Re: reverse DNS?

[Erwin Hoffmann]

Hi,

I dont know, whether the HELO/EHLO from the MTA-Client means anything and
whether it can be used for a reverse DNS lookup.

However, it makes sense to do DNS lookup für the MAIL FROM: address. 

This is alrady feasable by some qmail patches, including my SPAMCONTROL.
Have a look at:

http://www.fehcom.de/qmail_en.html

cheers.

eh.


At 01:29 7.3.2001 -0500, Peter Cavender wrote:
>> At 10:07 AM 06-03-2001 -, John Conover wrote:
>> >As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a
>> >reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication?
>> 
>> Well two of our service providers haven't arranged reverse DNS lookups for
>> our Internet visible subnets. Our DNS servers are ready, but they either
>> don't want to do it or don't know how to do it. So you can't look up names
>> from our IPs. And it's been more than a year already.
>> 
>> So I'm biased and I'd say it's not reasonable ;).
>> 
>> Why would you want to do that anyway?
>
>Spam prevention.  Have had the same problem myself.  It is indeed sad that
>we have to jump through these hoops because a few folks insisting on
>emailing everyone about their inkjet refills or lower mortgage rates
>necessitate this.
> 
>> Cheerio,
>> Link.
>
>
>
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Re: reverse DNS?

[Peter Cavender]

> At 10:07 AM 06-03-2001 -, John Conover wrote:
> >As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a
> >reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication?
> 
> Well two of our service providers haven't arranged reverse DNS lookups for
> our Internet visible subnets. Our DNS servers are ready, but they either
> don't want to do it or don't know how to do it. So you can't look up names
> from our IPs. And it's been more than a year already.
> 
> So I'm biased and I'd say it's not reasonable ;).
> 
> Why would you want to do that anyway?

Spam prevention.  Have had the same problem myself.  It is indeed sad that
we have to jump through these hoops because a few folks insisting on
emailing everyone about their inkjet refills or lower mortgage rates
necessitate this.
 
> Cheerio,
> Link.

Re: What are these messages mean?

[Ken Jones]

Chrisanthy Carlane wrote:
> 
> Greetings everybody!
> 
> I received a bounce message like this, there are some things that I don't
> understand, can anyone help me?
> 
> > I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce
> bounced!
> >
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]=20>:

The line above shows you the email address it was trying to deliver to.
You'll notice that it is not a valid email address because the
domain name is not valid. 

yahoogroups.com=20 is not a valid domain.

Ken Jones

> > Sorry, I couldn't find any host named yahoogroups.com=20. (#5.1.2)
> >
> > --- Below this line is the original bounce.
> >
> > Return-Path: <>
> #How come there is no return path?
> 
> > Received: (qmail 25396 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2001 02:18:21 -
> > Received: from unknown (HELO sales) (10.10.10.127)
> #I think the HELO should be the name of the mail server?

Re: reverse DNS?

[Lincoln Yeoh]

At 10:07 AM 06-03-2001 -, John Conover wrote:
>As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a
>reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication?

Well two of our service providers haven't arranged reverse DNS lookups for
our Internet visible subnets. Our DNS servers are ready, but they either
don't want to do it or don't know how to do it. So you can't look up names
from our IPs. And it's been more than a year already.

So I'm biased and I'd say it's not reasonable ;).

Why would you want to do that anyway?

Cheerio,
Link.

perl scripts

[Paul Farber]

anyone have any short perl scripts they youwlid liek to forward to show
interaction with qmail envirmonment variable, logging to a file etc

Everything works file (scripts) when echo-ing a string to the script...
but when trying to get them 'inline' for qmail to use... I get nothing.

Especially intereseted in qmail-qfilter scripts.

thanks

Paul Farber
Farber Technology
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ph  570-628-5303
Fax 570-628-5545

Re: mbox w/o home

[Peter Cavender]

Hi-

qmail needs a non-world-writable location to place a user's email.  If all
your users have /tmp as home, who owns /tmp/mbox???

You need to setup your user accounts properly with individual,
non-world-writabele home directories, or
use some other tool to locally deliver the mail.

--Pete

On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Rodolfo Sampaio wrote:

>   
>   Hi!
> 
>   Im migrating from sendmail to qmail 1.03+fastfoward using mbox format
> /var/spool/mail. The problem is that almost all of my users uses /tmp as
> home and /dev/null as a fake shell and qmail is refusing to distribute
> these mails... it wont give an error... it justs drop the mail. There is a
> way that i can make qmail distribute these emails? 
> 
>   []'s
> 
>   Rodolfo Sampaio
> 
> 

What are these messages mean?

[Chrisanthy Carlane]

Greetings everybody!

I received a bounce message like this, there are some things that I don't
understand, can anyone help me?

> I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce
bounced!
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]=20>:
> Sorry, I couldn't find any host named yahoogroups.com=20. (#5.1.2)
>
> --- Below this line is the original bounce.
>
> Return-Path: <>
#How come there is no return path?

> Received: (qmail 25396 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2001 02:18:21 -
> Received: from unknown (HELO sales) (10.10.10.127)
#I think the HELO should be the name of the mail server?

Re: qmail to set "reply to:" for non local users?

[Alex Pennace]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:25:06PM +1100, Bevan Broun wrote:
> 
> Our qmail server receives all it's mail from a relay that does virus
> scanning
> etc. It then sends mail out to to various hosts. No MUA will speak directly
> to
> qmail.
> 
> We want qmail to rewrite the "reply to:" field for our users - from
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail list archives suggest
> enviroment variables to qmail-inject but this would appear to work only for
> local users.
> 
> Can this be done?  Ideas?

Use ofmipd in mess822. http://cr.yp.to/mess822.html

> This Email may contain confidential and/or privileged information and is
> intended solely for the addressee(s) named. If you have received this
> information in error, or are advised that you have been posted this Email by
> accident, please notify the sender by return Email, do not redistribute it,
> delete the Email and keep no copies.

Where the hell do you get off telling people how to manage their email?

qmail to set "reply to:" for non local users?

[Bevan Broun]

Our qmail server receives all it's mail from a relay that does virus
scanning
etc. It then sends mail out to to various hosts. No MUA will speak directly
to
qmail.

We want qmail to rewrite the "reply to:" field for our users - from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail list archives suggest
enviroment variables to qmail-inject but this would appear to work only for
local users.

Can this be done?  Ideas?

TIA

Bevan Broun


This Email may contain confidential and/or privileged information and is
intended solely for the addressee(s) named. If you have received this
information in error, or are advised that you have been posted this Email by
accident, please notify the sender by return Email, do not redistribute it,
delete the Email and keep no copies.

mbox w/o home

[Rodolfo Sampaio]

Hi!

Im migrating from sendmail to qmail 1.03+fastfoward using mbox format
/var/spool/mail. The problem is that almost all of my users uses /tmp as
home and /dev/null as a fake shell and qmail is refusing to distribute
these mails... it wont give an error... it justs drop the mail. There is a
way that i can make qmail distribute these emails? 

[]'s

Rodolfo Sampaio

Re: Getting POP3d to record logging information in places other than Maillog

[Sean Coyle]

Well, I am using qmail-1.03+patches.tar.gz, downloaded from a reliable
source of course.  Qmail-send and qmail-smtp log their information using
multilog, in the correct place of course (/var/log/qmail/(service-name).

What I am trying to do, is just move the log output of qmail-pop3d to the
same path, from maillog.

Currently logging is controlled by supervise (Daemon tools I think), and
uses logger or syslog (I think), to write log file output.  I want to change
that output to be written by multilogger.

Any ideas?

Sean


Kitabjian, Dave wrote:

>> Qmail traditionally logs all pop3 transactions in
>> /var/log/maillog using
>> syslog or whatever it is.
> 
> Really? I didn't think it logged anything. Are you sure you're not using a
> patched version?
> 
> Dave

Re: SMTP OK, but POP isn't!!

