Re: Error 127: qmail-local.o

[Faried Nawaz]

Eric Pretorious wrote:

  When compiling qmail, the compiler returns the message "make: *** 
  [qmakil-local.o] Error 127" and exits.

type

rm -f `cat TARGETS`
make

and paste the output here (or put it on a web site and mail us the url).

Error 127: qmail-local.o

[Eric Pretorious]

When compiling qmail, the compiler returns the message "make: *** 
[qmakil-local.o] Error 127" and exits.

What does this error mean? How can I correct this?

Eric P.
Los Gatos, CA
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Re: logrotate

[Jörgen Persson]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:51:14PM -, Neil Grant wrote:
> I use debian and I have always had mailx installed due to logrotate
> depending on it. So with new security holes in mailx I was wondering
> what it did and whether qmail-inject or something could do it instead
> (maybe with a wrapper)?


You'll need a wrapper since mailx is a MUA and qmail-inject is part of a 
MTA.

The most easy way is to apply the Debian security fixes by adding the 
following line to /etc/apt/source.list

  deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free


Let us keep the qmail list noise as low as possible. Please send a mail
directly to me if you need more help.

Jörgen

Re: DNS problem may be ...

[Sean Chittenden]

Do you have an mx record setup for the erakarsa.local domain?

You can find out by issuing either of the following (where
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the ip of your dns server):

djbdns way:
dnsq mx erakarsa.local xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

dig way (bind tool):

dig erakarsa.local mx

If you can't find any mx records, there's your problem.  If
you do, add the domain to your rcpthosts and locals file.  -sc


On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 11:38:56AM +0700, Essy Ren wrote:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Sorry, I couldn't find a mail exchanger or IP address. (#5.4.4)
> 
> I want to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] to send and receive mail rather than 
>sanfransisco.erakarsa.local
> Where's the change I've should make to make it work ...???

-- 
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 PGP signature

help in qmail-scanner

[KIM]

hello,

i set up the qmail-scanner and it works. but my problem is when i test it
and tried to send a mail with an attach virus like the snow white nad the
seven dwarf(joke.exe) it still accept it. i used kasperskys AVPLinux Scanner. 

thanks in advance!

DNS problem may be ...

[Essy Ren]

There's a failure notice send to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
like this :
 
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at 
sanfransisco.erakarsa.local.I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message 
to the following addresses.This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry 
it didn't work out.<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:Sorry, I 
couldn't find a mail exchanger or IP address. (#5.4.4)
I want to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] to send and receive 
mail rather than sanfransisco.erakarsa.local
Where's the change I've should make to make it work 
...???

Re: Force Queues?

[Sean Chittenden]

Nope, but the following will:

cd /var/qmail/queue
find . -type f -exec touch {} \;

-sc


On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 12:23:41PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm
> Precedence: bulk
> Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Force Queues?
> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 12:23:41 +0800
> X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21)
> 
> Will using the -ALRM restart the queuelifetime from the beginning ?
> 
> Rgds
> Ronnie 
> * qmail newbie *
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Mike A. Sauvain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 12:26 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sean Chittenden
> Subject: Re: Force Queues?
> 
> 
> Thanks, Sean solved my quest with best ;)
> 
>  killall -ALRM qmail-send 
> 
> cu all..
> 
> 
> 
> This email had been checked by Asiatravelmart.com's Virus Scanner.
> Please email any questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 

-- 
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 PGP signature

RE: Force Queues?

[rthum]

Will using the -ALRM restart the queuelifetime from the beginning ?

Rgds
Ronnie 
* qmail newbie *

-Original Message-
From: Mike A. Sauvain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 12:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sean Chittenden
Subject: Re: Force Queues?


Thanks, Sean solved my quest with best ;)

 killall -ALRM qmail-send 

cu all..



This email had been checked by Asiatravelmart.com's Virus Scanner.
Please email any questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Force Queues?

[Mike A. Sauvain]

Thanks, Sean solved my quest with best ;)

 killall -ALRM qmail-send 

cu all..

Force Queues?

[Mike A. Sauvain]

hy all, i have some mails in my que

#qmail/bin/qmail-qstat 
messages in queue: 8
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0

how i can fore qmail, to resend them ?..


thanks for any ideas... mike

Re: How to interpret the Delivered-To: header

[Russell Nelson]

Norbert Bollow writes:
 > Specifically, I want to figure out why the message below went to me
 > (probably via a -default address) instead of being discarded by
 > Ezmlm's bounce- handler.

Because mail.com is run by a bunch of weenies, who have somehow
modified their SMTP server (which *was* running just fine until about
1Mar2001) so that it munges the envelope sender.  I imagine that
there's a sendmail rule somewhere named "destroy the envelope sender"
that they turned on.  Fortunately, you have to work much harder to get 
qmail to munge the envelope sender.

 > Note: in the following, '**CENSORED**' replaces the localpart of
 > the subscriber email address, which consists of a reasonable
 > number (between 4 and 8) of lower-case Ascii letters.

Don't do this.  I know you have good reasons, but if you aren't
willing to help us by providing full disclosure, don't come asking for 
help.  Remember: you have a problem, and you don't know where it is.
When you modify information that you think is unrelated to the
problem, you might be wasting our time.

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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!

Re: First time with qmail

[Eric Pretorious]

Carlos:

Did you also create 'service' subdirectories and the 'run' scripts? (These 
are described further down the page from the actual script itself.) Make 
sure that all of the scripts and subdirectories have been created and that 
the permissions are correct. e.g.,

%/var/qmail/service> ls -rl */*

...will show all of the scripts/subdirectories and their permissions in one 
convenient screenful.

Eric P.
Los Gatos, CA


>From: "Ing. Carlos Alberto Dávila Cantú" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 20:17:23 -0600
>
>Hi, I recently install qmail in a SuSE 7.0 Linux. I follow the instructions
>of the document My life with qmail, but when I make the scripts for start,
>stop and restart for init.d, I can't execute this script in root user, I
>change the mode to 755 and I can´t execute this file. How can I do for
>execute this script:
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Re: How to unsubscribe

[Russell Nelson]

Paulo Correia writes:
 > Hello all,
 > 
 > Sorry for this kind of mail, but i've tried to unsubscribe through the 
 > automatic way but it didn't work. Probably because this e-mail has several 
 > aliases.

I can't help you with this.  Nobody can.  You have to do it yourself.
You'll have to look at the Return-Path header to determine the email
address at which you are receiving the mail.  Then, send a piece of
email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Of
course, you should substitute the address you found in the Return-Path
header for the one I included.

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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!

Re: can't receive the mail I've sent to myself

[Essy Ren]

Here is the output of qmail-showctl :

locals:
Messages for sanfransisco are delivered locally.

me: My name is sanfransisco.

percenthack: (Default.) The percent hack is not allowed.

plusdomain: Plus domain name is sanfransisco.

qmqpservers: (Default.) No QMQP servers.

queuelifetime: (Default.) Message lifetime in the queue is 604800 seconds.

rcpthosts:
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at sanfransisco.

morercpthosts: (Default.) No effect.

morercpthosts.cdb: (Default.) No effect.

smtpgreeting: (Default.) SMTP greeting: 220 sanfransisco.

smtproutes: (Default.) No artificial SMTP routes.

timeoutconnect: (Default.) SMTP client connection timeout is 60 seconds.

timeoutremote: (Default.) SMTP client data timeout is 1200 seconds.

timeoutsmtpd: (Default.) SMTP server data timeout is 1200 seconds.

virtualdomains: (Default.) No virtual domains.

defaultdelivery: I have no idea what this file does.

concurrencyincoming: I have no idea what this file does.


And when I check the /var/log/qmail , there is :
total 20
drwxr-xr-x   5 qmaill   root 4096 Mar 13 12:57 .
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root 4096 Mar 13 09:30 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 qmaill   root 4096 Mar 13 09:30 qmail-send
drwxr-xr-x   2 qmaill   root 4096 Mar 13 09:30 qmail-smtpd
drwxr-xr-x   2 qmaill   root 4096 Mar 13 12:57 smtpd

I still don't understand where's my email gone to ...
Thanks for your concern ...

- Original Message -
From: Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: qmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: can't receive the mail I've sent to myself


> The qmail logs will say exactly what happened to that message.  Where the
> qmail logs are and what they are named depends on how you installed qmail.
> Post the relevant entries of that log, and the output of `qmail-showctl`,
> and we can help you.
>
> Charles

Re: First time with qmail

[Eric Pretorious]

Carlos:

Did you install the daemontools? 
(ftp://cr.yp.to/daemontools/daemontools-0.70.tar.gz) This script is entirely 
dependant upon the daemontools package.

WARNING: The daemontools package can cause serious headaches if you are not 
absolutely sure of what you are doing.

Eric P.
Los Gatos, CA


>From: "Ing. Carlos Alberto Dávila Cantú" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 20:17:23 -0600
>
>#!/bin/sh
>
>PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
>export PATH
>
>case "$1" in
>   start)
> echo -n "Starting qmail: svscan"
> cd /var/qmail/supervise
> env - PATH="$PATH" svscan &
> echo $! > /var/run/svscan.pid
> echo "."
> ;;
>   stop)
> echo -n "Stopping qmail: svscan"
> kill `cat /var/run/svscan.pid`
> echo -n " qmail"
> svc -dx /var/qmail/supervise/*
> echo -n " logging"
> svc -dx /var/qmail/supervise/*/log
> echo "."
> ;;
>
>esac
>
>exit 0
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Re: First time with qmail

[Charles Cazabon]

Ing. Carlos Alberto Dávila Cantú <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I recently install qmail in a SuSE 7.0 Linux. I follow the instructions
> of the document My life with qmail, but when I make the scripts for start,
> stop and restart for init.d, I can't execute this script in root user, I
> change the mode to 755 and I can´t execute this file. How can I do for
> execute this script:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
[...]

You really haven't given us enough information.  You say you can't execute
the script; what error messages do you get when you try?

