Mail delivery problems.
Hi all, I recently removed Sendmail 8.9.3 from my Redhat 6.2 system and installed Qmail 1.03 following instructions from 'Life with qmail'. Aim : To allow 20 odd users on the intranet to access their email from various POP3 accounts on different servers and to allow them to send local email to each other. Setup : caching DNS setup for a fictitious domain adventus.cxm . FQDN of local server is server.adventus.cxm . qmail-pop3d setup through tcpserver as advised . Russell Nelson's script used to convert /var/spool/mail to Maildir mailboxes fetchmail run via script as user 'anurag' ( was working under Sendmail ) as a cronjob ( every 3 minutes ) . Added 'forcecr to * here ' to .fetchmailrc . in the rc script ..in the qmail-start line i have ' defaultdelivery splogger qmail' defaultdelivery has been set to ./Maildir I have found the following error in /var/log/maillog Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1) / Any help would be *very* welcome . Sincerely Anurag
QUEUE PROBLEM
Hi, We have setup a qmailserver with 3.5 lac customers and are facing a queue problem. Currently qmail-qstat shows 7 msgs in queue. We have set our concurrency limit (both local and remote as 250). The conf-split is 23. How do we get rid of this queue ??? Earlier we were running sendmail and didn't face this problem. Have we made a mistake in the qmail-configuration to handle high volumes. I have attached the output of showctl. Raghu qmail home directory: /var/qmail. user-ext delimiter: -. paternalism (in decimal): 2. silent concurrency limit: 250. subdirectory split: 23. user ids: 70013, 70014, 70015, 0, 70016, 70017, 70018, 70019. group ids: 70013, 70014. badmailfrom: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is allowed. badmailpatterns: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is allowed. badrcptto: (Default.) Any RCPT TO is allowed. badrcptpatterns: (Default.) Any RCPT TO is allowed. bouncefrom: (Default.) Bounce user name is MAILER-DAEMON. bouncehost: (Default.) Bounce host name is x concurrencylocal: Local concurrency is 250. concurrencyremote: Remote concurrency is 250. databytes: (Default.) SMTP DATA limit is 0 bytes. defaultdomain: Default domain name is x defaulthost: (Default.) Default host name is x doublebouncehost: (Default.) 2B recipient host: x doublebounceto: (Default.) 2B recipient user: postmaster. envnoathost: (Default.) Presumed domain name is x helohost: (Default.) SMTP client HELO host name is x idhost: (Default.) Message-ID host name is x localiphost: (Default.) Local IP address becomes x locals: Messages for localhost are delivered locally. Messages for x are delivered locally. me: My name is x nodnscheck: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is checked for existing Domains. percenthack: (Default.) The percent hack is not allowed. plusdomain: Plus domain name is net.in. qmqpservers: (Default.) No QMQP servers. queuelifetime: Message lifetime in the queue is 129600 seconds. rcpthosts: morercpthosts.cdb: Modified recently enough; hopefully up to date. smtpgreeting: SMTP greeting: 220 . smtproutes: (Default.) No artificial SMTP routes. timeoutconnect: SMTP client connection timeout is 180 seconds. timeoutremote: (Default.) SMTP client data timeout is 1200 seconds. timeoutsmtpd: (Default.) SMTP server data timeout is 1200 seconds. virtualdomains: relayclients: (Default.) No Relayclinets defined. relaydomains: (Default.) No Relaydomains defined. relaymailfrom: (Default.) No Relaymailfrom defined. tarpitcount: (Default.) No Tarpitcount defined. tarpitdelay: (Default.) No Tarpitdelay defined. defaultdelivery: I have no idea what this file does. rcpthosts.lock: I have no idea what this file does. virtualdomains.lock: I have no idea what this file does. locals.lock: I have no idea what this file does. morercpthosts.lock: I have no idea what this file does.
auto responder
Hi, I'm trying to get a mail autoresponder working. I'm using vpopmail and qmail. I have downloaded the autoreply from qmail.org and have the following .qmail file: |/home/vpopmail/domains/itis.co.za/info/autoreply/autoreply.pl $USER $RECIPIENT $SENDER If I send a message to this user, I keep getting a message in the log file stating that a message has already been sent to my recipient and will be queued for 2 days. If I view the message in my info/Maildir/new dir it has a long list showing the message coming from my recipent more than once. I don't understand why it is doing this. Am I missing something? Is there a beter way to implement an automatic reply? thank you Raymond
Re: Forward Domain
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:37:32AM +0100, David Krix wrote: You can do it with qmail. But a line like domain2.com:alias-domain2 into virtualhosts and create a file in ~alias named .qmail-domain2-default looking like this (all in one line) |preline -dr /var/qmail/bin/qmail-remote mail.domain2.com $SENDER $RECIPIENT That should do it. Ever heard of smtproutes? echo "domain2.com:mail.domain2.com" /var/qmail/control/smtproutes Thats all. David - Original Message - From: "Someone" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Hubbard, David" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 1:52 PM Subject: Re: Forward Domain Thank you, But you mean set on DNS server ? Qmail can't do it ? someone - Original Message - From: Hubbard, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 5:17 AM Subject: RE: Forward Domain Yes, they're called MX records: domain1.com. IN MX 1 domain1.mail.server. domain2.com. IN MX 1 domain2.mail.server. Dave -Original Message- From: Someone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 7:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Forward Domain Hi, All Qmail can check and forward domain to other mail server ? such as in mail server If [EMAIL PROTECTED] forward to xxx mail server else If [EMAIL PROTECTED] forward to yyy mail server How ? thank-you someone -- Henning Brauer | BS Web Services Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg http://www.bsws.de | Germany
Re: Mail delivery problems.
Hi, 1) 'Life with qmail' is excellent but try http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html it is my favourite HOWTO (thaaanks to Adam McKenna) 2) Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1) / error means that either you have bad Maildir structure or missing slash after ./Maildir/ in rc file so, make sure you have there something like: cut- #!/bin/sh exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start '|dot-forward .forward ./Maildir/' cut- and for right Maildir structure use this: % /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake $HOME/Maildir % echo ./Maildir/ ~/.qmail then you will get Maildir with 3 folders inside (cur,new,tmp) and necessary .qmail file content it works - just tested on me :-) --Adam at [20/Feb/2001Tue 08:55] You Wrote in [Mail delivery problems.]: Hi all, I recently removed Sendmail 8.9.3 from my Redhat 6.2 system and installed Qmail 1.03 following instructions from 'Life with qmail'. Aim : To allow 20 odd users on the intranet to access their email from various POP3 accounts on different servers and to allow them to send local email to each other. Setup : caching DNS setup for a fictitious domain adventus.cxm . FQDN of local server is server.adventus.cxm . qmail-pop3d setup through tcpserver as advised . Russell Nelson's script used to convert /var/spool/mail to Maildir mailboxes fetchmail run via script as user 'anurag' ( was working under Sendmail ) as a cronjob ( every 3 minutes ) . Added 'forcecr to * here ' to .fetchmailrc . in the rc script ..in the qmail-start line i have ' defaultdelivery splogger qmail' defaultdelivery has been set to ./Maildir I have found the following error in /var/log/maillog Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1) / Any help would be *very* welcome . Sincerely Anurag Kind Regards Adam Andrzej Jaworski --- @VirtualCorporation Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.Indigo-Profit-Hosting.com
RE: Mail delivery problems.
