Re: newbie question
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Charles Cazabon wrote: CCThe mail transaction above is not an example of (unauthorized) relaying. CCBy putting the domain in rcpthosts, you have told qmail-smtpd "I am willing CCto accept mail from anyone which has an envelope recipient of CC[EMAIL PROTECTED]" CC CCIf foo.com is in your locals file, the message will be delivered locally. CCIf foo.com is in your virtualdomains file, it will be treated as a virtual CCdomain and delivered to a local user. CCIf foo.com is in neither locals nor controls, qmail will attempt to deliver CCit to the highest priority MX for foo.com, and therefore serving as a CCsecodary MX for foo.com. CC CC I think i missed something in configuration or otherwise i didnt understand CC well how qmail works. CC CCYes, it's a problem with your understanding of qmail. To receive mail CCfrom the world at large, you have to allow everyone to connect to your CCSMTP port. You should then accept/reject mail based on the envelope CCrecipient -- accepting mail which is for addresses in your local domain(s) CCand virtual domains (if any), and possibly a few others for which you CCprovide backup MX service, and rejecting everything else. CC CCThen, in addition, you can set the RELAYCLIENT variable as you did above CCfor certain IP addresses (typically those on your company LAN or private CCnetwork), to allow only those IP addresses to relay mail to anywhere else CCin the world through your server. In this case you are serving as a CC"smarthost" for dumb clients (like MUAs on Windows machines, etc). CC CCCharles CC THANKS CHARLES ! This solved all my questions! Thanks a lot. Dario
qmail Digest 14 Dec 2000 11:00:00 -0000 Issue 1213
qmail Digest 14 Dec 2000 11:00:00 - Issue 1213 Topics (messages 53950 through 54014): Re: Qmail source files - developer version 53950 by: Alex Kramarov Re: Outlook Express Prank 53951 by: Robin S.Socha 53952 by: Jason Brooke Re: Qmail and RFC1894 - Delivery Status Notifications 53953 by: James Morgenstein 53954 by: Peter Green 53957 by: Norbert Bollow 53965 by: Mark Delany 53968 by: Martijn Koster 53984 by: Alex Pennace newbie question 53955 by: Dario Rossi 53966 by: Charles Cazabon 53970 by: Dario Rossi 53982 by: Charles Cazabon 54014 by: Dario Rossi qmail's problem 53956 by: info 53959 by: Tim Hunter 53961 by: info 53963 by: info 53975 by: Tim Hunter Running qmail-pop3d as non-root user 53958 by: Laurence Brockman 53960 by: Tim Hunter Re: user alias file 53962 by: gmo.gmx.de receive SMTP from anybody 53964 by: gmo.gmx.de Using a RAMDISK for /var/qmail/queue thoughts ? 53967 by: Greg Cope 53976 by: Sean Reifschneider 53979 by: Greg Cope 53980 by: Austad, Jay 53983 by: Sean Reifschneider 53987 by: Felix von Leitner 53990 by: Mark Delany 54000 by: David Dyer-Bennet Qmail on Solaris 8 (Intel) 53969 by: Kin-San Frank Lo 53971 by: mbailey.journey.net 53973 by: Hubbard, David 54009 by: Piotr Kasztelowicz From address problems 53972 by: Peter Woods 53977 by: Mark Delany 53978 by: Mark Delany Re: Amavis + MySQL on Qmail :) 53974 by: Antonio S. Martins Jr. [PATCH] limiting email databytes when 1 recipient 53981 by: CK LDAP with qmail ? 53985 by: Marcio Sa 53993 by: Olivier M. How solving this problem? 53986 by: Ould directory structure/location of mail 53988 by: Peter Brezny 53991 by: Peter Green web interface options for ezmlm 53989 by: danger Smtp AUTH 53992 by: Charles Trtanj Re From address problems 53994 by: Peter Woods 53995 by: Mark Delany 53996 by: Charles Cazabon Copy Outbound messages 53997 by: Charrua 53998 by: Peter Samuel users/assign 53999 by: Peter Brezny Changing double bounce sender from #@[] to anything else 54001 by: Laurence Brockman badmailto functionality ? 54002 by: James Morgenstein 54003 by: Markus Stumpf Re: Please Help Me Urgently 54004 by: shukla raghvendra 54005 by: andrew.tic.ch speed please 54006 by: richard morris 54007 by: andrew.tic.ch 54008 by: Sigbj|rn Lie rblsmtpd conflict with ucspi -tcp 54010 by: shaolei 54012 by: Alex Pennace VPOPMAIL Problem 54011 by: Jesus Arnaiz Converting from vpopmail to vmailmgr 54013 by: Stian Brekmo 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] -- I am already doing that to catch bounces passing my server, but what will it help me ? I don't want to forward a copy of the original e-mail to another server, I want to send normally to the locals, and forward one with the rest of recipients. Now then I think about it, I may implement this externally, processing the copy of the original message, but : 1. How do I make qmail not to send messages to external recipients (and in the same time I have to get a copy of original e-mail with all recipients)? 2. In the same time, if I make qmail not to send mail to external recipients (quietly !!!), how can i send the externally modified message (in which the local recipients are already removed) so it would be still sent as one message ? I could use telnet to the forwarding server port 25 and just spill the message there, but I hope there is a better way ... Alex. -Original Message- From: Greg Owen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 7:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Qmail source files - developer version Felix von Leitner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] said: Thus spake Alex Kramarov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): 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. This feature can (and should) be implemented externally, i.e. without editing the qmail sources at all. Just take the qmail-smtpd sources and write a new smtpd. Whoa, whoa, let's not get too excited here. Before you go rewriting, you should read FAQ 8.2: ] 8.2. How do I keep a
RE: VPOPMAIL Problem
Just go to the domain directory and type this: echo "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" .qmail-default That means any email that comes in to that domain addressed to a nonexistent address will be handled by the .qmail-default since a .qmail-username for that address won't exist. Dave -Original Message- From: Jesus Arnaiz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 2:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: VPOPMAIL Problem Hi Everyone! I use qmail as my MTA and I have vpopmail installed. The problem is I create a virtualdomain with virtual users and I want to do this: All e-mail sent to a pop user put the mail in the Maildir of the user, and all e-mail sent to an address which do not exists like ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) should be sent to an external address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I do this: I create the popusers. .qmail-default-- | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' [EMAIL PROTECTED] .qmail-postmaster--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think this should work but all e-mail I send goes to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Can anybody help me?. Thanks in advance -- Jesús Arnáiz Departamento de Sistemas ARCOMEDIA.COM
Re: Running qmail-pop3d as non-root user
Laurence Brockman writes: Is there any reason why I couldn't run qmail-pop3d as a non-root user? Using tcpserver to start the process I could easily set it to run as a qmail user (Or yet another user, with almost no permissions). Is this possible? And if so, is there anything that I should be looking out for? If you use checkpassword, there are two reasons why tcpserver must be started as root: 1) checkpassword needs root priveliges to call setgroups() to set supplementary groups. 2) If you use shadow password files, checkpassword needs root proveliges to read them. (And of course, if your mail users have different UID's, checkpassword needs root priveliges to switch its UID to the user logging in before it starts qmail-pop3d.) If you use a replacement checkpassword, tcpserver may or may not be started as an unpriveliged user depending on what the checkpassword replacement needs to do. -- Gjermund Sorseth
