Omitting certain headers in outgoing mails?
some MUA's add headers to outgoing mails: Netscape mail under Linux adds Sender: real_username@host Pine adds X-Sender: real_username@host which can be customized to Sender: real_username@host can i have qmail remove those headers in outgoing mails? thanks wolfgang
Re: Omitting certain headers in outgoing mails?
In the previous episode (10.05.2001), Robin S. Socha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > * Wolfgang Zeikat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010510 00:05]: > > some MUA's add headers to outgoing mails: > > > > Netscape mail under Linux adds > > Sender: real_username@host > > > > Pine adds > > X-Sender: real_username@host > > which can be customized to > > Sender: real_username@host > > > > can i have qmail remove those headers in outgoing mails? > > Also, it is debatable whether this entry > should be removed at all. i dont want to debate that, but simply remove them. > Judging from your previous posts, your real > problem appears to be that your network setup is broken. why do you think so? wolfgang
Re: tcprules, rcpthost, ip address problem
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 01:10:05PM -0700, Barry Dwyer wrote: > > 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" > 192.168.0.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" > :allow did you run tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.tmp < /etc/tcp.smtp after creating that /etc/tcp.smtp file? -- wolfgang __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: qmail returns failure notices when local2remote
in the file rcpthosts you need to list all the hosts/domains, that you want to get mail FOR, not FROM. that means the hosts that your qmail server is "responsible" for. so it accepts mails from anyone for those domains and tries to deliver them directly to the users, virtualusers or recipients listed in aliases ... mail to hosts that are NOT listed in rcpthosts is considered "relaying" which is only allowed for relayclients (tcp.smtp). i administer the qmail MX for infoseek.de and webseek.de, so our rcpthosts file contains (among others) webseek.de infoseek.de mail.webseek.de so your rcpthosts file should at least contain: tux.dyn.priv.at i hope this helps (and i could explain it well enuf to make sense for you) wolfgang Also sprach Karl Voit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04.07.2000: >But now, a remote mail cannot be delivered to my local server :( >I sent a mail from my gmx-account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to my local account >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and this is, what I got back on my gmx-account: >The error-msg indicates to me that I have to enter all hosts (from where I >wish to get mails from) in my rcpthosts!?!? __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: qmail returns failure notices when local2remote
Also sprach Karl Voit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04.07.2000: >Ow. This is getting complicated now :( No its not. its logical: [EMAIL PROTECTED] connects to your qmail via SMTP with a mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] now qmail checks rcpthosts to find out if whatever.com is a host it accepts mail for - for delivery. if yes, it delivers them according to your qmail setup. if not, it checks if the sender's IP address is a relayclient - if it is a relayclient, qmail forwards the mail to the Mail eXchanger for whatever.com if not, it sends the error "not in my rcpthosts". thats very basically what your SMTP server does, and you better understand it to understand whats going on. greetings wolfgang __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: spam and well known smtp servers
this is a bit off topic, but i consider it useful anyway ... http://spamcop.net offers handy online forms that process spam mails (do whois / dns lookups) and prepare a ready-to-send complaint emails with choices which ISP/Mail Server to send them to ... i use it a lot with spam arriving in our domain. to use the service you need to sign up once at http://spamcop.net/anonsignup.shtml regards wolfgang __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: Courier-IMAP
There is a courier-imap mailing list ... Subscribe to the courier-users mailing list from http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/courier-users, or send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and put "subscribe" in the subject line. This mailing list does not accept mail from non-subscribers. You must subscribe to the list before sending any messages. wolfgang __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: Help! Qmail tells me "domain not found in rcphosts"
Jochen E. Führing writes: > But in fact, the domain where the mail is coming > from IS in rcphosts! [EMAIL PROTECTED] connects to your qmail via SMTP with a mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] now qmail checks rcpthosts to find out if whatever.com is a host it accepts mail for - for delivery. if yes, it delivers them according to your qmail setup. if not, it checks if the sender's IP address is a relayclient - if it is a relayclient, qmail forwards the mail to the Mail eXchanger for whatever.com if not, it sends the error "not in my rcpthosts". if whatever.com is your domain, you need to include it's IP numbers in your /etc/tcp.smtp as RELAYCLIENT - an example could be: 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 192.168.0.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow that would have to be adjusted to your IP numbers of course ... wolfgang
Re: Autorespond & Forward Problem
in /etc/aliases i added autortest: alias-autor then i created the file /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-autor it contains: |/var/qmail/alias/autorespond 1 100 /var/tmp/autor.txt /var/tmp/autorespond/no-mailbox (that is one line, no matter how your email client wrapped it here) not sure if you really need that "100" there, but if tons of list users try this now ... /var/tmp/autor.txt contains this: From: Mail Service Problem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Recipient no longer exists (Auto-reply) The recipient of your message below does no longer receive mail here. --- Original Message --- works fine if you email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (try it soon cause i will remove that before it gets popular :) this uses Eric Huss' autorespond by the way (thanks for that one, Eric) hope this helps wolfgang Also sprach Hubbard, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 14.07.2000: Is there a way to avoid this or a better way to accomplish what I'm trying to do? Thanks in advance, Dave
