qmail Digest 25 Jun 2001 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 1406
qmail Digest 25 Jun 2001 10:00:01 - Issue 1406 Topics (messages 64831 through 64848): Re: Why conf-split prime? 64831 by: Pavel Kankovsky 64832 by: Pavel Kankovsky Re: courier-imapd, folders and delivery 64833 by: Russell Nelson 64838 by: Ricardo SIGNES qmail collecting POP3 mail 64834 by: John P 64835 by: Charles Cazabon anti-virus program for Qmail 64836 by: Alex Tsang 64837 by: Chris Johnson 64848 by: Rick Stanley Odd error 64839 by: Mike Hodson 64840 by: Chris Johnson Re: I'm sorry 64841 by: Nancy Lovette Mail Headers, Exchange and Qmail. 64842 by: Ivan Menendez 64844 by: Charles Cazabon Can't receive local or remote emails 64843 by: newbieportal 64845 by: Charles Cazabon SMTP Error ! 64846 by: Qmail 64847 by: Chris Johnson Administrivia: To unsubscribe from the digest, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the digest, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To bug my human owner, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To post to the list, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Dave Sill wrote: i = fmt_ulong(s,id % auto_split); len += i; if (s) s += i; I can't see that primality would do anything special here. I am going to give the secret away right here to save your time. :) It is obvious the distribution of B(i) = A(i) mod k will be very non-uniform (i.e. very suboptimal when the values of B(i) are used as hash values) when A(i) or its large subsequences can be expressed as A(i+1) = A(i) + p such that gcd(p, k) 1. Our A(i)'s are inode numbers assigned to files holding the contents of queued messages (queue/mess/*/*). An average implementation of a unix-like filesystem assigns inode numbers less or more sequentially, i.e. the next assigned number is often the last one plus 1. Of course, if we had A(i+1) = A(i) + 1, there would be no problem. Alas, there are 2, 3, or even 4 (or perhaps even more) files per a message in the qmail queue: there are files in mess, as well as files in info, local, and remote. This means A(i)'s are often incremented by 2, 3, or 4, and the risk of uneven distribution of B(i)'s is rather high. Using a prime number for k eliminates this risk for a very small price. After all the set of primes is quite dense for reasonable values (1000) and you can always find a prime close to the number you want to use. However, the default, 23, is prime, and in his only message to the list on the topic of conf-split, DJB suggested a value of 401, also prime, for a queue with 10 entries: 401 is quite close to sqrt(10). It means the sizes of the 1st and 2nd level are quite balanced. But I can only guess why DJB suggested 401 rather than any prime closer to that square root. Why would DJB use primes if they weren't necessary? He uses round numbers elsewhere (concurrencies, for example), so I don't think he just likes them. There is a notation based on the (unique) factorization of numbers. 1 is (0) (or ()), 2 is (1), 3 is (0,1), 6 is (1,1) etc. It has some interesting properties: like an incredible ease of multiplication (and an incredible difficulty of addition). Prime numbers are the *round* ones in this notation. :) On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Dave Sill wrote: Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It does -- a large series of random numbers, modulo some number I, will result in an even distribution of results if and only if I is prime. If I isn't prime, the results are skewed noticeably towards the low end. Hmm. On first reading that, I didn't believe it. I couldn't imagine how the primality of the divisor could magically guarantee an even distribution. Indeed. Given a source A(i) of natural numbers uniformly distributed in a given interval [0, N-1] (lrand48() is *supposed* to be such a source for N = 2^31), it is trivial to show that the distribution D_B(x) of B(i) = A(i) mod k for any natural k 0 is as follows: / ceil(N/k)/N if x N mod k D_B(x) =for each x \in [0, k-1] \ floor(N/k)/N if x = N mod k You can see the results are skewed but for k N, prime or not, the skew is negligible and the resulting distribution is almost uniform. A test showing anything different demonstrates nothing but an imperfection in your PRNG or a flaw in the test itself. Profiling may beat speculation but mathematical reasoning beats profiling anytime. :) On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Dave Sill wrote: BTW, I modified my modhash program to read numbers from stdin, fed it lists of real, live inode numbers, and guess what? It still makes no difference whether you use a prime hash or not. What real, live inode numbers? Have you picked the inode numbers of messages stuffed in queue/mess/*? With all due respect, I doubt it. Any profiling is pointless
SMTP down
I'm using qmail but i'm not able to receive or send mail because smtp is down What can i do , and what is the reason?I've tried to telnet localhost 25 or telnet name.domain 25 but i'm not able to connect. Thanks
SMTP down
I'm using qmail but i'm not able to receive or send mail because smtp is down What can i do , and what is the reason?I've tried to telnet localhost 25 or telnet name.domain 25 but i'm not able to connect. Thanks
problem starting qmail
Hi I am having problems starting qmail. I am running qmail on Redhat 7.1. When I try to start qmail I get svok: fatal: unable to chdir to /services/qmail-send: file does not exist qmail-send service no running svok: fatal: unable to chdir to /services/qmail-smtpd: file does not exist qmail-smtpd service no running I've checked the log files but these dont give any more info. TIA P.
Looking for a good Maildir capable web based mail client
Hey all, Up until we switched over to qmail, we were using some web based mail client. It will only work with Mbox format, and reads directly from the file itself. Of course, when we switched over, we switched to Maildir, so the old mail client doesn't work anymore. The only web based mail we can find is CWMail, and it's rather pricey, and not so easy on the eyes. I've seen several webmail programs out there, but don't know which to chose. Is anyone currently using any good web mail software they would suggest? Thanks for the help. David
problem starting qmail
Hi I am having problems starting qmail. I am running qmail on Redhat 7.1. When I try to start qmail I get svok: fatal: unable to chdir to /services/qmail-send: file does not exist qmail-send service no running svok: fatal: unable to chdir to /services/qmail-smtpd: file does not exist qmail-smtpd service no running I've checked the log files but these dont give any more info. TIA P.
