daemon mode VS tcpserver
Hi all. I have a heavly hit mail server with qmail. It's better to use qmail in DAEMON MODE or using TCPSERVER ? Can anyone give me and advice??? Bye.
Re: daemon mode VS tcpserver
Linux writes: Hi all. I have a heavly hit mail server with qmail. It's better to use qmail in DAEMON MODE or using TCPSERVER ? Can anyone give me and advice??? I'm not sure what you mean by 'daemon mode'. Qmail-smtpd needs tcpserver or inetd to supply it with tcp connections; it cannot run independently. DJB recommends running qmail-smtpd from tcpserver, not inetd.` Vince.
qmail, xinetd and rblsmtpd
Hi! I'm running qmail 1.03 in a RedHat Linux 7.0 box. Qmail is invoked by rblsmtpd, which again is invoked by xinetd. For some reason, rblsmtpd is not working; it passes all messages through even if the message comes from blackholed host. I believe the problem is that xinetd is not correctly passing rblsmtpd the remote host ip. Tcpserver passes the remote host ip in environment variable TCPREMOTEIP. How can I make xinetd do the same? I've already tried adding the following line to xinetd's configuration file, but it didn't help: passenv += TCPREMOTEIP Thanks in advance! Yours, mV
qmail, xinetd and rblsmtpd
Hi! I'm running qmail 1.03 in a RedHat Linux 7.0 box. Qmail is invoked by rblsmtpd, which again is invoked by xinetd. For some reason, rblsmtpd is not working; it passes all messages through even if the message comes from blackholed host. I believe the problem is that xinetd is not correctly passing rblsmtpd the remote host ip. Tcpserver passes the remote host ip in environment variable TCPREMOTEIP. How can I make xinetd do the same? I've already tried adding the following line to xinetd's configuration file, but it didn't help: passenv += TCPREMOTEIP Thanks in advance! Yours, -mV
qmail Digest 11 Dec 2000 11:00:00 -0000 Issue 1210
qmail Digest 11 Dec 2000 11:00:00 - Issue 1210 Topics (messages 53810 through 53839): A local mail server in sync with a .com 53810 by: Devrim Erdem 53833 by: andrew.tic.ch Newbie questions relating to multiple servers 53811 by: Roger Arnold 53816 by: David Dyer-Bennet Re: all mail forwarding and catching all bounces 53812 by: Charles Cazabon 53818 by: Peter Green 53824 by: Charles Cazabon 53826 by: Alex Kramarov Re: IPCHAINS and Qmail 53813 by: Steve Manes 53814 by: Phil Oester 53815 by: David Dyer-Bennet 53817 by: Steve Manes 53819 by: Peter Green 53821 by: Colin Palmer 53822 by: Colin Palmer 53823 by: Colin Palmer 53827 by: Sean Reifschneider 53828 by: Henning Brauer Re: How to get Mail delivery in form cgi´s work 53820 by: Chris Johnson Re: big-concurrency.patch 53825 by: Martin Volesky Does qmail really delay a bounce for this long? 53829 by: Rod... Whitworth 53830 by: Alex Pennace 53831 by: Rod... Whitworth 53832 by: Alex Pennace what is *.da.uu.net? 53834 by: cfm.maine.com 53835 by: Hubbard, David daemon mode VS tcpserver 53836 by: Linux 53837 by: Vincent Schonau qmail, xinetd and rblsmtpd 53838 by: Matti Virtanen 53839 by: Matti Virtanen Administrivia: To unsubscribe from the digest, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the digest, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To bug my human owner, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To post to the list, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Hi, I have been looking for a solution for our mail server problem on net and after reading lots of sendmail and qmail documents I am totally confused :) My requirements are : 1. We have a domain name on net www.machsim.com, the hosting company provides pop boxes but no SMTP service. We need the linux box to send the messages. 2. We have a linux server at the company. It runs squid etc. We want to use this PC for as an internet and intranet mail server so that when [EMAIL PROTECTED] sends a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], message will never need to go outside and stay in the intranet. Any mail that is written to some other domain shall be sent via internet. 3. We want the linux server to send the messages in the queue and get mails stored in the server outside ( machsim.com ) which is hosted by a hosting company in US. Before going in to technical configuration issues, I feel that I need to understand the big picture. I would appreciate any suggestions on a model and a configuration as well as other ideas. Thanks. A lot. Devrim Erdem __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ Devrim, I have been looking for a solution for our mail server problem on net and after reading lots of sendmail and qmail documents I am totally confused :) Top tip: Sendmail bad. qmail good (particularly on this list... ;-) My requirements are : 1. We have a domain name on net www.machsim.com, the hosting company provides pop boxes but no SMTP service. We need the linux box to send the messages. Straight qmail on this box - accept any SMTP message from your local IPs and let qmail sort out what to do with them using the DNS - you mention squid below, so it looks like this box can already do DNS lookups. 2. We have a linux server at the company. It runs squid etc. We want to use this PC for as an internet and intranet mail server so that when [EMAIL PROTECTED] sends a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], message will never need to go outside and stay in the intranet. Any mail that is written to some other domain shall be sent via internet. Have machsim.com in control/locals - and accounts for all your users on the Linux box to deliver to. 3. We want the linux server to send the messages in the queue and get mails stored in the server outside ( machsim.com ) which is hosted by a hosting company in US. Erm, you mean the "pop boxes" you mention in item 1.?? Checkout fetchmail, and Dan's serialmail package (on cr.yp.to website). Before going in to technical configuration issues, I feel that I need to understand the big picture. I would appreciate any suggestions on a model and a configuration as well as other ideas. I hope that helps. Your options will vary according to what addtional functionality you have available from your hosting company - such as ETRN. cheers, Andrew. Roger Arnold wrote: Sorry if these are stupid questions or is already covered in a how-to, if it is perhaps someone can point me to it please. I need to know is how to setup qmail to work with multiple servers with a mix of IP and Name based virtual domains on 2 or more servers i.e.:
Re: daemon mode VS tcpserver
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Linux wrote: I have a heavly hit mail server with qmail. It's better to use qmail in DAEMON MODE or using TCPSERVER ? Can anyone give me and advice??? I use with tcpserver, because it seams be better. Piotr --- Piotr Kasztelowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [http://www.am.torun.pl/~pekasz]
Re: all mail forwarding and catching all bounces
* Alex Kramarov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001210 16:53]: |grep -q MAILER-DAEMON || exit 99 - this works, but cause a loop in the system because every message forwarded to a user specified after this line (me of course) eventually goes again through qmail-queue and gets replicated to the log alias again. Change the whole setup to: |grep -q MAILER-DAEMON || exit 99 /var/qmail/alias/LOG/ To deliver *locally* to a Maildir/, rather than forwarding it off of the machine. (You'll want to ``maildirmake'' the destination Maildir/ if you use the above...) /pg -- Peter Green : Gospel Communications Network, SysAdmin : [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Re: Does qmail really delay a bounce for this long?
