maildirs not working....
I must be missing something... I got Qmail to work just fine using the "Life with qmail" page. with the default mbox setting. I could receive email and see it in the Mailbox file. OK. I then decided I wanted to use maildirs instead. I did: changed the defaultdelivery file in /var/qmail/control to have one line: ./Maildir/ then I used makemaildir to make the mail directory on my account: maildirmake $HOME/Maildir and made a .qmail file: echo./Maildir/ > ~/.qmail I then removed (moved) the old Mailbox. Now I don't get mail. ?? thanks, Jennifer
RE: maildirs not working....
Of course I restarted qmail also... -Jen > -Original Message- > From: Jennifer Tippens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 12:45 PM > To: Qmail > Subject: maildirs not working > > > I must be missing something... I got Qmail to work just fine > using the "Life with qmail" page. with the default mbox setting. > I could receive email and see it in the Mailbox file. OK. I > then decided I wanted to use maildirs instead. I did: > > changed the defaultdelivery file in /var/qmail/control to have one line: > ./Maildir/ > > then I used makemaildir to make the mail directory on my account: > maildirmake $HOME/Maildir > > and made a .qmail file: > echo./Maildir/ > ~/.qmail > > I then removed (moved) the old Mailbox. > > Now I don't get mail. ?? > > thanks, > Jennifer >
maildirs working now...
Some days I'm so blonde. Let's try giving the user ownership of her own maildir Thank you everyone for your very prompt help! blushing, Jen
pop3 and maildirs now....
Now that I'm actually getting mail delivered... I'm trying to get pop3 to work. I installed checkpassword. qmail works. I put: tcpserver -v -R 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup FQDN \ /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d maildir 2>&1 | \ /var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d & after everything else in both the start and restart case of my qmail startup script (which is the one on "life with qmail" more or less). now.. MS outlook (I know, I know) gives me the following error: Server Response: '-ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir'. (Account: 'web01.surfari.com', POP3 Server: 'web01.surfari.com', Error Number: 0x800ccc92). erg... What did I not do yet? -Jen
Wow, It works! It really works!
pop works, qmail works and I love my job. Thank you Everybody for all the help! (snoopy dance) -Jennifer
Problem installing - Sorry, _no_mailbox_here_by_that_name.
Hello, I'm having a problem installing qmail. I have been using Life with qmail as a guide. I have everything installed and the 4 qmail daemons are running along with a couple of supervise, multilogs, a svscan and a tcpserver. defaultdelivery is: ./Maildir/ I have done: qmail-pw2u < /etc/passwd > /var/qmail/users/assign qmail-newu qmail cdb cd /home/jennifer su jennifer maildirmake ./Maildir Under aliases, I have the the following files and they all contain the one word, jennifer: .qmail-root .qmail-postmaster .qmail-mailer-daemon So, I start qmail: qmail start and check /var/log/qmail/current and I get a status line - no errors there. So I try to send an empty message to the user jennifer: echo to: jennifer | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject There is no mail in /home/jennifer/Maildir/new and tail /var/log/qmail/current gives: longnumberhere info msg 442894: bytes 1913 from <#@[]> qp 5516 uid 501 longnumberhere longnumberhere longnumberhere longnumberhere longnumberhere
tcpserver error
Hi List! I have configured something incorrectly. I just can't figure out where. I tried to test my installation by sending a message locally and it did not work. In var/log/qmail/smtpd/current I get the following repeating error: biglongnumber tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out IP address for 2108 What I can figure out is that the number 2108 is the nofiles GID. The qmail-related entries in /etc/group is: qmail:x:2107: nofiles:x:2108: and in /etc/passwd: alias :x:7790:2108::/var/qmail/alias:/bin/true qmaild :x:7791:2108::/var/qmail:/bin/true qmaill :x:7792:2108::/var/qmail:/bin/true qmailp :x:7793:2108::/var/qmail:/bin/true qmailq :x:7794:2107::/var/qmail:/bin/true qmailr :x:7794:2107::/var/qmail:/bin/true qmails :x:7794:2107::/var/qmail:/bin/true Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening? Thank you so much for your time. -Jennifer
Anti Virus Solution
I have gone through the list archive and the only information I can find on this subject was listmembers asking about if there was any anti-virus solution out there. Is there any anti-virus thing out there that can scan for macro viruses in Qmail? Thanks so much for your time, Jennifer
supervise: fatal:
Hello all, This is probably a simple question, but I'm having a bit of a problem. I had qmail working properly and then it broke. I'm not sure what I did to it. I think this is a permissions problem, but I need some help. I started qmail manually: /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail start I checked my processes and I have 2 svscan and 4 supervise, 2 multilog, and 1 tcpserver, qmail-send, qmail-lspawn, qmail-rspawn, qmail-clean. I get the messages: supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-send/supervise/lock: access denied supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: access denied supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-smtpd/supervise/lock: access denied supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: access denied and they repeat. What did I do wrong? Thanks for the help, Jennifer
sorry_message_has_wrong_owner
What caused a message to be deferred with the error: Sorry,_message_has_wrong_owner? I can't send anything using the /var/qmail/bin/sendmail wrapper without getting this. I did try all the tests successfully in TEST.deliver and TEST.receive, but they all use qmail-inject. Thanks for any help you can give, -Jennifer
Re: sorry_message_has_wrong_owner
Yes, because I had a linking mishap {sheepish grin}, I replaced a few files
in /var/qmail/bin with ones from another machine. I did not realize it would
change anything. Thank you very much for your help. I tried a few other
things, then I did:
#make setup check
and that did it. it works now!
