DaemonTools and RH 7.1
For info only. In RedHat 7.1 changed path for sys/time.h, now is time.h (NOT sys/time.h). Michail A.Baikov, http://www.mosfilm.ru,
Re: mail copies !
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 12:06:26PM +0530, Qmail wrote: > hi friends, > i m new to qmail or any mail server. > i want to forward mails from one account to multiple accountshow do i do > it With .qmail or with a mailing list manager like ezmlm[1]. > what are .qmail files They are files with delivery instructions. > secondly i want to know about ~alias and .qmail files where can i get > detailed help on this. Take a look in the FAQ[2] and come back to the list with additional questions. Jörgen [1] http://cr.yp.to/ezmlm.html [2] http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/incominguser.html#mailing-list
mail copies !
hi friends, i m new to qmail or any mail server. i want to forward mails from one account to multiple accountshow do i do it what are .qmail files secondly i want to know about ~alias and .qmail files where can i get detailed help on this. best regards arun hubballi
mail copies !
hi friends, i m new to qmail or any mail server. i want to forward mails from one account to multiple accountshow do i do it what are .qmail files secondly i want to know about ~alias and .qmail files where can i get detailed help on this. Best Regards, Arun Hubballi
Re: Error tcp.server
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 01:00:33PM +0700, eddy wrote: > Hi, guys . I have a problem ! Suddenly my tcp server stop working. It says > "fatal error cannot bind: address already used" Something else is most probably using the port. You can check if the port is used with ''netstat -l''. Jörgen
Error tcp.server
Hi, guys . I have a problem ! Suddenly my tcp server stop working. It says "fatal error cannot bind: address already used" Can somebody help me ? Regards, Eddy
qmail's sendmail wrapper and PHP4 mail() function
I just installed qmail for a client, and he is complaining that mails he is sending out, that used to work fine, now are coming through without any newlines. I've looked on php.net and around the web, and it seems that the solution to this problem is to set sendmail_path to be /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject. But I was wondering if anyone knew what was causing this problem? You would think that /var/qmail/bin/sendmail should behave simliar to qmail-inject. Has anyone else had this particular problem? If so, how did you address it? --Adam
Re: Qmailqueue woes
> > Which patch is this? Give us an URL, or post just the Makefile part of > the patch. > > You can probably get around this by patching it by hand if you have to. > It's the QMAILQUEUE patch from www.qmail.org (http://www.qmail.org/qmailqueue-patch). I've pasted Makefile.rej below. Yeah, I could do it manually but I'm curious as to why it fails. Although my c-coding and Makefile skills has dimished significantly since my university days I think that all i have to do is to add env.a after auto_split.o in one the lines marked with the +, right? Lars Makefile.rej: *** *** 1483,1494 trigger.o fmtqfn.o quote.o now.o readsubdir.o qmail.o date822fmt.o \ datetime.a case.a ndelay.a getln.a wait.a seek.a fd.a sig.a open.a \ lock.a stralloc.a alloc.a substdio.a error.a str.a fs.a auto_qmail.o \ - auto_split.o ./load qmail-send qsutil.o control.o constmap.o newfield.o \ prioq.o trigger.o fmtqfn.o quote.o now.o readsubdir.o \ qmail.o date822fmt.o datetime.a case.a ndelay.a getln.a \ wait.a seek.a fd.a sig.a open.a lock.a stralloc.a alloc.a \ -substdio.a error.a str.a fs.a auto_qmail.o auto_split.o qmail-send.0: \ qmail-send.8 --- 1483,1494 trigger.o fmtqfn.o quote.o now.o readsubdir.o qmail.o date822fmt.o \ datetime.a case.a ndelay.a getln.a wait.a seek.a fd.a sig.a open.a \ lock.a stralloc.a alloc.a substdio.a error.a str.a fs.a auto_qmail.o \ + auto_split.o env.a ./load qmail-send qsutil.o control.o constmap.o newfield.o \ prioq.o trigger.o fmtqfn.o quote.o now.o readsubdir.o \ qmail.o date822fmt.o datetime.a case.a ndelay.a getln.a \ wait.a seek.a fd.a sig.a open.a lock.a stralloc.a alloc.a \ +substdio.a error.a str.a fs.a auto_qmail.o auto_split.o env.a qmail-send.0: \ qmail-send.8
Re: paternalism & silent concurrency
Bob C. Ruddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Today was day two at my new job where they are rolling out a large, 5
> million email a day, qmail setup. There were some issues, but with changes
> to disk layout and some solaris tcp tuning, testing has been promising but
> needs more tweaking. Is there a set or rules or tunning characteristics to
> watch for for large email infrastructures?
I believe "Life with qmail" deals a little bit with large servers; qmail.org
also has a section about them.
Off the top of my head, the following suggestions have come up in the past
when dealing with large qmail installations, in no particular order:
-contract with Russell Nelson to provide _real_ advice :)
-throw Solaris in the bin. It's networking libraries are bloated and buggy,
and its filesystem performance sucks rocks.
-ensure the queue is on its own {disk, SCSI disk, 15kRPM SCSI disk, 15kRPM
SCSI RAID array)
-ensure logs are through multilog (not splogger/syslog) to a fast disk
-deliver locally to Maildirs on a NetApp Filer or similar high-performance
storage solution
-use big-todo and big-concurrency patches
-ensure you've got a dnscache running on the server for maximum DNS
performance
Charles
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Re: Conditionally capture all outgoing mail
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:30:07AM +0800, Martin Kong wrote: > BUT how can I do it conditionally, i.e. forward the email to different > addresses based on different conditions, or even forget about the > forwarding if a certain condition is met. man condredirect Chris PGP signature
Re: paternalism & silent concurrency
Thanks for the info. I've been using qmail for 3 years now and love it. It has worked great. I've never lost an email with it and it has been rock solid. Today was day two at my new job where they are rolling out a large, 5 million email a day, qmail setup. There were some issues, but with changes to disk layout and some solaris tcp tuning, testing has been promising but needs more tweaking. Is there a set or rules or tunning characteristics to watch for for large email infrastructures? Has someone written a decent paper or is there a really good book out there? The running qmail book is great but again it doesn't seem to address scalabiliy issues, etc. What I'm looking for doesn't have to be qmail specific either. Thanks. Thanks again for the help. Bob On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Charles Cazabon wrote: ->Bob C. Ruddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ->> Below is the top of the output from qmail-showctl. My questions are what ->> is "paternalism" and "silent concurrency"? -> ->paternalism is the bits which are not allowed on home directories before qmail ->will deliver to them. The default, 2, simply means that home directories must ->not be world writable. -> ->The silent concurrency limit is determined by your system headers -- as I ->understand it, it's a limit of how many fds can be used in a select() set, ->and therefore it limits how many children qmail-lspawn and qmail-rspawn can ->have at any given time. What it means is that if you try to set ->concurrencylocal or concurrencyremote higher than this, it will silently be ->limited to this limit. -> ->> We are running a test now that is just testing the receiving of large ->> numbers of email via smtp and storing it local. What I am seeing is the ->> email coming it and sitting in the Q. This Q keeps gettnig larger and ->> larger. It seems as though there is room on the box as far as IO is ->> concerned. So I'd like to up the local concurrency limit. -> ->Is qmail-send even running? Are the message staying in the todo directory? ->qmail-smtpd (which accepts mail over the network) is completely independent of ->qmail-send, which processes messages in the queue for delivery. -> ->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. ->--- ->
Conditionally capture all outgoing mail
Hi, I'm going to use the QUEUE_EXTRA feature to capture all outgoing mails. I think the .qmail-log file will look something like this: | if echo $SENDER | grep "@abc.com" > /dev/null 2>&1; then exit 0; else exit 99; fi &[EMAIL PROTECTED] This will forward a copy of the outgoing mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if the sender is from abc.com. BUT how can I do it conditionally, i.e. forward the email to different addresses based on different conditions, or even forget about the forwarding if a certain condition is met. Any help is appreciated. Thanks and Regards,
