RE: Nessus scan results

[Tim Hunter]

did you look at your logs at all to watch how qmail silently does nothing?


-Original Message-
From: Matt Simonsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 3:25 PM
To: Qmail@List. Cr. Yp. To
Subject: Nessus scan results


I got these from Nessus ... a scan of email.careercast.com, running Qmail
1.03. I have to believe they are all non-issues because I saw several
threads relating to the way Qmail hadles pipes, but perhaps somebody out
there can confirm them all as false alarms. The last ones are probably the
ones that are the most worrysome out of all of them.


>From Nessus:

The remote SMTP server did not complain when issued the
command :
MAIL FROM: root@this_host
RCPT TO: |testing

This probably means that it is possible to send mail directly
to programs, which is a serious threat, since this allows
anyone to execute arbitrary command on this host.

NOTE : ** This security hole might be a false positive, since
some MTAs will not complain to this test, and instead will
just drop the message silently **

Solution : upgrade your MTA or change it.

Risk factor : High
CVE : CAN-1999-0163

. Vulnerability found on port smtp (25/tcp) :




The remote SMTP server did not complain when issued the
command :
MAIL FROM: root@this_host
RCPT TO: /tmp/nessus_test

This probably means that it is possible to send mail directly
to files, which is a serious threat, since this allows
anyone to overwrite any file on the remote server.

NOTE : ** This security hole might be a false positive, since
some MTAs will not complain to this test and will
just drop the message silently. Check for the presence
of file 'nessus_test' in /tmp ! **

Solution : upgrade your MTA or change it.

Risk factor : High
CVE : CVE-1999-0096

. Vulnerability found on port smtp (25/tcp) :




The remote SMTP server did not complain when issued the
command :
MAIL FROM: |testing

This probably means that it is possible to send mail
that will be bounced to a program, which is
a serious threat, since this allows anyone to execute
arbitrary command on this host.

NOTE : ** This security hole might be a false positive, since
some MTAs will not complain to this test, but instead
just drop the message silently **

Solution : upgrade your MTA or change it.

Risk factor : High
CVE : CAN-1999-0203

. Vulnerability found on port smtp (25/tcp) :


There is a buffer overflow
when this MTA is issued the 'HELO' command
issued by a too long argument.

This problem may allow an attacker to
execute arbitrary code on this computer,
or to disable your ability to send or
receive emails.

Solution : contact your vendor for a
patch.

Risk factor : High
CVE : CAN-1999-0284

. Vulnerability found on port smtp (25/tcp) :


It was possible to perform
a denial of service against the remote
Interscan SMTP server by sending it a special long HELO command.

This problem allows a cracker to prevent
your Interscan SMTP server from handling requests.

Solution : contact your vendor for a patch.

Risk factor :
Serious


. Vulnerability found on port smtp (25/tcp) :


There is a buffer overflow
when this MTA is issued the 'HELO' command
issued by a too long argument (12,000 chars)

This problem may allow an attacker to
execute arbitrary code on this computer,
or to disable your ability to send or
receive emails.

Solution : contact your vendor for a
patch.

Risk factor : High
CVE : CAN-2000-0042

. Vulnerability found on port smtp (25/tcp) :



There seem to be a buffer overflow in the remote SMTP server
when the server is issued a too long argument to the 'MAIL FROM'
command, like :

MAIL FROM: AAA[...][EMAIL PROTECTED]

Where AAA[...]AAA contains more than 8000 'A's.

This problem may allow a cracker to prevent this host
to act as a mail host and may even allow him to execute
arbitrary code on this sytem.


Solution : Contact your vendor for a patch

Risk factor :
High


. Warning found on port smtp (25/tcp)


There is a problem in NTMail3, which allows anyone to
use it as a mail relay, provided that the source adress is set to '<>'.
This problem allows any spammer to use your mail server to spam the
world, thus blacklisting your mailserver, and using your network
resources.

Risk factor : Medium.

Solution : There are no solution provided by the author of NTMail,
so you might want to change mail servers
CVE : CAN-1999-0819

. Information found on port smtp (25/tcp)

RE: What do others do about the following problem...

[Tim Hunter]

Contact somewhere.com and tell them about it.  If they don't/won't/cant stop
it, contact their upstream provider.  In my opinion I treat it like spam.


-Original Message-
From: Eric Calvert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 2:07 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: What do others do about the following problem...



I have a growing problem.  My mail servers spend a good portion of their day
sending bounce messages where ex-customers have signed up for a mailing
list, but now no longer have an account with me.  For example,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribes to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list.  Some time
later, user "a" cancels his/her account.  However, joke-of the-day continues
to send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for MONTHS even though my mail server
correctly responds with the '550 User does not exist' error message.  My
server then also sends a full bounce message.

Is there some way to stop this?  It is getting to the point where the bounce
messages are taking up MUCH, MUCH more bandwidth than the "real" email, and
is even causing noticable delays in delivery times of "real" email to
external addresses.

I'm using qmail-1.03 on linux-2.2.12smp.

I'm crossposting this on isp-tech and qmail mailing lists.  Please respond
personally.

Eric Calvert
Caveland Connection

RE: Again: Can't login to Qmailadmin webpage as postmaster

[Tim Hunter]

send to the right list and you might get an answer

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

-Original Message-
From: Wojtek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 1:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Again: Can't login to Qmailadmin webpage as postmaster


Hi,

I have a problem with qmail, similar one was sent to the list, but I
could not find the answer in the archives.
Does anyone know what to do ?

W.

Problem is:

"Hi all,
I am running qmail-1.03+patches-12 on a RH6.2 system and have
suddenly
began to have a problem with the qmailadmin page.  I can't seem to login
as
postmaster to either of the domains I administer.  I am using the same
password that I use with postmaster to check the mail which works
fine.  The error I keep getting is "Invalid Login." I was also wondering
if
there was a log file that I could look at that would tell me what the
reason is that I keep getting this error.
Thanks in advance,
David Litke"

RE: RE: RE: Problem with VAR directory during install

[Tim Hunter]

so you ran "make setup check" and nothing was in /var/qmail ?


-Original Message-
From: Steve Reed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 4:47 PM
To: Charles Cazabon; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RE: RE: Problem with VAR directory during install


The compile runs, but when it's all over with there is nothing 
in the /var/qmail directory to work with.

-Steve


> Steve Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've checked everything except the phase of the moon and my 
white blood cell
> > count.  I've probably memorized the docs by now.  qmail will 
simply NOT
> > compile correctly on the latest Mandrake.
> 
> You said earlier that the problem was "nothing ends up 
in /var/qmail/".
> Now you say it doesn't compile.  Which is true?  If it doesn't 
compile, you
> should expect anything to end up in /var/qmail/, because 
that's the "setup"
> (install) step, which comes after compiling is complete.
> 
> If you want further help, please run the following script.  
Make sure
> qmail-1.03.tar.gz is in /usr/local/src/ first.  Adjust the 
path to bash as
> necessary.  This will do a vanilla compile & install of 
unpatched qmail 1.03. 
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> (
>   mv /var/qmail /var/qmail.old
>   rm -rf /usr/local/src/qmail-1.03
>   cd /usr/local/src
>   gunzip -c qmail-1.03.tar.gz | tar -xf - qmail-1.03.tar.gz
>   cd qmail-1.03
>   make setup check
> ) >/tmp/qmail-setup-log.txt 2>&1
> 
> 
> Then post /tmp/qmail-setup-log.txt on the web somewhere, and 
send a URL to
> this list.  We need to see all of the output of the build 
process, I think, to
> find what your problem is.
> 
> Charles
> -- 
> ---

> Charles Cazabon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> GPL'ed software available at:  
http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/
> ---

> 

RE: RE: Problem with VAR directory during install

[Tim Hunter]

Just for the sake of argument I have a Mandrake 8 machine that runs qmail
fine with the directions from LWQ
I also have a Mandrake Cooker machine (pre8.1) that I installed qmail fine.

Nothing wierd, just word for word from LWQ.
Still I prefer debian but this was for a friend who likes the "ease" of
Mandrake, and true enough its pretty simple.

-Original Message-
From: Steve Reed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 8:24 PM
To: David U.
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RE: Problem with VAR directory during install


Hi,

I installed Mandrake using the 2 CDs, the latest distro
(downloaded the ISOs and burned the CDs).  It seemed to install
perfectly fine.

I want to use qmail because it seems to have the best
reputation.  Mandrake comes with Postfix, which I chose to not
install.  From what I've read online, Postfix isn't exactly a
top choice.

Steve



> Did you use one CD for the mandrake 8 install or the two CD?
Mandrake 8 really
> went out the door with issues.
>
> I would use RH7.1 or Mandrake 7.1 I have installed qmail fine
on both.  Mandrake
> 8 has some bad code in the CD -- also, Mandrake can be made
secure as a server,
> but it installs a lot of client-side crap.
>
> sorry if that doesn't help,
> davidu
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Steve Reed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 4:37 PM
> To: Yvette 'Tina' Martinez
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Problem with VAR directory during install
>
>
> Excuse me while I go bang my head against the wall.  OK, there
> now that that's over withhas anyone else had trouble
> installing qmail on Mandrake 8?
>
> I'm following the instructions to the letter and the darn thing
> won't install.  I'd much rather find the reason for it and fix
> it than install an older version of the operating system, which
> can present other issues.
>
> -Steve
>
>
> > I am also new at this and the first thing I had to do
> > was stop using linuxconf. Linuxconf seems to have a
> > mind of its own and it will regularly change ownership
> > based on its own set of rules. BTW, I don't know
> > exactly why. The second thing I did was rebuild my
> > machine with Mandrake 7.2 (from 8.0)
> >
> > I had all kinds of trouble with mandrake 8 in all
> > different apps.
> >
> > So far with mandrake 7.2 back online all my installs
> > have been clean.
> >
> > I use the command line mostly and webmin to look at
> > users and groups...
> >
> > Tina
> >
> >
> > --- Steve Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Well I think I may have located the source of the
> > > trouble but
> > > it's still puzzling. Both the Life With Qmail and
> > > the Running
> > > qmail book want the /var/qmail directory created
> > > while logged in
> > > as root. That gives ownership to the user root in
> > > the group
> > > root. Then, the qmail-specific groups and users are
> > > added. The
> > > problem is that when I run linuxconf and look at the
> > > created
> > > users, I receive a warning that the home directory
> > > of /var/qmail
> > > has an invalid owner and group. Could this be the
> > > cause of my
> > > problems? I'm not exactly a newbie to file and
> > > directory
> > > permissions, but in reading all the qmail
> > > documentation I can
> > > lay my hands on I see nothing that indicates I need
> > > to change
> > > the ownership and group of /var/qmail from
> > > root/root.
> > > Nevertheless, linuxconf is whining and my compile
> > > goes nowhere,
> > > and this all smells like a permissions issue.
> > >
> > > I'm running Mandrake 8.
> > >
> > > Thanks for your patient help.
> > >
> > > Steve.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 02:43:15PM +1200, Steve
> > > Reed wrote:
> > > > > So, I'm stumped.  Why is config (or config-fast)
> > > unhappy?
> > > >
> > > > Because it's expecting dirs and stuff in
> > > /var/qmail that
> > > aren't there.
> > > >
> > > > Run "strings - install | grep /" and look for a
> > > fully-
> > > qualified path
> > > > (ie. starting with a slash) that doesn't look
> > > system-related.
> > > In your
> > > > case, since you didn't change conf-qmail, you
> > > should
> > > see /var/qmail.
> > > > If you see something else instead, that's where
> > > all your qmail
> > > stuff got
> > > > installed -- all you gotta do is figure out why it
> > > went
> > > there.  8-)
> > > >
> > > > - Adrian
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > __
> > Do You Yahoo!?
> > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail
> > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
> >
>
>
>

RE: Need help with Maildir

[Tim Hunter]

Post the line your are using to start qmail-pop3d and the contents of ls -la
in the $HOME in question.

-Original Message-
From: Per-fredrik Pollnow (EPK)
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 9:49 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Need help with Maildir


Hi,

First I want to say that I want to use Maildir. But I got this problem I
can't get rid of, I probably have missed something in the INSTALL.* file. I
have put the MAIL=$HOME/Maildir ; export MAIL in my .profile (using sh)),
then I exec the makemaildir and after that I crated the .qmail. and so on..

This is the error message:

-ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir', Port: 110, Secure (SSL): Nej,
Serverfel: 0x800CCC90, Fel nummer: 0x800CCC92

any suggestion's ?

RE: Nat problem

[Tim Hunter]

You can set the enviroment variables when you call the smtp server

for tcpserver edit your tcp.smtp file like this:
192.168.00.:allow,TCPREMOTEHOST="",TCPREMOTEIP="",RELAYCLIENT=""

this will set those variables to ""

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Maciej Bogucki
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 5:57 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Nat problem


HI!
 I'm just configuring new qmail server. When I connect from my private
network to qmail server and I send message, header of this message look
like:

>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jun 13 09:21:02 2001
Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Received: (qmail 28026 invoked by alias); 13 Jun 2001 09:21:02 -
Delivered-To: root@qmail-server
Received: (qmail 28023 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2001 09:21:01 -
Received: from local-host (HELO test) (IP-of-my-local-host)
  by qmail-server.com with SMTP; 13 Jun 2001 09:21:01 -

Where 
qmail-server.com is new qmail server
local-host is name of my computer, from which I send this message
IP-of-my-local-host is IP of my computer, from which I send this message

Is it possibly to configure qmail that it doesn't add last line
"Received: from local-host (HELO test) (IP-of-my-local-host)" for
specific hosts: for example for network: 192.168.0.0/24 ?

Regards
 
Maciej Bogucki, Network Administrator
---
3dart.com / end-to-end solutions http://www.3dart.com
Spolka Internetowa   tel: (+48 22) 646 64 65
ul. Goszczynskiego 1002-616, Warszawa

RE: suddenly cannot receive email

[Tim Hunter]

Make sure you check in /var/qmail/users/assign and make sure that is
pointing to the correct place for your virtual domains and check that the
uid/gid is correct.


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 12:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: suddenly cannot receive email


Until I get this mess fixed, please cc responses to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry, but it is the only way I can receive email right now.

I seem to have done something to break my qmail.  Yesterday afternoon, I
added a virtual user in /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains and put his
forwarding address in alias/.qmail-garnette-monte and added his domain to
rcpthosts then restarted.  I did not notice at the time (because I left work
right after that), but I have not received ANY email since I did that.  We
have a UNIX box running BSDi 4.0, QMail, Apache and FP.

