Re: weird qmail-popup behaviour?
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 10:01:49AM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote:
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 08:17:13AM +0200, Arjen van Drie wrote:
[snip]
Any ideas?
Hmm, no clue. Tried stracing?
Yeah, but that doesn't tell me much:
[root@ids /root]# strace -p 21534
select(1, [0], NULL, NULL, {1185, 48}) = 1 (in [0], left {1172, 22})
read(0, user qwerty\r\n, 128) = 13
select(2, NULL, [1], NULL, {1200, 0}) = 1 (out [1], left {1200, 0})
write(1, +OK \r\n, 6) = 6
select(1, [0], NULL, NULL, {1200, 0}) = 1 (in [0], left {1196, 93})
read(0, pass qwerqwer\r\n, 128) = 15
fcntl64(1, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
close(2)= 0
fcntl64(1, F_DUPFD, 2) = 2
close(3)= -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
pipe([3, 4])= 0
fork() = 21569
close(3)= 0
write(4, qwerty\0qwerqwer\021534.994315366..., 54) = 54
close(4)= 0
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) ---
wait4(21569, [WIFEXITED(s) WEXITSTATUS(s) == 111], 0, NULL) = 21569
select(2, NULL, [1], NULL, {1200, 0}) = 1 (out [1], left {1200, 0})
write(1, -ERR authorization failed\r\n, 27) = 27
_exit(1)= ?
--
Grtz,
Arjen.
Re: qmail logging
phase wrote: I currently have qmail logging via syslog to maillog. I would like to change the log files to log to the /var/log/qmail dir. This is my rc file. #!/bin/sh exec env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:$PATH \ qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail as u see it uses the splogger.. I've found one example but it uses cyclog which I can't find in the latest daemontools where it should be? It goes something like this.. #!/bin/sh exec env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:$PATH \ qmail-start ./Mailbox /usr/local/bin/accustamp \ | setuser qmaill /usr/local/bin/cyclog /var/log/qmail In short, can I use splogger or any other log tool to direct logging to the /var/log/qmail dir how would the rc file look like? thanxs.. Take a look at http://www.inter7.com/qmailmrtg7/ It has sample startup scripts and of course, mrtg graphs for all the logs. Basicly this is the startup script (from the qmailmrtg7 INSTALL doc) 1. How should I start qmail, smtp and pop to create the right kind of logs? First make sure you have the log directories: mkdir /var/log/qmail mkdir /var/log/pop3 mkdir /var/log/smtp chown qmaill /var/log/qmail chown qmaill /var/log/pop3 chown qmaill /var/log/smtp Then start up qmail env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin \ qmail-start ./Maildir/ | /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill \ /usr/local/bin/multilog t n100 s100 /var/log/qmail env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin \ tcpserver -v -H -R -l$HOSTNAME -c200 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \ $HOSTNAME \ /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21 | \ /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill \ /usr/local/bin/multilog t n100 s100 /var/log/pop3 env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin \ tcpserver -v -H -R -l$HOSTNAME -x /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \ -c200 -u8002 -g8001 0 25 fixcrio /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 | \ /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill \ /usr/local/bin/multilog t n100 s100 /var/log/smtp
Qmail tries to deliver to /home/usr/Maildir
Hello, My saga continues... I'm having a problem where qmail is attempting to deliver mail to/home/usr/Maildir instead of/usr/local/vpopmail/domain/mydomain/user/Maildir.Most of the users are vpopmail users and therefore do not have a /home/usrdirectory, so I get the dreaded 'Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir' on incomingmail to them.After 4 hrs sleep in the last 24 hrs straight trying to get this problemsolved, I'm getting a little frustrated. Any feedback would be appreciated.Here are my files:warabi# cat /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svscan.sh#!/bin/sh -e# startup script from:# http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html#8#ln -s /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3d /service/qmail-pop3dcase "$1" in start) echo -n "Startng djb services: svscan " cd /service env - PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH" svscan echo $! /var/run/svscan.pid echo "." ;; stop) echo -n "Stopping djb services: svscan " kill `cat /var/run/svscan.pid` echo -n "services " svc -dx /service/* echo -n " logging " svc -dx /service/*/log echo "." ;; restart|reload|force-reload) $0 stop $0 start ;; *) echo 'Usage: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svscan (start|stop|restart)' exit 1;esacexit 0warabi# cat /service/qmail-send/run (-/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run)#!/bin/shexec /var/qmail/rcwarabi# cat /service/qmail-smtpd/run (-/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtp/run)#!/bin/shQMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild`NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild`exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /usr/local/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \-u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21warabi# cat /service/qmail-pop3d/run (-/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3d/run)#!/bin/shenv - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -u vpopmail -g vchkpw 0 pop3/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \warabi.nca.or.jp /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw \/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21warabi# cat /var/qmail/rc#!/bin/shexec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \qmail-start "`cat /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery`" 21warabi# cat /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery./Maildir/warabi# cat /var/qmail/control/defaultdomainwarabi.nca.or.jpwarabi# cat /usr/local/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""warabi# cat /var/qmail/users/assign+nca.or.jp-:nca.or.jp:1227:65535:/usr/local/vpopmail/domains/nca.or.jp:-:: .All files/dirs under /usr/local/vpopmail are chown vpopmail.vchkpw.All subdirs are chmod 755. According to http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html, "3.6.2. Wildcard assignmentA wildcard assignment looks like: +prefix:user:uid:gid:directory:dash:prepend: What this means is that messages received for addresses of the form prefixrest will run as user user, with the specified uid and gid, and the file directory/.qmaildashprependrest will specify how the messages are to be delivered." I have the following file:warabi# cat /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/nca.or.jp/.qmail-default| /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/nca.or.jp/1/04awano Which I assume means that bounced mail goes to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Is this correct?I still don't see why qmail is trying to put the mail in /home/usr/Maildir instead of under the vpopmail/domains directory... Can anyone see what I am missing here?Thanks for any help.Shawn
Re: weird qmail-popup behaviour?
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 08:48:11AM +0200, Arjen van Drie wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 10:01:49AM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 08:17:13AM +0200, Arjen van Drie wrote: [snip] Any ideas? Hmm, no clue. Tried stracing? Yeah, but that doesn't tell me much: [root@ids /root]# strace -p 21534 Try adding -f, so we see what the child does. Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html
SAFECAT ERROR
Hi all, I've had some problems lately with safecat program. Sometimes some users of my qmail server ask me why your messages aren't getting in them directories. They send messages to themselves and sometimes this messages aren't delivered in the directory. I have an alias .qmail-default with the following expression |/bin/delivery. This delivery program is a perl program. There are a procedure like this into this program: system(/usr/local/bin/safecat /home/$domain/$login/Maildir/tmp /home/$domain/$login/Maildir/new); I checked the variables $domain and $login and they are right, but sometimes happen some error that I can't see and the message isn't delivered. Can someone help me about it? Best regards, Cleiton
Re: weird qmail-popup behaviour?
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 01:27:05PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote:
Try adding -f, so we see what the child does.
Ok. First the one by hand, i only left the relevant strace output
[pid 13002] munmap(0x40017000, 4096)= 0
[pid 13002] setgroups32(1, [513]) = 0
[pid 13002] setgid32(513) = 0
[pid 13002] setuid32(513) = 0
[pid 13002] chdir(/home/qwerty) = 0
[pid 13002] execve(/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d, [/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d,
Maildir], [/* 31 vars */]) = 0
[pid 13002] uname({sys=Linux, node=ids.trivial.3va.net, ...}) = 0
[pid 13002] brk(0) = 0x804e210
[pid 13002] old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
0) = 0x40016000
[pid 13002] open(/etc/ld.so.preload, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
[pid 13002] open(/etc/ld.so.cache, O_RDONLY) = 3
[pid 13002] fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=19076, ...}) = 0
[pid 13002] old_mmap(NULL, 19076, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40017000
[pid 13002] close(3)= 0
[pid 13002] open(/lib/libc.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
[pid 13002] read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0H\277\1..., 1024)
= 1024
and all goes well. Then started by svscan:
[pid 13202] munmap(0x40017000, 4096)= 0
[pid 13202] setgroups32(1, [513]) = 0
[pid 13202] setgid32(513) = 0
[pid 13202] setuid32(513) = 0
[pid 13202] chdir(/home/qwerty) = 0
[pid 13202] execve(/usr/local/bin/ , [ ], [/* 18 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
[pid 13202] execve(/usr/sbin/ , [ ], [/* 18 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
[pid 13202] execve(/usr/bin/ , [ ], [/* 18 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
[pid 13202] execve(/bin/ , [ ], [/* 18 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
[pid 13202] _exit(111) = ?
... wait4 resumed [WIFEXITED(s) WEXITSTATUS(s) == 111], 0, NULL) = 13202
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) ---
select(2, NULL, [1], NULL, {1200, 0}) = 1 (out [1], left {1200, 0})
write(1, -ERR authorization failed\r\n, 27) = 27
_exit(1)= ?
Although /var/qmail/bin is in $PATH.
--
Grtz,
Arjen.
Re: elm and pop
To clarify: I have tried to send an email via elq (ie elm) and the error I get is: mailer returned error status 1 When I run fetchmail, I get the following errors: SMTP connect to localhost failed SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.xxx.xxx.xx fetchmail can see the pop server and the server recognises my username and password. I used fetchmailconf to setup my .fetchmailrc file and ran the test, getting the above errors. I am running qmail with localhost as the server. DNS is setup as I can run dig on any machine and can run Netscape. Am running Debian 2.2r3 and can't find the getmail package for it in order to run getmail instead of fetchmail. Incidentally, when I run netscape mail, I get no problems. (obviously it works fine as a mail client) Cheers Rob...
Re: what's wrong with my system
Sobari Tanuwijaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Post your start script for qmail, along with an ls -l of the file it's in. If something's wrong with the script, you won't even get as far as exec'ing qmail-start. After reading your mail I check again the log vor qmail-send, and because it is still empty and when I tried to check its status it stated up with 0 seconds while the other with thousands of seconds, then I assume it is not running, following your direction I check the /var/qmail/rc, I found the problem in there, there is a type in there where it should be #!/bin/sh it is written #!bin/sh Excellent. The problem now is I cannot get the message from the server, I use vpopmail using vchkpw as a replacement for checkpassword I just change the checkpassword with /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw, it can validate the username and password, but it gives me nothing, although I saw several mail in my mailbox, but it cannot be retrieved. I presume your POP3 start script invokes tcpserver, which invokes qmail-popup, which calls vchkpw, followed by qmail-pop3d? If the messages are ending up in the proper virtual users' maildirs, then check your argument to qmail-pop3d. If that's not the problem, then ask on the vpopmail list. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Re: qmail logging
phase [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I currently have qmail logging via syslog to maillog. I would like to change the log files to log to the /var/log/qmail dir. [...] I've found one example but it uses cyclog which I can't find in the latest daemontools where it should be? cyclog was replaced with multilog in the latest daemontools. See the documentation in daemontools for information about multilog. For example configurations using multilog to log to /var/log/dir/, Life with qmail is a very good starting point. See http://lifewithqmail.org/ Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Re: weird qmail-popup behaviour?