[Sean Coyle]

Hatem,

I sent a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(note the lack of the mail. Prefix).

I got back two different errors:

Recipient: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reason:To send mail, first check your mail with a valid POP account;
this prevents unauthorized SPAM relaying. (#5.7.1)

And 

Recipient: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reason:User unknown

A dig on both mail.hahlabs.com and hahlabs.com revealed very interesting
information, and it comes clear that there may be a DNS issue along with an
account config error.  First, it does not seem like there is a designated MX
host for your mail.hahlabs.com DNS entry, however, there are two CNAME
records and one A record, directing all requests to your online webmail host
@ mail.register-admin.com.criticalpath.net.  And for that same domain, a dig
for MX records shows no relevant output.

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> mail.hahlabs.com
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;  mail.hahlabs.com, type = A, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
mail.hahlabs.com.   23h32m53s IN CNAME  webmail.register.com.
webmail.register.com.   1m38s IN CNAME
mail.register-admin.com.criticalpath.net.
mail.register-admin.com.criticalpath.net.  2h32m57s IN A  64.97.37.170

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
criticalpath.net.   18h16m17s IN NS  NS1.CP.net.
criticalpath.net.   18h16m17s IN NS  NS3.CP.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
NS1.CP.net. 13h4m31s IN A   209.228.15.4
NS3.CP.net. 13h4m31s IN A   209.228.14.4

;; Total query time: 18 msec
;; FROM: www.worldvibe.org to SERVER: default -- 64.69.67.228
;; WHEN: Tue Mar  6 15:52:57 2001
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 34  rcvd: 206

A 'dig mx hahlabs.com' shows the mx record of mxmail.registrars.com, and
when I got the mail back from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address, it says no
error, but User unknown.

Two possible answers:

1 There is a DNS config error somewhere with mail.hahlabs.com and it is
missing an MX record for correct recognition

OR (and most likely)

2 The user account is truly based at @hahlabs.com and not @mail.hahlabs.com.

Mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] was not returned.  Which leads me to
believe, that is where your Qmail installation is expecting to receive mail.
However, mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] was returned.  I would
take it that hahlabs.com is not a virtual host, and if you do a locate for
that username, you should be able to find your issues.

If that user does exist, it might be a good idea to check the permissions on
the user mail accounts directories.  I seem to remember having a problem
with that when I started working with Qmail 'chmod -R 700 ./Maildir' and a
'chown -R user:group ./Maildir' should do the trick.

Some good help would be to post the contents of the
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-showctl output.  Perhaps also take a look at running
qmail-lint as this can diagnose some of the most common but easy to miss
config errors (qmail-lint can be found at :
http://qmail.valueclick.com/qmail/qmail-lint-0.55 )

Let me know if that was at all helpful, or totally off the mark.

Cheers,

Sean


Hatem wrote:

> I have no problems sending messages using my qmail server as SMTP and it works
> fine! 
> but..
> when I try to send an e-mail to any of the address to it (POP3D service) it
> gives me this error:
> This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
> 
> Delivery to the following recipients failed.
> 
>  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  ecf79b98111b9ce18f993683524664a1&mailto=1&[EMAIL PROTECTED]&
> amp;msg=MSG983881337.23&start=240640&len=2857&src=&type=x>
> 
> 
> 
> Reporting-MTA: dns;mail.hotmail.com
> Received-From-MTA: dns;mail.hotmail.com
> Arrival-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 04:21:21 -0800
> 
> Final-Recipient: rfc822;[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  ecf79b98111b9ce18f993683524664a1&mailto=1&[EMAIL PROTECTED]&
> amp;msg=MSG983881337.23&start=240640&len=2857&src=&type=x>
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.0.0
> Diagnostic-Code: smtp;553 To send mail, first check your mail with a valid POP
> account; this prevents unauthorized SPAM relaying. (#5.7.1)
> 
> I am totally exhausted!! can someone help a bit for the (hopefully) last
> push!!thanks.Hatem
> 
> 

IsoQlog 1.5 released (multilog support has been added )

[Ismail YENIGUL]

hi
i released isoqlog version 1.5

what is isoqlog :


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your main domain mail statistics for per day and per month .


what is new :


-All codes are rewritten , now isoqlog is more functional
-multilog support has been given
-User based incoming mail  top scores has been added for every your domain
that  you define
-User based outgoing mail  top scores has been added for every your domain
that  you define
-User based total mail  top scores has been added for every your domain
that  you define
-User based  byte  top scores has been added for every your domain that
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- minus(-) mail values at top scores part is corrected

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Re: reverse DNS?

[Chin Fang]

> John Conover writes:
>  > As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a
>  > reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication?
> 
> No.

Indeed.  Nevertheless, I think some elaboration will make the following
answers easier to understand to less experienced mail managers.

> Neither is it reasonable to reject messages from a host whose reverse
> DNS hostname lacks an MX record.

For instance, if a sending machine is only known to an organization's
internal name servers, but somehow its hostname is used in outgoing
messages, is it reasonable to block it?  I would like to :>, but in
fairness, I can't :(

> 
> Neither is it reasonable to reject messages from a host which isn't
> running an SMTP server.

Some organizations run incoming mail server(s) and outgoing mail server(s).
The later often do not run SMTP.  But they do send out messages.  Can
you block them, no.
> 
> Although I've been sorely tempted to implement both of these.

8-)  Likewise.  I wish I could, it would make spam filtering a much
easier (if less fun :> job to do.

Chin Fang
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

> -- 
> -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  http://russnelson.com
> Crynwr sells support for free software  | PGPok | Watch out!  He's got an
> 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | opinion, and he's not
> Potsdam, NY 13676-3213  | +1 315 268 9201 FAX   | afraid to share it!
> 

Qmail logs.

[Grant]

I changed directory to /var/log/qmail and noticed it has only kept logs
since the 2nd of March. Is it possible to rotate the logs monthly and stop
qmail from creating new log files twice per day?

Thankyou.

RE: Editing .qmail Files Creates qmail-spawn_unable_to_open_messageError.

[schoon]

Peter,

Ok I think I got it!! The sticky point was realizing that when messages
are forwarded via user-finaldelivery, that it needed to be treated as a
local user. In my control/locals file, all I had was localhost, but once
I added the server.domain.com, it start inserting and forwarding email!
Thanks again for all the help! This is the number one reason why I
picked qmail over Exim/sendmail - the user community!

.mark

>--
>From:  Peter Samuel[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent:  Tuesday, March 06, 2001 2:33 PM
>To:Mark Schoonover
>Cc:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject:   Re: Editing .qmail Files Creates
>qmail-spawn_unable_to_open_messageError.
>
>On Tue, 6 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> What I want to do is add the X-Envelope-To: to every email sent to my
>> virtual domain. Then I can have pullmail just look at the X-Envelope-To:
>> field and fix receiving mail sent to
>> mailing lists.
>> 
>> This is what I've done to my .qmail files:
>> 
>> In .qmail-default
>> 
>> |(echo "X-Envelope-To: $DEFAULT@$HOST"; cat) | qmail-inject -f "$SENDER"
>> -- user-finaldelivery
>
>What's wrong with
>
>| echo "X-Envelope-To: $DEFAULT@$HOST"; cat) | forward user-finaldelivery
>
>-- 
>Regards
>Peter
>--
>Peter Samuel[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.e-smith.org (development)http://www.e-smith.com (corporate)
>Phone: +1 613 368 4398  Fax: +1 613 564 7739
>e-smith, inc. 1500-150 Metcalfe St, Ottawa, ON K2P 1P1 Canada
>
>"If you kill all your unhappy customers, you'll only have happy ones left"
>
>
>

Re: reverse DNS?

[Russell Nelson]

John Conover writes:
 > As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a
 > reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication?

No.

Neither is it reasonable to reject messages from a host whose reverse
DNS hostname lacks an MX record.

