Re: RBL-type header checking
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 02:02:23AM -0400, Michael T. Babcock wrote: I've written a filter in Python that scans for Received: lines and checks IP addresses found therein against a configurable list of RBL type services. It is in beta stages and definately under development, but it is very functional (doesn't crash for me anymore). http://www.fibrespeed.net/code/spamcheck.tar.gz 404 -- Ben Beuchler There is no spoon. [EMAIL PROTECTED]-- The Matrix
Re: ORBS - NOT!
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 07:01:20PM -0600, Chris Olson wrote: OK. I assumed that all installations of qmail used this. I'm running a Corel Server Version (Debian) Linux box and qmail 1.03 came with the distribution. This is a fresh install and the script has not been modified. The startup script is /etc/init.d/qmail Here's a copy of the startup script for your review. snip supervise /var/lock/qmail-smtpd tcpserver -v -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u$QMAILDUID -g$QMAILDGID 0 25 \ rblsmtpd -rrelays.orbs.org /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 | setuser Two options: replace "-rrelays.orbs.org" with "-routputs.orbs.org" or delete "rblsmtpd -rrelays.orbs.org" from the line, leaving the rest intact. The first option would continue to give you the benefit of spam filtering without blocking the 'manual list' and the second option would remove RBL filtering entirely. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: ORBS - NOT!
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 05:42:58AM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: Am Dienstag, 28. November 2000 02:01 schrieb Chris Olson: rblsmtpd -rrelays.orbs.org /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 | setuser qmaill accustamp | \ setuser qmaill cyclog -s500 -n5 /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd Sorry Chris, how braindead are you? Is it really _so_ hard to see where orbs is used here? You should have read a least the documentation before wasting bandwidth and our time. plonk -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Amazon says the book will be out next month. Russ?
I know the book topic has been beat to death (something like 575 messages in the archives) but Amazon claims that it will be available next month. Nothing at all appears on the O'Reilly site except for the old "Ask Tim" columns from 1998. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565926285/qid=975305593/sr=1-4/102-8514671-6796143 Russ? John? Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: Courier or qmail
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 04:39:21PM -0600, Jamin Collins wrote: Has anyone on the list used Courier as a complete mail server? If so, how does it compare to qmail? I started looking at qmail because of the security flaws that other's have reported in sendmail. However, now that I'm looking more into qmail, the lack of static licensing concerns me. I may be wrong, but from the looks of it, Courier does most of what qmail does, and provides a more standard license with the software. Mr. Sam's code seems to be pretty solid. We're using Courier-IMAP together w/ qmail and vpopmail. However, I would be a little uncomfortable using it in a production environment until it has obtained a little maturity. There are still bugs being found and squashed fairly regularly... qmail, on the other hand, is as rock-solid MTA. Just my personal opinion. I don't know enough C to truly evaluate the code on either one. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: control files on an NFS share?
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 05:10:06PM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 06:04:31PM -0600, Ben Beuchler wrote: I am primarily concerned about files like 'rcpthosts'. They are read on every invocation of qmail-smtpd. Am I going to be looking at significant overhead from reading a file like that over NFS? Not if you turn the NFS caching options up high enough... I tried to set up /var/qmail/control on an NFS partition at some point, and it was failing. Or was that /etc/tcpcontrol for the CDBs? I forget now... It was very unhappy though, wouldn't run at all. Sean I think I'll leave 'em on local disks and just rsync 'em up... Sounds like the smart way to go. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: sending messages from sysadm to users
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 10:50:03PM -0700, Andy Bradford wrote: Thus said David Ryan on Wed, 22 Nov 2000 16:13:43 +1100: The main difference is that I do not want them to be able to reply-to-all. I had used a mailing list but someone did a reply-to-all and caused all sorts of trouble. Use ezmlm to setup a mailing list and then make the list moderated so only you can post to the list. Then, even if they do a reply-to-all it will only be approved by you (or bounced back if you don't want to accept any posts). You could probably concoct your own solution using .qmail files, however, I think ezmlm would be easier. :-) Or borrow a page from the vpopbull program (included as part of vpopmail) and devise a script that hardlinks copies of the message into each users Maildir. You *are* using Maildirs, right? Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: Best IMAP or Maildir ??
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 04:46:59PM +, Dennis Kavadas wrote: Just wanted to know, from users experience, the best/suggested IMAP server to use with QMail, I need it to be bullet proof (what else :)) I'm very happy with Courier-IMAP. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: MX record not updating
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 01:07:23PM -0500, Andy Abshagen wrote: Well like I said all other mail is going to the new server. It is just mail from the list itself. In fact your mail sent directly to me was received on the new server not the old. So I was kinda thinking that the list server is caching the dns information or something. Not really sure though. Well, since DJB wrote dnscache specifically for mail servers (at least initially) it would surprise me greatly to learn he was NOT cacheing DNS info on the list server. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
control files on an NFS share?
Our one qmail/vpopmail server is about to become a node in a load balanced pool of mail servers. I plan to mount the queue via NFS (I am now, in fact) but am wondering about the control files. It seems that at least SOME of them should be safe to share over NFS. Any thoughts or recommendations? Thanks, Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: control files on an NFS share?
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 02:49:24PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 05:40:27PM -0600, Ben Beuchler wrote: Our one qmail/vpopmail server is about to become a node in a load balanced pool of mail servers. I plan to mount the queue via NFS (I am now, in fact) but am wondering about the control files. It seems that Ouch. You will, at some stage, lose mail this way. Is it actually working? I mis-spoke. The queue is, of course, local. The spool is on the NFS share. I slipped into "boss speak" there for a second. My boss for some reason persists in referring to the spool as the queue... at least SOME of them should be safe to share over NFS. Any thoughts or recommendations? Anything but queue is probably ok. I am primarily concerned about files like 'rcpthosts'. They are read on every invocation of qmail-smtpd. Am I going to be looking at significant overhead from reading a file like that over NFS? Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: No local deliveries
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 10:59:58AM -0600, Chris Olson wrote: two days trying to diagnose the problem, but so far no luck. qmail will accept mail from remote servers and from local clients that is destined for a local mailbox, but it never gets delivered to the local mailbox. It appears to end up in the queue and it stays there. I'm using the What Do The Logs Say? (TM) -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: no ESMTP prompt after some messages
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 09:07:07PM +0100, Davide Giunchi wrote: if i do a "telnet server smtp" i get the "escape caracter is..." line and after that nothing, this continue until i reboot the server. I get the following error in another qmail server Here it's my startup line: --- csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc ' QMAILUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c100 -u$QMAILUID -g$NOFIL ESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd /dev/null 2/dev/null Is it possible that you have hit your concurrency limit? If so, that's exactly what happens: It accepts the connection but will not launch the qmail-smtpd process until a session becomes available. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: qmail 1.04
