reformatting the From field in ezmlm ?
How would I make ezmlm write a header so that the From line contains the list address, not the sender's? My subscribers want to reply to the list by hitting the Reply button, not Reply to All. BTW, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is down as well as the archive :-(
stuck messages
I have two messages stuck in the queue. How do I delete them?
stuck messages
I have two messages stuck in the queue but I do not know how to check which ones are they. Can someone point me in the right direction?
Re: deny access from users
> And what about running qmail-smtpd from inetd? :-) And it might Then you add smtp: all to /etc/hosts.allow and be happy :-) or run smtp from tcpserver. > not be too bright to disable ident lookups. Some admins are too > paranoid/smart-assed and simply disable the connection if they > don't get ident reply. We're trying to solve the problem one step at a time, right? :-) Are you sure you want to have those smart-assed admins connecting to your box? 90% of machines on the net at open-relayed in some way or the other and nobody seems to have a major problem with it.
Re: deny access from users
Put the following in /etc/hosts.deny all:all and the following in /etc/hosts.allow all: 127.0.0.1 and do killall -HUP inetd this will disallow any sort of connections to services ran out of inetd to your machine other than from localhost. Since Apache is ran outside of inetd (I hope you do that) it will be accessible. Also, I suppose you run wu-imapd out of inetd, not tcpserver or independently. Denis Voitenko Tel: 856 809-9252 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 9396092 - Original Message - From: "Mark Maggelet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 8:27 AM Subject: deny access from users > Hello there > I'm wondering if somebody can help me configure qmail or UW imap > so that mail can only be accessed from the localhost. I'm running a > web-based email package and I want the script to be able to access > the imap account, but I want to disallow people from using a regular > email client. > > thanks for any tips, > - Mark >
Re: Hotmail
> The right answer is to firewall all incoming and outgoing mail from > Hotmail, until they fix their mail server to comply with RFC 821. Measures like this should be put in the long list of "things-not-to-do-when-you're-a-mail-admin" :-). Instead I'd try to process the message and notify the sender of the problem (automatically).
Re: URGENT !!
I asked this question before and got a good answer. Dig thru the archive. Short answer -- you can but you should not. Denis Voitenko Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 9396092 - Original Message - From: "Shashi Dahal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 10:29 PM Subject: URGENT !! > Dear all ! > > Can I install qmail in any other directory except /var/qmail ? If so, then > do I have to edit all the files ?? What should I do ?? > Another is can I run qmail with control files in any other directory except > /var/qmail/control. > I cannot do anything to my current /var/qmail. and I want to run only > qmail-inject with smtproute in other directory except the default. > Please guide me on what to do ?? > > Any links, references, RTFMS, spams will be highly appretiated. > Thanks in advance ! > > Shashi
maildrop (generic) filter question
Hey, thanks. You helped a lot. Just a minor question I was gonna ask you.
Here's the deal. There is a user 'postman' on the box that fetches mail from
*@domain.com and sorts it by headers (with maildrop) and puts it in
approbriate boxes like so
.mailfilter
if(^/(To|Cc): .*bob){
to "!bob"
}
if(^/(To|Cc): .*jack){
to "!jack"
}
but what heppens is when a message has both bob and jack in the to: field or
say bob in to: and jack in cc: the message gets delivered to bob simply
because bob is the first in the filter. Those messages never get delivered
to jack. How'd I fix that?
Denis Voitenko
Tel: 856 809-9252
Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 9396092
- Original Message -
From: Subba Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Denis Voitenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: maildrop ?
> On 0, Denis Voitenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Have you figured it you? If so could you tell me how to invoke it from
> > .qmail files and some sample filters?
> >
> > Denis Voitenko
>
> Hi there,
>
> maildrop is a big pain to get it to work and worse of all, to get help on
the
> maildrop list. Once it works, it's great.
>
> ===
> Here is my .qmail
> (0)subb3@caesar:~$ cat .qmail
> ./Maildir/
> (0)subb3@caesar:~$
> ===
>
>
> ===
> My /var/qmail/rc looks like this
> (0)subb3@caesar:~$ cat /var/qmail/rc
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # Using splogger to send the log through syslog.
> # Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Mailbox by default.