Re: Looking for a good Maildir capable web based mail client
www.squirrelmail.org is about the best I've found and it's free. David Gartner wrote: Hey all, Up until we switched over to qmail, we were using some web based mail client. It will only work with Mbox format, and reads directly from the file itself. Of course, when we switched over, we switched to Maildir, so the old mail client doesn't work anymore. The only web based mail we can find is CWMail, and it's rather pricey, and not so easy on the eyes. I've seen several webmail programs out there, but don't know which to chose. Is anyone currently using any good web mail software they would suggest? Thanks for the help. David
Re: problem starting qmail
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, pat moffatt wrote: Hi I am having problems starting qmail. I am running qmail on Redhat 7.1. When I try to start qmail I get svok: fatal: unable to chdir to /services/qmail-send: file does not exist qmail-send service no running svok: fatal: unable to chdir to /services/qmail-smtpd: file does not exist qmail-smtpd service no running I've checked the log files but these dont give any more info. Do you have /services/qmail-send/run /services/qmail-smtpd/run or did you make a typo and should it be /service instead of /services ? Grtz, Arjen.
RE: problem starting qmail
svok: fatal: unable to chdir to /services/qmail-send: file does not exist qmail-send service no running If you followed Life with Qmail, there is no services, just service. If you didn't follow Life with Qmail, you should've. If this doesn't fix the problem, you'll need to post alot more information about how you are trying to start qmail. inetd or supervise? contents of run files? what command yields those errors? di it ever work, or is this a new install? etc, etc... --joshua.
Re: Looking for a good Maildir capable web based mail client
It's not the fanciest, but there is sqwebmail from Inter7. It does handle Maildir's very well. The URL is: http://inter7.com/freesoftware/index.html I also use their courier-imap, qmailadmin, and vpopmail. I have been very happy with the software and the support. Rick At 08:57 AM 6/25/2001 -0400, David Gartner wrote: Hey all, Up until we switched over to qmail, we were using some web based mail client. It will only work with Mbox format, and reads directly from the file itself. Of course, when we switched over, we switched to Maildir, so the old mail client doesn't work anymore. The only web based mail we can find is CWMail, and it's rather pricey, and not so easy on the eyes. I've seen several webmail programs out there, but don't know which to chose. Is anyone currently using any good web mail software they would suggest? Thanks for the help. David
Re: SMTP down
In a message dated Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 02:26:09PM +0200, rosita wrote: I'm using qmail but i'm not able to receive or send mail because smtp is down What can i do , and what is the reason?I've tried to telnet localhost 25 or telnet name.domain 25 but i'm not able to connect. I think you need to take a minute and decide if you really want to run qmail, rather than just use someone else's mail server. This may be a very simple problem, and you just need to do some simple things to figure it out. Run `ps -ax` and see if qmail-smtpd is running. If not, restart it and consider running it under daemontools. -- rjbs PGP signature
Re: anti-virus program for Qmail
hi, I would like to know whether there are FREE anti-virus patch for qmail? thanks a lot.. vincent - Original Message - From: Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alex Tsang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 10:58 PM Subject: Re: anti-virus program for Qmail
Re: problem starting qmail
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 01:59:45PM +0100, pat moffatt wrote: svok: fatal: unable to chdir to /services/qmail-send: file does not exist qmail-send service no running There's at least one (and possibly two) typos in each of your log lines, and quite possibly some editing as well. So how are we supposed to trust this info you're giving us? Try again (ie. cut-n-paste / grep / use an editor / whatever). To help you, we need the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But The Truth. - Adrian
Re: courier-imapd, folders and delivery
There is a courier-imap mailing list! Join it! Thanks! I found it yesterday - after having sent my question of course (it's the natural order of things). In the meantime, it's pretty simple. Set $MAILDIR and $DEFAULT to $HOME/Maildir/ Actually, my problem was that I wanted procmail or maildrop (maildrop in thsi case) to deliver to subfolders, and not just the Maildir (I phrased my question incorrectly). I've since discovered that courier doesn't use some magic format, but the sub folders where dot files (dot directories). I just didn't see them with an ls -l. Some times the hidden dot file approach works *too* well :) -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrival: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org
RAV AntiVirus for Qmail
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Re: RAV AntiVirus for Qmail
* Mihai Serban [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010625 11:33]: Dear Qmail users, [snip] Dear Mihai, Please add me to your list of people who will never use your service or software. Your advertisement is NOT appreciated on this mailing list, certainly not by me and likely not by others. /pg -- Peter Green : Architekton Internet Services, LLC : [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming. --- Larry Wall
YALQ (Yet another LDAP Question)
I've seen variations on this posted, and never seen any answers (Bret Martin, you still there?) I am tasked to try and implement the following. Qmail mail system, utilising one large NFS storage for mail, which is served by a farm of satellite linux boxes taking in mail and running IMAP and POP services, both insecure and secure, utilising separate passwords for the secure and insecure services, all users have actual accounts but are held in an LDAP database. So I have pam_ldap and nss_ldap setup with two sets of libraries and config files, one for secure and one for insecure services. I have hacked the UW IMAP server further to allow me to have two different servers, using different PAM config files to allow lookups in different LDAP branches (secure and insecure), all this works, and then I discovered qmail seems to use some odd lookup mechanism for users. It won't use nss_ldap and doesn't see any of the users. I've now played with qmail_ldap, but fail to see that I can implement it in the same structure as everything else, as it seems primarily geared toward 'virtual users'. Help. herbie __ This is an email, an electronic Post-It note. Keep your Inbox tidy and dispose of it in a timely fashion.
