RE: Bounce Loops?

[Stephen Mills]

Title: RE: Bounce Loops?





man qmail-send reveals all 


Cheers
--Stephen


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 12:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Bounce Loops?



How does QMail handle bounced bounces?


- Scott

RE: PLEASE help me secure my open relay!!

[Stephen Mills]

Its because your already listening on port 25.
You have to remove your smtp reference in your /etc/inetd.conf file then
send a HUP signal to inetd (killall -HUP inetd) then execute your tcpserver
--Stephen


-Original Message-
From: Reuben King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 11:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PLEASE help me secure my open relay!!


Okay, I'm trying hard to close my open server..  Am having some probs, 
and I hope I can get some help..

I've been following the instructions at 
http://www.palomine.net/qmail/relaying.html (and some other sites I could 
find) as well as I possibly can, but I'm having some probs.  The popular 
advice is to use ucspi-tcp-0.84 and so I went and downloaded it, followed 
the instructions to install, and am consistently getting an error..

I try to execute:
tcpserver -R -x/etc/tcprules.smtp.cdb -u -g502 -u502 0 smtp

and I get back:
tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used

Do you have any ideas?  I'm stumped.  Argh.. nothing's ever easy.  And 
ORBS just emailed me saying I've been added to their list.  Great. :-(

Thanks a lot for any assistance..  

Regards,
-Reuben

RE: question

[Stephen Mills]

Hi Joel

Refer to the source code for documentation on this

/usr/src/qmail-1.03/INSTALL.alias

Regards,
Stephen

-Original Message-
From: Joel Dudley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 9:39 AM
To: Qmail Mailing List
Subject: question


What does a text mean when it is referring to dot-qmail processing?  What
are dot-qmail files and what is in them???  Thanks.

- Joel

RE: problems with qmail-pop3d

[Stephen Mills]

-Original Message-
From: Bob Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 9:19 AM
To: Vincent Danen
Cc: Qmail Mailing List
Subject: problems with qmail-pop3d (fwd)



>Let me ask a silly question: Does each owner own his/her ~/Maildir/ tree?

[smills@proxy Maildir]$ ls -al
total 16
drwx--   5 smills   smills   1024 Mar  1 13:26 .
drwx--  10 smills   smills   2048 Mar  5 11:50 ..
drwx--   2 smills   smills   6144 Mar  6 08:57 cur
drwx--   2 smills   smills   6144 Mar  6 09:16 new
drwx--   2 smills   smills   1024 Mar  6 09:08 tmp

chown smills:smills -R /home/smills/Maildir would do the trick.
make sure your perms are 700..

--Stephen

RE: Forward/Duplicate messages to hosts behind

[Stephen Mills]

man qmail-remote.

but basically, if you create a stmproutes files in /qmail/control with the
relevent info, it will do what you have requested

something like :

production.domain.com:hosta.domain.com
development.domain.com:hostb.domain.com

of course, hosta/b have to have the appropriate A records in the DNS, or you
can use IP addresses.

this will only forward, not copy the emails

Cheers
--Stephen

-Original Message-
From: Andy WONG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 3:00 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Forward/Duplicate messages to hosts behind


Hello,

First please forgive my ignorance of qmail's world. I'm not familiar in
qmail (just heard it's good and get installed) but I need to setup a mail
hub in a hurry. Any advise are welcome.

I would like to have the qmail configurated to FORWARD/DUPLICATE EVERY
incoming message (no matter whoever the receiver) to two different host
behind. (Both hosts are not linux machines and one host is for production
while the another is for development/migration)



   +--+  + --+
   |  |  |   |
--incoming message --> |  qmail   |---+--|   Host A  |
   |  |   |  |   |
   +--+   |  +---+
  |
  |  +---+
  |  |   |
  +--|   Host B  |
 |   |
 +---+

RE: Cannot get Qmail to compile

[Stephen Mills]

>From the error message it seems you don't have your kernel headers installed
- install them and you should be right

Stephen


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 10:13 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cannot get Qmail to compile



qmail-local.c:1: sys/types.h: No such file or directory
qmail-local.c:2: sys/stat.h: No such file or directory
make: *** [qmail-local.o] Error 1
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.53651 (%build

<>

RE: Announce: safecat-1.2 is available

[Stephen Mills]

we can't browse your localhost :)

best regards,
Stephen

-Original Message-
From: Len Budney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 12:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: O-T: Announce: safecat-1.2 is available


Safecat 1.2 is available.

