Re: move vpopmail user account to a new qmail server
vincent wrote: hi,all i have a problem cd /home/vpopmail/ tar czf domains.tgz domains then,i copy domains.tgz to new qmail server and cd /home/vpopmail tar zxvf domains.tgz after i do all above i use outlook express to pop mail from new qmail server,it always ask password autherization,i think i input the right password,what's the reason,can someone point me in the right direction? To move all your domains you also need the entries from /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts /var/qmail/control/morercpthosts /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains and /var/qmail/users/assign Also make sure the vpopmail uid/gid is the same on both machines, otherwise you will need to change the uid/gid values in /var/qmail/users/assign Ken Jones
Re: qmail logging
phase wrote: I currently have qmail logging via syslog to maillog. I would like to change the log files to log to the /var/log/qmail dir. This is my rc file. #!/bin/sh exec env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:$PATH \ qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail as u see it uses the splogger.. I've found one example but it uses cyclog which I can't find in the latest daemontools where it should be? It goes something like this.. #!/bin/sh exec env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:$PATH \ qmail-start ./Mailbox /usr/local/bin/accustamp \ | setuser qmaill /usr/local/bin/cyclog /var/log/qmail In short, can I use splogger or any other log tool to direct logging to the /var/log/qmail dir how would the rc file look like? thanxs.. Take a look at http://www.inter7.com/qmailmrtg7/ It has sample startup scripts and of course, mrtg graphs for all the logs. Basicly this is the startup script (from the qmailmrtg7 INSTALL doc) 1. How should I start qmail, smtp and pop to create the right kind of logs? First make sure you have the log directories: mkdir /var/log/qmail mkdir /var/log/pop3 mkdir /var/log/smtp chown qmaill /var/log/qmail chown qmaill /var/log/pop3 chown qmaill /var/log/smtp Then start up qmail env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin \ qmail-start ./Maildir/ | /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill \ /usr/local/bin/multilog t n100 s100 /var/log/qmail env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin \ tcpserver -v -H -R -l$HOSTNAME -c200 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \ $HOSTNAME \ /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21 | \ /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill \ /usr/local/bin/multilog t n100 s100 /var/log/pop3 env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin \ tcpserver -v -H -R -l$HOSTNAME -x /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \ -c200 -u8002 -g8001 0 25 fixcrio /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 | \ /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill \ /usr/local/bin/multilog t n100 s100 /var/log/smtp
Re: question about email redirection with vpopmail
jcarreiro wrote: hello my qmail server with vpopmail works just fine ... I have some email redirections working in .qmail-xx files in each domain folder. for redirection i use: [EMAIL PROTECTED] now, how to do to keep the message in the user box and send a copy to another address ?? many thanks. Add a second line to the .qmail- file with a full path the the users Maildir For example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/vpopmail/domains/somedomain/someuser/Maildir/ Ken Jones
Re: aliases with vpopmail
jcarreiro wrote: Hi all ! actually i use aliases with fastforward and /etc/aliases i'm migrating to vpopmail and i'm wondering if there's a better aliases management with vpopmail ... thx in advance. The current stable version of vpopmail puts the alias files in each virtual domain directory. One directory per domain. The new development version supports this, and also for mysql and oracle allows for putting the aliases in the database. A new command line program, valias, and a new set of api's provide for maintaining virtual domain aliases, be they in a database or in the .qmail files. Ken Jones
mrtg for tcpserver -v
Are there any mrtg modules to graph tcpserver -v output? Ken Jones
Re: vpopmail ip-alias-domains
Eric Bockstahler wrote: I've compiled vpopmail with ip-alias-domains=y but am unable to use pop on virtual domains without the % sign. DNS and reverse are set up correctly. HELP! Eric Bockstahler System Administrator Jiffy-tite Company, Inc. 4437 Walden Ave. Lancaster, NY 14086 (716) 681-7200 voice (716) 681-7788 fax web http://www.jiffy-tite.com email [EMAIL PROTECTED] vpopmail no longer depends on DNS. Use the vipmap program. -- Ken Jones "Live Free, Live GPL" http://www.inter7.com/
[announcement] VQadmin new version 1.3 available
A new version of vqadmin is now available. vqadmin-1.3 Virtual Qmail Web Administrator (VqAdmin) is a CGI Web program to allow virtual email hosting machine administators to add, delete, and modify virtually hosted email domains and users using vpopmail. Authentication is provided by ACLs and the Apache htpasswd method. Machine Administrators can add/delete virtual email domains, and tech users can admin user email accounts such as setting passwords, disk quotas, and privileges. Requires: qmail http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html vpopmail http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/ Changes http://www.vpopmail.cx/vqadmin-ChangeLog Download http://www.vpopmail.cx/vqadmin-1.3.tar.gz Changes: 1) fixed problem with creating new domains 2) Added autoconf / automake scripts. The install procedure is now: ./configure make make install 3) Added support for creating virtual email domains under any /etc/passwd user. The default is vpopmail. 4) configure/Makefile automatically detects which libraries and headers to link. 5) New INSTALL documentation Cheers, Ken Jones inter7
Re: What are these messages mean?
Chrisanthy Carlane wrote: Greetings everybody! I received a bounce message like this, there are some things that I don't understand, can anyone help me? I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce bounced! [EMAIL PROTECTED]=20: The line above shows you the email address it was trying to deliver to. You'll notice that it is not a valid email address because the domain name is not valid. yahoogroups.com=20 is not a valid domain. Ken Jones Sorry, I couldn't find any host named yahoogroups.com=20. (#5.1.2) --- Below this line is the original bounce. Return-Path: #How come there is no return path? Received: (qmail 25396 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2001 02:18:21 - Received: from unknown (HELO sales) (10.10.10.127) #I think the HELO should be the name of the mail server?
Re: Qmail and Large Scale Dynamic Mailings
Wayne Chu wrote: I feel our discussion starts to become OT. I tried to be calm and I won't discuss it any more after this. Obviously this is a hot topic for you. So, without furthre evidence, you are obviously a person who will exploit the edge of spam related email. I have a question for you Sir. Are you going to be sending these "emails" to your local list of accounts. Or will this be going out to other lists? How have you received these lists of emails? Ken Jones From: "Ken Jones" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ah.. So you are not a spammer, except you assume all your "customers" want your email. Besides that moral issue, do you have measured information about the delivery statistics of qmail version other options? I said "subscriber", that means we send e-mail to users who willingly "subscribe" our newsletters on our web page. We don't send unsolicited emails to people who did not subscribe our newsletters. We surveyed other email options. We chose qmail because the information we gathered told us that qmail is one of the fastest MTA sending outgoing email. And we like the VERPs capability of qmail. With it we could effectively eliminate expired addresses. Are you saying that your country is a pirate economy? Shall I embarrase you and trace your email? or do you wish to reveal which country you are from? Does your country harbor pirates? If you so insist, I am from Taiwan. Here is my company: http://www.etwebs.com/ http://www.etmc.com.tw/ These pages are writen in Chines language. Welcome to give us a little more pageview count. Sir. If your users are on your machines, you can just copy your emails to thier directories. But.. it seems like your users are spread over other peoples machines. Hence.. by definition, you are a spammer, sir. What's your definition of "spammer"? If you mean anyone who send large quantity of email on the net, regardless unsolicited or solicited. I feel that this classification may not be fair. I don't know why you are so harsh at this issue. Maybe you have seen a lot of hateful spammers in your email admin career? But I say it again, we don't want to cause any people annoyance. If you feel discussing mass-mailing techniques on the list will benefit or encourage potential spammers. I agree. I did not thought about this danger at first. But please don't berascal people (and their country!) who just ask questions. Thank you. Ken Jones
Re: Qmail and Large Scale Dynamic Mailings
Jenny Holmberg wrote: Ken Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I appologize to easily catorgorize this person as a spammer. Howver, the bulk of email produced on the internet is from spam sites. Jenny, how much experience do you have with spam sites? have you designed, operated and maintained a spam site? I am postmaster at one of the largest ISPs in Sweden, and I have been working with antispam issues since 1995. I certainly have never been in any way involved in designing, operating and maintaining spam sites. But I am involved in running a mailinglist server, for confirmed opt-in mailinglists, and find the issues of how to handle mailinglist traffic in a non-abusive way quite important. A very valid point of view. However you do not offer any proof of the prior persons orignal posting. Of course there are valid reasons why we should develop the most effiecent method to deliver large quantities of email. Of course. This is part of most large ISP's daily activies. Consider, for instance, that one of our mailinglist (say, the one about cat care and feeding) has a whole lot of subscribers from one of our competitors - not an unlikely scenario for a Swedish mailinglist, as there aren't really that many big providers here. When a listmail goes out, depending on our concurrencyremote settings , it's entirely possible that that provider's mailserver will be tied up handling the list mail for quite some time. This might upset them - I know I'd get upset if someone was doing it to my servers. In fact, I've been forced to temporarily block maillist servers which behaved that way - not because the mails themselves were spam, but because the behaviour of the listserver caused problems for my servers. Excuse me, My point was not a valid email list. My point was the original poster did not present a valid argument why this activity should occur. We are not stupid. We know this type of activity is valid for a norrmal ISP. My point is: shall we provide technology to pirates? Please excuse me for deleting the rest of yoru email.. I agree with you on your points. My only disagreement is that we are handing away exploitive technology to abusive people. Not only are we giving away exploitive technology, we are helping them become rich. And hence offering them a step up into the uppper reaches of society. Do you want to support pornographers becoming the benefactors in your local town. I do not want to. Ken Jones
Re: Quota exceeded?
