Man Pages
After doing a Life with Qmail installation, I'd like to add all of the appropriate entries to the default MANPATH. Where is the default MANPATH set, and what should I add besides /var/qmail/man? Thanks, Stephen Froehlich
deferral: /bin/sh:_./Maildir/:_is_a_directory/
I have a couple of users who aren't receiving mail with the following error message delivery XX: deferral: /bin/sh:_./Maildir/:_is_a_directory/ These users are somewhat unique in that they were created before I had a maildir in /etc/skel, however, I su'ed to them and ran maildirmake to give them maildirs. Their home dirs (/home/uname) have permissions of 700 (owned by the user) The Maildir is also 700, and owned by the user Any idears? Thanx, Stephen
Re: deferral: /bin/sh:_./Maildir/:_is_a_directory/
The other thing that makes these users unique is that they have an _ in their usernames. Is this a no_no? - Original Message - From: Stephen Froehlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 9:41 AM Subject: deferral: /bin/sh:_./Maildir/:_is_a_directory/ I have a couple of users who aren't receiving mail with the following error message delivery XX: deferral: /bin/sh:_./Maildir/:_is_a_directory/ These users are somewhat unique in that they were created before I had a maildir in /etc/skel, however, I su'ed to them and ran maildirmake to give them maildirs. Their home dirs (/home/uname) have permissions of 700 (owned by the user) The Maildir is also 700, and owned by the user Any idears? Thanx, Stephen
Re: deferral: /bin/sh:_./Maildir/:_is_a_directory/
That would be fine if you wanted email delivered to a mbox-format file named Maildir, confusing as that would be. I rather expect, though, that you forgot the slash at the end of ./Maildir/. No, neither of these users have .qmail files in their home directory. They have .qmail files in /var/qmail/alias referring to the usernames e.g.. echo admin_email .qmail-postmaster, however many of those are working just fine, just not the ones pointing to these two users.
Re: deferral: /bin/sh:_./Maildir/:_is_a_directory/
Solved - the difference was that these two users also didn't have a .qmail in their home directory at all. (I had set them up before I had /etc/skel fleshed out.) Thanks again for your help.
Re: deferral: /bin/sh:_./Maildir/:_is_a_directory/
The only reason they need .qmail files is because your qmail-start default delivery argument is broken: qmail-start 'dot-forward .forward | ./Maildir/' If you really want to use dot-forward, followed by ./Maildir/ if .forward doesn't exist, it'll have to be: qmail-start '|dot-forward .forward ./Maildir/' Note your pipe symbol is in the wrong place. I see. Should the newline still be in there? On the other hand, now that .qmail is in /etc/skel, that gives me some added flexibility without the trouble. I should still fix it--to make assurance double sure. If I change rc to what you have above, will .qmail files in users homedirs still be honored? I must say that I like the feature that qmail will hold the messages in the queue until you fix things (as opposed to bouncing them), I'm sure that it has covered a multitude of sins (i.e. users only notice when they get confirmation that mail isn't being delivered instantly). Thanks again for all of your help - honestly, this mailing list, though it is a little slower than picking up the phone and calling is of more consistent quality than most tech support organizations.
Re: Stops accepting SMTP connections from local hosts after random uptime
Perhaps you've got a configuration error, and old connections are hanging around? That would exhaust your smtpd concurrency limit. Look in the logs for tcpserver for qmail-smtpd and see if concurrency constantly grows, and the time when you can't get through coincides with the entries which show full concurrency (i.e. 20/20 or 40/40, that sort of thing). OK, here's where my ignorance starts to show. Where is this information logged? If its in /var/log/qmail/qmail-send/current - I'm seeing 1/20 or 2/20 at most. Those numbers aren't growing, but I can't find log info for tcpserver. I am seeing zippo related in /var/log/messages The quickest way to fix this when it happens is to reboot the box. Nope. The quickest way should be 'svc -t /service/smtpd' or equivalent. This isn't NT, you know. More ignorance - advice taken. I'm afraid that I don't have a good detailed error message from Outlook Express, You should be getting your debugging information from your logs, not your clients. Your logs don't lie. See above (i.e. which log?). Its mainly the fact that I understand the interaction of TCP/IP, DNS, and SMTP much better than qmail itself at the moment. Thanx again, Stephen
Re: Stops accepting SMTP connections from local hosts after random uptime
New piece of information. I was checking, and my /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/run script didn't have the execute flag set. Fixed that and now I'm getting qmail-smptd log files. Something tells me that this is not the cause, though.
POP Server - Password management
I apologize for being slightly off topic. The qmail server is also my pop server. (RH 7.1) I'd like to give my users the ability to manage their own passwords (IMO, a sysadmin shouldn't know his/her users passwords). In truth, its a switched network, so I'm not too worried about sniffing, but it will probably have to be a web based solution. Recommendations?
Why conf-split prime?
Its not an issue for me as I have 10 users and don't expect queues larger than 2 or three messages (i.e. performance is not an issue). I wanted qmail for the security, though I am more than pleased to have the scalability and speed. However, why should this number be prime, why not have 12 or 16 directories? Just curious Thanks
Maildir permissions
My mail server will be located in the office with all of the staff. Some or all of them may have a need for terminal access to the box. While I generally trust them (enough that I seriously doubt that they'll try to truly hack the machine, plus none of them have the skills to hack it), I want to take the general precaution of making the maildirs readable only to their owners (700). Will this cause qmail any fits?
Re: QMail and VPOPMAIL on RedHat 7.1
I was in the same boat a few days ago. I found the howto at http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html most helpful. The only thing I missed was to either a) Get rid of xined all togheter b) Disable its services for POP, SMTP, IMAP I chose a) as I didn't want telnet or FTP anyway (at least for now). The server is set up and happy, though I don't have it in full production yet (though that's for nontechnichal reasons). Honestly, getting bind up and running was much harder for me than qmail itself. - Original Message - From: Darcy Pierlot To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 4:30 PM Subject: QMail and VPOPMAIL on RedHat 7.1 I'm a complete newbie to qmail who is so sick of sendmail's limitations = that I'm looking for alternatives. I've heard a lot of good things about = qmail but i wonder whether someone can point me to a well documented set = of instructions for installing qmail on redhat 7.1 without having lots = of conflicts. I would especially like qmail for it's VPOPMAIL addon that allows = virutal hosting. I am in the webhosting industry and this would be a big = advantage. Can someone help me out with this? I'm also relatively new to linux so = it would be perfect if the documentation/instructions weren't too over = my head... I'm not a newbie bu I haven't done anything really with = programming or some of that crazy C-syntax :) Some day soon i hope! Thanks Darcy Pierlot
Re: Relay IP address ranges - NEWBIE
Thanks for your help - all of you. Based on your advice, I nixed xinetd and tcpserver is happy as a clam - so it is reading its config files and forwarding is working. If/when I need ssh, I'll set that up with tcpserver.
Relay IP address ranges - NEWBIE
Config: RedHat 7.1 qmail - 1.0.3 daemontools-0.70 dot-forward-0.71 ucspi-tcp-0.88 I'm having a helluva time figuring out how to allow my local hosts to relay mail through the server. I put the proper line in hosts.allow (per the FAQ), however, I'm not familiar enough with xinetd to do the other edit in 5.4. In other words, I'm lost - help?
POP/IMAP server - more NEWBIE
OK, I'd like to also gather some opinions on how best to implement POP and/or IMAP. Here are my requirements: In the immediate present, I just need to allow the local network to access. In the near future, I'll need to allow encrypted remote access. (Encrypted only.) I have a few, relatively trusted users. How would you go about meeting those requirements?
