newbie question

[John Hogan]

i have qmail all configured, tested and working in a local environment... when i send 
a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the message is not downloaded by a third-party UA and is 
only available at the command line (pine)

any ideas?

- hogan


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newbie question

[Ian Truelsen]

I just installed qmail under RedHat 7.1

It passes all the internal tests, but I am not able to get anything from 
outside the local machine. I know I have not set something up properly, or 
failed to set something up, but I can't figure out what it is that is wrong.

All I get when I try to email my machine at [EMAIL PROTECTED] is 
messages from the mail daemon where I send it from saying that it can't find 
the address and will keep trying. Now ihtruelsen.2y.net works with my apache 
server, and I am able to get access to my website which is on the same 
machine.

Any thoughts would be helpful.

Thanks in advance.

Ian.
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Newbie question

[Per-fredrik Pollnow (EPK)]

Hi,

I have been looking around on the Inet to see if I could find anything about how I 
secure qmail pop3 service, but I don't have a ??? and I don't find a ???..
I was wondering if anyone have some good ideas what to use or where I can find some 
information about securing qmail pop3 etc. (Right now I'm using qmail-pop3d on 
OpenBSD).

Thanks

//Per

Newbie question

[Chad Cranston]

Well,
I have been playing w/ this install ...

but i still get this message in the maillog ...

   "home qmail: 962410407.609427 delivery 33:
deferral:unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)/"

Any help would be appreciated

Chad

Newbie... Question..

[michael M. Honse]

I have a qmail server up and running GREAT.. all is well..
BUT... I want to bring up another that will Que up mail should the real mail
server crash, need rebooting, Melt down to slag, or ETC..
Anyone have a how-to for that ?..
Many thanks in advance.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

newbie question

[Les Higger]

hello one and all... 
I have been running mercury mail for several years.. it runs on an ol
novell puppy. I would like to build a mail server using a linux box.
I have 12 linux servers but never ventured into the mail realm.
how easy would it be to use qmail ? can it be a pop server ? I only have
80 clients so were a pretty small shop.. 
mail volume is pretty low.. 

thanks for any advise ;-)

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* Local Area Network Coord.  
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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newbie question

[suresh]

Hi
I have installed qmail-ldap patch,whenever i start the qmail ,i get this
info
I have made a file in the control folder and i tried by entering the ip
address as well as by the dns name
i am not able start the debug process even after i set the env variable ,Is
there any particular syntax i should be calling qmail-start for this?


bash-2.03# Nov 29 11:11:21 qmailjol qmail: [ID 748625 mail.alert]
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~control/ldapse
rver exists

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Newbie Question

[Louis Mushandu]

Dear All,

Fits qmail installation and all was fine until I tried to send email to the
box.   It produces the following error message

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)

I have done rtfm bit, hones,t but now I seem to be going round in circles.

I am using ./Maildir/

/var/qmail/rc

#!/bin/sh
# Using splogger to send the log through syslog.
# Using qmail-local to deliver messages to Maildir format by default.   

exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail &  

and below is control details

/var/qmail/control

::
bouncefrom
::
postmaster
::
concurrencyincoming
::
20
::
defaultdomain
::
.wonder.com
::
locals
::
mail.wonder.com:mcuser01
wonder.com
::
me
::
mail.wonder.com
::
plusdomain
::
wonder.com
::
rcpthosts
::
mail.wonder.com
::
virtualdomains
::
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



Thanks in advance.

newbie question

[Dario Rossi]

Hello all.
Sorry for boring you, but i have this problem i cannot understand:
I configured qmail with tcpserver following the installation instructions
step by step.
At this point i have a tcpserver at the moment allowing
connections only from localhost.
Everything is working fine and i send and receive e-mails with no
problems.
If i try to do relaying from a host that is not allowed i get the message:
"553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts".
The question is :If i try to send an e-mail to a domain that's contained
in rcpthosts, from an unautorized host, i get no errors and the email
arrives...why this?
with this method can't i be able to mail bomb any e-mail address of this
domain?

Thanks 
Dario
  

Newbie question

[Roger Arnold]

Roger Arnold wrote:

How do you make a users file using "qmail-pw2u" from your /etc/passwd
file ?

If I execute /var/qmail/qmail-pw2u with no extensions I would have
thought that it would have created an assignments file from /etc/passwd,
however all that happens is that it goes into never-never land, and not
return to the command prompt.