As a first guess, it might be that you have carriage return characters in
that file, and therefore the kernel is looking for "/bin/sh^M" to execute
the script.

Charles
-- 
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GPL'ed software available at:  http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/
Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions.
---

Re: can't receive the mail I've sent to myself

[Charles Cazabon]

Essy Ren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've install qmail, daemontools, ucspi-ipc-0.55, ucspi-tcp-0.88 and
> checkpassword-0.90.  I can send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I can't
> receive that mail, where's the mail go to ?

The qmail logs will say exactly what happened to that message.  Where the
qmail logs are and what they are named depends on how you installed qmail.
Post the relevant entries of that log, and the output of `qmail-showctl`,
and we can help you.

Charles
-- 
---
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GPL'ed software available at:  http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/
Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions.
---

Re: qmail help, virt domains and catch all

[Charles Cazabon]

Inthereal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to make qmail accept email for * @ domain.  There are several
> domains set up, each with several accounts. What I would like to do is set
> up a catch all (or if no user exists, qmail will deliver to a defined
> user.  i dont want mail to bounce.)

If the domains are virtual, just use an appropriate .qmail-default file to
handle them.

If, for example, you have a virtualdomains entry like:
virtdomain1.com:virtuser1
and you have .qmail files to handle specific accounts:
~virtuser1/.qmail-joe
~virtuser1/.qmail-bob
then just create the appropriate default file:
echo "&postmaster@bouncenomore" >~virtuser1/.qmail-default

Charles
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GPL'ed software available at:  http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/
Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions.
---

First time with qmail

[Ing. Carlos Alberto Dávila Cantú]

Hi, I recently install qmail in a SuSE 7.0 Linux. I follow the instructions
of the document My life with qmail, but when I make the scripts for start,
stop and restart for init.d, I can't execute this script in root user, I
change the mode to 755 and I can´t execute this file. How can I do for
execute this script:

#!/bin/sh

PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
export PATH

case "$1" in
  start)
echo -n "Starting qmail: svscan"
cd /var/qmail/supervise
env - PATH="$PATH" svscan &
echo $! > /var/run/svscan.pid
echo "."
;;
  stop)
echo -n "Stopping qmail: svscan"
kill `cat /var/run/svscan.pid`
echo -n " qmail"
svc -dx /var/qmail/supervise/*
echo -n " logging"
svc -dx /var/qmail/supervise/*/log
echo "."
;;

esac

exit 0

Thank's, Carlos

P.D. I really want change the sendmail for qmail...

can't receive the mail I've sent to myself

[Essy Ren]

I've install qmail, daemontools, ucspi-ipc-0.55, 
ucspi-tcp-0.88 and checkpassword-0.90.
I can send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
but I can't receive that mail,
where's the mail go to ?I've set up all the 
instruction at INSTALL, FAQ, INSTALL.vsm, INSTALL.maildir and also take a look 
at LWQ.
But I don't know where's the "wrong step" I've made 
so I can't receive the mail I've send ...
 

Re: no local delivery???

[Mark Delany]

The output of qmail-showctl will tell you (and us) a lot more.

I guess is that you have worldsite.ws in /var/qmail/control/me and
something other than this domain in /var/qmail/control/locals

Western Somoa huh? I had a lot of fun trying to register a domain
there, oh, 8 years ago.


Regards.


On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:22:14PM -0800, George Georgalis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm installing qmail on LAN box and have not yet disabled sendmail.
> When I run either of these commands
> 
>  echo to: nonexistent | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject
>  echo to: georgeg | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject
> 
> mail goes through an external smtp. Why? I don't recall specifying the
> IP (or it's name) for any service... sendmail, uses different "smart"
> relay.
> 
> Shouldn't qmail-inject drop into a local account?
> 
> I've tried running ./config-fast with my box name (noe) and the domain
> I'll masq as (WorldSite.WS), with the same results.
> 
> I'm also curious how WorldSite.WS got in the log; it's right but I don't
> recall specifying it...
> 
> 
> Mar 13 16:42:34 noe qmail: 984530554.069492 new msg 44712
> Mar 13 16:42:34 noe qmail: 984530554.069728 info msg 44712: bytes 203 from 
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 3743 uid 500
> Mar 13 16:42:34 noe qmail: 984530554.075204 starting delivery 7: msg 44712 to remote 
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Mar 13 16:42:34 noe qmail: 984530554.075384 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20
> Mar 13 16:42:34 noe qmail: 984530554.544747 delivery 7: success: 
>216.35.187.251_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_2.0.0_f2E0gXd13122_Message_accepted_for_delivery/
> Mar 13 16:42:34 noe qmail: 984530554.544936 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
> Mar 13 16:42:34 noe qmail: 984530554.544989 end msg 44712
> 
> Thanks!
> // George
> 
> -- 
> George Georgalis, System Administrator http://WorldSite.WS
> Global Domains International 701 Palomar Airport Rd, Suite 300
> Carlsbad, CA 92009 U.S.A.  Phone: 760.602.3000 Fax: 760.602.3099

no local delivery???

[George Georgalis]

Hi,

I'm installing qmail on LAN box and have not yet disabled sendmail.
When I run either of these commands

 echo to: nonexistent | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject
 echo to: georgeg | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject

mail goes through an external smtp. Why? I don't recall specifying the
IP (or it's name) for any service... sendmail, uses different "smart"
relay.

Shouldn't qmail-inject drop into a local account?

I've tried running ./config-fast with my box name (noe) and the domain
I'll masq as (WorldSite.WS), with the same results.

I'm also curious how WorldSite.WS got in the log; it's right but I don't
recall specifying it...


Mar 13 16:42:34 noe qmail: 984530554.069492 new msg 44712
Mar 13 16:42:34 noe qmail: 984530554.069728 info msg 44712: bytes 203 from 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 3743 uid 500
Mar 13 16:42:34 noe qmail: 984530554.075204 starting delivery 7: msg 44712 to remote 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mar 13 16:42:34 noe qmail: 984530554.075384 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20
Mar 13 16:42:34 noe qmail: 984530554.544747 delivery 7: success: 
216.35.187.251_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_2.0.0_f2E0gXd13122_Message_accepted_for_delivery/
Mar 13 16:42:34 noe qmail: 984530554.544936 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
Mar 13 16:42:34 noe qmail: 984530554.544989 end msg 44712

Thanks!
// George

-- 
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Global Domains International 701 Palomar Airport Rd, Suite 300
Carlsbad, CA 92009 U.S.A.  Phone: 760.602.3000 Fax: 760.602.3099

qmail help, virt domains and catch all

[Inthereal]

I would like to make qmail accept email for * @ domain.  There are several
domains set up, each with several accounts. What I would like to do is set
up a catch all (or if no user exists, qmail will deliver to a defined
user.  i dont want mail to bounce.)

I have read documentation on ways to make this happen, but i still get
bounced mail to the domain in question.  Is there an easy solution?

This is a snip of the users/assign file:

=beyondbroadcast-org-rah:popuser:888:888:/home/beyondbroadcast.org/rah:::
=minneapoliskc-org-acct1:popuser:888:888:/home/minneapoliskc.org/acct1:::
=minneapoliskc-org-acct2:popuser:888:888:/home/minneapoliskc.org/acct2:::
=youareworthmore-org-worthmore:popuser:888:888:/home/ultragalaxy.com/w/e/worthmore:::
=volunteertwincities-org-amy:popuser:888:888:/home/volunteertwincities.org/amy:::

Re: How to interpret the Delivered-To: header

[Neil Grant]

>
> To me, that To: field whose address must surely have come from the
> envelope sender, at least shows that the message arrived at iname.net
> with the correct envelope sender.  But I'm willing to bet a modest
> amount that iname.net mangled the envelope recipient of the bounce
> into <0.pps-l-return-64-**CENSORED**[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> with the results you have seen.  At least, that theory is consistent
> with everything you have shown us.
>
> There it is, then: Not a qmail problem at all, but some external host
> perhaps having troubles coping with an unusal form of email address.
> Perhaps a sendmail.cf entry thrown off by the equals sign in there?
>
the explanation certainily rings true,

I had mails every now and again to my iname account saying a message
couldn't be deliveried by ezmlm and it hasnt happened since changing my
email server for the qmail mailing list

Neil





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Re: Forwarding to AOL issue

[Kris Kelley]

> How funny is it that an AOL user has written an unofficial FAQ on why
> his ISP loses mail?  In fact, he continues to give them money?

"Know thine enemy."

---Kris Kelley

RE: [announcement] VQadmin new version 1.3 available

[Joe Modjeski]

Is this a replacement for qmailadmin?  The docs on this program are
kinda scarce?

Anyway I tried to setup a test site so I could see what it did but it is
complaining about not finding my crypt.h file while building.

If someone could enlighten me a little bit about how this is going to
help me out I would appreciate it.

Thanks,
Joe

BTW.  I will submit a patch once I figure out why it is not building on
my box.  FreeBSD 4.2, vpopmail-4.9.8(mysql).

-Original Message-
From: Ken Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 3:37 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [announcement] VQadmin new version 1.3 available



A new version of vqadmin is now available.

vqadmin-1.3
Virtual Qmail Web Administrator (VqAdmin) is a CGI Web program to 
allow virtual email hosting machine administators to add, delete, 
and modify virtually hosted email domains and users using vpopmail. 
Authentication is provided by ACLs and the Apache htpasswd method.
Machine Administrators can add/delete virtual email domains, and 
tech users can admin user email accounts such as setting passwords, 
disk quotas, and privileges. 

Requires:
qmail http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html
vpopmail http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/

Changes
http://www.vpopmail.cx/vqadmin-ChangeLog

Download
http://www.vpopmail.cx/vqadmin-1.3.tar.gz

Changes:
1) fixed problem with creating new domains

2) Added autoconf / automake scripts.
   The install procedure is now:
./configure
make
make install

3) Added support for creating virtual email domains
   under any /etc/passwd user. The default is vpopmail.