Neither is it reasonable to reject messages from a host which isn't
running an SMTP server.

Although I've been sorely tempted to implement both of these.

-- 
-russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  http://russnelson.com
Crynwr sells support for free software  | PGPok | Watch out!  He's got an
521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | opinion, and he's not
Potsdam, NY 13676-3213  | +1 315 268 9201 FAX   | afraid to share it!

POP3 Question

[Kirti S. Bajwa]

My question is too fundamental for all you qmail experts, but please reply
anyway. I am a newbie. I installed qmail on a RH 6.2 LINUX system by
following step-by-step guidelines of QMAIL-HOWTO ( I have also consulted
Life with Qmail). 

Two questions:

1) Where do I install qmail-pop3 script (the one which runs under
"tcpserver"). In Life With Qmail (page 39) it indicates to add the script
"to your qmail startup script"!! Well it is good for all of you but I have
not been able to figure out where to add it!!

2) When I try to setup Outlook to connect and receive email, I get an error
message saying that the User Name/Password is invalid! Do you think the
problem may be carried over from item# 1.

I may have a problem explaining. Please let me know if I can further clarify
(English is my third language).



Kirti 

Re: Editing .qmail Files Creates qmail-spawn_unable_to_open_messageError.

[Peter Samuel]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> What I want to do is add the X-Envelope-To: to every email sent to my
> virtual domain. Then I can have pullmail just look at the X-Envelope-To:
> field and fix receiving mail sent to
> mailing lists.
> 
> This is what I've done to my .qmail files:
> 
> In .qmail-default
> 
> |(echo "X-Envelope-To: $DEFAULT@$HOST"; cat) | qmail-inject -f "$SENDER"
> -- user-finaldelivery

What's wrong with

| echo "X-Envelope-To: $DEFAULT@$HOST"; cat) | forward user-finaldelivery

-- 
Regards
Peter
--
Peter Samuel[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.e-smith.org (development)http://www.e-smith.com (corporate)
Phone: +1 613 368 4398  Fax: +1 613 564 7739
e-smith, inc. 1500-150 Metcalfe St, Ottawa, ON K2P 1P1 Canada

"If you kill all your unhappy customers, you'll only have happy ones left"

Re: qmail postfix

[Mate Wierdl]

Thx for the info.  What I was curious about was also how  qmail
scales.  For example, it requires patches sometimes.  Apparently with
large mailinglists the bigtodo patch is needed.  Or it apparently
needs the dns patch.

In other words, qmail does not seem be uptodate as new requirements
come up.  I have a nagging feeling that Dan will not deal with qmail
anymore, and perhaps he will concentrate on im2000 instead---or leaves
email alone.

It seems that as far as sysadm books are concerned, qmail is already
buried.  For example, the new edition of the Nemeth et all book barely
mentions qmail, and discusses only postfix configuration.  The same
with the newest ( I forgot the author; endorsed by Raymond) Linux
security book.

Mate

domain rewrites

[Benjamin Collar]

Greetings

I have checked through lwq and qmail-howto and tried to search the
archives for the answer to this question. Searching the archives didn't
work for me because of a blasted firewall...so, my apologies if this has
been asked a billion times before:

How do I rewrite a domain name on some incoming mail before passing it on?

For instance, the company I'm working for used to receive its mail at
mail.aaa.com. Now it only wants aaa.com. This is not a virtual
domain. Currently, they use a special sendmail rule to rewrite
mail.aaa.com to aaa.com before forwarding the mail to the exchange
server. How would I accomplish this with qmail?

Thank you
Ben

Re: POP user auth

[Henning Brauer]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 09:43:47PM +, Ken Corey wrote:
> I installed the pop that comes with qmail, and found two things:

you didn't. authdaemond is part of courier imap and you surely have
installed the pop3 daemon coming with courier imap.

> 1) the authdaemond.plain wasn't running, or 
> 2) the authdaemond.ldap was running, but I had no ldap daemon.
> 
> In either case, I editted the  /usr/local/libexec/authlib/authdaemond script 
> so that it didn't try to run the ldap version, and my problems went away.
> 
> -- 
> Ken Corey, CTOAtomic Interactive, Ltd.   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 

-- 
Henning Brauer | BS Web Services
Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg
http://www.bsws.de | Germany

Re: POP user auth

[Charles Cazabon]

Ken Corey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> I installed the pop that comes with qmail, and found two things:
> 
> 1) the authdaemond.plain wasn't running, or 
> 2) the authdaemond.ldap was running, but I had no ldap daemon.

Neither of those files has anything to do with a stock qmail.  In particular,
stock qmail doesn't know LDAP from its elbows.  The default authorization
method for qmail-pop3d is checkpassword, shipped separately.

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: POP user auth

[Ken Corey]

On Tuesday 06 March 2001  8:54 am, Chad Cranston wrote:
> Forgive me for being a beginner ..

Never!  I was *born* knowing 'vi', shouldn't everyone?  *smile*

> I installed qmail about 2 months ago to use as an SMTP server for home
> and have tried to get pop working on it ..
>
> I am using Maildir ... i origionally installed qmail using mailbox ... and
> switched to maildir following lifewithqmail.org's instructions ...
>
> Everything seems to be working right up until it auth's the user ... for
> some reason it won't auth .. i have created several test users ..and the
> same failure resuts from all of them i get the error "Your password was
> rejected "  on all accounts ...

I installed the pop that comes with qmail, and found two things:

1) the authdaemond.plain wasn't running, or 
2) the authdaemond.ldap was running, but I had no ldap daemon.

In either case, I editted the  /usr/local/libexec/authlib/authdaemond script 
so that it didn't try to run the ldap version, and my problems went away.

-- 
Ken Corey, CTOAtomic Interactive, Ltd.   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

IP_MASQ Error

[Bill Andersen]

I have installed Qmail on a Linux box at may home.
I have DSL and a 4 port router using NAT to direct
all SMTP and POP3 traffic to the Linux box.

I set up qmail and pop3 without any problem (or at
least is all seems to work), but I keep getting the
following error on the console...

IP_MASQ: reverse ICMP: failed checksum from 4.0.84.250

Am I loosing (bouncing) mail when this happens?

Any ideas on how to fix it?

TIA

Bill

Re: QMAILQUEUE patch error 4.5.1

[Charles Cazabon]

Paul Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have softlimit -m 400 at the start of the qmail-smtpd script

I seem to recall the others had to raise it to at least 6MB to get it to work.
This should be in the archives in the last month; I believe the subject had
something to do with Amavis, although probably with different case.

Charles

> > Paul Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > trying to implement the the qmail-qfilter patch and the only thing I've
> > > been able to do is cause 4.5.1's all day (unable to exec qq).
> > > 
> > > What's the trick?
> > > 
> > > Searched the archives and nothing came close... ANY ideas???
> > 
> > There were several people running into this within the last few weeks; the
> > trick there turned out to be raising the memory limits on qmail-smtpd
> > IIRC -- Perl wouldn't fit into the current limits.  See your smtpd
> > start script/run script.

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POP user auth

[Chad Cranston]

Forgive me for being a beginner .. 
 
I installed qmail about 2 months ago to use as an 
SMTP server for home ...and have tried to get pop working on it ..
 
I am using Maildir ... i origionally installed 
qmail using mailbox ... and switched to maildir following lifewithqmail.org's 
instructions ...
 
Everything seems to be working right up until it 
auth's the user ... for some reason it won't auth .. i have created several test 
users ..and the same failure resuts from all of them i get the error 

"Your password was rejected "  on all accounts 
... 
 
