dial up - optimal solution?
Hi,
What's the optimal solution for dial up connections (ppp and
dynamicaly asssigned ip address)?
A) The "Mail queue with qmail" configuration from Doug L. Vander
Woude? [1] It works well here, but how is it possible to send
online typed messages immidiately? The default configuration only
allows to send queued messages at the beginning of the ppp
session.
or
B) The "Qmail Holdremote Patch" [2]. But does it work for dynamicaly asssigned
ip address?
Or are there suggestions for alternative solutions?
Greetings,
Mark Weinem
Footnotes:
[1] http://www.i2k.net/~dougvw/mailqueue.html
[2] http://www.warren.demon.co.uk/qmail.html
Re: Messages reinjected to this mailing list
D. J. Bernstein: > This sort of idiocy happens much more often than most subscribers know, > thanks to a broken piece of software by Eric Raymond called fetchmail. Is there a good fetchmail alternative? Mark Weinem
qmail delivers to wrong maildir
Hi, (I'm running qmail 1.03, serialmail 0.75, ucspi-tcp 0.84, fetchmail 4.6.4-1.1 and Debian Linux 2.1. Outgoing mail is delivered to /var/qmail/alias/pppdir and handled by serialmail if a ppp connection is up) But there must be something wrong with my qmail/fetchmail configuration: incoming mail (fetched from the pop3 server by fetchmail) ends up in /var/qmail/alias/pppdir/ (!) but unfortunately not in /home/mark/Maildir/. ~/.fetchmailrc says: - poll unidui.uni-duisburg.de proto pop3 user mweinem with password secret is mark here forcecr keep - /var/log/syslog says: - Jul 22 18:30:33 pandora qmail: 932661033.597194 new msg 6256 Jul 22 18:30:33 pandora qmail: 932661033.597458 info msg 6256: bytes 2331 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 951 uid 1002 Jul 22 18:30:33 pandora qmail: 932661033.600413 starting delivery 89: msg 6256 to local alias-ppp-mark@localhost Jul 22 18:30:33 pandora qmail: 932661033.600604 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Jul 22 18:30:33 pandora qmail: 932661033.622723 delivery 89: success: did_1+0+0/ Jul 22 18:30:33 pandora qmail: 932661033.622947 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Jul 22 18:30:33 pandora qmail: 932661033.623064 end msg 6256 Jul 22 18:30:34 pandora qmail: 932661034.907755 new msg 6256 Jul 22 18:30:34 pandora qmail: 932661034.908010 info msg 6256: bytes 3108 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 955 uid 1002 Jul 22 18:30:34 pandora qmail: 932661034.910829 starting delivery 90: msg 6256 to local alias-ppp-mark@localhost Jul 22 18:30:34 pandora qmail: 932661034.911025 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Jul 22 18:30:34 pandora qmail: 932661034.969414 delivery 90: success: did_1+0+0/ Jul 22 18:30:34 pandora qmail: 932661034.969645 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Jul 22 18:30:34 pandora qmail: 932661034.969763 end msg 6256 Jul 22 18:30:36 pandora qmail: 932661036.077529 new msg 6256 - Why does it try to deliver to alias-ppp-mark@localhost and not to mark@localhost or [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pandora.plagegeister.de is my hostname)? I have /var/qmail/alias/.alias-ppp-mark@localhost with "/home/mark/Maildir/", but it does not help. regards Mark Weinem
Re: qmail delivers to wrong maildir
Asmodeus wrote: > > > Why does it try to deliver to alias-ppp-mark@localhost and not to > > > mark@localhost or [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pandora.plagegeister.de is my > > > hostname)? Is the delivery instruction "to local alias-ppp-mark@localhost" really correct? Is this different from qmail 1.01? > > umm, it is probably because you have the format for the file wrong. I believe > > it is supposed to be .qmail-ppp-mark and in side the file you put a list of > > addresses/directives. > > Oh man, am I blind today... Sorry for the completely useless post, but > yes, removing the @localhost part of that filename will probably fix it. > Check the permissions as well. It should be owned by alias. I have changed this, it's .qmail-ppp-mark (with /home/mark/Maildir in side). But now: no mail in /var/qmail/alias/ppdir and no mail in /home/mark/Maildir. Must be still something wrong Mark > .Shawn
Re: qmail delivers to wrong maildir
