Long connect times
Hi all, I am using QMail with xinetd. It takes ages for a PC internally (allowed to relay) to connect to the server. Outside servers can connect instantly. Where should I look to diagnose this problem Thanks for any help Jon Booth Lucid Logic Pty. Ltd. http://www.lucidlogic.com +61 3 9853 7452 +61 412 767 030
Re: Long connect times
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:39:06PM +1000, Jon Booth wrote: Hi all, I am using QMail with xinetd. It takes ages for a PC internally (allowed to relay) to connect to the server. Outside servers can connect instantly. Where should I look to diagnose this problem I'm not familiar with xinetd but it might be configured to do reversed DNS lookups for incoming connections. It will most probably delay the connection if it can't do that properly. By the way, tcpserver[1] is the prefered internet daemon for qmail. Jörgen [1] http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html
Re: Long connect times
That would make sense. How can I stop it from doing reverse lookups? Its not practical from me to set up reverse DNS for these internal IPs. Thanks Jon On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jörgen Persson wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:39:06PM +1000, Jon Booth wrote: Hi all, I am using QMail with xinetd. It takes ages for a PC internally (allowed to relay) to connect to the server. Outside servers can connect instantly. Where should I look to diagnose this problem I'm not familiar with xinetd but it might be configured to do reversed DNS lookups for incoming connections. It will most probably delay the connection if it can't do that properly. By the way, tcpserver[1] is the prefered internet daemon for qmail. Jörgen [1] http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html
qmail date sync prob?
We have an extendnet box running Debian. Our qmail program has a problem where it will stop functioning until we do something to modify the date. simply running a touch command on it, gets it back up and running. any ideas? Tim Rainier Manufacturing Systems Analyst Kalsec Inc. Office: 800.800.6165 ext: 3354 Cell: 616.274.7118 Pager: 616.413.1607
mini-qmail with smtp
Hi, in a small network I want to have one qmail machine where all the clients can send their mails via smtp. This machine then will forward the mails via smtp to the smarthost of my provider. If I got it rigt, much of a normal qmail installation is not needed because no local delivery is necessary, the mails are just piped through the server. There is one problem I have with mini-qmail: My Provider does not support qmtp. Can I just replace the according passages with smtp or will this lead into trouble? Second: mini-qmail has no queue. What happens if more mails arrive than the server is able to deliver if there is no way to queue? Is there somthing in the web that an advise me how to build the intended setup? tia /ch
Re: Long connect times
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 06:15:17PM +1000, Jon Booth wrote: That would make sense. How can I stop it from doing reverse lookups? Its not practical from me to set up reverse DNS for these internal IPs. I've got no clue how to do that with xinetd but it's use with qmail is mentioned in their FAQ[1]. Jörgen [1] http://www.xinetd.org/faq.html Thanks Jon On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jörgen Persson wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:39:06PM +1000, Jon Booth wrote: Hi all, I am using QMail with xinetd. It takes ages for a PC internally (allowed to relay) to connect to the server. Outside servers can connect instantly. Where should I look to diagnose this problem I'm not familiar with xinetd but it might be configured to do reversed DNS lookups for incoming connections. It will most probably delay the connection if it can't do that properly. By the way, tcpserver[1] is the prefered internet daemon for qmail. Jörgen [1] http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html
how do we integrate antivirus with qmail
hi all how do i integrate antivirus scanner for incoming and out going mails. i have qmail+vpopmail+mysql any help will appriciate
Re: how do we integrate antivirus with qmail
http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net Jeff Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 02:59 PM 6/14/01 +0530, you wrote: hi all how do i integrate antivirus scanner for incoming and out going mails. i have qmail+vpopmail+mysql any help will appriciate
Re: how do we integrate antivirus with qmail
hi all how do i integrate antivirus scanner for incoming and out going mails. i have qmail+vpopmail+mysql any help will appriciate http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net All information you need should be there. Cheers Lars Hansson Technical Consultant Unet Inc., Philippines
Re: patching qmail-smtpd.c twice
Apply one patch and check the messages, backup qmail-smtpd.c and apply the other, check the message also. Apply one and then the other, if no strange messages, it's ok. But at most time the patchs are not very big and they have the line number and instructions that must stay, include (+) or out (-), then the lines that must stay. - Original Message - From: Sebastián E. Brocher To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 10:59 PM Subject: patching qmail-smtpd.c twice Hi, does somebody know if I can apply the maxrcpt.patch (for limiting the rcpt's in each connection) and wildmart.patch (one more used for anti-spam) in the same qmail-smtpd? If thats the case, in what order should I appy the patches? I suppose otherwise I'd have to look at the source and should do a patch for both things myself... Thanks in advance, Sebastián E. Brocher Tuxar http://www.tuxar.com (54-11)-4315-0016/17
Re: $EXT from users/assign
Drew Raines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm setting up a mail server where my users each have a virtual email account in a Courier IMAP userdb file. My qmail interface with this works great, but I foresee problems when I start switching over all my users... maintenance. You're essentially re-creating a virtual domain manager here. There's already several good ones that are designed for qmail; Bruce Guenter's vmailmgr is excellent, and I've heard good things about vpopmail, although I don't use it. vmailmgr is at http://vmailmgr.org . 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: mini-qmail with smtp