Can anyone help  ?
Chad Cransotn

Re: QMAILQUEUE patch error 4.5.1

[Paul Farber]

I have softlimit -m 400 at the start of the qmail-smtpd script

Paul Farber
Farber Technology
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ph  570-628-5303
Fax 570-628-5545

On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Charles Cazabon wrote:

> Paul Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > trying to implement the the qmail-qfilter patch and the only thing I've
> > been able to do is cause 4.5.1's all day (unable to exec qq).
> > 
> > What's the trick?
> > 
> > Searched the archives and nothing came close... ANY ideas???
> 
> There were several people running into this within the last few weeks; the
> trick there turned out to be raising the memory limits on qmail-smtpd
> IIRC -- Perl wouldn't fit into the current limits.  See your smtpd
> start script/run script.
> 
> Charles
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> 

Re: QMAILQUEUE patch error 4.5.1

[Charles Cazabon]

Paul Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> trying to implement the the qmail-qfilter patch and the only thing I've
> been able to do is cause 4.5.1's all day (unable to exec qq).
> 
> What's the trick?
> 
> Searched the archives and nothing came close... ANY ideas???

There were several people running into this within the last few weeks; the
trick there turned out to be raising the memory limits on qmail-smtpd
IIRC -- Perl wouldn't fit into the current limits.  See your smtpd
start script/run script.

Charles
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QMAILQUEUE patch error 4.5.1

[Paul Farber]

hello all, 

trying to implement the the qmail-qfilter patch and the only thing I've
been able to do is cause 4.5.1's all day (unable to exec qq).

What's the trick?

Searched the archives and nothing came close... ANY ideas???

Paul Farber
Farber Technology
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ph  570-628-5303
Fax 570-628-5545

ETRN / SLOW

[richard morris]

howzit.

is anyone familiar with the use of the ETRN command? if i telnet into the
isp mail server on port 25 and issue EHLO mailserver.co.za it replies with:-

250-..xx.xx Hello .xxx.xx.xx [xxx.x.xx.x6]
250-SIZE 15728640
250-ETRN
250-PIPELINING
250 HELP

is the size the size of queued mail waiting to come down? When the server is
receiving mailo from the ISP is it normal for it to become extremely slow to
the point where client cannot connect - it has plenty of hair under the
bonnet?


Thanks,
Richard.

Serialmail algorithm? (leftover mails)

[Paulo Jan]

Hi all:

I have a customer with a Linux server that connects to us through a
dialup account, and sends us their queued mail using serialmail. The
problem they are having is that, from time to time, they have some
leftover mails that don't get sent, even if I kill all the running
instances of serialmail and start it up by hand. The situation goes more
or less like:

1) serialmail is started by a cron job, creates a lock on the outgoing
mail directory using seriallock and starts sending the messages in the
queue.
2) Before it has finished (the queue has several megabytes of
messages), the cron job gets called again, but since the lockfile is...
erm, locked, it doesn't do anything (or at least that's how I think it
works...).
3) After several hours like this, you can see in the outgoing queue
several old messages that, according to their timestamp, should have
been sent by the first serialmail invocation, but haven't. You kill all
the running instances of serialmail, start it by hand and... it starts
sending mail NOT from the very beginning of the queue (i.e. those
leftover messages), but from somewhere in the middle.

My question is: what's going on? Or, to be more precise:

-Does serialmail create a lock in the messages in the outgoing queue
too, instead of just in the lock file? Does that (hypothetical) lock
remain if I kill serialmail by hand?
-Is my assumption in 2) correct? (That is, that the second invocation
of serialmail doesn't do anything). The line I use in my crontab file
is:

/usr/local/bin/setlock -nx ~alias/outmail/seriallock
/usr/local/bin/maildirsmtp ~alias/outmail alias-outmail- [IP of the
upstream mail server] `hostname`

Where ~alias/outmail is the Maildir where the outgoing messages get
sent.

-How does serialmail "choose" which mails in the Maildir to sent first?
By filename? By timestamp? How?


In case you are wondering, yes, the leftover mails do have envelope
senders in the right format, that is, "Delivered-To:
alias-outmail-user@domain".
Anyone can help?



Paulo Jan.
DDnet.

RE: letter rip pro and qmail

[Tim Hunter]

Not familer with the software but it sounds like it might be the bare line
feeds issue.
There is info in the archives and I think on qmail.org on how to work around
this without fixing the software.

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 12:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: letter rip pro and qmail


Has anyone on the list had any problems getting qmail to accept mail
deliveries from someone using letter rip pro?  I have a user who is using
letter rip, but his session is "unexpectedly closed" every time when trying
to send mail to my server.  The domain he is trying to send to is hosted on
my mail machine, and has no problems receiving mail from any other source.
Any ideas?

Brendan

Re: reverse DNS?

[David Dyer-Bennet]

John Conover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a
> reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication?
> 
> Good idea?
> 
> Fascist idea?
> 
> Opinions pls.

Do you relay for users running POP clients who send their outbound
through you via smtp?  Do you control the reverse DNS on the IPs they
come in from?  If "yes" and "no", then it's definitely a bad idea. 

(I'm assuming you're considering requiring only *some* reverse DNS,
not one that matches what they HELO as?)
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letter rip pro and qmail

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Has anyone on the list had any problems getting qmail to accept mail
deliveries from someone using letter rip pro?  I have a user who is using
letter rip, but his session is "unexpectedly closed" every time when trying
to send mail to my server.  The domain he is trying to send to is hosted on
my mail machine, and has no problems receiving mail from any other source.
Any ideas?

Brendan

Editing .qmail Files Creates qmail-spawn_unable_to_open_message Error.

[schoon]

What I want to do is add the X-Envelope-To: to every email sent to my
virtual domain. Then I can have pullmail just look at the X-Envelope-To:
field and fix receiving mail sent to
mailing lists.

This is what I've done to my .qmail files:

In .qmail-default

|(echo "X-Envelope-To: $DEFAULT@$HOST"; cat) | qmail-inject -f "$SENDER"
-- user-finaldelivery

(Above is all on one line)

In .qmail-finaldelivery:

./Maildir/

When all this is done, I get the following error message:

delivery 48: deferral: qmail-spawn_unable_to_open_message._(#4.3.0)/

I've also tried the following variations:

Put everything in .qmail-default and leave off the --
user-defaultdelivery. That fails with
same error message.

Use Apparently-To: in place of X-Envelope-To: but that caused some nasty
loops to happen!! One message got sent over 1000 times before I could
clear the queue.

Can someone point out the error of my ways??

Thanks!

.mark

"Windows 95/98 /n./ 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit
patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit
microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of
competition."

use Disclaimer;
my $opinion_only;

Re: reverse DNS?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:07:46AM -,
  John Conover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a
> reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication?

I don't think this buys you much in the way of spam protection and can
block legitimate email. Many dialup and dsl connections will have a reverse
DNS entry in the service providers domain space.

If you want to block dialups, you are probably better off using the DUL
list to do it.

Re: MailMan/qmail - missing headers

[Jonathan McDowell]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 05:11:52AM +1300, Graham Guttocks wrote:
> I've just installed the MailMan MLM on my qmail server with
> fastforward support for /etc/aliases.  Everything seems to work fine
> except that the messages that MailMan sends out are missing some
> headers such as "Date:" and "Message-ID:".  The result is that the
> destination MTA has to fill them in.
> 
> Even if MailMan doesn't provide these headers, shouldn't qmail add
> them in?  Has anyone else had this problem with MailMan?

qmail doesn't touch them as Mailman sends the messages via SMTP to
localhost rather than using qmail-inject. I've seen this problem myself
and at some point intend to hack Mailman to use qmail-inject rather than
SMTP; only my lack of any knowledge of Python has stopped me so far.

J.

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Re: pop3 acct name

[Chris Johnson]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 02:35:03PM -, Dean Browett wrote:
> How do you explain these then ?
> 
> @40003aa4f3a023278cc4 starting delivery 2957873: msg 591883 to local
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> @40003aa4f3a02327ea84 status: local 1/10 remote 20/20
> @40003aa4f3a02b24c2fc delivery 2957873: failure:
> Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/

I've been a little thrown off by your posing this question as a problem with
POP3. That's a red herring; it has nothing to do with POP3.

