Re: qmail reliance on passwd file

[Mike Jackson]

Al Sparks wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to get qmail to deliver email to an account that's
> not in /etc/passwd (or its shadow equivalent)?
> 
> In other words, can I set up a separate database (e.g. MySQL)
> that qmail can access for account information?
> 
> I note that qmail has /var/qmail/users/assign, but it references
> both UID's and GID's, which are maintained by /etc/passwd.
> 
> I am setting up 2 clustered systems that will use shared storage
> (non NFS) to maintain each user's Maildir, and would rather not
> have to worry about keeping 2 separate system's passwd files in
> sync.

qmail-ldap does this, and it contains native clustering code.
www.nrg4u.com for details.

Mike

Mail from Listbot.com ?????

[David J Jackson]

What is this someone trying to spam me or worse?
Thanks, David 
Jackson 


Jul 20 00:56:58 mail qmail: 995612218.207147 info msg 295259: bytes 131135 from 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 26707 uid 1011
Jul 20 00:56:58 mail qmail: 995612218.215115 starting delivery 24: msg 295259 to local 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jul 20 00:56:58 mail qmail: 995612218.215376 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
Jul 20 00:56:58 mail qmail: 995612218.236106 delivery 24: failure: 
Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/
Jul 20 00:56:58 mail qmail: 995612218.236386 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
Jul 20 00:56:58 mail qmail: 995612218.284197 bounce msg 295259 qp 26710
Jul 20 00:56:58 mail qmail: 995612218.286992 end msg 295259
Jul 20 00:56:58 mail qmail: 995612218.291989 new msg 295263
Jul 20 00:56:58 mail qmail: 995612218.295765 info msg 295263: bytes 131745 from <> qp 
26710 uid 1016
Jul 20 00:56:58 mail qmail: 995612218.302560 starting delivery 25: msg 295263 to 
remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jul 20 00:56:58 mail qmail: 995612218.306159 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20
Jul 20 00:57:38 mail qmail: 995612258.319893 delivery 25: success: 
204.71.191.253_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_ok_995612611_qp_1264/
Jul 20 00:57:38 mail qmail: 995612258.323824 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
Jul 20 00:57:38 mail qmail: 995612258.327443 end msg 295263

Re: qmail reliance on passwd file

[Brett Randall]

> "Al" == Al Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Is there a way to get qmail to deliver email to an account that's
> not in /etc/passwd (or its shadow equivalent)?

www.inter7.com/vpopmail/
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- The Devil's Dictionary to Computer Studies 

qmail reliance on passwd file

[Al Sparks]

Is there a way to get qmail to deliver email to an account that's
not in /etc/passwd (or its shadow equivalent)?

In other words, can I set up a separate database (e.g. MySQL)
that qmail can access for account information?

I note that qmail has /var/qmail/users/assign, but it references
both UID's and GID's, which are maintained by /etc/passwd.

I am setting up 2 clustered systems that will use shared storage
(non NFS) to maintain each user's Maildir, and would rather not
have to worry about keeping 2 separate system's passwd files in
sync.
   === Al


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Qmail Dir Permissions

[Mustafa Mahudhawala]

Hello,
My qmail installation lies in /var/qmail
currently the permissions are --
rwxr-xr-xrootqmail/var/qmail
The moment i remove rx for others my pop stops working.
(for authentication i use checklocalpasswd with /etc/poppasswd).
I have tried a lot of permutations / combinations with the groups nofiles &
qmail
But the problem remains unsolved.
My main intention is to remove all access for others for the qmail dir
/var/qmail
(for security ofcourse)
I am running qmail thro tcpserver / supervise combo.
qmail-send invoked as root but spawns its services with nofiles & qmail
group ownership
qmail-smtp invoked with qmail group ownership
qmail-pop3d invoked with root ownership
I tried to create a common group say qmaildir and assign it as second group
to
all qmail users eg. alias,qmaill etc and change the group ownership of
/var/qmail to it
But ... still doesn't work.
Qmail Itself is totally fine.
I am probably missing something.

Thanx & Regards
Mustafa M.

-
VeetVision Communications (P) Ltd.
Bungalow RH-3, Moghul Gardens, 411001 Pune, India
Tel. 91-20-6113056, 6051597, 6051598 / Fax 91-20-6050652

Who can tell me Why the smtp_auth NOT working?

[michel]

Hi,every one,I installed qmail-1.03 and path the qmail-smtp-auth-0.30,
I start qmail with tcpserver(tcpserver -u(qmaild) 0 25 /var/qmail/qmail-smtpd 
/bin/checkpassword /bin/true),
But,when I telnet my host(25),I find the qmail-smtp-auth  work NOT rightly?
I input the wrong userid and the wrong password,the qmail passed me?
I can't find how to solve the problem,who can help me?
 