Clemens Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in a small network I want to have one qmail machine where all the clients can send their mails via smtp. This machine then will forward the mails via smtp to the smarthost of my provider. If I got it rigt, much of a normal qmail installation is not needed because no local delivery is necessary, the mails are just piped through the server. There is one problem I have with mini-qmail: My Provider does not support qmtp. Can I just replace the according passages with smtp or will this lead into trouble? Sorry, I've never set up a mini-qmail -- in those circumstances, I normally use Bruce Guenter's nullmailer. Second: mini-qmail has no queue. What happens if more mails arrive than the server is able to deliver if there is no way to queue? If delivery fails, qmail returns an appropriate error code. The program doing the sending has to check whether the send was successful or not. You're probably better off to just install a full qmail setup, have no local domains (or just exclude any local users), and use smtproutes to send all mail to your ISP's smarthost. 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: qmail memory/queue issue
Christopher, I dunno about any of this, but I do know that 2.4.1 has a nasty IDE bug. Consider upgrading yer kernel soon! David Christopher Ferry wrote: I have recently inherited a bulk mailing system from a recently acquired company. All systems are running kernel 2.4.1 pre9 with reiserfs used on the /var/qmail/queue partition. Qmail version 1.03 patched with qmail-103.patch and the qmail-nosync.patch. Concurrency set to 255. Here is the issue Our db of 3million+ users is split between the 3 servers and a perl script is run and each message is piped to sendmail. Now The first time I used the system it worked flawlessly. I have since found that when I run the script Qmail sits on the messages and fills up the queue. For example on one system the /var/qmail/queue partition now at 100% hold 809000 msgs only one preprocessed. On top of this the memory has completely filled up as well.. Seems to be a memory leak.. Because when qmail is stopped the memory is not relinquished. My two question are why doesn't qmail immediately start sending out the messages in the queue and what is causing the leak. is it qmail or most likely the 2.4.1 pre9 kernel? Thanks Christopher Ferry unix administrator FortuneCity.com
Re: qmail memory/queue issue
* Christopher Ferry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010614 09:59]: what is causing the leak. is it qmail or most likely the 2.4.1 pre9 kernel? Though I don't use the patches you described, I would guess that the old Franken-kernel you are using is probably the culprit. You are really asking for trouble by using a pre-release (pre9) kernel, esp. one as early as 2.4.1pre9 (which is 2.4.0 plus some fixes). Run, don't walk, to [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.5.tar.bz2]. /pg -- Peter Green : Architekton Internet Services, LLC : [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. - Dennis M. Ritchie (Found in comp.compression)
Re: backup mail server help
Sorry, I forgot to include the list in the to... Any comments would be greatly appreciated, esp. in regard to nfs locking... Jeff, You make a very valid point, however this can be overcome in many ways. I am currently researching this for my employer. Here's a general overview of how I'm planning on designing our network/servers. --- - external net | | director1director2 | | --- - internal net | | | qmail1qmail2qmail3 | | | \___ | __/ \|/ | --- - gigabit 'nfs' net with backup 100Mb net || NFS1 NFS2 I'm looking at using LVS (Linux Virtual Server) to handle the load balancing/clustering. We'll be using the cluster for www/pop3/dns/etc as well. LVS will allow us to add machines dynamically. We'll be using qmail/ldap/ldap-control and 2 (or more) LDAP servers for qmail configuration. I've also considered having the cluster servers boot off of CD and use a single disk for /tmp and the queue. I haven't fully researched the NFS servers yet, but here is my idea. The developer that made ReiserFS also wrote/is writing DRBD, which is capable of doing network mirroring. I am planning to use 2 e450s that I have with Samba (for Win servers), NFS (mirrored with DRBD), and heartbeat software to control the failover between the 2 servers. There are 2 obvious alternatives to the NFS solution that I mentioned though. NetAPP makes an appliance (Filer) that can handle 6TB (RAID5) storage which provides for (according to some friends of mine that use them in a 75+ e6000/45+ win2k env) 5 9s of reliability. I don't have prices, but I've heard that one Filer can run $80k. The other option is a software solution (clustering/replication/failover) from Veritas, which comes highly recommended. DISCLAIMER: I don't work for any of the above mentioned companies. Would anyone be interested in helping me develop a FAQ for this? Cheers, Mike Jeff Palmer wrote: And if your NFS server goes down, both servers are useless. In which case, what was the point of having a backup server again? Jeff Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 09:57 AM 6/13/01 +0300, you wrote: Alternatively you can run two SMTP servers and one POP server. Do NAT for the two and export the partition with Maildirs(at the pop server) to the SMTP servers through NFS. The two servers seem to be one to the outside world. NFS can be insecure though. Joe. - Original Message - From: Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 4:15 AM Subject: Re: backup mail server help On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 04:33:49PM -0700, Hank Wethington wrote: What I'd like to accomplish is if Server A is unavailable, then mail goes to server B. Once A is back up, server B sends the mail back to server A. Does On server B, add all domains in question to rcpthosts, but NOT to local or virtualdomains. That's it ;-)) -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de * * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany * Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
RE: URGENT: Qmail-remote gone nuts
Here's an update. I have an email address called [EMAIL PROTECTED] (run via vpopmail) in /home/vpopmail/domains/everydns.net/support there is a .qmail file that just says cat .qmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] So this forwards all [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] However this morning it sent forwarded about 6000 times. Now in my logs I have these just constantly appearing: == /var/log/qmail/qmail-send/current == 2001-06-14 08:02:02.460824500 starting delivery 6231: msg 562568 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2001-06-14 08:02:02.460830500 status: local 0/10 remote 73/120 2001-06-14 08:02:02.460831500 starting delivery 6232: msg 562573 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2001-06-14 08:02:02.460834500 status: local 0/10 remote 74/120 2001-06-14 08:02:02.465616500 delivery 6231: deferral: Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/ 2001-06-14 08:02:02.465620500 status: local 0/10 remote 73/120 2001-06-14 08:02:02.466514500 delivery 6232: deferral: Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/ 2001-06-14 08:02:02.466518500 status: local 0/10 remote 72/120 2001-06-14 08:02:04.460524500 starting delivery 6233: msg 562574 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2001-06-14 08:02:04.460528500 status: local 0/10 remote 73/120 2001-06-14 08:02:04.460529500 starting delivery 6234: msg 562576 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2001-06-14 