checkhab script
My apologies for using Outlook Express. From Noel Mistula's checkHAB script http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/03/msg01041.html # Read about qmail-inject to customize this line. /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] $tmpfile Has anyone else used this script, and if so, can you share with me how this line looks in your configuration? thanks,
Re: A firestorm of protest?
: I vote for "source code plug-ins". :-) : : -Dave : Service pack 0.1 Beta? TonyCam
Re: Strange Problems with tcprules.
I got 4. Do I win something? From Mr. Sill, "1) Post the message multiple times. " tony:campisi
Improper message removal
This was brought up yesterday and I know what to do next time. I am one of the people that forcibly removed a message from the queue without properly stopping qmail. When I run Russ' qsanity it tells me: message has no entry in info: 256004 message is neither local nor remote: 256004 message has no entry in info: 256015 message has no entry in mess: 256015 .. My logs are showing these quite regularly. 2000-08-10 09:29:45.582458500 warning: trouble opening local/0/256013; will try again later 2000-08-10 09:30:20.752585500 warning: trouble opening info/2/256015; will try again later 2000-08-10 09:30:42.762486500 warning: trouble opening remote/12/256002; wi ll try again later My question. Will these messages, which aren't really there, be bounced to me eventually? If queue-fix-1.4 will fix this, I will run it tonight. *OR* my question before I read the "How to annoy People" My gear be broken. What now? :) Thanks, tonyC
Re: Help! Post vpopmail install, everything bounces
I ran ./configure, then had someone at the site reboot the mail server. It works. = If you ran a ./config you might want to re-check your /control/locals and /control/rcpthosts. I did that the other day and it removed the information I had in it. HTH, tonyC
qmailanalog for dummies
Our qmail server has been up for 2 days and everything is working fine. I
would like to use qmailanalog to analyze activity.
I have read through the archive but need more answers.
I installed qmailanalog-0.70
:From an archived message:
awk '{$1="";$2="";$3="";$4="";$5="";print}' /var/log/maillog \
| matchup \
processed_log
My 'processed_log' is an empty file I created - /var/log/qmail/analog
I want to analyze my /var/log/qmail/current file.
awk '{$1="";$2="";$3="";$4="";$5="";print}' /var/log/qmail/current |
/usr/local/qmailanalog/bin/matchup /var/log/qmail/analog
The above is all on one line
After running the above, my 'analog' file has data in it like,
? 3317 from qmail-return-51885-tony.campisi=cardinalservices.com@list
? 256010 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
?
? 1908 from qmail-return-51884-tony.campisi=cardinalservices.com@list
? 256010 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
? 0/40
?
? 0/40
When I try
/usr/local/qmailanalog/bin/zoverall /var/log/qmail/analog
I get
One line per recipient. Information on each line:
* sbytes is the number of bytes successfully delivered to this recipient.
* mess is the number of messages sent to this recipient (success plus failu
re).
* tries is the number of delivery attempts (success, failure, deferral).
* xdelay is the total xdelay incurred by this recipient.
sbytes mess tries xdelay recipient
There is no information under these headers. Can someone please tell me what
I'm doing wrong.
