archives
Can somebody, please, point me to where the qmail archives are and hot to look at them? Kirti
Re: [OT] supervise sshd?
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:22:20AM -0500, Peter Cavender wrote: > I want to run the openssh daemon under supervise...should my "run" script be: > > #!/bin/sh > exec /usr/local/sbin/sshd -D > > I am not sure what options to use with sshd. > As above it seems to work; > if I use no options it flips out; > using fghack it seems to work but I always get a zombied (initial) > sshd process. > > > Anybody else doing this? > Yes, I am. My run script looks like this: #!/bin/sh exec fghack /usr/local/sbin/sshd <&- I don't know what -D does. You probably meant to use -d (debug); while it suppresses sshd's urge to background itself, it also only allows one connection. This is fine if you have a good connection which never drops. Unfortunately, I'm having a little trouble in that department about now, so I managed to lock myself out of my system doing that. (Fortunately, I have two routes into my internal network.) Also fortunately, -d turns out not to be needed. -- David Benfell [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature. -- Benjamin Franklin. [from fortune] PGP signature
Re: File permissions needed to run qfilter
I reply to my own message hoping informations will help somebody else. /var/qmail/qfilter (directory) -> as another qmail dir /var/qmail/qfilter/tmp (directory) -> 700 (or 1777) qmaild.qmail (assuming user "qmaild" is running tcpserver for smtp) /var/qmail/qfilter/qfilter-test (file) containing, e.g. : #!/usr/sh exec /usr/bin/qmail-qfilter /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject -n -> 755 as another script /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue(file) -> The same as qmail installed it. (needs to be setuid, mine is 4755 qmailq.qmail owned) /usr/bin/qmail-qfilter(file) -> 755 or 711 (or even 111), as long as its executable Thanks to M. Guenter. Jean-Christophe D. --- Jean-Christophe Debosschère <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, Could someone please tell me exactly what are the permissions (+ UID/GID) I have to set for : /var/qmail/qfilter (directory) /var/qmail/qfilter/tmp (directory) (needed to compile qfilter as I read in qfilter's README file) /var/qmail/qfilter/qfilter-test (file) containing : #!/usr/sh exec /usr/bin/qmail-qfilter /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject -n /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue (file) /usr/bin/qmail-qfilter (file) I searched solutions in archives but I jumped from errors to errors... now I'm lost :-( TIA Jean-Christophe --- End forwarded message ---
Re: ISP
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 11:23:26PM +0200, NICOLAS Jean-Michel (@ HoME) wrote: [snip] > I'm looking for information about BSMTP (hosting mail domain and > deliver mail to dialup server). > > Where can I find information (example/configuration) ? serialmail by Bernstein might do the trick... Jörgen
Can you help me ??(about limit of the number of per process file hand
Dear All, I am newer of learning FreeBSD and qmail. Now when I config the limit of the number of per process file handles for qmail to send about a concurrencyremote of 1000 ,I meet the question that I can not increase the number of file handles about a concurrencyremote of 500 (I have patched the patch ). I modify the types.h file at /usr/src/sys/sys/types.h ,and set "#define FD_SETSIZE 4096" ,but when I do "make" in the install firld ,there is some mistakes : ./chkspawn Oops. Your system's FD_SET() has a hidden limit of 1024 descriptors. This means that the qmail daemons could crash if you set the run-time concurrency higher than 509. So I'm going to insist that the concurrency limit in conf-spawn be at most 509. Right now it's 600. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/home/zsh/qmail/qmail-1.03. So I am very hurry. I think you can help me . Thank you very much Sincerely, wings
Re: ISP
> > I'm looking for information about BSMTP (hosting mail domain and > > deliver mail to dialup server). > > > > Where can I find information (example/configuration) ? > > serialmail by Bernstein might do the trick... For compressed batches over UUCP the BSMTP package by Olaf Titz would be better. It's on www.qmail.org. Regards, Frank
newbie: relaying
Hi all, I have on my server qmail installed. Before i had sendmail. In sendmail i had not open relay. But Now in qmail i have. I dont want open relay. I red on the http://www.palomine.net/qmail/relaying.html page that is important put only (in my case egarden.cz domain) allow domain to the /etc/qmail/rcpthosta. So I putted the only egarden.cz domain to the rcpthosta, then restart qmail but open relay is still functional. :-(( Could You help me? my server is egarden.cz info: 0 root@egarden:qmail# pwd /etc/qmail 1 root@egarden:qmail# v total 24 drwxr-xr-x3 root root 4096 Mar 28 11:51 ./ drwxr-x--x 64 root root 4096 Mar 28 10:56 ../ -rw-r--r--1 root root 27 Mar 27 13:35 locals -rw-r--r--1 root root 11 Mar 27 11:24 me -rw-r--r--1 root root 11 Mar 28 11:51 rcpthosta drwxr-xr-x2 root qmail4096 Mar 27 14:28 users/ 0 root@egarden:qmail# cat locals egarden.cz os2.cz sinaj.cz 0 root@egarden:qmail# cat me egarden.cz 0 root@egarden:qmail# cat rcpthosta egarden.cz 0 root@egarden:qmail# telnet 0 25 Trying 0.0.0.0... Connected to 0. Escape character is '^]'. helo 220 egarden.cz ESMTP helo seznam.cz 250 egarden.cz mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 ok rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 ok data 354 go ahead Subject: test relay this is only relaying test. kolisko . 250 ok 985773667 qp 23681 quit 221 egarden.cz Connection closed by foreign host. 1 root@egarden:qmail# S pozdravem, Michal Kolesar +420 608 225025 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.egarden.cz server of free unix services
RE: newbie: relaying
Michal, > I dont want open relay. > I red on the http://www.palomine.net/qmail/relaying.html page that > is important put only (in my case egarden.cz domain) allow domain > to the /etc/qmail/rcpthosta. So I putted the only egarden.cz domain > to the rcpthosta, then restart qmail but open relay is still functional. Not rcpthosta but rcpthosts - that should fix your problem. Also note that qmail is normally installed in /var/qmail, not /etc/qmail. I presume you altered /var/qmail to /etc/qmail in conf-home when compiling qmail. If not, put your control files in /var/qmail/control instead. cheers, Andrew.
Re: newbie: relaying
On 28 Mar 2001 12:07:40 +0200, - = k o l i s k o = - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >0 root@egarden:qmail# cat locals >egarden.cz >os2.cz >sinaj.cz >0 root@egarden:qmail# cat me >egarden.cz >0 root@egarden:qmail# cat rcpthosta >egarden.cz > >0 root@egarden:qmail# telnet 0 25 >Trying 0.0.0.0... >Connected to 0. >Escape character is '^]'. >helo 220 egarden.cz ESMTP >helo seznam.cz >250 egarden.cz >mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >250 ok >rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >250 ok >data >354 go ahead >Subject: test relay > >this is only relaying test. >kolisko >. >250 ok 985773667 qp 23681 >quit >221 egarden.cz >Connection closed by foreign host. You connected from Your own host. I think You have additionally a cdb for the tcpserver where qmail-smtpd is running under, where RELAYCLIENT="" is set. Look for something like this. It is perfectly OK when You do selective relaying based on IP-addresses You know and trust. Greetings -- Robert Sander Computer Scientist Epigenomics AG Bioinformatics R&Dwww.epigenomics.com Kastanienallee 24 +493024345330 10435 Berlin
Re: newbie: relaying
> is important put only (in my case egarden.cz domain) allow domain > to the /etc/qmail/rcpthosta. So I putted the only egarden.cz domain > to the rcpthosta, then restart qmail but open relay is still functional. This file is called rcpthosts, not rcpthosta. Normally it resides under /var/qmail/control. Unless you know exactly what you do, you should not change qmails paths. Regards, Frank
Re: newbie: relaying
