RE: badmailfrom didn't work
HUP'ing is NOT necessary for badmailfrom. It gets used with each new call to qmail-smtpd. -- Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc. -Original Message- From: zyrtaf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 7:56 AM To: Gary MacKay Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: badmailfrom didn't work did you killall -HUP qmail-send? - Original Message - From: Gary MacKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 2:35 PM Subject: badmailfrom didn't work OK. I added this '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' dude to my badmailfrom and still got this last message. What gives? If I telnet to the box and try to send in a message as him, it gets kicked out, why doesn't the real message get kicked out? - Gary
RE: orbs
There are three new ORBS forks. http://www.orbl.org/ http://www.orbz.gst-group.co.uk/orbs/ http://www.ordb.org/ -Original Message- From: Vincent Schonau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 11:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: orbs On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:22:02AM -0400, Kurth Bemis wrote: does any one know why orbs is offline? It appears to be because of a) legal troubles and b) the fact that Alan Brown has sold his ISP business. It is highly unlikely at this point that it will ever come back. It has been down, by the way, since early June. If you are still running rblsmtpd querying any of the ORBS lists, be warned: - The lists are no longer being maintained. The information in those list is *fast* becoming outdated; as time passes, you will be rejecting mail from more and more hosts that are not open relays. - The volunteers who provided DNS service to orbs.org are now seeing a significant increase in bandwidth usage because of the way the orbs lists were shut down. One of them has already turned to answering *every* ORBS request with an A and TXT record; this will lead to loss of _at least_ 1/10th of the mail at hosts still using ORBS. It is possible that others will start doing the same; in which case you will lose even more mail. Stop querying the ORBS lists; you're just wasting your own and others' resources. And if you switch to one of the other DNSBL's, please make sure you keep up with the various anti-spam forums. Most of these services are provided for free; making sure you don't waste the resources is the least you can do. Vince.
RE: php-qmail-sendmail...cjk
also, -t is not a valid flag for qmail-inject. see docs http://www.qmail.org/man/man8/qmail-inject.html probably don't want to be using -i either. -Original Message- From: peter green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 9:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: php-qmail-sendmail...cjk * Mike Hodson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010718 07:45]: On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 14:17:18 +0300 Constantine Koulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i did the following to my php.ini file but still dont work. i even did change the path to :/var/qmail/bin/sendmail -t -i or only /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject -t -i but nothing goes. I have the following message: Warning: mail() is not supported in this PHP build in /usr/local/htdocs/test/newsletter/phpmynewsletter/include/cls.php3 on line 141 Did you compile PHP with the c-client 2001 uw-imap library? This is required for almost any mail options. The php configure command Please quit spreading misinformation. PHP's mail() has nothing whatsoever to do with the IMAP library. ISTR that PHP has had problems with qmail's sendmail wrapper. In addition to the other bug report previously linked in this ``thread'', you can also check out [http://www.php.net/bugs.php?id=11184]. Looks like it may be 4.0.5-specific, though YMMV. /pg -- Peter Green : Architekton Internet Services, LLC : [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head. --- Larry Wall in [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: stopping delivery to remote domain
They don't accept bounces or are so slow to react that bounces don't succeed and so clutter up the queue quite substantially. I just added them to the badmailfrom file since they tried juggling IPs for a while after I blocked them with tcpserver. Badmailfrom did the trick. (It did however take blocking @opt01.edirectnetwork.net @opt02.edirectnetwork.net ... @opt39.edirectnetwork.net @opt40.edirectnetwork.net) -- Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc. -Original Message- From: Thomas Blauvelt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 9:11 AM To: Charles Cazabon Cc: qmail-list.cr.yp.to Subject: Re: stopping delivery to remote domain We had the same problem with this domain, but of course it was 'remote' mail that was hanging, not local. Our solution was to add this domain to our local DNS so it would be delivered locally and then dumped. We have also blocked smtp connections from the many IPs that these hosts resolved to. On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Charles Cazabon wrote: Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to stop local mail from being delivered to a remote domain. I have a domain that keeps filling up my que and never delivers. the domain is always listed as opt??.edirectnetworks.net For some reason they never seem to time out and drop out of the que. They just sit there... and finally will build up to the point that I will have to reboot the system to clear out the cue enough to start the delivery of my local mail in a timely manner. Messages sitting in the queue do not stop local deliveries from happening. Even in-progress remote deliveries which are stalled do not stop local deliveries from happening -- concurrency is maintained separately for local and remote deliveries. You're micromanaging the queue. Have you actually seen local mail delivery delayed by these stuck messages? If so, post the log of qmail-send during the time it was happening. Charles -- -- - Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ -- - Thank you. tom blauvelt Thomas Blauvelt NorthNet Internet Services, Inc. North Country Reference Research Resources Council [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7 Commerce Lane Canton NY 13617 USA (315) 386-4569
getting more verbose error messages from qmail
preface: qmail 1.03 with big-concurrency multilog need: link to information (or information) on producing more verbose, or detailed information in qmail logs for error messages like #4.4.1 or #5.1.1 would like to see the email address the error is talking about in the logfile and would like to be able to customize my logs more appreciate all helpful responses --- Michael Geier CDM Sports, Inc. - Systems Administrator email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 314.991.1511 x 6505 pager: 314.318.9414
Qmailt and spam
Yesterday I got about 100 failure notices bounced to me as postmaster. Today I got an abuse notice from my server provider. So this spammer must be able to relay through me somehow. Qmail has been working for me for over a year. Is anybody else having this problem? Where should I look for answers? The spammer seems to somehow be using the user qmailt as the originator. A copy follows. uid 12355 is the user qmailt. Mike Grier - Delivered-To: x Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Envelope-To: xX-Envelope-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Delivery-Time: 993094914 Received: (qmail 13252 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2001 03:41:54 - Received: from lightning.mail.pipex.net (158.43.128.144) by firestorm.mail.pipex.net with SMTP; 21 Jun 2001 03:41:54 - Received: (qmail 6926 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2001 03:43:07 - Received: from e1city.com (216.110.45.57) by depot.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 21 Jun 2001 03:43:07 - Received: (qmail 23293 invoked by uid 12355); 20 Jun 2001 22:30:44 - Date: 20 Jun 2001 22:30:44 - Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: x Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: Attention!... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 June 2001 23:31 To: x Subject: Attention!... disgusting spam snipped
Re: Qmailt and spam
- Original Message - From: Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 5:39 PM Subject: Re: Qmailt and spam Michael Grier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday I got about 100 failure notices bounced to me as postmaster. Today I got an abuse notice from my server provider. So this spammer must be able to relay through me somehow. Qmail has been working for me for over a year. Is anybody else having this problem? Where should I look for answers? In your logs all logs are full of lines like this: @40003b326259244df3f4 alert: cannot start: unable to open mutex I rebooted. and your configuration. If qmail is an open relay on your system, you've configured it incorrectly. Give us the output of `qmail-showctl`, [root@server1 qmail]# bin/qmail-showctl qmail home directory: /var/qmail. user-ext delimiter: -. paternalism (in decimal): 2. silent concurrency limit: 120. subdirectory split: 23. user ids: 12346, 12347, 12348, 0, 12349, 12350, 12351, 12352. group ids: 12347, 12348. badmailfrom: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is allowed. bouncefrom: (Default.) Bounce user name is MAILER-DAEMON. bouncehost: (Default.) Bounce host name is e1city.com. concurrencylocal: (Default.) Local concurrency is 10. concurrencyremote: (Default.) Remote concurrency is 20. databytes: (Default.) SMTP DATA limit is 0 bytes. defaultdomain: Default domain name is e1city.com. defaulthost: (Default.) Default host name is e1city.com. doublebouncehost: (Default.) 2B recipient host: e1city.com. doublebounceto: (Default.) 2B recipient user: postmaster. envnoathost: (Default.) Presumed domain name is e1city.com. helohost: (Default.) SMTP client HELO host name is e1city.com. idhost: (Default.) Message-ID host name is e1city.com. localiphost: (Default.) Local IP address becomes e1city.com. locals: Messages for localhost are delivered locally. me: My name is e1city.com. percenthack: (Default.) The percent hack is not allowed. plusdomain: Plus domain name is e1city.com. qmqpservers: (Default.) No QMQP servers. queuelifetime: (Default.) Message lifetime in the queue is 604800 seconds. rcpthosts: SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at localhost. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at mgrier.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at bigmweb.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at e1city.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at thecountrymill.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at countrymill.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at cherryjuiceconcentrate.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at tartcherryjuice.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at doccherry.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at msistudios.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at msi-studios.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at tcsom.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at gospelofthekingdom.org. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at midlandfurniture.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at midlandpiano.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at michiganpiano.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at michiganorgan.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at sweetnita.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at tennes.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at j4t.org. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at intruderlc.com. SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at sleepmethods.com. morercpthosts: (Default.) No effect. morercpthosts.cdb: (Default.) No effect. smtpgreeting: (Default.) SMTP greeting: 220 e1city.com. smtproutes: (Default.) No artificial SMTP routes. timeoutconnect: (Default.) SMTP client connection timeout is 60 seconds. timeoutremote: (Default.) SMTP client data timeout is 1200 seconds. timeoutsmtpd: (Default.) SMTP server data timeout is 1200 seconds. virtualdomains: Virtual domain: mgrier.com:mgrier Virtual domain: bigmweb.com:alias-bigmwebcom Virtual domain: e1city.com:alias-e1citycom Virtual domain: thecountrymill.com:mtennes Virtual domain: countrymill.com:mtennes Virtual domain: cherryjuiceconcentrate.com:mtennes Virtual domain: tartcherryjuice.com:mtennes Virtual domain: doccherry.com:mtennes Virtual domain: msistudios.com:gjgadwa Virtual domain: msi-studios.com:gjgadwa Virtual domain: tcsom.com:alias-tcsomcom Virtual domain: gospelofthekingdom.org:alias-gospelofthekingdomorg Virtual domain: midlandfurniture.com:alias-midlandfurniturecom Virtual domain: midlandpiano.com:alias-michiganpianocom Virtual domain: michiganpiano.com:alias-michiganpianocom Virtual domain: michiganorgan.com:alias-michiganpianocom Virtual domain: sweetnita.com:alias-sweetnitacom Virtual domain: tennes.com:mtennes Virtual domain: j4t.org:alias-j4torg Virtual domain: intruderlc.com:alias-intruderlccom Virtual domain: sleepmethods.com:alias-sleepmethodscom
Re: Qmailt and spam
The spammer seems to somehow be using the user qmailt as the originator. A copy follows. uid 12355 is the user qmailt. There is no such user in a normal qmail install. Are you sure they didn't get into your system another way? A broken formmail CGI, or something else? I've now found that this user was most likely created yesterday when this problem started, so now I probably have to figure out how I was hacked. I've deleted the user.
failure notices
I'm getting lots of failure notices like the following. Does this mean that qmail is working or do I need to look further to see if this spam is getting through for other addresses? The user qmailt seems to be involved in all of them. Mike my server is represented herein by mydomain.com --- From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jun 20 15:25:50 2001 X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] via web13806.mail.yahoo.com; 20 Jun 2001 15:25:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mydomain.com (216.110.45.57) by mta550.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Jun 2001 15:25:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 11487 invoked by alias); 20 Jun 2001 22:25:50 - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 11461 invoked for bounce); 20 Jun 2001 22:25:50 - Date: 20 Jun 2001 22:25:50 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Block Address | Add to Address Book To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failure notice Content-Length: 1428 Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mydomain.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, I couldn't find any host named global.couk. (#5.1.2) --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 11421 invoked by uid 12355); 20 Jun 2001 22:25:49 - Date: 20 Jun 2001 22:25:49 - Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: Attention!... disgusting spam snipped
RE: courier-imap and tcpserver ?
this is working nicely for me... http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2000/04/msg01189.html -- Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc. -Original Message- From: Oden Eriksson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 8:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: courier-imap and tcpserver ? Hi list, I wonder if anyone has courier-imap running under tcpserver, and if so could share how it was done? Thanks in advance. -- Regards // Oden Eriksson Kvikkjokk Networks
RE: Multilog log file size specification
-Original Message- From: Alex Khanin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 11:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Multilog log file size specification I've read the manpage and it states you should use the ssize action, So I put this in my /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /backup/log/qmail ssize 50 nnum 50 That is ignored. If I put it this way: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t ssize 50 nnum 50 /backup/log/qmail make it ... t s500 n50 -- Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc.
