Re: Dial-up Fails to Connect to SMTP Server
Lukas Beeler wrote: But I don't see how rblsmtpd, which works on incoming mail, would affect outgoing mail? itdoesnt.. was just a fast thought, because MAPS now demands money and you talked about outlook express connecting to your smtp server Perhaps it is possible that rblsmtpd was somehow locking up the server because of the change in MAPS so that a remote SMTP connection would fail but a local one would succeed? I've just removed rmlsmptd and I'm trying to get the people with the remote machines to test (no Windoze in the office ;). It is quite a conincidence that this all started yesterday, just as MAPS switched. MarkD wrote: Is your ISP blocking port 25 outbound traffic? What happens if you try to telnet directly to those smtp servers, eg: telnet serveraddress 25 Numerous ISPs only let you send outbound SMTP via there SMTP server as a measure against spammers - if that's the case with you then you'll need to look into smtproutes. Well, telneting port 25 from machines on the local network is fine, but I have been unable to test telnet from remote dial-up machines. Our upstream (Worldcom) hasn't said anything about starting to control outbound SMTP, and I think they'd let us know if they did (I'd hope). Jeff Palmer wrote: The only thing I see in the qmail-send logs is quite a few I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection, but the mail seems to go through eventually. From the FAQ: Does qmail back off from dead hosts? Answer: Yes. qmail has three backoff features: * Each message is automatically retried on a quadratic schedule, with longer and longer intervals between delivery attempts. * If a remote host does not respond to two connection attempts (separated by at least two minutes with no intervening successful connections), qmail automatically leaves the host alone for an hour. At the end of the hour it ``slow-starts,'' allowing one connection through to see whether the host is up. * Some mailers opportunistically bombard a host with deferred messages as soon as the host comes back online. qmail does not do this. Each message waits until the appropriate retry time. The problem you are seeing is, qmail cannot send to the destination while you are offline. It 'backs off' when you connect to the net, a while goes by, qmail tries to send 1, it works, it sends the rest. Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear. The qmail server is on a dedicated 128K ISDN; the dial-ups are directly to the qmail server. However backlogged qmail-send gets trying to send out mail, it should be able to establish a connection with a dial-up machine trying to pass it mail, no? Otherwise, why have a queue? Thanks to everyone for the ideas. Regards, Jeff Hill -- -- HR On-Line: The Network for Workplace Issues -- http://www.hronline.com - Ph:416-604-7251 - Fax:416-604-4708
routing mail with user-specific tokens in addresses
I've just subscribed to the list. I read the FAQ and got some hints, also searched the mailing list archives as well as the HTML docs. The situation: my company has been bought. We were (and still are) using MMDF for mail transport. I, and several other employees, have been using an MMDF feature whereby mail to user=token@domain gets routed to user@domain. We then parse the mail when it's delivered to our local mailbox. This allows us to route mailing list mail to specific mailboxes. We also use it when giving addresses to sites we don't really trust -- if I start getting spam to user=amazon@domain, I'll be pretty sure who to blame. [sendmail apparently has a similar feature for routing user+token@domain] Now, our IS department is switching our MTA to qmail. I have nothing to do with it, so I have little control over what's going to happen. I'm trying to research how they can configure qmail to do this sort of thing, without it being a big hassle for them. We have one (probably more) bastion host(s) running qmail, transporting mail inbound to the company. These are already set up; mail to our old company name is still being routed via MMDF, while mail to the new company goes via qmail. Internal routing beyond the bastion host is fairly complex, with several hundred users, thousands of mutual-interest aliases, and dozens of mail hosts (mail to user1@domain ends up in mailhost1.domain:~user1/.mailbox while mail to user2@domain ends up in someotherhost.domain:/usr/spool/mail/user2). I don't know how that part is currently being handled. I've been able to test for certain that none of user=token@domain, user+token@domain, user-token@domain, or user.token@domain are being processed in the desired manner. All of them return bounces similar to: From mail.caldera.cozz!orphanage Thu Aug 2 18:20:18 2001 Date: 3 Aug 2001 01:22:53 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at calderasystems.cozz. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) --- Below this line is a copy of the message. [...] (old-domain = sco.com, new-domain = caldera.com; I'm trying not to include any real, complete addresses in this message, in case evil people mine the list archives for spam targets. I changed com to cozz above to avoid them being correct addresses.) In the qmail docs, I can see how to set this sort of thing up for one user at a time. qmail-users(5) describes the file /var/qmail/users/assign and how it could presumably be configured with: +belal=:belal:(I don't know what goes here when it's being used as a relay) +bela.lubkin=:belal:(relay) MY QUESTION: is there any way this could be set up in a global fashion, rather than listing every single user in some config file? That is, I want to instruct qmail that for _all_ addresses user=token@domain, it should relay (according to all other relay configuration) as if the mail were addressed to user@domain. If possible I'd like to set up several different characters for this, so that user+token@domain and user-token@domain would also work (I frequently encounter web pages which will not accept = as an email address character; I'm sure other characters are similarly burdened -- I want a whole pallette of choices to try.) And I want this all to be so easy that even the most overworked, uninterested and half-competent IS person would be able to set it up in five minutes. ;-} So, what can I do? Thanks, Bela
Re: qmail on AFS
