Re: local-local delivery error (newbie)
* Jean-Christian Imbeault [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010813 08:25]: I think I have qmail up and running after following the instructions in lwq. I am now trying the tests in TEST.deliver. However I get an error at the first test, local-local delivery/ Is this an error in my installationof qmail? Did I need to setup user mail directories? Yes. Have you read INSTALL.mbox INSTALL.vsm and INSTALL.maildir? What default delivery instruction does your qmail run script contain? BTW, you'd be better with an installation following http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: local-local delivery error (newbie)
* Jean-Christian Imbeault [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010813 09:15]: Just read those three documents and none of them say that I *have* to do anything. Seems mostly like recommendation on what to do if you want to keep using /var/spool/mail or to configure MUA's to use Maildir. Also this machien is to be a mail server. There won't any user on the machine itslef. So setting up ~usr/Maildir directories seems give of strange If you don't want to configure local deliveries, why are you trying to test them? If you want to do local deliveries, you will have to follow one of INSTALL.vsm, INSTALL.mbox or INSTALL.maildir. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Uh-oh: .qmail file is blank #4.2.1
standard bashing Please break your lines so that we don't have to. /standard bashing * Freedom [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010727 17:24]: I am new to Qmail so I followed the well written directions in life with Qmail. However, as I am trying to test the install and configuration (latter part of section 2), I get the errors listed below. In several of the posts to this mailing list, people have indicated that this error is dealing with default delivery. I don't have a .qmail file (which I understand would be in the users home directory), but I do have a defaultdelivery file (the first line is not blank either). Another post indicated the rc script could be the issue...but I used the rc script life with qmail suggested. __EXCERPT FROM QMAIL LOG @40003b617b681e75b4e4 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 @40003b617b681f3cc5d4 delivery 125: deferral: Uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is_blank._(#4.2.1)/ This is way to litte information. We need at least the entire log for one message with this problem (all lines that concern that message including all deliveries). I'd also like to see the rc script (possible typo...), and if the user has no .qmail, the output of ls -a /var/qmail/alias/ and the contents of the .qmail files there. Obvioulsy, you haven't followed the list that well, especially regarding how to report problems... -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Newbie question
* Per-Fredrik Pollnow [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010726 09:40]: I have been looking around on the Inet to see if I could find anything about how I secure qmail pop3 service, but I don't have a ??? and I don't find a ???.. I was wondering if anyone have some good ideas what to use or where I can find some information about securing qmail pop3 etc. (Right now I'm using qmail-pop3d on OpenBSD). [Please wrap your lines so that I don't have to] qmail-pop3d is secure. However, POP isn't secure, as the passwords are sent in clear text... But qmail-pop3d can use APOP (a basic challenge- response mechanism) if configured with a matching checkpassword. But even with APOP, a man-in-the-middle attack is possible... POP over SSL is one possible solution... One way to accomplish this is by using stunnel. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Which RBL replacement?
* Vincent Schonau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010725 09:38]:
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:43:50PM +0200, Johan Almqvist wrote:
http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/rbldomains.txt
Ugh. That has some bad info on it. orbS.gst-group.co.uk is the wrong name
(should be orbz.gst-group.co.uk).
The rfc-ignorant zones are at rfc-ignorant.ORG, not com.
Note, also, that the {abuse|dsn|postmaster|whois}.rfc-ignorant.org lists are
'rhsbl' lists (rhs for right-hand side of the envelope sender domain
name), and are useless with rblsmtpd.
Thanks for the pointers... I have a slight memory that rfc-ignorant also
planned to do ip blacklists att the outset, but whatever...
Please, when you use these resources, make sure that you use them correctly,
and that you keep informed of recent developments with the various lists. If
you don't, not only will it not help you reduce spam, it will also waste your
resources and those of the volunteers providing the service.
Absolutely, and I apoolgize for the waste of resources I may have caused.
Another thing: IF you're using any of these services, monitor your logs
closely - none of these services have been around long enough to warrant
100% of trust...
-Johan
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Re: Which RBL replacement?
* Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010725 10:22]: On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 10:19:59AM +0200, Johan Almqvist wrote: [snip] Thanks for the pointers... I have a slight memory that rfc-ignorant also planned to do ip blacklists att the outset, but whatever... It will, probably, for any type of rfc-violation that makes IP blacklisting a valid method. For the violations they list now, listing IPs makes no sense. Wouldn't it? If I recieve spam from 192.168.100.1, I would like to be able to complain to postmaster at that host (or some host that whois discovers for that IP) about this... -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Attachment - Delete problem
* Alien77 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010725 13:09]: I've noticed a problem, at the compose.php page, when trying to add and delete attachments to the mail. This has nothing to do with qmail. Go away, or to the webmail interface support list. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Block Users!
* Daniel Abad [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010725 16:11]: I need to block a external user to e-mail my vurtual domains users howdo I do? Oh COME ON, have you at least tried to read the archives, the docs or the list for the past 2 hours? Put the offending sender address into /var/qmail/control/badmailfrom No need to restart qmail, this will become effective from the next SMTP connection. -Johan PS: If that still wasn't clear enough, run the following: echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/qmail/control/badmailfrom -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: RES: Block Users!
* Daniel Abad [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010725 16:40]: Yes... It's done but not working I can telnet at 110 with the user and send the message... If you telnet to port 110 to send messages, something is severely botched with your qmail installation. Please show us logs where you send messages as a user that is in /var/qmail/control/badmailfrom Please also send the output of qmail-showctl -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: QSBMF
* Andreas Grip [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010724 13:37]: I know, this has been in the list too many times... Okay, so let's go to http://cr.yp.to/proto/qsbmf.txt and find out what the final truth is. Yes, you can make your own bounce messages. And yes, you can make them QSBMF-compliant. The trick is to keep the first paragraph from the original, and sticking you own text below _with_no_blank_lines_in_between._ You could, of course, have a line containing only a space between the original text and your text. Or, if you don't trust all parsers, a dash or two - but not three! Example: --- snip --- Date: 17 Mar 1996 03:54:40 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at silverton.berkeley.edu. 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. - Hej. Detta är programmet qmail-send på silverton.berkeley.edu. Jag kunde tyvärr inte leverera meddelandet till följande adresser. Detta är ett permanent fel; jag har gett upp. Ledsen att det inte fungerade. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry, I couldn't find any host by that name. --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 317 invoked by uid 7); 17 Mar 1996 03:54:38 - Date: 17 Mar 1996 03:54:38 - Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D. J. Bernstein) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: are you there? Just checking. --- snap --- Or, you may want to find a less strict (and less funny-sounding) swedish translation. [Who is the Mailer-Daemon and why is he reading my mail?] -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: QSBMF
* Andreas Grip [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010724 14:55]: [...] But that would violate QSBMF: The body of the message has four pieces: an introductory paragraph, zero or more recipient paragraphs, a break paragraph, and the original message. Each paragraph is a series of non-blank lines followed by a single blank line. But then QSBMF violate itself, because the QSBMF format include the possibillity of other paragraphes in the futures. No! The recipient paragraphs could look as follows: --- snip --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry, I couldn't find any host by that name. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): This message was delivered without problems. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This message was delivered with lossy MIME conversion. --- snap --- To quote: The only type of recipient paragraph described here is a failure paragraph, which begins with the character . Paragraphs beginning with other characters are reserved for future extensions. Implicitly, this means that future extensions only are possible for recipient paragraphs. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Which RBL replacement?
