Re: qmail-send cpu and imapd / Maildir
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 10:39:43AM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: > Jörgen Persson wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:25:20AM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: > > > i've heard from a couple people that the qmail-send process is > > > supposed to take up all the avail cpu when nothing else is using it; > > > is that right? > > > > Hardly -- what does the log say? > > > > Jörgen > well the logs aren't really spitting out any errors; they look like this > (and a lot of procmail backtraces from various peoples' mail delivery). > we do have a lot of people using procmail to filter their mail (probably > about 20 or so out of 40 users) and a bunch of people using spambouncer > (a bunch of procmail scripts) but the machine itself doesn't have that > many users, and the load did the same thing when less people were using > procmail and almost noone was using spambouncer. Procmail may cause it but I doubt it since your problem concerns outgoing mail. Check your queue -- what does ''/var/qmail/queue/lock'' look like? Jörgen
Re: qmail-send cpu and imapd / Maildir
yeah but there is barely anything there. we don't send out very much mail at all (the machine is only for internal use). in fact the entire /var/qmail/queue directory tree is pretty much empty, as is /var/spool/qmail this is why it's perplexing... i think it must be a problem with the install or something; qmail has been acting that way since it was installed - even when there was barely anyone on the machine. zugzug# ll total 16 drwxr-x---2 qmailq qmail4096 Mar 30 2000 ./ drwxr-x--- 11 qmailq qmail4096 Mar 30 2000 ../ -rw---1 qmails qmail 0 Mar 30 2000 sendmutex -rw-r--r--1 qmailr qmail1024 Jul 2 20:05 tcpto -rw--w--w-1 qmails qmail 1 Jul 3 01:20 trigger zugzug# pwd /var/qmail/queue/lock and from roughly the same time... 1:21am up 55 days, 10:22, 2 users, load average: 1.20, 1.24, 1.25 61 processes: 54 sleeping, 2 running, 5 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.1% user, 0.6% system, 0.0% nice, 0.5% idle Mem: 516576K av, 383872K used, 132704K free, 19700K shrd, 257452K buff Swap: 1020116K av, 3340K used, 1016776K free 93692K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 32076 qmails20 0 396 396 308 R 0 90.5 0.0 778:11 qmail-send 19851 root 2 0 1276 1276 680 R 0 2.8 0.2 0:00 top Jörgen Persson wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 10:39:43AM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: > > Jörgen Persson wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:25:20AM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: > > > > i've heard from a couple people that the qmail-send process is > > > > supposed to take up all the avail cpu when nothing else is using it; > > > > is that right? > > > > > > Hardly -- what does the log say? > > > > > > Jörgen > > well the logs aren't really spitting out any errors; they look like this > > (and a lot of procmail backtraces from various peoples' mail delivery). > > we do have a lot of people using procmail to filter their mail (probably > > about 20 or so out of 40 users) and a bunch of people using spambouncer > > (a bunch of procmail scripts) but the machine itself doesn't have that > > many users, and the load did the same thing when less people were using > > procmail and almost noone was using spambouncer. > > Procmail may cause it but I doubt it since your problem concerns > outgoing mail. > > Check your queue -- what does ''/var/qmail/queue/lock'' look like? > > Jörgen
Re: qmail-send cpu and imapd / Maildir
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 01:36:51AM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: > zugzug# ll > total 16 > drwxr-x---2 qmailq qmail4096 Mar 30 2000 ./ > drwxr-x--- 11 qmailq qmail4096 Mar 30 2000 ../ > -rw---1 qmails qmail 0 Mar 30 2000 sendmutex > -rw-r--r--1 qmailr qmail1024 Jul 2 20:05 tcpto > -rw--w--w-1 qmails qmail 1 Jul 3 01:20 trigger Bingo... trigger ought to be a pipe ''make check'' will fix it -- hopefully. ;) Jörgen
Re: qmail-send cpu and imapd / Maildir
sweet thanks for pointing this out. sorry to be so obtuse, but can you explain how it should be? make check didn't fix it (although it did notice that there was a problem). i also tried: make trigger zugzug# make trigger cc trigger.o -o trigger /usr/lib/crt1.o: In function `_start': /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x18): undefined reference to `main' trigger.o: In function `trigger_set': trigger.o(.text+0x25): undefined reference to `open_read' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [trigger] Error 1 so perhaps there's an error with either the source (as i mentioned it's from the debian source package for 1.03) or with the library mentioned (crt1.0). the machine is debian / potato (2.2) GNU / Linux w Jörgen Persson wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 01:36:51AM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: > > zugzug# ll > > total 16 > > drwxr-x---2 qmailq qmail4096 Mar 30 2000 ./ > > drwxr-x--- 11 qmailq qmail4096 Mar 30 2000 ../ > > -rw---1 qmails qmail 0 Mar 30 2000 sendmutex > > -rw-r--r--1 qmailr qmail1024 Jul 2 20:05 tcpto > > -rw--w--w-1 qmails qmail 1 Jul 3 01:20 trigger > > Bingo... > > trigger ought to be a pipe ''make check'' will fix it -- hopefully. ;) > > Jörgen
Re: Extremely slow after move/IP change
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:03:39AM +0200, Petter Sundlöf wrote: [snip] > Any ideas? Could this be DNS problems? Shouldn't be, as everything else > in that regard seems to be working in the server. It's DNS problems. The resolver listed in /etc/resolv.conf is probably unable to resolve the reverse for your 192.168. IPs. Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html
Extremely slow after move/IP change
Hi. I just moved my QMail-based box (QMail for SMTP, UW-imapd for IMAP) to a new place, with a new IP and connection and all. Strangely though, at first it wouldn't work at all... couldn't log in to IMAP. I had set up all the network stuff correctly -- it at least worked. After a reboot or two -- hm :P -- I could log in, but only after waiting for about 1 minute. When I have logged in, listing folders, moving messages et cetera is fast. But sending messages is also really slow. When I first try to send it, I see something like this in the logs: Jul 3 10:58:34 findus smtpd: 994150714.769002 tcpserver: status: 1/40 Jul 3 10:58:34 findus smtpd: 994150714.776933 tcpserver: pid 24484 from 192.168.1.15 --- Then it takes a little while, and this shows up: Jul 3 10:58:37 findus smtpd: 994150717.813845 tcpserver: ok 24484 :192.168.1.1:25 :192.168.1.15:odd:33201 Jul 3 10:58:37 findus qmail: 994150717.886713 new msg 122101 Jul 3 10:58:37 findus qmail: 994150717.887005 info msg 122101: bytes 578 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 24491 uid 1007 Jul 3 10:58:37 findus smtpd: 994150717.896878 tcpserver: end 24484 status 0 Jul 3 10:58:37 findus smtpd: 994150717.897104 tcpserver: status: 0/40 Jul 3 10:58:37 findus qmail: 994150717.984510 starting delivery 116: msg 122101 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jul 3 10:58:37 findus qmail: 994150717.984752 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 Jul 3 10:58:37 findus imapd[24492]: connect from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jul 3 10:58:39 findus qmail: 994150719.597920 delivery 116: success: 64.4.42.7_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_Requested_mail_action_okay,_completed/ Jul 3 10:58:39 findus qmail: 994150719.598190 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Jul 3 10:58:39 findus qmail: 994150719.598277 end msg 122101 Jul 3 10:58:42 findus imapd[24492]: Authenticated user=odd host=celibacy [192.168.1.15] --- Any ideas? Could this be DNS problems? Shouldn't be, as everything else in that regard seems to be working in the server. Best wishes, Petter Sundlöf
Re: Extremely slow after move/IP change
> It's DNS problems. The resolver listed in /etc/resolv.conf is probably > unable to resolve the reverse for your 192.168. IPs. > > Greetz, Peter But shouldn't I be able to use it within the local network? If not, that's just insane. How do I go around qmail trying to resolve 192.168's? I do have 192.168.1.15 in /etc/hosts, with a name... Cheers
Re: qmail-send cpu and imapd / Maildir
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 02:02:31AM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: > sweet thanks for pointing this out. sorry to be so obtuse, but can > you explain how it should be? The server I'm currently on looks like this: total 12 drwxr-x---2 qmailq qmail4096 Jul 1 2000 . drwxr-x--- 11 qmailq qmail4096 Jul 1 2000 .. -rw---1 qmails qmail 0 Jul 1 2000 sendmutex -rw-r--r--1 qmailr qmail1024 Jun 28 08:13 tcpto prw--w--w-1 qmails qmail 0 Jul 3 10:52 trigger > make check didn't fix it (although it did notice that there was a > problem). > > i also tried: > make trigger > > zugzug# make trigger > cc trigger.o -o trigger > /usr/lib/crt1.o: In function `_start': > /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x18): undefined reference to `main' > trigger.o: In function `trigger_set': > trigger.o(.text+0x25): undefined reference to `open_read' > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make: *** [trigger] Error 1 I get the same error myself if I try ''make trigger'' but ''make'' with the original source works fine under libc 2.2.3 and gcc 2.95.4. Try to recompile the entire source. > so perhaps there's an error with either the source (as i mentioned it's > from the debian source package for 1.03) or with the library mentioned > (crt1.0). the machine is debian / potato (2.2) GNU / Linux I've been running the binary qmail package to Debian Potato successfully on several servers. Though I prefer to compile it myself :) An alternative solution is: 1) shut down qmail 2) mv trigger /tmp 3) mknod trigger p 4) chown qmails.qmail trigger 5) chmod 644 trigger 6) start qmail I moved trigger to tmp as a backup if something goes wrong but I'm quite certain it'll work though. The CPU problem might remain if the queue inodes are wrong... A third solution is queue-fix[1] which is mentioned on the ''qmail home page''[2]. It is supposed to fix the entire queue structure but I haven't tested that utility myself. Jörgen [1] http://www.netmeridian.com/e-huss/queue-fix.tar.gz [2] http://www.qmail.org/
