Re: Connection refused - but not really...
if you're behind a cisco PIX, see if disabling smtp fixup helps. I'm a newcomer to the list, but I've been using qmail for about a year or so. Recently my original qmail server (RH 6.2 - Sparc) died (bad memory) and in a rush I built a new qmail server on another machine (RH 7.1 - 486). The server seems to run fine, no error and such. The way my system is setup is that I have my hosting company forward any mail for my yarrish.com domain to my mail server behind my firewall. So I'm only allowing this one machine to connect to my qmail server. I've noticed lately that I'm getting mail in bursts. Meaning I'll get 40 messages at one point, and then nothing for a certain amount of time (it's not consistent as far as I can tell). Then I'll get another 20-50 messages or so. So what I did as a test, was to allow one of my shell accounts to access port 25 of my qmail server via my firewall. So what happens is when I try to telnet to my ip on port 25, I'll get a number of connection refused (the number varies) and then I'll connect. Once I connect, I can disconnect and reconnect without any problems. Then if I wait a while and try again, the problem repeats itself. This never happened before on my old mail server. I've talked to my hosting company, and their logs are showing the same timeout message and then connect. Also, if I try to connect from one of my other machines on the same network as my qmail server, the connection is not refused. My firewall logs are not showing the packet being dropped (and normally it would, I've tested that as well). Now I have order a new network card, just to eliminate that possibility (I don't know how old the card in the qmail server currently is). But I'm wondering if anyone else can suggest something to look at, at least to eliminate the qmail server being the problem. I am going to fire up the old qmail server and see if the problem is still there. Here's my startup for smtpd: #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -o -P -H -R -llocalhost.localdomain -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c $MAXSMTPD \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 Thanks ahead of time for any help. Tom
Re: qmail-injecting a message with 50K Bcc:
does this hold true for one-time mailings? i'm sending a very dry email detailing the ownership change of a corportaion, so i can't forsee many responses (bounces are, of course, another story). It is not a difficult piece of software to set up, and doesn't take very much space. If you decide to install it, it will be there when you need it the next time for whatever reason. I can't imagine that a corporation wouldn't have something to manage even their internal mailing lists with, to keep archives, etc. the reason that i originally tried to do this with qmail-inject instead of elmlm was that i never saw a need to have list-like behavior (replies, postings,etc). that being tha case, is ezmlm still the best option? Hmm. You can set up an ezmlm list that is moderated, with no posting except moderators. The best option will be in your opinion, ultimately. the best way for me turned out to be this: sed -e 's/^/Bcc: /g' address_list bcc_address_list add message content other headers to bcc_address_list /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject bcc_address_list this worked just fine, without the added steps of installing and configuring ezmlm just for this purpose. for *purely* 1 time mailings, with no need for unsubscribes/moderation, etc, this seems to be the leanest way to do it. thanks- dan
qmail-injecting a message with 50K Bcc:
hi- i'm trying to send a message to a list of approx. 50K email addresses. i figured that the best way to do this was to use qmail-inject with the 50K addresses listed in one giant Bcc: line. i then tried to send the message like so: /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject the_message which results in: qmail-inject: fatal: failed to parse this line: Bcc: . i'm guessing that the line is just too long for qmail-inject. i checked the manpage for qmail-inject and the archives, but couldn't find anything that would indicate that qmail-inject has a line-length limit. if there is indeed a silent limit on the length of the line, are there any suggestions on how to best approximate what the method above would do (1 copy of the message in the remote queue; not more than one address listed in the Delivered-To: field)? Thanks- Dan
multilog logs rblsmtpd into /var/log/qmail/smtpd instead of smtp traffic
i'm running with rblsmtpd, more or less LWQ-style. the contents of /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run: - #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c $MAXSMTPD \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp \ /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd \ -rdialups.mail-abuse.org \ -rrelays.mail-abuse.org \ -rblackholes.mail-abuse.org \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 - /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/run: - #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd - and i end up with a /var/log/qmail/smtpd/current logs that look like this: - @40003b298b7937101f6c rblsmtpd: 143.233.208.2 pid 9823: 451 Blackholed - see URL:http://mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/lookup?143.233.208.2 @40003b299a4d1d350724 rblsmtpd: 143.233.208.2 pid 11657: 451 Blackholed - see URL:http://mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/lookup?143.233.208.2 @40003b29a92c2b4cd8b4 rblsmtpd: 143.233.208.2 pid 13118: 451 Blackholed - see URL:http://mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/lookup?143.233.208.2 - is there a way to get multilog to grab both smtp and rbl generated info? i've searched the archives for similar problems, but haven't managed o track an answer down. thanks- dan
qmail-inject internals question
hi-
I've started to hack around with qmail-inject.c a bit. i'm trying to modify
the file to optionally look for a control/addmessage file, the contents of
which will be appended to every locally generated message.