This morning I did a 'tail -f /var/log/maillog' and found tons of bounce
messages going out and the following messages about incoming mail:

Jun  7 09:57:54 midnightsun qmail: 991925874.483380 starting delivery 434:
msg 2
77962 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jun  7 09:57:54 midnightsun qmail: 991925874.490779 status: local 0/10
remote 1/
20
Jun  7 09:57:54 midnightsun qmail: 991925874.510962 delivery 434: failure:
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)/

I cehecked control/locals and found my main server,
'midnightsun.chismtrail.com' so I added just plain 'chismtrail.com' in case
that might be the problem, even though it has been working like that just
fine in the past.  It did not help.  Now I am getting the following
messages:


Jun  7 10:14:54 midnightsun qmail: 991926894.296843 starting delivery 35:
msg 27
7963 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jun  7 10:14:54 midnightsun qmail: 991926894.306096 status: local 1/10
remote 0/
20
Jun  7 10:14:54 midnightsun qmail: 991926894.338870 delivery 35: deferral:
Unabl
e_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/

and

Jun  7 10:16:35 midnightsun qmail: 991926995.777267 delivery 38: failure:
This_m
essage_is_looping:_it_already_has_my_Delivered-To_line._(#5.4.6)/

and

Jun  7 10:35:46 midnightsun qmail: 991928146.945873 starting delivery 70:
msg 27
7962 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jun  7 10:35:46 midnightsun qmail: 991928146.955071 status: local 1/10
remote 0/
20
Jun  7 10:35:46 midnightsun qmail: 991928146.987598 delivery 70: failure:
Sorry,
_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/


There is a [EMAIL PROTECTED], in

/usr/var/vpopmail/users

qmail-default  .qmail-igy  .qmail-walter   .qmail-wvchism9 postmaster
qmail-gin  .qmail-root .qmail-wdchism  abc walt
qmail-iggy .qmail-swap .qmail-wlat guest   webmaster


Where else can I look to find the problem?

RE: pop server

[Tim Hunter]

qmail-pop3d?
comes with qmail, only works for ./Maildir/
what could be better?

-Original Message-
From: GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 9:44 AM
To: qmail list
Subject: pop server


is there any pop server for qmail better than qpopper 4.0?

--yapedu

RE: about omail web based email

[Tim Hunter]

* There are currently 2 mailing lists :

  - omail-news : read-only announce mailing list (for new release announces)
  > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/omail-news <

  - omail-devel : public mailing list for devel & support.
  > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/omail-devel <


-Original Message-
From: KIM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 6:45 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: about omail web based email



HI,

I know this is not the right mailling list, but anybody here knows if
omail-webmail is possible to run as sudo and in  mod_perl? if yes how can i
configure it?

thank you!

RE: MailDir stopped working

[Tim Hunter]

Actually my guess is that mail is still being delivered properly, but the
popper configuration has changed.

-Original Message-
From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 5:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: MailDir stopped working


Robert Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > For some reason I can no longer get my mail (pop or IMAP) using
> > > ~user/Mailbox.  In order to access my mail again I had to add a
symbolic
> > > link to users mailbox in /var/mail.
> >
> >The server configuration changed, then.
> >
> > > I thought this was a result of a bug in Eudora - but since it's
> > > happening to other users too, I have to look at the server.
> >
> >Yes, you have to look at the server.
> >
> >Did you have an actual question to ask the list?

> This is what I'm using to start qmail -
>
> exec env - PATH="/usr/local/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
> qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail

You still haven't asked a question.  I'm assuming you want to know why you
need symlinks from /var/spool/$USER to $USER/Mailbox.

This is controlled by the script you use to start qmail-smtpd, not qmail
proper.  Post that script, and we'll show you what you've done wrong.

Charles
--
---
Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
GPL'ed software available at:  http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/
Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions.
---

Re: qmail-pop3d and /var/spool/mail or NO /HOME/$USER

[Tim Hunter]

I can certainly understand not using /etc/passwd but Why not maildirs??
I would really recommend vpopmail or v ?

qmail-pop3d only is used for Maildirs (not the virtual user problem)

other poppers are availible, check the qmail page.

- Original Message -
From: "Charles Olds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 8:44 AM
Subject: qmail-pop3d and /var/spool/mail or NO /HOME/$USER


> My goal is:
> Install qmail to work with virtual users. (i.e. No account in
> /etc/passwd.  No /home/user.  Mail delivered to /var/spool/mail.)
>
> I have downloaded and installed qmail, tcpserver, qmailadmin, etc..
> Everything looks good and runs except qmail-pop3d does not work with
> virtual users.  When trying to retrieve mail I get the message "No
> /HOME/$USER directory...
>
> Please recommend a POP3 server that will work with qmail and allow mail
> to be retrieved from /var/spool/mail.
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Charles Olds
>
>

Re: pulling mail from other than new/cur (sorry again...better reply address)

[Tim Hunter]

Honestly this sounds like a bad idea.
You are really opening up a can of worms since you could potentially have an
unlimited number of subdirectories.
New mail only originates in one place ./Maildir/new/
./Maildir/cur/ is checked in case mail is left on the server or checked by
imap, webmail, locally first (someone correct me if im wrong)

pop3 is truthfully/originlly only made to check the new mail
imap, webmail, etc is meant for those people who like to keep stuff server
side and need the organization that subfolders provides there.

you cant have your cake and eat it too...


-- Tim

- Original Message -
From: "Michael Boyiazis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 9:24 PM
Subject: pulling mail from other than new/cur (sorry again...better reply
address)


> Greetings,
>We've got a POP3 setup working just fine, but there is a desire to
> add IMAP servers so that web mail might be added also.  The problem
> I see is that users will be making misc new subdir's in their Maildir
> on the same level as new and cur, such as stuff_from_joe, spam, whatever.
>
> So I've been asked to munge up qmail-pop3d so it can pull mail from
> all these potential directories, not just new and cur, just in case that
> user
> decides to use our POP3 server at a later date to check mail.
>
> Think this would be a major undertaking?
>
> Snooping around qmail-pop3d.c I see a call to maildir_scan which seems
> to look in new and cur for mail during its getlist process.  Perhaps I
could
> have that code first do a lookup for other directories besides new and cur
> (and tmp) and loop through that list of directories looking for mail to
give
> to getlist.
>
> Am I just making a mess of things here?  Is there an easier way to do
this?
>
> Thanks for any thoughts, good or bad.
>
> --
> Michael Boyiazis
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc.
>
>
>

Re: unauthorized relay :-(

[Tim Hunter]

No, the last line ":allow" allows people to send mail to you
if the line said ":allow,RELAYCLIENT=""" then you would allow relay mail to
anyone.
a ":deny" would deny any attempts to connect to the tcpserver connection
that were not specifically allowed.

A better idea would be for the original poster to post the logs as proof
that there is a relay happening, and if were lucky some headers and the smtp
logs too.

-- Tim

- Original Message -
From: "Todd Finney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: unauthorized relay :-(


> At 08:55 PM 5/17/01, Roger Walker wrote:
> > My admin mailbox has been filling up with bounces from
> > aol.com -
> >obvious SPAM that appears to have originated from my qmail system
> >(running
> >ucspi-tcp-0.88 and daemontools-0.70. Here's my rather simple config
> >for
> >tcpserver:
> >
> >127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
> >206.75.255.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
> >10.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
> >:allow
> >
> > The first line is for localhost, the second for my class 'C',
> > the
> >third for private network stuff behind a firewall and through a VPN. I
> >presume the last is to allow anyone to connect to allow them to send
> >to my
> >hosted domains.
>
> Doesn't that last allow line cause an open relay?
>
> http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcprules.html
>
> "The instructions in a rule must begin with either allow or deny. deny
> tells tcpserver to drop the connection without running anything. For
> example, the rule
>   :deny
> tells tcpserver to drop all connections that aren't handled by more
> specific rules."
>
> The fact that your local domains appear in the control files is what
> allows the host to receive mail for the domains, not tcpserver.
>
> Todd
>
>
>
>

RE: Qpopper and Qmail logging

[Tim Hunter]

Look into whatever program you are using for authentication, that should
(might) have patches to provide logging.

-Original Message-
From: Chad Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 5:41 PM
To: qmail list
Subject: Qpopper and Qmail logging


I have been tasked with the need to log USERNAMES that are downloading pop.

The reason is that we use both imap and pop here and want to phase out pop.

So how can I create a log of all the people using POP (via qpopper) to
access their mail (delivered with Qmail).  (solaris).

I can grep the syslog for pop and get REMOTE or LOCAL but it's ip based..
I need username based logging.

anyone have any idea? I looked into multi-log but it seems much more in
depth to implement than I was hoping for.

-chad

RE: smpp instead of smtp

[Tim Hunter]

you might look into the work that was done near the beginning of this year
to add the patches for qmtp support in qmail, since smpp is a different port
that may work, pending the addition of the extra MX entry.  Maybe we need
new additions to DNS for these new protocols to work effectively.

Who knows, im still confused.

-Original Message-
From: Brett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 12:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: smpp instead of smtp


Yeah, sorry I didn't clarify what smpp was. Everyone here always seems so
knowledgeable, I just assumed it was known. Anyway, now that it's been
defined (below), does anyone see any way of using it instead of smtp with
qmail? I can manually call qmail-smtpd to send a smtp message and feed it
commands. Could I just replace those commands with smpp ones or does
qmail-smtpd use a specific connecting method (specific to smtp, that is)?
Thanks again.


-Original Message-
From: Jeremy Suo-Anttila [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 12:47 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: smpp instead of smtp


Q: What is SMPP?
A: The Short Message Peer to Peer (SMPP) protocol is an open industry
standard messaging protocol designed to simplify integration of data
applications with wireless mobile networks such as GSM, TDMA, CDMA and PDC.
The protocol is widely deployed in the mobile telecommunications industry.
The SMPP protocol specification is freely available from the Documents
section of this site.

http://www.smpp.org/faq2.htm#Q1



- Original Message -
From: "Peter van Dijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 2:06 AM
Subject: Re: smpp instead of smtp


> On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:18:14AM -0400, alexus wrote:
> > whats smpp?
>
> It appears to be SMS related. They want my personal data for providing
> me the specs (www.smpp.org) so I didn't download those.
>
> Greetz, Peter.
>

RE: Sqwebmail

[Tim Hunter]

www.inter7.com/sqwebmail

-Original Message-
From: Pablo Buenaventura [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 5:07 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sqwebmail


Hi All,

I am newbie with qmail.

I would like to know how to use sqwebmail in a simple
manner and where I can get information about it?

Many thanks,

Pablo

___
Do You Yahoo!?
Envía mensajes instantáneos y recibe alertas de correo con
Yahoo! Messenger - http://messenger.yahoo.es

RE: issues receiving email

[Tim Hunter]

Anything in the logs?  What util are you using to check passwords?

Just because you asked the same question the same way twice its not gonna
help anyone answer you.


-Original Message-
From: Robert Lech [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 7:39 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: re: issues receiving email


I have a couple of clients that are experiencing a strange problem when
checking mail on our server.  When they click send/receive sometimes it
immediately downloads their email, but other times it brings up a dialog box
asking them for their user name and password.  The user name and password
are already filled in.  When they click ok, it sometimes takes 5 or 6 times
before it goes through.  Other times they click ok once and it connects
fine.

Any suggestions?

Robert.

RE: RSS LIST

[Tim Hunter]

Logs?

-Original Message-
From: hongtao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 5:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RSS LIST


Dear All:

because an american use my mail server (qmail) to spam,

the ip of my mail server is now in the RSS list,

i have refused some ip to use our smtp to relay, if my smtp 
server now is not open-relay smtp server.

who can help me in this aspect?

thank you very much!

hongtao

Re: vmailmgr accpect correctuser@incorrectdomain as system-account user.

[Tim Hunter]

ask on the vmailmgr list, this is not a qmail question.
Thanks.

- Original Message -
From: "Michael Cheung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "qmail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 10:18 PM
Subject: vmailmgr accpect correctuser@incorrectdomain as system-account
user.


> Hi;
> I use checkvpw from vmailmgr package for pop3 authorization.
> But it treat all login name correctuser@incorrectdomain as system-account
> user.
>
> How to configure the vmailmgr to give an error for such a situation?
>
> Thanks inadvance.
>
> Regards;
> Michael
>
>

Re: Relay test on abuse.net

[Tim Hunter]

No, unless you have enabled the percenthack '%' (see 
http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#percenthack for details) you are not a 
relay.

Please stop with the questions unless you actually check for answers first. 

Daniel Duclos writes: 

> On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Tim Hunter wrote: 
> 
>> Was the message relayed?  My guess, NO.  If it wasn't delivered its not a
>> problem. 
>>
>> What part of "THIS MAY OR MAY NOT MEAN THAT IT'S AN OPEN RELAY." doesn't
>> make sense?
> 
> Ok, so I'm gonna take a ride in the subject and ask about my relay test on
> mailabuse.rg... 
> 
> :Relay test: #Test 9
>>>> mail from: 
> <<< 250 ok
>>>> rcpt to: 
> <<< 250 ok
>>>> QUIT
> <<< 221 nicholas.cybershark.net
> Tested host banner: 220 nicholas.cybershark.net ESMTP
> System appeared to accept 1 relay attempts
> Connection closed by foreign host. 
> 
> So, this means I am vunelrable to SPAM? 
> 
> Thank you for you attention and patience! 
> 
> regards, 
> 
> daniduc 
> 
> Daniel Lobato Duclos - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.cybershark.net
> ---
> Money Isn't Our God - Integrity Will Free Our Soul (Sepultura - CutThroat) 
> 
> 
 

RE: Relay test on abuse.net

[Tim Hunter]

Was the message relayed?  My guess, NO.  If it wasn't delivered its not a
problem.

What part of "THIS MAY OR MAY NOT MEAN THAT IT'S AN OPEN RELAY." doesn't
make sense?


-Original Message-
From: Jairo Marciano Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 12:37 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Relay test on abuse.net


My server failed in Relay Test 6 in www.abuse.net.
The result is:

Relay test 6
>>> RSET
<<< 250 flushed
>>> MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<<< 250 ok
>>> RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<<< 250 ok

Relay test result
Hmmn, at first glance, host appeared to accept a message for relay.
THIS MAY OR MAY NOT MEAN THAT IT'S AN OPEN RELAY.

Can somebody help me ?

TIA
Jairo

Re: Maildir (dir) to file for /var/mail/$USR (Inbox) [imapd]

[Tim Hunter]

Works for me, I can give you screenshots if you want.  I have about 40
folders and subfolders not inside the INBOX.

- Original Message -
From: "David Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: Maildir (dir) to file for /var/mail/$USR (Inbox) [imapd]


> Yeah, I've read it. Done what it suggests, doesn't work. I thought Alexus
> may be on to something undocumented.
>
> > From: "Tim Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 16:28:27 -0400
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: Maildir (dir) to file for /var/mail/$USR (Inbox) [imapd]
> >
> > http://inter7.com/courierimap/README.imap.html
> >
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "David Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 1:15 PM
> > Subject: Re: Maildir (dir) to file for /var/mail/$USR (Inbox) [imapd]
> >
> >
> >> Could you share with us how to properly setup the client?
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
>

Re: Maildir (dir) to file for /var/mail/$USR (Inbox) [imapd]

[Tim Hunter]

http://inter7.com/courierimap/README.imap.html

- Original Message - 
From: "David Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: Maildir (dir) to file for /var/mail/$USR (Inbox) [imapd]


> Could you share with us how to properly setup the client?
> 

Re: Maildir (dir) to file for /var/mail/$USR (Inbox) [imapd]

[Tim Hunter]

Comments about Courier-IMAP.  (note. I am biased for Courier-IMAP because I
am a very happy admin and user of it)
It does support folders outside INBOX, if you setup your client correctly.
I use Courier-IMAP daily from Outlook Express, Eudora, and Outlook.  I also
access this at times from Mutt locally on the machine.  I have never had a
problem with storing "Sent Items" with Outlook Express, but like I said I
have a properly configured client.
I know that Courier-IMAP is a VERY standard imapd, and thats why it doesn't
work around stupid little bugs in many clients.  You can ./configure
with --enable-workarounds-for-imap-client-bugs which helps a bit.  My
opinion is you took the lazy route out and never bothered to read or join
the very helpful lists at inter7.com.