Re: YALQ (Yet another LDAP Question)
Andrew J Herbert wrote: I've now played with qmail_ldap, but fail to see that I can implement it in the same structure as everything else, as it seems primarily geared toward 'virtual users'. You want qmail-ldap. If these are mail servers, why do users need to have a system account? They aren't administrators. I run several qmail-ldap servers, with only system accounts for the IT staff. Even if they need a system account, you can store their mail in /var/qmail/maildirs owned and grouped to the qmail-ldap daemons, and make them use pine over IMAP or pop. UW-Imap is a resource HOG. You have to patch it twice to get it to work in your setup, and you have to recompile it when you make configuration changes. Low tech. Courier Imap has native support for ldap authentication and maildirs, has low memory requirements, and can be reconfigured without recompiling. Regards, Mike
Re: YALQ (Yet another LDAP Question)
It's a nice idea, and we did consider it, and play with it but it doesn't work for a few reasons. 1. We use Eudora as a mail client, it's not my choice unfortunately, and it thrashes Courier, whilst UW doesn't break a sweat, due to the odd way Eudora implements mail filters (using UID's). 2. We have to have people having logons in the system, this isn't just email we're talking about, hence why I said I want to use real users, and not virtual users. Also we run a web based front end to procmail for mail filtering that has to be 'grannied' in. Anyone know how to get qmail-ldap compliant with RFC2307? How does qmail look up local users anyway? Why won't it work with nss_ldap? herbie __ This is an email, an electronic Post-It note. Keep your Inbox tidy and dispose of it in a timely fashion. On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Mike Jackson wrote: Andrew J Herbert wrote: I've now played with qmail_ldap, but fail to see that I can implement it in the same structure as everything else, as it seems primarily geared toward 'virtual users'. You want qmail-ldap. If these are mail servers, why do users need to have a system account? They aren't administrators. I run several qmail-ldap servers, with only system accounts for the IT staff. Even if they need a system account, you can store their mail in /var/qmail/maildirs owned and grouped to the qmail-ldap daemons, and make them use pine over IMAP or pop. UW-Imap is a resource HOG. You have to patch it twice to get it to work in your setup, and you have to recompile it when you make configuration changes. Low tech. Courier Imap has native support for ldap authentication and maildirs, has low memory requirements, and can be reconfigured without recompiling. Regards, Mike
Re: YALQ (Yet another LDAP Question)
Andrew J Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does qmail look up local users anyway? Why won't it work with nss_ldap? If the qmail-users mechanism is configured, that's used -- `man qmail-users` for details. Fallback is qmail-getpw, which relies on the system's implementation of the getpwnam() function. stock qmail doesn't know anything about LDAP. I don't know if LDAP-patched qmail gets user information in a different way. If not, you could dump your LDAP users information through qmail-pw2u and qmail-newu to use the qmail-users mechanism. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Re: YALQ (Yet another LDAP Question)
Andrew J Herbert wrote: 1. We use Eudora as a mail client, it's not my choice unfortunately, and it thrashes Courier, whilst UW doesn't break a sweat, due to the odd way Eudora implements mail filters (using UID's). Yes, I have encountered this with 2-3 of my users who just refuse to leave Eudora. It's not a problem with this number, but if everybody used it then it would be. 2. We have to have people having logons in the system, this isn't just email we're talking about, hence why I said I want to use real users, and not virtual users. Also we run a web based front end to procmail for mail filtering that has to be 'grannied' in. Fine if people log on then, but they don't need to have their maildir stored in their home directory. Set your global pine configuration to use IMAP instead of accessing an mbox. This takes away fast text grepping, but provides alot of ease for administration. Qmail-LDAP will work in this environment. Regards, Mike
Help with Installation
I have followed the directions in the Life with Qmail doc for installing Qmail and all appears to be working expcept that I can't get mail into my INBOX. Here is what my system had before I started... SunOS 5.7 U of W IMAP server Sendmail There are about 2000+ users on the server I have been able to telnet to the SMTP service and send a message from myself to myself without errors, but the message never arrives in my INBOX. What do I need to check to make sure mail is getting delivered to where I want it? Cordell Bourne Sr. Software Test Engineer Campus Pipeline, Inc.
Re: YALQ (Yet another LDAP Question)
Aah, now this is an interesting thing, I can run qmail-getpw from the command line, and it finds all the correct information, using the LDAP lookup (this is using regular qmail with nss_ldap), the permissions on the users home directory look OK (owned by user 700) as does the Maildir and there is a .qmail file (owned by user 644) which contains ./Maildir/ so why isn't mail being delivered? Suggestions anyone? herbie __ This is an email, an electronic Post-It note. Keep your Inbox tidy and dispose of it in a timely fashion. On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Charles Cazabon wrote: Andrew J Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does qmail look up local users anyway? Why won't it work with nss_ldap? If the qmail-users mechanism is configured, that's used -- `man qmail-users` for details. Fallback is qmail-getpw, which relies on the system's implementation of the getpwnam() function. stock qmail doesn't know anything about LDAP. I don't know if LDAP-patched qmail gets user information in a different way. If not, you could dump your LDAP users information through qmail-pw2u and qmail-newu to use the qmail-users mechanism. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Re: Help with Installation
Cordell Bourne wrote: I have followed the directions in the Life with Qmail doc for installing Qmail and all appears to be working expcept that I can't get mail into my INBOX. Here is what my system had before I started... SunOS 5.7 U of W IMAP server Sendmail There are about 2000+ users on the server I have been able to telnet to the SMTP service and send a message from myself to myself without errors, but the message never arrives in my INBOX. What do I need to check to make sure mail is getting delivered to where I want it? Cordell Bourne Sr. Software Test Engineer Campus Pipeline, Inc. did you specify that you are going to use mailbox? You may want to check that since you may use the Maildir option and it will now work with university of wash. they do not support that. I suggest to use Courier IMAP. REMO
RE: Help with Installation
-Original Message- From: Cordell Bourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 7:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help with Installation I have followed the directions in the Life with Qmail doc for installing Qmail and all appears to be working expcept that I can't get mail into my INBOX. which delivery type do you use ? Maildir ? mbox in $HOME ? mbox in /var/spool/mail ? most current mail things do not support Maildir, which is the best of the delivery methods [i think :)] probably you should use the mbox format in /var/spool/mail for full sendmail compatibility in this case probably you want install the .forward packet, to make the switch more transparent to the user
Re: Help with Installation
Well check your maillog and see if there's an error in there, is the message in the queue still, maybe qmail-send isn't running, in which case it won't be delivered. There are oh so many ways it can go wrong :) Oh and correct permissions on the users homedir, and a .qmail file help too. __ This is an email, an electronic Post-It note. Keep your Inbox tidy and dispose of it in a timely fashion. On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Cordell Bourne wrote: I have followed the directions in the Life with Qmail doc for installing Qmail and all appears to be working expcept that I can't get mail into my INBOX. Here is what my system had before I started... SunOS 5.7 U of W IMAP server Sendmail There are about 2000+ users on the server I have been able to telnet to the SMTP service and send a message from myself to myself without errors, but the message never arrives in my INBOX. What do I need to check to make sure mail is getting delivered to where I want it? Cordell Bourne Sr. Software Test Engineer Campus Pipeline, Inc.