Are there any indepth documentation relating to this and other qmail
commands other than the man files ?

Thanks in advance

Roger

Re: newbie question

[Barry Hill]

Hi John,


Thursday, April 26, 2001, 7:16:38 PM, you wrote:

JH> i have qmail all configured, tested and working in a local
JH> environment... when i send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the
JH> message is not downloaded by a third-party UA and is only
JH> available at the command line (pine)
JH> any ideas?

You need a POP server, such as popper (included with most
Linux distributions) if you're storing your messages in
/var/spool/mail, or some other POP server if you're using mbox or
Maildir. 


Best regards,

 Barrymailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newbie question

[Charles Cazabon]

John Hogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i have qmail all configured, tested and working in a local environment...
> when i send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the message is not downloaded by a
> third-party UA and is only available at the command line (pine)

If NFS is involved, make sure that the system clocks between all the machines
are synchronized (with xntpd, clockspped, or equivalent).  qmail-pop3d won't
see messages which are dated in the future.

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Re: newbie question

[John Hogan]

yep, popper's running...

qmail is configured to ~/Mailbox, tests, performs local delivery and receipt

new messages are received in Pine just fine, but not by a remote UA

- hogan

At 07:42 PM 4/26/2001 +0100, Barry Hill wrote:
>Hi John,
>
>
>Thursday, April 26, 2001, 7:16:38 PM, you wrote:
>
>JH> i have qmail all configured, tested and working in a local
>JH> environment... when i send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the
>JH> message is not downloaded by a third-party UA and is only
>JH> available at the command line (pine)
>JH> any ideas?
>
>You need a POP server, such as popper (included with most
>Linux distributions) if you're storing your messages in
>/var/spool/mail, or some other POP server if you're using mbox or
>Maildir. 
>
>
>Best regards,
>
> Barrymailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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Re: newbie question

[Tom Beer]

Hi,

please mail an exploit of /var/log/qmail/current
and we'll see...

Tom

- Original Message -
From: "Ian Truelsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 6:38 AM
Subject: newbie question


> I just installed qmail under RedHat 7.1
>
> It passes all the internal tests, but I am not able to get anything from
> outside the local machine. I know I have not set something up properly, or
> failed to set something up, but I can't figure out what it is that is
wrong.
>
> All I get when I try to email my machine at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
is
> messages from the mail daemon where I send it from saying that it can't
find
> the address and will keep trying. Now ihtruelsen.2y.net works with my
apache
> server, and I am able to get access to my website which is on the same
> machine.
>
> Any thoughts would be helpful.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Ian.
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>
>

Re: newbie question

[Charles Cazabon]

Ian Truelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> It passes all the internal tests, but I am not able to get anything from 
> outside the local machine.

Okay.  Lots of possible causes for that one.

> All I get when I try to email my machine at [EMAIL PROTECTED] is 
> messages from the mail daemon where I send it from saying that it can't find 
> the address and will keep trying.

[charlesc@charon archive]$ dnsmx ihtruelsen.2y.net
0 ihtruelsen.2y.net
[charlesc@charon archive]$ telnet ihtruelsen.2y.net 25
Trying 205.200.142.91...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

Nothing is listening on port 25; you haven't installed and configured
qmail-smtpd/tcpserver correctly, or have not told svscan to start the
tcpserver instance for qmail-smtpd.

Charles
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Newbie question-CJK

[Constantine Koulis]

Hello all.

I am niebie to qmail but untill now i am happy.
I have some questions :


I  can connect POP3 to the unix users but i cannot receive any email.
When i open the unix-user i made his home directory to be :
/home/username.
Is this the correct one for qmail?If not which is?

Another thing Do i need to put in the /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts all the 
domains that i want to send email?
Thats impossible.I have to put all the domains in the world?LIke 
hotmail.com,yahoo.com..

