virtual aliases
HI! Is it possibly to create virtual aliases (like in sendmail) ? In sendmail I have: cut--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] cut--- Is it possible to do this in qmail ? Regards Maciej Bogucki, Network Administrator --- 3dart.com / end-to-end solutions http://www.3dart.com Spolka Internetowa tel: (+48 22) 646 64 65 ul. Goszczynskiego 1002-616, Warszawa
qmail Digest 16 Jul 2001 10:00:00 -0000 Issue 1427
qmail Digest 16 Jul 2001 10:00:00 - Issue 1427 Topics (messages 66003 through 66029): Re: qmail-smtpd error? 66003 by: Henning Brauer Re: selective relaying 66004 by: Johannes Huettemeister 66005 by: Dushyanth Harinath 66006 by: Henning Brauer 66007 by: Johannes Huettemeister Re: Alias Error 66008 by: Charles Cazabon 66009 by: Bob Ross 66011 by: Mike Scher 66013 by: Bob Ross 66014 by: Bob Ross 66015 by: Bob Ross 66017 by: Joshua Nichols 66018 by: Bob Ross 66019 by: Bob Ross [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: error in mail delivery - after connection established nothing hap pens for 30 sec connection resets] 66010 by: Henning Brauer 66020 by: Johannes Huettemeister 66026 by: Adam McKenna 66028 by: Todd Lyons supervise question 66012 by: David Dahl 66016 by: Lukas Beeler 66021 by: David Dahl 66022 by: Lukas Beeler 66024 by: Adrian Ho 66027 by: David Dahl Help with virtual domains - mail bouncing 66023 by: Matt Fearnow Hi 66025 by: michel virtual aliases 66029 by: Maciej Bogucki Administrivia: To unsubscribe from the digest, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the digest, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To bug my human owner, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To post to the list, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 02:06:57AM -0700, Kenneth wrote: Martin, You are probably going to need xinetd or tcpserver in the near future Use tcpserver, no [x|y|z]inetd or whoever it is called today. Really. Especially if you expect help from this list or any long-term qmail user - we all know tcpserver very well, nobody knows inetd. Reinstall your box according to http://www.lifewithqmail.org/. -- * 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) On Sun Jul 15, 2001 at 11:5120AM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 09:07:39AM +0200, Johannes Huettemeister wrote: hi, as it seems I don`t really understand selective relaying. I configured qmail the way that I thought it only would relay for my localhost, but it also relays for the pcs on the local net. You forgot to mention (and describe precise) your problem. hi henning, ok, I`ll give it another try: I`m looking for a reason, why my qmail server allows relaying for the other pcs on my local net. I tried to configure it only to relay for the localhost. I hope I included all necessary configuration files in my last mail. Summary: I don't want to run a relay server for other hosts than the computer qmail is running on, but actually it seems to me I do. johannes ps: and sorry for also sending PM, I forgot to tell mutt about this list :-) Hi, check out... http://www.palomine.net/qmail/relaying.html regards dushyanth On Sun Jul 15, 2001 at 11:5120AM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 09:07:39AM +0200, Johannes Huettemeister wrote: hi, as it seems I don`t really understand selective relaying. I configured qmail the way that I thought it only would relay for my localhost, but it also relays for the pcs on the local net. You forgot to mention (and describe precise) your problem. hi henning, ok, I`ll give it another try: I`m looking for a reason, why my qmail server allows relaying for the other pcs on my local net. I tried to configure it only to relay for the localhost. I hope I included all necessary configuration files in my last mail. Summary: I don't want to run a relay server for other hosts than the computer qmail is running on, but actually it seems to me I do. johannes ps: and sorry for also sending PM, I forgot to tell mutt about this -- Dushyanth Harinath Archean Infotech Limited Ph No:091-040-3228666,6570704,3228674 http://www.archeanit.com - This email was sent using SquirrelMail. Webmail for nuts! http://squirrelmail.org/ On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 01:03:34PM +0200, Johannes Huettemeister wrote: Summary: I don't want to run a relay server for other hosts than the computer qmail is running on, but actually it seems to me I do. You still failed to show us _why_ you think you are relaying. Show us a complete SMTP session where you think it is realying but shouldn't, and in the same mail post the contens of control/rcpthosts and your tcpserver's acces control file. ps: and sorry for also sending PM, I forgot to tell mutt about this list :-) Oh yeah, know that ;-)) -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de * * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany * Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius
Vpopmail and relay-ctrl
Hi I have a problem mit relay-ctrl... So my tcp.mail-rules looks like so: 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT= :deny So when i try to send a Mail from a client that connected via pop3, it can send messages If not... He can'n send messages So but my problem is, when i send mails from any smtp server to a local mail adress that is managed by vpopmail, than vpopmail cant recieve it. When i delete the :deny from the tcp.mail-rules then it works But then i have a open relay mailer... :( I also checked the control/rcpthost. File There are all domains in it So where can be the problem? Can you help me? Greets Markus
qmail won't accept incoming mail (i have no idea what i'm doing anymore :) )
Hello All I am having a lot of trouble with qmail and Im sure its just me being thick. I have followed the excellent guide life with qmail as Charles Cazabon suggested to me a month ago, but am still having trouble. Below is a PS AUX of my system: root@Area79:/home/paul# ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 1.2 0.3 344 188 ? S 12:17 0:10 init [3] root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 12:17 0:00 [kflushd] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 12:17 0:00 [kupdate] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 12:17 0:00 [kpiod] root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 12:17 0:00 [kswapd] bin 74 0.0 0.6 1088 396 ? S 12:18 0:00 /sbin/rpc.portmap root 78 0.0 1.0 1368 624 ? S 12:18 0:00 /usr/sbin/syslogd root 81 0.0 1.4 1496 884 ? S 12:18 0:00 /usr/sbin/klogd -c 3 root 83 0.0 0.8 1348 552 ? S 12:18 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd root 85 0.0 0.9 1396 564 ? S 12:18 0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd root 88 0.0 1.1 1720 712 ? S 12:18 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd root 90 0.0 1.1 1736 720 ? S 12:18 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd root 92 0.0 0.8 1184 548 ? S 12:18 0:00 /usr/sbin/crond -l10 daemon 94 0.0 0.9 1192 580 ? S 12:18 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd -b 15 -l 1 root 108 0.0 4.5 4956 2812 ? S 12:18 0:00 /usr/local/apache_ssl/bin/httpd nobody 110 0.0 4.5 4956 2812 ? S 12:18 0:00 /usr/local/apache_ssl/bin/httpd nobody 111 0.0 4.5 4956 2812 ? S 12:18 0:00 /usr/local/apache_ssl/bin/httpd nobody 112 0.0 4.5 4956 2812 ? S 12:18 0:00 /usr/local/apache_ssl/bin/httpd nobody 113 0.0 4.5 4956 2812 ? S 12:18 0:00 /usr/local/apache_ssl/bin/httpd nobody 114 0.0 4.5 4956 2812 ? S 12:18 0:00 /usr/local/apache_ssl/bin/httpd root 115 0.0 1.7 2512 1120 ? S 12:18 0:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D root 117 0.0 1.7 1980 1064 ? S 12:18 0:00 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D root 119 0.0 0.7 1108 440 ttyS0 S 12:18 0:00 gpm -m /dev/mouse -t bare root 122 0.0 1.2 1592 788 ? S 12:18 0:00 sh ./bin/safe_mysqld qmails 124 0.0 0.6 1096 384 ? S 12:18 0:00 qmail-send root 125 0.0 0.6 1060 424 tty1 S 12:18 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux root 126 0.0 0.6 1060 424 tty2 S 12:18 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux root 127 0.0 0.6 1060 424 tty3 S 12:18 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux root 128 0.0 0.6 1060 424 tty4 S 12:18 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux root 129 0.0 0.6 1060 424 tty5 S 12:18 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux root 130 0.0 0.6 1060 424 tty6 S 12:18 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux qmaill 135 0.0 0.6 1068 412 ? S 12:18 0:00 splogger qmail root 136 0.0 0.5 1056 328 ? S 12:18 0:00 qmail-lspawn ./Mailbox qmailr 137 0.0 0.5 1056 328 ? S 12:18 0:00 qmail-rspawn qmailq 138 0.0 0.5 1048 344 ? S 12:18 0:00 qmail-clean root 151 0.0 2.8 12076 1780 ? S 12:18 0:00 /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/usr/local/mysql --da root 153 0.0 2.8 12076 1780 ? S 12:18 0:00 /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/usr/local/mysql --da root 154 0.0 2.8 12076 1780 ? S 12:18 0:00 /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/usr/local/mysql --da root 155 0.0 1.0 1236 624 ? S 12:18 0:00 