Re: svscan on linux
The only other thing I see is process = get_part(NULL, '\n'); which I think means that if you put the SV line at the end of inittab without a newline, the process field is not read properly (trying to read past EOF?). Mate I have been bitten by this once before, I do not remember where. So now my paranoid Unix thinking is to put a LF or three at the end of every (config) file. How long will it take untill ALL the ancient unix tools have been rewritten with complete painfully correct robustness by the likes of DJB? I, for one, have been intrigued by a suggestion to replace init completely with a shell script (sash?) that invokes svscan to keep certain things running...but I have not had the time to tinker with it. --Pete
Re: Vulnerable MUAs ...
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, David Talkington wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Roger Merchberger wrote: Just because one runs (for example) Eudora doesn't mean one's not clueful... No offense intended. I believe Eudora uses IE's engine if you choose to use HTML mail (which the clueful user won't, of course), and has been affected by IE vulnerabilities for that reason, hence its (perhaps unwarranted) inclusion in my search. Well it certainly can't use IE's engine if I have _no_ Microsoft software on my Macintosh. I have been using eudora for 5 years, and have had zero problems. It doesn't execute anything, and it seems to have it's own HTML render engine. If you _do_ know of any documented problems with eudora, please refer me to them. --Pete
Re: Pine for Maildir
The RedHat RPM of pine is patched to support Maildirs. --Pete On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Stefan Laudat wrote: there are patches for pine Maildir access, please rtfm at www.qmail.org I've tested that and worked a couple of months ago. On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 01:49:37PM -0700, Al Sparks wrote: --- Steven Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a version of Pine that will read messages from Maildir directly, rather than moving them to 'mail'. Anyone know of any? Thanks, Steven To my knowledge, pine does not directly read Maildir formatted mailboxes. If your server runs an IMAP service, you can get pine to read mail via IMAP. If you want a text based email client that reads Maildir formatted mailboxes, use mutt. I?ve never used it, so I don?t have a recommendation as to it?s usefulness, but I?ve seen posts raving about it. === Al __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ -- Stefan Laudat CCNA CCAI - "- I think my men can take care of one little penguin. - No Mr. Gates, your men are already dead."
Re: Maildir (dir) to file for /var/mail/$USR (Inbox) [imapd]
Hi .. let's start from right note here .. by sayin' i'm using qmail w/ Maildir and imapd (doesn't really matter which one but if someone wants to know i'm using the one the came with pine package (uw-imapd)) .. Ummm, it DOES matter, because IMAP accesses the mail and i'm using very popular client known as Outlook Express and/or Outlook and i'm sure many more will have same problem/thing.. It shouldn't matter WHAT client you are using... since there is no Inbox from client point of view (it points to god knows where probably standard unix box /var/mail/$user or somethin), Not at all, it is ~/Maildir I have to browse for an additiona folder which would be in $HOME/Maildir.. and it also addes this folder in the list of others.. unfortinatly I can't just change name of that folder Maildir to Inbox due to conflict with existing on e-mail client end (and none existing on server side) folder/file. what i need is: I want everyone's standard e-mail client to take Maildir as a Inbox Then configure your IMAP / POP server to serve the right folder...this should all be server-side! my question is: how do i do that? CourierIMAP solution: .. maybe i can somehow trick my system in that Maildir is not really a dir and it's just a file? this way I can put a symbol link into /var/mail/$user to that file that's somehow is directory (Maildir) ? or maybe there are other solutions for that? it's really uncomfortable for me to do it and for for others users to explain to add Maildir in their clients and there are some other complications to that (which I dont really want to bore you with) please e-mail me any possible solutions here thanks in advance Bye I hope this helps...it seems you are coming at the problem from the wrong direction.. --P
Re: Very slow qmail response
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Markus Stumpf wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 09:50:14AM -0700, Tom Jackson wrote: Also note that a few recent messages were in error in suggesting -h flag to tcpserver. The options I used are: -v -p -l 0 -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb But isn't the -p not correct here? If you use -p and DNS is broken you will get a lot of timeouts, as -p enforces a few more DNS lookups. And "-l 0" is also nonsense. This should be "-l localhostname" this is a NAME, not a number. No, it is not nonsense. Read the page you cited below yourself. But -H and -p do seem contradictory. If DNS is "broken", for whatever reason, I use -H -R -l 0 See http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcpserver.html \Maex
Re: Very slow qmail response
Have there been any changes on the DNS setup for your system; i.e., your nameservers. In my experience this has been the #1 cause of delays, because email/qmail depends heavliy on DNS service. I have several nameserver changeovers, and when things are not exactly kosher, qmail grinds to a crawl. Secondly, look at the que and see what is there. my $0.02 --Pete On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Tom Jackson wrote: My qmail has been running fine for a year or more. Now it is very slow to accept connections on SMTP or POP3 ports. I get this behavior from other computers on the local network, but everything works as usual from the qmail server. I've tried it with telnet, Netscape and other software with the same results. What can/should I check? Thanks, --Tom Jackson
Re: Simple Question
Thanks for the response. I have changed /var/qmail/rc to use Maildir instead of Mailbox. I removed Mailbox and the link on my home directory. Now when I send a mail to for example to myself, it goes but I cannot read it. I have created Maildir directory under $home, so it's $home/Maildir but there is nothing in there! Where is the mail going to? How do you know nothing is there? there should be 3 subdirectories in the maildir: cur, tmp, new Is there anything in any of them? are you checking your mail via POP3 or are you running an MUA on the host? If you are running pine on the host, you need a patched version that recognizes maildirs. Any more questions tonight ask me now, I'm crashing out soon :-) --Pete What should I check to see if Maildir is working? I did % maildirmake $HOME/Maildir % echo ./Maildir/ ~/.qmail as the Help recommends, and Maildir exists, but there is no mail in there... nor in /var/mail. The FAQ says nothing about this. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Martin,. On Wednesday 04 April 2001 02:17, you wrote: Why do you want to put all the mail in /var/mail? The better solution in qmail is to have the mail delivered to the user's home directory, and better yet to have it delivered there in Maildir format. I dunno about OpenBSD, but Linux has an /etc/skel directory, and things there are replicated into a new user's home directory when their account is created. Make a maildir there, and you are done. A Maildir is a directory tree where each email is in one file. A Mabox is ALL mail messages in one big, awkward file. --Pete Hello: I have recently replaced sendmail in an OpenBSD 2.8 box. Since Qmail is a package I did install it that way. Then I proceed to read the INSTALL. that I was supposed to. Apparently it's working perfectly. Local mail works using mail command line tool. From internet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] works also. I can send through my smtp two... Now the question is: I did configured qmail to use $user/Mailbox and created a symbolic link to /var/mail/user. Do I have to do this for each user on my system??? I'm planning to handle +100 pop users (i haven't configured pop nor checkpassword yet) Is there a better way to accomplish this??? I didn't create the users yet. Frankly I did not understand 100% what INSTALL.mailbox did mean, or what is the difference between maildir or mbox... I reread all FAQs but either I am stupid (probably) or I am missing something. A little hand will be appreciated if it helps me to understand what is the best way to accomplish this kind of task (that is having 100 users and not having to ln manually each mailbox) Thanks in advance, -- Martin Marconcini | Unix, MS-DOS, Windows. | Also known as The Good, The Bad | And the Ugly... --
Re: Simple Question
Oh yeah, what is in your .qmail file? It should contain ./Maildir/ --Pete On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Martin Marconcini wrote: Thanks for the response. I have changed /var/qmail/rc to use Maildir instead of Mailbox. I removed Mailbox and the link on my home directory. Now when I send a mail to for example to myself, it goes but I cannot read it. I have created Maildir directory under $home, so it's $home/Maildir but there is nothing in there! Where is the mail going to? What should I check to see if Maildir is working? I did % maildirmake $HOME/Maildir % echo ./Maildir/ ~/.qmail as the Help recommends, and Maildir exists, but there is no mail in there... nor in /var/mail. The FAQ says nothing about this. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Martin,. On Wednesday 04 April 2001 02:17, you wrote: Why do you want to put all the mail in /var/mail? The better solution in qmail is to have the mail delivered to the user's home directory, and better yet to have it delivered there in Maildir format. I dunno about OpenBSD, but Linux has an /etc/skel directory, and things there are replicated into a new user's home directory when their account is created. Make a maildir there, and you are done. A Maildir is a directory tree where each email is in one file. A Mabox is ALL mail messages in one big, awkward file. --Pete Hello: I have recently replaced sendmail in an OpenBSD 2.8 box. Since Qmail is a package I did install it that way. Then I proceed to read the INSTALL. that I was supposed to. Apparently it's working perfectly. Local mail works using mail command line tool. From internet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] works also. I can send through my smtp two... Now the question is: I did configured qmail to use $user/Mailbox and created a symbolic link to /var/mail/user. Do I have to do this for each user on my system??? I'm planning to handle +100 pop users (i haven't configured pop nor checkpassword yet) Is there a better way to accomplish this??? I didn't create the users yet. Frankly I did not understand 100% what INSTALL.mailbox did mean, or what is the difference between maildir or mbox... I reread all FAQs but either I am stupid (probably) or I am missing something. A little hand will be appreciated if it helps me to understand what is the best way to accomplish this kind of task (that is having 100 users and not having to ln manually each mailbox) Thanks in advance, -- Martin Marconcini | Unix, MS-DOS, Windows. | Also known as The Good, The Bad | And the Ugly... --
Re: Mail Parsing
Hi- Our good buddy DJB has been there and done that. Take a look at: http://cr.yp.tp/mess822.html --Pete On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Mathew Chandy wrote: Hi all, I would like to know if there is any mail parsing (MIME) library in C which i can use to parse the mails and extract the from address , attachments , body etc from a mail body . if not please tell me how to handle this in Java There are mail api s in Java to handle this but the question is how to ? Please Help Thanks in advance Mathew
Re: Simple Question
Why do you want to put all the mail in /var/mail? The better solution in qmail is to have the mail delivered to the user's home directory, and better yet to have it delivered there in Maildir format. I dunno about OpenBSD, but Linux has an /etc/skel directory, and things there are replicated into a new user's home directory when their account is created. Make a maildir there, and you are done. A Maildir is a directory tree where each email is in one file. A Mabox is ALL mail messages in one big, awkward file. --Pete Hello: I have recently replaced sendmail in an OpenBSD 2.8 box. Since Qmail is a package I did install it that way. Then I proceed to read the INSTALL. that I was supposed to. Apparently it's working perfectly. Local mail works using mail command line tool. From internet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] works also. I can send through my smtp two... Now the question is: I did configured qmail to use $user/Mailbox and created a symbolic link to /var/mail/user. Do I have to do this for each user on my system??? I'm planning to handle +100 pop users (i haven't configured pop nor checkpassword yet) Is there a better way to accomplish this??? I didn't create the users yet. Frankly I did not understand 100% what INSTALL.mailbox did mean, or what is the difference between maildir or mbox... I reread all FAQs but either I am stupid (probably) or I am missing something. A little hand will be appreciated if it helps me to understand what is the best way to accomplish this kind of task (that is having 100 users and not having to ln manually each mailbox) Thanks in advance, -- Martin Marconcini | Unix, MS-DOS, Windows. | Also known as The Good, The Bad | And the Ugly... --
Re: another error mail in qmail account
Hello- "cron" (periodic task scheduler) on most systems redirects the output of anything it runs into an email sent to root@hostname. Look in your /etc/cron.weekly file to see what the heck is running. This is actually a handy feature; muy backup script runs in cron, and all the status output is conveniently emailed to root, and since root is aliased in qmail, it goes to the "real" sysadmin account --Pete On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, KY Lui wrote: hello i got a mail in my qmail account, the subject is "Cron root@egain2 run-parts /etc/cron.weekly" and the content is "Read file error: ./rec.1 No such file or directory" what is happening? could you please advice regards KY
[OT] supervise sshd?
I want to run the openssh daemon under supervise...should my "run" script be: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/sbin/sshd -D I am not sure what options to use with sshd. As above it seems to work; if I use no options it flips out; using fghack it seems to work but I always get a zombied (initial) sshd process. Anybody else doing this? Thanks
Re: rc directory
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Essy Ren wrote: I'll try install qmail to my computer, and I follow the instruction from INSTALL guide the problem is I don't find the rc direktori at /var/qmail/ There's only /alias /bin /boot /control /doc /man /queue /users Why it's gonna happen ? and should I make the directory by myself ? thanks ... I think you are referring to the /etc/rc.d/init.d, or similar directory, dpending on your distributionwhere are your start scripts stored? What distro are you using? --Pete
Re: IT WORKS!