Conditionally capture all outgoing mail
Hi, I'm going to use the QUEUE_EXTRA feature to capture all outgoing mails. I think the .qmail-log file will look something like this: | if echo $SENDER | grep "@abc.com" > /dev/null 2>&1; then exit 0; else exit 99; fi &[EMAIL PROTECTED] This will forward a copy of the outgoing mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if the sender is from abc.com. BUT how can I do it conditionally, i.e. forward the email to different addresses based on different conditions, or even forget about the forwarding if a certain condition is met. Any help is appreciated. Thanks and Regards,
Re: FW: Connections Slow with LVS
Mehul Choksi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many Thanks Charles, I used -H, -l localname with tcpserver and it works > fine even with the LVS. Good. > For the remote concurrency, what I meant to ask was " is it okay to set the > remote concurrency to 254 without the patch or will I run in to issues later > on when it really needs those concurrencies?" Sure, set it at 254. You'll probably never need anything higher. On one qmail box here, we send 3 messages a day and rarely get above a remote concurrency of 10. 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: smtp auth failures
At 02:48 PM 6/20/01, Nick (Keith) Fish wrote: > Encourage your customers to use non-broken MUA. I think in fact that Eudora is not broken here (although the human factors engineering could be improved upon perhaps). The problem behind the problem was given. Another way to ask the perceived problem question is ... If I change my bad password auth response code in qmail smtp to give a 400 level message like 451 (Requested action aborted: error in processing) rather than 553 (Requested action not taken: mailbox name not allowed) so that Eudora users get a nice requeue (rather than giving up on that outbound item in the face of a typo) am I offending the protocol gods terribly? Systems attempting to relay through my system will continue to retry for a while, but I'd think this could be survivable. This is a protocol server return code modification I am considering. John >(my original post... Hello. I received a fortune cookie today some here may like: It is harder to ask the right questions than to find answers for the wrong questions. Lucky # 6,8,38,40,45 A perceived problem I am trying to solve is that sending mail from eudora win 4.3 or 5.1 with AUTH enabled to a qmail server I administrate results in unsent email in the outgoing eudora queue when the password given is incorrect. Well, that's not the problem really. But since the error code is 553, it results in a broken mail entry which will requires manual requeue dexterity. The very users who can't type their password are the ones who need to do this, but I fear they will not see the rcpthosts error message and move on to some other tasks, mail never sent, thinking it the message it on it's way (or with qmail, there already). Any ideas on good things to try? I could modify the rcpthosts message to be more "got the password wrong there buddy, or foiled relay attempt". I'm wondering if a 400 level message might be better, since at least it would requeue and succeed later with another future password prompt. (non-users relaying attempts will then suffer return trips though - very bad?) There it is. any wise thoughts here? Thanks John
Re: QMail and VPOPMAIL on RedHat 7.1
Darcy Pierlot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a complete newbie to qmail who is so sick of sendmail's limitations = > that I'm looking for alternatives. I've heard a lot of good things about = > qmail but i wonder whether someone can point me to a well documented set = > of instructions for installing qmail on redhat 7.1 without having lots = > of conflicts. www.lifewithqmail.org is probably your best bet. Follow its instructions, choosing to use tcpserver and multilog, and skipping xinetd/inetd and splogger/syslog. When you're done the main installation, and have tested qmail proper, remove any reference to SMTP or POP3 in your inetd/xinetd configuration and restart or HUP inetd/xinetd. Stop sendmail and verify qmail-smtpd works. Then do `rpm -e sendmail --nodeps`. 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: qmailanalog
Drew Hawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please tell me what I'm doing wrong! :) Somebody has to be doing this
> properly, and it's sure not me.
>
> What I want is simple enough, I want to know how many messages were
> sent/received, etc. June 18th. That information is contained within my
> "current" file, but I can find no way to report on this data using
> qmailanalog, tai64n, tai64nlocal, tai64n2tai, etc.
>
> I have a "current" log file that contains log entries that span
> approximately 1 week. I can successfully use qmailanalog to view
> information about the messages that were sent and logged into my "current"
> file. This gives me information beginning when the log file was created and
> ending at the last entry of the log file, but I don't want a report that
> spans the entire week, I want one for a particular day.
I have a script that runs every night to give me a summary of the day's
activity on each mail server. There's a slightly different version that does
it at the end of the month for a month's logs. This script may have
bash-specific constructions, it's not optimized, and it uses tools from Bruce
Guenter's qlogtools package in addition to daemontools and qmail-analog. Pick
up Bruce's software at untroubled.org.
#!/bin/bash
set -e
HOST=`hostname -f`
MAILTO=admin-mailstats@your_domain
export PATH="$PATH:/root/bin:/usr/bin/qmailanalog"
tmpdir=/tmp/qmail-cron.$$.$RANDOM
mkdir $tmpdir
pushd $tmpdir >/dev/null
s_year=`date -d '1 day ago' +%Y`
s_month=`date -d '1 day ago' +%m`
s_day=`date -d '1 day ago' +%d`
e_year=`date +%Y`
e_month=`date +%m`
e_day=`date +%d`
start="$s_year-$s_month-$s_day"
end="$e_year-$e_month-$e_day"
LOGDIR=/var/log/qmail
cat "$LOGDIR"/{"@",cur}* \
| tai64n2tai \
| qlogselect start $start end $end \
| matchup >logfile 5>/dev/null
for ana in zoverall zddist zdeferrals zfailures zrhosts zsuids zrxdelay; do
$ana 2>/dev/null $ana
attach="$attach -a $ana"
done
rm -f logfile
mutt -s "$HOST: mailstats for $s_year-$s_month-$s_day" \
-x $attach $MAILTO /dev/null
rm -rf $tmpdir
Change the list list of reports you want as appropriate. You'll also likely
have to change the PATH setting, etc in the script.
> For Charles sake, I don't want to simply look at the log files. I want a
> qmailanalog-style report on a subset of the information contained within my
> "current" file.
Just like the above? :)
Charles
P.S. Russell, if there's any interest in putting this up on your site, feel
free to make a local copy. I don't have it on any ftp or http servers at the
moment.
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failure notices
I'm getting lots of failure notices like the following. Does this mean that qmail is working or do I need to look further to see if this spam is getting through for other addresses? The user qmailt seems to be involved in all of them. Mike my server is represented herein by mydomain.com --- >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jun 20 15:25:50 2001 X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] via web13806.mail.yahoo.com; 20 Jun 2001 15:25:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mydomain.com (216.110.45.57) by mta550.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Jun 2001 15:25:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 11487 invoked by alias); 20 Jun 2001 22:25:50 - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 11461 invoked for bounce); 20 Jun 2001 22:25:50 - Date: 20 Jun 2001 22:25:50 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Block Address | Add to Address Book To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failure notice Content-Length: 1428 Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mydomain.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Sorry, I couldn't find any host named global.couk. (#5.1.2) --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: (qmail 11421 invoked by uid 12355); 20 Jun 2001 22:25:49 - Date: 20 Jun 2001 22:25:49 - Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: Attention!...