Re: anti-virus strategies

[Kenny Austin]

I am using AMaVIS, you can find it at www.amavis.org.
Before my company started using this we had to keep 
250 windows 9x & NT Workstations updated and there were always a few that 
quit updating or something would happen and then they would get hit by the virus 
of the week.  Since we started using amavis (10~11 months ago) we have 
not one system get infected, after all 99.9% of files come in and out of our 
company via email.  On an average day (when no new vb scripts are 
out) I see can see about 10~25 virus getting 
blocked amavis.
In any event, you get the idea.
Kenny Austin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 

 

  - Original Message - m 


  From: 
  Michel Rondeau 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 2:43 
  PM
  Subject: anti-virus strategies
  
  Hello all,
   
  We're running Mandrake 8.0 with qmail as an email 
  server for a bunch of 2000 and 9x machines.  I was wondering what you 
  people would recommend anti-virus wise?  Is it better to have the 
  anti-viral program running on the server?  Or should one buy something 
  for the client computers?  Or perhaps both?  Any suggestions and/or 
  info anyone could provide would be appreciated!
   
  Thanks,
  Michel 
Rondeau

RE: What does this mean?

[Mark Douglas]

Title: RE: What does this mean?





That's qmail delivering your messages, or the messages of your users. A normal occurrence, as long as you have users who should be sending mail. Otherwise, you need to look into your relaying rules.

Mark


> -Original Message-
> From: Mike Jimenez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 18:05
> To: Qmail
> Subject: What does this mean?
> 
> 
> Is this something I should be concerned about or is this normal Qmail
> activity?
> Thanks
> Mike
> 
> qmailr 808  0.0  0.0  1172  468 ?    S    15:14   
> 0:00 qmail-remote
> china.com  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> qmailr 809  0.0  0.0  1172  472 ?    S    15:14   
> 0:00 qmail-remote
> mailstrom.virtumundo.com  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> qmailr 810  0.0  0.0  1172  472 ?    S    15:14   
> 0:00 qmail-remote
> campaign.pointers.co.uk  usera-168-s.gosling=binternet.c
> qmailr 811  0.0  0.0  1172  472 ?    S    15:14   
> 0:00 qmail-remote
> WWWNode4.b7.co.uk  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> qmailr 815  0.0  0.0  1172  472 ?    S    15:14   
> 0:00 qmail-remote
> WWWNode2.b7.co.uk  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> qmailr 819  0.0  0.0  1172  472 ?    S    15:14   
> 0:00 qmail-remote
> WWWNode4.b7.co.uk  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> qmailr 824  0.0  0.0  1172  468 ?    S    15:14   
> 0:00 qmail-remote
> e-weekly.co.uk  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> qmailr 839  0.0  0.0  1172  472 ?    S    15:14   
> 0:00 qmail-remote
> nms1.empowerhealth.com  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> qmailr 840  0.0  0.0  1172  472 ?    S    15:14   
> 0:00 qmail-remote
> nms1.empowerhealth.com  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> qmailr 848  0.0  0.0  1172  472 ?    S    15:14   
> 0:00 qmail-remote
> WWWNode1.b7.co.uk  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> qmailr 849  0.0  0.0  1172  468 ?    S    15:14   
> 0:00 qmail-remote
> MYLISTMAILING.COM  owner-al_alloydistlist@MYLISTMAILING.
> 

Re: What does this mean?

[Lukas Beeler]

those are normal processes, which are sending mail via SMTP to non-local 
servers
their count is controlled by the file /var/qmail/control/concurrencyremote


At 15:04 19.07.2001 -0700, Mike Jimenez wrote:
>Is this something I should be concerned about or is this normal Qmail
>activity?
>Thanks
>Mike
>
>qmailr 808  0.0  0.0  1172  468 ?S15:14   0:00 qmail-remote
>china.com  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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   \ \  My HomePage: http://www.projectdream.org>  / /

Re: What do others do about the following problem...

[Mahlon Smith]

If this is truly interfering with normal mail delivery to the point that
you can notice it - a quick, global solution would be to add a
.qmail-default file for your domain, and let it deliver to /dev/null.

Any delivery to an address that no longer exists (or ever did in the
first place) will quietly discard the message, and you'll save yourself a
bounce.

Of course, that's really not a very good solution, since it perma-squashes
bounces that 99.9% of the free world would probably want to see.

Any mailing list manager that doesn't auto unsubscribe dead addresses needs
taken out of service and buried six feet under.  Mail their abuse dept and
shout.

--
Mahlon Smith
InternetCDS
http://www.internetcds.com


> I have a growing problem.  My mail servers spend a good portion of their day
> sending bounce messages where ex-customers have signed up for a mailing
> list, but now no longer have an account with me.  For example,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribes to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list.  Some time
> later, user "a" cancels his/her account.  However, joke-of the-day continues
> to send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for MONTHS even though my mail server
> correctly responds with the '550 User does not exist' error message.  My
> server then also sends a full bounce message.
>  
> Is there some way to stop this?  It is getting to the point where the bounce
> messages are taking up MUCH, MUCH more bandwidth than the "real" email, and
> is even causing noticable delays in delivery times of "real" email to
> external addresses.
>  
> I'm using qmail-1.03 on linux-2.2.12smp.
>  
> I'm crossposting this on isp-tech and qmail mailing lists.  Please respond
> personally.
>  
> Eric Calvert
> Caveland Connection

What does this mean?