Arjen van Drie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [pid 13202] chdir(/home/qwerty) = 0 [pid 13202] execve(/usr/local/bin/ , [ ], [/* 18 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 13202] execve(/usr/sbin/ , [ ], [/* 18 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 13202] execve(/usr/bin/ , [ ], [/* 18 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 13202] execve(/bin/ , [ ], [/* 18 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 13202] _exit(111) = ? It's searching the path, trying to exec a program named -- a single space. That can't be correct. What's in the script that starts this process again? Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Re: Qmail tries to deliver to /home/usr/Maildir
lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the following file: warabi# cat /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/nca.or.jp/.qmail-default | /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/nca.or.jp/1/04awano Which I assume means that bounced mail goes to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Is this correct? I still don't see why qmail is trying to put the mail in /home/usr/Maildir instead of under the vpopmail/domains directory... Repeating myself: your virtualdomains configuration. Post the contents of virtualdomains. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Re: SAFECAT ERROR
Cleiton Luiz Siqueira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had some problems lately with safecat program. Nope. Sometimes some users of my qmail server ask me why your messages aren't getting in them directories. They send messages to themselves and sometimes this messages aren't delivered in the directory. I have an alias .qmail-default with the following expression |/bin/delivery. This delivery program is a perl program. It's broken. If message delivery fails, temporarily or permanently, this program _must_ return that information to qmail-send (through qmail-local) by its exit code, or you can lose mail. Apparently this is what's happening to you. There are a procedure like this into this program: system(/usr/local/bin/safecat /home/$domain/$login/Maildir/tmp /home/$domain/$login/Maildir/new); I checked the variables $domain and $login and they are right, but sometimes happen some error that I can't see and the message isn't delivered. Error that you can't see? Your program is buggy. What are you trying to accomplish? It looks like a homebrewed virtual domain manager. Use vmailmgr instead. Can someone help me about it? You'll have to fix your Perl program, or switch to using something less buggy. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Error deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/
I have a problem with qmail, and make me cannot send or receive mail, and it show error messages like this : delivery 1: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ Can anyone help me to fix it out Thanks Regards, Eddy
HELP with Aliases and Forwarding
We have just moved to a Windows2000 server, and I set up all of our aliases and then when I set up the forwards for the aliases, the aliases names moved out of the aliases page. Our forwards are not working, and the only POP account is postmaster. I do not have access to the administrative functions of qmail, other than adding a Pop account, aliase forward and creating a mailing list. The mailing list does not work either. What can I ask our ISP to check? As I can not see the error logs. Any help would be great, thanks
Re: HELP with Aliases and Forwarding
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 07:41:05AM -0700, Sherry Work wrote: We have just moved to a Windows2000 server, and I set up all of our aliases and then when I set up the forwards for the aliases, the aliases names moved out of the aliases page. Uhhh... say what? You're going to need to come up with something a lot more coherent and containing a lot more information if you want to get help. Chris
Re: HELP with Aliases and Forwarding
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 07:41:05 -0700 Sherry Work [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have just moved to a Windows2000 server, and I set up all of our aliases and then when I set up the forwards for the aliases, the aliases names moved out of the aliases page. I honestly did not know qmail worked on Windows 2000? Or am I missing something? Our forwards are not working, and the only POP account is postmaster. I do not have access to the administrative functions of qmail, other than adding a Pop account, aliase forward and creating a mailing list. The mailing list does not work either. What can I ask our ISP to check? As I can not see the error logs. Well, if it is indeed on Windows 2000 my guess is that you're using Exchange (God forbid...) and then we can not help you. This list is for Qmail, not Exchange. Try a mailing list or newgroup for Exchange. Any help would be great, thanks And please, please, please do NOT send HTML mail. It's a godawful abomination. Lars
Hotmail, CNAME lookup failure, zone transfer...WTF?
Hi, There is a mail in my queue, trying to get out to hotmail.com. This is what I find in my logs, every time qmail tries: @40003b4478201cef303c starting delivery 3170: msg 277314 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] @40003b44783418edd024 delivery 3170: deferral: CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._(#4.4.3)/ Snort log: sensei snort: IDS212 - MISC - DNS Zone Transfer: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:3211 - yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy:53 Dump of the offending packet: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:3211 - yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy:53 TCP TTL:64 TOS:0x0 ID:16519 IpLen:20 DgmLen:71 DF ***AP*** Seq: 0xB3A4D61B Ack: 0x208246C Win: 0x7D78 TcpLen: 20 0x: 00 E0 18 90 75 23 00 06 29 EE 61 2E 08 00 45 00 u#..).a...E. 0x0010: 00 47 40 87 40 00 40 06 B6 9B C3 74 DE 53 C3 74 .G@.@.@t.S.t 0x0020: DE 51 0C 8B 00 35 B3 A4 D6 1B 02 08 24 6C 50 18 .Q...5..$lP. 0x0030: 7D 78 6E 93 00 00 00 1D 01 85 01 00 00 01 00 00 }xn. 0x0040: 00 00 00 00 07 68 6F 74 6D 61 69 6C 03 63 6F 6D .hotmail.com 0x0050: 00 00 FF 00 01 . xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the mail server, qmail-1.03, Linux. yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy is the DNS server, NT. Why does qmail try to download the zone file for hotmail.com from my DNS server? I don't get it :( Thanks, Marek Gutkowski
Re: elm and pop
cyberruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I run fetchmail, I get the following errors: SMTP connect to localhost failed SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.xxx.xxx.xx fetchmail can see the pop server and the server recognises my username and password. I used fetchmailconf to setup my .fetchmailrc file and ran the test, getting the above errors. It failed to connect to the SMTP server on localhost, just like the error says. Is qmail-smtpd running and accepting connections from localhost? Incidentally, when I run netscape mail, I get no problems. (obviously it works fine as a mail client) If it sends mail fine too, then it's delivering mail to a different host, port, or using /usr/sbin/sendmail injection. By the way, doing delivery by SMTP re-injection is a broken design, and is responsible for most of fetchmail's problems. Configure fetchmail to call an MDA directly, or switch to getmail. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Re: HELP with Aliases and Forwarding
Lars Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 07:41:05 -0700 Sherry Work [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have just moved to a Windows2000 server, and I set up all of our aliases and then when I set up the forwards for the aliases, the aliases names moved out of the aliases page. I honestly did not know qmail worked on Windows 2000? Or am I missing something? I think the user has access to a web page for adminning his own virtualdomain, hosted on his ISP's qmail box. This might be a vmailmgr setup with oMail-admin, or custom CGIs using vmailmgr's daemon, or the PHP interface, etc. Or it could be vpopmail. In any case, this is something you have to ask your ISP, not us. If the ISP can't figure out their problems with qmail, they can post relevant details here, or hire a qmail consultant. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Re: Hotmail, CNAME lookup failure, zone transfer...WTF?
Marek Gutkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a mail in my queue, trying to get out to hotmail.com. This is what I find in my logs, every time qmail tries: @40003b4478201cef303c starting delivery 3170: msg 277314 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] @40003b44783418edd024 delivery 3170: deferral: CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._(#4.4.3)/ Perfectly normal behaviour, if Hotmail's DNS is broken, or your resolver is broken. Snort log: sensei snort: IDS212 - MISC - DNS Zone Transfer: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:3211 - yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy:53 [...] Why does qmail try to download the zone file for hotmail.com from my DNS server? It doesn't. snort is lying -- don't worry, it lies about a lot of other things, too. Take everything snort says with a grain of salt. Please do not followup with any further snort discussion; it's offtopic for this list. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
qmail-remote
Hey all, I have a slight problem. I got some calls that the mail server was taking 5 hours to send email, so I checked out the mail server. I had 3 connections to some mail server (all the same) and all the other qmail-remotes were enclosed in brackets [qmail-remote]. Not knowing what this was, I did a 'killall -HUP qmail-remote'. The 'unclogged' the remote process and it started delivering the messages that were on hold. Can anyone tell me what might have cause this and do I need to worry about it happening again? David
popping and qmail
Do I need to install a popper inorder to pop mail from a windows machine on/outside the local network? If so is qpopper a good one? Thanks. Chris
Re: weird qmail-popup behaviour?
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 08:08:25AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: Arjen van Drie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [pid 13202] chdir(/home/qwerty) = 0 [pid 13202] execve(/usr/local/bin/ , [ ], [/* 18 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 13202] execve(/usr/sbin/ , [ ], [/* 18 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 13202] execve(/usr/bin/ , [ ], [/* 18 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 13202] execve(/bin/ , [ ], [/* 18 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 13202] _exit(111) = ? It's searching the path, trying to exec a program named -- a single space. That can't be correct. What's in the script that starts this process again? This is the 'run' script started by supervise: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.pop3.cdb -v -R -H -l 0 0 110 \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup ids.trivial.3va.net /bin/checkpassword \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21 -- Grtz, Arjen.
Re: Hotmail, CNAME lookup failure, zone transfer...WTF?
- Original Message - From: Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perfectly normal behaviour, if Hotmail's DNS is broken, or your resolver is broken. I agree. Hotmail's DNS is broken. That's not the point. It doesn't. snort is lying -- don't worry, it lies about a lot of other things, too. Take everything snort says with a grain of salt. Please do not followup with any further snort discussion; it's offtopic for this list. First - thanks for a quick reply. Snort is just a tool, and my previous post was about qmail, not snort :) Snort is not lying. You think it took the packet dump out of the blue sky? I also ran tcpdump and it says the same. Is tcpdump also lying? Mail server really tries to connect to the DNS with tcp dport 53. It does. It does. I'm sure. Any ideas? Marek
Re: Error deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 06:30:40PM +0700, eddy wrote: I have a problem with qmail, and make me cannot send or receive mail, and it show error messages like this : delivery 1: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ Can anyone help me to fix it out Not of you don't send more info... Now I can only say that you don't have a maildir in your homedirectory... How do you start qmail-send (what is in /var/qmail/rc)? -- Grtz, Arjen.