>
> exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
> qmail-start '| /usr/local/bin/maildrop' splogger qmail
> (0)subb3@caesar:~$
> ===
>
>
> ===
> I use fetchmail to get my mail from the POP server. My .fetchmailrc
> looks like this
> (0)subb3@caesar:~$ cat .fetchmailrc
> set syslog
> poll mypop.ibm.net protocol pop3 username userid password userpass
> mda /usr/local/bin/maildrop
> (0)subb3@caesar:~$
> ===
>
>
> Now finally, the filter file. I use only one filter file which is
.mailfilter.
> I believe you can have a directory .mailfilters and have several filters.
> My needs are very basic right now. Here is a excerpt from my
$HOME/.mailfilter
> file.
>
> ===
> DEFAULT="./Maildir/"
>
> ### All mail with my address in the To, Cc, From and Reply-To field goes
to my
> ### default mailbox (which is $HOME/Maildir
> if ( /^(To|Cc|From|Reply-To): .*subb3@ibm\.net.*/ )
> to $DEFAULT
>
> ### Store messages to Qmail in their own folder
> if ( /^(To|From|Cc|Reply-To|X-Mailing-List): .*qmail@list\.cr\.yp\.to.*/ )
> to Mail/qmail
> ===
>
> I hope this will help you with your maildrop and qmail. Let me know how it
works.
> Once it works, you can start working on more complex filter processing.
> Use the "man maildropfilter". It explains the filtering language but with
very
> few examples.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Subba Rao
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/
Re: bouncing mail
Why not pass the "From:" or "Reply-to:" header along with the massage? I think it'd do the job. If not you could process mail to anonymous with a script and bounce from there. Denis Voitenko Tel: 856 809-9252 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 9396092 - Original Message - From: Brian Moon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: qmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 10:24 AM Subject: bouncing mail > i have a web form where users can email articles to their friends. If they > enter a bad address and it bounces, it comes back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > instead of bouncing to the From in the original email header. Is there any > thing out there that can redirect this back to the From address? We do not > want to simply delete them. > > Thanks, > > Brian. > -- > http://brian.threadnet.com > > example: > > Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mx01-ext.netapp.com. > I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. > This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]@gis.netcramer>: > Sorry, I couldn't find any host named gis.netcramer. (#5.1.2) > > --- Below this line is a copy of the message. > > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: (qmail 16965 invoked from network); 2 Dec 1999 18:20:23 - > Received: from herra.netapp.com (HELO herra.corp.netapp.com) > (198.95.224.184) > by mx01-ext.netapp.com with SMTP; 2 Dec 1999 18:20:23 - > Received: from mx01-ext.netapp.com (mx01-ext.netapp.com [198.95.224.34]) > by herra.corp.netapp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/NTAP-1.0) with SMTP id KAA15410 > for <"[EMAIL PROTECTED]@gis.netcramer"@netapp.com>; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 > 10:19:36 -0800 (PST) > Received: (qmail 29704 invoked from network); 2 Dec 1999 18:20:17 - > Received: from chandra025.circle.net (HELO dealnews.com) (209.95.64.245) > by mx01-ext.netapp.com with SMTP; 2 Dec 1999 18:20:17 - > Received: (qmail 2968 invoked by uid 65534); 2 Dec 1999 18:25:18 - > Date: 2 Dec 1999 18:25:18 - > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: dealmac readers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: dealmac: $20 in Snap Cash > From: Sam Cramer via dealmac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > This deal from dealmac [http://dealmac.com] was sent to you by Sam Cramer. > > Check this out! > > You can read this online at: > http://dealmac.com/article.html?s=buyi28&i=9934&d=1999-12-02 > > -- > > $20 in Snap Cash > > SnapShopping arms you with $20 in Snap Cash good towardsparticipating > merchants. You pay full price, but Snap.com credits$20 back to your credit > card within seven days of your purchase.One use only; no minimum is listed. > Offer requires registrationand the use of the Snap Wallet and Shopping Cart. > barnesandnoble.com,Computers4SURE.com, and others participate with Snap > Cash. > >
Re: Any Decent IMAP server? [single-uid interface]
While digging thru the code...