Need your help please !
Hi! (Good evening, morning, e.t.c ) May be somebody will be able to help me (I know that this question is not related to qmail sorry ! ) I have my router connected to the serial port via cable. This is a Cisco 3640 How do I hyperterm into my router.? Do I need to use some special software? Thanks a lot for you help . Michael Fainshtein System Administrator Security Credit-Point Ltd. Tel: 972-(2)-644-0022 x 206 Fax: 972-(2)-644-0020 Mobile: 972-(58)-347746 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need your help please !
Hi! (Good evening, morning, e.t.c ) May be somebody will be able to help me (I know that this question is not related to qmail sorry ! ) I have my router connected to the serial port via cable. This is a Cisco 3640 How do I hyperterm into my router.? Do I need to use some special software? Thanks a lot for you help . Michael Fainshtein System Administrator Security Credit-Point Ltd. Tel: 972-(2)-644-0022 x 206 Fax: 972-(2)-644-0020 Mobile: 972-(58)-347746 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need your help please !
Hi! (Good evening, morning, e.t.c ) May be somebody will be able to help me (I know that this question is not related to qmail sorry ! ) I have my router connected to the serial port via cable. This is a Cisco 3640 How do I hyperterm into my router from Linux machine ? Do I need to use some special software? Thanks a lot for you help . Michael Fainshtein System Administrator Security Credit-Point Ltd. Tel: 972-(2)-644-0022 x 206 Fax: 972-(2)-644-0020 Mobile: 972-(58)-347746 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RBL-type header checking
I've written a filter in Python that scans for Received: lines and checks IP addresses found therein against a configurable list of RBL type services. It is in beta stages and definately under development, but it is very functional (doesn't crash for me anymore). http://www.fibrespeed.net/code/spamcheck.tar.gz It uses threads to look up multiple IPs simultaneously and adds a configurable header after applicable Received: lines in the form: X-SPAM-service: notice from TXT This allows the user to delete or re-file messages based on these headers instead of just having the mail deleted by their ISP. Its GPL'd and I'd appreciate any constructive feedback you might have as well as patches from the Python gurus out there. -- Michael T. Babcock CTO, FibreSpeed
Re: RBL-type header checking
http://www.fibrespeed.net/code/spamcheck.tar.gz 404 Thanks ... http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/code/spamcheck.tar.gz -- Michael T. Babcock CTO, FibreSpeed
Aliases
Hi, I'm using qmail aliases to create simple mailing lists. Does anyone know how to stop qmail from sending you a copy of your own message whenyou post to an alias that has your addressincluded in the alias? Cheers, -mic
mail.local problems
I am runnign FreeBSD 4.3. I just installed qmail and am loving it. Everything is great except one problem. I can get mail delivered using Maildirs. I can get mail delivered using Mailboxes. I cannot get mail delivered to my /var/mail/user directories. I read the INSTALL.vsm document and know I need to use /var/qmail/boot/binm1. But for some reason /usr/libexec/mail.local fails to deliver mail. The maillog complains about: Jun 5 23:38:23 tanuki mail.local: lockmailbox /var/mail/mhr failed; error code 75 Jun 5 23:38:23 tanuki qmail: 991809503.505219 delivery 2: deferral: mail.local:_lockmailbox_/var/mail/mhr_failed;_error_code_75_/ Anyone know what error_code 75 is? Or how I could find out for myself in the future? Thanks in advance. mhr
RE: [OT] qmail php
you must install php pre-qmail. PHP compiles with the sendmail executables and libraries. so: install os (w/sendmail) install php install qmail follow the qmail faq for linking to qmail executables change sendmail_path to /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject in php.ini This is how I did it and it works great on a machine with big.concurrency patch and 400 remote processes. -Original Message- From: Gordon McDowall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 10:50 AM To: Bill Andersen; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] qmail php I have a machine with php and qmail on it, but I can't remember which I installed first ;o( I will put a php form script on if you like to test it - Original Message - From: Bill Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 3:28 PM Subject: [OT] qmail php When I installed qmail, I obviously removed sendmail. Now when I build php(4) and try to use the the mail() function, I get mail() not supported in this PHP build because sendmail was not found during the configure (I assume). The only reference I could find in the php archives was to put sendmail_path=path to qmail-inject, but it didn't work. Has anyone had any luck using php with qmail? Please reply off-list as I realize this is really a php issue. The php mailing list is down per their web site, but I figure someone on this list is bound to be running php... (Sorry!) ./bill BTW: RH7, php4-apache
Re: Inter7 introduces new software: vQregister
How inefficient do you think PHP is? What do you consider to be so much faster, native code running as a CGI? Have you benchmarked the two programs? - Original Message - Not everyone has a single box devoted to Apache with PHP modules. In fact, many people run a large amount of time consuming processes. Efficiency is always a factor, when it can be taken into account. Web based products should always be concerned with efficiency.
RE: Allusers
qmail-popbull works great for us -- Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc. -Original Message- From: Rodrigo Borges Pereira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 9:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Allusers Hello! In my university student's machines (using sendmail), there's a system alias called 'allusers'. Any e-mail sent to this address is forwarded to every local account on the machine. I'd like to know what's the best way to use something like this with qmail. TIA Rodrigo
RE: qmail-popbull used w/ imap
Scott, you rock! I was just feeling good about myself because I figured out what imaplogin was passing along and was munging checkpassword to account for the slightly different file descriptor 3. Then would have been the fun of figuring out what imapd needed. It never hurts to really look close at code, though. Thanks so much for the follow up and to Russell I'll thank again for the popbull code. 8^) -- Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc. -Original Message- From: Scott Gifford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 9:26 AM To: michael Cc: Russell Nelson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: qmail-popbull used w/ imap Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: michael writes: This question I suppose is directed at Russell since he is the writer of qmail-popbull... We're trying to get courier-imap running and the desire is to also have bulletin ability. Since qmail-popbull is called as part of tcpserver startup for qmail I'm hoping it can be inserted into the startup string for imap. Can anyone think of a reason why it wouldn't be able to be done? I'd check it out now, but am still working on getting checkpassword converted for use w/ courier-imap since it appears to need a few extra environment variables set. I'd rather not have to add that functionality into a new piece of code. Won't work, because Mr. Sam chose not to use checkpassword for courier-imap. qmail-popbull requires the use of checkpassword. Here's the configuration I use to make courier-imap use checkpassword and qmail-popbull: http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2000/04/msg01189.html Good luck, ScottG.
qmail-popbull used w/ imap
This question I suppose is directed at Russell since he is the writer of qmail-popbull... We're trying to get courier-imap running and the desire is to also have bulletin ability. Since qmail-popbull is called as part of tcpserver startup for qmail I'm hoping it can be inserted into the startup string for imap. Can anyone think of a reason why it wouldn't be able to be done? I'd check it out now, but am still working on getting checkpassword converted for use w/ courier-imap since it appears to need a few extra environment variables set. I'd rather not have to add that functionality into a new piece of code. Thanks, -- Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc.
RE: Problems with SMTP connections
nslookup -type=mx netzero.net netzero.net preference = 10, mail exchanger = inbound-mail.netzero.net telnet inbound-mail.netzero.net 25 should work for you (unless your IP is in the DUL) -- Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc. -Original Message- From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 7:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems with SMTP connections Graham H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I can send mail to cnmnetwork.com fine. telnet cnmnetwork.com 25, and you'll get the MTA. However, domains like aol.com, netzero.net, and probably many others, who don't run MTAs on x.com, I can't reach. This is expected behaviour. Example: telnet aol.com 25. You'll get no response. It seems as if I have to mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in order to get my message across. It's not some random server. It's the mail exchanger(s) for the domain in question. DNS records include this information. Use your favourite DNS query tool to retrieve the MX records for aol.com, for example. qmail does this on its own -- if DNS isn't working, you shouldn't be able to send mail anywhere remote (well, except for those domains you've hardcoded with smtproutes entries). Post the unedited output of qmail-showctl, log entries showing your problem, and a better summary. 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 ignores my sorry ass part II...
would almost seem easier to make an alias out of the list, then just send one email... or maybe cycle the emails through a programming loop, putting 100 users on an email, send it, continue loop... -Original Message- From: Mark Delany [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 2:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: qmail ignores my sorry ass part II... On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:25:43PM -0700, Brett wrote: Ok, thanks. Here's some more info: I'm trying to send the mail with qmail-inject from the command line. I checked and the exit code I'm getting is 65280. I meant 5600 addresses, not messages, and yes, that's more or less how I'm placing the addresses except I'm doing it from a perl script that puts the addresses in a Bcc field and then makes a system() call which is just like calling from the Bcc field? Do you mean these address are on the command line or in the headers of the message? The difference is a lot more than more or less. In fact the difference is critical. If the latter then you have a different problem from what I suggested. If the former, then change to the latter as that's the best way as you cannot normally increase the command line limits without kernel rebuilds. Regards. command line. I think you may be onto something here with your theory of my being over the limit of command line arguments. The question is how do I increase that limit? And now I'm suddenly off-topic for this list, I know. Nevertheless, I'm sure I won't be the last qmail user to run into this problem and therefore it'll be useful to have this knowledge in the archives. Thanks again. -Original Message- From: Mark Delany [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 6:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: qmail ignores my sorry ass... You need to tell us a little more. Well, actually a lot more. How are you trying to send them? qmail-inject, smtp, qmail-queue? If you are running a command such as qmail-inject, what sort of exit code are you getting? Any error message? Do you mean 5600 emails or an email to 5600 addresses? If the latter, are you placing all the recipients on a command line, something like: /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject recipient1@dom1 recipient2@dom2 ... ? If so, have you perhaps exceeded the maximum length of the command line for your system? Are you perhaps exceeding the maximum number of command line arguments for your system? To check the exit status from the shell, go echo $? immediately after the command. The number is zero if all is well and other numbers indicate different types of errors. Regards. On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 04:37:41PM -0700, Brett wrote: ... when I try to send more than 5600 emails in one go. I mean, it completely ignores me. There's no mention of anything occuring in the logs whatsoever. Since I'm giving you so little to go on here, I'm mostly hoping for a general direction to start looking for a problem rather than a complete solution. Or hopefully this has happened to somebody before and they can tell me what they did to fix it. I've successfully recompiled the kernel and applied the big concurrency patch but not the big-todo one yet. I posted this before but didn't get much of a response except to check qmail-inject's exit status. Assuming I know how to do this, what will this prove? Thanks for any and all help. Brett. A big F you to all the unhelpful flamers in advance.
pulling mail from other than new/cur
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.