i'm having some difficulty tacking the addmessage onto the message as it
passes through qmail-inject, so i'm trying to insert some simple logging
messages so i can follow the execution of qmail-inject.
one thing that i'm having a difficult time following: it looks like Dan
Berenstein's logging architecture for qmail is broken down into 3 pretty
simple calls:
(from qsutil.c)
void log1(s1) char *s1; {
substdio_putsflush(sserr,s1); }
void log2(s1,s2) char *s1; char *s2; {
substdio_putsflush(sserr,s1);
substdio_putsflush(sserr,s2); }
void log3(s1,s2,s3) char *s1; char *s2; char *s3; {
substdio_putsflush(sserr,s1);
substdio_putsflush(sserr,s2);
substdio_putsflush(sserr,s3); }
from what i gather, all of these just write messages to stderr, and
multilog/splogger are responsible for collecting them.
i happen to be using multilog (LWQ style)
but when i modify qmail-inject to place a logging call, i get nothing in
/var/log/qmail/current
this line placed in void main(), before any other function.
log1(qmail-inject: started);
can anyonepoint me in the right direction to understand why this fails?
thanks-
dan
Re: ezmlm fails test
are you using the OMAILQUEUE patch or otherwise messing with /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue? the error message is pretty descriptive: check the permissions on the binary, make sure it's there, etc. On Wednesday 16 May 2001 06:15, you wrote: It's been awhile since I've been able to try this again, but the last time I tried the test as per the ezmlm install instructions, I ended up with this message in __TSTDIR__err: ezmlm-send: fatal: temporary qmail-queue error: unable to exec qq (#4.3.0) as far as I know, qmail is working correctly [except that root mail is getting delivered to alias, and I can't stop it]. I'm able to send and recieve mail fine. I looked around and couldn't really find anything about this error, but again, it's been awhile, so I'm not sure how 'in depth' my search may have been. Anybody have any suggestions on where to look to fix this?
Re: slow smtp connection
or how about breaking up the list to qmail-newbiesand qmail-arch, or somthing similar? i know this has been suggested before. dan On Tue, 01 May 2001, Brett Randall wrote: Charles == Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A note to potential qmail newbies: we'll help you. Honestly. You just have to promise to do your homework, give it an honest try before asking for help, and to post good problem reports (detailing what you did, what the system did, and what you thought it was going to do instead, with complete logs and contents of control files). If you're not willing to promise that much, you will receive nothing but beatings for your pains, in this list, or anywhere else in life for that matter. Why isn't this type of message in the qmail-subscribe auto-generated reply? I have suggested this many times myself, and seen many other people suggest it as well. Simply pointing out this kind of thing and linking to the major sources of documentation would save a bundle of time and emotion. Of course, one could also point out that having the list message-moderated with a couple of good moderators in a couple of opposing timezones would significantly increase the signal to noise ratio. -- Pascal, n.: A programming language named after a man who would turn over in his grave if he knew about it. - The Chartered Institution of C Programmers
Re: slow smtp connection
right, but then you could moderate the qmail-arch list, and leave the qmail-newbies list open. (i'm cribbing of the freebsd lists; the freebsd-arch list gets virtually no static, near as i can tell). On Tue, 01 May 2001, denis wrote: Alas, so very true Jeremy Suo-Anttila wrote: if you break it up then the newbies will just post to both lists. -Original Message- From: dan.kelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 1:58 PM To: Brett Randall; Charles Cazabon Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: slow smtp connection or how about breaking up the list to qmail-newbiesand qmail-arch, or somthing similar? i know this has been suggested before. dan On Tue, 01 May 2001, Brett Randall wrote: Charles == Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A note to potential qmail newbies: we'll help you. Honestly. You just have to promise to do your homework, give it an honest try before asking for help, and to post good problem reports (detailing what you did, what the system did, and what you thought it was going to do instead, with complete logs