08:02:04.460532500 status: local 0/10 remote 74/120 2001-06-14 08:02:04.460533500 starting delivery 6235: msg 562577 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2001-06-14 08:02:04.460535500 status: local 0/10 remote 75/120 2001-06-14 08:02:04.462625500 starting delivery 6236: msg 562578 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2001-06-14 08:02:04.462628500 status: local 0/10 remote 76/120 2001-06-14 08:02:04.465389500 starting delivery 6237: msg 562575 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] So I got rid of the support forward and now support seems to be reiceving mail fine -- but how I do clear my queue when qmail-qstat reports: messages in queue: 5046 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 and qmail-qread reports: snip x ALOT 14 Jun 2001 11:14:28 GMT #561180 671057 remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14 Jun 2001 11:16:24 GMT #561379 691091 remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14 Jun 2001 11:18:22 GMT #561578 710756 remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14 Jun 2001 11:20:21 GMT #561777 730706 remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14 Jun 2001 11:22:19 GMT #561976 750341 remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14 Jun 2001 11:24:29 GMT #562175 770246 remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14 Jun 2001 11:26:48 GMT #562374 790598 remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14 Jun 2001 11:29:13 GMT #562573 810632 remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14 Jun 2001 11:31:23 GMT #562772 830666 remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip x ALOT Thanks, davidu -Original Message- From: David U. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 7:33 AM To: Qmail@List. Cr. Yp. To Subject: URGENT: Qmail-remote gone nuts Hi, this morning I awoke to find some 6000 emails in my inbox from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- they were the same exact 6000 emails. The inbox is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also in my ps list, I have about 80 qmail-remote spawns that look like this: 998 ?S 0:00 | | \_ qmail-remote tomerwolf.com tomer 1012 ?S 0:00 | | \_ qmail-remote tomerwolf.com tomer 1016 ?S 0:00 | | \_ qmail-remote tomerwolf.com tomer 1038 ?S 0:00 | | \_ qmail-remote tomerwolf.com tomer 1039 ?S 0:00 | | \_ qmail-remote tomerwolf.com tomer 1063 ?S 0:00 | | \_ qmail-remote tomerwolf.com tomer What are those? How do I kill them off? Why am I getting 6000 of the same email? I unfortunatly just cleared my inbox so I don't have headers. Would this be an issue on my end? If it is, am I now causing a massive headache for their admin? My site bandwidth is using a sustained 30K/s to his server this morning... How can I quickly stop the problem, and find a solution, and discover what's happening? Thanks, DavidU
RE: Long connect times
Try a stub resolver on the mailbox. In addition to your regular name server/cache you should get decent response times. The stub resolver needn't take much ram or cpu. If you didn't have a stub resolver already, you will notice a nice performance boost. Otherwise try playing with the cache. There are some nice tools to figure out what your resolver is doing on the djbdns site. Oh.. get djbdns too. Works here just fine. -Mike -Original Message- From: Russell Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 10:00 AM To: Jon Booth Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Long connect times Jon Booth writes: Hi all, I am using QMail with xinetd. It takes ages for a PC internally (allowed to relay) to connect to the server. Outside servers can connect instantly. Where should I look to diagnose this problem Reverse DNS for your internal hosts. It's not optional. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | #exclude windows.h Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX |
Re: URGENT: Qmail-remote gone nuts
David U. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this morning I awoke to find some 6000 emails in my inbox from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- they were the same exact 6000 emails. Perhaps their MTA isn't finishing the SMTP converstation properly, so they think they need to try delivery again? You said you don't have headers. You should probably use recordio to capture one of the SMTP sessions from their MTA; that will tell you what's wrong. 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 y UUCP
Hi. I'm looking for info about configure qmail to use UUCP. I have the following configuration smail(sub1.domain.edu) | | dial-up | --- | smail(xxx.net) | |accept(sub1.domain.edu)|-- smail(domain.edu) ---sub1.domain.edu - host.xxx.net messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] are delivered to xxx.net, and four or five times a day it sends them (dial-up) to sub1.domain.edu using uucp. I want to switch from smail to qmail but I don't know where to start from. Is there anybody who could help me. Where can I find info about this kind of configuration? thanks --yapedu/xgnu PD: I resend this message because when I send the original, receive the follwing error message ??? -Original Message- From: PUB: Mailer-Daemon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Jueves 14 de Junio de 2001 12:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NDN: qmail UUCP Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: test test (Mailbox or Conference is full.)
Re: URGENT: Qmail-remote gone nuts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I got rid of the support forward and now support seems to be reiceving mail fine -- but how I do clear my queue when qmail-qstat reports: messages in queue: 5046 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 Delete the queue and rebuild it. A good tool for that is queue-fix. Niles
Fw: many mails
Can I qmail-queue more than one message at the time ? From the manual it seems that sender and message are only one, while recipients can be as many you wish. I would like to feed qmail-queue with a single file (or stdin) where all messages are packed together. Is it possibile ? What would be the strcuture of the file in that case ? Many thanks for your help. Ciao - Original Message - From: Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gianni Campanile [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 7:13 PM Subject: Re: many mails Gianni Campanile writes: OK, I'll give up on preformance, at least for now. (I can not afford that cost) But still I don't like to call a the command qmail-inject for every mail I have to send; Isn't there a better way to prepare thousands of mails then to call the same command thousands times ? If they're all different, they have to go into the queue separately. You can call qmail-queue directly if you wish, as long as the email headers are fully canonicalized. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | #exclude windows.h Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX |
missing syncdir lib??
