move vpopmail user account to a new qmail server

2001-07-27 Thread vincent



hi,all
i have a problem
cd /home/vpopmail/
tar czf domains.tgz domains
then,i copy domains.tgz to new qmail server
and
cd /home/vpopmail
tar zxvf domains.tgz

after i do all above
i use outlook express to pop mail from new qmail server,it 
always ask password autherization,i think i input the right password,what's the 
reason,can someone point me in the right direction?



unable to opendir mess

2001-07-26 Thread vincent



Hi
my qmail have been running well for a long time,
but recently,when i check the maillog,error 
occurs:
Jul 27 12:21:57 webserver qmail: 996265317.412854 alert: 
unable to opendir mess/5, sleeping...Jul 27 12:22:07 webserver qmail: 
996265327.422859 alert: unable to opendir mess/5, sleeping...
the qmail can not deliver mail out,all mails are in 
/var/qmail/queue/mess.what's wrong with that?


Re: Which RBL replacement?

2001-07-25 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:43:50PM +0200, Johan Almqvist wrote:
 * Paulo Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010724 15:29]:
  Starting Jul 31 RBL will start charging for using their services. Which
  of the free RBL replacement do people recommend? I have read so far
  about ORBL and ORBS...
 
 Take a look at
 http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/rbldomains.txt

Ugh. That has some bad info on it. orbS.gst-group.co.uk is the wrong name
(should be orbz.gst-group.co.uk).

The rfc-ignorant zones are at rfc-ignorant.ORG, not com.

Note, also, that the {abuse|dsn|postmaster|whois}.rfc-ignorant.org lists are
'rhsbl' lists (rhs for right-hand side of the envelope sender domain
name), and are useless with rblsmtpd.

Please, when you use these resources, make sure that you use them correctly,
and that you keep informed of recent developments with the various lists. If
you don't, not only will it not help you reduce spam, it will also waste your
resources and those of the volunteers providing the service.

Vince.




Re: Which RBL replacement?

2001-07-25 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:28:53PM +0200, Paulo Jan wrote:
 Hi all:
 
   Starting Jul 31 RBL will start charging for using their services. Which
 of the free RBL replacement do people recommend? I have read so far
 about ORBL and ORBS...

ORBS is dead, and has been since the beginning of June. There is no replacement
for the RBL or the DUL; all the other ip-based lists are open relay lists, and
as such, free replacements for RSS. I think it would be unwise at this point to
recommend any of them; none of them have been in operation long enough to
establish their credibility. 

If you're using the MAPS services now, you should really consider subscribing.
If you cannot afford to pay according to the published fee schedule, contact
MAPS and offer them what you _can_ afford to pay (or, apply for an
individual/hobby site subscription if that applies in your case).

MAPS does _much_ more than just provide tools to block spam.

Vince.



Re: some wierdness with qmail - rbl/rss - dnscache

2001-07-20 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 06:03:00PM -0400, Kris von Mach wrote:
 Something very weird started happening yesterday, and I have been trying to 
 figure out what it might be, and I was unable to narrow it down.
 
 I have been running qmail with rbl/rss and also running dnscache on the 
 same machine for a while without any problems.
 
 Yesterday my dnscache log started filling up with these error messages:

(log excerpts trimmed: )
 @40003b574c21126fcb94 query 27874 7f01:e77a:701d 1 
 @40003b574c2113c47684 query 27875 7f01:fccb:eebc 12 
 @40003b574c2113eb6744 query 27876 7f01:fccb:eebc 16 
 @40003b574c2113f087c4 query 27877 7f01:e77a:701d 1 

All these request are from localhost; so it could very well be
rblsmtpd causing these requests.

 about 20 or so requests like this a second... about 95% of them are for 
 150.68.39.208.relays.mail-abuse.org/150.68.39.208.blackholes.mail-abuse.org 
 which is (web01.dc.intira.com, not my server) and the other 5% are for 
 2.110.10.209.in-addr.arpa (my server)
 
 my qmail-smtp and qmail-send logs don't show anything interesting...

What does that mean? And how do you know?

[re-ordered]

 exec softlimit -m 1 -t600 tcpserver -S -R -H -c100 -x 
 /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u $QMAILUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp rblsmtpd \
 -r blackholes.mail-abuse.org \
 -r 'relays.mail-abuse.org:Open relay problem - see 
 http://www.mail-abuse.com/cgi-bin/nph-rss?%IP%' \
 qmail-smtpd splogger smtpd 21

Use '-v' with tcpserver to log connection attempts (which is what
would cause rblsmtpd to do lookups). What version of ucspi-tcp do you
have? My copy of 0.88 doesn't have an '-S' option.

If you are getting connection attempts from this address, try using
recordio to see what the host is sending to rblsmtpd (and possibly
qmail-smtpd).

 My antivirus program (kaspersky's) didn't like this at all and was 
 generating this error:

Well, then, you must have _something_ interesting in your qmail logs,
since something is reaching your antivirus thingy.

[...]

 My qmail setup is done according to Matt Simerson's qmail-vpopmail-freebsd 
 toaster.

I'm not familiar with that document.

 RBL and RSS tests shows that everything is working fine... 

What does that mean? What sort of tests did you do? What is the
'everything' that is working fine? Obviously, it's not, since you're
asking the question here.

 So the only thing that I can think of that might be different is that
 MAPS changed something?

No yet.

 I know I haven't changed anything for over a month now (and this 
 is a fairly busy server). The thing that really freaks me out is that I 
 worked on Deloitte Consulting's web site around a year ago, and now my 
 dnscache is filling up with requests for 
 150.68.39.208.blackholes.mail-abuse.org which the IP address is for 
 web01.dc.intira.com... I hope the two are not related in anyway. 

We have no way of knowing that.


Vince.



Re: orbs

2001-07-19 Thread Vincent Schonau

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: sqwebmail and qmail?

2001-07-17 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:06:04PM -0700, Bill Parker wrote:
 Hi All,

   I was wondering, is there a way to make a reply to a
 message sent from sqwebmail not show the username@FQDN but
 rather username@domain

This purely an sqwebmail issue, and your should really have asked it on the
sqwebmail mailing list. You can find the answer in the sqwebmail INSTALL
file; look for 'sendit.sh'.

Vince.



Re: Please help with bounce

2001-07-17 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 02:35:45PM +, Sky wrote:
 Hello all,
 I have a problem with qmail bouncing.
 Here is the problem:
 I have a provider (demos.su also dol.ru) pop3 account elsewhere
 and also I have forwarding email at third location.
 Usually, I send mail using my provider's smtp, in the message I have
 forwarding From: field, and I collect replies from my pop3 account.

[ ... ]

 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 194.87.0.16 does not like recipient.
 Remote host said: 571 [EMAIL PROTECTED] we do not
 relay
 Giving up on 194.87.0.16.

[snip]

 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Received: (qmail 6574 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2001 13:34:53 -
 Received: from mx.demos.su (HELO demos.su) (194.87.0.32)
   by linux.polisma.net with SMTP; 17 Jul 2001 13:34:53 -
 Received: from [194.87.5.54] (HELO geisteskrank.demos.su)
   by demos.su (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.4.8/D)
   with ESMTP id 29014079 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:34:32
 +0400
 Received: by geisteskrank.demos.su  with SMTP id f6H9Xuf81758
  from atomik  (IDENT:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [194.87.5.54])

As these headers show, it is geisteskrank.demos.su that rewrites your
envelope-from. That's broken behaviour, especially if they do not accept
addresses of that format. Tell demos.su to fix their MTA.

 P.S.
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] is my forwarding address - it forwards mail to my pop3
 account.
 
 Please help me with configuring bounce so that it sends bounce to
 From: field, and not to what it sends now.

No; that would be broken behaviour. Bounces should only go to the
envelope-sender. The problem is with your provider.

Vince.



Re: Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse (DCC) antispam for qmail?

2001-07-16 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 02:35:13PM -0400, Chris Shenton wrote:
 With ORBS recent demise and the commercialization of MAPS, I started
 looking for other antispam measures.  The most promising I've found is
 the Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse:
 
   http://www.rhyolite.com/dcc/
 
 If I'm reading it correctly, the code computes a variety of checksums
 on portions of messages coming through your MTA, and sends these to a
 DCC server which keeps running counts of each reported checksum;

... stored in a database ... 

 spam sent to a wide audience would increment the same sums so you could
 detect it.  Clients can 

... send checksums to the server and ...

 query this and decide what to do with any incoming message.  It has
 whitelists so that large list mail (e.g. inet-access) would be excluded
 from spam consideration.

Yes. It looks extremely cool. Vernon Schryver (the author) has been
marketing it saying installation takes only a few minutes - while this is
true once you've read and understood the documentation, that part takes a
little more time.

 Seems to be built for integration with sendmail. Anyone using it now
 with qmail? 

I am currently working on integrating DCC with qmail and procmail via the
'dccproc' procmail interface to dcc. I have some ideas about integrating it
with qmail; probably via a qmail-local wrapper (dccproc adds an X-DCC header
to the mail). I'm configuring my spamtraps with

| dccproc -t many -o /dev/null

in dot-qmail(5); this creates a nice line in my qmail-send log with the
report dccproc made.

 I haven't found anything useful searching google for dcc qmail. 

DCC wasn't publicly available until July 12th. There has been some activity
on the DCC mailing list - but not much.


Vince.



Re: tcpserver: end xxxx status 256

2001-07-07 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:07:11PM -0700, Lists Servers Email wrote:
 Does any know what causes this error:
 
 Server:
 tcpserver: end  status 256

A program that was called by tcpserver exited non-zero. What you obscured is
a pid.

 Client:
 user xxx
 +OK
 pass xx
 -ERR unable to write pipe
 
 Connection to host lost.

I'm guessing (since you haven't shown us your tcpserver command-line) that
qmail-popup has a problem with whatever problem it's trying to call.


Vince.



Re: tcpserver: end xxxx status 256

2001-07-07 Thread Vincent Schonau

Please don't Cc: me, I'm on the list.

On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 01:16:31AM -0700, Lists Servers Email wrote:

[...]

 But I have another problem!!! there is mail in the queue but it's not get
 deliver local.

That sucks. What do the logs say[tm]?

Vince.



Re: more startup fun

2001-07-04 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:41:40AM -0500, David Dahl wrote:

 I cannot get qmail to startup properly:

The examples you showed are from an installation that uses daemontools. Is
svscan running?