Re: Announcing qmail-autoresponder version 0.91
i installed version 0.92. it sends the reply and ignores the message when repeated immediately, but it does not quote the original message. can it do that? and if so, can it shorten the original message to lets say 100 K or something? thanks, wolfgang Also sprach Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 19.07.2000: Version 0.91 of qmail-autoresponder is now available at: http://em.ca/~bruceg/qmail-autoresponder/
Re: qmail: cannot mail to root
Also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 23.07.2000: from the qmail-1.0.3/INSTALL file: 5. Read INSTALL.alias. Minimal survival command: # (cd ~alias; touch .qmail-postmaster .qmail-mailer-daemon qmail-root) # chmod 644 ~alias/.qmail* from qmail-1.0.3/INSTALL.alias: * root. Under qmail, root never receives mail. Your system may generate mail messages to root every night; if you don't have an alias for root, those messages will bounce. (They'll end up double-bouncing to the postmaster.) Set up an alias for root in ~alias/.qmail-root. .qmail files are similar to .forward files, but beware that they are strictly line-oriented---see dot-qmail.0 for details. # end of quotes so you should set up an alias root either as ~alias/.qmail-root or in /etc/aliases if you use that. and that alias should redirect mails for root to one or more persons in charge ... wolfgang
Re: r all these possible with qmail
see http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq.html and Life with qmail at http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html for answers to at least some of your questions.
user accounts and groups for the qmail binaries and such
i am about to install qmail in a fresh linux installation ... while looking at the qmail installation i currently have i noticed that all the qmail* users have /bin/bash as their login shell, same with the user alias ... is that necessary for the programm to work properly? i rather tend to have */passwd or /bin/true as login shells for users and am wondering if i could install the new qmail without that /bin/bash there greetings wolfgang
qmail ident lookups
qmail seems to be doing ident lookups with each email a local user sends via SMTP. since the ident port has been disabled in our firewall, these lookups slow sending mail down on the users' client side. is there a way to run qmail without those lookups? wolfgang
Re: Announcing qmail-autoresponder version 0.93
i use qmail-autoresponder in .qmail-default to send a message back to senders who send to invalid users on our server. now i would like to know a few things: - is it possible to include only like the first 50 KB of the original message? so that for example bigger attachments would simply get truncated to that size? - is it possible to exclude local users from the message limit of 1 per hour? wolfgang
Re: Announcing qmail-autoresponder version 0.93
Also sprach Olivier M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 05.08.2000: Isn't the subject (%S) enough ? the subject sure is good to have in the response, but i think of people who spend some time typing their mail, mistype the address, send without keeping a copy ... and have to retype it all in order to resend (remember? :) the included copy would allow them to just copy/paste from the autoreply .. and since qmail-autoresponder has the -c option to include a copy of the original message that size restriction came to my mind ... so you wouldnt send them their entire holiday.jpg or whatever back but just the original text message which (i think) hardly ever is bigger than 50 K. wolfgang
Re: Announcing qmail-autoresponder version 0.93
Also sprach David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 05.08.2000: So if you want to do your own bounce with your own message, *please* take the trouble to do it in a common enough bounce format that most tools that handle bounces will be able to figure it out. what would be such a format? "Returned Mail: User unknown" in the subject? or a MAILER-DAEMON Return-Path? i hadnt thought about bounce handling tools yet, but rather about our mostly german users here who tend to ignore automated bounces as "some english error message i dont understand or dont care to understand" anyway. I may even have lost the original files that were attached by the time I see the bounce. i see that point Furthermore, I may not realize that you've truncated the body, if it goes past the first few screens intact. good point, this could be indicated in the bounce tho. I do see not wanting to bounce 10 meg files; but how often does it happen, really? not very often. i had it happen with 90 meg tho, so i got careful here. wolfgang
Re: Announcing qmail-autoresponder version 0.93
well, i have decided to truncate the bounced message, and i simply added |head -c 50k >> /var/tmp/no-mailbox.txt to that .qmail-default, where /var/tmp/no-mailbox.txt is a temporary file that qmail-autoresponder finally uses for the message to the sender. wolfgang
Re: Announcing qmail-autoresponder version 0.93
Also sprach Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 07.08.2000: > - is it possible to include only like the first 50 KB of the original > message? I'll add that feature. great (i achieved by using the head command) > - is it possible to exclude local users from the message limit of 1 per > hour? Exclude them meaning they wouldn't get any responses, or they would not be rate limited? What would this accomplish? a new co-worker mistyped 5 local email addresses in an hour ... with a limit of 1 per hour he wouldnt have gotten a message back. wolfgang
Re: Announcing qmail-autoresponder version 0.93
Also sprach Olivier M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 07.08.2000: >i achieved by using the head command) >and what about attachments ? head could cut one in the middle... it does cut them off, thus my autoreply says: --- Below this line is a copy of the message. (Note that this copy has been truncated to 50 KB.) by the way, please dont send me private copies of your mails to this list ;) thanks wolfgang
Re: filters
can't you filter on To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? wolfgang Also sprach Chris, the Young One <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 09.08.2000: Filter on Delivered-To, or Mailing-List. If hotmail can't do that, use another email service.