Changes: Complete rewrite using DJB libraries, including buffered
I/O. Speedup of about 1.4 for actual email messages. Now writes
"Delivered-To:" and "Return-Path:" headers when DTLINE and RPLINE
environment variables are set.

Of interest:

 A
summary of the recent performance discussion on qmail.

 My own
solution to the problems of Dan's unclear licensing. It boils down to,
``If you don't bother Dan, he probably doesn't care.''

Len.


--
I'm criticizing one program. That program is disgustingly insecure. It
shouldn't just be ridiculed---it should be taken out and shot.
-- Dan Bernstein, author of qmail

RE: Strange error

[Stephen Mills]

I believe this is possible (never done it) but its unsecure, anyone can fake
a domain name..
Goto the qmail website for links to such a patch.(I think one is there)
Your much better off using IP addresses.

--Stephen

-Original Message-
From: Jon Newman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 4:34 PM
To: Stephen Mills
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Strange error


Is there any way to specify the domains a user is allowed to come from and
to have qmail lookup the addresses to ensure they are telling the truth
about where they are comming from? Like sendmail does it?

Jon.

- Original Message -
From: Stephen Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 'Jon Newman' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 7:04 PM
Subject: RE: Strange error


> This is very normal operation - by default qmail installs without the
> ability to relay through it.
>
> Visit http://www.palomine.net/qmail/relaying.html on
> instructions/information how to allow selective relaying through your
> server.
>
> Cheers,
> Stephen
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Jon Newman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 4:13 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Strange error
>
>
> I am trying to test qmail thouroughly before I start it up but when I try
> and transfer email through it (relaying through it), I get this error:
>
> The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected
by
> the server. The rejected e-mail address was '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Subject
> 'test', Account: 'xxx.xx.net', Server: '.x.net', Protocol:
SMTP,
> Server Response: '553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed
> rcpthosts (#5.7.1)', Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 553, Error
> Number: 0x800CCC79
>
> Anyone know what is going on? Thanks.
>
>
> -Jon.
>

RE: Strange error

[Stephen Mills]

This is very normal operation - by default qmail installs without the
ability to relay through it.

Visit http://www.palomine.net/qmail/relaying.html on
instructions/information how to allow selective relaying through your
server.

Cheers,
Stephen


-Original Message-
From: Jon Newman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 4:13 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Strange error


I am trying to test qmail thouroughly before I start it up but when I try
and transfer email through it (relaying through it), I get this error:
 
The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by
the server. The rejected e-mail address was '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Subject
'test', Account: 'xxx.xx.net', Server: '.x.net', Protocol: SMTP,
Server Response: '553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed
rcpthosts (#5.7.1)', Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 553, Error
Number: 0x800CCC79

Anyone know what is going on? Thanks.


-Jon.

RE: Surely someone has done this...

[Stephen Mills]

Im running the following :

Internet feed -> qmail -> Exchange (delivered)

and back out again 

Exchange (mail sent from user) -> qmail -> Internet delivery

what I did was, slowly migrate everyone to exchange client (outlook) and
created 2 email address in their profile on exchange ; like [EMAIL PROTECTED]
& [EMAIL PROTECTED]

greg is correct.

in the routing tab in the IMS, I route all "domain.com" back to my qmail
machine (Route to:), this works well becuase any accouts that arent yet on
Exchange will get forwarded back to qmail for delivery, any accounts that
are on exchange will be treated locally and delivered instantly.