Thanks in advance

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Re: Newbie question

[Dushyanth Harinath]

qmail-pop3d is far secure..but using it with inet is not recommended...use
qmail-pop3d with tcpserver..check the FAQ regarding this...

regards
dushyanth

> Hi,
> 
> I have been looking around on the Inet to see if I could find anything
> about how I secure qmail pop3 service, but I don't have a ??? and I
> don't find a ???.. I was wondering if anyone have some good ideas what
> to use or where I can find some information about securing qmail pop3
> etc. (Right now I'm using qmail-pop3d on OpenBSD).
> 
> Thanks
> 
> //Per


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Re: Newbie question

[Johan Almqvist]

* Per-Fredrik Pollnow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010726 09:40]:
> I have been looking around on the Inet to see if I could find anything
> about how I secure qmail pop3 service, but I don't have a ??? and I don't
> find a ???..
> I was wondering if anyone have some good ideas what to use or where I can
> find some information about securing qmail pop3 etc. (Right now I'm using
> qmail-pop3d on OpenBSD).

[Please wrap your lines so that I don't have to]

qmail-pop3d is secure. However, POP isn't secure, as the passwords are
sent in clear text... But qmail-pop3d can use APOP (a basic challenge-
response mechanism) if configured with a matching checkpassword. But even
with APOP, a man-in-the-middle attack is possible...

POP over SSL is one possible solution... One way to accomplish this is by
using "stunnel".

-Johan
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Sorry newbie question

[eradan]

I have installed qmail once before about 6 months ago w/o a hitch.  

But for some reason this install is acting very wierd. I did a "standard"
(if there is such a thing) install of qmail. Everything worked fine up
until the test email.  I am using Maildir. When i try to stop/restart/start
qmail i get this message 

"qmailsvc: warning: unable to chdir to /var/qmail/supervise/run: not a
directory"

why is it trying to chdir to the that dir  ?? is that a file for running
/var/qmail/rc ? 

i am at a stand still ... thanx in advance 

Chad Cranston 
Network Admin 

Re: Newbie question

[Giles Lean]

>"home qmail: 962410407.609427 delivery 33:
> deferral:unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)/"

Presumably your delivery instruction says "./Maildir".  For maildir
delivery you need a trailing slash: "./Maildir/".

Regards,

Giles

Re: Newbie question

[Chad Cranston]

Changed the /var/qmail/rc file to read this 

qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail

and now i get this error message in the mail log 

starting delivery 8: msg 20539 to local chad@"domain.com"
deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/


do i need the ./Maildir/ to be in quotes ?? 

Chad 


- Original Message - 
From: "Giles Lean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Chad Cranston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: Newbie question 


> 
> >"home qmail: 962410407.609427 delivery 33:
> > deferral:unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)/"
> 
> Presumably your delivery instruction says "./Maildir".  For maildir
> delivery you need a trailing slash: "./Maildir/".
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Giles
> 

Re: Newbie question

[Steffan Hoeke]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 10:39:36PM -0700, Chad Cranston wrote:
> Changed the /var/qmail/rc file to read this 
> 
> qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail
> 
> and now i get this error message in the mail log 
> 
> starting delivery 8: msg 20539 to local chad@"domain.com"
> deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/

This error is probably due to a rights problem or a non existant $HOME/Maildir/
did you do :
su -l [username]
maildirmake $HOME/Maildir

???


> do i need the ./Maildir/ to be in quotes ?? 
You need to create the Maildir AS the user in who's home directory you're 
creating it.

> Chad 
HTH,
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qmail newbie question

[Anonymous]

Hi there, just finished installing qmail and it seems to work fine. Only
have the following questions:

BINMAIL.remove told me to remove /bin/mail but link it to some other
mailer, eg mailx. Since I don't have mailx, what are other options? Can
I somehow use qmail-inject? 

Under sendmail I could mail people at other stanford hosts by simply using
someone@hostname as the address, without .stanford.edu. How can I achieve
the same with qmail?  

Finally I saw in the FAQ how to configure pine to use qmail-inject instead
of SMTP - what are the pros and cons?

thanks in advance,  Gerald

qmail Newbie question.....

[Dean Oliffe]

I have a (hopefully Simple) question regarding the config of a qmail
server a college and myself  setup resently.

I have a qmail server hidden behind a Firewall from both my internal
network (users) and the external network (internet).

Now we have noticed since changing over that there is a 30 second delay
on any email transaction from either the internal network or the
external network...and we could not figure out why...

Tonight I was thinking that the Firewall could be the problem when a
Firewall Techie told me that he has seen this problem before and
suggested that it is the mail server doing a reverse-IDENT and the
Firewall is blocking it (both internally and externally) and the default

timeout is about 30 SECONDSsounds like to solution.

