Re: Mail cleansing program
I wonder if there is a mail cleansing program out there that is configurable and mime-compliant. ezmlm-reject does some checks and ezmlm-send is able to remove some parts. Maybe this could be put together by somebody (not me :) regards, Frank
Re: Telnet to smtp takes long respond time
What should be a normal respond time? What is definitely too long? Could it be the cause of the problems (the sometimes delayed arrival of messages)? Henning Brauer wrote some days ago: this is not a FAQ, it is THE FAQ. Assuming that you run qmail-smtpd under tcpserver have a look at it's man page and look for the switches -l, -H and -R. Regards, Frank
Re: I am back to square ONE...
"Kirti S. Bajwa" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In my opinion (1) (2) have other mental problems and they TAKE OUT on people in the mailing list. Stop wasting the time of people with useless information, unrelated questions and mixing mailing lists. I watched your postings for some days now and I must say there hasn't been a person like you her for a longer time. Setting up Qmail and djbdns is not try and error - you need a basic understanding of what you are doing. I cannot see much of it from your postings. This list and the dns list are not for teaching Unix, teaching how the Internet works and so on. They are not a forum for absolute beginners and people who don't bother to read documentation. Please think about it and stop whining. Frank
Re: tcpserver help
Todd Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: gives the following error messsage: tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used Comment out the line beginning with "smtp" in your /etc/inetd.conf file and send the inetd process a HUP signal (kill -HUP pid of inetd). Inetd is still waiting for connections to this port. Regards, Frank
Re: Re[2]: From sendmail to qmail
Boris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 192.168.0 RELAY 127.0.0.1 RELAY From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 Spam denied From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 SPAM F*CK YOU SH*T SPAMMER From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 SPAMMER BUY YOURSELF From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 LOAN YOURSELF, SPAMMER From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 F*** YOU SPAMMER oo.net 550 SPMMMEE It looks like as if this file is similar as the rpcthosts (?) file on qmail, but its not the same. I relay incoming mails from my 192.168.0 class c network as well as localhost mails. This looks like a mixture of tcpserver's access rules and the badmailfrom control file of qmail. Is there a qmail thingy to do the same? Yes - but more separated and cleaner. Relaying has nothing to do with spamming in the first place. Relay control and rejection of specified senders are different tasks and are provided by different programs in qmail. The relaying you control with the rules file of tcpserver, the bad senders are rejected by /var/qmail/control/badmailfrom. Sometimes I think the qmail-people think that sendmail is an enemy to qmail, but I cant understand this. It's the difference in strategic design principles and of course coding practice that binds people to qmail and not sendmail. I don't trust sendmail but qmail. This is based on about ten years watching sendmails security problems. Regards, Frank
Re: How does the splogger work?
Am 3 Apr 2001, um 11:14 hat Martin Edlman geschrieben: it reads stdin and passes it to the syslog. Who redirects the output from the daemon (e.g. pop3, smtp, ...) to the appropriate splogger? You have to do it yourself. Qmail itself creates a pipe to it's logging program. The simplest way to get all this going is to use the daemontools package and to start all the services from there. If you are interested, I can send you my run scripts for the daemontools setup. The daemontools package contains also the multilog program that does more reliable logging than splogger (because it avoids syslog). Regards, Frank
Re: How does the splogger work?