Re: Changing double bounce sender from #@[] to anything else
Laurence Brockman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to do this easily? I want to change the Mail from address of double bounces from #@[] to something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] You'll have to edit the qmail source to do this. However, you probably shouldn't -- double bounces have to have a null envelope sender, so that if they are going to bounce, they get thrown away -- if you change it to something non-null, the receiving SMTP daemon can't tell it's a double-bounce, and will bounce it, resulting in a triple-bounce, which should never happen. If _that_ host also uses something non-null for envelope sender, it could theoretically bounce forever. 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: Converting from vpopmail to vmailmgr
Stian Brekmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably not supposed to talk about these addons herebut anyways: I have vpopmail setup on a box now in use. Was wondering if there was some tips on how to gently switch to vmailmgr. Try asking on the vmailmgr list -- there's several people on that list who have made the switch. You can find a pointer to the list at www.vmailmgr.org. 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: Changing double bounce sender from #@[] to anything else
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 08:21:29AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: Laurence Brockman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to do this easily? I want to change the Mail from address of double bounces from #@[] to something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] You'll have to edit the qmail source to do this. However, you probably shouldn't -- double bounces have to have a null envelope sender, so that if they are going to bounce, they get thrown away -- if you change it to FWIW if you turn on the "sender_verify" option for Exim it thinks it can't route mail to #@[], so won't accept mail from that sender envelope. Or at least it does in 3.12, I don't know if later versions treat it differently. J. -- /\ | minimalist tagline | | http://www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk/ | \/
Re: rblsmtpd conflict with ucspi -tcp
Keep in mind you will get a faster response if you return your queries to [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 04:21:15PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.can I install ucspi-unix,not install ucspi-tcp? I am not familiar with "ucspi-unix." 2.After install ucspi-tcp,qmail-1.03+16patches,and daemontools(downloaded from http://em.cn/~bruceg/qmail+patches), I telnet mail-abuse.org,it can't through the ninth test way. what can I do? I tried to telnet into mail-abuse.org and nothing happened. If you are eliciting a test from mail-abuse.org could you be more specific how you are going about testing? PGP signature
Re: rblsmtpd conflict with ucspi -tcp
Alex Pennace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 04:21:15PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.can I install ucspi-unix,not install ucspi-tcp? I am not familiar with "ucspi-unix." It is an implementation of the ucspi protocol running over Unix domain sockets instead of TCP sockets. It's written by Bruce Guenter; see http://em.ca/~bruceg/ for more. 2.After install ucspi-tcp,qmail-1.03+16patches,and daemontools(downloaded from http://em.cn/~bruceg/qmail+patches), I telnet mail-abuse.org,it can't through the ninth test way. what can I do? To clarify: did you "telnet mail-abuse.org" or "telnet mail-abuse.org 25"? If the former, it has nothing to do with SMTP. 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. ---
qmail problems?
Hi, We are in the midst of making a decision to choose an mta and I am pretty much convinced on qmail but have read some trash talk that has raised some doubt in my mind. I would really appreciate if someone could give a quick yes/no and how answer to the following issues that have been raised. 1) qmail can't reject mail addressed to a box that doesn't exist? (ie. bounce back to original sender) 2) qmail does not verify domain of envelope sender? (ie. does not do a DNS/reverse lookup) 3) qmail forks off a new qmail-remote process for each recipient of every message...susceptible to easy DoS attack? Much thanks. rich
Re: VPOPMAIL Problem
Hi Everyone! I use qmail as my MTA and I have vpopmail installed. The problem is I create a virtualdomain with virtual users and I want to do this: All e-mail sent to a pop user put the mail in the Maildir of the user, and all e-mail sent to an address which do not exists like ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) should be sent to an external address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I do this: I create the popusers. .qmail-default-- | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can put there the e-mail adress to deliver mail to (as described in the docs), even if it is remote, but you need "" instead of ". Milen
Re: qmail problems?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are in the midst of making a decision to choose an mta and I am pretty much convinced on qmail but have read some trash talk that has raised some doubt in my mind. I would really appreciate if someone could give a quick yes/no and how answer to the following issues that have been raised. Sigh -- advocacy. I'll try to be objective. 1) qmail can't reject mail addressed to a box that doesn't exist? (ie. bounce back to original sender) qmail will indeed bounce mail if it tries to deliver to a local user and can't find an appropriate delivery instruction (.qmail-specific file, .qmail-default file, .qmail file, etc). What the objectors probably don't like is that qmail doesn't reject it during the RCPT TO phase of the SMTP conversation. This is because the list of valid users is not easily determined, due to the flexibility of .qmail files. 2) qmail does not verify domain of envelope sender? (ie. does not do a DNS/reverse lookup) I think there are patches to do this, if you like. I personally don't think it's a good idea, because if your DNS resolver is broken, you can reject legitimate mail. I've received many a bounce complaining my domain didn't exist, when it was a problem in the receiver's DNS resolver. 3) qmail forks off a new qmail-remote process for each recipient of every message...susceptible to easy DoS attack? No. concurrencyremote (a qmail control file) specifies a maximum number of qmail-remote processes to have going at a time. It has a sane default value. If you want to raise or lower it, it's very simple to do. Similarly, concurrencylocal specifies the maximum number or qmail-locals to have going. You can specify the maximum number of qmail-smtpds to have going with an appropriate switch to tcpserver. The only 'DoS attack' which qmail facilitates is when you have a lot of messages to deliver to a single remote MTA which is misconfigured. The number of connections which qmail opens to a remote MTA may be large; if the remote system admin has not properly configured their smtpd concurrency, it may overload their system. That's not qmail's fault; it's a sysadmin failure. 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: qmail problems?