Re: long delays when sending mail
The Linux box needs to be able to do reverse lookups on the windows IP addresses. Trap for new players of which I am one. Jon
Re: Error Messages
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 09:20:51AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] allegedly wrote: > Hi, when running qmail, I have one domain that I am not able to send > messages to, > > it is a connection died, with an error message no. 4.4.2 > > Does anyone have any ideas if it is my or the other end, and what could > be possible causes. Well, if you actually showed us the real error message and the real domain, we'd have an idea. But since you've supplied no information we can supply no ideas. That seems fair doesn't it? Regards. > > Thanks, > > > -- > Peter Milburn > Systems Manager > Software Communication Group Ltd > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ph: +613 9826 8300 Fax: +613 9826 8336 > Level 16, 644 Chapel St > South Yarra, Vic 3141 > www.sofcom.com.au > > This message contains privileged and confidential information intended > only > for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended > recipient of this message you must not disseminate, copy or take any > action > in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error, please > notify Software Communication Group immediately. > Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender > except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of > Software > Communication Group. > > > > > >
Error Messages
Hi, when running qmail, I have one domain that I am not able to send messages to, it is a connection died, with an error message no. 4.4.2 Does anyone have any ideas if it is my or the other end, and what could be possible causes. Thanks, -- Peter Milburn Systems Manager Software Communication Group Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: +613 9826 8300 Fax: +613 9826 8336 Level 16, 644 Chapel St South Yarra, Vic 3141 www.sofcom.com.au This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error, please notify Software Communication Group immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Software Communication Group.
RE: qmailanalog
Please tell me what I'm doing wrong! :) Somebody has to be doing this properly, and it's sure not me. What I want is simple enough, I want to know how many messages were sent/received, etc. June 18th. That information is contained within my "current" file, but I can find no way to report on this data using qmailanalog, tai64n, tai64nlocal, tai64n2tai, etc. I have a "current" log file that contains log entries that span approximately 1 week. I can successfully use qmailanalog to view information about the messages that were sent and logged into my "current" file. This gives me information beginning when the log file was created and ending at the last entry of the log file, but I don't want a report that spans the entire week, I want one for a particular day. It seems logical that some magic combination of the following should give me the information that I need. (BTW, I never actually change the data in my "current" file, I always write out to another file when converting this data). Convert my "current" file to a human-readable format, grep out lines with the information I want into another file, convert that information back into tai64n format, convert that into tai format, run matchup on the file and then run it through the qmailanalog scripts to report on the dates I want information on. This does not work. If I convert tai64n files into human-readable ones, then convert that file back into tai64n files I get bad data: @40003b3118d1244c4a2c 2001-05-31 09:52:32.237949500 status: Notice that tai64n did convert the date, but also left the human-readable date in the file. For Charles sake, I don't want to simply look at the log files. I want a qmailanalog-style report on a subset of the information contained within my "current" file. > -Original Message- > From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 12:39 PM > To: Qmail Mailing List > Subject: Re: qmailanalog > > > Drew Hawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the info Charles, but I'm confused. How do most > of you folks > > pull out information from your logs? > > With qmail-analog, tai64nlocal, and "less", in my case. Most > people here > probably use something similar. > > > Log files generated by qmail are unreadable/unusable in the current > > (multilog) format. > > tai64n timestamps aren't supposed to be human readable. > They're supposed to > be easily parsable by programs. That's the whole point of > tai64nlocal -- you > log with tai64n timestamps, and if you want to read the log with > human-readable timestamps, you do: > tai64nlocal < log | pager_of_choice > > Don't run the logs through tai64nlocal before they hit the disk. > > > In order for them to make sense to me, and in order to sift them for > > specific dates I have to convert them to human readable format. > > No, it's much simpler than that. A program to filter a log > with tai64nlocal > timestamps for particular dates is trivial; Bruce's qlogtools probably > includes one (though I haven't checked). After you've > filtered them, you run > it through tai64nlocal before reading it. > > > Once I have removed data that is not pertinent I then have > to change them > > back into multilog format using tai64n, and then convert > them into the older > > TAI64 format that qmailanalog understands, then run them through the > > qmailanalog scripts. > > Don't remove any data. What isn't pertinent? qmail-analog > needs all of the > various data that qmail-send logs to be able to accurately > summarize it. > > Charles > -- > -- > - > Charles Cazabon > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > GPL'ed software available at: > http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ > Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. > -- > - >
FW: Connections Slow with LVS
Many Thanks Charles, I used -H, -l localname with tcpserver and it works fine even with the LVS. For the remote concurrency, what I meant to ask was " is it okay to set the remote concurrency to 254 without the patch or will I run in to issues later on when it really needs those concurrencies?" Regards, Mehul Mehul Choksi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > any ideas why qmail with the Linux Virtual Server takes so long > for the connection even with the tcpserver -R and -t 0?? There are other data-gathering options to tcpserver. This is FAQ#1. > Also, I have not yet applied the big-concurrency patch (I always run in to > trouble with that patch..!!), and yet I have set the concurrencyremote to > 254. So far it is doing good, but not sure if it is okay. Any suggestion? Very, very few sites need concurrency > 255. Skip the patch until you determine you really do need it. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. ---
Re[2]: Connections Slow with LVS
hi.. try the -l switch tcpserver -l your.hostname.com -v -p -R -H 0 .. and jeremy: are you really reading mails before you answer them ? >> Hi guys, any ideas why qmail with the Linux Virtual Server takes so long >> for the connection even with the tcpserver R and t 0?? > This could possible be you not using -R with tcpserver: > -R: Do not attempt to obtain $TCPREMOTEINFO from the remote host. To > avoid loops, you must use this option for servers on TCP ports 53 and 113. > dude... > -jeremy Best Regards Justin
Re: QMail and VPOPMAIL on RedHat 7.1
Thanks to all for the advise! I'll keep you posted of my successes and failures (let's hope not too many failures :) -Darcy - Original Message - From: "Stephen Froehlich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Darcy Pierlot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 2:41 PM Subject: Re: QMail and VPOPMAIL on RedHat 7.1 > I was in the same boat a few days ago. I found the howto at > http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html most helpful. The only thing > I missed was to either > > a) Get rid of xined all togheter > b) Disable its services for POP, SMTP, IMAP > > I chose a) as I didn't want telnet or FTP anyway (at least for now). The > server is set up and happy, though I don't have it in full production yet > (though that's for nontechnichal reasons). > > Honestly, getting bind up and running was much harder for me than qmail > itself. > > - Original Message - > From: Darcy Pierlot > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 4:30 PM > Subject: QMail and VPOPMAIL on RedHat 7.1 > > > I'm a complete newbie to qmail who is so sick of sendmail's limitations = > that I'm looking for alternatives. I've heard a lot of good things about = > qmail but i wonder whether someone can point me to a well documented set = > of instructions for installing qmail on redhat 7.1 without having lots = > of conflicts. > > I would especially like qmail for it's VPOPMAIL addon that allows = > virutal hosting. I am in the webhosting industry and this would be a big = > advantage. > > Can someone help me out with this? I'm also relatively new to linux so = > it would be perfect if the documentation/instructions weren't too over = > my head... I'm not a newbie bu I haven't done anything really with = > programming or some of that crazy C-syntax :) Some day soon i hope! > > Thanks > Darcy Pierlot > >
Re: Connections Slow with LVS
This could possible be you not using -R with tcpserver: -R: Do not attempt to obtain $TCPREMOTEINFO from the remote host. To avoid loops, you must use this option for servers on TCP ports 53 and 113. dude... -jeremy On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Mehul Choksi wrote: > Hi guys, any ideas why qmail with the Linux Virtual Server takes so long > for the connection even with the tcpserver R and t 0?? > > Also, I have not yet applied the big-concurrency patch (I always run in to > trouble with that patch..!!), and yet I have set the concurrencyremote to > 254. So far it is doing good, but not sure if it is okay. Any suggestion? > > Thanks in advance, > Mehul. > -- salad.
Re: smtp auth failures
Jost Krieger wrote: > > Encourage your customers to use non-broken MUA. Our company refuses to > > support anything other than Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger, and our > > own web-based e-mailing service. You might try that: promoting a > > web-based e-mail service they can access FROM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD! That > > always makes them giddy. :-) > > And which of these is the non-broken MUA? > > SCNR > > Jost Well, Outlook Express seems to behave pretty well in any circumstance (I've never had a problem with it). Messenger works alright as long as you don't make any changes to the Maildir it doesn't know about (seems as though it saves a "popstate" file which isn't very intuitive). Probably your best solution is to simply provide your customers with the web-based MUA. I've heard alot of people ranting about SquirrelMail lately. Check it out at http://www.squirrelmail.org/ . This gives you A.) access the source code which you can directly customize to any quirks your systems might express; B.) access to an entire community of developers devoted to making their creation better; and, C.) PHP4 which is executed server-side and thus very stable. -- Nick (Keith) Fish Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc. 1-800-837-4253
Re: qfilter to add disclaimer (samples anyone?)