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 12:41:20AM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: Create a virtualdomain (say, example.com:example), and create a -owner file (say, ~example/.qmail-foo-owner). Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The envelope sender gets set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If that mail bounces, its delivery is controlled by ~example/.qmail-example-foo-owner, not ~example/.qmail-foo-owner as you might expect. Oops. That *is* an interesting situation. Speaking of qmail updates, have there been any grumblings from DJB in the last decade or so about actually releasing a new version? -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: VERP and Lotus
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 10:41:21AM +0100, Markus Stumpf wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 04:46:29PM -0800, Ben Beuchler wrote: Connected to scooby.helpsystems.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 SMTP service ready This doesn't look like a Lotus Mailserver. Based on what some others have posted, I think you're right. helo doofus 250 Requested mail action okay, completed mail from:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 553 Requested action not taken: mailbox name not allowed I'd say that is a completely screwed up smtp server or maybe a firewall. I'll ask 'em about firewalls... I usually simply ignore these errors, because I am really tired to try to work around the 1000th broken mailserver out there written by ppl or a company or maintained by someone who doesn't have a clue. They don't pay someone who knows what he's doing, so why should I invest time (and thus my company's money) just to get mail through their broken system. I'd also do myself a favour and save some bits of bandwidth and cpu cycles and block those hosts/addresses (tcpcontrol and/or badmailfrom). The problem is that we're an ISP. The people who bought the mailing list are the ones behind the broken box, whatever it may be. They either get their messages or take their business elsewhere. I'll pursue the firewall angle today. Thanks... Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: VERP and Lotus
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 03:16:31PM +1100, Brett Randall wrote: On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [insyte@blah insyte]$ telnet scooby.helpsystems.com 25 Trying 209.32.71.125... Connected to scooby.helpsystems.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 SMTP service ready helo doofus 250 Requested mail action okay, completed mail from:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 553 Requested action not taken: mailbox name not allowed quit 221 SMTP server closing transmission channel Connection closed by foreign host. [insyte@blah insyte]$ 220 notes.crazy.com ESMTP Service (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.4) ready at Thu, 9 Nov 2000 15:12:27 +1100 helo doofus 250 notes.crazy.com Hello doofus ([10.0.0.1]), pleased to meet you mail from:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender OK No probs here. My session and yours don't look at all similar. Odd. Has anyone seen a session similar to mine before? I have no idea what I was talking to, as it certainly doesn't appear to have been a Lotus Domino box as I was informed. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: VERP and Lotus
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 11:07:00PM -0800, Ben Beuchler wrote: 220 SMTP service ready helo doofus 250 Requested mail action okay, completed mail from:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 553 Requested action not taken: mailbox name not allowed quit 221 SMTP server closing transmission channel Just in case anyone encounters a similar problem, it was traced back to a "Watchguard" firewall that was prohibiting the "=" in SMTP transactions. Turned that off and it works like a charm. Thanks for all your help! Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: Need to delete bulk mail from the Q
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 11:38:09AM +0700, Dian Pamilih wrote: My question is, can I delete all these messages from the queue in one shot? and if so, how would I go about doing so. get this utility: http://www.redwoodsoft.com/~dru/programs/mailRemove.py it's very handy to remove some unwanted queue. Very cool! I'd been planning to implement just that functionality myself sometime in the next couple of days. You just saved me some work! Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: qmail 1.04
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 11:45:44AM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: argue that it needs a qmail-conf program just like djbdns has. You Granted. could also argue that virtualdomains and -owner files don't work What's wrong with 'virtualdomains'? Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: Courier
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 04:18:29PM -0500, Dave Sill wrote: It borrows heavily from qmail (maildirs, extension addresses, modularity, delivery instructions) but adds a lot (DSN, filtering, IMAP, POP, webmail) and "fixes" things Sam thought qmail did wrong (single-RCPT delivery, always-send-8, licensing, no bouncing of local recipients during SMTP dialogue, not actively maintained). I've grabbed it, but I haven't installed it anywhere yet. I don't have a lot of experience with Sam's code: procmail has always been good enough for me, and courier-imap was too functionally limited for the one IMAP installation I set up. The Courier web pages don't say much about security other than there are four setuid root modules. I use Courier-IMAP alongside vpopmail (Courier-IMAP will authenticate against vpop) and maildrop. Both have impressed me with their stability and logical design. I have not used the complete MTA, though. What did you find limited about the functionality of Courier-IMAP? Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: Possible bug in qmailanalog matchup program?
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 12:21:16PM -0500, James Morgenstein wrote: I am attempting to process about 500 MB of qmail log files but continue to run into the following bug when running the matchup program: matchup: fatal: unable to write fd 5: file descriptor not open man matchup It's not a bug. -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
VERP and Lotus
Good afternoon, y'all... Has anyone exprienced problems with VERP and recipients behind Lotus Domino? I've been having some problems with a few of my ezmlm recipients that are using Lotus Domino as their mail server. It appears that Domino flagrantly flies in the face of RFC822 by rejecting any "mail from:blah" containing an equals sign. Ex: [insyte@blah insyte]$ telnet scooby.helpsystems.com 25 Trying 209.32.71.125... Connected to scooby.helpsystems.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 SMTP service ready helo doofus 250 Requested mail action okay, completed mail from:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 553 Requested action not taken: mailbox name not allowed quit 221 SMTP server closing transmission channel Connection closed by foreign host. [insyte@blah insyte]$ Anyone else seen this? Does anyone have any spiffy ideas for working around this? Perhaps some way to rewrite the headers to a few specific users to eliminate the VERP? I tried posting this to the ezmlm list, but I haven't seen any traffic there for weeks... Thanks, Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
VERP and Lotus
Good afternoon, y'all... Has anyone exprienced problems with VERP and recipients behind Lotus Domino? I've been having some problems with a few of my ezmlm recipients that are using Lotus Domino as their mail server. It appears that Domino flagrantly flies in the face of RFC822 by rejecting any "mail from:blah" containing an equals sign. Ex: [insyte@blah insyte]$ telnet scooby.helpsystems.com 25 Trying 209.32.71.125... Connected to scooby.helpsystems.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 SMTP service ready helo doofus 250 Requested mail action okay, completed mail from:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 553 Requested action not taken: mailbox name not allowed quit 221 SMTP server closing transmission channel Connection closed by foreign host. [insyte@blah insyte]$ Anyone else seen this? Does anyone have any spiffy ideas for working around this? Perhaps some way to rewrite the headers to a few specific users to eliminate the VERP? I tried posting this to the ezmlm list, but I haven't seen any traffic there for weeks... Thanks, Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
vacation questions
I have written my own vacation program to fit in with some unusual configs we have here. My question is this: What other considerations in designing a good vacation program have I not thought of? I know there are all sorts of ways a poorly implemented vacation program can cause all sorts of nasty loops. So far the only feature I have in place to prevent that is that it keeps a flat text file containing the addresses to which it has already sent it's vacation message. Subsequent messages from the same sender are safely stored in the Maildir but not replied to. Any thoughts/recommendations? Should I be looking for any special headers or similar thoughts? Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
svscan weirdness...