Thanks so much,
-Jennifer
Mark Delany wrote:
> Did it ever work or has it never worked?
>
> Almost certainly the permissions in /var/qmail have not been set properly
> or have been changed subsequent to make setup.
>
> Have you moved the queue with cp, tar, cpio, etc? Have you restored it
> from a backup tape? Did you install it according to the qmail install or
> have you used some 3rd party install?
>
> What happens if, as root in the qmail source directory, you go:
> # make check
>
> ??
>
> Regards.
>
> > What caused a message to be deferred with the error:
> > Sorry,_message_has_wrong_owner? I can't send anything using the
> > /var/qmail/bin/sendmail wrapper without getting this. I did try all the
> > tests successfully in TEST.deliver and TEST.receive, but they all use
> > qmail-inject.
> > Thanks for any help you can give,
> >
> > -Jennifer
> >
store and forward? - firewall - not final destination
Hello, I need ideas on what to do in my situation: Our company's web server is on the other side of the country. We get mail at our domain here because I have the zone file set up that way. So mail comes to our firewall, no problem. What we would like to do is have all mail forwarded through the firewall to an internal machine. I understand that I could do this with .forward or fastforward, but I thought that if I did that and the internal mail server went down for any weird reason that the mail would bounce. What I would like is for the mail to spool up on the firewall if the internal server is down. I thought about fetchmail, but I didn't really want everyone to have to maintain a .fetchmailrc and launch fetchmail -- and I have no idea what everyone's passwords are either. The user names on both the firewall and the internal machine are the same in every case. What is the best way to handle this? We have a lot of users. Thanks! Jennifer
[OT] Re: NOT Exchange and OUTLOOK
We use Obsidian Communication Server. It is GPL. It workes just fine with qmail, Maildir format, and virtual hosts. It is in active development (not abandoned-- There are 20 of us working on it in our spare time). http://www.obsidian.co.za You download it under the "demo" link. I didn't find that too clear when I first got it. Hope this helps! Cheers, Jennifer Tippens Systems Administrator Surfari.com, Inc. "Lars-Åke Torlind" wrote: > Hi all, > I know this is probably the wrong forum but maybe someone can point me to > the right direction or even give me a few hints. > We are newly started company. I have setup qmail on a Linux system and it > works superb. Now > I'm looking for a web based calendar that can be put on a common server so > that it is possible to look at other peoples schedules. It should scale up > to about 40 people. I don't want to use EXCHANGE and OUTLOOK. I would like > to run it on Linux. > > Anyone ??? > > Best Regards/Med vänlig hälsning > Lars-Åke Torlind > > Figuration AB > Phone + 46 8 44 50 350 > Mobile + 46 70 529 7146 > Faxnr +46 8 44 50 351
more about procmail and qmail
Recently saw a short thread on procmail with qmail, but I'm having another error... I used the patch on the qmail webpage to patch procmail for Maildirs. I got the qmail-procmail script from the archives to change the exit codes in procmail to something qmail can understand, and in the user directory, .qmail contains: ./Maildir/ |/usr/sbin/qmail-procmail procmail seems to be working, but it is annoying to see the following error in my /var/log/qmail/current log file: biglongnumber starting delivery 337: msg 2087 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] biglongnumber status: local 1/10 remote 1/20 biglongnumber delivery 337: success: procmail:_Couldn't_chdir_to_""/procmail:_Skipped_"$HOME/Mail"/did_1+0+1/ biglongnumber status: local 1/10 remote 1/20 Also, relating to my logs, I sometimes see deferral: Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/ Thanks for any clues you can give me! -Jennifer
supervise and multilog running, qmail not.
Hoping somebody can help me... I set up qmail as in LWQ. If I start qmail with /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail start it says it started. but ps -A | grep qmail yeilds nothing. If I do a /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail stat, it says that the processes are running-- the process numbers it lists are non-existant. I checked /var/log/qmail/current, it contains nothing. I tried to telnet to port 25, then checked /var/log/qmail/smtpd/current, and it says biglongnumber tcpserver: warning: dropping connection, unable to run /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd: access denied permissions on it are: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 26108 Apr 3 04:12 qmail-smtpd I'm stumped, but since I've installed qmail before with no trouble, I'm hoping to hear something like I forgot something really obvious. Thanks for any help, Jennifer
Re: Re: supervise and multilog running, qmail not.
Ah, Ha! Doh. Oops. drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Mar 29 07:59 / drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Apr 3 04:06 /var drw-r--r-- 11 root qmail 4096 Apr 3 05:00 /var/qmail drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail 4096 Apr 3 04:12 /var/qmail/bin sooo... chmod 755 /var/qmail That was the answer I needed. Thank you so much! It is working now. -Jennifer On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 Dave Sill wrote: > What does: > > ls -ld / /var /var/qmail /var/qmail/bin > > show? What happens when you try to run qmail-smtpd interactively? > E.g.: > > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd > > I suspect that either a directory mode is hosed or /var/qmail/bin is > on a filesystem mounted with the noexec option.
permissions on messages
Is there a good way of changing the mode on all incoming messages to a certain user? I need the messages to be read/writable by all members of the primary group and not only to the user. I thought I could maybe do something in the .qmail file... Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, Jennifer
Re: Re: permissions on messages
On 4 Apr 2000 12:53:17 Will Harris wrote: > try putting this line in the .qmail file for that user: > > | chmod 660 /path/to/mailbox; exit 0 > > regards, > Will That Didn't work, but since data gathering will be done once a week at a certain time, I just chmoded the messages in a crontab. Hokey, but it works. Thanks, Jennifer
qmailqueue patch?
Hello, I'm having difficulty with the qmailqueue patch (http://www.qmail.org/qmailqueue-patch) I'm not sure if I'm doing it correctly, as I have not had to patch anything before. I copied the patch part of the text to a file on my box and called it qmailqueue-patch and put it into a newly untarred qmail-1.03 source. Then I just did: patch
supervise everywhere
We took down one of our servers and replaced the hard drive with something much larger. Another guy was working on it, so I don't exactly know right now what procedure was used to do this. But... When he brought the server back up, we noticed (understatement) that a supervise directory was created under almost every directory (but not *all* of them). What could have caused this? I never explicitly created the 100 or so supervise directories. When qmail was started, though, I don't think that the original supervise directory was there-- will supervise go crazy creating directories? Thanks for any help, Jen
Re: Can it be done?
Yes, it sure can. Set up qmail on your firewall and qmail on each of your internal mail servers. On the qmail on the firewall, configure smtproutes to point to each of your internal servers. Make MX records in your DNS zone file for each of your mail servers and have them all point to your gateway (firewall). Smtproutes is a file you can create in /var/qmail/control. On the gateway, it should say something like: mailserver1.domain.com:internalservername.int and on each of the internal boxes, it should look like: :gateway.yourdomain.int look at the man pages for rewriting the name in the from of your internal servers. You will need to create a defaulthost and defaultdomain files in /var/qmail/control/ also, on the gate, put your internal servers in the rcpthosts file, but not in the locals file. I hope this helps you, Jennifer Tippens On Tue, 02 May 2000 Guillermo Villasana Cardoza wrote: > Hello everyone ... I have the following scenario: > > I have one Internet IP address .. which I use for my firewall behind the > firewall I have several internal servers... The problem is that each > server will be a different web and mail server... > > eg. > mailserver1.domain.com > mailserver2.domain.com > ... > etc > > Each mail server with it's own users... > > Can this be done? > Thanks for all the help > Guillermo Villasana >
Re: aliases...
no, touch a file called .qmail-paul_vera in /var/qmail/alias. edit it to contain pvera on one line and that's it. reload qmail and you are all set. -Jennifer On Tue, 02 May 2000 Marcelo J. Iturbe wrote: > Hi... > I am having trouble understanding how the aliases work. > If I have a user named pvera and he would like to receive email being sent > to paul_vera all I have to do is touch .qmail-paul_vera in /home/pvera??? > This does not sound right. > In the FAQ I saw: > How do I create aliases with dots? I tried setting up > ~alias/.qmail-P.D.Q.Bach, but it doesn't do anything. > Answer: Use .qmail-p:d:q:bach. Dots are converted to colons, and uppercase > is converted to lowercase. > > but that just confused me even more... > > thanks, > Marcelo > > > *** > ICQ 22921676 > MSM Interactive. > El Bosque Norte 0134, Las Condes, Chile. > Phone: (56-2) 234-9852 Fax: (56-2) 233-8912 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.msm.cl > *** >
Re: The "I love you virus" .. and content based filtering
I installed the new AmaVis a few days ago. It works right off, is easy to impliment and we did not get the virus. :) I got 4 notices about it though. I am using AmaVis and NAI. -Jennifer On Thu, 4 May 2000, Johan Almqvist wrote: > On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 05:28:37PM +0200, Nicolas MONNET wrote: > > Lusers are stupid, and it's a shame that we have to do this, but ... to > > stop the plague before things get too nasty, we need to filter that bloody > > "I love you" worm. Is there any way to quickly (and dirtily) implement > > that in qmail? I'm not looking for a permanent solution, just a quick > > workaround that I'll get rid off later. > > I'll say it again: > > scan4virus from the qmail homepage can do that. > > -Johan > -- > Johan Almqvist > >
