unable to pick up email
Hi I have come across a weird problem with qmail. When mail is received from one particular source and we try and pick it up with Outlook 2000 it hangs - displaying for example, "receiving message 1 of 10". Investigation reveals that /Maildir/new is empty and Maildir/cur has all 10 messages, the first message (the one that caused Outlook 2000 to hang) has a format "date.pid.host.filename:2,S" (the suffix :2,S not on any other mail). Checking mail again with Outlook 2000 still hangs thus no mail is able to be picked up. When the first message (with the :2,S suffix)is manually moved to /Maildir/tmp all remaining messages in /Maildir/cur are successfully picked up by Outlook 2000. I would be grateful if anyone can suggest what is going on and hopefully provide a solution? Thanks very much! George _ http://entertainment.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Entertainment - Feeling a little bored? Need some entertainment?
Re: anybody can't help me insert some text in the end of every message my mailserver relay for?
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 01:35:52PM +0800, dick wrote:
Subject: anybody can't help me insert some text in the end of every message my
mailserver relay for?
This is possibly an evil idea, but anyway:
Either patch qmail-queue.c or qmail-smtpd.c (depending on what you want
to achieve). In the later case try adding something like this to the
end of blast():
{
char corrupted[]="This message has been changed on";
qmail_put(qqt,corrupted,sizeof(corrupted)-1);
qmail_put(qqt,greeting.s,greeting.len);
qmail_put(qqt,"\n",1);
}
Regards, Uwe
qmail Digest 6 Feb 2001 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 1267
qmail Digest 6 Feb 2001 11:00:01 - Issue 1267 Topics (messages 56672 through 56732): Problem with queue 56672 by: ari.doctordata.com.br Re: Qmail on FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE 56673 by: Erwin Hoffmann 56694 by: Alex Povolotsky 56728 by: Bruce Dang 56729 by: Nick ftgate smartpop 56674 by: keng heng Re: re : user Masq 56675 by: Charles Cazabon Re: How can I delete all unsended mails in "/var/qmail/queue"? 56676 by: Dave Sill qmailadmin + vpopmail + sqwebmail 56677 by: Yee Siew Chin 56685 by: Wilson, Frank 56686 by: Hubbard, David 56687 by: Henning Brauer 56688 by: Henning Brauer 56691 by: Olivier M. 56717 by: Yee Siew Chin filter ip 56678 by: Pablo Martin De Natale 56679 by: Brett Randall 56683 by: Graphic Rezidew using lwq I get an error with supervise 56680 by: Neil Grant 56689 by: Dave Sill Postmaster alias setup 56681 by: Matt Simonsen 56682 by: Charles Cazabon Re: bouncesaying and maildrop 56684 by: David Benfell 56708 by: Alex Pennace 56709 by: Adam McKenna using a differnet home dir 56690 by: Dale Herring 56696 by: Dave Sill Re: qmail port 56692 by: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira 56697 by: Dave Sill 56700 by: Mike Jackson 56701 by: Dave Sill 56706 by: Andy Bradford Re: Delay in POP and SMTP response 56693 by: Campos Mario How to make a nobody account ? 56695 by: Irwan Hadi 56698 by: Charles Cazabon 56699 by: Dave Sill serialmail 56702 by: Gavin McCord Turn off Msglog ; Backup Mail Queues? 56703 by: Brandon Yu 56707 by: Charles Cazabon Re: How does SVSCAN work ? 56704 by: Andy Bradford badmailfrom... 56705 by: Jean Caron 56710 by: Markus Stumpf qmail packaging 56711 by: Aaron Carr 56712 by: Ryan Marsh 56713 by: Charles Cazabon 56725 by: Vincent Danen virtualdomain/smtproute 56714 by: Michael Boyiazis 56718 by: Lincoln Yeoh qmail email server 56715 by: Cole, Robert 56716 by: Matt Simonsen Plain language on reading the manual 56719 by: Karl Vogel Receipts refused 56720 by: Kari Suomela tcprules and CIDR notation? 56721 by: Drew Linsalata 56722 by: Alex Pennace ms-tnef attachments 56723 by: Ng Hak Beng anybody can't help me insert some text in the end of every message my mailserver relay for? 56724 by: dick 56732 by: Uwe Ohse Qmail Logging. 56726 by: Jagadish.N 56727 by: Greg White unable to pick up email 56730 by: george bernath Best option for sending a newsletter 56731 by: Paco Gracia 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've restarted qmail and there is something wrong: # qmail-qstat messages in queue: 15 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 # qmHandle -l Messages in local queue: 0 Messages in remote queue: 0 # qmail-qread There is no message in the queue, but why qmail-qstat shows 15? When there are more messages in queue, qmail-qstat shows more than 15, in "messages in queue". Thanks, Ari Hi, this problem At 18:07 4.2.2001 -0800, Bruce Dang wrote: Then when i try to connect to port 25, it says UNABLE TO READ CONTROLS #4.3.0...how do I fix this? Cheers, Bruce is usually attached to the fact, that qmail was not compiled