[...]

 shutdown and error:
 =
 [root@mckenna bin]# /etc/init.d/qmailctl stop
 Stopping qmail...
   qmail-smtpd
 svc: warning: unable to control /service/qmail-smtpd: file does not exist
   qmail-send
 svc: warning: unable to control /service/qmail-send: file does not exist

Those directories aren't being supervised; probably svscan isn't running

 listing of /service:
 ==
 
 [root@mckenna /service]# ls -lia
 total 16
32618 drwxr-xr-t3 root qmail4096 Jul  3 12:57 ./
32613 drwxr-xr-x5 root qmail4096 Jul  3 12:16 ../
32619 drwxr-xr-x2 root qmail4096 Jul  3 10:20 log/

32623 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   32 Jul  3 12:57 
 qmail-send - /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send//
32624 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   33 Jul  3 12:57 
 qmail-smtpd - /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd//
32620 -rwxr-xr-x1 root qmail 212 Jul  3 10:16 run*

Why is there a log directory and a run file in your /service? You have
your /service directory configured like it is a service itself; it's not.
the /service directory is used to tell svscan where to find services to
supervise. Also, the /service directory should be owned root.root, not
root.qmail .

You should only have symlinks to service directories in /service, like the
ones you have for qmail-send and qmail-smtpd . If svscan can't start those,
it writes messages to the console.

[...]

 do i even need xinietd with tcpserver?  

No; tcpserver is a replacement for inetd-like tools.

 do i have permissions problems up in /service?

Apart from it being owned root.qmail, no.

Vince.



Re: more startup fun

2001-07-04 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 03:05:44AM -0500, David Dahl wrote:
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:41:40AM -0500, David Dahl wrote:

  I cannot get qmail to startup properly:

The examples you showed are from an installation that uses daemontools. Is
svscan running?

 Yes, it is installed and can run.  i guess i just realized that i did 
 not activate svscan in inittab...
 do i need to reboot now?

Yes, or do 

# kill -HUP 1

As in section 2.7 of Life With Qmail.

  shutdown and error:
 =
  qmail-send
 svc: warning: unable to control /service/qmail-send: file does not exist

Those directories aren't being supervised; probably svscan isn't running
 
 I guess I do not understand how supervise works...

http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/supervise.html

   supervise switches to the directory named service and starts ./run. It
   restarts ./run if ./run exits. It pauses for a second before starting
   ./run, so that it does not loop too quickly if ./run exits immediately.

supervise is used to manage a service; svscan is used to manage the
'supervise'rs.

[...]

Why is there a log directory and a run file in your /service? You have
your /service directory configured like it is a service itself; it's not.
the /service directory is used to tell svscan where to find services to
supervise. Also, the /service directory should be owned root.root, not
root.qmail
 
 I have been following Life with qmail all night.  It says to setup 
 the log dir and run file in that directory.

I just searched Life With Qmail looking for that instruction; it doesn't say
that.

Vince.



Re: more startup fun

2001-07-04 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 10:23:28AM +0200, Vincent Schonau wrote:
 On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 03:05:44AM -0500, David Dahl wrote:

 do i need to reboot now?
 
 Yes, or do 
 
 # kill -HUP 1

Correction; don't do this now; do it after you've corrected your installation.


Vince.



Re: more startup fun

2001-07-04 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 03:47:33AM -0500, David Dahl wrote:
 On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 03:05:44AM -0500, David Dahl wrote:

 i finally looked at the console after rebooting:
 
 env: SQUARE ICON: No such file or directory
 env: SQUARE ICON: No such file or directory
 env: SQUARE ICON: No such file or directory
 env: SQUARE ICON: No such file or directory
 env: SQUARE ICON: No such file or directory
 env: SQUARE ICON: No such file or directory
 
 INIT: Id SV respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

 (SQUARE ICON is actually a white square)

 h... i am really lost now, but i assume this means that svscan is 
 really not running...

Your SV line in /etc/inittab is broken. The inittab line as shown on 
  http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/svscan.html
  
should be _all on one line_

Vince.
(thanks for not Ccing me)



Re: sending mail via MS Exchange

2001-07-04 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 10:45:39AM +0200, Bymark, Jan wrote:
 Hi, 
 
I want my Qmail to be able only to send mail, NOT recieve. My smtp server is
a MS Exchange, but that shouldn't be a problem, I hope. I've been looking at

 smtproutes 

If the IP address of your Exchange SMTP server is 192.168.1.1, do

# echo :192.168.1.1  control/smtproutes

into smtproutes. Only start qmail-send, not qmail-smtpd (or
qmail-qmtpd or qmail-qmqpd) and your host will not be able to receive
mail from remote hosts.


Vince.



Re: RFC complience

2001-07-03 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:47:30PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[...]

  i myself has tested this tool(mail client for tv for broadband network)
 with other ISP's , other mail servers on internet but its working with all
 those accept out mail server ,

  so please suggest how to debug/resolve this problem , 

Look in your logs. If your logs do not have any information pertaining
to this problem, use recordio to see what's going over the wire.


Vince.





Re: LWQ question..cjk

2001-07-03 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 06:24:42PM +0300, Constantine Koulis wrote:

[...]

 Note: qmail-local can deliver mail to maildir mailboxes, but it can't create 
 them. Maildir mailboxes should be created with the maildirmake program that 
 comes with qmail. E.g., maildirmake ~/Maildir. Be sure to run maildirmake 
 as the owner of the maildir, not as root. Your useradd or adduser command 
 might support a skeleton directory, e.g. /etc/skel, where you can create a 
 maildir that will be copied for all new users.
 
 THAT MEANS THAT FOR EVERY VIRTUAL USER I HAVE TO DO MAILDIRMAKE

Please don't yell. For every (virtual or otherwise) user you have to
specifiy a delivery method. If you want to deliver the mail to your virtual
users locally, yes, you have to do maildirmake for each of them. This can of
course easily be automated if you have a database of your virtual users
somewhere.

If you don't deliver the mail locally, you do have to specify some delivery
method, e.g. through .qmail files.

 and what is SKELETON?

On some systems, when you do a 'useradd' that creates a home directory, the
useradd program will copy the files in /etc/skel to the newly created home
directory. You don't need this for virtual users.


Vince.

 




Re: Help about mail-abuse testing

2001-07-01 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:03:34PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi, I have some problems when using qmail-ldap. My qmail server was be listed on 
mail-abuse.org. 
 I did the test from my mailserver by telnet to relay-test.mail-abuse.org. The test 
stopped at the 
 Test 11.  The result as below:
 :Relay test: #Test 11
  mail from: spamtest@
  250 ok
  rcpt to: nobody%mail-abuse.org
  250 ok
  QUIT

 How can I pass the test!

You passed the test. That message didn't get delivered.


Vince.



Re: Help about mail-abuse testing

2001-07-01 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 08:55:47AM +0200, Vincent Schonau wrote:
 On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:03:34PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[ percenthack ]

 How can I pass the test!

 You passed the test. That message didn't get delivered.

Correction. Do

$ cat /var/qmail/control/percenthack

If you get 'No such file or directory' the message didn't get delivered, and
you passed the test.


Vince.



Re: Logs

2001-07-01 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 12:00:03AM +0200, NDSoftware wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I have for exemple:
 @40003b3e495c2ec85f2c info msg 195881: bytes 2951 from
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 13962 uid 503
 
 How i can get date and time ?

$ /usr/local/bin/tai64nlocal

(part of the daemontools package).

 Can i customise logs of qmail for get more informations like IP, date,
 time,...

The remote IP address will be in your qmail-smtpd log, not the qmail-send
log, if you run qmail-smtpd from tcpserver with -v.

 How work the logrotate of qmail ?

See URL:http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html

 How i can like the logotate program send the logs by e-mail ?

See that same page, look for '!processor'.

Vince.



Re: Portable RPM for qmail

2001-06-28 Thread Vincent Schonau

[ Please make your MUA understand Mail-Followup-To ]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:12:14PM +1000, John Newbigin wrote:
 You may distribute a precompiled package if

[ ... ]

  installing your package produces exactly the same files, in exactly
 the same locations, that a user would obtain
  by installing one of my packages listed above;
 My RPM produces exactly the same file and directory structure with the
 exception that I have removed the cat pages.  If that is a problem then
 they could be added back in.  The RPM spec was generated by the hier.c
 code and I have verified the installed package with instcheck.
 
 I have applied my own patch which removes the uid/gid problems and I
 have added a redhat 6.2 style rc script.   The source rpm contains the
 original qmail-1.03.tar.gz and my 2 patch files.

A source RPM is not a precompiled package; so I don't see a problem with
this, especially since Bruce Guenter is also distributing one. Bruce may
have obtained permission from Dan, however, you'll have to ask him.

  your package behaves correctly, i.e., the same way as normal
 installations of my package on all other systems;
  and
 What exactly is meant by that?  There is no standard installation
 procedure and there is no reference package so what constitutes correct
 behaviour?

It means tbat if you apply patches that modify the behaviour of qmail, you
can't redistribute the _binary_ package. In my interpretation, this excludes
modifications to the installation procedure.

[...]

 All installations must work the same way; any variation is a bug. If
 there's something about a system (compiler,
 libraries, kernel, hardware, whatever) that changes the behavior of
 my package, then that platform is not supported,
 and you are not permitted to distribute binaries for it.

 All installations must work the same way as what?  My RPM is built for
 RedHat 6.2 only.

All installations must work the same way as an installation from source,
without modifications on a supported platform. So adding an rc script in
/etc/rc.d is not a problem, but installing a modified qmail-send that sends
obscene bounce-messages is not.

 I have built the RPM's for my own use but I would like to do what I see
 a a service to the community and make them available to help rid the
 world of sendmail.  I hope that the barrier to doing this is not too
 great.

While I appreciate the sentiment, I think this specific community will not
benefit from additional (packaged) distributions. There is already a wide
variation of installation instructions and a fairly major modified
distribution, all of which are supported in this forum. I fear that adding
another one (that doesn't add any significant features to Bruce's version)
will only add to the support load here.

It is my opinion that the best way to install qmail, _especially_ for
inexperienced qmail users, is to build from source, using either Dan's
instructions or Life With Qmail. Mailservers in general and qmail especially
are not trivial software; they're network-accessible services that have
significant operational and security-implications. This means that making
new users read a lot of documentation is a _feature_, not a bug.

If you really want to do this, I think your safest choice is to only
distribute the source RPM, or obtain specific permission from Dan to
distribute the binary RPM.

Vince.



Re: Portable RPM for qmail

2001-06-28 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:17:29AM +0200, Vincent Schonau wrote:

[ minor correction ]

 All installations must work the same way as an installation from source,
 without modifications on a supported platform. So adding an rc script in
 /etc/rc.d is not a problem, but installing a modified qmail-send that sends
 obscene bounce-messages is not.
 ^^^

Scratch that: the last case _is_ a problem.

Vince.



Re: Portable RPM for qmail

2001-06-27 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 04:33:43PM +1000, John Newbigin wrote:

 My second question is about the licence for qmail.  Despite all my
 looking I can't find it.  Can someone point me to the licence or
 summarise what I can do with a binary RPM.

URL:http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html


Vince.