I just setup a .qmail for each user to forward messages to exchange using
the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address, once im complete ill add a smtproute
to control/smtproutes 


hope this helps,
Stephen


-Original Message-
From: Greg Owen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 3:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Surely someone has done this...





>What if an exchange user needs to send mail to a mailbox local to the qmail
>server? I don't know, but maybe I can tell it "If you don't know this local
>address, relay it to the qmail box."


I'd have to doublecheck my systems, but I think that's the default
behavior of Exchange when told to relay.  If it doesn't recognize an SMTP
address, it'll punt it whether it is technically "local" or not.  If I'm
wrong on this, I'll correct myself tomorrow when I'm back in the office.

>But then a bad address in the local domain will always start a mail loop
and
>end up in postmaster.


Yes.  I'm not sure it would go through as many loops as you'd expect,
but I'd have to doublecheck that too.  But I'm not sure I see why that
matters - a bad address is a bounce is a bounce, whether it loops or not.
And since your Exchange servers will be using the Exchange directory for
most local mail users, you'll probably see this very rarely.

In short, I wouldn't lose sleep over this aspect of it.

>I really don't want to split the mail users into subdomains. And I don't
>want to trade email directory info between the two systems (if it has to
>happen, it has to be automatic and immediate ).

>
>So, is this doable with qmail configuration? Has someone done something
>similar?If I have to, I can modify code as needed, but I'd prefer not to
>just to keep things standard here.

With the caveats of the things I want to doublecheck above, you should
be able to do this with a standard configuration.  My config suffers a
little from being legacy (we went from an interim qmail+cyrus system to a
qmail -> exchange system).

I'll take a look tomorrow and comment again.

--Greg

RE: Broken tcp_wrappers (resulting in selective relaying not work ing)

[Stephen Mills]

Chris,

It works ! Thanks.

I owe you a slab of beer and a barby :)

--Stephen

-Original Message-
From: Chris Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 12:38 PM
To: Stephen Mills
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: Broken tcp_wrappers (resulting in selective relaying not
work ing)


On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 12:16:28PM +1100, Stephen Mills wrote:
> [root@proxy /]# cat /etc/tcp.smtp
> 203.17.254.:allow, RELAYCLIENT=""
^
Remove the space before RELAYCLIENT.

Chris

RE: Broken tcp_wrappers (resulting in selective relaying not working)

[Stephen Mills]

sorry I forgot to change :

[root@proxy /]# cat /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts1 | grep lan1.com.au

to 

[root@proxy /]# cat /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts | grep lan1.com.au

I renamed it to rcpthosts1 just so the file isnt read when I restart
qmail.so ignore the 1 at  the end..qmail reads in rcpthosts
properly.


-Original Message-
From: Stephen Mills [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 12:16 PM
To: 'Dave Sill'
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Broken tcp_wrappers (resulting in selective relaying not
working)


Stephen Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well ive installed about 8 servers with selective relaying with
>tcpserver and they all work fine, but this one isnt, Ive went through
>everything I know and still can't resolve it...

Post details and maybe we'll spot something you missed.

>I might just upgrade and trust (argh) redhats upgrade tool

I'd be *very* surprised if an OS upgrade fixed your relaying problem.

Sure thing Dave. Here is my details :

[root@proxy /]# cat /etc/tcp.smtp
203.17.254.:allow, RELAYCLIENT=""
192.168.1.:allow, RELAYCLIENT=""
127.:allow, RELAYCLIENT=""
:allow

[root@proxy /]# cat /etc/passwd | grep qmaild
qmaild:!!:558:557::/var/qmail:/bin/bash

[root@proxy /]# cat /etc/rc.d/rc.local | grep tcpserver
tcpserver -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u558 -g557 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
&

[root@proxy control]# ps ax | grep tcpserver
  546  ?  S0:13 tcpserver -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u558 -g557 0 smtp
/var/qmail/

[root@proxy /]# cat /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts1 | grep lan1.com.au
lan1.com.au
exchange.lan1.com.au
proxy.lan1.com.au

Ive telneted to my mail server from a 203.17.254.* address :

220 How may I help you ? ESMTP
MAIL
250 ok
rcpt from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
250 ok
rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)  

As you can see, its totally just not letting specified hosts to relay...