Jeff Newton writes: > > The list archive indicates many people are using qfilter to add > an email disclaimer. Does anyone have sample scripts they are > willing to share with me? I looked for a qfilter list to ask but > there doesn't appear to be one. Email disclaimers are evil. Resist their implementation with all your might. I'll help you by not telling you how to do it. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | #exclude Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX |
qfilter to add disclaimer (samples anyone?)
The list archive indicates many people are using qfilter to add an email disclaimer. Does anyone have sample scripts they are willing to share with me? I looked for a qfilter list to ask but there doesn't appear to be one. Thanks in advance! -- Jeff Newton
Re: QMail and VPOPMAIL on RedHat 7.1
At 06:30 PM 6/20/01 -0300, you wrote: I'm a complete newbie to qmail who is so sick of sendmail's limitations = I'm a qmail user like most others on this list, however, I had to chime in on this. I'm sure this is going to receive mixed responses. Sendmail has _more_ features than any other MTA in existence. if sendmail has any limitations, it is due to YOUR lack of knowledge. I commend you for wanting to try qmail, but please understand the difference between "sendmails limitations" and "My current knowledge and ability with sendmail" this is a huge difference. Jeff Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: QMail and VPOPMAIL on RedHat 7.1
I was in the same boat a few days ago. I found the howto at http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html most helpful. The only thing I missed was to either a) Get rid of xined all togheter b) Disable its services for POP, SMTP, IMAP I chose a) as I didn't want telnet or FTP anyway (at least for now). The server is set up and happy, though I don't have it in full production yet (though that's for nontechnichal reasons). Honestly, getting bind up and running was much harder for me than qmail itself. - Original Message - From: Darcy Pierlot To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 4:30 PM Subject: QMail and VPOPMAIL on RedHat 7.1 I'm a complete newbie to qmail who is so sick of sendmail's limitations = that I'm looking for alternatives. I've heard a lot of good things about = qmail but i wonder whether someone can point me to a well documented set = of instructions for installing qmail on redhat 7.1 without having lots = of conflicts. I would especially like qmail for it's VPOPMAIL addon that allows = virutal hosting. I am in the webhosting industry and this would be a big = advantage. Can someone help me out with this? I'm also relatively new to linux so = it would be perfect if the documentation/instructions weren't too over = my head... I'm not a newbie bu I haven't done anything really with = programming or some of that crazy C-syntax :) Some day soon i hope! Thanks Darcy Pierlot
RE: QMail and VPOPMAIL on RedHat 7.1
Start with Life With Qmail. -Original Message-From: Darcy Pierlot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 2:30 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: QMail and VPOPMAIL on RedHat 7.1Importance: High I'm a complete newbie to qmail who is so sick of sendmail's limitations =that I'm looking for alternatives. I've heard a lot of good things about =qmail but i wonder whether someone can point me to a well documented set =of instructions for installing qmail on redhat 7.1 without having lots =of conflicts.I would especially like qmail for it's VPOPMAIL addon that allows =virutal hosting. I am in the webhosting industry and this would be a big =advantage.Can someone help me out with this? I'm also relatively new to linux so =it would be perfect if the documentation/instructions weren't too over =my head... I'm not a newbie bu I haven't done anything really with =programming or some of that crazy C-syntax :) Some day soon i hope!ThanksDarcy Pierlot
QMail and VPOPMAIL on RedHat 7.1
I'm a complete newbie to qmail who is so sick of sendmail's limitations =that I'm looking for alternatives. I've heard a lot of good things about =qmail but i wonder whether someone can point me to a well documented set =of instructions for installing qmail on redhat 7.1 without having lots =of conflicts.I would especially like qmail for it's VPOPMAIL addon that allows =virutal hosting. I am in the webhosting industry and this would be a big =advantage.Can someone help me out with this? I'm also relatively new to linux so =it would be perfect if the documentation/instructions weren't too over =my head... I'm not a newbie bu I haven't done anything really with =programming or some of that crazy C-syntax :) Some day soon i hope!ThanksDarcy Pierlot
RE: Maildir permissions
> I want to take the general precaution of making the maildirs > readable only to their owners (700). Will this cause qmail > any fits? No. In fact, it's the default. --joshua.
Maildir permissions
My mail server will be located in the office with all of the staff. Some or all of them may have a need for terminal access to the box. While I generally trust them (enough that I seriously doubt that they'll try to truly hack the machine, plus none of them have the skills to hack it), I want to take the general precaution of making the maildirs readable only to their owners (700). Will this cause qmail any fits?
Re: paternalism & silent concurrency
Bob C. Ruddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Below is the top of the output from qmail-showctl. My questions are what > is "paternalism" and "silent concurrency"? paternalism is the bits which are not allowed on home directories before qmail will deliver to them. The default, 2, simply means that home directories must not be world writable. The silent concurrency limit is determined by your system headers -- as I understand it, it's a limit of how many fds can be used in a select() set, and therefore it limits how many children qmail-lspawn and qmail-rspawn can have at any given time. What it means is that if you try to set concurrencylocal or concurrencyremote higher than this, it will silently be limited to this limit. > We are running a test now that is just testing the receiving of large > numbers of email via smtp and storing it local. What I am seeing is the > email coming it and sitting in the Q. This Q keeps gettnig larger and > larger. It seems as though there is room on the box as far as IO is > concerned. So I'd like to up the local concurrency limit. Is qmail-send even running? Are the message staying in the todo directory? qmail-smtpd (which accepts mail over the network) is completely independent of qmail-send, which processes messages in the queue for delivery. 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. ---
paternalism & silent concurrency
Below is the top of the output from qmail-showctl. My questions are what is "paternalism" and "silent concurrency"? We are running a test now that is just testing the receiving of large numbers of email via smtp and storing it local. What I am seeing is the email coming it and sitting in the Q. This Q keeps gettnig larger and larger. It seems as though there is room on the box as far as IO is concerned. So I'd like to up the local concurrency limit. bob qmail home directory: /var/qmail. user-ext delimiter: -. paternalism (in decimal): 2. silent concurrency limit: 500. subdirectory split: 23. user ids: 7790, 7791, 7792, 0, 7793, 7794, 7795, 7796. group ids: 2108, 2107. badmailfrom: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is allowed. bouncefrom: (Default.) Bounce user name is MAILER-DAEMON. bouncehost: (Default.) Bounce host name is mailcluster.somehwere.net. concurrencylocal: Local concurrency is 75. concurrencyremote: (Default.) Remote concurrency is 20.