* Paulo Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010724 15:29]: Starting Jul 31 RBL will start charging for using their services. Which of the free RBL replacement do people recommend? I have read so far about ORBL and ORBS... Take a look at http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/rbldomains.txt I will make a more complete page with links etc in the future... -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Having problems with postmaster....
[Please do not start new threads by replying to unrelated messages.] * David Gartner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010724 15:55]: I have a problem, that's not _really_ a problem, but I've had someone complain, so I figured I should fix it. I always put .qmail-postmaster in /var/qmail/alias and point it to an account on the system. It's always worked, except on one site. It rejects any mail for postmaster saying that there is no such user, but the .qmail-postmaster file _is_ in place. Does anyone know why, on this one system, qmail disregards the .qmail file? Thanks in advance. What do the logs say if you send a message to postmaster in that domain? What does ls -lsa /var/qmail/alias say? What does id alias give? What does grep alias /etc/passwd give? -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Peter from the Dike and Security
* Chris Bolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010627 02:01]:
perl -e 'while(){$_=~tr/A-Za-z/N-ZA-Mn-za-m/;print}'
perl -pe'y/a-zA-Z/n-za-mN-ZA-M/'
-Johan
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Re: anti-virus program for Qmail
* ?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010626 06:21]: FROM www.qmail.org/top.html: --Jason Haar wrote Qmail-Scanner (also known as scan4virus), which scans all gatewayed Email for certain characteristics. It is typically used for its anti-virus protection functions, in which case it is used in conjunction with commercial virus scanners. but also enables a site to react to Email (at a server/site level) that contains specific strings in particular headers, or particular attachment filenames or types (e.g. *.VBS attachments). http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net/ Check out www.antivir.de, which is free for personal use. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Spam IP master list?
* Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010620 18:34]: On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 12:15:04PM -0400, Roger Merchberger wrote: Kindof an offtopic question, but is there a Master List of IP's that send spam regularly, with which I could use to update my tcprules deny list? RBL? http://libertas.wirehub.net/spamlist.txt http://www.almqvist.net/johan/orbs/ I really don't want to patch reinstall qmail with the RBL... (and it seems ORBS went away...) Besides, I'm really only looking to stop the big chunks with something I can personally manage. You don't need to patch qmail to use rbl. No need to recompile either. rblsmtpd just drops in between tcpserver and qmail-smtpd in the supervise script... -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Patch to log badmailfrom hits
Hi! I wonder if anyone has made a patch to log badmailfrom hits from qmail-smtpd? -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: url of sqwebmail too long!!!!
* Massimo Quintini [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010608 09:45]: How can I use an URL short (like mail.te.astro.it) instead of mail.te.astro.it/cgi-bin/sqwebmail I have tried with VirtualHost directive of Apache Web Server without success!!! I've found the easiest way to be the following: Using lynx, grab the front page (login page) that sqwebmail sends. Save it as index.html of a virtual host (ie mail.te.astro.it/index.html). Make sure the links and the form point to the cgi. Voilà! -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: I think I'm being relayed through, but I don't know how.
* Chris Garrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010606 20:44]: I've got this in my queue: Your patched qmail-smtpd seems to have a buffer overflow problem. Vis: --- snip --- $ telnet 216.30.106.234 25 Trying 216.30.106.234... Connected to 216.30.106.234. Escape character is '^]'. 220 austin-jump.vircio.com ESMTP HELO fdskfnhosdhfdsnfcdlsncvdsndnfisndfondskivndsn fid fhiorhfoidhgfoisdoigfdsfhgpofdh gofdh gouf oghfdogh foi hgoifh glfdh göldfhgoirhg ojd flghohg odf hglodfg ofdnv df oö vhnfdlngvoifngvo rfiuvnfodvofdhoghfdshvlkzcjgflkfhdgohdfoighfdlkjgöldhglfhdglkfdshglkfdglkjdrigfdohjgldfksglkdfhglfdhgldfhglöfjgfapoijpqeiwjfkldsnglcöngfoihgöodsnfvldshgtfoihdsalfjäpgjöfadh odifh gfdijgodfgöodhgföldgöofhgafdjödflkngvlödfhgpifdjgkljdcäjgädszjgofdijglöfjbgoaskfnhosdhfdsnfcdlsncvdsndnfisndfondskivndsnfid fhiorhf oidhgfoisd oigfdsfhgpofdh gofdh gouf oghfdogh foi hgoifh glfdhgöldfhgoirhg ojd flgho hg odf hglodfg ofdnv df oö vhnfdlngvoifngvorfiuvnfodvofdhoghfdshvlkzcjgflkfhdgohdfoighfdlkjgöldhglfhdglkfdshglkfdglkjdrigfdohjgldfksglkdfhglfdhgldfhglöfjgfapoijpqeiwjfkldsnglcöngfoihgöodsnfvldshskfnhosdhfdsnfcdlsncvdsndnfisndfondskivndsnfid fhiorhf oidhgfoisd oigfdsfhgpofdh gofdh gouf oghfdogh foi hgoifh glfdhgöldfhgoirhg ojd flgho hg odf hglodfg ofdnv df oö vhnfdlngvoifngvo rfiuvnfodvofdhoghfdshvlkzcjgflkfhdgohdfoighfdlkjgöldhglfhdglkfdshglkfdglkjdrigfdohjgldfksglkdfhglfdhgldfhglöfjgfapoijpqeiwjfkldsnglcöngfoihgöodsnfvldshskfnhosdhfdsnfcdlsncvdsndnfisndfondskivndsn fid fhiorhfoidhgfoisd oigfdsfhgpofdh gofdh gouf oghfdogh foi hgoifh glfdh göldfhgoirhg ojd flghohg odf hglodfg ofdnv df oö vhnfdlngvoifngvo rfiuvnfodvofdhoghfdshvlkzcjgflkfhdgohdfoighfdlkjgöldhglfhdglkfdshglkfdglkjdrigfdohjgldfksglkdfhglfdhgldfhglöfjgfapoijpqeiwjfkldsnglcöngfoihgöodsnfvldshskfnhosdhfdsnfcdlsncvdsndnfisndfondskivndsnfid fhiorhf oidhgfoisd oigfdsfhgpofdh gofdh gouf oghfdogh foi hgoifh glfdhgöldfhgoirhg ojd flgho hg odf hglodfg ofdnv df oö vhnfdlngvoifngvo rfiuvnfodvofdhoghfdshvlkzcjgflkfhdgohdfoighfdlkjgöldhglfhdglkfdshglkfdglkjdrigfdohjgldfksglkdfhglfdhgldfhglöfjgfapoijpqeiwjfkldsnglcöngfoihgöodsnfvldshskfnhosdhfdsnfcdlsncvdsndnfisndfondskivndsn fid fhiorhf oidhgfoisd oigfdsfhgpofdh gofdh gouf oghfdoghfoi hgoifh glfdh göldfhgoirhg ojd flgho hg odf hglodfg ofdnv df oövhnfdlngvoifngvo rfiuvnfodvofdhoghfdshvlkzcjgflkfhdgohdfoighfdlkjgöldhglfhdglkfdshglkfdglkjdrigfdohjgldfksglkdfhglfdhgldfhglöfjgfapoijpqeiwjfkldsnglcöngfoihgöodsnfvldshskfnhosdhfdsnfcdlsncvdsndnfisndfondskivndsn fid fhiorhf oidhgfoisd oigfdsfhgpofdhgofdh gouf oghfdogh foi hgoifh glfdh göldfhgoirhg ojd flgho hg odf hglodfg ofdnv dfoö vhnfdlngvoifngvo rfiuvnfodvofdhoghfdshvlkzcjgflkfhdgohdfoighfdlkjgöldhglfhdglkfdshglkfdglkjdrigfdohjgldfksglkdfhglfdhgldfhglöfjgfapoijpqeiwjfkldsnglcöngfoihgöodnfvldsh 250 austin-jump.vircio.com MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 ok RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 ok DATA 354 go ahead Subject: Hejhej Dadaa , . 250 ok 991911255 qp 1264 QUIT 221 austin-jump.vircio.com Connection closed by foreign host. --- snap --- -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/ PGP signature
Re: I think I'm being relayed through, but I don't know how.