hatem: I tried to reply off-list and got a bounce. qmail may be working, but you have some DNS issues --Pete On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, hatem@assistant01 wrote: I could not believe that my Lovely qmail server is now working ...!! I would like to share this great moment with you, for the stress that everyone had from me and the help that you offered. I specialize my thanks to Mr. Edward J. Allen, who gave me excellent courage and helped me out to understand the mystries of qmail..Thank you very much Edward! By the way, this e-mail is sent through my qmail server.. the reply address still not working as it will take up to 24 hours to have my qmail.hahlabs.com registered in the internet. I wanted to remove my name from the list, but I thought, since people were there to help me out.. I must be there to help others... Well, I am not trying to say I am an expert .. but at least I know how to get this working.. Thanks all. regards, Hatem
Re: mbox w/o home
Hi- qmail needs a non-world-writable location to place a user's email. If all your users have /tmp as home, who owns /tmp/mbox??? You need to setup your user accounts properly with individual, non-world-writabele home directories, or use some other tool to locally deliver the mail. --Pete On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Rodolfo Sampaio wrote: Hi! Im migrating from sendmail to qmail 1.03+fastfoward using mbox format /var/spool/mail. The problem is that almost all of my users uses /tmp as home and /dev/null as a fake shell and qmail is refusing to distribute these mails... it wont give an error... it justs drop the mail. There is a way that i can make qmail distribute these emails? []'s Rodolfo Sampaio
Re: reverse DNS?
At 10:07 AM 06-03-2001 -, John Conover wrote: As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication? Well two of our service providers haven't arranged reverse DNS lookups for our Internet visible subnets. Our DNS servers are ready, but they either don't want to do it or don't know how to do it. So you can't look up names from our IPs. And it's been more than a year already. So I'm biased and I'd say it's not reasonable ;). Why would you want to do that anyway? Spam prevention. Have had the same problem myself. It is indeed sad that we have to jump through these hoops because a few folks insisting on emailing everyone about their inkjet refills or lower mortgage rates necessitate this. Cheerio, Link.
Re: My mail is lost!!
Ok, After I had all the problems resovled ... from installation to the configuration!! I am now able to do the following: 1) login and use qmail as my SMTP / POP server: that is , when I use outlook or pine for example, to check for e-mails on qmail server, I got no errors reported at all. but when I use it to send e-mails, they do not arrive. when I send e-mails to it i.e. to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] no problems reported and the message does not seem to be there!! Can someone help me in this matter!! I think I am pretty close to this.. Thanks. qmail by default does not relay any mail. If you are running qmail-smtpd with tcpserver, referencing /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb, you need to add the IP addresses TO FORWARD FROM, to /etc/tcp.smtp, and compile it to a cdb file Look at LifeWithQmail --Pete
Re: Qmail and time zone
I tried to "fix" this once, succeeded, then decided it was Not A Good Thing, and changed it back. IIRC, some amount of fiddling with the hardware clock and the time zone settings in the OS (Linux here) resulted in "correct" timestamps on mail as well as correct timstamps elsewhere. I think I just said I was in Grenwich. It seems to me that there are standards, damn standards, and The Way Things Are. Email I get from diverse global origins (eg, this list) NEVER sorts properly on the actual UTC transmission time due to the variety ways dates are stamped on messages by assorted MUAs/MTAs. my $0.02 --Pete On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 05:36:17AM +, Mark Delany wrote: On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 11:28:30PM -0500, Kari Suomela wrote: Thursday March 01 2001 22:41, David Dyer-Bennet wrote to All: No, it's not! That's how I noticed it. Someone was blaming my client for it, but the problem is the same with all of them. I have tested it with various Netscapes, Outlook 98, Outlook 2000, Outlook Express, PMMail Pro 2000, Sqwebmail and Adjewebmail. DB That's because you didn't use a client which adjusts header DB timestamps, though. I am not talking about clients! Mail generated on a qmail server doesn't have proper date headers, whereas mail coming from a sendmail server does. Er, what do you mean by "proper date headers" and how are you sure you definition of "proper date headers" isn't being met by qmail? I suspect what is happening is that qmail is creating Date: headers that are UTC based and you are used to seeing Date: headers in your local time zone. Are you sure that what qmail is doing is incorrect or is it's possible that it's legal according to the standards, but just that it's different from what you want? And if it puts the Date header in your local time, what happens when you send mail to someone on the other side of the planet, or, for that matter, in the next time zone? Chris
qmail 2.0 exploit
What is this qmail version 2.0 that securityfocus.com claims there is an explot for? Am I missing something, or are they? Being that I have better things to do than to try to screw up my mail server, has anyone tried this claimed explot? What really happens? --Pete
tcpserver for pop3 and telnet
The LWQ description of setting up pop3 for qmail only says to put the tcpserver command in the qmail startup file. Shouldn't this "service" be supervised by svscan? Why do the other qmail processes get this, but pop3 does not? Also, I am moving towards eliminating inetd, and have set up in.telnetd to be run by tcpserver in a line in rc.local (RH Linux 6.2 here). In the inetd.conf file, it runs in.telnetd via /usr/sbin/tcpd. In the man page is says that tcps does some logging and other stuff, but I see no signs of it. When I try to use tcpserver-tcpd-in.telnetd, it doesn't work. Remove tcpd and all is fine. Should I be happy discarding tcpd? Also, since my inetd.conf file is now *empty*, can I disable it altogether, or or will I lose essential internal services? Is there a kit for making tcpserver mimic all the inetd services? Thanks --Pete
Re: how can i change from inetd to xinetd in Redhat 7.0??
You should read life with qmail, and use tcpserver rather than inetd or
xinetd.
--Pete
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, jerry wrote:
I install with Redhat 7.0, but qmail FAQ only has something in inetd.conf, and
Redhat 7.0 change the file to xinetd.conf, I don't know how to install with it.