RE: Help with Installation
I have been able to telnet to the SMTP service and send a message from myself to So smtp is running, are you sure that it's qmail-smtpd? Did you remember to kill sendmail? What do I need to check to make sure mail is getting delivered to where I want it? Did you properly configure /var/qmail/users/assign? You should also check your home directory on the server. Is there a Maildir? does the new directory contained delivered but unretrieved messages? Remo could well have a point about UW IMAP, if that is indeed what you're still using. Did you install a pop server? Is it working? What do your logs say? If you aren't getting any error messages, and the emails aren't bouncing, then they must be going somewhere? Please post your /var/qmail/rc file (and probably at least a sample of your assign file--we don't need 2000+ essentially identical lines) and tell us both how you are checking for messages, and where on the server you are expecting them to show up. Then maybe someone will be able to tell you why you're wrong, and where they're actually going. Oh yeah, and what Andrew said... permissions and ownership are crucial with qmail. --joshua.
RE: Help with Installation
sendmail uses mbox delivery to /var/spool/mail qmail must be specially configured to use this delivery method [as in lwq described, use the ./Mailbox delivery method and symlink them all to /var/spool/mail/] nice job with 2000 users :) now, there is a second question: do your users use just imap to get their mail, or log they on the server to get it with a MUA like pine ? in first case, it would be much better if you use the ./Maildir/ method and courier imap -Original Message- From: Cordell Bourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 7:59 PM To: Lukas Beeler Subject: Re: Help with Installation Lukas Beeler wrote: -Original Message- From: Cordell Bourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 7:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help with Installation I have followed the directions in the Life with Qmail doc for installing Qmail and all appears to be working expcept that I can't get mail into my INBOX. which delivery type do you use ? What ever is standard with a typical Sun OS 5.7 installation with sendmail. How can I tell what format I was using with sendmail. Is there a file I can look at to see what is set? Maildir ? mbox in $HOME ? mbox in /var/spool/mail ? most current mail things do not support Maildir, which is the best of the delivery methods [i think :)] probably you should use the mbox format in /var/spool/mail for full sendmail compatibility in this case probably you want install the .forward packet, to make the switch more transparent to the user
Re: Wrong Server Name in Qmail Header?
A A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whenever my qmail server sends someone an email, the following line appears in the header: Received: from mail.mydomain.com (old_name.mydomain.com [216.216.216.216] (may be forged)) However, recently I changed my server name from old_name.mydomain.com to new_name.mydomain.com. Is there anything I can do to let qmail recognize the new server name? Is my only option a recompile or is there a file I can edit? grep old_name /var/qmail/control/* Then change all occurrences of old_name to new_name and restart qmail. -Dave
RE: Help with Installation
-Original Message- From: Cordell Bourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 9:01 PM To: Lukas Beeler Subject: Re: Help with Installation This is a test environment. What we are simulating here is a web client accessing users IMAP mail boxes. Hwever we have to test varius MTAs in our environment and we are just getting around to qmail. I am not a UNIX guru so this thing is driving me nuts. neither am i :) I just rechecked my rc file and I was missing a qmail-start \ line. I added that in and now mail is showing in my INBOX!!! congrats Now I just have to figure out the rcpthosts file. I have several mail servers in our test system of various brands etc... they are all in the same domain, so is there a way to do a wildcard rcpt setting? say something like *.subdomain.doamin.com? hmm, iam not sure what you want to do do you mean relaying ? in my rcpthosts is just domain.com mail.domain.com hostname.domain.com means, it accepts mail for those people from everyone in my /etc/tcp.smtp there is 127 and 192 means that localhost und my private lan can relay to everywhere in the tcp.smtp you can set wildcards, but i don't think you can in the rcpthosts [iam not sure] iam not really sure what you want Thanks again for your help. It forced me to back track and check some things no problem and sorry for my english --Cordell Lukas Beeler wrote: sendmail uses mbox delivery to /var/spool/mail qmail must be specially configured to use this delivery method [as in lwq described, use the ./Mailbox delivery method and symlink them all to /var/spool/mail/] nice job with 2000 users :) now, there is a second question: do your users use just imap to get their mail, or log they on the server to get it with a MUA like pine ? in first case, it would be much better if you use the ./Maildir/ method and courier imap -Original Message- From: Cordell Bourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 7:59 PM To: Lukas Beeler Subject: Re: Help with Installation Lukas Beeler wrote: -Original Message- From: Cordell Bourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 7:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help with Installation I have followed the directions in the Life with Qmail doc for installing Qmail and all appears to be working expcept that I can't get mail into my INBOX. which delivery type do you use ? What ever is standard with a typical Sun OS 5.7 installation with sendmail. How can I tell what format I was using with sendmail. Is there a file I can look at to see what is set? Maildir ? mbox in $HOME ? mbox in /var/spool/mail ? most current mail things do not support Maildir, which is the best of the delivery methods [i think :)] probably you should use the mbox format in /var/spool/mail for full sendmail compatibility in this case probably you want install the .forward packet, to make the switch more transparent to the user
tcpserver: relay iface question
Hi all. How can I tell tcpserver to relay clients connected from an interface instead of ip addresses? --yapedu
Re: tcpserver: relay iface question
GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I tell tcpserver to relay clients connected from an interface instead of ip addresses? You can wildcard IP addresses on byte boundaries -- i.e., the following entry: 10.10.:allow,RELAYCLIENT= would allow the 16-bit subnet 10.10.x.x to relay. This should probably be good enough. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Re: Why conf-split prime?