But is this the case with qmail?

I answered this question myself by allowing my Firewall to pass the
ident port for the internal network and now email is delivered instantly

to my internal users..but the problem still exists for my external
users and mail servers that are trying to send me mail or receive email
from my protected server.


And how do I stop it or change the timeout to be 1 second if possible?

I hope someone can help me with this problem.

Thankyou for your time,

Dean Oliffe

Semi - Newbie Question

[Kevin Kling]

HELO

I have a kinda odd situation (I know so does everybody else)

I have smtp and pop3 working fine from a workstation that is accessing
the email server thru a MASQ'd firewall connection.

The install is standard LWQ using tcpserver for everything including
qmail-pop3d - which seems to work just fine.

I can send a message to my own user and recieve it back with netscape
just fine.

But if I try to send a message to anyone outside my local domain I get
the dreaded:

sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts

If I put the destination domain in my rcpthosts it accepts and
processes the email just fine.

It would appear that qmail does not recognize that my request is coming
from a local domain - since I am MASQ'd I have my MASQ server listed in
the /etc/tcp.smtp(?) file for tcpserver with the proper env setting to
bypass rcpthosts

The odd thing is that I do not have a DNS entry for this server yet so
I am using the IP of the server to send to it from outside with entries
in the locals file for that address - which seems to work OK.

What should I look at ?

Thanks 
Kevin Kling
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Re: newbie question

[Patrick Ohiomoba]

Qmail isn't hard to set up, although I recommend having at it a couple of
times before you install your production server.  Migrating from mercury
mail may be more difficult, I don't know enough about mercury mail to give
you an idea about how its features might affect migration.

Qmail allows many pop options, including its own qmail-pop3d, but also
Cyrus, Qpopper, imap-4.5, etc...

Other applications such as vpopper and Squebmail allow this flexible mta
to serve more functions, like a webmail server.

Finally, there's a patch allowing ldap support.


On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Les Higger wrote:

> hello one and all... 
> I have been running mercury mail for several years.. it runs on an ol
> novell puppy. I would like to build a mail server using a linux box.
> I have 12 linux servers but never ventured into the mail realm.
> how easy would it be to use qmail ? can it be a pop server ? I only have
> 80 clients so were a pretty small shop.. 
> mail volume is pretty low.. 
> 
> thanks for any advise ;-)
> 
> *++*
> * Les Higger ITAF ,
> * Local Area Network Coord.  
> * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> * Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School
> * Los Angeles Unified School District
>  ---> Old men can give flawless advice, for they nolonger can set bad 
> examples <--- 
> 
> 
> 

AMaViS newbie question

[Steve Peace]

I have a qmail 1.03 server running succesfully with the AMaViS 
scanner.  Evrything is running great.  I just received a message to 
the virus alert account stating:
 
   
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (diem-My Luu) or [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not a valid Email 
address   (changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] diem-My Luu and [EMAIL PROTECTED])!
 
I can not find any information on what this means.  If 
someone could tell me I would appreciate it.
 
S. Peace

Re: newbie question

[Henning Brauer]

Am Mittwoch, 29. November 2000 13:24 schrieb suresh:
> Hi
> I have installed qmail-ldap patch

You posted this on qmail-ldap's list, there it is right. Here it is false. No 
one can and will answer your question here.

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RE: Newbie question

[suresh]

PLEASE DO NOT READ NEWBIE QUESTION IF WANT TO USE THOSE DEROGATORY
STATEMENTS .YU DONT EVEN HELP EITHER .I AM SURE THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE WHO
WOULD LIKE TO HELP!
-Original Message-
From: Henning Brauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 6:55 AM
To: suresh; Qmail-Ldap@Argus. Pipeline. Ch
Subject: Re: Newbie question


Am Mittwoch, 29. November 2000 13:24 schrieb suresh:

You are giving us much to less infos to help you. Check if the file
mentioned
in the error message exists and is world readable. If not, RTFM before
asking
here.