jerry
below is the content of xinetd.conf
#
# Simple configuration file for xinetd
#
# Some defaults, and include /etc/xinetd.d/
defaults
{
instances = 60
log_type= SYSLOG authpriv
log_on_success = HOST PID
log_on_failure = HOST RECORD
}
includedir /etc/xinetd.d
Re: rcpthosts file - newbe question
This has to be something simple but I've been banging my head against it for a couple of hours and can't get anywhere. If this is covered in the FAQ, INSTALL or man files, I either can't find it or am misunderstanding it. The situation: I have a small home network. I have a designated server, corwin.mydomain.org, running qmail on debian 2.2 with kernel 2.4.1. I can locally log into corwin, open pine, and send and recieve email. My normal box, merlin.mydomain.org, uses kmail. I have it configured to receive email via pop3 from corwin. This works fine. I can send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and receive it on merlin via corwin. I also have kmail on merlin configured to send email via SMTP on corwin. However, everything I send gets bounced - relaying denied because "that domain isn't in my rcpthosts file." I have tried all of the following in my rcpthosts file on corwin: mydomain.org .mydomain.org merlin merlin.mydomain.org I'm not sure if it matters but merlin is listed in my hosts file on corwin. I can ping either merlin or merlin.riddlemaster.org from corwin. What do I need to do to convince corwin to relay mail from merlin? Thanks in advance for any assistance. If you want corwin to _relay_ mail from merlin, that is not something that goes in the rcpthosts file - that file should only contain domains that you want merlin to _accept_ mail for, not relay. You need to modify your /etc/tcp.smtp file, which controlls relaying. Don't forget to run tcprules after you change it, to "compile" it. if you are using the LWQ qmail start file, just do: /etc.rc.d/init.d/qmail cdb Actual path may vary with disro/OS. HTH --Pete
Need Arguments for qmail
Hi- I volunteered to talk about and "defend" qmail at a Linux Users' Group meeting where there will be people speaking on 3 or 4 of the main MTAs. I am competent in setting up and maintaining qmail, but I must say that I am unable to respond properly to a lot of the criticism of qmail, mostly in comparison to sendmail (which I have never administered). I would appreciate any and all rebuffings of qmail myths, relevant anecdotes, or theoretical analysis that would aid in my presentation. Off-list responses are welcome, to avoid list clutter. Thanks, --Pete
Re: (OT) DJB-itization
Carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Soon I'll do it, I'm hyped about the idea, it'd be cool if some people talked more about the idea, i.e. what would they want in it. Wishlist: a djb replacement for Vixie cron. Especially topical at the moment. Charles Same here. I sent an off-list email to DJB just a few days ago asking if he was contemplating such a project. As far as the DJB-ification tool, what I do is just make a big shell script that nukes the undesired software, and the does all the normal un-tarring, configuring, compiling and configuration. I have had good luck, for the most part just putting all the actions listed in LWQ into a shell script. The only dificulty I can see would be OS or distribution specific stuff, like where the qmail start file goes. --Pete
Re: Importing Emails into ezmlm-idx
* Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010213 16:29]: Jeremy Suo-Anttila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone know how i can import 350 email addy's from a text file into ezmlm ? `man ezmlm-sub`. Dear Sirs: I just tried the command above and it didn't add any subscribers at ALL! It just printed out a bunch of USELESS words at me AND DIDN"T ADD ANYTHING TO MY LIST!!! Ummm, I think those worthless words were the INSTRUCTIONS to do what you wanted. if you have them in a text file, simply do ezmlm-sub /path/to/ezmlm/list the_text_file and change the /path/to./ezmlm/list and the_text_file to the proper values, do not type as shown above. Think you can handle THAT?? BTW, these questions are for the ezmlm list -- I and others just finished answering this same questioin there 20 minutaes ago...
RE: adding users
Hi- note that your reply went just to me, not the list. what do you mean by "qmailadmin for that domain"? try: ezmlm-list /path/to/ezmlm/list to get a dump of the subscribed addresses. --Pete Ok guys that was helpfull as can be that saved me tons O time. I did ezmlm-sub /path/to/ezmlm/list address_list and then it started processing the list and only took a few minutes. But for some reason none of the addresses show up in qmailadmin for that domain -Original Message----- From: Peter Cavender [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 12:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: adding users I have done this a few times with a shell script. If you have all the addresses in a text file address_list: #!/bin/sh for foo in `cat address_list`; do ezmlm-sub /path/to/ezmlm/list $foo done Too wasteful since it calls ezmlm-sub thousands of times. Just ezmlm-sub /path/to/ezmlm/list address_list Mate COOL! I did not know it could do that, but am glad I know now. Thanks, Mate!
Re: remote/roaming pop/imap users - sending email?
The issue for me, however, is that I need to allow relaying for mobile users dialing into the internet from national ISPs, thus usually ending up with different IPs each time they dial in.) The solution is simple, and often overlooked, and often asked on this list. Maybe somebody should write a "Life with email" document ;-) If they have dialin access through a "national ISP" then that ISP most certainly has a relaying SMTP server that they can designate in their MUA as their SMTP server. There is no reason on earth that they should have to relay back through the home office server, unless their ISP sucks. You do _NOT_ have to send outgoing mail through the machine that is your _INCOMING_ mail server! OK, there may be some clues in the mail header that the email was not sent from the home office, but who cares? These people are on the road! If they know how to configure a MUA than the return address will look OK and nobody will care or notice. --Pete
ucspi-tcp man pages?
I just installed the latest ucspi-tcp from the tarball on cr.yp.to, and there are no man pages. My previous install almost 2 years ago included them, and I am wondering if they are no longer included or if I missed something. Thanks, Peter
Re: SMTP-after-POP3 AUTH
I just have to ask why you need to do this. Is there not an SMTP server available, provided by whatever entity provides internet access? On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Bruce Dang wrote: Is it possible to have users send email only after they've been POP3-authenticated. For example, if I want to send an email, I would have to check my mail first..then for a duration for like 2 or 3 minutes, I can send my email. The reason I want this is because I do not want to have an open relay and my users want to send/check their mail from home. I looked at Mr.Guenter's relay-ctl, but it seems to lack directions. I do not understand how to set it up. I installed qmail according to Dr. Bernstein's INSTALL direction, so I did not use tcpserver (daemontools). Can someone help me out? Regards, Bruce _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: maildirs not at home
Hello. I have been reading over Richard Blum's book Running Qmail and all the docs that distribute as well as the FAQs on the qmail.org and DJB's site and I doubt this is incredibly difficult but I can't find a straight answer anywhwere so perhaps you gurus can tell me... I want to use maildir format for everyone's mailboxes but I don't want to put them under /home ... i want to put them under /mail which is physically on the mailserver (/home is not) and is faster and emptier than /home. is there a system-wide way to specify a default path to a maildir? I suppose I could put a symbolic link in everyone's home directory to /mail/$USER but that seems sloppy and breakable. ideas? thank you for your input. --gill Well, since the .qmail file specifies where to deliver mail, and in the default setup contains "./Maildir/", why not just have it contain "/mail/joe_user/" Of course, yor useradd script or whatever would have to 1) create the .qmail file, and 2) call maildirmake with the proper path. And if you have problems, remember how particular qmail is about Maildir permissions and ownership. Also, putting the maildir in a non-standard location may confuse mail clients like Pine as well as POP3 servers that don't read the .qmail file --Pete
Re: Do I need to restart anything in QMail if I make changes to thecontrol files?
