Re: Nothing at port 25? RESOLVED
I don't know why Yahoo! decided to not send this message last night; they're really flaky lately. Good thing I have my server back up and running. Basically, it was just that, in all of the repartitioning/data restoration/etc. that I had to do this weekend, I forgot to bring over /etc/tcp.smtp. Duh! It was fixed the instant I put that back. Thanks for catching that, though. Alex Le Fevre __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Nothing at Port 25?
Hello all, This weekend I attempted to upgrade my system from OpenBSD 2.8 - 2.9. I had a bit of trouble doing so, and as such had to do some strange OS manipulation that does not bear description here. In any case, after getting to what I thought was a fully restored point, my inbound mail is not working. This despite the fact that I have qmail running under tcpserver, as revealed by ps: qmaild3828 0.0 0.360 444 C0- S 10:36PM 0:00.04 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -u 1012 -g 1011 -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd I also have qmail-lspawn, qmail-rspawn, and qmail-clean running. I can't even telnet to port 25 on the system; it tells me it's connected, then immediately dumps me out. I've posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to see if it could possibly be the OS shutting down the port, but I suspect something is wrong with the qmail daemon. Does anyone here know if I've got things right from the Qmail end? Thanks. Alex Le Fevre __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: url of sqwebmail too long!!!!
I hope I understand what your asking. Actually, I think what he's trying to do is the same thing I've been trying to do -- make mail.domain.com equivalent to www.domain.com/cgi-bin/sqwebmail. In that case, an alias wouldn't work, because that would require www.domain.com/alias/, not mail.domain.com. Of course, it's probably a question more for an Apache list, but if you or someone else knows how to do that, it would make both of us quite happy. :-) Alex Le Fevre
OT: Sending Mail with C++
I've seen the wars going on the last couple of days with people being tired of answering stupid questions, so my apologies if this appears to be such a question. I've learned that in Perl, sending an e-mail through the system is as simple as outputting to /usr/bin/sendmail -t. I figured that doing this with C++ would be just as simple; I'd just open an ofstream with ios::app and print to it. However, this doesn't seem to work, and after conducting what I feel to be an exhaustive search of the web, I'm seeing nothing on the subject. Has anyone ever sent mail using a C++ program? If so, I'd appreciate either some tips or a pointer to a URL discussing it. Thanks in advance. Alex Le Fevre
Re: OT: Sending Mail with C++
Please supply more information: 1) At what point is your program failing? The program itself doesn't seem to fail. I put a cout statement after my last line of code, and it pops up just fine. 2) If it gets far enough, are you capturing the exit code of /usr/bin/sendmail (or /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject, for that matter)? There is no output, at all. I get no error messages of any kind. 3) Does anything make it into the qmail logs? Nothing shows up in the qmail logs. 4) Have you straced/trussed the program? Can't say I know what either of these are. 5) What is the failure mode? Silent failure, core dump, ... It's completely silent -- like I said, there are no program errors, and no errors from /usr/bin/sendmail. I'm sure that's only made things more confusing, but hopefully it eliminates some possibilities. Alex
Mailing from script
I just wrote a Perl script that gets an e-mail address from the command line and then subs it in as the To: field in mailwrapper output. While the program worked just fine when I manually entered the To: field, it appends @www.schnarff.com to that field when I get it from the command line. The relevant part of the script appears below: $recip = $ARGV[0]; $recip =~ s/\@/\\\@/g; print $recip; open (MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t"); print MAIL "To: $recip\n"; print MAIL "From: quoteoftheday\@schnarff.com\n"; print MAIL "Reply-to: alex\@schnarff.com\n"; print MAIL "Subject: Quote for $date\n"; print MAIL $sdata[rand(@sdata)]; close MAIL; $recip, when I printed it to the screen for testing purposes, came out as user\@domain.com, which is exactly what I need. Any idea why the mailwrapper would append my local domain like that? Thanks, Alex Le Fevre
Re: Mailing from script
No it isn't. The =~ s stuff is totally unnecessary, as you're not passing the address on the command line to sendmail... Maybe I didn't make myself clear. I *am* trying to pass the e-mail address from the command line to sendmail. And yes, $recip *is* user\@domain.com -- I printed it to STDOUT, and it showed up just like that. IMHO, if the script works fine when I have a hard-coded To: line, and my $recip comes out a replica of my hard-coded To: line, it doesn't seem to me to be a Perl problem. Alex
Re: Mailing from script