TIA,
Tony Campisi
Re: qmail-unsubscribe
--- Here are the ezmlm command addresses. I can handle administrative requests automatically. Just send an empty note to any of these addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Stop receiving messages. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Retrieve a copy of message 12345 from the archive. DO NOT SEND ADMINISTRATIVE REQUESTS TO THE MAILING LIST! If you do, I won't see them, and subscribers will yell at you. and subscribers will yell at you, Tony Campisi
Failure Notice
with SMTP; 5 Aug 2000 16:36:26 - Received: (qmail 20815 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2000 16:36:23 - Received: from unknown (HELO ns.cardinalservices.com) (209.192.74.2) by 192.168.1.253 with SMTP; 5 Aug 2000 16:36:23 - Received: (qmail 20812 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2000 16:36:21 - Received: from unknown (HELO ns.cardinalservices.com) (209.192.74.2) by 192.168.1.253 with SMTP; 5 Aug 2000 16:36:21 - Received: (qmail 20809 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2000 16:36:18 - Received: from unknown (HELO ns.cardinalservices.com) (209.192.74.2) by 192.168.1.253 with SMTP; 5 Aug 2000 16:36:18 - Received: (qmail 20806 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2000 16:36:16 - Received: from unknown (HELO ns.cardinalservices.com) (209.192.74.2) by 192.168.1.253 with SMTP; 5 Aug 2000 16:36:16 - Received: (qmail 20803 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2000 16:36:14 - Received: from unknown (HELO ns.cardinalservices.com) (209.192.74.2) by 192.168.1.253 with SMTP; 5 Aug 2000 16:36:14 - Received: (qmail 20800 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2000 16:36:11 - Received: from unknown (HELO ns.cardinalservices.com) (209.192.74.2) by 192.168.1.253 with SMTP; 5 Aug 2000 16:36:11 - Received: (qmail 20797 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2000 16:36:08 - Received: from unknown (HELO ns.cardinalservices.com) (209.192.74.2) by 192.168.1.253 with SMTP; 5 Aug 2000 16:36:08 - Received: (qmail 20794 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2000 16:36:06 - Received: from unknown (HELO ns.cardinalservices.com) (209.192.74.2) by 192.168.1.253 with SMTP; 5 Aug 2000 16:36:06 - snipped I send mail to myself from my account, but I don't recieve it. Here's what it says in /var/log/qmail/current: @4000398c422b2732919c new msg 256005 @4000398c422b2732cc34 info msg 256005: bytes 10540 from tony.campisi@c ardinalservices.com qp 20665 uid 771 @4000398c422b2747e68c starting delivery 4118: msg 256005 to remote tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] @4000398c422b27481954 status: local 0/20 remote 2/20 @4000398c422b2ba18c4c delivery 4117: success: 209.192.74.2_accepted_mes sage./Remote_host_said:_250_ok_965493281_qp_20665/ @4000398c422b2ba1d684 status: local 0/20 remote 1/20 @4000398c422b2ba1f1dc end msg 256002 @4000398c422d32d9cca4 delivery 4118: failure: 209.192.74.2_failed_after _I_sent_the_message./Remote_host_said:_554_too_many_hops,_this_message_is_l ooping_(#5.4.6)/ @4000398c422d32da2a64 status: local 0/20 remote 0/20 @4000398c422d33524864 bounce msg 256005 qp 20669 @4000398c422d33551724 end msg 256005 It looks like its doing this for every mail that is being sent to any of our users. I'm in dire need here. Please help me understand what I'm doing wrong. Please reply to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] account. Thanks, Tony Campisi
Re: Failure Notice
Your test email is addressed to a user at cardinalservices.com. Cardinalservices.com isn't listed as in your local files, so it's not getting delivered locally. I think you need to add cardinalservices.com to control/locals. = I added cardinalservices.com to control/locals and it looks like mail is flowing nicely! ns.cardinalservices.com was in there and I removed it. I then kill -HUP the qmail-send process. Can someone tell me if having cardinalservices.com and ns.cardinalservices.com living together in locals will effect anything? There may have been a previous bounce attempt that failed; do you have aliases for root and postmaster set up? = Yes, root and postmaster were set up following the EXCELLENT Life with qmail guide. :) There are a couple of anomalies that I don't feel I fully understand, so I'm not 100% confident in this diagnosis. Putting in the showctl output, log lines, and bounce message werre all necessary for me to make any serious attempt to analyze this problem. Good job figuring out what was useful to include! Oh, and I also made use of the fact that you *didn't* obscure the domain names to check out a couple of things. Lurkers planning to ask for help soon, use Tony's message as an example of how to do it! I'm blushing David. Thanks for the praise. Note to the Lurkers: http://www-archive.ornl.gov:8000/ Hooked on qmail works for me. Thank You David, Tony Campisi
Permissions Dilemma?
When I set up my Sendmail box last year I added all of my users in 'userconf' as POP accounts (mail only). Approx 250. As I'm attempting to add Maildir folders under their /home/name directories, I cannot chown Maildir. For example: drwx-- 5 root popusers 1024 Jul 21 11:22 Maildir [root@mail2 /home/al.koch]# chown -R al.koch /home/al.koch/Maildir chown: al.koch: invalid user Will I have to remove all my users and add them as regular users? thanks, tony.campisi
Re: Permissions Dilemma? FIXED!