Re: Error deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/
I am having the same problem... (I send an email to the list earlier with the contents of all files I thought might be relevant, but I haven't seen that mail come up. Can anyone confirm that it was sent to the list? Perhaps I made a mistake in sending...) Shawn
Re: popping and qmail
Chris Woods writes: Do I need to install a popper inorder to pop mail from a windows machine on/outside the local network? If so is qpopper a good one? qmail already has its own popper which only support maildir. Check Life with qmail http://www.lifewithqmail.org about how to install it. Regards, Ahmad Ridha
Re: Error deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/
check for a Maildir in your users directory. If the Maildir is there make sure that the user owns the directory. -- Thank you, Dale
Re: Error deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/
Eddy, qmail delivers mail as the user it is delivering to (assuming a standard install). So the recipient of the mail has to A.) have permissions to get to and write into the Maildir, and B.) The Maildir and its subdirectories need to exist. You should be able to use ls -l to determine if the ownership and permissions are correct on the homedirectory and Maildir in question. If the Maildir doesn't exist, create it. If you can't figure it out, we will need more information, like logfiles, an ls -lR of the user's home directory, etc. Jamin On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, eddy wrote: I have a problem with qmail, and make me cannot send or receive mail, and it show error messages like this : delivery 1: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ Can anyone help me to fix it out Thanks Regards, Eddy
Re: Hotmail, CNAME lookup failure, zone transfer...WTF?
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 05:25:04PM +0200, Marek Gutkowski wrote: - Original Message - From: Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perfectly normal behaviour, if Hotmail's DNS is broken, or your resolver is broken. I agree. Hotmail's DNS is broken. That's not the point. It doesn't. snort is lying -- don't worry, it lies about a lot of other things, too. Take everything snort says with a grain of salt. Please do not followup with any further snort discussion; it's offtopic for this list. First - thanks for a quick reply. Snort is just a tool, and my previous post was about qmail, not snort :) Snort is not lying. You think it took the packet dump out of the blue sky? I also ran tcpdump and it says the same. Is tcpdump also lying? Snort is lying. tcpdump is being misunderstood* by someone who doesn't understand the DNS protocol -- and who is being rude to someone who is trying to help as a result. * Unless tcpdump is actually saying 'Zone transfer', or showing you AXFR requests, or something like that. In which case it's lying too. ;) qmail _does not do AXFR_, nor can it cause an AXFR. Mail server really tries to connect to the DNS with tcp dport 53. It does. It does. I'm sure. I'm sure it does too. Connections on port 53/TCP _do not_ have to be zone transfer requests. RTFM, RFC 1035. Sounds like your qmail might require the big-dns patch.** You should be able to find it on the qmail home page. ** Odd, though, as my queries for hotmail MX records show 504 bytes, inside the limit for UDPThey seem to have intentionally stayed inside this limit, on purpose. Could we see the results of (both or either): dig mx hotmail.com @ns1.hotmail.com dnsq mx hotmail.com ns1.hotmail.com Specifically, I'd like to see the byte count. -- Greg White
Re: stopping delivery to remote domain
We had the same problem with this domain, but of course it was 'remote' mail that was hanging, not local. Our solution was to add this domain to our local DNS so it would be delivered locally and then dumped. We have also blocked smtp connections from the many IPs that these hosts resolved to. On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Charles Cazabon wrote: Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to stop local mail from being delivered to a remote domain. I have a domain that keeps filling up my que and never delivers. the domain is always listed as opt??.edirectnetworks.net For some reason they never seem to time out and drop out of the que. They just sit there... and finally will build up to the point that I will have to reboot the system to clear out the cue enough to start the delivery of my local mail in a timely manner. Messages sitting in the queue do not stop local deliveries from happening. Even in-progress remote deliveries which are stalled do not stop local deliveries from happening -- concurrency is maintained separately for local and remote deliveries. You're micromanaging the queue. Have you actually seen local mail delivery delayed by these stuck messages? If so, post the log of qmail-send during the time it was happening. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ --- Thank you. tom blauvelt Thomas Blauvelt NorthNet Internet Services, Inc. North Country Reference Research Resources Council [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7 Commerce Lane Canton NY 13617 USA (315) 386-4569
Re: Hotmail, CNAME lookup failure, zone transfer...WTF?
Marek Gutkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't. snort is lying -- don't worry, it lies about a lot of other things, too. Take everything snort says with a grain of salt. First - thanks for a quick reply. Snort is just a tool, and my previous post was about qmail, not snort :) Snort is not lying. You think it took the packet dump out of the blue sky? I also ran tcpdump and it says the same. Is tcpdump also lying? No. There's no zone transfer happening. The worst case is Hotmail went over the 512-byte UDP DNS response limit, and the resolver is therefore trying to do a TCP query instead. This is not a zone transfer, but snort reports it as such. Mail server really tries to connect to the DNS with tcp dport 53. It does. It does. I'm sure. Hotmail's probably over the 512 byte limit, then. That doesn't make it a zone transfer. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Re: qmail-remote
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:05:40AM -0400, David Gartner allegedly wrote: Hey all, I have a slight problem. I got some calls that the mail server was taking 5 hours to send email, so I checked out the mail server. I had 3 connections to some mail server (all the same) and all the other qmail-remotes were enclosed in brackets [qmail-remote]. Not knowing what this was, I did a 'killall -HUP qmail-remote'. The 'unclogged' the remote process and it started delivering the messages that were on hold. Can anyone tell me what might have cause this Not now that you've destroyed the evidence. When something unexpected happens to a system and you want to find out what's going on, the best thing to do is as little as possible. Avoid anything that might perturb the observations. Killing a process loses all the state about the process, what files it had open, what system call it might have been sitting on, where in the code it was, what it was connected to, what mail it was handling, that sort of thing. Also, if you're referring to OS related information (ie ps output) it helps to know the OS version, the h/w, that sort of thing. Regards.
Re: Hotmail, CNAME lookup failure, zone transfer...WTF?
No, I show them well under the 512 limit.. Even then if the 'bigtodo-dns' I believe it's called is installed then what does it matter??? I am correct right? --JT Network Administrator http://www.webcommanders.com - Original Message - From: Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 9:19 AM Subject: Re: Hotmail, CNAME lookup failure, zone transfer...WTF? Marek Gutkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't. snort is lying -- don't worry, it lies about a lot of other things, too. Take everything snort says with a grain of salt. First - thanks for a quick reply. Snort is just a tool, and my previous post was about qmail, not snort :) Snort is not lying. You think it took the packet dump out of the blue sky? I also ran tcpdump and it says the same. Is tcpdump also lying? No. There's no zone transfer happening. The worst case is Hotmail went over the 512-byte UDP DNS response limit, and the resolver is therefore trying to do a TCP query instead. This is not a zone transfer, but snort reports it as such. Mail server really tries to connect to the DNS with tcp dport 53. It does. It does. I'm sure. Hotmail's probably over the 512 byte limit, then. That doesn't make it a zone transfer. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Re: bounce/457 processing
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 05:35:26PM +0200, Daniel BODEA wrote: One thing I haven't been able to find in the INTERNALS file (and without studying yet the code in detail) is how qmail-send processes the /queue/bounce files. Does it group several addresses with permanent errors into one single message? If it does, how does it cope with the VERH system? Normaly, I shouldn't have to parse the whole bounce message to for the list of invalid addresses. Assume message 457 is a VERP message. Failed deliveries for message 457 will be returned to verpprefix-@wherever, as opposed to normal VERP which goes to verpprefix-bouncing=com@wherever. This bounce will be in QSBMF format, see http://cr.yp.to/proto/qsbmf.txt.
Re: Hotmail, CNAME lookup failure, zone transfer...WTF?
James Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't. snort is lying -- don't worry, it lies about a lot of other things, too. Take everything snort says with a grain of salt. Snort is just a tool, and my previous post was about qmail, not snort :) Snort is not lying. You think it took the packet dump out of the blue sky? I also ran tcpdump and it says the same. Is tcpdump also lying? No. There's no zone transfer happening. The worst case is Hotmail went over the 512-byte UDP DNS response limit, and the resolver is therefore trying to do a TCP query instead. This is not a zone transfer, but snort reports it as such. No, I show them well under the 512 limit.. Even then if the 'bigtodo-dns' I believe it's called is installed then what does it matter??? bigdns is the patch you're talking about. It matters in certain circumstances. Perhaps your local dns resolver is broken, or it forwards to another broken resolver. Perhaps Hotmail's load-balanced and distributed DNS is giving slightly different answers there than here. Regardless, you were very rude above. What we're telling you is the truth; please accept it, don't abuse those supplying the answers. I am correct right? Sadly, no. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Re: Hotmail, CNAME lookup failure, zone transfer...WTF?