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: OT - Problems with daemontools 0.70
This is exactly the kind of problem that causes people to get discouraged about installing new (and superior) software. They run into a problem and they get raked over the coals for a breach of interpreted etiquette when typing. Almost a dozen people wrote helpful emails without the need for blasting someone for the tool they use to send email from a company-owned workstation. Ever think that I do not have a choice in the utility I am forced to use to receive my email at this workstation? Or maybe, that, along with some of the other options my Outlook offers me, I choose to use it since I am forced to use the M$ operating system to coexist with my workgroup... I tell you what...since you seem to be such a unix GOD, develop the following software so I can readily move my workload to unix: a graphics program capable of the same feats as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Macromedia Director a html development program with: code verification syntax verification and highlighting internal browsing of current state of document office suite that handles all current document forms including: Microsoft Lotus Corel and the ability to play UT within the same environment seamlessly... once YOU have done that, let me know so that I can bend over and kiss your ass. Until that time, grow a thicker skin. I never said the computer crashed. I insinuated that the process was crashing. A dozen other people understood what it meant...why didn't you? -Original Message- From: Felix von Leitner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 6:16 AM To: Qmail Mailing List Subject: Re: OT - Problems with daemontools 0.70 Thus spake Michael Geier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): does anyone know why this might be crashing??? Thanks for the help. Crist, since when do people have a email sending allowance who don't know the difference between the compiler gave me an error message and my computer crashed?! Go play with your Outlook somewhere else, willya? BTW: Coincidentally, you asked a FAQ.
RE: OT - Problems with daemontools 0.70
Just so that everyone can see what a pathetic individual Felix is, here is his lovely retort to my email. I especially love his methodology for proving his superiority through the use of 4-letter words: This is exactly the kind of problem that causes people to get discouraged about installing new (and superior) software. They run into a problem and they get raked over the coals for a breach of interpreted etiquette when typing. Fuck Off And Die. People who are as stupid as you have no business installing software at all. Go clean some carpets or something. Almost a dozen people wrote helpful emails without the need for blasting someone for the tool they use to send email from a company-owned workstation. Ever think that I do not have a choice in the utility I am forced to use to receive my email at this workstation? Or maybe, that, along with some of the other options my Outlook offers me, I choose to use it since I am forced to use the M$ operating system to coexist with my workgroup... You don't have a workstation. You have a broken Windoze infested PC with tons of crapware on it. Nothing could be farther from a workstation. I tell you what...since you seem to be such a unix GOD, develop the following software so I can readily move my workload to unix: Go Away. a graphics program capable of the same feats as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Macromedia Director a html development program with: code verification syntax verification and highlighting internal browsing of current state of document office suite that handles all current document forms including: Microsoft Lotus Corel And I thought I had seen my share of pathetic lusers. and the ability to play UT within the same environment seamlessly... once YOU have done that, let me know so that I can bend over and kiss your ass. Until that time, grow a thicker skin. I never said the computer crashed. I insinuated that the process was crashing. A dozen other people understood what it meant...why didn't you? I understood what you meant. And I saw that your description was so wrong that you should not be handling a computer. Leave that to people with a brain.
apology for my lapse in judgement
I would like to publicly apologize to the members of this list (minus one) for the unnecessary posts I made regarding an earlier post. I'll go back to lurking for awhile... Michael Geier CDM Sports Systems Administrator email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 314.991.1511 x 6505
OT - Problems with daemontools 0.70
I had no problems with installing this package until today... in make: ./compile tai64nlocal.c tai64nlocal.c: In function `main': tai64nlocal.c:54: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast tai64nlocal.c:55: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:56: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:57: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:58: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:59: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:60: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type make: *** [tai64nlocal.o] Error 1 does anyone know why this might be crashing??? Thanks for the help. Michael Geier CDM Sports Systems Administrator email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 314.991.1511 x 6505
RE: OT - Problems with daemontools 0.70
thanks to everyone who replied...worked great! next time I will check the archives a little better. 'preciate that no one flamed... -Original Message- From: Tim Holzmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 1:23 PM To: Michael Geier Subject: Re: OT - Problems with daemontools 0.70 I had the same problem, change the include file #include sys/time.h to #include time.h - Original Message - From: Michael Geier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Qmail Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 11:38 AM Subject: OT - Problems with daemontools 0.70 I had no problems with installing this package until today... in make: ./compile tai64nlocal.c tai64nlocal.c: In function `main': tai64nlocal.c:54: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast tai64nlocal.c:55: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:56: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:57: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:58: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:59: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:60: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type make: *** [tai64nlocal.o] Error 1 does anyone know why this might be crashing??? Thanks for the help. Michael Geier CDM Sports Systems Administrator email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 314.991.1511 x 6505
newbie question with concurrency remote
I am running qmail on: RedHat 6.2 256 Mb Ram I set concurrency remote = 150... however, most of the time, it seems like only a handful of remote processes are running, even though the queue backs up (right now, over 14000 msgs in queue and only 20 remote processes running)... Anybody have an idea about how to force it to run faster or at least not kill off my qmail-remote processes? New to this list so hope I provided enough info. Michael Geier CDM Sports Systems Administrator email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 314.991.1511 x 6505
RE: newbie question with concurrency remote
thanks for the tips Dave... to those that had replied: I had rebooted qmail (frequently)... I installed djbdns, killed splogger, and rebooted server things seem to be much better. -Original Message- From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 12:30 PM To: Qmail Mailing List Subject: Re: newbie question with concurrency remote Michael Geier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running qmail on: RedHat 6.2 256 Mb Ram I set concurrency remote = 150... however, most of the time, it seems like only a handful of remote processes are running, even though the queue backs up (right now, over 14000 msgs in queue and only 20 remote processes running)... Are you sure concurrencyremote is set to 150? You restarted qmail-send after changing it? The logs reflect the 150 setting? Anybody have an idea about how to force it to run faster Faster disk More memory Faster network Replace syslog with multilog Install djbdns, run dnscache Kill non-qmail processes Faster CPU or at least not kill off my qmail-remote processes? What makes you think qmail-remote processes are being killed off? -Dave
MASS mailing
Title: MASS mailing Hi, My name is Mike and I am the UNIX admin at WB online. Anyway, I was tasked with rolling out a new mailing list server because our ListServe box is too slow and easy to hack. I set up qmail on a small 450mhz SUN netra and it seems to also be too slow. I need to be able to deliver about 1,000,000 emails a day and from the speed I get out of my netra I will need a dozen of them! Does anyone have any idea of what hardware will work best for huge newsletter server? I was thinking of setting up a cluster of 5 to 10 netras to speed up delivery. However, it may be better to just get bigger servers. I have also run out of inodes in the var filesystem due to too many queued mails :-) Thanks for any suggestions, Mike Kuriger WBOnline 818-977-8198
RE: html based email
We have a subsidiary that sends out this type of mail. It has 3 parts: plain text html for normals html for aol don't know how they do it, but they do it. -- Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc. -Original Message- From: Mark Delany [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 8:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: html based email
RE: html based email
another alternative is to have a plain text version of the email in an html comment at the top of the email. eg !-- - I once had a red balloon; then it flew away. Trust no one. - --! HTML body I once had a font color=FFballoon/font; then it flew away. Trust no one. /body /html that way people see the html if they have an html capable MUA and they can at least read it if they have a plain text MUA. -Original Message- From: John Hogan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 10:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: html based email i was, in a former life, a sysadmin for a major-league list-hosting outfit... no way, no how - don't believe them... it's not possible to float two 'copies' of the message, with reception being dependent on the user's MUA (very difficult to detect on MTA 'send') - also, a lot depends on the end-user's reader -- that's possible to detect (difficult) and absolutely impossible to predict set up two lists: html-listname and text-listname - have your users state their preference when they subscribe - hogan At 08:49 AM 5/9/2001, Meuse, Andy wrote: Hey All, Is there a way anyone knows of to send one email in both html and plain text format? This is so the recipient will get the html version if their mua supports it, and the plain text version if it doesn't. I know of a service that does this, www.roving.com, but don't know of a way to do it myself. Except scripting my mailing list to send only plain text to like AOl and other domains I know don't support html. Thanks, Andy _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: How to increase the qmail concurrency?
do we know that he meant for remote delivery? your answer is not necessarily correct. checking the FAQ or lifewithqmail *would* be better since it would include info about both local and remote deliveries. -- Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 1:59 PM To: Jason Brooke Cc: Chris; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to increase the qmail concurrency? hi jason why not just say /var/qmail/control/concurrencyremote add it there...have a good day. On Fri, 4 May 2001, Jason Brooke wrote: Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 14:35:45 +1000 From: Jason Brooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to increase the qmail concurrency? my qmail-mrtg show that the qmail concurrency value 20 is not enough. anyone can tell me how to increase it. Thanks in advance Chris Hi Chris Please read 'FAQ' in your source directory, or have a look at http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html which is linked from www.qmail.org jason
Re: qmail-pop3d not working?
On some systems, it can be helpful to do a grep -i pop /etc/services to find out what the nomenclature is as well. FYI (to the original poster), that POP3 you misspelt (un*x is usually case sensitive) is just looked up in a file like /etc/services and the port substituted in. - Original Message - It means change the POP3 to pop3 and try the command again. If you get the same error, try pop-3. If none of those work, substitute 110 instead. It's not necessary to include the quotes.
Re: qmail-pop3d not working?
4. Oh, and you haven't told us whether you followed instructions exactly when setting up qmail-pop3d/run. Do the instructions really say to use POP3 in uppercase? The page he referenced at http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/8225/fid/223 does indeed have POP3 in uppercase. Dave Sill may wish to update that with a comment or two.