hi, try to run qmail with tcpserver. in tcpserver you will buid a file where you can specifiy which ip will be able to relay or not. for further informations read the man pages of tcpserver...they are very helpfull :-) cu ycae - = k o l i s k o = - wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have on my server qmail installed. Before i had sendmail. > In sendmail i had not open relay. But Now in qmail > i have. > > I dont want open relay. > I red on the http://www.palomine.net/qmail/relaying.html page that > is important put only (in my case egarden.cz domain) allow domain > to the /etc/qmail/rcpthosta. So I putted the only egarden.cz domain > to the rcpthosta, then restart qmail but open relay is still functional. > :-(( > > Could You help me? > > my server is egarden.cz > > info: > 0 root@egarden:qmail# pwd > /etc/qmail > 1 root@egarden:qmail# v > total 24 > drwxr-xr-x3 root root 4096 Mar 28 11:51 ./ > drwxr-x--x 64 root root 4096 Mar 28 10:56 ../ > -rw-r--r--1 root root 27 Mar 27 13:35 locals > -rw-r--r--1 root root 11 Mar 27 11:24 me > -rw-r--r--1 root root 11 Mar 28 11:51 rcpthosta > drwxr-xr-x2 root qmail4096 Mar 27 14:28 users/ > 0 root@egarden:qmail# cat locals > egarden.cz > os2.cz > sinaj.cz > 0 root@egarden:qmail# cat me > egarden.cz > 0 root@egarden:qmail# cat rcpthosta > egarden.cz > > 0 root@egarden:qmail# telnet 0 25 > Trying 0.0.0.0... > Connected to 0. > Escape character is '^]'. > helo 220 egarden.cz ESMTP > helo seznam.cz > 250 egarden.cz > mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 250 ok > rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 250 ok > data > 354 go ahead > Subject: test relay > > this is only relaying test. > kolisko > . > 250 ok 985773667 qp 23681 > quit > 221 egarden.cz > Connection closed by foreign host. > 1 root@egarden:qmail# > > S pozdravem, > Michal Kolesar > +420 608 225025 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.egarden.cz > server of free unix services -- Yves Caetano Server Support Engineer Tel: +352 295383 254 Fax: +352 295383 222 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.incotech.lu
qmail Digest 28 Mar 2001 11:00:00 -0000 Issue 1317
qmail Digest 28 Mar 2001 11:00:00 - Issue 1317 Topics (messages 59786 through 59870): Re: alias 59786 by: Cleiton L. Siqueira Re: Tcpserver 59787 by: Vincent Schonau 59789 by: MIS - Ben Murphy 59791 by: Sumith 59792 by: Frank Tegtmeyer 59795 by: Russell Nelson 59803 by: Vincent Schonau 59807 by: Robin S. Socha 59809 by: MOkondo 59810 by: Dave Sill 59812 by: Sumith 59817 by: Richard Zimmerman 59819 by: Charles Cazabon 59823 by: Bill Andersen 59825 by: Charles Cazabon 59827 by: Michael T. Babcock 59830 by: Henning Brauer 59833 by: Robin S. Socha 59836 by: Johnson, Garrett 59839 by: Charles Cazabon 59840 by: Niles 500 Generic bad response 59788 by: Andy Abshagen Re: qmail and sms 59790 by: MIS - Ben Murphy 59859 by: Essy Ren Re: Secondary SMTP-server 59793 by: Russell Nelson 59794 by: Russell Nelson 59797 by: James Raftery RE:RE: how can i run qmail on a port that is not 25 under tcpserver? 59796 by: Lucas Re: Tcpserver - GONE A BIT FAR ... 59798 by: TAG 59802 by: Charles Cazabon 59805 by: Niles 59811 by: Kurth Bemis 59828 by: Henning Brauer 59829 by: Henning Brauer 59850 by: Kirti S. Bajwa 59851 by: Kirti S. Bajwa 59852 by: Brett Randall 59857 by: Russell Nelson users/assign Problems! Please Help. 59799 by: Mike Jackson Re: postings messed up 59800 by: Charles Cazabon Re: serial mail 59801 by: Charles Cazabon Re: Log entry: success: did_0+0+0??? 59804 by: Harald Hanche-Olsen Re: Symbolic link to datemail? 59806 by: Dave Sill 59826 by: Timothy Legant test, it appears that my postings are not arriving 59808 by: Mike Jackson qmail Virus Scanner Memory question 59813 by: John McCoy, Jr. 59815 by: Charles Cazabon 59820 by: John McCoy, Jr. 59824 by: Charles Cazabon Re: Using DRAC with qmail? 59814 by: Steven Katz 59816 by: Charles Cazabon Weird problem... X-MS-TNEF-Correlator 59818 by: Kris von Mach Random Bounce 59821 by: jean 59856 by: Chris Johnson 59858 by: jean Update on qmail/Outlook hang 59822 by: Carey Jung qmail won't receive email 59831 by: Kevin Smith 59834 by: Charles Cazabon 59835 by: Robin S. Socha 59837 by: Niles migrating from MS Exchange to q-mail 59832 by: Tuchyna, Roman 59841 by: Mike Jackson 59842 by: Tuchyna, Roman 59843 by: Robin S. Socha 59845 by: Hubbard, David 59846 by: Mike Jackson 59847 by: schoon.amgt.com 59848 by: Medi Montaseri 59849 by: Medi Montaseri 59855 by: Al Lipscomb ISP 59838 by: NICOLAS Jean-Michel \(. HoME\) 59862 by: Jörgen Persson 59864 by: Frank Tegtmeyer Re: rcphosts error 59844 by: chris qmailadmin 0.42 errors. 59853 by: Jesús Arnáiz qmailadmin 0.42 59854 by: Jesús Arnáiz 59865 by: Ismail YENIGUL Re: [OT] supervise sshd? 59860 by: David Benfell Re: File permissions needed to run qfilter 59861 by: jc.deb.ibelgique.com Can you help me ??(about limit of the number of per process file hand 59863 by: Baoguo Xu newbie: relaying 59866 by: - = k o l i s k o = - 59867 by: Andrew Richards 59868 by: Robert Sander 59869 by: Frank Tegtmeyer 59870 by: Yves Caetano Administrivia: To unsubscribe from the digest, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the digest, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To bug my human owner, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To post to the list, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Hi, Did you put your domain into the "me" file? You can try to do it! Another thing that you could try to do would be to put into the .qmail-alias file the following text: &[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cleiton On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:34:04AM -0500, Robin S. Socha wrote: > Keep in mind that a) this is not a support forum Huh? http://cr.yp.to/djb.html> * qmail support questions. Send them to the qmail mailing list instead. Maybe you're getting carried away a bit. If this list is not a support forum for qmail, what _is_? Vince. Vince, 1) Thanks for mailing in text not HTML, Robin's comments were correct, but a little harsh i think, and maybe he did get carried away. But lets not let this escalate to world war three.. 2) The mailing list IS as I understand for support, discussions, etc. 3) In response to your original posting, below is a few comments/questions... 1) tcpserver -c 400Would this number sustain after a reboot... What Linux O/S you running? For example if you we
Re: qmailadmin 0.42
hi give following option too --enable-vpopuser=vpopmail byee On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jesús Arnáiz wrote: > Hi! > > I try to compile qmailadmin0.42, but I get this errors: > > > > [ /servers/src/qmailadmin-0.42]# > ./configure -enable-cgibindir=/servers/apache/cgi-bin >--enable-htmldir=/servers/apache > /htdocs -enable-qmaildir=/servers/qmail --enable-ezmlmdir=/servers/ezmlm/ > > > [ /servers/src/qmailadmin-0.42]# make > make all-recursive > gcc -I. -g -O2 -c qmailadmin.c > qmailadmin.c:30: vpopmail.h: No such file or directory > qmailadmin.c:31: vauth.h: No such file or directory > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /servers/src/qmailadmin-0.42. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /servers/src/qmailadmin-0.42. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /servers/src/qmailadmin-0.42. > - > > I use vpopmail 4.9.6-1 > > any help?? > > Thanks in advance > > > -- > Jesús Arnáiz > 0z0ne Inc I+D/IT Manager > http://www.0z0ne.com > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
FW: DNS question
-Original Message- From: David T. Ashley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 6:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DNS question I read the HOWTO for q-mail, but there is one thing I don't understand. It states that I need a DNS and that my machines have to be listed in the DNS for qmail to work. I have a hardware firewall (one of those $150 boxes) guarding my DSL line with a static IP. Is it good enough that my static IP has a reverse-DNS resolution, or do my "internal" addresses need to resolve as well. For example, my static IP is 64.129.57.5, but the server (internally, behind the firewall) is 192.168.0.33. Clearly, trying to reverse-DNS the latter will lead to trouble, whereas the former is OK. It isn't clear to me what is meant by the statements about DNS in the HOWTO or what qmail needs to be viable. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks, Dave.
Re: FW: DNS question
> firewall) is 192.168.0.33. Clearly, trying to reverse-DNS the latter will > lead to trouble, whereas the former is OK. You are using NAT - if you only want to send email from your internal network to the world and get your mails by "polling" it somehow you get no problem (except that your netblock may be blocked by some mail servers). If you want to provide services like smtp to the world you have two choices: a) establish that service on your NAT box (I assume it's impossible on that $155 box) b) your box must be able to redirect defined ports to hosts at your internal network. Most NAT devices can do that, some cannot. Regarding DNS: If you provide services to the world always the address of your firewall box is visible to the world. Your internal addresses don't matter. Regards, Frank
oh no, not another relaying question...