Try chown -R al.koch: /home/al.koch/Maildir ^--- colon there It may or may not work. Colon is now the preferred separator between user and group, but historically the dot has been used for that, and so it's still supported for compatibility. === chown -R al.koch: /home/al.koch/Maildir WORKS! drwx-- 5 al.koch popusers 1024 Jul 21 11:22 Maildir Another person on the X-mas list. Thanks to Armando as well! woo hoo tony.campisi
Urgent Help Needed
This evening I attempted to bring up my companys qmail server. Things are not going well. I installed these packages checkpassword-0.81 daemontools-0.70 qmail-1.03 ucspi-tcp-0.88 I am starting POP in a different way. I created a /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3d/run file like this: #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mailperson.cardinalservices.com \ /usr/local/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21 I made sure that 'pop3' is in /etc/services stopped sendmail - /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop made my aliases for postmaster and such. I removed these lines from /etc/inetd.conf completely REMOVED these lines # do not uncomment smtp unless you *really* know what you are doing. # smtp is handled by the sendmail daemon now, not smtpd. It does NOT # run from here, it is started at boot time from /etc/rc.d/rc#.d. #smtp stream tcp nowait root/usr/bin/smtpd smtpd #nntp stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.nntpd pop-2 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd ipop2d #pop-3 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d pop-3 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd popper -sR #pop-3 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.qpopper imapstream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd imapd and rebooted the server. After reboot I do a ps waux | grep qmail qmaild /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 771 -g 730 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t !tai64nlocal /var/log/qmail qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t !tai64nlocal /var/log/qmail/smtpd qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t !tai64nlocal /var/log/qmail/pop3d qmailq qmail-clean qmailr qmail-rspawn qmails qmail-send root supervise qmail-send root supervise qmail-smtpd root supervise qmail-pop3d root /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mailperson.cardinalservice s.com /usr root qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/ As I attempt to gather my mail through Outlook Express, it prompts me for password. I try multiple accounts with no luck. My password is rejected. That's odd. I just checked the line in the above script /usr/local/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21 I did a 'locate checkpassword' and it showed it in /bin, and I changed the script, but my password still isn't good. Any Ideas? On top of that, I got the convert-and-create script from qmail.org. I chmod 755 it. When I run it , I get this: Bareword found where operator expected at /var/qmail/bin/convert-and-create line 8, near "/var/spool" (Missing operator before pool?) syntax error at /var/qmail/bin/convert-and-create line 8, near "/var/spool" Execution of /var/qmail/bin/convert-and-create aborted due to compilation e rrors. Anyone ever come across this one? Any help is appreciated tony.campisi
Re: Urgent Help Needed
From: Tony Campisi [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup Shouldn't that be /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R 0 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup ? Notice the dash in the name of the service. In my /etc/services file it says: pop3110/tcp pop-3 110/tcp I've been using 'pop3' during my testing on another machine and it worked good. My server was down for 3 hours, so I panicked and put sendmail back on until I can figure out what happened. Thanks guys for answering. Armando, I'm gonna try to write 110 instead of pop3 or pop-3 next time. ...oh! the shame tony.campisi
pop3d questions
Hi, I created a /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3d/run file #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mailperson2.cardinalservices.com \ /usr/local/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21 Does anyone see any drawbacks to running pop3d like this? My /var/log/qmail/pop3d/current files contents look like this: @400039720b74038df72c tcpserver: end 3255 status 256 @400039720b74038ee574 tcpserver: status: 0/40 I want my log files to have dates that I can read. I tried putting this in my /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3d/log/run file but it's not working as planned. exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t | /usr/local/bin/tai64nlocal /var/log/qmail/pop3d Can someone tell me if I am anywhere close to getting this right? thanks tony.campisi
problem stopping qmail
hello,
I installed qmail according to LWQ . LWQ says,
To use tcpserver, add the following to your qmail startup script (not
inetd.conf):
tcpserver -v -R 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup FQDN \
/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21 | \
/var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d
where pop3 is the name of the POP3 service listed in /etc/services and FQDN
is the fully qualified domain name of the POP server you're setting up,
e.g., pop.example.net
So I added it to my /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail file that I created
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
export PATH
# This line will add POP3d to our installation
tcpserver -v -R 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup
mailperson2.cardinalservices.com
/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21 | \
/var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting qmail: svscan"
cd /var/qmail/supervise
env - PATH="$PATH" svscan
echo $! /var/run/svscan.pid
echo "."