Aw come on, take away the =~ s line and you'll be fine. I promise. ::Looks chagrined:: Hmm. You were right. I just know that I need the "\" before the "@" when I hard-code, so I thought it would be necessary with my variable as well. And NO, you're not trying to pass the recip on the command line. Your're passing it on STDIN. I still don't understand your logic here -- script.pl [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- but that's not really relevant to this list, so don't worry about it. Alex
Re: Aliases chdir problems
Not quite; that will try to deliver to an mbox file named "Maildir" in username's homedir, but as user alias. Chances are that you want that .qmail file to contain "username" instead, which will forward the mail from the long name to the short username. Then, that user's .qmail file (or the system default delivery specification) will control the final delivery. That works nicely. I just have one question: is there any good way to control the user's reply-to and from addresses via Qmail? It's showing up as [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's just minor cosmetics, though. Alex
Alternate MDA
I'm looking to implement maildrop system-wide, so that I don't have to fiddle around with setting it up for each user that wants mail filtering. I've been told by maildrop's author that I should just install it as my default mail delivery agent. I've been all over the qmail.org page, Life with Qmail, and all of that good stuff, and I don't see a lot about switching MDAs. Could anyone point me to a good resource on the subject? Thanks, Alex Le Fevre __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text
Re: Alternate MDA
... Note that users will still be able to override this choice with a .qmail file. Thus, you're saying, if there's a .qmail file, the .mailfilter file gets ignored? Alex __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text
Re: Content Types
I'm no Perl coder, but it looks to me like you're sending everything as part of the message header -- you need a completely blank line (i.e. no whitespace on the line) between the end of the message headers, and the start of your first MIME part. That just makes everything show up as message body, including the attachment coming across as plain (albeit garbled) text. Am I doing something wrong with my boundary being "--bound"? Or are there any other rules I need to follow when wrapping a message with an attachment? Alex __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Attachments via /usr/bin/sendmail
How would I go about attaching encoded files (i.e. jpg, gif, etc.) via the mailwrapper? I'm trying to write a Perl script that first uploads a file (which I've done no problem), and then e-mails it out to a specified address. I've seen some examples that mentioned uuencoding, but I'm not sure if this would be right for all types of attachments. Thanks, Alex Le Fevre __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
RE: Attachments via /usr/bin/sendmail
That made it come through as a bunch of gobbledygook to my mail...but that's OK, because I know what I have to write on my mailwrapper to get it to see that it's an attachment. I think that suggestion will do the trick. Thanks! Alex Le Fevre __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
RE: Attachments via /usr/bin/sendmail
Hmmm...I thought I had it, but not quite. For some
reason, my Perl script is outputting to the screen,
not my mailwrapper. Are there any limitations on what
you can send to the mailwrapper? My program is below:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$fileout = system("/bin/cat
/home/www/schnarff/images/chili.jpg |
/usr/bin/uuencode /home/www/schnarff/chili.jpg");
$bound = "---bound";
open (MAIL, "|/usr/bin/sendmail -t");
print MAIL "To: alexlefevre\@yahoo.com\n";
print MAIL "Mime-Version: 1.0\n";
print MAIL "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary=\"$bound\"; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n";
print MAIL "$bound\n";
print MAIL "Content-Type: image/jpg;
name=\"chili.jpg\"\n";
print MAIL "Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename=\"chili.jpg\"";
print MAIL "Content-Transfer-Encoding: uuencode";
print MAIL "$fileout";
close MAIL;
Alex
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Content Types
I've solved my earlier problem of getting my script to output an encoded file to the mailwrapper. My only problem is, I'm having real trouble getting mail agents to see the attachment properly. Using this script: #!/usr/bin/perl $fileout = `cat /home/www/schnarff/images/chili.jpg | /usr/local/bin/base64 /home/www/schnarff/images/chili.jpg`; $bound = "---bound"; open (MAIL, "|/usr/bin/sendmail -t"); print MAIL "To: alexlefevre\@yahoo.com\n"; print MAIL "Mime-Version: 1.0\n"; print MAIL "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"$bound\"; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n"; print MAIL "$bound\n"; print MAIL "Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1\n"; print MAIL "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n"; print MAIL "Here is the attachment!\n"; print MAIL "$bound\n"; print MAIL "Content-Type: image/jpg; name=\"chili.jpg\"\n"; print MAIL "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"chili.jpg\""; print MAIL "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64"; print MAIL "$fileout"; close MAIL; Mail goes to Yahoo just fine, which shows that there's an attachment on the Inbox screen. When I try to access the message, though, there's nothing there -- not even my text. What could be the problem? I'm taking the content-type, etc. from mail I sent using sqwebmail. Thanks, Alex __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