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 01:53:55PM -0700, Greg White wrote: On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:44:47AM -0400, Rudy Zung wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 03:27:49PM -0700, Greg White wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 05:17:46PM -0400, Rudy Zung wrote: [Don't remember if I've already posted this; sorry if it's a repeat.] Trying to run qmail with Maildir on a Slackware with AFS. The AFS is installed and runs properly. Users' home volumes and Maildir are on AFS. Qmail is generating temporary delivery errors; the mail never gets delivered. Seeing the temporary delivery errors would likely be helpful here. What Do the Logs Say? [...ellide...] Doing some digging, I found some folks discussing qmail and AFS, and discussing AFS/Kerberos tokens, and a workaround for same -- I presume that a token is required? A google search on qmail + AFS returned the hits very quickly, and they contained the basics of the workaround, from what it seemed to me. Not being an AFS user, I can't help you much more than that. The only other hits on that error message were quota-overfull, or unwritable homes, and such. Any qmail+AFS users care to step into the conversation at this point? I tried google search as well but seemed to have come across a lot of hits of emails from people where the RFC headers included the with qmail words and the subject matter had something to do with AFS (but not necessarily qmail with AFS.) AFS imposes its own idea on the filesystem; you identity is authenticated with Kerberos, which then issues you a token which is valid for approximately 24 hours; the token basically proves that you are who you claim to be by virtue of the fact that you knew the authentication password. AFS also allows system:anyuser full access to files and directories; system:anyuser is really basically anyone, including those without tokens. I have tried setting the directory to essentially be unprotected and accessible by all. Starting a tokenless session, I am able to touch(1) and redirect echo(1) into files in the Maildir directory; so the problem that my qmail has may not necessarily be a tokens thing (although once I get qmail delivering, I will change it and require a token, and put in a cron job to reauth the token on a periodic basis so that the qmail jobs will always have a valid token.) Best that I can guess, is that the error is generated in local.c; looks like it performs a chdir(), and is doing some unlinks and hard links. Anyway, thanks for looking into this. -- ...Ru (a low-cost superhero) On, on! Blue skies. Think snow. 1740484I 998300172 076662 82968/A17215 045124P E286/184435 975-203608 11859 DS1160
$maildir.....cjk
Hello I would like to know where i DEFINE the $maildir. I went to www.vmailmgr.org site and i tried to follow the instructions of the 3.5 Enabling enforcement of virtual user quotas and 3.6 Enabling processing of autoresponses I did the following:in a .qmail-default in the /home/user/.qmail-default i have the following |/usr/local/bin/vdeliver |/usr/local/bin/vdeliver-predeliver |/usr/local/bin/vdeliver-postdeliver And in predeliver i have : #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/vcheckquota and in postdeliver: #!/bin/sh if test -s $MAILDIR/autoresponse/message.txt then qmail-autoresponder $MAILDIR/autoresponse/message.txt $MAILDIR/autoresponse fi When i use predeliver it says in maillog: failure: vcheckquota:_MAILDIR_is_not_set/ and i postdeliver it does nothing Anybody knows why??? Tks Best Regards Koulis Constantine. Bucharest Romania Business Phone :+4-093979131 _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: rblsmtpd and mail-abuse.org's DNS servers
You will need to pay MAPS to use one of its three RBLs, or the combined
RBL+.
Please see http://www.mail-abuse.org/subscription.html and
http://www.mail-abuse.org/feestructure.html
even you are with an educational institution.
Dr. Dan Bernstein himself has given up on MAPS's RBLs:
Please see: http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/rblsmtpd.html
Regards,
Chin Fang
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I'm having a problem with my qmail smtpd server becoming unresponsive
when rblsmtpd cannot communiate with the RBL nameservers. Has anyone else
had this problem? I'd like to blindy accept e-mail if the RBL nameservers
cannot be contacted. Here's how I'm starting the SMTP server:
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 7791 -g 2108 -v 0 smtp fixcrio
/usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -t 7 /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -t 7 -r dialups.mail-abuse.org
/usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -t 7 -r 'relays.mail-abuse.org:Open relay problem - see
URL:http://www.mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/nph-rss?%IP%' /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21
| /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t n100 s100
/var/log/smtp
--
//Derek Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Programmer: CISC, LLC - S@IRC
char *sites[]={http://www.freezersearch.com/index.cfm?aff=dhc;,
http://www.ciscllc.com,http://www.freezemail.com,0}; /*KDR AB 249*/
Re: new install and qmail not logging
Tauren Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If they are supposed to go into /var/log/qmail/smtpd/current, then I'd appreciate any pointers to getting this problem fixed. If you followed LWQ, you created the run file for logging as follows: Create the /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run file: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail That means that your logging goes to /var/log/qmail/current. Older logfiles are in directory /var/log/qmail too, named @4000 Regards, Frank
Re: Dial-up Fails to Connect to SMTP Server
The only thing I see in the qmail-send logs is quite a few I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection, but the mail seems to go through eventually. From the FAQ: Does qmail back off from dead hosts? Answer: Yes. qmail has three backoff features: * Each message is automatically retried on a quadratic schedule, with longer and longer intervals between delivery attempts. * If a remote host does not respond to two connection attempts (separated by at least two minutes with no intervening successful connections), qmail automatically leaves the host alone for an hour. At the end of the hour it ``slow-starts,'' allowing one connection through to see whether the host is up. * Some mailers opportunistically bombard a host with deferred messages as soon as the host comes back online. qmail does not do this. Each message waits until the appropriate retry time. The problem you are seeing is, qmail cannot send to the destination while you are offline. It 'backs off' when you connect to the net, a while goes by, qmail tries to send 1, it works, it sends the rest. Work arounds include: Try sending a HUP or ALRM to qmail-send Jeff Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rblsmtpd
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 04:54:02PM +0800, Adrian Ho wrote: On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 03:33:53PM +0800, Lars Hansson wrote: Actually, I'd bet it's a DNS problem, not an rblsmtpd one. I'd also bet [snip] Ah yes, right you are. I thought rblsmtpd would look it up directly. Adding the subdomain rbl.unet.net.ph fixed it. -- Lars Hansson Technical Consultant/System Administrator UNET, Inc.Makati City, Philippines e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Qmail process under root...
