherwise ;) Thanks for the info... >>I think you should go and read a small book on unix administration >>before you go any further... > > I'm getting visions of a talking pot... It's saying something to a > kettle... And then Alice jumped out into the middle of the road and the great teacup jumped on top of her to save her from the likes of the incoming bunny rabbit. -- B r e t t R a n d a l l http://xbox.ipsware.com/ brett_ @ _ipsware.com
Re: Duplicate messages.
* Andy Abshagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001116 09:10]: > OK. And what if there is not a .qmail- for each user??? You mentioned, IIRC, that you are using vpopmail. What is in the .qmail-default file for the domain in question? /pg -- Peter Green : Gospel Communications Network, SysAdmin : [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- panic("esp: detected penguin phase."); (Panic message in the kernel.)
two questions
hi ! I have qmail installed to deliver messages to mbox style mailboxes. Is there an easy way to change it to Maildir ? And next question - my users want to check their mailboxes via www. Could you recommend me some program allowing this working fine with qmail ? I have found oMail 0.94. What do you think of it ? Does it work fine and is secure ? I have to add security is my first concern. regards, Dariusz Zmokly
RE: Duplicate messages.
The .qmail-default contains the following. | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' /home/vpopmail/domains/d-vision.com/andy | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' /home/vpopmail/domains/d-vision.com/randy We want it to go to both users. And we have several other domains that are setup the same way. I'm not sure why this one would be unique in that circumstance. Since I've created the .qmail- files for each user we have not received any duplicate messages. So I think that fixed the problem. But I really don't like that fix. Andy -Original Message- From: Peter Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 9:17 AM To: Qmail Mailing List Subject: Re: Duplicate messages. * Andy Abshagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001116 09:10]: > OK. And what if there is not a .qmail- for each user??? You mentioned, IIRC, that you are using vpopmail. What is in the .qmail-default file for the domain in question? /pg -- Peter Green : Gospel Communications Network, SysAdmin : [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- panic("esp: detected penguin phase."); (Panic message in the kernel.)
Re: Implementation of ETRN
Philip Tong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anybody tried implementations of ETRN on QMail? > > If yes, what would be a good choice and where can I get more information on > it? djb's qmail FAQ contains a brief entry: http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/servers.html Essentially you want AutoTURN. It's better than ETRN and requires no special support by the client. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. ---
Re: Duplicate messages.
* Andy Abshagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001116 09:45]: > The .qmail-default contains the following. > > | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' > /home/vpopmail/domains/d-vision.com/andy > | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' > /home/vpopmail/domains/d-vision.com/randy This is wrong. vdelivermail will deliver to *all* header recipients, every time it's invoked. You'd be better off making an alias, say <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, that points to both of the andy and randy mailboxes. Then, set up the .qmail-default file to read: | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' [EMAIL PROTECTED] And watch the magic work... :) /pg -- Peter Green : Gospel Communications Network, SysAdmin : [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- panic("esp: penguin phase transition after selection."); (Panic message in the kernel.)
Re: how to set the rights for maildir to be secure
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've just tried it with right 700 but it doesn't work. After setting > ist on right 703 it functions. I have tested it with an other > user. He can't read the mail and can't do commands like mv or > others. Try this: cd ~user/.. chown -R user.`id -g user` user chmod 700 user cd user chmod -R u+rw * That should work pretty easily. -- B r e t t R a n d a l l http://xbox.ipsware.com/ brett_ @ _ipsware.com
Re: linux and reiserfs
Van Liedekerke Franky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2) I've found many remarks on qmail and reiserfs, but nobody agrees on > wether it's good or bad. So I won't start that here all over again but I > would like to ask: > does anybody use qmail+reiserfs on a high-load production machine? Several people have mentioned on the list that they are using qmail on ReiserFS in serious production environments. A small patch to qmail is necessary to prevent lost data in the event of certain failures; I can't find the patch at the moment, but it's out there somewhere. There is a page on qmail+ReiserFS here: http://www.jedi.claranet.fr/qmail-reiserfs-howto.html Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. ---
localhost
Hope you can help me with this question: When I send mail to xyz@localhost with pine, qmail returns the mail as undeliverable, as it tries to send the mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (senfpott.gysar is my machine - obviously, it's not connected to the internet with that domain name...) Of course, if have an entry in controls/locals that says: localhost senfpott.gysar So why doesn't qmail accept mails @localhost? Or is this a problem with pine? S.Steinlechner
Re: localhost
Sebastian Steinlechner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I send mail to xyz@localhost with pine, qmail returns the mail as > undeliverable, as it tries to send the mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (senfpott.gysar is my machine - obviously, it's not connected to the internet > with that domain name...) Of course, if have an entry in controls/locals that > says: localhost senfpott.gysar So why doesn't qmail accept mails @localhost? > Or is this a problem with pine? qmail-inject (which is called by the sendmail wrapper) appends /var/qmail/control/defaultdomain to any hostname not containing a dot. It's in the manpage for qmail-inject. The quick solution is to send your mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of localhost. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. ---