to the standard patch, ie. /var/qmail and you have the control file in the /var/qmail/control. See where the qmail binaries are. Had the same problem with a qmail port to SuSE Linux. cheers. eh. +---+ | fffhh http://www.fehcom.deDr. Erwin Hoffmann | | ff hh| | ffeee ccc ooomm mm mm Wiener Weg 8 | | fff ee ee hh hh cc oo oo mmm mm mm 50858 Koeln| | ff ee eee hh hh cc oo oo mm mm mm| | ff eee hh hh cc oo oo mm mm mm Tel 0221 484 4923 | | ff hh hhccc ooomm mm mm Fax 0221 484 4924 | +---+ On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 06:07:15PM -0800, Bruce Dang wrote: What is wrong with qmail on FreeBSD 4.2? I installed it from the ports and it does not work. When I try to run it..the qmaill/q/r/p/s users don't even run the process, but instead some unknown uid running the
chrooting qmail...
hy! i recently started to chroot my qmail, now i got sort of stuck. when trying to deliver a message i get the following output from qmail: delivery 1: deferral: CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._(#4.4.3)/ my chrooted tree looks as follows: .: total 20 drwxr-xr-x5 root root 4096 Feb 6 14:36 . drwxr-xr-x6 root root 4096 Feb 6 13:29 .. drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Feb 6 14:36 bin drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Feb 6 14:38 lib drwxr-xr-x 10 qmailb qmail4096 Feb 6 14:32 qmail ./bin: total 788 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Feb 6 14:36 . drwxr-xr-x5 root root 4096 Feb 6 14:36 .. -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 316848 Feb 6 13:36 bash -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 6108 Feb 6 13:41 env -rwxr-xr-x1 root root12820 Feb 6 13:49 expr -rwxr-xr-x1 root root54544 Feb 6 13:49 find -rwxr-xr-x1 root root43024 Feb 6 13:35 ls -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 316848 Feb 6 13:34 sh -rwxr-xr-x1 root root18032 Feb 6 13:49 wc ./lib: total 4544 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Feb 6 14:38 . drwxr-xr-x5 root root 4096 Feb 6 14:36 .. -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 340663 Feb 6 13:30 ld-linux.so.2 -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 4101324 Feb 6 13:29 libc.so.6 -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 169720 Feb 6 13:31 libresolv.so.2 -rwxr-xr-x1 root root12224 Feb 6 14:38 libtermcap.so.2 ./qmail: as usual am i missing something ??? thx thomas
Re: unable to pick up email
george bernath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have come across a weird problem with qmail. No, you haven't, actually. When mail is received from one particular source and we try and pick it up with Outlook 2000 it hangs - displaying for example, "receiving message 1 of 10". It's a bug in Outlook. In fact, it's one of many -- there are a lot of different problems that can cause Outlook to hang. One is if a retrieved message has no Subject: header, which is perfectly legal. There are many others, so I cannot tell you which particular bug you are encountering at this time. Fix Outlook, and everything will work fine. 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: Best option for sending a newsletter
Paco Gracia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to send a daily newsletter to 60.000 e-mail addresses that are stored in a MySQL database. The newsletter is the same for everybody and the process of composing and sending it will be started from a PHP web app. Sounds good so far. 1- Should I use mail() function from PHP, invoke qmail directly or create a mailing list with ezmlm? ezmlm is a particularly nice way to go, because of its completely automatic bounce handling. If you don't want to do that, write a little script to pull the recipients out of the database and inject using /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue. You'll need to read the man page for qmail-queue to figure out how it wants to be called. 2- If I don't log the sending of the newsletter will it increase the speed or just free CPU? This won't buy you a lot, providing your qmail installation is logging with multilog. And not logging the sending of 60,000 messages is not a bright thing to do for a mail administrator. 3- What side effects have to set concurrencyremote to high values like 300? Your fd limits will need to be set high. 4- Is it necessary to use a higher value in tcpserver's -c option if I use mail() function? tcpserver doesn't affect outgoing mail at all. 5- Could I set up a second qmail instalation for just sending the newsletter so it doesn't slow the "normal users" mail? Yes, you could. It will still have some effect, though, because they will be sharing I/O bandwidth on the queue and log disks, and on the network. 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: chrooting qmail...