Re: Extremely slow after move/IP change
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:34:58AM +0200, Petter Sundlöf wrote: > > It's DNS problems. The resolver listed in /etc/resolv.conf is > > probably unable to resolve the reverse for your 192.168. IPs. > > > > Greetz, Peter > > But shouldn't I be able to use it within the local network? If not, > that's just insane. > > How do I go around qmail trying to resolve 192.168's? I do have > 192.168.1.15 in /etc/hosts, with a name... Are you using tcpserver?? Does it ask for reverse lookups? Shut it off with -H. Jörgen
Aliases with "-"
Hi ! Is there any special capital like ":" for dots to use "-" in aliasnames ? (.qmail-user-name-name) Thanks
conf-spawn and FD_SET SUCCESS
Hi All, Sorry, to bother all even though the subject says SUCCESS. Just to Thank all I have gone through the qmail - mailing archives and finally succeeded in applying big-concurrency patch. The archives were simply great with all the help. I have found the solution for the FD_SET error that cropped in qmail - installation with big concurrency patch setting the conf-spawn to 1000. My thanks to everyone and specially to Peter, James and Adi Prasaja from whose mails I got the solution from the archives in the below link. http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2000/09/msg01095.html As James mentioned in his mail the installation is successful, but I have 1 million mails to be sent and I' m afraid that the Linux kernel may crash !!! My qmail parameters are as follows on a redhat Linux 6.2 kernel 2.2.14 :- qmail + DNS patch + big - todo patch + big - concurrency patch silent concurrency --- 1000 conf-split --- 15 concurrency remote --- 200 timeout smtp --- 240 timeout remote --- 240 and I am running 3 qmail-send 's from /var/qmail, /var/qmail1, /var/qmail2 for the operation to send 1 million. Will this do to send these 1 million mails and how long it may take for this ??? Is there any way to calculate Finally, Just curious to know what this file /usr/include/bits/types.h is used for Cheers, rajesh.
Re: Aliases with "-"
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:50:36AM +0200, Peter Klingeberg wrote: > Hi ! > > Is there any special capital like ":" for dots > to use "-" in aliasnames ? (.qmail-user-name-name) No, "-" works just fine. Only dot is special. Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html
Re: conf-spawn and FD_SET SUCCESS
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 03:15:36PM +0530, D Rajesh wrote: [snip] > My qmail parameters are as follows on a redhat Linux 6.2 > kernel 2.2.14 :- Upgrade to the most recent. Now. > qmail + DNS patch + big - todo patch + big - concurrency patch > silent concurrency --- 1000 > conf-split --- 15 conf-split should be prime for optimal performance. What's wrong with the default 23? Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html
Re: Aliases with "-"
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:50:36AM +0200, Peter Klingeberg wrote: > > Is there any special capital like ":" for dots > to use "-" in aliasnames ? (.qmail-user-name-name) > Use ''-'' for aliases with ''-'', ie: if .qmail-user-name-name is located under ~alias it recieves mail for but if it's located under ~user it will recieve mail for . Jörgen
Re: qmail-send cpu and imapd / Maildir
i installed the .deb binary packages (very nervously) and i think that has fixed the problem *knocks wood* thanks to everyone who responded. one other little question. is there anywhere else i should check permissions of besides /var/qmail/ ? i had to change the uids and gids of some system users to get the package to install, and so i used 'find' to change the permissions to the correct user(s) in /var/qmail. there isn't anywhere else i need to change, right? has anyone had good luck with these binary packages? http://innominate.org/~pape/Debian/ (listed on the main qmail page)? aside from installing dot-forward and fastforward which I don't need since the system already uses .qmail files and qmail style aliases it seemed to work pretty well. w Will Yardley wrote: > > sweet thanks for pointing this out. sorry to be so obtuse, but can > you explain how it should be? > > make check didn't fix it (although it did notice that there was a > problem). > > i also tried: > make trigger > > zugzug# make trigger > cc trigger.o -o trigger > /usr/lib/crt1.o: In function `_start': > /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x18): undefined reference to `main' > trigger.o: In function `trigger_set': > trigger.o(.text+0x25): undefined reference to `open_read' > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make: *** [trigger] Error 1 > > so perhaps there's an error with either the source (as i mentioned it's > from the debian source package for 1.03) or with the library mentioned > (crt1.0). the machine is debian / potato (2.2) GNU / Linux > > w > Jörgen Persson wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 01:36:51AM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: > > > zugzug# ll > > > total 16 > > > drwxr-x---2 qmailq qmail4096 Mar 30 2000 ./ > > > drwxr-x--- 11 qmailq qmail4096 Mar 30 2000 ../ > > > -rw---1 qmails qmail 0 Mar 30 2000 sendmutex > > > -rw-r--r--1 qmailr qmail1024 Jul 2 20:05 tcpto > > > -rw--w--w-1 qmails qmail 1 Jul 3 01:20 trigger > > > > Bingo... > > > > trigger ought to be a pipe ''make check'' will fix it -- hopefully. ;) > > > > Jörgen
Re: conf-spawn and FD_SET SUCCESS
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 03:15:36PM +0530, D Rajesh wrote: > conf-split --- 15 Congratulations. Nobody knew that 15 was a prime until today. -- * 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)
dot-qmail problem
Hello, I am using the .qmail-file to forward messages to another email-address. But I want to keep the mails in original Maildir also. My .qmail-file: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./Maildir/ Postmaster receives following error: 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, no mailbox here by that name. vpopmail (#5.1.1) What is wrong? I'm using qmail-1.03 with vpopmail 4.9.8-1 Peter -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net GMX Tipp: Machen Sie Ihr Hobby zu Geld bei unserem Partner 1&1! http://profiseller.de/info/index.php3?ac=OM.PS.PS003K00596T0409a
Re: qmail-send cpu and imapd / Maildir
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 03:22:43AM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: > i installed the .deb binary packages (very nervously) and i think that > has fixed the problem *knocks wood* > > thanks to everyone who responded. one other little question. is there > anywhere else i should check permissions of besides /var/qmail/ ? i had > to change the uids and gids of some system users to get the package to > install, and so i used 'find' to change the permissions to the correct > user(s) in /var/qmail. there isn't anywhere else i need to change, > right? I don't think so but keep an eye on the queue. > has anyone had good luck with these binary packages? > http://innominate.org/~pape/Debian/ (listed on the main qmail page)? > aside from installing dot-forward and fastforward which I don't need > since the system already uses .qmail files and qmail style aliases it > seemed to work pretty well. I haven't tried them -- I use Debian's package when I don't compile it myself :) Jörgen
Re: conf-spawn and FD_SET SUCCESS
Hi Henning / Peter, Thanks a lot for your responses.. I'm really very sorry..about the typo mistake conf-split is 17 >conf-split should be prime for optimal performance. What's wrong with >the default 23? I thought a large conf-split only makes sense if we have more than 20.000 messages *in the queue* . I guess this does not happen even if I send huge volume of mails after applying big concurrency patch. I felt we will decrease the file access time and seek time Was I wrong...??? Do I need to have huge conf-split to send high volumes of mails PL suggest me the optimal parameters that I should use. Cheers, rajesh. - Original Message - From: "Henning Brauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 3:48 PM Subject: Re: conf-spawn and FD_SET SUCCESS > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 03:15:36PM +0530, D Rajesh wrote: > > conf-split --- 15 > > Congratulations. Nobody knew that 15 was a prime until today. > > -- > * 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: conf-spawn and FD_SET SUCCESS
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:27:21PM +0530, D Rajesh wrote: [snip] > >conf-split should be prime for optimal performance. What's wrong with > >the default 23? > > I thought a large conf-split only makes sense if we have more than 20.000 > messages *in the queue* . I guess this does not happen even if I send > huge volume of mails after applying big concurrency patch. 23 is not 'large', and 23 is never too much. > Was I wrong...??? Do I need to have huge conf-split to send high > volumes of mails If you intend to have more than about 25.000 mails in the queue, a conf-split above 23 might be what you want. However, are you: - sending 25.000 mails or - sending 1 mail to 25.000 people? Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html
Re: conf-spawn and FD_SET SUCCESS
