LDAP based mailing lists?
Perhaps this would be better asked of the ezmlm list but ... without a doubt one of the most useful features of my Netscape Messageing Server based mail hub is it's integration with LDAP (which is the way of the future of course ...) in particular it's "dynamic" mailing lists based on LDAP URLs. Is anyone working on something similar to this? Maybe there would be a way to set up an account that used preline to run a prog that handled the LDAP lookup? -- Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX System Administrator|Royal Military College of Canada The Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/ Saving the World ... One CPU at a Time Please excuse me if I am terse. I answer dozens of emails every day.
Re: Weird stats?
Fred Lindberg wrote: > > All as it should be on a very lightly loaded system that does mainly > local work. Actually it does no local work. It is just a gateway which forwards "legit" mail to our internal mailhub which the users access. But I'll still take that as meaning the machine is operating fine. Thanks for all your input. I really love using qmail but I need to make sure it performs well because I have to justify it's use over sendmail. I installed it when we purchased a new gateway machine and the biggest issue for me was migrating our heavily hand-hacked sendmail.cf to the latest version. No thanks! Of course, my boss had other concerns like performance, support, etc. - med -- _____ Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Services Linux Uber Alles perl || die
Opinions on a mail filter?
I have the following setup. Currently my mail is spooled on my mail hub and I access it using IMAP. I am running qmail locally with delivery to my ~/Maildir/. If I turn on mail fowarding on my mailhub to send mail to my local machine (which is the goal here) all my mail gets stuck in ~/Maildir/. No problem there except that I am on a "few" mailing lists and would like to filter incoming mail ala procmail. I would like to change my setup a bit so that I have say ~/Mail/ which would contain Maildir style mailboxes under it like so: ~/Mail/inbox ~/Mail/mutt ~/Mail/qmail etc etc. Each of those subdirs would be a Maildir style mailbox created with makemaildir. So everything is set up except for the mail filter and I am wondering which I should use. I have some experience with procmail but have not managed to get it to work with qmail. Is there a filter that I can stick in the pipe that will deliver to Maildir style folders? Mark. begin:vcard n:Drummond;Mark tel;fax:(613) 542-8129 tel;home:(613) 384-4068 tel;work:(613) 541-6000 x 6060 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:signals.rmc.ca org:Royal Military College of Canada;Computing Services adr:;;4475 Bath Road;Amherstview;Ontario;K7N 1A3;CANADA version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:UNIX System Administrator x-mozilla-cpt:;31488 fn:Mark Drummond end:vcard
qmail-ldap on gateway
I run qmail on my MX host, relaying mail to my internal mailhub. Can I use qmail-ldap to verify rcpt addresses against our Netscape Directory Server? -- ___ Mark E Drummond[EMAIL PROTECTED] Kingston Linux Users Group http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/ KLUG Mailing List mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Qmail as external mailhub
Hi all. I am setting up a test of qmail as a replacement for sendmail on our new external mailhub/web server. Our structure is as follows: We have an external mailhub which the world sees as the MX for our domain, rmc.ca. All mail for rmc.ca is processed by the external mailhub. Spam, relayed mail, unresolvable return domains etc are bounced, and anything for rmc.ca, or any of the other defined relay domains is passed on to our internal mailhub (Netscape Messaging Server) for delivery into the users mailbox, usually accessed from there via IMAP. I now have qmail installed on the new machine as per the install instructions and it is working. Now I must configure it to relay mail to the internal mailhub. I have added the appropriate domains to my "rcpthosts" file. Do I need to modify any other files? How do I tell qmail to send this mail to the internal hub? -- _____ Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Services Linux Uber Alles perl || die The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuums
Header rewriting
By putting my top domain in the defaulthost file on my external hub (MX for the domain) will that automagically rewrite the _sender_ address on outgoing email? Rewriting will not be necesary for 99% of my users but there are a few who might be running thier own Unices and need to have headers rewitten. Will it affect anything else? Another question, I want all mail for my domain forwarded to my internal hub _except_ for mail directed to the external hub itself. There is a mailing list server on the external hub, so mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] must be managed locally. Now lists.mydomain is an alias for the external hubs real name. But I have the following in my smtproutes file: rmc.ca:sol1.rmc.ca .rmc.ca:sol1.rmc.ca Will this cause mail for the external hub to be forwarded to the internal hub, which would then redirect the mail to the external hub ad nauseum? Should I use explicit entries in smtphosts for each domain I want to forward instead of the catch all ".rmc.ca:..."? -med -- _____ Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Services Linux Uber Alles perl || die The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuums
Sending mail to /dev/null?
How can I send mail from a certain site to bit heaven? -- _ Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Services Linux Uber Alles perl || die The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuums
Forwarding MAILER-DAEMON messages
How would I forward all messages for MAILER-DAEMON on my external hub (running qmail) to my global postmaster account? -- _ Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Services Linux Uber Alles perl || die The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuums
Remote addresses not getting processed
Hi all. Qmail is delivering to local addresses from both local and remote senders. But it is not delivering to remote addresses, whether from a local or remote sender. Any ideas? -- _ Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Services Linux Uber Alles perl || die The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuums
Remote mail still not working
Howdy. OK, ingoring relaying et al for now, I still cannot get mail for remote rcpts off my machine. Mail to local users, whether from local or remote senders works just fine. But mail from a local user to a remote rcpt just sits in the queue. _Nothing_ is logged, I have the fol in my syslog.conf: mail.* /var/log/maillog TAB separated (I double checked :-) and syslog has been restarted. My current setup is basically the default setup after an install. All daemons are running as their appropriate users. Nothing has been bounced. The mail to remote rcpts is just sitting in the queue. I am on a Solaris 7 box, the install went without a hitch. No errors. I need to get this fixed ASAP or my boss will make me go back to sendmail. (Ack!) Any ideas folks? -- _ Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Services Linux Uber Alles perl || die The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuums
Re: Remote mail still not working
Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > > - Mark E Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > | Howdy. OK, ingoring relaying et al for now, I still cannot get mail > | for remote rcpts off my machine. Mail to local users, whether from > | local or remote senders works just fine. But mail from a local user > | to a remote rcpt just sits in the queue. _Nothing_ is logged, > | the fol in my syslog.conf: > | > | mail.* /var/log/maillog > > Well, you clearly need to get logging enabled. Try this simple test: > > ; echo Testing | /var/qmail/bin/splogger Got logging working. I guess Solaris doesn't like mail.*, I had to use mail.info instead. Stupid admin trick. :-) Maybe now I will see what is going on. I'll get back to you. -- _____ Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Services Linux Uber Alles perl || die The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuums
Re: Remote mail still not working
Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > > Did you try the direct splogger test I suggested? Yep, now it is working per my other email. > But how do you run it in the foreground? I meant to run simply Actually I did `csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc'` without the &. However, all of a sudden all the email that was waiting in the queue has been delivered! Would qmail hold the mail while logging was not working? -- _________ Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Services Linux Uber Alles perl || die The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuums
Re: Remote mail still not working
Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > > - Mark E Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > | I'll get back to you. > > OK, I am going home now, it being late in these parts of the world. > But I'll log in from home later, so if you have further questions I > may still be able to answer them. > > - Harald Thanks for your help. Anyway, I am back to the basic post-install config, with _just_ my "locals" "me" and "rcpthosts" set to the local machine FQDN. Like I said, the email in the queue has been delivered (well, actually only about half of the messages, I guess the others need to wait for the next queue processing?), and I have no idea what happened to make that mail be delivered. Logging is working now that I have the correct entry in syslog.conf. Now I get to break it by trying to integrate it with tcp_wrappers ... :-) -- _ Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Services Linux Uber Alles perl || die The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuums
Re: Remote mail still not working
Mate Wierdl wrote: > > The obvious question now is: what command starts qmail for you? Wold you > mind copyying the approriate init file here? > Since I have just installed tcpserver, my /etc/init.d/qmail now has the fol in it: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -c100 -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u51012 -g1005 0 smtp \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd & I am now testing it to see if it accepts mail both ways. -- _________ Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Services Linux Uber Alles perl || die The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuums
ezmlm lists question
I noticed that the only way to create a list with a name of the form @ as opposed to -@ is to create the list under the ~alias user. Would this be a "normal" way of doing things or is there some reason not to? I have been setting up lists to replace my majordomo server under a "lists" user but I figured if I create them under ~alias then I can continue using the exact same list names as before, and then my users would not notice and change (except when trying to interact with the mlm itself of course). -- _____ Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Services Linux Uber Alles perl || die The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuums
Re: ezmlm lists question
Chris Johnson wrote: > > The list address would then be [EMAIL PROTECTED], but controlled by a regular > user rather than the alias user. Since there are no normal users on this machine, is there any reason not to set up the lists under the alias user? I'm thinking security wise here. -- _____ Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Services Linux Uber Alles perl || die The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuums
ezmlm members list question
In majordomo, the only info stored about a subscriber is his email address. Can ezmlm store the users name as well? As in "Joe Blow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Blow). -- _____ Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Services Linux Uber Alles perl || die The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuums
Thanks! (ezmlm & remote mail problems)
Thanks for everyone's help. It looks like my new qmail mail gateway w/ezmlm lists is ready for production. I just need to test relaying from external sites and we will be good to go. Cheers -- _ Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Services Linux Uber Alles perl || die The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuums
Mail loop problem
Hi folks. I put my new qmail based MX into production yesterday and it is working great. However, I have one problem and I am not sure which end I should look to for the answer. My setup is an external gateway machine running qmail (our MX), forwarding mail for our domain to our internal mailhub running Netscape Messaging Server (NMS) which all our users access using IMAP. The problem is that mail to a non-existant or mispelled address within our domain gets sent to the internal hub, which checks it and does not find a valid RCPT, and so it sends the email back to the MX. Now the MX, instead of bouncing the email back to the sender, it returns it to the internal hub, which then sends it back again to the MX. An example, someone outside our domain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) sends an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The MX for mydomain.com checks the RCPT and sees that it is destined for our domain so it relays the message on to our internal hub. The hub, realising that unknownuser does not exist should bounce the message. Only the message gets sent back to the MX, which for some reason returns the message back to the hub instead of returning it the original sender. This is probably just a lack of understanding on my part (I'm relatively new to postmaster duties) leading to a misconfiguration somewhere. My question is, is this qmail's problem or NMS's problem? -- _________ Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Services Linux Uber Alles perl || die
Re: Mail loop problem
Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > > - Mark E Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > | My setup is an external gateway machine running qmail (our MX), > | forwarding mail for our domain to our internal mailhub running > | Netscape Messaging Server (NMS) which all our users access using > | IMAP. > | > | The problem is that mail to a non-existant or mispelled address > | within our domain gets sent to the internal hub, which checks it and > | does not find a valid RCPT, and so it sends the email back to the > | MX. > > That's your problem, as far as I can understand it. Your NMS needs to > be told that it, and it alone, is the final authority on what is a > valid email address within your domain, and so it should produce a > proper bounce message if it is not. This is what I figured. Only I have no idea why NMS is sending bounces to the MX. It does not send anything else to the MX, it delivers it itself. H... I'll keep looking. Thanks! -- _________ Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Services Linux Uber Alles perl || die
Re: poor documentation example
"Scott D. Yelich" wrote: > > How many people here had to ask or figure this out for > themselves provided that they didn't have "cc" working? I did. It was a quite fix but it was one which could have been avoided. That's what autoconf & automake are for. -- _________ Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Services Linux Uber Alles perl || die
Re: Melissa Virus
Here we have a serious problem folks. Sendmail had a "fix" out for Melissa very shortly after it came out, and we are sitting pretty. I made a big push here to move our org to qmail because qmail seemed to be way superior. Now I am really ticked by my inability to write/use simple rulesets to solve this problem. If anyone knows how to insert a filter of some sort into the qmail stream I'd love to hear about it, else I can see qmail getting the boot, and I _really_ don't want to have to go back to sendmail! -- _____ Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Services Linux Uber Alles perl || die
Re: Melissa Virus
Mark E Drummond wrote: > > Here we have a serious problem folks. Sendmail had a "fix" out for For what it is worth, I am not even going to bother with this now. Not much point really since an inline script would just increase load and since the "fix" for sendmail is dependant on the Subject line of the email. Not much of a fix really ... -- _____ Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Services Linux Uber Alles perl || die
.qmail- question
Hi all, I have a mailing list set up using the .qmail- feature. I have email addresses listed one per line like I'm supposed to and it works fine. My question is, can the lines of email addresses take any normal SMTP form or does it have to be just the email address? i.e., could I instead have lines of the form: "Person's Name" instead of just: email@address ?? Mark -- ------ Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada Unix System Administrator Computing Services Linux Uber Alles perl || die
Weird stats?
