Re: qmail on AFS
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Andrea mentioned that AFS is very similar to CODA, and the CODA solution is to use rename() as I was planning on doing. Peter had cautioned that rename will overwrite existing files whereas hard links will not lose any existing files. Archived discussion threads indicate that renaming is still relatively safe because the email file name is composed of the current date/time, PID and host name and it is unlikely that the PID would recycle within 1 second. I think rename() is safe. Even link() is of course better, the event that two nodes of the cluster are writing a mail with same data,pid,hostname (???) is obviously very very rare (impossible?). The extended explanation of the problem is that AFS implements its own ACL, so that even the Unix root user may have no access to a users ~home directory; the holds true also that a user who has managed to log in to the Linux/Unix box may have no access to his own ~home directory. Like Coda. Access to AFS files are granted by tokens issued by the AFS/Kerberos authentication server. Like Coda, but Coda doesn't use kerberos. So during mail delivery, qmail-lspawn will setuid to become the email receipient, except that in most cases, this user will not have a valid token. I don't know well AFS, but with Coda / Vpopmail is trivial. It's sufficient to get a token for vpopmail and root users. When qmail starts, it launch 2 scripts to get root and vpopmail tokens. Then, crontab perform authentication for root / vpopmail every 4 hours (security reasons, tokens are valid for much longer). I really didn't need to patch qmail-local. In conjunction with all of the above, I will need a cron job to periodically refresh qmaill's AFS/Kerberos token so that qmaill will always have a valid token in order to make use of the ACL privileges that have been given to qmaill. Yep. But I don't see the needs for patching qmail-local.c (except for rename()). - --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 0744 5441330 Fax. +39 0744 5441372 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQEVAwUBO3K16vo9HK4+yTI3AQF0IQgAmgnnlQABR9szQN2KQHrxOLaSo92xxs8u 4vIkfmYT7eZrEIlYoRBazBa+8TfDyUqORNxatydzIBqiHBQcEf7AxBT8BhegNu9n QN8UNhCOEJNRHf/DvluInZm2I6+MRxity2o6psKfkWliFFaP6Lu6G8bw41J0qKul sVUkm5XtBzC5cfkiDzqAHmr+J8yv5CJiOAYuOueQ+yY2KJd0qlvMEmewBYr0rDsK kCuGEqrcxc0khtu8Wt1mdqHGhLN2yoMafhw2CUCggxiqrB5xLuoydNdAM/i/YuA1 76REBt/7LckUAH2Lb0Ej8TD0UC5w1G7MoQ1m1QEwY3ONfgdAsZ/L/Q== =wble -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: qmail on AFS
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- It appears that AFS is like Coda (you have to use rename() instead of link()). Try to search in the archive about Coda, you'll find a lot of discussions, with some patches. Vpopmail is being patched to work with Coda too, in the dev release. Good luck - --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 0744 5441330 Fax. +39 0744 5441372 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQEVAwUBO2+AWfo9HK4+yTI3AQF3DAf+N9I8iXUkdVWmxMyQa70LSJdVMyDsDyoX 8vfuTExnCULfPRAf7f6LuTqW+bcFyxw+8K8qvE9Q1aeV4yGKIp3LPoSsKY9FU7te xxgWtRnsfJeeQRUEo1Uh82ATuw201fOk2Uc6qwEGupu7picp3xFK6VeaUvhW3+L0 5V46DC0atz+fKVjAHUJq1ZArrt48+As2WqDKAFHjrFVK1jn8BA0VAREt3Ay2bFVe Fp5HHzfeRaAWQx1lLdqFm2YKmavwbWnTvDI5TsHUjTu3RqlNKID4C5kqyvmLDmza PEsqsYdwC+/rbRnLgDBfBdbtYqG1HnX9nt7BahYLr6HevV8ZnIedYQ== =KjBI -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: SMTP+SSL
Hi, Ok, I have been trying to install qmail-smtp with SSL, but no success. In the beginning I tried stunnel, but I gave up. Now I'm trying tls.patch, I have reinstalled qmail with tls.patch, but I can't get it o work. Can someone please help me. Cool. How can we help if you don't describe your problem? A lot of people (like me) here are running qmail+stunnel. --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 0744 5441330 Fax. +39 0744 5441372
R: SMTP+SSL
-Messaggio originale- Da: Per-fredrik Pollnow (EPK) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: martedì 31 luglio 2001 15.49 A: 'Andrea Cerrito' Cc: Qmail Mailing list (E-mail) Oggetto: RE: SMTP+SSL Hi, Sorry about the bad describe of my problems. I have tried so many things, cant post all things to the mailing list, :=), so I need some help. But how to you do when you are using stunnel + smtpd ? (Yes I use deamontools) This is some of the tings I have tried: -- #!/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/tcp.smtp.cdb -c $MAXSMTPD \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /usr/local/sbin/stunnel -p /etc/pem/smtp.pem -N smtp -l/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 -- qmail-smtpd -l /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd -- qmail-smtpd see the diffs! 1) detach -l and the command 2) do not use 21 before the end of command! There are a lot of scripts these days about stunnel. Try a search on some archive. :) --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 0744 5441330 Fax. +39 0744 5441372
Re: stunnel/POP3 hanging ??