Here's a situation. Let's say you've got a poopload of virtual domains all
pointing to a single IP address (a cheap solution =8-)) and of course there
is a ton of overlapping names. How would you authenticate those users? Would
you include a domain in the login as you did before? Like denis-o3m.com ?
Maybe I am missing something...
Denis Voitenko
Tel: 856 809-9252
Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 9396092
- Original Message -
From: David Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Thomas Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Denis Voitenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Philip Gabbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; qmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; David
Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 7:47 AM
Subject: RE: Any Decent IMAP server? [single-uid interface]
>
> Baah... I figure that I'll just provide my interface for now to let you
all see
> if this is something that would be useful. I think I've made it general
enough
> to write anything you want in the authentication/authorization function.
>
> begin interface description -
>
> Here is the relevant data from vpop.h:
>
> vpop__data* vpop__userauthen (char* username, char* password, char*
> default_base_username);
>
> typedef struct {
> int valid_form;
> int valid_user;
> char* unix_username;
> char* virtual_username;
> char* black_box_home;
> int authenticated;
> char* log_error;
> } vpop__data;
>
> The function vpop__userauthen is called whenever a user is trying to
> authenticate with the system. It is called _before_ any unix usernames are
> checked. Depending on the values in the returned vpop__data structure, the
> username and password will or will not be checked as a valid UNIX
username.
>
> Here are the details...
>
> vpop__useauthen is called with, of course, the username and the password
of the
> user trying to connect. However "default_base_username" is a little weird.
If
> c-client is trying to login a user and it is not running as root it will
> provide the username of the current user in default_base_username here. If
> c-client is running as root, and can switch to any user then this will e
NULL.
> (You will not get a non-NULL value from imapd but rather from tools like
dmail
> in the imap-utils package. These tools are used for things like local
delivery
> and are already running as the correct UNIX user.)
>
> vpop__userauthen then gets to control what c-client does by the structure
it
> returns... here are what the values mean
>
> * valid_form specifies if the username looks like a virtual username. If
this
> is returned as true, c-client does not try to check the username and
password
> as a UNIX user. If valid_form is false, vpop__userauthen should set it
false
> and just return there.
>
> * valid_user specifies if this username is a valid username. This can
only be
> true if valid_form is true.
>
> * unix_username specifies the UNIX username that we should switch uid/gid
to
> when accessing the mail of the virtual user.
>
> * virtual_username specifies the virtual username of the virtual e-mail
> account. Does not have to be a valid login user or anything. Not currently
used
> for anything. :-)
>
> * black_box_home specifies the directory where the e-mail for this user
will
> be stored. unix_username should have write permission here. The user is
locked
> down into this directory and now allowed to get mail from anywhere else in
the
> system.
>
> * authenticated specifies if the password was correct. Even if the
supplied
> password was incorrect vpop__userauthen is required to set the
unix_username,
> virtual_username, and black_box_home values. This is because sometimes
this
> information is needed without password authentication outside of imapd,
such as
> when dmail is used to deliver to a virtual e-mail user.
>
> * log_error is a string to log as an error. If this is not NULL, it will
be
> written to the standard c-client error reporting device. Inside of imapd
this
> will work its way into syslog.
>
> end interface description -
>
> I figure that someone could just write a vpop__userauthen function to run
a
> little external program, such as interfacing to one of the currently
existing
> virtual user packages. Other hackers could just write their own site
specific
> vpop__userauthen functions like I have done.
>
> Oh, one note. This is really an imapd and ipop3d server together. The
c-client
> library is modified which is used by imapd, ipop3d, and imap-utils. This
way
> you write this once function and it works for all your mail server
programs.
>
> - David Harris
>Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services
>
>
>
Re: Any Decent IMAP server?
> Try: http://www.davideous.com/imap-maildir/ > > The UW-IMAP server has been written to work around the bugs in the imap > clients. And any imap client is going to be tested with it, as it's a very > dominant server. I've not had any annoying client/server problems with it. That is correct. I've am using it for about a month now and am extremely happy with it. The LAN has 80 users on it and it hasn't come even close to crashing. I had some problems patching it but David put a patched version on the site upon my request. Thanks, David.