Ive totally out-resourced myself on this one :-)
We hacked qmail-smtpd to enable only a given number of rcpt's to relay, but
I recompiled qmail-smtpd from source and it didnt make a difference.

--Stephen

RE: Broken tcp_wrappers (resulting in selective relaying not working)

[Stephen Mills]

Stephen Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well ive installed about 8 servers with selective relaying with
>tcpserver and they all work fine, but this one isnt, Ive went through
>everything I know and still can't resolve it...

Post details and maybe we'll spot something you missed.

>I might just upgrade and trust (argh) redhats upgrade tool

I'd be *very* surprised if an OS upgrade fixed your relaying problem.

Sure thing Dave. Here is my details :

[root@proxy /]# cat /etc/tcp.smtp
203.17.254.:allow, RELAYCLIENT=""
192.168.1.:allow, RELAYCLIENT=""
127.:allow, RELAYCLIENT=""
:allow

[root@proxy /]# cat /etc/passwd | grep qmaild
qmaild:!!:558:557::/var/qmail:/bin/bash

[root@proxy /]# cat /etc/rc.d/rc.local | grep tcpserver
tcpserver -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u558 -g557 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
&

[root@proxy control]# ps ax | grep tcpserver
  546  ?  S0:13 tcpserver -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u558 -g557 0 smtp
/var/qmail/

[root@proxy /]# cat /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts1 | grep lan1.com.au
lan1.com.au
exchange.lan1.com.au
proxy.lan1.com.au

Ive telneted to my mail server from a 203.17.254.* address :

220 How may I help you ? ESMTP
MAIL
250 ok
rcpt from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
250 ok
rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)  

As you can see, its totally just not letting specified hosts to relay...

Ive totally out-resourced myself on this one :-)
We hacked qmail-smtpd to enable only a given number of rcpt's to relay, but
I recompiled qmail-smtpd from source and it didnt make a difference.

--Stephen

RE: QMail SMTP Woes?

[Stephen Mills]

If your using IE5 you can actually activate a logfile on POP3 and SMTP and
IMAP connections which might be helpful. (there is an option in
Tools-Options-Maintenence)

It might also be helpful to check the Maildir or Mailbox file to see if it
made it correctly to the filesystem without corruption

--Stephen

-Original Message-
From: Greg Owen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 12:54 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: QMail SMTP Woes?




>Thats part of the problem.  There is no error message.  Just a popup in
>Outlook express or any other email client that says:  "Error sending
>message"  Period.  Nothing, nada, not even a bounce message.


Somewhere on that popup for Outlook Express, there's a way to get more
info (either a button marked "More Info" or a little question mark in the
lower right hand corner).  If you click on that, you'll get the text of
either what the server said (i.e., "550 relaying denied") or of what the
client thought ("Unable to resolve mailhost.wherever.net").  You need to
find something like that.  Or you need to reproduce it in a way that lets
you correlate with your server log files.

Outlook and OE are both pretty bad about this - if there's a problem
(like incorrect local user names) in the mail message, they'll leave it in
the outbox and keep trying rather than bounce it.  You need to find that
"more info" to get further.

RE: QMail SMTP Woes?

[Stephen Mills]

Title: RE: QMail SMTP Woes?





I had a similiar issue on a customers site were the user had an attachment, it would strip the attachment and turn in into a small file size and rename it (mssometing.dat), it turned out to be Outlook on the clients machine, i think I changed the MIME encoding from memory to fix it

--Stephen


-Original Message-
From: Jose de Leon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 12:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: QMail SMTP Woes?



