installation testing and logging failure
i've read all available docs ,.. i've complete my installation. but i thing something wrong there.i could not find anything in my /var/log/maillog, so i couldn't send any messages to local or remote users. so how i fix this ??? and, next i try using starting script to star my qmail but i got wrong there,. i machhine is RH 6.2 and my qmail is 1.03 i've been tried to writing by hand and it wrong, and then i try to download from crypto but give same error, how could i fix ??? ++ | SaveOurCountry | ++
qmail security
dear all, i have mail server using qmail and running properly. how can i testing my mail server ? (secure or not) what kind of testing that i sould do ? regards yayan
virtualdomains
My question is about virtualdomains file test.com:peter this puts the .qmail-alias files in /home/peter say I want all qmail alias files to be in /home/peter/qmail directory. Is this possible ? - Regards Nick Wildthing Communications ICQ# 64851373 -
Re: DNS bug: CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily
Thank you for everybody. I have succeeded. I have deleted all and install again, now it don't infor the error
Qmail resending multiple times...
Hi, Just wanting to know if anyone has solved this behaviour... We are running SMTP redirects via Qmail 1.03 through to a Mimesweeper mail host. Most messages make it through quite happily but every now and then we get ones that hang around and get retransmitted, usually with the following appearing in the log ; delivery x: deferral: Connected_to_xx.xx.xx.xx_but_connection_died._Possible_duplicate!_(#4.4.2) Have been around the web to find someone else with a solution but to no avail - closest I came to was some guy suggesting to check if the source mail contained Bare CR's (think he was referring to bare carriage returns but not sure). Any ideas ? Cheers, Darren Kukulka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
the way to read mail's header
I is using Ezmlm + Qmail. I want to have a script to check mail's source IP address ( so I want read mail's header), my purpose is to reject some IP (don't permit some IP address send to my mailing list) For instance I have a mailing list is listname@domain. When someone send mail to listname@domain , my alias file (.qmail-listname) first check mail's source IP address.
installation testing and logging failure
try to check it via /var/qmail/log/currentif u interest in instalation qmail, i've a doc about that from my experienceintsalling at slackwareEssy Lestari PribadiCorporate Technology ServicesPlasmediaPhone: +6221 7982880Fax: +6221 7982881Company Website: www.plasmedia.com"This e-mail is for the designated recipient only and may contain privilegedor confidential information. If you have received it in error or unintendeduse, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any otheruse of the e-mail is prohibited."- Original Message -From: Indra Riawan [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 1:43 PMSubject: installation testing and logging failure i've read all available docs ,.. i've complete my installation. but i thing something wrong there.i could not find anything in my /var/log/maillog, so i couldn't send any messages to local or remote users. so how i fix this ??? and, next i try using starting script to star my qmail but i got wrong there,. i machhine is RH 6.2 and my qmail is 1.03 i've been tried to writing by hand and it wrong, and then i try to download from crypto but give same error, how could i fix ??? ++ | SaveOurCountry | ++
failure notice message
Hi,All Can I change content in failure notice message ? such as... Hi. This is the qmail-send program at gits.net.th. 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. Can I change it ? ThankYou+ OneR.
Re: Vmailmgr compile problems
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 08:28:42PM -0400, Gary MacKay wrote: I've setup a new qmail/courier-imap server and all is well except for vmailmgr. You are on the wrong list. PLease use bruce's list for his software. -- * 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: How can we Inplement the mailing list in qmail
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 09:52:03AM +0530, Sandeep Goel wrote: How can we implement mailing list in qmail-ldap a) read http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ldap/, there's a whole section about that b) use the correct list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- * 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 resending multiple times...
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:33:49PM +0800, Darren Kukulka wrote: Hi, Just wanting to know if anyone has solved this behaviour... We are running SMTP redirects via Qmail 1.03 through to a Mimesweeper mail host. delivery x: deferral: Connected_to_xx.xx.xx.xx_but_connection_died._Possible_duplicate!_(#4.4.2) Mimesweeper did not reply with a 250 ak after the DATA phase, so qmail cannot be sure that the mail will be delivered. It _must_ resend it. Fix Mimesweeper. -- * 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)
Strange behaviour
I experienced some, imho, weird qmail behaviour today and I'm curious as to what could possibly have caused it. My qmail installation have been running happily without any problems at all for months but today, for no apparent reason, qmail-send stopped working. The only changes I had done to the system was to move some aliases from /etc/aliases to .~alias/.qmail-whatever. After running newaliases (the version from the fastforward package) qmail-send stopped working. It probably had not been working for a few minutes but this was when i noticed it. the qmail-send log shows occurances of the following starting some 10 minutes before i noticed the problem: delivery 136988: failure: Unable_to_run_qmail-remote./ delivery 136987: deferral: Unable_to_run_qmail-getpw./ warning: trouble injecting bounce message, will try later Running /service/qmail-send/run manually produced nothing but an immediate return to the prompt without any kind of output or messages. Same when running /var/qmail/rc. Charles Cazabon's queue-repair reported that some messages in the queue was owned by the wrong user but fixing this, using queue-repair -r, did not rememedy the situation. After some time looking at configuration files and wondering what the hell could be wrong I decided to run the (in?)famous make setup check from the patched sources. Well, what do you know, suddenly it works again, patches and all. What I am wondering is what could possibly have caused this, apparent, corruption of the binaries? The system: Slackware Linux (kernel 2.2.13) Qmail with qmailqueue,ext2 sync and tarpit patches Mail is delivered to /var/spool/mail fastforward with /etc/aliases qmail-scanner using hbdev's scanning engine. -- Lars Hansson Technical Consultant/System Administrator UNET, Inc.Makati City, Philippines e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public key: http://www.unet.net.ph/~lars/gpgkey.txt PGP signature
Re: failure notice message
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:49:02PM +0700, W. Ruangsang wrote: Hi,All Can I change content in failure notice message ? such as... Hi. This is the qmail-send program at gits.net.th. 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. Can I change it ? Only in the source, and I'd better not do that. You will most likely break http://cr.yp.to/proto/qsbmf.txt -- * 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)
ezmlm 0.53 ezmlm-send -C options
Hello evryone. I found the part 'Configuring the list so posts are not copied to the original sender' in the documentation, and correct the DIR/editor ezmlm-send line from source to folowing: -- ezmlm-send -C '/home/vpopmail/domains/domain.com/list' -- and this don't work, copy of messages rturn to sender. one strange, in documentation wroted that '-C' option no longer supported, and now ingored, but below manual contain small article about switch -C. anybody can clear th situation? where are mistake? -- Best regards, vlad mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ezmlm 0.53 ezmlm-send -C options
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 01:59:11PM +0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ezmlm-send -C '/home/vpopmail/domains/domain.com/list' You are on the wrong list. Please use the ezmlm list. -- * 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)
SMTP error
Hi, I was wondering, I get this error: warning: dropping connection, unable to read /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb: file does not exist Ok, the file does not exist.. but were is it... do I have to install something more ? (I have installed ucspi-tcp-0.88 ).. and i'm using OpenBSD 2.9.. Thanx
help me please
i am turn over my qmail sistem from inetd to tcpserver but when i want to know maillog file like /var/log/maillog it's empty can u give me an advice ...where is my new maillog in order to know error delivery mail thanks before andihari
Re: SMTP error
check the qmail faq regards dushyanth Hi, I was wondering, I get this error: warning: dropping connection, unable to read /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb: file does not exist Ok, the file does not exist.. but were is it... do I have to install something more ? (I have installed ucspi-tcp-0.88 ).. and i'm using OpenBSD 2.9.. Thanx -- 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: help me please
whats the command line ur using.. regards dushyanth i am turn over my qmail sistem from inetd to tcpserver but when i want to know maillog file like /var/log/maillog it's empty can u give me an advice ...where is my new maillog in order to know error delivery mail thanks before andihari -- 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: help me please
tail -f usually i use tail -f /var/log/maillog ( if under inetd ) but now i run qmail under tcp server.. any suggest sir andihari
Re: help me please
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 05:54:30PM +0700, andi hari wrote: tail -f usually i use tail -f /var/log/maillog ( if under inetd ) but now i run qmail under tcp server.. Read http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ Really. -- * 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)
OT: ezmlm.org offline?!