RE: FOUND VIRUS IN MAIL from qmail-return-66681-qmaillist=ipsware.com@list.cr.yp.to to qmaillist@ipsware.com
I found this in my qmail-scanner program. I thought the list might be
interested in it.
sub is_automated_email {
#This subroutine is used to see if the sender of this virus
#was a mailing-list/postmaster/etc. If it is we don't want to
#send a reply.
if ($headers{'x-loop'} || $headers{'x-listname'} ||
$headers{'x-listmember'} || $headers{'mailing-list'} ||
$headers{'x-mailing-list'} || $headers{'precedence'} =~
/^(bulk|list|junk)$/i || $returnpath =~
/^$|daemon|request|bounce|mailer|postm|owner|lists|words|majordom|experts|\-
(return|error)/i) {
return 1;
} else {
return 0;
}
}
-Original Message-
From: Brett Randall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 10:13 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Fw: FOUND VIRUS IN MAIL from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just a quick note to any Winblowz users (and I can't say much...I'm sending
this from my much hated Winblowz terminal running OE ATM)... A recent mail
to the qmail list (in the last few minutes) contained a well-known virus...
But then again, maybe I shouldn't be telling you this ;)
B.
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 12:09 AM
Subject: FOUND VIRUS IN MAIL from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The attached mail has been found to contain a virus
The mail has been stored as /var/virusmails/qmailq/virus-20010424-27042
xxTue Apr 24 00:09:00 EST 2001xxx
qmail-remote (0.2.1) called ipsware.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
maxlevel: 0
Contents of /var/tmp/qmail-remote27042/unpacked
total 36
drwx-- 3 qmailq qmail4096 Apr 24 00:09 .
drwx-- 3 qmailq qmail4096 Apr 24 00:09 ..
-rw--- 1 qmailq qmail 281 Apr 24 00:09
988034940.27065-0.misspiggy
-rw--- 1 qmailq qmail 16896 Apr 24 00:09 Emanuel.exe
drwx-- 2 qmailq qmail4096 Apr 24 00:09 SFX
/var/tmp/qmail-remote27042/unpacked/SFX:
total 8
drwx-- 2 qmailq qmail4096 Apr 24 00:09 .
drwx-- 3 qmailq qmail4096 Apr 24 00:09 ..
Scanning /var/tmp/qmail-remote27042/unpacked/*
Scanning file
/var/tmp/qmail-remote27042/unpacked/988034940.27065-0.misspiggy
Scanning file /var/tmp/qmail-remote27042/unpacked/Emanuel.exe
/var/tmp/qmail-remote27042/unpacked/Emanuel.exe
Found the W32/Navidad.e@M trojan !!!
Summary report on /var/tmp/qmail-remote27042/unpacked/*
File(s)
Total files: ... 2
Clean: . 1
Possibly Infected: . 1
H+BEDV AntiVir scanstatus0 is: 0
Mcafee scanstatus1 is: 0
Dr. Solomon (old) scanstatus2 is: 0
Dr. Solomon (new) scanstatus3 is: 0
Sophos Sweep scanstatus4 is: 0
NAI Virus Scan 4.x scanstatus5 is: 13
KasperskyLab AVP scanstatus6 is: 0
KasperskyLab AVPDaemonClient scantatus7 is: 0
F-Secure Antivirus scanstatus8 is: 0
Trend Micro FileScanner scanstatus9 is: 0
CyberSoft vfind scanstatus10 is: 0
CAI InoculateIT (inocucmd) scanstatus11 is: 0
Virus FOUND Sent notification to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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
Can I use qmail-pop3d for both mbox and maildir format?
Hi; I move mail system from sendmail to qmail. so I won't to change the former mbox format. But I add a virtualdomain, it seems I have to use maildir format for the virtualdomain. Can I use qmail-pop3d for both mbox and maildir format? Thanks inadvance. Regards; Michael
vmailmgr treat all correctuser@wrongdomain as system-account user.
Hi; I use checkvpw from vmailmgr package for authorization. But it treat all login name correctuser@wrongdomain as system-account user. How to configure the vmailmgr to give an error for such a situation? My situation is: my user has system account(also include pop account), and pop account in virtual domain, and they usually set the same password on these two account. so when they login by "user@virtual" and they misspell the virtualdomain name, they login to system account successfully! And can't recieve the mail correctlly. And it is hard to realize the problem. So many question occured. Thanks inadvance. Regards; Michael
Re[2]: problem about move to qmail for virtual domain.
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 23:03:33 -0700 Greg White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 02:26:21PM +0900, Michael Cheung wrote: Hi: I move to qmail from sendmail for a virtual domain be added. problem is: 1. can't deliver to user@domain. 2. can't use qmail-popup to recieve mail. me: develop I'm not familiar with that TLD -- is this some sort of alternative TLD? See below... my qmail server is an internal server on our intranet. my machine is vividy.develop, and the server is server.develop. domain "develop" MX record is point to server.develop it just for internal communication. locals: localhost develop virtual: sales Nor am I familiar with the 'sales' TLD -- where do these come from? Unless the internet at large is able to reach your server by looking for an MX record [1] that matches _exactly_ what's in these control files, you'll be getting no mail whatsoever... Can people really reach 'joeuser@sales' and 'joeuser@develop' ? Now I want to add a sales domain in server.develop. when I mail to user@localhost or user@develop, server defer the mail, and following error message in bounced mail: can't find develop.server.develop. qmail add the hostname to mail address! [1] or an A record, of course. no rcphost file. That's 'rcpthosts', I presume. You're not likely to be able to recieve any mail whatsoever without something in rcpthosts. Virtual domains go in rcpthosts and virtualdomains, system-account domains go in rcpthosts and locals. Nothing whatsoever goes in virtualdomains or locals _without_ going in rcpthosts. I have deleted the "rcphosts" file, I want the server can relay all mail from anywhere to anywhere, actually just for our intranet. Can I still use mailbox after I add a virtual domain? I have install vmailmgr and create a domain, it use maildir now. This is a virtual domain -- why does VSM matter at all? The users have no shell accounts -- VSM is even more pointless than usual. :) vmailmgr's checkvpw may only support maildir in any case -- check the man pages for vmailmgr. I want to leave the system-account as before, so still in mailbox format. as you said, I have to transfer all system-account to maildir format? when I use standard checkpassword in qmail-popup, I can login to my system-account mailbox, but it said "no %USER/Maildir". question here: qmail-popup only support maildir? and when I changed standard "checkpassword" to vmailmgr "checkvpw". I can't login to mailbox. SNIP Afraid that's all I can help you with for now. I lost myself in too many qmail module and documents, I don't know what is need toinstall for my purpose. Thanks.
qmail@list.cr.yp.to
To keep one of his customers/users from sending to all 10 million of his closest friends telling them about how they too can get a diploma online and cheap. -- Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc. -Original Message- From: alexus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 4:01 PM To: Alan R.; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Max Email for each user just out of curiosity.. why would you want to do something like that? - Original Message - From: "Alan R." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 6:56 PM Subject: Max Email for each user Someone Knows how can i limit the number of email sent in a day by each user ? Thanks, Alan
problem about move to qmail for virtual domain.
Hi: I move to qmail from sendmail for a virtual domain be added. problem is: 1. can't deliver to user@domain. 2. can't use qmail-popup to recieve mail. me: develop locals: localhost develop virtual: sales no rcphost file. rc: #!/bin/sh # Using splogger to send the log through syslog. # Using procmail to deliver messages to /var/spool/mail/$USER by default. exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start '|preline procmail' splogger qmail Can I still use mailbox after I add a virtual domain? I have install vmailmgr and create a domain, it use maildir now. use setting below in inetd.conf for pop service: pop-3 stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup linux.justware /var/qmail/vmail mgr/bin/checkvpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d and when I recieve mail from a user which is system user, I got error message: -ERR authorization failed Thanks in advance. Regards; Michael
problem about move to qmail for virtual domain.
Hi: another question: as I want to add virtual domain, which is better vmailmgr and vpopmail or any other choice? Thanks in advance. Regards; Michael
Re: Pine for Maildir
tc lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i never cared for mutt either, although i never spent a huge amount of time trying to figure it out. my main issue with it is that i could never get it to sort my inbox properly (just normal sorting - by arrival time - how the files in the maildir are already sorted). it could be due to me having tried old version of mutt. set sort=threads set sort_aux=date-received If you don't care for the threading behavior, try: set sort=date-received -- occasional realignment [EMAIL PROTECTED] (michael handler) sometimesnecessary washington, dc
RE: no subject
tcp.smtp.cdb exists, but your startup script is looking for tcp.smtp.cbd -- Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc. -Original Message- From: chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 1:52 PM To: VPOPMail; QMAIL Subject: no subject I am receiving the following error and he file really is there. Can anyone help. tcpserver: warning: dropping connection, unable to read /etc/tcp.smtp.cbd: file does not exist --- StartUp Script env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \ qmail-start ./Maildir/ /usr/local/bin/accustamp \ | /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/cyclog /var/log/qmail echo -n "qmail " env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \ tcpserver -H -R -c100 0 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \ $HOSTNAME \ /var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir echo -n "pop " env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \ tcpserver -p -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cbd \ -u503 -g501 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 /dev/null echo "smtp" - Directoriy Listing [root@tar-valon /etc]# ls -l tcp.smtp* -rw-rw-rw-1 qmaild nofiles30 Apr 16 14:44 tcp.smtp -rw-r--r--1 vpopmail vchkpw 2094 Apr 17 16:33 tcp.smtp.cdb -rw-rw-rw-1 qmaild nofiles61 Apr 16 14:38 tcp.smtp~ [root@tar-valon /etc]# Configure Directives ./configure --enable-tcpserver-file=/etc/tcp.smtp \ --enable-ip-alias-domains=y \ --enable-roaming-users=y \ --enable-default-domain=pds2k.com\ --enable-logging=y
pop3d, fixcrio, tcpserver
Hello. I compiled qmail from source on a RedHat 6.2 Alpha processor box. qmail is running supervised and tcpserver is handling the tcp connections. pop3d is the chosen pop server and is also supervised. This had worked flawlessly until today. Now pop connections are accepted, but then timeout. After I first noticed this, I added /usr/local/bin/fixcrio to my tcpserver invocations for smptd and pop3d. Even after a restart of all the associated daemons, pop3 connections keep timing out. The following is from the pop3d maillog: Apr 17 18:32:18 alpha pop3d: 987557538.030956 tcpserver: end 2005 status 256 Apr 17 18:32:18 alpha pop3d: 987557538.031892 tcpserver: status: 1/40 Apr 17 18:33:56 alpha pop3d: 987557636.021164 tcpserver: status: 2/40 Apr 17 18:33:56 alpha pop3d: 987557636.024453 tcpserver: pid 2010 from 11.222.33.87 Apr 17 18:33:58 alpha pop3d: 987557638.554430 tcpserver: status: 3/40 Apr 17 18:33:58 alpha pop3d: 987557638.557805 tcpserver: pid 2011 from 111.222.77.31 Apr 17 18:34:15 alpha pop3d: 987557655.906567 tcpserver: ok 2007 :111.222.77.121:110 :111.222.77.31::4186 Apr 17 18:34:15 alpha pop3d: 987557655.948094 tcpserver: end 2007 status 256 Apr 17 18:34:15 alpha pop3d: 987557655.948856 tcpserver: status: 2/40 Apr 17 18:34:57 alpha pop3d: 987557697.569237 tcpserver: status: 3/40 Apr 17 18:34:57 alpha pop3d: 987557697.681425 tcpserver: pid 2013 from 11.222.33.87 Apr 17 18:36:05 alpha pop3d: 987557765.215412 tcpserver: ok 2010 :111.222.77.121:110 adsl-11-222-33-87.dsl.sndg02.dslisp.net:11.222.33.87::3015 Apr 17 18:36:05 alpha pop3d: 987557765.365642 tcpserver: end 2010 status 256 Apr 17 18:36:05 alpha pop3d: 987557765.366524 tcpserver: status: 2/40 I've done google searches relating to this, but turned up nothing. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks- Mike
Re: pop3d, fixcrio, tcpserver
- Original Message - From: "Chris Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Michael Werneke" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 6:55 PM Subject: Re: pop3d, fixcrio, tcpserver [snip} What client are you connecting with? Is it made by Microsoft? If you telnet to port 110 and do a manual POP session, what happens? Chris Both clients are from Microsoft. Unfortunately, my users know nothing else. Telnetting to port 110 is successful. Surely there must be a workaround for this. This setup has been working for months in the same configuration for months with the same mail clients. What could cause it to stop working over night?