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 07:16:20PM -0500, Alex Pennace wrote: [snip] Plain qmail bounces back shortly after it encounters a permanent failure. And to add to that, if for over a week (which is configurable) there are only temporare failure, that is considered permanent too. "This message has been in the queue too long. I give up. Sorry it didn't work out." or something similar :) Greetz, Peter -- dataloss networks '/ignore-ance is bliss' - me 'Het leven is een stuiterbal, maar de mijne plakt aan t plafond!' - me
Re: what is *.da.uu.net?
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001210 21:27]: What kind of service is *.tnt.city.state.da.uu.net, or for example 1Cust147.tnt7.fort-lauderdale.fl.da.uu.net? SPAM from these addresses is not being blocked by DULS. traceroute suggests to me an above.net colo at uu.net? (my guess) Note that there is an intermediate open relay between the da.uu.net address and your mail server: Received: from co-location.ibtoday.iasiaworks.ne.kr (HELO ns.asiatrans.com) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by gray.maine.com with SMTP; 10 Dec 2000 15:42:33 - Here, your machine accepts the mail from 211.36.253.35 (aka co-location.ibtoday.iasiaworks.ne.kr). Received: from mail1.joymail.com (1Cust147.tnt7.fort-lauderdale.fl.da.uu.net [63.25.243.147]) by ns.asiatrans.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA15685 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 00:40:45 +0900 Here the co-location.ibtoday.iasiaworks.ne.kr machine accepts the spam from the da.uu.net dial-up account and relays it. Lo and behold, this machine (211.36.253.35) is on the RSS. :-) We're running the collected SPAMPATCH patches. Does it make sense to block *.da.uu.net in badmailpatterns or might there better way of doing it with tcpserver? Frankly, depending on what tnt is I'm tempted to block all da.uu.net. The addresses along the path change with each instance; only the source address seems consistent. If your customers are not using UUnet dialups (or resold UUnet dialups), go ahead and block 'em all, I say, whatever method you might use... /pg -- Peter Green : Gospel Communications Network, SysAdmin : [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You know, by the time you get some with all this, the "Swiss Army Chainsaw" is going to be more like a Swiss Army Tactical Nuke :-) --- Brandon Allbery on perl in [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: big-concurrency.patch
Martin: Ok! .. thanks! U.. It's posible when I apply this change the performance of the machine turn slowly? Martin Volesky wrote: On 09/12/00 at 3:21 PM Federico Edelman Anaya wrote: A few days ago .. I post on the list many question about big-concurrency.patch ... I was reading other list about Qmail and I get this solution about the problem with the FD .. The solution was: echo "65536" /proc/sys/fs/inode-max echo "16384" /proc/sys/fs/file-max So.. you need to do this every system reboot, I don't know how to make this persistent.. anybody have idea or know how to make this persistent? Under Liux 2.2.x, the way to make this persistent is to use the sysctl facility. add: fs.file-max = 16384 fs.inode-max = 65536 to the sysctl.conf file in /etc, and it will be loaded up evey time you boot the machine. Martin Volesky - [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO - Deijlabs Corporation 1221 Mackay, Suite 200 Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 2H5 Tel.: 514.399.9930 Fax.: 514.399.1117
Re: How to get Mail delivery in form cgi´s work
If you want to have fun with Outlook Express users, put this in your signature: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] Doe"@example.com I don't know if that's a legal address, but its mere presence in an e-mail message will cause Outlook Express to freeze and eventually consume all of your memory... "Thanks for the warning," says the person who read this message with Outlook Express. Incidentally, nothing happened, aside from the address being incorrectly parsed by OE's mailto linker. I use version 5. By the way, playing strictly by RFC 821's rules, that is a valid email address. ---Kris kelley
Re: How to get Mail delivery in form cgi´s work
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 10:27:08AM -0600, Kris Kelley wrote: If you want to have fun with Outlook Express users, put this in your signature: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] Doe"@example.com I don't know if that's a legal address, but its mere presence in an e-mail message will cause Outlook Express to freeze and eventually consume all of your memory... "Thanks for the warning," says the person who read this message with Outlook Express. Incidentally, nothing happened, aside from the address being incorrectly parsed by OE's mailto linker. I use version 5. It was version 5.5 that that address killed. Perhaps it's a new feature that Microsoft decided to introduce. Chris
qmail, linux and large scale environment
Hi, I would like to ask if anybody uses qmail in a large scale environment running on linux (redhat), because I'm interested in how people configured their system (number of filedescriptors, max childs per process, max running processes,...) Could those who use it please mail me their findings and settings? Tx a lot for boosting linux! Franky
Outlook Express bug
Great! The last thing I expected to have to do when I came into work today was to deal with some asshole who thought it would be funny to fuck with everyone using IE. Even funnier are the idiots who reply back to the same post. Now that my client is pretty much fucked any suggestions on how I can get these damn emails off my machine since everytime I try to delete them they lock up. I would have expected better of this list. It has been a big help but I don't have time to deal with childish pranksters. I will be checking the qmail webpage to see if a more professional list gets off the ground. Until then I am signing off. David
user alias file
Hi, ive a problem with the user alias file. Ive got the qmail-pw2u command and i got the follows assign file: /var/qmail/users/assign =gustav:gustav:1000:100:/home/gustav::: +gustav-:gustav:1000:100:/home/gustav:-:: Then i used the qmail-newu command and when i send an email to gustav it works ok. But, i want use an "external" name [EMAIL PROTECTED], but it isnt work. example: mail GUSTAV.MARTIN.OLSEN Subject: HEAD FOO,FOO ^D Whats my problem ? Thank for the help Best regard, Gustav error message: Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mailsvr.my.de. 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]: This message is looping: it already has my Delivered-To line. (#5.4.6) --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 612 invoked by alias); 11 Dec 2000 16:50:08 - Delivered-To: ~[EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 598 invoked by alias); 11 Dec 2000 16:50:08 - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 584 invoked by uid 0); 11 Dec 2000 16:50:07 - Date: 11 Dec 2000 16:50:07 - Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HEAD FOO,FOO -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net
Re: Outlook Express bug
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 12:03:49PM -0600, dG wrote: Great! The last thing I expected to have to do when I came into work today was to deal with some asshole who thought it would be funny to fuck with everyone using IE. Even funnier are the idiots who reply back to the same post. Now that my client is pretty much fucked any suggestions on how I can get these damn emails off my machine since everytime I try to delete them they lock up. I would have expected better of this list. It has been a big help but I don't have time to deal with childish pranksters. I will be checking the The childish pranksters are at Microsoft. Why should we be censored because your mail client is broken? I will be checking the qmail webpage to see if a more professional list gets off the ground. Until then I am signing off. You should also sign off from every list if your client barfs on legal mail text. PGP signature