> Hi
> I have installed qmail-ldap patch,whenever i start the qmail ,i get this
> info
> I have made a file in the control folder and i tried by entering the ip
> address as well as by the dns name
> i am not able start the debug process even after i set the env variable
,Is
> there any particular syntax i should be calling qmail-start for this?
>
>
> bash-2.03# Nov 29 11:11:21 qmailjol qmail: [ID 748625 mail.alert]
> 975467481.7424
> 69 alert: cannot start qmail-lspawn or it had an error! Check if
> ~control/ldapse
> rver exists
>
> Suresh
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Re: Newbie question

[Henning Brauer]

Am Mittwoch, 29. November 2000 15:11 schrieb suresh:

Suresh, for first writing such nonsens to the list and asking me for help off 
list does not fit together. before asking other busy people for help (it is 
no paid support staff here, we all have our work to do!), you should

-have read the docs at least twice
-checked if you fulfilled the requirements for qmail-ldap, both on you 
installation and youself (yes, the wonderfull sentence "you should have 
fairly good knowledge of qmail and ldap..." and so on in bold letters aside 
to the dowload link on the wepages
-if you ask a question, provide all necessary information, in general as much 
as possible. At least OS, versions (including patch version), _complete_ 
logs, configuration
-checked all logs yourself, including ldap logs, set loglevel to highest 
possible value - helps a lot


> PLEASE DO NOT READ NEWBIE QUESTION IF WANT TO USE THOSE DEROGATORY
> STATEMENTS .YU DONT EVEN HELP EITHER .I AM SURE THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE WHO
> WOULD LIKE TO HELP!
> -Original Message-
> From: Henning Brauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 6:55 AM
> To: suresh; Qmail-Ldap@Argus. Pipeline. Ch
> Subject: Re: Newbie question
>
>
> Am Mittwoch, 29. November 2000 13:24 schrieb suresh:
>
> You are giving us much to less infos to help you. Check if the file
> mentioned
> in the error message exists and is world readable. If not, RTFM before
> asking
> here.
>
> > Hi
> > I have installed qmail-ldap patch,whenever i start the qmail ,i get this
> > info
> > I have made a file in the control folder and i tried by entering the ip
> > address as well as by the dns name
> > i am not able start the debug process even after i set the env variable
>
> ,Is
>
> > there any particular syntax i should be calling qmail-start for this?
> >
> >
> > bash-2.03# Nov 29 11:11:21 qmailjol qmail: [ID 748625 mail.alert]
> > 975467481.7424
> > 69 alert: cannot start qmail-lspawn or it had an error! Check if
> > ~control/ldapse
> > rver exists
> >
> > Suresh
> > Mithi.com Pvt. Ltd.
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FW: Newbie Question

[Louis Mushandu]

> Dear All,
> 
> Fits qmail installation and all was fine until I tried to send email to
> the box.   It produces the following error message
> 
> 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)
> 
> I have done rtfm bit, hones,t but now I seem to be going round in circles.
> 
> I am using ./Maildir/
> 
> /var/qmail/rc
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> # Using splogger to send the log through syslog.
> # Using qmail-local to deliver messages to Maildir format by default.   
> 
> exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
> qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail &  
> 
> and below is control details
> 
> /var/qmail/control
> 
> ::
> bouncefrom
> ::
> postmaster
> ::
> concurrencyincoming
> ::
> 20
> ::
> defaultdomain
> ::
> .wonder.com
> ::
> locals
> ::
> mail.wonder.com:mcuser01
> wonder.com
> ::
> me
> ::
> mail.wonder.com
> ::
> plusdomain
> ::
> wonder.com
> ::
> rcpthosts
> ::
> mail.wonder.com
> ::
> virtualdomains
> ::
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Re: Newbie Question

[Bill Carlson]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Louis Mushandu wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Fits qmail installation and all was fine until I tried to send email to the
> box.   It produces the following error message
>
> 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)

  ^

You need mail.mongrel.com listed in /var/qmail/control/locals, from the
info you provided it isn't in that file.


HTH,

Bill Carlson
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Re: Newbie Question

[Amitai Schlair]

on 11/29/00 3:17 PM, Louis Mushandu at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 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)

[...]

> locals
> ::
> mail.wonder.com:mcuser01
> wonder.com

qmail has told you exactly what the problem is. Would you prefer a less
helpful error message? :-p

You might want mongrel.com to be in control/virtualdomains instead, though.

- Amitai

Re: Newbie Question

[asantos]

From: Louis Mushandu <[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)
>
>I have done rtfm bit, hones,t but now I seem to be going round in circles.