I am using svscan to start qmail and dnscache. I use a similar config on our mail server and it works fine. But on my Linux workstation, when I reboot I get screens full of errors. I do a 'killall svscan supervise' and the errors stop. Then I start up svscan from the command line using exactly the same syntax as in the rc.local file (I just type "svscan /service ") and it works perfectly. Here's the actual errors and configs: -- svscan: warning: unable to start supervise dnscache: file does not exist svscan: warning: unable to start supervise dnscache/log: file does not exist svscan: warning: unable to start supervise qmail-smtpd: file does not exist svscan: warning: unable to start supervise qmail-smtpd/log: file does not exist svscan: warning: unable to start supervise qmail-send/log: file does not exist svscan: warning: unable to start supervise qmail-send: file does not exist -- svscan is started like this, from /etc/rc.d/rc.local: -- #!/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/svscan /service -- And /service looks like this: petra:~$ ls -ld /service/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 21 18:58 /service/ petra:~$ ls -l /service/ total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jun 19 15:57 dnscache - /etc/dnscache// lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Jul 21 18:28 qmail-send - /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send// lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Jul 21 17:51 qmail-smtpd - /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/ And the same contents of each of the relevant directories: petra:~$ ls -l /etc/dnscache/ total 20 drwxr-sr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 19 15:57 log/ drwxr-sr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 2 14:30 root/ -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 236 Jun 19 15:56 run* -rw--- 1 root root 128 Jun 19 15:56 seed drwx--S--- 3 root root 4096 Oct 5 10:57 supervise/ petra:~$ cat /etc/dnscache/run #!/bin/sh exec 21 exec seed ROOT=/etc/dnscache/root; export ROOT IP=127.0.0.1; export IP IPSEND=0.0.0.0; export IPSEND CACHESIZE=100; export CACHESIZE exec envuidgid dnscache \ softlimit -o250 -d300 \ /usr/local/bin/dnscache petra:~$ ls -l /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/ total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 21 18:02 log/ -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29 Jul 21 17:35 run* drwx-- 2 root root 4096 Oct 5 10:57 supervise/ petra:~$ cat /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run #!/bin/sh exec /var/qmail/rc petra:~$ cat /var/qmail/rc #!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" qmail-start ./Maildir/ petra:~$ ls -l /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/ total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 21 18:22 log/ -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 125 Jul 21 18:56 run* drwx-- 2 root root 4096 Oct 5 10:57 supervise/ petra:~$ cat /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -q -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u1002 -g102 0 smtp \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 Anyone see any red flags here? Thanks, Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: vacation questions
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:21:59PM -0400, Peter Samuel wrote: As the author of the qmail-vacation program, let me give you a run down of features that have been requested by me and others (and most of them are not implemented yet). Outstanding! Thank you. I could not have asked for a more complete response. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: svscan weirdness...
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:57:47PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: svscan: warning: unable to start supervise dnscache: file does not exist Déjà vu. Yeah... I saw the other post merest moments after I sent mine. Add: PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin export PATH before running svscan. D'oh... I knew it had to be something simple. Thanks! -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: IMAP support
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 07:00:31PM -0400, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: I've been having the worst luck getting an imap server working. I had whatever came with my distro (I think the washington one), but when I'd try to get a list of folders it (after an hour or so) showed me every folder on my system. Not what I want. I tried cyrus, but can't seem to get it working with qmail, and I want my users to each have a home directory and be in passwd anyways. Any advice? What IMAP servers do you guys use? How do you set IMAP up? Courier is my favorite. http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/ -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 10:33:21AM -0400, Jan Knepper wrote: Right now I seem to run into something else that I do not quite understand... When sending messages to pobox.njn.org qmail reports "Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/" I first thought that the host might be down or something, but it would have to be down for more than 12 hours right now. Any idea's? Yeah. Try making the connection: petra:~$ dnsmx pobox.njn.org 0 pobox.njn.org petra:~$ telnet pobx.njn.org 25 telnet pobox.njn.org 25 Trying 199.20.127.7... And it times out. So the host is down. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: Qmail not sending to Certain Servers
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:19:03PM -0500, Kathleen Farber wrote: Thank you everyone for your quick responses. For once I'm glad to know it's not me. Any where I could do some reading on how to read qmail logs? Maybe then I'd understand some of this a little more when issues arise. As other have recommended, read the qmail-log man page. Then get yourself a copy of qmLogsort from the main qmail page. It digs through your logs and sorts them by message, so you don't have to dig through 50 log entries to find the five that relate to the message you're tracking. Makes the logs much easier to read. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: Qmail not sending to Certain Servers
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:08:46AM -0500, Kathleen Farber wrote: There are certain servers that any domain on my server can not send too. It just never is recieved. No messages bounce or anything. Any idea's or thoughts what might be causing this? All together now: What Do The Logs Say?(TM) Really, the logs are your friends. Every message that your server has attempted to deliver will have several log entries, one of which will explain why the message has not been delivered. It will most likely indicate that the message was deferred for some reason. But the logs are very verbose about those reasons and will describe exactly why the message was not delivered. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: Qmail not sending to Certain Servers
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 07:22:44PM -0500, Kathleen Farber wrote: The logs say absolutely nothing. that's the disturbing part. The email sends but never is recieved or bounced or nothing. Just amazes me theres nothing reporting anywhere. OK... If you could please post actual log entries, that would be appreciated. It eliminates a lot of questions. However, assuming we see nothing unusual when you do get around to posting the relevant log sections, if the last entry for a particular message was "timestamp delivery somenumber: success: message from remote host" then the message was delivered to the remote host and any problems after that are problems on their end. You won't see that "success" message unless the remote server has acknowledged receipt of the message. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: Opening a Port
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 02:26:40PM -0300, Mark Walsh wrote: I need to open port 443 on my Linux Firewall. How do I do that? Ask a Linux list. This is the qmail list. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: Unable to read controls
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 10:41:03AM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote: There's your problem. Nobody can list the contents of /var/qmail/control, because the execute bits aren't set. Do a `chmod 755 /var/qmail/control` and everything should work. Just to be pedantic, The 'r' bit is for listing the directory, but the 'x' bit controls access to the files in the directory. So, qmail would have been able to list the files but not open them. petra:~$ ls -ld testing/ dr--r--r-- 2 insyte users4096 Sep 27 12:18 testing/ petra:~$ ls testing/ /bin/ls: testing/MegabitServiceCenter: Permission denied petra:~$ chmod 555 testing/ petra:~$ ls -ld testing/ dr-xr-xr-x 2 insyte users4096 Sep 27 12:18 testing/ petra:~$ ls -l testing/ total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 insyte users 32 Sep 27 12:18 StupidTestFile -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: daemontools
Today, Dave Kitabjian wrote: Do my eyes deceive me or are you really finally printing and selling one of the qmail tshirts? http://www.cafepress.com/qmail0a/ Yeah. I signed up at the cafepress site. All four variations are there: http://www.cafepress.com/qmail0a/ http://www.cafepress.com/qmail0d/ http://www.cafepress.com/qmail1a/ http://www.cafepress.com/qmail1d/ There are links to all those "storefronts" from my qmail tshirts page: http://vern.com/tshirts/qmail/ I haven't even ordered one myself. Their tshirt selection leaves something to be desired. The only have one color, white, and they don't have anything over XL. But the mugs and mouse pads are cool... Vern On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 09:04:06PM +0200, Alexander Jernejcic wrote: I recommend whoever it is that is doing the lovely qmail shirts (I'll be ordering mine shortly!) should do one that says "What Do The Logs Say?(tm)". I know I would buy one... where to order, where - please ... == Alexander Jernejcic email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] begin LOVE-LETTER-UND-NIX-DAZUGELERNT.txt.vbs I am a Signature, not a Virus! end ====== -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: daemontools
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 12:25:37PM -0700, Matt Brown wrote: Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I haven't even ordered one myself. Their tshirt selection leaves something to be desired. The only have one color, white, and they don't have anything over XL. Eh? The page I'm looking at quotes 2x, 3x and 4x sizes for $3 more. I just pasted in an old email from the guy who designed them. That was many moons ago... Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: daemontools
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 02:21:39PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thoughts? Objections? Contentions? The LWQ URL? He mentioned that. http://lwq.w3.to redirects to the current home of LWQ. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: daemontools
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 03:49:14PM -0600, Stephen Bosch wrote: *sounds familiar* Okay... my turn! All together now... "What do the logs say?"TM (svscan ails silently... =) ) I recommend whoever it is that is doing the lovely qmail shirts (I'll be ordering mine shortly!) should do one that says "What Do The Logs Say?(tm)". I know I would buy one... Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: No Transport Provider Available
It ain't qmail. http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q197/4/17.ASP?LN=EN-USSD=gnFR=0 On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 05:55:14PM -0300, Mark Walsh wrote: I had someone put in a Linux Firewall with QMail as the Mail server. Lately, I had lost their support and I am at a bit of a loss. The problem that I have is that most of my company is on Microsoft Outlook. Most or all of the employees are experiencing difficulties in sending EMail. They attempt to send email, either locally or remotely and get the message There is No Transport Provider Available. Sometimes I can send mail, sometimes I can't. I had removed The Personal folders and accounts from individual computers and for a time it seemed to repair it. But now everyone is doing it? I starting to wonder if it is actually the QMAil. Where Do I start looking there? Mark Walsh -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: Re: Users all of a sudden have to download all email from server???