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:40:39PM +0200, NDSoftware wrote: Hello, It'sn normal this (qmail process under root): [root@ns207 /root]# ps -fe UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 8248 1 0 12:38 ?00:00:00 sh /command/svscanboot root 8253 8248 0 12:38 ?00:00:00 svscan /service root 8254 8248 0 12:38 ?00:00:00 readproctitle service errors: .. root 8255 8253 0 12:38 ?00:00:00 supervise qmail-send root 8256 8253 0 12:38 ?00:00:00 supervise log root 8257 8253 0 12:38 ?00:00:00 supervise qmail-smtpd root 8258 8253 0 12:38 ?00:00:00 supervise log root 8259 8253 0 12:38 ?00:00:00 supervise qmail-pop3d root 8260 8253 0 12:38 ?00:00:00 supervise log qmaill8261 8260 0 12:38 ?00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/l qmails8262 8255 0 12:38 ?00:00:00 qmail-send qmaill8263 8256 0 12:38 ?00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/l Ok so far. root 8264 8259 0 12:38 ?00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R - ^^^ pop3? If so, ok. qmaild8265 8257 0 12:38 ?00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R - qmail-smtpd I guess. Is ok. qmaill8266 8258 0 12:38 ?00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/l qmaill8273 8262 0 12:38 ?00:00:00 splogger qmail root 8274 8262 0 12:38 ?00:00:00 qmail-lspawn ./Mailbox qmailr8275 8262 0 12:38 ?00:00:00 qmail-rspawn qmailq8276 8262 0 12:38 ?00:00:00 qmail-clean All good, *if* that one tcpserver running as root is pop3 (or IMAP, for that matter). Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html
Re: rblsmtpd and mail-abuse.org's DNS servers
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 02:58:08PM -0400, Derek Callaway wrote: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 7791 -g 2108 -v 0 smtp fixcrio /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -t 7 /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -t 7 -r dialups.mail-abuse.org /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -t 7 -r 'relays.mail-abuse.org:Open relay problem - see URL:http://www.mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/nph-rss?%IP%' /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 | /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t n100 s100 /var/log/smtp Two quick observations: [1] A single rblsmtpd instance can take multiple -r options, so your command line can be /much/ shorter and more efficiently executed. [2] Are you actually most concerned about quickly accepting mail from /local/ (or known-good) clients? If so, set up your own anti-RBL list and make it the first list to be checked. Read http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/rblsmtpd.html for more details on both the above. -- 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: shifting qmail accounts from old server to new server
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, paras jain wrote: Hi all Can any one suggest the best way to transfer all user accounts and password from my qmail server on linux 6.2 to new qmail server on linux 7.0 so, what's the (qmail specific) problem? /* Regards, Jason Kawaja, UF-ECE Sys Admin */
RE: new install and qmail not logging
Hello, I saw few mails about multi log and I have a question about it : I would like multilog to start a new log every night so that I can archive the logs day by day. I read in the doc that sending a kill SIGALRM to the multilog process would force it to start a new log. It actually does but it also kills the multilog process which is quite annoying because this means that I have to kill qmail and restart qmail and multilog. Is there a way to ask multilog to start a new current log without killing it ? Thank you -Message d'origine- De : Frank Tegtmeyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoye : vendredi 3 aout 2001 11:38 A : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: new install and qmail not logging Tauren Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If they are supposed to go into /var/log/qmail/smtpd/current, then I'd appreciate any pointers to getting this problem fixed. If you followed LWQ, you created the run file for logging as follows: Create the /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run file: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail That means that your logging goes to /var/log/qmail/current. Older logfiles are in directory /var/log/qmail too, named @4000 Regards, Frank
Re: can qmail control a mail size before sending it ??
At 15:31 03.08.2001 +0100, François Philippo wrote: instead of sending a mail too big and have an error return I'd like to controle the mail size before sending it. is it possible??? yes, man qmail-control look for databytes -- --/-/-- Lukas Beeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---\-\-- \ \ My HomePage: URL:http://www.projectdream.org / /
sendmail to qmail migration
Hello... My server runs sendmail with virtusertable and now I want to switch to qmail. Does qmail supports virtusertable? I see there's a virtualdomains file, but it supports only domanname.com:username What must I configure that qmail supports email-forwards like this: adresse@domainname:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Any ideas? Thanks :-) Severin Olloz
Re: shifting qmail accounts from old server to new server
At 05:41 03.08.2001 -0700, paras jain wrote: linux 6.2 to new qmail server on linux 7.0 i thought we are at 2.4 ? and a kernel upgrade doesnt require any change on your qmail system. /humor look at your /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, and copy the wanted user passes to the new server -- --/-/-- Lukas Beeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---\-\-- \ \ My HomePage: URL:http://www.projectdream.org / /
Re: host file and qmail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: zmailer distributes mail in our internal network using host file. can qmail do the same? i dont like to but internal ip:s in dns. what would be the best solution to this problem? control/smtproutes -Dave
Re: unable to find user alias
Greg White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While you're at that, visit: http://www.lifewithhqmail.org/ lifewithqmail.org, you mean. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Anti-relaying
Hi all. I'm new to all that qmail stuff, but I got through the installation of qmail, vpopmail and relay-ctrl. Nearly everything works fine, but... Before I installed relay-ctrl, smtpd interactet with the rcpthosts-file and told unconfigured domains this domain is not in my rcpthosts-file. After installing relay-ctrl the mailer accepts *every* mail but didn't send them. All the mails to unallowed domainnames (or IPs that didn't pop before) immediately will be routed to /dev/null. :-) But I need the this domain is not in my rcpthosts-file message, because many of our clients use MS Outlook, with that great smtp before pop-feature, and all this mails will be received by /dev/null and won't be sended. Maybe the fault is in the smtp.rules. I can't use IPs there, cause all the poeple connect with dynamic IPs. Here are my smtp.rules: web:/etc/tcpcontrol # more smtp.rules :allow,RELAYCLIENT= When I use ':deny' instead, no mailserver can connect, and never any mailserver will pop before. ;-) Here are other relevant files: web:/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd # more run #!/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 /etc/tcpcontrol/smtp.cdb -c $MAXSMTPD \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 web:/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3d # more run #!/bin/sh exec env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin \ tcpserver -H -R 0 pop3 \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup pop.k3-networx.org \ /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /usr/sbin/relay-ctrl-allow \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21 web:/etc/tcpcontrol # more smtp.rules :allow,RELAYCLIENT= Keep in mind that relay-ctrl itself is working fine, it records IPs and these recorded IPs can mail. Now I've RTFM for half a week, found many websites, checked the installation again and again and again, but I can't find the outpoint. :-( So if someone has a suggestion I would be glad to hear (read) it. cya, Tom
Re: allow/deny pop3
GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI writes: Is there any way to pass a -x paremeter file to tcpserver for allow/deny pop3 connections. I was using qpopper from inetd and used hosts.* files to do that work. Now, I'm using qmail-pop3d from daemontools and I'm looking for some /etc/tcp.pop3 file to restrict connections based on IP addresses. If it's possible, which is the format of this file? Yes, it's possible. The format of the file is the same as the one for qmail-smtpd. Regards, Ahmad Ridha
Re: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly other s)
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 03:07:57PM +0100, Richard Underwood wrote: Hi, I asked about qmail-remote processes hanging in read() on this list a few days ago. It appears that this has been reported before, but no conclusion seemed to have been made. I just looked at the server I had problems with -- 15 hung qmail-remotes :( snip Another solution, which I have been trying over the last few days is to turn on socket keep alives. This has the effect of closing the socket if no data has been sent over it for a fixed period (usually 2 or 3 hours.) The read() call will end as if the remote host dropped the connection and qmail-remote will terminate normally. It all seems to be working, so if anyone else is having the same problem, you may like to try this fix too. I've included a patch for qmail-remote.c - it's not exactly beautiful code, but it works for me. How did you test this patch? Are you saying that you were able to reliably reproduce the problem? I could never do this... If so, how? There is a lot of mistery in this: Most (but not all) reports had connections hung to outblaze.com Most (but not all) servers ran Linux. It's weird...