Ian Lance Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suppose the input numbers are 2 4 6 8 10 12. Suppose the hash size is 8. Then the buckets are 2 4 6 0 2 4. Note the bad distribution. Suppose the hash size is 7. Then the buckers are 2 4 6 1 3 5. Note the good distribution. OK, thanks, that finally clicked. Now you know why I'm not a mathematician or computer scientist. :-) -Dave
Re: tcpserver: relay iface question
Thus spake GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): How can I tell tcpserver to relay clients connected from an interface instead of ip addresses? You bind one tcpserver on each interface and give the one on the relay-enabled interface a rule set that always matches. It's that easy.
RE: Wrong Server Name in Qmail Header?
I had this problem before and I ended up just executing that ./config script again, which is located where you compiled qmail from. That took care of updating all the files necessary to make it work with the new domain name. Also if your DNS server is not configured properly, you can try running ./config-fast the.full.hostname where the.full.hostname is your qualified domain name like mail.newdomain.com. -Original Message- From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 11:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Wrong Server Name in Qmail Header? A A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whenever my qmail server sends someone an email, the following line appears in the header: Received: from mail.mydomain.com (old_name.mydomain.com [216.216.216.216] (may be forged)) However, recently I changed my server name from old_name.mydomain.com to new_name.mydomain.com. Is there anything I can do to let qmail recognize the new server name? Is my only option a recompile or is there a file I can edit? grep old_name /var/qmail/control/* Then change all occurrences of old_name to new_name and restart qmail. -Dave
Re: tcpserver: relay iface question
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:50:07PM +0200, Felix von Leitner wrote: Thus spake GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): How can I tell tcpserver to relay clients connected from an interface instead of ip addresses? You bind one tcpserver on each interface and give the one on the relay-enabled interface a rule set that always matches. If, and only if, you make sure no traffic for this interface can come in through the other interface. I think charles suggestion is easier. -- * 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)
Resent-Cc: header
Some mailing list agents insert a 'Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ;' header in e-mail that they distribute. If such a message is re-distributed by qmail, (say, after reception and filtering by procmail, and forwarded using qmail as the MTA,) qmail reads the 'Reset-Cc: ' header, and tries to distribute the e-mail to ;@mydomain.com. It doesn't do it with 'Cc: ' headers, nor if the 'Resent-Cc: ' record is removed or renamed. If the 'Resent-Cc: ' header is changed to 'Resent-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]', then [EMAIL PROTECTED] will receive a copy of e-mail send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems as though the 'Resent-Cc: ' header has special meaning to qmail when it reads the header. FWIW, John -- John ConoverTel. 408.370.2688 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 631 Lamont Ct. Fax. 408.379.9602 http://www.johncon.com/ Campbell, CA 95008 Cel. 408.772.7733
Re: Resent-Cc: header
Sorry, its a VM and RMAIL issue. When using the resend() function, if a 'Resent-Cc: ' field is in the message, the MUA will copy all listed in the field. Apologies. John John Conover writes: Some mailing list agents insert a 'Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ;' header in e-mail that they distribute. If such a message is re-distributed by qmail, (say, after reception and filtering by procmail, and forwarded using qmail as the MTA,) qmail reads the 'Reset-Cc: ' header, and tries to distribute the e-mail to ;@mydomain.com. It doesn't do it with 'Cc: ' headers, nor if the 'Resent-Cc: ' record is removed or renamed. If the 'Resent-Cc: ' header is changed to 'Resent-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]', then [EMAIL PROTECTED] will receive a copy of e-mail send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems as though the 'Resent-Cc: ' header has special meaning to qmail when it reads the header. -- John ConoverTel. 408.370.2688 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 631 Lamont Ct. Fax. 408.379.9602 http://www.johncon.com/ Campbell, CA 95008 Cel. 408.772.7733
lesoleil.com is starting to see the light
After spamming everyone I could find at lesoleil.com to tell them that they are prominently listed on rfc-ignorant.org and qmail list members are about to make a deal with the mafia to stop their stupidity, someone woke up and claimed to have established an alias for postmaster. lesoleil.com may still scatter bounces hither and yon, but I can't move mountains.
Re: lesoleil.com is starting to see the light
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 05:39:40PM -0400, Alex Pennace wrote: After spamming everyone I could find at lesoleil.com to tell them that they are prominently listed on rfc-ignorant.org and qmail list members are about to make a deal with the mafia to stop their stupidity, someone woke up and claimed to have established an alias for postmaster. lesoleil.com may still scatter bounces hither and yon, but I can't move mountains. Thanks for your efforts. I wonder who operates servers there. their logs must be full of errors and they must receive more bounces than we can imagine. -- * 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)
Any pointers ?