Re: daemon mode VS tcpserver
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 10:31:57AM +0100, Linux wrote: Hi all. I have a heavly hit mail server with qmail. It's better to use qmail in DAEMON MODE or using TCPSERVER ? Search the archives, this question has been asked before. But, anyway, qmail-smtpd is NOT daemonizable. It needs a tcp wrapper, whichever it may be. RC -- +--- | Ricardo Cerqueira | PGP Key fingerprint - B7 05 13 CE 48 0A BF 1E 87 21 83 DB 28 DE 03 42 | Novis Telecom - Engenharia ISP / Rede Técnica | Pç. Duque Saldanha, 1, 7º E / 1050-094 Lisboa / Portugal | Tel: +351 2 1010 - Fax: +351 2 1010 4459 PGP signature
Re: Outlook Express bug
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. For me it was a huge annoyance which pissed me off but there are hundreds and thousands of people out there who are not technical in any way for whom this would be a major crisis. Are you going to fuck up their computers just because you have the ability? Are you going to punish them because of Microsoft? If you say yes, then in my book you are a pathetic human being. Making ignorant people suffer for their ignorance is not funny. David - Original Message - From: "Alex Pennace" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "dG" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 11:19 AM Subject: Re: Outlook Express bug
Re: user alias file
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, ive a problem with the user alias file. Ive got the qmail-pw2u command and i got the follows assign file: /var/qmail/users/assign =gustav:gustav:1000:100:/home/gustav::: +gustav-:gustav:1000:100:/home/gustav:-:: Then i used the qmail-newu command and when i send an email to gustav it works ok. But, i want use an "external" name [EMAIL PROTECTED], but it isnt work. You do not appear to be handling mail for local "gustav.martin.olsen', at least according to your 'assign' file above. read `man qmail-users` perhaps for more details. You're only handling mail for '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with those entries. 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: Outlook Express bug
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 12:29:39PM -0600, dG wrote: Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. For me it was a huge annoyance which pissed me off but there are hundreds and thousands of people out there who are not technical in any way for whom this would be a major crisis. Are you going to fuck up their computers just because you have the ability? Are you going to punish them because of Microsoft? If you say yes, then in my book you are a pathetic human being. Making ignorant people suffer for their ignorance is not funny. So all of a sudden uttering certain kinds of addresses becomes taboo just because some mail clients barf on it? Will Congress pass a law against using the word "Hello" in electronic mail because Outlook 2004 crashes on it? You are responsible for facilitating your mail. If some arbitrary text breaks your mail system, fix it. It's quite rude to call us "pathetic human beings" because your mailer died. I'm not responsible for your choice of MUA. I'm not responsible for the design of your MUA. And I refuse to kowtow to being Outlook-correct in my messages, I'm following published standards. PGP signature
Re: [OT] Outlook Express bug
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 12:04:11PM -0600, dG wrote: Great! The last thing I expected to have to do when I came into work today was to deal with some asshole who thought it would be funny to fuck with everyone using IE. Even funnier are the idiots who reply back to the same post. Now that my client is pretty much fucked any suggestions on how I can get these damn emails off my machine since everytime I try to delete them they lock up. Don't open them. If you don't open them, they won't hurt you. If you've opened one and Outlook Express locks up, kill Outlook Express, start it back up, and don't read the message again. (I discovered this bug because I received with Outlook Express a double bounce message with an address like the one I posted in it. In the course of trying to nail down exactly what triggered the bug I sent myself half a dozen messages which locked me up. At no time was my client "pretty much fucked." I just killed it, started it back up, and deleted the message.) If you're using Windows, you should be used to it locking up for no apparent reason and you should know how to deal with it. It comes with the territory. Chris
Re: Outlook Express bug
Yeah, your right. I had preview turned off in Outlook but not in IE. My bad. David P.S. My apolgies for my original rude post, and cursing. - Original Message - From: "Chris Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "dG" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 12:13 PM Subject: Re: [OT] Outlook Express bug On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 12:04:11PM -0600, dG wrote: Great! The last thing I expected to have to do when I came into work today was to deal with some asshole who thought it would be funny to fuck with everyone using IE. Even funnier are the idiots who reply back to the same post. Now that my client is pretty much fucked any suggestions on how I can get these damn emails off my machine since everytime I try to delete them they lock up. Don't open them. If you don't open them, they won't hurt you. If you've opened one and Outlook Express locks up, kill Outlook Express, start it back up, and don't read the message again. (I discovered this bug because I received with Outlook Express a double bounce message with an address like the one I posted in it. In the course of trying to nail down exactly what triggered the bug I sent myself half a dozen messages which locked me up. At no time was my client "pretty much fucked." I just killed it, started it back up, and deleted the message.) If you're using Windows, you should be used to it locking up for no apparent reason and you should know how to deal with it. It comes with the territory. Chris
Outlook Express Prank
boys and girls, this is not reasonable. Please do be kind with your fellow admins even if they do things you wouldn't do. Dropping a bomb such as that, *knowingly* is very unfriendly. No one deserves being crashed by a prankster, and nobody is expecting such uncivil behaviour in a technical list. Please do you some responsibility towards this tiny community. Thanks. martin
Re: Outlook Express Prank
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 02:46:02PM -0300, martin langhoff wrote: Please do be kind with your fellow admins even if they do things you wouldn't do. Dropping a bomb such as that, *knowingly* is very unfriendly. No one deserves being crashed by a prankster, and nobody is expecting such uncivil behaviour in a technical list. No one deserves to be censored because some people made a poor choice for their MUA. PGP signature
Re: Outlook Express Prank
Hi, Could somebody resend me the original post concerning this? It seems I deleted it on accident and it may have been removed from the list archives... Thanks, Mike
Re: Outlook Express Prank