Hi I have a roaming user who is having severe problems sending mail via ISP. Consequently, I need to let her relay urgently. She authenticates using IMAP from Outlook on a Mac (os9.0.4). I only installed Qmail two weeks ago thus I'm a little new. I've read the archive and as I understand it I have two options: 1/ Apply the patch to allow relaying on the basis of the senders addy. ( http://www.palomine.net/qmail/relaymailfrom.html ) I have no idea how one applies a patch... :o) a pointer to a man page or how-to would be great. 2/ Slot in Bruce Guenter's relay-ctrl thingy ( http://em.ca/~bruceg/relay-ctrl/current/relay-ctrl-2.5.tar.gz ). Looks great but requries "tcpserver with qmail-smtpd". Tcpserver is in my /usr/local/bin but doesn't look like it is called from inetd :- bash-2.04# cat /etc/inetd.conf | grep qmail smtpstream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd [snip] do I just substitute tcpserver for tcp-env and follow the instructions in Bruce's page? My OS is OpenBSD 2.8 Please note I'm looking for the FASTEST solution. My roaming user is on a ship in the north sea, is dependent on flaky GSM/radio/sat links and is trying to get some work done. Thanks in anticipation Gary PS for the sake of completeness, here is the relevant lines from rc.local and /var/qmail/rc bash-2.04# cat /etc/rc.local | grep qmail if [ -x /var/qmail/rc ]; then echo -n ' qmail'; /var/qmail/rc & bash-2.04# cat /var/qmail/rc #!/bin/sh # Using splogger to send the log through syslog. # Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Mailbox by default. exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail
Syncing IMAP mailboxes
Hi, Anybody out there know of a tool that will allow me to sync an IMAP mailbox that contains about 25 additional IMAP folders apart from the INBOX??? I've tried isync but that will only do one folder at a time. I'd like a tool that I can point to my INBOX and from there let it sync everything. Thanks in advance, Gavin
qmail - Ezmlm
dear, i aready have qmail and ezmlm for maillist, i make [EMAIL PROTECTED] as maillist , why if i send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] , qmail not found this mailbox , it's work only i do with manually with ezmlm-sub what wrong with my qmail setting or ezmlm-idx ? thanks Bird
Re: qmail - Ezmlm
> dear, > > i aready have qmail and ezmlm for maillist, > i make [EMAIL PROTECTED] as maillist , > why if i send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] , qmail not found this mailbox , > it's work only i do with manually with ezmlm-sub > what wrong with my qmail setting or ezmlm-idx ? > 1.) What was your command to set up the list? 2.) Is domain.com local for your machine? Regards, Frank
Re: Can you help me ??(about limit of the number of per process file hand
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 05:27:21PM +0800, Baoguo Xu wrote: > ./chkspawn > Oops. Your system's FD_SET() has a hidden limit of 1024 descriptors. > This means that the qmail daemons could crash if you set the run-time > concurrency higher than 509. So I'm going to insist that the concurrency > limit in conf-spawn be at most 509. Right now it's 600. > *** Error code 1 Addind -DFD_SETSIZE=4096 (or more) to conf-cc should be enough. You don't need to change OS'es code (at least on *BSD) -- Henning Brauer | BS Web Services Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg http://www.bsws.de | Germany
Re: qmail and sms
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:52:56PM +0700, Essy Ren wrote: > i have install sms_client-2.0.8y > i live in Indonesia > and here is the output : You are not really asking for help about a proram called sms_client on the qmail list, are you? -- Henning Brauer | BS Web Services Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg http://www.bsws.de | Germany
qmail & imap
Hello, I'm looking for some imap server supporting Maildirs. I found links to Courier-IMAP, imap-2000, ... on qmail homepage. The best looking one to me is Courier IMAP as it offers modular authentication (including vpopmail's vchkpw which I use). I'd like to have it supporting tcpserver (from daemontools). I found a note in Courier IMAP docs how to do it, so maybe I'll be able to make it working. Anyway I'd like to know if someone uses Courier IMAP with qmail (installed from qmail+patches.rpms by Bruce Guenter) and vpopmail. * What pop3d to use? The one from qmail or the one from Courier IMAP? Some comparation? * Which auth. module to use? authvchkpw which supports existing cdb files from qmail/vpopmail or authuserdb from Courier IMAP? Courier IMAP pages recommend to convert vchkpw to userdb, why? Is there some performace decrease/increase? Please let me know if I can expect some difficulities when using Courier IMAP with qmail/vpopmail, and how to make it working as fast and as easily as possible. Some hints are welcome. Regards, Edas
Re: oh no, not another relaying question...
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:18:17PM +0100, Gary Law wrote: > I have a roaming user who is having severe problems sending mail via > ISP. Consequently, I need to let her relay urgently. She authenticates > using IMAP from Outlook on a Mac (os9.0.4). > > 1/ Apply the patch to allow relaying on the basis of the senders addy. > (http://www.palomine.net/qmail/relaymailfrom.html) Not a good option unless - forgeing a sender address is trivial. > I have no idea how one applies a patch... :o) a pointer to a man > page or how-to would be great. 'man patch' :) > 2/ Slot in Bruce Guenter's relay-ctrl thingy ( > http://em.ca/~bruceg/relay-ctrl/current/relay-ctrl-2.5.tar.gz ). Looks > great but requries "tcpserver with qmail-smtpd". Tcpserver is in my > /usr/local/bin but doesn't look like it is called from inetd :_ > > do I just substitute tcpserver for tcp-env and follow the instructions > in Bruce's page? No. tcpserver *replaces* inetd (for running qmail-smtpd). Follow the instructions at http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/servers.html#tcpserver-smtpd for using tcpserver to start qmail-stmpd. Then you can follow Bruce's instructions. Regards, james -- James Raftery (JBR54) "It's somewhere in the Red Hat district" -- A network engineer's freudian slip when talking about Amsterdam's nightlife at RIPE 38.
RE: Update on qmail/Outlook hang
> Just a quick update on a problem I queried the list on a few days ago, in > which Outlook sometimes hangs on a message. Doing some extensive tcpdump > tracing and analysis, we've found that Outlook hangs in at least the > following situations: > > 1) Periods (.) in a message that end up at the very end of a tcp/ip packet > during transport to the Outlook client. > 2) Null (zero) characters in a message (not sure if they, too, have to be at > the end of a packet or not. > > This appears to be a problem with Outlook 98 and 2000. Installing Office > 2000 SR-1 seems to fix the problem, at least in the cases we've seen. > > By the way, nulls in messages appear to also hang Eudora (not sure which > version), though we only have one confirmed case of that. > > Hope this is useful to somebody out there in qmail land Just to add that this also affects other Micros**t products - "Windows Messaging" - an older MUA - being affected too. Well researched Carey. cheers, Andrew.
Re: rcphosts error
chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Starting: qmail pop tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used > smtp > > I think that it has something to do with the fact that the file > /var/vpopmai/etc/tcp.smtp.cbd is owned by vpopmail:vchkpw Nope. Something is already listening to the port you're trying to bind to (probably 25). It may be something in your inetd.conf/xinetd configuration, or you may have another tcpserver already bound to that port. 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: oh no, not another relaying question...
Gary Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a roaming user who is having severe problems sending mail via > ISP. Consequently, I need to let her relay urgently. She authenticates > using IMAP from Outlook on a Mac (os9.0.4). I only installed Qmail two > weeks ago thus I'm a little new. I've read the archive and as I > understand it I have two options: > > 1/ Apply the patch to allow relaying on the basis of the senders addy. > ( http://www.palomine.net/qmail/relaymailfrom.html) > > I have no idea how one applies a patch... It's insecure, and if you're not comfortable applying patches and compiling software, you're best not to use it anyway. > 2/ Slot in Bruce Guenter's relay-ctrl thingy ( > http://em.ca/~bruceg/relay-ctrl/current/relay-ctrl-2.5.tar.gz ). Looks > great but requries "tcpserver with qmail-smtpd". Tcpserver is in my > /usr/local/bin but doesn't look like it is called from inetd :- relay-ctrl is excellent, simple, and can take as little as a couple of minutes to install. Your installation will be slightly more difficult, as you're not already using tcpserver to start qmail-smtpd. You want to remove the qmail-smtpd entry from inetd.conf and HUP inetd to stop it listening on port 25. Then have a tcpserver listening on port 25, starting qmail-smtpd through the usual chain plus relay-ctrl-allow. Dave Sill's "Life with qmail" contains a sample script for starting qmail-smtpd through tcpserver. 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. ---
Alternate MDA
I'm looking to implement maildrop system-wide, so that I don't have to fiddle around with setting it up for each user that wants mail filtering. I've been told by maildrop's author that I should just install it as my default mail delivery agent. I've been all over the qmail.org page, Life with Qmail, and all of that good stuff, and I don't see a lot about switching MDAs. Could anyone point me to a good resource on the subject? Thanks, Alex Le Fevre __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text
qmail remote / local problems ...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Okay ... Simple enough set up, I have a box on the end of a cable modem, I get an SMTP feed for my main domain from an ISP which holds primary and secondary MX for it, but only from my addresses, (for example [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]). This part is no problem, my box accepts and delivers these mails correctly. The next part of the scenario is, I have some mates with addresses (eg [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]) who have pop boxes at this ISP and get their mail direct from those. The problem occurs when I want my machines from my LAN to send out mail (through my SMTP server) to one of these other [EMAIL PROTECTED] which according to MX is not my server, but according to control/virtualdomains and the rules I have in assign, it is How do I get the box to distiguish between local and remote delivery so I can continue to get my mail via SMTP feed, but I can still post out to other users and domain.com who's popboxes are held at my ISP ? Thoughts / Comments ? Simon -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQCVAwUBOsH+v+GAyrBtc/IxAQGrpgP9Fk/+BYD/T1p4ihWwoHK3/LQW12tnXmpL 6D25wh/ndEnrdiVTBPNOAstumWxwwJ/B4jbZX1sMLJ4fw3dhqKFERGivyR4PotmQ kv4xdu5mmkQ7vhRUh5difS/kzTpa9xLJVRS6332dYu3/EoX9jkNndgUrMm3SrhA0 GWT5NY1VaXY= =XhOG -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Maildir file naming convention
I use Maildir format for my incoming mail. In the past, I have used maildrop as my MDA and now I have switched to procmail. I use Mutt as my MUA and have converted (today) some email from mbox to maildir format. The naming convention of each mail is different for procmail vs maildrop (and mutt converted) email. The format is listed as follows, -rw--- 1 subba users 3599 Mar 28 07:32 985764747.20966_23.myhost:2,S -rw--- 1 subba users28883 Mar 28 01:55 __XE,5RUw6.myhost:2,S How are these random names generated? Is this name generation the property of MUA such as mutt also? I thought it was the domain of MDAs. Thank you for any info. -- Subba Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.home.net/subba9/
need to forward to 2 addresses