$0.02
-- Tim

- Original Message -
From: "alexus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Peter Cavender" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: Maildir (dir) to file for /var/mail/$USR (Inbox) [imapd]


>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Peter Cavender" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "alexus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 1:37 AM
> Subject: Re: Maildir (dir) to file for /var/mail/$USR (Inbox) [imapd]
>
>
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > .. let's start from right note here .. by sayin' i'm using qmail w/
> Maildir
> > > and imapd (doesn't really matter which one but if someone wants to
know
> i'm
> > > using the one the came with pine package (uw-imapd)) ..
> >
> > Ummm, it DOES matter, because IMAP accesses the mail
> >
>
> even though that i said it doesn't matter i still desided to specify it...
> if you read more carefully you'll see it says
> i used pine's imapd (uw-imapd)
>
> with a patch of maildir from www.qmail.org website
>
> > > and i'm using very
> > > popular client known as Outlook Express and/or Outlook and i'm sure
many
> > > more will have same problem/thing..
> >
> > It shouldn't matter WHAT client you are using...
> >
>
> i know, that's what i'm trying to accomplish .. to be as much as more
> compatible with all clients
>
> > > since there is no Inbox from client point of view (it points to god
> knows
> > > where probably standard unix box /var/mail/$user or somethin),
> >
> > Not at all, it is ~/Maildir
> >
>
>
>
> > > I have to
> > > browse for an additiona folder which would be in $HOME/Maildir.. and
it
> also
> > > addes this folder in the list of others.. unfortinatly I can't just
> change
> > > name of that folder Maildir to Inbox due to conflict with existing on
> e-mail
> > > client end (and none existing on server side) folder/file.
> > >
> > > what i need is: I want everyone's standard e-mail client to take
Maildir
> as
> > > a Inbox
> >
> > Then configure your IMAP / POP server to serve the right folder...this
> > should all be server-side!
> >
>
> configure.. it's not like it has options for that.. basicly i'd have to
> re-write part of the code for that.. and i'm not a programmer .. i realize
> that gotta be done on server side.. *duh* that's what i'm trying to write
> this whole letter all about how to do it on server side!
>
> > >
> > > my question is: how do i do that?
> >
> > CourierIMAP
>
> Courier IMAP is the most not standard imapd is ever, you can't create any
> folders outside of Inbox.. all other imapd allows you to do that.. plus
all
> "sent mail" doesn't goes into "sent mai" in courier imap ('cause there is
no
> one and once again it can not be created 'cause it outside of inbox)
>
> >
> > > solution: .. maybe i can somehow trick my system in that Maildir is
not
> > > really a dir and it's just a file? this way I can put a symbol link
into
> > > /var/mail/$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..
>
> so far it didn't...
>
> >
> > --P
> >
> >
>
>

RE: xinetd, tcpwrappers and qmail

[Tim Hunter]

I will suggest tcpserver since it is the "proper" and recommend way of
running qmail, and probably 95% of your support on this list will come with
tcpserver related answers.

The reason you were getting 30+ second responses is due to DNS not setup or
resolving properly.  You can get around it by adding "-l 0 -R" to your
tcpserver flags.
It is a very very FAQ.

-- Tim

-Original Message-
From: John Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 2:28 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: xinetd, tcpwrappers and qmail


I've read through the archives and I'm still having problems with allowing
selective relaying. Here are the settings that I am using:

 /etc/xinetd.conf
defaults
{
  log_type  = FILE /var/log/servicelog
  log_on_success= HOST PID EXIT DURATION
  log_on_failure= HOST RECORD
}

service smtp
{
  socket_type   = stream
  wait  = no
  protocol  = tcp
  user  = qmaild
  group = nofiles
  flags = REUSE NAMEINARGS
  server= /usr/sbin/tcpd
  server_args   = /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env -R
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
}


 hosts.allow
tcp-env: LOCAL, .foo.org, .foo.com: setenv RELAYCLIENT


When I attempt to send mail from localhost (via SMTP) or from an allowed
domain, I alway receive the message:
553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)

Of course, mail going to my rcpthosts works just fine...

I am missing something in my settings, but I just can't find what it is.

I tried using tcpserver and that worked for allowing selective relaying, but
connections to any port from systems other than localhost usually took 30-45
seconds between getting the socket and getting the banner from the server.
There is no tcpserver mailing list that I could find and none of the man
pages
or online documenation told me how to fix this problem. Please don't suggest
that I use tcpserver to resove this issue because it introduces larger
problems.

Thank you!

--
John Evans



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Re: Problem with occational duplicate e-mails

[Tim Hunter]

Actually it could be a bit more difficult than just the remote host has sent
it twice. If I remember a thread from a few weeks back this was traced to a
bad cisco firewall option being turned on.

- Original Message -
From: "Henning Brauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "QMAIL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: Problem with occational duplicate e-mails


> On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:36:43PM -0400, chris wrote:
> > Lately several of the virtual domains have been getting duplicate
e-mails.
> > The have leave a copy of message on server but the same e-mail client on
the
> > same machine will download the same message twice. There does not seem
to be
> > any consistency to it at all. The e-mail clients that this has been
> > experienced with are, Eudora 5 for the Mac and Outlook Express 5.5 for
> > Windows and Outlook Express for the Mac.
>
> WDTLS?
>
> (for newbies: What do the logs say?)
> two deliveries or one? in the latter case their pop3 is broken, in the
> former the remote host has sent it twice.
>
> --
> Henning Brauer | BS Web Services
> Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg
> http://www.bsws.de | Germany
>

qmail@id.wustl.edu

[Tim Hunter]

wu-imap does not use the same structure as sqwebmail does for folders.  If
you want to maintain compatability use the courier-imap package from inter7.


- Original Message -
From: "Massimo Quintini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 10:03 AM
Subject: different folder visible from Messenger&Sqwebmail.


> I have a qmail server with server wu-imap (for Maildir) and sqwebmail
> for mail access via web.
>
> my users use the following MUAs:
>
> NetscapeMessenger(with imap protocol)
> Netscape Navigator with sqwebmail
>
> If I create a PERSONAL FOLDER with Sqwebmail, i cannot see that folder
> with Messenger and vice versa;
> (in fact any MUA creates your own folders at different
> locations/directory on the server )
>
> Now, the questions!!!:
>
> 1) Is there the way to see the SAME folders with the 2 MUAs ???
> 2) Is there another sw for webmail "compatible" with
> imap-folder-location ???
>
> Thanks
>
> Excuse me for my bad English
>
> --
> ==
> MASSIMO QUINTINI - Osservatorio Astronomico Collurania Teramo (O.A.C.T.) =
> Via Mentore Maggini s.n.c. - 64100 TERAMO (Italy)=
> Tel:39-0861.210490  Fax:39-0861.210492  http://www.te.astro.it   =
> ==
>
>
>
>

Re: problems with tcpserver

[Tim Hunter]

I have nver had a problem with Mandrake, from 6.1 through the 8.0 beta
releases, its something else.  Sounds like configuration problems.

- Original Message -
From: "Christian Dressend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "todd kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Qmail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 2:33 AM
Subject: RE: problems with tcpserver


> Hi!
>
>
> I am also having troble with tcpserver under Mandrake 7.1, but with kernel
> 2.4.2.
> The mail system works perfectly on the machine, but the system has
> significant latencies when I'm trying to establsh an SMTP commection with
> qmail-pop3d. I have to try serveral times until the connection is made. I
am
> getting a timeout error. The PC's are in a local LAN.
>
> I've had kernel 2.2.15 with the same problem on another installation of
> Mandrake.
>
> Thanks
>
> -Original Message-
> From: todd kennedy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 5 aprilie 2001 08:18
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: problems with tcpserver
>
>
> hi.
>
> i'm trying to get tcpserver installed and running qmail on my machine
(linux
> with a 2.2.18 kernel.  madrake 7.1 to be exact).
>
> I have qmail installed and running (wondeful program might i ad) and I
have
> compiled and installed the tcpserver package, but I cannot, for the life
of
> me, get tcpserver to run qmail for me.
>
> when i try and issue the tcpserver command from the qmail faq it just runs
> for a second and then quits saying it's finished, but there's no instance
of
> qmail running to deliever mail.
>
> any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> thanks.
>
> todd
>
>

Re: How to convert mailbox to maildir !!!!!!!!!

[Tim Hunter]

check www.qmail.org, there are plenty of utils 
there.
 

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 11:32 
  AM
  Subject: How to convert mailbox to 
  maildir !
  
  Dear all,
   
  I am using qmail1.03 with mailbox format, But i 
  want to implement Maildir format now.
  I am allready having nearly 700 pop accounts and 
  their mailbox in their respective home directory.
   
  Is there any way to convert their existing 
  mailbox to Maildir ?
   
  Regards
   
  lokesh

Re: Problems getting qmail to work properly....

[Tim Hunter]

qmail requires a working dns.

if you want more information post logs.
try reading www.lifewithqmail.org

- Original Message -
From: "John Cope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 2:51 PM
Subject: Problems getting qmail to work properly


> Hi,
>
> My name is John and I'm having problems getting Qmail to work properly.
>
> I have currently have Qmail configured to use LDAP to authenticate and
when
> I run local Qmail commands such as (echo to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
> /apps/qmail/bin/qmail-inject) Qmail works fine, but when I try to test
> receiving email through smtp it fails.  I not having any luck getting pop3
> to work as well, any hints or suggestions would be greatly appreciated..
>
> Does Qmail require that DNS be working or can you use the local host
files?
>
> Sorry for the lame questions, but I've talked my company into using Qmail
> and I'm having problems getting it to work.
>
> Please any help would be greatly appreciated..
>
> Thanks in advance!!!  :^)
>
> John
>

RE: Why does POP3 log "inetd ... exit status 1"

[Tim Hunter]

Why are you running with inetd anyway?  It might be something in the way
your logging is setup.
I would make the switch to tcpserver (check out www.lifewithqmail.org for
help)
No one knows the reason for your problem because you haven't given enough
information, you reposted the exact same post.  If we couldn't figgure it
out the first time, we can't figgure it out the second time with the same
info.

My guess would be either your logging is screwed up, or you really do have
imap running but you don't know it.

-Original Message-
From: Milivoj Ivkovic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 4:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Why does POP3 log "inetd ... exit status 1"


Since I had no reply, I try re-posting with a new subject line.

I cannot believe nobody knows the reason of this problem, but the only
reply I got so far was from someone who had the problem but then switched
to courier-imap. There must be a simpler solution, since I don't need IMAP.

>Several people asked this on the list before, but I have not found any
>reply. I hope to have better luck... :-)
>
>Every time the mailbox is checked with POP3, syslog reports:
>
>   Mar  7 15:40:48 net1 inetd[26701]: pid 26937: exit status 1
>
>Other than the annoying message, everything seems fine.
>
>This is what I have in inetd.conf:
>
>pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /opt/qmail/bin/qmail-popup
>net1.alma.ch /opt/qmail/bin/checkpassword /opt/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d
Maildir
>
>(on 1 line of course)
>
>Adding "qmail-popup" before the hostname doesn't solve it. (If I remember
>correctly, it breaks the service)
>
>Changing "pop3" to "pop-3" breaks it as well, with another error I don't
>understand:
>
>   Mar  7 14:41:36 net1 inetd[418]: pop-3/tcp: bind: Address already in use
>
>The system is a redhat 6.2, in case it matters.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Milivoj
>

RE: system-aliases not found

[Tim Hunter]

shouldn't anything in /var/qmail/alias be owned by alias:qmail ?
can alias actually get into /var/qmail/alias/ and read the .qmail-root ?

-Original Message-
From: Jörgen Persson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 4:45 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: system-aliases not found


On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:05:33AM -0800, Eric Pretorious wrote:
[snip]
> I don't understand. The Mailbox file in /home/eric receives messages for
the
> user 'eric'. The system-alias file /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root contains
> 'eric'. Mail messages bound for [EMAIL PROTECTED] should go directly to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Shouldn't they?
[snip]


True

You gave us a snippet from the log earlier:
>/var/log/maillog has the error message "Sorry,_no_mailbox_here... (#5.1.1)"

Was that for root or eric??

Jörgen

RE: username logging

[Tim Hunter]

tcpserver knows nothing about pop3d other than its a program that it calls
to do a job.  You might want to search the archives about adding more
logging information to pop3d itself or your chkpassword program.


-Original Message-
From: Kurth Bemis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 11:20 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: username logging


last week i think that there was a discussion about how to get tcpserver to
log usernames from pop3d.  I can't find the message anywhere.  does anyone
have the information on how to log the usernames with pop3d?

~kurth

RE: POP3 Question????

[Tim Hunter]

Ok, I have to admit I am confused.
The Web Page displays OK for me, minus a graphic.  You might check your ISP
if you cant view the page from your dialup.
But how does this relate to pop3?
Since when does pop3 use http?  or a web browser?  Why is the next step
displaying a web page?



-Original Message-
From: Kirti S. Bajwa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 2:33 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: POP3 Question


I do not know if this is a pop3 problem or some other problem. I am trying
to do a process of elimination to resolve the following problem:

I have RH 6.2 LINUX server with apache 1.3.12, djbdns, qmail, etc installed
on it. I can display my web page (on this server) www.tibonline.net from the
server and another computer which is connected to the Linux server over LAN.

However, I have not been able to display the web www.tibonline.net by a
dial-in. When I dial-in, the connection manager show that the connection is
being made and that UserID/Password are authenticated. But then the page
does not display. Please try connecting to www.tibonline.net and you will
see it by yourself.

I am trying to find out if the pop3 is the culprit. I am running qmail-pop3
as a supervised ( following Tim Hunters advise which was published on this
list 2/3 days ago). The run script for pop3
(/var/qmail/supervised/qmail-pop3/run) looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
export PATH
tcpserver -v -R 0 pop3 qmail-popup mail.tibonline.net \
checkpassword qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1

Since the UID/PW are being authenticated, the above script seems to be
working. But why the next step to display the web page is not working? I
have looked into qmail-pop3 logs and there is no error.


Any thoughts, suggestions???



Kirti

RE: Forwarding to AOL issue

[Tim Hunter]

Check your logs.
If they are delivered then it is AOL's fault; if they are not then the logs
will tell you and why.

-Original Message-
From: Robert Lech [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 12:49 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Forwarding to AOL issue


> I've seen some messages in the archive that seem similar to my problem,
> but I'm not positive.  Unfortuantely we have several clients that use AOL
> and don't want to check a POP account.  When we set up an email account in
> QMail as a forward to an AOL account, It appears that AOL is dropping
> these messages.  They never make it into the AOL account and there is no
> error message coming back.
>
> Can somebody tell me why this is happening and provide me with a solution?
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert Lech
> Corporate Network Professionals, Inc.

RE: How to interpret the Delivered-To: header

[Tim Hunter]

We can understand your reasoning for not posting sensitive information,
however without such information it is VERY tough to decide what exactly is
the problem.  Too much so to cause people to continue trying to help.
If you think that you have to mask your information perhaps you can send us
some information that doesn't need to be edited so that we can look at it
properly.

There is no need to continue this thread unless you are going to post useful
information.

-Original Message-
From: Norbert Bollow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 12:13 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to interpret the Delivered-To: header


If that is the consensus of this list, I'll just go and read the
qmail source and not bother to contribute by posting the answer.
Is this what you want?

-- Norbert.