I have found the following error in /var/log/maillog Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1) / Most likely, your qmail startup script refers to ./Maildir (which means an mbox style file called "Maildir") instead of ./Maildir/ (which means a Maildir called "Maildir"). cheers, Andrew Richards.
Re: Mail delivery problems.
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:25:34PM +0530, Anurag Jalan wrote: defaultdelivery has been set to ./Maildir Wrong. Must be ./Maildir/ Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1) / -- Henning Brauer | BS Web Services Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg http://www.bsws.de | Germany
Re: Forward Domain
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:05:29PM -, Someone wrote: Hi, All Qmail can check and forward domain to other mail server ? such as in mail server If [EMAIL PROTECTED] forward to xxx mail server else If [EMAIL PROTECTED] forward to yyy mail server How ? RTFM about smtproutes. thank-you someone -- Henning Brauer | BS Web Services Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg http://www.bsws.de | Germany
qmail Digest 20 Feb 2001 11:00:00 -0000 Issue 1281
qmail Digest 20 Feb 2001 11:00:00 - Issue 1281 Topics (messages 57544 through 57605): Re: dot in e-mail address e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 57544 by: Faried Nawaz QMAIL- QUEUE FILE SYSTEM FULL 57545 by: qmailu 57551 by: Charles Cazabon one email / same target MX / many smtp sessions? 57546 by: A.Woerner.eMessage.de 57547 by: A.Woerner.eMessage.de 57552 by: Charles Cazabon Max message size 57548 by: Raymond Orchison 57549 by: Peter van Dijk 57563 by: Raymond Orchison 57564 by: Jeremy Anttila Re: qmail-inject refuses to work if it's parent process is qmail-local? 57550 by: Charles Cazabon Redhat 7 57553 by: Desarrollo y Sistemas 57555 by: Charles Cazabon Re: Per-Domain Concurrency Patch 57554 by: Lincoln Yeoh 57583 by: richard.illuin.org serialmail Autoturn and qmail problem 57556 by: Prashant Desai Allowing only certain senders to send mail to an address 57557 by: Thomas König Re: Text-mode web browser 57558 by: Bruce Guenter Installation Help Qmail ezMLM 57559 by: Robert OConnor 57560 by: Matt Simonsen Virtual Domains 57561 by: Charrua 57566 by: Pawel Garbowski 57567 by: Charles Cazabon vmailmgr VS. vpopmail 57562 by: Federico Edelman Anaya 57565 by: Tim Hunter 57568 by: Olivier M. 57569 by: Tim Hunter 57571 by: David Dyer-Bennet return path of bounce messages 57570 by: Matthew Patterson 57573 by: Hubbard, David 57576 by: Charles Cazabon maildir/sqwebmail 57572 by: Jean Caron 57574 by: Robin S. Socha 57577 by: "Próspero, Esteban" Re: Clustering qmail servers 57575 by: David L. Nicol rcphosts ? 57578 by: dennis 57579 by: Chris Johnson 57585 by: Rohit Gupta 57587 by: Alex Pennace qmail not recieving message confirmation 57580 by: Ryan Byrne 57584 by: Alex Pennace 57586 by: Ryan Byrne Initialization Script for tcpserver? 57581 by: Bill Arends 57582 by: Greg White Re: deny huge attaches 57588 by: Sumith Ail 57589 by: John Gonzalez/netMDC admin 57590 by: keng heng Forward Domain 57591 by: Someone 57593 by: Hubbard, David 57594 by: Someone 57597 by: David Krix 57602 by: Henning Brauer 57605 by: Henning Brauer test 57592 by: Stefanus Eko Yulianto warning: trouble opening remote/4/r 57595 by: flint 57596 by: flint Mail delivery problems. 57598 by: Anurag Jalan 57601 by: Adam Andrzej Jaworski 57603 by: Andrew Richards 57604 by: Henning Brauer QUEUE PROBLEM 57599 by: qmailu auto responder 57600 by: Raymond Orchison 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] -- Jankok, Lucio wrote: do I need to rewrite the dot in the e-mail address by something else ?. Yes. Read the man page for dot-qmail. Hi, I have setup qmail with 3.5 lac users and my filesystem which contains qmail,vpopmail and hence the queue has become full. How can i move the qmail-queue to a different file system (I already have another file system with plenty of disk space. I currently have 15000 mails in queue. I want to clear my queue right away without having to wait for the queue to clear by themselves. Is there a way to start clearing this queue. Raghu qmailu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have setup qmail with 3.5 lac users and my filesystem which contains qmail,vpopmail and hence the queue has become full. How can i move the qmail-queue to a different file system (I already have another file system with plenty of disk space. I currently have 15000 mails in queue. I want to clear my queue right away without having to wait for the queue to clear by themselves. Is there a way to start clearing this queue. 1. Mount your new filesystem at /var/qmail2 2. Configure and install a new instance of qmail, under /var/qmail2 3. Stop qmail-smtpd from your original qmail install, and start the qmail-smtpd from qmail2, so new messages go into /var/qmail2/queue 4. Disable/remove qmail-inject, mailsubj, etc which are currently injecting into the old queue. Make everyone use the newly-installed ones, which are injecting into the new queue in /var/qmail2/queue 5. Wait a week for the remainder of messages in the old queue to either be delivered or bounced. 6. Remove the old /var/qmail installation completely. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon
RE: Virtual Domains
Yes, the other way is to use /var/qmail/controls/assign file... I posted instructions how to use this file: Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:42:07 +0100 Subject: Re: How to set up qmail for several "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? so You can check it out Hi, thank you for the information. In this sense I would like to make two queries: Is the assign file cumulative? That is to say do I have to keep on adding users in this file or after creating the database for the assign file I should create a new assign file? Is this procedure compatible with the type of Add-ons of the vpopmail or vmailmgr? Thanks and regards. Andrs
modifying script?
Hi All,
My qmail script currently looks like this (see below)
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting: "
env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \
qmail-start ./Maildir/ /usr/local/bin/accustamp \
| /usr/local/bin/setuser qmaill /usr/local/bin/cyclog /var/log/qmail
echo -n "qmail "
env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \
tcpserver -H -R -c100 0 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \
$HOSTNAME \
/home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir
echo -n "pop "
env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \
tcpserver -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c100 -u501 -g60 0 smtp \
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 /dev/null
echo "smtp"
;;
stop)
echo -n "stopping qmail"
killall qmail-send
killall tcpserver
echo
;;
restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
status)
status qmail
;;
*)
echo "Usage: qmail {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0
Now, what I want to know is i'm running amavis-0.2.1 on my system, and it needs
paths to /bin:/usr/bin, can I modify the env variables above w/out breaking
anything
example lets make
env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin"
look like this:
env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin"
Also, does anyone have some code lying around which would add the ability to
re-compile the tcprules database from the qmail script?