in.telnetd: 194.200.159.14 paul 156 0.0 1.6 1780 1044 pts/0 S 12:18 0:00 -bash root 167 0.0 1.6 1772 1000 pts/0 S 12:19 0:00 bash root 187 0.0 1.5 2644 996 pts/0 R 12:31 0:00 ps aux Ok so it looks to me like its running? And if I use qmail-inject to send mail to an account on another system it seems to work but when I reply to the mail it just bounces back to me. I have installed it in this directory: root@Area79:/var/qmail# ls Mailbox alias bin boot control doc man popboxes queue rc rc. supervise users root@Area79:/var/qmail# The assign file looks as follows: =crap-design-co-uk:popuser:509:509:/var/qmail/popboxes/crap-design-co-uk/crapadmin/::: =area79-cnm-uk-net-paul:popuser:509:509:/var/qmail/popboxes/area79-cnm-uk-net/paul::: =b0ll0x-net-paul:popuser:509:509:/var/qmail/popboxes/b0ll0x-net/paul::: and the rcpthosts file looks like: crap-design.co.uk b0ll0x.net area79.cnm-uk.net . and the virtual domains file looks like: area79.cnm-uk.net:area79-cnm-uk-net crap-design.co.uk:crap-design-co-uk b0ll0x.net:b0ll0x-net Can any1 give me some suggestions what to try next, have I given enough information? I am new to Linux so please be gentle :) Best Regards Paul
Re: Vpopmail and relay-ctrl
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:23:25PM +0200, Markus Hempfling wrote: Hi I have a problem mit relay-ctrl... So my tcp.mail-rules looks like so: 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT= :deny What are you expecting when denying _all_ connections? change the last line to :allow, you aren't an Open Relay than as RELAYCLIENT isn't set. -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de * * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany * Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
Re: qmail won't accept incoming mail (i have no idea what i'm doing anymore :) )
Wrap your lines at 72 chars. On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:36:43AM +0100, Paul Garrett wrote: Hello All I am having a lot of trouble with qmail and I'm sure it's just me being thick. I have followed the excellent guide 'life with qmail' as Charles Cazabon suggested to me a month ago, but am still having trouble. Below is a PS AUX of my system: [...] Ok so it looks to me like it's running? Partitial. qmail-send and it's childs are running - this is the queue manager. You don't have qmail-smtpd running. Reconsult life with qmail to get it up and running. -- * 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)
AW: Vpopmail and relay-ctrl
What are you expecting when denying _all_ connections? change the last line to :allow, you aren't an Open Relay than as RELAYCLIENT isn't set. Hi Henning..! Sorry, i tried that too... But i make a mistake when i tested smtp after pop Im stupid Sorry. Thanks alot :) Markus
Re: qmail won't accept incoming mail (i have no idea what i'm doing anymore :) )
Thanks, but when i run the smtpd part manually it hangs like below: root@Area79:/var/qmail/bin# ./qmail-smtpd 220 area79.cnm-uk.net ESMTP I then have to kill the process :/ I forgot to mention that i'm running it on Slackware 7 Best Regards Paul - Original Message - From: Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: qmail mail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 11:41 AM Subject: Re: qmail won't accept incoming mail (i have no idea what i'm doing anymore :) ) Wrap your lines at 72 chars. On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:36:43AM +0100, Paul Garrett wrote: Hello All I am having a lot of trouble with qmail and I'm sure it's just me being thick. I have followed the excellent guide 'life with qmail' as Charles Cazabon suggested to me a month ago, but am still having trouble. Below is a PS AUX of my system: [...] Ok so it looks to me like it's running? Partitial. qmail-send and it's childs are running - this is the queue manager. You don't have qmail-smtpd running. Reconsult life with qmail to get it up and running. -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de * * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany * Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
Re: qmail won't accept incoming mail (i have no idea what i'm doing anymore :) )
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:02:15PM +0100, Paul Garrett wrote: Thanks, but when i run the smtpd part manually it hangs like below: root@Area79:/var/qmail/bin# ./qmail-smtpd 220 area79.cnm-uk.net ESMTP I then have to kill the process :/ Consult life with qmail again, really. If you had read it careful you would know not to start qmail-smtpd in this manner. -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de * * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany * Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