Follow the thread starting at man qmail-control, then man qmail-send, and
check your locals file. On a sligthly more palatable form (IMHO), try
http://binarios.com/miscnotes/qmail.html#q-control.

Armando

Re: Newbie Question

[Robin S. Socha]

* Louis Mushandu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I tried to send email to the box.  It produces the following error message

> 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)

> locals
> ::
> mail.wonder.com:mcuser01
> wonder.com

That is certainly wrong. mail.mongrel.com should be in there.

> virtualdomains
> ::
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

And so is this.
-- 
Robin S. Socha 

Re: Newbie Question

[Henning Brauer]

Am Mittwoch, 29. November 2000 21:17 schrieb Louis Mushandu:
> locals
>
> mail.wonder.com:mcuser01
> wonder.com

>
> virtualdomains
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>

You mixed two files here. In locals just list every domain you are delivering 
myil locally for, on per line. in virtualdomains the mapping to users is 
done, so:

locals:
mail.wonder.com
wonder.com
any.other.domain

virtualdomains:
wonder.com:user1
mail.wonder.com:user2

and so on

>
>
> Thanks in advance.

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Re: newbie question

[Charles Cazabon]

Dario Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry for boring you, but i have this problem i cannot understand:
> At this point i have a tcpserver at the moment allowing
> connections only from localhost.

You're preventing connections to port 25 completely?
Please post the contents of your smtp.rules file to be more clear on exactly
what you are allowing/disallowing.

> If i try to do relaying from a host that is not allowed i get the message:
> "553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts".

Yes, the expected behaviour.

> The question is :If i try to send an e-mail to a domain that's contained
> in rcpthosts, from an unautorized host, i get no errors and the email
> arrives...why this?
> with this method can't i be able to mail bomb any e-mail address of this
> domain?

rcpthosts lists machines/domains which you are willing to accept mail for.
They may be local, or they may be other machines for which you are providing
secondary MX service.  This is expected behaviour.

Either you don't quite understand how internet mail works, or you're being
unclear in what you are trying to accomplish here.  Could you explain better
what you are trying to do, and why you think it's not correct?

Charles
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Re: newbie question

[Dario Rossi]

CC>You're preventing connections to port 25 completely?
CC>Please post the contents of your smtp.rules file to be more clear on exactly
CC>what you are allowing/disallowing.

the rule is :

127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""

CC>
CC>> If i try to do relaying from a host that is not allowed i get the message:
CC>> "553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts".
CC>
CC>Yes, the expected behaviour.

Ok never said the opposit

CC>
CC>> The question is :If i try to send an e-mail to a domain that's contained
CC>> in rcpthosts, from an unautorized host, i get no errors and the email
CC>> arrives...why this?
CC>> with this method can't i be able to mail bomb any e-mail address of this
CC>> domain?
CC>
CC>rcpthosts lists machines/domains which you are willing to accept mail for.
CC>They may be local, or they may be other machines for which you are providing
CC>secondary MX service.  This is expected behaviour.


CC>Either you don't quite understand how internet mail works, or you're being
CC>unclear in what you are trying to accomplish here.  Could you explain better
CC>what you are trying to do, and why you think it's not correct?

Well probably i was not clear!

I am a "son of Sendmail" and i am trying to set up qmail in the best way,
to understand its full possibilities. Obviously it 's not really easy to
do this, using the mess of documentation that's around...anyway taking the  
time needed i am trying to do this.
Let's do an example:

I put the domain foo.com in rcpthosts.
Now qmail will accept mails for *@foo.com.
I put a rule in tcpservers to allow relaying only from localhost and
 my LAN hosts.
Now i telnet to another host, not autorised to do relaying; from here:


telnet my qmail machine port 25

220 
helo cippalippa.org
250 
mail from:k
250 Ok
rcpt to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
250 OK
data
354 go ahead
PTTT
. 
250 ok 976727180 qp 4190
quit

Well i think this is not fair.
Infact anyone could send mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and any other
standard address, being completely anonymous.
I think i missed something in configuration or otherwise i didnt
understand well how qmail works.
My previous mail was NOT to claim that qmail is bugged as some1 could
have understood.