and contents of control files). If you're not willing to promise that much, you will receive nothing but beatings for your pains, in this list, or anywhere else in life for that matter. Why isn't this type of message in the qmail-subscribe auto-generated reply? I have suggested this many times myself, and seen many other people suggest it as well. Simply pointing out this kind of thing and linking to the major sources of documentation would save a bundle of time and emotion. Of course, one could also point out that having the list message-moderated with a couple of good moderators in a couple of opposing timezones would significantly increase the signal to noise ratio. -- Pascal, n.: A programming language named after a man who would turn over in his grave if he knew about it. - The Chartered Institution of C Programmers
Re: off topic qmail compiling error Clock skew detected
what it probably means is that you're building across an NFS mount, and that the machine you're compiling on is reading a modification time for the source file as being in the future. biggest possible problem is make not properly determining which source files have been altered, and not recompiling them. dan On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, alexus wrote: date of yoru computer is either in way long in future or somethin like 1979 or somethin:) use ntpdate to update your clock - Original Message - From: Linux!audimed [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 3:48 PM Subject: off topic qmail compiling error Clock skew detected I know it is a off topic. what can it be ? ##compiling qmail make: warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be incomplete. # THX.
Re: outlook and outlook express
you need to set up their PCs with the correct local time. On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, you wrote: Hello everyone, We have recently changed to Qmail and since doing so anyone with outlook and outlook express is logging time at grenwich time How do we change the time, oh by the way in the mail itself the time is correct just not in the log in the inbox. Robin
Re: PTHREAD_THREADS_MAX 1024 - 8192
no. qmail isin't multithreaded. dan On Mon, 09 Apr 2001, you wrote: will this increase qmail performance on linux server? ./hantunes
controlling alias access
hi all- i'm using fastforward in /var/qmail/aliases/.qmail-default like so: | /var/qmail/bin/fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb i'd like to control access to certain email aliases; i.e. only certaing users should be able to send emails to certain site-wide aliases. simple 'from' checking is probably enough, although it would be nice to have something better. the only option i can think of is writing some type of wrapper to stick in .qmail-default that sits before fastforward. has someone seen a better way to do this? thanks- dan Dan Kelley www.otec.com 212-840-8600
Re: Repeated Identical Messages
this is getting much weirder. following the message below, i tested both my backup and primary to see if they implemented help for qmail. here's what happened: when i test help by doing the following: from an ip inside the local network: telnet mailhost.otec.com smtp [dkelley@mx1 qmail]# telnet mailhost.otec.com smtp Trying 209.3.117.5... Connected to mx1.ny.otec.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mx1.ny.otec.com ESMTP help 214 qmail home page: http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html from a remote ip: % telnet mailhost.otec.com smtp Trying 209.3.117.5... Connected to mx1.ny.otec.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 * help 502 unimplemented (#5.5.1) i tested the backup (which is located on a different block in a different geographic location) the exact same way: from an ip inside the local newtork: % telnet dev1.gc.ny.otec.com smtp Trying 10.0.50.102... Connected to dev1.gc.ny.otec.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 dev1.gc.ny.otec.com ESMTP help 214 qmail home page: http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html from a remote ip: [dkelley@mx1 qmail]# telnet dev1.gc.ny.otec.com smtp Trying 64.209.222.102... Connected to dev1.gc.ny.otec.