Re: qmail won't accept incoming mail (i have no idea what i'm doing anymore :) )
- Original Message - From: Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: qmail mail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 4:05 AM Subject: Re: qmail won't accept incoming mail (i have no idea what i'm doing anymore :) ) On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:02:15PM +0100, Paul Garrett wrote: Thanks, but when i run the smtpd part manually it hangs like below: root@Area79:/var/qmail/bin# ./qmail-smtpd 220 area79.cnm-uk.net ESMTP I then have to kill the process :/ Consult life with qmail again, really. If you had read it careful you would know not to start qmail-smtpd in this manner. -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de * * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany * Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
Re: qmail won't accept incoming mail (i have no idea what i'm doing anymore :) )
check the point 16 in INSTALL file if u want to start qmail-smtpd using inetd or FAQ point 5.1 if u want to start using tcpserver. regards dushyanth Thanks, but when i run the smtpd part manually it hangs like below: root@Area79:/var/qmail/bin# ./qmail-smtpd 220 area79.cnm-uk.net ESMTP I then have to kill the process :/ I forgot to mention that i'm running it on Slackware 7 Best Regards Paul - Original Message - From: Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: qmail mail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 11:41 AM Subject: Re: qmail won't accept incoming mail (i have no idea what i'm doing anymore :) ) Wrap your lines at 72 chars. On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:36:43AM +0100, Paul Garrett wrote: Hello All I am having a lot of trouble with qmail and I'm sure it's just me being thick. I have followed the excellent guide 'life with qmail' as Charles Cazabon suggested to me a month ago, but am still having trouble. Below is a PS AUX of my system: [...] Ok so it looks to me like it's running? Partitial. qmail-send and it's childs are running - this is the queue manager. You don't have qmail-smtpd running. Reconsult life with qmail to get it up and running. -- * 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. -- Dushyanth Harinath Archean Infotech Limited Ph No:091-040-3228666,6570704,3228674 http://www.archeanit.com - This email was sent using SquirrelMail. Webmail for nuts! http://squirrelmail.org/
Re: qmail won't accept incoming mail (i have no idea what i'm doing anymore :) )
Many thanks i will try them and get back to you :) - Original Message - From: Dushyanth Harinath [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 12:29 PM Subject: Re: qmail won't accept incoming mail (i have no idea what i'm doing anymore :) ) check the point 16 in INSTALL file if u want to start qmail-smtpd using inetd or FAQ point 5.1 if u want to start using tcpserver. regards dushyanth Thanks, but when i run the smtpd part manually it hangs like below: root@Area79:/var/qmail/bin# ./qmail-smtpd 220 area79.cnm-uk.net ESMTP I then have to kill the process :/ I forgot to mention that i'm running it on Slackware 7 Best Regards Paul - Original Message - From: Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: qmail mail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 11:41 AM Subject: Re: qmail won't accept incoming mail (i have no idea what i'm doing anymore :) ) Wrap your lines at 72 chars. On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:36:43AM +0100, Paul Garrett wrote: Hello All I am having a lot of trouble with qmail and I'm sure it's just me being thick. I have followed the excellent guide 'life with qmail' as Charles Cazabon suggested to me a month ago, but am still having trouble. Below is a PS AUX of my system: [...] Ok so it looks to me like it's running? Partitial. qmail-send and it's childs are running - this is the queue manager. You don't have qmail-smtpd running. Reconsult life with qmail to get it up and running. -- * 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. -- Dushyanth Harinath Archean Infotech Limited Ph No:091-040-3228666,6570704,3228674 http://www.archeanit.com - This email was sent using SquirrelMail. Webmail for nuts! http://squirrelmail.org/
Qmail - SMTP