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping qmail: svscan"
kill `cat /var/run/svscan.pid`
echo -n " qmail"
svc -dx /var/qmail/supervise/*
echo -n " logging"
svc -dx /var/qmail/supervise/*/log
echo "."
;;
stat)
cd /var/qmail/supervise
svstat * */log
;;
doqueue|alrm)
echo "Sending ALRM signal to qmail-send."
svc -a /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send
;;
queue)
qmail-qstat
qmail-qread
;;
reload|hup)
echo "Sending HUP signal to qmail-send."
svc -h /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send
;;
pause)
echo "Pausing qmail-send"
svc -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send
echo "Pausing qmail-smtpd"
svc -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd
;;
cont)
echo "Continuing qmail-send"
svc -c /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send
echo "Continuing qmail-smtpd"
svc -c /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd
;;
restart)
echo "Restarting qmail:"
echo "* Stopping qmail-smtpd."
svc -d /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd
echo "* Sending qmail-send SIGTERM and restarting."
svc -t /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send
echo "* Restarting qmail-smtpd."
svc -u /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd
;;
cdb)
tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.tmp /etc/tcp.smtp
chmod 644 /etc/tcp.smtp*
echo "Reloaded /etc/tcp.smtp."
;;
help)
cat HELP
stop -- stops mail service (smtp connections refused, nothing goes out)
start -- starts mail service (smtp connection accepted, mail can go out)
pause -- temporarily stops mail service (connections accepted, nothing
leaves)
cont -- continues paused mail service
stat -- displays status of mail service
cdb -- rebuild the tcpserver cdb file for smtp
restart -- stops and restarts smtp, sends qmail-send a TERM restarts it
doqueue -- sends qmail-send ALRM, scheduling queued messages for delivery
reload -- sends qmail-send HUP, rereading locals and virtualdomains
queue -- shows status of queue
alrm -- same as doqueue
hup -- same as reload
HELP
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0
{start|stop|restart|doqueue|reload|stat|pause|cont|cdb|queue|help}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
And this is the output of ps waux | grep qmail right after bootup. (edited
for space)
qmaild /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 878 -g 602 0
smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd
qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail
qmailq qmail-clean
qmailr qmail-rspawn
qmails qmail-send
root tcpserver -v -R 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup
mailperson2.cardinalservices.com /bin/che
ckpassword
root /var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d
root supervise qmail-send
root supervise qmail-smtpd
root qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/
root grep qmail
When I attempt to stop qmail by using /usr/local/sbin/qmail stop
It tells me
Stopping qmail: svscan qmail logging.
[root@**]# ps waux | grep qmail (edited for space)
root tcpserver -v -R 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup
mailperson2.cardinalservices.com /bin/checkpassword
root /var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d
My question is: Am I stopping qmail properly or does my startup script
contain errors? Thanks to everyones help I have gotten qmail running on my
test machine and I will begin installing it on our "real" mail server soon.
I can't figure out why these processes will not go away.