mmmhhh, looks like a wrong startup script! Here is my invocation of stunnel: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 300 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -likauni.vrona.com -H -R 0 pop3 \ /usr/local/sbin/stunnel -p /etc/stunnel.pem \ -l /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup -- qmail-popup ikauni.vrona.com \ /bin/checkpassword /usr/sbin/relay-ctrl-allow /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21 Try something like: [snip] /usr/local/sbin/stunnel -p /etc/stunnel.pem -N spop3 -f -l /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup -- qmail-popup [snip] Hope it helps. --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 0744 5441330 Fax. +39 0744 5441372
Re: stunnel/POP3 hanging ??
Probably a misunderstood. Try something like: [snip] /usr/local/sbin/stunnel -p /etc/stunnel.pem -N spop3 -f -l /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup -- qmail-popup [snip] No. Running stunnel not as daemon but under tcpserver is a good idea. Maex posted a good example script a few days ago. The first [snip] was the tcpserver command, the second one was the qmail-command. I just said that stunnel was bad invoked, infact I add the -N (servicename) and the -f switch. This is my run script under tcpserver, uptime 83days with no problems. exec /usr/bin/env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:$PATH \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -c 50 -H -P -R -l hostname ip port \ /usr/local/stunnel/sbin/stunnel -p /var/qmail/control/spop3.pem \ -N spop3 -f -l /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \ hostname /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21 Just to be clear :) --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 0744 5441330 Fax. +39 0744 5441372
Re: stunnel
This is my run script.
exec /usr/bin/env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:$PATH \
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -c 50 -H -P -R -l hostname ip port \
/usr/local/stunnel/sbin/stunnel -p /var/qmail/control/spop3.pem -N spop3 \
-f -l /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup hostname \
/usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21
-p pemfile
-N wrapper name (spop3 = secure pop3)
-f don't fork
-l command to run
Working perfectly. The only problem I encountered was solved by using a
double qmail-popup after -l switch ('-l /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup').
Don't remember why, but I think stunnel can't work with either pop3 or smtp
as a redirector.
Hope it helps.
---
Cordiali saluti / Best regards
Andrea Cerrito
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R: Selective relaying problem
Is there any particular reason to start qmail from xinetd? You will be able to solve your problem with tcpserver in few minutes. What kind of selective relaying are you searching for? Static or dynamic? --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 0744 5441330 Fax. +39 0744 5441372 -Messaggio originale- Da: Michele Schiavo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: venerdì 27 luglio 2001 16.55 A: Brett Randall Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: Selective relaying problem Help me i use Xinetd and I'm not to be able to set RELAY client. Scott == Scott Zielsdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just installed qmail 1.03 on a Redhat 7x box. I cannot get selective relaying to work. I *have* read FAQ 5.4 and scoured the web archives for people with similar problems but I still can't get a resolution. How are you starting qmail-smtpd? (ie the tcpserver line). And what instructions did you follow to setup qmail? (www.lifewithqmail.org - recommended reading. No - ESSENTIAL reading.) or the INSTALL doc? If you followed the INSTALL doc, try re-installing qmail by following the lifewithqmail doc. In any case, answer the first question and we'll see what we can do... -- There is no reason anyone in the right state of mind will want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, President of Digital Equipment Corp, 1977
Re: php-qmail-sendmail...cjk
Warning: mail() is not supported in this PHP build in /usr/local/htdocs/test/newsletter/phpmynewsletter/include/cls.php3 on line 141 What kind of build do you have of php? It sounds like a bug of 4.0.5 (you can solve it by hand, anyway, have a look here http://www.php.net/bugs.php?id=11623, solved in 4.0.6). Hope it helps --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 0744 5441330 Fax. +39 0744 5441372
R: log format