I've installed qmailanalog on my mail gateway and ran zoverall against the last 81 days of mail stats. What I came up with leads me to question how well my machine is working. The hardware is a Sun Enterprise 250 with dual 300MHz UltraSPARC-II's, and 256MB of RAM running Solaris 7. What I am wondering about is the apparently long processing time for messages. According to these stats we are processing only ~2722 messages per day (~1.9 per minute) at ~23K each. Yet the average message queue time is 527 seconds?! Why would a message sit in the queue for so long with such a light load? Here's the numbers: Basic statistics qtime is the time spent by a message in the queue. ddelay is the latency for a successful delivery to one recipient---the end of successful delivery, minus the time when the message was queued. xdelay is the latency for a delivery attempt---the time when the attempt finished, minus the time when it started. The average concurrency is the total xdelay for all deliveries divided by the time span; this is a good measure of how busy the mailer is. Completed messages: 222628 Recipients for completed messages: 244706 Total delivery attempts for completed messages: 257266 Average delivery attempts per completed message: 1.15559 Bytes in completed messages: 5139085562 Bytes weighted by success: 5470767758 Average message qtime (s): 526.552 Total delivery attempts: 258538 success: 234138 failure: 10575 deferral: 13825 Total ddelay (s): 22274235.431068 Average ddelay per success (s): 95.132936 Total xdelay (s): 553004.573188 Average xdelay per delivery attempt (s): 2.138968 Time span (days): 81.7779 Average concurrency: 0.0782671 -- _________ Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Services Linux Uber Alles perl || die
Re: Error msg. from matchup
Ralf Guenthner wrote: > > Hi > > Sorry if this is pretty basic... > > While doing > > "cat logneu | ./bin/matchup > log1" in /usr/local/qmailanalog > > I get the message: > > matchup: fatal: unable to write fd 5: file descriptor not open > > What's wrong? Is my ulimit too low?? You forgot to redirect fd 5 to a file. Do this: cat logneu | ./bin/matchup >log1 5>log1.blah -- _____ Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Services Linux Uber Alles perl || die
Re: Weird stats?
Fred Lindberg wrote: > > On Tue, 18 May 1999 11:22:11 -0400, Mark E Drummond wrote: > > >What I am wondering about is the apparently long processing time for > >messages. According to these stats we are processing only ~2722 messages > >per day (~1.9 per minute) at ~23K each. Yet the average message queue > >time is 527 seconds?! Why would a message sit in the queue for so long > >with such a light load? Here's the numbers: > > First, you have a very lightly loaded machine, and it's goofing off > most of the time ;-) This explains the 1.9 messages/min. We've had > qmail do 1000/min on simple hardware, admittedly with ideal recipients. > > The queue time includes deliveries that were repeatedly deferred (host > unreachable, user over quota try later, etc) that then finally timed > out their queue life time(something like 7 days). Thus, the average is > not very useful. > > Average ddelay per success (s): 95.132936: This shows you that the > delivery attempts that were successful took on average 95 s to > complete. This does not count all the unsuccessful delivery attempts. > > Look at other stats in the package. The time taken to complete 50% or > 80% of the deliveries or the average time for the first 50 or 80% is a > much more useful measure. > > In summary, looks ok and the numbers are a reflection of the > recipients, not your qmail installation. I ran zddelay on the logs after posting this and yes, 82% of all messages are being delivered in under 1 second, 91% in under 2 seconds, but the last 1-2% are taking _huge_ amounts of time which it skewing the results. Here's the run of zddelay: Distribution of ddelays for successful deliveries Meaning of each line: The first pct% of successful deliveries all happened within doneby seconds. The average ddelay was avg. doneby avg pct 0.490.46 10 0.490.46 11 0.490.47 12 0.490.47 13 0.500.47 14 0.500.47 15 0.500.47 16 0.500.47 17 0.500.47 18 0.500.48 19 0.510.48 20 0.510.48 21 0.510.48 22 0.510.48 23 0.510.48 24 0.520.48 25 0.520.48 26 0.520.49 27 0.520.49 28 0.520.49 29 0.530.49 30 0.530.49 31 0.530.49 32 0.530.49 33 0.540.49 34 0.540.50 35 0.540.50 36 0.540.50 37 0.550.50 38 0.550.50 39 0.550.50 40 0.550.50 41 0.560.50 42 0.560.51 43 0.560.51 44 0.570.51 45 0.570.51 46 0.570.51 47 0.580.51 48 0.580.52 49 0.590.52 50 0.590.52 51 0.590.52 52 0.600.52 53 0.600.52 54 0.610.53 55 0.610.53 56 0.620.53 57 0.620.53 58 0.620.53 59 0.630.53 60 0.640.54 61 0.640.54 62 0.650.54 63 0.650.54 64 0.660.55 65 0.670.55 66 0.680.55 67 0.680.55 68 0.690.56 69 0.700.56 70 0.710.56 71 0.730.56 72 0.740.57 73 0.750.57 74 0.770.57 75 0.790.58 76 0.810.58 77 0.830.59 78 0.860.59 79 0.890.60 80 0.930.60 81 0.980.61 82 1.030.61 83 1.090.62 84 1.160.63 85 1.250.64 86 1.340.65 87 1.450.66 88 1.590.67 89 1.750.69 90 1.920.71 91 2.160.73 92 2.470.76 93 2.880.79 94 3.490.83 95 4.590.89 96 10.000.99 97 10.331.20 98 100.18 97.06 99 608402.00 100.41 100 - med -- _ Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Services Linux Uber Alles perl || die
Re: Qmail and Email virus protection
Albert Hopkins wrote: > > Is there such a solution? Is there a solution to have qmail detect > viruses in incoming email messages? Yes, though I don't know what it is ... ;-) Most purists like to pretend that this is an end-user problem but realists know that end-users are (99% of the time) dumbasses that would not know an infected email message if the subject line said "DON'T EXECUTE THIS ATTACHEMNT, IT HAS A VIRUS!!!". Do you think they would execute it? Of course they would ... At any rate it is possible to stick a script into the qmail "pipe" which processes each message through a command line virus scanner. Now I had a link to a company that was doing this somewhere -- Gang Warily
Re: Qmail and Email virus protection
Jason Haar wrote: > > A qmail-queue replacement is what you're looking for. I haven't seen anyone > do one yet... Not quite, it is actually just done with a script, with incoming mail passed to the script for preprocessing. These guys are doing it with qmail plus 3 differant virus checkers. http://academy.star.co.uk/public/virustats.htm I don't have the details of their setup. -- Gang Warily
Re: Oops, someone tried to send you a virus
Peter Cavender wrote: > > Go away and take your alarmist spam with you. I hope your > quarantined viruses get loose on your NT server. Actually, if I remember right these guys are the ones who implemented an email anti-virus system using a modified version of Qmail running on UNIX boxen. -- ___ Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/
Vitual domains?
I was just asked if qmail could do the fol, which I am sure it can, and I am sure this is a vitual domains thing, but I lack self esteem and need some reassurance ... ;-) I want to have email coming in to [EMAIL PROTECTED] redirected to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... possible? -- ___ Mark Drummond|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]|ICQ#19153754 Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/
Re: What MUA do you use?