any help is appreciated,
tony.campisi
qsanity question
Hello all. I installed qmail-qsanity from http://www.qmail.org/qmail-qsanity-0.52 yesterday. Here is some output from this morning. [root@# /var/qmail/bin]# ./qmail-qstat messages in queue: 1 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 [root@# /var/qmail/bin]# ./qmail-qread [root@# /var/qmail/bin]# ./qmail-qsanity message has no entry in info: 50493 message is neither local nor remote: 50493 My question.. is there any way to look at this message and /or deliver it? thanks, tony.campisi
Re: qsanity question answered
: Tony Campisi writes: : [root@# /var/qmail/bin]# ./qmail-qread : [root@# /var/qmail/bin]# ./qmail-qsanity : message has no entry in info: 50493 : message is neither local nor remote: 50493 : : My question.. is there any way to look at this message and /or deliver it? : : As root (or qmailq), look at /var/qmail/queue/*/*/50493. ... Thanks Paul. I found it. It was a cron message. tC
SMTP port 25 - cannot connect
Hello all! I really want to thank Dave Sill for writing "Life with qmail." I realized that if you follow the directions EXACTLY, good things are bound to happen. After 2 previous failed attempts in installing qmail, I completely removed everything qmailish from my system. Sendmail was also pulled out by the roots. I carefully went step-by-step and when I was finished I only had to chown and chgrp some files that were left over from the previous attempts. This is the output of a ps right after the install. qmaild /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 878 -g 602 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd qmaill/usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail qmaill/usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd qmailq qmail-clean qmailr qmail-rspawn qmails qmail-send root supervise qmail-send root supervise qmail-smtpd root qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/ /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run looks like this #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 This is where my problem begins. I cannot access port 25 on my mail server. I am accessing the machine from my home this weekend. When I 'telnet mailmachine2.companyname.com 25' I get 'Connect Failed - Could not open a connection'. Inetd is not maintaining my POP3 and SMTP anymore, tcpserver is. There is NO mention of either POP or SMTP in the inet.conf file. This is where I usually get stumped. I will gladly post any output you request. :) 2- This is not a problem, I would just like to make sure I did this properly. I added this line to my /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail startup file. My users will be checking their mail through Outlook Express and I want to use pop3d / checkpassword to do this. tcpserver -v -R 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mailmachine2.companyname.com /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21 | \ /var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d this is the output of ps after I added the above line qmaild /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 878 -g 602 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd qmailq qmail-clean qmailr qmail-rspawn qmails qmail-send root tcpserver -v -R 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mailmachine2.companyname.com /bin/checkpassword root /var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d root supervise qmail-send root supervise qmail-smtpd root qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/ Once again, thanks for any help you can give me, tony.campisi
Re: SMTP port 25 - cannot connect
What's the contents of tcp.smtp ? If you telnet to mailmachine2.compantname.com and then do a telnet localhost 25, what happens ? Greetz, Steffan contents of /etc/tcp.smtp 127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 192.168.1.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow I am connected to a Mindspring account and I am using Tera Term to work on the server. [root@mailmachine2 /etc]# telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mailmachine2.companyname.com ESMTP when I hit Enter it says 502 unimplemented (#5.5.1) thanks for the quick reply, tony.campisi
Re: SMTP port 25 - cannot connect
It may very well be the firewall. What's the REAL name of the server ? mailperson2.cardinalservices.com also, [root@mailperson2 /etc]# telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mailperson2.cardinalservices.com ESMTP ehlo 250-mailperson2.cardinalservices.com 250-PIPELINING 250 8BITMIME thanks, tony.campisi
Re: SMTP port 25 - cannot connect
H, there's something wrong on your home end : Work like a charm from my end :-) Thanks for your help Steffan! I looked in my /var/log/qmail/smtpd and saw this. @400039676f90255891dc tcpserver: pid 29286 from 212.64.80.2 @400039676f9136331194 tcpserver: ok 29286 :192.168.1.247:25 1dyn2.vb.casema. net:212.64.80.2::12378 I can guess this is you, so that does narrow the problem down to my end. h. Thanks for your timely responses. I appreciate it. tony.campisi
Re: SMTP port 25 - cannot connect (new clues?)