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 * help 502 unimplemented (#5.5.1) this appears to be hopelessy weird. both smtp connections are made through a firewall, which leaves port 25 open for the respective machines. mailhost.otec.com, after a very recent upgrade, runs qmail-1.03 with the qmail-remote ptach for qmtp delivery, and the qmail-queue patch for use with qmail-scanner. i've looked at the code (both pre and post patch), and can't figure out why this would occur. i've tried this from both a windows terminal and a linux xterm. anyone have any idea how this could happen? thanks- dan At 12:52 AM 3/16/01 +0100, you wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 05:05:30PM -0500, dan kelley wrote: they're definitley qmail; both run qmail-1.03 unpatched under tcpserver. what do you mean by 'help for smtp' ? lagrange(2:2697) $ telnet mailhost.otec.com smtp Trying 209.3.117.5... Connected to mx1.ny.otec.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 * help 502 unimplemented (#5.5.1) quit 221 mx1.ny.otec.com this is definitely NOT an unpatched qmail. Unmodified qmail's look like that: lagrange(2:2698) $ telnet mail.space.net smtp Trying 195.30.0.8... Connected to mail.space.net. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mail.space.net ESMTP help 214 qmail home page: http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html quit 221 mail.space.net \Maex -- SpaceNet AG| Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 | Fon: +49 (89) 32356-0 Research Development | D-80807 Muenchen| Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299 Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet. Dan Kelley www.otec.com 212-840-8600
help - tcprules flaking out
here's my tcp.smtp file: 209.3.117.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 64.209.222.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 63.113.119.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow i'm compliling thusly: tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb tcp.smtp.tmp /etc/tcp.smtp that compiles cleanly, but: tcpruleschceck /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb 209.3.117.1 yields: [dkelley@mx1 /etc]# tcprulescheck /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb 209.3.117.1 rule : allow connection [dkelley@mx1 /etc]# it doesn't appear to be setting RELAYCLIENT. this worked fine before today; all i've done is add the last line to the tcp.smtp file. there's no whitespace at the end of the line. any help would be greatly appreciated- thanks- dan Dan Kelley www.otec.com 212-840-8600
RE: Repeated Identical Messages
as someone here was nice enough to point out to me: by default, certain versions of PIX software come out of the box with fixup protocol smtp 25 enabled. this implements something called 'Mail Guard', which rewrites smtp conversations, only allowing rfc 821 commands. we've been having two types of mail problems since installing the pix: 1. certain domains just couldn't email us. 2. we sometimes receive hundreds of copies of the same email. once i removed the smtp fixup from the pix, mail started soming throough from the domains that fell into category #1. (incidentally, they we're all exchange servers). it appears that number2 is now fixed as well, although that will take more time to verify. basically, what would happen is this: remote mailserver initiates conversation, says something like EHLO server.imaginary.com the PIX would rewrite the line to this (becase EHLO isin't rfc821) server.imaginary.com to which qmail would respond: 502 unimplemented (#5.5.1) the upshot was that eventually i'd have about 50 qmail-smtpd processes running at any given time. what finally gave the source of the problem away: telnet your mailserver 25 from both inside the network , and outside (through the pix). if you type help, and you get 502 unimplemented from the outside, and 214 qmail home page:http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html from the inside, the pix may be your problem. dan At 01:12 PM 3/19/01 -0800, you wrote: What would a PIX have to do with it? I am having a random mutiple delivery problem, and I am behind a PIX. Thanks Kep _ ants.com http://www.ants.com scout http://www.ants.com/scout Kep Brown Systems, Network and Database Administrator phone: (805) 560-3781 fax: (805) 560-3991 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Moutsos Georgios [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 10:21 AM To: dan kelley Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Repeated Identical Messages Your servers are probably behind a Cisco PIX firewall. J. -Original Message- From: dan kelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: , 19 2001 6:35 To: Markus Stumpf Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Repeated Identical Messages this is getting much weirder. following the message below, i tested both my backup and primary to see if they implemented help for qmail. here's what happened: when i test help by doing the following: from an ip inside the local network: telnet mailhost.otec.com smtp [dkelley@mx1 qmail]# telnet mailhost.otec.com smtp Trying 209.3.117.5... Connected to mx1.ny.otec.