Re: Problem with conf-split config

2001-06-27 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:42:26AM +0530, D Rajesh wrote:
 Hi there,

I have done the conf-split configuration and after make setup It created
directory /var/qmail. I have moved the original /var/qmail to /var/qmail2
before the make setup. After finishing the installation, I have started
/var/qmail/rc  in background. It got started successfully. Then if I try
to start  /var/qmail2/rc  then it gives error saying qmail-send already
running...

If you want two separate copies of qmail running, you have to put
/var/qmail2 into conf-qmail and recompile. If you don't change conf-qmail,
the /var/qmail path will still be compiled into your binaries.

Vince.



Re: badmailfrom

2001-06-27 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:09:00AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi,  I have the following in control/badmailfrom as shown by qmail-showctl:
 
 badmailfrom: 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] not accepted in MAIL FROM.
 Hahaha [EMAIL PROTECTED] not accepted in MAIL FROM.
 
 
 Yet messages with the following headers still get through:
 
 --- Below this line is the original bounce.
 
 Return-Path: 
 Received: (qmail 24147 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2001 09:32:49 -
 Received: from 046.ro00.dial.iqnet.net.au (HELO default) (203.132.93.46)
   by mail-x1.iqnet.net.au with SMTP; 27 Jun 2001 09:32:49 -
 From: Hahaha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story!
 MIME-Version: 1.0
 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=--VEOD2BWLUV
 
 Is this due to the Return-Path: or is badmailfrom not behaving?

It is due to the Return-Path; badmailfrom works on the envelope-sender, not
the From: header.


Vince.



Re: open relay

2001-06-26 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:50:20PM +0530, C P wrote:

 we are having problem regarding open relay. the tcp.smtp file looks like
 20x.xx.xxx.x:allow,RELAYCLIENT=
 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT=
 
 tcp server has been started as
 
 tcpserver -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 501 -g 2108 0 smtp
 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 
 where uid and gid of qmaild are 501 and 2108

 the problem is that even after running tcpserver it's allowing open relay...
 
 what could be the possible reasons 

Did you run 

tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb.tmp  /etc/tcp.smtp

?

Does control/rcpthosts exist?


Vince.



Re: open relay

2001-06-26 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 12:58:22PM +0100, Tanuj Shah wrote:

 Use something like this:
 
 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT=
 20x.x.x.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=
 :DENY
 
 I just presume it's because there's no ':DENY' which blocks all else.

No, that will refuse connections from everywhere except the hosts explicitly
allowed. While this is a valid configuration, it will not work for servers
that are expected to receive email from the Internet.

Vince.



Re: Alter bounce messages?

2001-06-26 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:19:53PM -0700, Amanda wrote:

Who can tell me how to alter the bounce messages in the qmail-send file
without blowing it up? 

Edit qmail-send.c .

I tried hexeditor, but I musta not done a very good job.

Ouch. Are you sure you're qualified to adminster a mailserver responsibly?


Vince.



Re: OT: RBL false positives (Follow-up from: Spam IP master list?)

2001-06-22 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:09:31PM -0400, Roger Merchberger wrote:

[...]

 My main concern is rejecting real email using RBL... I recall hearing
 folks having problems with that in the past. Has RBL improved on the false
 positives problem?

There is no such thing as an RBL false positive; any collateral damage
(rejecting real email) is fully intentional.

The RBL is a political tool, not a technical one. Rejecting email because of
an RBL listing tells the sender:

   The owner of the host you sent this email through (which may be you)
   has refused to adopt minimal standards for responsible email interaction
   on the Internet. We do not accept mail fro such hosts.
   

Vince.



sending mail from scripts fails

2001-06-10 Thread Vincent



Hi.
I'm using qmail-1.03
I'm having problems sending mail from withing perl 
scripts. The scirpt I used worked perfectly on a linux server using sendmail. 
Now I'n using it on our news server with qmail. The scirpt functions okay, but 
there is no mail sent.

I've made the proper links to 
/var/qmail/bin/sendmail.
When I start sendmail -t (the same way the script 
does) I can create mail messages, but the script doesn't

Anyone has an idea what's causing the 
problems?
Thanks,

Vincent


Re: Forwarding some mail recipients to other machine.

2001-05-31 Thread vincent

How about if I have 500 local mailbox ? Do I need to create .qmail-domain-users file 
for each one of them ?
And route the rest to other machine .

Any better solution and how ?


From: Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 11:29:45 -0600
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Forwarding some mail recipients to other machine.

Sebastian Wain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I wish to receive the email from Internet in a machine (running qmail) and
 forward it (depending the receiver) to another machine, but leaving some
 recipients in the first machine.
 
 How can I do it with qmail?  I know that I can forward all the mails to
 another machine using smtproutes, but I haven't found information about
 forwarding some recipients only.

The easiest way to do this is to make the domain in question a virtual domain,
handled by alias:

  domain.net:alias-domain

If you want to handle a small number of accounts in this
domain locally, you then create a few .qmail files for them, doing something
like forwarding to a different name, which is a qmail local domain:

  ~alias/.qmail-domain-joe

  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

  ~alias/.qmail-domain-jill

  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

and handle the rest with a .qmail-default file forwarding to a remote domain:

  ~alias/.qmail-domain-default

  |forward $DEFAULT@remote.domain.net

Charles
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Migration to qmail

2001-05-18 Thread vincent

We are a small ISP and currently having a mail server (InterMail) serving POP3/SMTP 
access to our subscribers.
Let's say mail system A= serverA.domain.com.my and user e-mail address like 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

We planning to migate from this mail system to qmail.

And we already setup FreeBSD+qmail+vpopmail+sqwebmail+qmailadmin to provide the same 
service POP3/SMTP
Let's say mail system B = serverBdomain.com.my and user e-mail address like 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

For co-existant purpose (migration) ,
Is there a POP3 and SMTP proxy solution such that userA POP3 and SMTP access will 
still poiting to serverA and 
qmail user (userB) will poiting to serverB ?

Note : Both server having the same e-mail domain name.

Thanks,






Re: OT - Problems with daemontools 0.70

2001-05-14 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:38:54AM -0500, Michael Geier wrote:
 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

 
 does anyone know why this might be crashing???

Many people know. See, for example:
   URL:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=logm=98874659608501w=2
or URL:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=logm=98868025514431w=2
or URL:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=logm=98756905027969w=2

(they're all the same answer).

Vince.



Re: ScanMail Message: To Recipient virus found and action taken.

2001-04-23 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:36:44AM -0400, Alex Pennace wrote:

 Am I the only one that finds it ironic that a list for a Unix MTA is
 plagued by a Windows mail trojan and a mail scanner eager to tell
 recipients about the disposition of the message?

Not likely, although you mispelled 'a bunch of scanners'.

 Warning to recipient. ScanMail detected a virus in an email attachment and
 has been removed!  If this mail is from Internet, the sender don't know
 his/her mail consists of virus and has been removed.  Please ask the sender
 to clean and re-send.
 
 ScanMail is broken.

That's ok. According to the above, it's been removed.

Vince.



can not get qmail aliases to work

2001-04-03 Thread Vincent O'Neill




I am trying use '/etc/aliases' with qmail and can 
not get them to work correctly.

I am using the following files

.qmail-default

| /var/qmail/bin/fastforward -d 
/etc/aliases.cdb

~alias directory
**
-rw-r--r-- 1 alias 
nofiles 73 Apr 3 08:29 
.qmail-default-rw-r--r-- 1 alias 
nofiles 0 Apr 3 08:23 
.qmail-mailer-daemon-rw-r--r-- 1 alias 
nofiles 23 Mar 26 14:30 
.qmail-postmaster-rw-r--r-- 1 alias 
nofiles 23 Apr 2 10:08 
.qmail-root-rwxr--r-- 1 alias 
nofiles 0 Apr 2 16:02 
Mailboxdrwxr--r-- 5 alias 
nofiles 512 Mar 15 15:35 Maildir

alias user
alias:x:1002:100::/var/qmail/alias:/bin/sh
virtualdomains
*
mydomain.com:mydomainmydomain2.com:mydomain2

rcpthosts
*** 
mydomain.commydomain2.com

I have tested the '/etc/aliases' file using 'fastforward -nd 
/etc/aliases.cdb' and they parse out correctly. I followed the "Single UID based 
POP3 box HOWTO" but can not get the aliases to work. All other mail to users in 
'/var/qmail/users/assign' works perfectly. 

Any help, ideas would be appreciated

Thanks

VInce





Need HELP with QMAIL aliases !!!

2001-04-03 Thread Vincent O'Neill

I am trying use '/etc/aliases' with qmail and can not get them to work
correctly.

I am using the following files

.qmail-default

| /var/qmail/bin/fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb


~alias directory
**
-rw-r--r--   1 aliasnofiles   73 Apr  3 08:29 .qmail-default
-rw-r--r--   1 aliasnofiles0 Apr  3 08:23 .qmail-mailer-daemon
-rw-r--r--   1 aliasnofiles   23 Mar 26 14:30 .qmail-postmaster
-rw-r--r--   1 aliasnofiles   23 Apr  2 10:08 .qmail-root
-rwxr--r--   1 aliasnofiles0 Apr  2 16:02 Mailbox
drwxr--r--   5 aliasnofiles  512 Mar 15 15:35 Maildir

alias user

alias:x:1002:100::/var/qmail/alias:/bin/sh

virtualdomains
*
mydomain.com:mydomain
mydomain2.com:mydomain2

rcpthosts
***
mydomain.com
mydomain2.com

I have tested the '/etc/aliases' file using 'fastforward -nd
/etc/aliases.cdb' and they parse out correctly. I followed the "Single UID
based POP3 box HOWTO" but can not get the aliases to work. All other mail to
users in '/var/qmail/users/assign' works perfectly.

Any help, ideas would be appreciated

Thanks

VInce








Re: Tcpserver

2001-03-27 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:34:04AM -0500, Robin S. Socha wrote:

 Keep in mind that a) this is not a support forum

Huh?

URL:http://cr.yp.to/djb.html

  * qmail support questions. Send them to the qmail mailing list instead.
  
Maybe you're getting carried away a bit. If this list is not a support forum
for qmail, what _is_?


Vince.



Re: Tcpserver

2001-03-27 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 06:22:58PM +0530, Sumith wrote:
 Thanks Vincent!
 
 Mr. Robin is trying to discourage newbies like me from asking for help.

No, he's not. FWIW: I agreed with most of what Robin wrote, but to claim
that this is not a support forum for qmail is simply wrong.


Vince.



Re: redundant mail servers

2001-03-23 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:01:51AM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote:
 Gopi Sundaram writes:

 I'm reluctant to move to Maildir until we can get more MUAs to support
 them (specifically Pine and Netscape).

 Wrong idea.  Never expose your mailboxes to your users.  Always use a
 virtual mailbox system -- either pop3 or imap.

Why?


