Re: Hoew to Queue only mail
How feasible is it to have a primary and backup, configured as you describe below, and be able to easily switch the backup to primary mode? I suppose there's no point unless the IMAP/POP servers on each machine stay in sync. Ajit - Original Message - From: "Tim Legant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 3:16 PM Subject: Re: Hoew to Queue only mail > On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 02:33:45AM -0600, Kashan Sadiq wrote: > > If there are two servers running qmail on both of them. One is > > primary and the second is backup mail server which is for use of Queueing > > only. Now how would the mails on secondary mail server transfer to primary > > mail server and then stores in user accounts automatically. > > 1. Make sure you have MX records in DNS for both servers. > 2. On the backup mail server, put the domain names you will accept >mail for in the .../qmail/control/rcpthosts file. > 3. Make sure those domain names are /not/ in .../qmail/control/locals or >.../qmail/control/virtualdomains. > > That's it. The secondary will accept mail, queue it, and send it to the > primary automatically. It's up to the primary to deliver the mail. > > Tim > >
Re: qmail, qmail-command and procmail
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 02:15:44AM +0100, Ricardo Cerqueira wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 07:57:37PM +, Subba Rao wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have started qmail with the following option in /var/qmail/rc: > > > > exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ > > qmail-start '|dot-forward .forward |preline procmail' splogger qmail You also forgot a \n here: ^^^ Use qmail-start '|dot-forward .forward |preline procmail' splogger qmail Gerrit. > > > > Here I am explicitly using procmail as my MDA. My .qmail has one entry which is, > > "./Maildir/" > > You're wrong. You're NOT using procmail as your MDA. You're using procmail > as the system's MDA. From the moment you created a .qmail, you've overriden > the system default. > The default delivery mode only works when users don't specify their own. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] innominate AG the linux architects tel: +49.30.308806-0 fax: -77 http://www.innominate.com
Re: Hoew to Queue only mail
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:24:51AM -0700, Ajit George wrote: > How feasible is it to have a primary and backup, configured as you describe > below, and be able to easily switch the backup to primary mode? > > I suppose there's no point unless the IMAP/POP servers on each machine stay > in sync. Quite. Your users, be they virtual or local Unix users, have to exist on both machines. Then add the domain(s) either to .../qmail/control/locals or .../qmail/control/virtualdomains and HUP qmail-send. A comment: many people recommend against a backup (secondary) MX. It can be argued that you don't gain anything by it - mail will be queued at the sender's server and, once your primary (only) MX is up again, delivery will proceed apace. If you're down for too long, mail will bounce. The same is true of your own secondary, unless you make provisions to deliver it somewhere else or store it and re-inject it or other such administrative nightmare. Tim
Re: Removing inetd (now smtp/tcpserver prob)
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 04:10:47AM -0300, Martin Marconcini wrote: > @40003ad137d81a12473c tcpserver: status: 1/20 > @40003ad137d81a40cd64 tcpserver: pid 28480 from 127.0.0.1 > @40003ad137d81b12a424 tcpserver: ok 28480 > localhost.marconcini.com.ar:127.0.0.1:25 :127.0.0.1::15432 > @40003ad137d81b1c77c4 tcpserver: warning: dropping connection, unable to > run /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd: exec format error > @40003ad137d81b44b48c tcpserver: end 28480 status 28416 > @40003ad137d81b5323dc tcpserver: status: 0/20 > > What is the meaning of that exec format error??? According to the man page (man execve): [ENOEXEC] The new process file has the appropriate access permission, but has an invalid magic number in its header. It looks like your qmail-smtpd executable is hosed. Did you build from source or install a package? If the latter, try building qmail from source. > I run OpenBSD / Bash. But I don't think that might be a problem.? No. Tim (btw, no need to CC me, I read the list)
Re: Rewriting header / adding local domain if missing
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Charles Cazabon wrote: > Antje Koschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Except that some programs here are written in a way that they connect direct > > to the port 25 of the qmail server and and feed the mail via the smtp > > commands. Unfortunatly they only use "username" as sender and not > > "username@mydomain" . And they might be rejected by another because they > > don't have a valid domain name. > > Doesn't qmail append envnoathost in this circumstance? envnoathost was set (it should default to me anyway) but it sets the recipients domain if it is missing not the senders (return address). > > > Is there a possibility to append the domain to addresses missing the > > domain in any mail sent from local machines (as recognized with the tcprules)? > > You could use the fixup/@fixme trick to run the messages through qmail-inject > or new-inject, which will fix up headers, etc. See Dan's documentation and > FAQ for details. > > Charles > I checked out the fixup/@fixme trick but now mails seems to be sent from alias@domain. I put: virtualdomains fixme:fixup tcp.smtp 192.54.41.49:allow,RELAYCLIENT="@fixme" more ~alias/.qmail-fixup-default | bouncesaying 'Permission denied ' [ "@$HOST" != "@fi xme" ] | qmail-inject -f "$SENDER" -- "$DEFAULT" How can I force it to keep the sender information? The manual pages say if qmail-inject is used with the option -f then ALL variables are cleared. Thanks, Antje
Mark mail as read
Hi list! I have the same email accounts on my home computer as on my work. I have specified that the mails should remain on the server for some days so I could fetch'em at work as well when I'm home. However, I want the mails to be marked as read when they already have been fetched from the other place. Is this dependent on the client or the server? How do I configure qmail to do this? thanks, /andreas
Re: Hoew to Queue only mail