Re: secrets and lies
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 08:48:31AM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote: > Another possible qmail attack is it's late bouncing for non-existent > users. Using a false envelope sender address you could fill up the > queue with double bounces. I consider this a more serious problem. > The decision to handle bouncing this way was appearently part of the > security and modularity concept of qmail. Vietse's attack was (modified a bit): while true; do qmail-queue& kill $! done This creates 0 length files in /var/qmail/queue/mess until inodes get exhausted. And manual intervention/recovery certainly seems needed. Dan's response was that this is not completely anonymous since people are supposed to do process accounting. (On RH Linux, btwy, the user is easy to catch since users have their own group). My question is why is not it better for qmail-queue *immediately* write the "received" line identifying the user? Mate
Re: cr.yp.to delays
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 08:22:53PM -, D. J. Bernstein wrote: > UIC is paying its ISP for a measly 14Mbps. UIC has been hitting this > limit more and more frequently since the beginning of September. The > packet-loss rate averages over 2% now, even if you don't count the > recent 30-hour outage, and hits 25% at busy times. > > UIC's computer center is an independently operated profit-making > enterprise. It has no incentive to pay for adequate network service. > Maybe the router is being flooded by some easily fixed source of > traffic; the computer center won't even bother investigating. I wonder why you are still at UIC... Universities are interesting: we recently got rewired to 100Mbps. But the rewiring started in the Admin building, and the mathsci building was rewired 2 years after. Mate
Qmail repeating system name in address
First let me state that I'm sure this is a rather stupid question, but I was stumped by it for a bit. If this is covered in a HOWTO or other document somewhere, please feel free to refer me to said document. I've been attempting to setup a qmail server for a short time now. I've looked at several different sources of documentation and each of them seem to have a different manner of going about the setup. For right now, I'm not overly concerned with all the nifty optional items. I would much rather get a simple qmail install up and running and then look into tweaking it to my needs. As it stands currently I've been stuck at testing local delivery. Every test message I tried would result in a bounce. In the bounced message I could see that for some reason qmail was adding additional information to the addresses. For example if I addressed a message to "user@system" the bounce message would show "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I only have three control files at the moment: me, locals, and rcpthosts. All of these files have the same information in them. Originally this entry was "system". However in order to stop qmail from repeating I had to change this to "system.". Can someone explain why this was necessary? I feel that if I understand this, it will help with future delivery problems. Jamin W. Collins
Re: how to set the rights for maildir to be secure
martin langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >pd: what distro are you using that sets users directories to 755? Solaris, IRIX, TRU64 UNIX, etc. 755 is traditional for UNIX. -Dave
Re: Qmail repeating system name in address
Jamin Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >As it stands currently I've been stuck at testing local delivery. Every >test message I tried would result in a bounce. In the bounced message I >could see that for some reason qmail was adding additional information to >the addresses. For example if I addressed a message to "user@system" the >bounce message would show "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I only have three control >files at the moment: me, locals, and rcpthosts. All of these files have the >same information in them. Originally this entry was "system". However in >order to stop qmail from repeating I had to change this to "system.". > >Can someone explain why this was necessary? I feel that if I understand >this, it will help with future delivery problems. "me", "locals", and "rcpthosts" are supposed to be a fully qualified domain names. E.g., hostname.domain.tld. SMTP and qmail both require addresses to be fully qualified. -Dave
emacs rmail+maildir
Greets qmailers. One one my lusers insists on using emacs rmail for reading mail. I'm not an emacs user so I don't know a lick about it, but I do know it doesn't talk to the Maildir format. It wants mbox format. Normally I would have her mail delivered to both Maildir and Mailbox but NFS is in the picture. g! Mailbox deliveries are out the window. In short, does anyone have a patch, etc for emacs to allow it to talk to Maildir, or know where to find one? I poked around at qmail.org with no luck. Thanks for any help. Regards, kw -- 1:43pm up 3 days, 14:50, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Keith Warno[h]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> || [w]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Delivering mail locally
yep, setup in both files. it just won't let me relay mail locally between accounts, because it complaints it loops back to the MX record. Oliver --- Scott Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is the local domain in both 'locals' and 'rcpthosts'? > > ScottG. > > Oliver Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > hello, > > perhaps this is another silly question, but I'm trying to deliver > mail > > locally. So if my server's domain is domain.com, and I try to send > > mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from my own local account (ie: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED]), qmail complaints that in > the > > MX list for domain.com, the first MX record points back to the > original > > server.. > > > > Which is currect, since the first MX record (with the highest > priority) > > is the actual host, I'm working on now. > > > > Can anyone offer some insight? > > > > Thanks! > > Oliver > > > > __ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! > > http://calendar.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/