Am 3 Apr 2001, um 11:14 hat Martin Edlman geschrieben: I want to know it as I use Courier-IMAP and I want to use it with tcpserver (instead of its own couriertcp), and I want to have some log from IMAP server. Sorry, I missed the real question: I don't know how Courier-Imap works, but if it logs something to STDERR or STDOUT you may catch it then the same way like with the Qmail daemons. Daemontools are recommended then too :) Regards, Frank
Re: A real bouncesaying
- It says 'this is the qmail-send program'. It is not. 'qmail-send' is not a fixed string in the QSBMF, so why not change it? True - when I first wrote it I took the text from Qmails bounces. Feel free to change it :) Regards, Frank
Re: ISP
I'm looking for information about BSMTP (hosting mail domain and deliver mail to dialup server). Where can I find information (example/configuration) ? serialmail by Bernstein might do the trick... For compressed batches over UUCP the BSMTP package by Olaf Titz would be better. It's on www.qmail.org. Regards, Frank
Re: newbie: relaying
is important put only (in my case egarden.cz domain) allow domain to the /etc/qmail/rcpthosta. So I putted the only egarden.cz domain to the rcpthosta, then restart qmail but open relay is still functional. This file is called rcpthosts, not rcpthosta. Normally it resides under /var/qmail/control. Unless you know exactly what you do, you should not change qmails paths. Regards, Frank
Re: FW: DNS question
firewall) is 192.168.0.33. Clearly, trying to reverse-DNS the latter will lead to trouble, whereas the former is OK. You are using NAT - if you only want to send email from your internal network to the world and get your mails by "polling" it somehow you get no problem (except that your netblock may be blocked by some mail servers). If you want to provide services like smtp to the world you have two choices: a) establish that service on your NAT box (I assume it's impossible on that $155 box) b) your box must be able to redirect defined ports to hosts at your internal network. Most NAT devices can do that, some cannot. Regarding DNS: If you provide services to the world always the address of your firewall box is visible to the world. Your internal addresses don't matter. Regards, Frank
Re: qmail - Ezmlm
dear, i aready have qmail and ezmlm for maillist, i make [EMAIL PROTECTED] as maillist , why if i send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] , qmail not found this mailbox , it's work only i do with manually with ezmlm-sub what wrong with my qmail setting or ezmlm-idx ? 1.) What was your command to set up the list? 2.) Is domain.com local for your machine? Regards, Frank
Re: Tcpserver
rpm's) So, What would be the right number to increase this to, for a qmail server which would handle around 30,000 mails per day. Watch your logs and your memory use to see what number is appropriate for your system. If your tcpserver/smtpds use too much memory the number is too high. Set the number lower then. Beware that this would defer many connection attempts - if you are always at the limit of parallel connections and hyve no more memory to spend invest in your hardware. For 3 mails a day -c 10 should be enough. Give it more if your machine is able to do it (it should :) - this handles peaks well then. Regards, Frank
Re: newbie: migrating from sendmail to qmail
Problem is, that i am using sendmail on my server where is more then = 1500 active users For the sending side simply use the instructions of the INSTALL* documents in the Qmail tarball. Because the instructions are rather old now you should be aware that there are some better setup options: - Use tcpserver (part of ucspi-tcp) instead of inetd - use daemontools to control all qmail services (daemontools package) - use multilog instead of splogger (part of daemontools package) Additional: - control your resources - you may use softlimit for this (part of daemontools) and I would like easy migrate to qmail .. without any problem. So I am = looking=20 for best introduction (documentation) how to migrate from sendmail to = qmail. You should provide some information about your setup. Is this one domain or are there many? Is your server used for POP access or do the users use a MUA on the server etc. Study the Qmail FAQ and see www.qmail.org or www.lifewithqmail.org for more information. Regards, Frank
Re: New qmail version request
If something has been discussed before on the list why can't we discuss it again? Because it wastes peoples time. Look at the archives if you are interested. Frank
Re: footer in email
serialsmtp: fatal: SMTP cannot transfer messages with partial final lines Partial final lines are ones which are not ended with a line separator. Try to include a final empty line in your footer. regards, Frank
Re: uucp server and qmail
how can i configure a qmail to work with a uucp server? Look at www.qmail.org. There is a bsmtp/rmail implementation made by Olaf Titz. Regards, Frank
Re: sms-gateway
"number" used as a parameter for this script. how should i set up my .qmail-file ? i have no idea with this one?? thanks for help Read the man page for qmail-command (type "man qmail-command" - just to be sure ...). Regards, Frank
Re: sms-gateway
ops.. ok i've found now the thing with the "LOCAL"-paramter. If you want to build a "one for all" script this is not sufficient. You need to catch the addresses with a .qmail-something-default file and then you must use the DEFAULT environment variable. still a problem, i don't need only the data from LOCAL .. i need to add an @ to the end of the paramter. how can i do this? How about | my-sms-gateway-script "$DEFAULT@" in the .qmail-something-default file? Regards, Frank
Re: Redirect e-mails to 'root'
I created a /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root containing ' john ' but qmail still attempts to deliver messages to root. Put john into the file (without the spaces). Frank
Re: Redirect e-mails to 'root'
- Our server handles mail for office.domain.com (this value is in 'me') - This works OK, but messages to root (cron et al) get delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which isn't under our control (domain.com is our webserver) so I don't get to see them. This is why I want to forward them. Hm. This doesn't fit. Please pove the output of qmail-showctl. Regards, Frank
Re: Redirect e-mails to 'root'
Please pove the output of qmail-showctl. Oh I'm a silly-billy. I guess I need some sleep :) I meant "give" or "post". Frank
Re: Question: How allowing only certain senders to send mail to
on my last posting, nobody has a answer for me. I told you an applicable and working solution. Don't say that you got no answer from this list. Maybe nobody will have the wish to help you in the future then. Frank
Re: Virtual Domain Quota
But, How to make user quota in virtual domain, because I try to use vsetuserquota in Vpopmail and cannot blok the user space. Please ask such questions at the vpopmail mailinglist. Regards, Frank
Re: rcphosts?
what if i want to relay to all but only from my host ie none other than my domain users can actually relay through me What do you mean by "domain users"? Computers at your LAN? This situation is covered in the FAQ. Have a look at http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/servers.html#authorized-relay Regards, Frank
QMTP/MXPS on cr.yp.to?