A user has reported a problem receiving attachments from anybody outside our
network.  At first I brushed him off as crazy.  But the problem can be
duplicated on other pop3 accounts.


Some people not in our network (AOL is one) trying to send email to users on
our network will receive an error message while trying to send an
attachment.  But, I discovered if the user resends right away, then the
message with attachment will be accepted about 75% of the time.


Could this be related to maximum allowed SMTP connections?  I'm using qmail
smtp with tcpserver.  Or is this a problem with SMTP server from the sending
system?  I have noticed that one of the SMTP server was sendmail 8.9.3

RE: Broken tcp_wrappers (resulting in selective relaying not work ing)

[Stephen Mills]

Well ive installed about 8 servers with selective relaying with tcpserver
and they all work fine, but this one isnt, Ive went through everything I
know and still can't resolve it :) the only mention is on that page about a
problem with rh5.1 - its quite strange.

I might just upgrade and trust (argh) redhats upgrade tool

--Stephen

On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 12:44:25PM +1100, Stephen Mills wrote:
> I am using tcpserver, what I dont understand is that tcp_wrappers  _makes_
> (contains) tcpd.
> 
> [root@proxy tcp_wrappers_7.6]# ls tcpd* -al
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root root18933 Jan 17 14:57 tcpd
> 
> This is why Im puzzled as to why the suggestion on the qmail.org page
> suggests to recompile tcp_wrappers

Don't worry about tcp_wrappers if you're using tcpserver. tcpd never enters
into the picture with tcpserver.

Chris

RE: Broken tcp_wrappers (resulting in selective relaying not working)

[Stephen Mills]

I am using tcpserver, what I dont understand is that tcp_wrappers  _makes_
(contains) tcpd.

[root@proxy tcp_wrappers_7.6]# ls tcpd* -al
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root root18933 Jan 17 14:57 tcpd

This is why Im puzzled as to why the suggestion on the qmail.org page
suggests to recompile tcp_wrappers

--Stephen

-Original Message-
From: Chris Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 11:32 AM
To: Stephen Mills
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: Broken tcp_wrappers (resulting in selective relaying not
working)


On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 11:24:41AM +1100, Stephen Mills wrote:
> Im running Redhat 5.1 on our main server here, and I read an article on
the
> front page of qmail.org about hosts_options not compiled into tcp_wrappers
> which results in tcpserver not working properly and looking up the remote
> hosts IP address...It seems Redhat 5.1 and under has a broken tcp_wrappers
>  
> Ive been using qmail for over 2 years now, and Ive gotten selective
relaying
> to work on Redhat 5.2/6.0/6.1 and Slackware boxes...
>  
> I have tried to recompile tcp_wrappers 7.6 with hosts_options installed
but
> selective relaying still does not work, im copying the new "tcpd" file to
> inetd but it still doesnt work, ive also tried copying tcpd file from a
> Redhat 5.2 box that is working with selective relaying fine and no
luck.
>  
> My last resort is "upgrading" to Redhat 6.1 on the main server, but before
> doing so, maybe there is something Im not sure about.
>  
> So, can anyone identify what Im doing wrong with tcp_wrappers ? This has
> been an ongoing problem and Im yet to resolve it.

The standard answer to any question in which "inetd" appears is "use
tcpserver
instead." So here's my suggestion: use tcpserver instead. You get it as part
of
Dan's ucspi-tcp-0.84 package, available at http://cr.yp.to. To configure it
for
selective relaying, see http://www.palomine.net/selectiverelay.html. It's
easy
to set up--certainly a lot easier than upgrading your whole OS.

See the archives for all the reasons why tcpserver is better.

Chris

Broken tcp_wrappers (resulting in selective relaying not working)

[Stephen Mills]

Hi,
 
Im running Redhat 
5.1 on our main server here, and I read an article on the front page of 
qmail.org about hosts_options not compiled into tcp_wrappers which results in 
tcpserver not working properly and looking up the remote hosts IP address...It 
seems Redhat 5.1 and under has a broken tcp_wrappers
 
Ive been using qmail 
for over 2 years now, and Ive gotten selective relaying to work on Redhat 
5.2/6.0/6.1 and Slackware boxes...
 