I know someone is going to think this is a stupid question, but I am having problems rebuilding qmail-1.03+patches. The 'make setup check' fails with the following: ./load auto-str substdio.a error.a str.a /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsyncdir collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: ***[auto-str] Error 1 It appears I don't have 'libsyncdir.a' ?? What package includes this? I just wanted to patch and upgrade my working qmail system, which installed perfectly originally. Thanks! ... Chris
Re: many mails
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:08:26PM +0200, Gianni Campanile wrote: OK, I'll give up on preformance, at least for now. (I can not afford that cost) You still can call qmail-remote directly and switch back to qmail-inject only if this failes. thus the mails you could send in the first trial don't need to be queued. Someone postet the URL to an perl module doing this some days ago, its name was Qspam or spamq. search the arvhives, you will find the answer fast. -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de * * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany * Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
Re: False alarms about services with tcpserver
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:55:55AM +0200, Andrea Cerrito wrote: Thank you for your reply. On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:29:05PM -0400, David Means wrote: If there is a way to configure Mon to report a service as down after a number of failures, then that is my recommendation. Just because a alertafter 2 15m gives an alert if the service failes 2 times within 15 minutes. I know that option, but I wish to understand why monitoring fails. I mean: if the monitoring is experiencing timeout, clients too will... right? Just checked my mon configuration, I don't have an alertafter statement there. I didn't had a single false positive for pop3. Looks like your server running qmail-pop3d has some delays sometimes. perhaps a tcpdump will show more. -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de * * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany * Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
Re: qmail-ldap
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 11:18:52PM +0530, Rohit Gupta wrote: where do i find qmail-ldap to download can anyone give me a hint read http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ldap/. After that, download from nrg4u.com. -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de * * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany * Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
Re: Hello , How to give Priority
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:08:01PM +0530, RAGHVENDRA SHUKLA wrote: Hello , How i can give priority in the qmail and how i can set delay factors for some mails/mailing lists . You cannot. -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de * * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany * Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
Re: warning: trouble opening remote
Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you're running qmail configured as per
http://www.lifewithqmail.org, then the following commands will fix the
problem:
svc -dx /service/qmail
setlock /service/qmail/supervise/lock sh -c
'/var/qmail/queue/*/0/{348381,348335,348013}'
For LWQ, the service is /service/qmail-send, and I think that should
be ... sh -c 'rm /var/
-Dave
RE: Log Entry question
My run script is: exec env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:$PATH \ qmail-start '|dot-forward .forward |preline /usr/bin/procmail' -Original Message- From: Chris Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 5:09 PM To: Drew Hawn Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Log Entry question On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:47:13PM -0700, Drew Hawn wrote: Sendmail is not running. When I ps-aux | grep tcpserver I get: qmaild 612 0.0 0.0 11520 ?SW 09:23 0:00 [tcpserver] What does your run script look like? Chris
Re: yet more trouble with daemontools and supervise
Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Sill wrote: Logging via splogger (syslog). Which is deprecated in LWQ, now, correct? Yes. Sure that's qmail-smtpd/log/run? Looks more like qmail-smtpd/run. D'oh! #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd OK, now refresh my memory...what was the problem? And is that command all on one line? -Dave
Re: Fw: many mails
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Gianni Campanile wrote: Can I qmail-queue more than one message at the time ? From the manual it seems that sender and message are only one, while recipients can be as many you wish. I would like to feed qmail-queue with a single file (or stdin) where all messages are packed together. Is it possibile ? No. You will have to spawn a qmail-queue for every separate message you want to send. What problem are you trying to solve? Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html
Re: URGENT: Qmail-remote gone nuts
Niles Rowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I got rid of the support forward and now support seems to be reiceving mail fine -- but how I do clear my queue when qmail-qstat reports: messages in queue: 5046 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 Delete the queue and rebuild it. Yeah, he probably won't lose any important messages... A good tool for that is queue-fix. No, queue-fix fixes corrupt queues. To delete and rebuild, you should rm -rf /var/qmail/queue and make setup check from the qmail source directory. But that will, of course, throw out *everything* in the queue, which might not be disirable. -Dave
Re: qmail date sync prob?
Tim Rainier writes: We have an extendnet box running Debian. Our qmail program has a problem where it will stop functioning until we do something to modify the date. simply running a touch command on it, gets it back up and running. any ideas? This is not a problem I've ever heard of before. Describe the problem in more detail. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | #exclude windows.h Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX |
Re: Fw: many mails
Gianni Campanile [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I qmail-queue more than one message at the time ? From the manual it seems that sender and message are only one, while recipients can be as many you wish. I would like to feed qmail-queue with a single file (or stdin) where all messages are packed together. qmail-queue handles only one message at a time, with one sender, and one or more recipients. If you want to queue separate messages, you'll have to call qmail-queue (or qmail-inject, etc) iteratively. 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: missing syncdir lib??
Chris Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know someone is going to think this is a stupid question, but I am having problems rebuilding qmail-1.03+patches. The 'make setup check' fails with the following: ./load auto-str substdio.a error.a str.a /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsyncdir collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: ***[auto-str] Error 1 It appears I don't have 'libsyncdir.a' ?? What package includes this? Bruce Guenter's syncdir package. You can get it from the same place you got qmail+patches. I just wanted to patch and upgrade my working qmail system, which installed perfectly originally. Bruce's packaging has changed over the years. If you have further problems with this, please take it to his bgware mailing list, as it's not actually a qmail issue. 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: False alarms about services with tcpserver
I hope I just discovered my problem, and I hope it will help other people too. As I said, I'm using CodaFS: sometimes Coda (a network fs) may respond slow to open files because files is modified on another host, or because getting info from master servers is delayed, and so on. Looking at my run script, I found a little thing intersting: exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -c 50 -H -P -R -l pop3.frontend.int -x /coda/qmail/vpopmail/relay/tcp.smtp.cdb \ -u $QMAILUID -g $QMAILGID ip port /coda/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 ^^^ But /coda/qmail/bin is a link on a ext3 fs: when I installed qmail, I installed it without binaries on codafs, just conf and mailboxes files. So: why using /coda/qmail/bin when I can use /usr/local/qmail/bin ? Now, my smtpd run script is exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -c 50 -H -P -R -l pop3.frontend.int -x /coda/qmail/vpopmail/relay/tcp.smtp.cdb \ -u $QMAILUID -g $QMAILGID ip port /usr/local/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 and all is working great (I mean, no false alarms for today, meanwhile I received them two or three per day at least just yesterday). tcp.smtp.cdb must remain on Coda. Pop3 modified in the same way. It was: exec /usr/bin/env - PATH=/coda/qmail/bin:$PATH \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -c 50 -H -P -R -l pop3.frontend.int ip port /coda/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \ pop3.frontend.int /coda/qmail/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /coda/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21 but now it is: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -c 50 -H -P -R -l pop3.frontend.int ip port /usr/local/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \ pop3.frontend.int /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /usr/local/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 2 Anyway, thank you people :). PS: I'm very happy that Henning Brauer found no problems with pop3.monitor: it's a confirm that it's a good monitor. :) --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 744 5441330 Fax. +39 744 5441372