Kimberly Vher wrote: see the script mailquotacheck.sh in life with qmail at www.qmail.org At 10:07 PM 12/6/2000 -0300, Francisco André Barbosa Neto wrote: Hi, it´s me again! I forgot to ask a question, anybody knows how can I configure qmail to bounce a message when a disk space of an user is full, in other words, when a user´s quota exceeded? Andre Qmail does not relate itself to file system quotas. If you want to create a quota system based on your usage, perhaps you should investigate all the possible options of efficent quota methodologies. Ken Jones
Re: pop3 conections
Francisco André Barbosa Neto wrote: Hi, my name is Andre and I´m a new user of qmail! I read a lot of documentation but I didn´t found information about how to control the incoming pop3 conections. POP is a different protcol from either local or remote email delivery. And a different protocol from smtp reception. My system is using both qmail-smtp and qmail-pop3d with tcpserver, and that´s the problem, with inetd we can control the incoming pop3 conections based on a range of i´address using the files hosts.allow and hosts.deny, so how can I do the same restrictions with the tcpserver?? If you took the time to read the documentation on tcpserver and it's associated allow/deny methodology, you will recognize that it is based on IP addresses. Which implies a fundamental weakness in DNS poisoning. Which is a different discussion. I'm assuming you mean "i'address" means IP addresses. if you can not limit access to your service handled by a tcpserver process, you have not investigated the -x option and all it entails. Please do not bother the list with questions that can easily be answered by careful examination of available documentation. Ken Jones Thank you by your attention!! Andre
Re: help with virtualdomains
Black Ice wrote: I'm having a slight problem getting qmail to deliver messages correctly for a virtual domain i'm trying to set up. First you must define what you mean by a virtual domain. The domain is neondesign.net, to an account named raw. An account named raw. Shall we assume you mean an entry in /etc/passwd with an associated entry in /etc/group, or do you mean something else. If you are not precise in your information, how can anyone help decode your cryptic language? control/virtualdomains has neondesign.net:raw in it, and neondesign.net is in rcpthosts and locals, So your "domain" (yet undefined how you use it) and the "account" (we shall assume you mean an /etc/passwd entry) has a home directory. Shall we also assume you have a directory entry in the /etc/passwd account for raw? Shall we also assume you have a valid shell path for raw? Apparently you assume we will. ~raw/.qmail-default has ./Mailbox. .qmail-default.. what about .qmail? you don't have a .qmail file either? Shall we assume your qmail-start line as well? Did you start it up with Mailbox or Maildir? Please be specific. sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] works, but no other [EMAIL PROTECTED] works. it just gets kicked back with "no mailbox here by that name". I have a feeling that it's something simple that i'm overlooking. Hopefully someone can shed some light on this. Thanks. It would help if you read all the documentation first. And would understand the meaning of locals/rcpthosts/virtualdomains and the associated processing of virtualdomain tags, and the associated processing of /var/qmail/users/assign files. Ken Jones
Re: how many connections?
Peter Samuel wrote: On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Martin Volesky wrote: ... Qmail lacks the ability of multiple delivery per connection that other MTA agents (sendmail *cough*) have. There has been proof on this list that overall performance of qmails delivery mechanism is more efficent that "other MTA agents" multiple delivery mechanisms. If you want real answers, please provide real factual proof that can be replicated by others. Otherwise, your statements are groundless and inflamitory. Why are you stirring a pot you have no idea of it's contents? Ken Jones
Re: Qmail and Large Scale Dynamic Mailings
Mark Delany wrote: On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 11:15:45AM +0800, Wayne Chu wrote: Am Mittwoch, 6. Dezember 2000 22:04 schrieb Thomas Duterme: How about increasing your concurrencyremote to something like 100? you most likely are hitting your limits. Good point. Will try that tonight. I've gotten some problems before from ISP's blocking us when I went up to 240...I'm not quite sure what the highest polite limit on this should be. My newsletter program calls qmail-qmqpc directly. Does qmail send mails to recpt in the order I write the address to qmail-qmqpc? It surely does. But that's ultimately just a queuing order and it doesn't necessarily mean a delivery order. Delivery order depends on DNS servicing smtp servicing and the exact code you are using to inject emails into qmail-pmpqc. For example, if I wrote addresses A, B, C to qmail-qmqpc. Will qmail first invokes qmail-remote to send mail to A And then (concurrently, before the first qmail-remote finishes) invokes another qmail-remote to B, and then to C? As it happens, yes. I don't believe that it is gauranteed in any documentation, therefore relying on this current behaviour may be risky. Your delivery order depends on your remote concurrency limitations, the availablity of dns results and your disk IO. Why are you so concerned about delivery order? What is your ultimate goal? Why is delivery order such a concern? If so, maybe I can sort my subscriber list first, that subscribers in the same mail server will be distrubuted among the whole list evenly. So I can minimize the chance of overflooding a certain server? Sounds like it might help, but consider the case of a particular domain that is not accepting mail. At the time of the first retry, perhaps the only recipients left are to that domain in which case it may well get hit with the full concurrency of your server. My point is that this *may* help in some circumstances, but it's by no means bullet-proof. Regards. You are wondering how you can spread your out going smtp deliveries across multiple recipient smtp servers. Why? What kind of email load are you imposing on the internet? Are you perhaps a person who has long lists of email accounts? Perhaps they are all sorted based on host name? Perhaps alot of the host names are yahoo.com? So.. You sit back.. and launch your spam list on the internet, and you wonder why.. when it gets to the yahoo.com list... it stalls with 255 remote deliveries, and they all take a long time to complete. And you are upset because you can't get your spam list delivered? Just what kind of email are you delivering? Your questions smack of spam problems. Ken Jones
Re: Qmail and Large Scale Dynamic Mailings
Mark Delany wrote: On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:41:28PM -0600, Ken Jones wrote: Mark Delany wrote: On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 11:15:45AM +0800, Wayne Chu wrote: Am Mittwoch, 6. Dezember 2000 22:04 schrieb Thomas Duterme: How about increasing your concurrencyremote to something like 100? you most likely are hitting your limits. Good point. Will try that tonight. I've gotten some problems before from ISP's blocking us when I went up to 240...I'm not quite sure what the highest polite limit on this should be. My newsletter program calls qmail-qmqpc directly. Does qmail send mails to recpt in the order I write the address to qmail-qmqpc? It surely does. But that's ultimately just a queuing order and it doesn't necessarily mean a delivery order. Delivery order depends on DNS servicing smtp servicing and the exact code you are using to inject emails into qmail-pmpqc. Right. But all things being equal, their will be a very strong correlation between the injection order and the delivery order. DNS lookups may certainly perturb this, but don't fundamentally change it in anyway. Okay. All things being equal. I can understand that. Would you please explain what you mean "all things being equal". How do we relate an unprecise english phrase to email delivery? Unless you post exact information about your exact case with exact log information.. Perhaps we should all bow down and worhship the mystical order of the "blah blah". My meaning is.. Unless you post your exact information, you are just posing a hypothetical situation. If you want answers to your "hypothetical" situation, that's fine. But I expect you have a defined goal in mind. And I expect any hypothetical answer will not solve your particular problem. If you wish for me to attempt to solve your problem. I'm willing to devote my limited resources. However, you have not posted your dns information, nor your email delivery information. Shall we attempt to devine your intensions from you unclear descriptions? As it happens, yes. I don't believe that it is gauranteed in any documentation, therefore relying on this current behaviour may be risky. Your delivery order depends on your remote concurrency limitations, the availablity of dns results and your disk IO. No, yes, no. Concurrency does not change order. DNS results may perturb order, disk IO is unlikely to change order. In other words, there remains a strong correlation. Your point is? DNS order of service information completely depends on the DNS service you are relying on. Do you attempt to decieve us and say that all DNS services act the same? Please provide exact information about the dns results you are receiveing so that others may attempt to duplicate your results. Why are you so concerned about delivery order? What is your ultimate goal? I think the original poster made that clear. He wants to minimize the concurrency to any one domain by sorting the recipients in such a way that the recipient domains are distributed across the whole list. So, you wish to minimize the concurrency on your machine, or do you wish to minimize the delivery speed. I suspect the original poster is attempting to minimize the delivery to the recipient. Can you please post delivery speed information for multiple reciepients to a singular domain versus alternative mail delivery agents? Or are you just another poser? Why is delivery order such a concern? How is this a different question from "Why are you so concerned" etc. Because, unless you have been living in a cave, all of us email admins have to deal with people who are concerned about "email throughput". And most of those people are illegal spammers who are hard to take to court. Why did you evade my question? If you are a real person with a non-illegal concern, please post your company information, email address dns host name, company phone number, corporate officers names to this list. I'm sure you won't. So.. You sit back.. and launch your spam list on the internet, and you wonder why.. when it gets to the yahoo.com list... it stalls with 255 remote deliveries, and they all take a long time to complete. And you are upset because you can't get your spam list delivered? Just what kind of email are you delivering? Ken. You're assuming a spammer here - if you're wrong what do you think you're achieving apart from besmerching his name? Prove me wrong sir. In any event, if you've worked with large lists and large delivery capabilities, you'll know that many sites *do* block based on concurrency. Why only a month or so ago I was working with a company that does 20+million deliveries on a busy day and they were blocked by hotmail based on exceeding concurrent connection limits. It took quite an amount of work to have hotmail remove their automat
Re: how many connections?