Re: qmailanalog
Drew Hawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the info Charles, but I'm confused. How do most of you folks > pull out information from your logs? With qmail-analog, tai64nlocal, and "less", in my case. Most people here probably use something similar. > Log files generated by qmail are unreadable/unusable in the current > (multilog) format. tai64n timestamps aren't supposed to be human readable. They're supposed to be easily parsable by programs. That's the whole point of tai64nlocal -- you log with tai64n timestamps, and if you want to read the log with human-readable timestamps, you do: tai64nlocal < log | pager_of_choice Don't run the logs through tai64nlocal before they hit the disk. > In order for them to make sense to me, and in order to sift them for > specific dates I have to convert them to human readable format. No, it's much simpler than that. A program to filter a log with tai64nlocal timestamps for particular dates is trivial; Bruce's qlogtools probably includes one (though I haven't checked). After you've filtered them, you run it through tai64nlocal before reading it. > Once I have removed data that is not pertinent I then have to change them > back into multilog format using tai64n, and then convert them into the older > TAI64 format that qmailanalog understands, then run them through the > qmailanalog scripts. Don't remove any data. What isn't pertinent? qmail-analog needs all of the various data that qmail-send logs to be able to accurately summarize it. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. ---
RE: qmailanalog
Thanks for the info Charles, but I'm confused. How do most of you folks pull out information from your logs? Log files generated by qmail are unreadable/unusable in the current (multilog) format. In order for them to make sense to me, and in order to sift them for specific dates I have to convert them to human readable format. I can do this with tai64nlocal. Once I have removed data that is not pertinent I then have to change them back into multilog format using tai64n, and then convert them into the older TAI64 format that qmailanalog understands, then run them through the qmailanalog scripts. Wow, that's a convoluted process using tools that until now had worked together to provide a graceful solution to my email needs. At the sake of being redundant, how do ya'll do it? -Original Message- From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 10:54 AM To: Qmail Mailing List Subject: Re: qmailanalog Drew Hawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to know how many messages were sent/failed etc. for a given period of > time (say the last three days). > > I have done the following in both /var/log/qmail/qmail-send and > /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd (I'll admit my ignorance and say that I don't > know the difference between the two. Is qmail-send local deliveries and > qmail-smtpd remote deliveries?): No. qmail-smtpd is incoming mail via SMTP. qmail-send is all deliveries, local and remote. > 1) Ran "matchup" on /var/log/qmail/qmail-send(smtpd)/current > 2) Converted the "matchedup" version of "current" into human readable > format using tai64nlocal > 3) Pulled out dates for which I want to see log results from the file > created above > 4) Convert the data above to tai64 format using tai64n > 5) Ran this data through zoverall to see qmailanalog results > > Regardless of whether I run it against /var/log/qmail/qmail-send or > /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd I get the following: > > Completed messages: 0 > > Total delivery attempts: 0 > > Am I anywhere near doing this right? No. Instead of converting the tai64n timestamps to human-readable, you need to convert them to the fractional seconds (tai) that qmail-analog expects. You can do this with tai64n2tai, included in Bruce Guenter's qlogtools package if I remember correctly. His software is at untroubled.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: Connections Slow with LVS
Mehul Choksi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > any ideas why qmail with the Linux Virtual Server takes so long > for the connection even with the tcpserver R and t 0?? There are other data-gathering options to tcpserver. This is FAQ#1. > Also, I have not yet applied the big-concurrency patch (I always run in to > trouble with that patch..!!), and yet I have set the concurrencyremote to > 254. So far it is doing good, but not sure if it is okay. Any suggestion? Very, very few sites need concurrency > 255. Skip the patch until you determine you really do need it. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. ---
Connections Slow with LVS
Hi guys, any ideas why qmail with the Linux Virtual Server takes so long for the connection even with the tcpserver –R and –t 0?? Also, I have not yet applied the big-concurrency patch (I always run in to trouble with that patch..!!), and yet I have set the concurrencyremote to 254. So far it is doing good, but not sure if it is okay. Any suggestion? Thanks in advance, Mehul.
Re: qmailanalog
Drew Hawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to know how many messages were sent/failed etc. for a given period of > time (say the last three days). > > I have done the following in both /var/log/qmail/qmail-send and > /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd (I'll admit my ignorance and say that I don't > know the difference between the two. Is qmail-send local deliveries and > qmail-smtpd remote deliveries?): No. qmail-smtpd is incoming mail via SMTP. qmail-send is all deliveries, local and remote. > 1) Ran "matchup" on /var/log/qmail/qmail-send(smtpd)/current > 2) Converted the "matchedup" version of "current" into human readable > format using tai64nlocal > 3) Pulled out dates for which I want to see log results from the file > created above > 4) Convert the data above to tai64 format using tai64n > 5) Ran this data through zoverall to see qmailanalog results > > Regardless of whether I run it against /var/log/qmail/qmail-send or > /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd I get the following: > > Completed messages: 0 > > Total delivery attempts: 0 > > Am I anywhere near doing this right? No. Instead of converting the tai64n timestamps to human-readable, you need to convert them to the fractional seconds (tai) that qmail-analog expects. You can do this with tai64n2tai, included in Bruce Guenter's qlogtools package if I remember correctly. His software is at untroubled.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: QMail & XFS
"Brano Vislocky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >someone was tested qmail with SGI's XFS on Linux? Are there some possible >problems ( as with ReiserFS ) ? As I mentioned in the concurrent ReiserFS thread, XFS requires the same "link sync" patch that ReiserFS requires: http://www.jedi.claranet.fr/qmail-link-sync.patch -Dave
Re: Spam IP master list?
Roger Merchberger writes: > Kindof an offtopic question, but is there a "Master List" of IP's that send > spam regularly, with which I could use to update my tcprules deny list? > > I really don't want to patch & reinstall qmail with the RBL... (and it > seems ORBS went away...) Besides, I'm really only looking to stop "the big > chunks" with something I can personally manage. Use rblsmtpd (part of ucspi-tcp) and you need not patch or reinstall. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | #exclude Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX |
qmailanalog
I want to know how many messages were sent/failed etc. for a given period of time (say the last three days). I have done the following in both /var/log/qmail/qmail-send and /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd (I'll admit my ignorance and say that I don't know the difference between the two. Is qmail-send local deliveries and qmail-smtpd remote deliveries?): 1) Ran "matchup" on /var/log/qmail/qmail-send(smtpd)/current 2) Converted the "matchedup" version of "current" into human readable format using tai64nlocal 3) Pulled out dates for which I want to see log results from the file created above 4) Convert the data above to tai64 format using tai64n 5) Ran this data through zoverall to see qmailanalog results Regardless of whether I run it against /var/log/qmail/qmail-send or /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd I get the following: Completed messages: 0 Total delivery attempts: 0 Am I anywhere near doing this right? Here are my actual commands 1) cat /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd/current | /usr/local/qmailanalog/bin/matchup > /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd/matchedup 2) cat /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd/matchedup | /usr/local/bin/tai64nlocal > human_readable_current 3) vi human_readable_current (remove all unneeded data) 4) cat /var/log/qmail/qmail-send/human_readable_current | /usr/local/bin/tai64n > tai64_current 5) cat ./tai64_current | /usr/local/qmailanalog/bin/zoverall > overall_log
Re: Spam IP master list?
* Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010620 18:34]: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 12:15:04PM -0400, Roger Merchberger wrote: > > Kindof an offtopic question, but is there a "Master List" of IP's that send > > spam regularly, with which I could use to update my tcprules deny list? > RBL? http://libertas.wirehub.net/spamlist.txt http://www.almqvist.net/johan/orbs/ > > I really don't want to patch & reinstall qmail with the RBL... (and it > > seems ORBS went away...) Besides, I'm really only looking to stop "the big > > chunks" with something I can personally manage. You don't need to patch qmail to use rbl. No need to recompile either. rblsmtpd just drops in between tcpserver and qmail-smtpd in the supervise script... -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
RE: Spam IP master list?
Most of the "big chunks" of spam come from big guys utilizing little guys' servers as they find them open to relay. So you're best off using the various MAPS lists, especially the RSS (relay spam stopper). Dave -Original Message- From: Roger Merchberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 12:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Spam IP master list? Kindof an offtopic question, but is there a "Master List" of IP's that send spam regularly, with which I could use to update my tcprules deny list? I really don't want to patch & reinstall qmail with the RBL... (and it seems ORBS went away...) Besides, I'm really only looking to stop "the big chunks" with something I can personally manage. Or is this a completely stupid idea??? TIA, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig. If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
Re: .qmail-everybody?