- Original Message - From: Greg White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 6:06 PM Subject: Re: Hotmail, CNAME lookup failure, zone transfer...WTF? Snort is lying. tcpdump is being misunderstood* by someone who doesn't understand the DNS protocol -- and who is being rude to someone who is trying to help as a result. It was not my intention to be rude. If I were - I am sorry. I'm sure it does too. Connections on port 53/TCP _do not_ have to be zone transfer requests. RTFM, RFC 1035. Sounds like your qmail might require the big-dns patch.** You should be able to find it on the qmail home page. This is a big lesson for me. You are 100% right. I thought DNS queries always go as UDP packets :) ** Odd, though, as my queries for hotmail MX records show 504 bytes, inside the limit for UDPThey seem to have intentionally stayed inside this limit, on purpose. Could we see the results of (both or either): dig mx hotmail.com @ns1.hotmail.com dnsq mx hotmail.com ns1.hotmail.com This is a different story. Both dig and dnsq show 504 bytes. I attach a full output. Thanks, Marek ; DiG 8.3 mx hotmail.com @ns1.hotmail.com ; (1 server found) ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 12, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 8 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; hotmail.com, type = MX, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: hotmail.com.1H IN MX10 mc3.law13.hotmail.com. hotmail.com.1H IN MX10 mc4.law13.hotmail.com. hotmail.com.1H IN MX10 mc5.law13.hotmail.com. hotmail.com.1H IN MX10 mc6.law13.hotmail.com. hotmail.com.1H IN MX10 mc4.law5.hotmail.com. hotmail.com.1H IN MX10 mc5.law5.hotmail.com. hotmail.com.1H IN MX10 mc6.law5.hotmail.com. hotmail.com.1H IN MX10 mc7.law5.hotmail.com. hotmail.com.1H IN MX10 mc1.law5.hotmail.com. hotmail.com.1H IN MX10 mc2.law5.hotmail.com. hotmail.com.1H IN MX10 mc1.law13.hotmail.com. hotmail.com.1H IN MX10 mc2.law13.hotmail.com. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: hotmail.com.1H IN NSns1.hotmail.com. hotmail.com.1H IN NSns2.hotmail.com. hotmail.com.1H IN NSns3.hotmail.com. hotmail.com.1H IN NSns4.hotmail.com. hotmail.com.1H IN NSns1.jsnet.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: mc3.law13.hotmail.com. 6m40s IN A 64.4.49.135 mc4.law13.hotmail.com. 6m40s IN A 64.4.49.199 mc5.law13.hotmail.com. 6m40s IN A 64.4.50.7 mc6.law13.hotmail.com. 6m40s IN A 64.4.50.71 mc4.law5.hotmail.com. 6m40s IN A 64.4.56.135 mc5.law5.hotmail.com. 6m40s IN A 64.4.56.199 mc6.law5.hotmail.com. 6m40s IN A 64.4.55.7 mc7.law5.hotmail.com. 6m40s IN A 64.4.42.7 ;; Total query time: 822 msec ;; FROM: blackhole to SERVER: ns1.hotmail.com 216.200.206.140 ;; WHEN: Thu Jul 5 18:50:28 2001 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 29 rcvd: 504 15 hotmail.com: 504 bytes, 1+12+5+8 records, response, authoritative, noerror query: 15 hotmail.com answer: hotmail.com 3600 MX 10 mc3.law13.hotmail.com answer: hotmail.com 3600 MX 10 mc4.law13.hotmail.com answer: hotmail.com 3600 MX 10 mc5.law13.hotmail.com answer: hotmail.com 3600 MX 10 mc6.law13.hotmail.com answer: hotmail.com 3600 MX 10 mc4.law5.hotmail.com answer: hotmail.com 3600 MX 10 mc5.law5.hotmail.com answer: hotmail.com 3600 MX 10 mc6.law5.hotmail.com answer: hotmail.com 3600 MX 10 mc7.law5.hotmail.com answer: hotmail.com 3600 MX 10 mc1.law5.hotmail.com answer: hotmail.com 3600 MX 10 mc2.law5.hotmail.com answer: hotmail.com 3600 MX 10 mc1.law13.hotmail.com answer: hotmail.com 3600 MX 10 mc2.law13.hotmail.com authority: hotmail.com 3600 NS ns1.hotmail.com authority: hotmail.com 3600 NS ns2.hotmail.com authority: hotmail.com 3600 NS ns3.hotmail.com authority: hotmail.com 3600 NS ns4.hotmail.com authority: hotmail.com 3600 NS ns1.jsnet.com additional: mc3.law13.hotmail.com 400 A 64.4.49.135 additional: mc4.law13.hotmail.com 400 A 64.4.49.199 additional: mc5.law13.hotmail.com 400 A 64.4.50.7 additional: mc6.law13.hotmail.com 400 A 64.4.50.71 additional: mc4.law5.hotmail.com 400 A 64.4.56.135 additional: mc5.law5.hotmail.com 400 A 64.4.56.199 additional: mc6.law5.hotmail.com 400 A 64.4.55.7 additional: mc7.law5.hotmail.com 400 A 64.4.42.7
Re: qmail-remote
Me again... Now we're getting this in the log files: @40003b44845219ec0e14 status: local 0/10 remote 3/20 exitasap @40003b44845219ec73a4 delivery 760867: deferral: qmail-remote_crashed./ @40003b44845219ece8d4 status: local 0/10 remote 2/20 exitasap @40003b44845219ed524c delivery 760873: deferral: qmail-remote_crashed./ @40003b44845219edc77c status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 exitasap @40003b44845219ee2d0c delivery 760883: deferral: qmail-remote_crashed./ @40003b44845219eea23c status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 exitasap Here's what we've always used for the startup of qmail, and never had a problem (till now): /bin/csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc ' tcpserver -R -c 150 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail.mydomain.net /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir tcpserver -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 150 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd The server seems to be sending and receiving mail fine though. The only thing I'm noticing is that the size of the unprocessed queue messages is growing. Any ideas? Thanks again David On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:05:40AM -0400, David Gartner allegedly wrote: Hey all, I have a slight problem. I got some calls that the mail server was taking 5 hours to send email, so I checked out the mail server. I had 3 connections to some mail server (all the same) and all the other qmail-remotes were enclosed in brackets [qmail-remote]. Not knowing what this was, I did a 'killall -HUP qmail-remote'. The 'unclogged' the remote process and it started delivering the messages that were on hold. Can anyone tell me what might have cause this
Re: Hotmail, CNAME lookup failure, zone transfer...WTF?
grrr hate it when I forget to reply to all... --JT - Original Message - From: James Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 10:38 AM Subject: Re: Hotmail, CNAME lookup failure, zone transfer...WTF? That wasn't my message.. I was meerly replying to a message and asking a question Charles .. ;) --JT Network Administrator http://www.webcommanders.com - Original Message - From: Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 10:15 AM Subject: Re: Hotmail, CNAME lookup failure, zone transfer...WTF? James Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't. snort is lying -- don't worry, it lies about a lot of other things, too. Take everything snort says with a grain of salt. Snort is just a tool, and my previous post was about qmail, not snort :) Snort is not lying. You think it took the packet dump out of the blue sky? I also ran tcpdump and it says the same. Is tcpdump also lying? No. There's no zone transfer happening. The worst case is Hotmail went over the 512-byte UDP DNS response limit, and the resolver is therefore trying to do a TCP query instead. This is not a zone transfer, but snort reports it as such. No, I show them well under the 512 limit.. Even then if the 'bigtodo-dns' I believe it's called is installed then what does it matter??? bigdns is the patch you're talking about. It matters in certain circumstances. Perhaps your local dns resolver is broken, or it forwards to another broken resolver. Perhaps Hotmail's load-balanced and distributed DNS is giving slightly different answers there than here. Regardless, you were very rude above. What we're telling you is the truth; please accept it, don't abuse those supplying the answers. I am correct right? Sadly, no. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Re: Hotmail, CNAME lookup failure, zone transfer...WTF?
James Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That wasn't my message.. I was meerly replying to a message and asking a question Charles .. ;) I apologize to the list for any confusion; I mis-attributed statements to James while trying to clean up and prune the quoting in the message. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Strange tcp.smtp issue
I think I sent this in a few days ago, but I have seen no replies as yet. I seem to be seeing periodic corruption of my tcp.smtp.cdb file. I would really value some input from those more knowledgable than myself b/c I am totally stumped... It all started when I wanted to open up SMTP to other machines on my local network. I added this line to tcp.smtp and rebuilt the cdb: 10.0.0.:allow,RELAYCLIENT= Now the smtp socket seems to die or hang or something after 12-24 hours. netstat shows it as still listening, but a telnet to port 25 will connect but not initiate a session or respond to any commands. Applications attempting to send mail will of course timeout waiting for a response. Restarting qmail with `qmail restart` does NOT solve the problem, nor does restarting the OS. Simply rebuilding the cdb with `qmail cdb` DOES HOWEVER fix the problem immediately. So it does seem that the tcp.smtp.cbd file is being corrupted. I don't see anything anywhere in the logs to indicate that something bad is happenening. I am no qmail expert so I'm about at the end of my troubleshooting capability. Anybody who can shed some light on the inner workings of this cdb so I can figure out why it is being corrupted? I mean, I could always cron a `qmail cdb` script and probably avoid the issue, but I hate not get down to the root cause. My qmail setup is pretty plain vanilla - configured according to the advice in living with qmail. It was running fine for several weeks before I made this change, although I was not really using SMTP then. Thanks! - josiah
Re: Hotmail, CNAME lookup failure, zone transfer...WTF?
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 05:25:04PM +0200, Marek Gutkowski wrote: Mail server really tries to connect to the DNS with tcp dport 53. It does. It does. I'm sure. Whenever a dns response exceeds the magic XXX byte size (forgot the exact number) the udp query is dropped and retried over tcp, that's what you are seeing. Easy to guess that this slows down things and is totally bogus as there is no real reason for a dns response to be bigger than these X bytes. the big-dns patch enables qmail to use these oversized dns packtes, but hotmail's setup is stupid. -- * 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: Strange tcp.smtp issue
I had the Exact Same problem, Unfortunately (or fortunately for me) it seemed to fix itself when i started playing with djbdns, replacing bind. But i have no idea if its related at all, or not. Josiah Hobson wrote: I think I sent this in a few days ago, but I have seen no replies as yet. I seem to be seeing periodic corruption of my tcp.smtp.cdb file. I would really value some input from those more knowledgable than myself b/c I am totally stumped... It all started when I wanted to open up SMTP to other machines on my local network. I added this line to tcp.smtp and rebuilt the cdb: 10.0.0.:allow,RELAYCLIENT= Now the smtp socket seems to die or hang or something after 12-24 hours. netstat shows it as still listening, but a telnet to port 25 will connect but not initiate a session or respond to any commands. Applications attempting to send mail will of course timeout waiting for a response. Restarting qmail with `qmail restart` does NOT solve the problem, nor does restarting the OS. Simply rebuilding the cdb with `qmail cdb` DOES HOWEVER fix the problem immediately. So it does seem that the tcp.smtp.cbd file is being corrupted. I don't see anything anywhere in the logs to indicate that something bad is happenening. I am no qmail expert so I'm about at the end of my troubleshooting capability. Anybody who can shed some light on the inner workings of this cdb so I can figure out why it is being corrupted? I mean, I could always cron a `qmail cdb` script and probably avoid the issue, but I hate not get down to the root cause. My qmail setup is pretty plain vanilla - configured according to the advice in living with qmail. It was running fine for several weeks before I made this change, although I was not really using SMTP then. Thanks! - josiah -- Adam Conolly System Administrator Cintek Internet Services
Re: Strange tcp.smtp issue
Josiah Hobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now the smtp socket seems to die or hang or something after 12-24 hours. netstat shows it as still listening, but a telnet to port 25 will connect but not initiate a session or respond to any commands. Applications attempting to send mail will of course timeout waiting for a response. If tcpserver hits the concurrency limit you've specified (default 40), additional connections will go into this limbo state until one of the existing connections exits. Perhaps something is tying up connections? Make sure you use the -v option of tcpserver, and capture/log tcpserver's output. That will log status lines, showing you what the concurrency is at every connection. If it goes steadily up, this is your problem. Restarting qmail with `qmail restart` does NOT solve the problem, nor does restarting the OS. Restarting the OS? You mean rebooting? That clears the TCP connection backlog in every OS I know :). Simply rebuilding the cdb with `qmail cdb` DOES HOWEVER fix the problem immediately. So it does seem that the tcp.smtp.cbd file is being corrupted. It appears so. Are you logging tcpserver's output and using the -v flag? I don't see anything anywhere in the logs to indicate that something bad is happenening. I am no qmail expert so I'm about at the end of my troubleshooting capability. Anybody who can shed some light on the inner workings of this cdb so I can figure out why it is being corrupted? tcprules can't leave a corrupt .cdb file -- it writes to a temp file, and only moves it into place of the original if successful. I mean, I could always cron a `qmail cdb` script and probably avoid the issue, but I hate not get down to the root cause. I would guess filesystem or memory corruption. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
[ANNOUNCE] TMDA 0.22 - A qmail-based anti-SPAM system
Since I announced TMDA 0.10 here a couple months ago, the software has undergone several major feature additions including: * Support for site-wide installations using qmail-relay rewriting. This also allows TMDA to be used by non-qmail clients such as those running Microsoft Windows. * A powerful new matching syntax based on Unix shell-style wildcards. * Package installation options for Linux and FreeBSD. TMDA has also reached a level of stability where I feel it is now production-worthy. About TMDA: TMDA is an OSI certified Python application for qmail systems designed to significantly reduce (or eliminate) the amount of SPAM/UCE you receive by using unique, cryptographically enhanced (called tagged) e-mail addresses. TMDA can both filter your incoming e-mail, and tag your outgoing address. For more information, download locations, and installation instructions, visit the TMDA homepage: URL:http://tmda.sourceforge.net/ Enjoy.