Hi Peter, Thanks again for your reply I am actually trying to send 200,000 mails and not 1 mail to 200,000 people... !!! PL suggest me on what parameters should I use ... Cheers, rajesh. - Original Message - From: "Peter van Dijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 4:41 PM Subject: Re: conf-spawn and FD_SET SUCCESS > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:27:21PM +0530, D Rajesh wrote: > [snip] > > >conf-split should be prime for optimal performance. What's wrong with > > >the default 23? > > > > I thought a large conf-split only makes sense if we have more than 20.000 > > messages *in the queue* . I guess this does not happen even if I send > > huge volume of mails after applying big concurrency patch. > > 23 is not 'large', and 23 is never too much. > > > Was I wrong...??? Do I need to have huge conf-split to send high > > volumes of mails > > If you intend to have more than about 25.000 mails in the queue, a > conf-split above 23 might be what you want. > > However, are you: > - sending 25.000 mails > or > - sending 1 mail to 25.000 people? > > Greetz, Peter > -- > Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html >
Re: conf-spawn and FD_SET SUCCESS
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:55:59PM +0530, D Rajesh wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Thanks again for your reply > > I am actually trying to send 200,000 mails and > not 1 mail to 200,000 people... !!! > > PL suggest me on what parameters should I use ... Then set your conf-split to somewhere near 200. A nice prime would be 201. Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html
Re: conf-spawn and FD_SET SUCCESS
Hi Peter, Thanks again for your patience. I will do that. I will send the mails after the config and Hope that atleast my Linux Kernel will not crash ;) I will let you and the list know on the performance I get. Thanks a lot to all... Finally with all your help I am ready for it and waiting for the result keeping my fingers crossed. ;) Cheers, rajesh. - Original Message - From: "Peter van Dijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 5:05 PM Subject: Re: conf-spawn and FD_SET SUCCESS > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:55:59PM +0530, D Rajesh wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > > > Thanks again for your reply > > > > I am actually trying to send 200,000 mails and > > not 1 mail to 200,000 people... !!! > > > > PL suggest me on what parameters should I use ... > > Then set your conf-split to somewhere near 200. A nice prime would be > 201. > > Greetz, Peter > -- > Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html >
Re: Extremely slow after move/IP change
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:46:12AM +0200, J?rgen Persson wrote: > > But shouldn't I be able to use it within the local network? If not, > > that's just insane. > > > > How do I go around qmail trying to resolve 192.168's? I do have > > 192.168.1.15 in /etc/hosts, with a name... > > Are you using tcpserver?? Does it ask for reverse lookups? Shut it off > with -H. Umm.. this is rather inacurate. qmail doesn't use /etc/hosts, fix your dns instead. Or, use tcpserver with '-l0'. Regards, P.Y. Adi Prasaja
looking for files
Hi all. In lifewithqmail, the script for start/stop qmail-pop3d use files: /usr/local/bin/softlimit , /usr/local/bin/multilog Wher can I find those files? I have qmail-1.03, checkpassword-0.90 ucspi-tcp-0.88 but I haven't got softlimit and multilog. thanks --yapedu
(No subject)
Hello friends i have been using qmail-1.03 from almost a year now , and before 2 days i have received a complain from one of my customer that he is not able to send (relay or mail destined to localdomain) from my qmail-smtpd , he is getting an error "connection timeout/reset" etc errors while sending the mail , further if the mail contains more then one line then this is happening ,but if the message is lesser then one line (message body is lesser then one line) then qmail-smtpd is accepting his mails and mails are also getting delivered sucessfully but without any spaces (even if the line contains space char) , now the intresting thing is that the mail client from which this customer is trying to send/receive mails works on TV , and its specifically designed for broadband users , i myself has tested this tool(mail client for tv for broadband network) with other ISP's , other mail servers on internet but its working with all those accept out mail server , so please suggest how to debug/resolve this problem , also if someone can tell me with which RFC's qmail complies with , pop-3 is also not working with this mail tool, so please suggest me the RFC's for SMTP and POP with which qmail complies with. Thanks & Regards Prashant Desai _ Wanna have a date? Log on to http://dating.zeenext.com
Re: looking for files
ftp cr.yp.to/daemontools On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: > use files: /usr/local/bin/softlimit , /usr/local/bin/multilog > Wher can I find those files? I have qmail-1.03, checkpassword-0.90 /* Regards, Jason Kawaja, UF-ECE Sys Admin */
Re: High Volume....
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 09:11:33AM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:37:03AM +0200, Xavier Pegenaute wrote: > > Hi all.. > > > > i can try any prime number for hashing ..? ( is limited?) > > You can try any number, but anything over 1/1000th of your queuesize > is overkill. I thought it would be better to take a number about the square root of the top queue size, which minimizes search length on a classical file system. For 23000 your on the order of 151, which happens to look prime. 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: Extremely slow after move/IP change
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 06:59:00PM +0700, adi wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:46:12AM +0200, Jörgen Persson wrote: > > > How do I go around qmail trying to resolve 192.168's? I do have > > > 192.168.1.15 in /etc/hosts, with a name... > > > > Are you using tcpserver?? Does it ask for reverse lookups? Shut it > > off with -H. > > Umm.. this is rather inacurate. qmail doesn't use /etc/hosts, fix your > dns instead. Or, use tcpserver with '-l0'. > > Regards, > > P.Y. Adi Prasaja > The two options are different but both might be usefull: -H to not look up remote host -l to not look up local host Jörgen -- Don't mix up the senders when you want to call posts inaccurate. I never mentioned /etc/hosts.
Re: High Volume....
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:45:09PM +, Jost Krieger wrote: [snip] > I thought it would be better to take a number about the square root of the > top queue size, which minimizes search length on a classical file system. > > For 23000 your on the order of 151, which happens to look prime. Search length is O((number of messages)/(conf-split)+(conf-split)). Why? If qmail wants to access message 12345, which is, for example, in 5/12345, the OS has to: - linear search to find directory 5/ - inside this dir, linear search for 12345 Finding 5/ will take O(conf-split) steps. Finding 12345 within that dir will take O((number of messages)/(conf-split)) steps. This is all on classical filesystems. On filesystems like ReiserFS that use search trees and other fancy stuff, it all basically comes down to O(lg n), or even O(1) with hashing. Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html
RFC complience
Hello friends i have been using qmail-1.03 from almost a year now , and before 2 days i have received a complain from one of my customer that he is not able to send (relay or mail destined to localdomain) from my qmail-smtpd , he is getting an error "connection timeout/reset" etc errors while sending the mail , further if the mail contains more then one line then this is happening ,but if the message is lesser then one line (message body is lesser then one line) then qmail-smtpd is accepting his mails and mails are also getting delivered sucessfully but without any spaces (even if the line contains space char) , now the intresting thing is that the mail client from which this customer is trying to send/receive mails works on TV , and its specifically designed for broadband users , i myself has tested this tool(mail client for tv for broadband network) with other ISP's , other mail servers on internet but its working with all those accept out mail server , so please suggest how to debug/resolve this problem , also if someone can tell me with which RFC's qmail complies with , pop-3 is also not working with this mail tool, so please suggest me the RFC's for SMTP and POP with which qmail complies with. Thanks & Regards Prashant Desai _ Wanna have a date? Log on to http://dating.zeenext.com _ Wanna have a date? Log on to http://dating.zeenext.com
getting more verbose error messages from qmail
preface: qmail 1.03 with big-concurrency multilog need: link to information (or information) on producing more verbose, or detailed information in qmail logs for error messages like #4.4.1 or #5.1.1 would like to see the email address the error is talking about in the logfile and would like to be able to customize my logs more appreciate all helpful responses --- Michael Geier CDM Sports, Inc. - Systems Administrator email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 314.991.1511 x 6505 pager: 314.318.9414
Re: RFC complience
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:47:30PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > i myself has tested this tool(mail client for tv for broadband network) > with other ISP's , other mail servers on internet but its working with all > those accept out mail server , > so please suggest how to debug/resolve this problem , Look in your logs. If your logs do not have any information pertaining to this problem, use recordio to see what's going over the wire. Vince.