Now i hope things are clearer

Thnx
Dario

Re: newbie question

[Charles Cazabon]

Dario Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> CC>You're preventing connections to port 25 completely?  CC>Please post the
> CC>contents of your smtp.rules file to be more clear on exactly CC>what you
> CC>are allowing/disallowing.
> 
> the rule is :
> 
> 127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""

Okay, you're not denying connections at all.  You're setting the RELAYCLIENT
only if the remote IP address is 127.*.*.* .

> I put the domain foo.com in rcpthosts.
> Now qmail will accept mails for *@foo.com.
> I put a rule in tcpservers to allow relaying only from localhost and
>  my LAN hosts.
> Now i telnet to another host, not autorised to do relaying; from here:
> 
> telnet my qmail machine port 25
> 
> 220 
> helo cippalippa.org
> 250 
> mail from:k
> 250 Ok
> rcpt to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 250 OK
> data
> 354 go ahead
> PTTT
> . 
> 250 ok 976727180 qp 4190
> quit
> 
> Well i think this is not fair.
> Infact anyone could send mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and any other
> standard address, being completely anonymous.

The mail transaction above is not an example of (unauthorized) relaying.
By putting the domain in rcpthosts, you have told qmail-smtpd "I am willing
to accept mail from anyone which has an envelope recipient of 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

If foo.com is in your locals file, the message will be delivered locally.
If foo.com is in your virtualdomains file, it will be treated as a virtual
domain and delivered to a local user.
If foo.com is in neither locals nor controls, qmail will attempt to deliver
it to the highest priority MX for foo.com, and therefore serving as a
secodary MX for foo.com.

> I think i missed something in configuration or otherwise i didnt understand
> well how qmail works.

Yes, it's a problem with your understanding of qmail.  To receive mail
from the world at large, you have to allow everyone to connect to your 
SMTP port.  You should then accept/reject mail based on the envelope
recipient -- accepting mail which is for addresses in your local domain(s)
and virtual domains (if any), and possibly a few others for which you
provide backup MX service, and rejecting everything else.

Then, in addition, you can set the RELAYCLIENT variable as you did above
for certain IP addresses (typically those on your company LAN or private
network), to allow only those IP addresses to relay mail to anywhere else
in the world through your server.  In this case you are serving as a 
"smarthost" for dumb clients (like MUAs on Windows machines, etc).

Charles
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Re: newbie question

[Dario Rossi]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Charles Cazabon wrote:

CC>The mail transaction above is not an example of (unauthorized) relaying.
CC>By putting the domain in rcpthosts, you have told qmail-smtpd "I am willing
CC>to accept mail from anyone which has an envelope recipient of 
CC>[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
CC>
CC>If foo.com is in your locals file, the message will be delivered locally.
CC>If foo.com is in your virtualdomains file, it will be treated as a virtual
CC>domain and delivered to a local user.
CC>If foo.com is in neither locals nor controls, qmail will attempt to deliver
CC>it to the highest priority MX for foo.com, and therefore serving as a
CC>secodary MX for foo.com.
CC>
CC>> I think i missed something in configuration or otherwise i didnt understand
CC>> well how qmail works.
CC>
CC>Yes, it's a problem with your understanding of qmail.  To receive mail
CC>from the world at large, you have to allow everyone to connect to your 
CC>SMTP port.  You should then accept/reject mail based on the envelope
CC>recipient -- accepting mail which is for addresses in your local domain(s)
CC>and virtual domains (if any), and possibly a few others for which you
CC>provide backup MX service, and rejecting everything else.
CC>
CC>Then, in addition, you can set the RELAYCLIENT variable as you did above
CC>for certain IP addresses (typically those on your company LAN or private
CC>network), to allow only those IP addresses to relay mail to anywhere else
CC>in the world through your server.  In this case you are serving as a 
CC>"smarthost" for dumb clients (like MUAs on Windows machines, etc).
CC>
CC>Charles
CC>

THANKS CHARLES !
This solved all my questions!
Thanks a lot.