This is from the qmail-getpw man page:

   qmail-getpw considers an account in /etc/passwd  to  be  a
   user  if  (1)  the  account  has  a  nonzero  uid, (2) the
   account's home directory exists (and is visible to  qmail-
   getpw),  and  (3)  the  account  owns  its home directory.
   qmail-getpw ignores  account  names  containing  uppercase
   letters.   qmail-getpw also assumes that all account names
   are shorter than 32 characters.

qmail-getpw assumes that the account name is shorter than 32 characters. This
doesn't impose a limit on the local part of an address, though. You can use
either the dot-qmail or mail-users mechanism to have addresses of unlimited
length, and deliver mail to accounts with names shorter than 32 characters.

Chris

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MailMan/qmail - missing headers

[Graham Guttocks]

Greetings,

I've just installed the MailMan MLM on my qmail server with
fastforward support for /etc/aliases.  Everything seems to work fine
except that the messages that MailMan sends out are missing some
headers such as "Date:" and "Message-ID:".  The result is that the
destination MTA has to fill them in.

Even if MailMan doesn't provide these headers, shouldn't qmail add
them in?  Has anyone else had this problem with MailMan?

Regards,
Graham

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Re: pop3 acct name

[Chris Johnson]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 02:35:03PM -, Dean Browett wrote:
> How do you explain these then ?
> 
> @40003aa4f3a023278cc4 starting delivery 2957873: msg 591883 to local
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> @40003aa4f3a02327ea84 status: local 1/10 remote 20/20
> @40003aa4f3a02b24c2fc delivery 2957873: failure:
> Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/

Perhaps your OS has a limit on the length of account names. This has nothing to
do with any limits in qmail on the length of an address, and even less to do
with limits on the length of POP user names. At the time this message was
produced, qmail-pop3d has never entered the picture.

Chris

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Re: user quota

[Charles Cazabon]

M. Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Short version: we're looking for a way to make several e-mail addresses
> share the same mailbox.

`man qmail-users` and friends, plus Dan's FAQ.

Charles
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Re: user quota

[Kurth Bemis]

At 10:11 AM 3/6/2001, M. Yu wrote:

try using group quotas.  put all the people that you want to limit in one 
group and then set that groups quota to 4 megs or so...

~kurth

>I've been thinking about this for quite a while now.  I still can't come up
>with a solution so maybe someone here can help.
>
>Short version: we're looking for a way to make several e-mail addresses
>share the same mailbox.
>
>Long version: some of our clients want to have additional e-mail addresses
>(we give 1 client 1 e-mail address with a 4MB mailbox; some want as many as
>10 addresses).  We want to be able to give out more addresses (they don't
>cost us anything anyway) but want to limit the mailbox size to 4MB, no
>matter which e-mail address consumes more of the mailbox.
>
>This is basically a quota problem.  Can anyone suggest a solution?
>
>M. Yu
>
>

Re: user quota

[Jason Kawaja]

Perhaps I am missing something here

You could create the first mail account (mailbox) giving ownership to
username "joebob", each additional mailbox is given ownership to
"joebob" ...set a quota for "joebob"all files/directories
(mailboxes, whatever) owned by "joebob" are enforced to the quota set
for the user "joebob"...this is how quotas on Solaris work...I am
assuming a standard here, but I think its ok

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Regards,
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user quota

[M. Yu]

I've been thinking about this for quite a while now.  I still can't come up
with a solution so maybe someone here can help.

Short version: we're looking for a way to make several e-mail addresses
share the same mailbox.

Long version: some of our clients want to have additional e-mail addresses
(we give 1 client 1 e-mail address with a 4MB mailbox; some want as many as
10 addresses).  We want to be able to give out more addresses (they don't
cost us anything anyway) but want to limit the mailbox size to 4MB, no
matter which e-mail address consumes more of the mailbox.

This is basically a quota problem.  Can anyone suggest a solution?
 
M. Yu
 
 

Re: pop3 acct name

[Dean Browett]

Hi,

How do you explain these then ?

@40003aa4f3a023278cc4 starting delivery 2957873: msg 591883 to local
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
@40003aa4f3a02327ea84 status: local 1/10 remote 20/20
@40003aa4f3a02b24c2fc delivery 2957873: failure:
Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/

@40003aa4f1d501d5a09c starting delivery 2957568: msg 591787 to local
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
@40003aa4f1d501d5e304 status: local 1/10 remote 20/20
@40003aa4f1d502ad99ac delivery 2957568: failure:
Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/

@40003aa4f4453b062544 starting delivery 2958022: msg 590552 to local
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
@40003aa4f4453b0667ac status: local 1/10 remote 20/20
@40003aa4f4460024f6e4 delivery 2958022: failure:
Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/

And one that works

@40003aa4f56a03191164 starting delivery 2958356: msg 591637 to local
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
@40003aa4f56a0319636c status: local 1/10 remote 20/20
@40003aa4f56a0d4d4fc4 delivery 2958356: success: did_1+0+0/

The home directories of the above accounts have been setup in the same
manner as all other email accounts on the box.

Regards


 Dean Browett



- Original Message -
From: "Chris Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Dean Browett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: pop3 acct name

Re: reverse DNS?

[Charles Cazabon]

John Conover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a
> reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication?

Very political question.  As long as you don't reject envelope senders of
<> and <#@[]>, you won't be violating any RFCs.  However, you could reject
legitimate mail due to temporary problems with connectivity of your machine
or other organizations' DNS servers.

Charles
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Re: SMTP OK, but POP isn't!!

[Chris Johnson]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 04:21:46AM -0800, Hatem wrote:
> I have no problems sending messages using my qmail server as SMTP and it works fine! 
> but..
> when I try to send an e-mail to any of the address to it (POP3D service) it gives me 
>this error:

This really makes no sense at all. Your POP3 service has nothing to do with
delivering mail to anyone's mailbox, so you won't get error messages from an
MTA because of a POP3 problem, whatever it may be.

> This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
> 
> Delivery to the following recipients failed.
> 
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Reporting-MTA: dns;mail.hotmail.com
> Received-From-MTA: dns;mail.hotmail.com
> Arrival-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 04:21:21 -0800
> 
> Final-Recipient: rfc822;[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.0.0
> Diagnostic-Code: smtp;553 To send mail, first check your mail with a valid POP
> account; this prevents unauthorized SPAM relaying. (#5.7.1)

This wasn't produced by qmail.

Chris

RE: ERROR MSG

[Jankok, Lucio]

ok...
 
try 
this; grep theparticulardomain /var/qmail/control/locals
 
p.s. 
you are asking a *very* basic question here, which
is very well treated in qmail's documentation.. 
hope you
consider that.
 
regards,
 
Lucio 
Jankok
 
 

  -Original Message-From: qmailu 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 2:26 
  PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: ERROR 
  MSG
  Hi,
   
  I get the an error stating
   
  Sorry._Although_I'm_listed_as_a_bestpreference_MX_or_A_for_that_host,/it_isn't_in_my_control/locals
  _file,_so_I_don't_treat_it_as_local._(#5.4.6)/
   
  while trying to send a mail to a domain hosted in 
  my server.
   
  What could be the problem ?
   
  Raghu

Re: ERROR MSG

[japc]

Read on:

"it_isn't_in_my_control/locals_file"


echo "domain.com" >> /var/qmail/control/locals

.