Does somebody knows a mirror? Greets markus -Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: Henning Brauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. Juli 2001 13:01 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: help me please On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 05:54:30PM +0700, andi hari wrote: tail -f usually i use tail -f /var/log/maillog ( if under inetd ) but now i run qmail under tcp server.. Read http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ Really. -- * 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: help me please
i mean the tcpserver command line not tail -f or whatever read lifewithqmail.org as Henning suggested. tail -f usually i use tail -f /var/log/maillog ( if under inetd ) but now i run qmail under tcp server.. any suggest sir andihari -- 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/
QSBMF
I know, this has been in the list too many times... Anyway, I have reeded some of the threads with discussion about this. They all start with someone who want to change the content of the bounce message. The arguments used to not change the bounce message is that it will probably broke the QSBMF format. And there is a lot of people who say they can not se any reason to change the content in these messages. Well there is a good reason, there is not only english speaking people in the world. I have readed about the QSBMF format and here are some thoughts: First of all, the start in this message is not good for a automatic sended message. A message starting with Hi looks like an mail written by a human person and can be confusing for them who just know a little english. A much better way to start this kind of message is This is a automatic generated failure message from qmail bla bla bla But I realise this is to late to change now. So I hope noone will, because it will make a lot of trubble for mailing list servers. Changing the first paragraph, will not break the QSBMF format as long it start with Hi. This is the because that is what identifies these messages. After the first paragraph in this message there is a paragraph with the recipient adress that failed. The fisrt line of this paragraph begins whit and it ends with : The remaing lines in this paragraph can be changed to whatever you want. I think there should be no problem to add paragraphs in diffrent languages between the first paragraph and the one with the recipient address that failed without break the QSBMF format so it not works. Here is the reason why: Paragraphs beginning with other characters are reserved for future extensions. Paragraphes what not begin with Hi. This is the, and - is reserved for future use. So if a program handling QSBMF do not work because of adding a paragraph in another langue that not begins on those ways, that program do not follow the QSBMF program and is broken. And because of many has requested to write this message in diffrent languages, I think a paragraph for language independent messages should be considered into the QSBMF format. I mean there is paragraphes reserved for future use. And maybe the future is here now. For them who want to change the message, I think you can go ahead and do it. As long the first paragraph start with Hi. This is the and the recipient paragraph first line is not changed. And the end with the break paragraph with starting with - is still where and the original message after that. If someone add paragraphes in diffrent languages there could be a good idea to start it with a alpha-character so there still can be other paragraphes added in the future starting with other characters. But I think a good idea could be to have all text in the message in english to because of that is the most used language on the internet. Program using bounce message for any reason, that not can handle a bounce message that is like this is broken and should be fixed. Andreas
Changed hostnames need to requeue mail, and have hostname changed
Recently, my dynamic DNS provider yi.org stopped working. So, I've changed to a homeip.net hostname. I've changed my qmail control files, including me -- but I have a few messages that were enqueued with the old hostname. How can I get these messages, changed so they will be sent out. The mail is failing since the old hostname is unresolvable. (I've changed email addresses, but I need to change the enqueued messages from @bad.org to @bad.homeip.net; I tried looking in archives under requeue and change hostname but didn't find anything relavent) [root@bad queue]# qmail queue messages in queue: 4 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 23 Jul 2001 21:00:03 GMT #291693 6830 [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Jul 2001 21:48:30 GMT #291694 1475 [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24 Jul 2001 03:31:23 GMT #291648 2326 [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24 Jul 2001 03:47:33 GMT #291654 1003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Errol Casey http://www.askerrol.org http://www.boo-bear.com http://www.rtpnet.org http://www.ncarrl.org (GPG Key: Send email with Subject: send gpg )
Re: QSBMF
* Andreas Grip [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010724 13:37]: I know, this has been in the list too many times... Okay, so let's go to http://cr.yp.to/proto/qsbmf.txt and find out what the final truth is. Yes, you can make your own bounce messages. And yes, you can make them QSBMF-compliant. The trick is to keep the first paragraph from the original, and sticking you own text below _with_no_blank_lines_in_between._ You could, of course, have a line containing only a space between the original text and your text. Or, if you don't trust all parsers, a dash or two - but not three! Example: --- snip --- Date: 17 Mar 1996 03:54:40 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at silverton.berkeley.edu. 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. - Hej. Detta är programmet qmail-send på silverton.berkeley.edu. Jag kunde tyvärr inte leverera meddelandet till följande adresser. Detta är ett permanent fel; jag har gett upp. Ledsen att det inte fungerade. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry, I couldn't find any host by that name. --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 317 invoked by uid 7); 17 Mar 1996 03:54:38 - Date: 17 Mar 1996 03:54:38 - Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D. J. Bernstein) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: are you there? Just checking. --- snap --- Or, you may want to find a less strict (and less funny-sounding) swedish translation. [Who is the Mailer-Daemon and why is he reading my mail?] -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: QSBMF
Johan Almqvist wrote: * Andreas Grip [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010724 13:37]: I know, this has been in the list too many times... Okay, so let's go to http://cr.yp.to/proto/qsbmf.txt and find out what the final truth is. Yes, you can make your own bounce messages. And yes, you can make them QSBMF-compliant. The trick is to keep the first paragraph from the original, and sticking you own text below _with_no_blank_lines_in_between._ You could, of course, have a line containing only a space between the original text and your text. Or, if you don't trust all parsers, a dash or two - but not three! There should be no problem to have a blank line either. Beacuse the recipt paragraph always begins with . And all other paragraphs is reserved for future use. And I guess there would be no future version of QSBMF... Example: --- snip --- Date: 17 Mar 1996 03:54:40 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at silverton.berkeley.edu. 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. - Hej. Detta är programmet qmail-send på silverton.berkeley.edu. Jag kunde tyvärr inte leverera meddelandet till följande adresser. Detta är ett permanent fel; jag har gett upp. Ledsen att det inte fungerade. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry, I couldn't find any host by that name. --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 317 invoked by uid 7); 17 Mar 1996 03:54:38 - Date: 17 Mar 1996 03:54:38 - Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D. J. Bernstein) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: are you there? Just checking. --- snap --- Or, you may want to find a less strict (and less funny-sounding) swedish translation. [Who is the Mailer-Daemon and why is he reading my mail?] -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature
Re: QSBMF
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 01:37:50PM +0200, Andreas Grip wrote: I know, this has been in the list too many times... Then you should've just pointed to, for instance: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=qmailm=99366089430160w=2 As for the arguments for and against, it's more a matter of questioning why the requester would want to do it, to see if there might be a neater way of achieving his/her objective without hacking code. Happens all the time 'round these parts. 8-) -- Adrian HoTinker, Drifter, Fixer, Bum [EMAIL PROTECTED] ListArchive: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=qmail Useful URLs: http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html http://www.qmail.org http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ http://qmail.faqts.com/
virtualdomains