> Norbert Bollow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > If you want answers, don't hide the evidence that we may need to find
them.
>
> > Well, there are very good reasons for avoiding to publicly
> > post personal data about a subscriber to an infertility support
> > group.
>
> If you cannot publicly post the information, without obscuring or hiding
it,
> then you should hire a paid consultant (there are several listed at
> www.qmail.org) to find and fix your problem.  If you want free help from a
> mailing list, expect to post real, unadulterated information.
>
> > Anyway, if no one can answer the question based on the information which
I
> > have shared (which is very likely all the relevant data) then I can read
the
> > qmail source and find the answer there.
>
> Lots of people here can answer your question.  They're just not going to
even
> bother to try if you arbitrarily replace useful information with
'**CENSORED**'.
>
> Charles
> --
> ---
> Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> GPL'ed software available at:  http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/
> Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions.
> ---
>

RE: POP mail not appearing in a session

[Tim Hunter]

qmail-pop3d will not read mails that have a newer timestamp than the current
time.
make sure your time is synched between the boxes.

-Original Message-
From: Brett Randall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 2:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: POP mail not appearing in a session


Maybe I'm just going crazy, but I am having stupid troubles with
qmail-pop3d.

I've got a server which has an NFS export (exporting /nfs/mail to *,
with rw, no_root_squash). I've got another server which mounts this
NFS share in the same location (/nfs/mail). Both servers are using NIS
and have exactly the same user information on both, and nsswitch.conf
both use nis first when looking for passwd and group.

Both servers start POP3 via:

/usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 pop3  /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \
bigbird.domain.com /usr/local/bin/checkpassword \
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &

Both servers appear to authenticate me without any problems when I
open a POP3 session, but only the one that has the NFS share locally
actually shows any mail. On both servers, I can type 'ls
~brett_remote/Maildir/new' (assuming brett_remote is the username that
is stored remotely but accessed via an NFS share), and I can see all
the new mail. But the POP3 daemon on the remote machine shows that I
have no mail.

For those that are wondering, the `remote' machine is a server located
in another part of the city in another set of offices. We allow
external pop access (ie REALLY external, like when they dial into
another ISP overseas) for all our staff, no matter which offices they
are located in, as long as they point their mail software to one
single POP3 server. This POP server then goes and grabs the mail via
NFS for the user. This is where the trouble is coming in.

Does anybody know why I would be able to access e-mail from the real
server, but not another one mounting it as an NFS share? I've never
had this problem before which is why I think I am going crazy... And
all the permissions are fine. That's not likely to be the problem
since the same NIS maps are on both servers.

TIA!
--
Calvin: I've been thinking, Hobbes
Hobbes: On a weekend?
Calvin: Well, it wasn't on purpose...

RE: supervised pop3d

[Tim Hunter]

It's really not difficult, you need to add a few directories LWQ style:
/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3d
/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3d/log
/var/log/qmail/qmail-pop3d

Add the following files
cat /var/qmail/supervise/qmai
l-pop3d/run
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/home/vpopmail/bin
export PATH

exec tcpserver -v -H -c5 0 pop-3 qmail-popup mail.cimx.com \
   vchkpw qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1 

cat /var/qmail/supervise/qmai
l-pop3d/log/run 
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
export PATH
exec setuidgid qmaill multilog t s20 /var/log/qmail/pop3d


And make the following changes to your init script
  pause)
echo "Pausing qmail-send"
svc -p $supervise_dir/qmail-send
echo "Pausing qmail-smtpd"
svc -p $supervise_dir/qmail-smtpd
echo "Pausing qmail-pop3d"
svc -p $supervise_dir/qmail-pop3d
;;
  cont)
echo "Continuing qmail-send"
svc -c $supervise_dir/qmail-send
echo "Continuing qmail-smtpd"
svc -c $supervise_dir/qmail-smtpd
echo "Continuing qmail-pop3d"
svc -c $supervise_dir/qmail-pop3d
;;
  restart)
echo "Restarting qmail:"
echo "* Stopping qmail-smtpd."
svc -d $supervise_dir/qmail-smtpd
echo "* Sending qmail-send SIGTERM and restarting."
svc -t $supervise_dir/qmail-send
echo "* Restarting qmail-smtpd."
svc -u $supervise_dir/qmail-smtpd
echo "* Restarting qmail-pop3d."
svc -u $supervise_dir/qmail-pop3d
;;

-Original Message-
From: Todd A. Jacobs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 5:59 PM
To: qmail list
Subject: supervised pop3d


Does anyone have an example of calling pop3d from the supervise startup
script (/etc/init.d/qmail) from LWQ? I'd really like to run it supervised,
if possible.

-- 
Todd A. Jacobs
CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

RE: logrotation

[Tim Hunter]

man logrotate
or try google.com

this a sysadmin question and nothing to do with qmail

-Original Message-
From: Qmaillist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 2:24 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: logrotation


Hello.
My logs are saved in var/log/maillog

But they are rotated in a way I do not understand.
Could someone tell me the way they are?

Thanks in advance

RE: Error 554 from hotmail

[Tim Hunter]

I _think_ this is hotmails way of telling you the message size exceeds the
mailbox size.

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 1:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Error 554 from hotmail


Here's a sample of the 554 error

delivery 7295: failure:
64.4.49.7_failed_after_I_sent_the_message./Remote_host_said:_554_Transaction
_failed/

Rgds
Ronnie

-Original Message-
From: Andy Bradford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 1:59 PM
To: Thum Chee Weng, Ronnie
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Error 554 from hotmail


Thus said [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 09 Mar 2001 13:55:22 +0800:

> I've got 800+ error 554 form hotmail out of 1000+ email sent to valid
hotmail.com accounts.
> Can anyone explain what's the problem - Hotmail or qmail or network
problem?

Why don't you post a copy of one of the errors?

Andy
--
[---[system uptime]]
 10:58pm  up 22 days, 23:01,  7 users,  load average: 1.14, 1.17, 1.11



This email had been checked by Asiatravelmart.com's Virus Scanner.
Please email any questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: letter rip pro and qmail

[Tim Hunter]

Not familer with the software but it sounds like it might be the bare line
feeds issue.
There is info in the archives and I think on qmail.org on how to work around
this without fixing the software.

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 12:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: letter rip pro and qmail


Has anyone on the list had any problems getting qmail to accept mail
deliveries from someone using letter rip pro?  I have a user who is using
letter rip, but his session is "unexpectedly closed" every time when trying
to send mail to my server.  The domain he is trying to send to is hosted on
my mail machine, and has no problems receiving mail from any other source.
Any ideas?

Brendan

Re: tcpserver for pop3 and telnet

[Tim Hunter]

FYI
I have a LWQ type pop3 install and have passed on the info to quite a few
people, so I know it works.  If anyone is looking for that kind of solution,
just let me know and I will pass my information on again.
Dave if you need any info on my install (doubtful) let me know as I would
love the opportunity to pass knowledge back to LWQ.

-- Tim
- Original Message -
From: "Dave Sill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: tcpserver for pop3 and telnet


> Peter Cavender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >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?
>
> Ideally, yes.
>
> >Why do the other qmail processes get this, but pop3 does not?
>
> Because the POP3 section of LWQ doesn't assume that everyone reading
> it installed qmail using the LWQ directions--and I've been too lazy to
> add a blurb with LWQ-specific POP3 installation instructions.
>
> >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?
>
> Yep. It doesn't do anything tcpserver can't do.
>
> >Also, since my inetd.conf file is now *empty*, can I disable it
> >altogether, or or will I lose essential internal services?
>
> Sure, nuke it.
>
> -Dave
>

Re: Mail Doesn't go in /var/spool/mail

[Tim Hunter]

This is in the docs.

- Original Message -
From: "Kashan Sadiq" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 4:13 AM
Subject: Mail Doesn't go in /var/spool/mail


Dear All,

I have installed qmail succefully on RH 7.0. it successfully rceievs
messages
and save it in ~user/Mbox. I wan to change it to /var/spool/mail. For this
pupose I used binm2 file as rc. But still it does'nt work and don't send
mail
to /var/spool/mail as well as in Mbox.

Now anybody can help me to configure it in a way that it can send mail to
/var/spool/mail.

Kashan




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Re: New Patch for Latest UW IMAP server

[Tim Hunter]

What problems do you have using Courier with Eudora?  I use it daily with
zero problems.

- Original Message -
From: "Herbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Qmail Users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 2:41 AM
Subject: New Patch for Latest UW IMAP server


> Hi,
> I have modified all the patches David Harris had to create an
> uber-patch for the latest UW IMAP server.
>
> This means you can have a secure IMAP and POP server that does only
> Maildirs, without some of the problems I have been experiencing using
> Courier with clients like Eudora.
>
> link is http://www.greboguru.org/qmail/
>
> Cheers
>
> Herbie
>
>

RE: vmailmgr VS. vpopmail

[Tim Hunter]

FYI with newer versions of vpopmail you can have one unix user per domain.

-Original Message-
From: Olivier M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 1:45 PM
To: Federico Edelman Anaya
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: vmailmgr VS. vpopmail


Hi Federico,

On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 03:00:05PM +, Federico Edelman Anaya wrote:
> Hi! .. I have a simple question :) 
> What's the best soft to admin mult-domains?
> What's differences between vmailmgr and vpopmail?

There are no "best soft" : both are different philisophy of work.

If you take vpopmail, you will have all the mails under _one_ unix
user account.

With vmailmgr, you will have one unix user for each domain. This is
the solution I'm using on my housing servers, with omail-admin
(url below) :)

Both have quite active mailing list for support.

Regards,
Olivier
-- 
_
 Olivier Mueller - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - PGPkeyID: 0E84D2EA - Switzerland
qmail projects: http://omail.omnis.ch  -  http://webmail.omnis.ch

RE: vmailmgr VS. vpopmail

[Tim Hunter]

check the archives.
This might be a simple question but not a simple answer.
This gets asked at least once a month.

-Original Message-
From: root [mailto:root]On Behalf Of Federico Edelman Anaya
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 10:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: vmailmgr VS. vpopmail


Hi! .. I have a simple question :) 

What's the best soft to admin mult-domains?

What's differences between vmailmgr and vpopmail?

Thanks!

RE: forwarding only certain mail to a domain

[Tim Hunter]

let me steal from another post by pawel garbowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

>From qmail-queue.patch:

Appended is a patch to qmail-1.03 that causes any program that would run
qmail-queue to look for an environment variable QMAILQUEUE.  If it is
present, it is used in place of the string "bin/qmail-queue" when
running qmail-queue.  This could be used, for example, to add a program
into the qmail-smtpd->qmail-queue pipeline that could do filtering,
rewrite broken headers, etc. (this is my planned usage for it).

You should look at qmail-qfilter.patch too

URLs:

http://em.ca/~bruceg/qmail-qfilter/
http://www.qmail.org/qmailqueue-patch



-Original Message-
From: ehjones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 12:33 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: forwarding only certain mail to a domain


On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Laurence Brockman wrote:
> echo "cais.com:corp.mail.server" >> /var/qmail/control/smtproutes
> kill -HUP qmail-send-process
>
> In future, try the Life With Qmail site (www.lifewithqmail.org), it has
lots
> of goodies :)

Okay. I checked into smtproutes. From what I can understand, this will
relay all mail going to cais.com to the corp server. This is almost what I
need - for some silly reason, my predecessors decided that there are two
types of accounts (more or less): Ones that have dots in them, and ones
that do not. So I actually need to be able to seperate out the ones that
look like [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the ones that look like
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yeah, I know. I'd think that they'd give out different
email addresses, but for some reason they didn't. I think it's a MIS
thing.

Thanks for the url, too. Any information I can find helps. I've already
gotten some ideas on how to duplicate other things our mail system does
from it.

Eric

Re: aliasing to a command

[Tim Hunter]

I am guessing the contents of .qmail-test are currently |/tmp/foo
the | causes it to be treated wrong.
just try /tmp/foo/ if you want it delivered into the /tmp/foo/ directory

- Original Message -
From: "Medi Montaseri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Dave Sill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: aliasing to a command


> Just in case others don't have the context of this posting, we are
> troubleshooting
> a Qmail (.qmail-test) alias containing a command (ie /home/medi/l/foo)
>
> [medi@samba medi]$ ls -ld / /home /home/medi /home/medi/l /home/medi/l/foo
> drwxr-xr-x   23 root root 4096 Dec 13 13:59 /
> drwxr-xr-x   39 root root 4096 Feb  7 12:35 /home
> drwx--   10 medi users4096 Feb 13 18:30 /home/medi
> drwxr-xr-x2 medi users4096 Feb 13 18:50 /home/medi/l
> -rwxr-xr-x1 medi users  94 Feb 13 18:40 /home/medi/l/foo
> [medi@samba medi]$
>
> Since medi's home dir is too strict, I moved foo(1) to /tmp/foo. I now get
> the following
>
> Feb 14 13:10:09 samba qmail: 982185009.542210 starting delivery 12197: msg
> 204880 to local "|/tmp/foo"@mail.sc.prepass.com
> Feb 14 13:10:09 samba qmail: 982185009.542837 status: local 2/10 remote
> 0/20
> Feb 14 13:10:09 samba qmail: 982185009.542963 delivery 12196: success:
> did_0+1+0/qp_12418/
> Feb 14 13:10:09 samba qmail: 982185009.543151 status: local 1/10 remote
> 0/20
> Feb 14 13:10:09 samba qmail: 982185009.543297 end msg 204872
> Feb 14 13:10:09 samba qmail: 982185009.549566 delivery 12197: failure:
> Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/
>
> So looks like qmail is not recognizing the command and thinking its a
> user's name.
> FYI I don't have any user called "test", such an alias
> /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-test
>
> Dave Sill wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > >Feb 13 18:54:21 samba qmail: 982119261.837833 delivery 11917: deferral:
> > >/bin/sh:_/home/medi/l/foo:_Permission_denied/
> >
> > What is the output of:
> >
> >   ls -ld / /home /home/medi /home/medi/l /home/medi/l/foo
> >
> > (ls really needs a "recursively upward" option.)
> >
> > -Dave
>
> --
> ===
> Medi Montaseri, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 408-450-7114
> Prepass Inc, IT/Operations, Software Eng.
> ===
>
>
>
>

RE: Anna Kournikova ~ VBS.SST@MM ~ Please Help...

[Tim Hunter]

It would be best to look at www.qmail.org first before asking but...*sigh*

take a look at the qmail scanner packages there or for a more lightwieght
version get qmail-qfilter by Bruce Guenter.

-Original Message-
From: Jesse Sunday [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 4:47 PM
To: Qmail mailing list
Subject: Anna Kournikova ~ VBS.SST@MM ~ Please Help...




I've already asked, but no one has responded, so I'll ask again...
Please help...


I just cleared the queue of a lot of mails spawned by the 'virus'  ~  If
anyone can point me to how to filter certain types of  attachments I would
really appreciate it...


Our system was hit earlier today (thankfully few users run Outlook) and I am
trying to curb any future outbreaks...

Here's info if you haven't heard about it...

http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sendmail migration

[Tim Hunter]

FYI the vpopmail package supports multiple UID accounts now so you can have
an entire virtual domain as a seperate user.