/usr/bin/sendmail -t
I'm currently putting together a small Perl script that sends an e-mail with a user-entered value as the from: value. I want to test my syntax by using my sendmail wrapper with the -t flag, but I don't know how to tell it I'm done with a message. What command do I issue to tell the mailwrapper I'm done? Alex Le Fevre __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: /usr/bin/sendmail -t
EOF -- close the fd. If I'm actually typing my info in -- after calling /usr/bin/sendmail -t from a command line -- is that Ctrl-z? Alex __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: /usr/bin/sendmail -t
OK, that's cool...but now I have (presumably) one last question. I've got my script printing From: $usermail to /usr/bin/sendmail, and it's working well enough both to trap the address the user enters and put it into the From: field. My question is, what field to I need to put $usermail into so that I can send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and fool ezmlm? Alex __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Mailwrapper not working
I've posted several questions to this list recently on this topic, none of which have been satisfactorily answered. I apologize for any redundancy. The root of my problem is that my mail wrapper seems to be malfunctioning. Neither /usr/sbin/sendmail -- from OBSD 2.8's default install of Sendmail -- or /var/qmail/bin/sendmail seem to work at all. When I point a popular Perl script at them (FormMail.pl), the script executes but produces nothing in /var/log/maillog. How can I test my mailwrapper for functionality? Would it be possible to reinstall the mailwrapper without reinstalling all of qmail if I find it's not functional? Are there any config files I need to be checking? Thanks for your help. Alex Le Fevre __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: Mailwrapper not working
Put symlinks in place as the qmail docs tell you. I have, I kill -HUP'ed qmail-send, and it still doesn't work. Why wouldn't it work Alex __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: Mailwrapper not working
DJB posted to this list once, pointing out problems with mailer.conf -- if the system fails to open it (out of fds, etc), it defaults to using sendmail -- hardly what you want. The symlink solution is more reliable, and no files need to be parsed either. You're still both missing my original point -- not that my mail as a whole isn't working, but that I can't get FormMail.pl (from www.worldwidemart.com/scripts) to send e-mail. I've only got to the question about mailwrappers because that's where I was led in search of a fix for this problem. The script, by default, calls the mail program as /usr/lib/sendmail, which didn't work; I've been toying around with everything from a symlinked /usr/sbin/sendmail to /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject, and none of those work. Can anyone provide help relevant to that problem? Thanks, Alex __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: Mailwrapper not working
qmail-inject can't work, you need the sendmail-wrapper - normally /var/qmail/bin/sendmail. This does work as it should normally. Id it doesn't there are some serious misconfigurations. How can I test /var/qmail/bin/sendmail? Do you think there would be a way to check to make sure my script is actually calling the binary? Alex __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
/var/qmail/bin/sendmail
I'm trying to get FormMail.pl to work with qmail, and I'm having quite a time of it. I can't point it towards /usr/local/sendmail, because that doesn't exist on my system (OBSD 2.8). I tried /usr/libexec/sendmail, but that didn't work, either -- nothing showed up in my Apache error logs or /var/log/maillog. FYI, ls -l on /usr/libexec/sendmail shows: -r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 380928 Nov 6 12:40 sendmail I also tried, as per the suggestion of someone from this list, pointing it at /var/qmail/bin/sendmail. However, this does nothing, either. ls -l shows: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 16384 Mar 5 00:26 sendmail What could be wrong with this? I need this form ASAP, as I have business customers who will be using it soon. Thanks, Alex Le Fevre __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
/var/qmail/bin/sendmail (addendum)
Also, I tried: echo to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | /var/qmail/bin/sendmail That gave me these lines in /var/log/maillog: Mar 11 11:23:02 www qmail: 984327782.476368 info msg 2920341: bytes 212 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 9916 uid 0 Mar 11 11:23:02 www qmail: 984327782.477601 end msg 2920341 echo to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject, however, works just fine. Alex __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Which program?