Re: allow/deny pop3
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: Hi all. Is there any way to pass a -x paremeter file to tcpserver for allow/deny pop3 connections. I was using qpopper from inetd and used hosts.* files restrict pop - typically bad idea, whatever. to do that work. Now, I'm using qmail-pop3d from daemontools and I'm looking for some /etc/tcp.pop3 file to restrict connections based on IP addresses. i think you mean 'from ucspi-tcp'. If it's possible, which is the format of this file? format is cdb, check out : * http://cr.yp.to/cdb/cdb.txt * http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcprules.html for more info. /* Regards, Jason Kawaja, UF-ECE Sys Admin */
How-best-to: Secondary Queue for Mailing List
When we e-mail a newsletter to our user list (10,000+ e-mail, twice a month), it holds up any other e-mail going into the send queue. What's the best way to avoid this? The mail to the user list is not time-sensitive; it could take a day to trickle out and it wouldn't matter. But the few e-mail coming later into the queue are very time-sensitive. I've looked at the FAQ, and searched the discussion archive, but I'm not certain the best way to set it off by itself (we do need to keep it on the same machine). Any suggestions appreciated. Jeff Hill P.S. Our dial-up SMTP problem does appear to have been linked to the Aug. 1 change in MAPS servers for rblsmtpd. At least, the problem went away sometime after removing rblsmtpd. -- HR On-Line: The Network for Workplace Issues -- http://www.hronline.com - Ph:416-604-7251 - Fax:416-604-4708
Re: can qmail control a mail size before sending it ??
Lukas Beeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 15:31 03.08.2001 +0100, François Philippo wrote: instead of sending a mail too big and have an error return I'd like to controle the mail size before sending it. is it possible??? yes, man qmail-control look for databytes databytes/DATABYTES only work for incoming mail recieved via SMTP. The original poster asked about limiting the size of outgoing mail; this cannot be done with stock qmail. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Re: dns.o compilation errors
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 03:43:20PM -0700, Greg White wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 04:14:16PM -0500, Proc Meminfo wrote: Hey, I am receiving the following errors while doing 'make setup check': dns.o: In function 'resolve': dns.o(.text+0xf8): undefined reference to '__dn_expand' dns.o: In function 'findname': dns.o(.text+0x1bc): undefined reference to '__dn_expand' dns.o(.text+0x24c): undefined reference to '__dn_expand' dns.o: In function 'findip': dns.o(.text+0x2ae): undefined reference to '__dn_expand' dns.o: In function 'findmx': dns.o(.text+0x3ac): undefined reference to '__dn_expand' dns.o(.text+0x45a): more undefined references to '__dn_expand' follow dns.o: In function 'dns_init': dns.o(.text+0x4a3): undefined reference to '__res_search' dns.o(.data+0xc): undefined reference to '__res_query' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [qmail-remote] Error 1 qmail appears to be attempting to link again your local resolver library and not being able to find it. Do you have /usr/include/resolv.h? This isn't really a qmail issue -- just install the resolver library and all should be well. GW I noted your other reply -- all those references are contained in my resolv.h, both on my FreeBSD and Linux boxen. Please verify for me that resolv.h contains references to those functions -- they're right at the top of the file. If so, what are the contents of dns.lib in the qmail source tree? (Should be '-lresolv'). -- Greg White Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -- John F. Kennedy
Re: sendmail to qmail migration
Severin Olloz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello... I answered your question earlier today. You've since posted it three more times. If you can't be bothered to read the qmail list, don't send questions to the list. If you can't wait at _least_ 24 hours for an answer before re-posting, hire a qmail consultant instead. And learn some basic netiquette. Charles -- -- Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] QCC Communications Corporation Saskatoon, SK --
Vpopmail+SqWebmail 3 problem
Hello, I have qmail 1.03 and qmailadmin w/ ezmlm autoresponder installed on my Red Hat Linux 7 server. I received the follwing error message during setup: echo '#include "/var/vpopmail//include/config.h"' vpopmail_config.h gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I/var/vpopmail//include -g -O2 -Wall -I.. -I./.. -c authvchkpw.c authvchkpw.c: In function `auth_vchkpw_changepass': authvchkpw.c:142: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type authvchkpw.c:151: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type authvchkpw.c:151: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type make[1]: *** [authvchkpw.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/sqwebmail-3.0.0/authlib' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 Apparently the error comes with the vchkpw setup. Is this a bug or is it me? Thanks.Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
sendmail to qmail migration
Hello... My server runs sendmail with virtusertable and now I want to switch to qmail. Does qmail supports virtusertable? I see there's a virtualdomains file, but it supports only domanname.com:username What must I configure that qmail supports email-forwards like this: adresse@domainname:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Any ideas? Thanks :-) Severin Olloz
Re: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)
Richard Underwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My other suspicion is that there's a chance that my one server will try a couple of dozen connections to the same remote host at the same time. (This is an issue in itself!) Why is this an issue? If the remote host can handle 100 inbound connections, you should be able to open 100 connections to them, inject your messages, and close the connections. Everyone's happy. If the remote host can't handle that many, it shouldn't accept that many. You'll then get connections past X deferred, and qmail will back off. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
tcpserver problems? or is it qmail? or BOTH! Help?