Re: yet more trouble with daemontools and supervise
Dave Sill wrote: Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Sill wrote: Logging via splogger (syslog). Which is deprecated in LWQ, now, correct? Yes. Sure that's qmail-smtpd/log/run? Looks more like qmail-smtpd/run. D'oh! #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd OK, now refresh my memory...what was the problem? And is that command all on one line? Well, my logs are filling up with garbage (and I get that silly file does not exist error when I run qmail stat), and yes, that command was all on one line. -Stephen-
Re: URGENT: Qmail-remote gone nuts
actually queue-fix will do the job right... I know I have done it. just delete de subfolders in the queue and run the queue-fix Terius - Original Message - From: Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 10:11 AM Subject: Re: URGENT: Qmail-remote gone nuts Niles Rowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I got rid of the support forward and now support seems to be reiceving mail fine -- but how I do clear my queue when qmail-qstat reports: messages in queue: 5046 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 Delete the queue and rebuild it. Yeah, he probably won't lose any important messages... A good tool for that is queue-fix. No, queue-fix fixes corrupt queues. To delete and rebuild, you should rm -rf /var/qmail/queue and make setup check from the qmail source directory. But that will, of course, throw out *everything* in the queue, which might not be disirable. -Dave
RE: URGENT: Qmail-remote gone nuts
-Original Message- From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Yeah, he probably won't lose any important messages... heh, yeah, I *would* want to do that. No, queue-fix fixes corrupt queues. To delete and rebuild, you should rm -rf /var/qmail/queue and make setup check from the qmail source directory. But that will, of course, throw out *everything* in the queue, which might not be disirable. I stopped qmstp and qsend -- I then deleted a LOT from the queue and ran queue-fix which did some delinking and whatnot. Moved my queue from being 6 gigs to 250 megs. ;-) now I just want to know why [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6000 times (until /var filled I assume) instead of just once. this is all via localhost, no other machines involved. -davidu
Re: URGENT: Qmail-remote gone nuts
Guillermo Villasana Cardoza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actually queue-fix will do the job right... I know I have done it. I didn't mean to imply that it wouldn't work, just that it's preferable to use the rm/make method since it's definitive and doesn't require downloading/installing a third-party utility. For example, if you've installed the big-todo patch, you'll need to install the associated patch for queue-fix or it'll contruct an incompatible queue. It's easier and safer to let qmail rebuild the queue. -Dave
RE: URGENT: Qmail-remote gone nuts
David U. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: now I just want to know why [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6000 times (until /var filled I assume) instead of just once. this is all via localhost, no other machines involved. I'd look at the logs, from the beginning of the incident. -Dave
Mime Encoding
Hi, Does anyone know what the default length that qmail sets for a MIME encoded string for attachments. I had a programmer set it at 4320 and the mail and attachment can across corrupted. Is there anyway to increase the string length that qmail will accept. Thanks Brad Anstett
Re: yet more trouble with daemontools and supervise
Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, my logs are filling up with garbage Garbage or log entries? Sample, please? (and I get that silly file does not exist error when I run qmail stat) Sample? -Dave
i can't sending out
Hi...there I compiled qmail in FreeBSD 4.2 with daemontool, ucspi, i tried send between local user, yes i was success: @40003b27f4a0263e5a14 new msg 62796 @40003b27f4a0266bfdac info msg 62796: bytes 617 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 244 uid 1009 @40003b27f4a035ab76bc starting delivery 2: msg 62796 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] @40003b27f4a035b2160c status: local 1/10 remote 0/255 @40003b27f4a0397e0a5c delivery 2: success: did_1+0+0/ @40003b27f4a1061b4544 status: local 0/10 remote 0/255 @40003b27f4a1062aae94 end msg 62796 But i send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] , I can't, what's going on with my qmail. @40003b27f5240025d1a4 new msg 62796 @40003b27f524004557f4 info msg 62796: bytes 1846 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 281 uid 1001 @40003b27f524082ea484 end msg 62796 have a suggest. sorry i'am newbie :-) TIA friends. thanks budsz
Multilog log file size specification
I've read the manpage and it states you should use the ssize action, So I put this in my /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /backup/log/qmail ssize 50 nnum 50 That is ignored. If I put it this way: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t ssize 50 nnum 50 /backup/log/qmail Then files are created with max size of around 3k instead of 500k. What am I doing wrong?? Someone please help. Thanks.
Re: Mime Encoding
You are confused. qmail does not look at the contents of the email at all. qmail has no concept of MIME, attachments, default lengths or anything. If the email is corrupted it's because your programmer submitted it to qmail in a corrupted state. Get your programmer to write the email to a file at the same time that it is submitted to qmail. When the email comes out the other side, compare it against the file and show us the differences. Regards. On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 12:47:28PM -0500, Anstett, Brad allegedly wrote: Hi, Does anyone know what the default length that qmail sets for a MIME encoded string for attachments. I had a programmer set it at 4320 and the mail and attachment can across corrupted. Is there anyway to increase the string length that qmail will accept. Thanks Brad Anstett
Re: Mime Encoding
Anstett, Brad writes: Hi, Does anyone know what the default length that qmail sets for a MIME encoded string for attachments. I had a programmer set it at 4320 and the mail and attachment can across corrupted. Is there anyway to increase the string length that qmail will accept. Sigh. I hate MIME boundaries. It's SUCH a STUPID idea. Instead of quoting a character inside the body, you have to guess a string that will never appear inside the body. Anyway, all ranting aside, qmail puts no limits whatsoever on the MIME content of a message. Do what you want -- any problems you're seeing with the content of a message aren't on qmail's side. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | #exclude windows.h Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX |
Re: Mime Encoding
Anstett, Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what the default length that qmail sets for a MIME encoded string for attachments. I had a programmer set it at 4320 and the mail and attachment can across corrupted. Is there anyway to increase the string length that qmail will accept. qmail doesn't corrupt messages based on the line lengths of the body or headers -- it will happily accept messages with long lines, even though it's an RFC violation. Chances are, the message was corrupted or incorrectly constructed long before qmail got a look at it -- the program that created it is broken, or is passed through another MTA which mangled it. Post an example of qmail corrupting a MIME message -- until you do that, you won't find much advice 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: yet more trouble with daemontools and supervise