Because of having been offline for six weeks in December/January I totally missed the QMTP/MXPS discussions. After some reading in the archive I installed Johan Almqvists patch to enable QMTP through MXPS (I had running qmtpd for a long while). I just checked the logs and found that not a single message arrived through QMTP. Then I looked at a.mx.list.cr.yp.to if there is a qmtp port. It seems that Dan doesn't run QMTP - even for receiving. I think Dan's lists would be a good real life test for QMTP/MXPS - so does anybody know why Dan isn't running QMTP? Regards, Frank
Re: redirecting Mail ??
Is it possible to redirect postmaster@ email to /dev/null ?? is it wise ?? Yes, no.
Re: redirecting Mail ??
ok - Yes - how Put a the following line into /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster: # Nothing else, only the hash sign. and NO - why not ?? Because every domain that receives mail hast to have a "postmaster" account/alias where someone may be contacted. To cite RFC822: This standard specifies a single, reserved mailbox address (local-part) which is to be valid at each site. Mail sent to that address is to be routed to a person responsible for the site's mail system or to a person with responsibility for general site operation. The name of the reserved local-part address is: Postmaster so that "Postmaster@domain" is required to be valid. Note: This reserved local-part must be matched without sensi- tivity to alphabetic case, so that "POSTMASTER", "postmas- ter", and even "poStmASteR" is to be accepted. Regards, Frank
Re: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)
My local user like root can't reseive mail I have this errors Root never receives mail on qmail systems. You have to define an alias for root that delivers to an unpriviledged account. The error means either that no maildir exists at the users home directory or that it's permissions prevent qmail-local to chdir into it. See "man maildirmake" for creation of maildirs. You might want to make a maildir in your new user template (/etc/skel on many systems). Regards, Frank
Re: Carbon Copy question
This behaviour is intentional. A user need to send a domn XLS file to 10 other people in the other factory unit, One solution is to create an expansion alias at the other end of the line and address to that alias. Another one is to use serialmail with some sort of duplicates recognition (Russell Nelson has a script that does that for one user). The simplest solution in your case may be to use Postfix instead. Qmail is not perfect in every infrastructure. Regards, Frank
Re: QMTP
Where can I get help about qmail with qmtp? Describe your problem, then someone may be able to help you. If you want to run qmail-qmtpd - that's not different from qmail-smtpd. If you want to use one of the qmtp-patches to qmail-remote you have to get them first. Look at www.qmail.org for Russell's patch or at http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/qmail-qmtpc.html for Johan ALmqvist's patch. Regards, Frank
Re: I need to block IP Address
I need urgently to block IP Address in qmail, anybody knows what is the manner of make it ? "man tcpserver" if you are running qmail-smtpd under tcpserver. -x is the switch that helps you. Your operating system may also be able to block packets from defined IP addresses. Regards, Frank
Re: QMTP
But.. I don't understand how qmail work with control/mailroutes.. I can't get help for this implementation.. This is documented in the updated man page for qmail-remote. but I am under a firewall. I received a mail from this server. My server 1 send a mails to qmtp service. But, when I sent a mail from Server 1 to Server 2, the mail was sent to SMTP service .. I don't know what I do because I don't know exactly work the qmail qmtp service .. or mailroutes ..:((( If port 209 is firewalled at your site you will never send/receive with qmtp. qmail-remote always falls back to smtp in this case. Regards, Frank
Re: QMTP
Yeah.. the port 209 is firewalled .. but.. the server1 and server2 are locals machines .. How do you route between them? If you used smtproutes before you have to use mailroutes now. server1.example.com:[192.168.1.1]:209:qmtp and server2.example.com:[192.168.1.2]:209:qmtp at the other machine. If you use DNS set the correct MX preferences (12801). Did you restart qmail after applying the patch? Just to be sure ... Regards, Frank
Re: QMTP
U.. I'd like the Qmail send to QMTP if the remote host have this service .. but if the remote host don't have running de QMTP service .. my sever send to SMTP service .. :) Is this way the qmail work? No, this is only the fallback of the qmtp-patch. The actual patch implementation checks if QMTP is (better: could be) available at the destination. This is done through mailroutes or through MX preferences (see Dan's MXPS documentation at http://cr.yp.to/proto/mxps.txt). If that fails (f.e. because of firewalled port) the above mentioned fallback is activated. Regards, Frank
Re: I can't find qmail's log file.
drwx--S---2 root root 1024 Feb 15 14:37 qmail chown qmaill /var/log/qmail chmod 700 /var/log/qmail This should do it.