Re: OpenBSD 2.8 You have new mail in /var/mail/root
Rick Updegrove [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bash-2.04# cat /etc/mailer.conf # $OpenBSD: mailer.conf,v 1.3 2000/04/06 18:24:19 millert Exp $ # # Execute the "real" sendmail program, named /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail # sendmail/usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail [...] Ok so I linked them like this: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 23 Apr 10 04:04 /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail - /var/qmail/bin/sendmail Why would you want to do that? Did you read the manpage for mailer.conf? It exists exactly so that you don't have to bother touching any symlinks or such on the filesystem. root@monster:~# cat /etc/mailer.conf # $Id: mailer.conf,v 1.2 2001/04/10 19:36:12 root Exp $ # $OpenBSD: mailer.conf,v 1.3 2000/04/06 18:24:19 millert Exp $ # # Execute the "real" sendmail program, named /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail # sendmail/var/qmail/bin/sendmail send-mail /var/qmail/bin/sendmail mailq /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread newaliases /bin/echo Functionality unnecessary under qmail hoststat/bin/echo Functionality unnecessary under qmail purgestat /bin/echo Functionality unnecessary under qmail I suppose I could link newaliases to something that rebuilds fastforward's CDB, but I don't run fastforward. I suppose hoststat and purgestat could be set to qmail-tcpto and qmail-tcpok, but that's kind of reaching. -- occasional realignment [EMAIL PROTECTED] (michael handler) sometimesnecessary washington, dc
multilog: unable to lock directory
One of the 6 supervised services on one of my gateways stopped responding (tinydns) yesterday afternoon. On the screen was "unable to lock directory /var/log/tinydns:", so I did an "svc -t /service/tinydns/log" and it worked fine. Since the line that generates that log output exits 111, how would terminating the supervise process help? Thanks.
qmail and IMAP and checkpassword
Hi, We're need a IMAP product that uses Maildir's and we'd like to authenticate using our own hacked checkpassword. I've read in the archives that courier-imap uses Maildirs, but can it use checkpassword for authentication or will I need something like that mentioned below and wrap checkpassword with some perl scripts? http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2000/04/msg01189.html Thanks, Mike.
Re: can't find hosts
Yeah, I just fixed it actually after reading that qmail doesn't actually do dns lookups. Found tcpserver to be the culprit. xinetd makes it run fine. I'll probably just leave it at that now... Cheers, -mic - Original Message - From: "Alex Pennace" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Michael Cartmel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 4:58 PM Subject: Re: can't find hosts On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 04:21:18PM +1000, Michael Cartmel wrote: I've tested my qmail setup and all the tests using qmail-inject work ok, however, if a mail comes in through qmail-smtpd it bounces with 'Sorry, I couldn't find and host named...'. All dns tools are working fine, it just seems to be qmail. Anyone know the answer? What do the logs say? How are you invoking qmail-smtpd?
Re: can't find hosts
the run script for tcpserver was as outlined in the Qmail HOWTO from www.qmail.org. - Original Message - From: "Alex Pennace" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Michael Cartmel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 5:32 PM Subject: Re: can't find hosts On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 05:01:39PM +1000, Michael Cartmel wrote: [qmail-smtpd causing messages to be bounced] Yeah, I just fixed it actually after reading that qmail doesn't actually do dns lookups. Found tcpserver to be the culprit. xinetd makes it run fine. I'll probably just leave it at that now... I don't suspect that at all. I believe that your tcpserver configuration caused $RELAYCLIENT to be set to something other than "", which can cause the problems you were having. Hence my earlier request for logs and the run script for qmail-smtpd under tcpserver.
qmail-inject works but qmail-smtp doesn't
Hi, I'm not where the setup has gone wrong here. Follow the Howto to setup Qmail, everything looks ok. Qmail-inject is able to send out no problems at all. I can send to any account, local or not. I send a mail in from another host and it gets recieved by qmail ok but wont deliver it locallally. I send a mail from say outlook express and it connects, sends ok, then the mail just sits in the queue and wont deliver. The log says CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily and it doesn't seem to recognise when the mail is going to a local address. I've gone over the FAQ and the mailing list archive and had no luck. I'm sure there's an easy answer here... can anyone help? Cheers, -mic smime.p7s
RE: need to forward to 2 addresses
This works here, but there are many ways to skin a cat. Login to the system (root) Go to the home directory # cd /uhome/johnqdoe # sudo -u johnqdoe vi .qmail add the following lines to the .qmail file to forward his mail ## Forward mail offsite |forward [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## but still deliver locally /uhome/johnqdoe/Mailbox When Johnqdoe wants the mail to stop being forwarded to hotmail, just delete the .qmail file. -Original Message- From: Virginia Chism [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 10:42 AM To: Qmail@List. Cr. Yp. To Subject: need to forward to 2 addresses On a UNIX box with BSDi 4.0, Apache, QMail and FP (though FP is not involved in this issue) I have the following problem: My customer needs to have email forwarded to her in Germany as well as to her farm manager here in the states. I have been researching all I could find on the subject and have gotten close, but not there yet. In the man pages I found the following: forward(1) DESCRIPTION forward forwards each new mail message to the specified list of addresses. dot-qmail.0 (3) A forward line begins with an ampersand: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Although it clearly states that it can be done, there is no mention of how to set up the second forwarding address. I think what I have below is the proper procedure for _one_ forwarding address. echo "blackvengeance.com:alias-blackvengeance" /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains echo "forwardaddress" ~alias/.qmail-blackvengeance-info echo "blackvengeance.com" /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts' My questiion is: do I add the second, comma separated, in that last echo line as: 'echo "forwardaddress",'secondforward"~alias/.qmail-blackvengeance-info' or do I do a second / separate echo line as: 'echo "secondaddress"~alias/.qmail-blackvengeance-info' below the first? Thanks in advance for your help. V
Re: Tcpserver
Robin S. Socha wrote: * Sumith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010327 04:16]: Side note: would you *PLEASE* turn off HTML in your mail and fix your line width - you're wasting other people's resources and make your messages unnecessarily hard to read. http://learn.to/edit_messages Further side note: To improve the s/n ratio around here, would you cease responding to people whose comments you don't like, whose editors tweak you the wrong way or who have funny haircuts? Your "side notes" have been going on for _years_ on this list and they aren't terribly profitable from the looks of the archives.
Re: 10,000 outbound emails
I concur. We do this often. It saves me from the marketing department's requests to let everyone know about "great new features." There's no need to mail to someone who never reads their mail. This keeps you from that hassle. -- Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc. -Original Message- From: Russell Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 7:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 10,000 outbound emails Bill Parker writes: I have qmail running on a pent-133 w/32MB, kernel 2.2.14, tcpserver, qmailadmin, vpopmail, amavis-0.2.1, and NAI's anti-virus software. Everything is working just fine, however, one of the supervisors wants to send 10,000 emails through the box to various users (aka a mass mailing). Does anyone see any problems with doing something like this, or would you need more information about my current configuration of qmail? You'd do better to use my qmail-popbull program (on www.qmail.org). That way, you only ever have one copy of the piece of email, and only the people who read their mail ever see it. It also lets you tell people about temporal things, and then after the time has passed, you can remove the bulletin.
Question about the REMOVE.binmail document
I'm trying to get qmail running on Redhat 7.0. The REMOVE.binmail document states 2. Remove permissions from the binmail binary: # chmod 0 /usr/libexec/mail.local Because I have /bin/mail rather than /usr/libexec/mail.local, I typed # chmod 0 /bin/mail I'm confused about the next point, though. 3. If the binmail binary was /bin/mail, make sure that "mail" still invokes a usable mailer. Under SVR4 you may want to link mail to mailx. Typing "mail" now results in "bash: /bin/mail: Permission denied", which I expected based on item 2. So how do I complete item 3? "mail" no longer invokes a usable mailer, and I did a search across my harddrive for something named "mailx", but there was nothing by that name. Thanks for any help. --Michael _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
RE: HELP SMTP problem
Are you using tcpserver w/ the -x option? if so, make sure your tcprules-created-file exists and is noted after the x in the tcpserver startup script. -- Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc. -Original Message- From: vikas sinha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 7:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HELP SMTP problem I just installed qmail1.03-i386.rpm on my RedHat6.0(kernel 2.2.9) It seems SMTP is not working properly. When I try to send e-mail by pine. It complained "SMTP greeting failure: 421 SMTP connection went away". IF I try to telnet localhost 25, here is the response telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. When i Checked the /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd status it showed 220 hostname ESMTP 502 unimplemenetd (#5.5.1)
recordio, but not the whole message
I would like to be able to stop recordio after a certain number of lines and/or after the first empty line (end of headers) to be able to record the headers of all messages in the logs, but not the bodies, and more importantly, not the attachments. Is there any way I could pipe the output from recordio through another program in the midst of my /service/smtp/run script's series of pipes, or should I write an external script / program to handle it?