- Original Message -
From: "Charles Cazabon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: sendmail migration


> Jason Radford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I've spent some time looking over the qmail documenation and want to
migrate
> > from sendmail because of it's lackluster virtual domain support.
>
> You won't regret the switch.  By the way, www.qmail.org has numerous
pointers
> to information about all the things you mention here.
>
> There are two main packages that do what you want:  vmailmgr, by Bruce
> Guenter, and vpopmail.
>
> > The things I would like to do are:
> >
> > 1. Have email/pop accounts without adding system users (/etc/passwd)
>
> Both packages support this.
>
> > 2. Have clear seperation of the virual domains, with domain1 having a
> > seperate directory with it's /var/spool/mail equivelent.  So that mail
would
> > be delivered to /domain1-com/jradford and another would be
> > /domain2-com/jradford
>
> vpopmail handles all virtual domains under one system account.  Not sure
how
> it separates them in the filesystem, as I don't use it.  vmailmgr uses one
> system account per virtual domain, and all users for that domain are
stored
> under that account's home directory.
>
> > 3. Users getting their pop mail could use a username of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > and other use [EMAIL PROTECTED] to login for their pop3 services and
the
> > qmail pop3 daemon would know to go to the right /domain directory to
retrieve
> > their email based on the username/domain combination.
>
> They both support this.  Note, however, that your clients may have to
replace
> the '@' with another character in their mail client, as some clients
silently
> truncate a POP3 username at the first '@'.  vmailmgr lets you choose your
> own character; IIRC ':' and '%' are common choices.  vmailmgr also
supports
> an invisible method of determing what virtual domain a user account
belongs
> to, if you can have multiple IP addresses on the machine.
>
> Check vmailmgr.org, qmail.org for more details, and look in the qmail
mailing
> list archives.
>
> Charles
> --
> ---
> Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> GPL'ed software available at:  http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/
> Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions.
> ---
>

Re: SMTP-after-POP3 AUTH

[Tim Hunter]

Some users do not understand how to setup their machines to use seperate
smtp servers depending on how they connect.
I can relate with traveling sales and support people.
Really though Bruce's package is the best, and you should be using tcpserver
anyway.

- Original Message -
From: "Peter Cavender" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Bruce Dang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 9:15 PM
Subject: 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: a question

[Tim Hunter]

Look at those lines that start with tcpserver (thats the program you are
actually running) tcpserver runs the qmail processes.
Looks for the process as you have a port 25 or 110 session open and you will
see.


-Original Message-
From: Yavuz Maslak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 10:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Kurth Bemis
Subject: Re: a question


yes I can telnet ports 25 and 110 on the machine

but I can't see some daemons which qmail-smtpd,qmail-pop3d, etc, when I type
as "ps aux | grep qmail"
- Original Message -
From: "Kurth Bemis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Yavuz Maþlak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: a question


> At 10:08 AM 2/9/2001, =?iso-8859-9?Q?Yavuz_Ma=FElak?= wrote:
>
> well i see that your running tcpserver - and the line seem to be
> trundacated so its hard to tell what's running.  however you included your
> start up scripts so that helps a lot. :-)
>
> did you try telneting to ports 25 and 110 on the machine.  those are the
> standard smtp and pop3 ports.  try typing ps -aux for a more detailed
report.
>
> ~kurth
>
> >I use Freebsd4.2 and I have installed qmail-1.03
> >
> >I ' ve installed daemontools-0.70 , checkpassword-0.90, ucspi-tcp-0.88
> >
> >when I type "top" I see as following;
> >
> >root 152  3.7  0.5   852  440 con- S 4:17PM   1:38.41
> >/usr/local/bin/supervise /service/qmail
> >qmaild   153  0.0  0.6   892  540 con- I 4:17PM   0:00.01
> >/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.
> >root 154  0.0  0.3   860  312 con- I 4:17PM   0:00.00
> >/var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3
> >root 155  0.0  0.5   876  416 con- I 4:17PM   0:00.01
> >/usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qm
> >qmaill 52761  0.0  0.5   872  504  ??  R 4:47PM   0:00.01 splogger
qmail
> >qmailq 52764  0.0  0.5   852  416  ??  R 4:47PM   0:00.00 qmail-clean
> >root   52766  0.0  0.4   840  356  ??  R 4:47PM   0:00.00 qmail-start
> >./Maildir/ splogger qmail
> >root   52767  0.0  0.1   228  112  ??  R 4:47PM   0:00.00
qmail-lspawn
> >./Maildir/
> >qmailr 52768  0.0  0.1   260  132  ??  R 4:47PM   0:00.00
qmail-rspawn
> >qmailq 52769  0.0  0.1   220  104  ??  R 4:47PM   0:00.00 qmail-clean
> >qmails 52770  0.0  0.4   892  372  ??  R 4:47PM   0:00.01 qmail-send
> >root   52771  0.0  0.4   840  356  ??  R 4:47PM   0:00.00 qmail-start
> >./Maildir/ splogger qmail
> >root   52772  0.0  0.4   840  356  ??  R 4:47PM   0:00.00 qmail-start
> >./Maildir/ splogger qmail
> >root   52773  0.0  0.4   840  356  ??  R 4:47PM   0:00.00 qmail-start
> >./Maildir/ splogger qmail
> >root   52774  0.0  0.4   840  356  ??  R 4:47PM   0:00.00 qmail-start
> >./Maildir/ splogger qmail
> >
> >and I typed bootscripts in qmail.sh as following;
> >
> >###qmail
> >sh -cf '/usr/local/bin/supervise /service/qmail &'
> >
> >###smtpd
> >/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 82 -g 81 0 smtp \
> >/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 &
> >
> >pop3d
> >/usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup trial.qwe.com \
> >/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &
> >
> >
> >but I couldn't see qmail-smtpd , qmail-pop3d and qmail-remote services
> >
> >What shoul I do ?
>
>

RE: anybody know howto make 3 virtual domain in the one machineSNIP

[Tim Hunter]

You obviously have not read the full docs, since with vpopmail you can only
use the username to login for different domains as long as you have proper
dns records, with reverselookup working properly.

You probably want to move this discussion to the vpopmail list as this is
out of the scope with stock qmail.

-Original Message-
From: dick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 1:46 AM
To: Greg White; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: anybody know howto make 3 virtual domain in the one
machineSNIP


thanks your answer,but i mean the username is dick not [EMAIL PROTECTED]
maybe there no such solution?
maybe all the virtualmail user must use the fullmailname.


- Original Message -
From: Greg White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: dick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: anybody know howto make 3 virtual domain in the one machineSNIP


> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:15:05AM +0800, dick wrote:
> > any suggestion is welcome.
>
> Suggestion -- putting your question in the subject line, unless your
> question is ten words or less, is a very bad idea at all times, and is
> not really a good idea at any time.
>
> Suggestion -- Read all the documentation available at:
>
> http://www.inter7.com/qmail/index.html
>
> for vpopmail -- I am positive your question is answered there.
>
> I replied off list intentionally, as it's generally considered to be
> incredibly bad form to post with a subject line as long as yours, and
> considered that you deserved a private warning before the on-list
> flame-fest begins.
>
> --
> Greg White
> Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent
> revolution inevitable.
> -- John F. Kennedy
>

RE: Qmail won't deliver locally.

[Tim Hunter]

You must have a misconfiguration, please show the (unedited) output of
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-showctl

-Original Message-
From: Ryan Marsh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 3:44 PM
To: Peter Farmer; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Qmail won't deliver locally.


I have other users on the sytem. Mail sent to them bounces too. What's the
simplest way to configure delivery from outside (SMTP) to a local user?

Regards,
-ryan

The three great virtues of programming are laziness, impatience, and hubris,
but bigotry makes the open-source world go round.
- Original Message -
From: Peter Farmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 2:10 AM
Subject: Re: Qmail won't deliver locally.


> Ryan,
>
> Read INSTALL.alias, inparticular the section that starts
>
> * root. Under qmail, root never receives mail.
>
> HTH
>
>
> Peter
>
> Peter Farmer
> Systems Engineer
> blueyonder
> ICQ - 55297879
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Ryan Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 9:47 AM
> Subject: Qmail won't deliver locally.
>
>
> > I've been fsking with qmail for a week now trying to get it to deliver
> > locally. I've read every piece of documentation available, yet, when I
> > use qmail-inject or qmail-local. Nothing shows up in the user's
> > mailboxes (i.e. /root/Mailbox). When I send email by telneting to port
> > 25 on the mail server, mail just bounces:
> >
> > Hi. This is the qmail-send program at deathstar.ryanmarsh.com.
> > I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
> > addresses.
> > This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
> >
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
> >
> > --- Below this line is a copy of the message.
> >
> > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Received: (qmail 9454 invoked from
> > network); 2 Feb 2001 01:44:34 -
> > Received: from cpe-24-221-171-149.ca.sprintbbd.net (HELO )
> > ([EMAIL PROTECTED])  by cpe-24-221-171-149.ca.sprintbbd.net with SMTP;
> > 2 Feb 2001 01:44:34
> > -
> > test
> >
> >
> > My /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery says:
> > ./Mailbox splogger qmail
> >
> > None of the users have .qmail files in their directories so
> > theoretically it should just create a ~/Mailbox.  I tried creating
> > .qmail's for each user. That didn't work either.
> >
> > Right now these are running
> >  9428 ?00:00:00 qmail-send
> >  9431 ?00:00:00 qmail-lspawn
> >  9432 ?00:00:00 qmail-rspawn
> >  9433 ?00:00:00 qmail-clean
> >
> > Attached is the output of qmail-showctl.
> >
> > Butterflysoft.org has already been moved over to this server.
> > Ryanmarsh.com is really pointing to a different server but in this
> > instance im running my own DNS which resolves to my server (where I will
> > eventually move my domain if I can get qmail to work). I tried emailing
> > users at both domains and root at both domains.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > -ryan
> >
> > The three great virtues of programming are laziness, impatience,
> > and hubris, but bigotry makes the open-source world go round.
> >

RE: in qmail

[Tim Hunter]

Easiest way is to add a .qmail-user file with an additional delivery
instruction

Remotely
in .qmail-user:
&[EMAIL PROTECTED]
./Maildir/

Locally
in .qmail-user
/home/otheruser/Maildir/
./Maildir/

-Original Message-
From: Jeff Krintila [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 1:43 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Cc: in qmail


I've had a request to see if our qmail system can accommodate the following:

The customer wants to have his individual accounts receive mails addressed
to them, but in addition, he would like to have a copy of mail for specific
accounts cc'd to a "central repository" mail account.

Anyone done this? Can qmail handle this? If so, how-to would be greatly
appreciated!

Thanks in advance,

J

RE: slow connection init

[Tim Hunter]

My experienced guess would this would be DNS related, perhaps you should
look into running djbdns locally or close to the Mail server.


-Original Message-
From: Steve Woolley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 12:38 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: slow connection init


I am running a Red Hat v6.2 (w/ patches) server
on a AMD Athlon 800MHz with 256M RAM -- and have
been fairly pleased with its performance.
The problem is I want to migrate my existing RH 6.2
qmail mail server (a slower Pentium II).
The problem is, when first started the server
flys (very fast). After aprox one day, any
connection into this server (sshd, telnet , pop,
smtp, etc) takes a while to initiate. Sometimes
more than 60 seconds -- which of course times out
most POP connections. Once connected, everything seems to
act normal (connections initiated quickly).
I have looked into the logs and looked at netsat -pa
to get some insight into this slowdown, but have not
had very good luck. I know this is probably not
directly related to qmail, but I am a little woried
about the svscan process and how quickly it can wake
up a process.
P.S> I can see the correct processes running when I get
in this process initiation hang so I don't think they've
died. Could it be some reverse name resolution problem?

HELP!?!?!?!

--
Steve Woolley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Addon

[Tim Hunter]

Check the list archives.
This same question has be asked in one form or another nearly every month.
Search on footer.  It might also have a link on the www.qmail.org page.

-Original Message-
From: Steve Crowder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 5:57 AM
To: qmail
Subject: Addon


Hi

I've been scouring documentation to find an answer but to no avail. Perhaps
someone can point me to the right place to help me with the following:

Currently running qmail 1.03 on FreeBSD 4.1, I would like to add an extra
item of text to every email that is sent from all our users when they mail
externally to our domain.

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks

Steve
--
Steve Crowder
Systems Support Engineer

email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: qmail-pop3d weired problem with NFS

[Tim Hunter]

Make sure your dates are synched between your NFS server and your mail
server.

- Original Message -
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 2:52 AM
Subject: qmail-pop3d weired problem with NFS


>
>
>hello friends
>
>i have installed the qmail-1.03 with ldap patch 2000601  , every thing
> is working fine except the pop3 the problems is very weired as well as
> intresting , thing is that when i am defining users homedirectory on nfs
> mounted file system qmail is delivering mail to users Maildir under his
> homedirectory , but pop3 is not able to read
> those mails from maildir and "stat" always gives "0 0" ,
>   we r using netapps filler as out mailstore
>
>
>
> thanks in advance
> prashant desai
>
>
>
>
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>
>

Re: same UID with a lot of email

[Tim Hunter]

I dont understand why it shouldn't have the same UID...
what am I missing?

- Original Message -
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 8:56 PM
Subject: same UID with a lot of email


>   i telnet to imap, and list all the email in my Inbox i found that most
of the email is same UID, how to solve it?
>
> Nick
> --
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RE: thoughts for future qmail

[Tim Hunter]

Does this mean that list.cr.yp.to is able to send/receive by QMTP, or is it
planning on it?
It would be nice to see this list move even faster, well not that its slow
right now...


-Original Message-
From: Russell Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 1:42 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: thoughts for future qmail


Johan Almqvist writes:
 > On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 09:16:14AM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote:
 > > If I can get twenty people to implement it, AND insert an MX record
 > > for their qmtpd with one of the following priorities, then I'll commit
 > > to implementing a qmail-remote that also talks QMTP.
 >
 > Okay, and when can we have it?

http://qmail.org/qmail-1.03-qmtpc.patch

qmtp seems to be about twice as fast as smtp in terms of the amount of
time a message spends sitting in the queue.

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Re: qmail pop3d

[Tim Hunter]

Best suggestion give http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ a 
good read.

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Boz 
  Crowther 
  To: Qmail@List. Cr. Yp. To 
  Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 5:40 
  PM
  Subject: qmail pop3d
  
  Where do I put the startup commands for qmail 
  pop3d?  All the HOWTOs, which are excellent on all other aspects, just 
  say, oh stick in a line that says:
   
  tcpserver 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup 
  YOURHOST \   /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d 
  Maildir &
  I've tried putting in in /var/qmail/rc, 
  /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run and running it from a command line, but 
  the only one that works is the third option (which is obviously 
  unsatisfactory).
   
  I realize this is a pretty newbie question, and 
  thank you in advance for your help.
   
   

RE: MX records

[Tim Hunter]

It makes it easier to troubleshoot DNS issues if you do not mask the domain
names.
Thanks.

-Original Message-
From: Leitha Long [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 3:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: MX records


Hello all,
I'm a newbie so please bear with me.   I set up qmail (newest version) on a
box running Linux Mandrake kernal 2.213 and have it set up to accept, (I
believe) from both xyz.com and xyy.com.  I had two different providers
change the mx records to point to us.  The first domain works like I believe
it should sending and recieving mail via pop using checkpassword at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] but the second domain just changed thursday only works reliably
when I send to [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Is this a setting that I have set up
wrong or is it a mx record issue?  [EMAIL PROTECTED] does work when sent through
qwest servers?!  So I'm a bit confused when excite or say ivillage bounce
the message from the providers mail servers when sending mail from them.
Has the mx records just not updated yet on these servers?  Any advice would
be welcome.  Here is my control files

defaultdomain
xyy.com
xyz.com

locals
xyy.com
mail.xyy.com
xyz.com
mail.xyz.com

me
mail.xyy.com

plus domain
xyy.com

rcpthosts
mail.xyy.com
xyy.com
mail.xyz.com
xyz.com

I know that some of this might not be necessary, so any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Leitha Long





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RE: urgent bouncesaying not working

[Tim Hunter]

What do the logs say?