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 03:47:30PM +0200, Anton Pirnat wrote: had one customer with a smiliar thing.. no matter what mail servers were using, it seems to be a Outlook related problem. As far we could see this behaviour only causes if someone tries not to delete the mails after reading them through Outlook. So sometimes Outlook gets only the new one.. or even all again in one bunch. This never happened with other mail clients. I narrowed it down to using LAST (deprecated) vs. UIDL (preferred). I belive Outlook tries to use LAST which qmail-pop3d does not support. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: pop3 running as...
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 05:14:54PM -0400, andy wrote: As per the "humorous" thread, none of you are obliged to answer, and if I in any way come off as and asshole or idiot feel free to harass me. ( Oh shit! that wasn't an asshole thing to say was it? ) Hmmm... No comment. ;-) Is qmail-popup\qmail-pop3d supposed to run as root? Aye. Otherwise it would be unable to spawn kids as the necessary user. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: tcprules question
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 06:13:39PM -0500, Brice Ruth wrote: This would make sense, wouldn't it? But, it doesn't work :( I'm using tcprulescheck with a file that looks like this: .domain.net:allow,RELAYHOST=" " :deny and the response I get from tcprulescheck with TCPREMOTEHOST set to host.domain.net is: rule : deny connection From the tcprules page on DJB's site: tcpserver looks for rules with various addresses: 1) $TCPREMOTEINFO@$TCPREMOTEIP, if $TCPREMOTEINFO is set; 2) $TCPREMOTEINFO@=$TCPREMOTEHOST, if $TCPREMOTEINFO is set and $TCPREMOTEHOST is set; 3) $TCPREMOTEIP; 4) =$TCPREMOTEHOST, if $TCPREMOTEHOST is set; 5) shorter and shorter prefixes of $TCPREMOTEIP ending with a dot; 6) shorter and shorter suffixes of $TCPREMOTEHOST starting with a dot, preceded by =, if $TCPREMOTEHOST is set; 7) =, if $TCPREMOTEHOST is set; and finally 8) the empty string. It sounds to me like you want #6. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: Pointers on qmail + vpopmail?
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:42:53AM -0400, Jonathan J. Smith wrote: Anyone willing to spend a little time and a few emails to help clear some things up for me? I appreciate the time. Sure. But if you ask your questions actually on the list others with similar questions will be able to read them... Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
multilog thrashing under svscan
I'm trying to set up an autoturn implementation we've been using to run under svscan with all the other spiffy daemontools. The tcpserver command that launches maildirserial and all that is running great, but the log command is continually being restarted by supervise. I'm quite confused, as the log/run script is virtually identical to the others I'm using for qmail-smtpd, qmail-send, etc. Anyway, here's the svscan directory structure I'm working with, with the autoturn directory symlinked into /service, with the rest of my svscan proggies: -- amazhan [11:53am] # ls -ld /var/qmail/supervise/autoturn drwx--x--T 4 root qmail 512 Sep 18 11:39 /var/qmail/supervise/autoturn ^ Sticky bit IS set... amazhan [11:54am] # ls -lR /var/qmail/supervise/autoturn total 3 drwxr-xr-x 3 root qmail 512 Sep 18 11:46 log -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 225 Sep 18 11:39 run drwx-- 2 root qmail 512 Sep 18 11:40 supervise /var/qmail/supervise/autoturn/log: total 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 91 Sep 18 11:46 run drwx-- 2 root qmail 512 Sep 18 11:47 supervise /var/qmail/supervise/autoturn/log/supervise: total 1 prw--- 1 root qmail 0 Sep 18 11:47 control -rw--- 1 root qmail 0 Sep 18 11:30 lock prw--- 1 root qmail 0 Sep 18 11:30 ok -rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 18 Sep 18 11:47 status /var/qmail/supervise/autoturn/supervise: total 1 prw--- 1 root qmail 0 Sep 18 11:39 control -rw--- 1 root qmail 0 Sep 18 11:30 lock prw--- 1 root qmail 0 Sep 18 11:30 ok -rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 18 Sep 18 11:40 status -- And the actual "run" scripts: -- amazhan [11:55am] # cat /var/qmail/supervise/autoturn/run #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -l amazhan -H -q -R \ -x /etc/tcprules/tcp.autoturn.cdb -u74 -g1001 0 1338 \ sh -c 'cd /var/qmail/autoturn;maildirsmtp $TCPREMOTEIP autoturn-$TCPREMOTEIP- $TCPREMOTEIP AutoTURN' 21 amazhan [11:55am] # cat /var/qmail/supervise/autoturn/log/run #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/autoturn -- According to the multilog docs, /var/log/autoturn shouldn't even need to exist, as it will create it if it doesn't. But after it failed the first time, I created the directory, owned by qmaill, with perms the same as the other multilog directories (755). What am I missing? Thanks, Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: multilog thrashing under svscan
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 06:25:42PM +0100, James Raftery wrote: /var/qmail/supervise/autoturn/log: total 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 91 Sep 18 11:46 run [snip] What am I missing? chmod a+x /var/qmail/supervise/autoturn/log/run :) D'oh d'oh d'oh d'oh d'oh d'oh... bangs head on wall repeatedly Ouch. Thanks! Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
RBL... Hmmm...