RE: another port as 25
Thanks Charles! This is a good question actually... maybe I should rtfm, but can you receive mail on port 25 and transport it on another port? This could be useful in pushing through a firewall, in addition to the redirection. My next to next task. Thanks! -Mike "Obfuscation is not encryption, but it beats the alternative" -Original Message- From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 12:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: another port as 25 Gustav-Martin Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how can i say qmail, for the normally SMTP(Port 25) use an different Port (e.g. 800)? If you're using tcpserver to run qmail-smtpd, specify a different port number for the port argument for tcpserver. Similar changes apply if you're running qmail-smtpd out of inetd or xinetd. `man tcpserver` for details on tcpserver's arguments. You're aware, of course, that normal clients won't try any port besides 25 when trying to send mail to you. 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 bug
Peter van Dijk wrote: Not if it's calculated as the file is written to the Maildir. True, but that hurts writing performance. Have you tested this? It doesn't seem that qmail has ever been CPU bound -- and if the CPU has spare cycles while writing, then counting lines and adding bytes for CR/LF won't hurt writing performance at all. -- Michael T. Babcock (PGP: 0xBE6C1895) http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/
Being verbose in error messages
Just an FYI to the group, this is what we've come up with for one of our clients' configurations of qmail-notify. qmail-notify notifies senders that their E-mail did not reach the intended recipient within a certain amount of time and optionally CC's the network administrator (which it is configured to do in this case): -x- Your message has been received by %s but has been undeliverable to the listed recipients for at least %s. The mail system will continue to attempt to deliver your message to these recipients for a total of %s. Your network administrator is aware of this situation. This message is for your information; you do not need to resend your message at this time. If the message below is time-critical, consider faxing or calling the intended recipient. You will be notified again only if this message ultimately fails to reach one or more of the recipients. Recipient(s): -x- This _may_ finally be verbose enough to keep the users from E-mailing their mail administrator with "Julie didn't get my E-mail yet!" -- Michael T. Babcock (PGP: 0xBE6C1895) http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/
Re: question with qmail-remote
-Original Message- From: Peter van Dijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 7:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: question with qmail-remote On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 02:43:50PM +0100, Markus Stumpf wrote: On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 10:41:36PM -0800, Rick Yang wrote: I recently installed qmail on my server with virtual domain support, and I found this snapshot while checking the processes. 1141 ?S 0:00 qmail-remote newsletter.join4free.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] This domain was never allowed to relay on my qmail configuration. And it seems that this domain is trying to email his mailing list through my qmtp server. Why do you think it got relayed? I'd say it's a bounce resulting from a SPAM to a non existing user. The line indicated that the messsage will be delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the host it will be delivered to is newsletter.join4free.com How would I block off this domain through qmail configuration? Add @newsletter.join4free.com to /var/qmail/control/badmailfrom Or unsubscribe the user. join4free are double opt-in spammers that let you unsubscribe honestly and easily. Greetz, Peter. My observation of them is that they don't do a good job of collecting bounces. I have a crapload of them trying to get back to them which never quite do, clogging my inbound mail server queues. mail1.wlv.netzero.net# nslookup -type=mx newsletter.join4free.com Server: maildns.wlv.netzero.net Address: 209.247.163.138 Non-authoritative answer: newsletter.join4free.compreference = 5, mail exchanger = returns2.optinmail.cc mail1.wlv.netzero.net# telnet returns2.optinmail.cc 25 Trying 198.173.175.23... Connected to returns2.optinmail.cc. Escape character is '^]'. and that's where things hang...(at least for 15 minutes beginning at 2:30pm PST 3/12) -- Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc.
Re: recordio / logging problem
Daniel Kelley wrote: this sends all recordio output to the terminal, not through syslog. following a couple of examples on this list, i inserted 21 directly after qmail-smtpd, but that generates 'Ambiguous Ouptut Redirect'. This is probably just a stupid shell thing (i'm using csh on linux), but i don't understand it. | splogger instead of | splogger will redirect stdout and stderr. -- Michael T. Babcock (PGP: 0xBE6C1895) http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/
Re: What is so sad... Re: OK I give up!!!
Sean C Truman wrote: I can download Redhat for free and so can you. They sell support for the product so they can have funding to continue the development. Just as OpenBSD sells t-shirts and CD's to help fund the project. only difference is that OpenBSD hasn't started selling support yet. We actually download it before installing it on clients machines, then inform them of their options for support from us as well as from RedHat. OpenBSD may not sell support, but I know several companies that do. I hope those companies donate some of that profit back to OpenBSD either as cash or by hiring developers. -- Michael T. Babcock (PGP: 0xBE6C1895) http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/
Slowing down for Exchange servers
I have a client who does a lot of business with a company that's using an MS Exchange server. Their server tends to crash when my client "hammers" them with E-mails. Is there any way to set the maximum remote concurrency on a per-host basis, or a patch to allow this? echo "2" MAXREMOTE/mx.blah.com echo "500" MAXREMOTE/mx.cr.yp.to ?? -- Michael T. Babcock (PGP: 0xBE6C1895) http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/
Re: Selective relaying -Nonstandard style, tough one. Anyone got any ideas? A challenge!
Orie wrote: I am hoping to set up a Qmail (my favorite) smtp gateway (our mail is already routing out one, exchange's sucks) that can somehow allow relaying based on "FROM" (Aka from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) or allow the relay based on a keyword in the message. Or perhaps someone has a better idea? Why not use AUTH SMTP patches? If your E-mail clients support authenticated SMTP (many do), then you don't need to add those clients to a relay list at all. See http://www.qmail.org/
qmail - listserv
I am using ezmlm now, but users are looking for the sub-topic functionality of listserv. Does anyone have any war stories about using listserv on top of qmail? thanks, michael
RE: various timeouts
Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Occasionally our inbound mail servers need a reboot after patching and sometimes there is lots of mail that needs to find its way home to the sender due to bounces. Sometimes those remote sites are either having difficulties or are so swamped that nothing much gets to them. I'd like to cut down on the time the server spends waiting on them. [...] Seems like a non-responsive server is fine at 1 minute, but 20 minutes seems to be an excessive amount of time to hold up one of my concurrent connects for a buffer of data or just a reply. Would it be safe to lower this value to say also 1 minute? I don't want to mess with the defaults if this would be a bad thing to do, but I cannot think of why it would be. Have you actually noticed connections hanging around for that long? Probably not. But if you're worried about it, increase your qmail-smtpd concurrency to compensate for a few sessions being tied up by really slow remote senders. actually don't know if they hang around 20 minutes, but does seem like the remote connections are not decreasing when sites are not taking connects. i'd hope all the "problem" sites would time out pretty quickly and have qmail move on to more pressing items like the inbound mail that can be delivered. To reduce the amount of time the bounces stay in the queue, you could reduce queuelifetime from its default value of a week to three days or so. I'm not so worried about the stuff lingering in the queue (it is now set to 4 days) but just would like to not "dwell" on slow sites. Charles -- Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc.
various timeouts
Greetings, Occasionally our inbound mail servers need a reboot after patching and sometimes there is lots of mail that needs to find its way home to the sender due to bounces. Sometimes those remote sites are either having difficulties or are so swamped that nothing much gets to them. I'd like to cut down on the time the server spends waiting on them. There seems to be 3 control files to do this: timeoutsmtpd which is amt of time for each new *buffer* of data from a remote SMTP client. (default 20 minutes) timeoutconnect which is how long qmail-remote waits for a connection (default 1 minute) timeoutremote which appears to be like timeoutsmtpd but for each response, not each buffer (also 20minute default). Seems like a non-responsive server is fine at 1 minute, but 20 minutes seems to be an excessive amount of time to hold up one of my concurrent connects for a buffer of data or just a reply. Would it be safe to lower this value to say also 1 minute? I don't want to mess with the defaults if this would be a bad thing to do, but I cannot think of why it would be. Thanks, -- Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc.
RE: [Qmail-scanner-general]amavis or qmail-scanner ?
I absolutely disagree. You guys remember those Outlook bugs a few months ago? We didn't have one get in here, although I was returning dozens of rejected mails to other companies that got hit. Given how hard it is to arrange timely upgrading of desktop antivirus software over an enterprise on every computer, I'm not terribly surprised that the other companies got hit. I am not saying that desktop virus detectors are not important, they are very important *too. The operative word is too. Use both, but check the statistics on how many viruses are getting sent by email first - just to check my reasoning out. A good mail checker that gets updated multi-daily will keep bugs out extremely effectively. With windoze you take your chances with viruses, if you just use a desktop scanner - face it the operating system is riddled with holes that have to be filled almost hourly :) (My favorite is Sophos with-in qmail, I LIKE IT, but this letter isn't meant to be a plug.) Cheers -Mike -Original Message- From: Bruno Wolff III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 8:59 AM To: Jrmy Cluzel Cc: Qmail cr.yp.to Subject: Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]amavis or qmail-scanner ? On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:23:20AM +0100, Jrmy Cluzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and wath about scanners ? which is the best one ? and why ? are they really needed for such antivirus ? I've heard that some AV (live avp) have their own scanner (which tends to replace amavis or qmail scanner). I my opinion, doing the virus scanning on the mail server is a waste of resources. It doesn't fully protect the people/systems that need protection and it wastes resources protecting people/systems that don't need protection. For people/systems that need antivirus protection, get something on their desktop that can guard (as well as antvivirus stuff can) against files entering the system by email, web downloads, portable media and file sharing. Have something in place to automatically do updates (availability of updates should be checked daily) from a local mirror. (You don't want to get stuff directly from the antivirus people as they screw up once in a while and the updates should be tested for your environment before being used.)
Does qmail-send rescan the queue when there are delivery failures, too?
You know when qmail receives a Bounce it reinjects the Message in the queue and then the queue is rescanned. But what happens when there is a Delivery Failure and not a Bounce ? -- Thanks for fast Answer! Michael..
Re: Does qmail-send rescan the queue when there are delivery failures, too?
Those are Failures: @40003a8c3cc1118607d4 delivery 22609: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ @40003a8c3cc12394e8dc delivery 22610: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ @40003a8c3cc128cb2f14 delivery 22611: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ @40003a8c3fce2155c294 delivery 22623: failure: 216.115.107.17_failed_after_I_sent_the_message./Remote_host_said:_554_delivery_error:_dd_User_is_over_the_quota.__You_can_try_again_later._-_mta314.mail.yahoo.com/ @40003a8c3fcf0e2cd66c delivery 22624: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ @40003a8c3fcf26b5acf4 delivery 22625: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ Peter van Dijk wrote: What do you mean by a delivery failure? Greetz, Peter. -- Bye Michael...
why prime? [was high volume server configurations)
How come the conf-split should be prime? I've read it and (unfortunately) repeatedly ignored. And does it hamper things greatly by it not being so (yet)? -- Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc. -Original Message- From: Peter van Dijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 2:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: high volume server configurations On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 02:12:14PM -0600, Sid Wilroy wrote: The reason I have 200 in the conf-split so 200 sub queue directories will be created to increases file access time by reducing inode table seek time. conf-split should be a *prime* number. Also, a large conf-split only makes sense if you have more than 20.000 messages *in your queue*. This won't usually happen. I also went ahead a made the file system of /var/qmail/queue xfs.. That might be a good idea indeed. It also takes away most of the reasons for a big conf-split. Greetz, Peter.