Vince.



Re: qmail-send dependent on log?

2001-03-21 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 12:36:16PM +0530, Sumith wrote:
 Hello

No deliveries were happening on our qmail server, since I changed the
qmail/log/run file installed from qmail rpms to that required by "isoqlog"
(qmail-loganalyzer)

 #!/bin/sh
 exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t !isoqlogappend ./main
 
Mails started coming in once I reverted back to the original log file.

What went wrong, does qmail-send require proper log files to deliver the
mails. 

From URL:http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html:

   Note that running processor may block any program feeding input to
   multilog.

If isoqlogappend blocks; multilog blocks, which blocks qmail-send.

Vince.



Re: Repeated Identical Messages

2001-03-15 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:06:45AM -0800, Greg White wrote:
 On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 11:39:38AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 FWIW We see this very, very, very rarely.  I've never seen it in email
 from this list.

 Funny -- I just got this one twice. ;)

In this case, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was listed in both To: and Cc:.

Vince.



Re: qmail-pop3d bug

2001-03-12 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 07:37:06PM +, Mark Delany wrote:

[...]

 A more sensible strategy might be to introduce a new "info" flag (say
 '3' equals POP wire size) on the filename, eg, a 10,000 byte email has
 a name something like this:
 
 Maildir/new/980195114.16740.geex:2,RS3,1

From reading URL:http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html, it is not clear to me
that this would be the proper format for such an 'info' extension. I would
worry that MUAs and other software dealing with maildir (scripts!) would
expect info semantics in the 2, series to be at the end of the filenames.

 Optimally the wire-size is calculated when the mail is written to
 Maildir/tmp/ and then applied as an "info" flag when the file is moved
 to Maildir/new/.

 A possible complication with this approach is that my reading of
 Maildir infers that "info" can only be set when the file moves from
 Maildir/new/ to Maildir/cur/.
 
No, this is not what that document says. It says

   "When you move a file from new to cur, you have to change it's name [...]"

You *have* to change the name when the file move from new/ to cur/ , but
there is no specification of other cases; in fact, lots of MUA's will change
info when the file has been in cur/ for a while: mutt, for example, moves
the file from new/ to cur/, adds :2, and only modifies that to be 2,S after
the user has read the message (it is no longer 'N'ew).


Vince.








Re: qmail-pop3d bug

2001-03-12 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:03:33AM +, Mark Delany wrote:

 To me that implies that a file in new cannot have an "info" section.

You're right. I didn't think the original point throuhgh.

Regards,


Vince.




Re: qmail packaging

2001-02-05 Thread Vincent Danen

On Mon Feb 05, 2001 at 04:19:24PM -0500, Aaron Carr wrote:

 I read an article last week that was a comparison of all of the major Linux
 distros. The usual stuff, installation, features, ease of use.  One of the
 categories was MTA.  It was said in this comparison that Redhat Linux 7
 Deluxe Workstation comes with Sendmail, Qmail, and Postfix.

Would this happen to by Linux Magazine?  Ahh yes, just flipped to it.
Hmmm... they made a number of mistakes on there.  They claimed
Linux-Mandrake came with qmail as well as sendmail and smail, but
failed to mention that the default MTA is postfix.

I don't think it was a typo... I think it was a complete and utter
lack of research on thier part.

I've emailed them in regards to (a few) problems with their summary
for Linux-Mandrake... you may want to do the same (perhaps, one can
hope, they will actually do more than read the back of a box and make
some fictious assumptions the next time they attempt to do one of
these comparisons).

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Re: qmtp and spammers.

2001-02-01 Thread Vincent Schonau

Faried Nawaz writes:

 QMTP may be faster than SMTP for sending mail, but it seems less
 powerful in our spam-happy Internet era.  

I think you mean Dan's implementation is 'less powerful'; it has nothing to 
do with the protocol. 

Has anyone seen spam enter their network via qmail-qmtpd? 

Vince.



[OT] Re: Newbie: Which Dist Linux, Best?

2001-02-01 Thread Vincent Schonau

SF writes:

 I have access to pretty much any dist and wanted to know what the opinion is
 on the most recommended distribution...  I've heard Debian, FreeBSD, etc in
 other areas, but wasn't sure.
 I intend this box to be super secure with qmail (for multiple domains) and
 bind/dns running, thus I don't want the frills of an Xwin sys or any added
 visual toys, or to run a telnet or ftp server.  I have learned how to login
 remotely using SSH and that's about all I need.  

Any Linux or FreeBSD system you install is going to suffer from your lack of 
Un*x systems administration experience. This is not a flame, it is a 
warning. You *must* be aware that the security of your system ends at the 
same place your knowledge of the system does. The fact that you appear to 
think that FreeBSD is a distribution of Linux and (especially this week) 
think you can run a 'super secure' server with BIND on it are good 
indicators. 

Fortunately, you do realize that security is vital for an Internet-connected 
system. My advice would be to pick a system, and experiment with it in a 
secure environment (ie: not internet-connected), and read as much as you can 
(books, online, discussion groups). 

You should not expose your systems to the world until you're confident that 
you *know* what the risks are. 

DJB develops his software on OpenBSD, and for a standard installation (no 
patches), one of the *BSDs is optimal (because of the filesystem sync 
issue). 

You should really be asking this question in a general Un*x newbie forum 
rather than here. 


Vince. 




Re: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)

2001-02-01 Thread Vincent Schonau

Michel Boucey writes:

 SYSERR(the_sender_on_the_machine): the_virtual_vpopdomain_on_the_machine. config
 error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
 Feb  1 14:56:28 yoda 
 sendmail[23266]: OAA23264: to=toto@the_virtual_vpopdomain_on_the_machine,
 ctladdr=the_sender_on_the_machine (50011/50012), delay=00:00:00,
 xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, 
 relay=the_virtual_vpopdomain_on_the_machine. [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx], stat=Local
 configuration error

That's not a qmail log. 

 help ! and thanks for help ...

How could we help? 


Vince.



Re: Newbie: Which Dist Linux, Best?

2001-01-31 Thread Vincent Danen

On Wed Jan 31, 2001 at 11:09:17PM -0500, Phil Barnett wrote:

  I've been working for about 4 weeks now at setting up qmail on my RH 7.0
  box.  I'm somewhat new to linux (my real sys admin background is in WinNT,
  etc. - but I lost the desire to deal with their licensing schemes...) and
  I've given up on the RH dist for a number of reasons including the issues I
[...]
 
 First off, trying to use a .0 release of any Redhat release is,at the 
 very least, foolish.
 
 I think you would be quite happy with:
 
 Redhat 6.2
 Run the Bastille Project scripts
 Install your SSH tools
 Turn off any additional unnecessary services (uses inetd, not 
 xinetd) like telnet and ftp.
 Update BIND to the latest version.
 Install Qmail using LWQ.
 Install Tripwire and set it up to report to you by email automatically.

Another option would be to use Linux-Mandrake.  I'd follow the above
steps as well (the BIND update is a definate *must*  don't use
anything below 8.2.3, the current release).

You can also go to http://www.freezer-burn.org/qmail.php for help on
installing qmail under Linux-Mandrake with pre-built rpms that follow
the distribution license (ie. you can further configure/customize
qmail with LWQ without any conflicts or problems).

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Re: ucspi-rss.diff

2001-01-30 Thread Vincent Schonau

Mate Wierdl writes:

 Does this patch to rblsmtpd result in a dropin replacement to the
 original rblsmtpd?  In other words, can I just use it as 
 
 rblsmtpd -r rss.mail-abuse.org

No, you use
 rblsmtpd -r 'relays.mail-abuse.org:Open relay problem - see 
URL:http://www.mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/nph-rss?query=%IP%' 

This also answers your earlier question. 


Vince. 



Re: Install went fine, but won't work

2001-01-26 Thread Vincent Schonau

Miles Scruggs writes:

  Sorry if this is a repeat to the list but I just subscribed

 The install went just find but I have a problem

 1.)  I can't seem to to set the enviroment variable to allow me to have
 certain hosts relay.  Below is the contents of my tcp.smtp 
 
 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
 192.168.1.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""

This allows anything in the 192.168.1.* subnet to relay through your host. 

 192.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""

This allows anything in the 192.* net to relay through your host. I'm sure 
you do not mean that. 

 65.193.90.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""

And I have a feeling yo do not mean this, either (all hosts in 65.193.90.*? 
Do you trust them all to relay through you?) 

 :allow 
 
 Then I ran the

 tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.tmp  /etc/tcp.smtp 
 
 And here is my tcpserver startup line which is in
 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtp/run 
 
 exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x
 /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 1003 -g 102 0 smtp rblsmtpd 
 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21

You're only using rbl.maps.vix.com for rblsmtpd (since you don't supply any 
options). 

 I have restarted smtpd just to make sure the changes took, I don't know if
 this is nessary or if they are on the fly.

You do not need to restart tcpserver to activate changes to 
/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb. 

However, you're not telling us what the problem is; from which IP you're 
connecting to the smtpd, or what the error message was, or what the logs 
say. 

Can you connect to port 25 on that machine? Can you send mail to a user 
local to that machine (via smtp)? 

Vince.



cannot deliver to new sub-domain

2001-01-24 Thread Vincent Danen

I'm having some difficulty setting up a sub-domain on my machine.
I'm trying to setup "lists.freezer-burn.org" and keep getting this result:

- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: failure notice
Date: 25 Jan 2001 04:52:40 -

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at logan.danen.net.
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]:
208.38.9.171 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)
Giving up on 208.38.9.171.

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Received: (qmail 14924 invoked by uid 501); 25 Jan 2001 04:52:38 -
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:52:38 -0700
From: Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: test
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i
Organization: Danen Consulting Services (www.danen.net)
X-Operating-System: Linux Mandrake 7.2

Sorry about this... having some difficulty with the mailing list software...

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- End forwarded message -

qmail-showctl on 208.38.9.171 shows this:

qmail home directory: /var/qmail.
user-ext delimiter: -.
paternalism (in decimal): 2.
silent concurrency limit: 120.
subdirectory split: 23.
user ids: 400, 401, 402, 0, 403, 404, 405, 406.
group ids: 401, 400.

badmailfrom: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is allowed.

bouncefrom: (Default.) Bounce user name is MAILER-DAEMON.

bouncehost: (Default.) Bounce host name is danen.net.