Re: RFC complience
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:47:52PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello friends > > i have been using qmail-1.03 from almost a year now , and before 2 days > > i have received a complain from one of my customer that he is not able to > send (relay or mail destined to localdomain) from my qmail-smtpd , he is > getting an error "connection timeout/reset" etc errors while sending the > mail , further if the mail contains more then one line then this is > happening ,but if the message is lesser then one line (message body is > lesser then one line) then qmail-smtpd is accepting his mails and mails are My principal guess would be that the client suffers from "bare lf". See http://cr.yp.to/docs/smtplf.html /magnus
Re: Extremely slow after move/IP change
Petter Sundlöf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's DNS problems. The resolver listed in /etc/resolv.conf is probably > > unable to resolve the reverse for your 192.168. IPs. > > But shouldn't I be able to use it within the local network? If not, > that's just insane. Sure, it works fine within the local network -- it's just a little slower iff you've configured it to do reverse DNS lookups on remote (and local) hosts and your resolver can't resolve those addresses. > How do I go around qmail trying to resolve 192.168's? I do have > 192.168.1.15 in /etc/hosts, with a name... qmail never, ever, ever, ever looks at /etc/hosts. This is in the various FAQs, documentation, mailing list archives, etc. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Re: (No subject)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i have been using qmail-1.03 from almost a year now , and before 2 days > i have received a complain from one of my customer that he is not able to > send (relay or mail destined to localdomain) from my qmail-smtpd , he is > getting an error "connection timeout/reset" etc errors while sending the > mail , further if the mail contains more then one line then this is > happening ,but if the message is lesser then one line (message body is > lesser then one line) then qmail-smtpd is accepting his mails and mails are > also getting delivered sucessfully but without any spaces (even if the > line contains space char) , His SMTP client is broken. qmail-smtpd doesn't fiddle with the contents of the message at all. And the one-line/several-lines thing sounds like the CRLF issue in part. Use recordio to capture his sessions if you want to be sure. > also if someone can tell me with which RFC's qmail complies with , > pop-3 is also not working with this mail tool, so please suggest me the > RFC's for SMTP and POP with which qmail complies with. qmail aims to be compliant with most of RFC821 and RFC822, which have recently been replaced with RFC2821 and RFC2822. POP3 is governed by RFC1939. Again, I repeat: his client is broken. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Re: dot-qmail problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. vpopmail (#5.1.1) > > What is wrong? You're using vpopmail, which seems to have its own interpretation of .qmail files. Switch to vmailmgr (where you can override the default behaviour using .qmail files without running into this) or figure out how to configure both forwarding and local storing of mail from within vpopmail. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Autoresponder problem.
Guys/Gals, I'm having a small problem with qmail. When ever someone uses a form to submit an email to a email address it works fine. but if they submit it to a auto-responder it doesn't work. It doesn't put the correct field in the FROM address so the responder doesn't know who to respond to. I've tried FrontPage to get it to work and formmailer.pl both didn't do it. If any one has any ideas on how to get this to work please let me know. Thanks! Zak T.
Re: Autoresponder problem.
Zak Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When ever someone uses a form to submit an email to a email address it works > fine. but if they submit it to a auto-responder it doesn't work. It > doesn't put the correct field in the FROM address so the responder doesn't > know who to respond to. Auto-responders and other systems reply to the envelope sender address, not the contents of any "From:" header field. To set the envelope sender address, specify the "-f" option to either qmail-inject or the sendmail wrapper. > I've tried FrontPage to get it to work and formmailer.pl both didn't do it. How on earth is FrontPage relevant? Why is a pseudo-HTML-editor trying to send mail? And unless I'm mistaken, FrontPage doesn't run on Unix, so it can hardly be calling qmail-inject. As for formmailer.pl, it's probably making sendmail-ish assumptions which you should fix. Many "standard" CGI-to-mail gateway scripts contain security holes anyway, and could use a good audit. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Home directory is sticky ??
Hello, I'm trying to get an email server up using qmail (using ./Maildir/) and it seems to work quite well so far but now what is going wrong: Whenever I send an email to an unknown user the log states: defferal: Home_directory_is_sticky:_user_is_editing_his_.qmail_file. This is quite strange to me, the user does not excist so he/she is certainly not editing his/her .qmail file. I would expect the message to be sent to the postmaster (alias) or the default (alias). Can anybody suggest what is going wrong? Thanks, Arno
Re: Home directory is sticky ??
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:44:36PM +0200, Arno Slatius wrote: [snip] > Whenever I send an email to an unknown user the log states: defferal: > Home_directory_is_sticky:_user_is_editing_his_.qmail_file. I think it spells 'deferral'. Next time, be sure to copy verbatim. Sometimes these small differences can be the line between understanding and not understanding your problem. > This is quite strange to me, the user does not excist so he/she is certainly > not editing his/her .qmail file. I would expect the message to be sent to > the postmaster (alias) or the default (alias). > > Can anybody suggest what is going wrong? Perhaps ~alias is sticky? Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html
Re: Home directory is sticky ??
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:44:36PM +0200, Arno Slatius wrote: > I'm trying to get an email server up using qmail (using ./Maildir/) and it > seems to work quite well so far but now what is going wrong: > > Whenever I send an email to an unknown user the log states: defferal: > Home_directory_is_sticky:_user_is_editing_his_.qmail_file. > > This is quite strange to me, the user does not excist so he/she is certainly > not editing his/her .qmail file. I would expect the message to be sent to > the postmaster (alias) or the default (alias). > > Can anybody suggest what is going wrong? Is ~alias sticky? Chris PGP signature
Re: Autoresponder problem.
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 08:39:15AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > How on earth is FrontPage relevant? Why is a pseudo-HTML-editor trying to > send mail? And unless I'm mistaken, FrontPage doesn't run on Unix, so it can > hardly be calling qmail-inject. I totally second your frontpage opinion, but the frontpage server extensions do run on Unix. And they have in fact a possibility to send mail, this needs to be configured somewhere (frontpage.cnf? don't remember it). -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de * * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany * Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
Re: Home directory is sticky ??
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:44:36PM +0200, Arno Slatius wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to get an email server up using qmail (using ./Maildir/) and it > seems to work quite well so far but now what is going wrong: > > Whenever I send an email to an unknown user the log states: defferal: > Home_directory_is_sticky:_user_is_editing_his_.qmail_file. chmod -t $dir_in_question -- * 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)
majordomo
hi all, i have a problem with majordomo..i have succesfuly installed majordomo and iam able to send mails to it frm qmail..the problem is that when i create lists..i have to have corresponding .qmail files in the aliases..here for list test .qmail-test i have |/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper resend -l test test-list so in .qmail-test-list file i have to include the path of the test list file which is /usr/local/majordomo/lists/test how to write the .qmail-test-list file..just want to know how to include the path..as we use | for execution i want to know how to include the path.. please help me balaji __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: dot-qmail problem
At 12:00 03/07/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hello, > >I am using the .qmail-file to forward messages to another >email-address. >But I want to keep the mails in original Maildir also. Which "original Maildir"? You have to specify a username. >My .qmail-file: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >./Maildir/ Assuming your .qmail-file is in ~/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com, this should be (assuming you want user "postmaster" to receive the message): [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./postmaster/Maildir/ BTW, you might want to subscribe to the vpopmail list; try: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- All the best (Adéu-siau), Lou Hevly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.visca.com
LWQ question..cjk
Hi all. i am instaling for the 20th time the LINUX 7.0 +qmail+courier-imap+vmailmgr but dont want to make mistakes again so i followed the maildirmake HOWTO that is in the /doc/ directory but i have a question. In the LWQ is says the following : Note: qmail-local can deliver mail to maildir mailboxes, but it can't create them. Maildir mailboxes should be created with the maildirmake program that comes with qmail. E.g., "maildirmake ~/Maildir". Be sure to run maildirmake as the owner of the maildir, not as root. Your useradd or adduser command might support a "skeleton" directory, e.g. /etc/skel, where you can create a maildir that will be copied for all new users. THAT MEANS THAT FOR EVERY VIRTUAL USER I HAVE TO DO MAILDIRMAKE and what is SKELETON? _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: majordomo