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 09:17:49AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) qmail can't reject mail addressed to a box that doesn't exist? (ie. bounce back to original sender) Yes it does. 2) qmail does not verify domain of envelope sender? (ie. does not do a DNS/reverse lookup) There are patches to do this, but such practices generally cause more problems then they solve. 3) qmail forks off a new qmail-remote process for each recipient of every message...susceptible to easy DoS attack? No, concurrencyremote limits the number of qmail-remote processes that run concurrently. PGP signature
Re: Re: qmail problems?
Thanks guys, that's all I wanted! I couldn't find a definitive answer to those questions in the docs that I read. "drum roll please..." ta-da qmail it is!! :) speak to you in the future. From: Alex Pennace [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:52:57 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: qmail problems? On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 09:17:49AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) qmail can't reject mail addressed to a box that doesn't exist? (ie. bounce back to original sender) Yes it does. 2) qmail does not verify domain of envelope sender? (ie. does not do a DNS/reverse lookup) There are patches to do this, but such practices generally cause more problems then they solve. 3) qmail forks off a new qmail-remote process for each recipient of every message...susceptible to easy DoS attack? No, concurrencyremote limits the number of qmail-remote processes that run concurrently. replyAll
Re: LDAP with qmail !!!! almost ok !!!!
"Olivier M." wrote: On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 05:01:20PM -0200, Marcio Sa wrote: Hello, did anyone use a qmail without put users in /etc/passwd or qmail-users , like using LDAP ? Is it possible ? I want to use qmail without creating users or mboxes and using LDAP. Its possible with sendmail but i preffer to use qmail. There are LDAP extensions made in Switzerland for qmail, have a look at http://www.nrg4u.com/ Hello Olivier, i have already installed qmail and LDAP extensions with a lot of success. But , like all in life, one thing doesnt work yet. I created a /var/qmail/bin/create_homedir with r-s,r-s,r-x permissions, owned by root and qmail is trying to create a /home/marcio directory to put Mailbox. The error is obvious: mkdir cannot create directory /home/marcio , permission denied (LDAP error 2.2.2). I don't know how to allow qmail create a diretory. (I tried to put /tmp/marcio im my LDAP homedir and creation is ok, of course). Thanks in advance for another help ;-), Marcio Cheers, Olivier -- _ Olivier Mueller - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - PGPkeyID: 0E84D2EA - Switzerland qmail projects: http://omail.omnis.ch - http://webmail.omnis.ch
Re: Smtp AUTH
Hi I just want to know if there is a solution for Smtp AUTH. I tried qmail-smtpd-auth-0.26.tar.gz but it doesn't work :-( ... The only other option is qmail-smtpd-auth's immediate predecessor, a patch written by "Mrs. Brisby". If you can't get qmail-smtpd-auth to work, odds are you won't get this patch to work either. What exactly is happening? Give us an idea of how you applied the patch, how you tested it, how you've determined it's not working, what any relevant log files say, and so forth. I use qmail-smtpd-auth without any trouble, and the author of that patch also subscribes to this list (or did, at least), so I'm sure you can get help here. ---Kris Kelley
Re: LDAP with qmail !!!! almost ok !!!!
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 02:53:42PM -0200, Marcio Sa wrote: There are LDAP extensions made in Switzerland for qmail, have a look at http://www.nrg4u.com/ Hello Olivier, i have already installed qmail and LDAP extensions with a lot of success. But , [...] Sorry, but I have no clue about qmail ldap (I'm not using it), just know the url :) So please ask on the qmail-ldap mailing list :) Good luck, Olivier -- _ Olivier Mueller - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - PGPkeyID: 0E84D2EA - Switzerland qmail projects: http://omail.omnis.ch - http://webmail.omnis.ch
Re: Changing double bounce sender from #@[] to anything else
Charles Cazabon wrote: You'll have to edit the qmail source to do this. However, you probably shouldn't -- double bounces have to have a null envelope sender, so that if they are going to bounce, they get thrown away -- if you change it to Jonathan McDowell wrote: FWIW if you turn on the "sender_verify" option for Exim it thinks it can't route mail to #@[], so won't accept mail from that sender envelope. Or at least it does in 3.12, I don't know if later versions treat it differently. Sendmail has a similar option that creates this problem. Currenty my company's corporate email server (sendmail) won't accept anything with an unrecognized domain name, and thus flushes any bounces it receives from our public email servers (qmail). I know, I know, ditch sendmail and install qmail on the corporate email server. I haven't been able to talk them into letting me do that yet. :) ---Kris Kelley
Loop protection
What kind of loop protection does qmail have? By that, I mean, if I have a user that forwards his email to another account on another system, which forwards back to his original mailbox, how does qmail handle this case? Thanks, Laurence -- Laurence Brockman Unix Administrator Videon Cablesystems Alberta Inc 10450-178 St. Edmonton, AB T5S 1S2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (780) 486-6527
RE: Loop protection
What kind of loop protection does qmail have? By that, I mean, if I have a user that forwards his email to another account on another system, which forwards back to his original mailbox, how does qmail handle this case? qmail inserts a "Delivered-To: " line into the header on each delivery, and will notice any loop that way, even if the loop is between multiple hosts. This is mentioned in BLURB3 in the distribution and in the 'qmail-local' man page. -- gowen -- Greg Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SoftLock.com is now DigitalGoods!
Looking for way to delete all mail sent to a non-existent mailbox
We're getting junk mail for a particular, non-existent mailbox. To add
insult to injury, the sender of the spam, no surprise, isn't legitimate - so
automated messages to them telling them of the non-existent account,
themselves, bounce.
What's the best way to simply have *all* mail for a particular mailbox go to
/dev/null? I created a .qmail-{mailbox} file and simply left it blank -
hoping that would do it. Is that an appropriate, effective measure?
Thanks in advance.