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:55:39PM +0530, qmailu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I get the an error stating
> 
> 
>Sorry._Although_I'm_listed_as_a_bestpreference_MX_or_A_for_that_host,/it_isn't_in_my_control/locals
> _file,_so_I_don't_treat_it_as_local._(#5.4.6)/
> 
> while trying to send a mail to a domain hosted in my server.
> 
> What could be the problem ?
> 
> Raghu

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RE: Qmail and time zone

[Stefaan A Eeckels]

On 06-Mar-2001 Rod... Whitworth wrote:
>  On Tue, 06 Mar 2001 11:40:29 +0100 (MET), Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
>  
>  On 04-Mar-2001 Rod... Whitworth wrote:
> >  Does this have any bearing on his problem? I don't know as I have not
> >  been following it in detail. The - just hit my eye.
>  
>  The - is in the MTA generated Received: lines. AFAIK, it's
>  the standard way to indicate "no offset from UTC".
>  
>  
>  What standard are you quoting?
>  RFC822 says that UT representation is +
>  RFC1123 point out that 822 gets MIL tz codes bass-ackwards so -
>  should be used as defined in 822 as operational difficulty or invalid
>  tz code.
 
According to D J Bernstein (from http://cr.yp.to/immhf/date.html#timestamp ):

: The time shown is the creator's local time. The time shown, minus the zone shown, is
: the actual time in UTC. 
:
: Exception: a zone of - indicates that the local time is unavailable or 
:meaningless,
: and that the time shown is the actual time in UTC.
: (In contrast, a zone of + indicates that the times hown is both local time and
: actual time in UTC.) This special meaning of - was not specified in 822, but it 
:is being
: widely used and is mentioned in 822bis. 
:
: Note that, in a few areas of the world, the difference between local time and UTC is
: almost never an exact multiple of 1 minute.
: Implementors can still use - safely in this case. 

Stefaan
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ERROR MSG

[qmailu]

Hi,
 
I get the an error stating
 
Sorry._Although_I'm_listed_as_a_bestpreference_MX_or_A_for_that_host,/it_isn't_in_my_control/locals
_file,_so_I_don't_treat_it_as_local._(#5.4.6)/
 
while trying to send a mail to a domain hosted in 
my server.
 
What could be the problem ?
 
Raghu

RE: Getting POP3d to record logging information in places other than Maillog

[Kitabjian, Dave]

> Qmail traditionally logs all pop3 transactions in 
> /var/log/maillog using
> syslog or whatever it is.

Really? I didn't think it logged anything. Are you sure you're not using a
patched version?

Dave

logging problems

[Thomas Beer]

Hi,

I'm facing some problems getting qmail up.
And the log files for smtpd-send et. al are empty
(that's correct, because there isn't something to log).
But how can I get logs from the start and stop
error messages written to a file?

Thanks Tom

Open Relay

[Marcilio Jorgensen Cassella]

Hello,

My SMTP server is in mail-abuse.org. Follow the Faq I did:

#cat .qmail-fixup-default
| [ "@$HOST" = "@fixme" ] || ( echo Permission denied; exit 100 )
| qmail-inject -f "$SENDER" -- "$EXT2"


#cat virtualdomains
fixme:fixup

#cat smtp.rules
200.18.178.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="@fixme"

All E-mail sent with , was not recived.
And it is keeping in Mailbox of alias.

- How do it, to this mail type have relay denied, like sendmail
?


Thanks for all,

Marcilio

RE: Connection Problem

[Jankok, Lucio]

you must get a greeting from the server.
the 220 response is valid, have you try to 
greet it and continue a smtp session ?

regards,

Lucio Jankok

: -Original Message-
: From: Ariel Levien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
: Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 12:56 PM
: To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
: Subject: Connection Problem
: 
: 
: Hi
: 
: My qmail server is having a problem sending mail via SMTP to 
: a specific
: domain.
: 
: When I tried to see what was going on, the logs show 
: deferral: Connected_to_xxx.xxx.xx.xx_but_connection_died._
: 
: When I telnet to the remote server on port 25, I get the 
: response below:
: 220 *
: 
: Does anyone know if this is a legitimate reply? I have had no other
: problems, and I suspect that this is NOT a qmail problem, but rather a
: problem with the banner from the remote server. Any thoughts 
: on the subject
: would be most welcome.
: 
: Thanks
: 
: Ari Levien
: 

RE: SMTP OK, but POP isn't!!

[Jankok, Lucio]

try 
this
on 
your pop host;
telnet 
0 110
user 
yourusername
pass 
yourpassword
list
 
if 
this doesn't work you might look if you have the relevant
account(s) created. if you have, than you might 
consider
posting your 
configuration to the list.
 
regards,
 
Lucio Jankok 
 
 
 -Original Message-From: Hatem 
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 1:22 
PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: SMTP OK, but POP 
isn't!!

  I have no problems sending messages using my 
  qmail server as SMTP and it works fine! 
  but..
  when I try to send an e-mail to any of the 
  address to it (POP3D service) it gives me this error:
  
  This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

   [EMAIL PROTECTED]




  Reporting-MTA: dns;mail.hotmail.com
Received-From-MTA: dns;mail.hotmail.com
Arrival-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 04:21:21 -0800

Final-Recipient: rfc822;[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;553 To send mail, first check your mail with a valid POP
account; this prevents unauthorized SPAM relaying. (#5.7.1)

I am totally exhausted!! can someone help a bit for the (hopefully) last push!!thanks.Hatem

sqlfile problems

[Hugo Antunes]

hi
i am having a problem qhile conecting to mysql server using de qmail-mysql=
=20
port from freebsd.
my sqlfile is lik ethis:
root@server:/var/qmail/control>more sqlserver
mysql_use yes
server 127.0.0.1
login user
password xx
db sqlmailauth
table users
check_host yes
quota yes
ignore_validity yes

and it says whem o connect to it:
@40003aa4ce9128f9dc4c error reading sqlserver file: expected 'server'=20
but got '=C0'
@40003aa4ce91290adbdc warning: bogus lines in sqlserver file
@40003aa4ce9a2b4ff97c tcpserver: end 83348 status 256



any help/tips are welcome
thanks
./hantunes

SMTP OK, but POP isn't!!

[Hatem]

I have no problems sending messages using my qmail 
server as SMTP and it works fine! 
but..
when I try to send an e-mail to any of the address 
to it (POP3D service) it gives me this error:

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

   [EMAIL PROTECTED]




Reporting-MTA: dns;mail.hotmail.com
Received-From-MTA: dns;mail.hotmail.com
Arrival-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 04:21:21 -0800

Final-Recipient: rfc822;[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;553 To send mail, first check your mail with a valid POP
account; this prevents unauthorized SPAM relaying. (#5.7.1)

I am totally exhausted!! can someone help a bit for the (hopefully) last push!!thanks.Hatem

forward and groups

[richard morris]

hi all.

how does one create groups / distribution lists and forward mail to another
local user in qmail?



thanx
richard.

Re: Quota qmail

[Jason Kawaja]

In case your intention is to restrict the size of individual messages
handled by smtpd, you would want to set /var/qmail/control/databytes to
a positive non-zero integer...do a `man qmail-smtpd`; let the OS handle
user quotas

-- 

Regards,
Jason Kawaja, UF-ECE Sys Admin

Connection Problem

[Ariel Levien]

Hi

My qmail server is having a problem sending mail via SMTP to a specific
domain.

When I tried to see what was going on, the logs show 
deferral: Connected_to_xxx.xxx.xx.xx_but_connection_died._

When I telnet to the remote server on port 25, I get the response below:
220 *

Does anyone know if this is a legitimate reply? I have had no other
problems, and I suspect that this is NOT a qmail problem, but rather a
problem with the banner from the remote server. Any thoughts on the subject
would be most welcome.

Thanks

Ari Levien

RE: Qmail and time zone

[Rod... Whitworth]

On Tue, 06 Mar 2001 11:40:29 +0100 (MET), Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:

On 04-Mar-2001 Rod... Whitworth wrote:
>  Does this have any bearing on his problem? I don't know as I have not
>  been following it in detail. The - just hit my eye.

The - is in the MTA generated Received: lines. AFAIK, it's
the standard way to indicate "no offset from UTC".


What standard are you quoting?
RFC822 says that UT representation is +
RFC1123 point out that 822 gets MIL tz codes bass-ackwards so -
should be used as defined in 822 as operational difficulty or invalid
tz code.