I'm trying to set up some cgi scripts that send e-mail via the localhost (i.e. FormMail.pl from www.worldwidemart.com/scripts). Near the top, it has "path to e-mail program", where I put /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject. However, this doesn't seem to be working. There are two possibilities as I see them. First, it calls the program with a -t option, which I'm not familiar with. Second, I've configured qmail to work with tcpserver, so I'm not sure if I'm even sending the script to the right binary. Are either of these possibilities right? Or am I totally off-base? Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to provide. Alex Le Fevre __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: POP Users w/o System Accounts
As a side note, the MX for threeacesolutions.com seems to be inbound.threeacesolutions.com.criticalpath.net -- that's correct, is it? Just an odd hostname. That's definitely the wrong MX name -- it should be www.schnarff.com. It's probably just that my DNS provider hasn't updated it yet (which is potentially another issue here). Indeed. As the next thing, how about the output of the following commands: `ls -ld / /var /var/qmail /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/alias/.qmail*` bash-2.04# 'ls -ld / /var /var/qmail /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/alias/.qmail*' ls: /var/qmail/alias/.qmail*: No such file or directory drwxr-xr-x 17 root wheel 512 Feb 6 14:10 / drwxr-xr-x 25 root wheel 512 Jan 16 12:49 /var drwxr-xr-x 10 root qmail 512 Feb 10 14:38 /var/qmail drwxr-sr-x 3 alias qmail 512 Feb 11 13:34 /var/qmail/alias The reason that I have no .qmail in /var/qmail/alias is because when I put my .qmail-postmaster file there, it had no effect on [EMAIL PROTECTED] messages; it took a .qmail-postmaster file in /home/alias to make messages work correctly. Thus, I would assume Qmail is looking not in /var/qmail/alias but in /home/alias. `cat /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-threeacesolutions-info` Thus, here is alternate output on this request: bash-2.04# 'cat /home/alias/.qmail-threeacesolutions-info' [EMAIL PROTECTED] `ls -ld ~alias` Our output here seems to back up my thought process: bash-2.04# ls -ld ~alias drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 11 13:40 /home/alias On the contrary; I get the satisfaction of seeing someone actually putting the effort into running qmail, and being polite about it at the same time. Glad to hear I'm not just leeching off of your brains. Alex Le Fevre __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: POP Users w/o System Accounts
How about the output of `ls -ld / /home /home/alias /home/alias/.qmail*` ? My thinking at this point is this has to be an ownership/permissions issue. bash-2.04# ls -ld / /home /home/alias /home/alias/.qmail* drwxr-xr-x 17 root wheel 512 Feb 6 14:10 / drwxr-xr-x 26 root wheel 512 Feb 10 09:29 /home drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 11 13:40 /home/alias -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 19 Feb 11 13:38 /home/alias/.qmail-info-threeacesol utions -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 19 Feb 11 13:35 /home/alias/.qmail-mailer-daemon -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 19 Feb 11 13:32 /home/alias/.qmail-postmaster -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 19 Feb 11 13:35 /home/alias/.qmail-root -rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 19 Feb 10 18:24 /home/alias/.qmail-threeacesolutions-info Looks like I should probably chown popuser:popuser .qmail-threeacesolutions-info, right? Alex __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: POP Users w/o System Accounts
No, chown it to alias. In fact, make that `chown -R alias:users /home/alias` to make it right. You can change the group to whatever your proper default is under your OS. Ummm...would that be wheel? I'm running OBSD 2.8. Sadly enough, after doing `chown -R alias:users /home/alias`, I still can't get mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (thankfully, [EMAIL PROTECTED] still works). Is that just because I've got the wrong group set up? Alex __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: POP Users w/o System Accounts
I don't think so. wheel is a privileged group, isn't it? You want something with no elevated privileges. OK then, say, popuser? Maybe, but I doubt it. Are the qmail log messages explaining the failure the same as before? And of course you HUP'ed qmail-send... The log messages don't say a damn thing. I think, however, that this is an issue with my DNS provider (www.namesecure.com); I've had a nearly identical issue before. I'm going to call them and see if my MX records are right (like they said a week ago they would be), and if not, bitch them out like crazy. Alex __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: POP Users w/o System Accounts
What does: grep alias /etc/passwd show? alias:*:1009:10::/home/alias:/bin/csh __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: POP Users w/o System Accounts