On 20 Jun 2001 15:40:43 +0200, David Gartner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave, > > That was a typo ^^;; The *real* .qmail files read: > >| /usr/bin/perlscript > ./Maildir/ > > And a couple other question come to mind Is there no way to force > qmail to use the defaultdelivery and the .qmail files? Also, how does the > defaultdelivery apply to /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-aliased users? Use the users/assign mechanism. Read qmail-users(5) Greetings -- Robert Sander Computer Scientist Epigenomics AG Bioinformatics R&Dwww.epigenomics.com Kastanienallee 24 +493024345330 10435 Berlin
Re: Constantly recurring error and newbie needs help urgently please Fixed I think
Roger Arnold wrote: Thanks to everyone that pointed out my misconception that the list was not receiving the email that I sent 3 times. I was unaware of the broken mailserver and thought that somehow my message was being diverted and not getting to the list, and I apologise for my mistake sincerely. As for the problem I was having, I think I have worked it out. What happened was that I had just installed "courier-imap" in order to implement web mail, and I think I must have mis-configured it because after a reboot the problem ceased ( I had only started the imapd daemon by the command line and not put it in the server startup script). I did check the qmail logs and found nothing irregular there. Sorry to have sent a dud request for a mistake that I made in the configuration Regards Roger Henning Brauer wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 01:56:28AM +1000, arnie wrote: > > Trying again for the 3rd time to send this email to the Qmail list > > and we received it 3 times. the message you are getting is from a broken > subsribers mailserver sending a bounce to the address in From: instead of > the envelope sender. > > -- > * 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: Spam IP master list?
Roger Merchberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kindof an offtopic question, but is there a "Master List" of IP's that send > spam regularly, with which I could use to update my tcprules deny list? > > I really don't want to patch & reinstall qmail with the RBL... (and it > seems ORBS went away...) Besides, I'm really only looking to stop "the big > chunks" with something I can personally manage. There's always the DUL. They're a huge source of direct-to-MX spam. That, however, is also available in an RBL-style lookup. You don't actually need to patch and reinstall to use rblsmtpd, anyways. > Or is this a completely stupid idea??? Not necessarily. For me, it's quicker to just ignore spam, or have some fun and report it to SpamCop to see how fast the spammer gets shut down. 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: Spam IP master list?
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 12:15:04PM -0400, Roger Merchberger wrote: > Kindof an offtopic question, but is there a "Master List" of IP's that send > spam regularly, with which I could use to update my tcprules deny list? > > I really don't want to patch & reinstall qmail with the RBL... (and it > seems ORBS went away...) Besides, I'm really only looking to stop "the big > chunks" with something I can personally manage. There's no patching and reinstalling to do (unless you want to use relays.mail-abuse.org, which requires a small patch only to rblsmtpd). Just change the script you run your SMTP service with to use rblsmtpd, and you're done. It's certainly a lot less work than constantly updating your tcprules list. Chris PGP signature
Re: Spam IP master list?
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 12:15:04PM -0400, Roger Merchberger wrote: > Kindof an offtopic question, but is there a "Master List" of IP's that send > spam regularly, with which I could use to update my tcprules deny list? RBL? > I really don't want to patch & reinstall qmail with the RBL... (and it > seems ORBS went away...) Besides, I'm really only looking to stop "the big > chunks" with something I can personally manage. > > Or is this a completely stupid idea??? *I* think it is. Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html
Re: Constantly recurring error and newbie needs help urgently please
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:01:02PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 01:56:28AM +1000, arnie wrote: > > Trying again for the 3rd time to send this email to the Qmail list > > and we received it 3 times. the message you are getting is from a broken > subsribers mailserver sending a bounce to the address in From: instead of > the envelope sender. And now some idiotic "out of the office" auto-responder is sending me a message every time I post to the list. I've written [EMAIL PROTECTED] about it. Chris PGP signature
Re: Constantly recurring error and newbie needs help urgently please
arnie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am still a newbie with Qmail and I have a strange (to me) error that > is taking over the screen on a system that I need urgent help with as it > may be affecting various domains email reception and delivery. > > The display is as follows: I have no idea how you're getting those messages on the console -- they appear to be part of a POP3 conversation. You've also posted zero useful information for tracking down your problem. If you want real help, post the following information, without editing any of it, especially not to change domain or host names: -output of `qmail-showctl` -the script you're using to start qmail-pop3d -a snippet of any qmail-pop3d or tcpserver log which contains error messages related to the problem you're having. -a description of what you're running (i.e. qmail-1.03 with patch X and add-on module Y, which I got from URL foo) 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. ---
Spam IP master list?
Kindof an offtopic question, but is there a "Master List" of IP's that send spam regularly, with which I could use to update my tcprules deny list? I really don't want to patch & reinstall qmail with the RBL... (and it seems ORBS went away...) Besides, I'm really only looking to stop "the big chunks" with something I can personally manage. Or is this a completely stupid idea??? TIA, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig. If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
Re: off-topic
thanks to everyone :) Terius
Re: Constantly recurring error and newbie needs help urgently please
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 01:56:28AM +1000, arnie wrote: > Trying again for the 3rd time to send this email to the Qmail list and we received it 3 times. the message you are getting is from a broken subsribers mailserver sending a bounce to the address in From: instead of the envelope sender. -- * 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: ReiserFs and qmail
Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The problem comes from the fact that Linux does not adhere to BSD semantics >regarding the sync() system call. BSD semantics state that if you sync a >file, it's data and it's metadata are synced to disc. > >Linux, on the other hand, syncs only the data. To sync the metadata, you have >to sync() the directory the file resides in. This depends upon the filesystem. E2fs behaves that way, but XFS and ReiserFS don't. But the real problem with ReiserFS (and XFS) and qmail is that Dan assumes that link() is synchronous. That might be true for FFS filesystems, especially under BSD, but it's not true for ReiserFS and XFS. The ReiserFS people have a patch available from: http://www.jedi.claranet.fr/qmail-link-sync.patch Which adds sync's after link's. It should be used with XFS filesystems, too. But, looking at the patch, I see that it doesn't fsync() after the "mess" link is created in qmail-queue.c. Hmm... Looks like he changed something in that area, then undid it: - if (link(pidfn,messfn) == -1) die(64); + if (link(pidfn,messfn) == -1) die(64); I wonder why... -Dave
Re: tcprules & is this list having trouble
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 01:53:25AM +1000, arnie wrote: > Sorry about the intrusion but is the Qmail list having Mailer-Daemon trouble ? > I have been trying to send an important email to the list at "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > and I keep getting: > > Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: > > test test (Mailbox or Conference is full.) > > from the Mailer-Daemon Yes, we all get that. It doesn't come from the list but from the horribly misconfigured mail server of a list subscriber. See the list archives; this has been discussed before. Chris PGP signature
Constantly recurring error and newbie needs help urgently please
Trying again for the 3rd time to send this email to the Qmail list Roger Arnold wrote: Hello All, I am still a newbie with Qmail and I have a strange (to me) error that is taking over the screen on a system that I need urgent help with as it may be affecting various domains email reception and delivery. The display is as follows: popup: pid 2652 USER popup: pid 2652 -ERR authorization first pop3d: pid 2653 QUIT popup: pid 2663 -ERR authorization first popup: pid 2663 USER [EMAIL PROTECTED] pop3d: pid 2664 QUIT The above errors keep repeating over and over again down the screen with the pid the only changing item. Could someone urgently tell me what may be going on and a way to fix it quickly please: Thanks in advance Regards Roger