Re: FYI: Windows is better
Microsoft is like a little convertable sexy car, good for running to the store to buy a pack of cigarette. But if you decide to haul 18 tons of lumber, it is not the right vehicle. As such, how many average people use 18 ton trucks? And as such how much work is done by the trucking (or transportation) industry? "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: Subject: Windows vs Unix From:Charles Booher h-64-105-140-243.lnoclli.covad.net Tue Jul 3 12:25:05 My second computer was a VA Linux box. I tried to run SCO Unix on my first computer but that did not work out for a number of reasons. When Windows 3.0 was young I was working on various applications for Sun, HP, Silicon Graphics and all those other soon to be defunct Unix Workstation vendors. I was one of the first guys to write a P.O. for Rack mounted Linux boxes, and I have done a lot of developement with X-Windows, Motif, GNU, and all the GNU Toys. I started learning Windows 3.0 and worked my way through all the other MS developement tool kits starting with the C/C++ 7.0 compiler and Borland Compilers. I have been working in both Unix and Windows for the Last 10 years. Windows is a better software system. Linux is free and the only use I have had for it in the last four years was to set up a cheap router using an obsolete scrap computer. Unix does very little that is usefull to the average computer user. Unix is not a new technology. Linux is just a free rewrite of the Unix system. Where are the application packages for Linux? They are mostly a pile of student written science fair experiments scattered on a large number of obscure web site. So you can download the source to LaTex. Who cares? People buy computers to run applications. They don't buy computers to run compilers, although Microsoft does make better compilers for x86 than GNU. MSDN is a better development environment than GNU, Better software tools create better software. People don't care how well an operating system works if there are no useful applications. So how is Richard Stallman doing with his Hurd Operating system? The entire GNU-Linux system is nothing more than a science fair experiment run by various techno-geeks. As a science fair experiment GNU-Linux has its uses. I have looked very deeply into both systems and Microsoft has the better system. Regards, Charles -- === Medi Montaseri, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 408-450-7114 Prepass Inc, IT/Operations, Software Eng. ===
qmail processes and POP3
I have installed
qmail-popup and qmail-pop3d. But when I go look at the processes running I
am getting the following:
Can someone help me
with this.
Thanks.
Chris.
root 1902 0.0 0.2 988 308 pts/2S13:23 0:00 supervise qmail-send
root 1909 0.0 0.2 988 308 pts/2S13:23 0:00 supervise qmail-smtpd
root 1911 1.7 0.2 988 308 pts/2S13:23 1:16 supervise qmail-pop3d
qmaill1922 0.1 0.2 1004 352 pts/2S13:23 0:08 multilog t ./main
qmails5424 0.0 0.3 1044 380 pts/2S13:48 0:00 qmail-send
root 5425 0.0 0.2 1000 320 pts/2S13:48 0:00 qmail-lspawn
|dot-forward .forward? ./Maildir/
qmailr5426 0.0 0.2 1000 320 pts/2S13:48 0:00 qmail-rspawn
qmailq5427 0.0 0.2 992 336 pts/2S13:48 0:00 qmail-clean
qmaild5428 0.0 0.4 1316 560 pts/2S13:48 0:00
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 1024 -g 1023 0 smtp
rblsmtpd rblsmtpd -rrelays.mail-abuse.org /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
qmaill5432 0.2 0.2 1004 352 pts/2S13:48 0:07 /usr/local/bin/multilog
t /var/log/qmail/pop3d
qmaill5433 0.0 0.2 1000 304 pts/2S13:48 0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog
t s250 /var/log/qmail/qmail-send
qmaill5434 0.0 0.2 1000 304 pts/2S13:48 0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog
t s250 /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd
root 19442 0.0 0.6 1724 800 pts/2S14:35 0:00 sh -c ?case
$REMOTENAME in h) H=;; p) H=p;; *) H=H;; esac?case $REMOTEINFO in r) R=;;
[0-9]*) R=t$REMOTEINFO;; *) R=R;; esac?exec \?softlimit
${DATALIMIT+-d$DATALIMIT} \?/usr/local/bin/tcpserver \??-vD$H$R
\??${LOCALNAME+-l$LOCALNAME} \??${BACKLOG+-b$BACKLOG}
\??${CONCURRENCY+-c$CONCURRENCY} \??-xtcp.cdb \??-- ${IP-0} ${PORT-110} \?
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup ${POPUPHOST-`sed 1q /var/qmail/control/me`} \?
/bin/checkpassword \?/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d ${MAILDIRNAME-Maildir}?
root 19445 0.0 0.6 1724 800 pts/2S14:35 0:00 sh -c ?case
$REMOTENAME in h) H=;; p) H=p;; *) H=H;; esac?case $REMOTEINFO in r) R=;;
[0-9]*) R=t$REMOTEINFO;; *) R=R;; esac?exec \?softlimit
${DATALIMIT+-d$DATALIMIT} \?/usr/local/bin/tcpserver \??-vD$H$R
\??${LOCALNAME+-l$LOCALNAME} \??${BACKLOG+-b$BACKLOG}
\??${CONCURRENCY+-c$CONCURRENCY} \??-xtcp.cdb \??-- ${IP-0} ${PORT-110} \?
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup ${POPUPHOST-`sed 1q /var/qmail/control/me`} \?
/bin/checkpassword \?/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d ${MAILDIRNAME-Maildir}?
root 19446 0.0 0.6 1724 800 pts/2R14:35 0:00 sh -c ?case
$REMOTENAME in h) H=;; p) H=p;; *) H=H;; esac?case $REMOTEINFO in r) R=;;
[0-9]*) R=t$REMOTEINFO;; *) R=R;; esac?exec \?softlimit
${DATALIMIT+-d$DATALIMIT} \?/usr/local/bin/tcpserver \??-vD$H$R
\??${LOCALNAME+-l$LOCALNAME} \??${BACKLOG+-b$BACKLOG}
\??${CONCURRENCY+-c$CONCURRENCY} \??-xtcp.cdb \??-- ${IP-0} ${PORT-110} \?
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup ${POPUPHOST-`sed 1q /var/qmail/control/me`} \?
/bin/checkpassword \?/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d ${MAILDIRNAME-Maildir}?
RE: FYI: Windows is better
Excellent analogy!! I love it! Mark Douglas - Architecture Sympatico-Lycos Inc. All your base are belong to us! Make your time! -Original Message-From: Medi Montaseri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 8:47To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: FYI: Windows is betterMicrosoft is like a little convertable sexy car, good for running to the store to buy a pack of cigarette. But if you decide to haul 18 tons of lumber, it is not the right vehicle. As such, how many average people use 18 ton trucks? And as such how much work is done by the trucking (or transportation) industry? "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: Subject: Windows vs Unix From:Charles Booher h-64-105-140-243.lnoclli.covad.net Tue Jul 3 12:25:05 My second computer was a VA Linux box. I tried to run SCO Unix on my first computer but that did not work out for a number of reasons. When Windows 3.0 was young I was working on various applications for Sun, HP, Silicon Graphics and all those other soon to be defunct Unix Workstation vendors. I was one of the first guys to write a P.O. for Rack mounted Linux boxes, and I have done a lot of developement with X-Windows, Motif, GNU, and all the GNU Toys. I started learning Windows 3.0 and worked my way through all the other MS developement tool kits starting with the C/C++ 7.0 compiler and Borland Compilers. I have been working in both Unix and Windows for the Last 10 years. Windows is a better software system. Linux is free and the only use I have had for it in the last four years was to set up a cheap router using an obsolete scrap computer. Unix does very little that is usefull to the average computer user. Unix is not a new technology. Linux is just a free rewrite of the Unix system. Where are the application packages for Linux? They are mostly a pile of student written science fair experiments scattered on a large number of obscure web site. So you can download the source to LaTex. Who cares? People buy computers to run applications. They don't buy computers to run compilers, although Microsoft does make better compilers for x86 than GNU. MSDN is a better development environment than GNU, Better software tools create better software. People don't care how well an operating system works if there are no useful applications. So how is Richard Stallman doing with his Hurd Operating system? The entire GNU-Linux system is nothing more than a science fair experiment run by various techno-geeks. As a science fair experiment GNU-Linux has its uses. I have looked very deeply into both systems and Microsoft has the better system. Regards, Charles -- === Medi Montaseri, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 408-450-7114 Prepass Inc, IT/Operations, Software Eng. ===
Re: FYI: Windows is better
On Thursday 05 July 2001 05:46 am, you wrote: My analagy would be more like a porche with a lawnmower engine. Microsoft is like a little convertable sexy car, good for running to the store to buy a pack of cigarette. But if you decide to haul 18 tons of lumber, it is not the right vehicle. As such, how many average people use 18 ton trucks? And as such how much work is done by the trucking (or transportation) industry? -- -~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~- Brook Humphrey Mobile PC Medic, 420 1st, Cheney, WA 99004, 509-235-9107 http://www.webmedic.net, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~- My posting or sending this is NOT an invitation for spammers to say that I've asked to be put on a mailing list. You are not permitted to send unsolicited bulk email (commonly referred to as spam) to this address, or to sell this address to people who do. By extracting the address from this page, you agree to pay a fee of $10,000.00 per UBE message you send and $100,000.00 per instance you sold this address. ___-~-___ Holliness unto the Lord He must increase but I must decrease. *-~-*
Re: FYI: Windows is better
From: Medi Montaseri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 05:46:42 -0700 Microsoft is like a little convertable sexy car, good for running to the store to buy a pack of cigarette. But if you decide to haul 18 tons of lumber, it is not the right vehicle. As such, how many average people use 18 ton trucks? And as such how much work is done by the trucking (or transportation) industry? As a Miata driver, I'd like to point out that far too many people drive things which have more in common with the 18 ton truck than they do with my car. I don't like your analogy because it inaccurately puts me (as a Miata driver) in the same category as Windows users, but I think in the real world the Windows users are more like the SUV drivers who have something that feels powerful and safe, but isn't. Chris -- Chris Garrigues http://www.DeepEddy.Com/~cwg/ virCIO http://www.virCIO.Com 4314 Avenue C Austin, TX 78751-3709 +1 512 374 0500 My email address is an experiment in SPAM elimination. For an explanation of what we're doing, see http://www.DeepEddy.Com/tms.html Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft, but they could get fired for relying on Microsoft. PGP signature
RE: qmail processes and POP3
sorry
for the bad attachment this looks better:
I have installed
qmail-popup and qmail-pop3d. But when I go look at the processes running I
am getting the following:
Can someone help me
with this.