-Bill
Re: rcphosts?
what if i want to relay to all but only from my host ie none other than my domain users can actually relay through me What do you mean by "domain users"? Computers at your LAN? This situation is covered in the FAQ. Have a look at http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/servers.html#authorized-relay Regards, Frank
Re: warning: trouble opening remote/4/r
flint [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today,I saw there were many messages like this in the maillog: 982653149.920320 warning: trouble opening remote/4/r Your queue is corrupt. Did you manually remove any messages from the queue? Get qmail-queuefix from www.qmail.org to fix 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. ---
Suppressing Bounce Messages
I have a problem on my site where lot of my users who have subscribed to external free subscriptions are no longer there. Due to this around 8 bounce message are getting generated daily and clogging up my queue. Is there any way to silently discard these messages without generating a bounce back message. I am running qmail-1.03 Regards Manny
Re: Suppressing Bounce Messages
* Manvendra Bhangui [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010220 15:28]: I have a problem on my site where lot of my users who have subscribed to external free subscriptions are no longer there. Due to this around 8 bounce message are getting generated daily and clogging up my queue. Is there any way to silently discard these messages without generating a bounce back message. I am running qmail-1.03 Please wrap your lines. If I understand you correctly, what you really may be looking for is the badrcptto patch from www.qmail.org. That will let you "bounce" the messages during the SMTP dialogue, so qmail will not generate the bounce message. Discarding all bounce messages is a bad idea. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Suppressing Bounce Messages
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Manvendra Bhangui wrote: I have a problem on my site where lot of my users who have subscribed to external free subscriptions are no longer there. Due to this around 8 bounce message are getting generated daily and clogging up my queue. Is there any way to silently discard these messages without generating a bounce back message. I am running qmail-1.03 Regards Manny Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: Add an alias file for each of the addresses that these messages is intended for and redirect it to the postmaster of the originating domain. I'm sure it will stop real fast. -- *** Matthew H Patterson Unix Systems Administrator National Support Center, LLC Naperville, Illinois, USA ***
1 host with several hostnames
I have installed QMAIL in a host called "realname.aaa.bbb.ccc" (MX record in DNS). On this server I have defined 10 users. This host should accept mails for "virtual1.aaa.bbb.ccc", "virtual2.aaa.bbb.ccc" and "aaa.bbb.ccc" (For example: a mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] MUST go in [EMAIL PROTECTED], a mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] MUST go in [EMAIL PROTECTED] - with "user01" user of computer "realname") I have done MANY tests with/without virtualdomain but don't works!!! I have mailed a msg from my account on Excite.it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: the Excite's postmaster responds: Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.1.2 Remote-MTA: dns; virtual1.aaa.bbb.ccc QMAIL Configuration files: ME: realname.aaa.bbb.ccc LOCALS: localhost realname.aaa.bb.ccc RCPTHOSTS: realname.aaa.bbb.ccc virtual1.aaa.bbb.ccc aaa.bbb.ccc VIRTUALDOMAINS [EMAIL PROTECTED]:alias-user01 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:alias-user02 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:alias-user01 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:alias-user02 ~ALIAS/.QMAIL-USER01-USER01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /ETC/TCP.SMTP 100.100.100.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" In /var/log/maillog there is no msg. In another test I have deleted virtualdomains and filled locals and rcpthosts with "realname" and "virtual1" but don't works!! I have attached the output oh qmail-showctl Must I insert the "virtual1" in DNS (MX record) ?? Excuse for my bad English, best regards and thanks in advance for helping. Massimo QUINTINI == = Massimo Quintini = = Osservatorio Astronomico Collurania Teramo (O.A.C.T.) = = Via Mentore Maggini s.n.c. = = 64100 - TERAMO - (Italy) = = Telefono: 39-0861.210490 = = Fax: 39-0861.210492= = http://www.te.astro.it = == showctl.out
Assistance reading mail headers
I'm not very good at reading mail headers. Are the following someone trying to use our system as a relay? From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Feb 20 06:45:14 2001 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 23391 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2001 06:45:14 -0800 Received: from van01.inxservices.lan (192.168.1.6) by mwg.inxservices.lan with QMTP; 20 Feb 2001 06:45:14 -0800 Received: (qmail 15892 invoked by alias); 20 Feb 2001 06:45:14 -0800 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 15887 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2001 06:45:12 -0800 Received: from c15.h061013066.is.net.tw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by ns.inxservices.com with SMTP; 20 Feb 2001 06:45:12 -0800 Received: from 61.13.66.15 (c140.h061013121.is.net.tw [61.13.121.140]) by c15.h061013066.is.net.tw (8.9.3/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA02003; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 22:44:49 +0800 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 22:44:49 +0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: nTTDDnTTnTTDDD body snipped There is no david_wu here. But I've told qmail to deliver anything to unknown users at our domain to me, rather than bouncing. As far as I can tell, this is everything from the logs about this message: Feb 20 06:45:14 van01 qmail: 982680314.626912 starting delivery 1979: msg 48543 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feb 20 06:45:14 van01 qmail: 982680314.627059 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Feb 20 06:45:14 van01 qmail: 982680314.820895 delivery 1979: success: did_0+1+0/qp_15892/ Feb 20 06:45:14 van01 qmail: 982680314.820947 status: local 3/10 remote 1/20 Feb 20 06:45:14 mwg qmail: 982680314.882874 new msg 61762 Feb 20 06:45:14 van01 qmail: 982680314.586558 new msg 48543 Feb 20 06:45:14 van01 qmail: 982680314.586723 info msg 48543: bytes 2947 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 15887 uid 40 Feb 20 06:45:14 van01 qmail: 982680314.626912 starting delivery 1979: msg 48543 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feb 20 06:45:14 van01 qmail: 982680314.627059 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Feb 20 06:45:14 van01 qmail: 982680314.820895 delivery 1979: success: did_0+1+0/qp_15892/ Feb 20 06:45:14 mwg qmail: 982680314.882874 new msg 61762 Feb 20 06:45:14 mwg qmail: 982680314.882963 info msg 61762: bytes 3242 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 23391 uid 40 Feb 20 06:45:14 van01 qmail: 982680314.915652 delivery 1983: success: _192.168.1.3_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_ok_982680314_qp_23391/Protocol:_qmtp/ Feb 20 06:45:14 van01 qmail: 982680314.915809 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 It doesn't look like any forwarding happened. If someone is going to start trying to use us as a relay, though, I'm going to have to start bouncing mail if the volume increases. So far its only been a few every couple days. Thanks for any assistance in understanding this.