Local delivery problems (Expanded)
Hi, I have a domain integrationsoft.com, when I get mail on one account (user1), and login, and attempt to forward the mail to another account (user2), on the same domain/server qmail complaints: from /var/log/messages: Nov 15 15:38:38 m3 sendmail[50960]: eAFNccL50958: SYSERR(phate): MX list for phate.com. points back to m3.integrationsoft.com Nov 15 15:41:05 m3 sendmail[50971]: eAFNeg450969: SYSERR(phate): mr1.integrationsoft.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) Nov 15 15:53:59 m3 sendmail[50994]: eAFNrbJ50992: SYSERR(phate): mr1.integrationsoft.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) MX records for integrationsoft.com > set type=mx > integrationsoft.com Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 integrationsoft.com preference = 10, mail exchanger = mr1.integrationsoft.com integrationsoft.com preference = 20, mail exchanger = mr2.integrationsoft.com integrationsoft.com nameserver = ns1.integrationsoft.com integrationsoft.com nameserver = ns2.integrationsoft.com ns1.integrationsoft.com internet address = 64.75.21.87 ns2.integrationsoft.com internet address = 64.75.21.88 mr1 is an alias for m3. How can I fix this error, everything looks OK to me Thanks! Oliver __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/
Re: Local delivery problems (Expanded)
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:12:23AM -0800, Oliver Menzel wrote: > I have a domain integrationsoft.com, when I get mail on one account > (user1), and login, and attempt to forward the mail to another account > (user2), on the same domain/server qmail complaints: > > from /var/log/messages: > > Nov 15 15:38:38 m3 sendmail[50960]: eAFNccL50958: SYSERR(phate): MX > list for phate.com. points back to m3.integrationsoft.com > Nov 15 15:41:05 m3 sendmail[50971]: eAFNeg450969: SYSERR(phate): > mr1.integrationsoft.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX > problem?) > Nov 15 15:53:59 m3 sendmail[50994]: eAFNrbJ50992: SYSERR(phate): > mr1.integrationsoft.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX > problem?) That ain't qmail talking. Chris
And error occurred while sending mail
there is an error when I try to send a messages by a client as Eudora or Netscape Messenger to other server as Hotmail or Yahoo, the message is: And error occurred while sending mail. The mail server reponded: sorry, that domain isn´t in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) Please check the message recipientes and try again. I use too a Webmail client, but this works good... If someone now how to fix it please tell me... === isilicom Romeo Manzur Web Developer Av. 27 de Febrero 904-A 1 Centro Villahemrosa. Tabasco, Mexico C.P.: 86000 T.:52(93) 12-4790 - Este mensaje fue enviado por el sistema de Webmail de Isilicom. http://www.isilicom.com.mx/webmail/
Re: Local delivery problems (Expanded)
Thanks! I just thought my sendmail was a link to the corresponding qmail program, but I skipped that step during installation Regards, Oliver --- Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:12:23AM -0800, Oliver Menzel wrote: > > I have a domain integrationsoft.com, when I get mail on one account > > (user1), and login, and attempt to forward the mail to another > account > > (user2), on the same domain/server qmail complaints: > > > > from /var/log/messages: > > > > Nov 15 15:38:38 m3 sendmail[50960]: eAFNccL50958: SYSERR(phate): MX > > > list for phate.com. points back to m3.integrationsoft.com > > Nov 15 15:41:05 m3 sendmail[50971]: eAFNeg450969: SYSERR(phate): > > > mr1.integrationsoft.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX > > problem?) > > Nov 15 15:53:59 m3 sendmail[50994]: eAFNrbJ50992: SYSERR(phate): > > > mr1.integrationsoft.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX > > problem?) > > That ain't qmail talking. > > Chris __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/
Re: secrets and lies
Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I said "sounds like". And in the context in which his opinion was presented, > it sounds a lot like MS's. I read it as if he meant (not a quote, but my interpretation): Don't rely on people testing your software, even if you offer money for found holes, but if you want reliable audits, go hire somebody. In fact, the SDMS (secure digital music anything) has rewarded some $$$ for cracking their stuff, which is utterly nonsense. If someone is to make them feel sorry and ashamed, they'll wait until the "contest" is closed and file their crack afterwards. Apart from the obvious impossibility to protect against the final -- decrypted -- information delivery. -- Matthias Andree
Re: emacs rmail+maildir
Keith Warno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One one my lusers insists on using emacs rmail for reading mail. I'm > not an emacs user so I don't know a lick about it, but I do know it > doesn't talk to the Maildir format. It wants mbox format. Three comments: 1. GNUS, another EMACS mail/news reader, has no problem with Maildir. They might want to just use that. 2. Searching around briefly, I see a message that rmail users can use 'maildir2mbox' to convert their Maildir into standard mbox format. rmail can be configured to run a program to check new mail, and if you set up a script that runs maildir2mbox in an appropriate way, then have it run that when it's checking mail, it should just work. See: http://lists.omnipotent.net/qmail/199707/msg00111.html 3. You might want to search around and see if there is a newer version of rmail than the one they're using, which perhaps supports Maildir natively. Hope this is helpful, --ScottG.