Thanks.
Chris.
--
cwoods@vader:/home/cwoods#
ps auxww | grep qmailroot 1902
0.0 0.2 988 308 pts/2
S 13:23 0:00 supervise
qmail-send
root 1909 0.0
0.2 988 308 pts/2 S
13:23 0:00 supervise qmail-smtpd
root 1911 1.7
0.2 988 308 pts/2 S
13:23 1:31 supervise qmail-pop3d
qmaill 1922 0.1 0.2
1004 352 pts/2 S 13:23
0:10 multilog t ./main
qmails 5424 0.0 0.3
1044 380 pts/2 S 13:48
0:00 qmail-send
root 5425 0.0
0.2 1000 320 pts/2 S
13:48 0:00 qmail-lspawn |dot-forward
.forward? ./Maildir/
qmailr 5426 0.0 0.2
1000 320 pts/2 S 13:48
0:00 qmail-rspawn
qmailq 5427 0.0 0.2
992 336 pts/2 S 13:48
0:00 qmail-clean
qmaild 5428 0.0 0.4
1316 560 pts/2 S 13:48
0:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 1024 -g 1023
0 smtp rblsmtpd rblsmtpd -rrelays.mail-abuse.org
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
qmaill 5432 0.2 0.2
1004 352 pts/2 S 13:48
0:10 /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/pop3d
qmaill 5433 0.0 0.2
1000 304 pts/2 S 13:48
0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s250
/var/log/qmail/qmail-send
qmaill 5434 0.0 0.2
1000 304 pts/2 S 13:48
0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s250
/var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd
root 31707 0.0 0.3
1112 448 pts/3 S 14:49
0:00 grep qmail
root 31741 0.0 0.6
1724 800 pts/2 S 14:49
0:00 sh -c ? case "$REMOTENAME" in h) H=;; p) H=p;; *) H=H;;
esac? case "$REMOTEINFO" in r) R=;; [0-9]*)
R="t$REMOTEINFO";; *) R=R;; esac? exec \?
softlimit ${DATALIMIT+"-d$DATALIMIT"} \?
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver \??-vD"$H$R" \??${LOCALNAME+"-l$LOCALNAME"}
\??${BACKLOG+"-b$BACKLOG"} \??${CONCURRENCY+"-c$CONCURRENCY"} \??-xtcp.cdb
\??-- "${IP-0}" "${PORT-110}" \? /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup
"${POPUPHOST-`sed 1q /var/qmail/control/me`}" \?
/bin/checkpassword \? /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d
"${MAILDIRNAME-Maildir}"?
root 31742 0.0 0.6
1724 800 pts/2 R 14:49
0:00 sh -c ? case "$REMOTENAME" in h) H=;; p) H=p;; *) H=H;;
esac? case "$REMOTEINFO" in r) R=;; [0-9]*)
R="t$REMOTEINFO";; *) R=R;; esac? exec \?
softlimit ${DATALIMIT+"-d$DATALIMIT"} \?
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver \??-vD"$H$R" \??${LOCALNAME+"-l$LOCALNAME"}
\??${BACKLOG+"-b$BACKLOG"} \??${CONCURRENCY+"-c$CONCURRENCY"} \??-xtcp.cdb
\??-- "${IP-0}" "${PORT-110}" \? /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup
"${POPUPHOST-`sed 1q /var/qmail/control/me`}" \?
/bin/checkpassword \? /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d
"${MAILDIRNAME-Maildir}"?
root 31743 0.0 0.2
1016 332 pts/2 R 14:49
0:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H -l 0 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup
pop.charterwest-mortgage.com /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d
Maildir
cwoods@vader:/home/cwoods#
---Original
Message-From: Chris Woods
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 2:41
PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: qmail processes and
POP3
I have installed
qmail-popup and qmail-pop3d. But when I go look at the processes running
I am getting the following:
Can someone help
me with this.
Thanks.
Chris.
Re: FYI: Windows is better
* Mark Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010705 14:52]: Ok. So we have: * 12 lines of signature * full quote (do you read from bottom to top? No? THEN WHY THE FUCK DO YOU NOT SET UP YOUR TRASHTOY CORRECTLY?) * no quote string * no attribution line * HTML to bloat your crap mail even more * fucked up line width And all of this is brought to you by: X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Excellent analogy!! I love it! It's bullshit. And this is a technical mailing list. Your emotions are of no interest whatsoever. Go hug a tree, luser. Microsoft is like a little convertable sexy car, good for running to the store to buy a pack of cigarette. But if you decide to haul 18 tons of lumber, it is not the right vehicle. Bullshit. It's neither convertible (unless you'd like to draw an analogy between your top opening at 125mph and a BSOD) nor sexy. It's technically outdated, it's insecure, and it's made to be used by idiots. If you look up sexy convertible in a dictionary, you'll never find something a) made by idiots b) for idiots c) by an American company. As such, how many average people use 18 ton trucks? And as such how much work is done by the trucking (or transportation) industry? The internet was neither invented by Gill Bates, nor by Al Gore. *WE* run it, and we don't use Windows. Ever. If you find using MacOS or $UNIX on your desktop too much of an intellectual challenge, please don't use technical mailing lists. And could you girls please take your lamer talk somewhere else? Like news:comp.os.advocacy? Oh. And DO NOT FUCKING Cc: ME.
RE: FYI: Windows is better
Robin S. Socha wrote: The internet was neither invented by Gill Bates, nor by Al Gore. *WE* run it, and we don't use Windows. Ever. If you find using MacOS or $UNIX on your desktop too much of an intellectual challenge, please don't use technical mailing lists. Oh no, this is real scary. I may have to adopt a new found respect for you Robin. Do you actually hold the MacOS in higher regard then Windows? Or is that only the new MacOS X due to it's $UNIX roots?
RE: FYI: Windows is better
Title: RE: FYI: Windows is better * Mark Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010705 14:52]: Ok. So we have: * 12 lines of signature Erm, 3 lines. * full quote (do you read from bottom to top? No? THEN WHY THE FUCK DO YOU NOT SET UP YOUR TRASHTOY CORRECTLY?) Sorry, do you like how I'm doing it now? * no quote string * no attribution line Corrected. * HTML to bloat your crap mail even more Fixed. * fucked up line width Due to above, fixed. Excellent analogy!! I love it! It's bullshit. And this is a technical mailing list. Your emotions are of no interest whatsoever. Go hug a tree, luser. My emotions are of no interest, and yet you feel free to bitch about the way I have my mail client setup. I find this to be a contradiction. Anyway, I don't want to plug up this beloved technical mailing list of yours with any more off topic garbage. 'Nuf said.