/me digs through the rblsmtpd entries in his log after enabling RSS and DUL... Hmmm... It seems I could have saved a ton of trouble by just blackholing all of .jp and .kr! Heh heh... Anyone tried that? Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: comparison vmailmgr - inter7
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 11:20:51AM +0200, Clemens Hermann wrote: there are two packages on the net fulfilling my needs - vmailmgr and the inter7 suite. Could one say that one of the two is "better"? So fare I use the "Bruce Guenther way" for virtual mailusers but not his package (only "natural" qmail) and I am really satisfied. Now I need to choose one of the two tools but I am not sure which would be the better choice for my purpose. It would be great if someone could give me a hint, I need the following things: I am a fan of vpopmail by Inter7. virtual users Of course. Single UID/GID databases for users and aliases CDB or MySQL. Decide at compile time. I believe you can mix and match... pop access Of course. imap access Supported natively by Mr. Sam's excellent Courier-IMAP package. We use both IMAP and POP3 at the ISP where I work. quota support Yep. html-mail-administration qmailadmin, also by Inter7, is a full-featured admin package for vpopmail. webmail U... I think there are three or four that Inter7 recommends and work with native support for Vpop. There was one written in house here before I converted to vpop, so I haven't tried any of the others. For me, another big plus of vpopmail is the outstanding support from Ken Jones and the rest of the crew at Inter7. On a couple of occasions I have reported bugs to the list and had patches within six hours. There are, of course, very active mailing lists for vpopmail and qmailadmin. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: Strange Problem
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 12:38:15AM -0400, Gadoury wrote: Logging is already setup using multilog. I just haven't figured out how to read them. I downloaded a couple of utilities for reading them but the documentation is a bit vague. The best program for making them clear and easier to understand is qmLogsort. Groups the lines by message so you don't have to track a single message across several pages of log files. But you've GOT to fix that relay problem. I am using tcpserver/tcprules and only have a few IPs enabled for relaying mail. From my reading it seems to me that should keep it pretty much secure. I am working on implementing the POP to SMTP scheme. Ah, but your rcpthosts file is empty, which make qmail default back to relaying for everyone. The RELAYCLIENT variable in your tcprules only serves to tell it to ignore rcpthosts for certain IPs. Here, I can prove it: petra:~$ telnet mail.grayhat.org 25 Trying 210.228.3.165... Connected to mail.grayhat.org. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mail.grayhat.org ESMTP helo doofus 250 mail.grayhat.org mail from:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 ok rcpt to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 ok quit 221 mail.grayhat.org Connection closed by foreign host. petra:~$ Being a non-malicious type, I did not rape and pillage your server. However, I could have just as easily spammed 500,000 addresses from your server. Not a good thing. Have fun... And ADD THAT RCPTHOSTS FILE!!! Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: FW: e-mail problems
First of all, nice to meet you. I'm the funny looking guy that rides into the building every morning on a black and white bike with green tires. Second, when are they seeing this error? During a POP login or an SMTP transaction? And it appears that the error has been truncated. Is this how it appears on their screen or did you just not paste all of it? Third, assuming this happens during a POP transaction, you would probably get better support from the vpop list. There is a subscribe link a www.inter7.com/vpopmail. Fourth, are you using POP before SMTP? It sounds like it's having difficulty recreating the tcp.smtp.cdb file. Perhaps a permissions issue on /home/vpopmail/etc? Ben On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 11:16:14AM -0500, Christian Nielsen wrote: I have been unable to find a fix or any suggestive information for a client who is getting the following error message: I need you to look at the following error message that keeps popping up on my screen every few minutes.it looks like the password dialog box with this message: The server responded les:fatal:unable to move /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.tmp to We have several clients using qmail, but only one reporting this error. Any help would be greatfully received! THanks, Christian Christian Nielsen Systems Administrator Electronic Media Group Inc. Suite 440 212 3rd Ave N Minneapolis MN 55401 612-904-6656 x117 -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: config or default ?? Confused
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 03:07:43PM -0700, Morpheuz wrote: the users of my server have to use user@domain as username with their passwords when checking their mails. I wonder if that is the default config of qmail or can be changed ? I'm trying to make it so that they just use username and password instead of user@domain as username. The previous guy who did it didn't leave any docs and I'm relatively new to this. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks Sounds like you may be using vpopmail as an addon for qmail. It adds easy management of multiple virtual domains. http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/ Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: svscan
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 11:45:59PM +0200, Jens Georg wrote: where to find svscan ? http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: qmailanalog compiling problem
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 06:23:41PM -0500, Stephen Berg wrote: /usr/include/bits/errno.h:25: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory I believe errno.h is part of the kernel source tree. I'm going to guess that you are using RedHat and did not install the kernel-devel package, which includes all the kernel header files... Do that and you should be good to go. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: Strange Problem
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:51:01PM -0400, Gadoury wrote: For some reason qmail-smtpd decided to stop recieving local mail delivered from a remote host. I am able to send mail from the local domain to a remote domain (the machine I am sending mail from in both cases is a remote machine) We need to see the actual domain names, along with the full output from qmail-showctl. Also "qmail-smtpd decided to stop receiving" is a bit vague. What happens? Are any errors generated during the smtp exchange or written to the logs? Thanks, Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: Strange Problem
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 11:23:39PM -0400, Gadoury wrote: no problem. by decided to stop receiving I meant that it was recieving email fine but now it isnt. The only things I have been making changes to are the startup scripts. Logging is going directly to console for this as I don't currently have any programs set up to read the log files. Any suggestions? It looks to me like your configuration would work, although it IS a wide-open relay. The key here is this (all together now): What Do the Logs Say? (tm) The logs are your friends, so I would highly recommend you start doing some logging. Whether you use DJB's multilog or splogger doesn't really matter. Splogger would probably be easiest to set up. Anyway, there are so many things that can stop delivery that it would be silly to attempt any more troubleshooting without any logs. But you've GOT to fix that relay problem. The first time someone portscans your network you'll be used as a spam relay, which will get you listed in RSS, ORBS, RBL, etc. and you will find yourself unable to send mail to most of the internet. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: question about uninstall
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 06:02:31PM -0400, shawn p . duffy wrote: I was thinking of uninstalling and reinstalling qmail so I could get even more familiar with it. If get rid of /var/qmail and edit the boot scripts I should be OK right? oh... also the /services dir and all of the qmail users and groups... That should be fine... Although there really isn't much reason to do that. You can install right over the top of an existing install without any problems. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: Lots of qmail-queue processes
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 03:35:09PM -0700, Sean Peterson wrote: Right, I recall reading that from the archives. How does one go about either, denying the problem mailer from sending email or changing qmail to deal with it in the right way? If you can figure out from your tcpserver logs which IP is doing it, you can add a 'deny' to your tcp rules. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
removing messages FROM a specific user
I encountered a weird problem today with a shudder majordomo list that created a nasty mail loop and dumped over a thousand messages into our remote queue. And yes, I will be converting the list from majordomo to ezmlm tomorrow. I ended up creating a quick script that dug through the output of qmail-qread and cut out the message numbers, than ran that through a find command that removed all of those messages from the queue. It appears to have worked. However, my question is this: Was there a better way to remove messages FROM a specific sender? I've seen several discussions on removing messages TO a specific user or domain... Thanks, Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: Questions...
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:36:07AM -0700, James Stevens wrote: 2. Is there any way to view whats actually in queue as oppsed to just seeing numbers.. My boss likes being able to actually see the queue like in the old Sendmail. qmHandle from the qmail home page (you did look there, didn't you?) does just that. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: Mail que
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:06:59PM -0700, Mike Jimenez wrote: How do I clear out my mail que? Thanks Mike FAQ 7.2 It's in your source tree. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: Spam
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 08:37:55AM -0700, Mike Jimenez wrote: How do I setup my mail server to help reduce the amount of spam it receives.Or better what are the steps taken to do this.Also How do I properly block out certain Ip's from sending mail to my server. http://www.summersault.com/chris/techno/qmail/qmail-antispam.html -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: qmail-start: cannot start: unable to read controls
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 12:47:16PM -0700, Steve Lewis wrote: from /var/log/messages: Sep 8 11:47:49 mybox qmail: 968438869.011886 alert: cannot start: unable to read controls It means it is unable to read its control files. That means you have an ownership or perms problem somewhere in the /var/qmail/control tree or on the actual files in the control directory. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: problem!