Re: tcprules & is this list having trouble
Roger Arnold wrote: Sorry about the intrusion but is the Qmail list having Mailer-Daemon trouble ? I have been trying to send an important email to the list at "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and I keep getting: Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: test test (Mailbox or Conference is full.) from the Mailer-Daemon I would be obliged if some can let me know ASAP what is happening Thank you Roger
Constantly recurring error and newbie needs help urgently please
Roger Arnold wrote: Hello All, I am still a newbie with Qmail and I have a strange (to me) error that is taking over the screen on a system that I need urgent help with as it may be affecting various domains email reception and delivery. The display is as follows: popup: pid 2652 USER popup: pid 2652 -ERR authorization first pop3d: pid 2653 QUIT popup: pid 2663 -ERR authorization first popup: pid 2663 USER [EMAIL PROTECTED] pop3d: pid 2664 QUIT The above errors keep repeating over and over again down the screen with the pid the only changing item. Could someone urgently tell me what may be going on and a way to fix it quickly please: Thanks in advance Regards Roger
Constantly recurring error and newbie needs help urgently please
Roger Arnold wrote: Hello All, I am still a newbie with Qmail and I have a strange (to me) error that is taking over the screen on a system that I need urgent help with as it may be affecting various domains email reception and delivery. The display is as follows: popup: pid 2652 USER popup: pid 2652 -ERR authorization first pop3d: pid 2653 QUIT popup: pid 2663 -ERR authorization first popup: pid 2663 USER [EMAIL PROTECTED] pop3d: pid 2664 QUIT The above errors keep repeating over and over again down the screen with the pid the only changing item. Could someone urgently tell me what may be going on and a way to fix it quickly please: Thanks in advance Regards Roger
Re: off-topic
On 20 Jun 2001, at 9:45, Ing. Guillermo Villasana Card wrote: >Hello guys... I know this is not a qmail question.. but can someone >point me to a good linux mailing list? >Thanks and sorry. >Terius Hi, I'm not sure what sort of information you are looking for, but my local LUG is usually very helpful. You will have to subscibe to the list by visiting http://www.oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/oclug Cheers Dean Dean Staff Protus IP Solutions 210 - 2379 Holly Lane Ottawa, ON K1V 7P2 Canada 613-733- ex 546 Fax 613-248-4553 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.protus.com
Re: off-topic
Hi, >Hello guys... I know this is not a qmail question.. but can someone point >me to a good linux mailing list? >Thanks and sorry. >Terius there are much lists on vger.rutgers.edu. Problem is that the listserver (majordomo) is not stable and sometimes you can get no mails from the list for a longer time. If special infos wanted take the lists mentioned on the homepages of the products. Regards, Ruprecht
off-topic
Hello guys... I know this is not a qmail question.. but can someone point me to a good linux mailing list? Thanks and sorry. Terius
Re: tcprules
Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I have 20 IP's on my server. Is there a way of saying : > > > >"Only assign QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qftest if the incoming email > >is being sent to my IP address A.B.C.D". > > > >Because out of all the 20 IP's I have, I only want to filter mail coming > >though the ip A.B.C.D. > > A.B.C.D:allow,QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qftest" Actually, I think he means he has qmail-smtpd listening to all 20 of his local IP addresses, and he only wants to filter messages that come from connections to only one of those IP addresses. To do that, I think you'll need to run two different qmail-smtpd processes, one on A.B.C.D with rules file smtp-filtered.cdb, and one for the rest of the IP addresses, with rules file smtp.cdb (no filter). I haven't actually tried this, but it might work if you start the tcpserver for A.B.C.D first, binding to A.B.C.D, and then start the other tcpserver, binding to 0 (all local addresses) next. 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: Qmailqueue woes
Lars Hansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The qmailqueue patch just wont work properly for me. This is what i get: [...] > It always fails on the Makefile. Am I doing something wrong or what's going > on here? Which patch is this? Give us an URL, or post just the Makefile part of the patch. You can probably get around this by patching it by hand if you have to. 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: ReiserFs and qmail
Nick (Keith) Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not sure on the statement that qmail is unreliable under Linux due to > its assumptiopn that "link is a synchronous operation". I've never read > anything about it. Anyone else? The problem comes from the fact that Linux does not adhere to BSD semantics regarding the sync() system call. BSD semantics state that if you sync a file, it's data and it's metadata are synced to disc. Linux, on the other hand, syncs only the data. To sync the metadata, you have to sync() the directory the file resides in. Most software which isn't specifically written with this in mind won't do this. qmail relies on the BSD semantics to guarantee that a message will never be lost after it has been successfully queued. Running a stock qmail under Linux gives you a finitely small chance of losing mail in the event of a power outage or other problem. One way to fix this is to use the "syncdir" code which Bruce Guenter distributes. It transparently makes Linux's sync() act like a standard BSD sync. Bruce's qmail+patches SRPM used to include syncdir; I don't know if it does anymore, but he also distributes it separately at untroubled.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: long delays when sending mail
"James Melliar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a fairly standard Linux (Mandrake 8) server with Qmail on a LAN >serving 10 Win 98 PCs. What is very odd is that when windows clients, using >a mixture of outlook express & Outlook 2000, send mail the SMTP connection >times out after 60 seconds. If the click the "wait" option the mail gets >sent without any problems. You can't swing a dead cat in the archives of this list without hiting the answer to that one... -Dave
Re: mail routing & and sanity
Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Actually, he won't need to do anything. smtproutes is read by every invocation >of qmail-remote. You're right, of course. Sorry, that was a brain fart. Momentary qmail-rspawn/qmail-remote confusion. -Dave
long delays when sending mail
Hi all I have a fairly standard Linux (Mandrake 8) server with Qmail on a LAN serving 10 Win 98 PCs. What is very odd is that when windows clients, using a mixture of outlook express & Outlook 2000, send mail the SMTP connection times out after 60 seconds. If the click the "wait" option the mail gets sent without any problems. The server is a AMD Duron with 128MB RAM. The system does little else other than dial up every hour to collect & send mail plus provide basic file sharing. Qmail has been installed with daemontools and seems to work well any help would be appreciated James
Re: .qmail-everybody?
Dave, That was a typo ^^;; The *real* .qmail files read: | /usr/bin/perlscript ./Maildir/ And a couple other question come to mind Is there no way to force qmail to use the defaultdelivery and the .qmail files? Also, how does the defaultdelivery apply to /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-aliased users? David Dave Sill wrote: > David Gartner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >| /usr/bin/perlscript > >username > > That causes a loop: the second line forwards a copy to the same .qmail > file. > > >Is there anyway I can remove these .qmail files and run it on a global > >level with one file? > > The "defaultdelivery" parameter to qmail-start will be used *if* no > .qmail file is found (or it's empty). If this perl filter has to be > mandatory, you'll have to prevent users from creating their own .qmail > files. > > -Dave
Re: mail routing & and sanity
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:50:40AM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: > No, smtproutes is a qmail-remote control file. HUP'ing qmail-send > won't help. He'll need to completely restart qmail. Huh? No. qmail-remote reads smtproutes on startup, and qmail-remote is started for every remote delivery. no need to restart anything. For the possible changes here in locals/virtualdomains a SIGHUP to qmail-send is needed. -- * 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: mail routing & and sanity
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:50:40AM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >put in $QMAILDIR/control/smtproutes > > > >myhost.com:notes.myhost.com > > > >make sure for the rest it is only in control/rcpthosts > > > >and SIGHUP qmail-send. > > No, smtproutes is a qmail-remote control file. HUP'ing qmail-send > won't help. He'll need to completely restart qmail. Actually, he won't need to do anything. smtproutes is read by every invocation of qmail-remote. Chris PGP signature
Re: .qmail-everybody?