In the immortal words of Alex Pennace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): No one deserves to be censored because some people made a poor choice for their MUA. At what point, exactly, did asking someone to act like (a) a professional and (b) a decent human being become censorship? Oh, right, the same point at which this list became about adolescent chest-thumping and OS/MUA advocacy instead of qmail. Silly me. I think we'll just add me to the list of disgusted unsubscribers. Someone please drop me a line if the kids here ever grow up, eh? -n, unix user since before you figured out how to cop an attitude, thanks. --[EMAIL PROTECTED] I've got more than one membership / to more than one club and I owe my life / to the people that I love. (--Ani DiFranco) http://www.blank.org/memory/--
Fwd: failure notice
Howdy! I just downloaded the queue-fix program. Since I have installed the big-todo patch for qmail-103, I need the queue-fix-todo-patch for queue-fix. I got all parts from the addons link on the main qmail.org site. The patch fails. No problems with any other patches.. FreeBSD 4.2 Ideas? $ patch queue-fix-todo-patch Hmm... Looks like a unified diff to me... The text leading up to this was: -- |--- queue-fix-1.4/queue-fix.c-ori Tue Aug 17 09:43:58 1999 |+++ queue-fix-1.4/queue-fix.c Tue Aug 17 09:52:16 1999 -- Patching file queue-fix-1.4/queue-fix.c using Plan A... Hunk #1 failed at 445. Hunk #2 failed at 513. Hunk #3 failed at 553. Hunk #4 failed at 684. 4 out of 4 hunks failed--saving rejects to queue-fix-1.4/queue-fix.c.rej Hmm... Ignoring the trailing garbage. done -steve
Moderated lists
Hi to all... I have been reading mail from this list for quite some time now, and must say, I have learned a lot. Most things I knew how to answer (more or less frequently asked questions) I answered off-list, because I didnt want to trash up the list, as I am using MS Outlook... I'm not proud of it, but hey, I get paid to use it. Lately the list is becomming ... how shall I put it... kind of childish... Ok... I am not against newbies and their "stupid" questions. You all heard this one: There are no stupid questions, but stupid answers... Now thats another thing. My opinion is, that it would be a great waste if the list stopped functioning. That is why I would suggest a transition to a moderated list. Would that be possible? Goran The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
big mail spool
Dear gentleman, I am managing my email users using mysql, all email addresses are mapped to a unique id. This id is used to let the id owner to fetch their messages. My mail spool is hashed into a directory using a function of my own. This function takes the id as parameter and returns the user spool from a given location, for instance: My spool root is: /var/qmail/mail and every user dir is lied into this directory. The user directory is given by a function hash, this function gets the id and return a path to it, for instance: id Relative path to /var/qmail/mail 0 0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0 1 0/0/0/0/0/0/0/1 . . 15 0/0/0/0/0/0/0/f 16 0/0/0/0/0/0/1/0 17 0/0/0/0/0/0/1/1 Got the ideia ? I would like to hear from you if my approach is good (performance in mind). To get into the user maildir, i get at most 16*8 lookup_dir routines, so at least it's better than having all user dir into a single directory. My approach is only better if you have morer than 16*8 pop accounts. What you wizards have to say about that ? I plan to have about 2*2^16 users into a single box running qmail+freebsd!
Re: big-concurrency.patch
On 11/12/00 at 12:30 PM Federico Edelman Anaya wrote: Martin: Ok! .. thanks! U.. It's posible when I apply this change the performance of the machine turn slowly? Federico, There is no reason why your system should run any slower because of the sysctl.conf modifications. Martin Volesky wrote: Under Liux 2.2.x, the way to make this persistent is to use the sysctl facility. add: fs.file-max = 16384 fs.inode-max = 65536 to the sysctl.conf file in /etc, and it will be loaded up evey time you boot the machine. Martin Volesky - [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO - Deijlabs Corporation 1221 Mackay, Suite 200 Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 2H5 Tel.: 514.399.9930 Fax.: 514.399.1117
queue-fix todo patch failuer
Ooops sorry, bad subject... Howdy! I just downloaded the queue-fix program. Since I have installed the big-todo patch for qmail-103, I need the queue-fix-todo-patch for queue-fix. I got all parts from the addons link on the main qmail.org site. The patch fails. No problems with any other patches.. FreeBSD 4.2 Ideas? $ patch queue-fix-todo-patch Hmm... Looks like a unified diff to me... The text leading up to this was: -- |--- queue-fix-1.4/queue-fix.c-ori Tue Aug 17 09:43:58 1999 |+++ queue-fix-1.4/queue-fix.c Tue Aug 17 09:52:16 1999 -- Patching file queue-fix-1.4/queue-fix.c using Plan A... Hunk #1 failed at 445. Hunk #2 failed at 513. Hunk #3 failed at 553. Hunk #4 failed at 684. 4 out of 4 hunks failed--saving rejects to queue-fix-1.4/queue-fix.c.rej Hmm... Ignoring the trailing garbage. done -steve
Re: big-concurrency.patch
Martin Volesky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/12/00 at 12:30 PM Federico Edelman Anaya wrote: U.. It's posible when I apply this change the performance of the machine turn slowly? There is no reason why your system should run any slower because of the sysctl.conf modifications. At least as compared to having made the changes manually after boot. However, his system could exhibit poorer interactive response compared to before modifying the max-files and max-inodes due to the increased load from qmail. 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: Outlook Express Prank
Thus spake martin langhoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): this is not reasonable. Please do be kind with your fellow admins even if they do things you wouldn't do. Dropping a bomb such as that, *knowingly* is very unfriendly. No one deserves being crashed by a prankster, and nobody is expecting such uncivil behaviour in a technical list. Please do you some responsibility towards this tiny community. Thanks. What in the seven hells are you talking about? Who did what prank that caused Outlook to barf and die? And if that happened as you insinuate above, why would you blame him and not Outlook? Doesn't it seem a little idiotic to use Outlook on a mailing list about an Unix MTA? Probably not. Windoze people usually don't blame themselves. Sheesh. Felix
RE: Outlook Express Prank
What does the MUA have to do with an MTA? -Original Message- From: Felix von Leitner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 3:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Outlook Express Prank Doesn't it seem a little idiotic to use Outlook on a mailing list about an Unix MTA? Probably not. Windoze people usually don't blame themselves. Sheesh. Felix
Re: Outlook Express Prank
Alex, this is not a call for censorchip, please! We are on a public list! I'm asking for a bit of professionalism. Whoever posted that practical joke was doing it on purpose -- and that's not professional at all. Professionals know that it takes a lot of work to build, and very little to destroy. Pranksters usually enjoy the power of destruction they gain with a little knowledge. Of course you can be a prankster. Just not here, please. There are people working, who that rely on this list for discussion and for help when their mail servers act up. They don't enjoy being the victims of a prank, whoever clever it might be. I'm asking people not to attack other people's programs just because we know how to. We should not be script kiddies, y'know. martin Alex Pennace wrote: No one deserves to be censored because some people made a poor choice for their MUA.