Please Help Me Test My AV SW
This might be a weird request, but I am wondering if anyone would be willing to send me virus infected emails to test my setup... all I have here is the Anna, and my AV stops that... but if a few of you would send me different ones, maybe ones that would get by the AV scan... ??? Like I said, it's weird, and please send them directly to ME not to the list... Thanks!!! Jesse Systems Administrator ParView, Inc.
unable to establish an smtp connection
Hi, I am using qmail as my smtp mail server and pop server, I have found out something strange. That is, qmail is not able to established an smtp connection at the first time. I didn't mean the mail never being send out, but it has to be send out sereval times in order to get it delivered. Is this normal ?? If no, what causes this problem !! status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 @40003a91df743b68a804 delivery 45: deferral: Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/ Thank you so much Mark
Re: Assistance reading mail headers
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:00:27AM -0800, George Garvey wrote: I'm not very good at reading mail headers. Are the following someone trying to use our system as a relay? No. It's someone sending to a wrong address. Greetz, Peter.
Re: 1 host with several hostnames
Massimo Quintini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed QMAIL in a host called "realname.aaa.bbb.ccc" (MX record in DNS). Funny, it doesn't look like there's an MX record for realname.aaa.bbb.ccc . I can't even find a server which knows about the .ccc domain. I have done MANY tests with/without virtualdomain but don't works!!! That's helpful. In /var/log/maillog there is no msg. Then where are you actually logging qmail output to? Give us the _real_ hostname and domain names involved. At a first guess, the DNS configuration is bad, but we can't check, because you cloaked 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: unable to establish an smtp connection
Mark Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this normal ?? If no, what causes this problem !! status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 @40003a91df743b68a804 delivery 45: deferral: Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/ Completely normal. The remote mailserver didn't accept the connection. Ignore this error if it occurs infrequently. qmail will keep trying to deliver the affected message for a week (default). 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 do I unsubscribe
As much as I hate people who do what I am doing now How do I unsubscribe?!?! Thanks! Shane Wise For Current Nashville Weather http://www.nashvilleweather.net
Re: unable to establish an smtp connection
Hi Charles, I got the error messages very often, what should I do ?? Mark - Original Message - From: Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 11:17 PM Subject: Re: unable to establish an smtp connection Mark Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this normal ?? If no, what causes this problem !! status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 @40003a91df743b68a804 delivery 45: deferral: Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/ Completely normal. The remote mailserver didn't accept the connection. Ignore this error if it occurs infrequently. qmail will keep trying to deliver the affected message for a week (default). 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. ---
badrcptto
I just had a virus sent to a distribution list, that is supposed to be for my organisation internal use only and includes all of my server recipients. The list is based on .qmail with all recipients names. I was thinking to block people from sending to his list, read a little ezmlm-idx, but couldn't find a satisfactory solution with it. I recieve mail only through SMTP, so I was thinking : basically I need to allow sending to this list only from MY users, and because I know MY users by RELAYCLIENT, the easyest way seems to put the list name in badrcptto and edit the badrcptto patch to do the checking only is RELAYCLIENT not set. Anyone can think of a better way ?
(OT) DJB-itization
Hi, I wonder if anyone has put together a package/script to lay on top of any popular distributions of *nix to replace everything with the DJB version. For example a base FreeBSD install could have such a distro installed to replace sendmail with qmail, inetd with ucspi-tcp, BIND with djbdns, etc. etc. I would think that to someone who was quite familiar with these tools, such an overhaul would be relatively easy. --gill
Re: (OT) DJB-itization
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:10:47AM -0500, [gill] wrote: I wonder if anyone has put together a package/script to lay on top of any popular distributions of *nix to replace everything with the DJB version. For example a base FreeBSD install could have such a distro installed to replace sendmail with qmail, inetd with ucspi-tcp, BIND with djbdns, etc. etc. Heh, I was just thinking about something like this. Maybe when I'm done doing just that I'll look into it. See what it takes to do it, it'd be a very nice thing to have. I am just now converting to qmail, ucspi-tcp, and djbdns. Soon I'll do it, I'm hyped about the idea, it'd be cool if some people talked more about the idea, i.e. what would they want in it. --Carl--
Re: (OT) DJB-itization
Carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Soon I'll do it, I'm hyped about the idea, it'd be cool if some people talked more about the idea, i.e. what would they want in it. Wishlist: a djb replacement for Vixie cron. Especially topical at the moment. 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 smtp
Hi, somebody know how can I delete the outgoing messages tail ? Thanks
RE: unable to establish an smtp connection
Mark, Charles and the list, I go this error message as well. What caused it for me was an improperly configured ipchains script used on my public gateway. Once I configured the script to allow outgoing port 25 requests to anywhere, that solved the problem. This error msg can be difficult to track down because there's several ways it can be produced HTH .mark -- From: Mark Lo[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 7:50 AM To:Charles Cazabon; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: unable to establish an smtp connection Hi Charles, I got the error messages very often, what should I do ?? Mark - Original Message - From: Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 11:17 PM Subject: Re: unable to establish an smtp connection Mark Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this normal ?? If no, what causes this problem !! status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 @40003a91df743b68a804 delivery 45: deferral: Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/ Completely normal. The remote mailserver didn't accept the connection. Ignore this error if it occurs infrequently. qmail will keep trying to deliver the affected message for a week (default). 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: unable to establish an smtp connection
Well, that depends: is qmail taking incoming request or initiating an outgoing request. This assumes the ipchains script is being used on your gateway computer. The script for a firewall is different. incoming request: -s $anywhere $unprivports -d $ipaddr 25 outgoing reponses to input request: -s $ipaddr 25 -d $anywhere $unprivports Now, initiating a connection, as in relaying email, outgoing -s $ipaddr $unprivports -d $anywhere 25 incoming -s $anywhere 25 -d $ipaddr $unprivports (I didn't use the -b option for clarity) My ipchains script for a non-firewall installation is not the same as a firewall. There should be NO services running on your firewall!! The firewall just passes packets between your DMZ, private internal network and the wild, wild internet. When I setup my SMTP gateway as a bastion host outside the firewall, by default I open all privports and then close all ports that are not needed. I also look for spoofing and other sundry nasties. If you'd like a copy of it, I could clean it up and send it your way. I put it together rather quickly, so it's not pretty! HTH .mark -- From: Mark Lo[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 10:07 AM To:Mark Schoonover; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: unable to establish an smtp connection Hi, you mean : from my ipaddr 25 to anywhere 25 ??? orfrom my ipaddr 25 to anywhere $unprivports ??? which one is it ?? Thank you Mark - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 1:49 AM Subject: RE: unable to establish an smtp connection Mark, Charles and the list, I go this error message as well. What caused it for me was an improperly configured ipchains script used on my public gateway. Once I configured the script to allow outgoing port 25 requests to anywhere, that solved the problem. This error msg can be difficult to track down because there's several ways it can be produced HTH .mark -- From: Mark Lo[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 7:50 AM To: Charles Cazabon; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: unable to establish an smtp connection Hi Charles, I got the error messages very often, what should I do ?? Mark - Original Message - From: Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 11:17 PM Subject: Re: unable to establish an smtp connection Mark Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this normal ?? If no, what causes this problem !! status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 @40003a91df743b68a804 delivery 45: deferral: Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/ Completely normal. The remote mailserver didn't accept the connection. Ignore this error if it occurs infrequently. qmail will keep trying to deliver the affected message for a week (default). 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: Ezmlm capacity