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 05:41:53PM +0200, J.M. Roth wrote: Now, when I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] the following appears in the log: 967822786.320142 info msg 46208: bytes 1449 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 10718 uid 502 967822786.321317 starting delivery 15073: msg 46208 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] 967822786.321348 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 967822786.326289 delivery 15073: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ 967822786.326542 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 967822786.330691 bounce msg 46208 qp 10720 vdelivermail doesn't look for the directory. It looks for the entry in vpasswd. Is it there? Another question: can I mix several forwards and local deliveries in 1 dot-qmail file? f.e. .qmail-default | vdelivermail blabla someguy@somewhere someotherguy@somewhere | vdelivermail blabla2 man dot-qmail Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: rcpthosts prob
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 03:23:25PM -0500, Ronny Haryanto wrote: Have you rebuild the cdb file with tcprules? How do you start your smtpd? What does the smtpd log says when you connect? And: What does your tcpserver command line look like? Have you tried tcprulescheck? Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: relaying going into the bit bucket
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 04:39:39PM -0400, Matt Sherer wrote: First off, I've read the FAQ. :) Congratulations! I think you're maybe the third person to do that... I have a feeling it's something extremely simple, but I can't find it. The mail goes in, just never gets queued to be delivered (or something to that effect.) Any ideas? Before anyone else says it: What Do the Logs Say? (tm) The logs are your best friend. They are helpful and verbose. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: % hack
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 04:56:46PM -0400, David M. Kufta wrote: Can someone please tell me how or what I would need to do to enable % hack in qmail ? I have looked in the archives and have been unable to find a reference. man qmail-send Search for the string "percenthack" Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: VopMail and multiple domains
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 01:15:59PM -0300, Fernando Costa de Almeida wrote: Supose that I have two domains: domain1.com.br domain2.com.br And two users: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] What I have to do is that all emails to user1 must be sent to user2, and vice-versa. How can I do this? Make the Maildir for one a symlink to the Maildir for the other. Haven't tried it, but it should work. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: VopMail and multiple domains
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 02:16:01PM -0300, Fernando Costa de Almeida wrote: It worked perfectly. I was wondering too if it was possible to have a unique entry for this user, because each new user will have a entry in each domain (two identical passwords, etc)... Im reading the vpopmail documentation now, but if somebody has already donw this... :-) If ALL the users in one domain will be the same as the user with the same name in the second domain, you can make one domain an alias to the other, using vaddaliasdomain. That way [EMAIL PROTECTED] will automatically be exactly the same as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: TCPLOGD
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 01:21:38PM +0200, Bolivar Diaz wrote: What is the function of TCPLOGD? It is not a qmail program. A simple google search returned multiple hits. Please don't ask the list to do what you could accomplish yourself with minimal effort. At any point of time the servers starts rejecting passwords when a client tries to check the e-mail, and the reason is "unable to fork: resource not available" Several of the hundreds of references returned from the above mentioned search describes some DOS attacks that would do what you are describing. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
correlating smtpd logs with qmail logs
Anyone know of a reliable way to correlate a particular smtpd log entry with the message it delivered? On a busy server the time stamps are too close together to figure it out that way... Gracias, Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: yahoo messages
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:13:14PM -0400, Alexander Pennace wrote: Any message sento to yahoo.com gives an error as follows: Aug 24 08:09:42 mail qmail: 96714598.526974 delivery 154:deferral: Connected_to_128.11.69.55_but_connection_died._(#4.4.2)/ Can u tell help me why it is happening with yahoo.com It appears yahoo is having problems at its end. Nothing for you to worry about, unless all messages sent to yahoo ultimately bounce. Yahoo has been having intermittent problems for over a week now. I've had anywhere between 20 and 200 messages in the outbound queue waiting to be delivered to them... Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: qmail-qfilter
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 03:17:11PM -0300, Ricardo Albano wrote: snip 354 go aheadTesting . 451 qq temporary problem (#4.3.0) What Do the Logs Say? (tm) Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: dot-qmail and pipe not working properly
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:40:21PM +0800, Thomas Duterme wrote: cat .qmail-unsubscribe_education unsubscribe in /home/unsubscribe/.qmail, I have: ./Maildir/ | /home/unsubscribe/MagazineUnsubscribe.py /home/unsubscribe/unsub.log Now, the weird thing is that qmail won't pass the mail to stdin like it should (executing the second line of my .qmail...passing the mail to my python script). I have tried: changing the ownership of the .py script (to alias and the grp to qmail) and it still won't work. Any answers here? Also, in my Maildir, I eventually get multiple copies of this email. I believe this problem is somehow related, but I've been banging my head on the keyboard too much to see how. Any help or ideas appreciated. What Do the Logs Say? (tm) Seriously, the logs will include the error message returned by your no doubt broken Python script. qmail most certainly did provide it the message on stdin. You are getting multiple messages because the message is being deferred because the script is failing. When it retries, it retries the entire delivery, including the ./Maildir/ part. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: vpopmail and large domains.
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 01:55:52PM -0500, Greg Moeller wrote: I've just installed vpopmail and it's working quite nice. Spiffy. Although this may be a more appropriate question for the vpopmail list, not the qmail list. The only problem I've encountered is with it's method of finding a directory for a new user. The concept is good, only 100 users per directory, but when it goes to find a new one, after a few thousand users it can get very slow(and IO intensive on the box) I was testing with adding 50,000 users to a domain and it took several hours to get to 7000. If I were to move our user base to vpopmail in a single maintence window, it'd take a week or more! :) Try using the '-s' flag to vadduser. I suspect you are seeing slow downs from rehashing the cdb file after each new user is added. The '-s' flag tells it to not try to recreate the cdb file. Then when you are all done, run 'vmkpasswd' and you're all set. You should see a significant speed increase. I created around 6000 accounts in about 15 minutes. Give or take 5 minutes... Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: obtaining TCPREMOTEIP during delivery
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 11:53:44PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:
Ben Beuchler writes:
It appears that $TCPREMOTEIP is only available to qmail-smtpd. It is no
longer in the environment during final message delivery.
No, but you can get the same information from parsing the Received:
headers:
while() {
last if /^$/;
$address = $2 if /^Received:.*\((.*\@)?(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)\)/;
$ip = $address if /^ by (192\.203\.178\.\d+|\w+.crynwr.com) with SMTP;/;
}
Aye... I was trying to avoid that as maildrop's string handling isn't
quite on perl's level... But I may just have to surrender to the
inevitable.
Thanks yet again,
Ben
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Re: obtaining TCPREMOTEIP during delivery
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 11:37:31PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: Sounds like a header-insert environment variable for qmail-smtpd is in order. Then all the things that run before it, including tcpserver and rblsmtpd, could set up stuff in that variable which would become headers in the message, and then could be used at the user level for maildrop / procmail / autosorting / whatever. I don't remember anybody doing this patch yet; anybody? That certainly would be an extremely powerful tool. Useful for all sorts of things... Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: yahoo down?
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 01:30:22PM -0700, Al Sparks wrote: According to the http://www.qmail.org site, Yahoo! is using qmail. I believe they use it for their outbound queue, but apparently not for their inbound mail. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
yahoo down?