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 02:40:59PM +, Thomas Ackermann wrote: delivery 1: deferral: CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._(#4.4.3)/ [...] am i missing something ??? /etc/resolv.conf Regards, Uwe
error
Can anyone give me a idea why I am getting this message. I can send mail to my personal account fine anytime I try to send to another user on the system I get this error. delivery 9: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ I ran the maildirmake on the user.. the maildir is there and has the proper ownership. But no matter what I try I get the same error Suggestions? Please
Re: error
Dale Herring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone give me a idea why I am getting this message. I can send mail to my personal account fine anytime I try to send to another user on the system I get this error. delivery 9: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ I ran the maildirmake on the user.. the maildir is there and has the proper ownership. Well, something isn't right. Post the output of `qmail-showctl`, along with the output of the following for the user that doesn't work: `ls -ld ~USER ~USER/Maildir ~USER/Maildir/*` 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+antivirus question
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 03:59:29PM +0100, Tore Micaelsen wrote: Can anyone point me in the right direction? This should be easy to add to qmail-scanner... (perl) It's even planed AFAIK. Olivier -- _ Olivier Mueller - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - PGPkeyID: 0E84D2EA - Switzerland qmail projects: http://omail.omnis.ch - http://webmail.omnis.ch PGP signature
QMail problem
Hi, My qmail host is: mail.ndsoftware.net When i send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from [EMAIL PROTECTED], i received this message by 2 !!! Why ? Header: Message1: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 862 invoked by uid 503); 6 Feb 2001 16:04:01 - Received: from unknown (HELO billy) (193.253.221.190) by ns207.ovh.net with SMTP; 6 Feb 2001 16:04:01 - From: "NDSoftware" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:00:08 +0100 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Message2: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 862 invoked by uid 503); 6 Feb 2001 16:04:01 - Received: from unknown (HELO billy) (193.253.221.190) by ns207.ovh.net with SMTP; 6 Feb 2001 16:04:01 - From: "NDSoftware" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:00:08 +0100 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Logs: @40003a80207c0dbbdc8c new msg 196348 @40003a80207c0dbbf7e4 info msg 196348: bytes 931 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 862 uid 503 @40003a80207c0ddcbe84 starting delivery 2929: msg 196348 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] @40003a80207c0ddcd9dc status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 @40003a80207c14e3407c delivery 2929: success: did_0+0+1/ @40003a80207c14e357ec status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 @40003a80207c14e35fbc end msg 196348 THANKS YOU VERY MUCH Nicolas DEFFAYET, NDSoftware http://www.ndsoftware.net - [EMAIL PROTECTED] France: Tel +33 671887502 - Fax N/A UK: Tel +44 8453348750 - Fax +44 8453348751 USA: Tel N/A - Fax N/A --- Note: All HTML email sent to me can be deleted for security reasons.
.... msg 299012 to local msglog@g0thic.com
Hey there guys!
I have a quick question about this one line in my logs, that shows up
for every message:
to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think I know what msglog does, but where do I turn it off? I have
looked in my /etc/qmail/alias/.qmail-msglog file, however this is the
out-put:
# This alias control file is processed on EVERY SINGLE message.
# ***THINK*** before you do this as it can put extra load on your system.
#
# Several things can be done here:
# 1. Record EVERY single message in a mailbox file.
#*** ARE YOU SURE YOU ***REALLY*** WANT TO RECORD EVERY SINGLE
MESSAGE!!!???
#EXAMPLE:
#./msglog
#
# 2. Record Message-IDs for later tracking.
#EXAMPLE:
#| awk '/^$/ { exit } /^[mM][eE][sS][sS][aA][gG][eE]-/ { print }'
If you notice, it is all commented out. I thought that the msglog item
would not even show in the logs, unless this file was in use? I guess I was
wrong.