* Johan Almqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010607 12:59]: * Chris Garrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010606 20:44]: I've got this in my queue: Your patched qmail-smtpd seems to have a buffer overflow problem. Vis: And attached is the confirmation. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: How to make a qmail hub relay ?
* NICOLAS Jean-Michel (@ HoME) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010606 13:25]: I search in archive's list but I didn't find how to make a qmail hub relay. Anybody can elp me how to make a hub. I want my qmail server to receive mail for a lot domain (know domain :) ) and to redirect to different mail server (foreign mail server). This is very simple in qmail. Install qmail, put all of the domains you will be a hub for in /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts (and NOT in locals or virtualdomains) and make one line for each domain in /var/qmail/control/smtproutes like this: the.do.main:[ip.of.real.server] man qmail-control is your friend. For advanced users: use morerctphosts -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: direct connection to qmqp or qmtpd server
* Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010604 14:06]: Newbieportal writes: Everyone knows that we can connect to smtp server directly using telnet or simple socket connection script. Can I do the same for qmqp server or qmtpd server. Not using telnet. At least, not without counting every character you type before you type it and adding them into multiple sums. If yes, is this better way to speed up the sending mail. Only if you have to send it from a different machine. There is a litte c program to send mail by qmtp from the command line. A link to it can be found at the bottom of my qmail page - see .sig Hope this helps. BTW: Why is there still no link to my qmail page on www.qmail.org? -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Re[2]: Oops,I guess Sendmail wasn't secure after all...
* Boris [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010602 16:28]: LM If you bought (OK, got for free) a car, and it exploded, leaving you LM burned, then you waited a week to get a new car mailed to you, then you The car is not exploding, someone comes and looks at your car. He is searching and searching and searching until he finds a silly bug like the fuel meter showes something wrong, this could be a security risk but in fact the men is driving the car years without a problem. Some month he updates the car (new version) and thats all. Not quite. More like someone inspects your free car and finds a button that can make it explode. Maybe he pushes the button, maybe not. Maybe he pushes the button on someone else's car. Are you willing to take that risk? I can imagine two situations where that would be the case: either you do something that is so unimportant for the rest of the world that noone bothers destroying your work, or you do something that is so good for everyone that noone will want to destroy your work, not even out of envy. Come on, not even the UN are _that_ good :-) -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: ORBS, and RFC-ignorant blacklists
* Alex Pennace [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010601 04:25]: http://www.orbs.org/ says Due to circumstances beyond our control, the ORBS website is no longer available. http://www.dorkslayers.com/ seems to be the successor in some ways. But the first statement It is our intention to never list IP addresses which have any of the following characteristics: - a physical location within the United States of America (USA) [...] makes me wonder a bit... -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: ORBS, and RFC-ignorant blacklists
* David Talkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010601 09:29]: Alex Pennace wrote: http://www.orbs.org/ says Due to circumstances beyond our control, the ORBS website is no longer available. That seems pretty abrupt. Anyone know why they vanished? legalese Alan Brown, operator of ORBS, was served 2 New Zealand High Court injunctions ordering the removal of several OBRS listings. The compalies who filed for these injunctions are Actrix and NZ Telecom. /legalese http://groups.google.com/groups?q=news.admin.net-abuse.email -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: /var partition, queue size, and sendmail
* Joshua Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010530 15:02]: I recently discovered that my /var partition is not going to be large enough to accomodate my queue at certain times, and was hoping for some insight. quick tip: buy a new, fast, disk and mount it as /var/qmail (or mount an existing, free partition there) -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: qmail-remote not working
* kamesh jayachandran [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010523 22:59]: Similarly if i invoke the qmail-remote from the shell then I am getting no response. $echohai/var/qmail/bin/qmail-remote myrealbox.com kameshj kameshj returns nothing. That's not how qmail-remote in called. Anyway, please give us the results of file /var/qmail/bin/qmail-* ls -l /var/qmail/bin/qmail-* -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Blocking Hahaha at server level
* Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010523 18:17]: Davidson Thaba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whats the best way of blocking Hahaha virus at server level. ? Doesn't it come with an envelope sender address of [EMAIL PROTECTED]? If so, putting that address in /var/qmail/control/badmailfrom would do the trick. If, on the other hand, that address only shows up in the headers of the message, you'd need to patch qmail-smtpd to reject mail based on its contents (a bad idea, IMO). The problem is that this virus comes with as the envelope sender... But the original poster stated that he had virus checking for outgoing messages (see signature) so why not extend this to incoming messages. Otherwise, qmail-qfilter and qmail-qscanner come to mind. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: ezmlm fails test
* RC [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010517 01:27]: logs are showing a bunch of bounced msgs, i think because it's having trouble delivering to root. i played with some stuff earlier, and now it looks like just a bunch of error messages are getting delivered to alias, and not the regularly daily output i was getting before. What's in the file ~alias/.qmail-root ? it says 'root' That is a misconfiguration. qmail can and will NEVER deliver mail to root. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Fwd: email with - in it????
* Lye On Siong Johnny [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010514 12:40]: I am pretty new to qmail, and current we just setup a new mail server. The scenario is as such. We have man user, eg support, support-mac, support-linux etc ... each of the mail account has it's own .qmail file. However, the problem is as such. when someone send a mail to eg support-error whereby this user doesnt exist, the mail is being send to support instead. How can i configure qmail such that if the email account does not exist, it should bounce the mail instead of sending it to support?? Remove support's .qmail-default file... -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: badmailfrom
* audit [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010512 19:39]: I was wondering if I can put just a domain in the /var/qmail/control/badmailfrom file Yes. You have to start it with an @. @yahoo.com will block all mail where the envelope sender address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note that you are blocking envelope sender addresses, not sending hosts. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: ezmlm and announce-only lists...?
* Jeff Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010510 23:08]: I've just barely got qmail, qmailadmin and vpop running, need to know if there's a method for making an ezmlm list announce only...? There is. Can't say how off-hand, though. (Pointers to any documentation on this would be appreciated; I haven't found any that address this exact topic so far.) man ezmlm-make http://www.ezmlm.org/ The appropriate list is [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: QMail Delivering Mail to Incorrect Addresses?