--- Tim Legant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -%<--- > Quite. Your users, be they virtual or local Unix users, have > to exist on > both machines. Then add the domain(s) either to > .../qmail/control/locals > or .../qmail/control/virtualdomains and HUP qmail-send. > > A comment: many people recommend against a backup (secondary) > MX. I afraid those people are not system administrators... > It can > be argued that you don't gain anything by it - mail will be > queued at > the sender's server and, once your primary (only) MX is up > again, > delivery will proceed apace. What about if users send mail directly from their MUA's ? They just couldn't send anything if your only MX is down. And do not rely on other people's servers - they are tend to fail... > If you're down for too long, mail will bounce. The same is > true of your > own secondary, unless you make provisions to deliver it > somewhere else > or store it and re-inject it or other such administrative > nightmare. The secondary is just relay - it should keep mail in queue until primary (or whatever is your final destination point) is up again. The secondary server not only one more server - it also should be alternative way for mail delivery. Oleg > Tim __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
qmail Digest 10 Apr 2001 10:00:00 -0000 Issue 1330
qmail Digest 10 Apr 2001 10:00:00 - Issue 1330 Topics (messages 60493 through 60530): PTHREAD_THREADS_MAX 1024 -> 8192 60493 by: hantunes 60494 by: Henning Brauer 60500 by: dan.kelley Re: 4.4.2 error smtp info 60495 by: Cybersync multilog: unable to lock directory 60496 by: Michael T. Babcock Not delivering mails 60497 by: Sumith Re: I am back to square ONE... 60498 by: Kirti S. Bajwa Kernel parameters 60499 by: Federico Edelman Anaya Re: test with postmaster failed 60501 by: Willy De la Court 60503 by: Gerrit Pape Upps.. :) Kernel parameters 60502 by: Federico Edelman Anaya Re: delay before checking mail with outlook 60504 by: Dave Sill -help@ 60505 by: Marcus Ouimet 60507 by: Bill Andersen Dynamic email addresses 60506 by: davidu.gangstabitches.net 60518 by: Par Leijonhufvud Re: Hoew to Queue only mail 60508 by: Tim Legant 60512 by: Boris 60520 by: Tim Legant 60524 by: Ajit George 60526 by: Tim Legant 60530 by: Oleg Polyakov qmail, qmail-command and procmail 60509 by: Subba Rao 60510 by: Ricardo Cerqueira 60525 by: Gerrit Pape Removing inetd 60511 by: Martin Marconcini 60514 by: alexus 60521 by: Tim Legant Re: A strange behavior. 60513 by: Kou Sato 60519 by: Tim Legant CNAME lookup failed 60515 by: Thum Chee Weng, Ronnie 60516 by: Alex Pennace 60517 by: Thum Chee Weng, Ronnie 60522 by: Thum Chee Weng, Ronnie Re: Removing inetd (now smtp/tcpserver prob) 60523 by: Martin Marconcini 60527 by: Tim Legant Re: Rewriting header / adding local domain if missing 60528 by: Antje Koschel Mark mail as read 60529 by: Andreas Carlsson 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] -- will this increase qmail performance on linux server? ./hantunes On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 11:38:40AM +0100, hantunes wrote: > will this increase qmail performance > on linux server? No. -- Henning Brauer | BS Web Services Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg http://www.bsws.de | Germany no. qmail isin't multithreaded. dan On Mon, 09 Apr 2001, you wrote: > will this increase qmail performance > on linux server? > > ./hantunes To anyone that was interested the errors seem to be because the ISP doesnt know what the hell they are running. I asked them whether they were running a traffic shaper or a load balancing device and they said "Duh" then said "o no we dont have anything like that." I then used my personal dialup to a reputable ISP and suddenly the problems went away. It seems if Qmail smtp doesn't have a smooth reliable data stream it doesn't like it. I assume this would be the case for any SMTP connection but I've never had the problem with Groupwise or Lotus Notes. Thanks to Caspar for pointing me to the correct RFC. I was wondering if anyone knows where the rest of the SMTP commands that aren't in the original RFC are listed. Craig Needs Adelaide, South Australia One of the 6 supervised services on one of my gateways stopped responding (tinydns) yesterday afternoon. On the screen was "unable to lock directory /var/log/tinydns:", so I did an "svc -t /service/tinydns/log" and it worked fine. Since the line that generates that log output exits 111, how would terminating the supervise process help? Thanks. Hello One of the domains is not receiving mailsfollowing is the output of qmail-send log @40003ad1a39e21f9de4c delivery 69737: deferral: Failed_to_write_RP_&_DT_(#4.3.2)/Yikes!_Could_create_but_ca n't_delete_temporary_file!!/ENOENT:_path_doesn't_exist/ Can someone please guide me as to what is the problem We are using Qmail+Vpopmail 4.9.8-1 (CDB)+Qmailadmin Regards Sumith Hi All: On 4-6-2001, I posted a message asking help in trying to find out why a connection to qmail was being refused. I included the following error message which was being displayed when error response was received: > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' on 04/06/2001 11:06 AM > Unable to deliver the message due to a communications failure > The MTS-ID of the original message is: c=US;a= > ;p=TIB;l=TALIA-010406150600Z-56 > MSEXCH:IMS:TIB:MTC-TN:TALIA 3902 (000B09AA) Host Unknown I received about 10-12 responses. The very first response suggested that all connections to
Failed_to_write_to_tmp/
hi nowadays i am getting following error qmail log file Failed_to_write_to_tmp/_(#4.3.3)/Yikes!_Could_create_but_can't_delete_temporary_file!!/ENOENT:_path_doesn't_exist/ also ,when i attempts to read my mails from sqwebmail(+vpopmail) . he gets "Can't creat cache files" error" what is problem ? byee Ismail YENIGUL
Re: Mark mail as read
Andreas Carlsson writes: > Hi list! > > I have the same email accounts on my home computer as on my work. I have specified >that the mails should remain on the server for some days so I could fetch'em at work >as well when I'm home. > However, I want the mails to be marked as read when they already have been fetched >from the other place. > > Is this dependent on the client or the server? > How do I configure qmail to do this? when you read your messages, they are mot marked on the server as read, but the client remembers that it read them, so unless you can share that info between your clients at home and work, you cannot do what you want ...