Re: Outlook Express Prank
* Hubbard, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What does the MUA have to do with an MTA? Show me a competent Unix admin using Outlook or a similar abomination and I won't show you the difference. Recommended reading for obvious newbies like yourself: http://learn.to/attribute/ http://learn.to/sign/ http://learn.to/edit_messages/ -- Robin S. Socha http://socha.net/LB/
Re: Outlook Express Prank
Felix von Leitner wrote: Doesn't it seem a little idiotic to use Outlook on a mailing list about an Unix MTA? We are on the *internet*. Welcome. Many people, many machines, lots of strange company policies, personal choices and other constraints. Please refrain from making assumptions on how somebody else's machine/software should be run, because we are not here to judge. We're here to share. And, of course, you can criticize my MTA and its setup. And even my MUA. But please, people, it's not funny to kill it! The way *anyone* runs his/her boxes is not the *right* way. Is just his/her way. We're discussing qmail, and I'm asking people not to post things that will make some software blow up. I don't know who's to blame, but please, lets be good netizens. martin
Re: Outlook Express Prank
Felix von Leitner wrote: What in the seven hells are you talking about? Who did what prank that caused Outlook to barf and die? And if that happened as you insinuate above, why would you blame him and not Outlook? Felix, please, inform yourself and you'll save time. A few hours ago some jokester ( Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) sent a msg that read If you want to have fun with Outlook Express users, put this in your signature: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [replace QUOTE with " ... I didn't know if were using a susceptible MUA] which is a valid address as per RFC822 -- and a recipe for OE lockup. A few OE users on this list were hit. Chis knew what he was doing, and I'd bet he did it for fun. Now, however crappy OE may be, locking people's machines for fun is not a behaviour to be encouraged. martin
Re: Outlook Express Prank
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 02:03:20PM -0500, Alex Pennace wrote: # On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 02:46:02PM -0300, martin langhoff wrote: # Please do be kind with your fellow admins even if they do things you # wouldn't do. Dropping a bomb such as that, *knowingly* is very # unfriendly. No one deserves being crashed by a prankster, and nobody is # expecting such uncivil behaviour in a technical list. # # No one deserves to be censored because some people made a poor choice # for their MUA. Also, how would we know what the string is had no one posted it? -- Justin Bell
Re: Outlook Express Prank
I'm a competent sysadmin on Solaris linux and I use Outlook 2k. So it has less features and virtually no standards adherence compared to other MUAs mentioned on this list, big deal, it is the corporate standard at my company, I have no alternatives for connecting to the corporate Exchange server, and it lets me read this list which helps me keep quite a few qmail boxes running very happily. Either way, my raggedy MUA has nothing to do with a great MTA. Dave -Original Message- From: Robin S. Socha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 4:19 PM To: Qmail-List Subject: Re: Outlook Express Prank Show me a competent Unix admin using Outlook or a similar abomination and I won't show you the difference. Recommended reading for obvious newbies like yourself: http://learn.to/attribute/ http://learn.to/sign/ http://learn.to/edit_messages/ -- Robin S. Socha http://socha.net/LB/
Re: Outlook Express Prank
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 10:19:27PM +0100, "Robin S. Socha" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recommended reading for obvious newbies like yourself: http://learn.to/attribute/ I took a look at the attribute page because I had had a recent discussion with someone over whether or not date and/or time belong in attributions in usenet posts. While there is some useful information there, the presentation is poor. There seems to be a lot of javascript on the web page. There seems to be a needless break into more than one page for this information. The first page had less than a paragraph about attribution. The rest of the first page seemed to be pretty much advertising related. If there are other sites with similar information, but with better presentation, those might make a better reference to give to people. I find it hard to take their recommendations about attribution lines seriously, when the web page design is so bad.
Re: qmail, linux and large scale environment
Van Liedekerke Franky wrote: Hi, I would like to ask if anybody uses qmail in a large scale environment running on linux (redhat), because I'm interested in how people configured their system (number of filedescriptors, max childs per process, max running processes,...) Could those who use it please mail me their findings and settings? Tx a lot for boosting linux! Franky Well increase the file inodes and descriptors Have lots of ram (use a ram disk) read LWQ (Life With Qmail) - three times ... Tweak reddrat - remove inetd, {a.n.other services}, adjust /etc/initab to only start a few consoles Get some fast disks You could go further and change some underlying Linux things like tcp window options, and swap/VM stuff - but this is a very specialist area that comprimised my KISS principle. Overall RedDrat is quite good overall (IMHO) once you remove all necessary stuff (both RPMS and services). Greg
RE: Outlook Express Prank
Exactly my point... I wouldn't say for myself, that I am a competent sysadmin... After all I take care of only five servers running qmail on Linux... The company I work for uses Exchange, so I am forced to use Outlook (2k). I would use anything else, but the smtp port is closed to the outside... so I have a problem, right? :) Goran I'm a competent sysadmin on Solaris linux and I use Outlook 2k. So it has less features and virtually no standards adherence compared to other MUAs mentioned on this list, big deal, it is the corporate standard at my company, I have no alternatives for connecting to the corporate Exchange server, and it lets me read this list which helps me keep quite a few qmail boxes running very happily. Either way, my raggedy MUA has nothing to do with a great MTA.