This is off the top-of-the-head but if you persist I'll cut and paste
quotes!
~|^
>From a land where we have to watch out for Northern hemisphere biased
ideas about Daylight Saving /Summer Time reversals.

>From the land "down under": Australia.
Do we look  from up over?

RE: Problem with qmail-inject and .qmail files

[Scotte Zinn]

The same problem occurs.  I believe it is finding mail fine because
qmail-inject is reporting the read error.

-- Scotte

> -Original Message-
> From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 10:10 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Problem with qmail-inject and .qmail files
>
>
> Scotte Zinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If I have a .qmail-test file in my home directory with the lines
> >
> > |groups >>MYGROUP ; exit 0
> >
> > I can send email to me-test and everything works out fine.
> >
> > However, if .qmail-test contains
> >
> > |groups | mail $SENDER -s "Groups" ; exit 0
> >
> > then I don't get the message back
>
> Try specifying an absolute path to "mail".  Does that help?
>
> Charles
> --

qmail Digest 6 Mar 2001 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 1295

[qmail-digest-help]

qmail Digest 6 Mar 2001 11:00:01 - Issue 1295

Topics (messages 58401 through 58453):

running qmail from /supervise
58401 by: Neil Grant
58402 by: Jankok, Lucio
58404 by: Dave Sill
58406 by: Gerrit Pape
58408 by: Dave Sill
58411 by: Gerrit Pape
58419 by: Kris Kelley
58437 by: Neil Grant
58440 by: Russell Nelson
58441 by: Mark Delany
58451 by: Peter Peltonen

Re: Peculiar results with multilog
58403 by: Gerrit Pape

Re: Problem receiving email.
58405 by: Dave Sill

cant recive mail
58407 by: Mike  A. Sauvain
58409 by: Charles Cazabon

qmail postfix
58410 by: Mate Wierdl
58413 by: Dave Sill

Scaling qmail
58412 by: Alex Kramarov
58417 by: Greg Cope

footer in email
58414 by: qmail.col7.metta.lk
58416 by: Frank Tegtmeyer

delay in connecting
58415 by: bmcalpine.macconnect.com
58420 by: Charles Cazabon

Re: New qmail version request
58418 by: Balazs Nagy
58423 by: David Dyer-Bennet

large queue and delivery problems --> yahoo.com down
58421 by: Simon K. Grabowski
58425 by: Bryan White
58427 by: Curtis Generous
58447 by: Paulus Hendarwan

rblsmtpd logging
58422 by: John McCoy, Jr.
58424 by: David Dyer-Bennet

Qmail users
58426 by: Matt Simonsen

Re: Qmail and time zone
58428 by: Mikko Hänninen
58429 by: Ian Lance Taylor
58430 by: Alex Pennace
58431 by: Peter van Dijk
58432 by: Alex Pennace
58438 by: Kari Suomela
58453 by: Stefaan A Eeckels

How can I get IP address of mail sender?
58433 by: bc201.21cn.com
58434 by: japc.co.sapo.pt

smartrelay question
58435 by: Andrew Ryder

Problem with qmail-inject and .qmail files
58436 by: Scotte Zinn
58439 by: Charles Cazabon

qmail-smtpd running as root.
58442 by: Grant

Qmail-1.03 and/or Majordomo problems (mostly Majordomo! )
58443 by: admin

Problem on Qmail+Mysql Patch
58444 by: PipE

About qmail and postgres
58445 by: Wiroon Ruansgang

Quota qmail
58446 by: Someone
58448 by: Kittiwat Manosuthi

Re: cant receive mail
58449 by: Sean Coyle

Getting POP3d to record logging information in places other than Maillog
58450 by: Sean Coyle

reverse DNS?
58452 by: John Conover

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hi

I am doing another qmail install and this time I have a /supervise directory
for dnscache, so I thought it would make sense to run qmail from there, I am
following lwq (most of the time). So I was wondering if anyone had already
adapted the lwq start up script to do this, and is it a case of instead of
starting supervise in /var/qmail/supervise linking that folder to
/supervise? and then removing the link to stop


thanks

Neil




_
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com





I am using supervise to run qmail-ldap with OpenLDAP, pop3 and
courier-imap. I am using /var/qmail/supervise as my base, but it
could be any other place.. /supervise for instance

regards,

Lucio Jankok

: -Original Message-
: From: Neil Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
: Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 2:22 PM
: To: Qmail mailing list
: Subject: running qmail from /supervise
: 
: 
: hi
: 
: I am doing another qmail install and this time I have a 
: /supervise directory
: for dnscache, so I thought it would make sense to run qmail 
: from there, I am
: following lwq (most of the time). So I was wondering if 
: anyone had already
: adapted the lwq start up script to do this, and is it a case 
: of instead of
: starting supervise in /var/qmail/supervise linking that folder to
: /supervise? and then removing the link to stop
: 
: 
: thanks
: 
: Neil
: 
: 
: 
: 
: _
: Do You Yahoo!?
: Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
: 




"Neil Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I am doing another qmail install and this time I have a /supervise directory
>for dnscache, so I thought it would make sense to run qmail from there, I am
>following lwq (most of the time). So I was wondering if anyone had already
>adapted the lwq start up script to do this, and is it a case of instead of
>starting supervise in /var/qmail/supervise linking that folder to
>/supervise? and then removing the link to stop

Assuming you're running svscan on /service (not /supervise) already,
e.g. from inittab, you could change the "start" section 

RE: Qmail and time zone

[Stefaan A Eeckels]

On 04-Mar-2001 Rod... Whitworth wrote:
>  Does this have any bearing on his problem? I don't know as I have not
>  been following it in detail. The - just hit my eye.

The - is in the MTA generated Received: lines. AFAIK, it's
the standard way to indicate "no offset from UTC".

Stefaan
-- 
How's it supposed to get the respect of management if you've got just
one guy working on the project?  It's much more impressive to have a
battery of programmers slaving away. -- Jeffrey Hobbs (comp.lang.tcl)

reverse DNS?

[John Conover]

As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a
reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication?

Good idea?

Fascist idea?

Opinions pls.

John

-- 

John ConoverTel. 408.370.2688  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
631 Lamont Ct.  Cel. 408.772.7733  http://www.johncon.com/
Campbell, CA 95008  Fax. 408.379.9602  

Re: running qmail from /supervise

[Peter Peltonen]

Gerrit Pape wrote:

> I have svscan /service started from inittab. I have the links for the
> services in /service and normally do not remove them. Services are started
> at boot time, no need for init scripts. If I want a service to be down
> temporary, I use svc -d /service/. Thats what I mean with 'use svc
> directly'.

I just updated my qmail to the newest RPM provided by Bruce Guenter. 

In the previous version I had I could start qmail with /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail
start.
Now I have to use the svc-commands.

After the upgrade I found out that I have both /service and /var/service
directories. 

Svscan is started at the init from /service which has symlinks to
/var/qmail/service/SERVICE.

Can I remove the /var/service directory?


Regards, 
Peter

Getting POP3d to record logging information in places other thanMaillog

[Sean Coyle]

Hey there guys,

Got a question for ya this morning.

Qmail traditionally logs all pop3 transactions in /var/log/maillog using
syslog or whatever it is.

I want to have multilog handle all logfile entries for qmail-pop3d, and have
all output recorded to /var/log/qmail/qmail-pop3d/ in maillog format.

However, (I am using daemontools and service scripts) I can not get output
to be recorded there.

This is what my /service/pop3d/log/run file contains;
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t
/var/log/qmail/qmail-pop3d

And it does not seem to do the trick.  The old /service/pop3d/run file
contained:

#!/bin/sh
service=pop-3
. /usr/share/qmail/log-functions

As you can see, referencing to /log-functions but I am not sure of the exact
string I need in the new run file to make it all work.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Sean

P.S. Thanks in advance...