I know this is not strictly on topic, but I have qmail setup running with qmail-scanner, supervise courier-imap on top of a bog standard RedHat 7.1 linux box (kernel 2.4.2 I think) The problem I have is that when people are using imap to check mail I can only have about 40 connections at once to the server before it refuses to accept an more, I have about 80 - 90 connections are needed at all times on this system. Any pointers as to what config file(s) I should alter to enable more concurrent user access to imap? Any help is gratefully apprecated. TIA, Iain Morrison _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: Any pointers ?
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 11:29:41PM +0100, Iain Morrison wrote: The problem I have is that when people are using imap to check mail I can only have about 40 connections at once to the server before it refuses to accept an more, I have about 80 - 90 connections are needed at all times on this system. sounds like the concurrency limit of tcpserver. courier imap has a tcpserver like app (though it runs fine under tcpserver), don't remember its name now. have a look on your courier imap start script. -- * 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)
qmail-injecting a message with 50K Bcc:
hi- i'm trying to send a message to a list of approx. 50K email addresses. i figured that the best way to do this was to use qmail-inject with the 50K addresses listed in one giant Bcc: line. i then tried to send the message like so: /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject the_message which results in: qmail-inject: fatal: failed to parse this line: Bcc: . i'm guessing that the line is just too long for qmail-inject. i checked the manpage for qmail-inject and the archives, but couldn't find anything that would indicate that qmail-inject has a line-length limit. if there is indeed a silent limit on the length of the line, are there any suggestions on how to best approximate what the method above would do (1 copy of the message in the remote queue; not more than one address listed in the Delivered-To: field)? Thanks- Dan
Re: qmail-injecting a message with 50K Bcc:
dan.kelley wrote: hi- i'm trying to send a message to a list of approx. 50K email addresses. i figured that the best way to do this was to use qmail-inject with the 50K addresses listed in one giant Bcc: line. Wrong. Ezmlm is what you need. It's a high speed mailing list manager, and with the qmail-verh patch you can have individual addressing. You can also take input from a text file of one address per line when subscribing the list members. Mike
Re: qmail-injecting a message with 50K Bcc:
Wrong. Ezmlm is what you need. It's a high speed mailing list manager, and with the qmail-verh patch you can have individual addressing. You can also take input from a text file of one address per line when subscribing the list members. does this hold true for one-time mailings? i'm sending a very dry email detailing the ownership change of a corportaion, so i can't forsee many responses (bounces are, of course, another story). the reason that i originally tried to do this with qmail-inject instead of elmlm was that i never saw a need to have list-like behavior (replies, postings,etc). that being tha case, is ezmlm still the best option? thanks- dan
[Fwd: bad gid being passed?]
Still looking for suggestions on completely uninstalling qmail. I've tried just about everything I can think of, from the clever to the brute-force, and still can't get the darn program completely uninstalled. grrr... =) Amanda I'm seeing a rather bizarre problem with qmail, or perhaps the interaction between qmail and Mailman. I'm running Mandrake 8 with qmail 1.03, Mailman 2.0.5, apache 1.3.20, and xinetd. When I originally set up qmail, I set up the qmail and nofiles groups, and the three respective users in each group. I doublechecked the accuracy and existence of these users and groups later, when I was troubleshooting another issue (which turned out to be unrelated to users/groups), so I know that at some point, these were correct. I installed and configured Mailman, but when I went to send a test message to the mailing list, I started getting the following errors in my logs: Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 400, GOT gid 401. (Reconfigure to take 401?) qmail: 992375092.776089 delivery 3: Failure_to_exec_script._WANTED_gid_400,_GOT_gid_401.__(Reconfigure_to_take_401?)/ After much poking and prodding (trying to reconfigure mailman with a different gid, etc) I went back to look at the users and groups and saw that the alias user was no longer assigned to the right group. In fact, it was assigned to group 401, the existence of which appears to be limited to the details of the alias user. I reassigned the alias user to its right group, reconfigured and reinstalled mailman, and the mailing list messages were still failing, with the same error. It was at this point that I came to the conclusion that it was not in fact Mailman that was the problem, but most probably qmail. I attempted to reconfigure/reinstall qmail with no success: the alias user is now appearing in the right group, but somewhere the gid 401 is still being passed when trying to send messages to the mailing list. In frustration at this point, I removed the install directories of both Mailman and qmail, removed their source directories, removed the original tarballs, removed their users and groups redownloaded both programs, and started again. And I'm still getting the same error. Okay, so I know I missed something in the process of reinstalling or reconfiguring qmail. The question is, what did I forget to remove or change? Any ideas on how to fix this problem would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, =) Amanda
Re: [Fwd: bad gid being passed?]
If you installed from source, simply rm '-rf /var/qmail'. Use vipw so that /etc/passwd and friends all agree as to what is what, unpack a clean tarball, and run 'make make setup check'. Reconfigure to taste. Serves 1-millions. ;) (If you installed via some other method, it probably has its own oddball way of doing things, like e.g. rpm --ugh). GW On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 05:01:50PM -0700, Amanda wrote: Still looking for suggestions on completely uninstalling qmail. I've tried just about everything I can think of, from the clever to the brute-force, and still can't get the darn program completely uninstalled. -- Greg White
qmailanalog usage
Title: qmailanalog usage I'm trying to figure out how I should get the stats I want out of qmailanalog, along with some other things I'd like to do. My main issue is, if I wanted to do a daily log rotation, would it be feasible to do the following (using multilog): Set my logfile size to 100MB; at end of day, have a cron job run that copies the current file to another, dated file; echo /var/log/qmail/current to empty out the log file and start fresh. I realize it's not pretty, but the real issue is, would it cause problems? Thanks, Mark Douglas - Architecture Sympatico-Lycos Inc. All your base are belong to us! Make your time!