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Re: Outlook Express Prank
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 05:46:02PM -0300, martin langhoff wrote: I'm asking for a bit of professionalism. Whoever posted that practical joke was doing it on purpose -- and that's not professional at all. Professionals know that it takes a lot of work to build, and very little to destroy. Everyone needs to take a deep breath and just relax. The message I posted was in the context of a discussion of certain types of legal addresses that mutt didn't handle correctly. As an aside, I posted a message with an address in it that caused Outlook Express to lock up. It didn't "destroy" anything. It wasn't a virus. It didn't erase files. It simply made it necessary to kill Outlook Express and restart it. If you use Windows (and I do), it's a fact of life that programs lock up frequently and unexpectedly. You kill them, or sometimes you have to reboot (which in this case you didn't), and life goes on. So please spare me all this talk of "attacks" and "vicitms" and so forth. If you want to get angry at someone, get angry at the Microsoft software engineers who put out an MUA that can be locked up by messages containing certain sequences of ASCII characters. Chris
Re: Re: qmail, linux and large scale environment
Hi, I am doing the same and would find some more discussion on this topic very interesting. I think there are 2 levels to discuss here. One is the configuring the Linux and kernel parameters and two is the layout and architecture. I am interested in how others see a fully redundant arch using qmail. My thoughts are to have a few front-end hosts running pop3d, smtpd, and qmqpd. Then I would like to have mail stores on the back end that are dedicated to just storing local mail. I guess they would run a queue, qmail-send, and qmail-lspawn. I don't know how I would get qmail to route all of this mail though. I need to use ldap for the authentication. Is there an LDAP attribute that I could use such that qmail would check it for the location of the user's home mailstore? (say if I split the user base on to 2 back end stores). Or do I have to do some tricks using smtproutes or something to get mail to the backend? Or do most people just attach backend's via NFS to the front ends? Are there performance concerns with NFS? Does qmail support such an architecture? I am even thinking of breaking the queuing onto a seperate server? Any thoughts? thanks. From: Greg Cope [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 21:40:59 + To: Van Liedekerke Franky [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: 'qmail list' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: qmail, linux and large scale environment Van Liedekerke Franky wrote: Hi, I would like to ask if anybody uses qmail in a large scale environment running on linux (redhat), because I'm interested in how people configured their system (number of filedescriptors, max childs per process, max running processes,...) Could those who use it please mail me their findings and settings? Tx a lot for boosting linux! Franky Well increase the file inodes and descriptors Have lots of ram (use a ram disk) read LWQ (Life With Qmail) - three times ... Tweak reddrat - remove inetd, {a.n.other services}, adjust /etc/initab to only start a few consoles Get some fast disks You could go further and change some underlying Linux things like tcp window options, and swap/VM stuff - but this is a very specialist area that comprimised my KISS principle. Overall RedDrat is quite good overall (IMHO) once you remove all necessary stuff (both RPMS and services). Greg
Qmail server set to forward to another host on the local ethernet.
I haven't done this yet so I can't provide real internet names. I will have the following: Computer A (On ISP Primary) | - Linked via 100Mbps ethernet Computer B (On ISP Secondary) I'd like to setup A as the first MX record for host blah.com and B as the secondary MX record for blah.com both on different ISPs and connected via 100Mbps ethernet. If A is down and B starts receiving email for A, how do I forward all the emails B receives to A over the ethernet and not keep copies of those emails on server B? Thankyou very much.
Re: Outlook Express Prank
martin langhoff wrote: We are on the *internet*. Welcome. Precisely. If you must use software that cannot handle the full spectrum of demands the Internet presents, don't blame the Internet. - Amitai
Re: Outlook Express Prank
Well let's see.. Been Managing Unix systems for about 5 years now .. Did start on Mac's then Windows then Unix so yeah I kinda went the long way but I have been using Outlook Express almost since the beging.. It has just been recently that I have started using other MUA's ... However I don't run your stock Outlook Express either. I know of just about every trick that can be played on Outlook and Outlook express.. Although if anyones using Outlook then there much braver than I am. Hell I can tell you which bugs/tricks work on which versions. Without going into a 20 page technical look at every bug here's some simple tips even biggeners should know. 1. Don't use the 'Preview' plane. 2. Don't let or set Outlook to open messages automatically. 3. Don't open any executable or any other microsoft attachement unless it's from someone you know and trust. VBS bugs are kewl but are a 'PAIN IN THE ASS'. 4. Know your damm system.. Spacifically know where the mail is stored on your computer.. It's simple to go delete the damm inbox.mbx file when one pesky message is bugging you. If your good you can even get rid of the one message without loosing the rest of your inbox. 5. Goto windowsupdate.microsoft.com and make sure you have all the security patches for your current version. Microsoft is famous for releasing about a dozzen security patches a month for OutLook and OutLook Express amoung other things. And Number 6... Use common sense and quit belly aching when someone screws up. If someone purposely screwed you up then fix your computer then go and send them a nice email thanking them for the 'grand experienece' .. If they wana be pricks then leave them be, there not worth getting heart burn or teary eye'd over.. If you wana put yourself down to there level for pay back then hey, more power to ya. As you can tell I'm not a Microsoft Lover but I'm not a hatter either. Microsoft has it's up's and down's (Okay, more downs than up's) just like any of the other Major OS's around the world but if your gona use it then you'd better dam well learn it and most of all learn how to deal with it. I think just about every admin on this list would agree with that last statement, however I expect varying flames regarding the rest (grin) --JT Original Message On 12/11/00, 1:19:27 PM, Robin "S." Socha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: Outlook Express Prank: * Hubbard, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What does the MUA have to do with an MTA? Show me a competent Unix admin using Outlook or a similar abomination and I won't show you the difference. Recommended reading for obvious newbies like yourself: http://learn.to/attribute/ http://learn.to/sign/ http://learn.to/edit_messages/ -- Robin S. Socha http://socha.net/LB/
Re: Outlook Express Prank
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 05:45:40PM -0300, martin langhoff wrote: I'm asking for a bit of professionalism. Whoever posted that practical joke was doing it on purpose -- and that's not professional at all. Professionals know that it takes a lot of work to build, and very little to destroy. Pranksters usually enjoy the power of destruction they gain with a little knowledge. While I'm not a prankster, I find it unnecessary to refrain from posting any text that may cause Outlook Express to crash. I am operating within standards, and I forced no one to use a broken MUA. Its rather unprofessional to come onto the Internet and complain when something of yours blows up. Outlook is broken. Fix it instead of jury rigging the Internet to work around it. PGP signature
Re: Outlook Express Prank