OpenBSD 2.8 & "You have new mail in /var/mail/root"
Hi all, I am getting this message "You have new mail in /var/mail/root" every day on my new OpenBSD 2.8 machines running qmail. I want all of that mail to go to either to a remote host or to a local Maildir depending on the machine. If anyone has done this please give me a clue. I usually just start experimenting until I get what I want but it is working so well other than that I just dont want to break anything. Thanks Rick Up
Re[2]: Hoew to Queue only mail
Hello Tim, Tuesday, April 10, 2001, 7:18:36 AM, you wrote: Yes, that´s what I mean. I was thinking that qmail is delivering to both mx servers at the same time for backup reasons -) *ggg Need some sleep -) Bo
Logging using multilog
Hello, I have successfully installed qmail on FreeBSD, using tcpserver & Daemontools i.e. starting qmail daemons from /service directory. (Based on life with qmail help, but here svscan & supervice are not only used for qmail) Currently everything, local to remote, local to local, remote to local (including alias) & pop are working correctly. I have used Maildir as Mail - Storage method. My Problem is there are no logs generated for smtpd & pop3d Contents of /service/qmail-send/run --- #!/bin/sh exec /var/qmail/rc I have modified /var/qmail/rc as follows to use multilog instead of splogger. Contents of /var/qmail/rc #!/bin/sh exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start ./Maildir/ /usr/local/bin/multilog -t !/usr/local/bin/tai64nlocal /log/qmail (This Works but below doesn't) Contents of /service/qmail-smtpd/run -- #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -Ho -x /etc/qmail/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 1012 -g 1012 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd Contents of /service/qmail-smtpd/log/run - #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t !/usr/local/bin/tai64nlocal /log/qmail/smtpd Though Mail is Correctly Logged for qmail-send in /log/qmail/current It doesn't seem to work for qmail-smtpd & qmail-pop3d. I already checked directory permissions Also is my usage of tai64nlocal correct i.e. as processor in multilog ??? Any Help will be Highly Appreciated.. Thanx Mustafa M -- VeetVision Communications (P) Ltd. Bungalow C-3, Moghul Gardens, 411001 Pune, India Tel. 91-20-6113056, 6051597, 6051598 / Fax 91-20-6050652
Mail Compression in Maildir
Hello, I know its a bit out of track ... But is it possible to keep mail (files) in Maildir i.e. in cur,new & tmp in compressed formay. (Maybe using a filter like gzip / gunzip) Any Help will be highly appreciated. Thanx & Regards Mustafa M -- VeetVision Communications (P) Ltd. Bungalow C-3, Moghul Gardens, 411001 Pune, India Tel. 91-20-6113056, 6051597, 6051598 / Fax 91-20-6050652
Re: Logging using multilog
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 06:40:14PM +0530, Mustafa Mahudhawala wrote: > Hello, > I have successfully installed qmail on FreeBSD, > using tcpserver & Daemontools i.e. starting qmail daemons from /service > directory. > (Based on life with qmail help, but here svscan & supervice are not only > used for qmail) > > My Problem is there are no logs generated for smtpd & pop3d > > Contents of /service/qmail-send/run > --- > #!/bin/sh > exec /var/qmail/rc > > I have modified /var/qmail/rc as follows to use multilog instead of splogger. > > Contents of /var/qmail/rc > > #!/bin/sh > exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ > qmail-start ./Maildir/ /usr/local/bin/multilog -t > !/usr/local/bin/tai64nlocal /log/qmail > Better use multilog in a log/run script and let svscan provide the pipe, just as in qmail-smtpd. Dont forget to chmod +t /service/qmail-send and restart the supervise process (see below). > (This Works but below doesn't) > > Contents of /service/qmail-smtpd/run > -- > #!/bin/sh > exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -Ho -x /etc/qmail/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 1012 -g > 1012 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd > > Contents of /service/qmail-smtpd/log/run > - > #!/bin/sh > exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t > !/usr/local/bin/tai64nlocal /log/qmail/smtpd > You need to chmod +t /service/qmail-smtpd to have log/run started. If the service is allready running, use # cd /service # mv qmail-smtpd .qmail-smtpd # svc -dx .qmail-smtpd # chmod +t .qmail-smtpd # mv .qmail-smtpd qmail-smtpd check with # svstat qmail-smtpd qmail-smtpd/log Hope this helps, Gerrit. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] innominate AG the linux architects tel: +49.30.308806-0 fax: -77 http://www.innominate.com
My problem with Multilog logging solved.
Ref : Previous mail regarding problem with multilog Logging. Had to use 2>&1 i.e. send std error to Descriptor 1 from where multilog can read. for smtpd & pop3d in run scripts. eg. in /service/qmail-smtpd/run --- #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -Ho -x /etc/qmail/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 1012 -g 1012 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 Same for Pop3d. Now smtpd & pop3d are logging correctly. Though i.e. still get that @timestamp instead of human readable format though i have used tai64nlocal (correctly ) in /service/qmail-smtpd/log/run #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t !/usr/local/bin/t ai64nlocal /log/qmail/smtpd Thanx & Regards Mustafa M -- VeetVision Communications (P) Ltd. Bungalow C-3, Moghul Gardens, 411001 Pune, India Tel. 91-20-6113056, 6051597, 6051598 / Fax 91-20-6050652
Rewriting headers.
I'm using QMail + MySQL. I have the need to handle two different domain, but which refer to the same mailboxes. With Sendmail and Postfix, I can instruct to rewrite domain1.it to domain2.it BEFORE queue processing. How can I do the same with QMail? MySQL patch provide a method which implies information duplication, or another which avoid to check for the domain at all. I don't like both ways. Is there another way I'm missing from the docs? virtualizingly, Cthulhu -- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu http://www.rlyeh.it/ wgah'nagl fhtgan! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
QMAIL connections terminating
We just set up a qmail server on Red Hat 7.0. Our users use Outlook (mostly Outlook 2000). The server has two NICs, one internal (192.168.x.y) and one external (216.64.x.y). For the purposes of this discussion, let's call the server mail.myco.com. IN both local DNS, and external DNS, we have setup pop.myco.com and smtp.myco.com as well as mail.myco.com. All PCs can properly resolve the name to the correct IP. The obvious reason for this is that most mail is sent internally between company users, so this would cut down on the amount of mail going over the WAN. What we are seeing is quite a few users who can't send the mail via SMTP. They get an error that says "The TCP/IP connection was terminated unexpectedly" (message from Outlook). To get around this, we assign the OUTSIDE IP address of smtp.myco.com as the SMTP server, and everything works. This is really stumping me. At one of the affected PCs, if I ping smtp.myco.com, it resolves to the 192.168.x.y address. I can telnet to 192.168.x.y on Port 25, and send mail this way just fine. The odd things are, it's affecting various Outlook versions, some OS's areWin98, others are NT, some are Gateway or Compaq boxes, so I can't put it down to any one thing. And, why does it work just fine if I use the Outside IP address 216.64.x.y?? Any ideas (we can't get rid of Viruslook, sadly enough). Thanks in advance. Doug
Re: Removing inetd (now smtp/tcpserver prob)
> > What is the meaning of that exec format error??? > > According to the man page (man execve): > > [ENOEXEC] The new process file has the appropriate access permission, > but has an invalid magic number in its header. > > It looks like your qmail-smtpd executable is hosed. Did you build from > source or install a package? If the latter, try building qmail from > source. I build it from Ports Tree... (which could be technically called from sources) Any ideas? (and I forgot to mention that yesterday, when I was using inetd, it worked). Regards, Martin.
Re: Hoew to Queue only mail
Tim Legant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you're down for too long, mail will bounce. The same is true of your > own secondary, unless you make provisions to deliver it somewhere else > or store it and re-inject it or other such administrative nightmare. No, when the primary goes down, you just set queuelifetime on the secondary according to how long it will take the primary to come back up. Or you discard the primary and just start using the secondary immediately. In general, using a secondary gives you more control over what happens when the primary goes down. Also, using a secondary means that when the primary comes back up, a quick `qmail-tcpok; svc -a /service/qmail' will bring all the mail over to the primary immediately; you don't have to wait for varying timeouts across the Internet. Ian
Re: A strange behavior.
Kou Sato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> smtp2 tries to sent it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you enabling selective relaying on smtp2? If so, are you setting RELAYCLIENT to "smpt2.my.domain"? -Dave
AIX 3.25 install?