I have tried to 
recompile tcp_wrappers 7.6 with hosts_options installed but selective relaying 
still does not work, im copying the new "tcpd" file to inetd but it still doesnt 
work, ive also tried copying tcpd file from a Redhat 5.2 box that is 
working with selective relaying fine and no luck.
 
My last resort is 
"upgrading" to Redhat 6.1 on the main server, but before doing so, maybe there 
is something Im not sure about.
 
So, can anyone 
identify what Im doing wrong with tcp_wrappers ? This has been an ongoing 
problem and Im yet to resolve it.
 
Any ideas would be 
great.
 
--Stephen

RE: maillog file not rotating?

[Stephen Mills]

Title: RE: maillog file not rotating?





make sure the maillog has proper rights, then give syslogd a HUP



--Stephen



-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Tkrin
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 7:45 AM
To: Qmail List
Subject: maillog file not rotating?



My maillog file did not rotate this past week.  All log data is still
going to the maillog.1.  The maillog file was created, but it has zero
bytes of data.


Has anyone ever had this happen to them?  Any ideas?  The box is RedHat
6.0 running qmail 1.03.


Thanks for you input.


Dan

RE: FLUSH QUEUE

[Stephen Mills]

Title: RE: FLUSH QUEUE





properly reading the documentation will reveil that if you send an ALRM to qmail-send daemon, it will then start flushing the queue, although qmail will do this automatically after a while of idling

--Stephen


-Original Message-
From: root [mailto:root]On Behalf Of TAG
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 7:52 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FLUSH QUEUE



HI ALL,


IS there a way of flushing the qmail queue - PLEASE HELP!!!


Many thanks


_Tonino

RE: Restrict Times

[Stephen Mills]

Title: RE: Restrict Times





there is no feature like this that Im aware of.


but you could setup a cron job to remove pop3 and enable at given hours, athough your users will get a nasty no connection when they check mail at times when its disabled...

--Steve


-Original Message-
From: Director tecnico del Nodo Nicarao -- Juan Navas
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 11:02 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Restrict Times



Hi,


I was wondering if any of you know of any qmail feature that allows
restrict E-Mail checking at a specific time of the day


Juan Navas
System Administrator
Managua, Nicaragua

RE: Cannot creating user account with an & in qmailadmin

[Stephen Mills]

Title: RE: Cannot creating user account with an & in qmailadmin






never used qmailadmin, just use the shell.


to do this, create an alias like this :


useradd fb
passwd fb (set the passwd)
echo "&[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > "/var/qmail/alias/.qmail-f&b"


get your user to check mail on fb account,
users can email f&[EMAIL PROTECTED]


Cheers
--Stephen




-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
iv0
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 3:03 PM
To: john
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cannot creating user account with an & in qmailadmin



> john wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to create user account in qmail using qmailadmin and I am
> unable to create a user for example f&b.
> 
> Why does this have so much restriction ? Can I create it?
> 
> Regards
> John


f&b is not a valid user name. I think.


Ken Jones

Re: MUA's compatible with Maildir

[Stephen Mills]

Sorry, forgot to mention that (!)

--Stephen

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Benjamin de los Angeles Jr . wrote:

> But if you're using POP3, you just need to use qmail-pop3d to
> interface with Maildir and you can use any MUA and access your
> e-mail thru POP3.
> 

Re: MUA's compatible with Maildir

[Stephen Mills]

The question you should ask is which MUA isnt supported :)

The popular ones are :
Pine is supported via patches
Elm is supported via looping formats
Mutt has native support
Mew has native support

--Stephen

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Kristina wrote:

> Life-with-qmail talks says that the Maildir format has less
> MUA support.  Which MUA's are not compatible with the
> Maildir format? 
> 
> Thankyou,
> Kristina
> 
> 

Re: Problem getting large e-mails with Netscape/Outlook

[Stephen Mills]

If your using IE5 Outlook Express you can turn on logging on the SMTP/POP3
which spools all commands to a file, maybe this might help.