Martin Volesky wrote: Ken Jones writes... There has been proof on this list that overall performance of qmails delivery mechanism is more efficent that "other MTA agents" multiple delivery mechanisms. Ken, I agree with you that the qmail delivery process is possibly more efficient. However, when talking to large mail hubs that use any type of connection queing/throtling mechanisms, the qmail method may run into problems. Martin, I understand your problem. However, you do not have any proof. Please provide proof of your imagined "problem" so that real people can design fixes to your "problem". Without real proof and measured performance, your supositions are just fancifal abstractions. And have no real persumption to reality. Ken Jones
Re: Qmail and Large Scale Dynamic Mailings
Wayne Chu wrote: No, I am NOT spamming. Our company runs serveral daily e-newsletter, with totally about a half million of subscribers. We are planning to make an "open" newsletter plateform, let our web site members create their own personal newsletter ( authenticated and supervised by our staff to prevent spam mail ). we estimated the total number of subscribers and the number of newsletter will grow even more. Surely our member would want their newsletters to be sent ASAP. So we have to increase concurrency. Ah.. So you are not a spammer, except you assume all your "customers" want your email. Besides that moral issue, do you have measured information about the delivery statistics of qmail version other options? And our company is not in USA. In our country, there are only few large major ISPs dominate the market. I don't know what's the case in US, but nearly half of our current subscribers come from only 4 ISPs. We encountered only slight SMTP blocking problems now. But we expect the problem will grow with our subscribers and concurrency settings. Are you saying that your country is a pirate economy? Shall I embarrase you and trace your email? or do you wish to reveal which country you are from? Does your country harbor pirates? That's why we are looking for ways to deliver large number of newsletters with maximum speed possible, without overloading remote mail servers. If my questions cause controversy, I apologize. But never did I intend to abuse Internet e-mail. Sir. If your users are on your machines, you can just copy your emails to thier directories. But.. it seems like your users are spread over other peoples machines. Hence.. by definition, you are a spammer, sir. Ken Jones
Re: vpopmail
Peter Green wrote: [ send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to subscribe to the vpopmail mailing list. ] also sprach ch: Are there rpm packages available for vpopmail and qmailadmin? No. A UID and GID is required at compile-time to build the vpopmail package. Since there is no vpopmail RPM, I'm guessing that no one has gone through the trouble of making one for qmailadmin. There is a guy, can't remember his name, that has vpopmail in the freeBSD ports. freeBSD decided to allocate a uid/gid to vpopmail. uid = 89, gid=89. It should be included in the next freeBSD CD and on the ports list. Perhaps this uid/gid pair can be used on linux too? Ken Jones http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/
Re: Linux7
Mike Jimenez wrote: Quick question has anyone run into any problems running Qmail or vpopmail on Linux Redhat 7? Thanks Mike I compiled qmail and vpopmail on redhat 7 the other day. Worked great. ken Jones inter7
Re: Linux7
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken Jones wrote: I compiled qmail and vpopmail on redhat 7 the other day. Worked great. ken Jones inter7 How did you set you setup xinetd? I don't use xinetd for anything. In fact I usually turn it off. I use tcpserver to run smtp and pop. ken Jones
Re: Vpopmail question
Kris Keele wrote: Is there a way to so that your external mail clients can check mail with just a user name instead of using user%domain.com? KRis You can set up one domain to use just user instead of user%domain.com add --enable-default-domain=domain.com in your configure options. The only way to make this work for more than one domain is to use IP based domains, as opposed to the default name based domains. Add -enable-ip-alias-domains=y to your configure options and add the IP's for each domain to your machine. Make sure your DNS resolves the IP's do the domain name. Then have the users pop into the IP's for thier domain. Ken Jones
vpopmail 4.9.5 development version available
Changes: Oct 5 - integrated Krzysztof Dabrowski changes to the source code for setting up domains under /etc/passwd users other than vpopmail. - vadduser: fix command line parsing, fix core dumps on incomplete command line options, add check for ctrl-D break out of vgetpassword function. - updated vauth_getpw in cdb module to return error if program does not have permission to get a write lock - updated vuserinfo to have new output syntax, plus will output all fields for a user if no options except email address is given. - removed redundant chdir() in vadduser in vpopmail.c The major change is domain based quotas. Virtual email domains can be added under any /etc/passwd users home directory. All email is stored under that users uid/gid in thier home directory. Then operating system based user quotas will apply to the virtual email domain. New option to vadddomain -u username where username is a username from /etc/passwd For example vadddomain -u kbo kbo.com test where kbo's home directory is /home/kbo This will create a /home/kbo/domains/kbo.com directory where all the vpopmail directories and emails get stored as the kbo user. It only been tested with the cdb module. I've found it works with under any user and also under the vpopmail user. Thanks to Krzysztof Dabrowski for the majority of the new code. Ken Jones http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/
Re: Mass Mailout Performance Tips
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My apologies for the last incomplete message Hi, Does anyone have some tips on getting peak performance out of mass mailings with qmail. We regularly send out newsletters to over 500,000 email address's on a weekly/fortnightly basis. I've looked through the archives and there are some excellent tips but I'm still hoping to push it further as a full mailout takes nearly a day. My current setup is qmail-1.03 with Russell Nelson's big-todo patch conf-split is set to 47 concurrencyremote is set to 240 We have written a simple perl script that takes the whole mailout and pipes it directly to qmail-inject The mailout flies with the concurrencyremote being hit after the pipe to qmail-inject is closed but it takes a long long long time for the qmail-inject process to finish. Does anyone have any tips on how to analyse the performance bottle-necks .. disk / bandwidth etc ( this is a redhat linux 6.1 box) or tips on a better way of doing this. Regards, Simon E. I've had good luck with some rate limiting tricks. 1) Inject 500 messages then wait 2 seconds. This seems to give qmail-send time to process the 500 messages and kick off more qmail-remotes before it has to deal with the next 500 new messages. 2) Call qmail-queue directly, saves on one fork/exec 3) have the perl script monitor the size of the queue. Slow down the rate of injection if the queue gets above 10K or if the todo gets above 2K. Qmail's ability to fork qmail-remote processes drops when the inode trees get large. Ken Jones inter7
Re: .qmail-default vs .qmail-user
Manuel Gisbert wrote: Hello everybody, running qmail 1.03 vpopmail 4.9 I discovered the following prob, which confuses me a lot: I have set up virtualdomain without any users, instead i use .qmail-user files in that dir to add all incoming mail to maildirs in another virtual domain. What confuses me is, that in case of .qmail-default being present and nonempty .qmail-default is processed instead of .qmail-user while in case of .qmail-default being absent the mail is correctly routed to the proper maildir... Why is .qmail-default processed if .qmail-user is present and nonempty??? Thanx Manuel Look into how qmail-local processes mail. It is the local delivery agent. According to the qmail-local man page, it will look for .qmail-user first and if found use it. It will only look at .qmail-default if a .qmail-user file is not found. Permissions and ownerships of the .qmail files are always a good thing to check. ken jones inter7
Re: Qmail DNS
Jonathan Fanti wrote: I am setting up a mail router here at work, I realise that the box I am running qmail on needs also to be running DNS. Is it okay for this to be a name-caching only server with forwards to my ISP's DNS server? Sure that would work. It would also work to not forward to your ISP's dns, but to go directly to the root servers. If you like to experiment, try installing Dan Bernstiens local caching dns software: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns Ken Jones
Re: file /users/assign
Marco wrote:
Hi,
I tried the diagnostic utility www.qmail.org/qmail-lint-0.55 and I
received this message:
Warning: users/assign checking not implemented
The file contains the following:
+{domain.name}-:{domain.name}:{vpopmailUID}:{vpopmailGID}:/home/vpopmail/domains/{domain.name}:-::
.
This looks correct. vadddomain will create a line exactly like the
above.
The question is: what is the syntax for this file.
You can find the syntax in the qmail-users man page.
and what is its role
in the message delivering to a user created with qmailadmin?
qmailadmin only allows you to add users to a virtual domain
created by vpopmail. In this case, only one line is required
in the assign file per domain. The domains should match the
domains listed in /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains
Qmail will read the /var/qmail/user/cdb file to determine what
uid/gid and directory to have qmail-local deliver a message to.
vpopmail also supports adding virtual users for accepting email
being sent to domains in your /var/qmail/control/locals file.
In this case, each new user would have two lines in the
/var/qmail/users/assign file. And qmailadmin can not be used
to admin these users.
Try sending email using qmail-inject and watching your qmail
log files.
Ken Jones
It's not functioning properly.
Thank you
Marco
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VopMail and multiple domains
Fernando Costa de Almeida wrote: I have qmail, tcpserver and vpopmail installed in my machine. It appears to me that the vpopmail is a great tool to manage multiple domains. Now my question: Supose that I have two domains: domain1.com.br domain2.com.br And two users: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] What I have to do is that all emails to user1 must be sent to user2, and vice-versa. How can I do this? echo "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ~vpopmail/domains/domain1.com.br/.qmail-user1 echo "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ~vpopmail/domains/domain2.com.br/.qmail-user2 That should do it. These email deliveries are done by qmail-local. Ken Jones
Re: qmail-mrtg w/ tai64n?