* Kalle Kivimaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010509 20:49]: We recently ran across a serious problem which seems to be QMail-related. We had to take quick action against the most recent batch of vbs-viruses going around at the moment by manually removing the virus mails from the QMail queue. Either because of this or simply at the same time several incoming mails were incorretly routed, both to wrong mailboxes and - more severly - even to outside addresses. Has anybody any idea what might be going on? That's what happens if you mess with the queue. DO NOT MESS WITH THE qmail QUEUE. Or, at the very least, stop qmail and be very sure that you understand EXACTLY what you are doing. Even qmHandle (from www.qmai.org) has broken my queue once. You need to run a queue-fixing tool (available from www.qmail.org). Alternatively, to be really sure, rm -rf /var/qmail/queue (note that this removes all messages in the queue) and make a new queue dir from the sources. Note that qmHandle and queue-fix need patches if you have big-todo. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: delete old mails
* Clemens Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010508 13:09]: quite a while ago I read about a script that checks a maildir and deletes any mail that is older than a specified time (e.g. 30 days). I can not find it anymore :-(. There's something similar on my qmail page (address below). -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: using safecat to filter mail
* Karsten W. Rohrbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010508 14:50]: Peter van Dijk([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.05.07 16:41:38 +: On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:37:52PM +0200, Magnus Bodin wrote: Go for procmail since it contains native Maildir compliance nowadays. Maildir support you mean. procmail's Maildir implementation is far from 'compliant' (as far as a real compliancy standard exists), and can lose mail easily. please elaborate, why? It doesn't follow Maildir file naming conventions. Not even close... Example file name from procmail: _sjF,ED_96.alpha.lunds.lu.se Should be like: 989326863.7043.alpha.lunds.lu.se -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: using safecat to filter mail
* Peter Peltonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010507 16:24]: I have qmail + vmailmgr handling my mail. I want to filter my mail on the server side. My two options are procmail and safecat of which I would prefer safecat. Unfortunately maildrop doesn't support vmailmgr (actually I'm not sure about procmail/safecat either, I would think that they are supported...?). Why would maildrop not support vmailmgr? -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Qmail and its parts.
* Carl J. Danowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010504 19:32]: oops. i chmod'd run and ran it. immediately it tried to process the queue. thanks. i hate it when it's something stupid, and, of course, my question went to the millions (haha) on this list. . now, i've just got to figure out why it's not able to chdir to Maildir. hmm... Permissions on the Maildir are probably wrong. Did you create a users Maildir as root? -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: qmtp
* Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010504 20:42]: Steve Hagerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey just curious is anyone implementing qmtp presently? Yes, many people on this list are using Dan's MXPS proposal. Russell Nelson and others have QMTP patches for qmail. See qmail.org for details. There's also a set of patches on my page (address below). -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Question about tcpserver program
* ÀÌÈñº¹ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010502 12:09]: Hi all! This is Heepok who managing qmail server on Solaris. By the way I have a question about Tcpserver program. If I use this program to selective relaying, how other mail servers can send mail to this server? For example On server mail.a.com when I configure a smtp.cdb like this, 192.168.:allow 192.169.:allow how [EMAIL PROTECTED](mail.bora.net-164.124.116.3) can send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? I think mail.a.com will refuse connection from mail.bora.net. So mail.a.com will not receive any mail from other remote servers. Could you explain how I can solve this problem? Thank you! There is an implicit :allow added at the end of the data files when you make the cdb file. Note that this doesn't make you an open relay... Make sure you have read and understood http://www.palomine.net/qmail/selectiverelay.html -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: RSS LIST
* hongtao [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010425 01:34]: *** /etc/tcp.smtp :deny,RELAYCLIENT= #if no this line, all ip will be allowed to relay 202.106.184.99:allow,RELAYCLIENT= This is wrong. Should be: 202.106.184.99:allow,RELAYCLIENT= :allow Note that the allow at the end doens't set RELAYCLIENT, thus those machines can only send to the hosts in control/rcpthosts *** /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts nie-go.com staff.nie-go.com hongtao.com Where is the RTFM for this? -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: CAN'T Send to lists!
* Marco Calistri [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010424 02:45]: I use smtproutes on this way: vger.kernel.org:mail.myisp.com hydra.carleton.ca:mail.myisp.com Why not just :mail.myisp.com Because the problem appears only on 2 or 3 domains all the other are ok. Seemingly, your problem is with sender domains in the message and the envelope, not with which SMTP host you use... Using q(mail)sendmail and smtproutes as for above I had this kind of responses: -- Hi. This is the qmail-send program at linux.ik5bcu.ampr.org. 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]: Connected to 199.183.24.194 but sender was rejected. Remote host said: 553 5.4.3 For MAIL FROM address [EMAIL PROTECTED] the policy analysis reports DNS error with your source domain. This is pretty clear, isn't it? Use qmail-inject with the -f option to set the sender to the same thing that your MUA gives to qmail on SMTP... I'am not able to discover where the problem is. With the sparse info you've given, nor are we. Yes Johan you're right btw now I switched back to qmail-SMTP and now the mail goes accepted;I'm sorry because I'd like q(mail)sendmail features to use Mail-Follow-Up that using qmail-SMTP I loose. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: CAN'T Send to lists!
* Marco Calistri [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010424 02:08]: I use smtproutes on this way: vger.kernel.org:mail.myisp.com hydra.carleton.ca:mail.myisp.com Why not just :mail.myisp.com but seems that mail doesn't arrives at destination. What do the logs say? I'am not able to discover where the problem is. With the sparse info you've given, nor are we. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: subscribing ezmlm list
* QmailList [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010417 09:14]: Hi All Great I am new this list pls excuse for any kidding How can i subscribe to ezmlm mailing list so that when I suscribe to the mailing list i should be directly subscribe to it Without i had to send any reply confirmation The correct list for this would be [EMAIL PROTECTED] You are looking for the -S and -U options to ezmlm-manage. See man ezmlm-manage. Then edit the .qmail-listname-default file. Note that this may require ezmlm-idx! -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Qmail Works, But I'm Sure It's Running Backwards!
* "Br. Kurt Van Kuren OSB" [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010414 04:08]: stpeters.sk.ca stpeterscollege.ca LOCALHOST gecko.stpeterscollege.ca mail.stpeterscollege.ca .com .edu .org .to This is wrong. You can't use wildcards in rcpthosts, and you shouldn't list other hosts than stpeters.sk.ca and stpeterscollege.ca in rcpthosts. RELAYCLIENT="" should take care of the relaying. If it doesn't, there is something wrong with your tcprules/tcpserver setup. The error message from qmail should be changed to "This domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts and RELAYCLIENT isn't set" --- we've been seeing to many examples of Kurt's misconception over the last few weeks... -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: CNAME lookup failed
* "Thum Chee Weng, Ronnie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010410 07:33]: It's for all the domains i sent emails to including hotmail.com, yahoo.com, jaring.my and even my own domain, asiatravelmart.com whose DNS is at fault ? Unless you don't tell us which domain it is about, we can't tell either. [stupid outlook-style quoting] That would suggest that your DNS is broken. An efficient way to fix this (and avoid other problems) is to install dnscache from djbdns. Start at http://cr.yp.to or http://www.djbdns.org/ -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Qmail and Procmail
* Alexander Meis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010406 12:21]: i Try to setup qmail with maildirs and Procmail Mailfiltering. Ok Qmail works. How do i enable the filtering to of Procmail to the ariving Mails ? I found nothing in the manual. Tip 1: Don't start new threads by replying to unrelated messages. Tip 2: If possible, use maildrop instead of procmail. www.courier-mta.org Tip 3: Put the following into your .qmail file |preline procmail -t .procmailrc (assuming that you already have a .procmailrc) -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Can't establish SMTP connection (Error 4.4.1)
* Mac Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010406 11:58]: I've setup a qmail server in our DMZ for relaying mail to the internal Exchange server. We've got two domains and I want the qmail server to forward all mail for one of the domains to the Exchange server. First I've setup the Exchange server to accept @bioid-dev.de in addition to bioid.com. Then I installed qmail on a OpenBSD server in the DMZ. On the qmail server I installed tinydns and configured the Exchange server as MX for bioid-dev.de. In the control directory of qmail I've got an rcpthost file with an entry for bioid-dev.de and a smtproutes file with the line bioid-dev.de:192.186.20.10. The IP is the Exchange server. Any hints what I am missing in my configuration? Give us the output of qmail-showctl. I suspect that the format of the mailroutes file is garbled or permissions are wrong. Double-check the IP given in smtproutes, too. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Mail cleansing program
Hi! I wonder if there is a mail cleansing program out there that is configurable and mime-compliant. By mail cleansing program, I mean a program that can be instructed to only keep the text/plain part of a multipart/alternative message [Oh, I HATE people that send multipart/alternative messages where the text/plain message just says "You can't display HTML mail". Oh the morons.] If it were really cool, it'd even convert text/html to text/enriched... There's some work done in reformime... need I take it from there? -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: I am back to square ONE...