4) configure/Makefile automatically detects which
   libraries and headers to link.

5) New INSTALL documentation

Cheers,
Ken Jones
inter7

Re: Forwarding to AOL issue

[Aaron L. Meehan]

Quoting Norbert Bollow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>   http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/dropped-mail.html

How funny is it that an AOL user has written an unofficial FAQ on why
his ISP loses mail?  In fact, he continues to give them money?

"Oh, you're losing mail.  Go see
http://www.coinet.com/~joeblow/coinet/lostmail.html"  I'd about
die.

Anyway, my FAQ would consist of one line: AOL sucks.  Why spend
the effort on such a verbose explanation? :)

just idly wondering today...

Aaron

logrotate

[Neil Grant]

hi,

this is slightly off topic but

I use debian and I have always had mailx installed due to logrotate
depending on it. So with new security holes in mailx I was wondering what it
did and whether qmail-inject or something could do it instead (maybe with a
wrapper)?

thanks

Neil Grant

[announcement] VQadmin new version 1.3 available

[Ken Jones]

A new version of vqadmin is now available.

vqadmin-1.3
Virtual Qmail Web Administrator (VqAdmin) is a CGI Web program to 
allow virtual email hosting machine administators to add, delete, 
and modify virtually hosted email domains and users using vpopmail. 
Authentication is provided by ACLs and the Apache htpasswd method.
Machine Administrators can add/delete virtual email domains, and 
tech users can admin user email accounts such as setting passwords, 
disk quotas, and privileges. 

Requires:
qmail http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html
vpopmail http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/

Changes
http://www.vpopmail.cx/vqadmin-ChangeLog

Download
http://www.vpopmail.cx/vqadmin-1.3.tar.gz

Changes:
1) fixed problem with creating new domains

2) Added autoconf / automake scripts.
   The install procedure is now:
./configure
make
make install

3) Added support for creating virtual email domains
   under any /etc/passwd user. The default is vpopmail.

4) configure/Makefile automatically detects which
   libraries and headers to link.

5) New INSTALL documentation

Cheers,
Ken Jones
inter7

Re: Forwarding to AOL issue

[Norbert Bollow]

> Thanks for the AOL FAQ.  I noticed something in there that caught my eye.
> We've been trying to get reverse dns lookup setup.  It is not setup at this
> time.  Is this my problem?

Based on my experience, not having functioning reverse DNS is
definately a factor in the algorithm at AOL's mailservers that
intentionally discards some incoming mail.

God bless you,
Norbert

-- 
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Tel +41 1 972 20 59  Fax +41 1 972 20 69[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir

[Charles Cazabon]

dan kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> I've recently re-installed qmail w/ ./Maildir/ , and i get this on every
> message delivery:
> 
> Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)
> 
> i set up users' Maildir directorys by changing to their home directories and:
> 
> >/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake Maildir
> 
> i tried changing permissions to make the directory writable, but then I get:
> 
> Uh-oh:_home_directory_is_writable._(#4.7.0)

Chown the Maildirs to be owned by the users.  Their home directories should
be mode 0755 or stricter in a default install.

Charles
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How to unsubscribe

[Paulo Correia]

Hello all,

Sorry for this kind of mail, but i've tried to unsubscribe through the 
automatic way but it didn't work. Probably because this e-mail has several 
aliases.
Thanks in advance

Paulo Correia

Newbies to qmail...

[dyu]

hi all,

I am trying to run qmail 1.3 on my testing pc with FreeBSD4.2.  I did made
it to send/receive mails to ~user/mailbox.
However i am trying to make it to deliver all mails to /var/mail/users.  It
was not success.
I just changed the rc file as follow: (same as binm1 file)


#!/bin/sh

xec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start \
'|preline -f /usr/libexec/mail.local -r "${SENDER:-MAILER-DAEMON}" -d
"$USER"' \
splogger qmail

==

Then restart qmail and send test message.  The email did not go anywhere and
there is an error message in the log:

==

Mar 13 12:43:23 bsd qmail: 984505403.843498 starting delivery 17: msg 496 to
loc
al [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mar 13 12:43:23 bsd qmail: 984505403.844620 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
Mar 13 12:43:53 bsd mail.local: lockmailbox /var/mail/test failed; error
code 75

Mar 13 12:43:53 bsd qmail: 984505433.982253 delivery 17: deferral:
mail.local:_l
ockmailbox_/var/mail/test_failed;_error_code_75_/
Mar 13 12:43:53 bsd qmail: 984505433.982697 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20

=

My purpose of having qmail to deliver mail to /var/mail/ is that would be
easier for me to see everyone's email account at once, instead of going to
each one of their directory and no need to create link for new user account.
Please let me know what i missed.

Is there any good site for qmail admin? and what is the lastest version of
qmail and where can i get it if there is?

Thanks,

Derrick

Re: qmail POP before SMTP dies unexpected

[Charles Cazabon]

Qmaillist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I installed the pop before smtp authentication package, so that the users
> > > need to autheticate first before they can send mail.  But the problem ist
> > > that the readlog & qmail-send die unexpectedly. Then I restart qmail and
> > > everything is fine again.
>
> > What Do The Logs Say?
>
> > If the logs don't say anything, strace/truss qmail-send and see why it
> > dies.  Maybe flaky hardware.

> Hardware works fine. When I restart qmail everythink works fine.

How do you know your hardware is fine?  Don't speculate.

And, which part of "What Do The Logs Say?" did you not understand?  Where is
the result of strace'ing qmail-send?  Why did qmail-send exit?  Did it core
dump?  Did it receive an unhandled signal?

Or, if you want an answer about as useful as your trouble reports, "It works
fine here."

Charles
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---
Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions.
---

help: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir

[dan kelley]

I've recently re-installed qmail w/ ./Maildir/ , and i get this on every
message delivery:

Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)

i set up users' Maildir directorys by changing to their home directories and:

>/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake Maildir

i tried changing permissions to make the directory writable, but then I get:

Uh-oh:_home_directory_is_writable._(#4.7.0)

I've looked at the docs, but I can't find anything on what home directory
permissions should be.

this is how i have it now:

drw-r--r-- djk staff

thanks-

dan



Dan Kelley
www.otec.com
212-840-8600

Re: block unknown hosts

[Charles Cazabon]

Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > My qmail is patched with the flame patches, 
> 
> Never heard of any "flame" patches.

After going and looking at these, I'd say stay far, far away from them.
Based on the example regular expression file the author claims to use, it
appears the author knows little about SMTP or RFC822.  In Dan's words,
something like this would "bounce a huge amount of legitimate mail and a
moderate amount of spam".

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.
---

AW: qmail POP before SMTP dies unexpected

[Qmaillist]

Hardware works fine. When I restart qmail everythink works fine.

BTW: It is Redhat 7 with qmail 1.03 and the POPBEFOREMSMTP Patch.

Stephan Winter

-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
Von: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. März 2001 22:35
An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Betreff: Re: qmail POP before SMTP dies unexpected


Estephano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I installed the pop before smtp authentication package, so that the users
> need to autheticate first before they can send mail.
>
> But the problem ist that the readlog & qmail-send die unexpectedly. Then I
> restart qmail and everything is fine again.

What Do The Logs Say?

If the logs don't say anything, strace/truss qmail-send and see why it dies.
Maybe flaky hardware.

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: MAXIMUM NUMBER OF RECIPIENTS/MAIL

[Andrew Richards]

> How do I restrict the maximum number of
> recipients/mail and how do I restrict
> maximum number of mails/transaction ?

Raghu,

Take a look at the tarpit patch - find this on
www.qmail.org. This will give you functionality
*similar* to what you desire - it should be
possible to alter it to suit your requirements
fairly easily.

cheers,

Andrew.

Re: qmail POP before SMTP dies unexpected

[Charles Cazabon]

Estephano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> I installed the pop before smtp authentication package, so that the users
> need to autheticate first before they can send mail.
> 
> But the problem ist that the readlog & qmail-send die unexpectedly. Then I
> restart qmail and everything is fine again.

What Do The Logs Say?

If the logs don't say anything, strace/truss qmail-send and see why it dies.
Maybe flaky hardware.

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 POP before SMTP dies unexpected

[Estephano]

Hello.

I installed the pop before smtp authentication package, so that the users
need to autheticate first before they can send mail.

But the problem ist that the readlog & qmail-send die unexpectedly. Then I
restart qmail and everything is fine again.

Anyone got a clue?

Thanks in advance
S. Winter

Re: (no subject)

[Charles Cazabon]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> There are two users called A and B.  I configure A .qmail file with forward
> option to redirect emails to B.  When the message is sent to A both (A and B)
> received the message.  How can I do to make forward option goes to B user
> without A user receive the message.

Simply put "&address_of_B" into ~A/.qmail .  This will forward all mail
which is addressed to A to user B.  If there are no other lines in user
A's .qmail file, they will not get a copy of any mail.

Read the manual page for dot-qmail for further information.

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: vpopmail and qmail installed outside /var/qmail

[Joe Modjeski]

run:

./configure --help

from inside the source directory. you will see:

--enable-qmaildir=dir   directory where qmail is installed.

in the list of enable options.

Joe

-Original Message-
From: Jesús Arnáiz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 1:31 PM
To: qmail
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: vpopmail and qmail installed outside /var/qmail


Hi!

I have installed qmail outside /var/qmail and I see vpopmail don't work,
if I create a
symbolic link from /var/qmail to it, the program works.

Can anybody tell me how to install vpopmail if qmail is in a different
directory of
/var/qmail?

Thanks in advance.


--
Jesús Arnáiz
0z0ne Inc I+D/IT Manager
http://www.0z0ne.com
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

(no subject)

[aamaro]

HI,

There are two users called A and B.  I configure A .qmail file with
forward option to redirect emails to B.  When the message is sent to A
both (A and B)  received the message.
How can I do to make forward option goes to B user without A user
receive the message.