Russell Nelson wrote: Ben Beuchler writes: Does Russ' qmail-mrtg work with the new daemontools and it's fondness for tai64n? I know there are pipes, filters, etc to convert... Native support WOULD be nice, though. Yes. What is the URL for qmail-mrtg ? Ken Jones
Re: mail server location question
Bruce Edge wrote: Can I run the qmail server behind a firewall? I want to rely on the dns MX records on the firewall to route mail to the qmail server, which is on an internal LAN, with a non Internet routable 192.168.1 address. Will this work?, or, do I need to have the qmail server addressable from the internet directly? Thanks in advance, Bruce. You could run a qmail/smtp server on the firewall that forwards incoming mail to the internal mail server, and relays internal/outgoing mail to the internet. Or you could use a public IP for your MX record and have the firewall map it to the internal mail server IP. Basicly, you have to have a public IP for your MX record. Ken Jones
Re: procmail/vpopmail
Chester Chee wrote: Hi, Does anyone has an experience using procmail with vpopmail (virtual domain)? I am trying to setup procmail to filter "junk" mail to specific mail folder for vpopmail user. And it does not seem to work at all. My vpopmail users access their mail via IMAP instead of Maildir. Am I using the right approach to taggle this problem? Any pointer or help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Here is my .procmailrc:- :0: * ^X-JunkMail: Yes junk-mail Take a look at the development version of vpopmail, 4.8.6. It contains a new filtering module. Ken Jones inter7
Re: OK, I've install vpopmail, where is DJB test.delivertest.recieve...
"Steven M. Klass" wrote: Does anyone know how I can test a vpopmail installation. I know this may probably be trivial, but I like DJB's instructions, especially since he always allows provisions for testing.. Thanks Steven M. Klass Physical Design Engineering Manager Andigilog Inc. 7404 W. Detroit Street, Suite 100 Chandler, AZ 85226 Ph: 602-940-6200 ext. 18 Fax: 602-940-4255 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.andigilog.com/ Here is what I do to test a new virtual domain: 1) create the domain ~vpopmail/bin/vadddomain test.com test 2) Send email to the postmaster user echo "to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject 3) authenticate with pop telnet 127.0.0.1 110 user [EMAIL PROTECTED] pass test list You should see one message listed. Then it works Ken Jones
Re: Vpopmail - Installation - questions
"Steven M. Klass" wrote: Hey all I just started working with vpopmail and I am in need of answers. 1. The install guide recommends that all domains be set up as virtual domains. In the qmail/control/locals file I have my domain already defined. How can I convert that to a virtual domain? Should I? The vadddomain program will automatically remove it from the locals file and add it to virtualdomains for you. 2. The option enable-default domain = mydomain Does this mean it will be a virtual domain. The instructions aren't clear on this. It means the vpopmail authentication code will append mydomain to any user authentication request that doesn't include a domain name. 3. The option enable-ucspi-dir I installed this per qmail instructions. I was not aware that a compiled directory existed. I thought only tcpserver was placed in ../bin If you install ucspi-tcp as per it's instructions, you do not need to set a vpopmail --enable-ucspi-dir option. 4. What is Option enable-apop. What is apop? I recommend against using apop. 5. What happens to my existing default .qmail files for postmaster, etc. vpopmail is not destructive on installation. It will not remove any of your files. 6. How can I map several names to one address. With .qmail files it's easy (I think). Yes. You can do it with .qmail-user files 7. What tools are needed for vpopmail to work correctly. I currently have installed qmail, uscpi, and daemontools. Anything else. That should be enough. 8. Should I install qmailadmin before or after vpopmail. After, qmailadmin uses vpopmail's library. 9. At what point do I enable options .. I am assuming the following command will work? make --enable-roaming=y --enable-default-domain=andigilog.com those options are for the configuration script. you may want to re-read the INSTALL file. If you are starting from a fresh unpack of a tar ball: ./configure [with your options, like --enable-roaming-users=y] make make install-strip done. That's all and thanks a lot. Good luck ;] Ken Jones Steven M. Klass Systems Administrator Andigilog Inc. 7404 W. Detroit Street, Suite 100 Chandler, AZ 85226 Ph: 602-940-6200 ext. 18 Fax: 602-940-4255 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.andigilog.com/
Re: Qmail with Oracle
Alexandre Biancalana wrote: Hi All, I have Qmail installed in Red Hat 6.2 and it works fine, but we need to authenticate users with Oracle. I have downloaded vpopmail package v4.8.4 but it does not seem to compile, because I think this package has Oracle support. Does anybody know how to compile vpopmail and then authenticate users with it? Where can I find some documentation or some patch in order to fix this problem? Have anybody made Oracle 8.1.6 work with Qmail? Thanks, Alexandre Biancalana I wrote and tested the oracle module. It was built against Oracle 8 something. I still need to add some options to the configure script to allow you to set the path to oracle. Send me what problem you are having on the compile, and I'll help you work through it. Then we can use the problems you have run into as the start for an Oracle README file. Ken Jones
Re: Courier IMAP / Autoresponders / SQWebMail
Kathleen Farber wrote: Anything I should be aware of for installing Courier IMAP with vpop and vchkpw We would like to install sqwebmail but worried about screwing things up since it took a month to get it running the right way with no error messages ::whew:: Red Hat Linux 6.2 Current Qmail, QmailAdmin, EzMLM, vpop, vchkpw Also, if anyone knows why when using autoresponders why the mail bounces but yet the autoresponder goes out would be much appreciated! Kathleen Here is my configure line for sqwebmail to work with vpopmail: ./configure --enable-webpass=vpopmail --without-authuserdb --without-authpam \ --without-authpwd --without-authshadow --without-authldap --with-cachedir \ --with-authvchkpw --enable-imageurl=/images/sqwebmail/ \ --enable-imagedir=dir Here is my configure line for courier imap ./configure --without-authuserdb --without-authpam \ --without-authpwd --without-authshadow --without-authldap \ --with-authvchkpw --enable-workarounds-for-imap-client-bugs One gotcha with the courier-imap. If you are using mysql, sybase or oracle, you need to edit the courier-imap code. In the authlib directory, find the vauth_getpw function call and add a vclose(); right after it. The reason why is, a courier-imap client causes a courier-imap process to run on the server. Unlike pop, the courier-imap server process stays active for the entire session. So if you have 200 people using imap, you'll have 200 courier-imap server processes running on your machine. Now the reason for the vclose() is that vpopmail API doesn't explicitly close the connection to the database. Once the vauth_getpw() function is run, courier-imap has all the information it ever needs from the database. At that point we need to call vclose() to close the database connection. If not, those 200 imap clients will cause 200 database connections to stay open. The vclose() call isn't needed if you are using the file based authentication module in vpopmail. Since the files are closed during each vpopmail api function call. Ken
Re: vpopmail 4.8a Upgrade
I'll update the next release of vpopmail to also look in /usr/bin/tcprules Ken Jones Chris Tolley wrote: vpopmail isn't slanted towards RedHat RPMs, so it's expecting your tcprules to have been installed from source, which would put it in /usr/local/bin/tcprules. The Makefile has that as a default, so when it can't find it, it doesn't go searching. Just compile with the option --enable-tcprules=/usr/bin/tcprules which is where the RPM is configured to dump it, or hack the Makefile to the appropriate directory. As for the rest...it looks as if your glibc package is damaged or incomplete. Try reinstalling from the RPM that matches the revision of your RedHat. Those references are defined in the .so files located in your /lib directory and are owned by the glibc package. -CT -Original Message- From: Sylwester S. Biernacki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 3:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re[2]: vpopmail 4.8a Upgrade 2000-07-07, at 02:53:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also sprach list: I'm trying to upgrade vpopmail to version 4.8a. However, when I try to ./configure, I get an error that the tcprules program cannot be found. You need to specify it with --enable-tcprules-prog=/path/to/tcprules Where should tcprules be coming from? What installation am I missing? (pcg@micah) ~ rpm -qf `which tcprules` ucspi-tcp-0.88-1 ^ So... I've got another problem with compilation vpopmail. gcc -g -O2 -Wall -o vchkpw vchkpw.o opensmtp.o libvpopmail.a -lnsl -lcrypt -lm libvpopmail.a(my_thr_init.o): In function `my_thread_global_init': my_thr_init.o(.text+0x14): undefined reference to `pthread_key_create' libvpopmail.a(my_thr_init.o): In function `my_thread_init': my_thr_init.o(.text+0xfa): undefined reference to `pthread_getspecific' my_thr_init.o(.text+0x13b): undefined reference to `pthread_setspecific' libvpopmail.a(my_thr_init.o): In function `my_thread_end': my_thr_init.o(.text+0x1cd): undefined reference to `pthread_setspecific' libvpopmail.a(my_thr_init.o): In function `_my_thread_var': my_thr_init.o(.text+0x204): undefined reference to `pthread_getspecific' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [vchkpw] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/vpopmail-4.8a' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/vpopmail-4.8a' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 and this goes on every gcc compiler I've used (2.95 and 2.96): gcc version 2.96 2606 (experimental) Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs Machine is RH 6.2 with glibc-2.1.90 Any suggestions ? Despite of this fact, on other machines with egcs compiler it compiles fine and works well. -- greetz, Sylwester S. Biernacki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Qmail performance question...