Re: removing Delivered-To header...?
>Quoting Peter Cavender ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi- > > > > I have a qmail server hosting several virtual domains, and all mail > > delivered to recipients in the virtual domains have a Delivered-To > > header line indicating the "main" domain name of the server. > >Fascinating. Is that a government secret, or something? haha - no, I just host several domains for third parties, and the people on domain3 ask why domain1 shows up in their mail headers... Just trying to make my mail services *completely* virtualized. People at local-bapist-church.org wouldn't want hot-sex-pics.com in their mail headers. ;-) >Doesn't the Received header also mention what your domain name is? Not an issue for me - I only have incoming POP boxes, no relaying. > > > I want to delete this line, and I understand that the -d option to > > preline is the way to do this, but *where* do do do this? > >Hmmm, but what program will you use to actually do the delivery? >You don't mention what mailbox format you're using. Vanilla Maildir delivery on local machine. > >Anyway, Delivered-To is there to prevent mail loops. Not all that >terrific an idea to cut them out. Hmmm... --Pete
Re: And error occurred while sending mail
Romeo Manzur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > there is an error when I try to send a messages by a client as Eudora or > Netscape Messenger to other server as Hotmail or Yahoo, the message is: > >And error occurred while sending mail. >The mail server reponded: >sorry, that domain isn´t in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) >Please check the message recipientes and try again. You need to allow relaying for your local LAN addresses -- typically by using tcpserver and a .cdb file to set the RELAYCLIENT environment variable for connections from those addresses. See "Life with qmail" for details on selective relaying. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. ---
Re: emacs rmail+maildir
Thanks for the help from those who have assisted. I've not used maildir2mbox in the past; I know it "does not protect against simultanous access by another maildir2mbox" (from maildir(5)) but is it safe to use over NFS? Thanks again, kw -- 3:40pm up 3 days, 16:47, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Keith Warno[h]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> || [w]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 2000-11-16 at 15:17 -0500, Scott Gifford uttered: | Keith Warno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > One one my lusers insists on using emacs rmail for reading mail. I'm | > not an emacs user so I don't know a lick about it, but I do know it | > doesn't talk to the Maildir format. It wants mbox format. | | Three comments: | | 1. GNUS, another EMACS mail/news reader, has no problem with Maildir. |They might want to just use that. | | 2. Searching around briefly, I see a message that rmail users can use |'maildir2mbox' to convert their Maildir into standard mbox format. |rmail can be configured to run a program to check new mail, and if |you set up a script that runs maildir2mbox in an appropriate way, |then have it run that when it's checking mail, it should just work. | |See: | | http://lists.omnipotent.net/qmail/199707/msg00111.html | | 3. You might want to search around and see if there is a newer version |of rmail than the one they're using, which perhaps supports Maildir |natively. | | Hope this is helpful, | | --ScottG. | |
Re: Implementation of ETRN
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 08:55:03AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > Essentially you want AutoTURN. It's better than ETRN and requires no > special support by the client. We use a similar approach. However, we do queue the eMails in Maildirs mapped to domain names, i.e. /var/qmail/etrn/example.com which contains a .qmail-default ./Maildir/ ./Maildir RELAYHOST1.2.3.4 # defines IP to deliver to Via tcpserver and ACLs we do mappings like 1.2.3.4:allow,RELAYCLIENT="",ETRN="example.com" This allows us to define IPs that trigger AutoTURN for a specific domain (and the IP that triggers AutoTURN hasn't even to be the mailserver the mails get delivered to). However there are some mailservers that are set up to explicitely "trigger" ETRN that give up with qmail as qmail doesn't know about ETRN commands. Give up means even if they are configured to e.g. connect every 30 minutes to ETRN they stop at all as they get a 500 code from qmail. I have added this code to qmail-smtpd.c: (sorry no patch, as we're still on a qmail-1.01 and it is *heavily* patched, so a patch would not apply). char *env_etrn; in getenvs() add env_etrn = env_get("ETRN"); /* */ void smtp_etrn(arg) char *arg; { if (env_etrn) { out("250 OK, queuing for node "); out(env_etrn); out(" started\r\n"); } else { if (!arg) { out("500 Syntax Error\r\n"); } else { out("459 Node "); out(arg); out(" not allowed: not configured\r\n"); } } } /* */ and also add { smtp_etrn, "etrn", 1 } to the smtpcmd[] struct. tcpserver now starts a script "qmail-smtpd-etrn" that looks like this: # #!/bin/sh [ ! -z "$ETRN" ] && { ( exec /dev/null 2>&1 /var/qmail/bin/sm-delivery $ETRN &1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger "serialsmtp" 17 & ) & } exec /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd # /var/qmail/bin/sm-delivery in turn is a small script that basically - exists, if it can't get a lock on /var/qmail/etrn/$ETRN/RELAYHOST - otherwise locks /var/qmail/etrn/$ETRN/RELAYHOST and starts delivering eMails from /var/qmail/etrn/$ETRN/Maildir via maildirsmtp to the host listed in /var/qmail/etrn/$ETRN/RELAYHOST \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 repeating system name in address