Hey all, I'll keep it short. I am hoping to implement qmail where i work for a canadian univeristy. I have installed linux 7.1 and qmail and tcpserver. all services appear to be running error free. I can connect to the box on the local machine, but not from outside the box at all. I have set the rules to :ALLOW and restarted the tcpserver and the qmail - but i still get no connection on port 25 through telnet from anywhere other than the local machine. Hoping someone can help - please respond directly to my email address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) if you can. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. Sean Daniels Project Support Trent University [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: can qmail control a mail size before sending it ??
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 05:26:55PM +0200, Lukas Beeler wrote: At 08:14 03.08.2001 -0700, you wrote: Someone please correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't databytes exactly what the OP does _not_ want? databytes is checked after the mail is spooled, no? i don't use this function. i thought it would decline the message on smtp level. with a 553 error after data. But, i don't know it, because i never used this function. and, the question is how: I'd like to controle the mail size before sending it. should be interpretet.. the message won't be sent to the to the other end, with databytes. in any case. -- --/-/-- Lukas Beeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---\-\-- \ \ My HomePage: URL:http://www.projectdream.org / / Man, I'm not having a good month. Never did get around to implementing databytes, as it was my understanding that its utility was limited -- the manpage never explicitly states whether the mail is actually queued or not, and I (apparently) misread it. qmail-send never sees the mail, and it is rejected at the SMTP level, not bounced. This appears to work regardless of destination -- all SMTP injected mail must fit inside databytes. To the OP, it looks like databytes will do what you want, if the sender is injecting via SMTP, rather than locally. -- Greg White
allow/deny pop3
Hi all. Is there any way to pass a -x paremeter file to tcpserver for allow/deny pop3 connections. I was using qpopper from inetd and used hosts.* files to do that work. Now, I'm using qmail-pop3d from daemontools and I'm looking for some /etc/tcp.pop3 file to restrict connections based on IP addresses. If it's possible, which is the format of this file? --ejg:wq!
Re: allow/deny pop3
GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to pass a -x paremeter file to tcpserver for allow/deny pop3 connections. Yes. In fact, it _is_ -x. If it's possible, which is the format of this file? `man tcprules` Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Re: can qmail control a mail size before sending it ??
At 08:14 03.08.2001 -0700, you wrote: Someone please correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't databytes exactly what the OP does _not_ want? databytes is checked after the mail is spooled, no? i don't use this function. i thought it would decline the message on smtp level. with a 553 error after data. But, i don't know it, because i never used this function. and, the question is how: I'd like to controle the mail size before sending it. should be interpretet.. the message won't be sent to the to the other end, with databytes. in any case. -- --/-/-- Lukas Beeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---\-\-- \ \ My HomePage: URL:http://www.projectdream.org / /
Unable to unsubscribe
I sent numerous mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but to no avail. Can someone please give me some pointers? -- Johan Van Gompel -- Aufgepasst - jetzt viele 11 New WebHosting Pakete ohne Einrichtungsgebuehr + 1 Monat Grundgebuehrbefreiung! http://puretec.de/index.html?ac=OM.PU.PU003K00736T0492a
Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly others)
Hi,
I asked about qmail-remote processes hanging in read() on this list
a few days ago. It appears that this has been reported before, but no
conclusion seemed to have been made.
The problem appears to be in timeoutread() which uses select() to
prevent read() from blocking. For whatever reason, during heavy load, this
fails and the read() call blocks. The TCP connection stays in the
established state and therefore the process never terminates, leading to a
reduction in the number of available concurrent remote deliveries.
One suggestion (from MarkD) was to set a large-value alarm signal to
terminate the process, which would work (qmail would see the qmail-remote
process as crashed and try it again) but I don't particularly like this
method. Potentially you could cut a large message sent over a slow
connection off for one thing.
Another solution, which I have been trying over the last few days is
to turn on socket keep alives. This has the effect of closing the socket if
no data has been sent over it for a fixed period (usually 2 or 3 hours.) The
read() call will end as if the remote host dropped the connection and
qmail-remote will terminate normally.
It all seems to be working, so if anyone else is having the same
problem, you may like to try this fix too. I've included a patch for
qmail-remote.c - it's not exactly beautiful code, but it works for me.
Good luck,
Richard
*** qmail-1.03/qmail-remote.c Mon Jun 15 11:53:16 1998
--- qmail-1.03.patched/qmail-remote.c Fri Aug 3 14:34:27 2001
***
*** 338,344
int flagallaliases;
int flagalias;
char *relayhost;
!
sig_pipeignore();
if (argc 4) perm_usage();
if (chdir(auto_qmail) == -1) temp_chdir();
--- 338,345
int flagallaliases;
int flagalias;
char *relayhost;
! int s_opt;
!
sig_pipeignore();
if (argc 4) perm_usage();
if (chdir(auto_qmail) == -1) temp_chdir();
***
*** 415,420
--- 416,423
if (smtpfd == -1) temp_oserr();
if (timeoutconn(smtpfd,ip.ix[i].ip,(unsigned int)
port,timeoutconnect) == 0) {
+ s_opt=1;
+ setsockopt(smtpfd,SOL_SOCKET,SO_KEEPALIVE,s_opt,sizeof(int));
tcpto_err(ip.ix[i].ip,0);
partner = ip.ix[i].ip;
smtp(); /* does not return */
Re: tcpserver problems? or is it qmail? or BOTH! Help?