-David
RE: Looking for way to delete all mail sent to a non-existent mailbox
What's the best way to simply have *all* mail for a
particular mailbox go to /dev/null? I created a
.qmail-{mailbox} file and simply left it blank -
hoping that would do it. Is that an appropriate,
effective measure?
No; in the case of a zero-sized .qmail file, the "defaultdelivery"
instructions will be followed (see 'man dot-qmail').
What you want is a .qmail file containing a single line with a
comment in it, so that the file is non-empty but contains no delivery
instructions. All mail to that user will be silently discarded.
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gowen -- Greg Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hy.....
How can i configure qmail to allow a users to send emails only to the localhost.. and to can not send emails romote (to another host) Thankyou Seby...
Re: Looking for way to delete all mail sent to a non-existent mailbox
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 09:57:34AM -0800, David Geller wrote:
We're getting junk mail for a particular, non-existent mailbox. To add
insult to injury, the sender of the spam, no surprise, isn't legitimate - so
automated messages to them telling them of the non-existent account,
themselves, bounce.
What's the best way to simply have *all* mail for a particular mailbox go to
/dev/null? I created a .qmail-{mailbox} file and simply left it blank -
hoping that would do it. Is that an appropriate, effective measure?
Nope, blank means default delivery. Put a single # (hash) into that
.qmail-mailbox file.
RC
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Re: Hy.....
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:17:40 +0200, Seby wrote: How can i configure qmail to allow a users to send emails only to the localhost.. and to can not send emails romote (to another host) echo 0 /var/qmail/control/concurrencyremote Might do the trick---but I believe that would just hold the mail in the queue until it timed out. That may not be exactly what you're looking for. Andy
Re: Hy.....
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 08:17:40PM +0200, Seby wrote: How can i configure qmail to allow a users to send emails only to the localhost.. and to can not send emails romote (to another host) You don't say whether that user is a logged in Unix user or one using an remote MUA such as Eudora or Exchange etc. You also don't say whether it is all users or just a couple of users. In either event the mechanism is essentially the same. You need to create a separate instance of qmail which has concurrencyremote set to zero. You then need to ensure that those users can only access that instance of qmail, eg, via IP rules in tcpserver or via Unix permissions for logged in users. If the restriction applies to all users, then you don't need a separate instance. How to set up separate instance has been discussed before and the details can be found in the archives via www.qmail.org Regards.
Re: Dynamic relay question
rmarcos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to relay people who connect with dynamic IPs, Is the any way of relaying them? This is a qmail FAQ. I recommend you use Bruce Guenter's relay-ctrl package, which implements an SMTP-after-POP scheme without requiring any patches to qmail. See http://em.ca/~bruceg/ for more info. 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: Hy.....
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Andy Bradford wrote: On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:17:40 +0200, Seby wrote: How can i configure qmail to allow a users to send emails only to the localhost.. and to can not send emails romote (to another host) echo 0 /var/qmail/control/concurrencyremote Might do the trick---but I believe that would just hold the mail in the queue until it timed out. That may not be exactly what you're looking for. sorry... but a meant to say a specific user not all users. Andy --- -=Ionita Sebastian=- http://lapd.cj.edu.ro/~seby E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." -- Thomas De Quincey (1785 - 1859)
How ezmlm works with mysql databases.
I need to know how exactly ezmlm works with database support because Im implementing a web mailing system here Let me explain better how it works. We have a customer database here in a MS SQL server, and frequently someone has to send emails to all of them, or to specific ones. In another machine we have FreeBSD 4.0, ezmlm and qmail. So I made a web interface that allows the user to put the message of the email, subject, from, etc. and a lot of options that selects the right customers of the database. The cgi process the options, makes a dinamic query to MSSQL, import the users and insert them into the mysql local database of ezmlm, in a list called generic. After this proccessing, I send the contents of the email to this list and finished... But what happens if another user uses the system while the first is still being sending? Ezmlm makes a unique select to mysql, so changes in the table after the sending process begins take no effect? Or I have to wait until the first process finishes to start the second? Hope my question is clear, and sorry about my English... :-( Thanks!!! -- It's not a bug, it's tradition!
Re: Copy Outbound messages
Hi , thank you for you prompt answer to my message. Excuse my lack of experience but it isn't clear to me the way the message copy works, my doubts are as follows: 1. Where are these messages stored? 2. Can you give me an approximate idea of how the filter you suggest works. Would it be with a script? Thanks once again and best regards. Regards, Andrés Segovia
different kind of rblsmtpd
Hoi folx, I am currently setting up a new mailserver and do the switch from a heavily patched 1.01 to 1.03. With the 1.01 I used Russ Nelson's modification to ucspi-tcp and qmail-smtpd to do the dns queries for RBLs and block emails. In the process of migrating I'd like to provide more "service" to our customers. Thus I don't want to block RBL listed hosts but accept and "tag" the emails. What I am looking for is a program that I can plug between tcpserver and qmail-smtpd which basically does the DNS lookups, does not talk SMTP but just set e.g. BOUNCEMAIL RBLID environment variables and hand the complete SMTP conversation on to qmail-smtpd. In qmail-smtpd I may then decide whether to reject or accept and qmail-queue could insert either X-RBL-Check: RBLID or foreach token in $RBLID X-RBL-Check: token where tokens would be e.g. ORBS, MAPS-RBL, MAPS-RSS, MAPS-DUL, ... so that the user may sort/decide based on those Headers how to handle the message. (We have users that want it blocked and users that simply want the info, so I would set up two different smtpds to the same queue behaving differently and configure the MX of the domains as the customer would like to have it). Before I start to write that myself, has anybody done something like that already? If I have to write it, any wishes/suggestions? ;-) \Maex -- SpaceNet AG | 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.
Concurrent access to one mailbox via IMAP?
Is it possible for more than one client to access the same mailbox via IMAP? If so, are there any risks involved? Would there be a higher chance of corruption if, say, user #1 moved a message to another folder while user #2 tried to access the same message at roughly the same time? And finally, if there were risks involved, is there any way to limit access so that only one person could access a mailbox at any point in time? [We have accounts such as 'support' in which multiple personel access. I am planning to replace the WorldMail server with qmail.] ../mk
Re: Concurrent access to one mailbox via IMAP?