@40003a7d220f060782ac info msg 299012: bytes 85402 from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 3181 uid 891
@40003a7d220f11944c2c starting delivery 31: msg 299012 to local
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
@40003a7d220f119c721c status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
@40003a7d220f11b0adcc starting delivery 32: msg 299012 to remote
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
@40003a7d220f11b8c41c status: local 1/10 remote 1/20
@40003a7d220f18db78d4 delivery 31: success: did_0+0+0/
@40003a7d220f1a729f4c status: local 0/10 remote 1/20
@40003a7d224c2e23d22c delivery 32: success:
209.226.175.26_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_Message_re
ceived:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: .... msg 299012 to local msglog@g0thic.com
g0thic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a quick question about this one line in my logs, that shows up for every message: to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] This was asked on the mailing list within the last three days. Look in the archives (you can find a link to searchable archives from www.qmail.org). In short, this is a feature of Bruce Guenter's SRPM. If you don't like the extra (null) delivery by default, you'll need to modify the SPEC file and rebuild the binary RPM, then reinstall from that. 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. ---
How can I patch qmail-smtpd-auth?
I have get qmail-smtpd-auth-0.26.tar.gz. "tar xvfz qmail-smtpd-auth-0.26.tar.gz" Then I get qmail-smtpd.patch Now I do not know how to use is. Please tell me how to do it. Thanks. -- »¶ÓʹÓà 21CN µç×ÓÓʼþϵͳ http://www.21cn.com Thank you for using 21cn.com Email system
Re: How can I patch qmail-smtpd-auth?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have get qmail-smtpd-auth-0.26.tar.gz. "tar xvfz qmail-smtpd-auth-0.26.tar.gz" Then I get qmail-smtpd.patch Now I do not know how to use is. Please tell me how to do it. Thanks. Read `man patch` (and probably `man diff`). If you're not familiar with how to apply patches to software source code, you may not want to use modifications which change qmail's behaviour. It may make it more difficult to diagnose problems from the existing documentation. 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. ---
Perl checkpassword
Someone had asked for this some time ago... But I forget who or when. DJB, if you would, please archive locally to www.qmail.org. --Larry checkpassword.pl
Re: Perl checkpassword
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:17:44PM -0600, Larry M. Smith is the BPFH wrote: Someone had asked for this some time ago... But I forget who or when. DJB, if you would, please archive locally to www.qmail.org. That would be [EMAIL PROTECTED], aka Russ Nelson, but I'm sure he'll see the message. Regards.
Re: ms-tnef attachments
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 01:26:31PM +0800, Ng Hak Beng wrote: Has any encountered this problem? I've noticed some Microsoft MUA users send attachments with the mime-type ms-tnef. When I receive the file via my qmail setup, it is unable to convert the attachment accordingly, and I end up with a file in the form like message.dat I have some tools to convert it, but I'm looking for more of an 'automated' solution, meaning for it to be converted as qmail receives it. It seems to be a MS problem, and I don't seem to find a patch or whatever to fix This has nothing to do with Qmail or any other SMTP server. This is yet another cr*p M$ "feature". I have had people here sending Emails with Outlook Professional to Outlook Express users - and the latter complaining about "corrupt" messages and those weird message.dat attachments. Even M$ products don't talk to each other... -- Cheers Jason Haar Unix/Special Projects, Trimble NZ Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
Re: qmtp and spammers.