Depending on your distro, etc: /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail restart On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Uwe Ohse wrote: On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 04:42:29PM +1300, Martin Searancke wrote: [nothing but the subject] See the fine qmail-send manual page: CONTROL FILES WARNING: qmail-send reads its control files only when it starts. If you change the control files, you must stop and restart qmail-send. Exception: If qmail-send receives a HUP signal, it will reread locals and virtualdomains. Regards, Uwe
LWQ - Was: anybody know howto make 3 virtual domain in the one machine,and each virtualdomain not use the fullname(mean username is test@abc.com)??
At 10:15 PM 2/7/2001, dick wrote: sigh.i think we all know the awnser read LWQ at http://www.lifewithqmail.org dave - you should charge $1.00 for every person that reads LWQ, you'd be a very wealthy man. :-) If he charged $1 for everyone who _didn't_ read it before posting, he'd be even richer :-) ~kurth any suggestion is welcome.
Re: unsubscribe ??
Read the first message you got when you subscribed to the list, it tells you how. Since the list is run by ezmlm, maybe you should look at the documentation for it. I also offer a service where I can get you unsubscribed for $59.95. I accept payment by paypal or cash, but you must be willing to type an email message exactly as I instruct from the proper address. If you are unable to do so, I can subcontract with Kelly Temporary services to send a computer-literate secretary to your site to do the typing for you. Additional fees equalling their charges will apply. If none of these options are acceptable, I can fly to your site, and for $50 an hour plus actual expenses, perform the unsubscribe at your location. If this fails, we can hire a negotiation/moderation consulting firm to contact DJB personally to arrainge an unsubscribe. If he is unwilling to negotiate, I can hire team of lawyers in his jurisdiction to take the matter before the courts. If this proves fruitless, and you are determined, a team of mercenaries equipped with white phosphorus grenades may be able to take out the server hosting this list. (this offer may not be available at all locations). But if the sever is housed in a hardened bunker, repeated strikes with thermonuclear devices may be necessary to get you unsubscibed. I can contact former USSR personnel for current rates. Unfortunately, since the internet was designed to deal with catastrophic faults of this exact nature, you still may not be removed from the mailing list. If repeated strikes with multi-megaton devies are needed, my fees will includes the cost of constructing a personal sustainable biosphere. Local taxes will apply. If you are still reading this and think I am serious, please be advised that this is satyrical. RTFFMYG! (read the first frigging message you got) --P On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do I unsubscribe? there is no info on qmail.org?? Kevin
Re: [OT] pine and Maildir (was: Maildir versus malibox)
But, it doesn't matter - Pine does IMAP right? (Isn't that it's real reason for existence?) So hook your Maildirs up with IMAP, and point Pine at that. Seems pretty simple to me. How about this: Use a non-crappy, open source e-mail client instead? --Adam And what MUA is that? I am happy that RedHat, despite all the people who hate them, distributes PINE patched to work with Maildirs. PINE may be limited, but it sure is useful as a quick and dirty console-base MUA. I figured out how to use in in about 3 minutes without having to RTFM. I have to admit that I am sick of _yet_another_non_GPL_free_software_license_, with every college having to advertise "our students/faculty did something remotely usefull", but it works, and it is free enough for most purposes. But as I said, if I am missing some great GPL MUA, pray tell... --Pete Written using PINE, telnet'ed in from a remote location to my ISP
Re: [OT] pine and Maildir (was: Maildir versus malibox)
PINE may be limited, but it sure is useful as a quick and dirty console-base MUA. I figured out how to use in in about 3 minutes without having to RTFM. If you've ever had to deal with the code, dirty is definitely an accurate description. Well, yes. I once tried to hack just pico, and gave up in disgust. weemacs??? OK, on your advice I will look into mutt and give it a whirl, but god knows I have better things to do with my time than evaluate MUA's. But then I can't be closed mindedThanks. --Pete
Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox
1) use an editor to see how many of the lines at the top of the file you want to keep, say for example 30 2) # head -n 30 mail_file_name foo 3) # mv -f foo mail_file_name --Pete On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote: the problem is, what is the better text editor I can use rather than vi, since the attachement has thousands of lines. - Original Message - From: "Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "kh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:54 AM Subject: Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox My instructions were to delete the 12 MB email, not every file in the Mailrdir/new Just edit Maildir/new/file with a text editor and remove the attachment. On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote: there are other emails in the mailbox, I do wish to do is that, just to delete the attachement, not the entire mailbox ckh :) - Original Message - From: "Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "kh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:17 AM Subject: Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox cd /home/user/Maildir/new Delete the file that is 12 MB On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote: Is it possible to remove a email from a user mailbox? because I have a email with about 12M of attachement in the mailbox. thanks ckh :)
Re: pop3 question!
The POP daemon will only remove messages when told to do so by the user's email client software. Eudora, for example, tells the server to delete each message after it has been downloaded. The client software can opt to not delete the messages at all. --Pete On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote: Is it the pop3 will remove all the emails from the mailbox after all emails were downloaded to the local mailbox or pop3 daemon will delete email by email after each email was downloaded? thanks
RE: A firestorm of protest?
Laurence Brockman writes: I'm going to jump into the discussion here and ask why we don't do something like perl has done with cpan? They don't call them patches, or upgrades, or anything else. They call them Modules and have a central repository that users can go and search from. I think this would be ideal for qmail.org site... He's done *just that*. That's what program delivery in a .qmail file is for. That's what qmail-getpw is for. That's what users/assign is for. That's what qmail-queue is for. Nobody patches the source of perl -- they just go to the published APIs and add things. So why are we patching qmail instead of writing replacements? What do you mean by "writing replacements"? That people should write their own mail servers, rather than try to enhance qmail?