Ian Layton wrote: Hello. I have recently installed Qmail on an Alpha box for my boss. I got it to send a simulated 100K message per hour through a dirty benchmark I wrote. My boss wants more than that. I believe that the slow up is in qmail-inject. Is there any way to make qmail-inject faster or bypass it totally? If so...how is it done. Also, has anyone else gotten qmail to send anything in the range I have? Ian Layton It's all because of disk I/O. Anything you can do to speed up disk I/O will help, including: 1) Apply the big todo patch 2) Increase the number in the conf-split file and re-install 3) Change conf-spawn to 255 and reinstall 4) Get a Flash IDE disk for your queue ... or.. 5) Run qmail's queue on a disk drive all by itself 6) send qmail's log output to /dev/null I've seen machines that at max were doing 80 qmail-remotes. When we put in an Flash IDE disk, that number jumped to 255 and stayed there. Ken Jones inter7
Re: vacation program for qmail/vpopmail/qmailadmin
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Marco Leeflang wrote: i want a vacation program where vpopmail users can change their own vacation message any suggestion ?? Here is a perl based cgi for vpopmail users who want to setup a vacation message. http://www.vpopmail.cx/vpop-vacation-0.3.tar.gz Ken Jones inter7
Re: deferral: Can't_create_tempfile_(#4.3.0)
zealot wrote:
I repeatedly see this message in /var/log/qmail/current:
delivery 787: deferral: Can't_create_tempfile_(#4.3.0)/
status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
starting delivery 788: msg 69232 to local
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
What causes this error message and what can I do to fix it?
I'm running FreeBSD 4.0, ucspi-tcp 0.88, Qmail 1.03, and Vpopmail 3.4.11-2.
Here's the setup for /var/qmail/control
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 11 May 27 20:01 defaultdelivery
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail8 May 27 21:20 defaultdomain
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 141 Jun 9 06:51 locals
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 19 May 27 21:21 me
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail8 May 27 21:21 plusdomain
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 180 Jun 6 14:34 rcpthosts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 166 Jun 6 14:34 virtualdomains
The contents of virtualdomains:
sneakernet.dhs.org:sneakernet.dhs.org
Here's the setup for virtual acccount sneakernet.dhs.org
/home/vpopmail/domains/sneakernet.dhs.org
-rw--- 1 vpopmail vchkpw34 Jun 6 21:51 .dir-control
-rw--- 1 vpopmail vchkpw55 Jun 6 02:34 .qmail-default
-rw--- 1 vpopmail vchkpw26 Jun 8 02:16 .qmail-root
-rw--- 1 vpopmail vchkpw 0 Jun 6 02:34 .vpasswd.lock
drwx-- 3 vpopmail vchkpw 512 Jun 8 02:08 postmaster
-rw-r--r-- 1 vpopmail vchkpw 291 Jun 8 11:06 vpasswd
-rw-r--r-- 1 vpopmail vchkpw 2405 Jun 8 11:06 vpasswd.cdb
drwx-- 3 vpopmail vchkpw 512 Jun 6 02:34 zealot
The contents of .qmail-default:
| /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox
The contents of .qmail-root:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The contents of .vpasswd
postmaster:xxx:1:0:Postmaster:/home/vpopmail/domains/sneakernet.dhs.org/post
master:5000
zealot:xxx:1:0:zealot:/home/vpopmail/domains/sneakernet.dhs.org/zealot:5
000
(password hash removed to protect the innocent)
Here's the setup for [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/home/vpopmail/domains/sneakernet.dhs.org/postmaster
-rw--- 1 vpopmail vchkpw 26 Jun 8 02:16 .qmail
drwx-- 5 vpopmail vchkpw 512 Jun 6 02:34 Maildir
The contents of .qmail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The code is in vdelivermail.c in two places:
1) void deliver_mail(char *deliverto, struct passwd *pw_data)
sprintf(tmp_file,"tmp/%lu.%d.%s",tm,pid,hostname);
if ((mailfile = creat(tmp_file,S_IREAD | S_IWRITE)) == -1)
failtemp ("Can't create tempfile (#4.3.0)\n");
2) char *email_it(deliverto)
sprintf(tmp_file,"/tmp/%lu.%d.%s",tm,pid,hostname);
if ((mailfile = creat(tmp_file,S_IREAD | S_IWRITE)) == -1)
failtemp ("Can't create tempfile (#4.3.0)\n");
Notice that this places the temp file in /tmp...
Perhaps this should be like 1) above and place it under the
current directory.
You might want to try changing this code to:
sprintf(tmp_file,"tmp/%lu.%d.%s",tm,pid,hostname);
if ((mailfile = creat(tmp_file,S_IREAD | S_IWRITE)) == -1)
failtemp ("Can't create tempfile (#4.3.0)\n");
make ; make install
Then see if you still get the error.
Ken
Re: deferral: Can't_create_tempfile_(#4.3.0)
clemensF wrote:
Ken Jones:
You might want to try changing this code to:
sprintf(tmp_file,"tmp/%lu.%d.%s",tm,pid,hostname);
if ((mailfile = creat(tmp_file,S_IREAD | S_IWRITE)) == -1)
failtemp ("Can't create tempfile (#4.3.0)\n");
make ; make install
Then see if you still get the error.
but the tmp directory would have to exist beforehand, right? unlike the
/tmp, which is already there. but you might have found a bug there!
clemens
tmp does exist if it's a correctly created Maildir.
It has cur, new and tmp
Ken
ezmlm.org
Does anyone know what happened to the ezmlm.org site? Ken Jones inter7
Re: Forwarding catchall acount to multiple Maildirs?
Snowcrash wrote: I currently have a catchall account set up and it succesfully delivers to one user. However I would like to have the mail delived to multiple people. I'm not quite sure how to do this. My current .qmail-default is: | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' /home/vpopmail/domains/foo.com/user Thanks in advance, Daniel Daley [EMAIL PROTECTED] the vdelivermail program only accepts one account for the "catchall" "catchall" being a horrible phrase meaning: All those emails which neither match a .qmail-user file nor are in the vpopmail user authentication system for this domain. Adding lines after the vdelivermail line will not have your intended effect. The lines after will receive all email that does not match a .qmail-user file (standard .qmail-default processing), including email for vpopmail pop accounts. This is not a "catchall" behavior. What you could do is put an email address at the end of vdelivermail. Say.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then create a .qmail-catchall file with the list of Maildirs you want the catchall email to go to. This will cause a re-injection of the "catch all'd" email into the queue. But will do what you want. For example: cat .qmail-default | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat .qmail-catchall ./user1/Maildir/ ./user2/Maildir/ Ken Jones
qmailanalog and multilog
Does anyone have a patch to qmailanalog to read the new multilog time format? Ken Jones inter7
Re: qmail IRC Channel
kapil sharma wrote: Is there any qmail IRC channel or chat? Yes, efnet #qmail Ivo
Re: Does vpopmail work with Mailbox ?
Chester Chee wrote: Hi, I checked the web page on www.inter7.com regarding vpopmail. They don't really explicitly say whether vpopmail works only with Maildir mailbox format or not. Can anyone please enlighten me on this? Thanks in advance. It uses Maildir Ken inter7
Re: Forward to multiple people?
Bob Rogers wrote: From: "Snowcrash" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 19:23:01 -0500 I'm running Qmail with Vpopmail from inter7.com and I'd like to know how I would forward one e-mail address to mutiple people. For example messgaes sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] are sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Probably an easy question but I'm just not getting it... In the ~vpopmail/domains/virtual domain directory place a .qmail-support file. echo "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" .qmail-support echo "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" .qmail-support echo "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" .qmail-support Those are forwards processed by qmail-local. Which causes the email to be sent into the qmail queue again, one for each user. The alternative is to place the path "full or relative" to tom, dick and harry's Maildirs. For example, on a newly created virtual domain foo.com echo "./tom/Maildir/" .qmail-support echo "./dick/Maildir/" .qmail-support echo "./harry/Maildir/" .qmail-support This causes qmail-local to place a copy of the email in each of these users Maildirs. More efficent than a forward. However, this only works for vpopmail uid/gid dirs. Ken Jones inter7
Re: Ezmlm web front
The next release of qmailadmin has more support for ezmlm-idx thanks to the guys at wizoffice in singapore. It will be released (hopefully) in the next week or so. If you want to try it out now download from: http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/qmailadmin-0.26h-WizOffice-FROZEN-12-MAY-2000.tgz They sent me a few patches for regex searching of pop accounts. Which isn't in this tar ball. ken jones inter7 Chester Chee wrote: Doesn't qmailadmin also support mailing list administration using ezmlm??? What is the different between this package and qmailadmin? - Original Message - From: "Steffan Hoeke" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "qmail" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 3:59 PM Subject: Re: Ezmlm web front On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 02:23:47PM +0100, Rodney Edwards wrote: Does any one know anyway to create a web front for ezmlm administration e.g. to subscribe un-subscribe etc.. Try ezmlm-web... http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~guy/ezmlm/#ezmlm-web HTH, Steffan -- http://therookie.dyndns.org
Re: db files for vpopmail and courier imap