[Mike Jimenez]

Is this something I should be concerned about or is this normal Qmail
activity?
Thanks
Mike

qmailr 808  0.0  0.0  1172  468 ?S15:14   0:00 qmail-remote
china.com  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
qmailr 809  0.0  0.0  1172  472 ?S15:14   0:00 qmail-remote
mailstrom.virtumundo.com  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
qmailr 810  0.0  0.0  1172  472 ?S15:14   0:00 qmail-remote
campaign.pointers.co.uk  usera-168-s.gosling=binternet.c
qmailr 811  0.0  0.0  1172  472 ?S15:14   0:00 qmail-remote
WWWNode4.b7.co.uk  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
qmailr 815  0.0  0.0  1172  472 ?S15:14   0:00 qmail-remote
WWWNode2.b7.co.uk  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
qmailr 819  0.0  0.0  1172  472 ?S15:14   0:00 qmail-remote
WWWNode4.b7.co.uk  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
qmailr 824  0.0  0.0  1172  468 ?S15:14   0:00 qmail-remote
e-weekly.co.uk  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
qmailr 839  0.0  0.0  1172  472 ?S15:14   0:00 qmail-remote
nms1.empowerhealth.com  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
qmailr 840  0.0  0.0  1172  472 ?S15:14   0:00 qmail-remote
nms1.empowerhealth.com  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
qmailr 848  0.0  0.0  1172  472 ?S15:14   0:00 qmail-remote
WWWNode1.b7.co.uk  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
qmailr 849  0.0  0.0  1172  468 ?S15:14   0:00 qmail-remote
MYLISTMAILING.COM  owner-al_alloydistlist@MYLISTMAILING.

some wierdness with qmail - rbl/rss - dnscache

[Kris von Mach]

Something very weird started happening yesterday, and I have been trying to 
figure out what it might be, and I was unable to narrow it down.

I have been running qmail with rbl/rss and also running dnscache on the 
same machine for a while without any problems.

Yesterday my dnscache log started filling up with these error messages:

@40003b574c21126fcb94 query 27874 7f01:e77a:701d 1 
150.68.39.208.relays.mail-abuse.org.
@40003b574c21126ff2a4 cached nxdomain 150.68.39.208.relays.mail-abuse.org.
@40003b574c2112700dfc sent 27874 53
@40003b574c2113c47684 query 27875 7f01:fccb:eebc 12 
2.110.10.209.in-addr.arpa.
@40003b574c2113c5ce44 cached 12 2.110.10.209.in-addr.arpa.
@40003b574c2113c69d4c sent 27875 78
@40003b574c2113eb6744 query 27876 7f01:fccb:eebc 16 
150.68.39.208.blackholes.mail-abuse.org.
@40003b574c2113ecb734 cached nxdomain 
150.68.39.208.blackholes.mail-abuse.org.
@40003b574c2113ed72b4 sent 27876 57
@40003b574c2113f087c4 query 27877 7f01:e77a:701d 1 
150.68.39.208.relays.mail-abuse.org.
@40003b574c2113f16e3c cached nxdomain 150.68.39.208.relays.mail-abuse.org.
@40003b574c2113f2124c sent 27877 53


about 20 or so requests like this a second... about 95% of them are for 
150.68.39.208.relays.mail-abuse.org/150.68.39.208.blackholes.mail-abuse.org 
which is (web01.dc.intira.com, not my server) and the other 5% are for 
2.110.10.209.in-addr.arpa (my server)

my qmail-smtp and qmail-send logs don't show anything interesting...

My antivirus program (kaspersky's) didn't like this at all and was 
generating this error:

Current object: <4>Jul 19 14:01:31:XXX

  Sector Objects :  0  Known viruses :  0
   Files :  0   Virus bodies :  0
 Folders :  0Disinfected :  0
Archives :  0Deleted :  0
  Packed :  0   Warnings :  0
  Suspicious :  0
  Speed (Kb/sec) :  0  Corrupted :  0
   Scan time :  276546:01:31  I/O Errors :  0


Query for the tests: <4>Jul 19 14:01:31:XXX

I cant find object XXX (error string: No such file or directory).


And maillog was filling up with this error:

mail avpkeeper[23221]: Invalid message format


I have totally disabled the Anti-Virus program, since I though that maybe 
it was the culprit. Turns out that my dnscache still continues to have the 
same error and nothing else has any interesting error messages...

this is my /service/smtp/run
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
export PATH
QMAILUID=`id -u qmaild`
NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild`
exec softlimit -m 1 -t600 tcpserver -S -R -H -c100 -x 
/home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u $QMAILUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp rblsmtpd \
-r blackholes.mail-abuse.org \
-r 'relays.mail-abuse.org:Open relay problem - see 
http://www.mail-abuse.com/cgi-bin/nph-rss?%IP%' \
qmail-smtpd splogger smtpd 2>&1


My qmail setup is done according to Matt Simerson's qmail-vpopmail-freebsd 
toaster.

RBL and RSS tests shows that everything is working fine... So the only 
thing that I can think of that might be different is that MAPS changed 
something? I know I haven't changed anything for over a month now (and this 
is a fairly busy server). The thing that really freaks me out is that I 
worked on Deloitte Consulting's web site around a year ago, and now my 
dnscache is filling up with requests for 
150.68.39.208.blackholes.mail-abuse.org which the IP address is for 
web01.dc.intira.com... I hope the two are not related in anyway. But the 
fact that it's there makes it at least strange.