* Marc Knoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001214 14:25]: [We have accounts such as 'support' in which multiple personel access. I am planning to replace the WorldMail server with qmail.] Why not avoid the whole mess of many users in one mailbox and set up a list of forwarding addresses for the ``support'' e-mail address? We do this and it works just fine... /pg -- Peter Green : Gospel Communications Network, SysAdmin : [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- I don't have time right now, or I'd offer to write it. Is this the official Debian slogan?? (Seen in some news exchange, contributed by Mike Coleman)
qmail server communication
Hello, i've 2 qmail-server, one intern (LAN) and one extern (DMZ), so how can i configure, that the intern qmail server send email only to the extern qmail server (DMZ)? The extern qmail server should only communicate with the world. I use for each users unix accounts, intern and the extern. Have you any idee? Thank for the help. best regards Gustav qmail-intern--|Firewall|--extern-qmail--|Router|--Internet -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net
location of virtual domains mail.
I didn't get a response to this the first time around, so here it is again. Is the /var/qmail/users/assign file the only file that needs to be changed to specify a new location for mail per virtual domain? Peter Brezny SysAdmin Services Inc.
Re: Concurrent access to one mailbox via IMAP?
Marc Knoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible for more than one client to access the same mailbox via IMAP? If so, are there any risks involved? Would there be a higher chance of corruption if, say, user #1 moved a message to another folder while user #2 tried to access the same message at roughly the same time? This would be entirely dependent on the IMAP server software involved. A design using Maildirs would almost certainly not result in corruption, although you could still have problems with race conditions: -user one retrieves a list of messages in one folder -user two retrieves same list -user one moves message "Foo" to another folder -user two attempts to retrive message "Foo" from the folder And finally, if there were risks involved, is there any way to limit access so that only one person could access a mailbox at any point in time? The IMAP server could lock the mailbox when a person logs in, as many POP3 servers do. I'm not sure if the common IMAP servers do this. 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: qmail server communication
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've 2 qmail-server, one intern (LAN) and one extern (DMZ), so how can i configure, that the intern qmail server send email only to the extern qmail server (DMZ)? The extern qmail server should only communicate with the world. I use for each users unix accounts, intern and the extern. This is a FAQ. Read `man qmail-remote` or the FAQ for the answer. 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. ---
Mail flood in queue
Help, I've been mail flooded to invalid users. My apologies for the length of this, but I'm trying to be complete. The background is as follows. My qmail server is the secondary MX for domain tri.net. mx1.tri.net got flooded with about 28,000 invalid user emails, which overflowed onto my qmail secondary server, mx2.tri.net. As qmail.remote is sending them from mx2.tri.net to mx1.tri.net, one of two things is happening: 1. Fails because of unavailable socket on mx1.tri.net. 2. Log entry as follows- Dec 14 16:43:14 radius qmail: 976812194.440027 delivery 5510: failure: 205.153.244.6_does_not_like_recipient./Remote_host_said:_550_bail [EMAIL PROTECTED]..._User_unknown/Giving_up_on_205.153.244.6./ My qstat does not seem to be getting smaller. My qread looks as follows. clip 12 Dec 2000 21:58:59 GMT #53728 15374 remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12 Dec 2000 22:24:01 GMT #53751 15462 remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12 Dec 2000 12:53:05 GMT #53774 1146 [EMAIL PROTECTED] bouncing remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 13 Dec 2000 00:18:33 GMT #54073 33878 [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] clip My questions are as follows. Because of the 'giving_up' message, is it still retrying the same bad address again? Is there a 'filter' I can install to prevent qmail-remote from sending the emails from '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' on to mx1.tri.net? What does the 'done' mean on some of the messages in the qread dump? And will they clean out automagicly? Any help will be appreciated. Some 'good' email has been trapped in the queue, such as the last entry in the qread dump. But if I have to, I could completely dump the queue as a last resort. Thanks in advance. Sam
Re: location of virtual domains mail.
Peter Brezny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the /var/qmail/users/assign file the only file that needs to be changed to specify a new location for mail per virtual domain? Virtual users or domains are assigned to local users or aliases with /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains . /var/qmail/users/assign only affects virtual domains indirectly -- qmail will consult assign to find out how to handle mail for the user specified in virtualdomains. 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: RE : Smtp AUTH
- Original Message - From: "Charles Trtanj" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 1:04 PM Subject: RE : RE : Smtp AUTH Well i started the smtpd server with this command "tcpserver -c20 -x /var/qmail/control/smtp.cdb -g18 -u81 -R -v 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd /bin/checkpasswd /bin/true /bin/cmd5checkpw /bin/true". Virtually the same as mine, with one major exception. The latest version of cmd5checkpw handles both clear-text passwords and the CRAM-MD5 scheme, so I'm not using checkpasswd at all. While that's something to check, I doubt it's the cause of the problem you are having. the server started and accepted connection via telnet. But at the moment a windows-user tried with outlook to login on the smtpd-server the server says "bad password or username". I looked at the messagelog and find " checkpasswd : domain.de:ipnumber:port user "" no $HOME, access denied". But on my first configuration (smtp after pop) all was ok. The user had first to login with pop3 and after that he can send emails. Yes, SMTP-after-POP schemes do not require the client to have any special knowledge about what's going on. ESMTP AUTH of course requires the client send the proper authentication information. I just sent a message through my AUTH-enabled server using Outlook, and it went without a hitch. Same with Outlook Express, which I use daily. Since the error message mentioned something about no $HOME, you may want to look at whatever checkpasswd is using to look up user information (/etc/passwd, presumably) and make sure this person actually has a home directory set. Then, if checkpasswd is as paranoid as qmail, make sure that the person actually owns his home directory, and that the directory is not world-writable. If none of this fixes the problem, you might want to post a question to the password mailing list. See http://cr.yp.to/lists.html#password for details. Good luck! ---Kris Kelley
Re: Mail flood in queue
Sam Laffere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mx1.tri.net got flooded with about 28,000 invalid user emails, which overflowed onto my qmail secondary server, mx2.tri.net. As qmail.remote is sending them from mx2.tri.net to mx1.tri.net, one of two things is happening: 1. Fails because of unavailable socket on mx1.tri.net. 2. Log entry as follows- Dec 14 16:43:14 radius qmail: 976812194.440027 delivery 5510: failure: 205.153.244.6_does_not_like_recipient./Remote_host_said:_550_bail [EMAIL PROTECTED]..._User_unknown/Giving_up_on_205.153.244.6./ My qstat does not seem to be getting smaller. My qread looks as follows. [...] Because of the 'giving_up' message, is it still retrying the same bad address again? No. However, qmail will then inject a bounce message, so the size of the queue will not get smaller instantly. If the message was spam, qmail may not be able to deliver the bounce immediately either, and it may take a while to clear out of the queue. Is there a 'filter' I can install to prevent qmail-remote from sending the emails from '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' on to mx1.tri.net? See qmHandle (IIRC) on www.qmail.org for removing things from the queue by hand. What does the 'done' mean on some of the messages in the qread dump? And will they clean out automagicly? Yes, qmail-clean will remove them from the queue automatically. 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: Concurrent access to one mailbox via IMAP?