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 danen.net.

defaulthost: (Default.) Default host name is danen.net.

doublebouncehost: (Default.) 2B recipient host: danen.net.

doublebounceto: (Default.) 2B recipient user: postmaster.

envnoathost: (Default.) Presumed domain name is danen.net.

helohost: (Default.) SMTP client HELO host name is danen.net.

idhost: (Default.) Message-ID host name is danen.net.

localiphost: (Default.) Local IP address becomes danen.net.

locals: 
Messages for danen.net are delivered locally.
Messages for zeus.danen.net are delivered locally.
Messages for freezer-burn.org are delivered locally.

me: My name is danen.net.

percenthack: (Default.) The percent hack is not allowed.

plusdomain: Plus domain name is freezer-burn.org.

qmqpservers: (Default.) No QMQP servers.

queuelifetime: (Default.) Message lifetime in the queue is 604800 seconds.

rcpthosts: 
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at danen.net.
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at zeus.danen.net.
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at linuxgiant.com.
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at freezer-burn.org.
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at pellaria.com.
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at rpmhelp.net.
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at tdmonline.com.
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at darat.com.
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at braindeath.dtdns.net.
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at tomdp.com.
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at bethesdaonline.org.
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at crimsonshadow.com.
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at edmontonlinux.org.
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at lists.freezer-burn.org.
^^^

(as you can see, qmail-showctl shows it here)

morercpthosts: (Default.) No effect.

morercpthosts.cdb: (Default.) No effect.

smtpgreeting: (Default.) SMTP greeting: 220 danen.net.

smtproutes: 
SMTP route: braindeath.dtdns.net:braindeath-smtp.dtdns.net:1200
SMTP route: tomdp.com:braindeath-smtp.dtdns.net:1200

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: darat.com:darat
Virtual domain: lists.freezer-burn.org:mailman
^^

(this is what I'm trying to accomplish)

aliasempty: I have no idea what this file does.

defaultdelivery: I have no idea what this file does.

Any ideas why qmail-showctl says that it will be receiving mail for
lists.freezer-burn.org and yet when I send mail to
[EMAIL

Re: cannot deliver to new sub-domain

2001-01-24 Thread Vincent Danen

On Thu Jan 25, 2001 at 12:38:18AM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote:

  I'm having some difficulty setting up a sub-domain on my machine.
  I'm trying to setup "lists.freezer-burn.org" and keep getting this result:
[...]

  [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
  208.38.9.171 does not like recipient.
  Remote host said: 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts 
(#5.7.1)
  Giving up on 208.38.9.171.
 
 I tested it myself and 208.38.9.171 accepted [EMAIL PROTECTED] as
 a recipient. The problem might lie in your using a CNAME record for
 lists.freezer-burn.org, and the remote host canonicalizing the address to
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try changing the CNAME to an MX record.

I think you hit the nail on the head.  I've changed it to an A record
and now it works (I already had an MX record in place for it).  Works
from this machine where it didn't work before... I guess we'll see if
others can get to it in the next 24 hours or so when the DNS info
replicates... =)

Thanks!

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Help! not working after upgrade from sendmail to qmail!

2000-12-20 Thread Vincent Chan




I don't have problem with sendmail. i've just upgrade to qmail few days ago
and got this strange problem. some of the remote side randomly gives error
500! especially to aol and psi.net. any ideas?
(my system is running bruceg's qmail 1.03+patch rpm on RH6.2)


 Dec 18 17:45:23 localhost qmail: 977190323.707203 starting delivery 147:
msg
 18384 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Dec 18 17:45:23 ms qmail: 977190323.708073 starting delivery 148: msg
18384
 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Dec 18 17:48:56 ms qmail: 977190536.030830 delivery 147: success:
 38.8.139.2_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_OK_id=147wqV-0002PD-00/
 Dec 18 17:49:25 ms qmail: 977190565.930745 delivery 148: failure:

Connected_to_38.8.139.2_but_sender_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:_500_Comma
 nd_unrecognized

thanks in advance,

rgds,
Vincent





Re: thanx so much, but ezmlm fatal: address does not contain @

2000-12-12 Thread Vincent Schonau


[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 thanx so much, but ^^
 
 in command line I did it
 # ezmlm-sub /home/accounts/list/subscribers  biz 
   --biz is my address file name 
  
 result --   "fatal: address does not contain @"

Ezmlm-sub thinks 'biz' is the address you want to add.
 
 of course my "biz" file contains [EMAIL PROTECTED]  [EMAIL PROTECTED] and so on.
 
 if you say exact command and arguments it 'll help me.

The exact command was in the response, you just didn't follow it.

Vince.



Re: alias account problem, pls help!

2000-12-12 Thread Vincent Schonau


mok swee loong writes:

[...]

 and i have no problem with all the alias accounts all this while. BUT one
 particular alias account does give me this weird problem!
 when someone send mail to this alias account - some of the users in this
 list will receive MULTIPLE copies of the same mail, and some dun receive any
 copy at all!!
 
 and in the log i found something suspicious:
 
 starting delivery 74: msg 32174 to local
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
 delivery 74: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/
 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
 
 - obviously an alias account doesnt have any real maildir, any idea what
 could cause this error?

What's in /home/vpopmail/domains/mydomainname.com/.qmail-aliasname? Are
there no duplicates, and do all Maildirs exist and have correct
permissions?

 - and this particular alias acount contains 65 entries, is the biggest alias
 in my setup, could this be a problem?

Only to manage them. If you have that many subscribers you might want to
look into using ezmlm-idx with vpopmail. 


Vince.



Re: daemon mode VS tcpserver

2000-12-11 Thread Vincent Schonau


Linux writes:

 Hi all.
 
 I have a heavly hit mail server with qmail.
 It's better to use qmail in DAEMON MODE or using TCPSERVER ?
 Can anyone give me and advice???

I'm not sure what you mean by 'daemon mode'. Qmail-smtpd needs tcpserver or
inetd to supply it with tcp connections; it cannot run independently.

DJB recommends running qmail-smtpd from tcpserver, not inetd.`

Vince.




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

2000-12-06 Thread Vincent Schonau


Roberto Samarone Araujo \(RSA\) writes:

 I saw that message but, I was worried ... The default installation of qmail
 block spam ?? I set up rblsmtp but, I don't know how to use it right ..
  I'd like to block some emails using rblsmtp. I created tcp.smtp and put
 some rules there but, I don't know how to put a specific rule to rblstmp ...
 
 Does anyone know any rblsmtp tutorial ??

Yes. It comes with the distribution. There's also several useful links at
www.qmail.org.

For your smtp-accepting qmail host not to be an open relay, you must meet
(at least) the following conditions:

1. control/percenthack is empty and/or does not exist
2. control/rcpthosts exists.
3. In your tcprules file for the tcpserver you use for rblsmtpd or
qmail-smtpd, you have RELAYCLIENT="" *only* for IP addresses which are
supposed to relay through your server.

If you do not meet any of these, your server will relay. If you do not
understand the statements above, you should go back to the documentation
and ask for clarification on the specific statements you do not understand.

Vince.



Re: badmailfrom

2000-12-06 Thread Vincent Schonau


Matthew Harrell writes:
`
 : 
 : Instead, you might want to prohibit mail from
 : 
 :200.189.209.130
 : 
 : instead. Of course this will stop all mail from that IP address and
 : you might want that other mail.
 : 
 
 I've got a question about this.  I still get mail from an old work address 
 and occasionally get spam from that address.  tcp.smtp seems to only deny mail
 from the machine directly sending to you - do you know a way to drop mail that's
 been passed through a trusted server?

Yes. Configure the 'trusted' server to block mail from that host.

If you can't do that, use procmail (with a recipe that parses Received:
lines).


Vince.



Re: I'm SO AFRAID!!, NO BODY KNOW RBLSMTPD WORKS????

2000-12-02 Thread Vincent Schonau


[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I'm asking the following several time the following
 questionNO RESPONSE NO RESPONSE.
 Is there is really somebody already using rblsmtpd?

Many qmail users use rblsmtpd.

 I'm running rblsmtpd, according to the response of
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]  my RBL is working.
 Problem: if any machine in my sub-network (10.1.7.*
 having it's MAC, DNS) bombarding me all messages are delivred to my mail
 server. The sub-network of my mail server is 10.1.6.* with differents
 MAC, DNS, but using the same local router with the first sub-network to
 go internet.

Apparently you have not understood the purpose of RBL and lists like it
(and the purpose of rblsmtpd to use them).

The RBL is a list of IP addresses that belong to known spammers or spam
supporters. RSS is a list of mailservers that are open to relay and have
relayed actual spam. DUL is a list op dialup IP-addresses that should be
sending email through their providers mail server.

What rblsmtpd does with this is to check if $TCPREMOTEIP (the ip address of
the SMTP client connecting to your mailserver) is on the lists you have
configured. If it is, it will not start qmail-smtpd, but instead carry out
a limited SMTP conversation just to (permanently or temporarily) reject
that particular email from that particular host.

This is what rblsmtpd does, and it is all rblsmtpd does. The addresses you
refer to (10.*) are private address space, so these addresses will never
appear on the rbl. In most rblsmtpd configurations, you will have your
local address space excluded from RBL checking.

It appears you think rblsmtpd would help you if a host inside your network
started spamming. It will not.


Vince.



Re: Help with setting up qmail

2000-12-01 Thread Vincent Schonau


Amar writes:

 Here is the output

[of qmail-showctl]

 qmails7389  0.0  0.3  1096  384 pts/3S02:17   0:00 qmail-send
 qmaill7390  0.0  0.3  1068  412 pts/3S02:17   0:00 splogger
 qmail
 root  7391  0.0  0.2  1056  328 pts/3S02:17   0:00 qmail-lspawn
 |pre
 qmailr7392  0.0  0.2  1056  328 pts/3S02:17   0:00 qmail-rspawn
 qmailq7393  0.0  0.2  1048  344 pts/3S02:17   0:00 qmail-clean
 root  7410  0.0  0.3  1164  420 pts/3S02:18   0:00 grep qmail

This looks like you're not running qmail-smtpd (but if you use inetd, it
wouldn't show). 

What do you have for smtp in inetd.conf? Did you HUP inetd? Does netstat
-ta show a line for smtp[1]? Can you telnet to port 25 on your machine?
What happens?

(see step 16 an 17 in the INSTALL file)

What did you do when executing the tests in TEST.receive?


Vince.



Re: Limit outgoing messages

2000-12-01 Thread Vincent Schonau


Charles Cazabon writes:

 Ari Arantes Filho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
  Is it possible to limit only outgoing messages? I so databytes, but I only
  want to limit the messages that my users send, not receive.

[...]

 Use tcpserver to set the DATABYTES variable on a per-IP basis.  Set it to
 some limit for your user's IP addresses (or localhost, if they're injecting
 via SMTP), and to 0 for the rest of the net at large.

Hm. That would work for outgoing messages via SMTP. I guess a (perl?)
wrapper around qmail-inject that looks at the size of stdin would work for
local users.


Vince.



Re: Frustrated, please help.

2000-11-29 Thread Vincent Schonau


Louis Mushandu writes:

 All,
 
 I cannot get qmail to accept messages from the outside, i posted a missive
 before and the replies that I got whilst swift and appreciated have not
 resolved by problem.