Just a few messages ago, I asked almost the same question. Here's what Charles Cazabon told me: >qmail-inject (which is called by the sendmail wrapper) appends >/var/qmail/control/defaultdomain to any hostname not containing a dot. >It's in the manpage for qmail-inject. >The quick solution is to send your mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of >localhost. So in your case: Don't send your mail to just user@system, but to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In addition (again thanks to Charles) you could try adding system.system to your locals file. - Original Message - From: "Dave Sill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 7:42 PM Subject: Re: Qmail repeating system name in address > Jamin Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >As it stands currently I've been stuck at testing local delivery. Every > >test message I tried would result in a bounce. In the bounced message I > >could see that for some reason qmail was adding additional information to > >the addresses. For example if I addressed a message to "user@system" the > >bounce message would show "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I only have three control > >files at the moment: me, locals, and rcpthosts. All of these files have the > >same information in them. Originally this entry was "system". However in > >order to stop qmail from repeating I had to change this to "system.". > > > >Can someone explain why this was necessary? I feel that if I understand > >this, it will help with future delivery problems. > > "me", "locals", and "rcpthosts" are supposed to be a fully qualified > domain names. E.g., hostname.domain.tld. SMTP and qmail both require > addresses to be fully qualified. > > -Dave >
Re: Qmail repeating system name in address
> In addition (again thanks to Charles) you could try adding system.system to > your locals file. No. Don't do that. It's a completely bogus solution. Better to understand what you want to do and use the configuration appropriately. For example, consider: defaultdomain, plusdomain and the like. A read of the qmail-control man page is a good place to start. Regards. > > - Original Message - > From: "Dave Sill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 7:42 PM > Subject: Re: Qmail repeating system name in address > > > > Jamin Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >As it stands currently I've been stuck at testing local delivery. Every > > >test message I tried would result in a bounce. In the bounced message I > > >could see that for some reason qmail was adding additional information to > > >the addresses. For example if I addressed a message to "user@system" > the > > >bounce message would show "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I only have three > control > > >files at the moment: me, locals, and rcpthosts. All of these files have > the > > >same information in them. Originally this entry was "system". However > in > > >order to stop qmail from repeating I had to change this to "system.". > > > > > >Can someone explain why this was necessary? I feel that if I understand > > >this, it will help with future delivery problems. > > > > "me", "locals", and "rcpthosts" are supposed to be a fully qualified > > domain names. E.g., hostname.domain.tld. SMTP and qmail both require > > addresses to be fully qualified. > > > > -Dave > > >
Re: emacs rmail+maildir
Keith Warno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the help from those who have assisted. > > I've not used maildir2mbox in the past; I know it "does not protect > against simultanous access by another maildir2mbox" (from maildir(5)) > but is it safe to use over NFS? NFS is only less safe than local storage for locking, and even then only if your NFS implementation really sucks. So I wouldn't worry about it. To prevent both, though, you could write a simple wrapper script for maildir2mbox that did some kind of file-based, NFS-aware locking (or just use fcntl/flock, if your NFS is non-horrible). ScottG.
Re: qmail 1.04
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Peter van Dijk wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 10:13:44AM +0100, Markus Stumpf wrote: > > > > It probably would also be cool to have a cdb for vitualdomains, just > > like morercpthosts. > > That would mean that virtualdomains updates are instantly instead of > only happening at SIGHUP? > > There is no performance benefit in having virtualdomains as a cdb. Heh. I have 75 domains managed and the virtualhost file contains about the same number of lines. It's not a performance issue but a management one. -- Nagy Balazs, LSC http://www.lsc.hu/
control files on an NFS share?
Our one qmail/vpopmail server is about to become a node in a load balanced pool of mail servers. I plan to mount the queue via NFS (I am now, in fact) but am wondering about the control files. It seems that at least SOME of them should be safe to share over NFS. Any thoughts or recommendations? Thanks, Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: control files on an NFS share?