threeacesolutions.com:alias-threeacesolutions in virtualdomains will make [EMAIL PROTECTED] be controlled by ~alias/.qmail-threeacesolutions-info . No, ~alias means 'the home directory of user "alias"', which is needed by qmail. It doesn't involve the creation of any additional accounts. A standard qmail install will have ~alias as /var/qmail/alias . Therefore the necessary .qmail file is /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-threeacesolutions-info . I went ahead and made sure it wasn't in locals, and then made .qmail-threeacesolutions-info in /var/qmail/alias, with contents of "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". It's still not working -- in fact, it doesn't even show up in my maillog. I also tried an identical file in /home/alias (which is where my .qmail-postmaster file is), and it yielded the same (lack of) result. I even tried making the file .qmail-info-threeacesolutions, since the virtualdomains syntax was threeacesolutions:alias-threeacesolutions (thus info-three...), and that did no good either. Any idea what else I could try? Thanks, Alex __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: POP Users w/o System Accounts
1. Did you HUP qmail-send or restart qmail? qmail-send only reads virtualdomains at startup. I do that after every change. I had made that kind of mistake earlier, and felt really stupid after folks on the list pointed it out. 2. Post the output of `qmail-showctl`. qmail home directory: /var/qmail. user-ext delimiter: -. paternalism (in decimal): 2. silent concurrency limit: 120. subdirectory split: 23. user ids: 1009, 1010, 1011, 0, 1012, 1013, 1014, 1015. group ids: 1009, 1010. badmailfrom: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is allowed. bouncefrom: (Default.) Bounce user name is MAILER-DAEMON. bouncehost: (Default.) Bounce host name is schnarff.com. concurrencylocal: (Default.) Local concurrency is 10. concurrencyremote: (Default.) Remote concurrency is 20. databytes: (Default.) SMTP DATA limit is 0 bytes. defaultdomain: Default domain name is schnarff.com. defaulthost: (Default.) Default host name is schnarff.com. doublebouncehost: (Default.) 2B recipient host: schnarff.com. doublebounceto: (Default.) 2B recipient user: postmaster. envnoathost: (Default.) Presumed domain name is schnarff.com. helohost: (Default.) SMTP client HELO host name is schnarff.com. idhost: (Default.) Message-ID host name is schnarff.com. localiphost: (Default.) Local IP address becomes schnarff.com. locals: Messages for schnarff.com are delivered locally. Messages for antelopeinc.com are delivered locally. Messages for elderlinda.com are delivered locally. Messages for royalgenealogy.com are delivered locally. Messages for www.schnarff.com are delivered locally. me: My name is schnarff.com. percenthack: (Default.) The percent hack is not allowed. plusdomain: Plus domain name is schnarff.com. qmqpservers: (Default.) No QMQP servers. queuelifetime: (Default.) Message lifetime in the queue is 604800 seconds. rcpthosts: SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at schnarff.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at antelopeinc.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at elderlinda.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at royalgenealogy.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at www.schnarff.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at threeacesolutions.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at 3acesolutions.com. morercpthosts: (Default.) No effect. morercpthosts.cdb: (Default.) No effect. smtpgreeting: (Default.) SMTP greeting: 220 schnarff.com. smtproutes: (Default.) No artificial SMTP routes. timeoutconnect: (Default.) SMTP client connection timeout is 60 seconds. timeoutremote: (Default.) SMTP client data timeout is 1200 seconds. timeoutsmtpd: (Default.) SMTP server data timeout is 1200 seconds. virtualdomains: Virtual domain: threeacesolutions.com:alias-threeacesolutions rcphosts: I have no idea what this file does. 3. Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], wait for it to disappear into the ether or bounce, then post the relevent portions of the qmail logs, showing this message making it into the queue and all delivery attempts for it. Feb 11 17:46:47 www qmail: 981931607.668108 info msg 437786: bytes 405 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 30299 uid 1000 Feb 11 17:46:47 www qmail: 981931607.945872 starting delivery 856: msg 437786 to local alias-threeacesolutions-info@threeaceso lutions.com Feb 11 17:46:47 www qmail: 981931607.947880 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Feb 11 17:46:47 www qmail: 981931607.978230 delivery 856: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ Feb 11 17:46:48 www qmail: 981931608.022079 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Feb 11 17:46:48 www qmail: 981931608.197615 bounce msg 437786 qp 23215 Feb 11 17:46:48 www qmail: 981931608.222175 end msg 437786 Feb 11 17:46:48 www qmail: 981931608.307161 new msg 437787 Feb 11 17:46:48 www qmail: 981931608.308283 info msg 437787: bytes 952 from qp 23215 uid 1015 Feb 11 17:46:48 www qmail: 