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 6:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: urgent bouncesaying not working




  hello friends 


i have created ~alias/.qmail-prashant file , file contents are 
|bouncesaying "please, try [EMAIL PROTECTED]"

  file permissions  644 then alos tried with 755 even 777 not working 

 i have also inserted space between  "|" and word "bouncesaying"
 as my qmail home is /var/qmail  bouncesaying binaries is under 
/var/qmail/bin  so i have also tried 


| /var/qmail/bin/bouncesaying  "some text message" 


 but nothing seems to be working i have spent around a day and half to make
it working , but its not working ,

 someone please point me what mistake i have done , and whats the exact
syntaxt of .qmail-prashant (for bounce saying ) , like whether i should
specify absolute path of bouncesaying binaries etc things 


with warmest regards
Prashant Desai  

RE: mail dissappearing

[Tim Hunter]

What is your default 
delivery method?  or the contents of the users you are receiving mail 
from?
It is being 
delivered successfully according to your default delivery methods, whatever they 
may be.
 

  -Original Message-From: I. Herman 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 1:22 
  PMTo: QmailSubject: mail 
  dissappearing
  I got all 
  this...but where is the mail going?  It didn't show up in any directories 
  I have.  Does this piece of the log below show it's working?  I can 
  mail out of qmail no prob...just when it comes in i get 
  probs..
   
  @40003a4cd3a901fbf134 starting delivery 8: 
  msg 403449 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]@40003a4cd3a901fc145c status: local 2/10 remote 
  0/20@40003a4cd3a90f42e604 delivery 8: success: 
  did_1+0+0/@40003a4cd3a90f43286c status: local 1/10 remote 
  0/20@40003a4cd3a9141067ec new msg 403450@40003a4cd3a91410d54c 
  info msg 403450: bytes 1692 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 11286 
  uid 503@40003a4cd3a9167f21e4 starting delivery 9: msg 403450 to local 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]@40003a4cd3a9167f6834 status: local 2/10 remote 
  0/20@40003a4cd3a9167f838c delivery 7: success: 
  did_0+1+0/qp_11286/@40003a4cd3a9167fa2cc status: local 1/10 remote 
  0/20@40003a4cd3a9167fbe24 end msg 403449@40003a4cd3a919022efc 
  delivery 9: success: did_1+0+0/@40003a4cd3a919027164 status: local 
  0/10 remote 0/20@40003a4cd3a91981abb4 end msg 
  403450@40003a4cd4732f256b7c status: 
  exiting@40003a4cd47718f5b3ac status: local 0/10 remote 
  0/20@40003a4cd47e2a778754 status: exiting@40003a4cd47e32aaf474 
  status: local 0/10 remote 
  0/20   
  

RE: even stranger

[Tim Hunter]

What is your default 
delivery method?
Also is there a 
.qmail file for the user [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apparently either 
your default delivery method or this users .qmail file has errors in 
it.

  -Original Message-From: I. Herman 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 12:11 
  PMTo: QmailSubject: even stranger
  OK..no longer 
  getting the control/locals error.  When i send a test email to the dummy 
  test user ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) i don't get 
  an mail-daemon message back, but no mail shows up anywhere.  Here's part 
  of the log from /var/qmail/log:
   
  @40003a4c99bb144389c4 starting delivery 1: msg 403451 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]@40003a4c99bb14467bac 
  status: local 1/10 remote 0/20@40003a4c99bb14a39b84 starting delivery 
  2: msg 403455 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]@40003a4c99bb14a6b864 
  status: local 2/10 remote 0/20@40003a4c99bb18dbb754 delivery 1: 
  deferral: 
  /bin/sh:_dot-forward:_command_not_found/@40003a4c99bb18deb10c status: 
  local 1/10 remote 0/20@40003a4c99bb199e384c delivery 2: deferral: 
  /bin/sh:_dot-forward:_command_not_found/@40003a4c99bb19a0d444 status: 
  local 0/10 remote 0/20@40003a4c99c00093a2ec status: 
  exiting@40003a4c9a3b0eec1f2c status: local 0/10 remote 
  0/20@40003a4c9a420444a4cc status: exiting@40003a4c9a450828cc6c 
  status: local 0/10 remote 0/20@40003a4c9a9003bf09ac status: local 0/10 
  remote 0/20 
   
  What's this 
  dot-forward thing?  Am I supposed to have it?
   

RE: supervise

[Tim Hunter]

I assume you 
followed the directions in LWQ, check your steps again, as you probably missed 
something.
When do you get this 
message?
 

  -Original Message-From: I. Herman 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 11:15 
  AMTo: Tim HunterCc: QmailSubject: RE: 
  supervise
  Here's the error 
  messages I'm getting.
   
  supervise: fatal: 
  unable to acquire qmail-send/supervise/lock: temporary failuresupervise: 
  fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary failuresupervise: 
  fatal: unable to acquire qmail-smtpd/supervise/lock: temporary failure 
  
  
-Original Message-----From: Tim Hunter 
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 10:47 
AMTo: QmailSubject: RE: supervise
Supervise is 
designed to "superivse" a program and keep it running if it dies for any 
reason.
I seriously 
doubt that supervise is the root of your problems.
Perhaps you can 
post to the list the troubles you are having, along with relevant 
logs and we can help you work through them.

  -Original Message-From: I. Herman 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 8:02 
  AMTo: QmailSubject: supervise
  since most of 
  my problems are with supervise, is there a way I can disable that?  
  and if so..how do i do 
it?

RE: supervise

[Tim Hunter]

Supervise is 
designed to "superivse" a program and keep it running if it dies for any 
reason.
I seriously doubt 
that supervise is the root of your problems.
Perhaps you can post 
to the list the troubles you are having, along with relevant logs and we 
can help you work through them.

  -Original Message-From: I. Herman 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 8:02 
  AMTo: QmailSubject: supervise
  since most of my 
  problems are with supervise, is there a way I can disable that?  and if 
  so..how do i do it?

RE: Qmail local question

[Tim Hunter]

This is a better question for the vpopmail list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

-Original Message-
From: eddy [mailto:eddy]On Behalf Of Eddy Fafard
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 6:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Qmail local question


Qmail with  Vpopmail


We are currently transitining  from Sendmail to Qmail for our main mail
server.
So we have some users on this new server, and the rest on the old
server. Our relays
point to the old server and aliases directs qmail users mail to the
Qmail server.

Problem is: when Qmail users send mail to users on the old servers it
trys to deliver
it locally and when the user and dumps it in postmaster mailbox. All
worked fine as of yesterday but now
it does not work. The domain is not in /var/qmail/locals and my mx
records look fine.
Any ideas ?

Here is the error from the maillog, user is not in the qmail server but
try to delive it anyway ..



Dec 21 15:14:52 mail-1 qmail: 977440492.682140 starting delivery 6: msg
3244038 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dec 21 15:14:52 mail-1 qmail: 977440492.682279 status: local 1/10 remote
0/20
Dec 21 15:14:52 mail-1 tcpserver: 977440492.699820 tcpserver: end 1892
status 0
Dec 21 15:14:52 mail-1 tcpserver: 977440492.700093 tcpserver: status:
0/20
Dec 21 15:14:52 mail-1 qmail: 977440492.700794 delivery 6: success:
POP_user_does_not_exist,_but_will_deliver_to_/var/vpopmail/domains/iescrow.c
om/postmaster/

RE: Qmail & Web

[Tim Hunter]

Lots of em, try looking on freshmeat.net.

sqwebmail and the IMP are most common I would think.

-Original Message-
From: Jean Caron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 1:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Qmail & Web


Hi folks,

This may or may not belong here, but hopefully someone's done this before.

Is there something out there to provide secure web access to mailboxes,
which works well with Qmail ?

Any pointers will be appreciated.
Jean

Re: Trailing Spaces?

[Tim Hunter]

Check the archives, I seem to remember something about fixrcio or some tool
named similar to fixup broken windows messages before they hit qmail-smtpd

- Original Message -
From: "Adam Fladwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 7:36 PM
Subject: RE: Trailing Spaces?


> Do you (or anyone else) have any idea how I would go about making this
> modification?  There are hundreds of messages being rejected because of
it,
> and some users arn't happy about my suggestion to upgrade to a new client.
>
> If I can't get this solved I might have to go back to sendmail for a
while.
> :(
>
> I would imagine a fix couldn't be that hard, but I don't know much about C
> at all.
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Markus Stumpf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 10:21 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Trailing Spaces?
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 08:28:28AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> > Please explain a little more clearly.  What trailing spaces?  What
> rejected
> > mail?  Are you referring perhaps to the bare linefeed problem?
>
> I see this occasionally. The problem ist that some idiotic mailprograms
> don't remove " " or even a "\n" at the end of an email address.
> (The "\n" probably happens when the user inputs the address in a
> GUI window and "incorrectly" presses ).
>
> These emails are seen by qmail-smtpd as
>RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
> or
>MAIL FROM: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
> and rejected.
>
> And to answer the question:
> - no, I don't know of any patch, but it shouldn't be hard to modify
>   qmail-smtpd if you really think you have to.
> - I personally wouldn't do it. The client is broken.
>
> \Maex
>
> --
> SpaceNet AG   |   http://www.Space.Net/   | Stress is when you
> wake
> Research & Development| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | up screaming and
you
> Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 |  Tel: +49 (89) 32356-0| realize you
haven't
> D-80807 Muenchen  |  Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299  | fallen asleep yet.
>
> Adam
>
>
>

Help to solve DNS

[Tim Hunter]

I have a bunch of my mail stuck in the queue to vickers-systems.com

I am 95% sure its an error on their end, but I don't want to contact them
until I am 100% sure.

Can anyone help me out to solve why I cannot send mail to them?

Thanks,
Tim Hunter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SysAdmin -- CIMx
http://www.cimx.com

RE: ?

[Tim Hunter]

How about some relevant logs and examples.

-Original Message-
From: richard morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 9:49 AM
To: qmail help
Subject: ?



Hi,

I'm seem to be having a local delivery problem, yet external mail? The
server accepts mail but
does not deliver?

Thanks,

Richard.

RE: qmail's problem

[Tim Hunter]

This depends on how you installed qmail, commonly this is
/var/log/qmail/current (if using LWQ and daemontools)
or /var/log/mail* if using syslog.

Also back to your original message, can you receive any mail for domain.com
from the internet?
If you posted your real hostnames we can verify if this a DNS issue as it
looks to be.

-Original Message-
From: info [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 6:49 PM
To: Tim Hunter
Cc: qmail
Subject: Re: qmail's problem


where can i find relevant logs for qmail?
- Original Message -
From: Tim Hunter
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 7:30 AM
Subject: RE: qmail's problem


Can you post relevant unedited logs to the list PLEASE!
The relevant /var/qmail/control files would help too.
Without seeing the error and setup we cannot help.
-Original Message-
From: info [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 5:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: qmail's problem


Hi everybody
I have a problem
I've set up qmail-1.03 and all the others packages, webmail,vpopmail,signup,
autoresponders,etc...
all working fine form domain.com
Now i have few others domains...
domain1.com which can send and receive e-mail internally, for the network
192
I can also send e-mail outside of the 192 net, but i CANNOT receive any
e-mail from the outside world, these for each virtual domain i try to set up
Any idea? would be very appreciate.
The main domain.com works fine also from the outside
I'm going nuts.
 Thank you in advance

RE: Running qmail-pop3d as non-root user

[Tim Hunter]

You have to make sure the user it runs as can access the $HOME/Maildir for
every user.

Usually this is only the root user, however if you have virtual domains ONLY
this might be an option.

-Original Message-
From: Laurence Brockman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 10:05 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Running qmail-pop3d as non-root user


Is there any reason why I couldn't run qmail-pop3d as a non-root user? Using
tcpserver to start the process I could easily set it to run as a qmail user
(Or yet another user, with almost no permissions). Is this possible? And if
so, is there anything that I should be looking out for?

Thanks,
Laurence

--
Laurence Brockman
Unix Administrator
Videon Cablesystems Alberta Inc
10450-178 St.
Edmonton, AB
T5S 1S2
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(780) 486-6527

RE: qmail's problem

[Tim Hunter]

Can you post 
relevant unedited logs to the list PLEASE!
The relevant 
/var/qmail/control files would help too.
Without seeing the 
error and setup we cannot help.

  -Original Message-From: info 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 5:32 
  PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: qmail's 
  problem
  
  Hi everybodyI have a problemI've set up 
  qmail-1.03 and all the others packages, 
  webmail,vpopmail,signup,autoresponders,etc...all working fine form 
  domain.comNow i have few others domains...domain1.com which can send 
  and receive e-mail internally, for the network192I can also send 
  e-mail outside of the 192 net, but i CANNOT receive anye-mail from the 
  outside world, these for each virtual domain i try to set upAny idea? 
  would be very appreciate.The main domain.com works fine also from the 
  outsideI'm going nuts. Thank you in 
  advance

RE: Problems with MASQ IP's

[Tim Hunter]

All my users are 
behind a firewall with IP's 192.168.100.0/32.
I never had a 
problem sending to hotmail.
I recently have 
changed my tcpserver setting to hide the IP address and 
computer name:
# Local Users (hide 
hostname and IP 
address)192.168.100.:allow,TCPREMOTEHOST="",TCPREMOTEIP="",RELAYCLIENT=""
 
Sending to hotmail 
from home behind a masq never had a problem (without the hidden settings) and I 
never remember an issue before I made my changes here.
Sounds like you 
might have other problems (typically hotmail servers have been quite sh*tty in 
the past)
 
-- 
Tim

  -Original Message-From: Corey Jarvis 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 
  2:05 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Problems with 
  MASQ IP's 
  Hi to anyone who can help,
  The situation that I have is that I have my Linux 
  box setup with Qmail and I am masquerading all internal IP's to 
  192.168.0.0/24.
  Every email I send out has a header that says it 
  is coming from unknown (windows share name) 192.168.0.3 and when this gets 
  
  sent to hotmail lets say then it gets deferred 
  saying that it can't make an SMTP connection.  This has resulted in me 
  not being able to 
  email to anyone at certain hosts due to the 
  non-routeable IP.  Thanks ahead for anyone who has an 
answer.
  Signed,
  Corey Jarvis
   

RE: a problem about hostname/virtual domain

[Tim Hunter]

First Excuse my Outlook 2000, corp standard.

The only files you need to be concerned with for virtual hosts using
vpopmail:
/var/qmail/control/rcthosts
metta.lk
/var/qmail/control/virtualdomains
metta.lk:metta.lk
/var/qmail/users/assign
+metta.lk-:metta.lk:512:5002:/home/vpopmail/domains/metta.lk:-::
/home/vpopmail/domains/metta.lk/vpasswd
relevant password entries

All of these changes would have been made if you added the domain with
~vpopmail/bin/vadddomain metta.lk

I would suggest deleting the domain ~vpopmail/bin/vdeldomain metta.lk
and readding it, something is severely screwed up.

RE: How to get Mail delivery in form cgi´s work

[Tim Hunter]

Interesting Indeed, Kills my OE 5.5.