I have running Qmail for 2 weeks without problems, but last Friday I get errors. Here is my Log. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 62.157.196.171 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 550 relaying to [EMAIL PROTECTED] prohibited by administrator Giving up on 62.157.196.171.
Re: Qmail - SMTP
At 13:57 16.07.2001 +0200, Webmaster Sports-wear.de wrote: I have running Qmail for 2 weeks without problems, but last Friday I get errors. Here is my Log. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 62.157.196.171 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 550 relaying to [EMAIL PROTECTED] prohibited by administrator Giving up on 62.157.196.171. this looks like a remote configuration error. Probably the remote administrator did not set up his rcpthosts [or similar in other MTA] correctly. Thats definitivly not your fault, and the only thing you can do, is try to send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], telling him about his problems. -- Lukas Maverick Beeler / Telematiker Project: D.R.E.A.M / every.de - Your Community Web: http://www.projectdream.org Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Qmail - SMTP
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:57:00PM +0200, Webmaster Sports-wear.de wrote: I have running Qmail for 2 weeks without problems, but last Friday I get errors. Here is my Log. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 62.157.196.171 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 550 relaying to [EMAIL PROTECTED] prohibited by administrator Giving up on 62.157.196.171. Did this really come from a log file, or is this from a bounce message? 62.157.196.171 was listed as an MX for gfg.de, but was not configured to receive mail for gfg.de. There's nothing you can do about that, assuming 62.157.196.171 is not your mail server. (Strangely, 62.157.196.171 was not running qmail at the time this bounce was created, but it appears to be running qmail now.) Chris PGP signature
Punctuation signs in the middle of email address
Hi. I have a strange problem. Sometimes (5%), when I send an e-mail to the addres e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] my server responds: "failure notice" with comment (oryginal text): - Hi. This is the qmail-send program at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. a"@somedomain.com;;: Sorry, I couldn't find any host named somedomain.com;;. (#5.1.2) - Is it possible that this is made by qmail or I should rather doubt in my client program (Netscape 4.77) Woj
Re: Qmail - SMTP
seems to be working now: Trying 62.157.196.171... Connected to 62.157.196.171. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mail.gfg.de ESMTP mail from:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 ok rcpt to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 ok quit 221 mail.gfg.de Connection closed by foreign host. At 13:57 16.07.2001 +0200, Webmaster Sports-wear.de wrote: I have running Qmail for 2 weeks without problems, but last Friday I get errors. Here is my Log. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 62.157.196.171 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 550 relaying to [EMAIL PROTECTED] prohibited by administrator Giving up on 62.157.196.171. -- Lukas Maverick Beeler / Telematiker Project: D.R.E.A.M / every.de - Your Community Web: http://www.projectdream.org Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Punctuation signs in the middle of email address
At 14:03 16.07.2001 +0200, Wojtek wrote: Hi. I have a strange problem. Sometimes (5%), when I send an e-mail to the addres e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] my server responds: failure notice with comment (oryginal text): - Hi. This is the qmail-send program at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. a@somedomain.com;;: Sorry, I couldn't find any host named somedomain.com;;. (#5.1.2) - Is it possible that this is made by qmail or I should rather doubt in my client program (Netscape 4.77) i think it's netscape.. Did you try using another MUA ? or use tcpdump to listen to the conversation from your client and your mailserver.. Woj -- Lukas Maverick Beeler / Telematiker Project: D.R.E.A.M / every.de - Your Community Web: http://www.projectdream.org Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Qmail - SMTP
You wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 62.157.196.171 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 550 relaying to [EMAIL PROTECTED] prohibited by administrator Giving up on 62.157.196.171. [...] thing you can do, is try to send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], telling him about his problems. The Administrator of the remote host hasn't any problem, or it's solved: sh$ telnet mail.gfg.de 25 Trying 62.157.196.171... Connected to mail.gfg.de. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mail.gfg.de ESMTP HELO mail.gfg.de 250 mail.gfg.de MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 ok RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 ok The second MX of gfg.de doesn't accept any email: 220 mforward.DTAG.DE ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:09:43 +0200 (MET DST) HELO Sendmail 250 mforward.DTAG.DE Hello p3EE3B637.dip.t-dialin.net [62.227.182.55], pleased to meet you MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 Access denied PS: But if the Mailserver accepts again no email that is adressed to *@gfg.de, it's not smartly to send an Email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-) Best regards, Rene Schleicher
Re: fastforward problem
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:42:59AM -0400, Selcuk Ozturk wrote: since I installed fastforward, my server doesn't generate a bounce message even if the user doesn't exist and there is no alias either. If a message arrives for a bogus user/alias, the message silently disappears. If I take out the fastforward from .qmail-default everything works again. Is there a fix for this? How are you calling fastforward? Make sure you're not using -p. Chris PGP signature
mail policy
Hi, A client sends a 400kb attachment (legitimate mail) and CC's about 2000 recipients. As far as he is concerned he only sent on 400k mail to our server. Our server splits those CC's into 2000 separate messages, amounting to about 800mb of mail traffic. Q1. What is the general mail policy regarding how users should use their ISPs mail server to relay their messages? Q2. Do ISPs condone such behavior from users? Q3. How can qmail limit the number of CCs per mail? Looking forward to your responses. Rgds Steve
Re: mail policy
Stephen M Ciirah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Q3. How can qmail limit the number of CCs per mail? There is a patch somewhere that limits the number of RCPT commands during a single smtp connection. You may enforce a limit yourself (assuming stock qmail-smtpd) by setting a low value for softlimit when running qmail-smtpd under it but this does not enforce a given number. Regards, Frank
Re: Alias Error
Bob Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ownership is alias.qmail Perhaps the directory isn't visible to qmail. Check the permissions and ownership on /, /var, and /var/qmail as well. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Re: mail policy
Stephen M Ciirah wrote: Q1. What is the general mail policy regarding how users should use their ISPs mail server to relay their messages? This would be 2000 messages... your policy should reflect this value. Q2. Do ISPs condone such behavior from users? This depends on the ISP and the arrangements with the ISP and customer. Generally I would say no, not with out permission. However... This would need to be in your TOS/AUP. Q3. How can qmail limit the number of CCs per mail I believe that there may be a patch to limit the number of rcpts per message to a number... but you may also want to look at the tarpit patch the injects a delay between the each RCPT command in the SMTP conversation. See http://www.palomine.net/qmail/tarpit.html But really the best way to control this is with a strong TOS/AUP please see http://spam.abuse.net/aup.html for some possible examples. -- --Larry M. Smith cat BOFH | sed s/Operator/Postmaster/g BPFH
Re: mail policy
Stephen M Ciirah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A client sends a 400kb attachment (legitimate mail) and CC's about 2000 recipients. As far as he is concerned he only sent on 400k mail to our server. Our server splits those CC's into 2000 separate messages, amounting to about 800mb of mail traffic. Q1. What is the general mail policy regarding how users should use their ISPs mail server to relay their messages? They should abide by the your terms of service (TOS). Your policy should state what reasonable use of the mail system is. cc'ing 2000 people with a 400kb attachment sounds like a particularly clueless spammer to me. Q2. Do ISPs condone such behavior from users? None that I've dealt with. Q3. How can qmail limit the number of CCs per mail? There are patches which do this. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse (DCC) antispam for qmail?