Hello all, We are trying to install Qmail on an AIX 3.25 server. Does anyone have any suggestions? We run Make setup and get this error: ./compile install-big.c ./compile install.c ./load install-big fifo.o install.o auto_qmail.o \ auto_split.o auto_uids.o strerr.a substdio.a open.a error.a \ str.a fs.a 0706-317 ERROR: Unresolved or undefined symbols detected: Symbols in error (followed by references) are dumped to the load map. The -bloadmap: option will create a load map. .fchdir The error code from the last failed command is 8. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Leitha
Re: OpenBSD 2.8 & "You have new mail in /var/mail/root"
"Rick Updegrove" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am getting this message "You have new mail in /var/mail/root" every day on >my new OpenBSD 2.8 machines running qmail. And are messages actually being delivered to /var/mail/root? If so, then you probably haven't replaced /usr/lib/sendmail (and/or /usr/sbin/sendmail) with a link to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail. >I want all of that mail to go to >either to a remote host or to a local Maildir depending on the >machine. Root mail is usually handled by ~alias/.qmail-root. If you want it forwarded remotely, use: &[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want it delivered to a local Maildir, forward it to local user whose mail goes to a maildir: &user Where ~user/.qmail contains: ./Maildir/ Or, even better, use an extension address in .qmail-root: &user-root And create ~user/.qmail-root to save the root mail in a separate maildir: ./Mail/root/ -Dave
Re: Rewriting headers.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I'm using QMail + MySQL. >I have the need to handle two different domain, but which refer to the >same mailboxes. > >With Sendmail and Postfix, I can instruct to rewrite domain1.it to >domain2.it BEFORE queue processing. > >How can I do the same with QMail? >MySQL patch provide a method which implies information duplication, or >another which avoid to check for the domain at all. I don't like both >ways. > >Is there another way I'm missing from the docs? Why not just list the domains in control/locals and control/rcpthosts? Why bother with rewriting? -Dave
Problem with qmail-smtpd & xinetd
Hi all, i have one question about qmail-smtpd.
When i boot my machine and fetch my mail, qmail-smtpd is spawned by xinetd
and everything works ok. But the second time xinetd tries to execute
qmail-smtpd, it gives the next error:
Apr 7 19:08:01 roku xinetd[1092]: execv( /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
) failed: Bad address (errno = 14)
I guess it's not a matter of permissions, anyway i changed the owner of
qmail-smtpd from root to qmaild. If it was about permissions, execv would
had shown a bad access error.
But, when the script which launches xinetd is restarted, then every time
qmail-smtpd is spawned all work as it was expected to. No error in the
logs.
The xinetd conf i think is totally correct:
service smtp
{
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
wait= no
user= qmaild
server = /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
server_args = ""
log_on_failure += RECORD
disable = no
}
So i have no idea why this problem appears. Somebody have any idea about
this? I hate when those strange things happens, probably something is
mistaked in my config, but i don't have a clue about what it is.
Thank you all
David Gómez
"The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of
whether submarines can swim." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
qmail: relaying
OK.. I've read the relaying and selective relaying docs, but I'm still confused as to what I need to do. Maybe, I have a case of cranial rectitus. (Having ones head up ones A##) I'm setting an ISP that will service upwards of 50,000 to 5,000,000 clients, most of which will be accessing our servers through an Internet Appliance device. How do I provision relaying for these users. They will be connecting to the Internet through their local POP's, with different IP's. Do I need to include of these IP's in the tcp.smtp file, or is there a better way to handle this? - John
Re: AIX 3.25 install?
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:09:06AM -0700, Leitha discount wrote: > 0706-317 ERROR: Unresolved or undefined symbols detected: > .fchdir AIX 3 doesn't have fchdir(). You should be able to find the answer to this in the archives, as this has come up a couple of times before. -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/"Modularity is not a hack." _/ _/ _/-- D. J. Bernstein _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _/_/ _/_/_/use Std::Disclaimer;
Re: AIX 3.25 install?
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Leitha discount wrote: > Hello all, We are trying to install Qmail on an AIX 3.25 server. Quoting myself from a previous lifetime (via the archive http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/1997/04/msg00320.html): I had a similar problem with AIX 3.2, we use the Vixie bind and bind libraries and I had to change conf-cc.sh to read: CC='cc -O2 -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib' LD='cc -s -L/usr/local/lib -lresolv' You might want to check and see if you have a seperate resolver library somewhere (some unixes do so standardly) and add it (and the necessary include and library paths if its not in the standard location). Hope this helps, Julie My memory doesn't handle high levels of detail from 1997, but I don't recall ever getting qmail to compile on AIX 3.X with the default AIX resolver library - I also didn't try too hard because at the time I was running DNS on some of my AIX systems, so I had to maintain the vixie bind resolver library for AIX 3.X anyway and it was only a matter of scping a file to one more place. Also, if you are using XLC, I may have used the more BSD-like configuration of the compiler for qmail. Good luck, Julie > Does anyone have any suggestions? We run Make setup and get this > error: > > ./compile install-big.c > ./compile install.c > ./load install-big fifo.o install.o auto_qmail.o \ > auto_split.o auto_uids.o strerr.a substdio.a open.a error.a \ > str.a fs.a > 0706-317 ERROR: Unresolved or undefined symbols detected: > Symbols in error (followed by references) are > dumped to the load map. > The -bloadmap: option will create a load map. > .fchdir > The error code from the last failed command is 8. > > Any help would be appreciated. > Thanks, > Leitha >
Re: virtual domain aliases problems...