On a UNIX box with BSDi 4.0, Apache, QMail and FP (though FP is not involved in this issue) I have the following problem: My customer needs to have email forwarded to her in Germany as well as to her farm manager here in the states. I have been researching all I could find on the subject and have gotten close, but not there yet. In the man pages I found the following: forward(1) DESCRIPTION forward forwards each new mail message to the specified list of addresses. dot-qmail.0 (3) A forward line begins with an ampersand: &[EMAIL PROTECTED] Although it clearly states that it can be done, there is no mention of how to set up the second forwarding address. I think what I have below is the proper procedure for _one_ forwarding address. echo "blackvengeance.com:alias-blackvengeance" >>/var/qmail/control/virtualdomains echo "&forwardaddress" >~alias/.qmail-blackvengeance-info echo "blackvengeance.com" >>/var/qmail/control/rcpthosts' My questiion is: do I add the second, comma separated, in that last echo line as: 'echo "&forwardaddress",'&secondforward">~alias/.qmail-blackvengeance-info' or do I do a second / separate echo line as: 'echo "&secondaddress">~alias/.qmail-blackvengeance-info' below the first? Thanks in advance for your help. V
Re: Maildir file naming convention
Subba Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use Maildir format for my incoming mail. In the past, I have used maildrop > as my MDA and now I have switched to procmail. I use Mutt as my MUA and have > converted (today) some email from mbox to maildir format. The naming > convention of each mail is different for procmail vs maildrop (and mutt > converted) email. The way names are chosen for files in Maildir/tmp (which are moved to Maildir/new when delivery is complete) should not differ among agents. The right way to do it is clearly spelled out at: http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html It's necessary for all agents to use the same rules to prevent collisions. > The format is listed as follows, > > -rw--- 1 subba users 3599 Mar 28 07:32 985764747.20966_23.myhost:2,S > -rw--- 1 subba users28883 Mar 28 01:55 __XE,5RUw6.myhost:2,S The first one is correct. The second one does not follow djb's rules for naming the file. If procmail wrote it, your version of procmail is broken. > How are these random names generated? Is this name generation the property of > MUA such as mutt also? I thought it was the domain of MDAs. It's part of the Maildir spec. The MDA names the file; the MUA can add flags to it after it first sees it. The ":2,S" is added by mutt, and is legal. 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: Alternate MDA
Alex Le Fevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking to implement maildrop system-wide, so that I don't have to > fiddle around with setting it up for each user that wants mail > filtering. I've been told by maildrop's author that I should just > install it as my default mail delivery agent. I've been all over the > qmail.org page, Life with Qmail, and all of that good stuff, and I > don't see a lot about switching MDAs. Could anyone point me to a good > resource on the subject? It's the first argument to qmail-start, supplied by your rc/start script. If you want maildrop to be your default delivery agent, supply something like "| /usr/bin/maildrop" as that argument. Note that users will still be able to override this choice with a .qmail file. 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: need to forward to 2 addresses
Virginia Chism <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My customer needs to have email forwarded to her in Germany as well as to > her farm manager here in the states. I have been researching all I could > find on the subject and have gotten close, but not there yet. > dot-qmail.0 > (3) A forward line begins with an ampersand: > > &[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Although it clearly states that it can be done, there is no mention of how > to set up the second forwarding address. Sure there is, in `man dot-qmail`, which says you can have multiple lines. Create a .qmail file which has the following contents: &[EMAIL PROTECTED] &[EMAIL PROTECTED] ./Maildir/ and each message received will be forwarded to both addresses, _and_ placed in ./Maildir/ as well. 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: need to forward to 2 addresses
This works here, but there are many ways to skin a cat. Login to the system (root) Go to the home directory # cd /uhome/johnqdoe # sudo -u johnqdoe vi .qmail add the following lines to the .qmail file to forward his mail ## Forward mail offsite |forward [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## but still deliver locally /uhome/johnqdoe/Mailbox When Johnqdoe wants the mail to stop being forwarded to hotmail, just delete the .qmail file. -Original Message- From: Virginia Chism [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 10:42 AM To: Qmail@List. Cr. Yp. To Subject: need to forward to 2 addresses On a UNIX box with BSDi 4.0, Apache, QMail and FP (though FP is not involved in this issue) I have the following problem: My customer needs to have email forwarded to her in Germany as well as to her farm manager here in the states. I have been researching all I could find on the subject and have gotten close, but not there yet. In the man pages I found the following: forward(1) DESCRIPTION forward forwards each new mail message to the specified list of addresses. dot-qmail.0 (3) A forward line begins with an ampersand: &[EMAIL PROTECTED] Although it clearly states that it can be done, there is no mention of how to set up the second forwarding address. I think what I have below is the proper procedure for _one_ forwarding address. echo "blackvengeance.com:alias-blackvengeance" >>/var/qmail/control/virtualdomains echo "&forwardaddress" >~alias/.qmail-blackvengeance-info echo "blackvengeance.com" >>/var/qmail/control/rcpthosts' My questiion is: do I add the second, comma separated, in that last echo line as: 'echo "&forwardaddress",'&secondforward">~alias/.qmail-blackvengeance-info' or do I do a second / separate echo line as: 'echo "&secondaddress">~alias/.qmail-blackvengeance-info' below the first? Thanks in advance for your help. V
Re: Alternate MDA
... Note that users > will still be able to override this choice with a > .qmail file. Thus, you're saying, if there's a .qmail file, the .mailfilter file gets ignored? Alex __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text
Re: Alternate MDA
Alex Le Fevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... Note that users will still be able to override this choice with a > > .qmail file. > > Thus, you're saying, if there's a .qmail file, the .mailfilter file gets > ignored? If the system-wide default delivery instruction is "| /usr/bin/maildrop", and I have a .qmail file in my home directory which contains "./Maildir/", qmail will not call maildrop for mail delivered to me@yourdomain -- it will instead file it straight to my Maildir, as my .qmail file instructs it to. Such are the joys of allowing users to control the disposition of their own mail. I don't know what ".mailfilter" is. I'm assuming it's the maildrop equivalent of a .procmailrc file, but I use neither, so I can't tell you that. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. ---
Re: Maildir file naming convention
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:52:58AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > The right way to do it is clearly spelled out at: > http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html That's true. > It's necessary for all agents to use the same rules to prevent > collisions. Ok as far as it goes, but.. > > The format is listed as follows, > > > > -rw--- 1 subba users 3599 Mar 28 07:32 985764747.20966_23.myhost:2,S > > -rw--- 1 subba users28883 Mar 28 01:55 __XE,5RUw6.myhost:2,S > > The first one is correct. The second one does not follow djb's rules > for naming the file. If procmail wrote it, your version of procmail is > broken. I disagree. To quote from the webpage: "A unique name can be anything that doesn't contain a colon (or slash) and doesn't start with a dot.". On that basis, the procmail filename is fine. Sure the webpage goes on to *suggest* one method for generating unique names, but there is no suggestion that that is the only way. One could argue that procmail is being smart by ensuring that the unique namespace it uses can only possibly collide with itself. > > How are these random names generated? Anyway the MDA wants. The primary requirement is that it be unique. You should not infer any meaning beyond uniqueness for everything before the colon. > > Is this name generation the property of MUA such as mutt also? I > > thought it was the domain of MDAs. Well, mutt lives within the rules of Maildir by only appending the :info data to the filename rather than generating new filenames (postponed messages notwithstanding). Regards.
Re: Random Bounce
Well, here's the bounce msg. Only the sender's name was changed. The receipient, jmorgan, has a mailbox which works ALMOST all the time ;-) To my novice eyes, the problem is on my isp's server. thanks, jean > [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 03/26/2001 01:41:18 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc: > > Subject: failure notice > > > Hi. This is the qmail-send program at cnmnetwork.com. > 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, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) > > --- Below this line is a copy of the message. > > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: (qmail 10182 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2001 13:41:17 -0800 > Received: from showboat.teradyne.com (198.51.251.10) > by s0-c2.cnmnetwork.com with SMTP; 26 Mar 2001 13:41:17 -0800 > Received: from chorus.teradyne.com (chorus.teradyne.com [131.101.1.195]) > by showboat.teradyne.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25575 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:41:16 -0500 (EST) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Received: from jaypeak.corp.teradyne.com (jaypeak.corp.teradyne.com > [131.101.17.23]) by chorus.teradyne.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.7.1) with ESMTP id > QAA05760 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:41:16 -0500 (EST) > Subject: Vacation schedule > To: JMorgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 13:41:11 -0800 > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on JayPeak/Teradyne(Release 5.0.4a |July > 24, 2000) at > 03/26/2001 04:39:29 PM > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Re: Random Bounce
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, here's the bounce msg. Only the sender's name was changed. The > receipient, jmorgan, has a mailbox which works ALMOST all the time ;-) To > my novice eyes, the problem is on my isp's server. > [stuff deleted] What do your mail log files indicate?
Re: Maildir file naming convention
Mark Delany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I disagree. To quote from the webpage: "A unique name can be anything > that doesn't contain a colon (or slash) and doesn't start with a > dot.". > > On that basis, the procmail filename is fine. Sure the webpage goes on > to *suggest* one method for generating unique names, but there is no > suggestion that that is the only way. > > One could argue that procmail is being smart by ensuring that the > unique namespace it uses can only possibly collide with itself. On the other hand, if procmail followed djb's (suggested) rules for naming convention, it's guaranteed not to collide with any process anywhere in the known universe at any point in the lifetime of the universe(1). You could therefore argue that choosing another naming convention is "being dumb". Perhaps two simultaneous procmails could collide? I don't use it, so I don't know. Charles (1) Yes, if you have two machines with the same hostname delivering to the same Maildir at the same instant, and the pids and delivery count of the two processes match, you'll get a collision. I'm assuming you won't have two hosts with the same hostname delivering to the same Maildir. -- --- 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: [OT] supervise sshd?