Any help/info/ideas would be really appreciated.

Thanks!

__
Kris.

Re: anti-virus strategies

[Robin S. Socha]

begin Michel Rondeau's <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LOVELETTERFORYOU.txt.vbs:

> We're running Mandrake 8.0 with qmail as an email server for a bunch
> of 2000 and 9x machines.  I was wondering what you people would
> recommend anti-virus wise? 

fdisk. And then the 2.9 servicepack to secure the machines. That will
also give you time to read man 1 hostname and the archives for these
lists.

end and stuff...

Re: Manually manipulating serialmail queues

[Jörgen Persson]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:22:17PM +0200, Paulo Jan wrote:
[snip]
>   So, with that in mind, what are the features that you mention above?
> :-) (I'm afraid that they will turn out to be "write a shell script to
> grep the mails in the queue and touch those who come from $BIG_BOSS",
> but oh well...)


That's the way to go! /bin/sh is your friend :)

Jörgen

anti-virus strategies

[Michel Rondeau]

Hello all,
 
We're running Mandrake 8.0 with qmail as an email 
server for a bunch of 2000 and 9x machines.  I was wondering what you 
people would recommend anti-virus wise?  Is it better to have the 
anti-viral program running on the server?  Or should one buy something for 
the client computers?  Or perhaps both?  Any suggestions and/or info 
anyone could provide would be appreciated!
 
Thanks,
Michel Rondeau

Re: What replaces /bin/mail?

[Lukas Beeler]

At 14:17 19.07.2001 -0400, you wrote:
>In trying to complete my first qmail install, I followed the directions in 
>REMOVE.binmail. but I'm not sure how to complete step 3: "If the binmail 
>binary was /bin/mail, make sure that ``mail'' still invokes a usable mailer."

iam not sure what do you want to do.. i followed life with qmail [ 
http://www.lifewithqmail.org ] and it worked fine.. i still have the same 
/bin/mail installed, as it was under sendmail.. an everything works fine

>What "mail" mailer is used with qmail? Do I have to download something, or 
>do I just soft link something I already have to /bin/mail?

probably a softlink to qmail-inject ?

>Thanks for your help. Hope to join the ranks of successful qmailers soon.
>
>-Kevin Zembower
>
>-
>E. Kevin Zembower
>Unix Administrator
>Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs
>111 Market Place, Suite 310
>Baltimore, MD  21202
>410-659-6139

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Re: How to create dynamic users for IMAP Email services

[Greg White]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:00:56PM -0500, Robin S. Socha wrote:
> * Greg White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010719 12:58]:
> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:53:23PM +0530, KK wrote:
> 
> > > 1. How do I create dynamic system users (and assign them passwords)
> > > and the mail directories within the users home directories from
> > > inside an email-client application, which uses the IMAP protocol to
> > > access emails (just like it is done on hotmail.com or any other
> > > web-based email systems)?
> > 
> > Let me see if I understand this correctly -- you want to create mail
> > accounts from within an MUA? If that's what you're asking, it cannot be
> > done, and if it could I would run* as from from qmail as humanly
> > possible. Even Microsoft does not have this "feature". If this is not
> > what you're asking, please restate the nature of the problem.
> 
> Eh. You're in Unixland, not in Redmon. Sure it could be done. man
> procmail maildrop if you're into deviant sexual practices. Hmmm... come
> to think of it, man dotqmail would even do. Wicked.

qmail itself does not do this. Of course, you _could_ cook up some
setuid mess that created arbitrary virtual users (or even system users)
upon receipt of mail, but would you? Yuck. Better that the OP believe
that it is impossible. IMHO it is impossible to do securely.

-- 
Greg White

Re: help! thousands of qmail-queue processes!

[Alex Pennace]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:07:21PM -0600, Chris McDaniel wrote:
> The vast majority of the qmail-queue processes look to have a parent pid of
> '1'

Then something is not running qmail-queue properly. Find out what.

Shortly after it starts, qmail-queue starts a message file under
queue/mess. Even if no content has been passed to qmail-queue yet, it
will write out its Received header, which includes the calling
uid. Start your investigation there.

Re: orbs

[Christopher Tarricone]

As I understand it they were shutdown because the ISP was hosting them had
made a mandate that ORBS alert systems administrators BEFORE testing thier
servers for open relay
- Original Message -
From: "Kurth Bemis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 10:22 AM
Subject: orbs


> does any one know why orbs is offline?
>
> ~kurth
>
>

RE: help! thousands of qmail-queue processes!

[Chris McDaniel]

The vast majority of the qmail-queue processes look to have a parent pid of
'1'  Maybe 1% of the queue processes have other parent pids, so I'm not too
worried about them.  The server is still delivering some mail, so I'm making
an educated guess that queue processes not attached to init are doing "The
Right Thing".

Thanks,

Chris McDaniel

-Original Message-
From: Alex Pennace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 19 Jul, 2001 2:51 PM
To: Chris McDaniel
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: help! thousands of qmail-queue processes!


On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:43:14AM -0600, Chris McDaniel wrote:
> I'm having trouble with qmail - I have about 500 messages in the queue
> (usually this number hovers between 50 and 80) and between 1000 and 2000
> qmail-queue processes hanging around depending on when I sample.