981931608.413360 starting delivery 857: msg 437787 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feb 11 17:46:48 www qmail: 981931608.415226 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Feb 11 17:46:48 www qmail: 981931608.514949 delivery 857: success: did_1+0+0/ Feb 11 17:46:48 www qmail: 981931608.543842 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Feb 11 17:46:48 www qmail: 981931608.544996 end msg 437787 Looks like I've probably just got my .qmail file named screwy. Hopefully this will help you pinpoint the problem. I *really* appreciate your help here. I know people like you get nothing out of replying to newbie posts like mine, and so I'd really like to thank you for going the extra mile to help me out. Thanks, Alex __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Logfile Turnover
My /var/log/maillog file has suddenly decided that it's a good idea to turn over every hour. Obviously, this is a bad thing, as it will seriously clutter my system (not to mention make trakcing any problems highly irritating). I'm not quite sure what I would have done to cause this, or how to change it back to daily or so. Can anyone tell me where I can tweak this? Thanks, Alex Le Fevre __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: Logfile Turnover
I seriously doubt that anyone can give you any useful advice -- you haven't given us enough information. What generates /var/log/maillog? syslog, multilog, (insert your program of choice here)? Honestly, I'm a bit newbieish to say concretely. I know that Qmail has been handling my e-mail, and that only e-mail was showing up in that file...but I don't really know what program would be handling logging Qmail's actions. Any idea how I could check? Alex __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
POP Users w/o System Accounts
I've been trying to get this to work through Phil Jacob's documentation (http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/pop3.html), which I found on the main qmail.org page. I thought I had follwed his instructions to a "T", but apparently not. What I want, in this particular instance, is to create the account [EMAIL PROTECTED], and then forward that to my personal account, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've set up /home/popuser/popboxes/threeacesolutions-com/info/.qmail to read [EMAIL PROTECTED], so that last part at least should be fine. The problem is, I'm getting a bounce saying that there is no user by that name. My virtualdomains file reads: threacesolutions.com:threeacesolutions My rcpthosts file has a threeacesolutions.com entry. Also, my users/assign file reads thus (with my = entry all on one line): =threeacesolutions-info:popuser:1024:1024:/home/popuser/popboxes/threeacesolutions-com/info/::: . I think I even have /users/poppasswd right: info:(encrypted_pass):popuser:/home/popuser/popboxes/threeacesolutions-com/info Obviously, I've given qmail-send more than one -HUP in my testing. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, Alex Le Fevre __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Sqwebmail Documentation
I know this is the wrong place to ask, but the sqwebmail mailing list is incredibly slow/unpopulated. Do any of you know where I could find documentation for that package? I'm trying to do things like set up multiple virtual domains, change my timeout time, etc. Thanks, Alex Le Fevre __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Unable to chdir (4.2.1)
I've got a working qmail system up and running now -- but only one user on it gets mail. All the other users I'm trying are getting the error "Unable to chdir to maildir (4.2.1)" in the maillog when trying to deliver mail to them. All of these undeliverable users have Maildirs in their home directories, with cur, new and tmp subdirectories, all of which are set to 0700 for permissions. Each also has a .qmail file containing ./Maildir/, set to -rw-r--r-- for permissions. Any idea why this would not be working? I followed exactly the instructions people on this list gave me before. Also, where can I go to look up info when I get a numbered error message such as 4.2.1 or 5.7.1 (RCPHosts-related)? I'd really like to not have to bother this list every time something like that crops up. Alex __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Error Message Numbers
I've noticed that, whenever an error occurs with qmail, a specific number is attached in the maillog. I'd like to be able to just go look those up and leave you all alone, but I don't know where to do so. Could you let me know? Thanks, Alex le Fevre __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Qmail Under TCPServer
Thanks all who have answered my questions so far. You
have been very helpful.
I'm running into a much stranger problem now. I'm
trying to set up Qmail under TCPServer, optimally with
POP access. I've installed the TCPServer program and
checkpassword (which tests out great) as per online
instructions. Then I went ahead and added the line
into my /etc/rc that was supposed to bring up Qmail
under TCPServer on boot...and for some reason, it
didn't.