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:20:50AM -0800, David Benfell wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:22:20AM -0500, Peter Cavender wrote: > > I want to run the openssh daemon under supervise...should my "run" script be: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > exec /usr/local/sbin/sshd -D > > #!/bin/sh > exec fghack /usr/local/sbin/sshd <&- > > I don't know what -D does. -D causes sshd to not background itself, without outputting debug information. If anybody (else) is interested, I have RPMs of OpenSSH running under svscan and tcpserver at: http://em.ca/~bruceg/rpms/openssh/ -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature
Re: Random Bounce
* jean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010328 18:43]: > Well, here's the bounce msg. Only the sender's name was changed. The > receipient, jmorgan, has a mailbox which works ALMOST all the time ;-) To > my novice eyes, the problem is on my isp's server. > thanks, > jean > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) Do you use Bruce G's qmail+patches rpm and vpopmail? If so, a script in /etc/cron.hourly/ may be the answer... remove it (or rather, move it to a safe place) and recreate the domain. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
unable to get BCC mail in Qmail
Dear I just installed new linux server and also qmail on it. I gone as per the howtos given. I am using Maibox format in qmail to distribute mails locally. in this I can receive BCC mail locally, but I am not able to receive mail in BCC from any externel address such as hotmail or yahoo. I am using fetchmail to fetch mail from our webserver and distribute locally. in this I am not configured fetchmail to use any mda from distribution. If any one can help in this regards, i will be very thankful for him Pradeep Tapase Netadmin MET-IIT __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text
Re: unable to get BCC mail in Qmail
* Pradeep Tapase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010328 19:41]: > I just installed new linux server and also qmail on > it. I gone as per the howtos given. I am using Maibox > format in qmail to distribute mails locally. in this I > can receive BCC mail locally, but I am not able to > receive mail in BCC from any externel address such as > hotmail or yahoo. > > I am using fetchmail to fetch mail from our webserver > and distribute locally. in this I am not configured > fetchmail to use any mda from distribution. > > If any one can help in this regards, i will be very > thankful for him This sounds very much like a fetchmail problem, or rather like a design problem in your setup. qmail is never given the Bcc addresses, as fetchmail can't get them from the messages. If the web server were running qmail you'd be fine as you could parse the delivered-to lines... -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Removing from queue
I'm trying to remove a bunch of e-mail from my outgoing queue, which seems to be stored in /var/qmail/queue/remote. Can I just delete the directories containing these mails, or will that screw up the program? Would it be better to just delete the files themselves? Alex Le Fevre __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text
Rewriting domain name on outbound messages
I have been looking through the FAQ, the docs and the archives, but I am still confused. I am setting up a new qmail server which will act as a relay for our internal servers to the outside world, as well as receiving email for the various domains we own. So far I have been able to get qmail to accept, and if necessary forward, email for the various domains we receive mail for. My problem now is that mail going out through the qmail server must appear as though it is from @external-domain.com, regardless of which internal machine sent the mail. Right now, if I have server1.internal_lan.com, server2.internal_lan.com, and server3.internal_lan.com (all still running sendmail at this point), and I tell them to use my qmail server as their relay, messages go out as <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I need them to be <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, otherwise our clients will not be able to respond (and in some cases may even reject the message as spam). Currently I have the domains I will accept mail for in rcpthosts, and locals. I have set defaultdomain, me and defaulthost to "external-domain.com". What am I missing to make *outgoing* emails conform to @external-domain.com? I've seen mention of mess822, but nothing that seems to pertain to my situation. Should I be changing the sendmail.cf files instead? I'm not really concerned if the real server name appears in the headers somewhere, but the From: and (if used) Reply-To: should show @external-domain.com. I know several of you think this is old hat, but it's confusing to me. Your assistance is appreciated. Thanks in advance. Dion Vansevenant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internetwork Administrator MRO Software, Inc. P: 519-642-6046 F: 519-433-1247
Subject per recipient
I'm sure this is handled differently by different people, but here's the situation: I want to send a message to someone, and add two CC's as well, but with special notes not visible to the CC'd people. Right now, I send the message to that person, then re-send it to the other people, or send the original message to everyone with the special notes in a seperate message. Has anyone seen an RFC or had any ideas for the inclusion of recipient specific subjects, etc? Perhaps based on MIME? This would be best done at the MUA or MTA level I would imagine.
RE:RE: how can i run qmail on a port that is not 25 under tcpserver?
> I really should get some sleep... Please accept my apologies I made a > mistake in my previous message to you. No problem thanks a lot ! > > exec tcpserver -R -H -v -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u qmaild -g nobody 0 smtp \ ^^ ###from tcpserver page tcpserver waits for connections from TCP clients. For each connection, it runs prog, with descriptor 0 reading from the network and descriptor 1 writing to the network. It also sets up several environment variables. end## I were asking what that zero meant ? The same I dont figured when I would be "writing" to the network. > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | \ > ^ > /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 10 & > I understand it you "pipes" the stdout and error to the logger. Great ! But see as is configured in "Life with qmail" ## Create the /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run file: #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c "$MAXSMTPD" \ -u "$QMAILDUID" -g "$NOFILESGID" 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 ** here the stdout and error are redirected to I dont understand ! Note: concurrencyincoming isn't a standard qmail control file. It's a feature of the above script. Create the concurrencyincoming control file: echo 20 > /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming chmod 644 /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming Create the /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/run file: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd ###***I dont undertand how to "multilog" catch the output and error from qmail-smptd ??? # end of "Life with qmail" THX. a lot
Re: Syncing IMAP mailboxes
Gavin Cameron wrote: > > Hi, > > Anybody out there know of a tool that will allow me to sync an IMAP mailbox > that contains about 25 additional IMAP folders apart from the INBOX??? > > I've tried isync but that will only do one folder at a time. I'd like a tool > that I can point to my INBOX and from there let it sync everything. > > Thanks in advance, > Gavin - Fetchmail, pay close attention to the switches to leave the mail on the server. - Netscape Messenger - Outlook Express - Eudora Mike
Re: unable to get BCC mail in Qmail
Pradeep Tapase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just installed new linux server and also qmail on it. I gone as per the > howtos given. I am using Maibox format in qmail to distribute mails locally. > in this I can receive BCC mail locally, but I am not able to receive mail in > BCC from any externel address such as hotmail or yahoo. > > I am using fetchmail to fetch mail from our webserver and distribute > locally. in this I am not configured fetchmail to use any mda from > distribution. bcc'd mail does not typically contain the recipient address in it (qmail servers are an exception; they record a variant of it in the Delivered-To: header). Therefore fetchmail can't find the proper address to send the mail to. Probably it's using something stupid, like , and qmail is rejecting it. Either configure fetchmail to default to a particular address, or switch to getmail. You can find getmail at the link in my .sig. 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: Removing from queue
Alex Le Fevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to remove a bunch of e-mail from my outgoing queue, which seems > to be stored in /var/qmail/queue/remote. Can I just delete the directories > containing these mails, or will that screw up the program? Would it be > better to just delete the files themselves? There's some information and programs for manually twiddling the queue referenced at www.qmail.org. Removing subdirectories of queue/remote will definitely corrupt your queue. Even just removing files under there will corrupt your queue; you need to worry about other parts of the queue structure as well. 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: Rewriting domain name on outbound messages
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been looking through the FAQ, the docs and the archives, but I am > still confused. [...] > My problem now is that mail going out through the qmail server must appear > as though it is from @external-domain.com, regardless of which internal > machine sent the mail. Rewriting headers to hide hosts is a broken design. It's not trivial to do in qmail. If you just want to hide the hostnames, you can use settings like: 192.168.1.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="",TCPREMOTEHOST="" in your smtp.cdb to prevent your internal hosts' names from showing up in Received: headers, and allow them to relay through your qmail server. > Should I be changing the sendmail.cf files instead? You're confused. sendmail.cf is a sendmail configuration file. This is qmail. 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: archives
Kirti S. Bajwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can somebody, please, point me to where the qmail archives are and hot to > look at them? There's a pointer at www.qmail.org, which you should have checked before asking the question here. 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: Subject per recipient
Michael T. Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to send a message to someone, and add two CC's as well, but with > special notes not visible to the CC'd people. Can't be done. If the message contents are different, it's two different messages, not one message with two recipients. > Right now, I send the message to that person, then re-send it to the other > people, or send the original message to everyone with the special notes in a > seperate message. That's the only way. 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. ---
sqwebmail-1.2.5
Hi All, With the help of inter7.com, I now have qmailadmin and vpopmail upgraded to the latest versions. I decided to have a go at it with upgrading sqwebmail to version 1.2.5 on my own. I found the following ./configure was used originally when sqwebmail was first installed: # ./configure --enable-webpass=no --without-authldap --without-authpam --without-authuserdb --with-db=gdbm --enable-cgibindir='/home/httpd/cgi-bin' --with-userdb=/etc/userdb --with-makedatprog='${exec_prefix}/libexec/sqwebmail/makedatprog' --with-formdata --without-authlib-man --sysconfdir=${datadir}/sqwebmail now, if I use the same ./configure for version 1.2.5, it should work the same way, no? Any help would be appreciated (trying to learn on my own) -Bill
Re: Maildir file naming convention
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:09:00AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > Mark Delany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I disagree. To quote from the webpage: "A unique name can be anything > > that doesn't contain a colon (or slash) and doesn't start with a > > dot.". > > > > On that basis, the procmail filename is fine. Sure the webpage goes on > > to *suggest* one method for generating unique names, but there is no > > suggestion that that is the only way. > > > > One could argue that procmail is being smart by ensuring that the > > unique namespace it uses can only possibly collide with itself. > > On the other hand, if procmail followed djb's (suggested) rules for naming > convention, it's guaranteed not to collide with any process anywhere in the > known universe at any point in the lifetime of the universe(1). You could Unless the same PID gets reused within one second... That may sound silly today, but it's possible well within the lifetime of the universe - especially if Moore's Law continues. > therefore argue that choosing another naming convention is "being dumb". > Perhaps two simultaneous procmails could collide? I don't use it, so I don't > know. Me neither, but my main point remains, procmail is not "wrong" in any sense. Regards.