Re: Speed
> For anyone is handling large mailing lists... How long does the qmail-inject > program take to send emails to about 5000 people in the list? How fast is your machine/network ? This is a silly question, indeed.
maildrop woes :- [ ]
I am struggling with maildrop here. It doesn't seem to like me much :-) Since I did not find _any_ decent manual for it, read through all the darn useless README files, etc. I see no solution but to play with it till it works or doesn't. Anyways I am trying to get it invoked from .qmail of a user called postman of group users. .qmail | preline maildrop does nothing good, neither does | maildrop and may other combinations I have tried. I've attempted to force it to read the .mailfilter file... no results. Can someone tell me how to use this beast? Someone suggested tweaking /var/qmail/rc but what exactly? Just a fine example of an undocumented product. Or human ignorance [which is also considered a bliss]. Denis
Re: Archiving all incoming and outgoing mail... Quite an unusual problem.
> FAQ 8.2 > > Chris You got a point there, pal! Once again I appologize for my ignorance. I must have read the darn FAQ two dozen times before but automatically assumed that this question would not be answered there. Behold the power of FAQ and RTFM.
Archiving all incoming and outgoing mail... Quite an unusual problem.
My client has demanded a very strange thing. He wants to archive all incoming and outgoing mail that goes thru the qmail server (installed and configured by me). He has a small LAN of 20+ people but the mail traffic is pretty heavy since there is a ton of AutoCad 2K documents attached to mail :-) I told him that is was generally not a great idea 'cause the mail server has only 6 gigs of space but he said he'd be willing to burn stale stuff on CD's. So technically I have no choice but to make it work. Now, how in the world do I do this? Should I create some account like archive and rewrite headers (maybe add BCC field) of all mail? The system runs maildir so I think archiving files will not be a major problem... Denis Voitenko Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Prepatched IMAP anyone?
I have consistently failed to patch the IMAP source successfully so that it could work with Maildir. Does anyone have an already patched source that he'd be willing to share with me?
Re: General file location questions.
> Because most of the files under the qmail tree are host-specific. > Obviously, the queue is, but even the binaries are since they have > UID's built in. What does that have to do with the location of files? I run Squid proxy as a user squid that is a member of squid group. And it is located in /usr/local/squid
General file location questions.
I have been using qmail for quite a while and installed it on a number of servers. I never understood why does qmail use /var/qmail as it's deafault directory? What is wrong with /usr/local/qmail ? I know it is fixable and I could do that, but is there a reason for such structure? Denis Voitenko Creative Director [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What happened to ezmlm.org?
I planned on downloading ezmlm-idx but ezmlm.org is down. Does anyone know what happened? Where else can I get it? Denis Voitenko Creative Director [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IMAP/Maildir
Are there any known IMAP servers that would work with Maildir?
simple relaying (I thought)
Well, I think my situation is as simple as it gets yet I have spent over an hour already trying to fix it. Here's the deal. There is a 16 PC LAN with Win boxes and a Linux with Qmail. While local mail works fine, Qmail does not deliver outside the network. I have added 192.168.0. into the /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts and it still did not change anything. What should I do to enable relaying? I thought that's what http://www.palomine.net/qmail/relaying.html says but it seems I got it wrong. Help me out.
ezmlm question
How would I add text to the header of the subject of my list that runs on Ezmlm? Like it's done on PHP3 list. Every post has [PHP] inserted into every subject. Denis Voitenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] 215 386-3923
relaying almost fixed...