Jasper McIntosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I also confirm that Ezmlm doesn't do anything too weird with the qmail queue, and that I should still compile qmail with a really high conf-split of around 2500 (I read that the Linux FS's like it up there, but I guess that subject is more suited to another list:) A conf-split that high is pretty much pointless (and it should be prime, regardless). As a side note, I've read much to the contrary -- that because of the efficiency with which Linux caches directory entries, qmail performs best with a conf-split of 2 for an extremely busy server, and 1 (!) for a smaller server or busy workstation. Note this is anecdotal, but it seems reasonable. Some day when I have sufficient time, I'll do some real measurements. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ My opinions are just that -- my opinions. ---
The Same email keeps getting sent to qmail
I have tried going through the qmail archives and have not found this problem anywhere. If it is, please excuse me asking the same question again. Problem. Emails sent from outside servers are being recieved over, and over and over again. Description Email sent from outside to our inside qmail server keeps getting resent. The email is delivered to all the recipients but the far server nevers gets confirmation of this. Below is a line taken from an external servers log file. Feb 1 17:40:15 mail1-lax-abov postfix/smtp[18939]: [ID 197553 mail.info] A23E546204: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay =office.ants.com[64.210.23.51], delay=6760, status=deferred (conversation with office.ants.com[64.210.23.51] timed o ut while sending end of data -- message may be sent more than once) The external email server waits an appropriate period of time then attempts to resend the message and experiences the same problem. This problem occurs with mail sent using mutiple external email servers, from mutiple users. The only common denominator I can find with these email is that all of their reply-to headers are set to internal email addresses. Case1 User1 is at home and sends an e-mail through their private ISPs email server, with the reply to address set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Case2 Process running on an external server uses an external email server to send email, setting the reply-to header to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Variations We are not having problems with all the email sent this way. In both Case1 and Case2 we have had email sent to the exact same recipients from the exact same account, during the time between the mutiple email failures as described above, with no problems. I have even gone so far to have one user copy and paste the exact same message into a new message and resend it to the exact same users, and the message behaves appropiately. Hase anyone experienced the above, if so what did you do to fix it, and barring that does anyone have any ideas what could be causing the problem? It just not seem to be consistant. Thanks Kep Kep BrownSystems, Network and Database Administrator phone: (805) 560-3781 fax: (805) 560-3991
Listen only to One ethernet Card
Hi, How to tell qmail only listen to one sigle interface. for example, eth0="203.122.222.222" eth0:0="203.122.222.223" How to tell qmail to use eth0 only for incoming and outgoing connections ?? Thank You Mark
Re: Listen only to One ethernet Card
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 03:48:54AM +0800, Mark Lo wrote: Hi, How to tell qmail only listen to one sigle interface. for example, eth0="203.122.222.222" eth0:0="203.122.222.223" How to tell qmail to use eth0 only for incoming and outgoing connections ?? incoming: man tcpserver outgoing: AFAIK impossible without patching qmail-remote.c -- Henning Brauer | BS Web Services Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg http://www.bsws.de | Germany
Re: Mail hub for relay and outgoing only - no local
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) How do I prevent qmail from trying to deliver locally on the qmail server? Leave control/locals empty. 2) How can I correctly set-up the group redirects in a way that will eliminate (if not reduce) duplication due to an error sending to one address in the group? List the members in the appropriate ~alias/.qmail-* file. 3) What would be a good way of redirecting local names to the appropriate email address for the local messages from our Sun servers (ie: bobs - [EMAIL PROTECTED]): individual /var/qmail/alias files, or some other method? .qmail files in ~alias. -Dave
Re: unable to establish an smtp connection
Hi, you mean : from my ipaddr 25 to anywhere 25 ??? orfrom my ipaddr 25 to anywhere $unprivports ??? which one is it ?? Thank you Mark - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 1:49 AM Subject: RE: unable to establish an smtp connection Mark, Charles and the list, I go this error message as well. What caused it for me was an improperly configured ipchains script used on my public gateway. Once I configured the script to allow outgoing port 25 requests to anywhere, that solved the problem. This error msg can be difficult to track down because there's several ways it can be produced HTH .mark -- From: Mark Lo[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 7:50 AM To: Charles Cazabon; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: unable to establish an smtp connection Hi Charles, I got the error messages very often, what should I do ?? Mark - Original Message - From: Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 11:17 PM Subject: Re: unable to establish an smtp connection Mark Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this normal ?? If no, what causes this problem !! status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 @40003a91df743b68a804 delivery 45: deferral: Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/ Completely normal. The remote mailserver didn't accept the connection. Ignore this error if it occurs infrequently. qmail will keep trying to deliver the affected message for a week (default). 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: Cannot receive mail from other mail server
MY /etc/tcp.smtp SETTING (after it I convert to /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb using tcprules) is as follows: 127.0.0.:allow,REALYCLIENT="" 192.168.0.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 192.168.1.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow,RELAYCLIENT="" I suspect this is your problem, and if it isn't, it will be. That last line is bad, really bad; it's telling your qmail server to accept messages from anywhere, destined for anywhere, making you an open relay. Change the last line to read :allow and you'll be better off. Don't forget to recompile the cdb. ---Kris Kelley
Re: queue is not going down...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem with messages staying in the queue. I was running some tests that relayed 7,000 messages through one qmail server (n201) to another qmail server (saturn) which processed the messages locally. All on a local network. [root@n201 bin]# ./qmail-qstat messages in queue: 252 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 But there are no qmail connection from n201 to saturn. Probably because the messages in the queue failed to go through on their first attempt, and qmail-send is waiting for their retry time to roll around. You wouldn't want it to retry undeliverables as fast as it could. That would bog the machine down. What Do The Logs Say? (tm) -Dave
Re: queue keeping messages
Karen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a couple of weeks now qmail has been keeping messages in the queue about one to one and a half hours after the message is sent. So everyone is complaining that they don't receive their mail right away. The permissions on "trigger" are probably wrong. Check on www.qmail.org, or in "Life with qmail", or a qmail FAQ for the solution. 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. ---
queue keeping messages
For a couple of weeks now qmail has been keeping messages in the queue about one to one and a half hours after the message is sent. So everyone is complaining that they don't receive their mail right away. Didn't have any probs before this (except for people incompletely stop and restart qmail wrong then it wouldn't send messages) Any suggestions? qmail version 1.03 Thanks, Karen Cutrer Central Texas Communications
Re: outgoing messages
kat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to automate the whole thing i.e. when a user send mail from KDEmail, netscape or any email client, it should queue the mails in a directory [i.e the user should feel that mail is delivered] and when I connect to net it should send the mails to the specified addresses. In short, my home PC should act as a small server. How is that possible? I have already d/l serialmail and other addon packages.Please be specific because I have not yet understood qmail fully yet. In control/virtualdomains: :alias-catchall In /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-catchall: ./Outgoing/ Create the maildir: /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake /var/qmail/alias/Outgoing chown -R alias /var/qmail/alias/Outgoing Add a maildirsmtp invocation to your "ip-up" script to process the Outgoing messages. -Dave
unable to recieve remote mail
I'm fairly new at this, last week was the first time I had ever comfit's qmail. but it was working fine for a while, now we are unable to receive any messages from remote hosts. Local mail works fine, and even sending mail to a remote host has no problems, it;s receiving mail which is a problem. My first thought was that it was a dns err but I checked the mx record and it's accurate as far as I know: pbgnw.com. IN MX 10 mail.pbgnw.com.; EXTREF where can I look to figure out what's wrong? I followed law nearly exactly although I'm using splogger and procmail. is there more info you need?