Re: FYI: Windows is better
This guy reminds me of the guys in high school that used to brag about how their truck/car brand was better then another brand. my chevy could pull your dodge around in circles get a freaking lifeshut your mouth if your going to be a annoying little puke. there is no need for profanity on this list or otherwise. Grow up. Fuck..Shit...look mommy I can use four letter words.Let us know when you have graduated to 5 and 6 letter words, eh? speaking of crap in mail. lets review your headers. X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-URL: http://socha.net/ X-Uptime: 2:53PM up 45 days, 2:02, 2 users, load averages: 1.56, 1.47, 1.42 X-Operating-System: OpenBSD mail1 2.8 MAIL1 X-Editor: Vim-507 http://www.vim.org/ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA v0.16/Python 1.5.2 (openbsd2) good. my MUA really needs to know your uptime or your OS oh great!. now to really make you mad. below you'll see my comments. * Mark Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010705 14:52]: Ok. So we have: * 12 lines of signature * full quote (do you read from bottom to top? No? THEN WHY THE FUCK DO YOU NOT SET UP YOUR TRASHTOY CORRECTLY?) * no quote string * no attribution line * HTML to bloat your crap mail even more * fucked up line width sigh - no comment. And all of this is brought to you by: X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Excellent analogy!! I love it! It's bullshit. And this is a technical mailing list. Your emotions are of no interest whatsoever. Go hug a tree, luser. neither are yours. get with it. Microsoft is like a little convertable sexy car, good for running to the store to buy a pack of cigarette. But if you decide to haul 18 tons of lumber, it is not the right vehicle. Bullshit. It's neither convertible (unless you'd like to draw an analogy between your top opening at 125mph and a BSOD) nor sexy. It's technically outdated, it's insecure, and it's made to be used by idiots. If you look up sexy convertible in a dictionary, you'll never find something a) made by idiots b) for idiots c) by an American company. well. I can tell your not a High School GradSexy Convertible won't be in the dictionary. its two words Einstein! And plus sexy is a derivative of sex so you'll have to look for sex. As such, how many average people use 18 ton trucks? And as such how much work is done by the trucking (or transportation) industry? The internet was neither invented by Gill Bates, nor by Al Gore. *WE* run it, and we don't use Windows. Ever. If you find using MacOS or $UNIX on your desktop too much of an intellectual challenge, please don't use technical mailing lists. and if you can't control yourself you'll have to have the teacher separate you from the rest of the class. If making come constructive comments aren't within your capabilities maybe you should un sub from this list. And please - If you do decide to un sub from this list don't mail the list and say how do i un subscribe? but you probably will anyway. And could you girls please take your lamer talk somewhere else? Like news:comp.os.advocacy? Oh. And DO NOT FUCKING Cc: ME. and maybe you could take your bitching to news:alt.lamer.bitching.moron :-) Kurth Bemis Owner: Ozone Computer Owner/Senior Network Administrator: USAExpress.net LLC HomePage: http://kurth.hardcrypto.com Man kann niemanden zu seinem Glück zwingen
SMTP AUTH + MYSQL Checkpassword
Hi, I've read all that I can find on the subject and tried to build this setup a few different ways with a few peoples patches and all with no luck. I built checkpassword .9 setup for MySQL... if I test it it works. I built qmail-smtpd with the patch to authenticate and call checkpassword. Eric M. Johnston's YAQSAP. Unfortunately when I put it together it doesn't work. The behavior I see is that it does not respond to the connection and I also see another qmail-smtpd process fire up and get stuck. I can make a check password that always _exit(1) or _exit(0) and then the authentication process seems to work... the dialog box pops up in Outlook. Any ideas? Even some suggestions on how to better debug would be great because I find that qmail-smtpd does not log any error messages. Thanks, Steve
Re: FYI: Windows is better
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Kurth Bemis wrote: This guy reminds me of the guys in high school that used to brag about how their truck/car brand was better then another brand. Why, oh why, is this being discussed on a qmail list? Daniel Lobato Duclos - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.cybershark.net --- Stand for something, or you will fall for nothing. (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html)
Re: SMTP AUTH + MYSQL Checkpassword
Hi, I've read all that I can find on the subject and tried to build this setup a few different ways with a few peoples patches and all with no luck. I built checkpassword .9 setup for MySQL... if I test it it works. I built qmail-smtpd with the patch to authenticate and call checkpassword. Eric M. Johnston's YAQSAP. Unfortunately when I put it together it doesn't work. The behavior I see is that it does not respond to the connection and I also see another qmail-smtpd process fire up and get stuck. I can make a check password that always _exit(1) or _exit(0) and then the authentication process seems to work... the dialog box pops up in Outlook. Any ideas? Even some suggestions on how to better debug would be great because I find that qmail-smtpd does not log any error messages. While I wasn't using the checkpassword setup for MySQL (I'm using the 4.10.x series of vpopmail), I had a similar experiance. Make sure that the checkpassword program that you are using is written so it's using exit(1) not exit(0) for everything except a successfull authentication. Once I made those changes to vchkpw, it worked like a champ. Thanks, Steve Dave W
Re: FYI: Windows is better
At 05:01 PM 7/5/2001, Daniel Duclos wrote: i can't tell ya :-) On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Kurth Bemis wrote: This guy reminds me of the guys in high school that used to brag about how their truck/car brand was better then another brand. Why, oh why, is this being discussed on a qmail list? Daniel Lobato Duclos - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.cybershark.net --- Stand for something, or you will fall for nothing. (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html)
Re: weird qmail-popup behaviour?
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 05:20:54PM +0200, Arjen van Drie wrote: [snip] This is the 'run' script started by supervise: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.pop3.cdb -v -R -H -l 0 0 110 \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup ids.trivial.3va.net /bin/checkpassword \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21 Could you show us a hexdump of that file? This is interesting :) Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html
easy one
I am following the life with qmail page and I am confused regarding the installation of qmail-pop3d in relation to startup files. I have svscan running and I was wondering do I also need to have qmailctl script running. Thanks. Chris.
RE: Strange tcp.smtp issue
Charles, thanks for the response! That scenario sounds feasible enough, but looks like that is not it. The output from tcpserver is all very much like this (and annoyingly has no date/time): @40003b433ad92bbc7304 tcpserver: status: 1/20 @40003b433ad92bc0b8c4 tcpserver: pid 12691 from 131.193.178.181 @40003b433ad92eddf29c tcpserver: ok 12691 :10.0.0.5:25 muncher.math.uic.edu:131.193.178.181::26023 @40003b433ada0ffedb34 tcpserver: end 12691 status 0 @40003b433ada0fff5834 tcpserver: status: 0/20 Am I correct to think that my concurrency is the 1/20, 0/20, etc? If so it does not seem to be piling up dead connections. And, yes, rebooting the machine also does not fix the problem. Like you say, tcprules does leave a clean .cdb file, but it seems as though some other process comes along and steps on it later. I guess filesystem or memory corruption could be the culprit. I guess that is off-topic for the qmail list, but any ideas how I might test out that theory? Thanks again, j -Original Message- From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 3:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Strange tcp.smtp issue Josiah Hobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now the smtp socket seems to die or hang or something after 12-24 hours. netstat shows it as still listening, but a telnet to port 25 will connect but not initiate a session or respond to any commands. Applications attempting to send mail will of course timeout waiting for a response. If tcpserver hits the concurrency limit you've specified (default 40), additional connections will go into this limbo state until one of the existing connections exits. Perhaps something is tying up connections? Make sure you use the -v option of tcpserver, and capture/log tcpserver's output. That will log status lines, showing you what the concurrency is at every connection. If it goes steadily up, this is your problem. Restarting qmail with `qmail restart` does NOT solve the problem, nor does restarting the OS. Restarting the OS? You mean rebooting? That clears the TCP connection backlog in every OS I know :). Simply rebuilding the cdb with `qmail cdb` DOES HOWEVER fix the problem immediately. So it does seem that the tcp.smtp.cbd file is being corrupted. It appears so. Are you logging tcpserver's output and using the -v flag? I don't see anything anywhere in the logs to indicate that something bad is happenening. I am no qmail expert so I'm about at the end of my troubleshooting capability. Anybody who can shed some light on the inner workings of this cdb so I can figure out why it is being corrupted? tcprules can't leave a corrupt .cdb file -- it writes to a temp file, and only moves it into place of the original if successful. I mean, I could always cron a `qmail cdb` script and probably avoid the issue, but I hate not get down to the root cause. I would guess filesystem or memory corruption. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Host level routing is getting denied
I'm trying to configure to have mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] get delivered to a specific mailbox file, but without having a corresponding system user. I don't need POP access or any other features, just the incoming routing. I've looked at a couple of FAQs and several docs online, and none are working. qmail keeps saying that there's, no mailbox here by that name. Can anybody lend some help? --- Rodney Broom Programmer: Desert.Net
Not able to sending email to only one domain from qmail server
Hello all, I have a very weird problem. I have qmail running fine. I am able to send email to all other domains except only one domain. I get the following message and finally this message is not delivered. This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent has not yet been delivered to all its recipients after more than 4 hours on the queue on marketinsights.com. The message identifier is: 15IDWP-0004es-00 The subject of the message is: The date of the message is:Thu, 5 Jul 2001 11:55:47 -0700 The address to which the message has not yet been delivered is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] No action is required on your part. Delivery attempts will continue for some time, and this warning may be repeated at intervals if the message remains undelivered. Eventually the mail delivery software will give up, and when that happens, the message will be returned to you. first I get this message after one hour and then after four hours and so forth. All the other domains where qmail server is running they receive the message fine. Any email I send to this domain I get these messages. Is this to do something with reverse DNS lookup? Anybody has any idea please let me know. Regards, Harry
Re: Host level routing is getting denied
From: John White [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 04:25:00PM -0700, Rodney Broom wrote: I'm trying to configure to have mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] get delivered to a specific mailbox file, but without having a corresponding system user. JW Not a problem. just add: JW ~alias/.qmail-user Close, but not quite. If I use ~alias/.qmail-jack, then ALL mail sent to the user jack at ANY of the domains that I control will make it to the same mail box. I need [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] to make it into different mailboxes. --- Rodney Broom Programmer: Desert.Net
Re: Host level routing is getting denied
Rodney Broom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to configure to have mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] get delivered to a specific mailbox file, but without having a corresponding system user. I don't need POP access or any other features, just the incoming routing. I've looked at a couple of FAQs and several docs online, and none are working. qmail keeps saying that there's, no mailbox here by that name. If this domain is not in locals, you could also use a virtual user entry in virtualdomains to do something similar. For instance, if your account is rodney, and you want to capture mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], put this in virtualdomains: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:rodney-info Then, in ~rodney, have a .qmail-info file with a delivery instruction: ./Mail/info/ which files it in a Maildir of that name and path. If this domain is in locals, you could use an ~alias/.qmail file to forward it to your personal account (or an extension address of your account). To capture mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], where example.net is in locals, have a file ~alias/.qmail-info which contains rodney-info And then have ~rodney/.qmail-info as above. There's lots of other ways to do this too. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Re: Not able to sending email to only one domain from qmail server
Harry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a very weird problem. I have qmail running fine. I am able to send email to all other domains except only one domain. I get the following message and finally this message is not delivered. [...] A message that you sent has not yet been delivered to all its recipients after more than 4 hours on the queue on marketinsights.com. [...] The address to which the message has not yet been delivered is: [...] No action is required on your part. Delivery attempts will continue for some time, and this warning may be repeated at intervals if the message remains undelivered. Eventually the mail delivery software will give up, and when that happens, the message will be returned to you. Read all that above again, carefully. Contemplate why you are asking the qmail list what is the problem, when the message above tells you there is no problem (yet). In short: it's a delivery delay notification. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Quick question re maildir
Hi all, Thanks for the great help from this group in the past. I plan to begin the migration process to qmail in the coming days and weeks, and as part of the planning process am wondering if the general consensus is that the maildir method is the way to go. Appreciate comments/advice. Cheers, Steve
RE: Quick question re maildir
weeks, and as part of the planning process am wondering if the general consensus is that the maildir method is the way to go. Appreciate comments/advice. Absolutely. Check the archives, there's alot of info there about the benefits of Maildirs. Recently, someone posted some excellent statistics on Maildir v. mbox. --joshua.