This may be a problem with my system, since for some
reason the line above this in that file, which should
be starting Apache Web Server, has quit working on me
as well (it was fine at one point). Problem is, I'm
still way too much of a UNIX novice to diagnose it.
The last part of my /etc/rc reads:
# Alternatively, on some architectures, xdm may be
started in /etc/ttys.
if [ "X${xdm_flags}" != X"NO" ]; then
echo 'starting xdm...';
/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm ${xdm_flags}
fi
exit 0
# Starts Apache Web Server
/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start
# Starts Qmail Under TCPSERVER
tcpserver -v -u 1010 -g 1010 0 smtp
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \
21 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3
The stuff at the top is just there so anyone out there
can tell if I've put those lines in the wrong place.
FYI, the system is OpenBSD 2.8, running on an old
Pentium-200.
Any help/direction would be greatly appreciated.
Alex Le Fevre
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Re: Qmail Under TCPServer
Duh! Thanks.
One remaining question: shouldn't those show up in my
process list if I do a ps ax? I ask because I tried
setting up the account in Outlook Express on a Windows
machine, and when it tried to connect, it got a socket
error.
Thanks,
Alex
--- Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 12:28:30PM -0800, Alex Le
Fevre wrote:
The last part of my /etc/rc reads:
# Alternatively, on some architectures, xdm may be
started in /etc/ttys.
if [ "X${xdm_flags}" != X"NO" ]; then
echo 'starting xdm...';
/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm ${xdm_flags}
fi
exit 0
^^
everything behind exit will never be executed. exit
0 should be the last
line in your script.
# Starts Apache Web Server
/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start
# Starts Qmail Under TCPSERVER
tcpserver -v -u 1010 -g 1010 0 smtp
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \
21 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3
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Good MUAs
Thanks to all those who answered my question yesterday about what MUAs are and Maildir configuration. I was able to successfully send Internet mail, albeit with no subject or body. My question today comes after further reading of the included documentation. It says that Pine and Elm are both insecure and unstable, and that BSD mail is worse. However, it makes no mention of a good MUA. What would you all recommend, and where could I get it? I need clients for both my OpenBSD box and eventual Windows clients (for whom I am considering building a POP "toaster"). Thanks, Alex Le Fevre __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
OpenBSD's MUA
Hi! I'm setting up a fresh install of qmail on my new OpenBSD 2.8 (i386) box. I'd like to use maildir, but I'm not sure if I can. Specifically, the documentation said that some system MUAs don't support Maildir; since I don't even know what an MUA is, I can't tell if my OS supports it. For a bit more info, I tried setting it up anyway, and my test message generated this into syslog: Jan 18 12:18:42 www qmail: 979838322.185348 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Jan 18 12:21:48 www qmail: 979838508.954941 new msg 437780 Jan 18 12:21:48 www qmail: 979838508.956063 info msg 437780: bytes 214 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 23559 uid 0 Jan 18 12:21:49 www qmail: 979838509.119537 starting delivery 1: msg 437780 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jan 18 12:21:49 www qmail: 979838509.121945 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Jan 18 12:21:49 www qmail: 979838509.343842 delivery 1: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ Jan 18 12:21:49 www qmail: 979838509.344644 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Jan 18 12:23:30 www qmail: 979838610.456917 starting delivery 2: msg 437780 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jan 18 12:23:30 www qmail: 979838610.459090 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Jan 18 12:23:30 www qmail: 979838610.774385 delivery 2: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ Jan 18 12:23:30 www qmail: 979838610.775182 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Jan 18 12:28:30 www qmail: 979838910.864740 starting delivery 3: msg 437780 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jan 18 12:28:30 www qmail: 979838910.865738 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Jan 18 12:28:31 www qmail: 979838911.170234 delivery 3: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ Jan 18 12:28:31 www qmail: 979838911.171015 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Is the OS' MUA my problem, or is it something else? /home/alex/.qmail and /home/alex/.qmail-alex both exist, containing simply ./Maildir/. /home/alex/Maildir also exists. Thanks for your help. Alex Le Fevre __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Aliases
Please pardon what is likely a really dumb question...I'm a true newbie. In installing qmail, I'm told to set up ~alias/.postmaster, etc., etc. Only problem is, I don't quite understand the alias concept as it relates to mail. I understand the idea of an alias for a directory name...but mail? Is there some standard directory I'm pointing to with this alias, or some other standard concept behind it? Thanks for any help. Alex Le Fevre __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