With ORBS recent demise and the commercialization of MAPS, I started looking for other antispam measures. The most promising I've found is the Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse: http://www.rhyolite.com/dcc/ If I'm reading it correctly, the code computes a variety of checksums on portions of messages coming through your MTA, and sends these to a DCC server which keeps running counts of each reported checksum; spam sent to a wide audience would increment the same sums so you could detect it. Clients can query this and decide what to do with any incoming message. It has whitelists so that large list mail (e.g. inet-access) would be excluded from spam consideration. Seems to be built for integration with sendmail. Anyone using it now with qmail? I haven't found anything useful searching google for dcc qmail.
fall through in .qmail-default
Hi list, I was wundering if there is any way in my .qmail-default file that if the first entry fails, to pass the email on to the second entry. For example in my .qmail-default file I would put |fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb |preline /usr/lib/mailman/mail/qmail-to-mailman.py assuming that the address wasn't found in my fastforward file, I would want the email to then be passed to /usr/lib/mailman/mail/qmail-to-mailman.py which handles all my mailing list requests. obviously just putting the 2 entries in .qmail-default at this stage is stopping at the first entry if the mailbox is not found. Is there any way of getting around this? Any feedback welcome. Thanks From Mitchell
Re: Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse (DCC) antispam for qmail?
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 02:35:13PM -0400, Chris Shenton wrote: With ORBS recent demise and the commercialization of MAPS, I started looking for other antispam measures. The most promising I've found is the Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse: http://www.rhyolite.com/dcc/ If I'm reading it correctly, the code computes a variety of checksums on portions of messages coming through your MTA, and sends these to a DCC server which keeps running counts of each reported checksum; ... stored in a database ... spam sent to a wide audience would increment the same sums so you could detect it. Clients can ... send checksums to the server and ... query this and decide what to do with any incoming message. It has whitelists so that large list mail (e.g. inet-access) would be excluded from spam consideration. Yes. It looks extremely cool. Vernon Schryver (the author) has been marketing it saying installation takes only a few minutes - while this is true once you've read and understood the documentation, that part takes a little more time. Seems to be built for integration with sendmail. Anyone using it now with qmail? I am currently working on integrating DCC with qmail and procmail via the 'dccproc' procmail interface to dcc. I have some ideas about integrating it with qmail; probably via a qmail-local wrapper (dccproc adds an X-DCC header to the mail). I'm configuring my spamtraps with | dccproc -t many -o /dev/null in dot-qmail(5); this creates a nice line in my qmail-send log with the report dccproc made. I haven't found anything useful searching google for dcc qmail. DCC wasn't publicly available until July 12th. There has been some activity on the DCC mailing list - but not much. Vince.
qmail flaws?
Hey all, I'm running a series of test against my servers and all of the server are reporting some false positives (I've confirmed the files in question weren't created), but other are harder to track down and understand. I'm hoping someone can shed some light on these issues. Far all I know, they too can be false positives. But I'd like to make sure. Also, without starting a holy war, what are the benefits to changing to changing the helo to give no information about the server. Normally I would say this is good, but should I know do it with a public mail server? Thanks, Hank 1)The remote STMP server seems to allow remote users to send mail anonymously by providing a too long argument to the HELO command (more than 1024 chars). This problem may allow bad guys to send hate mail, or threatening mail using your server and keep their anonymity. 2)The remote SMTP server is vulnerable to a redirection attack. That is, if a mail is sent to : user@hostname1@victim Then the remote SMTP server (victim) will happily send the mail to : user@hostname1 Using this flaw, an attacker may route a message through your firewall, in order to exploit other SMTP servers that can not be reached from the outside.