Re: Mass email to database/checking bounces
I would definately suggest ezmlm-idx also. Works like a charm. It is also quite easy to whip up a small shell script calling qmail-inject; I have done this several times for quick and dirty one-time mailings. --Pete On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, John P wrote: Repost as I posted a HTML message last time (darn Outlook Express..) --- I have a database of over 50,000 customer e-mails that we wish to send a newsletter to, probably monthly, from a RH System running Qmail. Would this require any special configuration changes or should a stock Qmail install work just fine? At the moment sending mail is working fine from the machine. This database is in MySQL. I was thinking of using PHP to retrieve and send each individual e-mail; is this the best way, or is there another way I should do it? Also, I would like to manage bouncebacks somehow - how could I track any failed e-mails and either remove this from the database or add them to a new database that I could check each time I send this e-mail. Finally, any good utilities around to help with composing MIME e-mail? Ideally I could construct the e-mail on a Windows PC and then copy it over to the RedHat box.. I'm looking for resources, pointers etc.. as I can probably send all the things now but don't want it dying halfway through! Many thanks in advance John
Re: PGP
PGP is done entirely on the user's email program (MUA), not on qmail. The message is encryted before and decrypted after qmail sees it. qmail does not notice or care that it is an encrypted message. Users should configure whatever PGP setup works with their client software and OS. --Pete On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Sridhar Balasubramanian wrote: Hi, I'm new to this concept of encrypting messages with PGP. Does it have anything to do with the mail server. If so, how can I work 'PGP' with qmail? can someone point me out a documentation on-line or in their own words explain? thanks, -Sridhar
Re: Bye
I'm taking a vacation from this list until the level of newbie tolerance improves dramatically. Sorry, I just can't take it any longer. -Dave I am sorry to see you go, Dave, you have been a great help to myself and countless others. Even though some of the newbie questions make me cringe, the level of rudeness and abuse others inject is totally unacceptable. Why do some of you have to act so macho, trying to prove how smart you are? Do you yourselves not come to this list for help, or are you just lurking sadists who wait for some under-informed soul to make a sincere request for information, so that you can pounce at the opportunity to belittle? Every one of you (except djb) have at one time known less about qmail than these new people. If members of this list really want to promote a program we believe in and help others get up to speed wit it, manners and consideration are in order. I hope the fact that you have just caused the vacationing of one of the most informed aaand helpful members of this list will give you all pause. --Pete Cavender
Re: removing Delivered-To header...?
Quoting Peter Cavender ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi- I have a qmail server hosting several virtual domains, and all mail delivered to recipients in the virtual domains have a Delivered-To header line indicating the "main" domain name of the server. Fascinating. Is that a government secret, or something? haha - no, I just host several domains for third parties, and the people on domain3 ask why domain1 shows up in their mail headers... Just trying to make my mail services *completely* virtualized. People at local-bapist-church.org wouldn't want hot-sex-pics.com in their mail headers. ;-) Doesn't the Received header also mention what your domain name is? Not an issue for me - I only have incoming POP boxes, no relaying. I want to delete this line, and I understand that the -d option to preline is the way to do this, but *where* do do do this? Hmmm, but what program will you use to actually do the delivery? You don't mention what mailbox format you're using. Vanilla Maildir delivery on local machine. Anyway, Delivered-To is there to prevent mail loops. Not all that terrific an idea to cut them out. Hmmm... --Pete
removing Delivered-To header...?
Hi- I have a qmail server hosting several virtual domains, and all mail delivered to recipients in the virtual domains have a Delivered-To header line indicating the "main" domain name of the server. I want to delete this line, and I understand that the -d option to preline is the way to do this, but *where* do do do this? TIA --Pete
Removing Delivered-To header
Hi- I have a qmail server hosting several virtual domains, and all mail delivered to recipients in the virtual domains have a Delivered-To header line indicating the "main" domain name of the server. I want to delete this line, and I understand that the -d option to preline is the way to do this, but *where* do do do this? TIA --Pete
Virtual Domain Message Header Pollution
Hi- I have qmail set up on a server with multiple virtual domains. I am puzzled by, and want to remove, extraneous header entries that end up in incoming mail for accounts on the virtual domains. Specifically, there are various "Delivered-To:" entries that reveal the primary domain name. If I am virtually hosting foo.com on my server which is primarily bar.com, I do do not want foo.com's incoming email to reveal this in its header. Is there a simple way to configure this in qmail, or am I forced to write scripts to process incoming messages? Thanks!
Re: templet user
Hi- I think you mean "user template". I am not sure about BSD, but in Linux, you add the stuff you want new users to have to the /etc/skel directory. The qmail utility "maildirmake" will create a maildir in a certain directory. If you tell maildirmake to create one in /var/skel ,then all new users will get a maildir. see: man maildirmake In the basic Linux install of qmail, it is located at: /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake I hope this helps... --Pete
Another big qmail user..
I am always happy when I see another "big" web operation using qmail.. I just discovered paypal.com runs qmail, after I got the "I'm sorry it didn't work out." bounce message from a typo... --Pete
Re: qmail is like a chainsaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu 18.0500-13:26): qmail is like a chainsaw: exceedingly fast and powerful and able to chop off your foot in less than a second. one of the most important things to watch in qmail is =permissions=. if set right, the foot stays in your mouth. qmail? I think that truth applies to *nix in general. 7 out of 10 of my hair-pulling puzzles have boiled down to =permissions=. And I'll take that as a compliment to qmail. Here, in Vermont, I have seen people frame houses with a chainsaw. Real Fast. Efficient in the hands of an expert, dangerous in the hands of a novice. Seems to be true for a lot of thingqmail, Linux, guns, power tools, cars... --Pete PS. Not that I am trying to be arrogantI did perhaps 80-100 re-installs of linux/qmail/apache/etc on my server (because I was trying to automate it with a script) before I got it right and knew what I was doing, and I sawed off my root a lot.
Re: I want to leave this list
Why don't we TRY ADDING A FOOTER WITH UNSUBSCRIBE INSTRUCTIONS TO EACH MESSAGE, just TRY it? What is there to be afraid of? I use qmail/ezmlm-idx, and it adds subscribe/unsubscribe stuff to the HEADER. Maybe this list should use thes extensions...?
Re: qmail is like a chainsaw
And I'll take that as a compliment to qmail. Here, in Vermont, I have seen people frame houses with a chainsaw. Real Fast. Efficient in the hands of an expert, dangerous in the hands of a novice. do you mean they made pieces of wood the right size with a chainsaw? thats how i (i'm german) understand the term "people frame houses". what kind of houses do they build, and how long does this take and what does it cost? do people just move to vermont to live there and get their housing that way? Yes, I mean cutting 2x4's and 2x6's, and plywood. etc, to within a 1/16 (+/- 2mm for metric) with a chainsaw. I have done a bit of it myself, but I prefer a hand saw for the tight stuff. People move here for all kinds of reasonsmany are leftists or homosexuals, but many are also survivalists and libertariansI don't know how it translates to German, but in colloquial English... "I'm a Vermonta, I do what I wanta" Vermont is the only place in North America where you can carry a loaded, concealed firearm with no permitit is also the only place that homosexuals can marry (as of two weeks ago)... it is also the only place you can get a non-photo drivers' license... PS. Not that I am trying to be arrogantI did perhaps 80-100 re-installs of linux/qmail/apache/etc on my server (because I was trying to automate it with a script) before I got it right and knew what I was doing, and I sawed off my root a lot. hope it's back on, your root. call me qmail Bobbit... --Pete PS. I know this is *way* off topic but I can't resist a flame...