Thanks,

Alexandre Amaro

Re: POP3 Question

[postmaster]

"Kirti S. Bajwa" wrote:
> 
> I do not know if this is a pop3 problem or some other problem. I
am trying
>

> 
> Any thoughts, suggestions???
> 
> 
> Kirti

Hi, Kirti,

I am using a direct internet connection. Your problem is *not*
dialup.

It looks like you have dns issues. The authoratative nameservers
for your domain are ns and ns2.nova1.net; however, they return
non-authoratative answers and name themselves as authoratative.
Perhaps you don't have reverse delegation set up?

Your nameservers are also not returning an MX record for your
domain so mail won't route to you anyway.

HTH
Mike Wright

vpopmail and qmail installed outside /var/qmail

[Jesús Arnáiz]

Hi!

I have installed qmail outside /var/qmail and I see vpopmail don't work, if I create a
symbolic link from /var/qmail to it, the program works.

Can anybody tell me how to install vpopmail if qmail is in a different directory of
/var/qmail?

Thanks in advance.


--
Jesús Arnáiz
0z0ne Inc I+D/IT Manager
http://www.0z0ne.com
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

QmailAdmin in spanish?

[Jesús Arnáiz]

Hi everyone!

Is there any qmailadmin version translated to spanish? How can I get it (if it exist)?

Thanks in advance


--
Jesús Arnáiz
0z0ne Inc I+D/IT Manager
http://www.0z0ne.com
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: POP3 Question????

[Kirti S. Bajwa]

I am trying to figure out why I am not connecting via dial-in. Just a
process of elimination. My next step is to check some settings in network.

Thanks.

Kirti




-Original Message-
From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 2:47 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: POP3 Question


Kirti S. Bajwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I do not know if this is a pop3 problem or some other problem. I am trying
> to do a process of elimination to resolve the following problem:
[...] 
> However, I have not been able to display the web www.tibonline.net by a
> dial-in. When I dial-in, the connection manager show that the connection
is
> being made and that UserID/Password are authenticated. But then the page
> does not display. Please try connecting to www.tibonline.net and you will
> see it by yourself.

It's a standard Apache "congratulations, you've installed Apache" webpage.

What is the problem you are seeing?  This has nothing to do with email in
any form, and especially not qmail/qmail-pop3d in particular.

Charles
-- 
---
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GPL'ed software available at:  http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/
Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions.
---

RE: POP3 Question????

[Tim Hunter]

Ok, I have to admit I am confused.
The Web Page displays OK for me, minus a graphic.  You might check your ISP
if you cant view the page from your dialup.
But how does this relate to pop3?
Since when does pop3 use http?  or a web browser?  Why is the next step
displaying a web page?



-Original Message-
From: Kirti S. Bajwa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 2:33 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: POP3 Question


I do not know if this is a pop3 problem or some other problem. I am trying
to do a process of elimination to resolve the following problem:

I have RH 6.2 LINUX server with apache 1.3.12, djbdns, qmail, etc installed
on it. I can display my web page (on this server) www.tibonline.net from the
server and another computer which is connected to the Linux server over LAN.

However, I have not been able to display the web www.tibonline.net by a
dial-in. When I dial-in, the connection manager show that the connection is
being made and that UserID/Password are authenticated. But then the page
does not display. Please try connecting to www.tibonline.net and you will
see it by yourself.

I am trying to find out if the pop3 is the culprit. I am running qmail-pop3
as a supervised ( following Tim Hunters advise which was published on this
list 2/3 days ago). The run script for pop3
(/var/qmail/supervised/qmail-pop3/run) looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
export PATH
tcpserver -v -R 0 pop3 qmail-popup mail.tibonline.net \
checkpassword qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1

Since the UID/PW are being authenticated, the above script seems to be
working. But why the next step to display the web page is not working? I
have looked into qmail-pop3 logs and there is no error.


Any thoughts, suggestions???



Kirti

Re: POP3 Question????

[Charles Cazabon]

Kirti S. Bajwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I do not know if this is a pop3 problem or some other problem. I am trying
> to do a process of elimination to resolve the following problem:
[...] 
> However, I have not been able to display the web www.tibonline.net by a
> dial-in. When I dial-in, the connection manager show that the connection is
> being made and that UserID/Password are authenticated. But then the page
> does not display. Please try connecting to www.tibonline.net and you will
> see it by yourself.

It's a standard Apache "congratulations, you've installed Apache" webpage.

What is the problem you are seeing?  This has nothing to do with email in
any form, and especially not qmail/qmail-pop3d in particular.

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: block unknown hosts

[Charles Cazabon]

Hans Sandsdalen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 13:26 13.03.01 -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> > >
> > > I want to block incomming mail from unknown hosts, ie
> > > those with no reverse dns entry. How do I do this?
>
> >Bad idea.  All kinds of local or remote DNS failures can prevent you from
> >resolving a remote hosts's DNS entries.  However...
> 
> Well, most, if not all my mail from received from unknown hosts are spam.

Read what I wrote again:  a failure to resolve the reverse DNS entry of the
IP address which is connecting to your SMTP server does _not_ mean that that
IP address doesn't _have_ a reverse DNS entry.  Network congestion, BIND
failure, or many other factors can prevent you from resolving that entry.
If you implement this, you _will_ throw away legitimate mail.

> Perhaps it's a bad idea, but is it possible?

I said how to do this in my previous email.  I just didn't give it in a
step-by-step "edit this file, placing this line in it" fashion.

> My qmail is patched with the flame patches, 

Never heard of any "flame" patches.

Charles
-- 
---
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GPL'ed software available at:  http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/
Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions.
---

POP3 Question????

[Kirti S. Bajwa]

I do not know if this is a pop3 problem or some other problem. I am trying
to do a process of elimination to resolve the following problem:

I have RH 6.2 LINUX server with apache 1.3.12, djbdns, qmail, etc installed
on it. I can display my web page (on this server) www.tibonline.net from the
server and another computer which is connected to the Linux server over LAN.

However, I have not been able to display the web www.tibonline.net by a
dial-in. When I dial-in, the connection manager show that the connection is
being made and that UserID/Password are authenticated. But then the page
does not display. Please try connecting to www.tibonline.net and you will
see it by yourself.

I am trying to find out if the pop3 is the culprit. I am running qmail-pop3
as a supervised ( following Tim Hunters advise which was published on this
list 2/3 days ago). The run script for pop3
(/var/qmail/supervised/qmail-pop3/run) looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
export PATH
tcpserver -v -R 0 pop3 qmail-popup mail.tibonline.net \
checkpassword qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1

Since the UID/PW are being authenticated, the above script seems to be
working. But why the next step to display the web page is not working? I
have looked into qmail-pop3 logs and there is no error. 


Any thoughts, suggestions??? 



Kirti 

Re: block unknown hosts

[Hans Sandsdalen]

At 13:26 13.03.01 -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
>Hans Sandsdalen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I want to block incomming mail from unknown hosts, ie
> > those with no reverse dns entry. How do I do this?
>
>Bad idea.  All kinds of local or remote DNS failures can prevent you from
>resolving a remote hosts's DNS entries.  However...


Well, most, if not all my mail from received from unknown hosts are spam.
Perhaps it's a bad idea, but is it possible?

My qmail is patched with the flame patches, 



>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.
>---

+--Sent from homeoffice--+
Hans Sandsdalen  Phone Work:   +47 77 66 08 09
System Manager   Fax:  +47 77 65 58 59
Tromsoe - Norway http://www.spacetec.no/~hans/
Kongsberg Spacetec a.s

Re: block unknown hosts

[Charles Cazabon]

Hans Sandsdalen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> I want to block incomming mail from unknown hosts, ie
> those with no reverse dns entry. How do I do this?

Bad idea.  All kinds of local or remote DNS failures can prevent you from
resolving a remote hosts's DNS entries.  However...

> As I understand the -p parameter to tcpserver should fix this, but
> it will not... (?)

You misunderstand.  tcpserver, in paranoid mode, will simply remove the
environment variable TCPREMOTEHOST if its forward and reverse DNS do not
match.

Note that if you wrap qmail-smtpd to refuse connections where TCPREMOTEHOST
is not set, you will block mail from hosts which have a reverse DNS entry
that does not match any of their forward entries.

Charles
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---
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---

block unknown hosts

[Hans Sandsdalen]

Hi

I want to block incomming mail from unknown hosts, ie
those with no reverse dns entry. How do I do this?

Here are my qmail startup script:

#!/bin/sh

PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/var/qmail/bin
USERID=501
GROUPID=500
PARANOID="-p" # set to "" if NOT paranoid. Check that host has not a bad DNS


case "$1" in
 start)
 echo -n "Starting mail-transfer agent: qmail"


 csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &'

 supervise /var/lock/qmail-smtpd tcpserver $PARANOID -v 
-x/etc/tcp.smtp.c
db \
 -u$USERID -g$GROUPID 0 25 \
 rblsmtpd rblsmtpd -r "relays.mail-abuse.org:Open relay 
problem -
  see " \
 rblsmtpd -rdul.maps.vix.com \
 qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | \
 setuser qmaill accustamp | tailocal | \
 setuser qmaill cyclog -s500 -n5 /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd &

 echo "."
 ;;
 stop)
 echo -n "Stopping mail-transfer agent: qmail"
 PID=`ps -eo pid,comm | awk '{ if ($2 == "qmail-send") print $1}'`
 kill -TERM $PID
 svc -dx /var/lock/qmail-smtpd
 echo "."
 ;;
 restart)
 $0 stop
 $0 start
 ;;
 reload|force-reload)
 echo "Reloading 'locals' and 'virtualdomains' control files."
 PID=`ps -eo pid,comm | awk '{ if ($2 == "qmail-send") print $1}'`
 kill -HUP $PID
 ;;
 *)
 echo 'Usage: /etc/init.d/qmail {start|stop|restart|reload}'
 exit 1
esac

exit 0

--

As I understand the -p parameter to tcpserver should fix this, but
it will not... (?)