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 05:40:27PM -0600, Ben Beuchler wrote: > Our one qmail/vpopmail server is about to become a node in a load > balanced pool of mail servers. I plan to mount the queue via NFS (I am > now, in fact) but am wondering about the control files. It seems that Ouch. You will, at some stage, lose mail this way. Is it actually working? > at least SOME of them should be safe to share over NFS. Any thoughts or > recommendations? Anything but queue is probably ok. Regards.
Re: control files on an NFS share?
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 02:49:24PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 05:40:27PM -0600, Ben Beuchler wrote: > > Our one qmail/vpopmail server is about to become a node in a load > > balanced pool of mail servers. I plan to mount the queue via NFS (I am > > now, in fact) but am wondering about the control files. It seems that > > Ouch. You will, at some stage, lose mail this way. Is it actually working? I mis-spoke. The queue is, of course, local. The spool is on the NFS share. I slipped into "boss speak" there for a second. My boss for some reason persists in referring to the spool as the queue... > > at least SOME of them should be safe to share over NFS. Any thoughts or > > recommendations? > > Anything but queue is probably ok. I am primarily concerned about files like 'rcpthosts'. They are read on every invocation of qmail-smtpd. Am I going to be looking at significant overhead from reading a file like that over NFS? Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: secrets and lies
Thus spake Mate Wierdl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I thought it was possible that Dan would give some hints on his view > on secure programming in these notes. Don't talk. Read his code and you will understand. > > Software is secure iff the architecture and trust model is sound, which > > you can verify yourself in a few hours. > You make software security look easy, and Schneier's book tells me > otherwise. Software security _is_ easy. The correct paradigms have been published for decades. It is only non-trivial to write good (and secure) software if you use legacy APIs that make it unnecessarily hard on you. That's why Dan decided to not use many routines from the standard C library. Actually, he has written many notes on his reasoning, you just have to look instead of posting here and thinking that maybe others do the work for you. > 1) It seems that systematic (scientific?) testing of qmail >or djbdns has not happened---except by Dan. Had you actually read the Schneier, you would know that no testing in the world can prove the security of a system. Testing can only prove that a system is not secure. > 2) The only way we could get a hint on the guiding ideas of Dan on >secure computing is to read the source code he writes. Or you could read a few books or papers about security. The guidelines are easy and easily understood and implemented. For example, minimizing the trusted computing base and >But this is reverse engineering, and is similar to trying to >undertand Gauss's ideas by reading his proofs---good luck. Reconstructing the source code from a binary program is reverse engineering. Reading the source code is not. And source code is a formal representation of an algorithm, not a proof. An algorithm would tell you how to prove something. Understanding Gauss by his proofs is like understanding djb by looking at an RPM. It is still possible, by the way, because the man pages are great. > Or does everybody on this list who read qmail's sources is writing > 100% secure software now? Why don't just read the sources yourself and find out? > Does everybody have a clear idea what Dan considers a security > problem? A buffer overflow on the stack, for example. > For example, he clearly does not care about preventing some > DoS attacks. Your oversimplifications border on intention deconstructivism. Read his fscking web pages and find your questions answered. Felix
Strange 550 errors to ???
I have had my qmail setup for several years and just now have started to notice that some recipients are returning: 550 relaying mail to ... is not allowed. This happens when a virtual user is relaying through my server and the servername is not the same as the recipient. For example: I send mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it is rejected with the above error. However if I send mail from the domain that is listed in defaultdomain "laschools.org" it works fine. This has happened both times on university sites. exchange.calstatela.edu and ucla.edu. Could it be an exchange server setup that is bad. Or do I have something misconfigured for all this time and didn't know it.
Re: qmail 1.04
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 10:03:06PM +0100, Balazs Nagy wrote: [snip] > > > It probably would also be cool to have a cdb for vitualdomains, just > > > like morercpthosts. > > That would mean that virtualdomains updates are instantly instead of > > only happening at SIGHUP? > > > > There is no performance benefit in having virtualdomains as a cdb. > Heh. I have 75 domains managed and the virtualhost file contains about the > same number of lines. It's not a performance issue but a management one. How would having virtualdomains being a cdb help you manage better? Greetz, Peter -- dataloss networks '/ignore-ance is bliss' - me 'Het leven is een stuiterbal, maar de mijne plakt aan t plafond!' - me
Re: secrets and lies
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:01:13AM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: [snip] > My question is why is not it better for qmail-queue *immediately* write > the "received" line identifying the user? That will not solve the problem, just create a race-condition. Greetz, Peter -- dataloss networks '/ignore-ance is bliss' - me 'Het leven is een stuiterbal, maar de mijne plakt aan t plafond!' - me
Re: qmail 1.04
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 02:55:51AM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 10:03:06PM +0100, Balazs Nagy wrote: > [snip] > > > > It probably would also be cool to have a cdb for vitualdomains, just > > > > like morercpthosts. > > > That would mean that virtualdomains updates are instantly instead of > > > only happening at SIGHUP? > > > > > > There is no performance benefit in having virtualdomains as a cdb. > > Heh. I have 75 domains managed and the virtualhost file contains about the > > same number of lines. It's not a performance issue but a management one. > > How would having virtualdomains being a cdb help you manage better? By saving on the HUP to qmail-send? Regards.