deleting messages from the queue
i have a few messages sitting in the qmail queue that will never get delivered - for example because the recipients' addies are on fully-unqualified hosts. can i just delete those messages to save qmail the retries and to save me the final "sorry wasn't able to deliver" mail to postmaster@ ? or do i have to follow some special steps to do so? wolfgang
Re: How is this damn spam getting through.
the correct syntax would be: @indianatimes.com no wildcard * wolfgang Also sprach Duane L. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 18.08.2000: I have '*@indiatimes.com' in badmailfrom
Cc: recipient list not shown: ;
when i use the line: qmail-inject -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] < ~wzeikat/spamchecker1 the mail that is sent contains a line Cc: recipient list not shown: ; why is that? and, more important: how do i avoid it? wolfgang
Re: from field in envelop
a possible workaround: if you use the elm program (that can also be used in scripts with options and such), the headers for the outgoing mail can be specified in ~/.elm/elmheaders wolfgang Also sprach Darrell Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 25.08.2000: Hello, I was just curious. I've browsed through most documentation for qmail, but cannot seem to find a reference to this. When local mail (via mailx) is sent from a host using qmail, it does not add the users name. i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> "John Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. My question is, is there a patch or a control file to allow this. Thanks Darrell Wright
Re: IMAP with Qmail
i am content with courier-imap together with qmail. for more details see http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/ wolfgang
Re: Cc: recipient list not shown: ;
using the -a / -h options appropriately fixes the problem (in case someone is interested). Also sprach Wolfgang Zeikat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 25.08.2000: when i use the line: qmail-inject -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] < ~wzeikat/spamchecker1 the mail that is sent contains a line Cc: recipient list not shown: ; why is that? and, more important: how do i avoid it? wolfgang
Re: maildir with imap and more than 1Gb mailbox
once you have the IMAP account added to the outlook setup, you should be able to drag/drop folders/messages from one account into the other. (might be the right time to clean a few out) you dont have to do them all at once do you. once the messages are stored on the imap server: if you dont use offline mode in outlook, only the message headers are transferred over the network when checking mail ... my 2 cents wolfgang
Re: Open relay test.
i tested your tester, thanks :)
(*erm*, wouldnt it be easier if you could copy/paste from the results page
without having to open the page source and seeing those *tons* of
color/font tags? :)
however, your test claims i am running an open relay due to these results:
MAIL FROM:([EMAIL PROTECTED]@62.96.181.213)
250 ok
RCPT TO:("nobody%prodigysolutions.com")
250 ok
250 flushed
and
MAIL FROM:([EMAIL PROTECTED]@62.96.181.213)
250 ok
RCPT TO:("prodigysolutions.com!nobody")
250 ok
250 flushed
i tried both procedures from a shell that is not in my relayclients,
and qmail accepted the mails but then tried to deliver them to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and domain.ext!user
which are non-existing users, so the mails ended up in the
~/alias/.qmail-default handling. so they were not forwarded to any
external address (at least). so i wonder if your tester's final judgement:
"You are running a Open Relay" is fully correct.
so i wonder:
1. are those two "leaks" in the antirelay settings really a problem? and
2. how could i fix them.
cheers
wolfgang
Also sprach Sean C Truman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on
03.09.2000:
Hey all,
I have put together a small OPEN relay tester. It runs the same
test
ORBS runs.
http://www.prodigysolutions.com/relay_test.html
Re: Open relay test.
oops sorry, that was rather a temporary netscape problem that didnt let me copy/paste. Also sprach wolfgang zeikat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03.09.2000: (*erm*, wouldnt it be easier if you could copy/paste from the results page without having to open the page source and seeing those *tons* of color/font tags? :)
Re: Open relay test.
Also sprach Sean C Truman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03.09.2000: But if ORBS runs the test and it fails then you are added to the ORBS database.. i doubt that. my server has repeatedly been tested by ORBS and is considered clean. wolfgang
Re: Open relay test.
*duh* - telnetting into the world from our mail server is prohibited by the firewall hehe. mail-abuse.org accepts mail from me via that server tho (relay reports). wolfgang Also sprach Sean C Truman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03.09.2000: From your mail server just telnet to mail-abuse.org and you will see what I am explaining.