BTW: if you're recieving mail from the Net the problem isn't with your server config but with your local config ;) BTW: tried another telnet client ? I did try telnetting in with my Tera Term program, and that didn't work either. I sent a mail to an account on the mailserver, and this showed up in /var/log/qmail/smtpd @4000396775ac39eb33ac tcpserver: pid 19137 from 207.69.200.226 @4000396775ad1c564b9c tcpserver: ok 19137 :192.168.1.247:25 blount.mail.mind spring.net:207.69.200.226::4766 @4000396775ae14e7b134 tcpserver: end 19137 status 0 @4000396775ae14e7e3fc tcpserver: status: 0/40 my /var/log/maillog says Jul 8 13:49:12 mailperson2 pop3d: 963082152.910890 tcpserver: status: 1/40 Jul 8 13:49:12 mailperson2 pop3d: 963082152.912702 tcpserver: pid 4471 from 209 .138.163.167 Jul 8 13:49:12 mailperson2 pop3d: 963082152.951141 tcpserver: ok 4471 :192.168. 1.247:110 pool-209-138-163-167.dlls.grid.net:209.138.163.167::1283 So the mail is getting there, but I am not getting the mail at my house and it is not in my /new folder. That made me look at this... [root@mailperson2]# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat messages in queue: 10 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 8 So what is not running to flush these mails out? Does this have anything to do with my original problem? TIA, tony.campisi
Multilog: fatal: the final answer (hopefully)
Back in March someone asked about the multilog: fatal: unable to open directory /var/log/qmail: access denied problem. Dave asked that person to Post the output of: ls -ld /var/log/qmail /var/log /var / cat /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run but I searched the archive and didn't see their reply. Since I am getting the same problem, I will do as Dave suggests. [root@* /var/log/qmail]# ls -ld /var/log/qmail /var/log /var / drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1024 Jun 21 16:05 / drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 1024 May 31 14:33 /var drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 1024 Jun 25 04:02 /var/log drwxrwxr-x 6 qmaill qmail1024 May 31 14:37 /var/log/qmail - [root@* /var/log/qmail]# cat /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail - BTW - I am also getting the 'multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail/smtpd: access denied' error. [root@* /var/log/qmail]# dir drwxrwxr-x 2 879 root 1024 May 31 11:29 qmail-pop3d drwxrwxr-x 2 879 root 1024 Jun 26 10:31 qmail-send drwxrwxr-x 2 qmaill qmail1024 Jun 26 10:16 qmail-smtpd drwxrwxr-x 2 qmaill nofiles 1024 Jun 1 11:22 smtpd -- I'll gladly give any more info if needed. Thanks again, tony.campisi
Planning an Install and need Help.
My email needs are small time in comparison to some of the installs out there. I have approx. 300 users on my network (LAN no dialups). All of my users are checking their mail with Outlook Express from MS. We are currently using Sendmail on a Linux 5.2 install. The users email settings have them checking both POP3 and SMTP on the IP address of the mail server, which is 192.168.*.*. Each of the users have an account on the Linux machine under /home/firstname.lastname. An example of an email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] A few of my users have aliases set up in /etc/aliases so that their companyname email is sent to a mindspring address so they can check it on their laptops on the road. I don't want to make this any harder than it has to be! Can someone/anyone please give me some insight as to what I will need to make this configuration work for me? From what I have read on the mailing list, Maildir delivery seems to be the way to go. Is pop3d something I will need? Is syslog and multilog the same thing/different and which one should I use? I'm pretty sure I will need the fastforward, uscpi-tcp(tcpserver), daemontools(supervise), qmailanalog and rblsmtpd packages. Honestly, I really appreciate any advice you can give me about this. I tried to do it on my own, and it's not working out at all. Thank you very much, tony.campisi
Re: Planning an Install and need Help.
Dave, thank you so much for the information! I will follow your "Life with qmail" to the letter. I have to clarify a few things though. You mentioned in your reply, "With qmail, users can redirect their mail using their .qmail file. E.g., ~courtney.love/.qmail could contain: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You'll need to convert your /etc/alias redirections into .qmail files." Q - Would doing this be the same as using the fastforward package? I misspoke when I asked this question. "Are syslog and multilog the same thing/different and which one should I use?" I meant to ask about splogger/multilog. When I follow the LWQ, which logging tool will be used? I can build a house with all these logs. :-D thanks again, tony.campisi
multilog/splogger