What are the parents of those qmail-queue processes, and what are they
doing?

Re: help! thousands of qmail-queue processes!

[Alex Pennace]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:43:14AM -0600, Chris McDaniel wrote:
> I'm having trouble with qmail - I have about 500 messages in the queue
> (usually this number hovers between 50 and 80) and between 1000 and 2000
> qmail-queue processes hanging around depending on when I sample.

What are the parents of those qmail-queue processes, and what are they
doing?

Re: orbs

[Jon Rust]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 06:12:37PM +0200, Vincent Schonau wrote:
> 
> And if you switch to one of the other DNSBL's, please make sure you
> keep up with the various anti-spam forums. Most of these services are
> provided for free; making sure you don't waste the resources is the
> least you can do.

Yes, very good point. For example, beginning Aug 1 of this year, mail-abuse.org
(that's the original RBL, MAPS and DUL) will begin charging for access
to their DNS servers. If you don't have an account set-up with them
before then, you will lose access to them.

orbl.org seems to a popular replacement for orbs.org and MAPS.

jon

What replaces /bin/mail?

[KEVIN ZEMBOWER]

In trying to complete my first qmail install, I followed the directions in 
REMOVE.binmail. but I'm not sure how to complete step 3: "If the binmail binary was 
/bin/mail, make sure that ``mail'' still invokes a usable mailer."

What "mail" mailer is used with qmail? Do I have to download something, or do I just 
soft link something I already have to /bin/mail?

Thanks for your help. Hope to join the ranks of successful qmailers soon.

-Kevin Zembower

-
E. Kevin Zembower
Unix Administrator
Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs
111 Market Place, Suite 310
Baltimore, MD  21202
410-659-6139

Re: How to create dynamic users for IMAP Email services

[Robin S. Socha]

* Greg White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010719 12:58]:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:53:23PM +0530, KK wrote:

> > 1. How do I create dynamic system users (and assign them passwords)
> > and the mail directories within the users home directories from
> > inside an email-client application, which uses the IMAP protocol to
> > access emails (just like it is done on hotmail.com or any other
> > web-based email systems)?
> 
> Let me see if I understand this correctly -- you want to create mail
> accounts from within an MUA? If that's what you're asking, it cannot be
> done, and if it could I would run* as from from qmail as humanly
> possible. Even Microsoft does not have this "feature". If this is not
> what you're asking, please restate the nature of the problem.

Eh. You're in Unixland, not in Redmon. Sure it could be done. man
procmail maildrop if you're into deviant sexual practices. Hmmm... come
to think of it, man dotqmail would even do. Wicked.

Moving qmail to a new box

[Gary MacKay]

Where can I find a doc on moving a live qmail,courier-imap server to a
new box?

-Gary

Re: Procmail

[Henning Brauer]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:35:02PM +0200, Xavier Pegenaute wrote:
> I can do it only if i put ".qmail-default" in ../alias/ ?

Nonsense. Edit /var/qmail/rc, the sample scripts in /var/qmail/boot/ will
help.

-- 
* 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: orbs

[Michael Geier, CDM Systems Admin]

There are three new ORBS forks.

http://www.orbl.org/
http://www.orbz.gst-group.co.uk/orbs/
http://www.ordb.org/


-Original Message-
From: Vincent Schonau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 11:13 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: orbs


On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:22:02AM -0400, Kurth Bemis wrote:

> does any one know why orbs is offline?

It appears to be because of a) legal troubles and b) the fact that
Alan Brown has sold his ISP business. It is highly unlikely at this
point that it will ever come back. It has been down, by the way, since
early June.

If you are still running rblsmtpd querying any of the ORBS lists, be
warned:

   - The lists are no longer being maintained. The information in
 those list is *fast* becoming outdated; as time passes, you
 will be rejecting mail from more and more hosts that are not
 open relays.
 
   - The volunteers who provided DNS service to orbs.org are now
 seeing a significant increase in bandwidth usage because of the
 way the orbs lists were shut down. One of them has already turned
 to answering *every* ORBS request with an A and TXT record; this
 will lead to loss of _at least_ 1/10th of the mail at hosts
 still using ORBS.
 
It is possible that others will start doing the same; in which case
you will lose even more mail.

Stop querying the ORBS lists; you're just wasting your own and others'
resources.

And if you switch to one of the other DNSBL's, please make sure you
keep up with the various anti-spam forums. Most of these services are
provided for free; making sure you don't waste the resources is the
least you can do.


Vince.

Re: How to create dynamic users for IMAP Email services

[Lukas Beeler]

At 21:53 19.07.2001 +0530, you wrote:
>Hello Everyone -
>
>I am a new entrant to the "qmail" world and have recently installed the 
>qmail_1.03 server on a Red Hat Linux 6.0. I have also istalled the UW-imap 
>server with Maildir support. I have successfully configured 
>NS-Communicator to send and receive mails using the IMAP ptotocol using 
>qmail. I am even able to send and receive emails using Outlook Express 
>from other Windows systems in the local network. For accessing thses 
>emails, I was creating system users by logging-in as root and using the 
>LInuxConf utility. Now my questions are:
>
>1. How do I create dynamic system users (and assign them passwords) and 
>the mail directories within the users home directories from inside an 
>email-client application, which uses the IMAP protocol to access emails 
>(just like it is done on hotmail.com or any other web-based email systems)?
>

check out www.qmail.org, there are several solutions...