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Sam Trenholme wrote: On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Faried Nawaz wrote: With QMTP, you get C: message and sender and recipients sent before the server says anything, tying up the connection for 30 seconds and wasting bandwidth S: 7:Dgo away, This also wastes the Spammer's time and bandwidth. If you really want to make spammers waste their time and bandwidth (and you have got bandwidth to waste yourself), you should pretend to accept their junk and discard it. And of course, you should also fool their scans testing whether the mail server acts as an open relay or not by sending a real short message (making the difference between early and late refusal irrelevant from their pov). --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ] "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
Re: Netsaint and qmail-stat
Ok, I'm happy to report I found a solution to the note I sent out last week. The problem was not that the file in mess was not going away quick enough, but that the file was not being created quick enough;-) That is, the file in mess grows as the data comes off the net and the message is built. But - if the email is large enough, and the rate of data transfer is slow enough, the file appears to be sitting there for a while. In our case, the message was of large size, and was being delivered to our server from a client over a slow/dialup link... In all cases, when the transfer was complete, the message was delivered quickly enough and without error. I had failed to note the size changes in earlier checks, and had never timed the log entry of delivery to the file growth/ereaseure. steve -- Steven Tylock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questra Corporation, (716) 381-0260 x521 - Steve Tylock wrote: I'm looking for info and have an offer to make - We have Netsaint running here to monitor servers / services (plug - http://www.netsaint.org/) and we wrote a very small plugin to check the queue of mail messages sitting on the servers. I would be happy to provide this to anyone looking to do a similar thing. The problem - 'phantom' qmail-qstat responses. The qmail archives have a few messages about determining how many messages are in the queue from back a ways, but I didn't find any touching on this: qmail-qstat looks at 'messages in queue' by looking for files in the directories queue/mess/*. But - we seem to have a condition (relatively infrequently, but often enough to cause a stir) - where a file is left in this directory after the message has been delivered. (log confirms delivery, no error) That is, every other file with the same name from that message is gone, but the mess file remains for some period of time. 0-60 minutes later, the file is removed. The best I have been able to guess is that some program is holding onto an inode, the file is really left there and cleaned up later when it is used again, or we have some local bug. Other info - qmail 1.0.3, Linux 2.2.18, MDA is procmail. (I'd offer more direct info, but it isn't happening right now...-) [I started this message in January and waited - I'm attaching an 'ls -lr' on the queue directory showing 2 left over files in 'mess'] I could work around this by changing the way we look for messages in the queue, or fix this. (and am somewhat thinking I'll see a response - "your site gets to an empty queue!-)" ((Note - we use the inside the firewall queue outside the firewall queue - the inside server should always get back to a nothing in the queue state. It delivers locally or gives the messages to the other server to deliver)) any help or advice appreciated, steve -- Steven Tylock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questra Corporation, (716) 381-0260 x521
Re: virtualdomain/smtproute
Michael,
Haven't yet seen a response, so I'll write one. :)
You can do this fairly easily by setting up the following:
virtualdomains:
corp.rocketcash.com:alias-corp_rocketcash_com/
Then, you'll need to 'mkdir ~alias/.qmail-corp_rocketcash_com'
Inside that directory, you'll want to create a file called '-default'
(this can be tricky, as most programs see - as a switch delimiter. You
will probably need to specify the file as ./-default while in that
directory.) Inside this file, place the line:
|forward ${DEFAULT}@corp.netzero.net
The above file acts as a .qmail-default for that domain, forwarding
anything not already specified to the same [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can now create specific user files in the same directory to override
this behaviour.
Say you wanted [EMAIL PROTECTED] to forward to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] You would create a file called -jamin in the
~alias/.qmail-corp_rocketcash_com directory, and inside it place:
jbrown@@corp.netzero.net
Hope this makes sense to you.
Jamin
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Michael Boyiazis wrote:
I have a situation which leaves me (I think) caught between
virtualdomain and smtproute files...
We have qmail running on a firewall box and forwarding
to the corporate exchange server...
We have users from one domain:
aimtv.com which we use smtproutes to forward directly
to a virus scan box... all the email addresses in the aimtv
domain match those found on the forwarding domain, so
smtproutes is appropriate.
I'd like all our domains to be that way, but each domain that
the virus scan box checks needs extra licensing ($$)...
so, we have another domain, corp.rocketcash.com...
some email addresses are [EMAIL PROTECTED]
the mail comes in and I use a .qmail file to forward these to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
future new addresses will be along the line of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] which will forward
to the equivalent on corp.netzero.net
is there a way to catch all those future addresses and forward them to
@corp.netzero.net w/o using smtproutes and without creating a separate
.qmail for each new employee? would a catchall .qmail
file be able to do that? i don't see how. it makes sense to use smtproutes
but i cannot from what i can see.
any suggestions?
Thanks,
--
Michael Boyiazis
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc.