Re: Missing sendmail's aliases in fastforward?
@domain1.name [EMAIL PROTECTED] means that mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You may catch this with a script or if this delivers locally you don't need to do anything at all. Regards, Frank
Re: Missing sendmail's aliases in fastforward?
If somebody has already such a script and want to send it to me, please do so. For example if you want to catch all lightwerk.de accounts you can do the following: 1. Put into virtualdomains (be sure to remove lightwerk.de from locals): lightwerk.de:lightwerk.de 2. Create ~alias/.qmail-lightwerk.de-default with the content: # # change from lightwerk.de to lightwerk.com # | qmail-inject -f "$SENDER" "$[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Regards, Frank
Re: Missing sendmail's aliases in fastforward?
Never do that. It can create irritating loops. Oops, that's right. | forward "$[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Agrre - much better :) Regards, Frank
Re: Getting the most out of Qmail?
Then tell us exactly what hardware you have, what kind of I/O subsystem and disk /var/qmail/queue is on, what disk you're logging to, how you're logging (splogger, multilog, etc). I suspect that information about the type of internet access is required too. Maybe the line is saturated. How is DNS access done? Maybe the DNS Cache doesn't work well. Regards, Frank
Re: How do you start smtp with svscan please
What I need to know is how to enable smtp with svscan so that it is enabled after every reboot please Install the daemontools package (http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html) and read the FAQ entry "How do I run qmail-smtpd under tcpserver?" Regards, Frank
Re: No transport provider was available for delivery to this rec
Sounds more like an internal Outlook-problem. thought maybe qmail-smtpd was not running when I sent them mailnot sure Possibly your concurrency setting for tcpserver (SMTP) is too low. Check the logs and correct the -c switch of tcpserver. Regards, Frank
Re: No transport provider was available for delivery to this rec
How do I look to see what the tcpservers max connection limit If the -c switch is not used it's tcpservers standard setting of 40. See http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcpserver.html Frank
Re: qmail+virtualdomain
thing for the user called "newuser" How can i solve this problem and split different users with different virtualdomain?? Is virtualdomain still in "locals"?
Re: qmail+virtualdomain
Well, if i try to delete the virtualdomain from "locals" file,leaving it only in the "virtualdomains" file, i obtain: newuser@virtualdomain: Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) Of course you have to provide a .qmail file that catches your address. In the case of this address it would be ~newuser/.qmail-newuser or ~newuser/.qmail-default. Try to understand how the extension mechanism in qmail works - after that you will understand how virtual domains may be implemented. Two packages that handle virtual domains for you are mentioned on www.qmail.org. Regards, Frank
Re: Cc: in qmail
Anyone done this? Daily. Can qmail handle this? Easily :) If so, how-to would be greatly appreciated! Read the dot-qmail man page. Short recipe: Put this into ~user1/.qmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./Maildir/ This will send a copy to the given address and save the message in user1's Maildir. You can make this more intelligent so that centralspy never generates any bounces but this does the job. Regards, Frank
Re: Handling To: entries (defaulthost?)
we have lately gotten tons of mails from external senders with weird To: so i now want to *stop* qmail from automatically expanding "To: whatever" into "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" This has nothing to do with the To: header. Somehow you get the mail through SMTP (external senders?) - Then only the envelope receiver is used. About qmail-smtpd: Envelope recipient addresses without @ signs are always allowed through. To avoid this you would have to patch qmail-smtpd. I doubt that the sender is really external - you wouldn't get the mail through SMTP because of missing MX records. I think there is a wild running script or a buggy SMTP client inside your network. Regards, Frank
Re: return receipts
But sorry i can't help you... I need return receipt too Why didn't you try the way I described? If it is too complicated, pay someone to do it. Regards, Frank
Re: No local deliveries
Now for me: "What do the logs say? (tm)"
Re: No local deliveries
tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used This came from /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd That means that a second process is listening on port 25. Either you have still another MTA (sendmail, exim, smail, ...) running or you bound inetd to this port. To disable inetd comment out the line that begins with "smtp" in /etc/inetd.conf. After that look for the process id of inetd and issue the command: kill -HUP pid_of_inetd If this doesn't help it's the first thing (still running MTA). Please test local delivery with qmail-inject, like the installation doc says. This eliminates other problems with SMTP. Regards Frank
Re: UUCP Setup
How do we setup Qmail to deliver mail fetched over UUCP to the local pop mailboxes.? Use the rmail program included in the BSMTP package on www.qmail.org 2. How does the server Q1 send outgoing email to the central server Q2? We have considered using SMTP, but since the dial up connection is available only for less than an hour daily, it will not be possible for Qmail to pump out all queued emails during that period. Can UUCP solve this problem? Yes. Deliver to a maildir and use maildir2bsmtp from the above mentioned package. Regards, Frank
Re: maildir2mbox doesn't work
MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/ MAIL=$HOME/mbox MAILTMP=$HOME/.mailtemp maildir2mbox Error. MAILTMP not set (or something like that) Did you ever hear about the difference between environment variables and shell variables? You need to do export MAILDIR export MAIL export MAILTMP Regards; Frank
Re: Local delivery
I created a virtual domain for "dex.co.za" on the qmail box. Don't do that. dex.co.za has to go only into /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts. Is it possible that I can forward the email received for "dex.co.za" locally over the LAN?? Yes, you may use the MX from DNS or better (for DNS outages) put an entry into /var/qmail/control/smtproutes: dex.co.za:[ip-addr-of-exchange-server] Regards, Frank
RE: What to do about these barelinefeeds?