This might sound silly, but the line: tcpserver -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u1003 -g102 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail smtpd & takes action only if I run it after the system is booted and I logged in as root. The entry in /etc/rc.d/rc.local does not take effect for some reason. Has anyone encountered this problem before? How do I solve it? Denis Voitenko O3M Cretative Director [EMAIL PROTECTED] 215 386-3923
relaying setup
I am in a process of setting up my linux box to relay mail for clients on a 192.168.0.X LAN. I am trying to follow the directions from http://www.palomine.net/qmail/selectiverelay.html and here is something that gives me trouble. linux:/etc# tcpserver -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u1003 -g103 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qma il-smtpd & [2] 1405 tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used What would that mean exactly? Also, do I have to add the line tcpserver -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u102 -g101 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd & to my start up scripts or it is one-time procedure? Denis Voitenko O3M Cretative Director [EMAIL PROTECTED] 215 386-3923
Re: Maildrop, fetchmail and Maildir
Fetchmail by default delivers the mail to the SMTP port so if you have SMTP running there is no need to run Maildrop, at least I think so. You'd have to add smtpaddress to the .fetchmailrc If you plan on sorting things out by the header you will need procmail but I am not very sure of how to get it working with Maildir directly. Denis Voitenko Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 9396092 - Original Message - From: Subba Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 6:43 PM Subject: Re: Maildrop, fetchmail and Maildir > On 0, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Can someone please tell me what am I missing? > > > > You need to: > > > > A) Examine your logs > > > > B) Read fetchmail documentation. > > > > I don't know anything about fetchmail, and I have no idea how fetchmail > > tells maildrop which local mailbox to dump all mail into. If fetchmail > > executes maildrop without doing anything else, maildrop will simply > > deliver the mail to the mailbox of the userid running maildrop. So, if > > you're running fetchmail as root, maildrop will deliver to root's mailbox. > > > > You need to read the documentation for fetchmail and determine what > > options are available in fetchmail for specifying the local mailbox where > > mail gets delivered. > > > > > > Is there a better way (other than fetchmail) to get mail from my pop server? > The pop server, I use, is at my ISP. Is there an fetchmail type of tool, that > comes along with the Qmail? > > Subba Rao > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/
Re: message body --> script ?
My problem is not sending mail. It is passing the message to the script so
it could process it. For now my script looks like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$input=;
open(OUT, ">>/home/robot/email.txt");
print OUT $input;
close(OUT);
and when .qmail that looks like this:
| /usr/bin/perl /home/robot/script.pl
invokes it, it writes stuff like this:
Received: (qmail 22673 invoked from network); 19 Nov 1999 23:47:12 -
Received: (qmail 22710 invoked from network); 19 Nov 1999 23:49:00 -
Received: (qmail 22694 invoked from network); 19 Nov 1999 23:48:07 -
into email.txt. Nice loggin thingy but not what I want. I want to to write
the message with all the headers, etc. into the file (for now).
As far as I see it is not script's fault. There is something wrong with the
way I pipe stuff to it.
Denis Voitenko
Tel: 856 809-9252
Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 9396092
- Original Message -
From: Magnus Bodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Denis Voitenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: message body --> script ?
> On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 02:48:53PM -0800, Denis Voitenko wrote:
> > I have a silly idea of writing a small robot that would accept message
> > bodies in format like
> >
> > http://www.whateverurlyouwhish.com
> > http://... [as many urls as you wish]
> >
> > and reply to it with the content of the web page. I have attempted to do
so
> > by creating an alias like .qmail-robot with content
> >
> > | /home/robot/script.pl
> >
> > but something is not working out. Should I pass messages some other way?
>
> If the script just prints the webpages to stdout then you're doing it
wrong.
> You must send the content to a pipe
>
> like this ($newbody contains your fetched pages):
>
> open MAIL,"| /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject $ENV{SENDER}";
> print MAIL "From: url auto responder \n";
> print MAIL "\n";
> print MAIL "$newbody";
> close MAIL;
>
> /magnus
>
>
>
>
message body --> script ?
I have a silly idea of writing a small robot that would accept message bodies in format like http://www.whateverurlyouwhish.com http://... [as many urls as you wish] and reply to it with the content of the web page. I have attempted to do so by creating an alias like .qmail-robot with content | /home/robot/script.pl but something is not working out. Should I pass messages some other way? Denis
Re: Virtual hosting
> 2) It should use only one account, if possible Single UID is your best friend here :-) > 3) It should be (my)SQL based, so I dont need to add extra system accounts. Seems that you have solved that. > 4) Support for quota. This is 5 mins of work. > 5) If it has a nice WWW GUI to manage the users I wouldnt mind. PHP3 will aid you in the days of darkness. It's not Mother Marry but close.
Re: Slightly OT: Remotely Storing User Mail
Or you could simply install LDAP :-) > I think Netscape > Communicator has a feature where your addressbook, bookmarks, et. al. can > be stored on a remote web server. There's even an Apache module for that, > floating somewhere out there. > > -- > Sam >