Envelope extraction on high-volume site
We currently manage a qmail setup with close to 1 million virtual accounts handling 3+ million incomming messages daily. Everything if fully redudant (minimum of 3 servers for everything) having several SMTP, POP, IMAP, SQL, LDAP and NFS servers all hooked up via fiber connections. This setup works great and handles the load great but several of our customers have lately been complaining about the speed of mailbox access. We have narrowed the problem down to the amount of time needed to extract the headers from thousands of messages stored within a single folder. One customer has 2gigs of mail and it is taking more then 10 minutes to generate data for the headers request. (telling them to delete some is _NOT_ a valid responce) This message was written to see if there is currently a project underway (or to compile a listing of ideas for such a beast) to integrate an envelope (meaning user_delivered_to, folder, to, cc, from, subject, size, delivery date, attachments flag [yes/no], normal maildir flags) extraction "subservice" into qmail. This would also need to tie into both POP and IMAP to maintain it. It should update a SQL database with the envelope information for each and every message delivered localy. If POP or IMAP does anything, this should also be reflected in the SQL database. If they need to do sorts or listings, they should do so via the database (unless it is eaiser and faster to do it by its self). The reason I would like to see this information extracted is primarly do to a propritary webmail infastructure being developed. It is much faster for us to issue SQL commands to generate listings then IMAP or POP commnads. I relize that this will make a mess when it comes to sync'ing everything but I am unable to think of a better way to approach this. I would like to hear what you think reguarding this matter. Do you have a different approach: tell me. Do you know of a way of doing this: tell me. I really do want to hear from you. Mike
RE: virtualdomain/smtproute
Thanks to Lincoln (and Chris J) and James A. Brown for taking a stab at my problem. Indeed it was as Chris had suggested to Lincoln. I think I had seen the response and lost it from my mail box and convinced myself that I hadn't seen it... I'll move these people to a virtual domain and then the ones with "non-standard" email addresses will be in their own .qmail file. New employees w/ "standard" email addresses will be picked up by the default .qmail file for that virtual domain and forwarded... :) -- Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc. -Original Message- From: Lincoln Yeoh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 6:46 PM To: Michael Boyiazis Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: virtualdomain/smtproute I asked something _similar_ last week. But it's not exactly the same. See Chris Johnson's answer to "translating or remapping domains to another domain", 2001/01/29 My situation was I wanted: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No changes to the username portion. The answer to my situation (thanks to Chris) : echo 'corp.rocketcash.com' /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts echo 'corp.rocketcash.com:alias-rocketcash' /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains echo '| forward "$DEFAULT"@corp.netzero.net' \ /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-rocketcash-default But my understanding of your situation is: Outside - firewall - MSX with AV - Internal mailservers u@aimtv - u@aimtv - u@aimtv f@rocketcash - fipl@netzero - fipl@netzero And now you also want fipl@rocketcash - fipl@netzero - fipl@netzero Looks possible but may require some modification - depends how you do the firstname to longname thing. Cheerio, Link. At 02:51 PM 05-02-2001 -0800, you wrote: I have a situation which leaves me (I think) caught between virtualdomain and smtproute files... We have qmail running on a firewall box and forwarding to the corporate exchange server... We have users from one domain: aimtv.com which we use smtproutes to forward directly to a virus scan box... all the email addresses in the aimtv domain match those found on the forwarding domain, so smtproutes is appropriate. I'd like all our domains to be that way, but each domain that the virus scan box checks needs extra licensing ($$)... so, we have another domain, corp.rocketcash.com... some email addresses are [EMAIL PROTECTED] the mail comes in and I use a .qmail file to forward these to [EMAIL PROTECTED] future new addresses will be along the line of [EMAIL PROTECTED] which will forward to the equivalent on corp.netzero.net is there a way to catch all those future addresses and forward them to @corp.netzero.net w/o using smtproutes and without creating a separate .qmail for each new employee? would a catchall .qmail file be able to do that? i don't see how. it makes sense to use smtproutes but i cannot from what i can see. any suggestions? Thanks, -- Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc.
latest qmail rpm for Red hat 7.0
i haven't done much work with qmail for a while. Now I need to install it on a Red hat 7.0 system. The latest rpm for qmail can be found where/ Any gotchas for Red Hat 7.0? thanks Michael Slade
per domain concurrency limits
Hi all, first off, yes, I'm quite aware that this subject has been discussed at various times during the last couple of years. I am also aware of the existence of Richard's domain-concurrency-patch and of its drawbacks - and its removal from his website... ;( Having spent numerous hours looking through this list's archives and the qmail.org site, I still haven't found any mention of other productive implementations that would effectively limit qmail-remote concurrency on a per domain (or per MX or per IP - either would do just as well) basis for the running qmail-send instance. Is there such an implementation apart from Richard's patch? If there isn't: Is there at least a consensus among developers about the strategy? I've got a couple of ideas of my own and I've come across a couple on the list, but I haven't found a summation article or something of that type on the subject. On his current website, Richard writes that the patch is "not available, better options on www.qmail.org" I can't seem to find those better options - at least not ones that would have the effect I'm trying to achieve. Could you please give me a pointer if I'm missing something here? Cheers, Michael -- Michael H. Ionescu mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PIKS GmbH, Abt. ITB2, CC-Unix phone:+49-(0)711-911-4236 Porschestrasse, D-71287 Weissach fax:+49-(0)711-911-3188 PIKS - The Porsche IT-Company - UNIX-Systems Competence Center
Re: high volume server configurations
I also applied these patches: qmail-1.03]# patch -p1 /usr/local/src/big-todo.103.patch qmail-1.03]# patch -p1 /usr/local/src/big-concurrency.patch I got this error: 1 out of 5 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file spawn.c.rej Try -p0, perhaps. Greetz, Peter. I have Errors, too with Solaris patch Tool but with GNU patch it's ok -- Michael..
Re: Slow response time
I noticed that I had the paranoid switch on as well (-p), which also may have been part of the problem. So I added -R and removed -p, and everything seems to working great. Thanks again to everyone for the help. try starting tcpserver with the -R option. Regards, Uwe
Re: generating bounce list
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 02:41:44PM -0800, Brandon Yu wrote: I am sending out a bunch of emails and would like to generate a list usernames whose mail bounces. Does Qmail have any feature to accomplish this? Or is there another way to accomplish this? Try the qmailanalog package. From http://cr.yp.to/qmailanalog.html: qmailanalog is a collection of tools to help you analyze qmail's activity record. It supplies statistics to answer a wide variety of questions: - overall: how many messages? recipients? attempts? etc. - ddist: how soon were 50% of the messages delivered? 90%? 95%? 99%? - rxdelay: what's the best order of recipients for mailing lists? - recipients, rhosts: who's getting mail? bytes? messages? attempts? - successes, failures, deferrals: why? how often? how much delay? - senders, suids: messages? bytes? load? recipients? attempts? delay? qmailanalog also includes several tools to focus attention on particular senders, recipients, or messages. - Mike PGP signature
qmail + Solaris 7.0 fatal: data 451 qq write error or disk full (#4.3.0)
Someone knows why I get fatal: data 451 qq write error or disk full (#4.3.0) ? It comes after different Message Counts when sending via SMTP. I think there is an Error in that qmail-smtpd. Any Solutions ? Never seen that on Linux btw. -- Michael..
Slow response time
Perhaps I have my DNS settings botched, but lately I have noticed a delay in qmail's response when sending mail from my LAN. If I telnet to it, it can take up to 30 seconds or longer before I get the greeting. Once I do get the greeting, or make the connection, subsequent responses are perfectly fine. It seems that only after a period of inactivity will this happen. I don't think this problem is present for others sending mail in from the Internet. My LAN IP's are not stored in any DNS server that qmail knows of, but they are on /etc/hosts. Any ideas?
qmail speed solaris
Setup is Solaris 7 and qmail + big todo + big concurrency What's going wrong here ? Thanks for Answer! 2001-02-02 18:31:10.045668500 status: local 0/250 remote 6/400 2001-02-02 18:31:10.626628500 status: local 0/250 remote 5/400 2001-02-02 18:31:10.988526500 status: local 0/250 remote 6/400 2001-02-02 18:31:11.242266500 status: local 0/250 remote 5/400 2001-02-02 18:31:12.498209500 status: local 0/250 remote 6/400 2001-02-02 18:31:12.758255500 status: local 0/250 remote 5/400 2001-02-02 18:31:13.512637500 status: local 0/250 remote 4/400 2001-02-02 18:31:13.512677500 status: local 0/250 remote 3/400 2001-02-02 18:31:14.110244500 status: local 0/250 remote 4/400 2001-02-02 18:31:15.217011500 status: local 0/250 remote 5/400 2001-02-02 18:31:16.326612500 status: local 0/250 remote 6/400 2001-02-02 18:31:17.261962500 status: local 0/250 remote 7/400 2001-02-02 18:31:18.288743500 status: local 0/250 remote 8/400 2001-02-02 18:31:18.344190500 status: local 0/250 remote 7/400 2001-02-02 18:31:19.068162500 status: local 0/250 remote 6/400 2001-02-02 18:31:19.513895500 status: local 0/250 remote 7/400 2001-02-02 18:31:21.045123500 status: local 0/250 remote 8/400 2001-02-02 18:31:21.519778500 status: local 0/250 remote 9/400 2001-02-02 18:31:21.876854500 status: local 0/250 remote 8/400 2001-02-02 18:31:22.181505500 status: local 0/250 remote 9/400 2001-02-02 18:31:22.592612500 status: local 0/250 remote 8/400 2001-02-02 18:31:22.906265500 status: local 0/250 remote 9/400 2001-02-02 18:31:23.378089500 status: local 0/250 remote 8/400 2001-02-02 18:31:24.121749500 status: local 0/250 remote 9/400 2001-02-02 18:31:24.247379500 status: local 1/250 remote 9/400 2001-02-02 18:31:24.661445500 status: local 1/250 remote 10/400 2001-02-02 18:31:24.724051500 status: local 0/250 remote 10/400 2001-02-02 18:31:24.929906500 status: local 0/250 remote 9/400 2001-02-02 18:31:25.111401500 status: local 0/250 remote 8/400 2001-02-02 18:31:25.123478500 status: local 0/250 remote 7/400 2001-02-02 18:31:25.283466500 status: local 0/250 remote 8/400 2001-02-02 18:31:25.928988500 status: local 0/250 remote 7/400 2001-02-02 18:31:26.061302500 status: local 0/250 remote 8/400 2001-02-02 18:31:26.309151500 status: local 0/250 remote 7/400 2001-02-02 18:31:26.666340500 status: local 0/250 remote 8/400 2001-02-02 18:31:27.110578500 status: local 0/250 remote 7/400 2001-02-02 18:31:27.271065500 status: local 0/250 remote 8/400 2001-02-02 18:31:27.768450500 status: local 0/250 remote 7/400 2001-02-02 18:31:28.140657500 status: local 0/250 remote 8/400 2001-02-02 18:31:28.845633500 status: local 0/250 remote 7/400 2001-02-02 18:31:29.469632500 status: local 0/250 remote 6/400 2001-02-02 18:31:29.508004500 status: local 0/250 remote 5/400 2001-02-02 18:31:29.572893500 status: local 0/250 remote 4/400 2001-02-02 18:31:29.771258500 status: local 0/250 remote 5/400 2001-02-02 18:31:30.622597500 status: local 0/250 remote 6/400 2001-02-02 18:31:30.698784500 status: local 0/250 remote 5/400 2001-02-02 18:31:31.363765500 status: local 0/250 remote 6/400 2001-02-02 18:31:31.638018500 status: local 0/250 remote 5/400 2001-02-02 18:31:31.658633500 status: local 0/250 remote 4/400 2001-02-02 18:31:31.673940500 status: local 0/250 remote 3/400 2001-02-02 18:31:31.817495500 status: local 0/250 remote 4/400 2001-02-02 18:31:32.349743500 status: local 0/250 remote 3/400
Re: qmail speed solaris
Dave Sill wrote: You asked this yesterday. Do you think the answer is different today? Yes, may depend on You! In my responses to you yesterday, I *twice* asked if you'd tried turning off qmail-send during the injection of your mass of messages. You never answered that question. Yes I did. I don't answer to lame Questions because I can figure this Point out my own, sorry. What you're trying to do (send 500,000 separate messages ASAP) will tax any decent MTA. Sending 500,000 seperate Messages for www.payback.de (Service like Paypal) Where Users get personalized e-Mails and personalized Info. For more Details www.flatfox.com should help. If you could achieve a massive performance gain simply by stopping qmail-send while you're queueing the messages, why not do it? What in my Situation is exactly. The Messages are out of the todo queue. They should be sent out. But that is too slow because there are just so few qmail-remote Processes!!! They don't come up like on Linux. Just about 15-20. That's not much. On Linux it goes much higher. And there appeared another Situation now. Because the queue Directory is overloaded there are too many fsyncs. But that is not the Main Issue because it's just the Effect of a very overloaded queue. -Dave -- Michael..