Just when you thought he couldn't possibly more clearly define the word moronic through his typed dialogue... jason This email brought to you by Outlook Express - accept it Show me a competent Unix admin using Outlook or a similar abomination and I won't show you the difference. Recommended reading for obvious newbies like yourself: http://learn.to/attribute/ http://learn.to/sign/ http://learn.to/edit_messages/ -- Robin S. Socha http://socha.net/LB/
Qmail source files - developer version
Maybe I am asking on the wrong forum, but boes anybody know, if there is a "developer" version of qmail sources with at lease some remarks and functionality description in the code so it would be more readable ? Or if there is a site that has some description on the way qmail is written. I want to write an addon to qmail, so it could forward mail to another server before it hits the queve, splitted to several copies, one for each recipient domain. I think many could benefit from this feature, in terms of bandwidth conservation. Alex Incredimail Admin __Created and best viewed with IncrediMail!Get your free copy at: www.incredimail.com
FreeBSD, Qmail, and NFS
I have a project I am about to undertake and would like some opinions before I begin. We currently have a single server running Qmail on FreeBSD 3.2, with customer Maildirs on a NFS attached external raid connected from another server. This for the most part works fine. We occasionally have problems where the mail server is unable to read the contents of user directories (the NFS server can see them fine). At these times the only fix has been to move the contents of the directory into a temporary location and delete the directory, add it back and move the files back. This happens once every 2 or 3 months. We are now planning to expand our mail system. We would like to keep Qmail and FreeBSD both. We were wishing to have 3 or 4 load balanced front end servers to split the load of the mail servers, with a common fibre channel raid back end. This brings up some obvious issues. First, we wanted to have all 4 hosts processing and able to access the raid simultaneously with ability for live failover and the ability to remove/upgrade individual parts of the cluster at any time. NFS under FreeBSD (as of the posts I saw from Nov 2000) has no support for per client file locking. GFS was my other choice, however Sistina Software said there will not be a copy ported to FreeBSD until Q2/Q3 2001. I do not know of any other file systems that are capable of per client file locking for FreeBSD that will offer reliability and the performance we wish it achieve (If anyone else does, I'd really like to know). This leads to the next question, is file locking necessary under Qmail when using the Maildir style directory structure for the mail store? SMTP will never be accessing any files after it writes them to the Maildir. Pop3 should not interfere either. Perhaps if a user tries to access via pop3 multiple times simultaneously, but otherwise I see no reason for file locking in this environment. If this is the case, what do people think of this cluster configuration with a fibre channel back end raid? Or should we use NFS instead? And if we do use NFS, has the problem we experienced (noted above) been resolved in the more recent releases of FreeBSD or is this a configuration issue on our end? Also, If anyone else has clustered FreeBSD with Qmail already, we would like also to know how you achieved it and any tips you may have as to configuration of such a setup. Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated. -- Stephen Comoletti - Network Engineer / Systems Administrator Delanet Inc. http://www.delanet.com Frontline Communications Corp. http://www.fcc.net phone: (302) 326-5800 fax: (302) 326-5802 x312 262 Quigley Blvd, New Castle, DE 19720, USA S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Qmail server set to forward to another host on the local ethernet.
I will have the following: Computer A (On ISP Primary) | - Linked via 100Mbps ethernet Computer B (On ISP Secondary) I'd like to setup A as the first MX record for host blah.com and B as the secondary MX record for blah.com both on different ISPs and connected via 100Mbps ethernet. If A is down and B starts receiving email for A, how do I forward all the emails B receives to A over the ethernet and not keep copies of those emails on server B? Hi, This is straightforward, using control/locals, control/rcpthosts and optionally control/smtproutes: Your primary MX, "A" is where the mail is delivered, so put your domain in control/locals and control/rcpthosts. Your secondary MX, "B", where mail is not delivered, merely held while "A" is unreachable, has your domain in control/rcpthosts but not control/locals - so that any mail accepted by this machine is not regarded as local and will be queued for later remote delivery. Remote delivery will be attempted periodically by qmail (see the man pages for details of this). You didn't mention if the 100MBps link was a public or private link. If the latter, you need to add the private address of "A" to control/smtproutes for your domain - this overrides the DNS entry for "A". More details on all the above in the standard sources of documentation - start at www.qmail.org, esp. see the man pages, Dan's site (cr.yp.to), Dave Sill's Life with qmail and the qmail howto. cheers, Andrew.
Re: Qmail server set to forward to another host on the local ethernet.
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:21:09AM +1000, Rawlinsons Group (Brisbane) wrote: Computer A (On ISP Primary) | - Linked via 100Mbps ethernet Computer B (On ISP Secondary) I'd like to setup A as the first MX record for host blah.com and B as the secondary MX record for blah.com both on different ISPs and connected via 100Mbps ethernet. If A is down and B starts receiving email for A, how do I forward all the emails B receives to A over the ethernet and not keep copies of those emails on server B? On B, put blah.com in control/rcpthosts *only*. That's all you have to do. Chris
Limiting rcpt to
Hi, I am Using Qmail for 1/2 year and very happy with it, Here is my question : is there any way to limit rcpto to s in qmail smtp session? like: rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc... rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] No more than N time idea is that after count of rcpt to reaches N qmail expects rset or kills the connection
Re: Limiting rcpt to
Gan, is there any way to limit rcpto to s in qmail smtp session? This sounds very similar to the tarpit patch - find this from www.qmail.org - you should be able to modify this to give you the behaviour you desire. cheers, Andrew.
RE: Limiting rcpt to
There is a patch 'qmail-1.03-maxrcpt.patch' that is to limit the max. no. of rcpt tos. http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/1999/11/msg00245.html regards, Kent -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 10:22 AM To: Gan; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Limiting rcpt to Gan, is there any way to limit rcpto to s in qmail smtp session? This sounds very similar to the tarpit patch - find this from www.qmail.org - you should be able to modify this to give you the behaviour you desire. cheers, Andrew.
Qmail and RFC1894 - Delivery Status Notifications
All- I have a need to process mail server bounces in an automated fashion and planned to make use of RFC1894 - An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications. This appears to be used by most of the public mail servers that I have tested against, but when a mail bounces out of one of my local qmail machines (e.g., cannot connect after the maximum queue time), the message that I am receiving back from qmail does not appear to follow the RFC specification for reporting this error. Do I have something mis-configured? Is there a patch to bounce using RFC1894 standards? Thanks for the help. James
Re: big-concurrency.patch
On 11/12/00 at 2:25 PM Charles Cazabon wrote: At least as compared to having made the changes manually after boot. However, his system could exhibit poorer interactive response compared to before modifying the max-files and max-inodes due to the increased load from qmail. Charles Yes Charles, I agree with all your points. Martin Volesky - [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO - Deijlabs Corporation 1221 Mackay, Suite 200 Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 2H5 Tel.: 514.399.9930 Fax.: 514.399.1117
different mail relays?