Re: Virtual POP Users and Domains
I am trying to set up Qmail to be a pop mail server for several of our company domain names. The users do not need, nor do i want to give them, a login account. There will be some identical user names in the different domains but they must be handled differently. How would I set up the POP storage and create the virtual user accounts for them to log in and retrieve their mail. Eric Create the user accounts with the "-s /bin/false" option; this gives them a "shell" of /bin/false, which essentially preventys login. qmail will work fine.
Re: VHosting
Hello, I read the virtual hosting faq, but I'm left wondering how do I set up a virtual mail domain that will send mail to seperate mail users. The FAQ, as I understand it, only explains how to send everyone@yourdom.com to one individuals mail box. I ( my customers ) need to be able to receive mail addressed to their domain in different mail box's. For example: Mail For: Deliver To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - /home/jill/Maildir [EMAIL PROTECTED] - /home/bobe/Maildir [EMAIL PROTECTED] - /home/elli/Maildir Should I use procmail to do this or does one of the mail guru's out there have a super elegant way to achieve this? Thanks for the help, as usual! Josh You do send all the mail for a domain to one user (I have a user "forwarder" for this purpose), then, for that user, you have multiple .qmail files that tell where to deliver the messages. It took me forever to figure this out myself. in virtualdomains: domain1.com:forwarder-domain1 domain2.com:forwarder-domain2 Then make the .qmail files: /home/forwarder/.qmail-domain1-jill contains "jill" /home/forwarder/.qmail-domain2-bobe contains "bobe" etc. Pete
qmail patch list?
Does anyone have a complete list of the available qmail patches and what they do? Pete
Virtual domains..?
I have qmail running several virtual domains (and a "real" domain) on a server. I am trying to make it so that the operation of the virtual domains appears independent of the master domain. The problem is: 1) bounce messages for [EMAIL PROTECTED] come from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2) A message delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] has the following at the top of it's header: Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If this is un-fixable, just lety me know. :-)
Virtual Domains - main domain shows
Hi- I have qmail running several virtual domains (and a "real" domain) on a server. I am trying to make it so that the operation of the virtual domains appears independent of the master domain. The problem is: 1) bounce messages for [EMAIL PROTECTED] come from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2) A message delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] has the following at the top of it's header: Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course, I can fix this by getting rid of /virtualdomans and putting everything in /locals, but that has drawbacks too: I want each domain to have it's own "MAILER-DAEMON' and 'postmaster'... TIA...
UTC vs Local Time timestamps (Linux)
Has anyone noticed that if you have your hardware clock set to UTC but the Linux clock to local time, that regular messages have the local time time-stamp, but bounce messages are dated in UTC? After messing with this a while, I decided to just just put my HW clock on local time, to heck with UTC and DST. Comments? My Context: qmail 1.03 under RH Linux 6.1 on intel
virtual domains in qmail/ezmlm?
Hi- I have finally mastered qmail (OK, "I installed qmail and it works") and am now trying to set up a couple ezmlm lists on a server with virtual domains. My /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains file looks like this: domain1.com:forwarder-domain1 domain2.com:forwarder-domain2 ... I obviously have a special user, "forwarder", set up with lots of .qmail files, and all is fine working for normal qmail traffic. I try making a list, [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ezmlm-make /virtual/domain1/ezmlm /home/forwarder/.qmail-domain1 domain1 domain1.com (that's one line, the dir is OK, and the links get created in /home/forwarder/) But I get: "Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)" when I try to talk to it. (mailing to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I am trying to make simple, public lists for a couple of virtual domains. I think all I have to do is get the ezmlm-make command line right. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Pete PS: Am I missing something, or are the only docs what comes in the .tar.gz? Linux kernel 2.4.* - The final NT service pack.
Happy holidays!
And thank you, everyone, for all the good information. May we all be forgiven for our flames and flame bait! Pete
Re: Learning more about Linux skills.
Hi everybody! My name is Marvel Carvalho. I work in a company called Portway. We developed systems to HandHeld and Palm platform , and also Sales Administration Systems to Intel platform - with Delphi and Oracle. I'm interested in setting up a Linux station in our net NT. We want it working as a PROXI server, FTP Server, internal e-mail Server. I need to learn how to do all of these things. I know that it can take many time. Which is the best way to learn it? Courses / Books / what else I'll appreciate your opinion very much... I'm looking forward to hearing from you. Marvel Carvalho Portway - Brazil - SP Hello Marvel- The best way to learn Linux is to get a computer and a Linux CD and install it, play with it, and read the documentation on the CD and on the internet. There are many good Linux distributions, but I am most familiar with and recommend RedHat. It is easy to install and has good documentation. http://www.redhat.com You can download Linux for free, but it is difficult for a beginner. You can buy $2 CDs of most popular Linux distributions from Linux Mall: http://www.linuxmall.com Each of these sites below contains much documentation. For ftp, there are two popular servers: wu-ftpd is more popular, and proftpd is newer and more flexible. (wu-ftpd comes with RedHat) http://www.wu-ftpd.org http://www.proftpd.org For mail, there is sendmail and qmail. I prefer qmail. Download the "Life with qmail" manual. (sendmail comes with RedHat) http://www.qmail.org http://www.sendmail.org For web serving, there is apache: (comes with RedHat) http://www.apache.org If you want a server as you described, a company in Canada, e-smith, has a nice Linux distribution that comes pre-configured to do what you need (and more). http://www.e-smith.net To learn about free software and the License for linux, visit the Free Software Foundation: http://www.fsf.org Books published by O'Reilly are the best Linux books. Good Luck! Peter
Re: Windows Mailing list
You can buy the Windows license that came with my PC - make an offer. I just have to wonder, how on earth did you find *this* list, and *not* figure out where to buy MS stuff? Hi all, I am sorry to present a Non qmail on this list. I need a few Windows Mailing lists. Purpose: I need to find out where to buy some cheap licenses for Windows/Word/Office etc. Thank you for tolerating this on this list Jacob -- Random Dhammapada Verse 156 They who have not led the Holy Life, who in youth had not acquired wealth, he like worn out bows, sighing after the past.
Fwd: Re: new to list, install questions
Mark Maggelet wrote: I believe you are using a RedHat. This is what I did: 1) Remove the 'sendmail' software link from '/etc/rc.d/rc3.d'. Just cd to this directory and rm the 'S80sendmail' link. (Note, the number could be different from your system). The chkconfig(8) command is the preferred way to manage the symlinks under /etc/rc.d/rc?.d directories in recent Redhat distributions (5.1 or later) Running ntsysv on RedHat gives you a nice interface to do the same thing. Just un-select sendmail, and hit OK.
