Re: how to ignore $HOME/.qmail ?
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 10:22:26AM -0500, Dave Sill wrote: Did you forget to terminate "assign" with a '.' line? nope, that was my problem. thanks for pointing me in the right direction. ---Matt
how to ignore $HOME/.qmail ?
i'd like ~joe/.qmail to be ignored by qmail. i don't want qmail to check if ~joe exists at all. instead, i'd like /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-joe to be the only file consulted. i put this line in /var/qmail/users/assign: =joe:alias:81:81:/var/qmail/alias:-:joe: but qmail-newu complains: msg# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-newu qmail-newu: fatal: bad format in users/assign what am i doing wrong? ---Matt
Re: Does qmail really delay a bounce for this long?
re: qmail not notifying you of temporary failures. the default time to sit in the queue is 1 week. you can run a script from cron to examine the queue at regular intervals and send email to those concerned if email hasn't been delivered. search www.qmail.org for Matt Ranney or Brian Wightman. Both have written perl scripts to do this. I know of a 3rd script which was posted to this mailing list, but i don't see it mentioned on qmail.org. it was something like "qmail-deferred-notifier". ---Matt
emulating sendmail's user@host.REDIRECT feature?
with sendmail, if an entry like this: joe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is in /etc/aliases then any message sent to joe will be bounced back with a helpful note about joe's new email address. this way you don't have to forward email to joe's new address for years after they leave. eventually joe's correspondents learn to use joe's new address. if i only forwarded joe's email, his correspondents would have no incentive to use his new address and i hate seeing mail to joe in the queue years after his departure. before i work on a script to do this with qmail i thought i'd ask if anyone has done this before. i'd rather not re-invent the wheel. ---Matt
Re: emulating sendmail's user@host.REDIRECT feature?
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 01:42:26AM -0500, Alex Pennace wrote: Use bouncesaying. bouncesaying in a .qmail file causes a QSBMF-style bounce to be sent with the supplied string used as the failure indication for that recipient. Great! that does it. Any idea how to include a newline in the error though? along the lines of... | bouncesaying '\nMy new address is:\n\[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ---Matt
Re: pine.conf /Pine 4.20 patched/Maildir
You have to edit maildir.c in imap/src/osdep/unix (i think; recalling from memory). There are 3 options as "#define" in the C source. one of them needs to be switched to "#undef" to enable reading from a directory which contains "Maildir" in the path. I don't know why this option is there. ---Matt
Re: Courier
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 01:08:15PM +1300, Jason Haar wrote: At the very least give maildrop a go. I was a die-hard procmail user for many years, but was beginning to have too many occassions of procmail swallowing all the RAM on my workstation to process a large mail message (procmail does all processing in RAM). I agree that maildrop is definitely worth a try. I find the syntax of the filter file much clearer than procmail's, and I imagine my users do as well. Built-in support for Maildirs in maildrop is a big win. I'm surprised that maildrop doesn't have a bigger presence on http://www.qmail.org. I have also used courier-imap with no problems. Again, built-in Maildir support is great. ---Matt
qmail on Mac OSX?
Has anyone successfully installed qmail on Mac OSX public beta? i get this far: auto-str.c: In function `main': auto-str.c:15: warning: return type of `main' is not `int' ./load auto-str substdio.a error.a str.a /usr/bin/ld: can't use -s with input files containg indirect symbols (output file must contain at least global symbols, for maximum stripping use -x) make: *** [auto-str] Error 1 I can't say that I know what an indirect symbol is. Any ideas? I hear that some people had success with OSX-Server, but I don't see why OSX (non-server) would be any different with respect to a program like qmail. ---Matt
advice on moving /var to RAID?
my system: FreeBSD 3.4, qmail, Maildir, daemontools, tcpserver. i want to move /var to RAID (software RAID with FreeBSD's "vinum"). i'd like a sanity check on what i plan to do: - bring /var2 online. /var2 = RAID - reboot into single user. don't start qmail MySQL since they use /var. - copy /var to /var2 - edit /etc/fstab to switch /var and /var2 - reboot into multiuser mode will this result in an intact /var? is this what people do when they want a more reliable qmail mail spool? ---matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
flooding a qmail server to test it
old system: irix, sendmail, /bin/mail, pine, qpopper, homedirs on flaky NFS disks. new system: FreeBSD, qmail, maildir, mutt, qmail-pop3d, less flaky NFS, qmail-users, quotas. i lose power about every 6 weeks in this building. the network is flaky. i want to test qmail by flooding it with incoming mail and then unplugging the network, etc. i can easily flood the server with perl, but i don't know the best way to compare the mail sent with the mail received. any opinions? i want to tell my users that i tested the new server with 100,000 emails a day and it never dropped or corrupted a single one. anyone have scripts for testing qmail? if not then i'll just write my own. ---matt