David Gartner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >| /usr/bin/perlscript >username That causes a loop: the second line forwards a copy to the same .qmail file. >Is there anyway I can remove these .qmail files and run it on a global >level with one file? The "defaultdelivery" parameter to qmail-start will be used *if* no .qmail file is found (or it's empty). If this perl filter has to be mandatory, you'll have to prevent users from creating their own .qmail files. -Dave
Re: tcprules
"Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have 20 IP's on my server. Is there a way of saying : > >"Only assign QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qftest if the incoming email >is being sent to my IP address A.B.C.D". > >Because out of all the 20 IP's I have, I only want to filter mail coming >though the ip A.B.C.D. A.B.C.D:allow,QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qftest" -Dave
Qmail admin
I've installed qmail and qmail admin, now when i try to see my mail(with =netscape messenger) there is a message: the network connection was =refused by the server. The server is the same computer where I've my =mail.When I try to open qmail admin (localhost/c/s.dll/qmailadmin) the =message is : could not connect to the host localhost. I saw the etc/host =file and it seems ok .There is someone that could help me?Thanks
Re: mail routing & and sanity
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >put in $QMAILDIR/control/smtproutes > >myhost.com:notes.myhost.com > >make sure for the rest it is only in control/rcpthosts > >and SIGHUP qmail-send. No, smtproutes is a qmail-remote control file. HUP'ing qmail-send won't help. He'll need to completely restart qmail. -Dave
.qmail-everybody?
Hey again all... I'm running all messages through a perl script, currently called from .qmail files. There's one in everyone's home directory. I want to get rid of the .qmail files, but continue using this script. If the script matches certain criteria, it exits with a bad status and qmail doesn't deliver the message. Basically, the .qmail files look like this: | /usr/bin/perlscript username Is there anyway I can remove these .qmail files and run it on a global level with one file? Thanks in advance for any light that you can shine David
Re: login length...
Daniel Fenert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there some strict login length defined in qmail? >I'm using qmail+mysql patches, and i'm transfering domains from M$ Exchange >(which dies ones a week :) and have user with 33 character login... I don't know diddly about qmail+mysql patches, but the stock qmail-getpw has a limit of 32 characters on account names. -Dave
Re: failure on control/locals
"Erik Logan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that host, >it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't treat it as local. (#5.4.6) > >my control/locals file has my domain in it. I see at least three possibilities: 1) you're wrong, it's not in control/locals 2) you haven't restarted or HUP'd qmail-send since adding it 3) you're the victim of some bizarre OS/compiler bug >If anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate it. If you ever declassify your domain name, you could post the output of qmail-showctl. Also, send qmail-send HUP just to be sure. -Dave
QMail & XFS
Hi all, someone was tested qmail with SGI's XFS on Linux? Are there some possible problems ( as with ReiserFS ) ? Thank you. Brano
Re: login length...
W dniu Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 12:04:44PM +0200, Henning Brauer wystukał(a): >> Is there some strict login length defined in qmail? >> I'm using qmail+mysql patches, and i'm transfering domains from M$ Exchange >> (which dies ones a week :) and have user with 33 character login... > >If memory server my right this is limited to 32 chars. Is there some place in source to change it in one place or i'll have to edit number of files? -- Daniel Fenert--==> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <==-- ==-P o w e r e d--b y--S l a c k w a r e-=-ICQ #37739641-== Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb? A: Two, one to hold the giraffe, and the other to fill the bathtub with brightly colored machine tools. ===- http://daniellek.linux.krakow.pl/ -===< +48604628083 >
tcprules
Hi, I don't know if this is possable or not - but I better ask the experts :-) I have just installed qmail-qfilter + QMAILQUEUE patch. So with that I have to add QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qftest" into the tcp rules file so the incoming mail is run though the filter. I have 20 IP's on my server. Is there a way of saying : "Only assign QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qftest if the incoming email is being sent to my IP address A.B.C.D". Because out of all the 20 IP's I have, I only want to filter mail coming though the ip A.B.C.D. Best Wishes, Jon
Re: smtp auth failures
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:38:37PM +, Nick (Keith) Fish wrote: > joc wrote: > > >There it is. any wise thoughts here? > > > > Thanks > > John > > Encourage your customers to use non-broken MUA. Our company refuses to > support anything other than Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger, and our > own web-based e-mailing service. You might try that: promoting a > web-based e-mail service they can access FROM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD! That > always makes them giddy. :-) And which of these is the non-broken MUA? SCNR Jost -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please help stamp out spam! | | Postmaster, JAPH, resident answer machine am RZ der RUB | | Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate | | William of Ockham (1285-1347/49) |
Re: ReiserFs and qmail
On Wed, Jun 20 2001, Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:15:11PM +, Nick (Keith) Fish wrote: > [snip] > > I'm not sure on the statement that qmail is unreliable under Linux due to > > its assumptiopn that "link is a synchronous operation". I've never read > > anything about it. Anyone else? > > This is true. I'm not sure, however, if this is ext2fs's or Linux's > fault. If the latter, ReiserFS suffers as well. I don't think it occurs if you mount /var/qmail, especially /var/qmail/queue with sync option. Look at the FAQ: http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/reliability.html#filesystems Do not use async or softupdates filesystems. If you do, and if your system crashes at the wrong moment, you will lose mail. Under Linux, make sure that all mail-handling filesystems are mounted sync. The same comments apply to sendmail and other mailers. ---jul
Re: login length...
onsdagen den 20 juni 2001 12:04 skrev Henning Brauer: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:55:00AM +0200, Daniel Fenert wrote: > > Is there some strict login length defined in qmail? > > I'm using qmail+mysql patches, and i'm transfering domains from M$ > > Exchange (which dies ones a week :) and have user with 33 character > > login... > > If memory server my right this is limited to 32 chars. You might want to skip the "qmail popup patch" if you are using it. -- Regards // Oden Eriksson Kvikkjokk Networks
Re: login length...
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:55:00AM +0200, Daniel Fenert wrote: > Is there some strict login length defined in qmail? > I'm using qmail+mysql patches, and i'm transfering domains from M$ Exchange > (which dies ones a week :) and have user with 33 character login... If memory server my right this is limited to 32 chars. -- * 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: mail routing & and sanity
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 07:36:28PM +1000, dennis wrote: > So, the question is, how do I tell Qmail to forward all "myhost.com" > mail to "notes.myhost.com" for local delivery on the Notes/Domino email > server ?? echo "myhost.com:notes.myhost.com" >> /var/qmail/control/smtproutes -- * 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: login length...
Check the ownership/existence of the home directories(where Maildir/Mailbox are located). Joe. - Original Message - From: "Daniel Fenert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 9:55 AM Subject: login length... > Is there some strict login length defined in qmail? > I'm using qmail+mysql patches, and i'm transfering domains from M$ Exchange > (which dies ones a week :) and have user with 33 character login... > > I've changed column 'id' length to 63, and inserted this user, but qmail > refuses to accept mail for this person and sais "sorry, no mailbox here by > that name"... > > Any suggestions? > > -- > Daniel Fenert--==> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <==-- > ==-P o w e r e d--b y--S l a c k w a r e-=-ICQ #37739641-== > When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong > ===- http://daniellek.linux.krakow.pl/ -===< +48604628083 > >
Re: mail routing & and sanity
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, dennis wrote: > > So, the question is, how do I tell Qmail to forward all "myhost.com" > mail to "notes.myhost.com" for local delivery on the Notes/Domino email > server ?? put in $QMAILDIR/control/smtproutes myhost.com:notes.myhost.com make sure for the rest it is only in control/rcpthosts and SIGHUP qmail-send. You could have easily found the answer in the mailinglist archive... Grtz, Arjen.
mail routing & and sanity
Hi all... If you've been a long time subscribe to this list you may remember an email regarding the cancellation of my Qmail project after the employment of new management for a Notes/Domino mail solution... Well, the saga continues... After management realized that Notes/Domino will not be able to provide them with all the feature they require (or it's not going to be able to provide them in a acceptable fashion) the decision has been made to reinstate Qmail as the company upstream SMTP relay host for the Notes/Domino server All well and good, I say Long explination 1) The "myhost.com" zonefile has an MX, "notes.myhost.com", "123.456.789.123" (Notes/Domino) 2) I am going to change the MX to "mail.myhost.com", "123.456.789.122" (Qmail) So, the question is, how do I tell Qmail to forward all "myhost.com" mail to "notes.myhost.com" for local delivery on the Notes/Domino email server ?? Did that make any sense ? Kindest regards Dennis