Re: unable to recieve remote mail
...now we are unable to receive any messages from remote hosts. You mentioned local mail works fine. Does that mean email sent from one local user logged in directly to the machine to another local user works fine? If so, then the problem may be that something's not listening for remote SMTP connections. Try a telnet connection to port 25 and see what you see. If you're certain that something is listening (be it tcpserver or inetd or the like), and that it's properly calling qmail-smtpd, then What Do the Logs Say? ---Kris Kelley
Followup: badrcptto
Since I have recieved no other suggestions on my prevous mail, I have altered the badrcptto patch to support the behavour described before (do not apply badrcptto rules if RELAYCLIENT is set). If anyone is interested, the patch can be found at http://212.179.48.82/badrcptto/ -Original Message- From: Alex Kramarov Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 6:15 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: badrcptto I just had a virus sent to a distribution list, that is supposed to be for my organisation internal use only and includes all of my server recipients. The list is based on .qmail with all recipients names. I was thinking to block people from sending to his list, read a little ezmlm-idx, but couldn't find a satisfactory solution with it. I recieve mail only through SMTP, so I was thinking : basically I need to allow sending to this list only from MY users, and because I know MY users by RELAYCLIENT, the easyest way seems to put the list name in badrcptto and edit the badrcptto patch to do the checking only is RELAYCLIENT not set. Anyone can think of a better way ?
Re: unable to recieve remote mail
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:26:27PM -0800, Webmaster wrote: I'm fairly new at this, last week was the first time I had ever comfit's qmail. but it was working fine for a while, now we are unable to receive any messages from remote hosts. Local mail works fine, and even sending mail to a remote host has no problems, it;s receiving mail which is a problem. My first thought was that it was a dns err but I checked the mx record and it's accurate as far as I know: pbgnw.com. IN MX 10 mail.pbgnw.com.; EXTREF Thats not what dns gives out. Your MX points to 216.157.10.110. Two errors a) MX must always point to hostnames, not IPs b) there is nothing responding on port 25 on this machine where can I look to figure out what's wrong? I followed law nearly exactly although I'm using splogger and procmail. is there more info you need? -- Henning Brauer | BS Web Services Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg http://www.bsws.de | Germany
Re: pop3 dying
mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should I add: | /var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3 3 On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Peter van Dijk wrote: On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 04:02:58PM +, mick wrote: grep for pop3 on mail.log and daemon.log for pop3 (digital unix) returns nothing. this is how it is called: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup my.domain.com / bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir This startup doesn't specify any logging. I recommend multilog over splogger because syslog is inefficient, insecure, and unreliable. -Dave
RE: queue keeping messages
thanks for the reply but i did a "make check" in src directory and nothing complained. Here is my trigger: drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail1024 Dec 16 1999 . drwxr-x--- 11 qmailq qmail1024 Dec 16 1999 .. -rw--- 1 qmails qmail 0 Jan 12 2000 sendmutex -rw-r--r-- 1 qmailr qmail1024 Feb 20 15:15 tcpto prw--w--w- 1 qmails qmail 0 Feb 20 15:16 trigger My mail queue is filling up to enormous amounts of filez too. they are preprocessed. (centex):[/root]#qmail-qstat messages in queue: 18045 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 (centex):[/root]# LINUX slackware kernel 2.2.13 on ASA Linux version 2.2.13 (root@s2) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) Detected 497440483 Hz processor. Memory: 516972k/524224k available (1252k kernel code, 416k reserved, 5540k data, 44k init) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized Pentium-III serial number disabled. CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 02 Thanks, Karen -Original Message- From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: queue keeping messages Karen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a couple of weeks now qmail has been keeping messages in the queue about one to one and a half hours after the message is sent. So everyone is complaining that they don't receive their mail right away. The permissions on "trigger" are probably wrong. Check on www.qmail.org, or in "Life with qmail", or a qmail FAQ for the solution. 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. ---
FW: queue keeping messages
-Original Message- From: Karen Cutrer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 3:56 PM To: Jeremy Anttila Subject: RE: queue keeping messages This is wierd. I cannot get test messages sent from the internet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] yet i got your message right away and in my [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailbox Also, I seem to be able to send to the internet ok. LINUX slackware kernel 2.2.13 on ASA Linux version 2.2.13 (root@s2) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) Detected 497440483 Hz processor. Memory: 516972k/524224k available (1252k kernel code, 416k reserved, 5540k data, 44k init) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized Pentium-III serial number disabled. CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 02 Here is my trigger: drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail1024 Dec 16 1999 . drwxr-x--- 11 qmailq qmail1024 Dec 16 1999 .. -rw--- 1 qmails qmail 0 Jan 12 2000 sendmutex -rw-r--r-- 1 qmailr qmail1024 Feb 20 15:15 tcpto prw--w--w- 1 qmails qmail 0 Feb 20 15:16 trigger mail queue is filling up to enormous amounts of filez too. and they are preprocessed. (centex):[/root]#qmail-qstat messages in queue: 18045 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 (centex):[/root]# On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Jeremy Anttila wrote: what is your os and setup that you are using ? -Original Message- From: Karen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 2:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: queue keeping messages For a couple of weeks now qmail has been keeping messages in the queue about one to one and a half hours after the message is sent. So everyone is complaining that they don't receive their mail right away. Didn't have any probs before this (except for people incompletely stop and restart qmail wrong then it wouldn't send messages) Any suggestions? qmail version 1.03 Thanks, Karen Cutrer Central Texas Communications
Receipts...