About date, to view, pipe it to tai64nlocal. [root@homer-a main]# tail current @40003b54533929f756ec delivery 880: success: did_0+0+1/ @40003b54533929f78d9c status: local 0/60 remote 0/60 @40003b54533929f7a50c end msg 275504 @40003b545339309cfc04 new msg 275507 @40003b545339309d1b44 info msg 275507: bytes 10277 from sender qp 2219 uid 502 @40003b54533a07bdcdcc starting delivery 881: msg 275507 to local mailbox @40003b54533a07bdfcac status: local 1/60 remote 0/60 @40003b54533a0b7ec984 delivery 881: success: did_0+0+1/ @40003b54533a0b7f041c status: local 0/60 remote 0/60 @40003b54533a0b7f17a4 end msg 275507 [root@homer-a main]# tail current | tai64nlocal 2001-07-17 17:01:03.704075500 delivery 880: success: did_0+0+1/ 2001-07-17 17:01:03.704089500 status: local 0/60 remote 0/60 2001-07-17 17:01:03.704095500 end msg 275504 2001-07-17 17:01:03.815594500 new msg 275507 2001-07-17 17:01:03.815602500 info msg 275507: bytes 10277 from sender qp 2219 uid 502 2001-07-17 17:01:04.129879500 starting delivery 881: msg 275507 to local mailbox 2001-07-17 17:01:04.129891500 status: local 1/60 remote 0/60 2001-07-17 17:01:04.192858500 delivery 881: success: did_0+0+1/ 2001-07-17 17:01:04.192873500 status: local 0/60 remote 0/60 2001-07-17 17:01:04.192878500 end msg 275507 [root@homer-a main]# Hope it helps. --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 0744 5441330 Fax. +39 0744 5441372 -Messaggio originale- Da: GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: martedì 17 luglio 2001 17.11 A: qmail list Oggetto: log format Hi all. I'm using qmail-1.03, and it's working ok. Yesterday, I change the way to start qmail from tarball/INSTALL docs to LWQ. The problem is that the logs don't says (in human readable format), the date and time of each event. Instead of that, I see lines like @40003b535a1736077d54 tcpserver: ok 7541 0:10.1.1.1:25 :10.1.1.194::2525 How can I configure qmail startup process to log the events date and time like syslog? (Jul 17 12:03:00 host process: blah, blah, blah...) thanks --ejg
Re: False alarms about services with tcpserver
I hope I just discovered my problem, and I hope it will help other people too. As I said, I'm using CodaFS: sometimes Coda (a network fs) may respond slow to open files because files is modified on another host, or because getting info from master servers is delayed, and so on. Looking at my run script, I found a little thing intersting: exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -c 50 -H -P -R -l pop3.frontend.int -x /coda/qmail/vpopmail/relay/tcp.smtp.cdb \ -u $QMAILUID -g $QMAILGID ip port /coda/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 ^^^ But /coda/qmail/bin is a link on a ext3 fs: when I installed qmail, I installed it without binaries on codafs, just conf and mailboxes files. So: why using /coda/qmail/bin when I can use /usr/local/qmail/bin ? Now, my smtpd run script is exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -c 50 -H -P -R -l pop3.frontend.int -x /coda/qmail/vpopmail/relay/tcp.smtp.cdb \ -u $QMAILUID -g $QMAILGID ip port /usr/local/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 and all is working great (I mean, no false alarms for today, meanwhile I received them two or three per day at least just yesterday). tcp.smtp.cdb must remain on Coda. Pop3 modified in the same way. It was: exec /usr/bin/env - PATH=/coda/qmail/bin:$PATH \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -c 50 -H -P -R -l pop3.frontend.int ip port /coda/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \ pop3.frontend.int /coda/qmail/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /coda/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21 but now it is: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -c 50 -H -P -R -l pop3.frontend.int ip port /usr/local/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \ pop3.frontend.int /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /usr/local/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 2 Anyway, thank you people :). PS: I'm very happy that Henning Brauer found no problems with pop3.monitor: it's a confirm that it's a good monitor. :) --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 744 5441330 Fax. +39 744 5441372
Re: False alarms about services with tcpserver
Thank you for your reply. Andrea Cerrito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a server farm with pop3 / smtp / ftp services running on Linux and served by tcpserver. My monitoring software is Mon, and sometimes I'm receiving alarms about these services: they are always false alarms. Two possibilities: tcpserver is accepting the connections as a backlog because you're hitting your concurrency limits, No. False alarms happens even during low traffic, as show by logs. 2001-06-12 13:27:03.855642500 tcpserver: status: 1/50 2001-06-12 13:27:03.856118500 tcpserver: pid 17372 from 10.10.32.135 2001-06-12 13:27:11.326985500 tcpserver: ok 17372 pop3.frontend.int:ip:10025 :ip::4563 2001-06-12 13:27:11.334100500 tcpserver: end 17372 status 256 2001-06-12 13:27:11.334181500 tcpserver: status: 0/50 As you can see, from 13:27:03 tcpserver spawn at 13:27:11, far away from timeout for monitoring (5 secs). A normal session is like: 2001-06-12 13:28:15.451685500 tcpserver: status: 1/50 2001-06-12 13:28:15.452134500 tcpserver: pid 17378 from 10.10.32.135 2001-06-12 13:28:15.452904500 tcpserver: ok 17378 pop3.frontend.int:ip:10025 :ip::4585 2001-06-12 13:28:15.460697500 tcpserver: end 17378 status 0 2001-06-12 13:28:15.460778500 tcpserver: status: 0/50 or the DNS lookups which tcpserver does are timing out sometimes. Nope, because the host making monitoring is in /etc/hosts and tcpserver isn't relying on dns. This is my run: exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -c 50 -H -P -R -l pop3.frontend.int -x /coda/qmail/vpopmail/relay/tcp.smtp.cdb -u $QMAILUID -g $QMAILGID ip port /coda/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 I thought it can be the tcp.smtp.cdb on coda, but these errors happens even for pop3, not relying on a cdb on coda. Other ideas? --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 744 5441330 Fax. +39 744 5441372