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mx1.ny.otec.com ESMTP help 214 qmail home page: http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html from a remote ip: % telnet mailhost.otec.com smtp Trying 209.3.117.5... Connected to mx1.ny.otec.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 * help 502 unimplemented (#5.5.1) ... Dan Kelley www.otec.com 212-840-8600
Re: Repeated Identical Messages
steve- unfortunately, i can't tell you why this is happening, but the *exact* same thing is happening to me. when i started to capture all smtp sessions with recordio to see if that gave any hints, i found that i had lots of these in my logs: 451 timeout are you seeing he same thing? dan At 03:09 PM 3/15/01 -, you wrote: Hi All I have a situation where emails sent to accounts on our qmail 1.03 server randomly get regenerated so that multiple copies of the same identical email are resent several times. The number repeated can range from a few to several hundred and there seems to be no set pattern as to the time cycle between each mail. The original mails have been sent from a variety of different servers and platforms - MS and Unix. For example the mail that Charles Cazabon sent as a reply to Bill Luckett[EMAIL PROTECTED] to this list Subject Re: Messages Won't Remove From Queue on Wednesday 14/03/2001 15:05 I have now received as fourteen separate instances at these times: Wed 14/03/2001 15:39 Wed 14/03/2001 16:26 Wed 14/03/2001 17:31 Wed 14/03/2001 19.02 Wed 14/03/2001 20:35 Wed 14/03/2001 22.14 Thu 15/03/2001 00:08 Thu 15/03/2001 01:56 Thu 15/03/2001 00:08 Thu 15/03/2001 02:16 Thu 15/03/2001 04:38 Thu 15/03/2001 07:24 Thu 15/03/2001 10:09 Thu 15/03/2001 13:11 All mails are identical and I'm sure Charles is not resending the same mail. Does anyone know why this should be happening or better still how to fix it ? Many thanks for any help. Steve -- Steve Crowder Systems Support Engineer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** http://www.traffic.co.uk Traffic Interactive Limited 191 Old Marylebone Road London NW1 5DW Telephone (Direct Line): +44 (0)20 7298 8281 Telephone (Switchboard): +44 (0)20 7298 8200 Mobile: +44 07718 808 048 Facsimile: +44 (0)20 7298 8201 ISDN: +44 (0)20 7298 8299 ** Dan Kelley www.otec.com 212-840-8600
Re: Repeated Identical Messages
i'm having the exact same problem: mailhost.otec.com dan At 04:29 PM 3/15/01 +0100, you wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 03:09:24PM -, Steve Crowder wrote: Hi All I have a situation where emails sent to accounts on our qmail 1.03 server randomly get regenerated so that multiple copies of the same identical email are resent several times. The number repeated can range from a few to several hundred and there seems to be no set pattern as to the time cycle between each mail. The original mails have been sent from a variety of different servers and platforms - MS and Unix. [snip] Missing 250 after successfull DATA during the SMTP conservation?? It's not mail-1.traffic.co.uk is it?? It doesn't look like a qmail server... It's hard for us to take a look at the server unless we know which one it is :) Jrgen Dan Kelley www.otec.com 212-840-8600
Re: Repeated Identical Messages
i take your point on packetloss / truncated SMTP conversations. however, i'm seeing this from many different domains, including hotmail and yahoo. one oddity: so far, the dups all seems to come from domains that are using qmail for outgoing mail. At 09:39 AM 3/15/01 -0600, you wrote: Steve Crowder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I have now received as fourteen separate instances at these times: [...] All mails are identical and I'm sure Charles is not resending the same mail. Nope, just the once. Does anyone know why this should be happening or better still how to fix it ? I see this too sometimes; it seems to be bursty. I'll get lots of duplicates for a day or two, then none for a week or three. Dan has mentioned in the past that packet loss on the UIC link during the day regularly hits 25% -- since list.cr.yp.to sits on that network, it might be not seeing the successful response to the DATA command if the connection gets broken before then, and therefore has to re-send the mail (and logging "possible dupe" messages in Dan's logs). I do note that the duplicates are generally received on weekdays during North American office hours, and I only notice them on mail coming from list.cr.yp.to -- not from other ezmlm-managed lists. Perhaps djb himself could comment on whether the network saturation at UIC is causing duplicates? 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. --- ________ Dan Kelley www.otec.com 212-840-8600