Cono D'Elia wrote: Hello, Is there a limitation for the amount of users courier imap and vpopmail can support using the db type files? Is it better to go with an sql database instead? Thanks, Cono. There is no limitation of cdb password files. However, modifications to the file (add/delete/mod) start taking long amounts of time 30 seconds when you have more than 5,000 users. ken jones inter7
Re: Vpopmail error - No Mailbox
snowcrash wrote: I installed the RPM source files provided by Bruce Guenter and added the vpopmail package from inter7.com. After the initial installation everything appeared to be working properly. However, about a week later I started recieving an error message "Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name." This is happening on every user on every virtual domain I created. These users all exist.. and as I stated before.. worked fine. I haven't changed anything and have no idea where to start looking to solve the problem. Anyone have some ideas? Daniel Daley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check for a cron job that rebuilds /var/qmail/users/assign. It may be over writting the file. Ken Jones Inter7
Re: Error at vpopmail
Irwan Hadi wrote: I got this error by checking mail at vpopmail +OK [EMAIL PROTECTED] +OK -ERR aack, child crashed What this mean then ?, how to fix it ? this only happened when I use username, and not username@domain. but I;ve update the /vpopmail/users as the FAQ said. Thanks in advance ;) --- AFLHI 058009990407128029/089802---(102598//991024) make sure your tcpserver for pop is running as root. ken jones inter7
Re: Sendmail to qmail
"Tyler J. Frederick" wrote: Well.. yea, they use the unix passwd file so yea, the usernames are unique for each user, but they have the /etc/virtusertable with entries in it like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]localuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] localuser2 Knowing this, what would I do? I think I'd do something in ~alias, but I'm not necessarily sure. I could setup vpopmail and in each domain dir make the appropriate .qmail file to send to a local user.. However, I don't want to have system accounts for each user. Perhaps vpopmail with mysql support would be best? Just throwing ideas out... Any thoughts? The vpopmail authentication structure contains the same fields as the /etc/passwd data structure with the addition of a domain name. The default vpopmail sql table definition also includes the domain name. You can add an additional field which contains the virtualtable mappings. This can be done by editing vmysql.h and modifying the table definition. The table gets created automatically on the first use of the vpopmail api library calls. You could then modify the vdelivermail.c (delivers mail to a directory) and vchkpw.c (authenticates a pop connection and points pop server at a Maildir). Both programs could be modified to do an additional sql query to match the sendmail virtable mappings. For example: vdelivermail: select password structure where pw_virt_email = email address This will deliver to the pw_dir directory. vchkpw: select password structure where pw_virt_user = localuser Then you will need to write a program which parses the virtusertable and updates the vpopmail sql table for these two new fields. pw_virt_email pw_virt_user [EMAIL PROTECTED]localuser That should do it. Ken Jones Inter7 - T --- Tyler J. Frederick Senior Systems Engineer fc.com, Inc. On 2 Dec 1999, Thomas Neumann wrote: If they use their UNIX username/password right now, this means their usernames are unique over all virtual domains anyway right now, not just unique within each virtual domain, right? Then it should be no problem to set up a one-to-one mapping from unique, unqualified username to the user's virtual maildomain (perhaps using a CDB file that is re-generated once a day for the mapping) and implement a checkpassword for qmail-pop3d that uses this mapping to direct the user to his associated Maildir. Sounds like 30 lines of perl and be done. For mass-converting all currently existing folders to Maildir format I'd suggest a small shell script that uses formail (from procmail) and safecat ( see URL:http://www.nb.net/~lbudney/linux/software/safecat.html ) The downtime would amount to the time that is needed for folder conversion, during which I would disable SMTP services (or at least not have qmail-send running yet) to avoid a local delivery taking place to a folder that is currently being converted to a Maildir. -t
vpopmail 3.4.10 stable released
vpopmail 3.4.10 stable is now available http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/ All current 3.4.10 beta users are encouraged to upgrade. New features in 3.4.10: - mysql and cdb support - new adaptive user directory layout which optimizes inode usage for 10 to 10 million accounts - new C api and library - many bug fixes and enhancements Ken Jones Inter7
Re: Don't seem to be receiving any mails - CheckPassword, Vpopmail question
john wrote: Hi, I setup everything and i managed to start the tcpserver and pop3d in RH6.1 but I don't seem to be receiving mails in the maildirectory which is under /home/vpopmail/users/ Should I install ezmlm and also autorespond so that it works fine ? Depends where your users and virtual domain users are. Did you add any? How did you do it? What do your smtp and pop3 startup lines look like? Ken Jones Inter7
Re: Creating a Structured Directory in Qmail for Users
Alphabetical distributions are not symetrical. It is better to allocate users based on additions. vpopmail has a distribution algorythm. you can use it if you want. I can send it to you. It is based on users being added, with 3 levels of directories. Ken Jones Inter7 john wrote: Hi, How do I go about creating a proper directory structure in qmail for users. Like I want to have users name starting with A to F in /home/Vpopmail/Users/A-F directory G to M in /home/Vpopmail/Users/G-M directory N to Z in /home/Vpopmail/Users/N-Z directory So that its easy for me to search the users and also the mail has to be delivered to these mail directories. Thanks Regards John
Re: vpopmail installation error
john wrote: When I was installing VPOPMAIL in RH 6.1 i issued the command ./configure and then make clean immediately I got an warning message saying : Warning : Clock skew detected. Your installation may be incomplete. What could be the reason ? Could anyone let me know It means you have REALLY fresh software. Actually, it means the time on the machine that generated the files (mine) is newer than the time on your machine. You can wait untill your's catches up with mine. Or you can do: touch * Then start again make distclean ./configure etc.. Ken
Re: Vpopmail-3.4.10 with RH6.1 problem
john wrote: Hi, I installed Vpopmail-.4.10 with RH6.1 it gave me an error message for CDB file. Later I downloaded the old version vpopmail-3.4.9 and installed it went through fine. vpopmail-3.4.10 requires the ucspi-tcp compiled source code. It uses the cdb functions. Unpack and compile ucspi at the same level as vpopmail and the configure program will pick it up. That is: if you are inside the vpopmail source directory , ucspi should be at ../ucspi-tcp-0.84. Ken Jones
Re: Mass user email
Robert wrote: Hello, Thank you in advance for any help that is given. Is there a way to send a single email to all the users on my system so it looks like it's addressed to each individual user? I tried adding each user on the box to my .qmail file, but the mail that is sent out is addressed to the original user the email was sent to. I looked at ezmlm, but i'm not interested in setting up mailing lists. I just want to send out system warnings and such to my users if needed. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. popbull might work for you, or the virtual pop bull programs out there. If not, I have a program that will send an email out to a list of users in a file, individually addressed. If it's all local, use a popbull program. Ken Jones Inter7
Re: QMail aliases with vchkpw (vpopmail)
Create the aliases as .qmail-user files in the ~vpopmail/domain/virtualdomain directory. Qmail processes the .qmail files before looking for .qmail-default, which invokes vdeliver mail to deliver based on vpasswd users. Ken Jones inter7 Antonio Navarro Navarro wrote: Hello ! How can I add mail aliases to a domain that has been installed using QMail and Vpopmail ? I can add and delete domains and users, but I don't know how to manage aliases... Thanks in advance ! Antonio Navarro Navarro BemarNet Management [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bemarnet.es
Re: vchkpw .qmail-default
"Tyler J. Frederick" wrote: Looks like a possible bug. Check your version of qmailadmin. It should not be touching this file unless you are setting something to be the default delivery user. Ken Hi Over the past couple weeks, the .qmail-default file for one of my virtual domains has gotten changed on it's own making mail delivery not go through. (As the reference to the vdeliver program was removed). Here's what the file SHOULD say | /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox However, I noticed email wasn't going through, and I checked it and it said | /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/alex Well, there's no bin called 'alex' in the bin dir, but this domain does have a user called alex. Also, I noticed this happened right after I added an alias via qmailadmin. Any thoughts? Anyone seen this kind of thing before? - T --- Tyler J. Frederick Senior Systems Engineer fc.com, Inc.