+--Sent from homeoffice--+
Hans Sandsdalen  Phone Work:   +47 77 66 08 09
System Manager   Fax:  +47 77 65 58 59
Tromsoe - Norway http://www.spacetec.no/~hans/
Kongsberg Spacetec a.s

RE: Forwarding to AOL issue

[Robert Lech]

Thanks for the AOL FAQ.  I noticed something in there that caught my eye.
We've been trying to get reverse dns lookup setup.  It is not setup at this
time.  Is this my problem?


Robert.

-Original Message-
From: Norbert Bollow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 10:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Forwarding to AOL issue


> > I've seen some messages in the archive that seem similar to my problem,
> > but I'm not positive.  Unfortuantely we have several clients that use
AOL
> > and don't want to check a POP account.  When we set up an email account
in
> > QMail as a forward to an AOL account, It appears that AOL is dropping
> > these messages.  They never make it into the AOL account and there is no
> > error message coming back.
> > 
> > Can somebody tell me why this is happening and provide me with a
solution?

There are varied circumstances that cause AOL to silently
discard email.  This is the AOL way of "spam filtering".
One AOL member has put up an inofficial FAQ at

  http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/dropped-mail.html

I encountered a problem of this kind recently and an AOL staff
member (BTW how to contact AOL is explained in the FAQ mentioned
about) was kind enough to look at the problem.  In that specific
case, AOL dropped many (but not all) emails from the mailing list
server because the reverse DNS for that server did not work. This
was beyond our control to fix (the service provider did not
respond to requests) and the problem went away when we moved
servers.


God bless you,
Norbert

-- 
Norbert Bollow, Weidlistr.18, CH-8624 Gruet (near Zurich, Switzerland)
Tel +41 1 972 20 59  Fax +41 1 972 20 69[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Forwarding to AOL issue

[Norbert Bollow]

> > I've seen some messages in the archive that seem similar to my problem,
> > but I'm not positive.  Unfortuantely we have several clients that use AOL
> > and don't want to check a POP account.  When we set up an email account in
> > QMail as a forward to an AOL account, It appears that AOL is dropping
> > these messages.  They never make it into the AOL account and there is no
> > error message coming back.
> > 
> > Can somebody tell me why this is happening and provide me with a solution?

There are varied circumstances that cause AOL to silently
discard email.  This is the AOL way of "spam filtering".
One AOL member has put up an inofficial FAQ at

  http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/dropped-mail.html

I encountered a problem of this kind recently and an AOL staff
member (BTW how to contact AOL is explained in the FAQ mentioned
about) was kind enough to look at the problem.  In that specific
case, AOL dropped many (but not all) emails from the mailing list
server because the reverse DNS for that server did not work. This
was beyond our control to fix (the service provider did not
respond to requests) and the problem went away when we moved
servers.


God bless you,
Norbert

-- 
Norbert Bollow, Weidlistr.18, CH-8624 Gruet (near Zurich, Switzerland)
Tel +41 1 972 20 59  Fax +41 1 972 20 69[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to interpret the Delivered-To: header

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ Norbert Bollow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

| > and ezmlm setup
| 
| What are the configuration files/options that you feel should be
| shared?

Don't know, since I don't do ezmlm.  But it seems very unlikely to be
an ezmlm problem anyway.

Your setup (which I won't repeat here, for brevity's sake) seems
eminently reasonable, and I cannot find any evidence there that would
point a finger at qmail.  So let us return to the headers you quoted:

| Received: (qmail 28924 invoked by uid 894); 11 Mar 2001 14:10:29 -
| Delivered-To: home0-0.pps-l-return-64-**CENSORED**[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Received: (qmail 28921 invoked from network); 11 Mar 2001 14:10:29 -
| Received: from smv665-mc.mail.com (165.251.4.203)
|   by tasc.surrogacy.org with SMTP; 11 Mar 2001 14:10:29 -
| Received: from localhost (localhost)
| by smv665-mc.mail.com (8.9.3/8.9.1SMV070400) with internal id UDK05175;
| Sun, 11 Mar 2001 04:10:27 -0500 (EST)
| Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 04:10:27 -0500 (EST)
| From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To: 

To me, that To: field whose address must surely have come from the
envelope sender, at least shows that the message arrived at iname.net
with the correct envelope sender.  But I'm willing to bet a modest
amount that iname.net mangled the envelope recipient of the bounce
into <0.pps-l-return-64-**CENSORED**[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
with the results you have seen.  At least, that theory is consistent
with everything you have shown us.

There it is, then: Not a qmail problem at all, but some external host
perhaps having troubles coping with an unusal form of email address.
Perhaps a sendmail.cf entry thrown off by the equals sign in there?

If you still have your log files lying around, you might look for
further evidence there, but I really don't think you can blame this on
qmail or ezmlm at all.


Oh, and concerning others' reactions to your hiding the user's
identity: It's just a reflex action, flaming everybody to a crisp who
does header mangling before asking questions.  In 99.9% of all cases
the flaming is fully justified, since the mangling really throws away
useful information.  But I think it's quite clear that this was not
the case here.

- Harald

Re: Forwarding to AOL issue

[Norbert Bollow]

RE: Forwarding to AOL issue

[Tim Hunter]

Check your logs.
If they are delivered then it is AOL's fault; if they are not then the logs
will tell you and why.

-Original Message-
From: Robert Lech [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 12:49 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Forwarding to AOL issue


> I've seen some messages in the archive that seem similar to my problem,
> but I'm not positive.  Unfortuantely we have several clients that use AOL
> and don't want to check a POP account.  When we set up an email account in
> QMail as a forward to an AOL account, It appears that AOL is dropping
> these messages.  They never make it into the AOL account and there is no
> error message coming back.
>
> Can somebody tell me why this is happening and provide me with a solution?
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert Lech
> Corporate Network Professionals, Inc.

Forwarding to AOL issue

[Robert Lech]

> I've seen some messages in the archive that seem similar to my problem,
> but I'm not positive.  Unfortuantely we have several clients that use AOL
> and don't want to check a POP account.  When we set up an email account in
> QMail as a forward to an AOL account, It appears that AOL is dropping
> these messages.  They never make it into the AOL account and there is no
> error message coming back.
> 
> Can somebody tell me why this is happening and provide me with a solution?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Robert Lech
> Corporate Network Professionals, Inc.

Re: POP mail not appearing in a session

[Brett Randall]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Tim Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> qmail-pop3d will not read mails that have a newer timestamp than the current
>> time.
> 
> While we're on the subject, why is this?  I see nothing special about a
> message in .../cur or .../new which happens to be dated in the future.
> Is this a deliberate feature?

See below.
-- 
"BUG, n.: An undesirable, poorly-understood undocumented feature."

- The Devil's Dictionary to Computer Studies 

RE: How to interpret the Delivered-To: header

[Tim Hunter]

We can understand your reasoning for not posting sensitive information,
however without such information it is VERY tough to decide what exactly is
the problem.  Too much so to cause people to continue trying to help.
If you think that you have to mask your information perhaps you can send us
some information that doesn't need to be edited so that we can look at it
properly.

There is no need to continue this thread unless you are going to post useful
information.

-Original Message-
From: Norbert Bollow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 12:13 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to interpret the Delivered-To: header


If that is the consensus of this list, I'll just go and read the
qmail source and not bother to contribute by posting the answer.
Is this what you want?

-- Norbert.




> Norbert Bollow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > If you want answers, don't hide the evidence that we may need to find
them.
>
> > Well, there are very good reasons for avoiding to publicly
> > post personal data about a subscriber to an infertility support
> > group.
>
> If you cannot publicly post the information, without obscuring or hiding
it,
> then you should hire a paid consultant (there are several listed at
> www.qmail.org) to find and fix your problem.  If you want free help from a
> mailing list, expect to post real, unadulterated information.
>
> > Anyway, if no one can answer the question based on the information which
I
> > have shared (which is very likely all the relevant data) then I can read
the
> > qmail source and find the answer there.
>
> Lots of people here can answer your question.  They're just not going to
even
> bother to try if you arbitrarily replace useful information with
'**CENSORED**'.
>
> 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: How to interpret the Delivered-To: header

[Norbert Bollow]

Harald Hanche-Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Indeed.  But I don't think we need the user name.  The contents of
> control/virtualdomains file seems much more relevant,

$ cat /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains
bentwater-atlanta.com:bwater25
surrogacy.org:home0
surrogacy.com:home1
marketingspecifics.com:home2
salescenters.com:home2

> whether you have
> any stuff in users/assign that might have any bearing on the problem,

$ ls -la /var/qmail/users
total 2
drwxr-xr-x   2 root qmail1024 Dec 11 11:59 .
drwxr-xr-x  13 root qmail1024 Feb  5 07:43 ..

> relevant .qmail-* files,

$ ls -al ~home0/.qmail-0*
ls: /home/sites/home0/mail/.qmail-0*: No such file or directory

$ cat ~home0/.qmail-default
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

$ ls -al ~home0/.qmail-pps-l-return*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 home0root   36 Mar 13 03:50 
/home/sites/home0/mail/.qmail-pps-l-return-default -> 
/home/sites/home0/mail/pps-l/bouncer

$ cat ~home0/pps-l/bouncer
|/usr/local/bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-weed
|/usr/local/bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-return -D '/home/sites/home0/mail/pps-l'

> and ezmlm setup

What are the configuration files/options that you feel should be
shared?