Re: False alarms about services with tcpserver
Thank you for your reply. On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:29:05PM -0400, David Means wrote: If there is a way to configure Mon to report a service as down after a number of failures, then that is my recommendation. Just because a alertafter 2 15m gives an alert if the service failes 2 times within 15 minutes. I know that option, but I wish to understand why monitoring fails. I mean: if the monitoring is experiencing timeout, clients too will... right? --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 744 5441330 Fax. +39 744 5441372
Re: False alarms about services with tcpserver
Thank you for your reply. Andrea: If there is a way to configure Mon to report a service as down after a number of failures, then that is my recommendation. Just because a service fails a test once doesn't mean that it's down. I could just be busy. You're right, but the strange beaviour is: when service fails (in monitoring opinion :) the server is not busy. As I reported in another mail, this is what happens: 2001-06-12 13:27:03.855642500 tcpserver: status: 1/50 2001-06-12 13:27:03.856118500 tcpserver: pid 17372 from 10.10.32.135 2001-06-12 13:27:11.326985500 tcpserver: ok 17372 pop3.frontend.int:ip:10025 :ip::4563 2001-06-12 13:27:11.334100500 tcpserver: end 17372 status 256 2001-06-12 13:27:11.334181500 tcpserver: status: 0/50 As you can see, from 13:27:03 tcpserver spawn at 13:27:11, far away from timeout for monitoring (5 secs). A normal session is like: 2001-06-12 13:28:15.451685500 tcpserver: status: 1/50 2001-06-12 13:28:15.452134500 tcpserver: pid 17378 from 10.10.32.135 2001-06-12 13:28:15.452904500 tcpserver: ok 17378 pop3.frontend.int:ip:10025 :ip::4585 2001-06-12 13:28:15.460697500 tcpserver: end 17378 status 0 2001-06-12 13:28:15.460778500 tcpserver: status: 0/50 If you look at status, you'll see that is far away from busy: it's the only active session! And: why all others services (ie: Apache) never fails? I thought it may be the Coda FS (qmail/vpopmails mailboxes are running on Coda): but even apache is running on Coda, and more accessed files are cached by clients, so I discarded this idea. Two solutions are: increase timeouts to 10secs (in that case it appears to respond after 8) or set the alarm after N failures... but why tcpserver is delaying 8 secs? I mean, if I discover the cause, I'll solve my problem. Thank you again --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 744 5441330 Fax. +39 744 5441372
False alarms about services with tcpserver
Hi to all, I have a server farm with pop3 / smtp / ftp services running on Linux and served by tcpserver. My monitoring software is Mon, and sometimes I'm receiving alarms about these services: they are always false alarms. For example: ===SERVICE IS MARKED AS DOWN== Summary output: Time Out Group : pop3-a.frontend.int Service : smtp Time noticed : Tue Jun 12 13:27:10 2001 Secs until next alert : Members : pop3-a.frontend.int Detailed text (if any) follows: --- pop3-a.frontend.int SERVICE IS MARKED AS UP== Summary output: Time Out Group : pop3-a.frontend.int Service : smtp Time noticed : Tue Jun 12 13:28:16 2001 Secs until next alert : Members : pop3-a.frontend.int Detailed text (if any) follows: --- pop3-a.frontend.int Just one minute (and I'm doing test every minute)... I'm trying to understand why I'm having those false alarms on only services running with tcpserver on Linux. I mean, if the service is running with tcpserver on Solaris or the services is running on linux without tcpserver, I've no errors (ie, qmail on solaris and Apache on linux). Viewing logs, I've no errors. What can be the problem?? What I've to search for?? Thanks PS I didn't find a list about ucspi-tcp: if I wrote to wrong list, please tell me which is the correct one :) --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 744 5441330 Fax. +39 744 5441372
R: vpopmail authentication
Did you use the form user@domain as login? I mean telnet server 110 +OK user utente@domain +OK pass password Remember, when using vpopmail you have to use user@domain as login, instead of user. --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 744 5441330 Fax. +39 744 5441372 -Messaggio originale- Da: Erich Zigler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: mercoledi 6 giugno 2001 19.15 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: vpopmail authentication On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 05:24:38PM +0200, Franco Vecchiato wrote: In vpopmail I created a new domain test.it, with a new user utente and password testutente. After setting the right stuff into my DNS server, I sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The email has been delivered correctly to vpopmail/domain/test.it/utente/new directory and the logfile reports no errors, but when I try to connect to the mailserver with a POP client (outlook express) configured for this account, I get an authentication failure error message from the server. What does the maillog say when you try to check your email? -- Erich Zigler One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them.