Re: Delivering mail locally
> it just won't let me relay mail locally between accounts, > because it complaints it loops back to the MX record. If a domain is listed in control/locals, then the MX record is never even looked at. MX records apply only to remote deliveries. Chris
Re: qmail 1.04
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 06:02:44PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 02:55:51AM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 10:03:06PM +0100, Balazs Nagy wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > It probably would also be cool to have a cdb for vitualdomains, just > > > > > like morercpthosts. > > > > That would mean that virtualdomains updates are instantly instead of > > > > only happening at SIGHUP? > > > > > > > > There is no performance benefit in having virtualdomains as a cdb. > > > Heh. I have 75 domains managed and the virtualhost file contains about the > > > same number of lines. It's not a performance issue but a management one. > > > > How would having virtualdomains being a cdb help you manage better? > > By saving on the HUP to qmail-send? As I'd started this (sub-)thead ;-) I made two mistakes, when I wrote that I want to have a cdb ;-) We're currently experiencing some temporary performance problems with our qmail server. This is due to large smtproutes and rcpthosts files and some I/O bottleneck on the disk they're located. Mistake 1) A cdb wouldn't help with this problem, as its usually even slightly larger Mistake 2) virtualdomains is only read once and kept im memory. Making a cdb out of virtualdomains wouldn't help with the bottleneck ;-) Working around the need for a kill -HUP to reread virtualdomains would (for performance reasons) imply to have a mechanism to notice changes to the cdb (timestamp on file e.g.) and only refresh when changed. This however could also be done with a "plain" virtualdomains file, except one would save the costs of hashing the file. What also should be taken into consideration is constantly stat()ing the virtualdomains file/cdb vs an occasional reload due to a kill -HUP. \Maex P.S. We'll hopefully be solving the I/O problem soon by migrating the qmail server on a RAID 5 array ;-) -- 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 repeating system name in address
I apologize for my error in not providing the actual logs. I had thought I did provide enough detailed information. I am very sorry for my error in judgement. However, it appears that my problem may have been that I was using the system name only, not the FQDN. I would like to thank everyone for their rapid responses. Jamin W. Collins -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 12:34 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Qmail repeating system name in address On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 12:17:25PM -0600, Jamin Collins wrote: > As it stands currently I've been stuck at testing local delivery. Every > test message I tried would result in a bounce. In the bounced message I > could see that for some reason qmail was adding additional information to > the addresses. For example if I addressed a message to "user@system" the > bounce message would show "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I only have three control > files at the moment: me, locals, and rcpthosts. All of these files have the > same information in them. Originally this entry was "system". However in > order to stop qmail from repeating I had to change this to "system.". > > Can someone explain why this was necessary? I feel that if I understand > this, it will help with future delivery problems. Jamin. When someone comes to you with a problem, what's the first thing you do? Do you perchance ask for exact evidence to help you narrow down the possibilities? Do you perchance want to see the output of what happened? Do you perchance want to dive into log files to see what the system was doing? Do you perchance want to see exactly what they've done so you can try to reproduce it? Guess what? People on this list are no better than you. We need actually real-life examples and actual real-life log file entries to understand the problem. So how about showing us the bounces (with headers) and the associated log file entries? Regards.