qmail Speed
http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/1999/12/msg00465.html This here exactly describes the Situation! -- Michael..
qmail speed improvement
Hi, I'm running qmail on Solaris 7 (SUN Netra T1) and I am trying to send out 500.000 e-Mails for Testing. I setup a Remote Concurrency of 400 and have queue Directory Split + Big Todo Server Patches. Why are there just average of 4 concurrent qmail-remote Processes ? How to improve it ? -- Thanks, Michael
Re: qmail speed improvement
Sorry, I'm using multilog for logging. And here is a Cut from Logs... -- 2001-02-01 16:07:00.591559500 status: local 0/250 remote 4/400 2001-02-01 16:07:01.136160500 new msg 709520 2001-02-01 16:07:01.176806500 info msg 709520: bytes 5581 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 25704 uid 101 2001-02-01 16:07:02.265784500 end msg 697387 2001-02-01 16:07:02.356404500 delivery 67273: success: 205.188.156.129_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_OK/ 2001-02-01 16:07:02.386210500 status: local 0/250 remote 3/400 2001-02-01 16:07:02.386383500 delivery 67274: success: 152.163.224.122_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_OK/ 2001-02-01 16:07:02.427978500 status: local 0/250 remote 2/400 2001-02-01 16:07:02.544169500 new msg 710041 2001-02-01 16:07:02.556813500 info msg 710041: bytes 5267 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 27810 uid 101 2001-02-01 16:07:03.080165500 starting delivery 67275: msg 698429 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2001-02-01 16:07:03.080480500 status: local 0/250 remote 3/400 2001-02-01 16:07:03.081277500 end msg 695824 2001-02-01 16:07:03.135796500 new msg 710562 2001-02-01 16:07:03.143146500 info msg 710562: bytes 4864 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 706 uid 101 2001-02-01 16:07:03.224924500 end msg 62 2001-02-01 16:07:03.302477500 new msg 711083 2001-02-01 16:07:03.326604500 info msg 711083: bytes 5300 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 2831 uid 101 2001-02-01 16:07:03.505963500 starting delivery 67276: msg 699471 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2001-02-01 16:07:03.505979500 status: local 0/250 remote 4/400 2001-02-01 16:07:03.505987500 end msg 698950 2001-02-01 16:07:03.560075500 new msg 712125 2001-02-01 16:07:03.569882500 info msg 712125: bytes 5273 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 7278 uid 101 2001-02-01 16:07:03.670697500 new msg 713167 2001-02-01 16:07:03.670707500 info msg 713167: bytes 4860 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 11492 uid 101 2001-02-01 16:07:03.754286500 starting delivery 67277: msg 700513 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2001-02-01 16:07:03.754304500 status: local 0/250 remote 5/400 2001-02-01 16:07:03.786734500 new msg 713688 2001-02-01 16:07:03.794230500 info msg 713688: bytes 5282 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 13649 uid 101 2001-02-01 16:07:03.883307500 new msg 720982 2001-02-01 16:07:03.895637500 info msg 720982: bytes 4861 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 15475 uid 101 2001-02-01 16:07:04.133091500 starting delivery 67278: msg 702597 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2001-02-01 16:07:04.133110500 status: local 0/250 remote 6/400 2001-02-01 16:07:04.250982500 new msg 721503 2001-02-01 16:07:04.250989500 info msg 721503: bytes 4880 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 17503 uid 101 2001-02-01 16:07:04.439898500 new msg 722024 2001-02-01 16:07:04.470841500 info msg 722024: bytes 4860 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 19692 uid 101 2001-02-01 16:07:04.714957500 starting delivery 67279: msg 703639 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2001-02-01 16:07:04.714977500 status: local 0/250 remote 7/400 2001-02-01 16:07:04.714984500 delivery 67278: success: 194.45.170.86_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_Mail_accepted/ 2001-02-01 16:07:04.774655500 status: local 0/250 remote 6/400 2001-02-01 16:07:04.897669500 new msg 722545 2001-02-01 16:07:04.909640500 info msg 722545: bytes 5275 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 21935 uid 101 2001-02-01 16:07:05.232365500 end msg 702597 2001-02-01 16:07:05.311545500 delivery 67272: success: 205.188.156.229_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_OK/ 2001-02-01 16:07:05.345557500 status: local 0/250 remote 5/400 2001-02-01 16:07:05.345569500 delivery 67275: success: 128.11.22.89_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_ok_dirdel/ 2001-02-01 16:07:05.403328500 status: local 0/250 remote 4/400 2001-02-01 16:07:05.445345500 new msg 723066 2001-02-01 16:07:05.463266500 info msg 723066: bytes 4847 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 24021 uid 101 2001-02-01 16:07:05.852987500 starting delivery 67280: msg 704681 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2001-02-01 16:07:05.853006500 status: local 0/250 remote 5/400 Thanks, Michael.. Charles Cazabon wrote: Depends on your setup. Could be syslog is taking 80+% of your CPU if you're logging with that. It could be that you're testing over an internal network with microsecond latency and your deliveries all complete in a millisecond. It could be any of a hundred things. You haven't given us any information to diagnose your situation. Your qmail logs will contain information on this. Analyze those. If you have trouble doing that, post a relevant section of your logs showing concurrency not growing above 4. Charles
Re: qmail speed improvement
How? 500,000 separate messages or one message with 500,000 recipients? If the former, have you tried stopping qmail-send until the messages are injected--and do you really need to send each recipient a different message? They are seperate messages and Yes it's needed because those are personalized e-Mails! Why are there just average of 4 concurrent qmail-remote Processes ? How to improve it ? What else is the system doing beside sending your mails? Beeing failover Apache Webserver. But Main Job is Mailserver! What kind of disk is the queue on? SCSI Disk (SUN UFS) What is your network connectivity? 10 MBit Internet Connection. Lan is 100 MBit. What is the mean airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? Dunno, gonna search on Google! :-) -Dave -- Michael..
Re: qmail speed improvement
Justin Bell wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 05:12:36PM +0100, Michael Maier wrote: # mean airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? # # Dunno, gonna search on Google! :-) the correct response would be 'African or European?' -- Justin Bell If you are Monty Python, yes! :-) -- Michael..
Re: qmail speed improvement
Dave Sill wrote: OK, no need to get excited. So, have you tried stopping qmail-send until the messages are injected? I think you're seeing the combination of two problems: the first is disk bandwidth on the queue partition, and the second is the single-threaded nature of qmail-send: it can't simultaneously hand messages off to qmail-remote and process new messages coming into the queue. Run iostat on the queue disk to see how busy it is. SCSI Disk (SUN UFS) Do you have DiskSuite? If so, making the queue filesystem a Trans device (logging) should help. The Disk is allright. But then if qmail-send is single threaded that's a very big Bottleneck in the complete Package slowing it down rapidely. This should be improved really! -- Michael..
Re: qmail speed improvement
Steve Kennedy wrote: what's your favourite colour ? Steve Blue! Uhmm... No Yellow! ;-) -- --^..^-- michael maier - system development administrator flatfox ag, hanauer landstrasse 196a d-60314 frankfurt am main fon+49.(0)69.50 95 98-308 fax+49.(0)69.50 95 98-101 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] urlhttp://www.flatfox.com - m a k e m y d a y
one host with several hostnames?
Hello, i have the following situation: +-+ | qmail 1.03| eth0 --| gemini.qad.org | | | ppp0 --| gemini.myip.org | +-+ My host should accept mails to gemini.qad.org as well as gemini.myip.org, because it is the same machine. What I did: I edited the configure files 'locals', 'rcpthosts' and 'virtualdomains' and wrote the additional hostname in there. The virtualdomains: tuebingen.mpg.de: gemini.myip.org: :alias-ppp But it appears like an urgly hack to me. Is there a better way to reach the needed functionality? Thanks for answers and hints -- |Michael Renner E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |D-72072 Tuebingen Germany| |Germany Don't drink as root! ESC:wq
Re: supervise fatal errors
Just go into the affected Directories and delete those lock Files manually. Because UFS Solaris is a bit laggy in I/O this Problem occurs when you stop and start your qmail Programs too fast! -- Michael Maier / http://www.shell-provider.net Fish Flowers wrote: I've gotten qmail to compile, and my init scripts set up, but when I run "qmail start", I get the following: Starting qmail: svscan . supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-send/supervise/lock: temporary failure supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary failure supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-smtpd/supervise/lock: temporary failure supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary failure The supervise fatal errors repeat every couple of seconds. This is a SunOS 5.7 box, running qmail-1.03. Any thoughts? Fish.
Re: qmail-pop3d broken LAST command
I noticed that qmail-pop3d always responds with: +OK 0 to the pop3 command LAST This behavior makes pop3 clients like fetchmail unable to know which messages are new and thus download all the messages. So running fetchmail two successive times without deleting mail from the pop3 server would retrieve two copies of all messages. Is there any patch out for that ? Thanks http://homepages.munich.netsurf.de/Franz.Sirl/qmail-pop3d-1.03.diff -- CYA, Michael