 The recieved error message is 
 
 Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.mongrel.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. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that host,
 it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't treat it as local. (#5.4.6)

(same error message as before)
 
 I was using ./Maildir/ but I have now changed to Mailbox in desperation.
 My locals files is populated with mail.wonder.com, but still no cigar for
 me.

Did you send qmail-send a HUP signal, or restart it?

man qmail-send mentions that a HUP signal will cause qmail-send to reread
locals and virtualdomains.


Vince.



Re: Webmail utility for Qmail

2000-09-22 Thread Vincent Schonau


[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Dear all,
 
 Will any one of  u pls tell me the simple webmail utility available
 designed specially for qmail( not uses any database ).
 Pls mention few of them.

Sqwebmail:

URL:http://www.inter7.com/sqwebmail/

Designed specifically for systems using _maildir_, including qmail.


Vince.



Re: linuxpeople thread

2000-09-13 Thread Vincent Schonau

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 03:22:17PM -0400, Peter Green wrote:

[...]

 Finally, if you *still* had questions on the RPM install (sorry I'm harping
 on it, but I've used it extensively,

 what the rpm?
 
 Yes, Bruce Guenter's qmail+patches RPM.

Note that the qmail RPM's that are linked to at the top of 
URL:http://www.qmail.org/top.html are in fact the "Memphis" RPMs.

Vince.



Re: Linux Mandrake qmail packages available

2000-08-23 Thread Vincent Danen

On Mon Aug 21, 2000 at 10:00:37AM +0200, Gerrit Pape wrote:

 On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:21:53AM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote:
  change (once I get DJB's blessing I hope!).  The following packages are
  part of the package:
  
  qmail-1.03-7mdk.i386.rpm
  daemontools-0.70-3mdk.i386.rpm
  dot-forward-0.51-2mdk.i386.rpm
  fastforward-0.51-2mdk.i386.rpm
  ucspi-tcp-0.88-3mdk.i386.rpm
 
 Hello Vincent,
 
 I did not look at Your packages yet, but three things:
 
 o http://cr.yp.to/qmail/var-qmail.html says:
A var-qmail package does not set up qmail to receive and deliver mail. A
user has to follow the instructions in
/var/qmail/doc/fastforward/ALIASES and in /var/qmail/doc/INSTALL starting at
step 9:
   I do not see a qmail-run rpm, it seems, the qmail-packages sets up qmail
   as MTA.

I'll have to look at this again...  Maybe I misunderstood something. 
Changing the name of the RPM is no big deal.  And yes, it does set it
up as MTA.


 o You included man-pages in daemontools and ucspi-tcp packages. Put them in
   extra packages.

Why?  Are there licensing issues with daemontools and ucspi-tcp that
prevent me from distributing manpages with it?  If there are, I'll
definately do it, but if there aren't, then I don't see why I should
make someone install two extra RPMs just for manpages (seems kinda
silly to me).

 o there allready are qmail rpms?

Not for Mandrake and not in binary form.  I've used Bruce's RPM package
before and although it works great, it's not something that can be
installed without interaction like during a fresh system install off of
a CD-ROM (which is ultimately the aim here).

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Re: Linux Mandrake qmail packages available

2000-08-20 Thread Vincent Danen

On Sun Aug 20, 2000 at 12:20:51AM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:

   Please, when testing, make sure they comply with
   http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html and
   http://cr.yp.to/qmail/var-qmail.html.  This is the only way they will
   be approved by DJB, so if there are any discrepencies, please let me
   know.
 
 As far as I know, Dan is giving you permission, not conditions for his
 approval.  You *already* have his permission to distribute the binary
 releases, as long as you abide by the restrictions he imposes.

Well, if that's the case, that's awesome news!  I thought it was
necessary to get his direct "yes you can distribute it" permission
prior to doing so...  for myself, I'm not too concerned because I've
tested and re-tested so that it installs good, removes clean, and works
out of the box.  My concern was putting it on the Mandrake distro
itself as I don't want them to get into any legal issues...

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Linux Mandrake qmail packages available

2000-08-18 Thread Vincent Danen

On Mon Aug 14, 2000 at 07:55:46PM +0200, Gerrit Pape wrote:

There are now Linux Mandrake qmail RPMs available for testing.  They
are not part of the Linux Mandrake distribution, which I hope will
change (once I get DJB's blessing I hope!).  The following packages are
part of the package:

qmail-1.03-7mdk.i386.rpm
daemontools-0.70-3mdk.i386.rpm
dot-forward-0.51-2mdk.i386.rpm
fastforward-0.51-2mdk.i386.rpm
ucspi-tcp-0.88-3mdk.i386.rpm

I have tested these packages on my own system and they work very well
out of the box.  No patches are applied, the installed system is a
pristine system identical to a regular qmail compilation/installation
with the following exceptions:

- manpages are bzipped
- symlink from /var/qmail/man/* to /usr/share/man/*
- manpages are added to daemontools and ucspi-tcp
- uid/gid info for qmail is hardcoded in the spec file (this helps to
  preserve permissions across re-installs instead of having different
  uid/gid info on various installs)

All of these packages together will setup qmail on a Linux Mandrake
system (and, most likely, any other RPM-based distribution although I
can't guarantee this).  They were built on a Linux Mandrake 7.1 system.

Any Linux Mandrake users: please test/try these packages (if you wish)
and help to get them approvied by D. J. Bernstein so we can include
them in the main Linux Mandrake distribution, or at the very least, as
part of the RPM contributions.

Please, when testing, make sure they comply with
http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html and
http://cr.yp.to/qmail/var-qmail.html.  This is the only way they will
be approved by DJB, so if there are any discrepencies, please let me
know.

You can download the RPMs from:

ftp://ftp.freezer-burn.org/pub/custom/{qmail,daemontools,ucspi-tcp,...}

or

www.freezer-burn.org/rpm.php3

Thanks.

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Re: using fetchmail on qmail machine

2000-08-04 Thread Vincent Danen

On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:34:27AM -0400, Peter Green wrote:

  Can someone let me know if the adding localhost to control/locals is
  the "normal" behaviour?  I think a lot of people would like to use
  qmail as their own MTA instead of sendmail or postfix, so knowing
  this would be of great help to me.
 
 I don't know if it's the ``normal'' behavior, but I have localhost in my
 control/locals with the identical setup to you.

That's the only way I could get qmail to deliver the mail that
fetchmail was sending it.  FYI, I'm now looking at maildrop as
opposed to procmail...  should be interesting... =)

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Re: using fetchmail on qmail machine

2000-08-04 Thread Vincent Danen

On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:37:03PM +1200, Chris, the Young One wrote:

 ! I don't know if it's the ``normal'' behavior, but I have localhost in my
 ! control/locals with the identical setup to you.
 
 $ grep localhost /var/qmail/control/locals
 localhost
 
 Yep, it's there. From a casual perusal of config.sh in the qmail package
 it can be seen that it calls a program to get the IP addresses of all
 interfaces, then puts their PTR lookups into control/locals.
 
 Unless you lack a loopback interface :-) I believe that localhost should
 be in control/locals, at least by default.

Hmmm...  it never put it in mine...  wierd.  Oh well, now I know that
this is "normal".  Thanks!

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Re: using fetchmail on qmail machine

2000-08-04 Thread Vincent Danen

On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:03:07AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   Unless you lack a loopback interface :-) I believe that localhost should
   be in control/locals, at least by default.
  
  Hmmm...  it never put it in mine...  wierd.  Oh well, now I know that
  this is "normal".  Thanks!
 
 Hmmm. I use fetchmail in one (admittedly simple) scenario and it doesn't
 require localhost in control/locals

Do you have fetchmail sending to procmail or something?  I have
fetchmail sending it to port 25 on the local machine (ie. qmail) so
qmail still has to do the delivering to my maildirs.  Are you maybe
sending it to something other than port 25?

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using fetchmail on qmail machine

2000-08-03 Thread Vincent Danen

I've got an interesting thing that I can't quite figure out.  It
works, but I'm wondering if this is normal.  I've got a user who is
reading/writing email on a machine with qmail as the MTA for the
domain pellaria.com.  Her email address belongs to the domain
danen.net, which is run on another qmail machine about 5 feet from
her.

I'm using fetchmail to retrieve the email from danen.net, which in
turn sends it to localhost on the pellaria.com machine.  At first
qmail refused to deliver it since fetchmail was sending it to
"adanen@localhost" and qmail was complaining about localhost not
being in control/locals.

Is this normal?  I'm running fetchmail with the --invisible option,
but I'm not sure if it's necessary or not.  I was kind of under the
impression that qmail should deliver the mail to localhost
regardless.  If the username matches to a local user, why not deliver
it?  Obviously I don't want to rewrite the mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] because that is not the "preferred" email
address, and she wants to know who is sending to what address (she
has two, one at danen.net and another with our ISP).

The reason I ask is because she is my guineau(sp?) pig.  =)  My work
machine runs sendmail for the mailer but I'd like to switch it to
qmail as well, but I'm hesitant because I get far more mail than she
does.  =)

I was going to use getmail until I found out it delivered directly
to the maildir, which is not what I want (I need to use procmail to
filter mailing lists into seperate mailboxes).

I have written down somewhere how to use procmail in the .qmail file
with preline (I think).  Need to dig that up.

Can someone let me know if the adding localhost to control/locals is
the "normal" behaviour?  I think a lot of people would like to use
qmail as their own MTA instead of sendmail or postfix, so knowing
this would be of great help to me.

Thanks.

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Re: qmail-pw2u error

2000-08-02 Thread Vincent Danen

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 03:28:56PM +1200, Chris, the Young One wrote:

 ! How about running qmail-pw2u under trace/truss/strace/par?
 
 Yeah, that's something I'd suggest if include/exclude files aren't the
 obvious culprits.

I think they are... going to send another email just to make sure,
but adding "alias" to include seems like it fixed the problem.

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Re: qmail-pw2u error

2000-08-01 Thread Vincent Danen

On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 05:34:36PM +1200, Chris, the Young One wrote:

 On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:12:54PM -0400, Vincent Danen wrote:
 ! In /etc/passwd I have this:
 ! 
 ! alias:x:400:401::/var/qmail/alias:/bin/true
 
 Can you please run qmail-showctl and list the output of the line
 ``user ids''. The first number shown has to be 400, in your case.
 
 Also, type ``ls -dln /var/qmail/alias'' and make sure it says 400
 in the third field.

All of the info is below... 

qmail home directory: /var/qmail.
user-ext delimiter: -.
paternalism (in decimal): 2.
silent concurrency limit: 120.
subdirectory split: 23.
user ids: 400, 401, 402, 0, 403, 404, 405, 406.
group ids: 401, 400.

badmailfrom: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is allowed.

bouncefrom: (Default.) Bounce user name is MAILER-DAEMON.

bouncehost: (Default.) Bounce host name is slave.danen.net.