RE: need to forward to 2 addresses
I added the addresses with a comma between. It didn't work, so I went in and edited the alias file to put each address on a separate line and everything seems to have gone through just fine. Thanks to all who answered for your help again.
RE: archives
http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/ -Original Message- From: Kirti S. Bajwa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 12:07 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: archives Can somebody, please, point me to where the qmail archives are and hot to look at them? Kirti
Re: Maildir file naming convention
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:36:20PM +, Mark Delany wrote: > > The first one is correct. The second one does not follow djb's rules > > for naming the file. If procmail wrote it, your version of procmail is > > broken. All versions of procmail are broken, IMHO :) > I disagree. To quote from the webpage: "A unique name can be anything > that doesn't contain a colon (or slash) and doesn't start with a > dot.". > > On that basis, the procmail filename is fine. Sure the webpage goes on > to *suggest* one method for generating unique names, but there is no > suggestion that that is the only way. > > One could argue that procmail is being smart by ensuring that the > unique namespace it uses can only possibly collide with itself. One could also argue that procmail is being dumb by defining an 'abnormal' namespace. Another package defining an 'abnormal' namespace may use a completely different algorithm, that generates the same string as procmail does at *another* moment. Voila, a clash. Also note that procmail makes no effort *at all* to check if it's replacing an already-delivered mail. If something clashes, tough luck. Therefore, procmail can lose mail (and I have heard suggestions that procmail's algorithm doesn't guarantee uniqueness, even, but I haven't verified that). > > > How are these random names generated? > > Anyway the MDA wants. The primary requirement is that it be > unique. You should not infer any meaning beyond uniqueness for > everything before the colon. But uniqueness can only be guaranteed by consensus! procmail's Maildir implementation is (even ignoring this uniqueness problem) almost guaranteed to *lose* mail. It neglects to implement several of the Maildir requirements. To my knowledge (from extensive sourcecode reading) only qmail-local and safecat 1.5 and up implement Maildir correct *and* acceptable. (Len owes me beer for the diff between safecat 1.4 and 1.5 :) Disclaimer: I have not looked at all maildir implementations yet. I have looked at procmail's, and it is heavily inadequate. Greetz, Peter.
qmail and hyphens in domain names
Hi all, I'm having a bit of a problem. I am trying to deliver mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I keep getting the message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) Now there are other domain names i.e xyz-at-domain.co.uk that work perfectly well. The domain name is in the rcpthosts file as well as the virtualdomains file in the format :- 'domain-name.com:domain-name.com__' . I have checked and double checked the spelling in each file. This domain name worked fine under sendmail The mail addresses for domain-name.com reside in /etc/aliases which are reached via 'fastforward' in /var/qmail/alias/qmail-default domain-name.com__-advice: name1 domain-name.com__-sales: name1 domain-name.com__-export: name1 domain-name.com__-support: name1 domain-name.com__-admin: name1 name1 is a local user (who is in the database). All other virtual domains are configured the same as above and they work fine. I have also checked the file permissions/owner/group on the user's homedir/Maildir/new/cur/tmp and all are correct. This problem is only affecting one virtual domain. We are also using a postgres database instead of the /etc/passwd file. We do not check for virtualdomains when users log on. Is there any quirk in qmail that handles domains with '-' any differently to other domain names? Thanks Dean Browett
Re: unable to get BCC mail in Qmail
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:41:08AM -0800, Pradeep Tapase wrote: > I am using fetchmail to fetch mail from our webserver > and distribute locally. Either configure fetchmail* to look at the Delivered-To field or use getmail. *poll pop3.bsws.de proto pop3 envelope Delivered-To: [other options] -- Henning Brauer | BS Web Services Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg http://www.bsws.de | Germany
Re: Maildir file naming convention
Mark Delany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On the other hand, if procmail followed djb's (suggested) rules for naming > > convention, it's guaranteed not to collide with any process anywhere in > > the known universe at any point in the lifetime of the universe(1). You > > could > > Unless the same PID gets reused within one second... That may sound silly > today, but it's possible well within the lifetime of the universe - > especially if Moore's Law continues. By the time we have to worry about wrapping 16-bit PIDs in one second, we'll be using 32-bit PIDs. No worries. 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. ---
Problems getting qmail to work properly....
Hi, My name is John and I'm having problems getting Qmail to work properly. I have currently have Qmail configured to use LDAP to authenticate and when I run local Qmail commands such as (echo to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /apps/qmail/bin/qmail-inject) Qmail works fine, but when I try to test receiving email through smtp it fails. I not having any luck getting pop3 to work as well, any hints or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.. Does Qmail require that DNS be working or can you use the local host files? Sorry for the lame questions, but I've talked my company into using Qmail and I'm having problems getting it to work. Please any help would be greatly appreciated.. Thanks in advance!!! :^) John
Re: Maildir file naming convention
Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The first one is correct. The second one does not follow djb's rules > > > for naming the file. If procmail wrote it, your version of procmail is > > > broken. > > All versions of procmail are broken, IMHO :) Agreed. > To my knowledge (from extensive sourcecode reading) only qmail-local > and safecat 1.5 and up implement Maildir correct *and* acceptable. > (Len owes me beer for the diff between safecat 1.4 and 1.5 :) getmail follows Dan's rules to the letter, and implements Maildir delivery correctly as well. 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 Implementation as anti-spam for Ms Exchange
Hi All, i am desperatly searching for a draft - project off instalation procedures for building a frontend off qmail machines , the objectives are to check/try to protect from possible spammers " spamcontol patch "and smtproute a domain to inside the inside machines . Ways to easely rebuild a machine "tar??", sync off configurations "rsyncd ?", and web visualization of the status "mrtg + what more?" . what i need is a real tested solution for comparisions i only have a couple off machines in the midle off a Bill world enviroment , so i am very streessed , and want to show the power off qmail. any help will be apreciated thanks in advance ./hantunes sorry the english
faster than bcc
I remember reading that the fastest way to send one email to a large number of people is through bcc. This was helpful to me because I'm not able to use a mailing list since the addresses I send to will be pulled dynamically from a database which is always changing. But somehow, populating the bcc field with a million names seems like it might not be the best idea to me. I understand qmail deletes this field before sending the message out but I'm more concerned with whether or not it will be making efficient use of the queue. Is the queue even used for one message sent to numerous people or is it only used for separate messages? If there's a better method than bcc-ing everyone, I'm very open to hearing it. One suggestion I got but which I can't get to work is: cat list.txt | xargs qmail-inject -a
Re: Maildir file naming convention
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:07:23PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: [snip] > > To my knowledge (from extensive sourcecode reading) only qmail-local > > and safecat 1.5 and up implement Maildir correct *and* acceptable. > > (Len owes me beer for the diff between safecat 1.4 and 1.5 :) > > getmail follows Dan's rules to the letter, and implements Maildir delivery > correctly as well. Cool. I'm building a webpage about correct Maildir-implementations. I audited qmail-local and safecat for it, found bugs in safecat, got distracted, and am busy now. I will continue work on this page some day, and be sure to include getmail :) Greetz, Peter.
Re: Maildir file naming convention
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:04:13PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > By the time we have to worry about wrapping 16-bit PIDs in one second, > we'll be using 32-bit PIDs. No worries. Um, too late. I believe Dave Miller's group was wrapping the PID counter in under a second on a Sparc a couple of years ago already. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature
Re: Problems getting qmail to work properly....