Just to make sure that it doesn't get forgotten, the question
was how to interpret the Delivered-To: header which was added by
qmail, not ezmlm.  As (admittedly, not quite conclusive)
evidence for this claim I present the following grep, which was
done in the source directory from which the ezmlm executable was
built:

$ grep -i 'delivered-to' *.c *.h
ezmlm-get.c:  if (!stralloc_copys(&mydtline,"Delivered-To: responder for ")) 
die_nomem();
ezmlm-get.c:  if (case_startb(line.s,line.len,"delivered-to:"))
ezmlm-manage.c:  if (!stralloc_copys(&mydtline,"Delivered-To: responder for ")) 
die_nomem();
ezmlm-manage.c:  if (case_startb(line.s,line.len,"delivered-to:"))
ezmlm-reject.c:  if (!stralloc_copys(&mydtline,"Delivered-To: command forwarder 
for "))
ezmlm-request.c:   "Delivered-To: request processor for ")) die_nomem();
ezmlm-send.c:  if (!stralloc_copys(&mydtline,"Delivered-To: mailing list ")) 
die_nomem();
ezmlm-split.c:  qmail_puts(&qq,dtline); /* 
delivered-to */
ezmlm-store.c:  if (!stralloc_copys(&mydtline,"Delivered-To: moderator for ")) 
die_nomem();
errtxt.h:#define ERR_LOOPING "this message is looping: it already has my Delivered-To 
line (#5.4.6)"

The Delivered-To: line in question does not match any of the
forms of the Delivered-To: headers that ezmlm (I'm using
ezmlm-0.53/ezmlm-idx.040) would add.

God bless you,
Norbert

-- 
Norbert Bollow, Weidlistr.18, CH-8624 Gruet (near Zurich, Switzerland)
Tel +41 1 972 20 59  Fax +41 1 972 20 69[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to interpret the Delivered-To: header

[Norbert Bollow]

If that is the consensus of this list, I'll just go and read the
qmail source and not bother to contribute by posting the answer.
Is this what you want?

-- Norbert.




> Norbert Bollow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > If you want answers, don't hide the evidence that we may need to find them.
>  
> > Well, there are very good reasons for avoiding to publicly
> > post personal data about a subscriber to an infertility support
> > group.
> 
> If you cannot publicly post the information, without obscuring or hiding it,
> then you should hire a paid consultant (there are several listed at
> www.qmail.org) to find and fix your problem.  If you want free help from a
> mailing list, expect to post real, unadulterated information.
> 
> > Anyway, if no one can answer the question based on the information which I
> > have shared (which is very likely all the relevant data) then I can read the
> > qmail source and find the answer there.
> 
> Lots of people here can answer your question.  They're just not going to even
> bother to try if you arbitrarily replace useful information with '**CENSORED**'.
> 
> 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 mail not appearing in a session

[Charles Cazabon]

Tim Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> qmail-pop3d will not read mails that have a newer timestamp than the current
> time.

While we're on the subject, why is this?  I see nothing special about a
message in .../cur or .../new which happens to be dated in the future.
Is this a deliberate feature?

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: How to interpret the Delivered-To: header

[Mark Delany]

> Well, there are very good reasons for avoiding to publicly
> post personal data about a subscriber to an infertility support
> group.

Fine. If it needs to remain confidential, buy support from someone
identified on www.qmail.org and have them sign an NDA. Problem solved.

If you pay for support - they abide by your terms. If you want free
support then we ask you to abide by our terms. That's not asking too
much is it?

> Anyway, if no one can answer the question based on the
> information which I have shared (which is very likely all the
> relevant data)

If you want to guess what we need then be my guest to guess away at
your solution, just don't ask us to guess.


Regards.

Re: How to interpret the Delivered-To: header

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

| On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:14:48PM +0100, Norbert Bollow wrote:
| [snip]
| > Anyway, if no one can answer the question based on the
| > information which I have shared (which is very likely all the
| > relevant data) then I can read the qmail source and find the
| > answer there.
| 
| It is not all the relevant data. Stop thinking *you* know what *we*
| need to solve *your* problem.

Indeed.  But I don't think we need the user name.  The contents of
control/virtualdomains file seems much more relevant, whether you have
any stuff in users/assign that might have any bearing on the problem,
relevant .qmail-* files, and ezmlm setup (though you might need to ask
the ezmlm mailing list instead if the problem lies in that direction).

- Harald

Re: How to interpret the Delivered-To: header

[Charles Cazabon]

Norbert Bollow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you want answers, don't hide the evidence that we may need to find them.
 
> Well, there are very good reasons for avoiding to publicly
> post personal data about a subscriber to an infertility support
> group.

If you cannot publicly post the information, without obscuring or hiding it,
then you should hire a paid consultant (there are several listed at
www.qmail.org) to find and fix your problem.  If you want free help from a
mailing list, expect to post real, unadulterated information.

> Anyway, if no one can answer the question based on the information which I
> have shared (which is very likely all the relevant data) then I can read the
> qmail source and find the answer there.

Lots of people here can answer your question.  They're just not going to even
bother to try if you arbitrarily replace useful information with '**CENSORED**'.

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 mail not appearing in a session

[Tim Hunter]

qmail-pop3d will not read mails that have a newer timestamp than the current
time.
make sure your time is synched between the boxes.

-Original Message-
From: Brett Randall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 2:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: POP mail not appearing in a session


Maybe I'm just going crazy, but I am having stupid troubles with
qmail-pop3d.

I've got a server which has an NFS export (exporting /nfs/mail to *,
with rw, no_root_squash). I've got another server which mounts this
NFS share in the same location (/nfs/mail). Both servers are using NIS
and have exactly the same user information on both, and nsswitch.conf
both use nis first when looking for passwd and group.

Both servers start POP3 via:

/usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 pop3  /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \
bigbird.domain.com /usr/local/bin/checkpassword \
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &

Both servers appear to authenticate me without any problems when I
open a POP3 session, but only the one that has the NFS share locally
actually shows any mail. On both servers, I can type 'ls
~brett_remote/Maildir/new' (assuming brett_remote is the username that
is stored remotely but accessed via an NFS share), and I can see all
the new mail. But the POP3 daemon on the remote machine shows that I
have no mail.

For those that are wondering, the `remote' machine is a server located
in another part of the city in another set of offices. We allow
external pop access (ie REALLY external, like when they dial into
another ISP overseas) for all our staff, no matter which offices they
are located in, as long as they point their mail software to one
single POP3 server. This POP server then goes and grabs the mail via
NFS for the user. This is where the trouble is coming in.

Does anybody know why I would be able to access e-mail from the real
server, but not another one mounting it as an NFS share? I've never
had this problem before which is why I think I am going crazy... And
all the permissions are fine. That's not likely to be the problem
since the same NIS maps are on both servers.

TIA!
--
Calvin: I've been thinking, Hobbes
Hobbes: On a weekend?
Calvin: Well, it wasn't on purpose...

Re: How to interpret the Delivered-To: header

[Peter van Dijk]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:14:48PM +0100, Norbert Bollow wrote:
[snip]
> Anyway, if no one can answer the question based on the
> information which I have shared (which is very likely all the
> relevant data) then I can read the qmail source and find the
> answer there.

It is not all the relevant data. Stop thinking *you* know what *we*
need to solve *your* problem.

Greetz, Peter.

Re: pine Mailbox Can't open folder

[Thomas Beer]

Hi Eric, Hi All,

|   The personal configuration file: $HOME/.pinerc and
Ok I modified this to: inbox-path=home/username
and pine don't complains about the settings. But
instead he says there arent't any messages. But I sent 
one locally with qmail using echt to: ... and in the
current it seems that the message is delivered. Even
if I change the path to inbox-path=home/username/new
he don't complains but with the same result?!
What now?

Thanks for further suggestions Tom

Re: How to interpret the Delivered-To: header

[Norbert Bollow]

"Mark Delany" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:46:19AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> > Norbert Bollow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > How do you interpret the Delivered-To: header [...]
> > [...] 
> > > Note: in the following, '**CENSORED**' replaces the localpart of
> 
> > If you want answers, don't hide the evidence that we may need to find them.
> > You don't know the answer; that's why you're asking us -- so don't tell us
> > what information we do and do not need to find your answer for you.
> 
> Indeed. I always find it amusing that people have a problem they
> cannot solve, yet they know precisely what information is needed to
> solve it.
> 
> Funny people.

Well, there are very good reasons for avoiding to publicly
post personal data about a subscriber to an infertility support
group.

Anyway, if no one can answer the question based on the
information which I have shared (which is very likely all the
relevant data) then I can read the qmail source and find the
answer there.

God bless you,
Norbert

-- 
Norbert Bollow, Weidlistr.18, CH-8624 Gruet (near Zurich, Switzerland)
Tel +41 1 972 20 59  Fax +41 1 972 20 69[EMAIL PROTECTED]

qmail failing on recieve tests

[Karl Monaghan]

I've installed qmail on a RH6.2 machine, following the instructions from 
the SAMS qmail book and the Life with qmail doc.
The server is for the domain eeng.may.ie
My problem is that while all the tests in TEST.deliver work, some of the 
tests in TEST.recieve fail.
When I telnet into port 25 it fails (see below for input and output), when 
I send a mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] it succeeds, it fails when I send it 
from [EMAIL PROTECTED], it fails when I try to send it from 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using outlook (pop3 works fine though 
using outlook).
Those that fail respond with Sorry, I couldn't find any host named 
?. (#5.1.2)

Any pointers of where to start looking at?

Thanks,

Karl.


---
Testing smtp via telnet:
Input:
[karl@lupine karl]$ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to lupine.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 lupine.eeng.may.ie - Welcome to the Electronic Enginnering SMTP server 
ESMTP
helo karl
250 lupine.eeng.may.ie - Welcome to the Electronic Enginnering SMTP server
mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
250 ok
rcpt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
250 ok
data
354 go ahead
Subject: testing

blah
.
250 ok 984498210 qp 8283
quit
221 lupine.eeng.may.ie - Welcome to the Electronic Enginnering SMTP server
Connection closed by foreign host.

Output:
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at eeng.may.ie.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following 
addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<[EMAIL PROTECTED] >:
Sorry, I couldn't find any host named eeng.may.ie?. (#5.1.2)

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Received: (qmail 8283 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2001 15:43:17 -
Received: from unknown (HELO karl) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
  by localhost with SMTP; 13 Mar 2001 15:43:17 -
Subject: testing

blah

Re: Scanning qmail LOGs ~ cronjob...