switch to ezmlm ;-) installation on qmail systems is quite straightforward http://www.ezmlm.org/ /k balaji adhimoolam([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.03 08:10:21 +: > hi all, > i have a problem with majordomo..i have > succesfuly installed majordomo and iam able to send > mails to it frm qmail..the problem is that when i > create lists..i have to have corresponding .qmail > files in the aliases..here for list test > .qmail-test i have > |/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper resend -l test test-list > so in .qmail-test-list file i have to include the > path of the test list file which is > /usr/local/majordomo/lists/test > > how to write the .qmail-test-list file..just want to > know how to include the path..as we use | for > execution i want to know how to include the path.. > please help me > balaji > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ -- > Open Minds. Open Sources. Open Future. KR433/KR11-RIPE -- WebMonster Community Founder -- nGENn GmbH Senior Techie http://www.webmonster.de/ -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ -- http://www.ngenn.net/ karsten&rohrbach.de -- alpha&ngenn.net -- alpha&scene.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG 0x2964BF46 2001-03-15 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 BF46 Please do not remove my address from To: and Cc: fields in mailing lists. 10x PGP signature
Re: RFC complience
i think it's the mail tool on the "tv box" which breaks the RFC's and not qmail get a computer and everything is fine At 12:47 03.07.2001 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hello friends > > i have been using qmail-1.03 from almost a year now , and before 2 days > >i have received a complain from one of my customer that he is not able to >send (relay or mail destined to localdomain) from my qmail-smtpd , he is >getting an error "connection timeout/reset" etc errors while sending the >mail , further if the mail contains more then one line then this is >happening ,but if the message is lesser then one line (message body is >lesser then one line) then qmail-smtpd is accepting his mails and mails are > >also getting delivered sucessfully but without any spaces (even if the >line contains space char) , > > now the intresting thing is that the mail client from which this customer >is trying to send/receive mails works on TV , and its specifically designed > >for broadband users , > > i myself has tested this tool(mail client for tv for broadband network) >with other ISP's , other mail servers on internet but its working with all >those accept out mail server , > > so please suggest how to debug/resolve this problem , > > also if someone can tell me with which RFC's qmail complies with , >pop-3 is also not working with this mail tool, so please suggest me the >RFC's for SMTP and POP with which qmail complies with. > > >Thanks & Regards >Prashant Desai > > >_ >Wanna have a date? Log on to http://dating.zeenext.com > >_ >Wanna have a date? Log on to http://dating.zeenext.com -- -- Lukas Beeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Homepage: http://www.projectdream.org --
Re: LWQ question..cjk
Constantine Koulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the LWQ is says the following : > > Note: qmail-local can deliver mail to maildir mailboxes, but it can't > create them. Maildir mailboxes should be created with the maildirmake > program that comes with qmail. E.g., "maildirmake ~/Maildir". Be sure to > run maildirmake as the owner of the maildir, not as root. Your useradd or > adduser command might support a "skeleton" directory, e.g. /etc/skel, > where you can create a maildir that will be copied for all new users. > > THAT MEANS THAT FOR EVERY VIRTUAL USER I HAVE TO DO MAILDIRMAKE Stop shouting. And the answer to that depends on how you're using virtual users -- if you're using a virtual domain manager of some sort (i.e. vmailmgr), this may not be a necessary step. Consult the documentation for your virtual domain manager package for details. > and what is SKELETON? /etc/skel, which is copied for each new system account you create. It's a template for an "empty" home directory for a system user. Note /etc/skel does not apply for virtual mail users, as they are not system users. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Re: LWQ question..cjk
At 6:24 PM +0300 7/3/01, Constantine Koulis wrote: >THAT MEANS THAT FOR EVERY VIRTUAL USER I HAVE TO DO MAILDIRMAKE >and what is SKELETON? Not at all. It means you have to create a Maildir in /etc/skel, which is the "reference" directory for useradd to create new user directories. Then, every time you run a useradd, it'll use a copy of /etc/skel to create their new user directory, with the files set to be owned by the new user. Files and directories like Maildir and public_html (assuming you want your users to have web pages) can be put in /etc/skel to reduce your workload when creating users. Are you the primary administator for that machine? man useradd explains this fairly well. -- John Groseclose [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LWQ question..cjk
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 06:24:42PM +0300, Constantine Koulis wrote: [...] > Note: qmail-local can deliver mail to maildir mailboxes, but it can't create > them. Maildir mailboxes should be created with the maildirmake program that > comes with qmail. E.g., "maildirmake ~/Maildir". Be sure to run maildirmake > as the owner of the maildir, not as root. Your useradd or adduser command > might support a "skeleton" directory, e.g. /etc/skel, where you can create a > maildir that will be copied for all new users. > THAT MEANS THAT FOR EVERY VIRTUAL USER I HAVE TO DO MAILDIRMAKE Please don't yell. For every (virtual or otherwise) user you have to specifiy a delivery method. If you want to deliver the mail to your virtual users locally, yes, you have to do maildirmake for each of them. This can of course easily be automated if you have a database of your virtual users somewhere. If you don't deliver the mail locally, you do have to specify some delivery method, e.g. through .qmail files. > and what is SKELETON? On some systems, when you do a 'useradd' that creates a home directory, the useradd program will copy the files in /etc/skel to the newly created home directory. You don't need this for virtual users. Vince.
Re: LWQ question..cjk
>Hi Constantine, >... Maildir mailboxes should be created with the maildirmake program that >comes with qmail. E.g., "maildirmake ~/Maildir". >... > >THAT MEANS THAT FOR EVERY VIRTUAL USER I HAVE TO DO MAILDIRMAKE >and what is SKELETON? no why. I have installed qmail with real life users using the grabtool that takes the users from the /etc/passwd. Before building the database I have edited the generated file and have through out all users, that mustn't have a mailbox. I have given the right 701 for the maildirectories to grant a good security for it. Regards, Ruprecht
RE: Autoresponder problem.
Actually you can run frontpage on Unix with Apache. I know, we do it now. Works better than the Windows Frontpage servers. Also there seems to be a lot of autoresponders out there. I took one of the original ones and revised it with a few fixes and some additions. I have attached it. --- Brad Dameron Network Account Executive TSCNet Inc. www.tscnet.com Silverdale, WA. 1-888-8TSCNET -Original Message- From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 7:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Autoresponder problem. Zak Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When ever someone uses a form to submit an email to a email address it works > fine. but if they submit it to a auto-responder it doesn't work. It > doesn't put the correct field in the FROM address so the responder doesn't > know who to respond to. Auto-responders and other systems reply to the envelope sender address, not the contents of any "From:" header field. To set the envelope sender address, specify the "-f" option to either qmail-inject or the sendmail wrapper. > I've tried FrontPage to get it to work and formmailer.pl both didn't do it. How on earth is FrontPage relevant? Why is a pseudo-HTML-editor trying to send mail? And unless I'm mistaken, FrontPage doesn't run on Unix, so it can hardly be calling qmail-inject. As for formmailer.pl, it's probably making sendmail-ish assumptions which you should fix. Many "standard" CGI-to-mail gateway scripts contain security holes anyway, and could use a good audit. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ --- autorespond-2.0.0.tar.gz
qmail install
I have installed qmail from source on a RH 7 box. I followed lwq which was very helpful. Here is my problem, qmail starts ok add allows connections on port 25 and accepts mail, however the mail just sits in the queue and is never delivered, the defaultdelivery is ./Maildir/ and I have the .qmail files in the $HOME dir and the Maildir is owned by the user. 1. /var/qmail/queue perm drwxrw-r-- 11 qmailq qmail4096 Jul 1 04:05 . drwxr-xr-x 11 root qmail4096 Jul 3 03:52 .. drwx--2 qmails qmail4096 Jul 1 04:05 bounce drwx-- 25 qmails qmail4096 Jul 1 04:05 info drwx--2 qmailq qmail4096 Jul 3 04:02 intd drwx-- 25 qmails qmail4096 Jul 1 04:05 local drwxr-x---2 qmailq qmail4096 Jul 1 04:05 lock drwxr-x--- 25 qmailq qmail4096 Jul 1 04:05 mess drwx--2 qmailq qmail4096 Jul 3 04:02 pid drwx-- 25 qmails qmail4096 Jul 1 04:05 remote drwxr-x---2 qmailq qmail4096 Jul 3 04:02 todo 2. qmail-lspawn, qmail-local, qmail-remote and splogger don't every start 3. qmailctl stat /service/qmail-send: up (pid 27094) 0 seconds /service/qmail-send/log: up (pid 5827) 9355 seconds /service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 27086) 1 seconds /service/qmail-smtpd/log: up (pid 5830) 9354 seconds messages in queue: 10 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 10 4. Here is the only error I have been able to generate > qmail-start ./Maildir/ alert: cannot start: unable to switch to queue directory I did a search on this error and found a number of times on a few mailing lists, however haven't seen a fix for it so this is what I tried > chmod 755 queue > qmial-start ./Maildir/ new error >alert: cannot start: unable to open mutex I'm continuing my search for the fix and I have read the docs but I may have missed something, just point me in the right direction. If it is RH7 issue what do I have to do resolve it, does RH7 have buggy packages :) Thanks for you help jh
Re: majordomo
>switch to ezmlm ;-) ditto... >installation on qmail systems is quite straightforward >http://www.ezmlm.org/ the mysql support is awesome - very powerful :-) - hogan >/k > >balaji adhimoolam([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.03 08:10:21 +: > > hi all, > > i have a problem with majordomo..
Re: qmail install
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 01:34:18PM -0500, Jared Hoskinson wrote: > /service/qmail-send: up (pid 27094) 0 seconds That's the problem, qmail-send isn't even running. > > qmial-start ./Maildir/ > >alert: cannot start: unable to open mutex Go back to your source dir and type "make setup check" again, this dhould fix it. sounds like you messed up some permissions or so. > does RH7 have buggy packages :) About 2500, yes. -- * 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)
a wee rant (was: 'RE: Autoresponder problem.')