Communicator. Spawning a browser to view some goofballs HTML mail, which I receive a lot of, is a pain in the ass. Lacks some of the features I was used to in mutt and pine, not nearly as configurable, doesn't do pgp/gpg, I use a Verisign cert for now, but overall it has reduced my headaches and I have learned to live with the mssing features. Strictly IMAP from work and home. Personally I would prefer mutt or pine, but Communicator is our officially supported product, so it also helps to use the same tool my lusers are using. ;-( -- ___ Mark Drummond|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]|ICQ#19153754 Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/
Re: What MUA do you use?
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > You can use a mailcap definition to pipe html attachments through lynx. > This works well for mutt. The html attachments look like plain text > attachments. Not adequate .. some of the html mail I receive is complex and does not render in any decently readable fashion in lynx. > Be carefull when using a browser to read email. People can tell when you > read their email by looking to see when image links in the message are > referenced. Scripting can also be used to do unfriendly things to you. Bah! A'm not afaid! ;-) -- ___ Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/
Re: What MUA do you use?
Jedi/Sector One wrote: > > Right, and many Netscrap and Grootlook users are sending HTML mails > (and even HTML + plain text) for a plain text content, or just ugly and > useless colors or background. > Wotta stupid bandwidth starvation : the content is the same than a > plain text message, but with twice its size. Wrong-o! Want to send a nicely formatted proposal (with appropriate highlights etc) to the department director so you can get funding for that million dollar server upgrade project? Good luck doing it in plain text. And tables? -- ___ Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/
"Upgrade" causing "temporary failure"
I recently "upgraded" to the latest versions of ucspi-tcp and daemontools on my qmail based MX. Although it seems to be operating just fine, I get the following messages on the console: supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-send/supervise/lock: temporary failure supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary failure supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-smtpd/supervise/lock: temporary failure supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary failure Here is one of the directories in question: ls -l /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/supervise total 2 prw--- 1 root other 0 Jan 27 23:34 control| -rw--- 1 root other 0 Jan 27 23:30 lock prw--- 1 root other 0 Jan 27 23:30 ok| -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 18 Jan 27 23:35 status This is on Solaris 7. Compared against my Slackware Linux box, everything looks the same. The 2 are set up identically. -- ___ Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/
Re: What MUA do you use?
Chris Garrigues wrote: > > Sounds like a job for PDF. It'll even look the same everywhere. PDF is very nice, I'd love to see it as a defacto standard, if not PS, but Acrobat costs $$$ and I refuse to spend $$$ on something when a perfectly good (free) alternative is available. Not only do I work at a cash strapped educational institution, it's a government cash strapped educational instituion! We have standardised (for better or worse) on Netscape Communicator so there is generally no problem with the content being rendered wrong. -- ___ Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/
forwarding outbound mail to hub
If I want to forward all outbound mail from my machine to my mail hub (because we only allow outbound mail from there) can I just put ":hub.mydomain.com" in my smtproutes? -- __ Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/ Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/
Re: forwarding outbound mail to hub
Charles Cazabon wrote: Yes. I keep getting "sorry_could_not_establish_ an_smtp_connection". -- __ Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/ Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/
Moving queued mail Was: forwarding outbound mail to hub
Charles Cazabon wrote: > > Mark E. Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > «ëk6¢|+¢×ÿý¬ü z ¶Ø§ÿû(®¼ÿr¥ÿùèÿ÷¬µ¦åÈÿjÿìÚÿrçyËb > > Geez, I hate multipart/alternative and base64-encoded email. Sorry about that everyone ... thought I was sending plain text by default to the qmail list. A thousand lashes ... Here is my current situation ... my machine is not _currently_ being prevented from sending mail. I have a number of "critical" messages sitting in my queue from my system monitoring software destined for my pager ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and they are just sitting there. One of my mission critical servers died early friday morning and I was never notified! All the non-critical stuff just goes to my email address, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The non-critical messages _are_ being delivered, the critical ones are not, and each attempt at sending them results in "Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/" Is there something wrong with pagenet.ca domain? Perhaps *@rmc.ca is being blocked at their end (we recently had a student go on a spamming campaign)? nslookup returns: Non-authoritative answer: pagenet.ca preference = 0, mail exchanger = mail.pagenet.ca pagenet.ca preference = 20, mail exchanger = mail2.pagenet.ca Authoritative answers can be found from: pagenet.ca nameserver = ns.gecems.com pagenet.ca nameserver = ns2.gecems.com mail.pagenet.ca internet address = 207.6.71.204 mail2.pagenet.cainternet address = 207.6.71.104 ns.gecems.com internet address = 207.6.71.207 ns2.gecems.com internet address = 216.94.91.11
Re: Moving queued mail Was: forwarding outbound mail to hub
> Non-authoritative answer: > pagenet.ca preference = 0, mail exchanger = mail.pagenet.ca > pagenet.ca preference = 20, mail exchanger = mail2.pagenet.ca Some further investigation: trying to telnet to port 25 on either MX FROM MY MACHINE gets me telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No route to host but from one of my other servers I have no problem.
Re: Moving queued mail Was: forwarding outbound mail to hub
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > what does traceroute show you? > if it doesn't leave your machine then your routing tables are broken That's the kicker ... I can traceroute to both machines from my workstation, but I get "No Route" when trying to telnet to port 25. But I can jump over to any of my servers and telnet to the remote port 25 no problem. Now I am at a complete loss. Wait a minute ... I am not at a complete loss ... I just tried telnetting to port 25 on an MX at another company where I moonlight ... no route to host. It looks like my Net Manager has indeed prevented me from making outbound SMTP connections. OK, so here I sit with 34 messages in my queue. How do I go about telling my qmail, to a) send those queued messages to my mail hub and b) send all future messages to my mail hub? (I assume both are solved the same way).
Re: Moving queued mail Was: forwarding outbound mail to hub
Answered my own question. :my.mail.hub in smtproutes.
[SUMMARY] Re: problems after installing scan4virus
The problem ended up being that perl, as it comes with Slackware 7, does not support setuid scripts. -- Mark Drummond Department of Computing Services UNIX System Administrator
migrating virtuals from sendmail
I am moving a client from a sendmail box to a qmail box. I am not terribly familiar with sendmail, but they host over 100 domains, and email for many/most of those is handled by, I presume, sendmail's virtual domain capability. Whoever set this thing up originally has a script which parses a pile of text files (one per domain) which consist of virtual address:real address pairs and does whatever sendmail needs done. Now, I know I could set up virtual domains in qmail to handle this but the amount of handraulic work involved is staggering. I'd like to hear suggestions and experiences from the list. Is there an easier way? Any automation I can do? -- __ Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/ Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/
A complete log rolling & reporting system?