Thanks Peter, Greg and Charles! I will implement qmail using the maildir format. I am using courier-imap on another qmail server, and it seems to run quite well. Here are a few snippets from their web site: * "Multiple applications can access the same Maildir simultaneously without requiring any kind of locking whatsoever. " * "It works particularly well over NFS" * "Ability to restrict the maximum number of IMAP logins, and the maximum number of logins from the same IP address." * "Shared folders. With additional server-side setup, folders can be shared between groups of accounts." I have thought about a mailing list, but it becomes tricky determining who has handled a ticket/email without generating more mail. That call center solution is also interesting, but may be overkill for our needs. All this IMAP talk raises another question I have - which do most of you use? [An open ended question that could generate a flurry of responses! ;] [Actually, a 'poll' page would be a neat idea so that people could get a good idea of how others are using/setting up qmail.] ../mk
Re: Copy Outbound messages
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Charrua wrote: Hi , thank you for you prompt answer to my message. Excuse my lack of experience but it isn't clear to me the way the message copy works, my doubts are as follows: Go back and read the man pages, examine http://www.qmail.org and http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html. There is a wealth of information there just waiting for you to read it. 1. Where are these messages stored? 2. Can you give me an approximate idea of how the filter you suggest works. Would it be with a script? By making the appropriate patch (as outlined in the FAQ), every message is ALSO delivered to a local user called log. On the assumption that you don't have a local user called log, the message will be controlled by the contents of ~alias/.qmail-log (Just like it says in the FAQ). So, in ~alias/.qmail-log you would put: | myfilter ./trapped And myfilter would examine the message and determine if it was from, or for the user in question and then exit 0. Then the message would be saved in the file ~alias/trapped for you to examine at your leisure. If the message wasn't from or for the user it would exit 99 and the message would not be saved anywhere. It's up to you to write myfilter, Have a look at the dot-qmail and qmail-command man pages. -- Regards Peter -- Peter Samuel[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-smith.org (development)http://www.e-smith.com (corporate) Phone: +1 613 368 4398 Fax: +1 613 564 7739 e-smith, inc. 1500-150 Metcalfe St, Ottawa, ON K2P 1P1 Canada "If you kill all your unhappy customers, you'll only have happy ones left"
Re: Mail flood in queue
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 01:52:04PM -0600, Sam Laffere wrote: Because of the 'giving_up' message, is it still retrying the same bad address again? Yes. What does the 'done' mean on some of the messages in the qread dump? And will they clean out automagicly? Yes, that was a message with multi recipients and some of the addresses (the "done" ones) have been delivered. Others have not so the email ist still sitting in your queue. Is there a 'filter' I can install to prevent qmail-remote from sending the emails from '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' on to mx1.tri.net? - add '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to control/badmailfrom - get qmhandle from http://www.io.com/~mick/soft/qmhandle.html - stop qmail-send and qmail-smtpd - remove the messages that are from/to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' from the queue. - restart qmail-send and qmail-smtpd "dictionary spams" are evil. If you can't stop it just at the beginning when they come in, cleanup is much work to do. last we had something which is IMHO even more evil, a "dictionary sender spam" where the spammer abused a domain of a customer of ours and injected bulks of about 100-500 messages each with a different sender within the abused domain via relay open mailservers. results in ten thousands of bounces from mailservers all over the world to some hundered different addresses :(( All you can do is watch them coming, check for new addresses and add them to the badrcptto file (if you have the patch installed and I would urge everyone to do so). \Maex -- SpaceNet AG | 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: Concurrent access to one mailbox via IMAP?
All this IMAP talk raises another question I have - which do most of you use? [An open ended question that could generate a flurry of responses! ;] I don't now, but when I used IMAP, I preferred Cyrus IMAP. It has a reasonably clean design that throws away /bin/mail compatibility to concentrate on handling IMAP optimally. -- gowen -- Greg Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SoftLock.com is now DigitalGoods!
ipchains + qmail + vmailmgr
Hi, I am facing a huge problem for ipchains with my pop server using vmailmgr+qmail. My server is not able to receive any emails once the firewall (ipchains) is executed. my pop server startup script is as follow: exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -c200 202.35.12.1 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup dns1.3dsources.com /usr/bin/checkvpw /usr/sbin/relay-ctrl-allow /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir my ipchains script is as follow: ipchains -A input -i eth0 -p tcp \ -s any/0 1024:65535 \ -d 202.35.12.1 110 -j ACCEPT ipchains -A input -i eth0 -p tcp \ -s any/0 0:1024 \ -d 202.35.12.1 110 -j ACCEPT ipchains -A output -i eth0 -p tcp ! -y\ -s 202.35.12.1 110 \ -d any/0 1024:65535 -j ACCEPT ipchains -A output -i eth0 -p tcp ! -y\ -s 202.35.12.1 110 \ -d any/0 0:1023 -j ACCEPT I am using Redhat Linux 6.2 + qmail + tcpserver + vmailmgr. I am using outexpress to pop into my server. But I got the following error messages stating that "Failed to connect to server" Please help me out. Re: I haven't tried to send any messages out yet ! Thank you so much Mark Lo
Re: a problem about hostname/virtual domain
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 01:52:14PM -0500, Tim Hunter wrote: First Excuse my Outlook 2000, corp standard. The only files you need to be concerned with for virtual hosts using vpopmail: /var/qmail/control/rcthosts metta.lk /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains metta.lk:metta.lk /var/qmail/users/assign +metta.lk-:metta.lk:512:5002:/home/vpopmail/domains/metta.lk:-:: /home/vpopmail/domains/metta.lk/vpasswd relevant password entries All of these changes would have been made if you added the domain with ~vpopmail/bin/vadddomain metta.lk I would suggest deleting the domain ~vpopmail/bin/vdeldomain metta.lk and readding it, something is severely screwed up. Thanks for the replies. You are quite right. I re-installed from the OS onwards and it works now. Thanks for the clear notes from everyone. Mettavihari Sri Lanka.