vpopmail: support for mysql and large sites
A new beta of vpopmail-3.4.10 is on http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail Changes tested and working on my machine are: 1) support for mysql ./configure --enable-mysql=y see README.mysql for details on configuration 2) Support for an adaptive directory layout structure. Supports a theoretical maximum of 23 million Maildirs in 3 sub directory levels. 3) A conversion utility to convert old vpopmail installations to mysql. vsqlconvert: automatically populates the mysql database with every virtual domains vpasswd information. 4) more features and fixes, see the ChangeLog Next up on the horizon, code for sqwebmail and qmailadmin to take advantage of the mysql code. I tested mysql and vpopmail with creation of 65,000 accounts on a RedHat 6.0 machine with a 3Gig disk and 128M ram also running X/Gnome. There was no noticiable degradation in mail delivery or pop authentication times. Next test will be on a solaris machine with 500,000 accounts. Ken Jones Inter7
Re: Concurrencyremote for a specific host
It can only be set on a per physical queue basis. If each "system" uses the same physical queue, then the answer to your question is no. If the "systems" use different physical queues, then you can do it. Ken Jones Stan Horwitz wrote: Hello fellow qmail users: In the qmail documentation, there's information about that says I can use the concurrencyremote control file to set the maximum number of concurrent remote mail deliveries can occur. I am wondering if this can be set on a per system basis. Specifically, I want to set the concurrencyremote level down to a value of 5 for one specific system (because its being overloaded with mail processing) and while allowing concurrencyremote to be set to a value of 50 for all other systems that might receive mail from this particular qmail server. Is this possible? If so, how? Thanks
Re: Selective relaying and ORBS
I just ran the telnet test on my test qmail setup. MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 ok RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 ok Relay test result Uh oh, host appeared to accept a message for relay. The host may reject this message internally, however Connection closed by foreign host. Qmail does reject it internally. Ken Jones Inter7 John Newbigin wrote: I just received a message from the ORBS database. It seems that qmail has a bug.feature which allows relaying of messages in the form jn%it.swin.edu.au@[1.2.3.4] Where 1.2.3.4 is the IP address of my mail server, not for it.swin.edu.au. (I don't want everyone on the list to try it :). The machine should accept mail for 1.2.3.4, but the message is actualy sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The mail relay should only accept mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have tcpd set up to allow relaying only from machines inside 1.2.3.0 Is there a way to dissable this feature/bug. If you want to test your system, use the telnet service from here http://maps.vix.com/tsi/ar-test.html I am sure that there are many people with a simalar setup which could pose a large spam risk. I would appreciate a speedy reply. John. -- Information Technology Innovation Group Swinburne University. Melbourne, Australia http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn
Re: configuring users on the FLY
Sure, We are using: 1) qmail-1.03 2) ucspi 3) daemontools 4) vpopmail 5) sqwebmail 6) A little cgi program that allows people to signup. It will be included in the next release of vpopmail. The next release of vpopmail will also have a new directory structure to support 200,000 users more efficently. Ken Jones Inter7 Amit Vadehra wrote: HI, I would like to creat a hotmail kind of a free mail system where a user can give his/her details and create an id on my system. This means that the software has to interface with a few files of qmail and create a user on the fly.. how can i do that . is there any software in the market that will give me this kind of functionality. Thanks Amit Vadehra ICQ #: 43481951
Re: qmail-popup
Others have reported a similar problem and traced it to a corrupted ~vpopmail/domains/sumdomain.com.au/vpasswd file Others have reported corrupted binaries of vchkpw programs. Try reinstalling vchkpw and checking the vpasswd file for strangeness. ken Jones Inter7 Brendan Pratt wrote: Hi All, After having a crash today, I've discovered that I'm now getting authentication errors. I'm not a programmer, so if I've missed something obvious, then you'll understand why. :-) --cut here-- snowy:/work# telnet virtual 110 Trying 203.56.37.8... Connected to proxy.overflow.net.au. Escape character is '^]'. +OK [EMAIL PROTECTED] user sales%sumdomain.com.au +OK pass 111 -ERR aack, child crashed Connection closed by foreign host. --cut here-- The actual password and usernames are correct when I try them. Oh, and I'm also using vpopmail here too, hence the domain details in the above clipping. It all worked perfectly until the lockup, which required me to run e2fsck on the drive. -- Current Net Legislation will slow us down and cost us more! Tell you Local Federal Member NOW it will hurt your business For more info visit http://www.efa.org.au/Campaigns/99.html -- C u laitr - Brendan Pratt Overflow Internet Services Mobile : +61-418-746657 Phone : +61-7-55-463-832 E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
newline patch for qmail
Can anyone point me to the newline patch for qmail. I'm looking for the patch that allows qmail to talk non RFC complient MTA's which don't send the right line termination characters. Ken Jones Inter7
Re: forwarding to specific users
Holger Häffelin wrote: Hello! I have vchkpw and qmail running on my mailserver. Now the problem: I want to have 2 domains and only 1 set of users. So I must have an expression like |forward $[EMAIL PROTECTED] in the .qmail-default file of xy.de . Is there a possibility to have the user from the incoming mail in an environment variable ? Thanks, Holger There is a new program in vchkpw (vpopmail) that allows you to alias one virtual domain to another virtual domain. So two virtual domains have the same set of users. vaddaliasdomain Ken Jones Inter7
Re: vpopmail Problem
Miguel Carvajal wrote: Hi there!, I installed vpopmail in /home/vpopmail/. The problem I'am having is that when I send an email to one of the users like [EMAIL PROTECTED] the user never recieves it. How can I fix this? Thanks in advance, Miguel Carvajal Hi Miguel, It's best to post your question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] vpopmail mailing list. Ken Inter7
Re: Potential hole?
David Dyer-Bennet wrote: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 8 September 1999 at 16:13:46 -0700 Ken Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: blah blah. If you want a secure system follow these rules: 1) Only grant shell access to trusted users. 2) Physical security 3) Shut off un-needed services 4) Run trusted programs 5) Monitor news and lists for new exploits 6) Practice "Safe Coding" 7) Have good backups 8) Upgrade Anything else you will need risk assesment to determine how much you are willing to be hacked, and how expensive it is to recover. Ken Jones Inter7
Re: Once done installing
James wrote: Are there any other concerns I need to worry about once qmail is installed? I'm working on getting QmailAdmin (http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/) to work, will this take care of most of my setting up new users, etc.? It works in a limited sense. And you should understand the limitations qmailadmin has before you try to run a production system. It works only with virtual domains created under the vpopmail package. http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/ It does have limited support for setting: 1) default maildir 2) single uid/gid 3) single forward or alias 4) autoresponder 5) basic ezmlm Otherwise, will I have to create a "Mailbox" file in each user's account each time I create a new user? You question and suggested solution hint that you do not yet understand how to set up qmail. Please read more of the documentation. If you wish to have on line conversations with qmail people join irc efnet #qmail channel. If you do not know what this means you should read about irc. Linux users can use xchat. (sorry, newbie rant) What about system-wide mail handling.. for example, I can't seem to get "logcheck" to work now, whereas I was able to get mail from it before when I was using sendmail. Thanks for any help. If you want any real problem solving help you need to specify more than "I can't get logcheck to work". Always say your operating system, version. qmail version, and versions of all the software that is in question. blah blah. Hang in there. Learning is fun :) Ken james
Re: Potential hole?
The best solution i've seen is to group all the programs that are possible security holes, like in.telnet and compilers, to a new group. And only allow members of that group to execute the programs. Just like all the suid programs should be grouped. It's a pretty standard security lockdown method. Ken Inter7
Re: Maildir patch on Qmail-imap-4.5
There is a imap maildir modified source tar ball on http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/ I don't know if it supports all the features correctly. However, it has been tested by several isp system admin's. They reported success. Here is the text from the page: vchkpw now support IMAP! opT from efnet #qmail has ported imap to talk to vchkpw. Pick up the tar file now. link We have several people interested in maintaining this as a current version. So if you use it and program a fix or update, please send us the code. Or go to efnet #qmail and tell the folks there. John Schmerold wrote: Does the binary support Virtual Domains? In particular, I'm interested in domains administered by Inter7's GUI. David Harris wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: How exactly do you patch Qmail-imap 4.5 so that i handle Maildirs correctly? Why do you say patch the "Qmail-imap 4.5"? Almost sounds like you are referring to an RPM that someone has created. If so, you need to know that a binary RPM can not be patched. Instead you can only patch the IMAP 4.5 source code and then compile a modified version. To get a working copy of the UW IMAP 4.5 server with Maildir support, you need to take a base IMAP tarball, extract it, and apply a number of patches to the source code. Detailed instructions and all the patches and tarballs you will need are at: http://www.davideous.com/imap-maildir/ Or you could use my RPM available at the same site. If you have any problems following those instructions first see the help on the patch command, and then get in contact with me. - David Harris Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services -- John Schmerold Katy Computer, LLC 20 Meramec Station Rd Valley Park, MO 63088 314-316-9000 314-316-9200 fax
Re: bounce messages with .qmail / vchkpw
"Stephen C. Comoletti" wrote: Can anyone provide the correct syntax for bouncing messages from a .qmail while using vchkpw? Right now, due to customers leaving, signing up for lists incorrectly, etc, we get a large amount of undeliverable email which gets dumped in postmaster. I'd rather it bounce back to the sender. I've tried the following, which worked on a domain I use for testing, but not on my primary domain. | fastforward -p -d /etc/aliases.cdb; | /export/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' warn "Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)\n"; exit 100; Like I said above, it worked fine for one domain, but not another. They were set up identical. On the failed domain, the result was 2 bounce messages for any message sent to a valid address, each failed bounce consisting of the warn message split up, as if it tried to interpret the warn as an address instead of a command. However, the message did get delivered correctly. The sender just got 2 fails regardless. Anyhow, any tips would be appreciated. -- Stephen Comoletti Systems Administrator Delanet, Inc. http://www.delanet.com ph: (302) 326-5800 fax: (302) 326-5802 From vpopmail FAQ file: 3. How do I bounce all mail that doesn't match any pop users or .qmail files for a particular domain? Edit the ~vpopmail/domains/virtual_domain/.qmail-default file and change the last parameter to "bounce-no-mailbox" without the quotes. For example: [root@orbital testing.com]# pwd /home/vpopmail/domains/testing.com [root@orbital testing.com]# more .qmail-default | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' /home/vpopmail/domains/testing.com/postmaster change to: | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox -- Ken Jones mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/ - web based qmail adminstration
pop3d child crashed
I'm seeing a strange problem with a tcpserver run qmail-pop3d. After authenticating via pop i get -ERR aack, child crashed This is only with virtualdomains and not with /etc/passwd users. None of the /etc/passwd users get this error. The machine information is: FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE qmail-1.03 ucspi package vchkpw 3.4.6 Anyone have any clues how to track this down? I've checked file ownership and permissions for the maildirs and all the dirs up to it. I think it might be something with freebsd. Ken Jones mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/ - web based qmail adminstration
new version of vchkpw available
A fix has been found and tested for a "child crashed" error with vchkpw-3.4.6 on some platforms. The fix is in the new version vpopmail-3.4.7 (notice the easier to pronouce package name) The new code is available at http://www.inter7.com/vchkpw/ Everything is backwardly compatible with 3.4.5 and 3.4.6 (at least) -- Ken Jones mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/ - web based qmail adminstration
Outlook Express and remove message after X time
Does anyone know if the qmail pop3 server (or any patches) support the Outlook Express features to: 1) Leave a copy on the server 2) Delete copy after X days Not surprisingly, people who set this option end up downloading the same email every time they check pop, untill X days are over. -- Ken Jones mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/ - web based qmail adminstration
Re: Help!