* "Kirti S. Bajwa" [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010406 18:22]: [a whole sh*tload of worthless information] - What is the problem? (Aka: What did you do? What did you expect to happen? What happened?) - What do the logs say (not the smtpd logs, the REAL qmail logs) -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Mail Parsing
* Mathew Chandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010405 06:33]: I would like to know if there is any mail parsing (MIME) library in C which i can use to parse the mails and extract the from address, attachments, body etc from a mail body . Address is in the header. DJB's mess822 does this fine. http://cr.yp.to/ Attachements etc, there is some good work done by MrSam in the "maildrop" package (reformail, reformime) - check http://www.courier-mta.org/ if not please tell me how to handle this in Java There are mail api s in Java to handle this but the question is how to ? -Johan -- Johan Almqvist
Re: Selective Relaying Question
* John Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010404 19:59]: TCPREMOTEIP=192.168.1.1 tcprulescheck /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb # TCPREMOTEIP=192.168.1.1 ./tcprulescheck /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb rule 192.168.: set environment variable RELAYCLIENT= allow connection Apr 4 12:51:48 localhost smtpd: 986403108.545991 tcpserver: status: 1/40 Apr 4 12:51:48 localhost smtpd: 986403108.546582 tcpserver: pid 18906 from 209.114.187.226 Apr 4 12:51:48 localhost smtpd: 986403108.563452 tcpserver: ok 18906 :209.114.187.227:25 :209.114.18 7.226::62174 Apr 4 12:51:48 localhost smtpd: 986403108.566188 tcpserver: end 18906 status 0 Apr 4 12:51:48 localhost smtpd: 986403108.566510 tcpserver: status: 0/40 I hope you weren't intentionally masking your IP addresses to the 192.168 stuff. If you did, the only one you fooled was yourself. The IP addresses in the logs are 209.114.187.226 (remote) amd 209.114.187.227 (local). 209.114 != 192.168. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Mailing from script
* Alex Le Fevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010404 21:16]: The relevant part of the script appears below: Speaking of relevancy, this is pretty irrellevant to this list. You made a perl mistake. $recip = $ARGV[0]; $recip =~ s/\@/\\\@/g; print $recip; open (MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t"); print MAIL "To: $recip\n"; print MAIL "From: quoteoftheday\@schnarff.com\n"; print MAIL "Reply-to: alex\@schnarff.com\n"; print MAIL "Subject: Quote for $date\n"; print MAIL $sdata[rand(@sdata)]; close MAIL; $recip, when I printed it to the screen for testing purposes, came out as user\@domain.com, which is exactly what I need. No it isn't. The =~ s stuff is totally unnecessary, as you're not passing the address on the command line to sendmail... Take out that line and qmail will stop appending the domain... Any idea why the mailwrapper would append my local domain like that? Because it couldn't find a domain. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: isn't this kinda slow?
Please do not start new threads by replying to unrelated messages. * Brett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010404 21:33]: I just ran a test on our machine here and the results are not good. I sent a message bcc'ed to a 1000 different non-existent recipients on another one of our machines. 14 minutes later and only 600 of them have been processed/bounced. This is pretty slow. What about increasing the number of remote processes from 20 to, say, 40? Would this help? It seems like qmail is completely dependent on the smtp connections of other machines. Of course qmail is dependent on the smtp connections. qmail must obviously attemt to deliver the message before it can bounce it, right? Try setting control/concurrencyremote to something around 100 and it'll be faster - provided the "other machine" will accept that many connections. Remember, though, that qmail will make one smtp connection per remote recipient and message. 1000 bcc addresses = 1000 smtp connections. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Mailing from script
* Alex Le Fevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010404 21:44]: No it isn't. The =~ s stuff is totally unnecessary, as you're not passing the address on the command line to sendmail... Maybe I didn't make myself clear. I *am* trying to pass the e-mail address from the command line to sendmail. And yes, $recip *is* user\@domain.com -- I printed it to STDOUT, and it showed up just like that. Aw come on, take away the =~ s line and you'll be fine. I promise. And NO, you're not trying to pass the recip on the command line. Your're passing it on STDIN. IMHO, if the script works fine when I have a hard-coded To: line, and my $recip comes out a replica of my hard-coded To: line, it doesn't seem to me to be a Perl problem. ... -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Tried everything HELP!
* Marcus Ouimet [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010405 00:14]: However I can't seem to receive anything. And no errors seem to be sent to the syslog/maillog file (except for one about the home dir being writable which I already know). Where are the log files defined? How can I fix this? qmail will not deliver your message if the home dir is world writeable. Show us logs of the errors (or non-errors) when the home dir has permissions 700. (of course hostname and mydomain being the real thing). Don't hide stuff. Don't ever hide stuff, or people on this list won't help you. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Fw: How to block an email id in qmail?
* Mathew Chandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010403 10:41]: I have a problem . I have to block an user say [EMAIL PROTECTED] from sending mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . How can i acheive this in qmail. The mail server on mydomain.com is a qmail mail server. I tried doing this using the control file badrecipient in /var/qmail/control directory. But that doesn't work out. Standard qmail does not have a badrecipient file. However, there is a badmailfrom file. So echo "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" /var/qmail/control/badmailfrom should do the trick. Then, [EMAIL PROTECTED] can't send mail to anyone on your host. control/badrcptto is possible with patches from www.qmail.org. Putting [EMAIL PROTECTED] in that file will stop all mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you only want to stop [EMAIL PROTECTED] from sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], you'll need to put things in that users' qmail file. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Why does qmail accept From: and can it be told not to?
* Greg Moeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010403 18:11]: We were just 'gifted' by some lovely Email from a fellow who wished our users to have university degree in a few weeks. The header on his Email looks like: From: Bcc: Subject: You have been accepted! Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 05:39:36 -0400 (EDT) Is an utterly null From line allowed? Yes. And that's a good idea: bounces usually have as the sender, so that double-bounces (and so forth) can be avoided... This is with a standard 1.03 Qmail. From a normal modem, this guy has managed to get our queue to: bash-2.02# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat messages in queue: 83261 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 4 (and this is with a rather powerful multi processor sparc) What can be done about this sort of thing? It's really annoying that one idiot with a modem can destroy a rather large Qmail system. (dual processor ultrasparc, 512Meg RAM, 50Gig RAID) (yes, I lock out his IP, but he just dials in and gets another one) Stock qmail really can't do anything about this, except temporarily block his ISP's entire netblock (putting the entire class C- or B-net into the tcprules file). There are pathes on www.qmail.org that will allow finer measures, such as tarpitting, maxrecipients et al. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: My QMAIL is suddenly broken
* Marco Calistri [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010403 18:50]: I'am getting crazy to find the reason why my qmail refuses to start. How about reading the output of qmail-showctl instead of just posting it? -rw---1 root qmail 0 apr 3 03:14 virtualdomains Using ./qmail-showctl,I get: [ik5bcu@linux bin]$ ./qmail-showctl virtualdomains: Oops! Trouble reading this file. qmail can see this file, but not open it. Either remove it or make it chmod 644. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Some Hints?