Re: VPOPMAIL Problem
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 07:37:10AM -0500, Hubbard, David wrote: Just go to the domain directory and type this: echo "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" .qmail-default That means any email that comes in to that domain addressed to a nonexistent address will be handled by the .qmail-default since a .qmail-username for that address won't exist. Except that vpopmail doesn't use a .qmail-username for user accounts. Everything gets delivered to .qmail-default and the vpopmail dispatcher does the appropirate thing there. Perhaps not the right way, but my first thought is: mv .qmail-default .qmail-localuser echo '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' .qmail-default That should allow mail for localuser to come in and be handled, while sending the rest of the mail elsewhere. Sean -- I didn't spend 6 years in evil medical school to be called *MISTER* Evil! -- Dr. Evil, _Austin_Powers:_International_Man_of_Mystery_ Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous [EMAIL PROTECTED] tummy.com - Linux Consulting since 1995. Qmail, KRUD, Firewalls, Python
Re: RBL gone crazy?
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, asantos wrote: I think this is interesting for this list: http://slashdot.org/yro/00/12/13/1853237.shtml That's a mail policy issue, not a mail server issue. Consider taking RBL-related issues to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's certainly on-topic for that list. It'll certainly do nothing but worsen the signal-to-noise ratio here. -- Edward S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nyx.net/~emarshal/ --- [ Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. ]
Re: LDAP with qmail !!!! almost ok !!!!
We have an own list for qmail-ldap, use it. Am Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2000 17:53 schrieb Marcio Sa: i have already installed qmail and LDAP extensions with a lot of success. But , like all in life, one thing doesnt work yet. I created a /var/qmail/bin/create_homedir with r-s,r-s,r-x permissions, owned by root and qmail is trying to create a /home/marcio directory to put Mailbox. The error is obvious: mkdir cannot create directory /home/marcio , permission denied (LDAP error 2.2.2). I don't know how to allow qmail create a diretory. (I tried to put /tmp/marcio im my LDAP homedir and creation is ok, of course). homediremaker (or whatever you called it) runs under the uid/gid of the to-be-created-user, so he must have write permissions to /home. Thanks in advance for another help ;-), Marcio Cheers, Olivier -- _ Olivier Mueller - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - PGPkeyID: 0E84D2EA - Switzerland qmail projects: http://omail.omnis.ch - http://webmail.omnis.ch -- Henning Brauer | BS Web Services Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg www.bsws.de| Germany
Re: How ezmlm works with mysql databases.
Am Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2000 19:59 schrieb Fernando Costa de Almeida: I need to know how exactly ezmlm works with database support So the ezmlm mailing list would be the right place to ask. because Im implementing a web mailing system here Let me explain better how it works. We have a customer database here in a MS SQL server, and frequently someone has to send emails to all of them, or to specific ones. In another machine we have FreeBSD 4.0, ezmlm and qmail. So I made a web interface that allows the user to put the message of the email, subject, from, etc. and a lot of options that selects the right customers of the database. The cgi process the options, makes a dinamic query to MS SQL, import the users and insert them into the mysql local database of ezmlm, in a list called generic. After this proccessing, I send the contents of the email to this list and finished... Can't see the need for ezmlm here. Just call qmail-inject for every recipient. man qmail-inject is your friend. But what happens if another user uses the system while the first is still being sending? Ezmlm makes a unique select to mysql, so changes in the table after the sending process begins take no effect? Or I have to wait until the first process finishes to start the second? Hope my question is clear, and sorry about my English... :-( Thanks!!! -- It's not a bug, it's tradition! Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"; name="Anhang: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: -- Henning Brauer | BS Web Services Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg www.bsws.de| Germany
Bare CRLF's and 'email floods'
We have experienced very bad email floods from the Bare CRLF code in Qmail, where another site that didn't understand the error and will keep sending the same message forever. It seems to be automated email programs and Microsoft SMTP servers, they will just try the same message until they are put in the badmailfrom file. I am not sure why this is not a subject that has come up more, I would think others would have had this problem. From what I can tell Qmail would be better if it could somehow prevent a server from doing this, the foreign hosts tend to not listen to the way it currently complains to them. We finally just commented out the Bare CRLF clauses and we no longer have these floods occur. I am wondering how many others have come accross this problem and if this was how they dealt with it or some other way? One example of a site that did this was 'makeoverstudios.com' which I am not sure if they still have that problem, but it was thier automated email responder. We noticed this after getting very large servers, and don't know if that really made it show up or what? Thanks, Chris k Chris Kennedy, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bare CRLF's and 'email floods'
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 18:33:08 -0600 (CST) From: CK [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have experienced very bad email floods from the Bare CRLF code in Qmail, where another site that didn't understand the error and will keep sending the same message forever. It seems to be automated email programs and Microsoft SMTP servers, they will just try the same message until they are put in the badmailfrom file. I am not sure why this is not a subject that has come up more, I would think others would have had this problem. From what I can tell Qmail would be better if it could somehow prevent a server from doing this, the foreign hosts tend to not listen to the way it currently complains to them. We finally just commented out the Bare CRLF clauses and we no longer have these floods occur. I am wondering how many others have come accross this problem and if this was how they dealt with it or some other way? One example of a site that did this was 'makeoverstudios.com' which I am not sure if they still have that problem, but it was thier automated email responder. We noticed this after getting very large servers, and don't know if that really made it show up or what? I've seen this too, in my case from sites in China. One easy fix is to change 451 to 554 in the string in straynewline in qmail-smtpd.c. This changes a temporary error condition to a permanent one, and normally causes the errant e-mail server to give up immediately. Ian
Re: Bare CRLF's and 'email floods'
We have experienced very bad email floods from the Bare CRLF code in Qmail, where another site that didn't understand the error and will keep sending the same message forever. It seems to be automated email programs and Microsoft SMTP servers, they will just try the same message until they are put in the badmailfrom file. I am not sure why this is not a subject that has come up more, I would think others Actually this subject appears pretty frequently on this list. One easy fix is to change 451 to 554 in the string in straynewline in qmail-smtpd.c. This changes a temporary error condition to a permanent one, and normally causes the errant e-mail server to give up immediately. And that's one of the two solutions. The other is to use the fixcrio utility. Search in the archive on "fixcrio". cheers, Andrew.