Stephen

- Original Message -
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mario Köppen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: Problem getting large e-mails with Netscape/Outlook



from what i recall someone saying previously on the list, this is due to
the user setting the 'check for mail' timer too short and the MUA
resetting the pop3 connection, ie:

telnet mail.server.com pop3
+POP3 server blah whatever ready+
user xs
pass yeahright
list
retr 1 # and wait and wait and wait, then say, 1 minute later
list
retr 1 # wait wait, 1 minute
list
retr 1 # .

anyway, i belive thats the behavior

-xs

end
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On Thu, 20 May 1999, Mario [iso-8859-1] Köppen wrote:

>I have a problem with some of our customers that *sometimes* can't
>retrieve their email from our server.
>
>here are the facts:
>- we use tcpserver 0.84 for qmail-pop3d.
>- retrieval of small e-mails makes no problems at all
>- Outlook starts getting the mail and then aborts with
>  "the server did not respond within 60 seconds"
>- our tcpserver settings are extremely lax:
>  5min to connect and 20min transfer timeout
>- the connection on ther server is still intact on the
>  server side, the pop3 process is still running
>- using netstat I see the that the connection is still there
>  but some sent kB were not ack'd.
>
>I already browsed/searched the q-mail ml, found some similar
>questions but no aswers. So if anyone has a solution for this
>problem (in case it really a q-mail problem) PLEASE let me know.
>
>tia
>
>Mario Koeppen
>

Re: how to delete messages from queue ?

[Stephen Mills]

For viewing and removing messages from a qmail queue I use qmHandle (Perl 
script), it used to be on the main qmail page, but the link has
disappeared. Maybe this will help you out.

http://www.io.com/~mick/soft/qmhandle.html

Cheers,
Steve

> 
> | "there are some messages waiting in the queue for a long time.
> | how can I delete them ?"
> 
> | You can bounce them immediately by a sort of backwards FAQ 7.3: Just
> | make the message older than one week (GNU touch is handy for this).
> 
> | - Harald
> 
> I tried this (eg touch -d 1-jan-1999 /var/qmail/queue/mess/15/26902) and
> also restarted qmail (for luck) but the file is still there. I also checked
> the log - sure enough, it had tried to send but failed:
> 
> May 12 08:34:14 1999 926494454.122750 delivery 17: deferral:
> Sorry,_I_wasn't_abl
> e_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/
> 
> What am I doing incorrectly?

Re: new-user template as indicated in INSTALL.Maildir

[Stephen Mills]

be root.
mkdir /etc/skel/Maildir
mkdir /etc/skel/Maildir/new
mkdir /etc/skel/Maildir/cur
mkdir /etc/skel/Maildir/tmp

--Steve

On Sat, 1 May 1999, Martin wrote:

> Hello.
> It says that the system administrator can set up Maildir as the deafault for
> everybody by creating a maildir in the new-user template.
> Can I have a file/path for this as I can't find it.
> RedHat 5.2
> Martin

Qmail + Virus Email Scanning

[Stephen Mills]

Hi,I have around 6 busy Linux servers scattered about the place all 
happierlyrunning Qmail.With the new virus "Melissa" 
roaming around SMTP hangouts and infectingusers, I would like to know if 
anybody has successfully configured Qmail toscan incoming email before 
delivering it to a user ?I have found a package that interfaces with 
Mcafee's *nix version, but onlyworks with Sendmail at present, apparently 
they are looking at making itwork with other MTA's including 
Qmail.http://satan.oih.rwth-aachen.de/AMaViS/amavis.html 
is the package I cameacross.I will purchase Mcafee for Linux anyway 
it seems.Any feedback is welcome.Cheers,Stephen 
Mills.