pop3 login
Hi I'm having a cluster of two pop3 servers using vpopmail+qmail. My monitoring program is mon, because I've a LVS solution. Sometimes, I have mon reporting false alarms about pop3 login on just one server: with false alarm I mean an alarm about the pop3 server at first attempt and an ok situation at second one. Controls are done every minute. The monitoring program (written in perl) is doing: telnet server port HELO monhost quit My logs about the pop3 program show no problems even when I've got the error (i'm sure about the event because all machines are syncronized with ntp): 2001-06-06 10:53:14.759320500 tcpserver: status: 1/50 2001-06-06 10:53:14.759856500 tcpserver: pid 20437 from monitor 2001-06-06 10:53:14.759990500 tcpserver: ok 20437 servername:serverip:port :monitormachienip::port 2001-06-06 10:53:14.768756500 tcpserver: end 20437 status 256 2001-06-06 10:53:14.768840500 tcpserver: status: 0/50 I tried to sets timeout to 5 seconds but (1) doesn't solve the problem, (2) makes no sense cause the telnet from the monitor machine is 1 sec. What can be the problem? TCPSERVER isn't spawn a qmail-pop3 well or there can be other problems? --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 744 5441330 Fax. +39 744 5441372
Re: Features
Try here http://cr.yp.to --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 744 5441330 Fax. +39 744 5441372
Re: Quick tcpserver question
No. --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 744 5441330 Fax. +39 744 5441372
R: Single SMTP out server
Of course it is. Just set the webservers to use the relay as the only relay (smtproutes) and you've done! If I remember well, something like *:ip-or-hostname-of-relay in /var/qmail/control/smtproutes may do the trick. --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 744 5441330 Fax. +39 744 5441372 -Messaggio originale- Da: Brian Moon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: giovedì 31 maggio 2001 16.30 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Single SMTP out server Hi, We use PHP for our web site(s). It has the mail() function which uses standard sendmail to send out mail. We have qmail installed on all of our web servers nodes. In addition we have a mail server running qmail of course. What I would like to do is have qmail on all servers except the the mail server relay their mail through the mail server instead of sending it themselves. Is this possible with qmail? Brian Moon -- dealnews.com, Inc. Makers of dealnews dealmac http://dealnews.com/ | http://dealmac.com/
R: Dynamic allow of relay
Title: Dynamic allow of relay Yes, it's called realy-ctrl. If you're using vpopmail, there is an option to allow it. Have a look on qmail home page. ---Cordiali saluti / Best regardsAndrea Cerrito^^Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A.P.zzale Bosco 3A05100 Terni ITTel. +39 744 5441330Fax. +39 744 5441372 -Messaggio originale-Da: Mark Douglas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Inviato: giovedì 31 maggio 2001 18.50A: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Oggetto: Dynamic allow of relay Is there a way to setup qmail such that it will dynamically allow relay hosts based on their previous login to the qmail-pop3d? Namezero has their mail servers set up this way, so that as long as you've checked your mail within the last 10 minutes from that IP, you can use the server to send mail through. My mail server is not local to my workstations, and the workstations are on a DSL PPPoE connection which changes ip's every time I connect. Making a setup like this would greatly simplify how things work for me. Anyone have any ideas on how to do this? Mark Douglas - Architecture Sympatico-Lycos Inc. All your base are belong to us! Make your time!
R: change password for virtual users.
omail-admin with vpopmail? How can it be possible? --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 744 5441330 Fax. +39 744 5441372 -Messaggio originale- Da: Mark Lo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: giovedi 24 maggio 2001 8.43 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: change password for virtual users. Hi, I am using qmail + vpopmail + omail-admin. I would like to write a simple program to change the virtual user's password on the web by using the vpasswd function. I know omail-admin has the function to change password. But, I would like to disable the forward filed. So, I decide to write one by myself. Anybody has any idea to do it. Thank you Mark
R: change password for virtual users.