but it seems that you'd never want the 451 in this case because obviously it will be the same mailer that will retry each time and it will continue to be broken for each try... If you don't like this behaviour block him at the firewall or via tcpserver. At least for a while. If you want to see what is going on at the smtp level you could patch qmail-smtpd to do some logging. There are some patches at www.qmail.org. If you are interested, I have one that combines logging with the badrcptto patch. Regards, Frank
Re: how to modified the send datetime?
when I send message at 11:00 , but when I receive the letter, it tell me the time is 2:00. What does the header contain? May be your MUA plays tricks with the date header to display local time. I trace the source program, the time which the qmail-inject get is not right also. How to modify it? qmail-inject inserts a date header only if there is none. If you don't like qmail-inject's behaviour to use UTC, you have to supply a date header when injecting mail. Regards, Frank
Re: Sending mail to WWW
Hi Daniel, first: the Internet is not the WWW although many people see them as the same. They are not. I have installed qmail and everything seems OK except for sending mail out to the WWW. If I remove/rename the rcpthosts file I can then send mail out to any domain, but I presume this is not the correct way to solve this. Do you use ucspi-tcp (tcpserver)? If not, you should do so and set the RELAYCLIENT environment variable for your internal network. This is explained in Dans FAQ, see http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/servers.html#tcpserver-smtpd and http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/servers.html#authorized-relay Regards, Frank
Re: SSL POP3
Or is there any way to use an SSL wrapper and still know which IP can realy? I think it's possible with tcpserver/stunnel. But I never tried it. Regards, Frank
RE: tcpserver
After some testing, it appears that adding the ':deny' string it will deny EVERYTHING comming into port 25 even othe MTA's. I removed :deny and it now allows ALL IP's to relay from my server. Any other Try :allow Frank
Re: Changing a from address. Please help...
program. How do I do this if these servers are just acting as relays and therefore never using any sort of local mail injection?? Have a look at the qmail FAQ 5.5 or look at http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/servers.html#network-rewriting In any case it would be better to fix the problem at the source - why can't you generate correct addresses in the first place? Visit our new website www.acnielsen.co.nz for free ACNielsen market insights. CAUTION - This message may contain privileged and confidential information ... PLEASE turn off this bullshit when sending to mailinglists. And try to avoid overlong lines. Regards, Frank
Re: is this possible with qmail
is there any way by which i can safely copy the "var/qmail/queue " ( queued/deffered Mails) from one mechine running qmail-1.03 , on to other mechine's queue /var/qmail/queue Let the second machine accept relaying for mails from the first. Set :[ip-addr of second machine] in /var/qmail/control/smtproutes on the first machine. Then restart qmail and eventually run qmail-tcpok. This assumes that qmail-send/qmail-remote still are workable and makes the whole thing kind of pointless. Transferring the files directly may(!) be possible when using the queue-fix script from www.qmail.org. I never tried it. Regards, Frank.
Re: sending mails to all the users
is there any way by which i can send mails to all these 20 users in one stroke Look for the qmail-popbull program at www.qmail.org. Regards, Frank
Re: ipaddress in ~control/badmailsfrom
is it possble to specify ip's with/without wilcards rather than FQDNs and domain names in ~control/badmailfrom files , Not with plain qmail. Blocking IP addresses can be done with tcpserver from the ucspi-tcp package. seperate it by "," or by space or new entry goes on new lines, Every entry in badmailfrom has to go to a separate line. Regards, Frank
Re: POP3 QUOTA
Limiting their pop3 maximun storing account, i think all was good. Any ideas? You could use the quota mechanism (if there is any) of your operating system. This has the disadvantage of rejecting mails when the limit is reached. I prefer to run a cleaning job that deletes mail older than a policy defined maximum if a policy defined maximum of space is allocated. This way the user is allowed to exceed the limit for a defined amount of time and mails are normally not bounced. The user should get a summary about deleted mails - these summaries should never be deleted. Regards, Frank
Re: Please help (Resend !)