Re: qmail-injecting a message with 50K Bcc:
dan . kelley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm trying to send a message to a list of approx. 50K email addresses. i figured that the best way to do this was to use qmail-inject with the 50K addresses listed in one giant Bcc: line. Funny, I wouldn't have reached that conclusion myself :). i then tried to send the message like so: /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject the_message which results in: qmail-inject: fatal: failed to parse this line: Bcc: . i'm guessing that the line is just too long for qmail-inject. i checked the manpage for qmail-inject and the archives, but couldn't find anything that would indicate that qmail-inject has a line-length limit. Do the same message, injected the same way, but have each address listed on a separate bcc: line: From: foo Subject: moving Date: ... bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Message... Very easy to generate with a script, and you won't hit any limits (although I never have, myself). Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Re: qmailanalog usage
Mark Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to figure out how I should get the stats I want out of qmailanalog, along with some other things I'd like to do. My main issue is, if I wanted to do a daily log rotation, would it be feasible to do the following (using multilog): Set my logfile size to 100MB; at end of day, have a cron job run that copies the current file to another, dated file; echo /var/log/qmail/current to empty out the log file and start fresh. I realize it's not pretty, but the real issue is, would it cause problems? Yes -- each message has multiple log lines associated with it. You'll likely get some messages which cross over your arbitrary per-night boundaries. qmail won't be able to include those messages in its analysis if you just analyze one log at a time. However, it's probably going to have a negligible impact on the overall statistics. I posted a shell script to this list last week which does exactly what you want, suitable for use as a nightly cron job. And because it uses qlogselect from Bruce Guenter's qlogtools package, you don't need to rotate the scripts nightly to split the statistics up per-day -- qlogselect will automatically extract the log entries for a time period you specify. The script filters it down to one day. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Re: qmailanalog usage
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 06:56:47PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: [snip] Yes -- each message has multiple log lines associated with it. You'll likely get some messages which cross over your arbitrary per-night boundaries. qmail won't be able to include those messages in its analysis if you just analyze one log at a time. That's why qmailanalog wants to write to an fd (I think 5) and read from another (I think 6). It saves state of all uncompleted messages to this fd, and expects this saved state to be passed to it on this other fd. I probably have the fd numbers wrong, but the drift is that qmailanalog can do this just fine without losing *any* messages. Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html
Re: qmailanalog usage
Why not let logrotated handle your log rotation, daily if you so desire, and call qmailanalog from a postrotate block on maillog.2? We have a similar setup here, but we're rotating weekly. There's a little perl script that calls qmailanalog and sends its output to a dated file (mail-report-mm-dd-ccyy.txt). About an hour later, another script comes along and adds a pointer to the new file to the reports index. It's only been in place for a few weeks, but it seems to be working fine. That actually reminds me of another question I've been thinking about. Now that I have these nifty statistics, I'd like to know how to interpret them. Sure, I know what 'delivery attempts' means, but what's a good number for that? How high is too high when it comes to average qtime? Is there a document somewhere that outlines that? Perhaps it's not even relevant - after all, the qmailanalog report seems to say more about the servers I'm sending to than my server. cheers, Todd At 08:23 PM 6/25/01, Mark Douglas wrote: I'm trying to figure out how I should get the stats I want out of qmailanalog, along with some other things I'd like to do. My main issue is, if I wanted to do a daily log rotation, would it be feasible to do the following (using multilog): Set my logfile size to 100MB; at end of day, have a cron job run that copies the current file to another, dated file; echo /var/log/qmail/current to empty out the log file and start fresh. I realize it's not pretty, but the real issue is, would it cause problems? Thanks, Mark Douglas - Architecture Sympatico-Lycos Inc. All your base are belong to us! Make your time!
Can't send mail using SMTP on qmail 1.03
I have two Dell laptops, an Inspiron 2500 and a Latitude C800 that can perform all network functions, but cannot (reliably) send email to an SMTP serverusing Outlook 2000. I have used a Linksys (NP100) and xircom RBEM56G-100 PCMCIA cards with similar results. On the Latitude I am able to send email once after rebooting and then it hangs. I have installed a store-bought version of Windows 2000 (not Dell's OEM version) and got the same results. I put either PCMCIA card in a Compaq laptop and I can send email fine. If I look closely at the message that the SMTP server(qmail 1.03) receives, I do not receive the terminator string. That is that I can see the . (using recordio) but do not appear to get the CR-LF. I have tried using fixcrio with no luck. If I use Netsape Communicator, I get the same response, but when I hit Cancel, the email goes out. I have about 12 other Dell workstations of various flavors that use this server fine. I have another Dell Inspiron that can use the email fine with the Linksys NP100 and the interated network card in the DELL docking station. If I send email using the either laptop on a subnet different from the subnet containing the server, I can send email OK. Thanks in advance. Kudos to the genius who can help me with this.