>2. Is the creation of system users avoidable for generating email 
>addresses? For eg. can I have an email addrress account hosted on the 
>above email server - [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>without creating a system user named "joe"? If yes, how can I make this 
>possible, both as a root user and also from within an email-client 
>application? Is there a readymade script available to do this?
>

see 1. there are web-administration solutions to do this

>I hope I have explained my problem in the right sense and am able to put 
>across the issue at hand. Any (and in fact all) replies/help is highly 
>appreciated. Hoping to get some replies from the techie gurus.
>
>Thanks & kind regards.
>
>KK
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]

-- 
--/-/-- Lukas Beeler  [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---\-\--
   \ \  My HomePage: http://www.projectdream.org>  / /

Re: How to create dynamic users for IMAP Email services

[Greg White]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:53:23PM +0530, KK wrote:
> Hello Everyone -
> 
> I am a new entrant to the "qmail" world and have recently installed the qmail_1.03 
>server on a Red Hat Linux 6.0. I have also istalled the UW-imap server with Maildir 
>support. I have successfully configured NS-Communicator to send and receive mails 
>using the IMAP ptotocol using qmail. I am even able to send and receive emails using 
>Outlook Express from other Windows systems in the local network. For accessing thses 
>emails, I was creating system users by logging-in as root and using the LInuxConf 
>utility. Now my questions are:
> 
> 1. How do I create dynamic system users (and assign them passwords) and the mail 
>directories within the users home directories from inside an email-client 
>application, which uses the IMAP protocol to access emails (just like it is done on 
>hotmail.com or any other web-based email systems)?

Let me see if I understand this correctly -- you want to create mail
accounts from within an MUA? If that's what you're asking, it cannot be
done, and if it could I would run* as from from qmail as humanly
possible. Even Microsoft does not have this "feature". If this is not
what you're asking, please restate the nature of the problem.

*screaming.
> 
> 2. Is the creation of system users avoidable for generating email addresses? For eg. 
>can I have an email addrress account hosted on the above email server - 
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] without creating a system user named "joe"? If yes, how can I 
>make this possible, both as a root user and also from within an email-client 
>application? Is there a readymade script available to do this?

Lots of options available here. Start with 'man qmail-users'. Look into
the 'vpopmail' package, or its alternative (whose name escapes me at
this moment). System accounts are not a requirement, and there are tons
of ways to attack the problem.

-- 
Greg White

help! thousands of qmail-queue processes!

[Chris McDaniel]

Hi,
I'm having trouble with qmail - I have about 500 messages in the queue
(usually this number hovers between 50 and 80) and between 1000 and 2000
qmail-queue processes hanging around depending on when I sample.  All the
other qmail programs appear to be running in reasonable numbers.  There were
some tcpserver errors in the log (of the could not fork variety) but I found
no other obvious errors.  Can anyone help?

Thanks, 

Chris McDaniel

Re: How to create dynamic users for IMAP Email services

[Robin S. Socha]

* KK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010719 11:39]:

Turn off HTML and wrap your lines properly. Your message looks like shit
and is 4x too big.

> I am a new entrant to the "qmail" world and have recently installed
> the qmail_1.03 server on a Red Hat Linux 6.0. I have also istalled the
> UW-imap server with Maildir support. 

So you're using an outdated and insecure OS along with the IMAP server
from hell. Good luck.

> 1. How do I create dynamic system users (and assign them passwords)
> and the mail directories within the users home directories from inside
> an email-client application, which uses the IMAP protocol to access
> emails (just like it is done on hotmail.com or any other web-based
> email systems)?

Not at all. Hotmail and similar sites uses CGI scripts to create the
account. Check http://www.inter7.com/vqregister/

> 2. Is the creation of system users avoidable for generating email
> addresses? 

Check http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/ God bless inter7.com.

Re: Procmail

[Greg White]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:35:02PM +0200, Xavier Pegenaute wrote:
> I can do it only if i put ".qmail-default" in ../alias/ ?
> 
> I think its right ..
> 
> Thanks for all ...:-)
>   - Original Message - 
>   From: Xavier Pegenaute 
>   To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>   Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 5:16 PM
>   Subject: Procmail
> 
> 
>   Hi all...
> 
>   Please, i need that Qmail exec "procmail" for every user in mine system, this 
>procmail is a little different than normal procmail, this one, zip all messages and 
>store the messages in his own folder ...
> 
>   But i'm not sure about how i can do it .., any one know ..?
> 
>   Thanks.

No, you do not need .qmail-default anywhere. A quick google search
returned:

1. Dan's own instructions, _contained in the qmail-1.03 distribution_.
2. Numerous other sources.

Just hit www.google.com with 'qmail procmail' and you will find your
answers.

-- 
Greg White

Re: Procmail

[Charles Cazabon]

Xavier Pegenaute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Please, i need that Qmail exec "procmail" for every user in mine
> system, this procmail is a little different than normal procmail, this
> one, zip all messages and store the messages in his own folder ...