Hi, searching through the available qmail docs and FAQ I can't find an answer, if and how solutions for the below described problems are possible. Situation: My qmail server is located into a bigger company Intranet network. Each location has their own mail server, their own mail domain (sub's of an Intranet top level domain - that is no problem) and own DNS. Relaying mail works fine, no problems. Now one location offers a mail gateway to the public Internet. The two questions are: - Intranet mail relaying should keep working, but how do I seperate relaying of Intranet mails to [location].myintranet.dom and outside to the Internet for all other mails? The Internet mail gateway has a different IP address. - is it possible to grant access to use the Internet mail gateway (relay) for specific users or user groups? How? Note: I am using qmail only for relaying outside mails. My primary local mail server is Hawkeye (on top of a MySQL database). Thanks, Thomas
alias account problem, pls help!
hi all, - i'm using vpopmail + qmail. - i have a virtual domain setup mydomainname.com. under my /home/vpopmail/domains/mydomainname.com, i have always use a .qmail-aliasname file to create alias account that deliver mail to multiple users, the format of the file is: /home/vpopmail/domains/mydomainname.com/user1/Maildir/ /home/vpopmail/domains/mydomainname.com/user2/Maildir/ /home/vpopmail/domains/mydomainname.com/user3/Maildir/ /home/vpopmail/domains/mydomainname.com/user4/Maildir/ /home/vpopmail/domains/mydomainname.com/user5/Maildir/ and i have no problem with all the alias accounts all this while. BUT one particular alias account does give me this weird problem! when someone send mail to this alias account - some of the users in this list will receive MULTIPLE copies of the same mail, and some dun receive any copy at all!! and in the log i found something suspicious: starting delivery 74: msg 32174 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 delivery 74: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 - obviously an alias account doesnt have any real maildir, any idea what could cause this error? - and this particular alias acount contains 65 entries, is the biggest alias in my setup, could this be a problem? i try to read eveything that i can find, but don't seems to come across anything like this, pls help! thanks in advance!! best regards, mok swee loong.
Email hosting solutions?
Hi all, Was looking for some comments on two things... Number one, I was wondering if anyone has put together (or knows of) 'plug-n-play' email hosting solutions? I'm thinking of something quite complete like: qmail/postfix/sendmail + [ procmail ] + courier / cyrus / uw / other? plus... virtual domains + web admin (qmailadmin?) + web email (IMP?) Number two, correct me if I'm wrong but, there are two ways to do 'virtual domain' hosting (retrieval) of email. (I'm not talking about the delivery -- MTA -- part. Yup, I should send this part to another more appropriate list. ;-P ) 1. IP based Mail server gets multiple IP addresses, IMAP or POP looks up different accounts depending on IP address... blah blah. 2. Name mapping based User email addresses are mapped to different accounts, therefore, IMAP or POP don't do anything special. [EMAIL PROTECTED]- jdoe-first [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jdoe-second Cheers, Ben. -- B. http://makelinux.org/"Always real."http://realthought.net/ __ Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck. -- Joseph Heller, "God Knows"
Re: Qmail and RFC1894 - Delivery Status Notifications
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 10:04:14PM -0500, James Morgenstein wrote: This appears to be used by most of the public mail servers that I have tested against, but when a mail bounces out of one of my local qmail The problem with DSN is that *EVERY* machine that the message passes through must support DSN, or it fails. QMail doesn't support DSN (unless there's a patch, you have looked at www.qmail.org, right?). Check out VERPs -- Variable Envelope Return Paths. Searching google should provide some good hits. Sean -- I never thought I would live in a country which had a self-declared president. Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous [EMAIL PROTECTED] tummy.com - Linux Consulting since 1995. Qmail, KRUD, Firewalls, Python
Re: different mail relays?
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:08:29AM +0100, Thomas Haberland wrote: The two questions are: - Intranet mail relaying should keep working, but how do I seperate relaying of Intranet mails to [location].myintranet.dom and outside to the Internet for all other mails? That depends on a number of factors. 1. Can these internal mail systems connect to the internet directly (perhaps via a NAT)? 2. Is your internal DNS setup such that queries about non local domains are answered correctly? If the answer is "yes" to both questions, then qmail will work without any special configuration. If the answer is "no" to either question, then you need to add a special smtproutes entry such that mail to your domain use the DNS while all other mails are forwarded to your "Internet Mail Gateway". The man page for qmail-remote discusses this very requirement, but using your sample domain, the smtproutes file would have: .myintranet.dom: :Internet-gateway.myintranet.dom What this means is that all mail address to .myintranet.dom will use the name server to resolve the MX and anything else will be unconditionally forwarded to Internet-gateway.myintranet.dom which is meant to be the name of your Internet Mail Gateway, which I assume is in your internal DNS. The Internet mail gateway has a different IP address. I'm not sure what the significant of that statement is. A different IP address from what exactly? As long as it's in your internal DNS and as long as it's reachable by your internal qmail servers, then it's not a problem. - is it possible to grant access to use the Internet mail gateway (relay) for specific users or user groups? How? No. You'd have to write code to do this. It's sort of possible if you can identify users by IP address and thus redirect them to different instances of qmail, but there is no general nor easy mechanism. Regards.
emergency: tell me, how can I edit ezmlm mailing-list files by text editor?
who knows how can I edit ezmlm mailing-list by text editor? I'm using qmail with ezmlm-0.53. as a root or owner of mailinglist (of course , except auto-subscribing) how canI add so many mail address by text editor? please help me! ===Regards Sangbin Lim
Re: big mail spool
My spool root is: /var/qmail/mail and every user dir is lied into this directory. The user directory is given by a function hash, this function gets the id and return a path to it, for instance: id Relative path to /var/qmail/mail 0 0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0 1 0/0/0/0/0/0/0/1 . . 15 0/0/0/0/0/0/0/f 16 0/0/0/0/0/0/1/0 17 0/0/0/0/0/0/1/1 Got the ideia ? I would like to hear from you if my approach is good (performance in mind). To get into the user maildir, i get at most 16*8 lookup_dir routines, so at least it's better than having all user dir into a single directory. My approach is only better if you have morer than 16*8 pop accounts. The basic idea is good, but I think your directory tree is much deeper than neccesary. If you use NFS, I think it will have a performance impact. On my system I also map each account to a number which is used to construct the path to the mailbox, but I only use three levels, something like this: /var/mail/26/83/username These mailboxes are distrubuted across 100 x 100 = 1 directories, which is probably sufficient for up to 10 million users. -- Gjermund Sorseth