Asmodeus wrote: > > Is the delivery instruction "alias-ppp-mark@localhost" really correct? > > In my (albeit limited) experience, it is syntactically incorrect. > > Okay, from the filename /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-ppp-mark > it seems that you have a virtualdomain setup which is handled through > 'ppp'. Ie: in /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains, you have a line such as: > myvirtualdomain:ppp > and you don't have a real (/etc/passwd) user named ppp... Correct? Correct. > If so, mail to mark@myvirtualdomain should be handled by the above file > in /var/qmail/alias. > > What shows up in your mail logs? > > I think you might have to show the contents of your config files > and a `ls -la` of /var/qmail/alias/ ... I, for one, can't see any reason > why it wouldn't work with the info you've given so far, assuming the > config is correct. Here are the infos & files: # ls -al /var/qmail/alias total 7 drwxr-sr-x 3 aliasqmail1024 Jul 22 23:58 . drwxr-xr-x 10 root qmail1024 Jul 21 00:15 .. -rw--- 1 aliasqmail 260 Jul 22 23:59 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 0 Jul 21 00:57 .qmail-mailer-daemon -rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 0 Jul 21 00:57 .qmail-postmaster -rw-r--r-- 1 aliasqmail 10 Jul 22 00:05 .qmail-ppp-default -rw-r--r-- 1 aliasqmail 20 Jul 22 18:59 .qmail-ppp-mark -rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 20 Jul 22 19:20 .qmail-root drwx--S--- 5 aliasqmail1024 Jul 22 00:00 pppdir # ls -al /var/qmail/ total 11 drwxr-xr-x 10 root qmail1024 Jul 21 00:15 . drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 1024 Jul 21 00:39 .. drwxr-sr-x 3 aliasqmail1024 Jul 22 23:58 alias drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Jul 21 00:36 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Jul 20 23:51 boot drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Jul 22 02:55 control drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Jul 20 23:51 doc drwxr-xr-x 10 root qmail1024 Jul 22 01:38 man drwxr-x--- 11 qmailq qmail1024 Jul 20 23:51 queue -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 205 Jul 21 00:22 rc drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Jul 20 23:51 users #ls -al /home/mark - -rw-rw 1 mark mark 11 Jul 22 00:53 .qmail drwxrwsr-x 11 mark mark 1024 Jul 21 04:17 Mail drwx--S--- 5 mark mark 1024 Jul 21 01:31 Maildir - /home/mark/.qmail: - ./Maildir/ - /var/qmail/alias/.alias-ppp-default: - ./pppdir/ - /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-ppp-mark: - /home/mark/Maildir/ - /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains: - :alias-ppp - /var/log/mail.info: - [configuration without /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-ppp-mark]: Jul 22 16:04:26 pandora qmail: 932652266.748901 new msg 6253 Jul 22 16:04:26 pandora qmail: 932652266.749180 info msg 6253: bytes 2905 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 301 uid 1002 Jul 22 16:04:26 pandora qmail: 932652266.751958 starting delivery 26: msg 6253 to local alias-ppp-mark@localhost Jul 22 16:04:26 pandora qmail: 932652266.752170 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Jul 22 16:04:26 pandora qmail: 932652266.774033 delivery 26: success: did_1+0+0/ Jul 22 16:04:26 pandora qmail: 932652266.774267 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Jul 22 16:04:26 pandora qmail: 932652266.774385 end msg 6253 Jul 22 16:04:27 pandora qmail: 932652267.787610 new msg 6253 Jul 22 16:04:27 pandora qmail: 932652267.787875 info msg 6253: bytes 2912 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 305 uid 1002 Jul 22 16:04:27 pandora qmail: 932652267.790627 starting delivery 27: msg 6253 to local alias-ppp-mark@localhost Jul 22 16:04:27 pandora qmail: 932652267.790820 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Jul 22 16:04:27 pandora qmail: 932652267.812740 delivery 27: success: did_1+0+0/ Jul 22 16:04:27 pandora qmail: 932652267.812986 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Jul 22 16:04:27 pandora qmail: 932652267.813103 end msg 6253 [configuration with /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-ppp-mark]: Jul 23 00:01:56 pandora qmail: 932680916.376903 new msg 6258 Jul 23 00:01:56 pandora qmail: 932680916.377163 info msg 6258: bytes 3190 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 228 uid 1002 Jul 23 00:01:56 pandora qmail: 932680916.380845 starting delivery 3: msg 6258 to local alias-ppp-mark@localhost Jul 23 00:01:56 pandora qmail: 932680916.381038 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Jul 23 00:01:56 pandora qmail: 932680916.400320 delivery 3: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ Jul 23 00:01:56 pandora qmail: 932680916.400561 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 - Ciao, Mark