Geoffrey Gallaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I recently moved from sendmail to qmail-1.03. I'm having a few problems >getting per-domain alias files working. > >[snip description of sendmail method] > >Now, with qmail I've installed fastforward and setup /etc/aliases to >work correctly. The question is how do I make qmail recognize the >aliases files for the virtual domains that my users have? For example, say you have virtual.example.com managed by "joe". In control/virtualdomains: virtual.example.com:joe-virtual In ~joe/.qmail-virtual-default: | fastforward -d virtual.aliases.cdb -Dave
Re: Hoew to Queue only mail
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:07:30AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Or you discard the primary and just start using the secondary > immediately. Depending on your configuration, and there seem to be as many configurations as there are system adminstrators, it may not be as simple as "just start using the secondary". If you have local users on the primary that are not on the secondary, you have additional work. If you have a virtual domain setup with large numbers of POP boxes that are not mirrored on the secondary, you have additional work. If you authenticate from LDAP and slapd is (was!) on the primary, you have additional work. > In general, using a secondary gives you more control over what happens > when the primary goes down. Certainly. > Also, using a secondary means that when the primary comes back up, a > quick `qmail-tcpok; svc -a /service/qmail' will bring all the mail > over to the primary immediately; you don't have to wait for varying > timeouts across the Internet. Again, absolutely true. For the record, I have secondaries for all domains for which I admin mail. My comments were to point out that others felt differently and that, while secondaries are convenient, if the primary will be back up in a day or two, the SMTP architecture works just fine without them. It's designed to. Tim
Re: Upps.. :) Kernel parameters
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi! I'm running the Qmail-1.03(big-todo.patch and big-concurrency.path) >+ Ezmlm-0.53 on Linux Debian Kernel 2.2.17 > >[snipped] > >The conf-spawn limit to 509! What does that mean? Did you set it to 1000 and find that it never spawned more than 509? Did you set it to 1000 and get an error message saying the limit was 509? Remember: 1) Tell us what you did. 2) Tell us what you expected to happen. 3) Tell us what *did* happen. -Dave
Re: Hoew to Queue only mail
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:10:50PM -0500, Tim Legant wrote: > If you authenticate from LDAP and slapd is (was!) on > the primary, you have additional work. That's why you use a replica (slurpd) on (or near) every server. -- Henning Brauer | BS Web Services Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg http://www.bsws.de | Germany
Alias troubles
Ok, I have 3 domains: mail.dealnews.com dealnews.com deal-news.com mail.dealnews.com is in locals, rcpthosts and me deal-news.com is in locals and rcpthosts dealnews.com is in rcpthosts and virtualdomains as dealnews.com:dealnews In my home dir I have a .qmail-test file that reads: ./Maildir/.test/ If I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] the email is delivered to the test maildir as expected. I also created a .qmail-brianm-default in the dealnews home dir that reads: &brianm If I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail is not delivered to the test maildir. Instead it is delivered according to my .qmail file in my home dir and totally ignores my .qmail-test file. Is there anyway around this? Brian Moon -- dealnews.com, Inc. Makers of dealnews & dealmac http://dealnews.com/ | http://dealmac.com/ Look for my presentation at ApacheCon 2001. "Caching Dynamic Web Content to Increase Dependability and Performance" http://www.apachecon.com/
Re: Another newsletter question..
John P wrote: > > Hi All > > I've been looking into the best way to send the occasional one-off > newsletter to 50-60,000 customers. > > Two questions: > - For max. delivery speed, can I just up the concurrency-remote to, say, 400 > (applying patch) - do I need to do anything else (Linux RedHat 7) eg. to do > with process limits etc? Sure. You could even run an entirely separate copy of qmail processes that interfaces with the same queue when you send out the newsletter. > - I need to track bounces, fails etc. is the best thing to call qmail-remote > directly, for each email, and then if it fails mark it in the database or > pass it to qmail-inject (if temporary)? Also I'm running qmail-scanner, so I > need to disable this for each e-mail. Could I potentially outweigh any speed > benefit by having to use MySQL update queries or by the fact I'm using PHP? You could probably alias anything that comes back to the MAILER-DAEMON user during the time you are sending out the newsletter to be passed through a program or script which would look at the ## line and see if the subject matches the newsletter's subject, and, if it does, pass off the user name to either a PHP function or otherwise marking the user as bouncing in the database. As far as using PHP, you might do better with a shell script; but my knowledge of PHP's speed limitations is nonexistant. > note: I would like to keep it in PHP as it's what i know ;) > > Cheers > John -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Syntax in /etc/tcp.smtp?
Hello,sorry but I've not well clear if have I to put a real CLIENT name between "---" or have I to let it emtpty? 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 192.168.2.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow -- Regards,: Marco Calistri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg key available on http://www.qsl.net/ik5bcu Xfmail 1.4.7p2 on linux RedHat 6.2
Re: AIX 3.25 install?
Thanks for that suggestion, I guess I didn't see the reference to that one the first time out. It did help us get further. But, now we are getting this message: ./install install: fatal: unable to read home: file does not exist The error code from the last failed command is 111. Make Quitting. Well, home is there. So I'm not sure what it is looking for? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Leitha - Original Message - From: "Jos Backus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Leitha discount" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 10:45 AM Subject: Re: AIX 3.25 install? On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:09:06AM -0700, Leitha discount wrote: > 0706-317 ERROR: Unresolved or undefined symbols detected: > .fchdir AIX 3 doesn't have fchdir(). You should be able to find the answer to this in the archives, as this has come up a couple of times before. -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/"Modularity is not a hack." _/ _/ _/-- D. J. Bernstein _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _/_/ _/_/_/use Std::Disclaimer;
Re: AIX 3.25 install?
Thanks for that suggestion, I guess I didn't see the reference to that one the first time out. It did help us get further. But, now we are getting this message: ./install install: fatal: unable to read home: file does not exist The error code from the last failed command is 111. Make Quitting. Well, home is there. So I'm not sure what it is looking for? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Leitha - Original Message - From: "Jos Backus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Leitha discount" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 10:45 AM Subject: Re: AIX 3.25 install? On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:09:06AM -0700, Leitha discount wrote: > 0706-317 ERROR: Unresolved or undefined symbols detected: > .fchdir AIX 3 doesn't have fchdir(). You should be able to find the answer to this in the archives, as this has come up a couple of times before. -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/"Modularity is not a hack." _/ _/ _/-- D. J. Bernstein _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _/_/ _/_/_/use Std::Disclaimer;
Qmail stoppages
Really strange problem - qmail starts and runs fine, sending out our weekly newsletter. A couple of days later, sending email from a workstation to the sever via SMTP won't work. Running ps shows that all necessary services are up and running, a port scan shows # 25 as listening, but doesn't get a "220 mail.mydomain.com ESMTP..." response. A soft reboot doesn't always fix it; though powering it off for a minute does. After that, it'll run hundreds of thousands of messages or so, and mysteriously stop. Don't see anything strange on the system logs either. Any ideas?
Re: Syntax in /etc/tcp.smtp?
At 02:33 PM 4/10/01 , Marco Calistri wrote: Hello,sorry but I've not well clear if have I to put a real CLIENT name between "---" or have I to let it emtpty? 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 192.168.2.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow Try this: 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 192.168.2.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" (allow all of 192.168.2.x) Stewart Vardaman Belcaro Group
qmail-qread and qmail-qstat as suid root...