I am searching for log file nirvana. Like most eggheads/geeks/techs I like to see stats, I especially like to see mail stats. At one point I had a complete log rolling solution, but that was before upgrading to the latest daemontools et al. At the moment I have multilog maintaining 10 x 5MB log files (what I was using before multilog) for qmail-send and qmail-smtpd, each. (iow, 20 x 5MB log files in total). I think I would prefer log files rotated and reported on monthly. Ultimately my logging solution would rotate logs every month, save a user defined number of log files, and process each months log file as it is rolled over sending the stats to me. The old logs would be saved so I could do longer range reporting, quarterly, semi-annually, annually etc. Does anyone else have any cookbook solutions for this? I was looking at qfilelog and I guess I could rotate logs monthly by HUP'ing it from cron. If I have my system set up per "Life with qmail" with 4 separate "run" files, one for send, one for smtpd and one for each of their loggers, what is a clean way of replacing multilog in the logger run files with qfilelog and having a new log file created every month? #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t s499 n10 /var/log/qmail/smtpd -- Mark Drummond Department of Computing Services UNIX System Administrator
Effective anti spamming
I am currently using rblsmtpd to block spammers on the RBL. I may add ORBS as well. Think I'll wait, gather some stats on how much is being blocked by RBL, and then compare with RBL+ORBS. Anyway, let's say, for arguments sake, that I am receiving boatloads of spam from east asian IPs in the 200+ range (anyone else getting flodded from over there?) and I want to block them. Assuming I can trust the domain name in the headers, I can add it to badmailfrom, but that only blocks _that_ domain, and not even subdomains of that domain. Or I could add the network address of the sending IP to my /etc/tcp.smtp with a :deny. But my boss wants to be sure that a) we are blocking mail from these spammers but b) we can still recieve mail from the postmaster in that domain. I currently have a very large list of domains in badmailfrom and network numbers in tcp.smtp. Is there some better way around this? I realise there is not really any easy way around spam but ... -- Mark Drummond Department of Computing Services UNIX System Administrator
Re: Encryption and t-shirts
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 04:16:05PM -0500, Dave Kitabjian wrote: > "cr.yp.to" > > Front: "Don't queue mail with sendmail" > Back: "Send mail with qmail" > I'll buy one of these ones ... Maybe put the 2 together? ;-) -- Mark Drummond Department of Computing Services UNIX System Administrator
Re: Encryption and t-shirts
On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 01:27:31PM -0500, Dave Sill wrote: > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here are a couple of djb's old .sig lines: > > Sick of sendmail? Don't get mad; get qmail. > Secure, reliable, efficient. Pick three. How about djb's "There are two kinds of interfaces ..." quote? -- Mark Drummond Department of Computing Services UNIX System Administrator
Re: Effective anti spamming
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 03:27:17PM -0500, Mark E. Drummond wrote: > I am currently using rblsmtpd to block spammers on the RBL. I may add ORBS as > well. Think I'll wait, gather some stats on how much is being blocked by RBL, > and then compare with RBL+ORBS. Based on a response I should specify that I am not blocking all of 200+, rather I am blocking individual class C blocks, eg 2xx.xxx.xxx.:deny. -- Mark Drummond Department of Computing Services UNIX System Administrator
Re: A complete log rolling & reporting system?
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 03:38:21PM -0500, Dave Kitabjian wrote: > *** newsyslog *** > > Maybe I'm lucky, or something. We use FreeBSD almost exclusively, and it > includes a fantatic tool called "newsyslog". I would think some of you > would have it too, since it's been around since 1987 and came out of MIT. This is very interesting ... except for my personal workstation (a PC running Slackware Linux 7) all my systems are Sun boxes running Solaris 2.6/7. Strange that a tool like that would not be found in Solaris given it's roots. Solaris has a newsyslog (/usr/lib/newsyslog) but it would seem to be relatively impotent compared to the tool you are talking about. It has no config file, rather it is hard coded to roll /var/adm/messages and /var/log/syslog only. Of course it can be modified pretty easily. -- Mark Drummond Department of Computing Services UNIX System Administrator
Re: A complete log rolling & reporting system? (off-topic)
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 04:23:23PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I have the Linux program "logrotate" running under Solaris. Original >source is at >ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/code/logrotate/logrotate-3.3.tar.gz I've come across this before but never gave it a whirl. I'll have to take a look at it. For now, I am logging with qfilelog, and rolling the logs on the 1st of every month with a modified version of the newsyslog that comes with Solaris boxen. Next up, automagically processing those rolled logs with qmailanalog. -- Mark Drummond Department of Computing Services UNIX System Administrator
Re: Effective anti spamming
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 07:06:28PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:20:06 +0100 , "Ruben van der Leij" writes: > > And it blocks many server that are not open relays, > also. Therein lies the problem. Thanks to everyone for your opinions ... perhaps I will leave ORBS out for now and just go with the other lists. I have some very vocal, at times abusive, clients and I need not agravate them more than necessary! I wonder if the DUL list would block a lot of the spam I am getting through open relays in east Asia? They are all C class addresses, often used for dial up. -- __ Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/ Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/
Should this have been rejected?