John Cope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My name is John and I'm having problems getting Qmail to work properly. All: "Hi, John!" > I have currently have Qmail configured to use LDAP to authenticate and when > I run local Qmail commands such as (echo to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > /apps/qmail/bin/qmail-inject) Qmail works fine, but when I try to test > receiving email through smtp it fails. I not having any luck getting pop3 > to work as well, any hints or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.. > > Does Qmail require that DNS be working or can you use the local host files? qmail never uses host files. It's in the docs. You need working DNS, unless you disable DNS lookups for qmail-smtpd and use smtproutes for all outgoing mail. For qmail-ldap problems, there is a separate qmail-ldap list. 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: Problems getting qmail to work properly....
qmail requires a working dns. if you want more information post logs. try reading www.lifewithqmail.org - Original Message - From: "John Cope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 2:51 PM Subject: Problems getting qmail to work properly > Hi, > > My name is John and I'm having problems getting Qmail to work properly. > > I have currently have Qmail configured to use LDAP to authenticate and when > I run local Qmail commands such as (echo to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > /apps/qmail/bin/qmail-inject) Qmail works fine, but when I try to test > receiving email through smtp it fails. I not having any luck getting pop3 > to work as well, any hints or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.. > > Does Qmail require that DNS be working or can you use the local host files? > > Sorry for the lame questions, but I've talked my company into using Qmail > and I'm having problems getting it to work. > > Please any help would be greatly appreciated.. > > Thanks in advance!!! :^) > > John >
Re: faster than bcc
Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I remember reading that the fastest way to send one email to a large number > of people is through bcc. It's faster than injecting a separate message for each recipient. As you suspected, bcc'ing the recipients on one message means only one message in the queue, with the consequent savings on queue disk bandwidth. 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: faster than bcc
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:47:25PM -0800, Brett wrote: > I remember reading that the fastest way to send one email to a large number > of people is through bcc. This was helpful to me because I'm not able to use > a mailing list since the addresses I send to will be pulled dynamically from > a database which is always changing. But somehow, populating the bcc field > with a million names seems like it might not be the best idea to me. I > understand qmail deletes this field before sending the message out but I'm > more concerned with whether or not it will be making efficient use of the > queue. Is the queue even used for one message sent to numerous people or is > it only used for separate messages? If there's a better method than bcc-ing > everyone, I'm very open to hearing it. One suggestion I got but which I > can't get to work is: > cat list.txt | xargs qmail-inject -a where list.txt is a list of addresses. Is this faster than bcc anyway? Any > help much appreciated. Bcc is indeed efficient, because it only injects one message into the queue. The xargs method is quite efficient, but not as efficient as the Bcc trick. Note too that the Bcc trick is only guaranteed to work reliably when used with qmail-inject. Greetz, Peter.
Re: faster than bcc
"Brett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I remember reading that the fastest way to send one email to a large number >of people is through bcc. This was helpful to me because I'm not able to use >a mailing list since the addresses I send to will be pulled dynamically from >a database which is always changing. But somehow, populating the bcc field >with a million names seems like it might not be the best idea to me. I >understand qmail deletes this field before sending the message out but I'm >more concerned with whether or not it will be making efficient use of the >queue. Yes, that's efficient. >Is the queue even used for one message sent to numerous people or is >it only used for separate messages? All messages sent using qmail queued. >If there's a better method than bcc-ing >everyone, I'm very open to hearing it. One suggestion I got but which I >can't get to work is: >cat list.txt | xargs qmail-inject -a where list.txt is a list of addresses. Is this faster than bcc >anyway? No. That creates one message per recipient--lots of disk I/O to do the same thing as one message, many recipients. -Dave
Re: faster than bcc
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:47:25PM -0800, Brett wrote: > I remember reading that the fastest way to send one email to a large number > of people is through bcc. Well, the fact that it's Bcc: vs To: is not important wrt speed. The reason for Bcc: over To: is to ensure that the recipient list isn't visible to the recipients. That might have privacy implications and it will certain have mail size implications with a million recipients! > This was helpful to me because I'm not able to use > a mailing list since the addresses I send to will be pulled dynamically from > a database which is always changing. But somehow, populating the Bcc: field > with a million names seems like it might not be the best idea to me. I > understand qmail deletes this field before sending the message out but I'm > more concerned with whether or not it will be making efficient use of the > queue. The performance gain comes from sending one mail with lots of recipients. Those recipients traditionally are placed on Bcc: lines. > Is the queue even used for one message sent to numerous people or is > it only used for separate messages? Both. The queue is *always* involved. However, one message with lots of recipients creates much less work than lots of messages with one recipient each - that's the key. > If there's a better method than Bcc:-ing everyone, I'm very open to > hearing it. Not particularly. Some suggest usig qmail-queue directly (which qmail-inject calls), but the interface is more difficult and the cost saving is too small to measure for a large recipient list. > One suggestion I got but which I > can't get to work is: > cat list.txt | xargs qmail-inject -a where list.txt is a list of addresses. Is this faster than Bcc: anyway? Any > help much appreciated. In what way can't you get it to work? I would not use the xargs approach as that makes the recipients visible and it is also less efficient than this: ( sed 's/^/Bcc: /'
RE: faster than bcc
Mark, you rule. This has been a tremendous help. Thanks a lot. Brett. -Original Message- From: Mark Delany [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 1:45 PM To: Brett Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: faster than bcc On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:47:25PM -0800, Brett wrote: > I remember reading that the fastest way to send one email to a large number > of people is through bcc. Well, the fact that it's Bcc: vs To: is not important wrt speed. The reason for Bcc: over To: is to ensure that the recipient list isn't visible to the recipients. That might have privacy implications and it will certain have mail size implications with a million recipients! > This was helpful to me because I'm not able to use > a mailing list since the addresses I send to will be pulled dynamically from > a database which is always changing. But somehow, populating the Bcc: field > with a million names seems like it might not be the best idea to me. I > understand qmail deletes this field before sending the message out but I'm > more concerned with whether or not it will be making efficient use of the > queue. The performance gain comes from sending one mail with lots of recipients. Those recipients traditionally are placed on Bcc: lines. > Is the queue even used for one message sent to numerous people or is > it only used for separate messages? Both. The queue is *always* involved. However, one message with lots of recipients creates much less work than lots of messages with one recipient each - that's the key. > If there's a better method than Bcc:-ing everyone, I'm very open to > hearing it. Not particularly. Some suggest usig qmail-queue directly (which qmail-inject calls), but the interface is more difficult and the cost saving is too small to measure for a large recipient list. > One suggestion I got but which I > can't get to work is: > cat list.txt | xargs qmail-inject -a where list.txt is a list of addresses. Is this faster than Bcc: anyway? Any > help much appreciated. In what way can't you get it to work? I would not use the xargs approach as that makes the recipients visible and it is also less efficient than this: ( sed 's/^/Bcc: /'
Re: Maildir file naming convention
Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:04:13PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > > By the time we have to worry about wrapping 16-bit PIDs in one second, > > we'll be using 32-bit PIDs. No worries. > > Um, too late. I believe Dave Miller's group was wrapping the PID > counter in under a second on a Sparc a couple of years ago already. But they were doing fork(); exit() (or the equivalent of) if I remember correctly. With real processes, especially doing Maildir deliveries (with the accompanying I/O delays), I'm not particularly worried. Sure, an attacker could spawn a lot of short-lived processes in an attempt to cause a collision in mail delivery, but they'd need local access to the box to even have a shot at it. Besides, getmail uses's djb's pid_deliverycount for the middle member of the filename, since it does multiple deliveries from the same process. The attacker can't cause a collision here even that easily. 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: faster than bcc
Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >cat list.txt | xargs qmail-inject -a >where list.txt is a list of addresses. Is this faster than bcc > >anyway? > No. That creates one message per recipient--lots of disk I/O to do the > same thing as one message, many recipients. That should still do only one message, multiple recipients, shouldn't it? Until, of course, the arg list becomes long enough for xargs to break it down to 2 serial injections. 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: faster than bcc
Thank you everyone for your input. I know now that I'm on the right track with bcc. -Original Message- From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 2:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: faster than bcc Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >cat list.txt | xargs qmail-inject -a >where list.txt is a list of addresses. Is this faster than bcc > >anyway? > No. That creates one message per recipient--lots of disk I/O to do the > same thing as one message, many recipients. That should still do only one message, multiple recipients, shouldn't it? Until, of course, the arg list becomes long enough for xargs to break it down to 2 serial injections. 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. ---
[announcement] qmail-smtpd-requireauth version 0.10 available
All- I needed a way to require authenticated SMTP for certain client IP addresses, so I wrote a patch to cause qmail-smtpd to require authentication if the REQUIREAUTH environment variable is set. Since I run qmail-smtpd from tcpserver, I use tcprules to set the REQUIREAUTH variable when appropriate. If REQUIREAUTH is set, qmail-smtpd will not accept any MAIL FROM commands before the client has authenticated. The qmail-smtpd-requireauth patch goes on top of Krzysztof Dabrowski's qmail-smtpd-auth patch, which enables authenticated SMTP in qmail-smtpd. I am now releasing the qmail-smtpd-requireauth patch for public consumption, flogging, trashing, etc. See http://www.netable.com/~dburkes/qmail-smtpd-requireauth for details on installation and usage. Regards, Danny Burkes
Re: Maildir file naming convention
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:24:48PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > accompanying I/O delays), I'm not particularly worried. Sure, an attacker > could spawn a lot of short-lived processes in an attempt to cause a > collision in mail delivery, but they'd need local access to the box to even > have a shot at it. Really? What if I connect to your SMTP port - does that cause a fork on your system? Regards.