-
Jamin A. Brown Systems Operations Department
[EMAIL PROTECTED] * Great Works Internet * 207.286.8686 x142
RSA PGP Key: http://www.gwi.net/~jamin/pgp/jamin.asc
Re: to supervise or not to supervise
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 05:16:36PM -0500, Peter Brezny wrote: our new qmail install is started simply by exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start ./Maildir splogger qmail however I've noticed a lot of people using daemontools and supervise. What are the primary advantages of using supervise? My personal thoughts: 1. multilog. multilog uses a lot less overhead than syslog, and does not listen on the network, and so is not vulnerable to remote DoS or exploit. It's self-rotating (configurable), and uses a super-accurate timestamp (although the timestamp is not _that_ relevant to me personally). 2. Unification with other djb-ware, especially djbdns. Personally, I'd just love it if sshd could log to STDOUT, and that way most of my hosts would use supervise for _all_ the important processes. ;) 3. Simple process control. Downing all supervised processes is as simple as 'svc -d /service/*/log ; svc -d /service/*'. Gotta like that. Our mail server probably handles less than 2000 messges a day is it something I really need to do? Need? No. But well worth it IMHO. Is there a good document that points to how to correctly configure supervise to start/run/manage qmail? http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ Just snag and modify the /var/qmail/supervise directory structure and 'run' scripts. Thanks for your help. You're welcome. ;) Peter Brezny SysAdmin Services Inc. -- Greg White Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -- John F. Kennedy
OT Can't login to Qmailadmin webpage as postmaster
Hi all, I am running qmail-1.03+patches-12 on a RH6.2 system and have suddenly began to have a problem with the qmailadmin page. I can't seem to login as postmaster to either of the domains I administer. I am using the same password that I use with postmaster to check the mail which works fine. The error I keep getting is "Invalid Login." I was also wondering if there was a log file that I could look at that would tell me what the reason is that I keep getting this error. Thanks in advance, David Litke
lwq freebsd
hi, i've tryed to installed qmail 1.03 according "Life with qmail" http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html instructions on FreeBSD4.0, but script /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run reporting errors: bash-2.03# /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run softlimit: usage: softlimit [-a allbytes] [-c corebytes] [-d databytes] [-f filebytes] [-l lockbytes] [-m membytes] [-o openfiles] [-p processes] [-r residentbytes] [-s stackbytes] [-t cpusecs] child bash-2.03# script /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run reoprts: bash-2.03# /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run env: illegal option -- P usage: env [-] [-i] [name=value ...] [command] scripts: -- /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run script -- #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c "$MAXSMTPD" \ -u "$QMAILDUID" -g "$NOFILESGID" 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run script --- #!/bin/sh exec /var/qmail/rc - Could it be incompatibility with FreeBSD? Or my system misconfiguration? thank you in advance, t_oo Stating the Obvious. All meta, all the time. http://www.theobvious.com/ Get your own FREE Web and POP E-mail Service in 14 languages at http://www.zzn.com.
Slow response time
Perhaps I have my DNS settings botched, but lately I have noticed a delay in qmail's response when sending mail from my LAN. If I telnet to it, it can take up to 30 seconds or longer before I get the greeting. Once I do get the greeting, or make the connection, subsequent responses are perfectly fine. It seems that only after a period of inactivity will this happen. I don't think this problem is present for others sending mail in from the Internet. My LAN IP's are not stored in any DNS server that qmail knows of, but they are on /etc/hosts. Any ideas?
no incoming mail from outside
Joinhands Hosting Agreement for the 2001 yearI am having a problem with mail from other servers not being delivered to my server. I can use qmail-inject to send mail to my users and I can send mail from an account on the same server, I just can't get mail from a another host. any ideas? Clean Redhat 7.0 install with all the latest qmail and vpopmail. I have followed the instructions to the letter 4 times and I can't seem to figure out what is wrong. The physical hostname is ws1.joinhands.com ( I am taking over hosting of this site and testing with one of my own domains innsandcottages.com) Here are my script files that are starting the server and list of the processes. Thanks in advance cat rc #!/bin/sh # Using stdout for logging # Using control/defaultdelivery from qmail-local to deliver messages by default # These following are the defaults from LWQ mail - doesn't work with vpopmail [ross@ws1 qmail]$ cat rc exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start .Mailbox I am running the rc.pop3d manually right now [ross@ws1 qmail]$ cat rc.pop3d #!/bin/sh exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \ tcpserver -H -R 0 pop-3 \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail.innsandcottages.com \ /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir [ross@ws1 control]$ cat locals mail.innsandcottages.com [ross@ws1 control]$ cat plusdomain joinhands.com innsandcottages.com [ross@ws1 control]$ cat virtualdomains innsandcottages.com:innsandcottages.com [ross@ws1 control]$ cat defaultdomain innsandcottages.com [ross@ws1 control]$ cat me mail.innsandcottages.com [ross@ws1 supervise]$ cat qmail-send/run #!