Hello I'm having problems with sending mails which require a receiver to acknowledge reception of a mail (I guess it's called receipt in Microsoft talk). I'm sending these mails thru my qmail server, and it returns them to me with an error. Is there a switch somewhere in qmail to enable this ? Cheers, -- Lukasz Felsztukier : : d i g i t a l O n e : : interactive media house : : http://www.digitalone.pl : : Al. Kosciuszki 1, 90-418 Lodz, Poland : : tel./fax [+48 42] 632.89.74
Re: unable to recieve remote mail
thx for kick in the rear, i'm not sure why i didn't realize that before i figured it out quickly now though: [root@pbgnw log]# dig mx pbgnw.com ; DiG 8.2 mx pbgnw.com ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; pbgnw.com, type = MX, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: pbgnw.com. 12H IN MX 10 216.157.10.110. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: pbgnw.com. 12H IN NS ns1.granitecanyon.com. pbgnw.com. 12H IN NS ns2.granitecanyon.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns1.granitecanyon.com. 1D IN A 205.166.226.38 ns2.granitecanyon.com. 1D IN A 204.1.217.148 ;; Total query time: 181 msec ;; FROM: pbgnw.com to SERVER: default -- 209.213.96.2 ;; WHEN: Tue Feb 20 17:21:13 2001 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 27 rcvd: 139 [root@pbgnw log]# thx again. - Original Message - From: "Henning Brauer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 2:09 PM Subject: Re: unable to recieve remote mail On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:26:27PM -0800, Webmaster wrote: I'm fairly new at this, last week was the first time I had ever comfit's qmail. but it was working fine for a while, now we are unable to receive any messages from remote hosts. Local mail works fine, and even sending mail to a remote host has no problems, it;s receiving mail which is a problem. My first thought was that it was a dns err but I checked the mx record and it's accurate as far as I know: pbgnw.com. IN MX 10 mail.pbgnw.com.; EXTREF Thats not what dns gives out. Your MX points to 216.157.10.110. Two errors a) MX must always point to hostnames, not IPs b) there is nothing responding on port 25 on this machine where can I look to figure out what's wrong? I followed law nearly exactly although I'm using splogger and procmail. is there more info you need? -- Henning Brauer | BS Web Services Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg http://www.bsws.de | Germany
Re: unable to recieve remote mail
Well that's part of my problem, I'm not sure how to interpret the logs fully. They're fairly intuitive once you've stared at them for a bit. Much easier to read than sendmail's. Feb 12 03:33:49 pbgnw qmail: 981966829.691748 new msg 30135 Feb 12 03:33:49 pbgnw qmail: 981966829.691874 info msg 30135: bytes 1688 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 28956 uid 504 Feb 12 03:33:49 pbgnw qmail: 981966829.695257 starting delivery 19: msg 30135 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feb 12 03:33:49 pbgnw qmail: 981966829.695360 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Feb 12 03:33:49 pbgnw qmail: 981966829.702067 delivery 19: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ Feb 12 03:33:49 pbgnw qmail: 981966829.702180 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Feb 12 03:33:49 pbgnw qmail: 981966829.707803 bounce msg 30135 qp 29012 Feb 12 03:33:49 pbgnw qmail: 981966829.708357 end msg 30135 so is it telling me that there is no mail box named scottb? Yes. This snippet of the logs is telling you that message #30135 came from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qmail then tried to deliver this message as delivery #19 to local user [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery #19 failed with the reason given, therefore, message #30135 was bounced back to the sender. the strange thing if that is the case is that I sent the msg to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from [EMAIL PROTECTED], not to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you been playing with aliases at all? That's the only reason I can think of why webmaster would morph into scottb on an otherwise sane qmail system. By the way, it's beneficial to you and others to keep these discussions on the qmail list. Somebody with more experience is bound to have better answers than me, plus future qmail users with these problems can then search the archives and (hopefully) not have to ask the same questions again. ---Kris Kelley
Re: (OT) DJB-itization
* Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Soon I'll do it, I'm hyped about the idea, it'd be cool if some people talked more about the idea, i.e. what would they want in it. Wishlist: a djb replacement for Vixie cron. Especially topical at the moment. But it won't happen without DJB changing his distribution policy. man hier and his software don't match. This is particularly annoying if you do cvsups and make world with sendmail, named etc. Oh well...
Re: unable to recieve remote mail
Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pbgnw.com. IN MX 10 mail.pbgnw.com.; EXTREF It's still not fixed. mail.pbgnw.com is a CNAME; MX must point at an A record, not a CNAME. 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. ---
Cannot receive mail from other mail server
Hi, all, I install Qmail in /var/qmail directory, under Linux environ. I encount a qmail SMTP problems, is there anybody help me to resolve my problems. I searched all related doc in www.qmail.org, no result to be reached. thanks in advance. WHAT I CAN DOI can telnet to my pop3 and smtp server by 25 or 110 port, and can sucessfully send and receive may using SMTP or POP3 instructions.I can send and receive mail using Sqwebmail successfully.I can fetch my mail successfully using Outlook, which account's smtp and pop3 server is my qmail server. PROBLEM: But I cannot send mail from remote host to my qmail server, either by Webmail style or mail clients such as Outlook. i.e. from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remote account) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Qmail server's account), the smtp server is smtp.kali.com.cn. the mail cannot reach [EMAIL PROTECTED]. MY QMAIL SMTP SETTING is as follow:env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \tcpserver -H -R -l 0 -g 500 -u 503 -t 120 -c 50 -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb 0 smtp \/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 MY /etc/tcp.smtp SETTING (after it I convert to /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb using tcprules) is as follows:127.0.0.:allow,REALYCLIENT=""192.168.0.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""192.168.1.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="":allow,RELAYCLIENT="" LOG VIEW:no log message appears in /var/log/maillog TROUBLE SNAPSHOT:when I send a mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (by outlook,SMTP serveris smtp.kali.com.cn; and also by it's webmail style), the return messages is as follows:Hi. This is the mail program at mail1.kali.com.cn.I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. Connected to 216.38.174.101 but connection died. (#4.4.2)I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long./202.106.187.150 does not like recipient.Remote host said: 445 ·þÎñÆ÷¾Ü¾ø - server rejected (#4.4.4)Giving up on 202.106.187.150.I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long./Cann't establish an SMTP connection. I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long./Cann't establish an SMTP connection. I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long./Connected to 216.38.174.101 but sender was rejected.Remote host said: 550 You are blocked as a spamming host./202.109.72.194 does not like recipient.Remote host said: 553 unknown userGiving up on 202.109.72.194./216.136.129.12 failed after I sent the message.Remote host said: 554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.com account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - mta549.mail.yahoo.com/209.54.94.5 does not like recipient.Remote host.. --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Received: (mail 347 invoked by uid 0); 20 Feb 2001 15:57:08 -Received: from unknown (HELO linux3) (61.129.64.93) by mail1.kali.com.cn with SMTP; 20 Feb 2001 15:57:08 -Message-ID: 017601c09b55$c4e34cd0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]From: "kali" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: asdfasdfasdfDate: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 23:57:04 +0800MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: multipart/alternative;boundary="=_NextPart_000_0173_01C09B98.D2E34D60"X-Priority: 3X-MSMail-Priority: NormalX-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 --- End of message stripped. George Wangpls cc also to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (OT) DJB-itization
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:13:36AM +0100, Robin S. Socha wrote: * Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Soon I'll do it, I'm hyped about the idea, it'd be cool if some people talked more about the idea, i.e. what would they want in it. Wishlist: a djb replacement for Vixie cron. Especially topical at the moment. But it won't happen without DJB changing his distribution policy. man hier and his software don't match. This is particularly annoying if you do cvsups and make world with sendmail, named etc. Oh well... Robin, I've just posted modified makefiles for your favorite OS to avoid this to misc@ ;-)) (it's OpenBSD, for the other readers) -- Henning Brauer | BS Web Services Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg http://www.bsws.de | Germany
Need Arguments for qmail
Hi- I volunteered to talk about and "defend" qmail at a Linux Users' Group meeting where there will be people speaking on 3 or 4 of the main MTAs. I am competent in setting up and maintaining qmail, but I must say that I am unable to respond properly to a lot of the criticism of qmail, mostly in comparison to sendmail (which I have never administered). I would appreciate any and all rebuffings of qmail myths, relevant anecdotes, or theoretical analysis that would aid in my presentation. Off-list responses are welcome, to avoid list clutter. Thanks, --Pete
Re: (OT) DJB-itization
Carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Soon I'll do it, I'm hyped about the idea, it'd be cool if some people talked more about the idea, i.e. what would they want in it. Wishlist: a djb replacement for Vixie cron. Especially topical at the moment. Charles Same here. I sent an off-list email to DJB just a few days ago asking if he was contemplating such a project. As far as the DJB-ification tool, what I do is just make a big shell script that nukes the undesired software, and the does all the normal un-tarring, configuring, compiling and configuration. I have had good luck, for the most part just putting all the actions listed in LWQ into a shell script. The only dificulty I can see would be OS or distribution specific stuff, like where the qmail start file goes. --Pete
Local Deliveries Slow
Hi, I am having a tough time migrating to qmail. I have applied the concurrency patch and set the concurrency limit to 250. Inspite of that I do not see the qmail-lspawn forking more than 2 or 3 processes at any given point of time. What could be the problem? My local queue is currently at 8. Due to this my users are unable to get mails. However they are able to send out mails fine. However remote deliveries seem to be going fine and I can see multiple qmail-remote being forked. Regards Manny
tcpserver prints to console!?!