Re: Removing from queue
I had a similar problem and found the following instructions somewhere. This worked OK and rebuilt the queue directory structure. Steve 1. # Stop qmail 2. # rm -rf /var/qmail/queue 3. # cd qmail-sources 4. # make setup check 5. # Start qmail At 20:01 28/03/2001, you wrote: >Alex Le Fevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to remove a bunch of e-mail from my outgoing queue, which seems > > to be stored in /var/qmail/queue/remote. Can I just delete the directories > > containing these mails, or will that screw up the program? Would it be > > better to just delete the files themselves? > >There's some information and programs for manually twiddling the queue >referenced at www.qmail.org. Removing subdirectories of queue/remote will >definitely corrupt your queue. Even just removing files under there will >corrupt your queue; you need to worry about other parts of the queue >structure as well. > >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: migrating from MS Exchange to q-mail
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > IIRC, HP OpenMail on Linux has been discontinued. Another option is to > look at TradeServer from Bynari - http://www.bynari.com The Horde project (http://www.horde.org/) is also trying to put together an appointments/calendar system called Kronolith. I'm not sure how far they are, though. (IMP, a web-based email client and another part of the Horde project, works nicely.) (HP OpenMail has been around a long time - so to say that they realised it would be an Exchange killer is quite funny!) James.
SMTP not working .....
I have qmail running configured to use LDAP to authenticate. Courier-IMAP server running doing IMAP and POP3 also using LDAP to authenticate. When I try to send a email message it hangs up and never connects.. I not sure where else to look for clues, I don't see anything in the logs, but maybe I'm looking in the wrong place, any suggestions? John Cope
Re: SMTP not working .....
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:41:39PM -0800, John Cope wrote: > I have qmail running configured to use LDAP to authenticate. Courier-IMAP > server running doing IMAP and POP3 also using LDAP to authenticate. When I > try to send a email message it hangs up and never connects. What is the "it" that never connects? Are you sending a message from a remote client to your server by SMTP? Are you sending a message from your server to a remote host? What does "hangs up" mean? You're going to need to provide a detail or two. Chris PGP signature
Re: Can you help me ??(about limit of the number of per process file hand
Dear Henning, I try ,but not success. There is content in file conf-cc: cc -O2 DFD_SETSIZE=4096 This will be used to compile .c files. Can you help you! - Original Message - From: "Henning Brauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 8:55 PM Subject: Re: Can you help me ??(about limit of the number of per process file hand > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 05:27:21PM +0800, Baoguo Xu wrote: > > ./chkspawn > > Oops. Your system's FD_SET() has a hidden limit of 1024 descriptors. > > This means that the qmail daemons could crash if you set the run-time > > concurrency higher than 509. So I'm going to insist that the concurrency > > limit in conf-spawn be at most 509. Right now it's 600. > > *** Error code 1 > > Addind -DFD_SETSIZE=4096 (or more) to conf-cc should be enough. You don't > need to change OS'es code (at least on *BSD) > > -- > Henning Brauer | BS Web Services > Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg > http://www.bsws.de | Germany >
Re: SMTP not working .....
- Original Message - From: John Cope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 4:41 PM Subject: SMTP not working . > I have qmail running configured to use LDAP to authenticate. Courier-IMAP > server running doing IMAP and POP3 also using LDAP to authenticate. When I > try to send a email message it hangs up and never connects.. I not sure > where else to look for clues, I don't see anything in the logs, but maybe > I'm looking in the wrong place, any suggestions? > > > John Cope John, Could you please be a little more specific as to what you mean by "it hangs up and never connects". Do you mean your server? Or your mail client? What do your logs say? Could you please post the relevant sections of your logs that might have errors in them. It's much better to post the relevant information regarding the problem, that way the community can help you fix whats broken. - Jack Thomas - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Maildir file naming convention
Mark Delany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sure, an attacker could spawn a lot of short-lived processes in an attempt > > to cause a collision in mail delivery, but they'd need local access to the > > box to even have a shot at it. > > Really? What if I connect to your SMTP port - does that cause a fork on your > system? [as this topic slowly drifts from almost-on-topic to not-even-close...] Yes. But even with all the network bandwidth in the world, with syn cookies, you're not going to be able to create the four billion connections per second that would be required to even have a shot at it. 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. ---
help ( pop authenticate with ldap )
i want to make pop authenticate by ldap .what i need and what shall i do ? thanks
inquire
all mails sent by the email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] will have an automatic cc copy to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? is this possible?
Re: inquire
yes this is very easy to do. find the .qmail-x for the email address you are trying to redirect and then simply add your second email address to it. Once you open the file and look at you will see its very simple to do. i.e .qmail-abuse file contents &[EMAIL PROTECTED] &[EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks Jps > all mails sent by the email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] will have an automatic > cc copy to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? is this possible? > > >
email message body
how is the code if i want to make email with message as the same with the attachment I've send (the error12 file but not in the binary mode) here is the original script of mine ... can you help me ? #!/bin/bash perl /home/essy/public_html/perl/http -r www.ojolali.com > hasil12; grep -i 200 /home/essy/public_html/perl/hasil12 > /usr/backup/error12; if grep -i 200 /usr/backup/error12; then { (cat /usr/backup/error12 | uuencode error12 ; echo "ojolali oke") | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject [EMAIL PROTECTED] al } fi
Re: Rewriting domain name on outbound messages
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:59:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > Right now, if I have server1.internal_lan.com, > server2.internal_lan.com, and server3.internal_lan.com (all > still running sendmail at this point), and I tell them to > use my qmail server as their relay, messages go out as > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I need them to be > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, otherwise our clients will not be able to > respond (and in some cases may even reject the message as spam). [snip] That kind of data is added by qmail-inject which is not activated by relay. Tell the internal servers to do the masquerade. Jörgen
shell vs qmail
for some unknown to me reason when i type csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &' just like INSTALL says it gives me PATH on screen and when it starts to run qmail-start it "freezes", well not really freezes.. but nothing is happened i even went to bin directory and run ./qmail-start itself on my other box it shows status: local and etc.. so i'm running it through bash and it seems to work although i had to change script a bit does it matter? which shell? and/or why isn't it running like it supposte to (like in INSTALL)?
qmail-ldap patch
Good morning everyone, i'm trying to get the qmail-ldap patch since yesterday, but the place where it used to be "http://www.nrg4u.com/qmail/qmail-ldap-1.03-2701.patch.gz" doesn't answer. I'm in a hurry, so please, if anyone of you have a copy of it or knows other URL where i could take it, i would appreciate your help. Regards and thanks in advance. Elena Escolano Torner. Systems Architecture Consultant. Tissat.
Maildir problem
Dear all, I am using qmail 1.03 on Redhat 6.2 box. I have just shifted from Mailbox format to Maildir format. And i am using qpopper-qmail-2.53-1-PAM.i386.rpm for pop daemon. If i am doing telnet on localhost at port 110 , then it showing that pop daemon is running, And if i am providing username and password over there just to check the mail, but its saying 0 message , while i am having mails in my Maildir/new folders. How can i fetch mails now using Maildir format ? Regards Lokesh
Re: Maildir problem
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:25:22PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear all, > > I am using qmail 1.03 on Redhat 6.2 box. > I have just shifted from Mailbox format to Maildir format. And i am using >qpopper-qmail-2.53-1-PAM.i386.rpm for pop daemon. > I do not know that rpm. > If i am doing telnet on localhost at port 110 , then it showing that pop daemon is >running, And if i am providing username and password over there just to check the >mail, but its saying 0 message , while i am having mails in my Maildir/new folders. > > How can i fetch mails now using Maildir format ? > How about setting up qmail-pop3d (comes with qmail). Gerrit. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] innominate AG the linux architects tel: +49.30.308806-0 fax: -77 http://www.innominate.com
Re: qmailadmin 0.42
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have the same problem to compile Qmailadmin-0.42, I solve this problem with this option: cd /home/vpopmail/include/ cp -fp vauth.h vpopmail.h vpopmail_config.h /your/source/qmailadmin/directory and: LIBS="-L/home/vpopmail/lib -lvpopmail" DEFS="/home/vpopmail/include" \ ./configure --your-optios-here make make install-strip No more Generated by fortune* Água mole, pedra dura, tanto bate até que molha! UIN: 14414330 - URL: http://www.dicaslinux.com.br 9:00am up 21:38 12 users load average: 0.55 On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jesús Arnáiz wrote: RPT Hi! RPT RPT I try to compile qmailadmin0.42, but I get this errors: RPT RPT RPT RPT [ /servers/src/qmailadmin-0.42]# RPT ./configure -enable-cgibindir=/servers/apache/cgi-bin --enable-htmldir=/servers/apache RPT /htdocs -enable-qmaildir=/servers/qmail --enable-ezmlmdir=/servers/ezmlm/ RPT RPT RPT [ /servers/src/qmailadmin-0.42]# make RPT make all-recursive RPT gcc -I. -g -O2 -c qmailadmin.c RPT qmailadmin.c:30: vpopmail.h: No such file or directory RPT qmailadmin.c:31: vauth.h: No such file or directory RPT *** Error code 1 RPT RPT Stop in /servers/src/qmailadmin-0.42. RPT *** Error code 1 RPT RPT Stop in /servers/src/qmailadmin-0.42. RPT *** Error code 1 RPT RPT Stop in /servers/src/qmailadmin-0.42. RPT - RPT RPT I use vpopmail 4.9.6-1 RPT RPT any help?? RPT RPT Thanks in advance RPT RPT RPT -- RPT Jesús Arnáiz RPT 0z0ne Inc I+D/IT Manager RPT http://www.0z0ne.com RPT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] RPT RPT RPT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEUEARECAAYFAjrB3FoACgkQzW1cKu9OlHcfXgCYwkNW7eeJdailoXlI+NFPVA3m igCdHmdrZW0VAkVItJKsAX9VAFYHRZw= =em8M -END PGP SIGNATURE-