Anyone know of any reasion why I shouldn't set the qmail-qread and qmail-qstat as setuid root? I've looked through the source, but am looking for a last confirmation or "don't do that." -sc -- Sean Chittenden PGP signature
Re: Alias troubles
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 02:37:32PM -0500, Brian Moon wrote: > In my home dir I have a .qmail-test file that reads: ./Maildir/.test/ > > If I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > the email is delivered to the test maildir as expected. > > I also created a .qmail-brianm-default in the dealnews home dir that reads: > &brianm Here you've probably forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (qmail uses the contents of "me" if you have no defaultohst or defaultdomain files - man qmail-inject). You've lost the "-test" part of the original recipient. Try this in dealnews/.qmail-brianm-default : | forward "brianm-$DEFAULT" man qmail-command (the ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES section) to see why. Tim
Re: Qmail stoppages
Stewart Vardaman wrote: > > Really strange problem - qmail starts and runs fine, sending out our weekly > ... > stop. Don't see anything strange on the system logs either. Any ideas? Sounds like bad hardware to me. Possibly a bad spot on the RAM? -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Some mail is getting to qmail, some others aren't
I have a weird problem. 90% of the people can email me fine to my qmail server. 10% of the people can't. The 10% of the people who can't get the following error: Reporting-MTA: dns;mail.tripperjones.com Received-From-MTA: dns;jrichard Arrival-Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 15:56:32 -0700 Final-Recipient: rfc822;[EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Weird. I checked all the log files and no log file entries were entered in as failed during the time he tried to email me. So it seems the email isn't even GETTING to the qmail server. So I had the guy who couldn't email me telnet into port 25 and send an email manually through telnet. It worked fine. So I thought "hmmm, maybe this is some sort of weird DNS error". So I my friend run a dslookup from his NT machine. HEre are the results: D:\>nslookup -q=mx pcrush.com *** Can't find server name for address 206.111.47.3: Non-existent domain *** Can't find server name for address 206.111.47.4: Non-existent domain *** Default servers are not available Server: UnKnown Address: 206.111.47.3 Non-authoritative answer: pcrush.com MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = 63.204.40.234 pcrush.com nameserver = dns-1.tricreations.com pcrush.com nameserver = ns4.tricreations.com pcrush.com nameserver = ns5.tricreations.com dns-1.tricreations.com internet address = 216.205.16.110 Is this a problem with the DNS server or is this a problem with qmail? - Steve
Re: OpenBSD 2.8 & "You have new mail in /var/mail/root"
- Original Message - From: "Dave Sill" Subject: Re: OpenBSD 2.8 & "You have new mail in /var/mail/root" > > "Rick Updegrove" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am getting this message "You have new mail in /var/mail/root" every day on > >my new OpenBSD 2.8 machines running qmail. > And are messages actually being delivered to /var/mail/root? Not e-mail, just system warnings and messages etc. > If so, > then you probably haven't replaced /usr/lib/sendmail (and/or > /usr/sbin/sendmail) with a link to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail. I thought of that after I wrote the list, so I did the following after reading this file bash-2.04# cat /etc/mailer.conf # $OpenBSD: mailer.conf,v 1.3 2000/04/06 18:24:19 millert Exp $ # # Execute the "real" sendmail program, named /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail # sendmail/usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail send-mail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail mailq /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail newaliases /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail hoststat/usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail purgestat /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail bash-2.04# ls -la /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail bash# Do I need all of those? Ok so I linked them like this: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 23 Apr 10 04:04 /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail -> /var/qmail/bin/sendmail lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 23 Apr 10 04:03 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /var/qmail/bin/sendmail Then I changed this bash-2.04# cat /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root user To this bash-2.04# cat /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root &[EMAIL PROTECTED] I am usuing all virtuals via vpopmail, and that account works. I think I am all set. Wow I learned something again today. Thanks Dave. Thanks again Rick Up
Some mail gets to my qmail server, some doesn't
I have a weird problem. 90% of the people can email me fine to my qmail server. 10% of the people can't. The 10% of the people who can't get the following error: Reporting-MTA: dns;mail.tripperjones.com Received-From-MTA: dns;jrichard Arrival-Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 15:56:32 -0700 Final-Recipient: rfc822;[EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Weird. I checked all the log files and no log file entries were entered in as failed during the time he tried to email me. So it seems the email isn't even GETTING to the qmail server. So I had the guy who couldn't email me telnet into port 25 and send an email manually through telnet. It worked fine. So I thought "hmmm, maybe this is some sort of weird DNS error". So I my friend run a dslookup from his NT machine. HEre are the results: D:\>nslookup -q=mx pcrush.com *** Can't find server name for address 206.111.47.3: Non-existent domain *** Can't find server name for address 206.111.47.4: Non-existent domain *** Default servers are not available Server: UnKnown Address: 206.111.47.3 Non-authoritative answer: pcrush.com MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = 63.204.40.234 pcrush.com nameserver = dns-1.tricreations.com pcrush.com nameserver = ns4.tricreations.com pcrush.com nameserver = ns5.tricreations.com dns-1.tricreations.com internet address = 216.205.16.110 Is this a problem with the DNS server or is this a problem with qmail? - Steve
Re: Another newsletter question..
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 04:24:54PM -0400, Nick (Keith) Fish wrote: [snip] > Sure. You could even run an entirely separate copy of qmail processes > that interfaces with the same queue when you send out the newsletter. What do you mean by 'the same queue'? Greetz, Peter.
Re: qmail-qread and qmail-qstat as suid root...
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 02:40:24PM -0700, Sean Chittenden wrote: > Anyone know of any reasion why I shouldn't set the qmail-qread > and qmail-qstat as setuid root? I've looked through the source, but > am looking for a last confirmation or "don't do that." -sc qmail-qstat is a shellscript. Making shellscripts suid is always calling for trouble. As for qmail-qread: suid qmails+sgid qmail is much better than suid root, but let me read the code for a bit. Basically, qmail-qread was not designed to be run suid. It sends messages to stdout/stderr at will, risking tricks with fd's. It may have other environmental dependencies that are not a problem in a non-suid environment. I wouldn't do it. How about just running it under tcpserver on localhost and writing a small script that uses tcpclient to connect to it? Much safer. Greetz, Peter.
Re: qmail-qread and qmail-qstat as suid root...
Sean Chittenden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone know of any reasion why I shouldn't set the qmail-qread > and qmail-qstat as setuid root? I've looked through the source, but > am looking for a last confirmation or "don't do that." -sc Make them setuid qmailq, not setuid root. That should be safe enough, although there is a slightly increased chance that a local user can do something horrible to your mail queue. Ian
Re: qmail-qread and qmail-qstat as suid root...
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 02:40:24PM -0700, Sean Chittenden wrote: > Anyone know of any reasion why I shouldn't set the qmail-qread > and qmail-qstat as setuid root? I've looked through the source, but > am looking for a last confirmation or "don't do that." -sc # envuidgid qmails tcpserver -U localhost 82 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread & $ nc localhost 82 10 Apr 2001 23:16:15 GMT #246039 212 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] bash$ tcpclient localhost 82 cat /dev/fd/6 10 Apr 2001 23:16:15 GMT #246039 212 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] etcetera. Completely secure (in as much that it allows user to see info they couldn't see before, unless when gleaming from logfiles or checking process listings regularly etcetera). Greetz, Peter.