Ah... :) Ok. I asked because just few days ago I asked Olivier if it was possible to use omail-admin with vpopmail and its response was :( different... (no, it isn't). --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 744 5441330 Fax. +39 744 5441372 -Messaggio originale- Da: Mark Lo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: venerdi 25 maggio 2001 15.42 A: Andrea Cerrito; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: change password for virtual users. Hi, I mean vmailmgr + qmail + omail-admin ??? Mark - Original Message - From: Andrea Cerrito [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 7:16 PM Subject: R: change password for virtual users. omail-admin with vpopmail? How can it be possible? --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 744 5441330 Fax. +39 744 5441372 -Messaggio originale- Da: Mark Lo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: giovedi 24 maggio 2001 8.43 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: change password for virtual users. Hi, I am using qmail + vpopmail + omail-admin. I would like to write a simple program to change the virtual user's password on the web by using the vpasswd function. I know omail-admin has the function to change password. But, I would like to disable the forward filed. So, I decide to write one by myself. Anybody has any idea to do it. Thank you Mark
R: webmail recommendations?
I think the good-for-all solution can be SQWebMail: it work with any authentication scheme (and this can be a starting point when talking about scalability), can change users password, can read messages from Maildirs and relay only on few needs. Other websolutions, even so good, may be limitative: I mean, you have to choose between pop3 and imap support, php, missing features ... You can decide only after you have in mind what you really want from a webmail solution. --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 744 5441330 Fax. +39 744 5441372 -Messaggio originale- Da: remo [mailto:remo]Per conto di Remo Mattei Inviato: mercoledi 23 maggio 2001 5.34 A: Eric Paynter Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: webmail recommendations? Eric Paynter wrote: I've just started an email server evaluation to provide a complete email solution including POP3, SMTP, and webmail. We're already strongly thinking qmail is a good place to start, but it does not have native webmail support. We do not need IMAP. So far, the webmail servers on the floor are: oMail-webmail NeoMail AtDot EmuMail Does anybody have any good/bad experience with these? Do they integrate well with qmail? We're hoping to use maildir format. I know oMail supports it, but from a perusal of the websites, I'm not certain if the others do. Also, can anybody suggest any other webmail servers that integrate well with qmail? Any comments appreciated. Thanks, -Eric P. --- arctic bears - the internet - your way. email hosting from US$8/month, domains from US$19/year. http://www.arcticbears.com Wrong!! Yes it does have webmail support, it's called sqwebmail good program and very fast, you can also use IMP. I will work with maildir no problem. Remo
R: help: bash script to use with vadddomain (vpopmail)
You
may want use the for function.
Use
man bash to understand how it works.
---Cordiali saluti / Best regardsAndrea
Cerrito^^Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni
S.p.A.P.zzale Bosco 3A05100 Terni ITTel. +39 744 5441330Fax. +39
744 5441372
-Messaggio originale-Da: jcarreiro
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Inviato: mercoledì 23 maggio 2001
10.25A: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Oggetto: help: bash script to
use with vadddomain (vpopmail)
hi all,
i'm trying towrite an script who
automatically creates new virtual domains in vpopmail
my script uses the vadddomain binarie from
vpopmail.
the syntax for vadddomain is :
vadddomain[domain name][postmaster passwd]
so i create i text file with :
...
...
test.com test
...
the problem is that vadddomain doesn't treat my
file per line
well, i'm a script newbie, so i let you see what
i'm doing :)) script is next :
--
PATH="$PATH:/var/spool/popmail/bin"
VDOMAINSFILE="/home/tech/vdomain.txt"VDOMAINSOLDFILE="/home/tech/vdomain.txt.old"NEWDOMAINSFILE="/home/tech/new_vdomains.list"
NEWVDOMAINS="/var/tmp/new_vdomains.tmp"
if test -s $VDOMAINSFILEthenif [
$VDOMAINSFILE -nt $VDOMAINSOLDFILE ]; thendiff -u $VDOMAINSOLDFILE
$VDOMAINSFILE | grep -v "^+++" | grep -v "^+;" | grep "^+" | sed -e s/^+//g
$NEWVDOMAINSfi#awk 'BEGIN { FS=":"} {print $1 " "
"test"}' $NEWVDOMAINS $NEWDOMAINSFILE
vadddomain cat $NEWDOMAINSFILE
rm $NEWVDOMAINS $NEWDOMAINSFILE
--
and here the output file :
---
# less new_vdomains.listtest.org
testorgtest.net testnet
-
thx in advance
R: R: webmail recommendations?