Re: Shouldn't rcpthosts be empty to ward off spam?
Also sprach David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04.09.2000: >If a spammer sent that message with an envelope recipient of >[EMAIL PROTECTED], it would be accepted because newmediaone.net is in >rcpthosts. does that mean: the message is accepted *and* the mails to the Cc: header recipients (which are not in rcpthosts) are *also* delivered? that was the original question. >If the spammer sent a second envelope recipient of [EMAIL PROTECTED], >and aol.com is NOT in your rcpthosts, he'd get an error on that >recipient (unless RELAYCLIENT had been set through tcpserver when this >connection was accepted). does a Cc: header create a second envenlope recipient? (so far i thought it doesnt) wolfgang
Re: Shouldn't rcpthosts be empty to ward off spam?
Also sprach David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04.09.2000: >If a spammer sent that message with an envelope recipient of >[EMAIL PROTECTED], it would be accepted because newmediaone.net is in >rcpthosts. does that mean: the message is accepted *and* the mails to the Cc: header recipients (which are not in rcpthosts) are *also* delivered? that was the original question. >If the spammer sent a second envelope recipient of [EMAIL PROTECTED], >and aol.com is NOT in your rcpthosts, he'd get an error on that >recipient (unless RELAYCLIENT had been set through tcpserver when this >connection was accepted). does a Cc: header create a second envenlope recipient? (so far i thought it doesnt) wolfgang
RE: Blocking Spam, badmailfrom not working
to contact spammers' mail server administrators i have found it very useful to have signed up with http://spamcop.net via http://spamcop.net/anonsignup.shtml they provide a form to paste the spam mail into and have all the necessary DNS/whois lookups done wolfgang
IP numbers in rcpthosts / locals ?
our qmail server has a local IP number in our LAN and a DNS entry for another IP number. our firewall passes smtp connections for the official IP to the local IP, works alright, except for the problem that mails to user@[officialIP] first didnt get accepted: - Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to [62.96.181.213]: >>> RCPT To: <<< 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) 550 ... User unknown after adding [62.96.181.213] in both ~/control/rcpthosts and ~/control/locals they dont bounce anymore, but dont get delivered either. how would i need to enter that IP and where? cheers wolfgang
Re: Does Qmail support MUA on Win9x?
actually, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP servers do *not* care which operating system you are running, as long as your clients use protocol compliant commands. or in other words: yes, you can use qmail as your SMTP / POP3 server (and as an IMAP server too, with addons) (you can *not* install qmail on windoze, if that is what you are asking, but you dont install apache either in order to visit webpages on unix/linux servers ...) wolfgang Also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11.09.2000: It seems that Qmail supports only Unix's MUA.I'm using win9x on my client PC,does it mean I can't use Qmail as my SMTP/POP3/IMAP server? Thank you!
Re: rcpthosts
rcpthosts only lists the domains that your server accepts mail for (to deliver it to the user for example) ... to reach other domains, you use relaying. for more info see: http://www.palomine.net/qmail/relaying.html http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/servers.html#authorized-relay http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#relaying cheers wolfgang Also sprach Stano Pa9ka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 13.09.2000: I receive this error message (from Outlook Express): The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by the server. The rejected e-mail address was '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Subject 'spoj-von', Account: 'paska@spoj', Server: 'linuxsps.spoj.army.sk', Protocol: SMTP, Server Response: '553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)', Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 553, Error Number: 0x800CCC79 I want send mail everywhere. I have listed some domains in rcpthosts. But it is stupid add in rcpthosts ALL domains in world... (.com, .edu, .org, .net, .sk, ) What I must type in rcpthosts (some widcards)? Stano.
Re: Strange Problem
Also sprach Gadoury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 14.09.2000: >tcpserver: pid 32442 from 64.83.0.22 this one is *not* allowed by your /etc/tcp.smtp, so you deny (:deny) >tcpserver: deny 32442 www.graycastle.com:210.228.3.165:25 >mail02.cavtel.net:64.83.0.22::2377 >tcpserver: end 32442 status 25600 > >tcpserver: pid 32444 from 64.83.19.66 this one is allowed by your /etc/tcp.smtp plus you relay for it >tcpserver: ok 32444 www.graycastle.com:210.228.3.165:25 >64.83.19.66.dsl66-static-ric.cavtel.net:64.83.19.66::49533 > >this is my /etc/tcp.smtp file: > >:deny >127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" >192.168.1.2:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" >166.38.41.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" >64.83.19.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" > in my view, you need :allow :allow means you allow any IP to send mail for your rcpthosts to you 1.2.3.4:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" means the same plus you relay mail from 1.2.3.4 that is directed to other domains too. wolfgang
Re: Trouble starting qmail on boot
the K* symlinks kill the processes on shutdown, for startup you need the S* symlinks in /etc/rc.d/rc*.d, e.g. S95svscan wolfgang Also sprach Gadoury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 17.09.2000: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Sep 14 08:17 K30svscan -> ../init.d/svscan
Re: No Mail For Root
in the file INSTALL.alias in qmail-1.03.tar.gz it says: * root. Under qmail, root never receives mail. Your system may generate mail messages to root every night; if you don't have an alias for root, those messages will bounce. (They'll end up double-bouncing to the postmaster.) Set up an alias for root in ~alias/.qmail-root. .qmail files are similar to .forward files, but beware that they are strictly line-oriented---see dot-qmail.0 for details. (and in the file INSTALL it says: read INSTALL.alias *evil grin*) cheers wolfgang
Re: Are we acting as an open relay?