Re: Some mail is getting to qmail, some others aren't
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 03:11:43PM -0700, Steve Quezadas wrote: > I have a weird problem. 90% of the people can email me fine to my qmail > server. 10% of the people can't. The 10% of the people who can't get the > following error: fano(2:2819) $ dnsqr mx pcrush.com 15 pcrush.com: 57 bytes, 1+1+0+0 records, response, noerror query: 15 pcrush.com answer: pcrush.com 21524 MX 5 63.204.40.234 * a MX record *MAY NOT* point to a IP address. It's supposed to point to a FQDN. Your DNS zone setup is broken. \Maex -- SpaceNet AG| Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 | Fon: +49 (89) 32356-0 Research & Development | D-80807 Muenchen| Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299 Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet.
Re: Some mail is getting to qmail, some others aren't
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 15:11:43 PDT, "Steve Quezadas" wrote: > Non-authoritative answer: > pcrush.com MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = 63.204.40.234 I could be wrong, but I believe that MX records are supposed to be names not IP addresses. This could be part of the problem. Andy p.s. nslookup is deprecated, not to mention broken. If you don't use djbdns you should at least use dig.
Re: Some mail is getting to qmail, some others aren't
Steve Quezadas wrote: > > I have a weird problem. 90% of the people can email me fine to my qmail > > D:\>nslookup -q=mx pcrush.com > *** Can't find server name for address 206.111.47.3: Non-existent domain > *** Can't find server name for address 206.111.47.4: Non-existent domain > *** Default servers are not available > Server: UnKnown > Address: 206.111.47.3 > > Non-authoritative answer: > pcrush.com MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = 63.204.40.234 > > pcrush.com nameserver = dns-1.tricreations.com > pcrush.com nameserver = ns4.tricreations.com > pcrush.com nameserver = ns5.tricreations.com > dns-1.tricreations.com internet address = 216.205.16.110 > > Is this a problem with the DNS server or is this a problem with qmail? > > - Steve Looks to be DNS. I'd recommend refreshing the domain on all of the aforementioned servers (make sure to get MX right) and throw in the reverse entries as well. -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Some mail is getting to qmail, some others aren't
Those errors have nothing to do with your domain. They mean that the PC from where you did the nslookup has it's DNS server set to 206.111.47.3, and it is unable to reverse-lookup that 206.111.47.3 to a hostname. After complaining about that, it goes on to happily and correctly lookup the MX for pcrush.com. If the PC could telnet to you, doing an nslookup from that machine is really a moot point anyway. Exactly who can't get to you? Are we talking about clients at your site who use you for their SMTP server? Or are we talking about people at other sites who send mail to their own SMTP server and then get bounces back like below? If there is another mail server involved, maybe you need to get that administrator involved and look at it. Maybe it is having dns problems. > From: "Steve Quezadas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 15:11:43 -0700 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Some mail is getting to qmail, some others aren't > > I have a weird problem. 90% of the people can email me fine to my qmail > server. 10% of the people can't. The 10% of the people who can't get the > following error: > > Reporting-MTA: dns;mail.tripperjones.com > Received-From-MTA: dns;jrichard > Arrival-Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 15:56:32 -0700 > > Final-Recipient: rfc822;[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Action: failed > Status: 5.0.0 > > > Weird. I checked all the log files and no log file entries were entered in > as failed during the time he tried to email me. So it seems the email isn't > even GETTING to the qmail server. So I had the guy who couldn't email me > telnet into port 25 and send an email manually through telnet. It worked > fine. So I thought "hmmm, maybe this is some sort of weird DNS error". So I > my friend run a dslookup from his NT machine. HEre are the results: > > D:\>nslookup -q=mx pcrush.com > *** Can't find server name for address 206.111.47.3: Non-existent domain > *** Can't find server name for address 206.111.47.4: Non-existent domain > *** Default servers are not available > Server: UnKnown > Address: 206.111.47.3 > > Non-authoritative answer: > pcrush.com MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = 63.204.40.234 > > pcrush.com nameserver = dns-1.tricreations.com > pcrush.com nameserver = ns4.tricreations.com > pcrush.com nameserver = ns5.tricreations.com > dns-1.tricreations.com internet address = 216.205.16.110 > > > > > Is this a problem with the DNS server or is this a problem with qmail? > > - Steve > > >
Re: Removing inetd (now smtp/tcpserver prob)
Well, exec is in /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run Have you double checked the syntax in this file? What exactly does it look like? > From: Martin Marconcini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 04:10:47 -0300 > To: Tim Legant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Removing inetd (now smtp/tcpserver prob) > > What is the meaning of that exec format error??? >
Re: qmail-qread and qmail-qstat as suid root...
Only suid or suid & guid? qmail-qstat and qmail-qread both
rely on the qmail group to run through the queue.
man -M /var/qmail/man qmail-qstat
Here's a quick binary wrapper that I was thinking about using
that'd run as root, but would only have permission to run if you're in
the staff or wheel group. Thoughts? -sc
PS To change to qmail-qread:
cp qmail_qstat.c qmail_qread.c
perl -p -i -e 's/QMAILQSTAT/QMAILQREAD/g' qmail_qread.c
perl -p -i -e 's/qmail-qstat/qmail-qread/g' qmail_qstat.c
/* $Id: qmail_qstat.c,v 1.1 2001/04/10 21:48:02 sean Exp $ */
#include
#include
#define QMAILQSTAT "/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat"
int main(void) {
execlp(QMAILQSTAT, "qmail-qstat", NULL);
printf("Woa! Large problem: didn't exec qmail-qstat!\n");
return(1);
}
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 04:11:37PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm
> Precedence: bulk
> Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Mail-Followup-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: qmail-qread and qmail-qstat as suid root...
> From: Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 10 Apr 2001 16:11:37 -0700
> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7
>
> Sean Chittenden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Anyone know of any reasion why I shouldn't set the qmail-qread
> > and qmail-qstat as setuid root? I've looked through the source, but
> > am looking for a last confirmation or "don't do that." -sc
>
> Make them setuid qmailq, not setuid root.
>
> That should be safe enough, although there is a slightly increased
> chance that a local user can do something horrible to your mail queue.