Thanks to everyone that helped me get qmail started! I really appreciate it. This is a copy of my ps ax ps ax PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ? S0:03 init [3] 2 ? SW 0:00 (kflushd) 3 ? SW 0:00 (kswapd) 4 ? SW 0:00 (md_thread) 5 ? SW 0:00 (md_thread) 36 ? S0:00 /sbin/kerneld 213 ? S0:00 syslogd 222 ? S0:00 klogd 244 ? S0:00 crond 256 ? S0:00 inetd 267 ? S0:00 named 279 ? S0:00 rpc.mountd 288 ? S0:00 rpc.nfsd 302 ? S0:00 gpm -t ps/2 313 ? S0:00 httpd 336 ? S0:00 smbd -D 345 ? S0:01 nmbd -D 366 2 S0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2 367 3 S0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3 368 4 S0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4 369 5 S0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5 370 6 S0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6 372 ? S0:00 update (bdflush) 431 1 S0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1 4048 ? S0:00 svscan 4125 ? S0:00 supervise qmail-send 4126 ? S0:00 supervise log 4127 ? S0:00 supervise qmail-smtpd 4128 ? S0:00 supervise log 4131 ? S0:00 qmail-lspawn |dot-forward .forward\012./Maildir/ 5077 ? S0:00 in.telnetd 5119 p1 S0:00 su 5120 p1 S0:00 bash 5170 p1 R0:00 ps ax 199 ? S0:00 portmap 233 ? S0:00 /usr/sbin/atd 317 ? S0:00 httpd 318 ? S0:00 httpd 319 ? S0:00 httpd 320 ? S0:00 httpd 321 ? S0:00 httpd 322 ? S0:00 httpd 323 ? S0:00 httpd 324 ? S0:00 httpd 326 ? S0:00 httpd 327 ? S0:00 httpd 5078 p1 S0:00 -bash 4134 ? S0:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 4130 ? S0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s250 /var/log/qmail/qmail 4135 ? S0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s250 /var/log/qmail/qmail 4133 ? S0:00 qmail-clean 4132 ? S0:00 qmail-rspawn 4129 ? S0:00 qmail-send - Can someone tell me if anything is either missing or shouldn't be there? I'm reading through D.J.'s faq and I'm at part 9.1 about running qmail-smtpd under tcpserver. I installed the ucspi-tcp 0.88 package. This is what I see in my inetd.conf file : # do not uncomment smtp unless you *really* know what you are doing. # smtp is handled by the sendmail daemon now, not smtpd. It does NOT # run from here, it is started at boot time from /etc/rc.d/rc#.d. #smtp stream tcp nowait root/usr/bin/smtpd smtpd #nntp stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.nntpd Do I remove these lines? ..continuing...Remove the smtp line from /etc/inetd.conf, and put the two lines tcpserver -v -u 7770 -g 2108 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \ 21 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 into your system boot scripts; replace 7770 with your qmaild uid, and replace 2108 with your nofiles gid. I know I want to use multilog instead of splogger. Should I replace the splogger part of the script with multilog? And if so, please tell me what to put. Your help is appreciated, tony.campisi
multilog/splogger
Thanks to everyone that helped me get qmail started! I really appreciate it. This is a copy of my ps ax ps ax PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ? S0:03 init [3] 2 ? SW 0:00 (kflushd) 3 ? SW 0:00 (kswapd) 4 ? SW 0:00 (md_thread) 5 ? SW 0:00 (md_thread) 36 ? S0:00 /sbin/kerneld 213 ? S0:00 syslogd 222 ? S0:00 klogd 244 ? S0:00 crond 256 ? S0:00 inetd 267 ? S0:00 named 279 ? S0:00 rpc.mountd 288 ? S0:00 rpc.nfsd 302 ? S0:00 gpm -t ps/2 313 ? S0:00 httpd 336 ? S0:00 smbd -D 345 ? S0:01 nmbd -D 366 2 S0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2 367 3 S0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3 368 4 S0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4 369 5 S0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5 370 6 S0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6 372 ? S0:00 update (bdflush) 431 1 S0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1 4048 ? S0:00 svscan 4125 ? S0:00 supervise qmail-send 4126 ? S0:00 supervise log 4127 ? S0:00 supervise qmail-smtpd 4128 ? S0:00 supervise log 4131 ? S0:00 qmail-lspawn |dot-forward .forward\012./Maildir/ 5077 ? S0:00 in.telnetd 5119 p1 S0:00 su 5120 p1 S0:00 bash 5170 p1 R0:00 ps ax 199 ? S0:00 portmap 233 ? S0:00 /usr/sbin/atd 317 ? S0:00 httpd 318 ? S0:00 httpd 319 ? S0:00 httpd 320 ? S0:00 httpd 321 ? S0:00 httpd 322 ? S0:00 httpd 323 ? S0:00 httpd 324 ? S0:00 httpd 326 ? S0:00 httpd 327 ? S0:00 httpd 5078 p1 S0:00 -bash 4134 ? S0:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 4130 ? S0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s250 /var/log/qmail/qmail 4135 ? S0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s250 /var/log/qmail/qmail 4133 ? S0:00 qmail-clean 4132 ? S0:00 qmail-rspawn 4129 ? S0:00 qmail-send - Can someone tell me if anything is either missing or shouldn't be there? I'm reading through D.J.'s faq and I'm at part 9.1 about running qmail-smtpd under tcpserver. I installed the ucspi-tcp 0.88 package. This is what I see in my