My question is about virtualdomains file test.com:peter this puts the .qmail-alias files in /home/peter say I want all qmail alias files to be in /home/peter/qmail directory. Is this possible ? - Regards Nick Wildthing Communications ICQ# 64851373 -
Re: QSBMF
Johan Almqvist wrote: * Andreas Grip [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010724 14:30]: Johan Almqvist wrote: Okay, so let's go to http://cr.yp.to/proto/qsbmf.txt and find out what the final truth is. Yes, you can make your own bounce messages. And yes, you can make them QSBMF-compliant. The trick is to keep the first paragraph from the original, and sticking you own text below _with_no_blank_lines_in_between._ There should be no problem to have a blank line either. Beacuse the recipt paragraph always begins with . And all other paragraphs is reserved for future use. And I guess there would be no future version of QSBMF... But that would violate QSBMF: The body of the message has four pieces: an introductory paragraph, zero or more recipient paragraphs, a break paragraph, and the original message. Each paragraph is a series of non-blank lines followed by a single blank line. But then QSBMF violate itself, because the QSBMF format include the possibillity of other paragraphes in the futures. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature
Re: Changed hostnames need to requeue mail, and have hostname changed
I was able to finally figure out that the outgoing hostname was in the /var/qmail/queue/info directories and was able to manually change it and push out the queue. If there is a better solution, let me know. Thanks for the individual responses I've received so far. On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 07:55:11AM -0400, Errol Casey wrote: Recently, my dynamic DNS provider yi.org stopped working. So, I've changed to a homeip.net hostname. I've changed my qmail control files, including me -- but I have a few messages that were enqueued with the old hostname. How can I get these messages, changed so they will be sent out. The mail is failing since the old hostname is unresolvable. (I've changed email addresses, but I need to change the enqueued messages from @bad.org to @bad.homeip.net; I tried looking in archives under requeue and change hostname but didn't find anything relavent) [root@bad queue]# qmail queue messages in queue: 4 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 23 Jul 2001 21:00:03 GMT #291693 6830 [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Jul 2001 21:48:30 GMT #291694 1475 [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24 Jul 2001 03:31:23 GMT #291648 2326 [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24 Jul 2001 03:47:33 GMT #291654 1003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Errol Casey http://www.askerrol.org http://www.boo-bear.com http://www.rtpnet.org http://www.ncarrl.org (GPG Key: Send email with Subject: send gpg ) -- Errol Casey http://www.askerrol.org http://www.boo-bear.com http://www.rtpnet.org http://www.ncarrl.org (GPG Key: Send email with Subject: send gpg )
Re: QSBMF
* Andreas Grip [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010724 14:55]: [...] But that would violate QSBMF: The body of the message has four pieces: an introductory paragraph, zero or more recipient paragraphs, a break paragraph, and the original message. Each paragraph is a series of non-blank lines followed by a single blank line. But then QSBMF violate itself, because the QSBMF format include the possibillity of other paragraphes in the futures. No! The recipient paragraphs could look as follows: --- snip --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry, I couldn't find any host by that name. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): This message was delivered without problems. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This message was delivered with lossy MIME conversion. --- snap --- To quote: The only type of recipient paragraph described here is a failure paragraph, which begins with the character . Paragraphs beginning with other characters are reserved for future extensions. Implicitly, this means that future extensions only are possible for recipient paragraphs. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Auto CC
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:09:27PM -0600, Nathan Cook wrote: Thank you. After reading the mail from Peter I was able to solve my problem by putting this in the .qmail file in the home directory. RTFM in it's finest form. Great :) Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html
Re: Inode allocation / qmail-queue?
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:41:22PM -0600, Mike Hodson wrote: Hello there. I have been noticing slightly out of the ordinary things happening in my qmail-send logs after changing the queue filesystem over to reiserfs. I am seeing the same inode used for multiple messages. Is this normal? Yes, this is perfectly normal. Once a message is delivered, an inode number becomes available. Depending on how a filesystem allocates inodes, this may mean the number is immediately reused. If you have lots of logfiles from qmail running on an ext2fs disk, I guarantee you will see some inode-numbers being used more than once too. Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html
Which RBL replacement?
Hi all: Starting Jul 31 RBL will start charging for using their services. Which of the free RBL replacement do people recommend? I have read so far about ORBL and ORBS... Paulo Jan. DDnet.
Migrating an outsourced webmail system to qmail
Hi, I hope list members will forgive my impudence: Leaving the list for a few months, then coming back asking big questions. Anyway: I'm looking at migrating an existing (outsourced) webmail system for a client. I need to migrate: - Messages (often arranged into folders by the mailbox owner) - Settings (vacation message turned on etc.) - Address books This is obviously not so straightforward as just moving from one POP3 style system to another, since more than just the messages need to be transferred. I'm currently looking at 2 possibilities, - Get the outsourcer to provide my client with IMAP facilities, which could then permit me to replicate the messages and folders by using IMAP tools. - Using a tool to replicate html at both sides, putting hooks into the target side to actually change settings rather than recreate a web page that looks the same (but doesn't set the users settings). I'd anticipate using both of these tools together, or perhaps just the second tool. The second tool might use something like Expect. XML has also been mentioned. That's as far as my thought processes have got, and I am feeling out of my depth, so I'd appreciate any input from list members if they've done anything like this themselves, or have other approaches to the problem, or can suggest specific tools that may help. Big question! Sorry people. cheers, Andrew.
Re: Qmail resending multiple times...
This is indicative of the Mimesweeper machine not being able to handle the volume being passed it from the qmail machine. We've had the same issues and the group responsible for Mimesweeper (and in our case Mailsweeper) had to add additional load balanced machines to keep up with qmail. I reject their suggestion of reducing my concurrency since that only pushes the problem back to sender. Jeff Sweeten Sr. Internet Engineer Aon 200 E Randolph Chicago, Il 60601 Darren Kukulka [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 07/24/2001 02:33:49 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Jeff D Sweeten/ASC/US/AON) Subject: Qmail resending multiple times... Hi, Just wanting to know if anyone has solved this behaviour... We are running SMTP redirects via Qmail 1.03 through to a Mimesweeper mail host. Most messages make it through quite happily but every now and then we get ones that hang around and get retransmitted, usually with the following appearing in the log ; delivery x: deferral: Connected_to_xx.xx.xx.xx_but_connection_died._Possible_duplicate!_(#4.4.2) Have been around the web to find someone else with a solution but to no avail - closest I came to was some guy suggesting to check if the source mail contained Bare CR's (think he was referring to bare carriage returns but not sure). Any ideas ? Cheers, Darren Kukulka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which RBL replacement?
* Paulo Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010724 15:29]: Starting Jul 31 RBL will start charging for using their services. Which of the free RBL replacement do people recommend? I have read so far about ORBL and ORBS... Take a look at http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/rbldomains.txt I will make a more complete page with links etc in the future... -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: QSBMF
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Andreas Grip wrote: A message starting with Hi looks like an mail written by a human person and can be confusing for them who just know a little english. A much better way to start this kind of message is This is a automatic generated failure message from qmail bla bla bla Automatic, generated, failure and message are more difficult words than Hi, This, is, and program, for the non-English speaker. However, perhaps you're right. In any case, I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses, is not as simple as, Problem: message NOT sent. -- Greg MathesonThink globally. Chinmin College, Act locally. Taiwan Think one thing, do another.