Re: qmail delivers to wrong maildir
Sergei Kolobov wrote: > > Mark Weinem wrote: > > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-ppp-mark: > > - > > /home/mark/Maildir/ > > - > > Won't work - replace it with "mark" - that should fix it. It works now, thanks a lot! Mark Weinem
Re: qmail delivers to wrong maildir
Peter Rye wrote: > I believe this is a fetchmail problem. > Try adding the smtpaddress option to your .fetchmailrc: something like > smtpaddress pandora.plagegeister.de should do the trick. Yes, it does the trick :-) Thanks a lot! Mark
Re: qmail delivers to wrong maildir
Asmodeus wrote: > Replace the contents of /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-ppp-mark with: > > &mark@ It works now, thank you very much! The following solutions solve the problems: a) # cat /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-ppp-mark mark or b) # cat /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-ppp-mark &[EMAIL PROTECTED] or c) ~/.fetchmailrc with "smtpaddress localhost": The /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-ppp-mark file is not necessary - right? Here mark's .fetchmailrc: - poll unidui.uni-duisburg.de proto pop3 user mweinem with password secret is mark here forcecr smtpaddress pandora.plagegeister.de - Ciao Mark
Re: Problem with installation.
Hi, > There seems to be some problem with my DNS. Not really ;-) Do (as root): # echo "yourhostname.yourdomain.your-top-level-domain" > /var/qmail/control/me My full hostname is pandora.plagegeister.de , i did: # echo "pandora.plagegeister.de" > /var/qmail/control/me regards, Mark
Re: maildir structure
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 12:56:45AM +0200, LRiva wrote: > What are the function of the /tmp and /cur maildir subdirectories ? Use the following command: man maildir and read the maildir manpage. If 'man maildir' doesn't work, add /var/qmail/man to your MANPATH in /etc/profile: export MANPATH="/usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man:/opt/man:/var/qmail/man" bye, Mark Weinem
Procmail & Maildir
Hi, New incomming Mail is in $HOME/Maildir. I want Procmail to sort the messages from $HOME/Maildir into destinated directories. When I used Exim I started Procmail with the following script: # ! /bin/sh ORGMAIL=/var/spool/mail/mark if cd $HOME && test -s $ORGMAIL && lockfile -r0 -l1024 .newmail.lock 2>/dev/null then trap "rm -f .newmail.lock" 1 2 3 13 15 umask 077 lockfile -l1024 -ml cat $ORGMAIL >>.newmail && cat /dev/null >$ORGMAIL lockfile -mu formail -s procmail <.newmail && rm -f .newmail rm -f .newmail.lock fi exit 0 I want to keep this but Procmail must handle maildir now. Is it necessary to patch Procmail (v3.11pre7 from Debian 2.0) ? (What's the right way to do this: "patch procmail procmail-patch" or: "patch -pnum
Re: Sorting incoming mail.
Hi Tristan, What are the outputs of "cat /home/tristan/.qmail" & "cat /home/tristan/.mailfilter" (try to keep it short ;-) ) ? Mark Weinem
Re: OT: a "real" MUA for X?
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 10:07:17AM -0600, Andy Bradford wrote: > I personally like EXMH and use it both at work and at home. > http://www.beedub.com/exmh/ > It doesn't support IMAP, but can use POP3 for accessing email. The > interface is decent (for an application written in Tcl/Tk). It can > also be customized, handles PGP signatures very well and does well > with MIME attachments too... :-) But it (nmh) doesn't support Maildir. Ciao Mark Weinem
Maildir search tools?
Hi, Are there any search tools (like grepmail) for Maildirs? Regards, Mark Weinem