I would like to know is there any other documnetation about how to use qmail with MySQL. Hi Mark, it will not give you more audience if you always post your question multiple times. If nobody answers that means that nobody has an answer or that nobody cares. I know there is a HOWTO from qmail site, but that document is not detailed enough to get me pass through Maybe that's the key point - such a setup is a complex thing and may be screwed up easily. If you don't have enough background to puzzle it together yourself fast (with that HOWTO) you probably should invest learning time to get it all done. If you do that it would be fine to improve the HOWTO with your experience. If you don't have enough time to experiment and develop the solution, you should eventually look for a consultant who does (and documents!) it for you. www.qmail.org should give enough pointers for that. Even if you would get some recpies from the list now and get it working without really understanding it, you would have a hard time when something starts to fail later. Regards, Frank
Re: ISP mail server.
Does ISP mail server need to install mail virus scanner ?? You have to weight the arguments: yes: centralized scanning allows easy update of virus signatures and instant reaction to new problems no: - centralized scanning uses server resources that are expensive/rare and that are massive available at the workstations - it makes DoS more likely to succeed (think of zip-bombs) - it creates delays in mail transfer that may be massive (I know of companies that had delays of up to 4 days) I personally would not apply centralized scanning. A compromise would be looking for several conditions in messages that could be done fast without unpacking and scanning attachments. Regards, Frank
Re: mqueueu
please help me on how can i transfer from /var/spool/mqueue file from sendmail to qmail. There is a complete description in REMOVE.sendmail I think. Regards, Frank
Re: MAILING LIST
I'm searching a very good mailing-list manager for qmail. Look at the qmail website under "related packages". There is ezmlm mentioned. Regards, Frank
Re: Oversize DNS packet patch
I would like to know how to apply the Oversize DNS packet patch to Qmail. Use the following command inside the qmail source directory: patch qmail-103.patch This assumes that the patch file was saved in the qmail source directory. For a complete description of the patch command use `man patch´. Regards, Frank
Re: qmail/perl and attachments
Can someone point me in a direction to help him out? None of us are SMTP gurus. Has anyone done this before and could possibly give me a few ideas to pass along? There are modules that can assemble a complete MIME message (I just cannot look for them). For sending you may use ANY SMTP server if you use Net::SMTP. I find it rather annoying that most of the modules assume that the envelope recipients are to be extracted from the various headers. That's why I almost always use Net::SMTP. Regards, Frank
RE: Mypoints.com is not nice to us qmail admins (was: C API for
hadn't got around to complaining to them yet. it appears that they don't care anyway. pitty i may just have to block them too. The world is full of such sites. For the case of "gone users still receiving mail" the badrcptto-patch is very useful. Regards, Frank
Re: Good review of qmail on securityfocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/focus/linux/articles/qmail.html Replacing your MTA with qmail Hm. It's neither a review nor is the title correct. It's only an excerpt from BLURB and INSTALL as far as I can see. It's good to have qmail mentioned on securityfocus but this article could provide much more than it actually does. Regards, Frank
Re: rcpthosts
I have listed some domains in rcpthosts. But it is stupid add in rcpthosts ALL domains in world... (.com, .edu, .org, .net, .sk, ) What I must type in rcpthosts (some widcards)? No. You should use tcpserver and set the RELAYCLIENT environment variable. This is explained in the FAQ (see http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/servers.html#authorized-relay ) If your client adresses are dynamically assigned you may use Russell Nelsons open-smtp patch for that. You can find it at http://www.qmail.org/open-smtp4.tar.gz Eventually look also at http://www.palomine.net/qmail/relaying.html Regards, Frank
Re: REPOST: mail works, kmail/NS messenger doesn't on private WA
- I can use "mail" to send mail from nsw to bcb no problem (therefore rcpthosts and smtproutes should be OK) but Kmail and Netscape Messenger fail If you include both destinations in rcpthosts it should work. Please provide rcpthosts, locals and smtproutes for both systems. Regards, Frank
Re: REPOST: mail works, kmail/NS messenger doesn't on private W
- Mail sent from the local workstation addressed to the me on the remote server ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) gives the message: Hm. Your setup should work. The only problems I can think of now are: - Your qmail-smtpd does not pick the "right" rcpthosts. You may check if you can send mail through SMTP to the local server (nsw). If that fails, something with your qmail-smtpd is wrong. - Your rcpthosts file contains strange (invisible?) characters. Try to add a line which contains .chu.com.au only (like Vince suggested). This must work then. Regards, Frank.