Having problems with postmaster....
Hey all... I have a problem, that's not _really_ a problem, but I've had someone complain, so I figured I should fix it. I always put .qmail-postmaster in /var/qmail/alias and point it to an account on the system. It's always worked, except on one site. It rejects any mail for postmaster saying that there is no such user, but the .qmail-postmaster file _is_ in place. Does anyone know why, on this one system, qmail disregards the .qmail file? Thanks in advance. David
Re: Qmail resending multiple times...
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:39:27AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is indicative of the Mimesweeper machine not being able to handle the volume being passed it from the qmail machine. If Mimesweeper's really closing down the connection for that reason, and without returning any status code, that's an RFC 2821 violation (Section 3.9, para 2). You could hit them with that, if you're so inclined. -- Adrian HoTinker, Drifter, Fixer, Bum [EMAIL PROTECTED] ListArchive: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=qmail Useful URLs: http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html http://www.qmail.org http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ http://qmail.faqts.com/
Re: Which RBL replacement?
Starting Jul 31 RBL will start charging for using their services. Which of the free RBL replacement do people recommend? I have read so far about ORBL and ORBS... I check them all. I am still discussing with my partner whether to continue with Vixie, now that he is charging (our mail is a fairly small operation). However, it really isn't THAT much, so we'll probably keep them as well. -- Roger Walker Tier III Messaging/News Team Internet Applications, National Consumer IP TELUS Corporation 780-493-2471
Re: Which RBL replacement?
* Johan Almqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010724 09:53]: * Paulo Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010724 15:29]: Starting Jul 31 RBL will start charging for using their services. Which of the free RBL replacement do people recommend? I have read so far about ORBL and ORBS... Take a look at http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/rbldomains.txt See also [http://www.declude.com/JunkMail/Support/ip4r.htm] for a list of services. However, they don't come with any recommendation, which is what I (like the OP) am looking for... Johan (or anyone else), are you actually using all of those domains? I have heard less-than-savory things about a number of them, IIRC: orbs.gst-group.co.uk manual.orbs.gst-group.co.uk inputs.orbz.org outputs.orbz.org A couple of links to comments: [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=inet-accessm=99320105921014w=2] [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=inet-accessm=99322603208868w=2] I am not as sure about the orbz.org thing...YMMV... /pg -- Peter Green : Architekton Internet Services, LLC : [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Q. Why is this so clumsy? A. The trick is to use Perl's strengths rather than its weaknesses. --- Larry Wall in [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Having problems with postmaster....
[Please do not start new threads by replying to unrelated messages.] * David Gartner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010724 15:55]: I have a problem, that's not _really_ a problem, but I've had someone complain, so I figured I should fix it. I always put .qmail-postmaster in /var/qmail/alias and point it to an account on the system. It's always worked, except on one site. It rejects any mail for postmaster saying that there is no such user, but the .qmail-postmaster file _is_ in place. Does anyone know why, on this one system, qmail disregards the .qmail file? Thanks in advance. What do the logs say if you send a message to postmaster in that domain? What does ls -lsa /var/qmail/alias say? What does id alias give? What does grep alias /etc/passwd give? -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Which RBL replacement?
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:04:15AM -0600, Roger Walker wrote: Starting Jul 31 RBL will start charging for using their services. Which of the free RBL replacement do people recommend? I have read so far about ORBL and ORBS... I check them all. I am still discussing with my partner whether to continue with Vixie, now that he is charging (our mail is a fairly small operation). However, it really isn't THAT much, so we'll probably keep them as well. How does his charging system work, anyway? Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html
RE: Which RBL replacement?
Basically, if you have a lot of accounts, they charge you a LOT of money: http://www.mail-abuse.org/feestructure.html They even feel the need to charge non-profit educational institutions, very nice MAPS... Dave -Original Message- From: Peter van Dijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 10:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Which RBL replacement? How does his charging system work, anyway? Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html
Re: Which RBL replacement?
Starting Jul 31 RBL will start charging for using their services. How does his charging system work, anyway? http://www.mailabuse.org/feestructure.html -- Roger Walker Tier III Messaging/News Team Internet Applications, National Consumer IP TELUS Corporation 780-493-2471
what can be done about 'in order to have your advice...'
Can anyone help me figure out a way to handle this recent virus? It typically tags email in body: '...in order to have your advice...' and sends random attachments .2 to 2Mb in size. We're getting a lot of these already, and I'm worried that a flood will jam us up, amounting to a DOS. At the very least, this is going to cost us a lot of bandwidth $$$. Seems to me the only way to stop it is to scan the body before the mail is accepted. Yeech. And as soon as we get variations on '...in order to have your advice...' it will be just about indistinguishable from normal email with attachments. All I can think of is setting up a colocated MX where bandwidth is cheap and filtering all mail there, then accepting only from that IP. Hmmm, is there a mailscrubber.com ASP that provides that service reliably? cfm -- Christopher F. Miller, Publisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] MaineStreet Communications, Inc 208 Portland Road, Gray, ME 04039 1.207.657.5078 http://www.maine.com/ Content/site management, online commerce, internet integration, Debian linux
RE: Compiling on Solaris 8
I do have gcc Installed? And I am able to compile other programs with no errors. Thanks Mike -Original Message- From: Keary Suska [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 7:22 PM To: Qmail List Subject: Re: Compiling on Solaris 8 Install gcc, and use it instead. Keary Suska Esoteritech, Inc. Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet From: Mike Jimenez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 17:14:10 -0700 To: Qmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Compiling on Solaris 8 When I try to compile I get this error what do I need to do to fix? Thanks bash-2.03# make setup check ( cat warn-auto.sh; \ echo CC=\'`head -1 conf-cc`\'; \ echo LD=\'`head -1 conf-ld`\' \ ) auto-ccld.sh cat auto-ccld.sh make-load.sh make-load chmod 755 make-load cat auto-ccld.sh find-systype.sh find-systype chmod 755 find-systype ./find-systype systype ( cat warn-auto.sh; ./make-load `cat systype` ) load chmod 755 load cat auto-ccld.sh make-compile.sh make-compile chmod 755 make-compile ( cat warn-auto.sh; ./make-compile `cat systype` ) \ compile chmod 755 compile ( ( ./compile tryvfork.c ./load tryvfork ) /dev/null \ 21 \ cat fork.h2 || cat fork.h1 ) fork.h rm -f tryvfork.o tryvfork ./compile qmail-local.c /usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed make: *** [qmail-local.o] Error 1 bash-2.03#
mailsize limit
Hi all. I'd like to do some mailsize limiting with qmail and I'm wondering if there's a simple way to do this: - external to local should be limited to i.e. 5Mb - local to local mail should be unlimited What I'm looking for is some kind of domain dependend maximum mail size limiting... Thanks in advance, Frank -- Dipl.-Phys. Frank Moller [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Engineering * GONICUS GmbH * Moehnestrasse 11-17 * 59755 Arnsberg * Tel.: +49 (0) 29 32 / 9 16 - 0 * Fax: +49 (0) 29 32 / 9 16 - 230 * http://www.GONICUS.de
Re: mailsize limit
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 05:04:25PM +0200, Frank Moeller wrote: Hi all. I'd like to do some mailsize limiting with qmail and I'm wondering if there's a simple way to do this: - external to local should be limited to i.e. 5Mb - local to local mail should be unlimited What I'm looking for is some kind of domain dependend maximum mail size limiting... You can set the environment variable DATABYTES in your tcp.smtp-file (that I assume you use and compile to tcp.smtp.cdb, and use with tcpserver according to life with qmail). Just like you set RELAYCLIENT=, you can set DATABYTES there to different values. Set DATABYTES TO 0 if you don't want any limit. set it to something else to limit. /magnus -- Unfortunately, those people who have nothing better to do than post on the Internet all day long are rarely the ones who have the most insights. - Jakob Nielsen, August 1997
Re: Compiling on Solaris 8
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:02:20AM -0700, Mike Jimenez wrote: I do have gcc Installed? And I am able to compile other programs with no errors. Like Keary said, /use/ it. Either: echo gcc -O2 conf-cc echo gcc -s conf-ld or fix your path so that it doesn't pick up /usr/ucb/cc first. /usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed -- Adrian HoTinker, Drifter, Fixer, Bum [EMAIL PROTECTED] ListArchive: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=qmail Useful URLs: http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html http://www.qmail.org http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ http://qmail.faqts.com/
scan-4-virus NAI not stopping SirCam
Anybody else got this issue? I'm using .95 and latest DAT (7/22) Thanks all. John McCoy, Jr Central Systems Administrator Mills College, Oakland, CA 510-430-3321 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: scan-4-virus NAI not stopping SirCam
From: John McCoy, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 08:54:10 -0700 Anybody else got this issue? I'm using .95 and latest DAT (7/22) qmail-scanner-0.90 and uvscan-v4.1.40/v4149 are stopping it just fine. 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
Alias for a subdomain
Hi I want qmail to accept mail sent to a subdomain, but send the message to the same user on the domain. Like this: mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is accepted and then actually delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This seems pretty simple, but the newbie is still in me. Thanks Jeff
Re: Which RBL replacement?