[Mike Jackson]

Jesse Sunday wrote:
> 
> Sort of off topic, I know...
> 
> Someone please enlighten me as to how I would have a cron job scan my
> /var/log/maillog for a sting (or more)
> 
> /usr/local/sbin/postfix check; egrep '(reject|warning|error|fatal|panic):'
> /var/log/maillog
> 
> ^^ Is a cron job I have now...   would it be similar???
> 
> grep /var/log/maillog (words) | mail -s "Yack" [EMAIL PROTECTED]  ???  how
> would I do it???
> 
> Thanks!!!
> 
> Jesse
> 
> PS I am not asking how to install cron jobs, just what string would I use...


Write a shell or perl script that does what you want, and run the script
from cron. It would seem to make alot more sense...

Mike

Re: Scanning qmail LOGs ~ cronjob...

[Jesse Sunday]

Well I figured this out, does anyone have something cleaner???


cat /var/log/maillog | grep words | mail -s "yack" [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Thanks!!!



:
:
: Sort of off topic, I know...
:
: Someone please enlighten me as to how I would have a cron job scan my
: /var/log/maillog for a sting (or more)
:
: /usr/local/sbin/postfix check; egrep '(reject|warning|error|fatal|panic):'
: /var/log/maillog
:
: ^^ Is a cron job I have now...   would it be similar???
:
: grep /var/log/maillog (words) | mail -s "Yack" [EMAIL PROTECTED]  ???  how
: would I do it???
:
:
: Thanks!!!
:
:
: Jesse
:
: PS I am not asking how to install cron jobs, just what string would I
use...
:

Scanning qmail LOGs ~ cronjob...

[Jesse Sunday]

Sort of off topic, I know...

Someone please enlighten me as to how I would have a cron job scan my
/var/log/maillog for a sting (or more)

/usr/local/sbin/postfix check; egrep '(reject|warning|error|fatal|panic):'
/var/log/maillog

^^ Is a cron job I have now...   would it be similar???

grep /var/log/maillog (words) | mail -s "Yack" [EMAIL PROTECTED]  ???  how
would I do it???


Thanks!!!


Jesse

PS I am not asking how to install cron jobs, just what string would I use...

Re: How to interpret the Delivered-To: header

[Mark Delany]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:46:19AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Norbert Bollow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How do you interpret the Delivered-To: header [...]
> [...] 
> > Note: in the following, '**CENSORED**' replaces the localpart of

> If you want answers, don't hide the evidence that we may need to find them.
> You don't know the answer; that's why you're asking us -- so don't tell us
> what information we do and do not need to find your answer for you.

Indeed. I always find it amusing that people have a problem they
cannot solve, yet they know precisely what information is needed to
solve it.

Funny people.


Regards.

Re: How to interpret the Delivered-To: header

[Charles Cazabon]

Norbert Bollow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do you interpret the Delivered-To: header [...]
[...] 
> Note: in the following, '**CENSORED**' replaces the localpart of
> the subscriber email address, which consists of a reasonable
> number (between 4 and 8) of lower-case Ascii letters.

Note that in the following answer, '**CENSORED**' replaces a random english
word, phrase, or alphanumeric series of 1-78 characters.

**CENSORED**
**CENSORED** **CENSORED** **CENSORED**
**CENSORED**
**CENSORED** **CENSORED**

If you want answers, don't hide the evidence that we may need to find them.
You don't know the answer; that's why you're asking us -- so don't tell us
what information we do and do not need to find your answer for you.

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 to interpret the Delivered-To: header

[Norbert Bollow]

How do you interpret the Delivered-To: header to determine what
address a message was really sent to?  Specifically, I want to
figure out why the message below went to me (probably via a
-default address) instead of being discarded by Ezmlm's bounce-
handler.

home0 is the user account which handles the surrogacy.org
virtual domain.

Then comes a myterious "0." which I don't understand.

Any clues?

-- Norbert.

Note: in the following, '**CENSORED**' replaces the localpart of
the subscriber email address, which consists of a reasonable
number (between 4 and 8) of lower-case Ascii letters.

--snip
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Re: POP mail not appearing in a session

[Charles Cazabon]

Brett Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Does anybody know why I would be able to access e-mail from the real
> server, but not another one mounting it as an NFS share?

This has come up on the list before.  In at least one case, the problem was
that the clocks of the two machines were out of sync -- apparently qmail-pop3d
will not list messages dated in the future, so you see no mail.  Sync the
clocks of the two machines with xntpd or djb's clockspeed and see if that
helps.

Charles
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Re: canonical name in DNS

[Kirill Miazine]

You can use ./config-fast to configure qmail. or add an A record for sanfransisco.

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 06:13:23PM +0700, Essy Ren wrote:
> When I follow the config command to configure the qmail, it's say something like 
>this :
> 
> ./config
> Your hostname is sanfransisco.
> hard error
> Sorry, I couldn't find your host's canonical name in DNS.
> You will have to set up control/me yourself.
> 
> And here's is my DNS setting :
> 
> $TTL 86400
> erakarsa.local. IN SOA sanfransisco.erakarsa.local. essy.erakarsa.local. (
> 1   ; Serial
> 10800   ; Refresh after 3 hours
> 3600; Retry after 1 hour
> 604800  ; Expire after 1 week
> 14400 ); Minimum TTL of 1 day
> 
> erakarsa.local. IN NS sanfransisco.erakarsa.local.
> 
> localhost.erakarsa.local.   IN  A   127.0.0.1
> koni.erakarsa.local.IN  A   192.168.1.23
> 
> erakarsa.local. IN  MX  10 mail.erakarsa.local.
> mail.erakarsa.local.IN  A   192.168.1.23
> 
> Can you help me  
-- 
Kirill

RE: canonical name in DNS

["Próspero, Esteban"]

why don't you try adding sanfransisco to your DNS file? (i.e. sanfransisco
IN A192.168.1.1)

Esteban Javier Próspero

> -Original Message-
> From: Essy Ren [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 8:13 AM
> To:   qmail
> Subject:  canonical name in DNS
> 
> When I follow the config command to configure the qmail, it's say
> something like this :
>  
> ./config
> Your hostname is sanfransisco.
> hard error
> Sorry, I couldn't find your host's canonical name in DNS.
> You will have to set up control/me yourself.
>  
> And here's is my DNS setting :
>  
> $TTL 86400
> erakarsa.local. IN SOA sanfransisco.erakarsa.local. essy.erakarsa.local. (
> 1   ; Serial
> 10800   ; Refresh after 3 hours
> 3600; Retry after 1 hour
> 604800  ; Expire after 1 week
> 14400 ); Minimum TTL of 1 day
>  
> erakarsa.local. IN NS sanfransisco.erakarsa.local.
>  
> localhost.erakarsa.local.   IN  A   127.0.0.1
> koni.erakarsa.local.IN  A   192.168.1.23
>  
> erakarsa.local. IN  MX  10 mail.erakarsa.local.
> mail.erakarsa.local.IN  A   192.168.1.23
>  
> Can you help me  

Re: rc directory

[Henning Brauer]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:45:17PM -0500, Peter Cavender wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Essy Ren wrote:
> 
> > I'll try install qmail to my computer,
> > and I follow the instruction from INSTALL guide 
> > the problem is I don't find the rc direktori at /var/qmail/
> > There's only 
> > /alias
> > /bin
> > /boot
> > /control
> > /doc
> > /man
> > /queue
> > /users
> > Why it's gonna happen ? and should I make the directory by myself ?
> > thanks ... 
> 
> 
> I think you are referring to the /etc/rc.d/init.d, or similar directory,
> dpending on your distributionwhere are your start scripts
> stored?  What distro are you using?

No, I think he's looking for /var/qmail/rc. This is no directory, this is a
file. choose one from /var/qmail/boot/, copy and modify it.

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canonical name in DNS

[Essy Ren]

When I follow the config command to configure the 
qmail, it's say something like this :
 
./configYour hostname is sanfransisco.hard 
errorSorry, I couldn't find your host's canonical name in DNS.You will 
have to set up control/me yourself.
 
And here's is my DNS setting :
 
$TTL 86400erakarsa.local. IN SOA 
sanfransisco.erakarsa.local. essy.erakarsa.local. 
(    
1   ; 
Serial    
10800   ; Refresh after 3 
hours    
3600    ; Retry after 1 
hour    
604800  ; Expire after 1 
week    
14400 ); Minimum TTL of 1 day
 
erakarsa.local. IN NS 
sanfransisco.erakarsa.local.
 
localhost.erakarsa.local.   
IN  A   
127.0.0.1koni.erakarsa.local.    
IN  A   
192.168.1.23
 
erakarsa.local. 
IN  MX  10 
mail.erakarsa.local.mail.erakarsa.local.    
IN  A   
192.168.1.23
 
Can you help me  

qmail Digest 13 Mar 2001 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 1302

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qmail Digest 13 Mar 2001 11:00:01 - Issue 1302

Topics (messages 58896 through 58956):

Re: qmail-pop3d bug
58896 by: Mark Delany
58901 by: Vincent Schonau
58902 by: Michael T. Babcock
58904 by: Peter van Dijk
58909 by: Kris Kelley

Re: Please help!!!
58897 by: Mark Delany
58948 by: Sean Coyle

Re: Virtual hosts
58898 by: Pawel Garbowski

Re: Starting qmail from /etc/init.d/...
58899 by: Noah Sematimba
58939 by: Eric Pretorious
58940 by: Eric Pretorious
58941 by: Eric Pretorious
58943 by: Eric Pretorious

Incoming / Outgoing Rules
58900 by: Sumith

Re: Yet another weird POP3 problem
58903 by: Bedel, Pierre

Mailwrapper not working
58905 by: Alex Le Fevre
58906 by: Peter van Dijk
58908 by: Alex Le Fevre
58914 by: Henning Brauer
58916 by: Charles Cazabon
58917 by: Alex Le Fevre
58918 by: Henning Brauer
58920 by: Alex Le Fevre
58923 by: Henning Brauer