Hello... Dave Sill wrote: Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, my logs are filling up with garbage Garbage or log entries? Sample, please? Sorry -- it's just that I quoted it at great length before... okay, I'll get it. Stephen Bosch wrote: Hello, gentlemen: I've looked in the archives for this little issue. Lots of people report it, but I *think* I've got my system correctly configured. A couple of problems: my /var/log/maillog fills up with stuff like this: Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.411296 end msg 1005715 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.507199 new msg 1005716 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.507323 info msg 1005716: bytes 266 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 27390 uid 502 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.573170 end msg 1005716 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.660653 new msg 1005715 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.660776 info msg 1005715: bytes 266 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 27403 uid 502 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.732709 end msg 1005715 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.815510 new msg 1005716 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.815629 info msg 1005716: bytes 266 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 27416 uid 502 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.873183 end msg 1005716 Jun 12 14:09:42 hotcube qmail: 992376582.938896 new msg 1005715 Jun 12 14:09:42 hotcube qmail: 992376582.939013 info msg 1005715: bytes 266 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 27450 uid 502 Jun 12 14:09:42 hotcube qmail: 992376582.981100 end msg 1005715 Jun 12 14:09:43 hotcube qmail: 992376583.097289 new msg 1005716 and so on, and so on, and so on. It goes back months like this (I would never have noticed it had it not been for some other issues I was working on). Is this normal? My other qmail installations don't do that. The queue is empty. Then, there's this: [root@hotcube qmail]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail stat qmail-send: up (pid 27564) qmail-smtpd: up (pid 27566) qmail-send/log: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist qmail-smtpd/log: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist Okay. So I checked for sticky bits on the appropriate directories: [root@hotcube supervise]# ls -ld /var/qmail/supervise/* 927870 drwxr-xr-t4 root qmail1024 Sep 1 2000 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/ 712830 drwxr-xr-t4 root qmail1024 Dec 18 10:27 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/ [root@hotcube supervise]# It looks like I have all the files I need... qmail-send: total 3 1120382 drwxr-xr-t2 root qmail1024 Sep 1 2000 log/ 927871 -rwxr-xr-x1 root qmail 29 Sep 1 2000 run* 497666 drwx--2 root qmail1024 Jun 12 14:19 supervise/ qmail-send/log: total 1 1120383 -rwxr-xr-x1 root qmail 88 Sep 1 2000 run* qmail-send/supervise: total 1 497791 prw---1 root qmail 0 Jun 12 14:19 control| 497667 -rw---1 root qmail 0 Sep 1 2000 lock 497793 prw---1 root qmail 0 Sep 1 2000 ok| 497805 -rw-r--r--1 root root 18 Jun 12 14:19 status qmail-smtpd: total 4 733310 drwxr-xr-t2 root qmail1024 Sep 1 2000 log/ 712915 -rwxr-xr-x1 root qmail 246 Dec 18 10:27 run* 712831 -rwxr-xr-x1 root qmail 240 Sep 1 2000 run~* 667722 drwx--2 root qmail1024 Jun 12 14:19 supervise/ qmail-smtpd/log: total 1 733311 -rwxr-xr-x1 root qmail 94 Sep 1 2000 run* qmail-smtpd/supervise: total 1 667729 prw---1 root qmail 0 Jun 12 14:19 control| 667728 -rw---1 root qmail 0 Sep 1 2000 lock 667731 prw---1 root qmail 0 Sep 1 2000 ok| 667723 -rw-r--r--1 root root 18 Jun 12 14:19 status /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run contains: #!/bin/sh exec /var/qmail/rc and /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run contains: #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -H -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 There you have it, in all its ugliness. -Stephen-
Re: Multilog log file size specification
Alex Khanin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read the manpage and it states you should use the ssize action, So I put this in my /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /backup/log/qmail ssize 50 nnum 50 That is ignored. [...] What am I doing wrong?? Taking the documentation too literally. The size directive should be s50 to create logs of 0.5MB each. Not ssize 50. The action itself is just s, the size in the documentation is the parameter of that action. 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: yet more trouble with daemontools and supervise
Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my /var/log/maillog fills up with stuff like this: Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.411296 end msg 1005715 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.507199 new msg 1005716 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.507323 info msg 1005716: bytes 266 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 27390 uid 502 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.573170 end msg 1005716 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.660653 new msg 1005715 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.660776 info msg 1005715: bytes 266 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 27403 uid 502 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.732709 end msg 1005715 and so on, and so on, and so on. It goes back months like this (I would never have noticed it had it not been for some other issues I was working on). Is this normal? My other qmail installations don't do that. It's normal for qmail-send to log its actions. It's not normal to see messages end without a delivery being logged, or for no status: messages to be logged. It's not normal to have a qmail-send/log service when you're logging via splogger/syslog. [root@hotcube qmail]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail stat qmail-send: up (pid 27564) qmail-smtpd: up (pid 27566) qmail-send/log: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist qmail-smtpd/log: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist That means supervise isn't running for the log services. Okay. So I checked for sticky bits on the appropriate directories: [root@hotcube supervise]# ls -ld /var/qmail/supervise/* 927870 drwxr-xr-t4 root qmail1024 Sep 1 2000 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/ 712830 drwxr-xr-t4 root qmail1024 Dec 18 10:27 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/ Were they set when the services were started? qmail-smtpd/log: 733311 -rwxr-xr-x1 root qmail 94 Sep 1 2000 run* No supervise directory... Further evidence that supervise isn't running. -Dave
Re: backup mail server help
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 06:03:41AM -0600, Jeff Palmer wrote: And if your NFS server goes down, both servers are useless. In which case, what was the point of having a backup server again? Which is why you deploy this with something like a NetApp filer, that lets you deliver to NFS, and have multiple external pop3 servers as well. (And have two NetApp's mirroring your data at the same time) Adam -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (http://sysadminsith.org) Evil Lord of the Sysadmin Sith Darth Rmdashrf
Re: yet more trouble with daemontools and supervise
Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Sill wrote: Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, my logs are filling up with garbage Garbage or log entries? Sample, please? Sorry -- it's just that I quoted it at great length before... [...] Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.507323 info msg 1005716: bytes 266 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 27390 uid 502 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.660776 info msg 1005715: bytes 266 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 27403 uid 502 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.815629 info msg 1005716: bytes 266 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 27416 uid 502 Jun 12 14:09:42 hotcube qmail: 992376582.939013 info msg 1005715: bytes 266 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 27450 uid 502 Each of those messages has a different qmail-queue PID. From this, you can deduce that the sender is connecting to your server, sending the message, and somehow disconnecting or misinterpreting qmail's response to the DATA command. The sender thinks the delivery failed, so it tries again, and again, ad infinitum. Capture one of the messages' SMTP conversation using recordio. That should tell you exactly how the sender's MTA is broken. You can then inform postmaster at that domain. Or block their IP address from connecting to your SMTP daemon. You choice. 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: Multilog log file size specification
-Original Message- From: Alex Khanin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 11:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Multilog log file size specification I've read the manpage and it states you should use the ssize action, So I put this in my /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /backup/log/qmail ssize 50 nnum 50 That is ignored. If I put it this way: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t ssize 50 nnum 50 /backup/log/qmail make it ... t s500 n50 -- Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc.