virtualdomains.cdb
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:47:50AM +0100, Markus Stumpf wrote: > Working around the need for a kill -HUP to reread virtualdomains would > (for performance reasons) imply to have a mechanism to notice changes > to the cdb (timestamp on file e.g.) and only refresh when changed. > This however could also be done with a "plain" virtualdomains file, > except one would save the costs of hashing the file. For each cdb lookup, the program mmaps the cdb, does a lookup, then unmaps it. Provided that programs which change the file do so atomically with rename(), the querying program will never have to worry about missing data due to updates. PGP signature
bounces...but configured right
I am forwarding bounce warnings from 2 mailing lists I subscribe to...(imp, and vmailmgr) I want to know...I found that there was not a carraige return after the bryant.dsc.k12.ar.us entry in control/rcpthosts , I just added one, but is that why these messages have been bouncing...but sometimes go through... I thought I had been getting most of my mail from these lists...in fact I was watching the vmailmgr one today, and know I got a message on it... why don't messages bounce all the time on an error like this? Thanks, Barry Smoke Bryant Public Schools using qmail for 3 years...and loving it! Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. I'm working for my owner, who can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages to you from the imp mailing list seem to have been bouncing. I've attached a copy of the first bounce message I received. If this message bounces too, I will send you a probe. If the probe bounces, I will remove your address from the imp mailing list, without further notice. I've kept a list of which messages from the imp mailing list have bounced from your address. Copies of these messages may be in the archive. To retrieve a set of messages 123-145 (a maximum of 100 per request), send an empty message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To receive a subject and author list for the last 100 or so messages, send an empty message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Here are the message numbers: 584 585 586 587 588 589 590 591 596 594 595 592 597 598 601 602 593 599 600 603 604 619 606 610 608 611 613 612 623 625 629 605 626 627 628 607 631 609 616 617 621 614 622 615 624 618 620 630 --- Enclosed is a copy of the bounce message I received. Return-Path: <> Received: (qmail 94209 invoked for bounce); 5 Nov 2000 06:39:09 - Date: 5 Nov 2000 06:39:09 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at horde.org. 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]>: 165.29.94.240 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) Giving up on 165.29.94.240. Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. I'm working for my owner, who can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages to you from the vmailmgr mailing list seem to have been bouncing. I've attached a copy of the first bounce message I received. If this message bounces too, I will send you a probe. If the probe bounces, I will remove your address from the vmailmgr mailing list, without further notice. I've kept a list of which messages from the vmailmgr mailing list have bounced from your address. Copies of these messages may be in the archive. To retrieve a set of messages 123-145 (a maximum of 100 per request), send an empty message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To receive a subject and author list for the last 100 or so messages, send an empty message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Here are the message numbers: 4111 4112 4113 4114 --- Enclosed is a copy of the bounce message I received. Return-Path: <> Received: (qmail 32690 invoked for bounce); 5 Nov 2000 02:59:47 - Date: 5 Nov 2000 02:59:47 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at daedalus.bfsmedia.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]>: 165.29.94.240 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) Giving up on 165.29.94.240.
Re: control files on an NFS share?
Ben Beuchler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Our one qmail/vpopmail server is about to become a node in a load > balanced pool of mail servers. I plan to mount the queue via NFS (I am > now, in fact) but am wondering about the control files. It seems that > at least SOME of them should be safe to share over NFS. Any thoughts or > recommendations? We have stored all configuration files (save 'me') on NFS for about 8 months now, with no problem. It does put quite a bit of additional strain on the NFS server, though; I'm looking at moving control to a RAMdisk, and just copying from the NFS server when qmail is restarted. We also store spool on NFS with no problems. We've stored queue on NFS in the past, and while we didn't see any lost mail, we did see huge performance problems, and had to move it to local storage. --ScottG.
Re: qmail 1.04
> I made two mistakes, when I wrote that I want to have a cdb ;-) > > We're currently experiencing some temporary performance problems with > our qmail server. This is due to large smtproutes and rcpthosts files > and some I/O bottleneck on the disk they're located. > > Mistake 1) A cdb wouldn't help with this problem, as its usually even >slightly larger > Mistake 2) virtualdomains is only read once and kept im memory. Making >a cdb out of virtualdomains wouldn't help with the bottleneck ;-) Right. But you're assuming that qmail-send would read the whole of virtualdomains in at startup when it's a cdb file. I would imagine a more sensible strategy would be to read the relevant entry per email - as is done with the other cdb files. Regards.
Temporary long delay (Qmail and Real -Time )
I have strange delay -- If clients (or other servers) d't use my SMTP server during 10 (or more) minutes appear timaut about 1 min. After this timeout all working OK - without some timeout till next pause from work SMTP server... I use tcpserver with -R -H options and Slackware linux... I suspect this problem have to do with reduce process prioritet and remove all qmail daemons to swap... How I can avoid this ???
Re: Temporary long delay (Qmail and Real -Time )
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 12:43:55PM +0600, Kornyakov Yevgeniy wrote: > I have strange delay -- > If clients (or other servers) d't use my > SMTP server during 10 (or more) minutes > appear timaut about 1 min. > After this timeout all working OK - without > some timeout till next pause from work SMTP server... > I use tcpserver with -R -H options and Slackware linux... > I suspect this problem have to do with reduce process prioritet > and remove all qmail daemons to swap... > How I can avoid this ??? I'd be surprised if it's a swap issue. qmail-smtpd and qmail-queue are very small programs. Have you used things like vmstat to confirm your suspicion about swapping? You also need to give us more details about the delays. Where do they occur exactly? When the remote site tries to connect? When the mail is accepted and placed in the queue? When it's in the queue and waiting to be delivered? What happens when you do a manual smtp session to your server using telnet? Where do you see the delays? Regards.