Scott Zielsdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By searching on the keywords xinetd and qmail on the web I was able to find a script that allowed xinetd to use tcpserver as its daemon and then the relaying rules in /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb worked. [...] Possibly the reason you were blasted is that this is incorrect. You _cannot_ make inetd or xinetd use tcpserver. Your xinetd script doesn't use tcpserver; it uses tcp-env. tcp-env was originally designed to allow you to do tcpserver-like operations from inetd, but is now deprecated. There are precisely zero advantages to using inetd/xinetd in this manner, and several disadvantages (when compared to a simple tcpserver installation). Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
Problem with routing (Again)
Here is my situation. I have a test lab with many mail servers from various venders. Each of the mail servers has the same set of test users loaded on each machine. With this problem I am not able to setup a MX record so I use the artificial routing scheme of qmail to get some things accomplished that I need done. Here is what I am trying to achieve now. I have qmail on a server with the U of W IMAP server. With our client which we are testing I am able to send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the message is accepted by qmail with no problem. However, if I send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] the message never arrives. I get a bounced message from qmail stating the following Hi. This is the qmail-send program at hostname.psomedomain.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry, I couldn't find any host named pain.teamp.com. (#5.1.2) What have I missed. The contents of my rcpthosts file is as follows somedomain.com The contents of my smtproutes file is as follows somedomain.com:hostname.somedomain.com My defaultdomain file is set to somedomain.com My locals file si set to: hostname.psomedomain.com localhosts My me file is set to hostname.psomedomain.com The other files in my control directory are plusdomains and defaultdelivery. So what is wrong with my delivery mechanism? --Cordell Bourne
Re: anger management courses
At 03:41 PM 8/1/2001, Robin S. Socha wrote:
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 04:10:13PM -0400, Jeff Palmer wrote:
Can anyone say 'anger management course'?
Anger mangama... Angre mgnma
anggg munug... annngr mnng... no!
Robin - I too have anger issues... two joke my wife would like me to share
(mostly she tells them about me):
1) any time an app on her (our?) windows server crashes, she classifies it
as an 'rtfm ID-10-T' error ('read the feching manual, idiot')
2) abstract, seemingly random software issues are often described as 'lying
somewhere between the chair and keyboard'... this one often works when
describing the desire to 'un-send' email
apologies for the useless flame
`In Germany, they are not referred to as network administrators. They
prefer to be called Sons Of The Third Reich.' (Kate: www.katewerk.com)
in the usa, they are treated like goalkeepers in football (soccer, duh?)...
when the team wins, you shower alone - when the team loses, you shower
alone *grin*
- hogan
VERY URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
3/5 RIDER HAGGARD CLOSE, JO, BORG SOUTH AFRICA. Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL) (RE: TRANSFER OF ($ 152,000.000.00 USD ]ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY TWO MILLION DOLLARS Dear sir, We want to transfer to overseas ($ 152,000.000.00 USD) One hundred and Fifty two million United States Dollars) from a Prime Bank in Africa, I want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end for this important business trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in future. I am Abdulahi kano, the Auditor General of prime banks in Africa, during the course of our auditing I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 1990 and since 1993 nobody has operated on this account again, after going through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without a [heir] hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. the owner of this account is Mr. Allan P.Seaman, a foreigner, and an industrialist, and he died, since 1993. and no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that Allan P. Seaman until his death was the manager Diamond Safari [pty]. SA. We will start the first transfer with fifty two million [$52,000.000] upon successful transaction without any disappoint from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining rest amount to your account, The amount involved is (USD 152M) One hundred and Fifty two million United States Dollars, only I want to first transfer $52,000.000 [fifty two million United States Dollar from this money into a safe foreigners account abroad before the rest, but I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here, without valid international foreign passport, but can only be approved to any foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign a/c because the money is in us dollars and the former owner of the a/c Mr. Allan P. Seaman is a foreigner too, [and the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c However, we will sign a binding agreement, to bind us together I got your contact address from the Girl who operates computer, I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never let me down in this business, you are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to takeurgently. Send also your private telephone and fax number including the full details of the account to be used for the deposit. I want us to meet face to face to build confidence and to sign a binding agreement that will bind us together before transferring the money to any account of your choice where the fund will be safe. Before we fly to your country for withdrawal, sharing and investments. I need your full co-operation to make this work fine. because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you, upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with instruction of a key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this business. I need your strong assurance that you will never, never let me down. With my influence and the position of the bank official we can transfer this money to any foreigner's reliable account which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival in your country for sharing. The bank official will destroy all documents of transaction immediately we receive this money leaving no trace to any place and to build confidence you can come immediately to discuss with me face to face after which I will make this emittance in your presence and three of us will fly to your country at least two days ahead of the money going into the account. I will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately I hear from you that you are ready to act and receive this fund in your account. I will use my position and influence to obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with apropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange departments. At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 35% of the total amount, 60% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of transferring. I look forward to your earliest reply
Re: Anti-Virus options
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 03:21:26PM -0400, Ed Weinberg wrote: I have seen the anti-virus options listed on the qmail.org site and looked at the documentation on vendors sites. I was wondering what the advantage was of installing the anti-virus add-ons to Qmail (like Qmail-Scanner) when you can just run most of the mail scrubbers as a daemon which listens to port 25 and sends good eamail to some non-standard p;ort where qmail-smtpd (via tcpserver) can be listening? -- Ed First thought that occurs to me: why would I trust the AV author to entirely DTRT WRT SMTP? I use qmail because Dan's code is small, lean, and appears from all accounts to be immune to remote exploit. I have no such faith in any AV authors yet -- after all, they're incapable of filtering simple double-extension Outlook viruses by their nature, why trust them with network code? *grin* -- Greg White
Re: Dial-up Fails to Connect to SMTP Server
Is your ISP blocking port 25 outbound traffic? What happens if you try to telnet directly to those smtp servers, eg: telnet serveraddress 25 Numerous ISPs only let you send outbound SMTP via there SMTP server as a measure against spammers - if that's the case with you then you'll need to look into smtproutes. Regards. On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 04:14:26PM -0400, Jeff Hill allegedly wrote: I know this is not strictly a qmail problem, but . . . Dial-up connections (using Outlook Express 5.00) can no longer connect to the SMTP server to send out e-mail (repeatedly times out), but nothing has been changed on the server or dial-up machines. There is no problem with dial-ups connecting to cucipop to pick-up mail, and all other Internet connections work fine on dial-up machines. Mail sent directly from the server works without any visible problems. The only thing I see in the qmail-send logs is quite a few I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection, but the mail seems to go through eventually. I did recently upgraded to use rblsmtpd. I'm using supervise for qmail-send, running ucspi-tcp 0.84; qmail 1.03, Debian potato [kernel 2.2.19]. There isn't a heavy load of traffic: Qstat currently says there are 28 messages in queue, 0 not yet preprocessed. Thanks for any leads. Best Regards, Jeff Hill
Re: Problem with routing (Again)
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 06:15:07PM -0600, Cordell Bourne wrote: Here is my situation. I have a test lab with many mail servers from various venders. Each of the mail servers has the same set of test users loaded on each machine. With this problem I am not able to setup a MX record so I use the artificial routing scheme of qmail to get some things accomplished that I need done. Here is what I am trying to achieve now. I have qmail on a server with the U of W IMAP server. With our client which we are testing I am able to send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the message is accepted by qmail with no problem. However, if I send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] the message never arrives. I get a bounced message from qmail stating the following Hi. This is the qmail-send program at hostname.psomedomain.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry, I couldn't find any host named pain.teamp.com. (#5.1.2) I don't know where pain.teamp.com comes in, but your nameservers are broken -- that makes it difficult to recieve mail. gregw@frodo:~$ dnsq mx somedomain.com a.gtld-servers.net 15 somedomain.com: 108 bytes, 1+0+2+2 records, response, noerror query: 15 somedomain.com authority: somedomain.com 172800 NS ns1.betstop.com authority: somedomain.com 172800 NS ns2.betstop.com additional: ns1.betstop.com 172800 A 12.8.12.75 additional: ns2.betstop.com 172800 A 12.8.12.76 So, I asked ns1.betstop.com about somedomain.com, and it said: gregw@frodo:~$ dnsq soa somedomain.com ns1.betstop.com 6 somedomain.com: timed out ns2.betstop.com revealed the same result. Fix your nameservers, then maybe things will work. If not, fix them and post the results. The results you posted look like a _real_ misconfiguration, based on whatever your _real_ DNS is. Perhaps posting an unmunged bounce message, and unmunged output of 'qmail-showctl' would be helpful for the list in determining what the problem really is. Note that, in posting what appears to be mangled data, much of the list has ignored your post. :) -- Greg White
RE: tcpserver problems? or is it qmail? or BOTH! Help?