Re: linuxpeople thread
Yeah, right: "Nameless idiot helps ML reader to death after being flamed by a Bastard." Film at 11. Anyone feel like buying popcorn shares? I suggest that everyone who feels that linuxpeople is stupid should ignore him NOW. Everyone who thinks there is any hope he will get his system up should support him by private mail NOW. Hopefully it will kill this idiotic thread fast. Regards, Frank
Re: qmail t-online.de - NAME_lookup_failed_temporarily. bounda
so, can somebody image what to do next ? note: the qmail-box is located behind a firewall (ipchains on linux). maybe this causes the problem ? I use smtproutes to one of their MX. This breaks immediately if they shut that one MX down, but I will notice that quickly. Regards, Frank
Re: maildirmake command is not found
I am using Maildir format, now I want to create the Maildir box under the user's directory by using "Maildirmake Maildir". But I got the error messages stating that bash: maildirmake: command ... Include /var/qmail/bin in your PATH environment variable. And please don't use over-long lines for email conversation. Regards, Frank
Re: Qmail DNS
running qmail on needs also to be running DNS. Is it okay for this to be a name-caching only server with forwards to my ISP's DNS server? Install dnscache on localhost. You can get it at http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html Regards, Frank
Re: converting tai64n to something readable
Ben Beuchler wrote: of using libtai. So I guess I would need a way of converting a specific time to it's tai64n equivalent. Thoughts? Suggestions? Look at http://www.lightwerk.com/djbdns/isotai64.c It generates only external TAI64, but a modification for external TAI64N could be made with a Perl filter. Simply add the nanoseconds. Regards, Frank
Re: MailDir
I found this in the qmail-FAQ, Question 5.3: how do i set up qmail-pop3d. So there is a problem with my startup script ? Definitely. You will not be able to get mails by POP3 for virtual domains. created and i can log on the virtual pop account using sqwebmail. That would surprise me. Are you sure? I think that there is problem with qmail giving the mail to vpopmail. Is it possible that my mistake in the startup script is responsible? If, what would be the correct startup command ? The startup command for qmail is the same with and without using vpopmail (Maildir delivery assumed). What has to be different is the start of qmail-popup/qmail-pop3d because the checkpassword is replaced. I think your problem is either in virtualdomains or users/assign or simply a missing restart of qmail. Please post that files for further assistance. Still this would better go to the vpopmail list. Regards, Frank
Re: Want to know your potential multiple recipient savings?
In his measurements that indicated that qmail used less bandwidth in real-life situations than sendmail, Dan counted the DNS traffic due to sendmail. And I have never seen numbers, only Dan's claims. It's hard to argue using them without being backed up by numbers. Regards, Frank
RE: orbs.org accuses qmail of mailbomb relaying!
Why do you use SMTP between them? Use qmtp or qmqp or whatever the beast is called, and have the last qmail in the chain do the expansion (or generate the only bounce). Does QMTP avoid expansion? At this time it would also require serialmail or is there a patched qmail-remote with qmtp support? QMQP is not possible - all servers must be able to queue. Regards, Frank
Re: orbs.org accuses qmail of mailbomb relaying!
qmail doesn't do this by default, and manages to use resources much more efficiently than sendmail, which does this. Why should qmail change? It does break one of the basic rules on the Internet that many people fell ist still important. It produces bad reputation (based only on this one fact, ignoring all the other good things about qmail) for qmail and sometimes it's author. This is often extended to administrators using qmail. Not that I do care about this - but it also hinders qmails spreading and that's a thing we could care about. Regards, Frank
Re: orbs.org accuses qmail of mailbomb relaying!
95% of the people on the internet care about speed, not bandwidth consumption or resource usage. Of course. That's why and for security I do use qmail. people have you observed saying "I am pulling down all the nifty graphics from my website - it consumes too much resources."? The receiver (user) is able to do it. A properly managed mail receiving system may do it too - this is the point most people overlook. There add false statements about qmail's "hammering" receiving systems. I think, you know the most used arguments against qmail. It only would be nice to eliminate the worst of them. Regards, Frank
Re: orbs.org accuses qmail of mailbomb relaying!