Re: Quick question re maildir
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:30:52PM +1200, Steve Reed wrote: Hi all, Thanks for the great help from this group in the past. I plan to begin the migration process to qmail in the coming days and weeks, and as part of the planning process am wondering if the general consensus is that the maildir method is the way to go. Appreciate comments/advice. Basically, the only reasons not to go to maildir are shell users who are set in their ways (and have been for years). Maildirs are incredibly easy to manipulate with shell or Perl or Python, more reliable than mailbox, and can be locked over NFS. Shell users will generally fall into the mutt or emacs camps; you should wean your Pine users anyway; you already know if you have a population of mh users. POP users will never notice the difference, except that when someone mails them a 400MB PowerPoint preso, you can ls their maildir, note the 400MB monstrosity, and delete it or move it for them without disturbing any other mail. -dsr-
Re: Quick question re maildir
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maildirs are incredibly easy to manipulate with shell or Perl or Python, more reliable than mailbox, and can be locked over NFS. Small correction: Maildirs need no locking, even over NFS. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
easy one
I have installed qmail and everything is working. Now I need to get POP3 working. In the 'Life with Qmail' book it talks about editing the 'qmailctl' file to control qmail. However I have 'svscan' running. Can these run in parallel? Will having both installed cause any problems? TIA chris.
Re: easy one
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:39:30PM -0500, Chris Woods wrote: I have installed qmail and everything is working. Now I need to get POP3 working. In the 'Life with Qmail' book it talks about editing the 'qmailctl' file to control qmail. However I have 'svscan' running. Can these run in parallel? Will having both installed cause any problems? TIA chris. Just follow LWQ -- it knows what it's doing. Honest. The instructions there work quite well. Once it's done, and it works (and it will), examine what was done, and I'll bet you'll figure out why it works. ;) -- Greg White
ANN: queue_repair v.0.8.0 -- yet another qmail queue repair tool
Greetings, This is the first public release of queue_repair, which is yet another qmail queue repair tool. Features include: -written in Python; no compilation necessary. -automatic, dynamic determination of UIDs and GIDs. -automatic, dynamic determination of conf-split; can be overridden on the commandline to change the conf-split of an existing queue without running a parallel, temporary instance of qmail for queuelifetime. Just recompile and stop qmail, run queue-repair, and restart qmail. -automatic, dynamic determination of use of big-todo; can be overridden on the commandline to change an existing queue as above. -handles basic tasks like fixing a queue restored from backups, incorrect ownership or permissions of directories and files, missing or extra split subdirectories, unexpected files or other direntries, or creating a valid queue from scratch. -can run in repair or test (report-only) modes. The default is test mode. -can also be imported as a library from other Python scripts. All functionality is available for customized uses this way. -licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. queue_repair is available for download at http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/queue_repair/ I would appreciate any feedback on queue_repair. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)/
Hello again I've installed qmail-1.03 and using bind 9 I've made the MX record like this in my db.test.local file : mailIN MX10 riga.test.local mailIN A 192.168.1.31 When I run the ps aux the qmail seems to run : qmails 134 0.0 0.3 1088 392 ?S09:51 0:00 qmail-send qmaill 139 0.1 0.2 1052 364 ?S09:51 0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd qmaill 141 0.0 0.2 1044 336 ?S09:51 0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail root 142 0.0 0.2 1048 336 ?S09:51 0:00 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir qmailr 143 0.0 0.2 1048 328 ?S09:51 0:00 qmail-rspawn qmailq 144 0.0 0.2 1040 348 ?S09:51 0:00 qmail-clean But when I try to send myself an email, it show line like this at my /var/log/qmail/current file : @40003b4528aa0eba06f4 starting delivery 4: msg 191485 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] @40003b4528aa0eba7c24 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 @40003b4528aa1125658c delivery 4: deferral: Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)/ @40003b4528aa1125e674 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 eventhough i set the mode to 777 at my Maildir, it didn't take any effect ... can someone help me ... ? thanks
Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)/
Hello again I've installed qmail-1.03 and using bind 9 I've made the MX record like this in my db.test.local file : mailIN MX10 riga.test.local mailIN A 192.168.1.31 When I run the ps aux the qmail seems to run : qmails 134 0.0 0.3 1088 392 ?S09:51 0:00 qmail-send qmaill 139 0.1 0.2 1052 364 ?S09:51 0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd qmaill 141 0.0 0.2 1044 336 ?S09:51 0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail root 142 0.0 0.2 1048 336 ?S09:51 0:00 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir qmailr 143 0.0 0.2 1048 328 ?S09:51 0:00 qmail-rspawn qmailq 144 0.0 0.2 1040 348 ?S09:51 0:00 qmail-clean But when I try to send myself an email, it show line like this at my /var/log/qmail/current file : @40003b4528aa0eba06f4 starting delivery 4: msg 191485 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] @40003b4528aa0eba7c24 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 @40003b4528aa1125658c delivery 4: deferral: Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)/ @40003b4528aa1125e674 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 eventhough i set the mode to 777 at my Maildir, it didn't take any effect ... can someone help me ... ? thanks
How can i get the mail size in qmail-local.c
Hi everyone: now i am doing some development based on qmail,and i want to get the mail size in the file qmail-local.c,how can i do that. Sorry for my poor english. best regards qftang. 2001-7-6
Re: Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)/
Essy Ren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)/ @40003b4528aa1125e674 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 You're trying to do mbox delivery to a Maildir, or something similar. Check your default delivery instruction (argument to qmail-start, possibly stored in a file somewhere), any .qmail files used, and the man page for qmail-local for details. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Re: Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)/
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- qmail-lspawn ./Maildir qmailr 143 0.0 0.2 1048 328 ?S09:51 0:00 Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)/ @40003b4528aa1125e674 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Add a trailing slash to ./Maildir/ ... Cheers -d - -- David Talkington http://www.spotnet.org PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/dt000823.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQEVAwUBO0Uqx71ZYOtSwT+tAQFW0Af/UmUeOmW+3kURmau+ai2aHykRQUEhNVic wilBCKu9G8Z7TGuVuXVLKHZgIuWdKdXq8glr7QdnP+/SVsvpxAoCDt0ZSSKyVGM1 6MPzMcntDbAIvsFxytWLL6jQbDetF6QS6jLyO5mp2cVfpeNmAqTEsSdLCFmtDqX0 dGUIWDM68u6+I3OTfmyXu7ENlhqZcplvDg/wztrfn5LoxhVTekajIFGJizRobZdU NfxhqHqsIK7txpEgTeMr657lPvXXbAy1n6jiVVUsRAUAHqS1QBMsWk4OqGwpBUNh 0j+db9Jzw7hTD5t5dR78kNZKasnPc//o3kIOeiyzM43E6Qrdkf2v8Q== =GrYF -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)/
you're probably starting qmail with and argument that looks like this: qmail-start ./Maildir instead of this: qmail-start ./Maildir/ the trailing slash tells qmail that it should to a Maildir, and not a file. But when I try to send myself an email, it show line like this at my /var/log/qmail/current file : @40003b4528aa0eba06f4 starting delivery 4: msg 191485 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] @40003b4528aa0eba7c24 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 @40003b4528aa1125658c delivery 4: deferral: Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)/ @40003b4528aa1125e674 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
Re: How can i get the mail size in qmail-local.c
qftang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: now i am doing some development based on qmail,and i want to get the mail size in the file qmail-local.c,how can i do that. If you mean you're writing a program called for delivery from a .qmail file by qmail-local, the message file descriptor is seekable -- a quick hack would be to seek to the end and do an ftell() or equivalent. Sorry for my poor english. It's not bad at all. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
RE: Quick question re maildir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Joshua Nichols wrote: weeks, and as part of the planning process am wondering if the general consensus is that the maildir method is the way to go. Appreciate comments/advice. Absolutely. Check the archives, there's alot of info there about the benefits of Maildirs. Recently, someone posted some excellent statistics on Maildir v. mbox. I don't remember the post, but was this the information to which it referred? http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir It's a very thorough set of benchmarks. Good reading. - -d - -- David Talkington http://www.spotnet.org PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/dt000823.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQEVAwUBO0Usor1ZYOtSwT+tAQGixAgAo2BnWtUxHXuvA9odsoa/OmE8wshYfhBe k0ePargg81ft0/pPMv1uoVD/DaecExh/Fyj0QyNv1TuWcHNFgxWaALt11FTnSQif Tj3hM2lVmtRoSISHN/IDWKbHqS4HLohMNHa6D/AzQx3QlZO1HVq9jX7Fow8PszQe FL5OmHAJPN83uEvNdO+MnRxKDi9710R8HNc2KwGqALnMJTX5tmTnp8dEx5yh1P3Z s8nSru49H29dFAqw2/YfwIj4Hw/QffwWmCNlfitB3VWtInHvwhxSlcsobmAuyFGZ PqPCoj8LZj5J6Wbbaosqd0kekFz9uZ5CKjH1f/r9B+a8IAV0F5PYig== =S5LR -END PGP SIGNATURE-
RE: Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)/
Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)/ @40003b4528aa1125e674 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 eventhough i set the mode to 777 at my Maildir, it didn't take any effect Listen to the error. It is not a DNS problem. Post the contents of /var/qmail/rc. Chances are REALLY good there's a typo there. Here's mine: #!/bin/sh exec env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:$PATH \ qmail-start '|dot-forward .forward ./Maildir/' Oh, and change your permissions back. They should be 700. While you're at it, make sure the user owns the Maildir. This problem is all over the archives. Look there. --joshua.
Re: Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)/
Hi thanks for all at qmail list for the quick reply finally i can send the messages and the report at /var/log/qmail/current is like this : @40003b45473506367634 delivery 3: success: did_0+1+0/qp_23115/ @40003b454735063c5dec status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 @40003b45473506442234 end msg 191482 @40003b4547350caecda4 delivery 4: success: did_1+0+0/ @40003b4547350caf277c status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 @40003b4547350caf4e8c end msg 191483 But when I check to my Maildir (~essy/Maildir) it's still empty, my email actually never back to my inbox I can't receive the email here's the output when i do telnet 127.0.0.1 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. +OK riga POP3 Server (Version 1.006d) ready at Fri Jul 06 12:13:47 2001 USER essy +OK please send PASS command PASS essy +OK 0 messages ready for essy in /var/spool/mail/essy where's my email gone to ??
Re[2]: Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)/
Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. +OK riga POP3 Server (Version 1.006d) ready at Fri Jul 06 12:13:47 2001 USER essy +OK please send PASS command PASS essy +OK 0 messages ready for essy in /var/spool/mail/essy where's my email gone to ?? Seems like your pop3 server is looking for mail in /var/spool/mail but you are delivering to a Maildir. You need a pop3 server that can handle maildir. There is one with the qmail distribution and it should be in your /var/qmail/bin directory. look for qmail-pop3d. Cheers Lars