RE: Multilog log file size specification
On Thursday, June 14, 2001 20:22, Alex Khanin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I've read the manpage and it states you should use the ssize action, So I put this in my /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /backup/log/qmail ssize 50 nnum 50 try this /usr/local/bin/multilog t s9 n100 /var/log/qmail That is ignored. If I put it this way: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t ssize 50 nnum 50 /backup/log/qmail Then files are created with max size of around 3k instead of 500k. What am I doing wrong?? Someone please help. Thanks.
Re: Log Entry question
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 08:56:48AM -0700, Drew Hawn wrote: My run script is: exec env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:$PATH \ qmail-start '|dot-forward .forward |preline /usr/bin/procmail' That's not it. What script are you using to start qmail-smtpd? What I'm getting at: are you putting tcpserver in the background in your run script? Chris
Re: backup mail server help
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 12:42:28PM -0700, Adam Jacob wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 06:03:41AM -0600, Jeff Palmer wrote: And if your NFS server goes down, both servers are useless. In which case, what was the point of having a backup server again? Which is why you deploy this with something like a NetApp filer, that lets you deliver to NFS, and have multiple external pop3 servers as well. (And have two NetApp's mirroring your data at the same time) Or just being clustered on the same set of shelves which use RAID4 themselves, so one of each kind of part can go down :) Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html
Re: yet more trouble with daemontools and supervise
Charles Cazabon wrote: Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Sill wrote: Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, my logs are filling up with garbage Garbage or log entries? Sample, please? Sorry -- it's just that I quoted it at great length before... [...] Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.507323 info msg 1005716: bytes 266 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 27390 uid 502 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.660776 info msg 1005715: bytes 266 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 27403 uid 502 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.815629 info msg 1005716: bytes 266 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 27416 uid 502 Jun 12 14:09:42 hotcube qmail: 992376582.939013 info msg 1005715: bytes 266 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 27450 uid 502 Each of those messages has a different qmail-queue PID. From this, you can deduce that the sender is connecting to your server, sending the message, and somehow disconnecting or misinterpreting qmail's response to the DATA command. The sender thinks the delivery failed, so it tries again, and again, ad infinitum. Capture one of the messages' SMTP conversation using recordio. That should tell you exactly how the sender's MTA is broken. You can then inform postmaster at that domain. What's the syntax for that? Does it come with a man page? Or block their IP address from connecting to your SMTP daemon. You choice. That would mean I would be blocking myself - that from information indicates a local user. Is this really what's happening? I am beginning to worry that something is majorly misconfigured here... but the server works perfectly! All the mail that is sent arrives, nobody has problems sending out... *bangs head* So... if the queue is empty, this log stuff indicates that something is repeatedly trying to send. If it's a local user, then... could it be a broken application? Oh boy. -Stephen-
Re: yet more trouble with daemontools and supervise
Hullo again... Dave Sill wrote: Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my /var/log/maillog fills up with stuff like this: Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.411296 end msg 1005715 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.507199 new msg 1005716 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.507323 info msg 1005716: bytes 266 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 27390 uid 502 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.573170 end msg 1005716 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.660653 new msg 1005715 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.660776 info msg 1005715: bytes 266 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 27403 uid 502 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.732709 end msg 1005715 and so on, and so on, and so on. It goes back months like this (I would never have noticed it had it not been for some other issues I was working on). Is this normal? My other qmail installations don't do that. It's normal for qmail-send to log its actions. It's not normal to see messages end without a delivery being logged, or for no status: messages to be logged. So, is Charles right? Does this indicate somebody is reattempting delivery? It's not normal to have a qmail-send/log service when you're logging via splogger/syslog. [root@hotcube qmail]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail stat qmail-send: up (pid 27564) qmail-smtpd: up (pid 27566) qmail-send/log: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist qmail-smtpd/log: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist That means supervise isn't running for the log services. Okay. So I checked for sticky bits on the appropriate directories: [root@hotcube supervise]# ls -ld /var/qmail/supervise/* 927870 drwxr-xr-t4 root qmail1024 Sep 1 2000 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/ 712830 drwxr-xr-t4 root qmail1024 Dec 18 10:27 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/ Were they set when the services were started? Yes. I've started and stopped them numerous times to no avail. At least, I have started and stopped them using the /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail script you provided (at the time) in LWQ. It all seems to work, except for this peculiar problem above. qmail-smtpd/log: 733311 -rwxr-xr-x1 root qmail 94 Sep 1 2000 run* No supervise directory... Further evidence that supervise isn't running. *rattles head* So... okay... where is supervise invoked again? I need to eat something... Your suggestion to migrate to the new LWQ setup is looking more appealing by the minute. -Stephen-
Re: yet more trouble with daemontools and supervise
Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Each of those messages has a different qmail-queue PID. From this, you can deduce that the sender is connecting to your server, sending the message, and somehow disconnecting or misinterpreting qmail's response to the DATA command. The sender thinks the delivery failed, so it tries again, and again, ad infinitum. Capture one of the messages' SMTP conversation using recordio. That should tell you exactly how the sender's MTA is broken. You can then inform postmaster at that domain. What's the syntax for that? Does it come with a man page? Yes. It's in Dan's ucspi-tcp package, along with tcpserver et al. Basically you stick it in-between tcpserver and the program which tcpserver would normally run. However, this is assuming these messages are arriving via qmail-smtpd. Based on your comments below, I'm not sure that's the case. Or block their IP address from connecting to your SMTP daemon. You choice. That would mean I would be blocking myself - that from information indicates a local user. Okay, I couldn't determine that from the log snippet; I thought it was an SMTP injection. It might still be, if it's a program which normally sends mail via SMTP instead of /usr/sbin/sendmail or friends. Can you identify the user/process which is sending this mail? Is this really what's happening? I am beginning to worry that something is majorly misconfigured here... but the server works perfectly! All the mail that is sent arrives, nobody has problems sending out... Do you by chance have a mail loop created by a bogus entry in smtproutes? *bangs head* So... if the queue is empty, this log stuff indicates that something is repeatedly trying to send. If it's a local user, then... could it be a broken application? Oh boy. It could be a broken application. I haven't seen enough details to tell. 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. ---
Migrating a Maildir to another qmail box
It comes time to move my email, located in a $HOME/Maildir to another machine, also running qmail. I tar the $HOME/Maildir transfer it to the new machine (with a different name btw) and restore it to the new $HOME/Maildir. What else do I need to do to make qmail on the new machine see it? When I do a file listing of $HOME/Maildir/cur, I notice that the machine name is included in the filenames. Do I need to change all those filenames so it reflects the new machine name? Realizing this isnt the courier group, are there any changes I need to make to the various courierimapuiddb files? Anything else I should look for? === Al __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
help : qmail-popup3d
hi all, i have a very small problem.. qmail-popup3d stops the connection after 1 minute. this append with any type of client that i use (kmail, outlook, eudora, even with email client from nokia 9110/9210). it doesn't matter how many messages there is in the mailbox.. it just stops after 1 minute. i tried with inetd, xinetd and tcpserver. any help??? tia cb
Using mail.local to put the mail in /var/mail/username
Hello All,
I've searched the FAQ and mailing list archive but couldn't find a solution.