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:29:15PM +0200, Paulo Jan wrote: Hi all: Starting Jul 31 RBL will start charging for using their services. Which of the free RBL replacement do people recommend? I have read so far about ORBL and ORBS... http://software.libertine.org/tmda/ Blocks spam better than any RBL ever did. I'm still thinking about setting up a new RBL though. But it's going to be different than any previous RBL in a very important way. I'll discuss more once I've made up my mind. --Adam -- Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Help stop animal abuse at Petco! http://flounder.net/publickey.html | http://www.mickaboofriends.org GPG: 17A4 11F7 5E7E C2E7 08AA | 38B0 05D0 8BF7 2C6D 110A |
Re: Having problems with postmaster....
Johan Almqvist wrote: [Please do not start new threads by replying to unrelated messages.] Eh? Me? * David Gartner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010724 15:55]: I have a problem, that's not _really_ a problem, but I've had someone complain, so I figured I should fix it. I always put .qmail-postmaster in /var/qmail/alias and point it to an account on the system. It's always worked, except on one site. It rejects any mail for postmaster saying that there is no such user, but the .qmail-postmaster file _is_ in place. Does anyone know why, on this one system, qmail disregards the .qmail file? Thanks in advance. What do the logs say if you send a message to postmaster in that domain? @40003b5d98aa268fdd44 info msg 357095: bytes 755 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 28748 uid 16 @40003b5d98aa26ac044c starting delivery 826368: msg 357095 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] @40003b5d98aa26accb84 status: local 1/10 remote 8/20 @40003b5d98aa2abf4a6c delivery 826368: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ What does ls -lsa /var/qmail/alias say? total 100 4 drwxr-sr-x 2 aliasqmail4096 Jul 19 13:34 . 4 drwxr-xr-x 10 root qmail4096 Jul 5 20:59 .. 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 8 May 18 06:03 .qmail-postmaster 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 8 May 18 06:03 .qmail-root (I shortened this cause it was long ^^;) What does id alias give? uid=19(alias) gid=502(nofiles) groups=502(nofiles) What does grep alias /etc/passwd give? alias:x:19:502::/home/alias:/bin/bash Opps Is that the problem? -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature
Re: several /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd and bin/qmail-queue
bash-2.05$ ls -al /var/qmail/doc/INTERNALS ls: /var/qmail/doc/INTERNALS: No such file or directory bash-2.05$ - Original Message - From: Greg White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 10:23 PM Subject: Re: several /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd and bin/qmail-queue On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:58:04PM -0400, alexus wrote: i was checking something and i founds this my mail server seems to have tons of /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd and bin/qmail-queue running at the same time.. about 30 of them The process actually listening on port 25 forks a qmail-smtpd for every incoming conneciton. qmail-queue is then run to place the mail safely in the queue. any ideas why? Read /var/qmail/doc/INTERNALS. nothin intersting in maillog I find that hard to believe. At the moment you see that many qmail-queues hanging around, qmail-smtpd's logs should read something like so, if logged through tcpserver: @40003b5cd7620a221bcc tcpserver: status: 30/xx where xx is either 40 or whatever is specified in the 'run' file for qmail-smtpd. ISTR that inetd does some sort of logging of how many processes it has opened, but it's been so long since I used inetd for anything that I've forgotten. -- Greg White
Re: fastforward setup
Hi all, Thanks to a recent thread between David Gartner and Johan Almqvist (re: Having problems with postmaster...) I was able to spot my error. All of the users/groups had been created but the home directory for user alias was /home/alias which is wrong! Changed the home dir to /var/qmail/alias and everything works like a charm. Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, I have two qmail setups. Their qmail/control directories are identical except for their individual hostnames. Their qmail/alias directories are identical. The only difference that I can find is that one is on RedHat6.1 and the other is on RedHat7.1.The goal is to have a forwarder with no local deliveries i.e. everything is a virtualdomain and everything is routed according to etc/aliases.cdb. The RH61 qmail works and forwards according to the rules in aliases.cdb but the RH7.1 qmail doesn't. The log shows that mail is being routed correctly up to a point. i.e through qmail-inject, qmail-queue and qmail-send but appears to fail within qmail-local. starting delivery 5: msg 112266 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] status local 1/10 remote 0/20 delivery 5: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1) status local 0/10 remote 0/20 bounce msg 112266 qp 5607 Another note: the RedHat6.1 setup was done many, many months ago. The RedHat7.1 setup is brand new. I've been trying to figure this out for 5 days. I can only guess that I've skipped a step somewhere but have been staring at the docs for so long that I couldn't see it if it were on my nose:( Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mike Wright
Re: Having problems with postmaster....
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 12:50:20PM -0400, David Gartner wrote: alias:x:19:502::/home/alias:/bin/bash Opps Is that the problem? Yep: alias:*:81:81::/var/qmail/alias:/nonexistent ls -lad /var/qmail/alias: drwxr-sr-x 2 aliasqmail 512 May 15 08:53 /var/qmail/alias -- Greg White
Re: several /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd and bin/qmail-queue
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 01:23:13PM -0400, alexus wrote: bash-2.05$ ls -al /var/qmail/doc/INTERNALS ls: /var/qmail/doc/INTERNALS: No such file or directory bash-2.05$ Apologies. Installing those files in /var/qmail/doc is a port-ism from FreeBSD. It's in the source tree only in a default install. GW -- Greg White
Re: scan-4-virus NAI not stopping SirCam
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Ing. Ruben Olague wrote: I found that the following headers are always present in mails from SirCam SMTP, you can use filters. http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=TROJ_SIRCAM.A 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: Which RBL replacement?
I just checked out http://www.mail-abuse.org/rbl, but didn't see any mentioning of charges to the direct mode of using RBL. Would appreciate it if anyone could post a pointer that leads to more detailed announcement of this new policy. Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:29:15PM +0200, Paulo Jan wrote: Hi all: Starting Jul 31 RBL will start charging for using their services. Which of the free RBL replacement do people recommend? I have read so far about ORBL and ORBS...
Help with procmail...
Helo.., we are migrating a sendmail+procmail to qmail+procmail, and just only for probes we put "|prelines procmail" in .qmail-default, and when procmail was run over sendmail, the line for exec procmail is: procmail -Y -m $h $f $u Now, how we can put $h (host), $f (From ), $u (dest) ..?? PD: We don't have system users, all users goes throught procmail. Thanks.
Re: Which RBL replacement?
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:45:57AM -0700, Chin Fang wrote: I just checked out http://www.mail-abuse.org/rbl, but didn't see any mentioning of charges to the direct mode of using RBL. Would appreciate it if anyone could post a pointer that leads to more detailed announcement of this new policy. http://www.mail-abuse.org/subscription.html Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html
Can anyone recommend a cheap virus scanner that works with qmail?
I'm running a qmail box that services email for myself and a few others, and I'd like to implement a virus scanning solution on it. I'm looking for a cheap (it's only a couple of users -- I don't fancy spending $350/yr on it) virus scanner that works with one of the scanning packages for qmail -- currently I have qmail-scanner installed. Recommendations? Cheers, Roger.
Re: mailsize limit
Dear Sir. I am very interested to do what u said in ur email about limiting the mailbox size.please give me an example how to do it cause i do use the tcp.smtp file. Sincerely Tks Best Regards Koulis Constantine. Bucharest Romania Business Phone :+4-093979131 From: Magnus Bodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Frank Moeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mailsize limit Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:32:39 +0200 On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 05:04:25PM +0200, Frank Moeller wrote: Hi all. I'd like to do some mailsize limiting with qmail and I'm wondering if there's a simple way to do this: - external to local should be limited to i.e. 5Mb - local to local mail should be unlimited What I'm looking for is some kind of domain dependend maximum mail size limiting... You can set the environment variable DATABYTES in your tcp.smtp-file (that I assume you use and compile to tcp.smtp.cdb, and use with tcpserver according to life with qmail). Just like you set RELAYCLIENT=, you can set DATABYTES there to different values. Set DATABYTES TO 0 if you don't want any limit. set it to something else to limit. /magnus -- Unfortunately, those people who have nothing better to do than post on the Internet all day long are rarely the ones who have the most insights. - Jakob Nielsen, August 1997 _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: How to piss people off easily (Was: How to create dynamic users for IMAP Email services) Reply-To: robin@socha.net
Kirti S. Bajwa wrote: Sorry Business manners have nothing to do whether you pay or not. Right -- it's simple professionalism. It doesn't take much to be polite. You don't have to reply if you don't want to. -Stephen-
Problem with Qmail Queueing
Ive got a quick problem and I hope that someone can help me with this. In the past month my company has switched from using Sendmail with linuxconf and virtualpop3 to using qmail with vpoppasswd. Everything converted great and I have a couple of bash scripts and php scripts that make this conversion easy and fast if anyone is interested. The problem I am having is in the queuing. I cannot seem to get qmail-send to run more than 20 qmail-remotes at any one time. I have changed /var/qmail/control/concurrencyremote to 90 and it still stops at 20. Ive searched through the archives and done as much research as possible, but still cant find anyway around this. I also set /var/qmail/control/queuelifetime to 345600, which should reflect about 4 days, however mail is still sticking around in the queue for a week. Anyone have any suggestions or otherwise on this? Thanks, Ed McLain High Speed Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Problem with Qmail Queueing
are you using tcpserver or inetd. -Original Message-From: Edward McLain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 3:39 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Problem with Qmail Queueing Ive got a quick problem and I hope that someone can help me with this. In the past month my company has switched from using Sendmail with linuxconf and virtualpop3 to using qmail with vpoppasswd. Everything converted great and I have a couple of bash scripts and php scripts that make this conversion easy and fast if anyone is interested. The problem I am having is in the queuing. I cannot seem to get qmail-send to run more than 20 qmail-remotes at any one time. I have changed /var/qmail/control/concurrencyremote to 90 and it still stops at 20. Ive searched through the archives and done as much research as possible, but still cant find anyway around this. I also set /var/qmail/control/queuelifetime to 345600, which should reflect about 4 days, however mail is still sticking around in the queue for a week. Anyone have any suggestions or otherwise on this? Thanks, Ed McLain High Speed Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Problem with Qmail Queueing
tcpserver -Original Message- From: Dahnke, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 3:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Problem with Qmail Queueing are you using tcpserver or inetd. -Original Message- From: Edward McLain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 3:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem with Qmail Queueing Ive got a quick problem and I hope that someone can help me with this. In the past month my company has switched from using Sendmail with linuxconf and virtualpop3 to using qmail with vpoppasswd. Everything converted great and I have a couple of bash scripts and php scripts that make this conversion easy and fast if anyone is interested. The problem I am having is in the queuing. I cannot seem to get qmail-send to run more than 20 qmail-remotes at any one time. I have changed /var/qmail/control/concurrencyremote to 90 and it still stops at 20. Ive searched through the archives and done as much research as possible, but still cant find anyway around this. I also set /var/qmail/control/queuelifetime to 345600, which should reflect about 4 days, however mail is still sticking around in the queue for a week. Anyone have any suggestions or otherwise on this? Thanks, Ed McLain High Speed Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Problem with Qmail Queueing
From FAQ: How do I run qmail-smtpd under tcpserver? inetd is barfing at high loads, cutting off service for ten-minute stretches. I'd also like better connection logging. Answer: Install ucspi-tcp. Remove the smtp line from /etc/inetd.conf, and put the two lines tcpserver -v -u 7770 -g 2108 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \ 21 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 into your system boot scripts; replace 7770 with your qmaild uid, and replace 2108 with your nofiles gid. Don't forget the . The change will take effect at your next reboot. By default, tcpserver allows at most 40 simultaneous qmail-smtpd processes. To raise this limit to 400, use tcpserver -c 400. Cheers - Eric -Original Message-From: Edward McLain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 3:57 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: Problem with Qmail Queueing tcpserver -Original Message-From: Dahnke, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 3:57 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: Problem with Qmail Queueing are you using tcpserver or inetd. -Original Message-From: Edward McLain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 3:39 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Problem with Qmail Queueing Ive got a quick problem and I hope that someone can help me with this. In the past month my company has switched from using Sendmail with linuxconf and virtualpop3 to using qmail with vpoppasswd. Everything converted great and I have a couple of bash scripts and php scripts that make this conversion easy and fast if anyone is interested. The problem I am having is in the queuing. I cannot seem to get qmail-send to run more than 20 qmail-remotes at any one time. I have changed /var/qmail/control/concurrencyremote to 90 and it still stops at 20. Ive searched through the archives and done as much research as possible, but still cant find anyway around this. I also set /var/qmail/control/queuelifetime to 345600, which should reflect about 4 days, however mail is still sticking around in the queue for a week. Anyone have any suggestions or otherwise on this? Thanks, Ed McLain High Speed Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with Qmail Queueing
It sounds to me like you didn't stop and restart the qmail-send daemon after making those changes. Read the man page on qmail-send. This little snippet is probably the most helpful: CONTROL FILES WARNING: qmail-send reads its control files only when it starts. If you change the control files, you must stop and restart qmail-send. Exception: If qmail-send receives a HUP signal, it will reread locals and virtualdomains. Jamin On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Edward McLain wrote: Ive got a quick problem and I hope that someone can help me with this. In the past month my company has switched from using Sendmail with linuxconf and virtualpop3 to using qmail with vpoppasswd. Everything converted great and I have a couple of bash scripts and php scripts that make this conversion easy and fast if anyone is interested. The problem I am having is in the queuing. I cannot seem to get qmail-send to run more than 20 qmail-remotes at any one time. I have changed /var/qmail/control/concurrencyremote to 90 and it still stops at 20. Ive searched through the archives and done as much research as possible, but still cant find anyway around this. I also set /var/qmail/control/queuelifetime to 345600, which should reflect about 4 days, however mail is still sticking around in the queue for a week. Anyone have any suggestions or otherwise on this? Thanks, Ed McLain High Speed Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Jamin A. Brown Systems Operations Supervisor [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Great Works Internet * 207.286.8686 x142 RSA 1024 PGP Key:http://home.gwi.net/~jamin/pgp/jamin.asc
Is Qmail MAPI Compliant?
Is qmail mapi compliant?
RE: Problem with Qmail Queueing
From the suggestions I have gotten so far this is where I am and what I have done already to alleviate this problem. Changed /var/qmail/rc to read as follows: #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l 0 -x /var/vpopmail/etc//tcp.smtp.cdb -c $MAXSMTPD \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 Changed /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming to read as follows: 90 Changed /var/qmail/control/concurrencyremote to read as follows: 90 Changed /var/qmail/control/queuelifetime to read as follows: 345600 After changing any of the files I run: qmailctl restart Or qmailctl stop then qmailctl start I set up the system originally based on the Life with QMail way to do it so if there any problems with doing this please let me know. Thanks, Ed McLain -Original Message- From: Jamin A. Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 4:40 PM To: Edward McLain Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problem with Qmail Queueing It sounds to me like you didn't stop and restart the qmail-send daemon after making those changes. Read the man page on qmail-send. This little snippet is probably the most helpful: CONTROL FILES WARNING: qmail-send reads its control files only when it starts. If you change the control files, you must stop and restart qmail-send. Exception: If qmail-send receives a HUP signal, it will reread locals and virtualdomains. Jamin On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Edward McLain wrote: Ive got a quick problem and I hope that someone can help me with this. In the past month my company has switched from using Sendmail with linuxconf and virtualpop3 to using qmail with vpoppasswd. Everything converted great and I have a couple of bash scripts and php scripts that make this conversion easy and fast if anyone is interested. The problem I am having is in the queuing. I cannot seem to get qmail-send to run more than 20 qmail-remotes at any one time. I have changed /var/qmail/control/concurrencyremote to 90 and it still stops at 20. Ive searched through the archives and done as much research as possible, but still cant find anyway around this. I also set /var/qmail/control/queuelifetime to 345600, which should reflect about 4 days, however mail is still sticking around in the queue for a week. Anyone have any suggestions or otherwise on this? Thanks, Ed McLain High Speed Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Jamin A. Brown Systems Operations Supervisor [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Great Works Internet * 207.286.8686 x142 RSA 1024 PGP Key:http://home.gwi.net/~jamin/pgp/jamin.asc
RE: Problem with Qmail Queueing
I recall this problem, and if I remember correctly you would have to tell qmail to up the concurrency remote (which you've done ... and HUP qmail-send) AND tell inetd or tcpserver to up their limit's as well (that is in two different places). The 20 qmail-sends is puzzling, because for tcpserver which you claim to be using the default is 40 processes. But then maybe you didn't HUP qmail so it never recognized the change to 90. If you did and you're still seeing only 20 qmail-send processes you might be using inetd for smtp traffic. you can use tcpserver for pop and inetd and visa-versa. check your /etc/inetd.conf file. - Eric The earth is our mother not the United States' supermarket. Stop uber-commercialism. -Original Message- From: Jamin A. Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 5:40 PM To: Edward McLain Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problem with Qmail Queueing This message uses a character set that is not supported by the Internet Service. To view the original message content, open the attached message. If the text doesn't display correctly, save the attachment to disk, and then open it using a viewer that can display the original character set.
Re: Is Qmail MAPI Compliant?
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:48:29PM -0700, Ramsey, Mike wrote: Is qmail mapi compliant? Probably not, since MAPI is a M$-standard as far as I know. However, you have provided no details of what you want or what you are trying to accomplish. Perhaps MAPI is not even what you need? Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html
Re: Problem with Qmail Queueing
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 05:10:27PM -0400, Dahnke, Eric wrote: tcpserver_smtpdFrom FAQ: How do I run qmail-smtpd under tcpserver? inetd is barfing at high loads, cutting off service for ten-minute stretches. I'd also like better connection logging. Unfortunately, this FAQ doesn't have anything to do with the stated problem of remoteconcurrency. You don't have to touch your qmail-smtpd configuration at all. You do need to stop and restart qmail-send. John White
RE: Is Qmail MAPI Compliant?
Sorry I was in a rush.. :) I'm testing using McAfee Netshield NT sending an alert message to qmail then qmail forwarding to exchange.. the Mapi compliancy was just a question I had.. no real big concern there.. I just wanna get qmail forwarding alerts to exchange. -Original Message- From: Peter van Dijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 5:05 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Is Qmail MAPI Compliant? On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:48:29PM -0700, Ramsey, Mike wrote: Is qmail mapi compliant? Probably not, since MAPI is a M$-standard as far as I know. However, you have provided no details of what you want or what you are trying to accomplish. Perhaps MAPI is not even what you need? Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html
RE: Problem with Qmail Queueing
Tried that one.. What I did was: /usr/local/bin/svc -d /service/qmail-send qmail-send still didn't exit or anything so I did: killall -TERM qmail-send Now there were 20 qmail-remote's running so I figured that it was waiting on them. Since they have been sitting there for about 3 hours now I did: Killall -HUP qmail-remote This seemed to clear everything out. I then did: /usr/local/bin/svc -u /service/qmail-send then killall -ALRM qmail-send This started the queuing back but it still only handle 20 and I have like 40 in the queue. Hope this helps, Ed McLain -Original Message- From: John White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 5:26 PM To: Edward McLain Subject: Re: Problem with Qmail Queueing On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:45:25PM -0500, Edward McLain wrote: I set up the system originally based on the Life with QMail way to do it so if there any problems with doing this please let me know. No, that's a pretty good starting point. I think all you needed to do was give qmail-send a kill -HUP. John
RE: Problem with Qmail Queueing
If you installed via LWQ shouldn't the correct way to start/stop be qmail restart or qmail stop then qmail start rather than qmailctl? That's how I do mine. After you stop qmail do a ps aux (no quotes) and see if qmail is still running. If it is, then it didn't stop and it didn't reread the control files. At 03:45 PM 7/24/2001 -0500, you wrote: From the suggestions I have gotten so far this is where I am and what I have done already to alleviate this problem. Changed /var/qmail/rc to read as follows: #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l 0 -x /var/vpopmail/etc//tcp.smtp.cdb -c $MAXSMTPD \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 Changed /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming to read as follows: 90 Changed /var/qmail/control/concurrencyremote to read as follows: 90 Changed /var/qmail/control/queuelifetime to read as follows: 345600 After changing any of the files I run: qmailctl restart Or qmailctl stop then qmailctl start I set up the system originally based on the Life with QMail way to do it so if there any problems with doing this please let me know. Thanks, Ed McLain -Original Message- From: Jamin A. Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 4:40 PM To: Edward McLain Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problem with Qmail Queueing It sounds to me like you didn't stop and restart the qmail-send daemon after making those changes. Read the man page on qmail-send. This little snippet is probably the most helpful: CONTROL FILES WARNING: qmail-send reads its control files only when it starts. If you change the control files, you must stop and restart qmail-send. Exception: If qmail-send receives a HUP signal, it will reread locals and virtualdomains. Jamin On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Edward McLain wrote: I've got a quick problem and I hope that someone can help me with this. In the past month my company has switched from using Sendmail with linuxconf and virtualpop3 to using qmail with vpoppasswd. Everything converted great and I have a couple of bash scripts and php scripts that make this conversion easy and fast if anyone is interested. The problem I am having is in the queuing. I cannot seem to get qmail-send to run more than 20 qmail-remotes at any one time. I have changed /var/qmail/control/concurrencyremote to 90 and it still stops at 20. I've searched through the archives and done as much research as possible, but still can't find anyway around this. I also set /var/qmail/control/queuelifetime to 345600, which should reflect about 4 days, however mail is still sticking around in the queue for a week. Anyone have any suggestions or otherwise on this? Thanks, Ed McLain High Speed Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Jamin A. Brown Systems Operations Supervisor [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Great Works Internet * 207.286.8686 x142 RSA 1024 PGP Key:http://home.gwi.net/~jamin/pgp/jamin.asc - Kourosh Ghassemieh MindWare Information Systems Technologies 9255 Sunset Blvd, Penthouse West Hollywood CA 90069 (310) 729-1784 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Networking Solutions for Your Business