* Marco Calistri [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010401 22:12]: Second:how to insert new names into /var/qmail/control/rcpthost unless edit this file? Why would you want to do that? I fear that you are trying to put all domains you want to send mail to into control/rcpthost? You should be using the RELAYCLIENT="" environment variable, from tcpserver or inetd. Have you read the documentation? -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Aliases chdir problems
* Alex Le Fevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010402 17:24]: Since OBSD doesn't seem to want to let me have user names over 8 characters, I'd like to set up an alias to a user account to solve the problem. My impression was that I could just do the following: 1) create /home/alias/.qmail-thealiasname, containing /home/username/Maildir 2) chown that file to alias:qmail 3) create the user's Maildir, making sure it's owned by the user 4) Go! I don't have the domain in virtualdomains, as it's in locals (in fact, it's the primary domain for the machine). I didn't figure this to be a problem, as .qmail-postmaster, .qmail-root, etc., work with that domain just fine. What happens, though, is that qmail tries to make the delivery, and gives me that nasty "unable to chdir to Maildir (4.2.1)" error. I assume it's trying to access the user Maildir as the user specified by .qmail-thealiasname, which obviously isn't right. How can I tell it to go in as the user? Alternately, is there another way to implement this? All I really care about is getting a 9+ character e-mail address set up, I'm not finnicky on how I do it. As the file ~alias/.qmail-theuser is owned by alias (and should be) it should contain usr@me ie the "short" username and one of the local domains so that qmail forwards and doesn't attempt to deliver as the alias user. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Divert RBL messages?
* Tullio Andreatta [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010330 15:09]: I'm looking for a way to divert messages that come from RBL listed hosts on a system-wide basis... All messages from hosts that are in the RBL should go to the spamtrap user for example... I patched rblsmtpd adding an option -T who set RELAYCLIENT to option argument when the host is in rbl (instead of starting it's limited smtp server.) Then I can use virtualdomain support to catch all messages coming from a spam source. See: Thanks, it works like a charm! I'll make a few companion scripts (one to re-inject the message if the admin determines it to be legit and one to insert a header so you can quickly see what RBL it was in). They'll be on my page below. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: bug in qmail? showctl
* Dean Browett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010330 11:24]: As requested... The mail addresses that lie between and are test addresses. The problem lies with the fasttrack-assoc.com domain ONLY. All other domains work fine (or we have had no complaints about mail addresses to date). rcpthosts: SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at asttrack-assoc.com. virtualdomains: Virtual domain: asttrack-assoc.com:asttrack-assoc.com__ Why do you put asttrack-assoc.com in the files if the domain you want to handle is fasttrack-assoc.com [HINT: there's an 'f' missing!] -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Strange Time error
* Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010330 11:43]: I have a strange problem on my qmail server. I have a linux box with time and date setted to right timezone. When i try to deliver a mail directly from the consolle (mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]), qmail deliver the mail but include a strange time. For example: the system date is 11:00 am qmail show 09:00 am. When i download the mail, the mail report 09:00 am, the wrong date. If i send a mail using a PC client and a program like outlook express to [EMAIL PROTECTED] usign qmail as smtp, the mail reach the destination with the right time. qmail-inject will insert GMT time datemail will insert local time. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
A real bouncesaying
Hi! I wonder if anyone has written a real "bouncesaying" (qmails bouncesaying just exits with an exit code that makes qmail-local do the actual bouncing. I want to pipe a message to bouncesaying from mutt, like this: | boucesaying "No subject specified" and it should use the Return-Path to address it and use as the sender... -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: A real bouncesaying
* Johan Almqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010329 11:21]: I wonder if anyone has written a real "bouncesaying" (qmails bouncesaying just exits with an exit code that makes qmail-local do the actual bouncing. With a few pointers from Frank Tegtmeyer, I've now made what I wanted myself. Maybe someone else finds this useful... -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ bouncesaying.sh PGP signature
Divert RBL messages?
Hi! I'm looking for a way to divert messages that come from RBL listed hosts on a system-wide basis... All messages from hosts that are in the RBL should go to the spamtrap user for example... -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: A real bouncesaying
* Felix von Leitner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010329 19:43]: Thus spake Johan Almqvist ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I wonder if anyone has written a real "bouncesaying" (qmails bouncesaying just exits with an exit code that makes qmail-local do the actual bouncing. And what is your problem with that? I can't manually bounce a message from, say, mutt. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Random Bounce
* jean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010328 18:43]: Well, here's the bounce msg. Only the sender's name was changed. The receipient, jmorgan, has a mailbox which works ALMOST all the time ;-) To my novice eyes, the problem is on my isp's server. thanks, jean [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) Do you use Bruce G's qmail+patches rpm and vpopmail? If so, a script in /etc/cron.hourly/ may be the answer... remove it (or rather, move it to a safe place) and recreate the domain. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: unable to get BCC mail in Qmail
* Pradeep Tapase [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010328 19:41]: I just installed new linux server and also qmail on it. I gone as per the howtos given. I am using Maibox format in qmail to distribute mails locally. in this I can receive BCC mail locally, but I am not able to receive mail in BCC from any externel address such as hotmail or yahoo. I am using fetchmail to fetch mail from our webserver and distribute locally. in this I am not configured fetchmail to use any mda from distribution. If any one can help in this regards, i will be very thankful for him This sounds very much like a fetchmail problem, or rather like a design problem in your setup. qmail is never given the Bcc addresses, as fetchmail can't get them from the messages. If the web server were running qmail you'd be fine as you could parse the delivered-to lines... -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: mail not forwarding
* Virginia Chism [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010322 16:58]: OK. I meant to change that. sorry! This is in '/usr/var/qmail/alias' .qmail-fiskrri-info .qmail-postmaster .qmail-webmaster .qmail-mailer-daemon.qmail-root Maildir midnightsun% pwd and .qmail-fiskrri-info loopks like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What do you have in control/rcpthosts? contol/virtual? -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: no mailbox here(#5.1.1) - don't works!