i telnetted into port 25 (not sure if this is the machine you wrote about tho) and got this: 220 info.load-otea.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca ESMTP mail from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 250 ok rcpt to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) if you telnet from a machine that is in your relayclients, you wont get the 553, could that explain it? if someone sent mail(s) to non-existent_users@your_machine with a non-existing envelope sender adress (as spammers often do), the mail failure notes could not be delivered and would bounce ... wolfgang Also sprach Jen Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 19.09.2000: Our rcpthosts file only lists our domains. When I telneted into port 25 however and tried to mail from: a remote address and rcpt to: a remote address I recevied a 250 ok.
Re: QMAILQUEUE patch
how would you apply more than one patch then? wolfgang Also sprach Jason Haar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 20.09.2000: Yes this is why it failed. As is usually the case, patches are against UNTOUCHED sources.
Re: qmail syntax problem
qmail announces itself to other SMTP servers with "HELO ..." and then it adds either with what is in your file /var/qmail/control/me or (if it exists) the file /var/qmail/control/helohost so make sure you have a hostname with a valid DNS entry in /var/qmail/control/me or at least in /var/qmail/control/helohost wolfgang Also sprach Jens Georg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 20.09.2000: hi, while trying to send mails to aol, qmail always reports the following: Remote host said: 501 syntactically invalid HELO argument(s) Remote host said: 501 HELO requires domain address i haven't found anything about this in the docs. somebody here who can explain to me what's going on there ?
Re: Users don't recieve mail...
from my sendmail days i remember creating aliases in /etc/aliases like UserName:username but here the problem seems to be the other way around, is there a way to fix it? (phew, luckily we only have lower case usernames here :) wolfgang Also sprach Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 20.09.2000: >Another thing, my main user account >has 2 uppercase letters, so I tried using the -u option, but nothing again. qmail doesn't deliver to accounts with uppercase letters.[3]
spam processing
sadly, one of our domains seems to have gotten onto one or more of those "Buy * Million first class spam recipients' email addresses NOW" lists/CDs. so we keep receiving mails from all over this lovely planet for the non existent users michellep tonyak jenniferd barbik melindaa gabriellej barbis doloresz melindab junem (exciting isn't it) i would like to process them automatically via a .qmail* file, and one thing i would like to extract automatically is the IP of the SMTP relay that sent the mail to our server. example: Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: (qmail 28677 invoked by alias); 21 Sep 2000 01:26:51 - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 28673 invoked from network); 21 Sep 2000 01:26:51 - Received: from unknown (HELO srvweb.IMPI-GIPSI.FR) (194.206.111.65) by 192.168.27.19 with SMTP; 21 Sep 2000 01:26:51 - Received: from cs28100-41.houston.RR.COM by srvweb.IMPI-GIPSI.FR with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.0.1457.7) id S52XFY3D; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 00:07:33 +0200 DATE: 20 Sep 00 5:08:51 PM FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: SUBJECT: get shopping discounts, improve your quality of life so i would like to extract 194.206.111.65 from the line Received: from unknown (HELO srvweb.IMPI-GIPSI.FR) (194.206.111.65) i am rather new at parsing ... and PERL? is that something you wear around your neck? sorry if you consider this off topic, it certainly is part of my life with qmail *g* cheers wolfgang
Re: Maildir Mailbox Format!
the email clients Netscape Messenger and Outlook Express dont need to recognize the maildir format, cause they dont have anything to do with it. to fetch mail, these clients contact a POP3 server program or an IMAP server program on your incoming mail server, and those programs "present" them the mail in a format they understand. to send mail, these clients contact the SMTP server program on your outgoing mail server, and that has nothing to do with Maildir / Mailbox. both netscape and outlook express can cooperate with a qmail mail server that uses Maildir format. wolfgang Also sprach Mark Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 21.09.2000: Can netscape messanger and outlook express automatically recongize the maildir mailbox format.??
Re: ISP mail server.
