Solaris Delays?
Hi All, I'm running qmail 1.03 under tcpserver on both Solaris and Linux. The tcpserver command is: exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -D -v -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c $MAXSMTPD \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 When a user wants to send an email, Qmail on Linux, which is on my local LAN, will accept the initial connection immediately, handle the traffic to send the email, and return nearly immediately. Qmail on Solaris, which is on a machine in our colo facility, hangs for 15-20 seconds, and then finally allows the email to be sent. I've used netstat (the connect is made to the machine almost immediately, but there's still that hang), snoop (far too much traffic to make sense of that), and I still cannot figure out what's taking so long for the initial part of the conversation to go through. Any ideas or suggestions onwhat could be causing this initial annoying pause? -Ken
Re: POP user auth
On Tuesday 06 March 2001 8:54 am, Chad Cranston wrote: Forgive me for being a beginner .. Never! I was *born* knowing 'vi', shouldn't everyone? *smile* I installed qmail about 2 months ago to use as an SMTP server for home and have tried to get pop working on it .. I am using Maildir ... i origionally installed qmail using mailbox ... and switched to maildir following lifewithqmail.org's instructions ... Everything seems to be working right up until it auth's the user ... for some reason it won't auth .. i have created several test users ..and the same failure resuts from all of them i get the error "Your password was rejected " on all accounts ... I installed the pop that comes with qmail, and found two things: 1) the authdaemond.plain wasn't running, or 2) the authdaemond.ldap was running, but I had no ldap daemon. In either case, I editted the /usr/local/libexec/authlib/authdaemond script so that it didn't try to run the ldap version, and my problems went away. -- Ken Corey, CTOAtomic Interactive, Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NOVICE no mailbox here by tht name...
Hi All, Newbie alert: if you're busy, don't read. I'm hoping you can point out where I went wrong here... I started with a Suse6.3 machine. I removed the sendmail.rpm. I followed the life-with-qmail directions to install a Mailbox+df version of qmail, almost to the letter, with two exceptions: 1) The two times it said to start 'qmail' with '/usr/local/sbin/qmail' I started it with '/usr/bin/qmail'. 2) I have a list of domains that resolve to my local machine that I wanted to receive mail for, so I put them in both locals and rcpthosts. So, then I tried to send local email: mail kcorey testing . The errors I get in the log are: The 'kcorey' mailbox doesn't exist, so qmail tries to bounce this to 'postmaster'. The 'postmaster' mailbox doesn't exist, so it bounces to 'root'. The 'root' mailbox doesn't exist, so it gives up as a triple-bounce undeliverable. Both the 'kcorey' and 'root' accounts exist in /etc/passwd, and I made the symlinks back to /var/spool/mail. (Postmaster doesn't exist, so I'd expect an error of some kind there.) Why does qmail think those two mailboxes do not exist? (Note: I get this error with /var/spool/mail chmodded to 1777, and with or without the symlinks being there for the mail files in /var/spool/mail. The FAQ doesn't seem to answer this specifically, and when I looked through the archives, all I saw were replies about upper case or dotted usernames. Ideas anyone? -- Ken Corey, CTOAtomic Interactive, Ltd.
Re: Solved! NOVICE no mailbox here by that name...Feh
On Thursday 01 March 2001 10:27 am, Olivier M. wrote: have you _really_ followed all the steps of the LWQ ? if yes, root would have a mailbox in /var/qmail/alias/Mailbox. Does this directory exists ? The directory /var/qmail/alias exists, with a file called 'Mailbox'. Actually, I found two problems with my setup: 1) I hadn't installed dot-forward, so the attempt to deliver to any mail box died with the mail box didn't exist (it was really that it couldn't find dot-forward). I found the proper error message by trying a '.qmail-default' mailbox. Compiling and then installing dot-forward into /usr/bin/dot-forward fixed it. 2) my links were (naively) pointing the wrong direction from the ~user/Mailbox file to /var/spool/mail/$user, rather than the other direction. Duh. Please show us the qmail users from /etc/passwd. They're in there: alias:x:508:101::/var/qmail/alias:/bin/bash qmaild:x:509:101::/var/qmail:/bin/bash qmaill:x:510:101::/var/qmail:/bin/bash qmailp:x:511:101::/var/qmail:/bin/bash qmailq:x:512:102::/var/qmail:/bin/bash qmailr:x:513:102::/var/qmail:/bin/bash qmails:x:514:102::/var/qmail:/bin/bash Good luck :) Actually, it must be said that this is coming together in less than 12 hours. Remarkable for a full internet capable mail client! Kudos all around! PS: if you followed the INSTALL file of the qmail-1.03 tar.gz, it would work... :) Ah, I followed the wrong document, then...but it never explicitly states that you should install the dot-forward. It only refers to it in the FAQ, and the error message isn't illuminating in this case. Also, the wording of the link text confused me. Not that that takes a great deal of effort these days...;^) Now "all" I need to do is get pop3 working, and I'm set... -- Ken Corey, CTOAtomic Interactive, Ltd.