/bin/sh exec /var/qmail/rc [ross@ws1 supervise]$ cat qmail-smtpd/run #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID='id -u qmaild' NOFILESGID='id -g qmaild' MAXSMTPD='cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming' #this is the out of the box way from lwq #exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ #/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c "$MAXSMTPD" \ # -u "$QMAILDUID" -g "$NOFILESGID" 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 # this is the way that works with vpopmail # smtp services env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \ tcpserver -v -p -u vpopmail -g vchkpw 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 [ross@ws1 supervise]$ cat /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp 127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 207.194.2.103:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow [ross@ws1 supervise]$ UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 1 0 0 09:49 ?00:01:36 init [3] root 2 1 0 09:49 ?00:00:00 [kflushd] root 3 1 0 09:49 ?00:00:00 [kupdate] root 4 1 0 09:49 ?00:00:00 [kpiod] root 5 1 0 09:49 ?00:00:00 [kswapd] root 6 1 0 09:50 ?00:00:00 [mdrecoveryd] root 329 1 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 syslogd -m 0 root 339 1 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 klogd rpc354 1 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 portmap root 369 1 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apmd -p 10 -w 5 -W -P nobody 423 1 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 identd -e -o nobody 427 423 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 identd -e -o nobody 428 427 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 identd -e -o nobody 429 427 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 identd -e -o nobody 430 427 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 identd -e -o daemon 442 1 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/atd root 473 1 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 xinetd -reuse -pidfile /var/run/ root 488 1 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd root 545 1 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 gpm -t ps/2 root 684 1 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -D HAVE_PERL -D apache 694 684 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -D HAVE_PERL -D apache 695 684 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -D HAVE_PERL -D apache 696 684 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -D HAVE_PERL -D apache 697 684 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -D HAVE_PERL -D apache 698 684 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -D HAVE_PERL -D apache 699 684 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -D HAVE_PERL -D apache 700 684 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -D HAVE_PERL -D apache 701 684 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -D HAVE_PERL -D nobody 710 1 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 proftpd (accepting connections) root 725 1 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 crond root 755 1 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 rhnsd --interval 120 root 778 1 0 09:51 ?00:00:00 sh /usr/local/mysql/bin/safe_mys root 781 1 0 09:51 tty1 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1 root 782 1 0 09:51 tty2 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2 root 783 1 0 09:51 tty3 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3 root 784 1 0 09:51 tty4 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4 root 785 1 0 09:51 tty5 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5 root 786 1 0 09:51 tty6
Re: no incoming mail from outside
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 04:32:04PM -0800, Ross Davis - Data Anywhere wrote: Joinhands Hosting Agreement for the 2001 yearI am having a problem with mail from other servers not being delivered to my server. I can use qmail-inject to send mail to my users and I can send mail from an account on the same server, I just can't get mail from a another host. any ideas? Clean Redhat 7.0 install with all the latest qmail and vpopmail. I have followed the instructions to the letter 4 times and I can't seem to figure out what is wrong. The physical hostname is ws1.joinhands.com ( I am taking over hosting of this site and testing with one of my own domains innsandcottages.com) You've got a couple of problems. One is that innsandcottages.com has a CNAME record pointing at dns1.innsandcottages.com. If you do that, unexpected things will happen. Give it an A record or, preferably, an MX record. Second is that dns1.innsandcottages.com resolves to 207.194.2.101, which isn't the same address that ws1.joinhands.com resolves to (207.194.2.103). There's nothing listening on the SMTP port of 207.194.2.101, though there is on 207.194.2.103. Fix your DNS, wait for the old records to time out, and then you should be in good shape. Thanks for providing real domain names. It makes it a lot easier (and in this case possible) to answer questions. Chris
RE: Slow response time
Hi Michael. I posted this message a couple of days ago. There is also a very good article that talks about using "split DNS" for your internal network, which would help your linux box resolve the incoming clients. You can find it at http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue45/tag/11.html I really recommend it. Good luck. Mario Campos Hi. I was having the same problem on my linux system and the -R option didn't seem to help. What fixed it was adding the -l localhostname argument which helps qmail resolve the local host name which I think is what's taking the longest. Actually, when it was happening on my system, it would take about 2 minutes to send an email, but then it would work fine for 10 minutes because the hostname resolution was cached. After 10 minutes, it would go back to the same issue. -Original Message- From: Uwe Ohse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 11:47 PM To: Jagadish.N Cc: cr.yp.to log list; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Delay in POP and SMTP response On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 12:13:45PM +0530, Jagadish.N wrote: I even telneted to 110 and 25 specifing the mail server's ip address but it takes quite a long time to respond. try starting tcpserver with the -R option. Regards, Uwe -Original Message- From: Michael Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 4:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Slow response time Perhaps I have my DNS settings botched, but lately I have noticed a delay in qmail's response when sending mail from my LAN. If I telnet to it, it can take up to 30 seconds or longer before I get the greeting. Once I do get the greeting, or make the connection, subsequent responses are perfectly fine. It seems that only after a period of inactivity will this happen. I don't think this problem is present for others sending mail in from the Internet. My LAN IP's are not stored in any DNS server that qmail knows of, but they are on /etc/hosts. Any ideas?