Also sprach Mark Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 22.09.2000: > Does ISP mail server need to install mail virus scanner ?? I >personally don't think so, it is the job left to home or corporate users, >am I right ?? Suggestion is welcome. > i would think an ISP mail server doesn't have to run a run a virus scanner, it sure would be a nice additional service tho, and it might keep the mail server out of problems that may occur when certain self-mailing virii cause heavy mail traffic by sending themselves repeatedly ... just my 2 cents wolfgang
Re: Two MX records. Migrating from IMail on NT to QMail
Also sprach Deon Bredenhann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 22.09.2000: >OR > >Should I give QMail the higher priority and tell it to forward the >accounts >that does not exist to the other mail server. > to me, that sounds like the solution. wolfgang
Re: Help me please
Also sprach Gustavo Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 22.09.2000: >when the user request to receive his messages (pop3 requisition) >the qmail returns the following message: > > just to make sure you have not missed something in your setup: does the user have a directory called Maildir/ in their home directory? if you have set qmail up to use Maildir/ each mail user will need that ~/Maildir/ where qmail would deliver the mails and where qmail-pop3d would look for them. for more info type man maildir
Re: Help me please
Also sprach Gustavo Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 22.09.2000: > >i've used the following command: ># maildirmake $HOME/Maildir ># echo ./Maildir/ >~/.qmail does the # at the beginning of the line mean you did that as root? if root types: $HOME the variable $HOME is expanded to root's home directory which is /root/ so you most likely have created the maildir /root/Maildir this is useless because root doesnt receive mail in qmail. if you (as root) want to create a Maildir for a user called username you have to type # maildirmake ~username/Maildir and then # chown username ~username/Maildir these are basic unix/linux file and user management commands ... and you should know them and be able to use them. make sure to read the qmail FAQ and the INSTALL file carefully. and please keep the discussion on the list so that others can also follow it and contribute. wolfgang
Re: Unsubscribe Info
Also sprach Anand Saokar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 22.09.2000: >Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm in each mail from this list, in the header you find the email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] it will tell you that you just need to email [EMAIL PROTECTED] make sure to use your subscription adress as your sender adress when doing so >Hi, > >How do I UnSubscribe from this list ?... > >n'x, >Anand
strange problem with t-online
in the course of some mailing list activity i keep getting this error: Sep 29 02:53:41 luzifer qmail: 970188821.500534 starting delivery 142187: msg 582933 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sep 29 02:53:41 luzifer qmail: 970188821.500693 status: local 1/10 remote 1/20 Sep 29 02:53:41 luzifer qmail: 970188821.542630 delivery 142187: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1) adding a user t didnt help, neither did various attempts with ~/alias/.qmail* files or aliases in /etc/aliases how could i direct those mails to some other account / alias? wolfgang
Return-Path header set by qmail?
our redhat linux machine mira's sendmail is using our redhat linux qmail server luzifer as smarthost when users on that mira send mails, the mails contain a return-path containing the full hostname mira.webseek.de which is not fully qualified (just for internal LAN use) and thus causing problems. mira's sendmail masks [EMAIL PROTECTED] as [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is fine, but that durn return-path gets added (by qmail?) how can i prevent/overwrite that in our qmail configuration? wolfgang
autoreplies in dot-qmail or fastworward?
how would i set up an autoreply for incoming messages in qmail? with a .qmail-* file? and if so, what should it contain exactly? or is there a way to do it with the fastforward tool? wolfgang
Re: autoreplies in dot-qmail or fastworward?
i found a rather easy way to do it at http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/1999/04/msg00134.html now i wonder if i could quote the original message? is there a variable like $msg or something that can be used for that? wolfgang
Re: Return-Path header set by qmail?
i wrote: >our redhat linux machine mira's sendmail is using our redhat linux qmail >server luzifer as smarthost >when users on that mira send mails, the mails contain a return-path >containing the full hostname mira.webseek.de which is not fully qualified >(just for internal LAN use) and thus causing problems. in case someone is interested: in sendmail.cf i have now added: Djwebseek.de that inserts @webseek.de in sendmail's automated Return-Path entries. wolfgang
Re: strange problem with t-online
there is no user t nor a user t-online but still mail to t-online is *not* handled by ~/alias/.qmail-default but just creates that error message, how i can i "catch" it? wolfgang Also sprach Tim Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 28.09.2000: Check the permissions on your user t's Maildir - Original Message - > in the course of some mailing list activity i keep getting this error: > > Sep 29 02:53:41 luzifer qmail: 970188821.500534 starting delivery 142187: > msg 582933 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sep 29 02:53:41 luzifer qmail: 970188821.500693 status: local 1/10 remote > 1/20 > Sep 29 02:53:41 luzifer qmail: 970188821.542630 delivery 142187: deferral: > Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1) > > adding a user t didnt help, > neither did various attempts with ~/alias/.qmail* files or aliases in > /etc/aliases > > how could i direct those mails to some other account / alias? > > wolfgang > >
Re: strange problem with t-online
thanks, that solved my problem. Also sprach Alexander Pennace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 01.10.2000: The qmail-getpw program is responsible for telling qmail where .qmail files responsible for a given local address are; your problems could be caused by its confusion. What is the output of: $ qmail-getpw t-online | xargs -0 echo $ id alias
Re: Qmail Tshirts
would you add ash gray long sleeve too? cheers wolfgang Also sprach Vern Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 10.10.2000: >For what it's worth, cafepress.com now offers four new products >which I have made available with the qmail designs. They are: an >ash gray tshirt, a sweat shirt, a long sleeve tshirt and a "Baby >Doll" tshirt. > > http://vern.com/tshirts/qmail/ > >Cheers, >Vern > >
badmailfrom
is there a way to put all hosts from one domain into badmailfrom? not all users from one host of that domain as in @host.domain.com but all users from all hosts of domain.com ...