tcpserver slow on internal network
I have a qmail server running on RH7 w/ tcpserver. I has been installed for about 2 weeks. For about a week it ran fine but it suddenly started to time out forwarding mail both to internal addresses and to external addresses. I researched the list and assumed it was a DNS issue. I added the appropriate switches and increased the softlimit from 200 to 400. See below: (basically a copy of LWQ) #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 400 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -H -R -l 0 -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c $MAXSMTPD \ -u $QMAILDUID -g NOFILESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 The timeouts stopped and now the response is about 20-25 sec some of the time and normal 1-2 sec. others. The server has a public and private network interface and is running Linux Masq (ie. 192.168. internal and a routable address external). If I attach a workstation on the public network it responds normally. It is the private network that is inconsistant. Web activity thru the Linux Masq is always normal. I even attached a single workstation to the inside to eliminate possible conflicts on the internal network. Same results. Everything seems to point to a DNS issue but the external network always seems normal. I hope I haven't overlooked the obvious but I probably have. Any guidance on where to look would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Bill __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Resolved: Alias Error
We worked through it off-list.
The problem was that his /etc/passwd was mode 600.
He changed it to 644, and the issue went away.
The qmail code was quite informative in solving the evidence of the
problem, which was clearly tied to a result code from qmail-getpw. After
looking for things like inconsistencies in his shadow system setup, file
mount issues, embedded control characters in hand-edited PW files, the
qmail IDs' component shells, and so forth, it still had to be related to
an inability to obtain the alias user (which was indeed set to alias)
information from the PW file. That left perms, the simplest thing to
check
-M
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Charles Cazabon wrote:
Bob Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The ownership is alias.qmail
Perhaps the directory isn't visible to qmail. Check the permissions and
ownership on /, /var, and /var/qmail as well.
Charles
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Re: qmail flaws?
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 04:48:37PM -0700, Hank Wethington wrote: [ran tests on qmail, wants insight into the results] 1)The remote STMP server seems to allow remote users to send mail anonymously by providing a too long argument to the HELO command (more than 1024 chars). This problem may allow bad guys to send hate mail, or threatening mail using your server and keep their anonymity. Presumably the vulnerability scanner considers this a problem because some MTA has a fixed space buffer for the Received: header, and if the HELO argument is too long it leaves insufficient room in the buffer for the sender IP and timestamp, which come after the HELO argument. Note that this problem has little to do with buffer overflows; even if proper bounds checking is done it still leaves insufficient space for the additional information. qmail has no such problems. For qmail-smtpd, commands.c is the first stop for input from HELO. commands() in commands.c saves the HELO argument into a dynamically allocated string using stralloc, calling die_nomem() if it runs out of memory. In other words, if qmail-smtpd doesn't abort for lack of memory, the argument is stored in its entirety. The next stop for the HELO argument is smtp_helo() in qmail-smtpd.c. It sends a 250 response to the client. Then the argument is passed to dohelo() in qmail-smtpd.c. It is copied into an stralloc string, again calling die_nomem() if stralloc fails. When it comes time to generate the Received: line, qmail-smtpd has spawned qmail-queue, which should be ready to pass the message through to a queue file. received() in received.c passes each part of the Received: line to a buffer layer, effectively causing the HELO argument to go straight through qmail-queue into the queue file. qmail-smtpd will reliably handle any length HELO argument up to the limits of memory, and if it runs out of memory it aborts the transaction entirely. 2)The remote SMTP server is vulnerable to a redirection attack. That is, if a mail is sent to : user@hostname1@victim Then the remote SMTP server (victim) will happily send the mail to : user@hostname1 Using this flaw, an attacker may route a message through your firewall, in order to exploit other SMTP servers that can not be reached from the outside. This is covered in the archives. What vulnerability scanner are you using?