> Actually you can run frontpage on Unix with Apache. I know, we do > it now. >Works better than the Windows Frontpage servers. not to be rude, but don't even go there... for our customers who want frontpage as their primary web-authoring interface (especially in an enterprise environment with document publishing, m$sql access, etc...) i always recommend win nt/2000... they're all made for each other and work best together... we have noticed measurable server performance and maintenance issues in a linux/apache enviroment - directory creation, backups and permissions are the main problems from a systems p o v... cryptic htpasswd/htaccess files are another also, there are still security issues with child webs in linux/apache environments - all such security issues can be resolved in an m$ iis environment (with application of the current corrections, patches, fixes and updates sorry, vent closed back to work - hogan
Re: a wee rant
* John Hogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010703 13:51]: > also, there are still security issues with child webs in linux/apache > environments - all such security issues can be resolved in an m$ iis > environment (with application of the current corrections, patches, > fixes and updates Ahhh... you're talking about the same NT/W2k and MIIS that I know? The *glorious* piece of software made by the sheepshaggers in Redmond? That's good. If you know a reliable source for "current corrections, patches, fixes and updates" that will keep this security nightmare even remotely secure for more than 15s, I know many, many people who will love you. Loads. In the meantime: This is, like, not the right place to discuss this. But you might try the BIND ML (people there know a lot about security and patches, too) or simply the latest Toys'R'Us.
Re: a wee rant (was: 'RE: Autoresponder problem.')
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 01:41:47PM -0500, John Hogan wrote: > > > Actually you can run frontpage on Unix with Apache. I know, we do > > it now. > >Works better than the Windows Frontpage servers. > also, there are still security issues with child webs in linux/apache > environments - all such security issues can be resolved in an m$ iis > environment (with application of the current corrections, patches, fixes > and updates This is faar OT now. There is another patch for Apache out that is much better than the M$ one, so only their binary is used (in BSDi emulation on OpenBSD in our case), but not their buggy apache modifications. After all, this setup _is_ secure. In contrast to NT4/w2k. I suggest we move this discussion off-list now... -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de * * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany * Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
Re: qmail install
Jared Hoskinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have installed qmail from source on a RH 7 box. I followed lwq which was > very helpful. Unfortunately, you appear to not have followed it very well. > Here is my problem, qmail starts ok add allows connections on port 25 and > accepts mail, however the mail just sits in the queue and is never > delivered, [...] A classic symptom of qmail-send not running. > 3. qmailctl stat > > /service/qmail-send: up (pid 27094) 0 seconds So qmail-send isn't running properly (keeps being re-started). > /service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 27086) 1 seconds And qmail-smtpd appears to not be running correctly either. > 4. Here is the only error I have been able to generate > > > qmail-start ./Maildir/ > alert: cannot start: unable to switch to queue directory Permissions or ownership of /, /var, /var/qmail, or /var/qmail/queue appear to be incorrect. > I did a search on this error and found a number of times on a few mailing > lists, however haven't seen a fix for it so this is what I tried > > > chmod 755 queue Why did you try this? The queue should be mode 750, not 755. To try to fix some of this: 1) Stop all qmail services. 2) Do "make setup check" from your qmail source directory again. 3) Go through all your startup scripts, comparing them again to the ones in "Life with qmail", letter by letter. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
qfilter to add disclaimer (examples?)
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? Cheers, -- Jeff Newton
Re: qfilter to add disclaimer (examples?)
* Jeff Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010703 15:46]:
> The list archive indicates many people are using qfilter to add
> an email disclaimer.
I don't think so. The archive indicates many people ask the list how to add
an email disclaimer to outgoing mail. They are generally, as is proper,
shunned or told the reason why this is a Bad Idea(TM). Follow some of those
threads, see what I mean.
> Does anyone have sample scripts they are
> willing to share with me?
Please don't. In the vein of not sharing code that could potentially mangle
email and *definitely* annoy the hell out of a bunch of people, please
don't.
/pg
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Peter Green : Architekton Internet Services, LLC : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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panic("esp: penguin didn't enter cmd phase.");
(Panic message in the kernel.)
Re: qfilter to add disclaimer (examples?)
Jeff Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The list archive indicates many people are using qfilter to add an email > disclaimer. As Peter noted, this is not necessarily the case -- instead, people are always asking how to accomplish various things like this, such as adding standard headers or footers to messages. Note that in this day of MIME and multipart messages, attachments, digitally signed email, encrypted email, and everything else, it is generally a very bad idea to try to append an arbitrary block of text to any message -- even an innocuous footer. For this reason, we ask that you consider _very_carefully_ whether such an action is needed before mangling the mail of your users. Note that there can (infrequently) be good technical reasons for doing so. Adding several kilobytes of incomprehensible legalese is _never_ one of these reasons. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Re: qfilter to add disclaimer (examples?)
> Note that in this day of MIME and multipart messages, attachments, digitally > signed email, encrypted email, and everything else, it is generally a very bad > idea to try to append an arbitrary block of text to any message -- even an > innocuous footer. For this reason, we ask that you consider _very_carefully_ > whether such an action is needed before mangling the mail of your users. Having said all that, it's not that hard to detect a MIME message and append another component. If it's not MIME then a textual appendage usually does the trick. Unmarked HTML email can be a bit tricky, but even this is tractable. So in all there is just three relatively straightforward cases that cover the vast majority of email. Furthermore, most encryption and signage software uses textual markers to tell it where the signed/encrypted section ends so an appendage after that is unlikely to do damage. Even then, if any damage is done it only tends to reduces the security risk by not decrypting, or not recognizing the signature. Finally, all of this is usually done at a single point - the outbound MTA - so it's not too difficult to catch unhandled cases and deal with them on a per-user basis. > Note that there can (infrequently) be good technical reasons for doing so. > Adding several kilobytes of incomprehensible legalese is _never_ one of these > reasons. Well, I think it's always presumptious to define what is appropriate email content when sent from one consenting MTA to another. Regards.
TRANSLATE TO ENGLISH
ABDULKAREEM KASEREKA TÉLÉPHONE: 873 762 357 297 (TÉLÉPHONE DE SATELITE) EFAX: 775 796 0118 CHER MONSIEUR, Je dois d'abord de tout implorer votre indulgence que cette proposition est sérieusement considérée comme pressante et strictement confidentiel. Je suis M. Abdulkareem Kasereka, un frère plus âgé à défunt Rashidi Kasereka (DÉCHIRURE) qui a été massacré dans les circonstances controversées entourant le massacre du défunt désir Kabila de Laurent, ancien président de la République démocratique du Congo. Avant l'incident malheureux, mon frère avait un ans les quelques soldats vers lesquels le défunt président a fait confiance et a eu à des inclinations personnelles. Il a servi davantage comme un fils qu'un soldat et ainsi était très près du président. Ils ont été impliqués dans beaucoup de commerce international dans l'ivoire et le diamant même avant que Kabila est allé bien au président. Actuellement, je suis en possession d'une enveloppe contenant plusieurs documents, que mon frère personnellement m'a remis en fonction avant sa mort. Dans les documents il y a les détails d'information très confidentielle des chambres fortes contenant les sommes énormes d'argent, toutes en les dollars américains. Les quantités d'argent mille d'cUß29,990,000.00 (vingt neuf millions, neuf cents et quatre-vingt-dix dollars des Etats-Unis). Toutes les chambres fortes sont logées à une société de finance/security au Canada. Les membres de ma famille et moi se sont sauvés la République démocratique du Congo sur entendre parler du massacre de mon frère. Nous prenons toujours le refuge dans un autre pays et nous sommes dans le grand besoin des fonds de sorte que nous puissions solder le compte ailleurs et aller en fonction de pair avec nos vies. Je, par cette correspondance, recherche votre aide immédiate en accédant aux fonds et en prenant ultérieurement des agencements avec les fonds pour virer les fonds sur votre compte indiqué. S'il vous plaît s' intéressé, envoyez-moi par fax le suivant, 1) votre information complète et privée de contact numéros de fax personnels c.-à-d. vos de téléphone et. 2) votre adresse complète d'envoi. Plus de détails concernant cette proposition vous seront passés vers sur la confirmation de votre réception de ces correspondance et intention d'association pour réclamer les fonds. Sentez-vous libre pour me donner une invitation mon numéro de téléphone satellite. J'attends votre réponse prompte à cette correspondance. Nous vous prions d'agréer l'expression de nos salutations distinguées, Abdulkareem Kasereka. NOTA: S'il vous plaît l'effort d'envoyer votre réponse en anglais, en tant que ce message vous est envoyé en français d'assurer la confidentialité.