Re: netscape error
wild guess: try and set "Use SSL ..." in netscape preferences / mail servers to "Never" >On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 02:14:42PM +0800, shaolei wrote: >> >> my qmail system only support outlook receive email >> netscape can't,password error,why? >> how to correct it? > >Are you using POP or IMAP? What authentification method are you using? >You are not giving enough information.
accepting and delivering locally for a different IP ...
how can i make qmail accept mails for user@[123.123.123.123] when the machine 123.123.123.123 forwards all mails to our qmail server? wolfgang
Re: accepting and delivering locally for a different IP ...
Dave Sill wrote: > Put 123.123.123.123 in control/locals and control/rcpthosts. > > -Dave ACK! i had mistyped the IP in both files, thanks for making me check once more :) wolfgang
Re: Forwarding all messages to local net behind masquerade
if your domain is tatrasoft.sk, remove tatrasoft.sk from ~/control/locals (if its there), and if the IP number of your server on the local network is 10.1.1.1, put this in ~/control/smtproutes: tatrasoft.sk:10.1.1.1 (that has to be the actual IP of your internal mail server of course) wolfgang In the previous episode (17.11.2000), Daniel POGAC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Now i need to forward all messages to server on our local network behind >masquerade... >
Handling To: entries (defaulthost?)
we have lately gotten tons of mails from external senders with weird To: entries based on various email client address books with commas, semicolons, whitespaces and such. so i now want to *stop* qmail from automatically expanding "To: whatever" into "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" so that only intact [EMAIL PROTECTED] entries in To: fields will be handled - and reject the others. how can i do that? just set defaulthost to something like "defaulthost" ? and is it possible to have different handling for incoming and outgoing mails? current settings are: # more /var/qmail/control/me mail.webseek.de # more /var/qmail/control/defaulthost webseek.de
Re: Handling To: entries (defaulthost?)
Frank Tegtmeyer schrieb: > I doubt that the sender is really external - you wouldn't get the mail > through SMTP because of missing MX records. good point > I think there is a wild > running script or a buggy SMTP client inside your network. > > Regards, Frank you were right, i found the bad guy: one of our users had entries like "display name: Name, Firstname" in their netscape address book, and the external people had replied to his mails using "Reply To All" *sigh* thanks wolfgang
smtproutes
is it possible to have more than one smtproute for the same destination for the case that the first relay cannot be reached? if so, how? wolfgang
Re: MX records
to check existing MX records, type # nslookup >server 212.121.128.10 >set type=mx then type the domain names you want to look the MX records up for, e.g. > xyz.com wolfgang
Re: smtproutes
In the previous episode (03.01.2001), Steve Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I have set >smtproutes >to smtp:exchange. the syntax to send all mail (except for locals) to one host is: :that.one.host wolfgang
RE: RE: is there a filter to scan message header and reject accordingly
In the previous episode (26.01.2001), Brian Longwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >If I knew how to write perl I probably wouldn't be askingthanks for the tip anyway here is an idea (not necessarily guru-approved but maybe worth a thought): a ~/.qmail file catches every mail for the user and sends the mail to a shell script: #~/.qmail ./filter #/var/qmail/alias/.qmail-devnul # #~/.qmail-real ./Maildir/ #!/bin/bash #~/filter cat > /tmp/to$RECIPIENT.txt if [ "$(grep 'Subject: whatever' /tmp/to$RECIPIENT.txt)" = "Subject: whatever" ] then cat "/tmp/to$RECIPIENT.txt" | qmail-inject devnul else cat "/tmp/to$RECIPIENT.txt" | qmail-inject $USER-real fi rm -f /tmp/to$RECIPIENT.txt /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-devnul will delete every mail sent to devnul and you could add further commands to the "then" part, like qmail-inject -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] $SENDER < your.readymade.reply in order to inform the sender ... i enjoyed experimenting to make this, hope it helps :) cheers wolfgang
RE: RE: is there a filter to scan message header and reject accordingly
In the previous episode (29.01.2001), Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>#!/bin/bash >>#~/filter >>cat > /tmp/to$RECIPIENT.txt >>if [ "$(grep 'Subject: whatever' /tmp/to$RECIPIENT.txt)" = "Subject: whatever" ] >>then >>cat "/tmp/to$RECIPIENT.txt" | qmail-inject devnul >>else >>cat "/tmp/to$RECIPIENT.txt" | qmail-inject $USER-real >>fi >>rm -f /tmp/to$RECIPIENT.txt >> >> >> >>/var/qmail/alias/.qmail-devnul will delete every mail sent to devnul > >Why not just not re-inject it? i wasnt sure if i could use that "if" construction directly in a .qmail file (can that be done?), and cat was the only thing i could think of to "keep the data in mind" in order to handle them differently depending on the result of "if" (i also tried storing the mail in a variable as in MESSAGE="$(cat)", but that screwed things up ... >Also, save a fork/exec by doing: > > qmail-inject $USER-real < /tmp/to$RECIPIENT.txt > >instead of "cat ... | qmail-inject ...". yeah, good idea ;) wolfgang