Re: QSBMF -
Pretty much the whole trick is to go into qmail-send.c, around line 708 (search for Hi), and just change the message that is output. As with any source change, you'll want to test it first, and make sure the message is reasonably formatted, has all important information, and the proper headers and envelope. I've read qsbmf.txt, but I am still confused a little about it. Is it some method of ensuring qmail always knows when a message has bounced? Or was it designed so that in the future, MUAs might know that a message has bounced and mark it (as Outlook+Exchange does)? I understand DJB's reasons for doing it his way (avoiding bandwidth-wasting deferral reports a la sendmail, for example, and outputting useful info to the user) - essentially what I want to know is, if changing as outlined above works OK, is this fundamentally problematic for qmail or is it just breaking DJB's spec? Regards, John
RE: Problem with Qmail Queueing
Wrong. Look at the last line of my post. By default, tcpserver allows at most 40 simultaneous qmail-smtpd processes. To raise this limit to 400, use tcpserver -c 400. -Original Message- From: John White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 6:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problem with Qmail Queueing On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 05:10:27PM -0400, Dahnke, Eric wrote: tcpserver_smtpdFrom FAQ: How do I run qmail-smtpd under tcpserver? inetd is barfing at high loads, cutting off service for ten-minute stretches. I'd also like better connection logging. Unfortunately, this FAQ doesn't have anything to do with the stated problem of remoteconcurrency. You don't have to touch your qmail-smtpd configuration at all. You do need to stop and restart qmail-send. John White
Re: QSBMF -
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:41:29PM +0100, John P wrote: Pretty much the whole trick is to go into qmail-send.c, around line 708 (search for Hi), and just change the message that is output. As with any source change, you'll want to test it first, and make sure the message is reasonably formatted, has all important information, and the proper headers and envelope. I've read qsbmf.txt, but I am still confused a little about it. Is it some method of ensuring qmail always knows when a message has bounced? Or was it designed so that in the future, MUAs might know that a message has bounced and mark it (as Outlook+Exchange does)? QSMBF exist so that compliant applications (like ezmlm) can find out exactly what bounced and what didn't. I understand DJB's reasons for doing it his way (avoiding bandwidth-wasting deferral reports a la sendmail, for example, and outputting useful info to the user) - essentially what I want to know is, if changing as outlined above works OK, is this fundamentally problematic for qmail or is it just breaking DJB's spec? It is fundamentally problematic for ezmlm. Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html
Re: Problem with Qmail Queueing
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:39:00PM -0400, Dahnke, Eric wrote: Wrong. Look at the last line of my post. By default, tcpserver allows at most 40 simultaneous qmail-smtpd processes. To raise this limit to 400, use tcpserver -c 400. I read that. That doesn't have anything to do with the number of concurrent remote deliveries that qmail will do. John White
RE: Problem with Qmail Queueing
Sorry for my abrupt response previously. I recognize you as a long time member of the list, and appreciated your help when I was first getting into qmail. But on a server level you do need to do this no? That is, qmail can be set to do 300 concurrent deliveries but in the tcp layer either inetd or tcpserver needs to be upped from their default values as well. -Original Message- From: John White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 6:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problem with Qmail Queueing On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:39:00PM -0400, Dahnke, Eric wrote: Wrong. Look at the last line of my post. By default, tcpserver allows at most 40 simultaneous qmail-smtpd processes. To raise this limit to 400, use tcpserver -c 400. I read that. That doesn't have anything to do with the number of concurrent remote deliveries that qmail will do. John White
Re: Problem with Qmail Queueing
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:09:01PM -0400, Dahnke, Eric wrote: Sorry for my abrupt response previously. I recognize you as a long time member of the list, and appreciated your help when I was first getting into qmail. But on a server level you do need to do this no? That is, qmail can be set to do 300 concurrent deliveries but in the tcp layer either inetd or tcpserver needs to be upped from their default values as well. Nope. :-) Adjusting qmail-smtpd's tcpserver settings can allow you to handle more -incoming- smtp traffic, but doesn't have anything to do with -outgoing- smtp traffic. John White
Re: Problem with Qmail Queueing
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:09:01PM -0400, Dahnke, Eric allegedly wrote: Sorry for my abrupt response previously. I recognize you as a long time member of the list, and appreciated your help when I was first getting into qmail. But on a server level you do need to do this no? That is, qmail can be set to do 300 concurrent deliveries but in the tcp layer either inetd or tcpserver needs to be upped from their default values as well. Yes. But there are two different concurrency levels regarding remote mail. One controls how many *inbound* connections will be accepted concurrently and that is controlled by the tcpserver -c value. The other controls how many *outbound* deliveries will be attempted concurrently and that is controlled by control/concurrencyremote. You are referring to the former while John is referring to the latter. Yes, you do need to tune both of these and yes they are both in the tcp layer as you put it, but they are definitely different beasts that should be treated entirely separately. Regards. -Original Message- From: John White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 6:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problem with Qmail Queueing On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:39:00PM -0400, Dahnke, Eric wrote: Wrong. Look at the last line of my post. By default, tcpserver allows at most 40 simultaneous qmail-smtpd processes. To raise this limit to 400, use tcpserver -c 400. I read that. That doesn't have anything to do with the number of concurrent remote deliveries that qmail will do. John White
Re: Problem with Qmail Queueing
Kourosh Ghassemieh writes: If you installed via LWQ shouldn't the correct way to start/stop be qmail restart or qmail stop then qmail start rather than qmailctl? The latest LWQ (June 13, 2001) contains few changes including change of the script name to qmailctl. Regards, Ahmad Ridha
Re: Help with procmail...
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:55:03PM +0200, Xavier Pegenaute wrote: Now, how we can put $h (host), $f (From ), $u (dest) ..?? man qmail-command. You'll probably have to write a wrapper script to substitute the appropriate environment variables in your procmail command line, but that shouldn't be too difficult. 8-) -- Adrian HoTinker, Drifter, Fixer, Bum [EMAIL PROTECTED] ListArchive: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=qmail Useful URLs: http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html http://www.qmail.org http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ http://qmail.faqts.com/