Re: no incoming mail from outside
Well, usually the log files will tell you what's going on... what do they say? any ideas? Clean Redhat 7.0 install with all the latest qmail and vpopmail. I have followed the instructions to the letter 4 times and I can't seem to cat rc #!/bin/sh # Using stdout for logging # Using control/defaultdelivery from qmail-local to deliver messages by default # These following are the defaults from LWQ mail - doesn't work with vpopmail [ross@ws1 qmail]$ cat rc exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start .Mailbox Default delivery is to .Mailbox? Is that what the instructions really say? Are you over-riding this with per-user .qmail files? If not, you have a mismatch between your delivery type and the pop server as: exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \ tcpserver -H -R 0 pop-3 \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail.innsandcottages.com \ /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir The qmail pop server only reads Maildirs - it knows nothing about .Mailbox You may find that your logs are showing delivery, but you're maybe expecting the mail to be delivered into a Maildir and it's not? Regards.
Re: to supervise or not to supervise
"Peter Brezny" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What are the primary advantages of using supervise? Among those already mentioned: reliability. You *can't* reliably manage a service without cooperation from the parent process or the process itself. Putting the management functionality into the process itself results in unnecessary duplication; putting it in the parent results in supervise. An example of the kind of unreliability you get without supervise: suppose you want to send a service a signal. How do you find the pid? ps? Command names are not a perfect indicator; multiple instances complicate the problem. A pid file? It might be out of date: the process might have died since the pid file was written, and the pid might have been reused. But a parent can always keep track of its children; supervise never sends signals to the wrong process. paul
thanks for you answer my question!but it is none used.
- Original Message -
From: Uwe Ohse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: anybody can't help me insert some text in the end of every message my
mailserver relay for?
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 01:35:52PM +0800, dick wrote:
Subject: anybody can't help me insert some text in the end of every message my
mailserver relay for?
This is possibly an evil idea, but anyway:
Either patch qmail-queue.c or qmail-smtpd.c (depending on what you want
to achieve). In the later case try adding something like this to the
end of blast():
{
char corrupted[]="This message has been changed on";
qmail_put(qqt,corrupted,sizeof(corrupted)-1);
qmail_put(qqt,greeting.s,greeting.len);
qmail_put(qqt,"\n",1);
}
Regards, Uwe
i add these codes in the end of qmail-smtpd.c.but it won't work.
can't you tell me how can i do it!
(by the way, i don't know how to patch the qmail-queue.c or qmail-smtpd.c.only add
these code into blast?)
Sluggish SMTP
Ok, about 2 months ago i switched IP address on a computer running qmail. Since that time the server has had problems with SMTP being sluggish. To this point i have changed the /etc/resolve.conf and the DNS to the correct settings. When trying to connect to the remote box via the telnet command to port 25 it connects within seconds but, the banner does not appear for a good 40 seconds. This has lead to problems with outlook timing out when sending messages. When trying to rebuild qmail, ./config reports errors about not being able to find the canonical name in DNS. But it does resolve from all boxes including localy. I have also tryed to use the -F option, but this does not seem to be making the problem go away. Is this a problem with BIND or with Qmail or a combination of both? I have been trying to figure this problem out for some time on my own with no luck. If you wish, i can provide more information on the box if needed. Tim
logging to console and log files
Hi, I setup once a qmail box and forgot to set the sticky bit (chmod +t) on the qmail-send and qmail-smtpd directories (in /var/qmail/supervise) so supervise was outputing everything to console. I actually liked that very much (if server is physically restricted) but there is one draw back; nothing will be logged to log/current. Therefore, I wandered if there is a way to have supervise log to both console and to qmail-send/log and/or qmail-smtpd/log. Any ideas? Tim Hassan