>
> Ian
--
Sean Chittenden
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Re: OpenBSD 2.8 & "You have new mail in /var/mail/root"
Rick Updegrove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > bash-2.04# cat /etc/mailer.conf > # $OpenBSD: mailer.conf,v 1.3 2000/04/06 18:24:19 millert Exp $ > # > # Execute the "real" sendmail program, named /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail > # > sendmail/usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail [...] > Ok so I linked them like this: > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 23 Apr 10 04:04 /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail -> >/var/qmail/bin/sendmail Why would you want to do that? Did you read the manpage for mailer.conf? It exists exactly so that you don't have to bother touching any symlinks or such on the filesystem. root@monster:~# cat /etc/mailer.conf # $Id: mailer.conf,v 1.2 2001/04/10 19:36:12 root Exp $ # $OpenBSD: mailer.conf,v 1.3 2000/04/06 18:24:19 millert Exp $ # # Execute the "real" sendmail program, named /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail # sendmail/var/qmail/bin/sendmail send-mail /var/qmail/bin/sendmail mailq /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread newaliases /bin/echo Functionality unnecessary under qmail hoststat/bin/echo Functionality unnecessary under qmail purgestat /bin/echo Functionality unnecessary under qmail I suppose I could link newaliases to something that rebuilds fastforward's CDB, but I don't run fastforward. I suppose hoststat and purgestat could be set to qmail-tcpto and qmail-tcpok, but that's kind of reaching. -- occasional realignment [EMAIL PROTECTED] (michael handler) sometimesnecessary washington, dc
Re: Some mail gets to my qmail server, some doesn't
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 03:40:45PM -0700, Steve Quezadas wrote: > Non-authoritative answer: > pcrush.com MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = 63.204.40.234 Your MX record points at an IP address. It should point at a name. Chris PGP signature
outlook and outlook express
Hello everyone, We have recently changed to Qmail and since doing so anyone with outlook and outlook express is logging time at grenwich time How do we change the time, oh by the way in the mail itself the time is correct just not in the log in the inbox. Robin
How to add footer in qmail ??????
Dear all I am using qmail 1.03-8 on redhat 6.2 box. I want to add some lines at the end of every mail. Is there any way in qmail to add footer ? Regards Lokesh
Re: AIX 3.25 install?
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 02:00:51PM -0700, Leitha discount wrote: > Thanks for that suggestion, I guess I didn't see the reference to that one > the first time out. It did help us get further. But, now we are getting > this message: >./install > install: fatal: unable to read home: file does not exist One of the things ``make'' does is create a file named ``home'' in the build directory: cat home.sh | sed s}QMAIL}"`head -1 conf-qmail`"}g > home chmod 755 home lizzy:/usr/ports/mail/qmail/work/qmail-1.03# ls -l home -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 204 Apr 10 20:17 home lizzy:/usr/ports/mail/qmail/work/qmail-1.03# Is it there? Jos > The error code from the last failed command is 111. > > Make Quitting. > > Well, home is there. So I'm not sure what it is looking for? > > Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. > Leitha > - Original Message - > From: "Jos Backus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Leitha discount" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 10:45 AM > Subject: Re: AIX 3.25 install? > > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:09:06AM -0700, Leitha discount wrote: > > 0706-317 ERROR: Unresolved or undefined symbols detected: > > .fchdir > > AIX 3 doesn't have fchdir(). You should be able to find the answer to this > in > the archives, as this has come up a couple of times before. > > -- > Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/"Modularity is not a hack." > _/ _/ _/-- D. J. Bernstein > _/ _/_/_/ > _/ _/ _/_/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _/_/ _/_/_/use Std::Disclaimer; > > > > -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/"Modularity is not a hack." _/ _/ _/-- D. J. Bernstein _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _/_/ _/_/_/use Std::Disclaimer;
Re: Hoew to Queue only mail
Any pointers on where to look for setting up mirroring of POP and IMAP? Thanks. Ajit - Original Message - From: "Tim Legant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 11:10 AM Subject: Re: Hoew to Queue only mail > On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:07:30AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > Or you discard the primary and just start using the secondary > > immediately. > > Depending on your configuration, and there seem to be as many > configurations as there are system adminstrators, it may not be as > simple as "just start using the secondary". > > If you have local users on the primary that are not on the secondary, > you have additional work. If you have a virtual domain setup with large > numbers of POP boxes that are not mirrored on the secondary, you have > additional work. If you authenticate from LDAP and slapd is (was!) on > the primary, you have additional work. > > > In general, using a secondary gives you more control over what happens > > when the primary goes down. > > Certainly. > > > Also, using a secondary means that when the primary comes back up, a > > quick `qmail-tcpok; svc -a /service/qmail' will bring all the mail > > over to the primary immediately; you don't have to wait for varying > > timeouts across the Internet. > > Again, absolutely true. > > For the record, I have secondaries for all domains for which I admin > mail. My comments were to point out that others felt differently and > that, while secondaries are convenient, if the primary will be back up > in a day or two, the SMTP architecture works just fine without them. > > It's designed to. > > Tim > >
Re: qmail-qread and qmail-qstat as suid root...
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:26:11AM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 02:40:24PM -0700, Sean Chittenden wrote: > > Anyone know of any reasion why I shouldn't set the qmail-qread > > and qmail-qstat as setuid root? I've looked through the source, but > > am looking for a last confirmation or "don't do that." -sc > > # envuidgid qmails tcpserver -U localhost 82 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread & An alternative, that I use, is to use a UNIX local domain socket, using either my ucspi-unix or ucspi-local. Then it doesn't even have to use up a TCP port. > $ nc localhost 82 or "tcpcat localhost 82", since tcpcat comes with ucspi-tcp. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature
Re: OpenBSD 2.8 & "You have new mail in /var/mail/root"
From: "Michael Handler" > Why would you want to do that? Did you read the manpage for mailer.conf? No, I admint that I didn't, but now I did. However, I am no smarter than when I started. It does not contains any references to qmail, only examples for sendmail and postfix. from man mailer.conf BUGS The entire reason this program exists is a crock. Instead, a command for how to submit mail should be standardized, and all the "behave different- ly if invoked with a different name" behavior of things like mailq(1) should go away. (mailwrapper's man page said the same about it) Do we have something against the standard "/usr/sbin/sendmail" ? I don't see it convered at http://cr.yp.to/compatibility.html > It exists exactly so that you don't have to bother touching any symlinks > or such on the filesystem. It really wasn't that much of a bother and I didn't read that statement in the man pages anywhere but since you brought it up, let me see if I understand now. >From mailer.conf This example shows how to invoke the "postfix" program in place of send- mail. # Emulate sendmail using postfix sendmail/usr/local/sbin/sendmail mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail So I should just use... #emulate sendmail using qmail sendmail/var/qmail/bin/sendmail And remove all of the symlinks as well as all other references in that file? If I do that will anything break? Is there really "anything wrong" with the way I have it symlinked now? Thanks in advance Rick Up RHETORICAL QUESTION: Why doesn't just come installed with qmail as the default MTA?