Re: cant receive mail

[Sean Coyle]

Mike,

I have a few questions regarding your post.  Depending on your user
level, you may know some or most of this, so I apologize now if I am
covering anything you already know, or not giving enough information to you.
If you need more, just ask.   :)

What virtual domain e-mail distribution are you using?  (vpopmail or
vmailmrg) what is the version?

When you get e-mail back to edv-support.ch is seems to be acting like a
catch-all.  Are these messages coming to you as a bounce or double bounce
back messages from MAILER-DAEMON?

Could you run a (dependant on your qmail home dir)
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-showctl and give us the output?

(this below is just a shot in the dark, not knowing enough about your
configuration)

If you are running virtual domains with either vpopmail or vmailmgr,
(correct me if I am wrong plz) you would need a virtualdomains file.  If you
are the full MTA for both your domains (onesworld.ch and edv-support.ch)
only one of them can be set as a 'locals'.  The one that is selected to be
the local domain will also be found in your 'me' file...   I believe that is
the reason you are getting all mail directed to recipients @onesword.ch.

The locals file is simply an extension of your me file.  Mine look like
this:

control]$ less me
g0thic.com
~
~
EOF

control]$ less locals
localhost
g0thic.com
.g0thic.com
mail.g0thic.com
~
~
EOF


Above is the most plausible reason you are getting all mail directed at
@onesworld.ch users to your account.

My guess is you need to do this:

Install a virtual domain enabler...  My favorite is vMailMRG and can be
found at http://www.vmailmgr.org/  The documentation is fairly good and can
be followed quite easily.

You might want to consider not being an open relay agent as well.  This is a
large annoyance when people start to use you as a spam relay, and I am relay
sure you do not want to get your domain black listed.
You might want to read this if you are not familiar with it already:
http://www.palomine.net/qmail/relaying.html
This is what I recommend to control mail relaying:
http://em.ca/~bruceg/relay-ctrl/

Set up a 'virtualdomains' (following package instructions) file containing
the correct information moved over from 'locals'.  Be sure not to duplicate
the information, but be sure that everything in 'locals' and
'virtualdomains' is listed in order of importance.

Some good resources you can check are obviously, past mailing list posts (I
am sure there is a like to an archive on http://www.qmail.org)
Other resources are:
http://www.lifewithqmail.org/
http://www.kitabjian.com/dave/qmailhelp/
http://www.vmailmrg.org

And at the time of this reply, I am too tired to look for a link to
vpopmail.

Cheers,

Sean


Mike  A. Sauvain wrote:

> if i send from my host to my self domains it works, but if i try to send
> from
> another domain than my, to my virtual domains i recive follow message:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; Action: Failed; Status: 5.1.1 (bad destination
> mailbox address)
>   Remote MTA clean-dress.ch: SMTP diagnostic: 550 Unable to relay for
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> what's ugly, on my main domain (edv-support.ch) i recive all from
> anybody
> 
> my control files:
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root4 Feb 26 02:24
> concurrencyincoming
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root   11 Feb 26 02:24 defaultdelivery
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  102 Mar  5 04:03 locals
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root   20 Mar  5 04:04 me
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  102 Mar  5 04:03 rcpthosts
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  193 Feb 26 02:24 sqlserver
> 
> in locals /same on rcpthost:
> mail.edv-support.ch
> edv-support.ch
> mail.onesworld.ch
> onesworld.ch
> 
> in me:
> mail.edv-support.ch
> 
> --> This domain works !:
> mail:~ # dig mail.edv-support.ch
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> mail.edv-support.ch
> ;; 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: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
> ;; QUERY SECTION:
> ;;  mail.edv-support.ch, type = A, class = IN
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> mail.edv-support.ch.1D IN A 62.2.200.59
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> edv-support.ch. 1D IN NS62.2.200.59.edv-support.ch.
> 
> ;; Total query time: 2 msec
> ;; FROM: mail to SERVER: default -- 192.168.1.61
> ;; WHEN: Mon Mar  5 15:31:19 2001
> ;; MSG SIZE  sent: 37  rcvd: 79
> 
> 
> admin:~ # dig mx edv-support.ch
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> mx edv-support.ch
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
> ;; QUERY SECTION:
> ;;  edv-support.ch, type = MX, class = IN
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> edv-support.ch. 1D IN SOA   ns1.edv-support.ch.
> msauvain.edv-support.ch. (
>   10844   ; serial
>

Re: Quota qmail

[Kittiwat Manosuthi]

First, stop sending HTML email to this mailing list or you'll get kicked
by 'someone' else.

Second, I don't think qmail has any quota mechanism in it.  Easy way to
do this is to use something else, like vpopmail from inter7.com (check
out their web site, and read the manual--please).  Or you may want to
write your own program, stuff it into the mail pipe, and enjoy!  (Dont'
do this, believe me.)

--Kittiwat


- Original Message -
From: Someone
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 2:46 PM
Subject: Quota qmail


Hi,all

How i can set quota for qmail ?
such as...
hrad limit and softlimit of quota per user.


thank you
someone

Re: large queue and delivery problems --> yahoo.com down

[Paulus Hendarwan]

I think you can make another qmail instance on the same machine at another
port
and use the new qmail instance as your active mail server until mails on
original qmail instance runs out.
May it helps.


Paulus Hendarwan
--


"Simon K. Grabowski" wrote:

> Yahoo mail servers are down and it is heavily affecting my box.
>
> qmail-qstat shows that there are over 45000 messages
> in queue (# growing all the time).
>
> Normally I wouldn't mind the queue, BUT the problem
> is that it is affecting outgoing mail to OTHER servers
> as well. It seems that simultaneous deliveries to Yahoo
> are choking qmail-send and other mail is not going through
> either.
>
> Is there anything I can do to 'surpress' those Yahoo deliveries?
>
> --Simon
>
> qmail-showctl output:
>
> qmail home directory: /web/qmail.
> user-ext delimiter: -.
> paternalism (in decimal): 2.
> silent concurrency limit: 500.
> subdirectory split: 23.
> user ids: 7018, 7019, 7020, 0, 7021, 7022, 7023, 7024.
> group ids: 7009, 7010.
>
> badmailfrom: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is allowed.
>
> bouncefrom: (Default.) Bounce user name is MAILER-DAEMON.
>
> bouncehost: (Default.) Bounce host name is XXX.
>
> concurrencylocal: Local concurrency is 100.
>
> concurrencyremote: Remote concurrency is 200.
>
> databytes: (Default.) SMTP DATA limit is 0 bytes.
>
> defaultdomain: Default domain name is XXX.
>
> defaulthost: Default host name is localhost.
>
> doublebouncehost: (Default.) 2B recipient host: XXX.
>
> doublebounceto: (Default.) 2B recipient user: postmaster.
>
> envnoathost: (Default.) Presumed domain name is XXX.
>
> helohost: SMTP client HELO host name is XXX.
>
> idhost: (Default.) Message-ID host name is XXX.
>
> localiphost: (Default.) Local IP address becomes XXX.
>
> locals:
> Messages for XXX are delivered locally.
> Messages for XXX are delivered locally.
>
> me: My name is XXX.
>
> percenthack: (Default.) The percent hack is not allowed.
>
> plusdomain: Plus domain name is XXX.
>
> qmqpservers: (Default.) No QMQP servers.
>
> queuelifetime: (Default.) Message lifetime in the queue is 604800 seconds.
>
> rcpthosts:
> 
>
> morercpthosts: (Default.) No effect.
>
> morercpthosts.cdb: (Default.) No effect.
>
> smtpgreeting: (Default.) SMTP greeting: 220 .
>
> smtproutes: (Default.) No artificial SMTP routes.
>
> timeoutconnect: (Default.) SMTP client connection timeout is 60 seconds.
>
> timeoutremote: SMTP client data timeout is 60 seconds.
>
> timeoutsmtpd: (Default.) SMTP server data timeout is 1200 seconds.