Last night, someone somewhere attempted to send one of my users an email with the W32/Fix trojan attached. Thanks to Jason's Scan4Virus script, it was picked up and nixed at my mail gateway. Excellant (spoken with a Mr. Burns'esque inflection) ... the hounds have been released. However, The envelop sender was [EMAIL PROTECTED] rmc.ca is my domain, and of course admin__ does not exist. Should this have been rejected? How can I tell qmail to say that mail from rmc.ca should be from inside our network? I think I am thinking about this the wrong way. I know qmail is supposed to verify the sender domain, but is there some way I could prevetn this type of thing from getting in? Had there been no virus, had it been just plain old spam, it would have made it through because the domain, rmc.ca, is legit, but the sender was not. -- __ Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/ Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/
Re: problems after installing scan4virus
Dave Sill wrote: > > Bingo. Raise the limit. 'k, raised it to 500 and the out of memory errors are gone. Next question ... now I get: @400038b43283236535ec tcpserver: status: 1/40 @400038b4328323691234 tcpserver: pid 7436 from 137.94.1.134 @400038b4328323b482b4 tcpserver: ok 7436 signals.rmc.ca:137.94.5.88:25 sol4.rmc.ca:137.94.1.134::54395 @400038b4328404c104a4 X-Scan4Virus: cannot open /var/spool/qmailscan/antivirus-qmail-queue-version.txt - did you initialise the system by running "/var/qmail/bin/antivirus-qmail-queue.pl -z"? - Permission denied @400038b432840511c86c /bin/rm: cannot remove `/var/spool/qmailscan/signals9513334987437': Permission denied @400038b4328405156e04 /bin/rm: cannot remove `/var/spool/qmailscan/working/new/signals9513334987437': Permission denied @400038b4328608561244 tcpserver: end 7436 status 0 @400038b432860856932c tcpserver: status: 0/40 and every time I try running `/var/qmail/bin/antivirus-qmail-queue.pl -z` I get: [root@signals:/usr/local/src/qmail/scan4virus-0.17]# /var/qmail/bin/antivirus-qmail-queue.pl -z sh: find: No such file or directory [root@signals:/usr/local/src/qmail/scan4virus-0.17]# and here is the result in qmail-queue.log: 23/02/2000 14:20:13:7440: +++ starting debugging for process 7440 23/02/2000 14:20:13:7440: setting UID to EUID so subprocesses can access files generated by this script 23/02/2000 14:20:13:7440: program name is /var/qmail/bin/antivirus-qmail-queue.pl 23/02/2000 14:20:13:7440: re-create the antivirus version file 23/02/2000 14:20:13:7440: scan_queue: detecting version of uvscan 23/02/2000 14:20:13:7440: no files to clean up! `/var/qmail/bin/antivirus-qmail-queue.pl -g` seems to work just fine though. the /var/spool/qmailscan dir and everything in it is chown qmailq:qmail. -- __ Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/ Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/
Virus scanner suggestions?
I have tried 3 times now, unsuccesfully, to get a price quote from NAI for a UNIX (Solaris) based virus scanner. I need one for my MX to scan emails with and 2 to scan my user home dirs on my fileservers which serve out those homedirs via samba to Windows boxen. For some reason, NAI does not want my business. Or rather, they keep trying to sell me some big kit, most of which I do not need. Any suggestions, experiences with other scanners? -- __ Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/ Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/
problems after installing scan4virus
I just installed scan4virus (plus the QMAILQUEUE patch, and Time-HiRes) on my Slackware 7 (kernel 2.2.14) box with mcaffee's viruscanner. Now, when my mail hub tries to send me my mail I get: @400038b427ec28cacd6c tcpserver: status: 1/40 @400038b427ec2a95bdb4 tcpserver: pid 7050 from 137.94.1.134 @400038b427ec2bce784c tcpserver: ok 7050 signals.rmc.ca:137.94.5.88:25 sol4.rmc.ca:137.94.1.134::54202 @400038b427ed044f820c perl: error in loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory @400038b427ef10f623e4 tcpserver: end 7050 status 0 @400038b427ef10f6a0e4 tcpserver: status: 0/40 @400038b428b6120df89c tcpserver: status: 1/40 @400038b428b61211d0fc tcpserver: pid 7092 from 137.94.1.134 @400038b428b61249a5f4 tcpserver: ok 7092 signals.rmc.ca:137.94.5.88:25 sol4.rmc.ca:137.94.1.134::54216 @400038b428b70187e62c Out of memory! @400038b428b70194694c Callback called exit at /var/qmail/bin/antivirus-qmail-queue.pl line 157. @400038b428b7019697e4 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /var/qmail/bin/antivirus-qmail-queue.pl line 157. Perhaps this has something to do with the softlimit in my /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run file? #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` export QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/antivirus-qmail-queue.pl" exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 300 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 Any ideas? -- __ Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/ Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/
Re: problems after installing scan4virus
Just for the heck of it, I nixed everything, started from scratch and made absolutely sure I followed the install instructions to a 't' ... and I am still getting: @400038b43d8c23bf449c X-Scan4Virus: cannot open /var/spool/qmailscan/antivirus-qmail-queue-version.txt - did you initialise the system by running "/var/qmail/bin/antivirus-qmail-queue.pl -z"? - Permission denied @400038b43d8c240f9b04 /bin/rm: cannot remove `/var/spool/qmailscan/signals9513363227712': Permission denied @400038b43d8c2412eaac /bin/rm: cannot remove `/var/spool/qmailscan/working/new/signals9513363227712': Permission denied every time someone tries to deliver mail to my smtpd. -- __ Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/ Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/
Re: problems after installing scan4virus
Jason Haar wrote: > > You did install it setuid qmailq like the docs said? yup > You did run "/var/qmail/bin/antivirus-qmail-queue.pl -z" like it says? ja > Are all the files under /var/spool/qmailscan/ owned by qmailq, group qmail > like they should be? hie > Is /var/spool/qmailscan/ writable by qmailq? oui > Also, I surprised you didn't test it before going live!!! :-) I didn't. I'm testing it on my PC, not my MX or mailhub. Eek, I can't imagine having my ~2300 users storming into my office ... ;-) To answer the email you sent me as well, yes, I think it was 0.17 that I installed. I did follow the instructions, and they were quite clear, or I thought so anyway. Everything seemed to go fine. Part of the problem was my stupidity, when I installed the first time, well, my default umask is 077, so that screwed the install. I fixed all the permissions problems (which was causing the `rm` commands to fail) and the issue with find (I just put the full path into the script). But I am still getting the errors about: X-Scan4Virus: cannot open /var/spool/qmailscan/antivirus-qmail-queue-version.txt - did you initialise the system by running "/var/qmail/bin/antivirus-qmail-queue.pl -z"? - Permission denied To answer the error ... yes I did run that command and it worked just fine. I have reinstalled, from scratch, 3 times now, followed the instructions exactly, and made sure to install with my umask set to 022. But I still get that one error in my smtpd logs. I will try out the stuff you sent me and get back to you. -- __ Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/ Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/
Sorry,_message_has_wrong_owner._(#4.3.5)/
Anyone tell me what that message means? I just installed qmail on a SPARC5 running solaris 7. This is the first time I have come across this error. -- __ Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/ Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/
rblsmtpd + multiple listings
I am a bit confused ... I am looking at Aaron Nabil's patch to allow rblsmtpd to use multiple listing services ... but does rblsmtpd not already support multiple services? Of course it does, I'm using the rbl and relays.mail-abuse right now. Why the patch? -- __ Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/ Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/
Re: rblsmtpd + multiple listings
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 09:39:41AM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: > > rblsmtpd lets you invoke multiple instances of itself. Aaron's patch > allows you to avoid an extra exec() of the same program. Ah! I see. I guess I'll keep an eye on the load and see what happens as I add other listings. My MX is currently pretty lightly taxed ... a dual Sun E250 with 1GB of RAM running qmail+scan4virus(one virus scanner only)+rbl+relays and currently only handling incoming mail for ~2300 people. Load is always < 0.3. -- __ Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/ Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/
Re: Effective anti spamming
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 01:21:43PM -0800, Aaron L. Meehan wrote: > > RSS has blocked 2294 smtp connections. > DUL has blocked 306 smtp connections. > RBL has blocked 3767 smtp connections. > Using just rbl+rss since Feb 29 16:50: rbl has blocked 415 connections. rss has blocked 14894 connections. (!!) I've just added DUL to my list. -- __ Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/ Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/
Scan4Virus SegFault
I have this in my logs: 952357783.899146 Segmentation Fault - core dumped 952357783.902286 X-Scan4Virus: corrupt scanner/resource problems - exit status 35584 Mail seems to be working fine nonetheless. I've even nabbed 4-5 virus/trojan ladden(sp) emails. -- __ Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/ Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/
Another error Was: Re: Scan4Virus SegFault
Here is another one: 2000-03-03 11:56:51.986824 X-Scan4Virus: Unable to close pipe to /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue (#4.3.0) - 2000-03-03 11:56:52.083784 X-Scan4Virus: Unable to queue message (28416). (#4.3.0) - Illegal seek Any ideas? -- __ Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/ Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/
MX go boom!