hello all... updating qmail to use svscan / daemontools-0.70 and ucspi-tcp-0.88. with the line: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -q -ladmin.f-tech.net -xtcp.cdb -- 0 25 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd running I still get tcpserver messages to the console. the -q should shut tcpserver up shouldn't it Also, the multilog part of the qmail-smtpd dosen't seem to fire off... no errors, but also no supervise multilog. Running kernel 2.4.1 on a RH 6.2. Paul Farber Farber Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545
Re: Need Arguments for qmail
Peter, One rather trivial complaint I've heard quite a few times is "Oh, yeah, install qmail if you want to add 100 system accounts to run it". What many don't realize is this is one major reason why qmail is so secure - by using multiple users in executing the various parts, it only requires that each portion of qmail only have enough rights to access the information relevant to that job. Along the same lines is the fact that qmail IS broken up into separate services for each function, rather than a single process handling a wide variety of tasks. Kyle -- Kyle Knack Server Engineer - SkyNetWEB/Affinity Internet System Administrator - Only-Linux.Com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.skynetweb.com - Original Message - From: Peter Cavender [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 11:22 PM Subject: Need Arguments for qmail Hi- I volunteered to talk about and "defend" qmail at a Linux Users' Group meeting where there will be people speaking on 3 or 4 of the main MTAs. I am competent in setting up and maintaining qmail, but I must say that I am unable to respond properly to a lot of the criticism of qmail, mostly in comparison to sendmail (which I have never administered). I would appreciate any and all rebuffings of qmail myths, relevant anecdotes, or theoretical analysis that would aid in my presentation. Off-list responses are welcome, to avoid list clutter. Thanks, --Pete
Re: tcpserver prints to console!?!
Thus said Paul Farber on Wed, 21 Feb 2001 00:28:56 EST: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -q -ladmin.f-tech.net -xtcp.cdb -- 0 25 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd I think you need a 21 at the end of that line (and that line should be all on one line). Also, the multilog part of the qmail-smtpd dosen't seem to fire off... no errors, but also no supervise multilog. Did you set the sticky bit on the supervised directory? For example, /var/qmail/supervise/send should have the sticky bit and then it will launch a supervise process for /var/qmail/supervise/send/log. Andy -- [---[system uptime]] 10:36pm up 6 days, 22:38, 7 users, load average: 1.03, 1.13, 1.16
how to hide the alias-user_name
hi, I'm using djb fast-forward to do the virtual domain emailling system, but Inoticed that in he mail header, I'll get the Delivered-To: alias-user_name@virtual1.com, then finally Delivered-To: user_name@real_host_domain.com is it anyway to hide the Delivered-To: alias-user_name@virtual1.com ? thanks ckh :)
multilog not getting messages?
Hello all (again) this is coming up on the console after setting up daemontools .70 (svscan): starting delivery 47: msg 224960 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 delivery 47: success: did_1+0+0/ status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 end msg 224960 new msg 224960 info msg 224960: bytes 6927 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 1004 uid 0 starting delivery 48: msg 224960 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 delivery 48: success: did_1+0+0/ status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 end msg 224960 ps awxx gives me: 519 ?S 0:00 supervise qmail-smtpd 520 ?S 0:00 supervise log 522 ?S 0:00 multilog t ./main 523 ?S 0:00 qmail-send 524 ?S 0:00 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/ 525 ?S 0:00 qmail-rspawn 526 ?S 0:00 qmail-clean 527 tty2 S 0:00 -bash 586 tty3 S 0:00 -bash 971 ?S 0:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -qDHR -ladmin.f-tech.net -xtcp.cdb -- 0 25 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd so it seems that qmail-smtpd is barfing messages instead of logging them log/mail/currnet is chock full of tcpserver messages... how do I get qmail-smtpd to play nice?? Thanks! Paul Farber Farber Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545
one user handling hundreds of virtual domains
Is it safe to assign more than a hundred virtual domains to only one qmail user? Can it handle hundreds or even thousands of messages that may arrive all at once for hundreds of accounts of each virtual domain? Get your small business started at Lycos Small Business at http://www.lycos.com/business/mail.html
Re: (OT) DJB-itization
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:43:44PM -0500, Peter Cavender wrote: Same here. I sent an off-list email to DJB just a few days ago asking if he was contemplating such a project. As far as the DJB-ification tool, what I do is just make a big shell script that nukes the undesired software, and the does all the normal un-tarring, configuring, compiling and configuration. I have had good luck, for the most part just putting all the actions listed in LWQ into a shell script. The only dificulty I can see would be OS or distribution specific stuff, like where the qmail start file goes. Yeah that's about what I had in mind, just making some sort of automated installer/deinstaller, not actually a distribution of it. --Carl-- PGP signature
Re: Need Arguments for qmail
Recently switching from sendmail to qmail I have observed the difference in architecture between the two. The modularization of qmail appeals to me in both simplicity and elegance, and it's superiority was evident in my smtp benchmarking between the two MTAs. The only thing I miss from an admin standpoint is the readability of sendmail's logs vs. qmail/multilog. While I fully understand the justification of qmail's logging structure because of it's modularization, I am still left somewhat longing for a more readable logfile. Possibly over time I will develop a better skill for reading these logs, but for now that's my only concern since switching. There may be tools to aid in this, however out of the box this doesnt seem to be the cause. Just my thoughts since running qmail for about a week. -Jason to that job. Along the same lines is the fact that qmail IS broken up into separate services for each function, rather than a single process handling a wide variety of tasks. Kyle
Re: How do I unsubscribe
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