Is it just my imagination or am I seeing a larger than normal number of yahoo.com messages building up in my remote queue? I've tried a few telnet sessions to port 25 on mx7.mail.yahoo.com and sometimes it gets through and sometimes it doesn't... Annoyed, Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
obtaining TCPREMOTEIP during delivery
It appears that $TCPREMOTEIP is only available to qmail-smtpd. It is no longer in the environment during final message delivery. I would like to be able to use rblcheck and maildrop to allow opt-in ORBS/RBL/DUL/RSS/etc. and would prefer to obtain the necessary info directly from qmail rather than trying to parse the correct IP out of the message header. Any thoughts? Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: obtaining TCPREMOTEIP during delivery
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 03:52:36AM +0100, Ricardo Cerqueira wrote: Have you tried rblsmtpd? It works as a filter between tcpserver and qmail-smtpd, and checks against blacklists on the TCP/IP connection, not the mail itself. Yeah, in fact I'm using it now to check against the dul list. However, I would prefer to have some sort of opt-in choice, for our customers that are afraid of losing legitimate mail. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: CHANGING INETD
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 07:46:52PM -0700, Al Sparks wrote: Anyway, while on this thread it has occurred to me to ask why put qmail in either inetd or tcpserver? Why not run it as a daemon? At the moment my test box is running it in inetd because I did a quick cookbook install. I didn't see anything, off hand anyway, that told me how to do that. Coming from the sendmail world, that would be my initial preference (especially since the box would be dedicated to email anyway). I'm sure several people on this list could explain why that is a bad idea and why DJB chose not to design it that way, but I'll give you the easy anser: Because you can't. It won't listen to a port all by itself. tcpserver creates the connection and then passes it off to qmail-smtpd. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: yahoo down?
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 01:57:49PM +1000, Brett Randall wrote: At times, in the past, I've even had bounces saying that a yahoo user doesn't exist. An e-mail the day after might go fine, then a few days later it'll go astray again... Definitely a few machines in that bank which need some heart surgery Perhaps they're using sendmail? : Hmm. Telnetting to the server on port 25 says that it is something called YSmtp. And sending it a 'help' command returns '250 OK. Yahoo! MTA'. Sounds like something proprietary... Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: 4.7.1 error reported to netscape mail client
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 01:55:08AM -0400, Dale Miracle wrote: I noticed a lot more e-mail activity lately and noticed people are sending to 5, 10, 15 people at a time. You get a couple people doing that and the 20 connection limit in qmail's smtpd is pegged until it can deliver the mail. I went through the log again looked for the date's and times he couldn't send mail and noticed that there pending remote deliveries of 20/20, 20/20, 20/20 . Which was odd because the number of deliveries never went down. I looked through log and found that a quite a few people had sent e-mail's to 5 and 10 people at a time and some of those mail servers were deferring connections. I noticed the it was possible that he was trying to send at a time when the queue was 20/20 and when he waited a minute or so the queue went down to 19/20 which allowed him to send. If this is so can i raise the number of connections? I don't like re-compiling binaries once I got everything working fine, tempting fate it to easy. ;) If you review the man page for qmail-smtpd, it will explain the usage of "concurrencyremote" which should solve your problem. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: rblsmtpd emergency
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 07:08:28AM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote: BTWY, I know many people are attached to using DNS for rbl lookups, but would not it be relatively simple to implement a server software using tcpserver that would just lookup an IP number in a .cdb database of IP numbers, and send an appropriate response? A client might be similarly simple to implement using tcpclient. That would not allow for the rapid changes necessary in a blackhole list. Imagine you are an ISP with several thousand customers. Through an oversight, your mail server is blacklisted. Would you rather wait for the tens or hundreds of thousands of sysadmins out there administering mail servers to remove you from their blackhole list or just submit it to the maintainer of the list and have it fixed in minute or hours? Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: fastforward and \accounts
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 01:04:42PM -0700, R. Benjamin Shapiro wrote: The support_manager account gets copies of all incoming mail to these accounts. This isn't quite the intrusion that it might seem. Email accounts for personal use are provided and not snooped on. This just helps us make sure that customers problems are being resolved. Anyway, because username is a valid login on the machine, fastforward is never invoked. Is there any way to change make qmail do what I want? Changing the actual login names would work (duh), but isn't an option at our company. Any ideas? I don't think this is possible with fastforward. However, you could add .qmail files to each user's homedir with the correct instructions. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: Russ' rblsmtpd test robots.
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 04:30:24PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I just implemented rblsmtpd using the MAPS DUL. I sent a message off to Russ' testing bot and received the following reply: MAPS has recently dropped the TXT entries from their zones due to zone size problems; perhaps that's the problem? To the best of my knowledge, they only dropped 'em from RSS. However, I have already figured out the problem and it was my own stupidity... Our mail server is behind a pair of load balancers (Foundry Server Irons, if anyone cares) and a pair of firewalls. The actual IP of the mail server is not reachable on port 25. Only the load balanced IP accepts connections. I'm going to temporarily allow port 25 directly to one of our mail servers and retest... Gracias, Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
qmailanalog ideas?
I'm trying to set up some quick scripts using qmailanalog. I would like to generate a report every morning on the previous 24 hours. The new multilog does not rotate based on time but rather on size, so that's a bit awkward. Has anyone arrived at a simple way to dig all the log entries covering a specified period of time from a multilog directory? Gracias, Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
converting tai64n to something readable
I know this spawned one of those never-ending threads last time I brought it up, so I'm not asking for opinions on the usefulness or lack thereof of the tai64n format. I'm just trying to *understand* the format... I've read and reread DjB's documentation of the format and still find it quite confusing. For example, I still do not understand the significance of the first eight bytes of the stamp. I think it is the reference point for the second four bytes, but why is it necessary? Why would the reference point change? Why not select an arbitrary point in time and make it the reference point? I would also appreciate it if someone could sketch out some pseudo-code for working with tai64n. A task I have frequently wished I could perform would be slicing out a section of a log file covering a specified time range. Since I do not know C, I do not have the luxury of using libtai. So I guess I would need a way of converting a specific time to it's tai64n equivalent. Thoughts? Suggestions? Thanks, Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: converting tai64n to something readable
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:18:50PM +1200, Chris, the Young One wrote: http://cr.yp.to/libtai/tai64.html describes TAI64, TAI64N, and TAI64NA. Since I do not know C, I do not have the luxury of using libtai. Go to your local library and borrow KR. After reading chapter one, you'll learn most things you need to know. :-) So I guess I would need a way of converting a specific time to it's tai64n equivalent. troll his, her, its; not hi's, he'r, it's /troll Sorry Ben, I had to say that. :-) But seriously, look at the URL above. Yeah, I seem to have a mental glitch lately that tells my fingers to type "it's" in all the wrong places. I've read the doc you mention. I found it rather tough to follow. I just received some info from Russ that I think is unlocking my mental block for me, so it may make some sense for me by tomorrow. I do need to learn at least some C, I know. So far I have found a knoledge of Python and some Perl to be more useful. I'm assuming the "KR" to which you refer is an introductory C text? Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Russ' rblsmtpd test robots.