-Original Message-
From: Kris Kelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 11:27 AM
To: QMail Mailing List
Subject: Re: How to get Mail delivery in form cgi´s work


> If you want to have fun with Outlook Express users, put this in your
signature:
>
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED] Doe"@example.com
>
> I don't know if that's a legal address, but its mere presence in an e-mail
> message will cause Outlook Express to freeze and eventually consume all of
your
> memory...

"Thanks for the warning," says the person who read this message with Outlook
Express.  Incidentally, nothing happened, aside from the address being
incorrectly parsed by OE's mailto linker.  I use version 5.

By the way, playing strictly by RFC 821's rules, that is a valid email
address.

---Kris kelley

RE: www.abuse.net test and mail Qmail server - Help

[Tim Hunter]

Check the archives on this PLEASE!!

It also seems that you didn't read the lines after that in BIG BOLDED
LETTERS.

"THIS MAY OR MAY NOT MEAN THAT IT'S AN OPEN RELAY.

Some systems appear to accept relay mail, but then reject messages
internally rather than delivering them, but you cannot tell at this point
whether the message will be relayed or not.

You cannot tell if it is really an open relay without sending a test
message; this anonymous user test DID NOT send a test message."


> -Original Message-
> From: Roberto Samarone Araujo (RSA) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 12:37 PM
> To: Qmail-List
> Subject: www.abuse.net test and mail Qmail server - Help
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I was testing my qmail server against relay ... I went to
> www.abuse.net/relay.html and asked to test. The test returned me that my
> email server is  accepting relay :( . Look at the last result of
> the test :
>
> Relay test 6
>
> >>> RSET
> <<< 250 flushed
> >>> MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> <<< 250 ok
> >>> RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> <<< 250 ok
>
> Relay test result
> Hmmn, at first glance, host appeared to accept a message for relay.
>
> Does anyone could please help me to set up my
> qmail in order
> to block this ?
>
> thanks
>
> Roberto Samarone Araujo
>
>

RE: install error

[Tim Hunter]

someone posted this to the list a few weeks ago if I remember correctly.
check the archives

> -Original Message-
> From: Zoltan Major [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 1:30 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: install error
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to install the qmail on macosxserver 1.2 and there is an   
> error message:
> 
>   ../compile auto-str.c
>   ../load auto-str substdio.a error.a str.a
>   /usr/bin/ld: can't use -s with input files containg indirect symbols   
>   (output file must contain at least global symbols, for maximum
>   stripping use -x)
>   make: *** [auto-str] Error 1
> 
> What can I do? Please help!
> 
>  Zoltan
> 

RE: Out of Memory???

[Tim Hunter]

Works for me.
This particular machine is a p75 with 32megs of ram, and 128swap.
I use vpopmail for authentication looks like the only difference.

Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
user broke
+OK 
pass broke
+OK 
stat
+OK 2002 755
quit
+OK 
Connection closed by foreign host.

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 4:27 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Out of Memory???
> 
> 
> Hi,
>  I have recently installed qmail-1.03 using ./Maildir/ and pop. I 
> am using qmail-pop3d and checkpasswords. The problem I am 
> having is that when a user gets large amounts of mail ie. 2000+ it 
> will not scan their maildir. This is the message I am getting:
> 
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> user excesstest
> +OK
> pass xx
> -ERR unable to scan $HOME/Maildir
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> It works fine for all other aspects just when a user gets excessive 
> amounts of mail it stops scanning their maildir. Everyone elses still
> works though.
> 
> I found a post on the mailing list that made me think I had worked it out
> but the amount of memory was not the case.
> 
> I am using a Pentium Celeron 400mhz with 384MB of RAM running 
> FreeBSD 4.1.
> 
> Another post told me I might need to change the limits could the 
> number of openfiles have anything to do with it.
> Here are my resource limits:
> Resource limits (current):
>   cputime  infinity secs
>   filesize infinity kb
>   datasize   524288 kb
>   stacksize   65536 kb
>   coredumpsize infinity kb
>   memoryuseinfinity kb
>   memorylocked infinity kb
>   maxprocesses  531
>   openfiles1064
>   sbsize   infinity bytes
> 
> I did a ktrace on the pop3 process and the results tended to 
> indicate a memory 
> problem as it displayed the following line:
> 17129 qmail-pop3d RET break -1 errno 12 Cannot allocate memory
> 
> If anyone has any insights could they please help me it would be 
> much appreciated.
> 
> Drew
> 

RE: POP3 authentication

[Tim Hunter]

Please post the unedited results of telnet 0 110 from your qmail box.
Please post the line you are using to start qmail-pop3d.

> -Original Message-
> From: Louis Mushandu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 10:13 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: POP3 authentication
> 
> 
> All,
> 
> I am recieveing the popup and on entering my UID/password there is no
> response.  A telnet to port 110 showed the folllowing error message.
> 
> 
> -ERR authorization failed
> 
> 
> Can anyone point out any other authentication methods or a possible
> solution.  
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 

RE: List Courtesy (was Newbie question)

[Tim Hunter]

I am sure everyone can agree on this.
Constructive criticism works best, makes it much easier to fix how it lacks
if told how it lacks.

If you think the documentation sucks, PLEASE tell Dave (or Dan, or whatever
else documentation you are reading) that it sucks and why it sucks, and if
your really feeling useful fix it for them or give them some pointers.

That's why free software and support are good.

-- Tim

> -Original Message-
> From: Jamin Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 2:54 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: List Courtesy (was Newbie question)
>
>
> Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > You called the docs "highly inadequate", not "a little lacking when it
> > comes to helping someone completely new to qmail". In my
> > book, calling
> > something highly inadequate *is* calling it bad.
>
> Now, we are getting into a matter of semantics.  It was not my
> intention to
> say the documentation was bad.  I would say that your documentation is
> actually, better than what comes with qmail.  However, I do still
> see it as
> lacking where a new user is concerned.
>
> Jamin W. Collins
>

RE: List Courtesy (was Newbie question)

[Tim Hunter]

(excuse my outlook 2000)

> -Original Message-
> From: Jamin Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 9:47 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: List Courtesy (was Newbie question)
>
>
> I may be out of line here.  However, this is not the first time I've seen
> snappy rude responses from people in response to others asking
> for help.  I
> am simply quoting this message as it is the most recent.

I will agree that there are snappy rude responses on this list, many other
lists too that are only around to provide free support of a product that is
wonderful in many aspects.

>
> Sure, some of the postings for help may not contain all the
> information that
> a more experienced person would have.  But to respond to them with a
> statement to the effect of "send all necessary information" is
> crazy.  There
> is a certain level of experience necessary to know what may or may not be
> needed to diagnose a problem.  As many of the people posting without this
> level of information are new to either Linux or qmail (or both)
> there needs
> to be some understanding on everyone's behalf.  And telling
> someone to RTFM
> is normally of little to no help.  I've been told several times to RTFM
> without any indication as to which manual.  This is of little to
> no help to
> anyone.

A good start would be the documentation included or www.qmail.org/top.html
or the FAQs there.  Commonly we point people to LWQ or something similar.

>
> As for qmail, I will be the first to tell you that LWQ and the
> installation
> instructions with qmail itself are for the most part highly inadequate.  I
> tried setting qmail up just from the instructions included with the source
> twice, with no luck.  Additionally, I tried LWQ twice, with no luck.  It
> wasn't until I purchased "Running qmail." that I actually got the thing to
> work.  I'm sure that if I went back to either set of instructions
> (source or
> LWQ) that both would be adequate for the installation now that
> I've done it
> before.  However herein lies the problem.  The documentation that
> currently
> exists is really only helpful to someone that has already installed the
> software once before.  But, I've digressed.
>

First time I installed qmail was over 3 years ago, no LWQ and only the
install instructions, I was a fairly unix newbie with no professional
experience and only 1 year personal experience.  I installed it perfectly
even with procmail and fastforward to keep sendmail aliases and delivery.
I eventually read LWQ and completely reworked my install, I have since
pointed this source to many newbie friends who want to setup a mailserver
and have hardly needed to answer questions, much less trivial questions.
Some of the questions to this list could be solved with google.com and are
very typical of the new linux generation.

> IMHO, everyone that is offering help via a list such as this should be
> courteous to those asking for help.  If you can't be courteous, I ask that
> you please refrain from posting.  Snapping at a user asking for help will
> accomplish nothing more than making the user angry and hesitant
> from posting
> in the future.  IIRC, these are not the goals of this list or any other
> support list.
>

The goals of this list IMHO is not to answer FAQ's or help with learning
common unix tasks, there are far to many resources to cover here.
Snapping at a user should make them hesitant to post, maybe then will they
at least attempt to search for the correct information.

> I realize, as do most of the user's posting, that support here is provided
> by individuals donating their time of their own free will.  All I ask is
> that common courtesy be extended to those asking for help.
>

We ask the same, I have over 100 messages just from this list, I consider
about 1/3 of them actually attempted to make efforts to find out from their
own accord what they needed.  How much time do you think people on this list
need to allocate to read 60+ unnecessary emails?

> Jamin W. Collins
>
> -Original Message-


-- Tim Hunter

Re: not getting email

[Tim Hunter]

Make sure you start qmail with a default delivery method to ./Maildir/
note the trailing /

- Original Message - 
From: "David Daugherty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 6:54 PM
Subject: not getting email


> I've installed qmail 1.03 on a FreeBSD 4.2 box. I've installed the
> c-client patch for Pine and I'm still unable to get my email using
> Pine. Of course it says Maildir is not a selectable folder. So, I've been
> using mutt to look in Maildir/new. My Maildir is 700 for permissions.
> 
> Here's the main problem. I never get any email in Maildir/new. If I put a
> forwarding email in .qmail the email gets forwarded. If I delete .qmail
> the mail just sits in the queue and maillog has:
> Nov 26 15:53:21 datasphereweb qmail: 975282801.681599 delivery
> 65: deferral: Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)/
> 
> I would guess I'm about this close to getting this working :)
> 
> David
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> 

Re: IMAP and Maildir

[tim . hunter]

I use Courier-IMAP almost exclusively with Outlook and Outlook Express,
seems to work with or without the workarounds enabled, just upgraded to
1.2.x but have been using successfully for over a year.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 01:01:55PM -0800, Nicholas Leonovich wrote:
> > Courier-IMAP is working well with Maildir for me...
> > http://www.inter7.com
> 
> Does it play nice with Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express?  The last
> time I checked this package, there was a statement to the effect that
> it didn't.
> 
> Alternatively, can anyone point me at some useful instructions for
> getting UW-IMAP running with Maildir, since (in its default
> configuration), it (mostly) works with Outlook...
> 
> Cheers,
> Roger.
> 
> 


Tim Hunter
CIMx
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.cimx.com

RE: Backing up IMAP Maildir's ?

[Tim Hunter]

Although I do not back up nearly the amount of data you do I use tar to
backup my IMAP data.
tar (when used in this way) just reads the data and dumps it to tape, there
is no need to stop qmail or worry about what its doing.

-- Tim

-Original Message-
From: Dennis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 6:21 PM
To: Olivier M.
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Backing up IMAP Maildir's ?


mmm
still not convinced.
Just noticed that ArcServe for Linux exists
http://www.cai.com/arcserve/arcserve_linux.htm
This might do the trick.




> -Original Message-
> From: Olivier M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, 21 November 2000 9:25 PM
> To: Dennis
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Backing up IMAP Maildir's ?
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:00:54AM +1100, Dennis wrote:
> > Sure, but will a running qmail complain if the dir's are being accessed
> > while the backup is taking place ?
>
> if you just read the maildirs, I don't think there will be a problem.
> Maybe you can stop delivery during the backup, but I guess it
> takes quite a lot of time.
>
> > And i'm talking about 20 to 50 gigs of email.
>
> wow... that must be a very big company :)
>
> Olivier
> --
> _
>  Olivier Mueller - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - PGPkeyID: 0E84D2EA - Switzerland
> qmail projects: http://omail.omnis.ch  -  http://webmail.omnis.ch
>

RE: two questions

[Tim Hunter]

sqwebmail reads maildirs directly, does not use imap or pop3

-Original Message-
From: Dariusz Zmokly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 10:09 AM
To: Nicholas Leonovich
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: two questions


On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Nicholas Leonovich wrote:

> I recently made the switch myself. I moved from mbox to Maildir, switched
> from UW-IMAP to Courier-IMAP (which is not only more secure but uses the
> Maildir format), and installed vpopmail and sqwebmail (all these things
can
[..]

Does sqwebmail work with POP3 ? I dont intend to install IMAP client.

regards,
Dariusz Zmokly

RE: Qmail-pop3

[Tim Hunter]

Last I checked qpopper does not read maildirs.

-Original Message-
From: David Geller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 11:31 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Qmail-pop3


Try qpopper from the folks that wrote Eurdora. Check it out at
http://www.eudora.com/qpopper/

-Original Message-
From: Linux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 5:49 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Qmail-pop3


Hi all.

I'm usign qmail on one of my mail server.
I need an information about pop3 daemons.
Now i'm using qmail-pop3d for delivering in Maildir, but there was another
pop3 daemons fast and efficent workings with maildir?
Any idea?

Thanks

RE: what is the process for adding a new user to qmail for Linux?

[Tim Hunter]

ok you are confused.

If the message is just sitting in the queue its past the smtp stage.
There WILL be lines in the log that say something similar to:

info msg 10247: bytes 1239 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 18994 uid 601
starting delivery 3579: msg 10247 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
delivery 3579: failure: here_is_my_reason_for_failing./

That's what you should see, if you don't you are looking in the wrong place
or your logs are jacked.

-Original Message-
From: Robert Eric Pearse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 1:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: what is the process for adding a new user to qmail for
Linux?


i've checked /var/log/syslog and /var/log/maillog. neither are coughing up
messages from qmail-smptd. but, i am able to send messages to other users on
that machine. so, it must be a problem with the user configuration.

pearse

- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "qmail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 12:40 PM
Subject: RE: what is the process for adding a new user to qmail for Linux?


> Logs?
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Robert Eric Pearse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 1:33 PM
> To: qmail
> Subject: what is the process for adding a new user to qmail for Linux?
>
>
> i issued "adduser" as root and filled in the appropriate info. then i
issued
> "/var/qmail/bin/makemaildir Maildir" in the new user's home directory.
>
> mail is not getting delivered to the user, though. it's just sitting in
the
> queue.
>
> thanks,
>
> pearse
>
>

RE: what is the process for adding a new user to qmail for Linux?

[Tim Hunter]

Logs?

-Original Message-
From: Robert Eric Pearse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 1:33 PM
To: qmail
Subject: what is the process for adding a new user to qmail for Linux?


i issued "adduser" as root and filled in the appropriate info. then i issued
"/var/qmail/bin/makemaildir Maildir" in the new user's home directory.

mail is not getting delivered to the user, though. it's just sitting in the
queue.

thanks,

pearse

RE: ERR authorization failed ...

[Tim Hunter]

If your using vpopmail change your password checking program to be vchkpw
not checkpassword



-Original Message-
From: Javier Morquecho Morquecho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 12:17 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ERR authorization failed ...


Hi you all...

I'm using :
- RedHat
- Qmail
- QMailAdmin
- vpopmail
- vqsignup
- sqwebmail

All of them are working, except the last one, I every time receive the
error : ERR authorization failed, even if I try since my QMail server
[root@ jmorquec]# telnet localhost 110
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
user javier
+OK
pass 1
-ERR authorization failed
Connection closed by foreign host.

This is in my inetd.conf..
pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup
emovil.com /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d ./Maildir

Any idea ??...