The problem with re-using the same SMTP session for multiple messages, etc, is the high-latency inherent in the protocol. DJB found an easy way around that. That's not, what we are talking about. It's about creating multiple messages when it is really ONE with many receivers going to ONE destination. It may be that it is not a common case, but there are sites (mine is among them :) where this IS a very common case. If that multiplies with large sized messages (also common here - please forget hints about educating users to use other protocols ...) qmail's delivery strategy is problematic. Regards, Frank
numbers
Does anyone have a pointer to a comparison of qmail/sendmail/postfix/... that is done at a real world server over a longer period of time? It should include bandwith use (including DNS) and performance data. The only thing I remember were some graphs about mailer timings (DNS lookup, start of delivery and so on). That doesn't give the real world picture everyone is talking about. Regards, Frank
Re: aol mail bouncing
they utilize reply it is recieved at my mail server with no problem but if they type a new mail and utilize the exact same address it bounces. lol You should supply some more information: - the receiver address - content of your /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts file - content of your /var/qmail/control/locals or virtualdomains file - possibly users/assign - relevant log file entries Regards, Frank
Re: Strange problem
First give the two servers different locals. On our mail server we have a virtual domain under a user. If you use a virtual domain anyway you can put the 4 user addresses into virtualdomains too. I didn't test if this takes precedence over the domain, but you may try it. Else there is still the qmail-users mechanism. Regards, Frank
Re: smtp relay setup (faq 5.4)
Following FAQ 5.4 steps for relay rules, I was was unsuccessful, but tcpd is not where the faq says it will be, so could that be the problem? Forget tcpd and use ucspi-tcp (tcpserver) instead. It's in the FAQ how to do it. Regards, Frank
Re: Problems with tcpserver
fine, but in some cases, it allows relaying (with setting RELAYCLIENT="" !!!) for ip-adresses which should be blocked. Which addresses? Frank
Re: How to get QMQP to work
How can I get qmail to use QMTP between two boxes that there is a lot of traffic between? I tried putting the respective IP adresses in /var/qmail/control/qmqpservers, but that didn't do it. qmqpservers is for QMQP, not for QMTP. At the moment QMTP is supported by qmail-qmtpd and a program in the serialmail package. Regards, Frank
Re: time until people get failure notice
person who has sent a "This mail is being queued" message if there is a problem. The "queuelifetime" is how long it will sit on a letter, before There is a program called qmail_bounce that works perfectly for this purpose. Look at www.qmail.org for "Brian T. Wightman has written a delayed-mail notifier." Regards, Frank
Re: alias with -
This aliases are all the type: .qmail-prova-prova, .qmail-emanuele-bianchi and so on. In my /etc/passwd file there are the account "prova" and "emanuele". These accounts always take precedence over aliases. Use ~prova/.qmail-prova and ~emanuele/.qmail-bianchi instead of your current aliases. Regards, Frank
Re: suse and qmail
Does suse ship with qmail? No. They told me that they never will. And they even refuse to reserve UIDs for qmail. Regards, Frank
Re: AUTORESPONDER
Any good autoresponder anyone can suggest There is a rate limited autoresponder made by Eric Huss. It's at http://www.netmeridian.com/e-huss/autorespond.tar.gz Please be careful: this autoresponder was written to be used for automated accounts where no processing aufter the autoresponder is needed. If you use it the way that you want to save the message after responding to it, you have to change most of the return values of autorespond. If you don't know how, I can send you the changed file. Regards, Frank
Re: Routing users - is this possible to implement?
I am trying to set up qmail-frontend to our mailsystem, such way that some of mailboxes are on this qmail machine, and it SHOULD route all unknown mail to another server Use .qmail-default for user alias or a virtual domain with exceptions through users/assign. Regards, Frank
Re: VERP
I have an application, which is communicating directly via SMTP with qmail. As I am sending to huge lists (up to 28000 recipients) I would like to use VERP. Set up an ezmlm(-idx) list on the qmail host. Send to the list address via SMTP. That's it. Regards, Frank
Re: Virtual virtual domain...
computer uses a dialup connection onto the internet... When this computer connects it should get all the mail for its "domain" and deliver it acordingly... Also all bounces should be handled here, because the first host (the one on the internet) has no idea what users are defined... Simply deliver all mail for that domain to a Maildir. Then use turnmail or UUCP for transmission to the other host. There is a nice BSMTP-package on www.qmail.org that you can use for UUCP. Regards, Frank
Re: Deferral when host doesn't exist
Basically I suppose it's a risk of having a domain which is likely to have other domains with similar names, it's also a risk which is likely to increase as the net becomes bigger. Whole life is a risk. Is there a way to ask qmail to send warning messages (to the user or to the postmaster) when such deferrals occur? Yes, there is a program call qmail_bounce. Look at www.qmail.org for Brian T. Wightman and his delayed mail notifier. Regards, Frank
Re: unknown user
the original mail, but it should be a "normal" mail. I need the header with an information of the user to which the mail should be send originally. You can use the -default extension vor any .qmail file. See 'man dot-qmail' for more info. Regards, Frank