I just implemented rblsmtpd using the MAPS DUL. I sent a message off to Russ' testing bot and received the following reply: == Testing your DUL block. See http://www.crynwr.com/spam/ for more info Could not connect to 216.243.128.132: Connection timed out Attempting to run traceroute. If the traceroute fails persistently, then it's likely that the ISP where it fails is subscribed to the BGP3 version of the RBL, and is blocking RBL'ed hosts at the IP level. You should ask if that is indeed what they are doing. If so, then you do not need to use DNS blocking of the RBL. == My question concerns the "Connection timed out" message. Does this mean that it literally was a time out? Or will it give that message as well if it receives the 553 from rblsmtpd? (I'm running it with -b) We are not running the BGP version of DUL... And the attached traceroute reaches us just fine. Thanks, Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: 4.7.1 error in qmail
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 09:16:41PM -0400, Sean C Truman wrote: I Believe you get this message when you max out your SMTP connection if your are using ucspi tools the default on tcpserver is set to 40.. use the flag -c (# of connections). I don't believe that is the case. In my experience when the tcpserver managing smtp runs out of connections it just hangs. It will accept connections but will not actually launch qmail-smtpd. When this has happened to me, no error messages at all were generated. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: courier-imap help
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 03:30:51PM -0500, Barry Smoke wrote: I need some help with a new problem with courier-imap Is there a developers list for that I can join? There is a courier-users list monitored by the sole developer. It is linked to from the courier home page. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: Fastforward - mail groups
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 10:27:51AM -0400, Vu Vuong wrote: Can anyone tell me why my maillist doesn't work? I use fastword and I have successfully created group files. I placed them in /etc/mail/groups/ Not without seeing the "group" files and the aliases file used to call it. The relevant section of your log would also be useful. We're not psychic. -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
qmail plain install v. freebsd port
I installed and am using a normal install of qmail on a FreeBSD 4.0 box.
I just noticed today that it was also included in the ports collection
and is patched during the install process. I am just curious if anyone
knows what the patch is for, as I have not experienced any problems.
Here's the patch, if your interested:
--- qmail-1.03/dns.c.103Mon Aug 17 16:06:58 1998
+++ qmail-1.03/dns.cWed Aug 26 16:28:56 1998
@@ -21,10 +21,12 @@
static unsigned short getshort(c) unsigned char *c;
{ unsigned short u; u = c[0]; return (u 8) + c[1]; }
-static union { HEADER hdr; unsigned char buf[PACKETSZ]; } response;
+static struct { unsigned char *buf; } response;
+static int responsebuflen = 0;
static int responselen;
static unsigned char *responseend;
static unsigned char *responsepos;
+static u_long saveresoptions;
static int numanswers;
static char name[MAXDNAME];
@@ -45,18 +47,33 @@
errno = 0;
if (!stralloc_copy(glue,domain)) return DNS_MEM;
if (!stralloc_0(glue)) return DNS_MEM;
- responselen = lookup(glue.s,C_IN,type,response.buf,sizeof(response));
+ if (!responsebuflen)
+ if (response.buf = (unsigned char *)alloc(PACKETSZ+1))
+ responsebuflen = PACKETSZ+1;
+ else return DNS_MEM;
+
+ responselen = lookup(glue.s,C_IN,type,response.buf,responsebuflen);
+ if ((responselen = responsebuflen) ||
+ (responselen 0 (((HEADER *)response.buf)-tc)))
+ {
+ if (responsebuflen 65536)
+if (alloc_re(response.buf, responsebuflen, 65536))
+ responsebuflen = 65536;
+else return DNS_MEM;
+saveresoptions = _res.options;
+_res.options |= RES_USEVC;
+responselen = lookup(glue.s,C_IN,type,response.buf,responsebuflen);
+_res.options = saveresoptions;
+ }
if (responselen = 0)
{
if (errno == ECONNREFUSED) return DNS_SOFT;
if (h_errno == TRY_AGAIN) return DNS_SOFT;
return DNS_HARD;
}
- if (responselen = sizeof(response))
- responselen = sizeof(response);
responseend = response.buf + responselen;
responsepos = response.buf + sizeof(HEADER);
- n = ntohs(response.hdr.qdcount);
+ n = ntohs(((HEADER *)response.buf)-qdcount);
while (n-- 0)
{
i = dn_expand(response.buf,responseend,responsepos,name,MAXDNAME);
@@ -66,7 +83,7 @@
if (i QFIXEDSZ) return DNS_SOFT;
responsepos += QFIXEDSZ;
}
- numanswers = ntohs(response.hdr.ancount);
+ numanswers = ntohs(((HEADER *)response.buf)-ancount);
return 0;
}
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Re: qmail plain install v. freebsd port
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 07:20:32PM +0200, Magnus Bodin wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 12:17:59PM -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote: I installed and am using a normal install of qmail on a FreeBSD 4.0 box. I just noticed today that it was also included in the ports collection and is patched during the install process. I am just curious if anyone knows what the patch is for, as I have not experienced any problems. Here's the patch, if your interested: Link from http://www.qmail.org/ Christopher K. Davis has a patch to accept oversize DNS packets which works on both qmail's dns.c and tcpserver's dns.c. So THAT'S what that is... Does anyone have any experience concerning how necessary that patch is? Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: surge in spam email (fwd) -- spamtest
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 10:31:34AM -0700, Darin O. wrote: petra:~$ ./spamtest 139.134.5.153 rbl.maps.vix.com = rss.maps.vix.com = dul.maps.vix.com = relays.orbs.org = 127.0.0.4 outputs.orbs.org = How can I get "spamtest" .. is this a script? Is this useful tool available publicly? I've had several requests for this, so I just stuck the code up on my website. http://www.squad51.net/spamtest.html Thanks, Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: tai64n -- why?
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 08:07:38PM -0700, Eric Cox wrote: But I'm getting back into it. When I get it into a usable state I'll post it on my website at www.ericcox.com. Keep checking back... Your mailstats program looks pretty cool. Does it work with multilog logs? With tai64n and all that? Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: tai64n -- why?
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 07:11:52PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: syslog timestamps are amazingly annoying to try to parse. TAI64 is trivial to parse. This is a significant improvement. ISO date/time format would also have been easy to parse, and I would have been slightly happier with that, but TAI64 is definitely a *huge* improvement over syslog if you want to do anything at all automated with the logs. OK. I can see where that is a strong argument for TAI64n. I have tried to develop a way of converting from TAI64n to a human readable format but I'm afraid I'm having difficulty comprehending the format. Has anyone written any perl/python code that translates to a human readable format? Or can offer a brief "pseudo-code" algorithm? Or even a more clear description of the format would be helpful. Dan's writeup left me a bit lost... Gracias, Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: tai64n -- why?
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 11:54:41AM -0700, Eric Cox wrote: Have you looked into using libtai in your app? It's Dan's library for using tai, and could be linked with your application. I currently trying to write a Python wrapper for it so I can use it from my Python scripts... You're my hero! The reason I don't use libtai is that I don't program in C. I program in Python. How much headway have you made? Is it usable? Gracias, Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: duplicating sendmail's virtusertable
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 11:05:47PM -0400, Sam Carleton wrote: I also need to change the from header from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am trying to stealth my user account because it is the only account able to su in as root. I would prefer if folks do not know the user name on the account:) (No, it isn't sam, that is simply my example g) Both of these can be accomplished using fastforward, available from http://www.qmail.org. I have installed fastforward and I am aliasing incoming mail from sam.carleton@domain to sam@domain, but I do not have a clue as to how to use fastforward to change the From: header on out going mail from sam@domain to sam.carleton@domain. Can someone enlighten me? My error. I did not read your request carefully enough. The "From: " header is entirely under the control of your MUA (mutt, pine, mailx, etc). The envelope "from " header is controlled via your MTA (qmail, in this case) and can be controlled either by using the sendmail wrapper with a "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or setting some environment variables before calling qmail-inject. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
Re: Editing error messages
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:28:27AM -0500, Erich Zigler wrote: I was wondering if its possible to edit the error messages in qmail. And what is the simplest way to do it? For example, I want to change "This address is not in my rcpthosts" message to something different. They are hard-coded. Edit the code at your own risk. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290 x101 Bitstream Underground www.bitstream.net