Sending mail using qmail smtp
Hi, guys. I have installed qmail on red hat 6.2 , but until now I still use my ISP smtp to send mail, cause I cannot use my qmail smtp. What should I do so I can use my qmail smtp? For information my qmail server using ISP DNS. Regards, Eddy
Qmail Security
Dear all, i still wondering which one is better tcpserver or tcpwrapper ? is there anything else is better ? TIA yayan
[Q] delivery log file
Hello, I think I am misunderstood in qmail system. I have a domain of my own which is dynamically dns'ed by a ISP in Korea. It is arbago.com. When I send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], it is sent from mutt, but I can not find it in the world nor in my server. The log file says the following. @40003b37f37412cea4d4 starting delivery 15: msg 46607 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] m I did not mean to send it as a local email because arbago.com is dynamically dns'ed outside in the world, not in my PC. More interesting is when I send an email to a PC in the local net. There is jango host at an internal domain arirang, which is the server of the local net. And I have a user yjy at jango.arirang. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The log says the following. @40003b37f3d022e4943c starting delivery 18: msg 46607 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] irang @40003b37f3d022e4abac status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 @40003b37f3d03401ca14 delivery 18: success: 10.0.0.1_accepted_message./Remot e_host_said:_250_ok_993522722_qp_25567/ This time it is sent as a remote email, but in truth the host is in the local network. I think I am misunderstood a lot on qmail system. Please help me out. The control files are as follows. 1. defaultdomain bipa.arirang (a PC in the local network) 2. locals bipa.arirang kldp.org arbago.com kornet.net 3. rcpthosts same as locals file 4. smtproutes jango.arirang:10.0.0.1 dagem.arirang:10.0.0.10 bipa.arirang:10.0.0.20 5. me arirang (internal domain/IP address) 6. defaultdomain arirang Warm regards, Joo-Yung
Using qmail smtp
Hi, guys. I have installed qmail on red hat 6.2 , but until now I still use my ISP smtp to send mail, cause I cannot use my qmail smtp. What should I do so I can use my qmail smtp? For information my qmail server using ISP DNS. Regards, Eddy
[Q] difference between rcpthosts and locals
Hello, Can anynone explain me about the difference between rcpthosts and locals? I ask this because I can not send emails to me. -- YOON, Joo-Yung / ArBaGo Int'l KOREA 420-111 BooChun WonMi-1-Dong 1-28 (GunYong Bldg. 302) Mobile +82.19.350.1369 Fax +82.32.655.855.9 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Q] difference between rcpthosts and locals
YOON, Joo-Yung writes: Can anynone explain me about the difference between rcpthosts and locals? The difference is subtle and confusing. Many qmail users have identical contents in both. rcpthosts lists the hostnames you will accept via smtp. locals are the hosts by which your machine is known to email users. In order for your users to receive mail via smtp addresses to that host, it must be listed in rcpthosts and locals. If a host is in locals but not rcpthosts, then only users who send email while logged into the machine will be able to send mail to that host. If a host is in rcpthosts but not locals, then qmail will go looking for a better machine to deliver the mail to. If there is no better machine, then qmail will bounce the mail with the infamous Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that host,\n\ it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't treat it as local. (#5.4.6)\n. Qmail will go looking for an MX record, or A record, or entry in control/smtproutes. If it finds none, it gives up as above. If it finds no MX record with a lower cost, it gives up as above. If a host in neither rcpthosts nor locals, then qmail will not accept mail via smtp, nor deliver any mail to that host locally. -- -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: anti-virus program for Qmail
hi, that's for ur prompt reply. think I should re-phrase the question: are there any FREE antivirus scanner for qmail? obviously, AVP isn't free for commercial or even personal use. thanks a lot... - Original Message - From: Joshua Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 11:02 PM Subject: RE: anti-virus program for Qmail FROM www.qmail.org/top.html: --Jason Haar wrote Qmail-Scanner (also known as scan4virus), which scans all gatewayed Email for certain characteristics. It is typically used for its anti-virus protection functions, in which case it is used in conjunction with commercial virus scanners. but also enables a site to react to Email (at a server/site level) that contains specific strings in particular headers, or particular attachment filenames or types (e.g. *.VBS attachments). http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net/ --AMaViS is A Mail Virus Scanner. http://www.amavis.org/ --Kaspersky Lab includes qmail support for their AVP anti-virus program. http://www.avp.ru/ also from www.qmail.org/top.html: There is a discussion list and an announcements list for qmail users, maintained by Dan Bernstein using qmail, of course. There's also an archive. You can search it. archive: http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/ In the future, please make sure you've read the FAQ and searched the archive before posting a questions. This question has been answered 3 times a day for the last month! We're not kidding. 9 times out of 10 your question has already been answered, and it's faster to find that answer in the archives. good luck. --joshua.
Is it possible to use qmail-pop3d with mailbox format
Hi all, I am using qmail-1.03-30 and its working fine as far as SMTP connection is concern. But i am using ipop3d for for pop daemon, which is very slow. Is it possible to use qmail-pop3d with Mailbox format ??? Regards Lokesh
Re: Is it possible to use qmail-pop3d with mailbox format
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I am using qmail-1.03-30 and its working fine as far as SMTP connection is concern. But i am using ipop3d for for pop daemon, which is very slow. Is it possible to use qmail-pop3d with Mailbox format ??? No. Switch to Maildir format. It's much more managable. You can remove unwanted emails from a user's mailbox (My email download is taking forever. Do I have a multi-megabyte email? Could you delete it?). You can insert bulletins just by symlinking to them. You can delete emails which haven't been read for a certain period of time. And it's reliable over NFS, which Mailbox isn't. -- -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 |
Send Only Once
Dear All: i have installed qmail-1.0.3 on solaris 5.7 (ultra 5),but i found it doesn't work correctly in another solaris 5.7(e450).When qmail starts up,it sends out all emails in its queue correctly,and then ,it can also receive email and store them in its queue,but never sends them out util i start qmail once again.i wander if it is something about difference between ultra5 and e450 architecture. Regards qftang 2001-6-26
Re: Send Only Once
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:27:51PM +0800, qftang wrote: i have installed qmail-1.0.3 on solaris 5.7 (ultra 5),but i found it doesn't work correctly in another solaris 5.7(e450).When qmail starts up,it sends out all emails in its queue correctly,and then ,it can also receive email and store them in its queue,but never sends them out util i start qmail once again.i wander if it is something about difference between ultra5 and e450 architecture. http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html#trigger