Hi all. Last Friday my MX choked and I am trying to determine why (so I can defend qmail because I am sure it will get blamed). I am a big qmail fan, but my boss is not. Not that he does _not_ like qmail, just that he prefers to go with the old standby's like sendmail, or commercial products like Netscape MS, which we use internally on our mail hub. But he did allow me to go with qmail when we got our new MX server in. So anyway, my MX is a Sun E250, dual 300MHz UltraSPARC II's, 256MB of RAM (not the 1GB I reported in another mailing, I was confusing my MX and my mail hub), running qmail. At that time, it was scanning incoming mail for viruses using Scan4Virus+Mcafee's uvscan, and was referencing both the RBL and RSS. I was working from home last Friday when my boss sent me an email telling me that the MX had run out of swap (256MB physical swap) and needed to be rebooted. So I have gone searching my logs for telltale information but I have found next to nothing. I noticed that "status" messages in my smtpd log were up around 17/40 around the time of the reboot, but that is nothing phenominal I don't think. It has been stable ever since (and was stable for the 87 days before that, but I only added Scan4Virus and RSS checking in the past week or two). OT: I have seen the occasional 40/40 ... should I be increasing some parameter here? Any wild guesses about how many connections I should/could allow on this hardware (with virus scanning + checking RSS, DUL and RBL)? Actully, since March 1st 00:00 I have hit 40/40 14 times, with all those occuring in 2 distinct blocks. -- __ Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/ Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/
Does RSS et al block postmaster mail?
Will using RSS/DUL/RBL etc prevent someone from a blocked site from sending mail to postmaster at a site using the RSS etc? This is certainly a Bad Thing -- __ Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/ Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/
More virt domains questions
I am about to migrate a site from an old sendmail to qmail. The host over 100 domains and also handle email for those domains. In almost every case they are simply the MX for the domains in question and they are forwarding the mail to other accounts not under their control. In some cases all mail for adomain.com is directed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In other cases various addresses within anotherdomain.com are directed to various other people. say [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to [EMAIL PROTECTED] while [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is the easiest way of handling these 2 cases? I would guess that the first case can easily be handled by vituraldomains pointing to ~alias, and .qmail files directing mail appropriately. But the second case could involve 100s of addresses. What would the best case there? -- Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX System Administrator|Royal Military College of Canada The Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/ Saving the World ... One CPU at a Time
Vir Domains problems
I have added example.com to control/rcpthosts, and set up control/virtualdomains like so: example.com:alias-example.com I have created ~alias/qmail-example.com-default, and ~alias/.qmail-example.com-info, each directed to other accounts. I've restarted qmail. I've also set up DNS MX records accordingly. When I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], it bounces: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) Mail to any other address, which should be picked up by the default entry, also bounces. If I add a ~alias/.qmail-default with my own address in it, _all_ mail, virtualdomain or not, gets sent to me. Help! -- Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX System Administrator|Royal Military College of Canada The Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/ Saving the World ... One CPU at a Time
Re: Vir Domains problems
Chris Johnson wrote: > > FAQ 4.6 Er, please excuse my idiocy but what FAQ are you refering to? Dan's FAQ does not have section numbering ... http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq.html. Nonetheless, I did check Dan's FAQ when setting this up. That is why I am stumped. The FAQ says, --BEGIN QUOTE-- How do I set up a virtual domain? I'd like any mail for nowhere.mil, including [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] and so on, to be delivered to Bob. I've set up the MX already. Answer: Add nowhere.mil:bob to /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains, and tell qmail to read virtualdomains. Add nowhere.mil to /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts. Now mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] will be delivered locally to bob-whatever. Bob can set up ~bob/.qmail-default to catch all the possible addresses, ~bob/.qmail-info to catch [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. --END QUOTE-- Now, I added nowhere.mil (well, a real domain of course but let's stick with the example) to control/virtualdomains (nowhere.mil:alias-nowhere.mil). I "told" qmail to read virtualdomains. I added nowhere.mil to control/rcpthosts. The MX records were changed accordingly. I created ~alias/.qmail-nowhere.mil-default with [EMAIL PROTECTED] as it's contents. Ergo, mail to *@nowhere.mil should go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] That is not happening. The mail is bouncing with the error quoted in my first message. If I then create ~alias/.qmail-default with any email address in it ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) then _all_ email is forwarded to that address, including all mail for nowhere.mil. Delete ~alias/.qmail-default and mail start bouncing again. I expect, perhaps incorrectly, that the correct behaviour would be, in the face of a message to say [EMAIL PROTECTED], to look for these files, in this order: ~alias/.qmail-nowhere.mil-info ~alias/.qmail-nowhere.mil-default ~alias/.qmail-nowhere.mil ~alias/.qmail-default ~alias/.qmail Now, maybe it does not check all of those but that is irrelevant. Obviously, assuming the setup I stated above, all mail to *@nowhere.mil should be going to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is not and that is what I was hoping someone could help me out with. Claimer: I've read the docs, the HOWTO, LWQ, the FAQ. What I need is some extra eyes to locate what I am doing wrong, not scripture. -- Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX System Administrator|Royal Military College of Canada The Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/ Saving the World ... One CPU at a Time
Re: Vir Domains problems
Racer X wrote: > > "FAQ 4.6" refers to Dan's FAQ, the one included in the tarball. > > The FAQs on the site and in the tarball are not in sync; look for the > "How do I create aliases with dots?" question under "Routing incoming > messages by user." Thank you! (and Adam M ...) -- Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX System Administrator|Royal Military College of Canada The Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/ Saving the World ... One CPU at a Time
"special" chacters in .qmail filenames
I am setting up a large number of virtual domains. I have been diligently replacing the "." in my .qmail files with ":" but I was wondering, are there any other characters that require special treatment? What about "-" ? What if I have the following domain: my-dom.com would the corrensponding .qmail file for user joe be .qmail-my-dom:com-joe? -- Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX System Administrator|Royal Military College of Canada The Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/ Saving the World ... One CPU at a Time