I'm hoping someone can help me.
My box has linux 7.0, qmail 1.0.3
I can successfully run qmail where it delivers the mail to the Maildir or
Mailbox in the user's home dir.
Now I'm trying to make it deliver the mail to /var/spool/mail/username
My /var/qmail/rc file looks like this
exec env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:$PATH \
qmail-start '| preline -f /usr/bin/mail.local -f
${SENDER:-MAILER-DAEMON} -d $USER'
This is from sample rc file /var/qmail/boot/binm1. I changed the path to
suit the location of mail.local on my box.
I get the following error in the qmail log.
@40003b2866de266761fc delivery 12: deferral:
mail.local:_/var/spool/mail/benl:_Permission_denied/
Here's the permissions on /var/spool/mail
drwxrwxr-x2 root qmail4096 Jun 14 17:04 mail
Because of the error message it lead me to believe the permissions on the
directory were not write. So I tried a combination of changing
owner.group.permissions to o+rw, but I still get that error.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ben
Qmail Wannabe
Re: Using mail.local to put the mail in /var/mail/username
benl wrote: @40003b2866de266761fc delivery 12: deferral: mail.local:_/var/spool/mail/benl:_Permission_denied/ Here's the permissions on /var/spool/mail drwxrwxr-x2 root qmail4096 Jun 14 17:04 mail Thanks, Ben Qmail Wannabe The user should own that Mailbox, not root. -- Nick (Keith) Fish Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Migrating a Maildir to another qmail box
hi take a back of all /var/qmail/control directry /var/qmail/usersdirectry and restore - Original Message - From: Al Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: qmail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 4:07 AM Subject: Migrating a Maildir to another qmail box It comes time to move my email, located in a $HOME/Maildir to another machine, also running qmail. I tar the $HOME/Maildir transfer it to the new machine (with a different name btw) and restore it to the new $HOME/Maildir. What else do I need to do to make qmail on the new machine see it? When I do a file listing of $HOME/Maildir/cur, I notice that the machine name is included in the filenames. Do I need to change all those filenames so it reflects the new machine name? Realizing this isn't the courier group, are there any changes I need to make to the various courierimapuiddb files? Anything else I should look for? === Al __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Qmail ADMIN!!! Please Help
Hi,
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
make[2]: *** [qmailadmin.o] Error 1
On your system, there is no vpopmail.h and vauth.h file.
try to get these files first(you may find in vpopmail src) and include
it in proper path, may be /usr/include
Regards,
Santosh Pasi
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From: Mike Jimenez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Qmail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Qmail ADMIN!!! Please Help
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:18:42 -0700
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Using the new vpopmail vpopmail-4.9.10.tar and the Qmail Admin
qmailadmin-0.45.tar . I cannot get Qmail admin to compile?
Here is the error message I recieve.
What in the heck is going on ? I can compile qmailadmin-0.26.tar with no
errors but I dont want to use that.
Thanks
Mike
qmailadmin-0.45]#
./configure --enable-vpopuser=vpopmail
--enable-cgibindir=/apache/cgi-bin --enable-htmldir=/usr/local/share
--enable-vpopmaildir=/home/vpopmail/
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking host system type... i686-unknown-linux
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for POSIXized ISC... no
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for AIX... no
checking for crypt in -lcrypt... yes
checking for crypt in -lshadow... no
checking for floor in -lm... yes
checking for gethostbyaddr in -lnsl... yes
checking for getsockname in -lsocket... no
cat: /home/vpopmail//etc/inc_deps: No such file or directory
cat: /home/vpopmail//etc/lib_deps: No such file or directory
checking for ezmlm-idx... no
checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes
checking for opendir in -ldir... no
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for working const... yes
checking for size_t... yes
checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h
checking for getcwd... yes
checking for mkdir... yes
checking for strdup... yes
checking for strstr... yes
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating config.h
qmailadmin-0.45]# make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/installers/qmailadmin-0.45'
make[2]: Entering directory `/installers/qmailadmin-0.45'
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
make[2]: *** [qmailadmin.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/installers/qmailadmin-0.45'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/installers/qmailadmin-0.45'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
==
Mike Jimenez
System Administrator
Visual Perspectives Internet, Inc. (VPI.Net)
Tel: (949) 595-8622 -- Fax: (949) 595-8629
http://www.vpi.net
==
Re: Long connect times
OK I have set up reverse DNS and it works great. The reason I was hesitant to set it up was I was using my ISPs DNS to resolve not my local but I am now forwarding from my local to theirs Thanks Jon Booth On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Russell Nelson wrote: Jon Booth writes: Hi all, I am using QMail with xinetd. It takes ages for a PC internally (allowed to relay) to connect to the server. Outside servers can connect instantly. Where should I look to diagnose this problem Reverse DNS for your internal hosts. It's not optional. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | #exclude windows.h Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX |