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 danen.net.

defaulthost: (Default.) Default host name is slave.danen.net.

doublebouncehost: (Default.) 2B recipient host: slave.danen.net.

doublebounceto: (Default.) 2B recipient user: postmaster.

envnoathost: (Default.) Presumed domain name is slave.danen.net.

helohost: (Default.) SMTP client HELO host name is slave.danen.net.

idhost: (Default.) Message-ID host name is slave.danen.net.

localiphost: (Default.) Local IP address becomes slave.danen.net.

locals: 
Messages for slave.danen.net are delivered locally.
Messages for pellaria.com are delivered locally.

me: My name is slave.danen.net.

percenthack: (Default.) The percent hack is not allowed.

plusdomain: Plus domain name is danen.net.

qmqpservers: (Default.) No QMQP servers.

queuelifetime: (Default.) Message lifetime in the queue is 604800 seconds.

rcpthosts: 
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at slave.danen.net.
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at pellaria.com.

morercpthosts: (Default.) No effect.

morercpthosts.cdb: (Default.) No effect.

smtpgreeting: (Default.) SMTP greeting: 220 slave.danen.net.

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: (Default.) No virtual domains.

defaultdelivery: I have no idea what this file does.

aliasempty: I have no idea what this file does.

This is the output of ls -dln...

drwxr-sr-x2 400  400   163 Jul 30 17:50 /var/qmail/alias/

Could this be it?  It's owned by alias.qmail, maybe it should be
alias.nofiles?  I'm guessing because the files in alias/ are owned by
alias.nofiles.

/etc/passwd:
alias:x:400:401::/var/qmail/alias:/bin/true
qmaild:x:401:401::/var/qmail:/bin/true
qmaill:x:402:401::/var/qmail:/bin/true
qmailp:x:403:401::/var/qmail:/bin/true
qmailq:x:404:400::/var/qmail:/bin/true
qmailr:x:405:400::/var/qmail:/bin/true
qmails:x:406:400::/var/qmail:/bin/true

/etc/group:
qmail:x:400:
nofiles:x:401:


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checking and fixing ownership of files

2000-07-16 Thread Vincent Danen

I know you can use instcheck to verify if the owners/permissions of
files are correct, but is there something I can use to fix this?  I'm
sure there is a tool of some sort I can use to verify all permissions
and fix them if incorrect (besides doing another make install).

Reason I ask is I'm almost finished an RPM to install the stock qmail
(no patches) and it would make life so much easier if I could run a
script or program afterwards to fix all permissions/ownership issues
since RPM makes a mess of some of them (particularly directories).

Any ideas how I can do this?

Thanks.

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Re: manpages for ucspi-tcp

2000-07-06 Thread Vincent Danen

On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 01:34:01PM +0200, Magnus Bodin wrote:

   Before I make some unecessary work for myself, I was wondering two
   things:
   
   Are there manpages for ucspi-tcp 0.88 somewhere?  None are in the
   package.  Also, is there a html2man program or something I can use to
   make this easier?
  
  I did manpages from the contents of the html-pages some time ago. You find
  them in: ftp://innominate.org/pub/pape/djb/ .
 
 Did you make them manually or would you share the knowledge of
 reverse-html-ify djbs mans? 

I did it all manually.  Saved the html files and manually converted
them to manpages.  Wasn't too hard... a little time consuming, that's
all.

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Re: ucspi-tcp man pages

2000-07-06 Thread Vincent Danen

On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 12:33:32PM +0200, Gerrit Pape wrote:

  You can obtain the manpages for ucspi-tcp from:
  
  ftp.freezer-burn.org/pub/custom/ucspi-tcp/ucspi-tcp-0.88-man.tar.bz2
  
  These are basically taken direct from cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html and
  converted into manpages.
 
 Great, so work is done twice. Searching the archiv really helps. There was
 an announce with Subject: man-pages daemontools-0.70 ucspi-tcp-0.88 .

Hmmm... I new about daemontools, but I didn't think there was
anything for ucspi-tcp...  Next time I'll have to search the archive
then.  =)  Oh well.  I didn't know anything about man pages before so
I'll just chock it up to a learning experience.

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ucspi-tcp man pages

2000-06-29 Thread Vincent Danen

You can obtain the manpages for ucspi-tcp from:

ftp.freezer-burn.org/pub/custom/ucspi-tcp/ucspi-tcp-0.88-man.tar.bz2

These are basically taken direct from cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html and
converted into manpages.

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Forwarding entire domain

2000-06-29 Thread Vincent Danen

Hi there.  I have a virtual domain defined as:

linuxgiant.com:raja

And in /home/raja/.qmail I have:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Today I got a bounce message from qmail saying no mailbox found for
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  I'm assuming the case didn't generate the
error.

Is there a "catch-all" to send everything to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]?

Hmmm... this might be a stupid question... would a
/home/raja/.qmail-default do the trick if it contained the forwarder
address?

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Re: Forwarding entire domain

2000-06-29 Thread Vincent Danen

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 02:16:01PM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote:

Never mind.  .qmail-default did it...  sheesh...  Sorry folks.

 Hi there.  I have a virtual domain defined as:
 
 linuxgiant.com:raja
 
 And in /home/raja/.qmail I have:
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 Today I got a bounce message from qmail saying no mailbox found for
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]  I'm assuming the case didn't generate the
 error.
 
 Is there a "catch-all" to send everything to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]?
 
 Hmmm... this might be a stupid question... would a
 /home/raja/.qmail-default do the trick if it contained the forwarder
 address?

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ucspi-tcp and daemontools licenses?

2000-06-28 Thread Vincent Danen

I've looked at the web pages for both tools and in the archives
themselves, but I can't find anything having to do with licensing
issues for these two programs.  I know they're not GNU, but I was
wondering about distribution for them.

I've made Mandrake RPMs for them would like to know if I can
distribute them.  The only changes I've made are to place the
binaries in /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/bin.  Can I distribute
binaries this way?  No patches or anything else have been applied to
them.  Or do I have to put them into /usr/local/bin in order to
distribute them?

Thank you in advance.  If you can point me to a page describing the
license for either program as well, I would sincerely appreciate it
(as I think the license should be included in the RPMs also).

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manpages for ucspi-tcp

2000-06-28 Thread Vincent Danen

Before I make some unecessary work for myself, I was wondering two
things:

Are there manpages for ucspi-tcp 0.88 somewhere?  None are in the
package.  Also, is there a html2man program or something I can use to
make this easier?

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Re: ezmlm-make -em, -r and -s not supported

2000-05-20 Thread Vincent Danen

On Thu, 18 May 2000, Peter Schuller wrote:

 (ezmlm ML archive is down, and I find no mention of where the list is
 located so I cannot subscribe to it or send to it; hence I am asking here)
 
 Hello,
 
 I want to make an ezmlm managed mailinglist moderated (it's an announce
 list). It is stated in the ezmlm manual that ezmlm-make -em can be used to
 make a list moderated; however, "-e", "-m", "-r" and "-s" (all mentioned in
 the manual) are not supported by ezmlm on my system.
 
 Has the procedure for making a list moderated changed? What is the correct
 procedure?

Are you using ezmlm or ezmlm-idx?  I think this is a feature of ezmlm-idx
only.

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Qmail and conf-spawn

2000-05-20 Thread Vincent Danen

I'm trying to build an RPM for myself so when I do upgrades and such to my
system I can just install the RPM and make life easy on myself.  My
question has to do with conf-spawn.  In Bruce's RPM, it uses this to
define the conf-spawn value:

fds=`ulimit -n`
# let spawnlimit='(fds-6)/2'
echo $spawnlimit conf-spawn

On my system, this gives me a value of (1024-6)/2 or a value of 509.  In
the conf-spawn file that comes with qmail it defaults to 120 and says it
can't be set about 255, so the value that comes out of Bruce's RPM is way
too high...  I fixed this by dividing it by 4, so the end result is 254,
but now I'm not sure if this is a good value to be putting in
there.  Ideally I'd like to be able to hand the source of this RPM out to
a few friends so they can use it with little to no modification.

What would be a good average value for the silent concurrency limit and is
there a better way to figure it out on a system-by-system basis?  Or
should I just leave it at 120 or "hard-code" a different limit (ie. should
I make it 150 or 160 or what would be appropriate for a Linux system
running on a pentium class or higher machine?).

Thanks for any light you can shed on this.

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Re: Qmail and conf-spawn

2000-05-20 Thread Vincent Danen

On Sat, 20 May 2000, Peter Green wrote:

  On my system, this gives me a value of (1024-6)/2 or a value of 509.  In
  the conf-spawn file that comes with qmail it defaults to 120 and says it
  can't be set about 255, so the value that comes out of Bruce's RPM is way
  too high...  I fixed this by dividing it by 4, so the end result is 254,
  but now I'm not sure if this is a good value to be putting in
  there.  Ideally I'd like to be able to hand the source of this RPM out to
  a few friends so they can use it with little to no modification.
 
 To get 255 concurrency limits, you also need the SuSE patch to do this. It
 should be somewhere on the qmail home page--http://www.qmail.org.

That's the big-concurrency.patch, right?

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archive to the web

2000-04-28 Thread Vincent Danen

Is there a utility or program to place the archive for my mailing list on
a web site?

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Re: Qmail behind firewall question

2000-04-25 Thread Vincent Danen

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Peter Samuel wrote:

  Hello.  I just setup a server for my father and I installed qmail because
  I use it here and it works great.  His situation is a little different
  from my own, however.  POP3 works great starting from inetd, but qmail
  gives errors.  The error I get is:
  
  tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out port number for geceventures.com
  
  I'm starting qmail-smtpd with:
  
  #!/bin/sh
  QMAILUID=`id -u qmaild`
  NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild`
  exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcprules.d/smtpd.cdb \
-u $QMAILUID -g $NOFILESGID geceventures.com 25 \
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21
 
 Does "geveventures.com" resolve to an IP address?

Yes.

 Change "geceventures.com" to the IP address of the interfce you wish
 to bind to, or make it 0 if you would like to bind to all available
 interfaces.

Ok, changed it to 0 and I get this in the logfile:

tcpserver: fatal: no IP address for 504

Changed it to 10.1.1.2 (which is it's IP address) and I get:

tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out port number for 10.1.1.2

I kept the SMTP port field to 25 (as above).

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Re: Qmail behind firewall question

2000-04-25 Thread Vincent Danen

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Dave Sill wrote:

 tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out port number for geceventures.com
 
 I'm starting qmail-smtpd with:
 
 #!/bin/sh
 QMAILUID=`id -u qmaild`
 NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild`
 exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \
   /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcprules.d/smtpd.cdb \
   -u $QMAILUID -g $NOFILESGID geceventures.com 25 \
   /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21
 
 Make that "echo exec...", run it, verify that the expanded command is
 correct--especially the UID and GID.

dOh!  That helped...  I had accidentally put $QMAILDUID instead of
$QMAILUID so the -u parameter was empty.  Thank you, David!