-Original Message- From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Subject: Re: tcpserver problems? or is it qmail? or BOTH! Help? Possibly the reason you were blasted is that this is incorrect. LOL...You think? You_cannot_ make inetd or xinetd use tcpserver. Your xinetd script doesn't use tcpserver; it uses tcp-env. tcp-env was originally designed to allow you to do tcpserver-like operations from inetd, but is now deprecated. There are precisely zero advantages to using inetd/xinetd in this manner, and several disadvantages (when compared to a simple tcpserver installation). My thanks to Lukas Beeler who asked me to run 'ps auxf' and behold! I found errors coming from readproctile telling me it couldn't find /usr/local/bin/setguidid. Here's the specific error message: root 686 0.8 0.0 1252 16 ?SAug02 14:19 \_ readproctitle service errors: ...xec: /usr/local/bin/setguidgid: cannot execute: No such file or directory?tcpserver: usage: tcpserver [ -1UXpPhHrRoOdDqQv ] [ -c limit ] [ - x rules.cdb ] [ -B banner ] [ -g gid ] [ -u uid ] [ -b backlog ] [ -l localname ] [ -t timeout ] host port program?./run: /usr/local/bin/setguidgid: No such fil e or directory?./run: exec: /usr/local/bin/setguidgid: cannot execute: No such f ile or directory? And, sure 'nuf, their ain't a setguidgid anywhere on the box. So did I 'fat finger' setguidid somewhere in a script or did my daemontools install fail and I just didn't realize it? Or is there another problem? Lukas also had me run 'netstat -lp | grep smtp' and, like there was a doubt smile, the owner came back as xinetd. So aside from me telling the Canadian guy how to use xinetd to *maybe* get around his problem (I hadn't considered a fire wall issue)instead of tcpserver, can you give me some guidance into where to look to solve this? Thanks Scott
Re: virtualdomains vs. VERP and Delivered-To
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:39:07PM +, Charles M. Hannum wrote: In virtualdomains, I have: spamalicious.com:mycroft-spamalicious .spamalicious.com:mycroft-spamalicious When mail is sent to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' -- e.g. from majordomo (please spare me the majordomo vs. ezmlm flames) -- I see: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 02 20:13:30 2001 ... Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... This seems very wrong. The Delivered-To: address here isn't even correct; it should be something the actually exists -- either `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' or `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Delivered-To: is considered opaque, which is satisfactory for its role as a loop inhibitor -- as long as the Delivered-To: line for a given address is the same, a loop will be detected. For VERP to be useful, the VERP address needs to be the latter; otherwise my mailing list manager won't be able to handle the bounces correctly, since it will have the wrong address. This is a (the?) bug with qmail, though I cannot find the patch at the moment.