Make it your default delivery instruction (i.e., argument to
qmail-start).  See "Life with qmail" for an example of setting up your
default delivery instruction, if the qmail documentation isn't clear
enough.  Beware that users who can create files in their home
directories can override this instruction -- if that's a problem, you
can use qmail-users to disallow .qmail access.

Charles
-- 
---
Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
GPL'ed software available at:  http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/
---

Re: orbs

[Vincent Schonau]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:22:02AM -0400, Kurth Bemis wrote:

> does any one know why orbs is offline?

It appears to be because of a) legal troubles and b) the fact that
Alan Brown has sold his ISP business. It is highly unlikely at this
point that it will ever come back. It has been down, by the way, since
early June.

If you are still running rblsmtpd querying any of the ORBS lists, be
warned:

   - The lists are no longer being maintained. The information in
 those list is *fast* becoming outdated; as time passes, you
 will be rejecting mail from more and more hosts that are not
 open relays.
 
   - The volunteers who provided DNS service to orbs.org are now
 seeing a significant increase in bandwidth usage because of the
 way the orbs lists were shut down. One of them has already turned
 to answering *every* ORBS request with an A and TXT record; this
 will lead to loss of _at least_ 1/10th of the mail at hosts
 still using ORBS.
 
It is possible that others will start doing the same; in which case
you will lose even more mail.

Stop querying the ORBS lists; you're just wasting your own and others'
resources.

And if you switch to one of the other DNSBL's, please make sure you
keep up with the various anti-spam forums. Most of these services are
provided for free; making sure you don't waste the resources is the
least you can do.


Vince.

How to create dynamic users for IMAP Email services

[KK]

Hello Everyone -

 
I am a new entrant to the "qmail" world and have recently 
installed the qmail_1.03 server on a Red Hat Linux 6.0. I have also istalled the 
UW-imap server with Maildir support. I have successfully configured 
NS-Communicator to send and receive mails using the IMAP ptotocol using qmail. I 
am even able to send and receive emails using Outlook Express from other Windows 
systems in the local network. For accessing thses emails, I was creating system 
users by logging-in as root and using the LInuxConf utility. Now my 
questions are:
 
1. How do I create dynamic system users (and assign them 
passwords) and the mail directories within the users home directories from 
inside an email-client application, which uses the IMAP protocol to access 
emails (just like it is done on hotmail.com or any other web-based email 
systems)?
 
2. Is the creation of system users avoidable for generating 
email addresses? For eg. can I have an email addrress account hosted on the 
above email server - [EMAIL PROTECTED] without 
creating a system user named "joe"? If yes, how can I make this 
possible, both as a root user and also from within an email-client application? 
Is there a readymade script available to do this?
 
I hope I have explained my problem in the right sense and 
am able to put across the issue at hand. Any (and 
in fact all) replies/help is highly appreciated. Hoping to get some replies from 
the techie gurus.
 
Thanks & kind regards.
 
KK
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

moving message

[Loroq]

THX to all of you to help me before...
now i got a question how to move message from one user mailbox to another
user

regards

- Original Message -
From: "Lukas Beeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Loroq" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: NEED HELP problem with virtual domain


> At 20:40 19.07.2001 +0700, you wrote:
> >sorry iam a newbie in qmail
> >I have problem with virtual domain, some domains work but the other is
not
> >work.
> >my default domain default.net
> >if i send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it deliver to [EMAIL PROTECTED] not to
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >i have set other.com:oth in virtualdomains
> >and have add to local and rcphost
>
> don't put other.com in local..
> i think thats the solution for your problem
>
> >how do i for qmail to read virtualdomains file (ihave do start and stop
but
> >not work)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >_
> >Do You Yahoo!?
> >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
>
> --
> --/-/-- Lukas Beeler 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---\-\--
>\ \  My HomePage: http://www.projectdream.org>  /
/


_
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: Procmail

[Xavier Pegenaute]

I can do it only if i put ".qmail-default" in 
../alias/ ?
 
I think its right ..
 
Thanks for all ...:-)

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Xavier 
  Pegenaute 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 5:16 
  PM
  Subject: Procmail
  
  Hi all...
   
  Please, i need that Qmail exec "procmail" for 
  every user in mine system, this procmail is a little different than normal 
  procmail, this one, zip all messages and store the messages in his own 
  folder ...
   
  But i'm not sure about how i can do it .., 
  any one know ..?
   
  Thanks.

Re: Manually manipulating serialmail queues

[Paulo Jan]

> 
> There is a perfectly good list for serialmail. Subscribe by sending a
> mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
> 

I did just a few hours ago. I received my confirmation request, replied
to it... and I'm still waiting. I'll give it a few more hours.
BTW, is there any place where the serialmail list is archived? Just so
that I can, uh, search it looking for my question before posting...


> Serialmail isn't a daemon, something else starts it -- usually a script
> that pppd activates. You can solve those problems by adding some
> features to whatever starts serialmail.
> 

I know it isn't a daemon. In my customer's case, it's started by a cron
job that calls it every 30 minutes using setlock. The complete line is
something like:

/usr/local/bin/setlock -nx ~alias/outmail/seriallock
/usr/local/bin/maildirsmtp ~alias/outmail alias-outmail- [UPSTREAM MAIL
SERVER'S IP] `hostname`


So, with that in mind, what are the features that you mention above?
:-) (I'm afraid that they will turn out to be "write a shell script to
grep the mails in the queue and touch those who come from $BIG_BOSS",
but oh well...)