Re: Repeated Identical Messages
they're definitley qmail; both run qmail-1.03 unpatched under tcpserver. what do you mean by 'help for smtp' ? thanks- dan At 06:27 PM 3/15/01 +0100, you wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 10:30:07AM -0500, dan kelley wrote: i'm having the exact same problem: mailhost.otec.com [snip] well... mailhost.otec.com and mx2.otec.com doesn't look like qmail servers -- are they behind some service?? qmail implements help for SMTP but it's unimplemented on your server. Jrgen Dan Kelley www.otec.com 212-840-8600
RE: Repeated Identical Messages
this is interesting: we use dot-forward and fastforward. here's .qmail-default: | /var/qmail/bin/fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb i looked at the users that were receiving dups, and pretty much all of them had .qmail files. Is there some type of confilct between .qmail and fastfoward, or is a just a matter of having the .qmail files not including errors? Thanks- Dan At 03:14 PM 3/15/01 -0500, you wrote: I know we were experiencing this problem once before. And what it came down to is the .qmail files. Specifically if the .qmail-default was not setup correctly it would send duplicates out. Or if a .qmail file setup as an alias to multiple people was setup incorrectly or included someone that no longer had an account. Everytime that I've experienced duplicate messages on our server it has related back to one of those to items. Andy -Original Message- From: Jeremy Suo-Anttila [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 2:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Repeated Identical Messages I have had the repeated msg problem with some of the users on my ezmlm-idx managed list. I had one user tell me he got the same newsletter 12 times from me. Has anyone found a solution to this yet ? Thanks Jeremy Suo-Anttila Dan Kelley www.otec.com 212-840-8600
help: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir
I've recently re-installed qmail w/ ./Maildir/ , and i get this on every message delivery: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1) i set up users' Maildir directorys by changing to their home directories and: /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake Maildir i tried changing permissions to make the directory writable, but then I get: Uh-oh:_home_directory_is_writable._(#4.7.0) I've looked at the docs, but I can't find anything on what home directory permissions should be. this is how i have it now: drw-r--r-- djk staff thanks- dan Dan Kelley www.otec.com 212-840-8600
SMP qmail server
hi all- i am _definitely_ not trying to ignite any type of war with this mail. here's the question: i'd like to start using qmail-scanner w/ kaspersky's AVP to scan all gatewayed mail. my fears are this: 1. every piece of mail invokes perl. 2. the linux machine taht we use as a mail gateway currently has 128meg ram. 3. the qmail-scanner page on sourceforge (qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net) mentions that each simultaneous SMTP session that involves qmail-scanner can occupy about 5-6mb of memory, and that incoming mail limits should be adjusted accordingly. i'd rather never hit swap, so under my current amount of ram, i'd have to severely limit the number of incoming connections. given thses concerns, i'd like to just ditch the current machine and get something with a couple of cpus and a decent amount of ram to handle the additional overhead of qmail-scanner/virus scan prog. does anyone have any experience with this type of setup? i'd much rather stick with freebsd, but have head that linux has better SMP support. does this make any difference? thanks- dan Dan Kelley www.otec.com 212-840-8600
_lots_ of repeat messages
. timeoutremote: (Default.) SMTP client data timeout is 1200 seconds. timeoutsmtpd: (Default.) SMTP server data timeout is 1200 seconds. virtualdomains: Virtual domain: otec.com:alias Virtual domain: mailhost.otec.com:alias Virtual domain: mx2.ny.genx.net:alias TIA Dan Kelley www.otec.com 212-840-8600