RE: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly other s)
I just looked at the server I had problems with -- 15 hung qmail-remotes :( Not good! I peaked at 26 before I noticed. How did you test this patch? Are you saying that you were able to reliably reproduce the problem? I could never do this... If so, how? I tested the patch by running it on the live server for three days. I was experiencing on average 1-2 processes getting stuck a day and haven't had one stuck since. The problems generally started during large mailing which happen daily on this server. I couldn't repeat the problem, but it happened reliably enough for me to believe that it has now been stopped. The patch itself should not affect the running of the program in any way except dropping dead connections. There is a lot of mistery in this: Most (but not all) reports had connections hung to outblaze.com Most (but not all) servers ran Linux. It's weird... It is. I didn't spot a pattern in the remote hosts, but then I didn't try to. I suspect it's something to do with stateful firewalls dropping a session after a period of inactivity, it doesn't explain why the code is affected by it all, though. My other suspicion is that there's a chance that my one server will try a couple of dozen connections to the same remote host at the same time. (This is an issue in itself!) It could be that a firewall in the path is mistaking the connection as a DOS attempt and responding weirdly, kicking off a bug with select. I'll let you know if the problems re-appear. Richard
Anti-Virus options
I have seen the anti-virus options listed on the qmail.org site and looked at the documentation on vendors sites. I was wondering what the advantage was of installing the anti-virus add-ons to Qmail (like Qmail-Scanner) when you can just run most of the mail scrubbers as a daemon which listens to port 25 and sends good eamail to some non-standard p;ort where qmail-smtpd (via tcpserver) can be listening? -- Ed
RE: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly other s)
Richard Underwood writes: My other suspicion is that there's a chance that my one server will try a couple of dozen connections to the same remote host at the same time. (This is an issue in itself!) Not really. It used to be an issue back in 1996 when qmail was first introduced. There were still legacy smtp daemons which couldn't handle the load they offered to accept. These days, nobody wants to be trampled by a big mailing list house (and they *all* use qmail), so everybody has incoming connection limits. Now if you want to complain about your operating system's TCP stack failing to share timeout information between TCP connections to the same host, or cache TCP timeout information, go ahead. But that's a TCP stack thing, not a qmail thing. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | #exclude windows.h Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX |
Re: routing mail with user-specific tokens in addresses
Bela Lubkin writes: Assuming qmail has been set up on a bastion host and is being used to route incoming mail from the Internet to various internal hosts; and observing that in doing such routing, it is not honoring the user-token@domain address extension delimiter; then: what mistake has been made in configuring the bastion host? Hard to say. There are so many mistakes you could have made. If you were a clueless luser, I'd suggest that you failed to create ~alias/.qmail-token (from the example above) or put the wrong thing in it. But you're not, and you didn't, therefore you must have done something spectacularly wrong, rather than mildly and boringly wrong. Pray, tell us what it was when you figure it out. Furthermore: once that's been fixed, is there a way to also get it to honor = as a similar address extension delimiter -- without setting up thousands of individual wildcard aliases? man qmail-users should tell you how to set up multiple instances of each user, each with his own delimiter. I tend not to like qmail-users because I (still!) have more experience with hosts where a user in /etc/passwd can receive email, damnit. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | #exclude windows.h Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX |
rblsmtpd and mail-abuse.org's DNS servers
Hi, I'm having a problem with my qmail smtpd server becoming unresponsive
when rblsmtpd cannot communiate with the RBL nameservers. Has anyone else
had this problem? I'd like to blindy accept e-mail if the RBL nameservers
cannot be contacted. Here's how I'm starting the SMTP server:
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 7791 -g 2108 -v 0 smtp fixcrio
/usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -t 7 /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -t 7 -r dialups.mail-abuse.org
/usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -t 7 -r 'relays.mail-abuse.org:Open relay problem - see
URL:http://www.mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/nph-rss?%IP%' /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21
| /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t n100 s100
/var/log/smtp
--
//Derek Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Programmer: CISC, LLC - S@IRC
char *sites[]={http://www.freezersearch.com/index.cfm?aff=dhc;,
http://www.ciscllc.com,http://www.freezemail.com,0}; /*KDR AB 249*/
RE: new install and qmail not logging
Hello, thank you for your answer, I tried it, the daemon is not killed, current file is reset to empty file ...but not archived. It seems to be lost. What did I mis-understand ? Thank you -Message d'origine- De : G. v. Driel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoye : vendredi 3 aout 2001 15:47 A : Olivier Dupuis Objet : Re: new install and qmail not logging * Olivier Dupuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I saw few mails about multi log and I have a question about it : I would like multilog to start a new log every night so that I can archive the logs day by day. I read in the doc that sending a kill SIGALRM to the multilog process would force it to start a new log. It actually does but it also kills the multilog process which is quite annoying because this means that I have to kill qmail and restart qmail and multilog. Is there a way to ask multilog to start a new current log without killing it ? Thank you Hi Olivier, Do you have daemontools setup? than is just a matter of running a cron job that does: $ svc -h /service/smtpd/log GroetGuido
Re: routing mail with user-specific tokens in addresses
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 07:42:30PM -0700, Bela Lubkin wrote: I've been able to test for certain that none of user=token@domain, user+token@domain, user-token@domain, or user.token@domain are being processed in the desired manner. Qmail uses - as the extension delimiter (similar to MMDF's =), so if user-token@domain doesn't work, and ~user exists on your qmail server, you're probably missing ~user/.qmail-default. man dot-qmail and read the EXTENSION ADDRESSES section for details. MY QUESTION: is there any way this could be set up in a global fashion, rather than listing every single user in some config file? Edit conf-break in the qmail sources, make setup check. If possible I'd like to set up several different characters for this, so that user+token@domain and user-token@domain would also work (I frequently encounter web pages which will not accept = as an email address character; I'm sure other characters are similarly burdened -- I want a whole pallette of choices to try.) Why not just stick to a single delimiter (like qmail's -, which seems to be universally accepted)? -- 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: allow/deny pop3
Hello GARGIULO, GEI Is there any way to pass a -x paremeter file to tcpserver for allow/deny GEI pop3 connections. I was using qpopper from inetd and used hosts.* files GEI to do that work. Now, I'm using qmail-pop3d from daemontools and I'm GEI looking for some /etc/tcp.pop3 file to restrict connections based on GEI IP addresses. You can do it, if replace inetd with xinetd-server. -- Best regards, Alexey Korchagin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
new install and qmail not logging
I've just installed qmail for the first time using the Life with qmail instructions. I'm to the point where it says to Test the Installation by following the instructions in TEST.deliver and TEST.receive. Everything seems to have installed properly and I don't think that I've made any mistakes, but I don't know for sure. If I do a ps auxw | grep qmail I have all of the proper processes running (the ones mention in #2 of TEST.deliver). Since life with qmail uses a configuration that uses the multilogger instead of syslog, no new entries are being added to the syslog. However, I'm also not finding any other place that it is logging. The only log I can find is: /var/log/qmail/smtpd/current It contains: @40003b69edb8334ced4c tcpserver: status: 0/20 @40003b69ee1b041ccd94 tcpserver: status: 0/20 @40003b69f0513a00d6bc tcpserver: status: 0/20 @40003b69f46012262804 tcpserver: status: 0/20 @40003b69f48c0771346c tcpserver: status: 0/20 Where do the lines that TEST.deliver say should get logged actually get logged? For instance, it indicates that the following should be logged: qmail: status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 qmail: new msg 53 qmail: info msg 53: bytes 246 from me@domain qp 20345 uid 666 qmail: starting delivery 1: msg 53 to local me@domain qmail: status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 qmail: delivery 1: success: did_1+0+0/ qmail: status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 qmail: end msg 53 If they are supposed to go into /var/log/qmail/smtpd/current, then I'd appreciate any pointers to getting this problem fixed. Thanks! Tauren