qmail-mrtg & qfilelog
Is there some way to make qmail-mrtg work with qfilelog log files? I am doing my logging monthly .. that is i have log data piped through qfilelog into /var/log/qmail/sendlog and a /var/log/qmail/smtpd/smtpdlog which grow for an entire month and then get rolled over, and are parsed with matchup/zoverall and friends. Is it possible to have the qmail-mrtg scripts read these two files? -- Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX System Administrator|Royal Military College of Canada The Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/ Saving the World ... One CPU at a Time
Re: qmail-mrtg & qfilelog
"Mark E. Drummond" wrote: > > Is there some way to make qmail-mrtg work with qfilelog log files? I am > doing my logging monthly .. that is i have log data piped through > qfilelog into /var/log/qmail/sendlog and a /var/log/qmail/smtpd/smtpdlog > which grow for an entire month and then get rolled over, and are parsed > with matchup/zoverall and friends. > > Is it possible to have the qmail-mrtg scripts read these two files? Cancel my last ... I have switched to multilog and I am modifying the qmail-mrtg scripts to use multilog formatted log files. If anyone else is interested in them I can provide them when finished. -- Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX System Administrator|Royal Military College of Canada The Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/ Saving the World ... One CPU at a Time
Re: qmail-mrtg & qfilelog
"Mark E. Drummond" wrote: > > Cancel my last ... I have switched to multilog and I am modifying the > qmail-mrtg scripts to use multilog formatted log files. If anyone else > is interested in them I can provide them when finished. Hmmm, while working on this I just noticed that there is a descrepancy between the time returned by perl's `time` (or $^T) and the time -- Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX System Administrator|Royal Military College of Canada The Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/ Saving the World ... One CPU at a Time Please excuse me if I am terse. I answer dozens of emails every day.
Re: qmail-mrtg & qfilelog - oops
"Mark E. Drummond" wrote: > > Cancel my last ... I have switched to multilog and I am modifying the > qmail-mrtg scripts to use multilog formatted log files. If anyone else > is interested in them I can provide them when finished. Let's try that again. Hmmm, while working on this I just noticed that there is a descrepancy between the time returned by perl's `time` (or $^T) and the time on my multilog logs. Here is an example: --BEGIN QUOTE-- bastion# tail /var/log/qmail/sendlog 957550606.725794 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 957550606.726275 end msg 175750 957550614.220152 new msg 175750 957550614.220404 info msg 175750: bytes 1102 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 11557 uid 51015 957550614.467704 starting delivery 88634: msg 175750 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 957550614.467785 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 957550614.578268 delivery 88634: success: 137.94.1.134_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_Message_received:_FU3MS600.HM3/ 957550614.608559 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 957550614.609030 end msg 175750 957550627.961157 status: exiting bastion# perl test 957558159 : 957558159 bastion# --END QUOTE-- the script "test" is just: #!/usr/local/bin/perl print time," : $^T\n"; -- Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX System Administrator|Royal Military College of Canada The Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/ Saving the World ... One CPU at a Time Please excuse me if I am terse. I answer dozens of emails every day.
ref: qmail+mrtg+multilog mods
Hi all. A while back I mentioned modifying the qmailmrtg stuff to work with multilog formatted files and some of you have asked me about them. They are almost complete .. the mods seem pretty easy really, though I am not much of a programmer. I think I have it working. The queue script did not require any changing of course ... and the concurrency script was easy to fix up. Just a change in the regexp that matches log files. I am having some trouble with the message bandwidth script though ... it seems to work when I run it by hand but not when run from cron. Long story short I am almost done. Just so damn busy, the summer being our big projects & upgrades time. I will attempt to just provides diffs, but I have never made a diff before so I guess I have some man pages to read. If anyone wants to give me a crash course in making diffs I'd appreciate it. Crash courses are all I have time for these days ... -- Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX System Administrator|Royal Military College of Canada The Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/ Saving the World ... One CPU at a Time Please excuse me if I am terse. I answer dozens of emails every day.
Virt Domains: All work but one oddball ...
Doing some contract work for a local company that does web hosting. They also handle DNS and act as MX for the hosted domains. I moved them from an old Solaris 2.4 x86 box (a 486!) running sendmail 8.7 to a slightly more capable SPARCstation 5 running Solaris 7 with qmail. After much fiddling I finally saw, with the help of many qmail list denizens, the light on virtualdomains and had them all set up. But one particular hosted site is problematic. I will explain: bigco.com hosts the web site for itco.com, handles their DNS, and acts as MX for them. No mail for itco is kept locally, all mail is simply forwarded by the MX to various other ISP-based email accounts. So mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] is sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] So my rcpthosts has itco.com in it, and my virtualdomains has the following mapping: itco.com:alias-itco.com Then I have, in alias' directory, the following file: .qmail-itco:com-john.doe which contains "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". All is fine. But for some reason itco insists on using "subdomain/machine" names for some of it's users. For example, while john's email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED], jane's address is [EMAIL PROTECTED], and alice and bob use [alice|bob]@sub2.itco.com. Now understand that sub1 and sub2 are not subdomains, nor are the real machines. So I have ".itco.com" in my rcpthosts to catch all such "subdomains" and in my virtualdomains I have: sub1.itco.com:alias-sub1.itco.com sub2.itco.com:alias-sub2.itco.com with qmail files like so: .qmail-sub1:itco:com-jane.doe .qmail-sub2:itco:com-alice .qmail-sub2:itco:com-bob all containing the appropriate forwarding addresses. I think this should all work, but when mail is delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... it bounces with a "no such mailbox" error: Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) Any ideas? -- Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX System Administrator|Royal Military College of Canada The Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/ Saving the World ... One CPU at a Time Please excuse me if I am terse. I answer dozens of emails every day.
Re: Virt Domains: All work but one oddball ...
Dave Kelly wrote: > > Mark, try a file like this in ~alias: > > .qmail-sub1:itco:com-jane:doe > > I think you need to substitute a ":" for ALL ".", including usernames... Thanks much! I was wondering about that. -- Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX System Administrator|Royal Military College of Canada The Kingston Linux Users Group|http://signals.rmc.ca/klug/ Saving the World ... One CPU at a Time Please excuse me if I am terse. I answer dozens of emails every day.