Paulo Jan.
DDnet.

Procmail

[Xavier Pegenaute]

Hi all...
 
Please, i need that Qmail exec "procmail" for every 
user in mine system, this procmail is a little different than normal procmail, 
this one, zip all messages and store the messages in his own folder 
...
 
But i'm not sure about how i can do it .., 
any one know ..?
 
Thanks.

Re: orbs

[Henning Brauer]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:22:24AM -0400, Kurth Bemis wrote:
> does any one know why orbs is offline?

ORBS is closed due to legal problems. There were a thread a few weeks ago
here.

-- 
* 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)

orbs

[Kurth Bemis]

does any one know why orbs is offline?

~kurth

Re: NEED HELP problem with virtual domain

[Lukas Beeler]

At 20:40 19.07.2001 +0700, you wrote:
>sorry iam a newbie in qmail
>I have problem with virtual domain, some domains work but the other is not
>work.
>my default domain default.net
>if i send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it deliver to [EMAIL PROTECTED] not to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>i have set other.com:oth in virtualdomains
>and have add to local and rcphost

don't put other.com in local..
i think thats the solution for your problem

>how do i for qmail to read virtualdomains file (ihave do start and stop but
>not work)
>
>
>
>
>_
>Do You Yahoo!?
>Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

-- 
--/-/-- Lukas Beeler  [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---\-\--
   \ \  My HomePage: http://www.projectdream.org>  / /

NEED HELP problem with virtual domain

[Loroq]

sorry iam a newbie in qmail
I have problem with virtual domain, some domains work but the other is not
work.
my default domain default.net
if i send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it deliver to [EMAIL PROTECTED] not to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
i have set other.com:oth in virtualdomains
and have add to local and rcphost

how do i for qmail to read virtualdomains file (ihave do start and stop but
not work)




_
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

How to create dynamic users for IMAP Email services

[KK]

Hello Everyone -
 
I am a new entrant to the "qmail" world and have recently 
installed the qmail_1.03 server on a Red Hat Linux 6.0. I have also istalled the 
UW-imap server with Maildir support. I have successfully configured 
NS-Communicator to send and receive mails using the IMAP ptotocol using qmail. I 
am even able to send and receive emails using Outlook Express from other Windows 
systems in the local network. For accessing thses emails, I was creating system 
users by logging-in as root and using the LInuxConf utility. Now my 
questions are:
 
1. How do I create dynamic system users (and assign them 
passwords) and the mail directories within the users home directories from 
inside an email-client application, which uses the IMAP protocol to access 
emails (just like it is done on hotmail.com or any other web-based email 
systems)?
 
2. Is the creation of system users avoidable for generating 
email addresses? For eg. can I have an email addrress account hosted on the 
above email server - [EMAIL PROTECTED] without 
creating a system user named "joe"? If yes, how can I make this 
possible, both as a root user and also from within an email-client application? 
Is there a readymade script available to do this?
 
I hope I have explained my problem in the right sense and 
am able to put across the issue at hand. Any (and 
in fact all) replies/help is highly appreciated.
 
Thanks & kind regards.
 
KK[EMAIL PROTECTED]AssociateNetesoft 
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RE: multiple qmail-send

[Steve Wilson]

The only way you would have more than 1 instance of qmail-send is if you had
more than one queue, ie a multiqueueing environment .. 1 queue for
receiving, 1 for preprocessing and 1 for sending..


Steve

> -Original Message-
> From: Daniel BODEA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 18 July 2001 22:14
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lukas Beeler
> Subject: Re: multiple qmail-send
>
>
> Please excuse my HTML side of the email. Won't happen again.
>
> I wasn't asking about qmail-remote or qmail-local. What I was asking is
> "Could I EVER see more than 1 qmail-send process running on my
> system ?". If
> I'm not mistaken, it's the qmail-send process the one that adds bounce
> addresses to the bounce directory and it's there that I haven't seen any
> locking system. Plus qmail-send relies on the good old select
> method to poll
> its inputs so the flow is synchronous.
>
> Dan
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Lukas Beeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Daniel BODEA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 9:52 PM
> Subject: Re: multiple qmail-send
>
>
> > At 21:40 18.07.2001 +0200, Daniel BODEA wrote:
> > >Can there be, in the normal flow of qmail, multiple instances of
> > >qmail-send running at the same time (?)
> >
> > yes of course... what do you think is the concurrency limit for ?
> > exactly that
> >
> > >  because multithreaded it's not, and I haven't seen any locking
> > > mechanisms for the ressources qmail-send accesses directly.
> >
> > each of those processes send ONE individual message.. so there isn't any
> > locking machanism needed
> >
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >Dan
> >
> > and in future, please write text/plain and not text/html
> >
> > --
> > Lukas "Maverick" Beeler / Telematiker
> > Project: D.R.E.A.M / every.de - Your Community
> > Web: http://www.projectdream.org
> > Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>