Re: SOMEONE GET ME OFF THIS LIST
when you send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] you get a reply - sent to the address that you mailed from of course - to which you have to reply once more for confirmation (so that nobody can subscribe your adress by forging it) i just tried it ... wolfgang -- if it is there and you can see it it is real if it is there and you can not see it it is transparent if it is not there and you can see it it is virtual if it is not there and you can not see it it is gone roy wilks 1983, tcp/ip networking In the previous episode (29.01.2001), Medi Montaseri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >me too >where is the instruction for unsubscribing... > >Henry Ong wrote: > >> haha. i sent email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] a few times >> but i'm still getting mail messages from the list server >>
Re: blocking email address
In the previous episode (01.02.2001), Matthew Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, KIM wrote: >>Hi to all, >> >>How can i block a specific email address in qmail? > >echo "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> >/var/qmail/control/badmailfrom >echo "@another.domain.name" >> /var/qmail/control/badmailfrom > note that badmailfrom will block the SMTP envelope sender address (shown in the mail as Return-Path:) tho, which is not necessarily the same as the address in the From: line in the actual mail: in case of this mail i reply to: envelope sender: Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mail header: From: Matthew Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wolfgang
newline in bouncesaying?
is it possible to somehow use a newline command in the message that the bouncesaying command sends? so that the error mail from the sending smtp server back to the envelope sender would contain deliberate line breaks? wolfgang
defaultdomain and defaulthost
we sometimes receive external mails with malformed addresses based on client-sided addressbook entries like Name; Firstname [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or something like that). qmail notifies the sender that Name;@webseek.de (which is our domain) does not exist. i would like to prevent that completion to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but i am want to ensure that mails sent locally (by scripts for example) to "username" will still be delivered correctly. also i have lots of aliases like u.sername: username and want those to keep working too. so, is there a way to only disable that completion for mails received via smtp (if thats what is needed) or some other way to solve the problem on our side? thanks wolfgang
newlines in dot-qmail files?
the program delivery lines in my dot-qmail files are beginning to get lengthy - for example with if ... elif statements and such ... is there a way to continue a line on the next line in order to keep an overwiew and make editing easier? thanks wolfgang
Re: Return-Path
In the previous episode (03.03.2001), Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Anyway to control what the return-path is? with qmail you can also use the command sendmail -f to send mails. if your script uses that, you could thus define the "return-path", the smtp envelope sender, to be precise. qmail-inject -f would do the same. man qmail-inject should give you more info. wolfgang
Re: Spam from addresses harvested from message IDs
In the previous episode (03.03.2001), Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >What I'd like to do is collect all of this mail in a Maildir, so I can >avoid >all the double bounces. What I propose to do is put this in >~alias/.qmail-default: > >|condredirect messageidspam sh -c "echo "$DEFAULT" | egrep -q '^a[0-9]+$'" why $DEFAULT ? wouldn't you want to use $LOCAL ? see http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#environment-variables >|fastforward -d aliases.cdb wolfgang
How to move messages from ~/Mailbox to ~/Maildir/ ?
i started our qmail server by accident with Mailbox delivery enabled, now the incoming mails of about 3 hours went into those files ~/Mailbox. our regular usage is ~/Maildir/ delivery, and i restarted the server with ~/Maildir/ ... how can i move those mails now? thanks wolfgang Wolfgang Zeikat System Administrator - Technology WSI Webseek Infoservice GmbH & Co. KG - Herrengraben 3 - D-20459 Hamburg Phone (+49) 40-300 69 322 - Fax (+49) 40-300 69 399 http://www.infoseek.de - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