Well, sorry, you are right. I forgot... :( --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 744 5441330 Fax. +39 744 5441372 -Messaggio originale- Da: Olivier M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: mercoledi 23 maggio 2001 10.40 A: Andrea Cerrito Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: R: webmail recommendations? On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:14:24AM +0200, Andrea Cerrito wrote: I think the good-for-all solution can be SQWebMail: it work with any authentication scheme (and this can be a starting point when talking about wrong, it only works with vpopmail-based accounts, and maybe vanilla-qmail accounts. Or please show me an example where it works with vmailmgr (would be nice if it could with vmailmgr...) Cheers, Olivier -- _ Olivier Mueller - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - PGPkeyID: 0E84D2EA - Switzerland qmail projects: http://omail.omnis.ch - http://webmail.omnis.ch
R: R: leave a copy of messages on server
Mmmmhhh, I don't think it's possible. Anyway, you can set a crontab to delete old messages (ie: 30 days old) or you can set quota. It's not advisable to make the delete mandatory because: 1) user may want to look his/her messages from a location, and to download them from another one, 2) the data transfer may fail for some reason (and you force deletion of a message unread by user) Good work ---Cordiali saluti / Best regardsAndrea Cerrito^^Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A.P.zzale Bosco 3A05100 Terni ITTel. +39 744 5441330Fax. +39 744 5441372 -Messaggio originale-Da: medi [mailto:medi]Per conto di Medi MontaseriInviato: lunedì 21 maggio 2001 21.11A: Andrea CerritoCc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Oggetto: Re: R: leave a copy of messages on serverI have the opposit question, is it possible to mandate delete? That is, can I mandate the all messages be downloaded from a POP server? Andrea Cerrito wrote: Mmmm... strange. A normal pop3 session is like ... stat retr #num dele #num and if you set "leave a copy..." the dele action is never done. Try to telnet to your box and act as a mail client: you'll be able to know if it's a problem with qmail (I don't think so, anyway) or with your client. I mean +OK [EMAIL PROTECTED] user $YOURUSER +OK pass $YOURPASS +OK stat +OK 1 1228 retr 1 bla bla bla bla bla quit +OK then reconnect and see if the message is still alive. Good luck --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 744 5441330 Fax. +39 744 5441372 -Messaggio originale- Da: Roberto Marzialetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: lunedì 21 maggio 2001 18.39 A: Qmail List Oggetto: leave a copy of messages on serverHi boys have got a problem... well... if i active the option "leave a copy of messages on server " on my email client, the messages doesn't leave on my server :o(( have you got some solution ? many thanks Roberto -- === Medi Montaseri, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 408-450-7114 Prepass Inc, IT/Operations, Software Eng. ===
R: leave a copy of messages on server
Mmmm... strange. A normal pop3 session is like ... stat retr #num dele #num and if you set leave a copy... the dele action is never done. Try to telnet to your box and act as a mail client: you'll be able to know if it's a problem with qmail (I don't think so, anyway) or with your client. I mean +OK [EMAIL PROTECTED] user $YOURUSER +OK pass $YOURPASS +OK stat +OK 1 1228 retr 1 bla bla bla bla bla quit +OK then reconnect and see if the message is still alive. Good luck --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 744 5441330 Fax. +39 744 5441372 -Messaggio originale- Da: Roberto Marzialetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: lunedì 21 maggio 2001 18.39 A: Qmail List Oggetto: leave a copy of messages on server Hi boys have got a problem... well... if i active the option leave a copy of messages on server on my email client, the messages doesn't leave on my server :o(( have you got some solution ? many thanks Roberto
R: Rebooting before sending mail
Instead of sending mail, write a file elsewhere, and look for that file at reboot: if file is present, send mail and delete the file. Of course, you'll be warned of the reboot just after that. Anyway, if qmail starts with the machine, why the alert isn't in the queue? ---Cordiali saluti / Best regardsAndrea Cerrito^^Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A.P.zzale Bosco 3A05100 Terni ITTel. +39 744 5441330Fax. +39 744 5441372 -Messaggio originale-Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Inviato: luned 14 maggio 2001 15.33A:Oggetto: Rebooting before sending mailHi. I have a problem: When my machine is rebooting/shutdown, I have set up a rc-script that sends a mailalert to the administrator that the machine has been rebooted. But the machine makes the reboot so fast that the mail never gets send. Any ideas to solve this little problem?