* Massimo Quintini [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010321 16:47]: I have seen the /var/log/maillog... .. there is the msgs 1) "Sorry, no mailbox here ." 2) starting delivery to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the sender) 3) delivery success . Remote_host_said . Don't works!!! 1) in ~alias/.qmail-default I had 1 line with |fastforward 2) I have added a line with [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3) I have sent a msg from hotmail to mydomain ... but it dont works How do you know?? What does the logs say (tm)?? This, btw, is the expected behaviour. See man dot-qmail: ERROR HANDLING If a delivery instruction fails, qmail-local stops immedi- ately and reports failure. qmail-local handles forwarding after all other instructions, so any error in another type of delivery will prevent all forwarding. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: /usr/bin/sendmail -t
* Alex Le Fevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010320 19:03]: EOF -- close the fd. If I'm actually typing my info in -- after calling /usr/bin/sendmail -t from a command line -- is that Ctrl-z? No. Ctrl-z just stops the program. Ctrl-d is what you want. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Deny Relay, Accept local
* mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010314 09:14]: Got a problem here. Using tcpserver to control relay's, but it also blocks local mail. Noticed that once we got tcpserver locked down that the volume of mail diminished, and the queue was getting huge. Here is a tcp.smtp snipette: 207.179.223.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 198.102.252.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow The :allow at the end makes the server an open relay! Not acceptable. No it doesn't. The allow means "allow the connection". RELAYCLIENT="" means "allow relaying to the world". But changing that to deny causes the above symptoms. Here is how qmail is started: -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Resend (No Reply) !!
* Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010221 14:47]: But for outgoing connections, qmail uses all the interface randomly that I have on my machine. That depends on your routing and has nothing to do with qmail. You cannot specifiy an ip to bound to for qmail-remote as i have written. And the patches would be at http://www.qmail.org/local-bind/ http://www.qmail.org/outgoingip.patch http://www.lamer.de/maex/creative/software/qmail/ http://tycho.edico.si/linuxtnt/#qmail-patch -Johan, helping Henning to mouth-feed info :-/ -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Remote CC
* Nilo Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010221 16:06]: Why I get one remote process for each address in a CC, if they are in the same domain ? Because that's the way qmail works. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Suppressing Bounce Messages
* Manvendra Bhangui [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010220 15:28]: I have a problem on my site where lot of my users who have subscribed to external free subscriptions are no longer there. Due to this around 8 bounce message are getting generated daily and clogging up my queue. Is there any way to silently discard these messages without generating a bounce back message. I am running qmail-1.03 Please wrap your lines. If I understand you correctly, what you really may be looking for is the badrcptto patch from www.qmail.org. That will let you "bounce" the messages during the SMTP dialogue, so qmail will not generate the bounce message. Discarding all bounce messages is a bad idea. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: QMTP
* Federico Edelman Anaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010216 12:29]: Where can I get help about qmail with qmtp? http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/qmail-qmtpc.html -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Accept mail for hostmaster@.*
* Fredrik Steen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010213 15:08]: I'm trying to setup a Qmail server. I need it to accept mail for hostmaster@.* without any configuration for new hosts. Example: Is this possible? Besides all the other notes that have been posted, you realize that this means you'll never be able to send mail to hostmasters around the world? If that's really what you want to do, patch qmail-smtpd to lie about the RCPT TO it read, or patch qmail-send to handle hostmaster@ differently. This may be one of the occasion where the obscurness of the task requires the obscureness of sendmail.cf -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Mayor problems with .qmail!
* Halfdan Mouritzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010211 04:57]: In the .qmail-robot file I've written |usr/hotel/topdog/WWW/temp/qmailtest.php Apart from all the other (half-useful) discussion, isn't there a / missing between | and usr/ ? -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: listening of defined IPs only
* Mailing List Address [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010122 17:58]: I'm running qmail with supervise, tcpserver, rblsmtpd etc. How can I make the POP/SMTP servers listen only on the IPs I want them to? man tcpserver? HINT: The zero in tcpserver's arguments means bind to all interfaces... -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: RFC822
* Marcio Sa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010122 18:09]: Timo Geusch wrote: The mailbox file you attached seems to be OK to me. The 'from' line without the colon, but with the time and date and preceded by an empty line is used as a separator between emails in a mailbox file. OTOH, it is very unusual to store email in mailbox format inside Maildir/new. Care to post your startup script here? Hello, Thanks for you response. yes, this is my script: #!/bin/sh # Using splogger to send the log through syslog. # Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Mailbox by default. exec env - DENYMAIL=DNSCHECK DEBUGLEVEL=16 PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start ./Maildir/new/Mailbox splogger qmail ^^^ what is this? Why did you put this here? -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: POP Toaster
* Peder Angvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010121 15:49]: root@dogbert:/var/qmail/control cat virtualhosts webscripting.net:webscripting-net I believe the file is called virtualdomains? man 5 qmail-control -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: qmail-remote Address
* Keary Suska [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010118 05:04]: How can one determine and specify the IP address used by qmail-remote for remote mail delivery? It used the default IP for the host instead of the address for its FQDN. There is a patch for that on www.qmail.org, look after "bind" http://www.qmail.org/local-bind -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Anybody heard from Michael Samuel?
* Magnus Bodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010118 15:26]: On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 08:56:16AM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: I'm removing these links from www.qmail.org. It's been months and months since they worked. Michael Samuel seems to have dropped off the net. Does anybody know otherwise? No. This shows even more the need for multiple archives and mirrors of the contributions around qmail. Shouldn't we build a nice structure around this? Now everyone sits around with their own little qmail-page. If all these were at least archivable together the qmail-world would have been a safer place. As always, I totally agree with Magnus ;- I'd be willing to contribute with time and (maybe) bandwidth. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Possible problem with qmail-qmtpc patch
* Ian Lance Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010116 19:36]: Now I see it. You can't call connect twice on the same socket. This patch, on top of Russ's patch, fixes it. This patch very much fixes it for my patch, too. Thanks a bunch, Ian! This leads me to the next thing (concerning my patch): If someone specifies QMTP to a certain port in control/mailroutes, and that fails - what'd I do? Try SMTP to port 25, give up temporarily (which would happen if it were an SMTP route) of give up permanently (don't think so...) At the moment, SMTP to port 25 will be attempted. If that fails, there'll be a tempoary error. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
New version of my qmail-remote patch
Hi! I've just put out a new version of my patch to qmail-remote. It now includes Ian's patch that allows qmail-remote to try SMTP if the QMTP connection fails. There's nothing left that I'm really unhappy about right now. http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/qmail-qmtpc.html I'd like to thank Russell, Peter and Ian for their "kicking me in gear" and help, respectively. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Mail server madness (with regards to domain names)
* Mark Delany [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010117 21:59]: CNAMEs are a bad thing for email. Check the discussion in THOUGHTS. Change your DNS so that scode is an A rather than a CNAME and the remote MTAs won't bother doing the re-writing. ...and don't test it again until the CNAME is gone (it's time to live expired) as tests from remote machines will find the CNAMES for another while after you update your DNS. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Help for the new guy.
* Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010117 22:06]: permissions of Maildir: drwxr-x--- 5 chandler chandler 512 Jan 17 11:22 Maildir What are the perms on the homedir itself, and what about the subdirectories of Maildir? /usr/home/chandler drwxr-xr-x 41 chandler chandler 3072 Jan 17 10:41 chandler /usr/home/chandler/Maildir drwxr-x--- 5 chandler chandler 512 Jan 17 11:22 . drwxr-xr-x 41 chandler chandler 3072 Jan 17 10:41 .. -rw--- 1 root chandler 537 Jan 17 11:22 chandler drwx-- 2 root chandler 512 Jan 17 01:23 cur drwx-- 2 root chandler 512 Jan 17 01:23 new drwx-- 2 root chandler 512 Jan 17 01:23 tmp There you go... do chown -R chandler.chandler ~chandler/Maildir chmod -R 700 ~chandler/Maildir -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: mailing list
* "James R. Clark II" [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010117 22:09]: I have been having trouble when trying to send out emails to mailing lists in qmail. The local users get teh email fine but the mailing list gets the error I show below. I have all of the permissions correct (as you can see below) and I have recompiled qmail several times. Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with any suggestions! Local users actually get the mail and the .qmail's are in the same directory as the mailing lists .qmails As I already asked you on irc, what are the permissions on /var/qmail (and a new question: what are the permissions on ezmlm-send) -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Possible problem with qmail-qmtpc patch
* Ian Lance Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010115 23:53]:
I don't see it. Russ's patch looks like this (at least, in the
version I downloaded):
+if (qmtp_priority(ip.ix[i].pref)) {
+ if (timeoutconn(smtpfd,ip.ix[i].ip,(unsigned int) qmtp_port,timeoutconnect)
== 0) {
+ tcpto_err(ip.ix[i].ip,0);
+ partner = ip.ix[i].ip;
+ qmtp(); /* does not return */
+ }
+}
+if (timeoutconn(smtpfd,ip.ix[i].ip,(unsigned int) smtp_port,timeoutconnect) ==
0) {
In other words, if the MX priority indicates QMTP, try to make a QMTP
connection. If that connection fails--if it times out, or if the
remote system does not accept the connect request--timeoutconn will
return -1 and qmail-remote will go on to try to make an SMTP
connection.
timeoutconn seems to only return -1 when the attemt times out, NOT if the
remote system doesn't accept the connection attempt. (That's what my
experiments have shown, at least... I'd like very much for this to be
seconded by others before I have another go at this!)
-Johan
--
Johan Almqvist
http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/
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Re: tcpserver/smtp
* Dale Herring [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010116 16:39]: My tcpserver startup looks like this. /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail.mydomian.com \ /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21 | \ /var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d Suggesitons please Starting an smtp server may help tcpserver 0 smtp qmail-smtpd Or, with you paths: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 smtp qmail-smtpd | \ /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: How I block some adresses ?????
Ana, please don't start new threads by replying to old messages! * Ana Paula [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010116 17:03]: I have 55 e-mail addresses of peoples that constantly send SPAMS for my server. I would like to block these addresses for the whole server. How do I make that? Put the addresses, one per line, into /var/qmail/control/badmailfrom Note that this makes qmail-smtpd reject based on the _envelope_ sender. Use Peter's patch at http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/qmail-qmtpc.html to achieve the same thing for qmail-qmtpd. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: QMTP MX-question
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 03:05:16PM +0100, Jurjen Oskam wrote: What are the correct MX-records I should create? I made: quadpro.stupendous.org 86323 MX 12801 a.mx.quadpro.stupendous.org quadpro.stupendous.org 86323 MX 12816 b.mx.quadpro.stupendous.org That is correct. quadpro.stupendous.org 86323 MX 12801 a.mx.quadpro.stupendous.org quadpro.stupendous.org 86323 MX 12816 a.mx.quadpro.stupendous.org quadpro.stupendous.org 86323 MX 12832 b.mx.quadpro.stupendous.org Quoting http://cr.yp.to/proto/mxps.txt " Example: [...] B.EXAMPLE.ORG IN MX 12801 A.EXAMPLE.ORG IN MX 12816 C.EXAMPLE.ORG [...] A sender with a message for B.EXAMPLE.ORG will try A.EXAMPLE.ORG by QMTP, then C.EXAMPLE.ORG by SMTP. If it does not support QMTP, it may try SMTP instead of QMTP, or it may skip A.EXAMPLE.ORG." Note the "...or it may skip..." part. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Possible problem with qmail-qmtpc patch
Hi! I think there may be a problem with the patches to qmail-remote that make it speak QMTP based on MXPS. If the QMTP connection fails (because the remote host doesn't have a qmtpd running) this failure will be logged as deferral: Connected_to_194.47.249.19_but_connection_died._(#4.4.2)/ which means that the message will not be retried at the next best MX but go back to the queue. There is also a minor glitch in my patch that would make qmail-remote try SMTP if a QMTP connection can't be established, even if QMTP is forced by control/mailroutes. I think this is NOT what people would expect? -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Possible problem with qmail-qmtpc patch
* Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010114 19:39] That's a misconfiguration. I'd rather that the email bounced than it got delivered via SMTP silently. Well, at the moment it'll only be bounced after queuelifetime... It could be that someone unaware of the MXPS standard (which admittedly includes 99.99% of the world's population) could have set their MX priority to 12801. If so, it's best to ask them to change their MX priority. Agreed. What happens if they don't? It's much more likely that someone intends that the email be delivered via qmtpd but it is failing to run for some reason. If we fall back to smtp, they'll never know that it's failing unless they're watching their qmail logs carefully. ...or look at their Received: lines from time to time. After setting up QMTP service and MXPS I suspect most people will watch their logs rather closely for a few days... -Johan PS: Love the double spacing... -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Possible problem with qmail-qmtpc patch
* Jurjen Oskam [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010114 20:25] What happens in the following case: quadpro.stupendous.org 86323 MX 12801 a.mx.quadpro.stupendous.org quadpro.stupendous.org 86323 MX 12817 b.mx.quadpro.stupendous.org ...when qmtpd isn't reachable on a.mx.quadpro.stupendous.org? That's the problem I tried to describe. In my experience, the message goes back to the queue and will be retried to a.mx.quadpro.stupendous.org by QMTP later. And this will happen until qmail-send decides the message has been in the queue too long, whereupon it will be bounced. However, I'm not 100% sure about this, as my network setup is a little too small and limited by university-controlled firewalls and university- administered DNS servers. delivered via qmtpd but it is failing to run for some reason. If we fall back to smtp, they'll never know that it's failing unless they're watching their qmail logs carefully. But isn't that a bit in contradiction with the concept of backup MX'es? Er, yes. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Possible problem with qmail-qmtpc patch
* Johan Almqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010114 15:45]: I think there may be a problem with the patches to qmail-remote that make it speak QMTP based on MXPS. If the QMTP connection fails (because the remote host doesn't have a qmtpd running) this failure will be logged as deferral: Connected_to_194.47.249.19_but_connection_died._(#4.4.2)/ which means that the message will not be retried at the next best MX but go back to the queue. Ok, as I said, my test setup wasn't the best, so this only happens if the host is _there_ but not running qmtpd. That's probably what we want anyhow... -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: In a perfect world
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 07:44:31PM +0100, Felix von Leitner wrote: Thus spake Russell Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): In a perfect world, QMTP would require that a qmtpd accept VERP-formatted envelope senders. And qmail would collate remote deliveries by hostname, and dump all copies of a piece of email to all the recipients at once. I have customers for whom that would be an incredibly good win. Of course, in a perfect world, email would never bounce, so what am I talking about?? Doesn't qmail-qmtpd accept VERPs? Yes it does! (But that was rather complicated to test :-) Anyway, VERP expansion is done by qmail-send, but only qmail-remote (two exec's later) knows whether the remote host is a QMTP host... Humm. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: QMTP running on sources.redhat.com
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:38:23PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: Now, who wants to work on cqmtp (compressed quick mail transport protocol)? :) No reason why you couldn't run gzip on the whole chunk before sending it off. Save the children! Save Dave and Virginia! http://cr.yp.to/sarcasm/modest-proposal.txt -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: badmailfrom for qmail-qmtpd
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:18:03PM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote: Johan apparently did something wrong, the patch itself 403's. It's on http://www.dataloss.net/qmtpd-badmailfrom-1.1.patch for now. mutt's paranoid umask got in my way. A chmod 644 later, all is in order. Sorry 'bout that. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