RE: Oops, someone tried to send you a virus
1) Like *I* am responsible for what my mail users receive!! 2) Most viruses are for Windows, which contribute to it's downfall. 3) I always buy products and services from SPAM on mailing lists. 4) If it is a Linux virus, aren't they required to include the source code? 5) What kind or dork runs executable attachments from unknown sources? 6) What kind or dork uses a MUA that auto-runs attachments? Go away and take your alarmist spam with you. I hope your quarantined viruses get loose on your NT server. The Star Scanning System discovered a potential virus or unauthorised code in a message sent to you. The original message was diverted into the virus holding pen (id 198661_944786082) and will be held for 10 days before being destroyed. #include more_spam
RE: Virtual Domain Problem
Hello there, I have been attemping to get virtual hosting up and running but have failed so far with the following message: Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that host, it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't treat it as local. (#5.4.6) The domain was added to virtualdomains using the domain.com:user example in the FAQ. The domain was also added to the rcphosts and the server was hupped a few hundred times... Anyone have any insights into this particular problem? Did you put the domain name in control/locals?
Fwd: Re: Virtual Domain Problem
Hello there, I have been attemping to get virtual hosting up and running but have failed so far with the following message: Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that host, it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't treat it as local. (#5.4.6) The domain was added to virtualdomains using the domain.com:user example in the FAQ. The domain was also added to the rcphosts and the server was hupped a few hundred times... Anyone have any insights into this particular problem? Did you put the domain name in control/locals? I tried that as well and got the same error message. Several docs on qmail say NOT to put virtual domains in the locals file however. That qmail-lint program also checks to see if a virtualdomain in is locals and generates an error message. [HI FOLKS - WHEN REPLYING TO A MAILING LIST POST, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT ADDRESS IN THE TO: FIELD, OTHERWISE IT GETS SENT TONLY TO THE PERSON WHO POSTED THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE -Pete]
Fwd: Re: Virtual Domain Problem
You don't want this to be in your locals file. It's a virtual domain. Hum.. Is this a third level domain, or is it a first level? third.domain.com vs. domain.com I've had these issues as well myself. Most of the time to solve it required to make sure that the domain is spelled correctly, and there is a valid 'user' it's being handled by: domain.com:user If this is a third level domain, you will need to add a dot infront of the domain in your virtualdomains file: .domain.com:user It's a wild card alias that will accept all third level domain names. Other than that, there isn't much I can think of at the moment. Hope this helped.. Philip Peter Cavender wrote: Hello there, I have been attemping to get virtual hosting up and running but have failed so far with the following message: Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that host, it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't treat it as local. (#5.4.6) The domain was added to virtualdomains using the domain.com:user example in the FAQ. The domain was also added to the rcphosts and the server was hupped a few hundred times... Anyone have any insights into this particular problem? Did you put the domain name in control/locals? [HI FOLKS - WHEN REPLYING TO A MAILING LIST POST, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT ADDRESS IN THE TO: FIELD, OTHERWISE IT GETS SENT TONLY TO THE PERSON WHO POSTED THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE. I STAND CORRECTED ON THE "locals" ISSUE. -Pete]
RE: Problems telneting to port 25
Before after installing qmail, which I believe I've done successfully, I cannot telnet to port 25 to test the installation. I can however send mail as root to external addresses. I'm trying to use fetchmail to suck down my mail from my ISP. I've included the stuff below to show that I have installed qmail. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm almost there, just give me a nudge :-) I wouldn't know how to troubleshoot this particular issue. I've read through the FAQ and INSTALL.* docs and have'nt seen a pointer to my specific issue. Thank you! [root@zamdrist doc]# telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. Have you done a port scan to see if anyone is home? Sounds like nobody is accepting on that socket. tail /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit (Is this where this belongs?) #QMAIL csh -cf '/var/QMAIL/rc ' Not if you are running RH Linux, which is what I know. Look at the "Living With qmail" document (The best guide to getting qmail up); it explains how to make the qmail script in /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail, and make links to it; i.e. /etc/rc.d/rc3.s/S80qmail to start it, and /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K30qmail to kill it. I suspect you are trying to start qmail WAY too early in the boot process. Pete
RE: Hmmm... Corel Linux
If that is the case, I may very well ditch RH for my co-lo...I have two floppies worth of "mods" to my base RH 6.1. Does Corel include all the extra goodies: checkpasswd,ucspi-tcp,daemontools,etc?? Does the .deb extension mean they are using the Debian installer thingey? Please keep us posted! Pete P.S. I worked for Corel in 92. They seemed to suffer from a chronic case can't-get-it-out-the-door-when-we-promised syndrome, but Cowpland is a sharp cookie. Maybe they can do better when other people write the code. --- The opinions expressed herein represent those of my employer, my religious organization, and of my federal government. russ nelson sed: Hmmm... Corel Linux includes among its packages a "qmail-corel_1.03-1254.deb". I haven't finished downloading the whole thing, but it sure looks like Corel Linux comes standard with qmail. Hooray! -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
LWQ qmail rc script addition
I just discovered that if you are using the LWQ qmail rc script with RHL 6.1, you need to add the following lines: to the "start" section: touch /var/lock/subsys/qmail to the "stop" section: rm -f /var/lock/subsys/qmail Otherwise, qmail will not be properly shut down; the main rc script looks for the lock file before it cans a "subsystem". Note that I arbitrarily chose "qmail" as the name of the lock file, but it seems a logical choice. I dunno how this relates, if at all, to other Linux distros. Pete Cavender --- Curt Cobain understood gun control: He hit exactly where he was aiming.
qmail-pop3d authentication errors
OK, I have qmail-pop3d set up in inetd.conf (as per LWQ, pg 40, thanks, D.S.!!), and I installed checkpassword, but when I try to check my mail via POP3, I still get an error: -ERR Authorization failed I have disabled shaddow passwords, but still have MD5 passwords enabled on my system (RH Linux 6.1/intel, all the latest qmail components). SMTP seems to work fine for incoming mail. /var/log/qmail/qmail-pop3d is empty...where do authentication errors get logged? What are the proper privs for ~/Maildir/ ? Thanks all.. -- I have been working on a one-honkin-big-bash-script that installs qmail (and apache and wu-ftpd) for a multi-domain server on top of RH Linux, with all the .tar.gz files on one floppy. If anyone is curious or interested