Ing. J@vier Morquecho Morquecho
Cedetel
Desarrollo de proyectos comerciales
Tel : 177-10-87
Cel : 177-00-87
e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
e-movil   : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Home Cedetel : http://www.cedetel.com.mx

"#define QUESTION ((bb) || !(bb))// Shakespeare"

RE: queue problem

[Tim Hunter]

This means your queue is screwed up, try running make setup check from the
qmail dir.

-Original Message-
From: Sebastian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 9:10 AM
To: qmail liste
Subject: queue problem


hello,

I have succesfully installed qmail on my local system.
How I connect via telnet to my server and write
a mail. It works pretty fine, but at the end
of the smtp session he says "451 qq trouble creating files in queue
(#4.3.0)",
what does that mean and where can I get information about
this error?

Thanks
Sebastian

RE: Return receipt [T2000103100V0]

[Tim Hunter]

Works for me using outlook and outlook express, I have never tried Netscape.

Looks like this: Disposition-Notification-To: "Tim Hunter"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

This is sent from a qmail server and received by a qmail server.
Perhaps you have something stripping it out along the way?


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
Of Enrique
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 12:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: QMAIL
Subject: Re: Return receipt [T2000103100V0]


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Dear Enrique,
>

Thanks for your reply.

> The return receipt requested feature (when activated on an outgoing email)
allows you to ask that the recipient notify you that the message has been
displayed on his/her screen (and hopefully read). This notification will
arrive as a separate email in your Inbox.
> The return receipt requested feature must be supported by a recipient's
email client (i.e. Outlook Express) or the site at which he/she receives
mail (i.e. Mail.com) for you to receive notification. However, even then,
the recipient can also choose not to notify you.

I know it. But my question it's another. I'm going try explain better.

I have try these.

I have send a email with netscape comunnicator 4.61 and i have put
"Request return receipt" to on. I have send these email over a SMTP
SENDMAIL server, and when i received this email, i have been questioned
if i want replay confirmation. Ok.

But, if i do the same over a SMTP QMAIL server, when i receive the email
i don't receive these question. The SMTP QMAIL server don't support
these characteristic?.

Do you understan me?

By another way, I have probed the last above example with the SMTP
server of QMAIL list and I have been questioned about confirm the reply.

Then, how can i do on my smtp server QMAIL for support a email whith
"Request retun receipt" to on.

I have see the email's header when it arrive whith question about
confirmation and I see this:

Disposition-Notification-To

Qmail Server can't support these parameter?.

Thanks.

> Best Regards,
>
> Phil Castellano
> Member Services Representative
>
> -Original Message-
> "OK 2 NET - André Paulsberg" wrote:
> >
> > > Qmail doesn't support "return receipt". Any solution for this?.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure you are confusing "Reply-To:" with "Return-Path:",
> > "Return-Path:" also known as envelope sender is used as the
> > return address/receipt on "all" mailservers including QMAIL.
> >
> > "Reply-To:" is used by E-Mail clients when the user presses his REPLY
button,
> > and should under NO circumstances be supported by the mailserver.
> >
> > MVH André Paulsberg
>
> Thanks for you answer, maybe i have expresed bad.
>
> I want use the features on my mail client (Netscape Communicator 4.61)
> "Request return receipt" when i send a email, on my mail server (QMAIL).
> But when i send a email whith these features to on, i don't receive
> confirmation after i read these email.
>
> QMAIL dosen't support send's confirmation, how can resolve these?. Exist
> any patch?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> --
>  Enrique Rodríguez
>
> Mail.com, Inc.
> The Internet Messaging Company
>
> For a quick answer to any questions you may have or problems you may be
> experiencing with your Mail.com email account, please use our online
> member services support site at
> http://www.mail.com/cgi-bin/mailcom/frames/support
>
> Either use the drop-down box for Frequently Asked Questions or the Keyword
> search to target your specific question.

Thanks for you answer.
--
 Enrique Rodríguez Lázaro
  Dpo. Técnico Xpress
 Avd. Pérez Galdós, 13 9º
  Valencia - 46007

RE: Me yet again - qmailadmin this time

[Tim Hunter]

Check the qmailadmin website: http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin

And yes this is not exactly the right place, there is a mailing list for
each of inter7's products.

-Original Message-
From: Howard Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 6:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Me yet again - qmailadmin this time


I may be posting this in the wrong place - sorry if so.

I am trying to install qmailadmin, I run the ./configure script and it
complains that it can't find my autoresponder binary. Err... what is it
going on about. What does an autoresponder binary look like, am I likely to
have one, and if not where do I get one.

Thank you once again.

RE: Can't get POP3 Authorisation to work

[Tim Hunter]

I have used LWQ ever since my second install of qmail and if followed word
for word it has worked for me an everyone I ever pointed to it.

My guess is that you are not following it correctly, if you are not
understanding something, ask.

BTW installing a MTA is not for a newbie, whatever MTA it is, however LWQ
makes it much easier to try.

Just my .02

-- Tim

-Original Message-
From: Howard Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 2:38 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can't get POP3 Authorisation to work


I started again and installed as per Life with Qmail...

things are now MUCH worse. I selected Maildirs as the default delivery BTW.

Now when I do the qmail-inject test the message just sits in the queue but
saying it is for root, not the user I sent it to!

smtp works, I can send to any user but those messages just sit on the queue
as well. It claims that none are "preprocessed" if that makes any
difference.

What is going on now?

Howard
(getting most unimpressed with qmail)

At 11:46 31/10/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Wow..Ok, have you looked at Life with Qmail?
>
>http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html
>
>It's good. And long.
>
>Ok, if fred is also a regular user on your system, this might be giving you
>trouble. userdel fred or vadduser some_other_fred
>
>So you are using vpopmail and its passwd checking program vchkpw?
>
>Could be your inetd.conf screwing you. Here's mine:
>
>pop3   stream  tcp nowait  root/var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env
>/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup your.realhostname.com /home/bin/vchkpw
>/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir
>
>yeah, that's all one line.
>Notice you must tell it to use vchkpw and not checkpassword or some other.
>
>I agree, the docs are suckful, but let's be fair, qmail and vpopmail are
>totally separate programs that do  a lot of complicated things. Once you
get
>this running you will love how easy it is to admin.
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Howard Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 11:16 AM
>Subject: Re: Can't get POP3 Authorisation to work
>
>
> >I'm sorry... I'm losing the plot here completely.
> >
> >I got vpopmail. Installed it no problems, and off we go...
> >
> >added a user 'fred' with password 'pass' using vadduser.. worked/
> >
> >tried POP3 access from a PC on the networkmade no difference
> >whatsoever, password/username incorrect still.
> >
> >What might I be doing wrong?
> >
> >I frankly don't understand this virtual domain thing, and I have been
> >reading about it for days. If you can indulge me...
> >
> >We currently have a mailserver called (names changed to protect the
> >innocent) mail.somedomain.com. This machine has (a) problems and (b) no
> >documentation and needs to go. So I set up a machine at
> >test.somedomain.com. I installed qmail and can send mail from the new
> >machine to the old and back again, using an ordinary user on the new
> >machine to an arbitrary user on the old. I do this using the ordinary
mail
> >program, it doesn't work with these "Maildir" things, something else that
> >isn't explained very well.
> >
> >I won't be using local users on test.somedomain.com, users will connect
> >using SMTP and POP3 and don't need to have IDs on the linux box. I will
> >want their usernames to be [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >What is the easiest way to do this? I have been at this for a week, and
am
> >no further forward. I am ceasing to be impressed with qmail as it is FAR
> >too hard to set up. Win2000 and Exchange will have to be the answer if I
> >can't get this working very soon.
> >
> >Cheers... Howard
> >PS Sorry if I sound grumpy... I just need to get this working and its
like
> >hitting my head of a brick wall. Is there no decent documentation for
this
> >stuff?
> >
> >
> >At 11:00 31/10/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >>Oh...you need to get the vpopmail package to do virtuals. Really, it's
> >>great.
> >>
> >>-Original Message-
> >>From: Howard Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>Date: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 10:30 AM
> >>Subject: Re: Can't get POP3 Authorisation to work
> >>
> >>
> >> >Errr... thanks,
> >> >
> >> >BUT I don't have any executables call "vadduser" or "vadddomain"!!!
> >> >
> >> >Where do I find these? Does this work with the password checking
program
> >> >that comes with the standard download of wmail?
> >> >
> >> >Thanks again.
> >> >
> >> >At 09:25 31/10/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >> >>If you've run
> >> >>vadduser some_user
> >> >>then it asked you for a password and that's how you will
authenticate.
> >> >>user: user
> >> >>pass: pass
> >> >>
> >> >>If you've run
> >> >>vadddomain some_domain
> >> >>vadduser some_user@some_domain
> >> >>
> >> >>then you authenticate as follows:
> >> >>user: some_user%some_domain
> >> >>pass: pass
> >> >>
> >> >>Make sense?
> >> >>
> >> >>-Original Messag
> >> >>e-
> >> >>From: Howard Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 

RE: Can't get POP3 Authorisation to work

[Tim Hunter]

To make sure we are checking all the stops can you please post unedited:
1) the line you use to start your pop3 server
2) the results of a telnet to port 110 including username/password
3) the log of that pop3 session

Thanks,
Tim

-Original Message-
From: Howard Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 7:39 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Can't get POP3 Authorisation to work


Yes, I tried [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], neither
worked.

Can anybody explain to me what is supposed to be happening. Should I use
checkpassword or vcheckpw (or whatever it is), and if so where do these
programs actually get the authorisation information from. AND what do all
these files in qmail/control DO?  PLEASE, PLEASE don't tell me to stick
this in there or that in the other, how does it work and I will figure it
out for myself.

If I want' to use POP3 do I use Mailbox or Maildir? Does it matter? Can I
use either? HOW DOES IT WORK? It can't be hard, surely?

Yours, very frustrated

Howard

At 10:27 31/10/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Just to try the simple stuff first did you type in [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then
>the password ?
>
>
>
>Rick Harris
>UNIX Administrator
>Internet Global/Telares
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>
>"In a time of insanity, let a madman lead the way"
>
>
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Howard Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 6:15 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Can't get POP3 Authorisation to work
>
>
>I'm sorry... I'm losing the plot here completely.
>
>I got vpopmail. Installed it no problems, and off we go...
>
>added a user 'fred' with password 'pass' using vadduser.. worked/
>
>tried POP3 access from a PC on the networkmade no difference
>whatsoever, password/username incorrect still.
>
>What might I be doing wrong?
>
>I frankly don't understand this virtual domain thing, and I have been
>reading about it for days. If you can indulge me...
>
>We currently have a mailserver called (names changed to protect the
>innocent) mail.somedomain.com. This machine has (a) problems and (b) no
>documentation and needs to go. So I set up a machine at
>test.somedomain.com. I installed qmail and can send mail from the new
>machine to the old and back again, using an ordinary user on the new
>machine to an arbitrary user on the old. I do this using the ordinary mail
>program, it doesn't work with these "Maildir" things, something else that
>isn't explained very well.
>
>I won't be using local users on test.somedomain.com, users will connect
>using SMTP and POP3 and don't need to have IDs on the linux box. I will
>want their usernames to be [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>What is the easiest way to do this? I have been at this for a week, and am
>no further forward. I am ceasing to be impressed with qmail as it is FAR
>too hard to set up. Win2000 and Exchange will have to be the answer if I
>can't get this working very soon.
>
>Cheers... Howard
>PS Sorry if I sound grumpy... I just need to get this working and its like
>hitting my head of a brick wall. Is there no decent documentation for this
>stuff?
>
>
>At 11:00 31/10/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >Oh...you need to get the vpopmail package to do virtuals. Really, it's
> >great.
> >
> >-Original Message-
> >From: Howard Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Date: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 10:30 AM
> >Subject: Re: Can't get POP3 Authorisation to work
> >
> >
> > >Errr... thanks,
> > >
> > >BUT I don't have any executables call "vadduser" or "vadddomain"!!!
> > >
> > >Where do I find these? Does this work with the password checking
program
> > >that comes with the standard download of wmail?
> > >
> > >Thanks again.
> > >
> > >At 09:25 31/10/00 -0500, you wrote:
> > >>If you've run
> > >>vadduser some_user
> > >>then it asked you for a password and that's how you will authenticate.
> > >>user: user
> > >>pass: pass
> > >>
> > >>If you've run
> > >>vadddomain some_domain
> > >>vadduser some_user@some_domain
> > >>
> > >>then you authenticate as follows:
> > >>user: some_user%some_domain
> > >>pass: pass
> > >>
> > >>Make sense?
> > >>
> > >>-Original Messag
> > >>e-
> > >>From: Howard Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >>Date: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 8:28 AM
> > >>Subject: Re: Can't get POP3 Authorisation to work
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> >Sorry, I'm very new to setting mail servers and I'm not sure what
you
> >mean!
> > >> >
> > >> >Where do I put these settings? I don't really understand what is
meant
> >by a
> > >> >virtual domain in this context.
> > >> >
> > >> >My goal is to pruduce a mail server for a windows 98 network. All my
> >users
> > >> >will access by SMTP and POP3 and will not have IDs on the unix box.
I
> > >> >assume this makes them virtual users (yes?). I am having a lot of
> >trouble
> > >> >understanding how to do this. Any help at all will be appreciated.
> > 

RE: SPAM - Help!

[Tim Hunter]

Well if he was denying the spammers ip it would stop any incoming mail, for
the mail still in the queue I would setup a .qmail for the "fake" user and
redirect it to /dev/null

Problem solved, well except for contacting the spammers isp.

-Original Message-
From: Daniel Augusto Fernandes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 12:28 PM
To: Tim Hunter
Cc: Ari Arantes Filho; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SPAM - Help!


Tim Hunter wrote:
>
> If your using tcpserver, you should be denying his connection.
>
> If not you should be, you need to check LWQ for a good reference.
>

I think his problem is bigger than that! What I understood was that he's
receiving bounce from lots of the spam destination servers.


Daniel Augusto Fernandes (DAF tm)   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GCSNethttp://www.gcsnet.com.br/

 Se você não encontra
 o sentido das coisas
 é porque este não
 se encontra, se cria.
   Antoine Saint-Exupéry

> -Original Message-
> From: Ari Arantes Filho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 11:38 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: SPAM - Help!
>
> Hello,
>
> Someone is using another smtp server to send a very big spam, but they
> write the header with FROM = an unknown user of one of my virtual domains,
> so postmasters keep sending bounce messages or autoresponders to this
> unknown user and my postmaster is receving more than 1 emails.
>
> I've temporary created this unknows user, but how can I stop this? I
> can't remove the domain of my list of virtual domains because there are
more
> then 100 valid users to this domain...
>
> The spammer is from USA and I'm from Brazil, I don't known this f...
>
> I really need help!!!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ari

RE: SPAM - Help!

[Tim Hunter]

If your using tcpserver, you should be denying his connection.

If not you should be, you need to check LWQ for a good reference.

-Original Message-
From: Ari Arantes Filho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 11:38 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SPAM - Help!


Hello,

Someone is using another smtp server to send a very big spam, but they
write the header with FROM = an unknown user of one of my virtual domains,
so postmasters keep sending bounce messages or autoresponders to this
unknown user and my postmaster is receving more than 1 emails.

I've temporary created this unknows user, but how can I stop this? I
can't remove the domain of my list of virtual domains because there are more
then 100 valid users to this domain...

The spammer is from USA and I'm from Brazil, I don't known this f...

I really need help!!!

Thanks,

Ari