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RE: Qmail behind firewall question

2000-04-25 Thread Vincent Danen

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Dave Kitabjian wrote:

 What about removing the "exec" completely? 
 
 I don't see why exec is necessary, and I don't know if your script
 variables will be passed into the new process created by the exec.

No, the exec part is ok.  I had put a type-o in one of the variables.  It
works now, just tried it and it delivers mail ok.  phew  Dang my
eyes!  =)

Thanks people.  Appreciate the help.

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Re: Qmail behind firewall question

2000-04-24 Thread Vincent Danen

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Jason Brooke wrote:

 In my experience, that error is caused when the value you enter for the port
 isn't listed in /etc/services

That's kinda what I thought, which is why I explicitly defined port 25 in
there...  but that doesn't seem to be the issue... =(

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Re: DO NOT TRY INSTALLING QMAIL ON MANDRAKE

2000-04-23 Thread Vincent Danen

On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, MiGhi wrote:

  I tried and tried to install QMAIL 1.03 on Mandrake7.0 with NO SUCCESS!
  Something seems to work wrong on Mandrake, and qmail gives CNAME LOOKUP
  FAILURE.
  
  I'm using Qmail under Mandrake right now, and have installed it a few
  times, both via RPM and by compiling it right from the tarballs.
 
 I am very interested of your mail.
 
 In fact, I installed RedHat + qmail on a service machine.
 I love Mandrake (I have been using mandrake since Venice release), and I'd
 prefer to continue using it... but I love Qmail too ;)

I hear ya... I started with RedHat and much prefer Mandrake... =)

  Does qmail start for you?  Can it resolve
  the MX for your domain?
 
 sure.
 Qmail works 100% but can't deliver mail to remote hosts: CNAME LOOKUP UP
 FAILURE.
 qmail receive mails at 100% and deliver them to local users (also at virtual
 domains).
 It can't deliver to remote hosts

Ok.  H... I've never had this problem, mind you I usually use my ISP's
SMTP server to send mail rather than qmail, but I have tried it and it has
worked.

  The problem I had was in the
  /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail-pop3d.init file with the programs called in the
  HOST variable (specifically dnsfq).
  I changed those calls to specify the
  domain name on my system and then it started working.  Why it didn't work
  before, I don't know, but after I made that change it did work.
  If you install from tarballs,
 
 this is my installation

Ok, that's what I did this last time.

  you use the qmail script (not any
  qmail-*.init files which come from the tcpserver-initscripts package, I
  believe), and I don't even think dnsfq is installed (at any rate, it's not
  on my system), and things work fine.
 
 Yes.
 
 I follow Life with qmail for the installation.
 I repeat: Qmail works 100% but can't deliver mails to remote hosts.
 I couldn't explain this fact.

I don't know Miguel...  I'm not an expert with qmail (far from it!) and
I'm not not sure what your problem could be.  All I know is it has to be
*something* because if you followed Life with Qmail (which I did this last
time), and did it via tarball (which I also did), then there's something
else wrong.  I know it's not Mandrake because my system works, but as to
what it could be, I wouldn't even know where to begin looking.

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Qmail behind firewall question

2000-04-23 Thread Vincent Danen

Hello.  I just setup a server for my father and I installed qmail because
I use it here and it works great.  His situation is a little different
from my own, however.  POP3 works great starting from inetd, but qmail
gives errors.  The error I get is:

tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out port number for geceventures.com

I'm starting qmail-smtpd with:

#!/bin/sh
QMAILUID=`id -u qmaild`
NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild`
exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \
  /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcprules.d/smtpd.cdb \
  -u $QMAILUID -g $NOFILESGID geceventures.com 25 \
  /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21

I installed it via tarball on Mandrake 7.  Again, we're behind a firewall,
so I think that has something to do with it (otherwise it's nearly
identical to my own working setup).

The IP address that the server is on is 10.1.1.2, and the IP address for
the firewall is 10.1.1.1 locally and something else for the outside
internet (I forget off-hand).  I use ipmasqadm to forward ports 25 and 110
to 10.1.1.2.

Orginially the "25" was "smtp", but I hard-coded everything hoping it
might work that way, but no dice.

Any idea why this isn't working and possibly some tips on how to get it to
work?  I'm not sure how qmail operates in this sort of situation knowing
it's stringent environment checking on DNS, MX records, and so
forth.  We'd really like to get this up and running, but my father is very
new to Linux so I'm administering it for him until he learns enough to do
it himself.  Any help would be appreciated.

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Re: DO NOT TRY INSTALLING QMAIL ON MANDRAKE

2000-04-21 Thread Vincent Danen

On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, MiGhi wrote:

 I tried and tried to install QMAIL 1.03 on Mandrake7.0 with NO SUCCESS!
 Something seems to work wrong on Mandrake, and qmail gives CNAME LOOKUP
 FAILURE.

I'm using Qmail under Mandrake right now, and have installed it a few
times, both via RPM and by compiling it right from the tarballs.

 I tried to reinstall the OS + qmail 5 times!
 The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time!
 
 I tried to apply the DNS patch
 The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time!
 
 I tried to change the router configuration:
 The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time!
 
 I installed latest bind:
 The log said CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE every time!
 
 I installed RedHat:
 everything is working fine.
 
 
 Has someone got an idea about this?
 Has someone got the same problem?

I did have something similar.  Does qmail start for you?  Can it resolve
the MX for your domain?  The problem I had was in the
/etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail-pop3d.init file with the programs called in the
HOST variable (specifically dnsfq).  I changed those calls to specify the
domain name on my system and then it started working.  Why it didn't work
before, I don't know, but after I made that change it did work.

If you install from tarballs, you use the qmail script (not any
qmail-*.init files which come from the tcpserver-initscripts package, I
believe), and I don't even think dnsfq is installed (at any rate, it's not
on my system), and things work fine.

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new RPMs for ucspi-tcp and daemontools

2000-04-15 Thread Vincent Danen

Are there new RPMs for ucspi-tcp and daemontools?  I looked on the site
and there doesn't seem to be anything there.  I used the RPM method to
install them in the first place, so I'd like to continue doing so as
opposed to using the tarballs.

If there are none, who can I contact regarding them or should I just make
my own?  If so, then for the sake of others, who should I send them to in
order to make them available?

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delivery speed very slow

2000-04-14 Thread Vincent Danen

Hi there.  Is there a way to increase qmail's delivery speed?  I've had a
message sitting in the /var/qmail/queue/mess directory tree for over 15
minutes.  There is the appropriate files in the
/var/qmail/queue/todo.  It's currently 12:21am and the earliest file
sitting in that directory is from 11:57pm, almost 25 minutes old!  I would
like qmail to process mail a little faster than this.  Preferably, if I
could have it deliver mail within a minute of receipt of it (or
faster) that would be ideal.  All of these messages are for local users to
the system, so I don't understand why qmail wants to hang on to them for
so long?

Thanks.

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Bad reading of headers?

2000-03-23 Thread Vincent Danen

I'm trying to setup a robot sending mail to a mailing list using ezmlm-idx
and I've come across a very wierd problem.  The robot sends a header that
I cannot change... it sends an Errors-To: header which contains
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  The subscribed email address is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and the From: header contains it but Qmail is
bouncing the mail anyways (or ezmlm is?) because it thinks it's coming
from the errors- address.  Below is a copy of the bounce message.  Does
anyone know how I can fix this so that Qmail/ezmlm (whichever is at fault,
tho looking at the qmail logs it looks like qmail is mis-interpretting
things) will accept the mail?  Or perhaps it's the Return-Path header
that's causing the problem?  I can't change the robot software to exclude
any of these headers so I definately need a fix I can apply to
qmail/ezmlm.  Any suggestions?

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at danen.net.
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, only subscribers may post. If you are a subscriber, please forward this
message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get your new address included
(#5.7.2)

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Received: (qmail 24557 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2000 08:06:19 -
Received: from mail.nucleus.com (207.34.93.23)
  by titan.danen.net with SMTP; 23 Mar 2000 08:06:19 -
Received: from bbs.freezer-burn.org (unverified [209.115.163.67]) by
mail.nucleus.com
 (Vircom SMTPRS 4.2.181) with ESMTP id [EMAIL PROTECTED] for
[EMAIL PROTECTED];
 Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:59:02 -0700
Date: 23 Mar 2000 08:05:54 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: test
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lines: 9
Organization: Freezer Burn
X-Mailer: BBBS/LiI v4.01 Flag-1
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

From: Vincent Danen
To: All

last one for sure (please!!!)

Vincent Danen . Freezer Burn:  http://www.freezer-burn.org/
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Re: problems with qmail-pop3d

2000-03-06 Thread Vincent Danen

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Mate Wierdl wrote:

 You are probably not on the net directly, or your DNS is messed up.
 In the qmail-pop3d.init script, change the HOST line to
 
 HOST=your.host

Did that and it works perfectly now.  Got rid of the hard error that was
coming up each time as well.

 If you tell me what your host's name is, I can find out what could be
 wrong.

It's freezer-burn.org but qmail might be using titan.freezer-burn.org
since titan is the machine name.

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Re: problems with qmail-pop3d

2000-03-06 Thread Vincent Danen

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Mate Wierdl wrote:

 Did you run maildirmake as the user, or as root?  maildirmake has to
 be run as the user.  Also, if you want qmail to deliver to maildir,
 not only you need to change defauldelivery, but you need to restart
 qmail (not qmail-smtpd).

Yup, did this.

 Since you seem to have installed qmail from the Memphis rpm,
 changinging /var/qmail/rc makes no difference, because it is not
 used.  The README for the rpm does tell you what to do:
 
 cp /var/qmail/defauldelivery/mdir /var/qmail/defauldelivery/rc

Hmmm... didn't do this before but did it now.  Thanks for the tip.  It's
working properly so hopefully this makes it work even better... =)

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regarding my qmail-pop3d problems

2000-03-05 Thread Vincent Danen

Regarding the qmail-pop3d problem I posted about yesterday, I looked in
the /var/log/qmail logfiles and I see this which might help someone track
down my problem perhaps:

delivery 20: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/

Could this have something to do with my pop3 problem?  fetchmail is now
telling me:

this user has no $HOME/Maildir
Authorization failure on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Query status=3

This pop3 thing is driving me mental!!!  This seems to be the only problem
I have with qmail right now... otherwise everything seems to work
fine.  Does anyone have any ideas at all for me?  Please?  I've gone thru
FAQs and HOWTO's and everything and I cannot find anything that might help
me to fix the problem...  this is getting very frustrating... =(  I've
changed the default delivery on the system to the Maildir format for every
user and it still will not work... =(

Thank you again in advance.

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