inetd.conf file : # do not uncomment smtp unless you *really* know what you are doing. # smtp is handled by the sendmail daemon now, not smtpd. It does NOT # run from here, it is started at boot time from /etc/rc.d/rc#.d. #smtp stream tcp nowait root/usr/bin/smtpd smtpd #nntp stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.nntpd Do I remove these lines? ..continuing...Remove the smtp line from /etc/inetd.conf, and put the two lines tcpserver -v -u 7770 -g 2108 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \ 21 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 into your system boot scripts; replace 7770 with your qmaild uid, and replace 2108 with your nofiles gid. I know I want to use multilog instead of splogger. Should I replace the splogger part of the script with multilog? And if so, please tell me what to put. Your help is appreciated, tony.campisi
Almost Started qmail
I just wanted to thank everyone for their help so far! I'm close to getting this together and running but I'm still getting one error at startup! supervise: fatal: unable to start qmail-smtpd/run: exec format error My /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run file contains: #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaill` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaill` exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 300 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 Dave Kelly asked : Q- Something is already bound to port 25. Have you turned off sendmail? A- Yes, Sendmail is dead but I still can't telnet to port 25. Q- Have you checked to see that there are no errant qmail-smtpd processes already running? A- No qmail processes are running. (Plus, you'll still need to correct the ownership or permissions on /var/log/qmail) drwxrwxr-x 6 qmaill root 1024 May 31 14:37 qmail I changed some things around in my /etc/passwd file, but I'm such a newbie I don't which one is correct. From LWQ section 2.5.4 I had, qmaill:*:879:602::/var/qmail:/bin/true and from another source I had, qmaill:!!:879:602::/var/qmail:/bin/bash (this is in there now). I don't know if the above has anything to do with my problem. Is one format correct and the other not? Thanks for your help and patience! tony.campisi
Trouble Starting qmail
When I attempt to start qmail the following errors scroll continuously accross my screen. multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail/smtpd: access deni ed multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail: access denied supervise: fatal: unable to start qmail-smtpd/run: exec format error I have followed LWQ to the best of my meager ability. Can someone please help this misguided soul? TIA, /tony.campisi
Re: Trouble Starting qmail
: What's in your qmail-smtpd/run file? There's an error with the call to exec : in there, it appears. Actually there's an error I missed upon startup. /usr/local/sbin/qmail start Starting qmail: svscan. tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail: access denied multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail/smtpd: access deni ed supervise: fatal: unable to start qmail-smtpd/run: exec format error My /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run file contains: #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 I took this directly from LWQ. Is the problem with tcpserver? I don't know what "address already used" means. Any ideas? tony.campisi
Maildir..Reheated
At 16:21 00/06/17 -0600, you wrote:
can u help me setting up Maildir
here iam not able to setup Maildir
Easy, correct method:
/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake {username}
Don't forget to "su" to the user before you
execute maildirmake.
Kristina
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I'm using a RedHat 5.2 install running Sendmail. I am installing qmail on this backup
machine at this time. Our naming convention is - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[root@mailperson2 /var/qmail]# su al.koch
[al.koch@mailperson2 /var/qmail]$ /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake al.koch
maildirmake: fatal: unable to mkdir al.koch: access denied
What am I missing here? All of my users (only 250) are under /usr/home/. Should they
be under the /home directory?
TIA,
//tony.campisi
Re: Maildir..Reheated
: Try : su - al.koch : instead of : su al.koch --- That worked for me Peter. Thank you. One more question. My users folders (on the backup machine I'm testing this on) are located under /usr/home. Is this correct or should they be under /home? I seem to have read this somewhere. I initially created all of the accounts using 'userconf' 'user accounts'. If they are actually supposed to be under /home, is there a way to move them all without re-creating them? On my main mail server the accounts are under the /home directory. Thanks for your help!, /tony.campisi