Look at your file /var/qmail/rc My guess is that file starts qmail with Mailbox format. change ./Mailbox to ./Maildir/ and everything should work. Martin Paulucci wrote: Hi everybody, I'm starting with qmail and I installed vckhpw and qmailadmin, as well as autoresponder and ezlml The problem comes when I try to get the mail. I'm running it in a Solaris 2.6 SPARC. The /etc/init.d/qmail file contains (this is only the main part of it): csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc ' supervise /var/lock/qmail-smtpd /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -x/etc/tcp.s mtp.cdb -u$USERID -g$GROUPID 0 25 \ /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 | setuser qmaill /usr/local/bin/accustamp | \ setuser qmaill /usr/local/bin/cyclog -s500 -n5 /var/log/qmail/qmail- smtpd env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \ tcpserver 0 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup sintesoft.net \ /mail/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir And I've created the directory for vpopmail in /mail/vpopmail Inside that I've created a username for mydefaultdomain.com in users called martin Also, I've created a virtual domain called virtualdomain.com When I try to read the email from for example [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get: -ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir For a virtual domain it seems to be working fine. Somebody knows what should I change?. Thanks in advance, Martin Best regards, Martin Paulucci http://www.ServiRED.COM [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell Phone: 15-4935-4246 Telephone/Fax: (+54-11)4-961-3204 -- Ken Jones mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/ - web based qmail adminstration
Re: virtual domains+users+IMAP
Murat Arslan wrote: Hi all, I'm writing a bunch of codes to handle a web-mail gateway service. Everything is ok, but the virtual domains, users and the IMAP parts.. I added somedomain.com to /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts and somedomain.com:guy-some to /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains Sent signal HUP to qmail-send, and created .qmail-some-info in the home dir of user `guy'. The file .qmail-some-info has the following line: /home/somedir/maildir-info/ This is to make qmail-local store the incoming mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the above directory. But it didn't work. When I send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I receive the No such mailbox error. My first question is where's my mistake ? Secondly, I need a password database for the virtual users in order to make the IMAP server do the authentication. I investigated this on the web and of course on the manuals, and found that this is possible w/ (correct me if i'm wrong) qmail-pw2u and qmail-newu. The question is; is it possible to make such a pw db for the virtual users, and also for the IMAP server ? I found a patch for IMAP4, by Matthias, but couldn't have time to test it. Do they work also for the above procedure ? I will be appreciated in any kind of help. Thanks for your time, -- Regards, Murat Arslan vchkpw supports all of this. a friendly person from the internet has patched imap to work with vchkpw authentication. both are available off http://www.inter7.com/vchkpw/ -- Ken Jones mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/ - web based qmail adminstration
Re: vchkpw + SQL
Jonathan Herbert wrote: Hi there, I've ran into a strange situation where i'd like to be able to utilize the features of the vhckpw suite (virtualhost multiple domains on a single IP, single UID, etc), but would also like to use a SQL backend for pop password checking, and whatever else. I'm not sure if something of this sort exists, although i manage someone must have atleast thought of it before (maybe i'm the first, although i doubt it). I have systems running via SQL backend database systems that include radius, accounting, and a giant internal database, all which benefits from the relational capabilities. As of now, POP is the last piece to be integrated if this is possible. Does something exist which can do this? Thanks, Jonathan Yes it exists. Someone send me code (I can't remember his name). He modified vchkpw to talk to mysql. He has it up and running in production. I think it was a patch file. You can have the code "as is" and integrate it yourself. Or if you can wait until next week, I will be integrating it myself. -- Ken Jones mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/ - web based qmail adminstration
Re: assign file
Ana Belén Santos wrote: I'm using the vchkpw package and I want to know how can I create the file assign so real users can get their mails with pop too. (virtual users can but no real users because I don't have entries for them in the assign file) . How can I do that?? Ana Santos vchkpw versions 3.4.4 or greater automatically authenticates and works with /etc/passwd users. There is no need for users/assign entries for /etc/password users. However, if you want to add pop only users in addition to /etc/passwd users, use the vadduser command. Syntax: vadduser username optional-password username must not match a current user in /etc/passwd -- Ken Jones mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/ - web based qmail adminstration
Re: RH 6.0 compile problem...
Ed Weinberg wrote: not sure if I am missing a lib or something, but when I type: #make setup check linux responds: ./compile qmail-local.c qmail-local.c:1: sys/types.h: No such file or directory qmail-local.c:2: sys/stat.h: No such file or directory make: *** [qmail-local.o] Error 1 any ideas? -- Ed Weinberg, Detel, Inc., An Internet Presence Provider [EMAIL PROTECTED] You didn't install the linux headers. You missed a package -- Ken Jones mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/ - web based qmail adminstration
Re: your mail
nd still keep the original qmail-pop3d service running. Any advice? Paul D. Farber II Farber Technology Ph. 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ken Jones mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/ - web based qmail adminstration
Re: relaying redundancy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a qmail server set up such that it's being used as a relay (all incoming mail just gets dumped to whatever is in smtproutes). anyway, sometimes the machine that my qmail box is relaying to goes down or crashes, whatever. Is there a hack to allow qmail to relay somewhere else if that host is down or if the queue builds up to a certain number (which usually also means that the host its trying to relay to is down)? regards, Jason If you were somehow able to route the email thru qmtp to a qmtp server, you can specify multiple qmtp servers. If the first connection is dead it tries the next line in the file. That would allow you to send to a backup machine. Of course all three machines would have to be running qmail. And the relay machine would have to use the mini-qmail install. From what I read of qmtp, it will not store the email on disk before sending to the next machine. It will envoke a network connection immediately and try to send it there. You might have to setup two qmail queues. -- Ken Jones mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/ - web based qmail adminstration
Re: SCO 5.0.5 qmail-1.03 outgoing email problem
"Olivier M." wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 03:10:41PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone seen this problem: Platform: Sco 5.0.5 qmail 1.03 Inbound email works, pop works Outbound email makes smtp connection but does not deliver the mail. We get the same problem on two similarly configured SCO machines. We also have the same problem with our SCO 5.0.5. May I ask you if you found a solutionor workaround in the meantime ? Thanks in advance, Olivier Mueller The solution was to not use the -g or -O type options on the compile. just straight compile. also found out the crypt library function returns less characters as are stored in password struct. The characters were the same, but the password stucture had a longer crypt than from calling crypt. sco is kinda messed up -- Ken Jones mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/ - web based qmail adminstration
Re: q in qmail means ?
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does the "q" in "qmail" mean? Well, since dan is a math proffessor. My bet would be on queue, or queueing theory. The brits use of queue is all over math. "Let's queue up for mail" -- Ken Jones mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/ - web based qmail adminstration
Re: Single UID
Alex Miller wrote: Paul and all, The Qmail.org site doesn't seem to have any reference to the Paul Gregg single uid instruction sheet. Has that been replaced? What's it's status? Alex Miller Try http://www.inter7.com/vchkpw/ It does single UID and we are doing alot of developement work on it right now. It also works with http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/ and MrSam's web based email reader http://www.inter7.com/sqwebmail/ -- Ken Jones
Exporting mail off exchange server
Does anyone know if it is possible to do the following with ms Exchange. We have a ton of email in an NT exchange server. It will soon be replaced with a redhat/qmail server. If possible, we'd like to have the exchange server send all the users mail over to the qmail server via smtp. Then the qmail server can save the email into the new users setup. There is some feature in the Exchange server that provides for exporting email boxes. Anyone know what that does? -- Ken Jones mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/ - web based qmail adminstration
Re: Tcpserver and cyclog
Two things 1 - add -v option to tcpserver 2 - qmail-smtp doesn't log anything :) There are some patches on www.qmail.org to log additional info Matthew Harrell wrote: I've been able to get cyclog to work fine with qmail-start but I'm trying to get it to work with tcpserver. I'm presently using this line: /usr/qmail/bin/tcpserver -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 65001 -g 65000 0 smtp \ /usr/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 | /usr/qmail/bin/accustamp | \ /usr/qmail/bin/setuser root /usr/qmail/bin/cyclog -s1000 -n5 \ /usr/qmail/log/smtp and that correctly opens a log file but nothing ever seems to get logged. What am I doing wrong? -- Matthew Harrell The best way to accelerate a Bit Twiddlers, Inc. Macintosh is at 9.8 meters per [EMAIL PROTECTED] second squared.
Re: whoson and qmail
Andrzej Kukula wrote: I would like to use whoson protocol (http://www.average.org/ftp/whoson/) to allow selective relaying for my site. Is there any solution for qmail? Regards, Andrzej. Is there a web page for this protocol? I just see the source. -- Ken Jones http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin - web based qmail adminstration
Re: Web Interface.
eric wrote: Not to drag a topic on - but I have a few questions about engineering a Hotmail type of mail solution: I've looked into sqwebmail by Inter7, but would like to get more input on the following issues: 1. Is anyone using such as system with Vpop users and NOT system accounts? I can't imagine giving out 100,000 system accounts. Does your solution implement Ldap to point to various servers? 2. What types of subscription methods do you implement for automated sign-up? Just cgi type wrappers around the commands? 3. How does each user administer their own mailing lists (if they are offered)? For instance, specific users will be able to setup open list-servs - and that looks like a bit more work unless we direct them to the qmailadmin package, correct? Thanks in advance for any help on this. 1) We have modified vpopmail to work with mysql and support large numbers of accounts, at least 500,000. We haven't integrated it into sqwebmail, but it's next on the list. 2) There is a vadduser command line that can be called from perl or c program. We have a sample in c. 3) no idea Ken Jones Inter7 PS: the web interface is written by Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inter7 just hosts his software.