R: Urgent Qmail Question (Relaying)
-Messaggio originale- Da: Sunil . [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: mercoledì 9 maggio 2001 9.47 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Urgent Qmail Question (Relaying) Hi There, I just installed SMTP Relaying Control by Bruce Guenter Version 2.5. I installed from the gzipped format. Everything went fine and there were no errors reported. I have inserted the required line in the file /service/qmail-pop3d/run. I am very sure nothing is wrong with this. The only thing left is the cron entry which i have not done yet. I don't think that should matter at this moment right.?? Well, not, but don't forget it or probably you'll have an open relay soon :). I am still unable to do selective relay and i still get the same old message as below. The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by the server. The rejected e-mail address was '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Subject 'sad', Account: 'myserver.com', Server: myserver.com', Protocol: SMTP, Server Response: '553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)', Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 553, Error Number: 0x800CCC79 Well, relayctrl is not doing his job. Anyway, post your run script and a strace, if possible, to see what the problem could be. Maybe relayctrl can't write in the right dir, can't read your conf files, can't run tcprules... Another problem is that, it takes a whole load of a time before i can connect to the POP or SMTP server. I am using tcpserver. I added the following switches in my run file: -H -R. Initially, i noticed some improvement in the speed of connection. But i tried again after sometime and i realized that it went back to its usual ways. I think it may be a dns issue. This is my tcpserver: -v -H -P -R -l $HOSTNAME and it works perfectly. --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. 0744 / 5441330 Fax. 0744 / 5441372
R: POP3 Cluster
I'm running a linux virtual server (www.linuxvirtualserver.org) with coda fs (www.coda.cs.cmu.edu) and vpopmail. I hope it helps --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni SpA P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. 0744 / 5441330 Fax. 0744 / 5441372 -Messaggio originale- Da: Eduardo Augusto Alvarenga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: sabato 5 maggio 2001 1.02 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: POP3 Cluster Hi, Anyone on the list(s) have any idea of how to make a independent-of-another- servers pop3 cluster on a group of qmail-vpopmail servers? Preferentlly on distinct DMZs. B.R. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Eduardo Augusto Alvarenga - Analista de Suporte - #179653 Blumenau - Santa Catarina. Tel. (47) 9102-3303 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
R: manually run queue
Read the faq. http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/admin.html#queuerun ---Cordiali saluti / Best regardsAndrea Cerrito^^Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni SpAP.zzale Bosco 3A05100 Terni ITTel. 0744 / 5441330Fax. 0744 / 5441372 -Messaggio originale-Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Inviato: venerdì 4 maggio 2001 8.57A: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Oggetto: manually run queueHi. How do I manually run the queue in qmail? My qmailmachine mapi-mailserver has been down for a couple of hours, and qmail has queued up all the incoming mails. Now the mailserver has been up for 1 hour, but qmail hasn´t started to deliver.
Qmail as only relay
Hi to everybody. I can't be able to set a qmail server for just serving as relay. I mean, the machine smtp.domain.ext must serve as relay for pop servers, in this way mail from internet smtp.domain.ext must carry the duty smtp.domain.ext must forward the message to pop.domain.ext (another machine) In the same scenario, smtp.domain.ext must allow pop.domain.ext to fully relay. I've succesfully set up this little kind of mail-world. :) My problem is that smtp.domain.ext is accepting local mail if the rcpt to: passage is done without the @. IE. 220 smtp.domain.ext ESMTP helo 250 smtp.domain.ext mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 ok rcpt to: test 250 ok How can I setup smtp.domain.ext to not allow receving mail for local at all? Thank you PS I read the FAQ and I searched this ml archive, but I found only how to do the scenario above - and I did. What I didn't find is how to not receive local mail at all. --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni SpA P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. 0744 / 5441330 Fax. 0744 / 5441372
R: Qmail as only relay
-Messaggio originale- Da: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: giovedi 3 maggio 2001 16.32 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: Qmail as only relay Andrea Cerrito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mail from internet smtp.domain.ext must carry the duty smtp.domain.ext must forward the message to pop.domain.ext (another machine) In the same scenario, smtp.domain.ext must allow pop.domain.ext to fully relay. Should be easy to do with tcpserver and smtproutes. It is. :) My problem is that smtp.domain.ext is accepting local mail if the rcpt to: passage is done without the @. Fix the clients. It's forbidden to not have a domain in the address(es) in the envelope recipient(s). Ah. Ok. How can I setup smtp.domain.ext to not allow receving mail for local at all? Don't put anything in /var/qmail/control/locals? Already done, but this doesn't work (qmail puts @smtp.domain.ext if no domain is used). --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni SpA P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. 0744 / 5441330 Fax. 0744 / 5441372
R: error with sqwebmail
I'm new to sqwebmail, but I think you can help you and us with an strace / truss of the httpd program serving the cgi. Good luck --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni SpA P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. 0744 / 5441330 Fax. 0744 / 5441372 -Messaggio originale- Da: Brendan McAlpine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: giovedi 3 maggio 2001 21.40 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: error with sqwebmail I get the following when trying to launch sqwebmail: H1Internal error (module sqwebmail.c, line 1499) - contact system administrator/H1 How can I fix this problem? Brendan