Re: traffic
58907 by: Kris Kelley

check on valid user
58910 by: gmo.gmx.de
58912 by: Charles Cazabon

qmail and Solaris?
58911 by: Roger Walker

Re: 2 questions
58913 by: David Dyer-Bennet

POP3D Traffic
58915 by: Estephano

Delay pop3
58919 by: Desarrollo y Sistemas
58922 by: Charles Cazabon

how do I check on a specific message delivery?
58921 by: william f guyton jr
58925 by: Aaron L. Meehan

pine Mailbox Can't open folder
58924 by: Thomas Beer
58927 by: Jason Kawaja
58933 by: Thomas Beer
58934 by: Jason Kawaja
58937 by: Eric Pretorious
58946 by: Eric Pretorious

Filter
58926 by: Ari Arantes Filho

Relaying and changing servers
58928 by: Ryan Pape
58931 by: Charles Cazabon

Being verbose in error messages
58929 by: Michael T. Babcock

move basic qmail directory
58930 by: Jesús Arnáiz
58932 by: Charles Cazabon

Re: question with qmail-remote
58935 by: Michael Boyiazis

Re: Qmail-Popup Problem
58936 by: Keary Suska

rc directory
58938 by: Essy Ren
58942 by: Kurth Bemis
58944 by: Peter Cavender
58950 by: Paulus Hendarwan
58953 by: Peter van Dijk

Username @ host.
58945 by: Grant

Slow SMTP and POP3 response (sorry, it's a long one)
58947 by: Ahmad Ridha
58951 by: Andrew Richards
58952 by: Ahmad Ridha

POP mail not appearing in a session
58949 by: Brett Randall

How to unsuscribe?
58954 by: Sergio Saugar García

MAXIMUM NUMBER OF RECIPIENTS/MAIL
58955 by: qmailu
58956 by: Peter van Dijk

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> > A more sensible strategy might be to introduce a new "info" flag (say
> > '3' equals POP wire size) on the filename, eg, a 10,000 byte email has
> > a name something like this:
> > 
> > Maildir/new/980195114.16740.geex:2,RS3,1
> 
> From reading http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html>, it is not clear to me
> that this would be the proper format for such an 'info' extension. I would
> worry that MUAs and other software dealing with maildir (scripts!) would
> expect info semantics in the 2, series to be at the end of the filenames.

Indeed, and given that "info is morally equivalent to the Status field
used by mbox readers" I suspect that the my suggested syntax is beyond
the original intent.

> > Optimally the wire-size is calculated when the mail is written to
> > Maildir/tmp/ and then applied as an "info" flag when the file is moved
> > to Maildir/new/.
> 
> > A possible complication with this approach is that my reading of
> > Maildir infers that "info" can only be set when the file moves from
> > Maildir/new/ to Maildir/cur/.
>  
> No, this is not what that document says. It says
> 
>"When you move a file from new to cur, you have to change it's name [...]"

You stopped quoting before the most important part! Here's the
complete sentence.

"When you move a file from new to cur, you have to change its name
from uniq to uniq:info."

To me that implies that a file in new cannot have an "info" section.

> You *have* to change the name when the file move from new/ to cur/ , but
> there is no specification of other cases; in fact, lots of MUA's will change
> info when the file has been in cur/ for a while: mutt, for example, moves
> the file from new/ to cur/, adds :2, and only modifies that to be 2,S after
> the user has read the message (it is no longer 'N'ew).

Right, but that's my point. To specify another case.


Regards.





On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:0

Re: MAXIMUM NUMBER OF RECIPIENTS/MAIL

[Peter van Dijk]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 04:01:23PM +0530, qmailu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How do I restrict the maximum number of recipients/mail and how do I restrict 
>maximum number of mails/transaction ?

Do you think you can get rid of the capital letters?

Greetz, Peter.

MAXIMUM NUMBER OF RECIPIENTS/MAIL

[qmailu]

Hi,
 
How do I restrict the maximum number of 
recipients/mail and how do I restrict maximum number of mails/transaction 
?
 
Raghu

How to unsuscribe?

[Sergio Saugar García]

Re: rc directory

[Peter van Dijk]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:19:11PM -0500, Kurth Bemis wrote:
> At 08:39 PM 3/12/2001, Essy Ren wrote:
> 
> whats teh /alias for?  i think that you may have done a mkdir alias in / 
> instead of /var/qmail.  did you read lifewithqmail?  read it at 

His listing was /var/qmail. The alias dir is correct.

Greetz, Peter.

RE: Slow SMTP and POP3 response (sorry, it's a long one)

[Ahmad Ridha]

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At 09:18 AM 03/13/2001 +, Andrew Richards wrote:
>Ahmad,
>
>Without reading your message in detail, this sounds like
>one of the FAQs - checkout the -H, -R and -l (That's a
>lower-case L) options to tcpserver: Your system is
>probably failing on ident or DNS lookups.
>
>Dig around in the archives for more info (keywords:
>slow, tcpserver).

It's finally done. As you can see in my previous mail I've used the -R and 
- -H options to
tcpserver because they're usually suggested to such a problem (after digging
a while). I just added the -l option and my server is now responsive fast 
enough.
I guess I didn't dig long enough. Thanks.

Regards,

Ahmad Ridha
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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RE: Slow SMTP and POP3 response (sorry, it's a long one)

[Andrew Richards]

Ahmad,

Without reading your message in detail, this sounds like
one of the FAQs - checkout the -H, -R and -l (That's a
lower-case L) options to tcpserver: Your system is
probably failing on ident or DNS lookups.

Dig around in the archives for more info (keywords:
slow, tcpserver).

cheers,

Andrew.

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From:   Ahmad Ridha[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   13 March 2001 05:11
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Slow SMTP and POP3 response (sorry, it's a long one)


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Dear All,

We're currently migrating our server from sendmail+inetd (on Linux kernel 
2.2.13) to qmail+tcpserver.
It's generally done except for one thing. The SMTP and POP3 response is 
much slower than before.
What I mean by slower is about 50 seconds to nearly 2 minutes. It's not 
acceptable to most of our users.
The server is meant to provide mailing service to local network.  Following 
are the logs showing the fact.

/var/log/qmail/smtpd/current

2001-03-13 12:22:16.696959500 tcpserver: status: 0/20
2001-03-13 12:24:52.563739500 tcpserver: status: 1/20
2001-03-13 12:24:52.564019500 tcpserver: pid 2100 from 10.2.2.3
2001-03-13 12:26:50.742521500 tcpserver: ok 2100 :202.159.95.54:25 
:10.2.2.3::1130

/var/log/qmail/pop3d/current

2001-03-13 12:20:35.713440500 tcpserver: status: 0/40
2001-03-13 12:27:55.880273500 tcpserver: status: 1/40
2001-03-13 12:27:55.880431500 tcpserver: pid 2133 from 10.2.2.3
2001-03-13 12:29:12.100342500 tcpserver: ok 2133 :202.159.95.54:110 
:10.2.2.3::1151

I know that this is an FAQ but before flaming me please take a look what 
I've tried to do.
Here are my configuration (basically following LWQ):

Output of qmail-showctl (some are deleted but they are just default ones):

qmail home directory: /var/qmail.
user-ext delimiter: -.
paternalism (in decimal): 2.
silent concurrency limit: 120.
subdirectory split: 23.
user ids: 7790, 7791, 7792, 0, 7793, 7794, 7795, 7796.
group ids: 2108, 2107.

bouncehost: (Default.) Bounce host name is lsi.ipb.ac.id.
concurrencylocal: (Default.) Local concurrency is 10.
concurrencyremote: (Default.) Remote concurrency is 20.
databytes: (Default.) SMTP DATA limit is 0 bytes.
defaultdomain: Default domain name is ipb.ac.id.
defaulthost: (Default.) Default host name is lsi.ipb.ac.id.
helohost: (Default.) SMTP client HELO host name is lsi.ipb.ac.id.
idhost: (Default.) Message-ID host name is lsi.ipb.ac.id.
localiphost: (Default.) Local IP address becomes lsi.ipb.ac.id.
locals:
Messages for localhost are delivered locally.
Messages for lsi.ipb.ac.id are delivered locally.
Messages for perpus.ipb.ac.id are delivered locally.
Messages for pustaka.ipb.ac.id are delivered locally.
me: My name is lsi.ipb.ac.id.
plusdomain: Plus domain name is ac.id.
rcpthosts: (Default.) SMTP clients may send messages to any recipient.

perpus.ipb.ac.id and pustaka.ipb.ac.id are not yet registered to the 
machine (202.159.95.54) but lsi.ipb.ac.id is.
Relaying is controlled by tcpserver

/etc/tcp.smtp

202.159.95.54:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
10.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""

qmail-smtpd and qmail-popup use tcpserver and supervise

/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run

#!/bin/sh
QMAILDUID='id -u qmaild'
NOFILESGID='id -g qmaild'
MAXSMTPD='cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming'
exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \
 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -R -H -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 20 \
-u 7791 -g 2108  0 25 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1

/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \
   /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \
   lsi.ipb.ac.id \
   /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1

As you can see I have tried using both options -R and -H which are usually 
advised for this kind of problem.

Our qmail start script is basically using the LWQ version with minor change 
to incorporate pop3d using supervise

|#!/bin/sh

- --deleted--

   pause)
- --deleted--
 echo "Pausing qmail-pop3d"
 svc -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3d
 ;;
   cont)
- --deleted--
 echo "Continuing qmail-pop3d"
 svc -c /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3d
 ;;
   restart)
- --deleted--
 echo "* Restarting qmail-pop3d"
 svc -u /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3d
 ;;
- --deleted--

exit 0

I apologize for the length of this message but we're a bit stuck here. 
Thank you
in advance.

Regards,

Ahmad Ridha
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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