Re: Bare CRLF's and 'email floods'
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 01:03:35AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And that's one of the two solutions. The other is to use the fixcrio utility. Search in the archive on "fixcrio". And the third is to block those sites completely and tell their sysadmin about http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q224/9/83.ASP as those mailserver choke on every 4xx code. \Maex -- SpaceNet AG | 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.
hahaha@sexyfun.net
hi all, this [EMAIL PROTECTED] email thats going around sends [EMAIL PROTECTED] as an in-line "From:" header not "MAIL FROM" out-of-band info. does anyone know how to block based on the header not the "MAIL FROM"? Regards, Marc-Adrian Napoli Network Admin Connect Infobahn Australia +61 2 9212 0387
Re: different kind of rblsmtpd
In the process of migrating I'd like to provide more "service" to our customers. Thus I don't want to block RBL listed hosts but accept and "tag" the emails. snip qmail-queue could insert either X-RBL-Check: RBLID or foreach token in $RBLID X-RBL-Check: token where tokens would be e.g. ORBS, MAPS-RBL, MAPS-RSS, MAPS-DUL, ... snip Before I start to write that myself, has anybody done something like that already? The "Spamcontrol" patch has marked similarities to what you propose - worth taking a look at to see if it covers most of what you want... see under, http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/qmail_en.html cheers, Andrew.
Re: Does qmail really delay a bounce for this long?
re: qmail not notifying you of temporary failures. the default time to sit in the queue is 1 week. you can run a script from cron to examine the queue at regular intervals and send email to those concerned if email hasn't been delivered. search www.qmail.org for Matt Ranney or Brian Wightman. Both have written perl scripts to do this. I know of a 3rd script which was posted to this mailing list, but i don't see it mentioned on qmail.org. it was something like "qmail-deferred-notifier". ---Matt
emulating sendmail's user@host.REDIRECT feature?
with sendmail, if an entry like this: joe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is in /etc/aliases then any message sent to joe will be bounced back with a helpful note about joe's new email address. this way you don't have to forward email to joe's new address for years after they leave. eventually joe's correspondents learn to use joe's new address. if i only forwarded joe's email, his correspondents would have no incentive to use his new address and i hate seeing mail to joe in the queue years after his departure. before i work on a script to do this with qmail i thought i'd ask if anyone has done this before. i'd rather not re-invent the wheel. ---Matt
Re: emulating sendmail's user@host.REDIRECT feature?
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 10:32:35PM -0800, Matt Harrington wrote: with sendmail, if an entry like this: joe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is in /etc/aliases then any message sent to joe will be bounced back with a helpful note about joe's new email address. this way you don't have to forward email to joe's new address for years after they leave. eventually joe's correspondents learn to use joe's new address. if i only forwarded joe's email, his correspondents would have no incentive to use his new address and i hate seeing mail to joe in the queue years after his departure. before i work on a script to do this with qmail i thought i'd ask if anyone has done this before. i'd rather not re-invent the wheel. Use bouncesaying. bouncesaying in a .qmail file causes a QSBMF-style bounce to be sent with the supplied string used as the failure indication for that recipient. PGP signature
Re: emulating sendmail's user@host.REDIRECT feature?
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 10:32:57PM -0800, Matt Harrington wrote: with sendmail, if an entry like this: joe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is in /etc/aliases then any message sent to joe will be bounced back with a helpful note about joe's new email address. this way you don't have to forward email to joe's new address for years after they leave. eventually joe's correspondents learn to use joe's new address. if i only forwarded joe's email, his correspondents would have no incentive to use his new address and i hate seeing mail to joe in the queue years after his departure. before i work on a script to do this with qmail i thought i'd ask if anyone has done this before. i'd rather not re-invent the wheel. In Joe's .qmail go: | bouncesaying "Joe has gone. Try contacting him at [EMAIL PROTECTED]" Obviously if you remove joe's home, then it'll be ~alias/.qmail-joe that you place the bouncesaying in. There's a manpage on that command. Regards.
Re: emulating sendmail's user@host.REDIRECT feature?
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 01:42:26AM -0500, Alex Pennace wrote: Use bouncesaying. bouncesaying in a .qmail file causes a QSBMF-style bounce to be sent with the supplied string used as the failure indication for that recipient. Great! that does it. Any idea how to include a newline in the error though? along the lines of... | bouncesaying '\nMy new address is:\n\[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ---Matt
Re: hahaha@sexyfun.net
if u are using vpopmail and sqwebmail do like this so you wont see from address from sqwebmail touch /usr/local/share/sqwebmail/nochangingfrom - Original Message - From: Marc-Adrian Napoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 6:49 AM Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hi all, this [EMAIL PROTECTED] email thats going around sends [EMAIL PROTECTED] as an in-line "From:" header not "MAIL FROM" out-of-band info. does anyone know how to block based on the header not the "MAIL FROM"? Regards, Marc-Adrian Napoli Network Admin Connect Infobahn Australia +61 2 9212 0387 __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
How to add banner/image
Dear qmail-ers, I got something to ask : how to add advertisement banner or image at every message that runs through qmail ? I already know how to add text/plain footer or header but I still face problem with image or html type .. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Paulus Hendarwan Qmail Administrator
1 000 000 USD to get me rid of my utter frustration
This list may be the ultimate trap. I've tried so many different things, followed so many advices... but still around in utter frustration! Here follows header lines from the msgs I receive from the qmail mailing list: ... From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Dec 01 08:51:41 2000 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I've sent coutless msgs to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... qmail-carotte qmail-navet qmail-pamplemousse qmail-pissenlit qmail-sesame "en vain" never received any thing back from those automated addresses. Could someone definitely help with this matter ? And anyone who would suggest that I'm no subscriber, or that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not registered, or that I registered with another address, or God knows what, should ask how in the world do I receive qmail stuff at this address with a well formed qmail return address precisely based on mine. MILLIONS OF THANKS Franck