Re: TRANSLATE TO ENGLISH
* ABDULKAREEM KASEREKA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010703 16:24]: > CHER MONSIEUR, Eh. Sexual harrassment. USD 6m waiting for me. C007!!!1 Anyway, darling, your request for steamed frog avec Cous-Cous has been taken. You'll be served a couple of PDF files shortly. You don't mind them coming in 1k slices, do you?
Re: TRANSLATE TO ENGLISH
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Robin S. Socha wrote: > * ABDULKAREEM KASEREKA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010703 16:24]: > > CHER MONSIEUR, > > Eh. Sexual harrassment. USD 6m waiting for me. C007!!!1 Anyway, darling, > your request for steamed frog avec Cous-Cous has been taken. You'll be > served a couple of PDF files shortly. You don't mind them coming in 1k > slices, do you? I take it you didn't understand that e-mail, did you? -Stephen-
Re: TRANSLATE TO ENGLISH
The email is basically a scam I've seen before, translated to French (for
'confidentiality reasons' they say.. *cough*Avoiding US Feds*cough*)
There is another similar email written in english, circulating around the
web as well. Only the names, places, and dollar amounts are different in
that version; the rest of it is pretty much verbatim. Basically, they say
they have $30 Million that they'd like to wire into your account, because
they 'need your help to move the money from Canada to here due to some
unfortunate mishaps'. If you're interested, just fax them :
1) your telephone/fax #
2) your address
If you take the time to respond, they'll ask you for a bank account number
to transfer the money into. Finally, if they get that far with you, they'll
request co-ownership of your account ("if I can trust you enough to wire
$30M USD into your account, you can trust me enough to be co-owner of your
bank account.."
Obviously if they get that far with you, they can visit the nearest bank
branch, and since they've become co-owner of your account, they will proceed
to clean it out completely. Short version: This is a scam.
- J
- Original Message -
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: TRANSLATE TO ENGLISH
>
>
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Robin S. Socha wrote:
>
> > * ABDULKAREEM KASEREKA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010703 16:24]:
> > > CHER MONSIEUR,
> >
> > Eh. Sexual harrassment. USD 6m waiting for me. C007!!!1 Anyway, darling,
> > your request for steamed frog avec Cous-Cous has been taken. You'll be
> > served a couple of PDF files shortly. You don't mind them coming in 1k
> > slices, do you?
>
> I take it you didn't understand that e-mail, did you?
>
> -Stephen-
>
Re: TRANSLATE TO ENGLISH
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 05:28:49PM -0500, Jamyn allegedly wrote: > The email is basically a scam I've seen before, translated to French (for > 'confidentiality reasons' they say.. *cough*Avoiding US Feds*cough*) > > There is another similar email written in english, circulating around the > web as well. Only the names, places, and dollar amounts are different in Heh. And similar to posted letters originating out of, mostly, Nigeria a few years ago. I'm not trying to pick on Nigeria at all, that just happens to be where the ones I saw (and personally received) came from. They also try to get you to send business letterhead with the account details then use that as a means of trying to convince a bank that they are you. If someone is ever conned by such an absurdity it's hard to feel too sorry for them... Regards.
Re: Solaris vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD
Thus spake Henning Brauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > What's is the best OS for run Qmail (and/or Ezmlm)? What advantage and > > disadvantage has each one? I'll need send two millions mails per day and > > I don't know what hard can I buy? :) > Kindly ignoring that this is dicussed a thousand times in the past and you > can find this in the archives the answer is BSD. qmail relies on some BSD > FFS semantics not 100% followed by linux' ext2fs for example. Troll, troll, troll your boat, gently down the stream... ;) The correct answer would have been: "If you need to ask which operating system is best, you are too incompetent to run a server on the Internet". Felix
Re: Substdio Functions
Thus spake Bill Luckett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Can someone point me to some documentation on using the substdio functions? > Is there any? substdio is obsolete and has been replaced with buffer. Felix
Re: TRANSLATE TO ENGLISH
Jamyn wrote:
>
> The email is basically a scam I've seen before, translated to French (for
> 'confidentiality reasons' they say.. *cough*Avoiding US Feds*cough*)
>
> There is another similar email written in english, circulating around the
> web as well. Only the names, places, and dollar amounts are different in
> that version; the rest of it is pretty much verbatim. Basically, they say
> they have $30 Million that they'd like to wire into your account, because
> they 'need your help to move the money from Canada to here due to some
> unfortunate mishaps'. If you're interested, just fax them :
>
> 1) your telephone/fax #
> 2) your address
>
> If you take the time to respond, they'll ask you for a bank account number
> to transfer the money into. Finally, if they get that far with you, they'll
> request co-ownership of your account ("if I can trust you enough to wire
> $30M USD into your account, you can trust me enough to be co-owner of your
> bank account.."
>
> Obviously if they get that far with you, they can visit the nearest bank
> branch, and since they've become co-owner of your account, they will proceed
> to clean it out completely. Short version: This is a scam.
I hope nobody thinks I was taken in by it -- Robin's commentary would
have been funnier if it had any contextual reference to the scam e-mail,
though.
It is sad that there are people who would fall for this, though.
Aesop said it best -- "A fool and his money are soon parted."
-Stephen-
HELP: 4.4.2 error
Hi all. I'm running qmail and ezmlm-idx. Yesterday, the log start to say deferral: Connected_to_200.0.218.99_but_connection_died._(#4.4.2)/ for each address with doamin siderar.com. The problem is that 74% of the subscribers have this kind of addresses. How can I solve this problem ??? thanks --xgnu/yapedu GnuPG Public Key: 0x9F09DB9C http://certserver.pgp.com PGP signature
mail sorting
I remember that I once read something about sorting bulk mail (different mesg in each mail) by domain before sending them out is a bad idea. Can't find it in the archive. Anyone can tell me why? Are we going to saturate the qmail-remote (concurrencyremote) when the a particular remote is busy or not? And is this behavior different between qmail and sendmail? Thanks -Kittiwat
Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD
Thank god we have you around Fenix to drag up a troll's thread that hasn't been discussed in two days and is completely OT. Whatever would this list do without you to jab at the ignorant to make yourself feel so much bigger. Now get the f*ck back on topic. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thus spake Henning Brauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > What's is the best OS for run Qmail (and/or Ezmlm)? What advantage and > > > disadvantage has each one? I'll need send two millions mails per day and > > > I don't know what hard can I buy? :) > > Kindly ignoring that this is dicussed a thousand times in the past and you > > can find this in the archives the answer is BSD. qmail relies on some BSD > > FFS semantics not 100% followed by linux' ext2fs for example. > > Troll, troll, troll your boat, gently down the stream... ;) > > The correct answer would have been: "If you need to ask which operating > system is best, you are too incompetent to run a server on the Internet". > > Felix > >
qmail pop3d startup
-- Hello all: I followed LWQ's directions for setting up qmail-pop3d: it wont start up and i get this in my messages log: Jul 3 10:37:44 mckenna qmail: Starting qmail: done Jul 3 10:37:44 mckenna qmail: qmail-pop3d service not running Jul 3 10:37:44 mckenna qmail: /etc/rc3.d/S80qmail: svok: command not found Jul 3 10:37:44 mckenna rc: Starting qmail: succeeded Ju ==end of log== here are the directions for adding to the qmail startup script: (btw: i have zero shell-scripting experience) 7. Add the following to qmailctl's "start" section: if svok /service/qmail*pop3d ; then svc *u /service/qmail*pop3d else echo qmail*pop3d service not running fi i am stumped... did i spell something wrong? TIA, david
Re: HELP: 4.4.2 error
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:45:32PM -0300, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm running qmail and ezmlm-idx. > Yesterday, the log start to say > > deferral: Connected_to_200.0.218.99_but_connection_died._(#4.4.2)/ > > for each address with doamin siderar.com. The problem is that 74% of > the subscribers have this kind of addresses. How can I solve this > problem ??? > Looks to me from some quick testing that this particular host is broken. Thanks for not munging the address or the domain name -- it allows me to give you some advice that should work. Drop this in smtproutes: siderar.com:smtpsrv2.techint.net Looks to me like their primary MX is broken, and in a way that breaks delivery for qmail -- it accepts the TCP connection, and then drops it. qmail will continue to try to deliver to this host. You may wish to inform postmaster@ of the problem -- the host may just be down temporarily. -- Greg White
Re: qmail pop3d startup
i think my problem is that i did not install daemontools... whoops... so when i try to make daemontools: [root@mckenna daemontools-0.70]# make ./compile tai64nlocal.c tai64nlocal.c: In function `main': tai64nlocal.c:54: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast tai64nlocal.c:55: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:56: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:57: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:58: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:59: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:60: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type make: *** [tai64nlocal.o] Error 1 should i nuke this install? if so how do i? david >-- >Hello all: > >I followed LWQ's directions for setting up qmail-pop3d: > >it wont start up and i get this in my messages log: > > >Jul 3 10:37:44 mckenna qmail: Starting qmail: done >Jul 3 10:37:44 mckenna qmail: qmail-pop3d service not running >Jul 3 10:37:44 mckenna qmail: /etc/rc3.d/S80qmail: svok: command not found >Jul 3 10:37:44 mckenna rc: Starting qmail: succeeded >Ju > > >==end of log== > > >here are the directions for adding to the qmail startup script: > >(btw: i have zero shell-scripting experience) > >7. Add the following to qmailctl's "start" section: >if svok /service/qmail*pop3d ; then >svc *u /service/qmail*pop3d >else >echo qmail*pop3d service not running >fi > >i am stumped... did i spell something wrong? > > >TIA, > >david --
Re: qmail pop3d startup
I got the same thing... it *probibly* a header problem (not sure... looked good to me). just comment out the lines and recompile... its not a critical program. Just edit the tai64nlocal.c and put a double hash '//' (no quotes) on the lines listed and it will compile install. -- Paul Farber Farber Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545 On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, David Dahl wrote: > i think my problem is that i did not install daemontools... > > whoops... > > so when i try to make daemontools: > > [root@mckenna daemontools-0.70]# make > ./compile tai64nlocal.c > tai64nlocal.c: In function `main': > tai64nlocal.c:54: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast > tai64nlocal.c:55: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type > tai64nlocal.c:56: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type > tai64nlocal.c:57: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type > tai64nlocal.c:58: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type > tai64nlocal.c:59: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type > tai64nlocal.c:60: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type > make: *** [tai64nlocal.o] Error 1 > > should i nuke this install? > > if so how do i? > > david > > > >-- > >Hello all: > > > >I followed LWQ's directions for setting up qmail-pop3d: > > > >it wont start up and i get this in my messages log: > > > > > >Jul 3 10:37:44 mckenna qmail: Starting qmail: done > >Jul 3 10:37:44 mckenna qmail: qmail-pop3d service not running > >Jul 3 10:37:44 mckenna qmail: /etc/rc3.d/S80qmail: svok: command not found > >Jul 3 10:37:44 mckenna rc: Starting qmail: succeeded > >Ju > > > > > >==end of log== > > > > > >here are the directions for adding to the qmail startup script: > > > >(btw: i have zero shell-scripting experience) > > > >7. Add the following to qmailctl's "start" section: > >if svok /service/qmail*pop3d ; then > >svc *u /service/qmail*pop3d > >else > >echo qmail*pop3d service not running > >fi > > > >i am stumped... did i spell something wrong? > > > > > >TIA, > > > >david > > >
Re: qmail pop3d startup
Title: Re: qmail pop3d startup i am a moron! i am talking to myself... from the qmail list archives== Mike Jackson wrote: >Hi, > Box is Mandrake 8.0 final, kernel 2.4.3-20mdk. I get the following >error when trying to compile daemontools. It also happened to me on a >Redhat 7.1 box. I think it's something gcc version 2.96 2731 >related. Somebody please help me patch this file so it will compile. Mr. Jackson - this apparently affects Linux 2.4.x kernels. The fix (also applicable to a similar error when compiling the clockspeed package) is to change on line 2 of the problem file to . Hope this helps. -d - -- David Talkington http://www.spotnet.org i think my problem is that i did not install daemontools... whoops... so when i try to make daemontools: [root@mckenna daemontools-0.70]# make ./compile tai64nlocal.c tai64nlocal.c: In function `main': tai64nlocal.c:54: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast tai64nlocal.c:55: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:56: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:57: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:58: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:59: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:60: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type make: *** [tai64nlocal.o] Error 1 should i nuke this install? if so how do i? david -- Hello all: I followed LWQ's directions for setting up qmail-pop3d: it wont start up and i get this in my messages log: Jul 3 10:37:44 mckenna qmail: Starting qmail: done Jul 3 10:37:44 mckenna qmail: qmail-pop3d service not running Jul 3 10:37:44 mckenna qmail: /etc/rc3.d/S80qmail: svok: command not found Jul 3 10:37:44 mckenna rc: Starting qmail: succeeded Ju ==end of log== here are the directions for adding to the qmail startup script: (btw: i have zero shell-scripting experience) 7. Add the following to qmailctl's "start" section: if svok /service/qmail*pop3d ; then svc *u /service/qmail*pop3d else echo qmail*pop3d service not running fi i am stumped... did i spell something wrong? TIA, david -- --
Blank lines in .qmail files
I've been reading through the source code of qmail-local to be sure I'm telling the truth about what it does in the qmail book. I see that if the first line of a .qmail file is blank, qmail-local dies with a temporary failure code. Other blank lines are ignored, but there's a specific test and a failure message "Uh-oh: first line of .qmail file is blank. (#4.2.1)" Anyone know why? It's documented in the man page, but even for DJB code, it seems awfully arbitrary. -- John R. Levine, IECC, POB 727, Trumansburg NY 14886 +1 607 387 6869 [EMAIL PROTECTED], Village Trustee and Sewer Commissioner, http://iecc.com/johnl, Member, Provisional board, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail
weird qmail-popup behaviour?
Uhmm, something I don't get. When I run as root by hand: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.pop3.cdb -v -R -H -l 0 0 110 \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup my.hostname.ext /bin/checkpassword \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1 I get: [arjen@bami arjen]$ telnet my.hostname.ext 110 Trying 172.16.3.1... Connected to my.hostname.ext. Escape character is '^]'. +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> user qwerty +OK pass qwerqwer +OK But when i run exactly the same using supervise in my bootup script: #!/bin/sh #exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.pop3.cdb -v -R -H -l 0 0 110 \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup my.hostname.ext /bin/checkpassword \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1 (softlimit also gives me an error, says it doesn't know the -m option) i get: [arjen@bami arjen]$ telnet my.hostname.ext 110 Trying 172.16.3.1... Connected to my.hostname.ext. Escape character is '^]'. +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> user qwerty +OK pass qwerqwer -ERR authorization failed Connection closed by foreign host. Any ideas? -- Grtz, Arjen.
more startup fun
-- I cannot get qmail to startup properly: shutdown and error: = [root@mckenna bin]# /etc/init.d/qmailctl stop Stopping qmail... qmail-smtpd svc: warning: unable to control /service/qmail-smtpd: file does not exist qmail-send svc: warning: unable to control /service/qmail-send: file does not exist listing of /service: == [root@mckenna /service]# ls -lia total 16 32618 drwxr-xr-t3 root qmail4096 Jul 3 12:57 ./ 32613 drwxr-xr-x5 root qmail4096 Jul 3 12:16 ../ 32619 drwxr-xr-x2 root qmail4096 Jul 3 10:20 log/ 32623 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 32 Jul 3 12:57 qmail-send -> /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send// 32624 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 33 Jul 3 12:57 qmail-smtpd -> /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd// 32620 -rwxr-xr-x1 root qmail 212 Jul 3 10:16 run* [root@mckenna /service]# startup and error: == [root@mckenna bin]# /etc/init.d/qmailctl start Starting qmail qmail-send service not running qmail-smtpd service not running processes: === [root@mckenna bin]# ps -aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 586 0.0 0.1 2248 992 ?S13:06 0:00 xinetd -reuse -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid qmails 879 0.0 0.0 1376 412 pts/0S13:17 0:00 qmail-send root 880 0.0 0.0 1332 356 pts/0S13:17 0:00 qmail-lspawn ./Mailbox qmailr 881 0.0 0.0 1332 356 pts/0S13:17 0:00 qmail-rspawn qmailq 882 0.0 0.0 1324 364 pts/0S13:17 0:00 qmail-clean root 900 0.0 0.1 2768 856 pts/0R13:22 0:00 ps -aux [root@mckenna bin]# do i even need xinietd with tcpserver? do i have permissions problems up in /service? david
qmail-scanner
Reworded re-post after off-list discussions. I guess this is really a netscape issue rather than qmail, but related to the qmail server at least. I'm running qmail-scanner and get into problem areas when the scanner detects a virus in a message and sends the bounce message to the originator and to postmaster. The bounce message has a copy of the original headers etc, which it obviously must have to be informative. Some virii, grab a random piece of another email message and use it as subject and body filler to pad out the message before attaching the virus executable to the message. I have noticed that quite often these random grabs of another message have formatting characters (^M, \223, \233 etc) embedded in them. I, as postmaster, get a LOT of these bounces and because of the formatting characters in the subject line etc (this is my assumption anyway), my mail client (Netscape), falls in a heap and is unable to process the received mail, leaving a mess on the server and in my local folders. I am having a lot of customers suffering from the same issue. Would it be appropriate to modify qmail-scanner to detect formatting in the subject line and if present try to remove it, or discard the subject line all together? Has anyone else encountered this issue? Brett