Dario

Re: Newbie question

[Jeff Lacy]

Hello Roger,

qmail-pw2u wants the contents of /etc/passwd to be passed/piped to it.  If
you wanted to create an assignment file from the /etc/passwd, you might try
something like

cat /etc/passwd | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pw2u > /var/qmail/users/assign

If you do that though, be sure you delete people who won't need mail.  Or
you could make your own assign file, but you would have to figure that out
yourself :-)  ALSO REMEMBER TO RUN /var/qmail/bin/qmail-newu AFTER YOU HAVE
AN ASSIGN FILE.  This has caused me a little trouble in the past :-D

Jeff


- Original Message -
From: "Roger Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Qmail Users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 5:01 AM
Subject: Newbie question


> Roger Arnold wrote:
>
> How do you make a users file using "qmail-pw2u" from your /etc/passwd
> file ?
>
> If I execute /var/qmail/qmail-pw2u with no extensions I would have
> thought that it would have created an assignments file from /etc/passwd,
> however all that happens is that it goes into never-never land, and not
> return to the command prompt.
>
> Are there any indepth documentation relating to this and other qmail
> commands other than the man files ?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Roger
>

Qmail newbie question

[Johnson, Garrett]

Please forgive my ignorance. I'm trying to learn.

I have set up a secondary Qmail server on RedHat 7.0 and it 
seems to have come up without a problem, but I'm having a 
hair-pulling time trying to test if it works properly. It has 
passed some basic tests. For instance I can use qmail-inject 
to email other servers. But the number of processes being run 
is awfully small.
This is what I get from ps -ef | grep qmail:

root   503   502  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 supervise qmail-send
root   505   502  1 Mar16 ?00:54:39 supervise qmail-smtpd
qmaill 507   504  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t
qmails 508   503  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 qmail-send
qmaill 510   506  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t
root   520   508  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 qmail-lspawn ./Mailbox
qmailr 521   508  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 qmail-rspawn
qmailq 522   508  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 qmail-clean
root  3883   505  0 12:20 ?00:00:00 supervise qmail-smtpd

  Should there be more processes running? Why isn't tcpserver
running (keeping in mind that it isn't passing any email right now)?
  Something more disturbing is that when I run mconnect without
arguments I get:

tcpclient: unable to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 25: connection refused

  When I run a portsniff from another computer port 25 doesn't
show up? Is this some sort of security or is something wrong?
Maybe I'm worrying about nothing, but this seems weird.
Please be patient with the Qmail newbie. I'd be glad to supply
more information if required.

-Garrett
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newbie question

[Peter van Dijk]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:53:50PM -0500, John Hogan wrote:
> yep, popper's running...
> 
> qmail is configured to ~/Mailbox, tests, performs local delivery and receipt

What popper? qmail-pop3d only does Maildir.

Greetz, Peter.

Re: newbie question

[John Hogan]

i was running just regular, old, linux distribution flavored popper... must i switch?

- hogan

At 09:17 PM 4/26/2001 +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:53:50PM -0500, John Hogan wrote:
>> yep, popper's running...
>> 
>> qmail is configured to ~/Mailbox, tests, performs local delivery and receipt
>
>What popper? qmail-pop3d only does Maildir.
>
>Greetz, Peter. 


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Re: newbie question

[John Hogan]

thanks for the off-list advice...

i thought i'd let everyone know - building a sym-link from /var/spool/mail/username to 
~(username)/Mailbox did the trick... popper must have been looking at the old 
/var/spool i'll have to figure out a way to change popper and release those nasty 
sym-links

thanks again

- hogan

At 02:40 PM 4/26/2001 -0500, John Hogan wrote:
>i was running just regular, old, linux distribution flavored popper... must i switch?
>
>- hogan
>
>At 09:17 PM 4/26/2001 +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote:
>>On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:53:50PM -0500, John Hogan wrote:
>>> yep, popper's running...
>>> 
>>> qmail is configured to ~/Mailbox, tests, performs local delivery and receipt
>>
>>What popper? qmail-pop3d only does Maildir.
>>
>>Greetz, Peter. 
>
>
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Re: Re: newbie question

[Santosh Pasi]

Hi,

try sending mail using ip address
example [EMAIL PROTECTED]

and check .. if it goes to user, then there is dns setting problem ..may 
be MX records ..
Else make sure files in /var/qmail/control/me .. and rpchosts and 
defaultdomain is proper.
Or try testing using 
$ telnet hostname 25 ... and check

Regards
Santosh Pasi


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>Precedence: bulk
>From: "Tom Beer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Ian Truelsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: newbie question
>Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 15:16:59 +0200
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
>Hi,
>
>please mail an exploit of /var/log/qmail/current
>and we'll see...
>
>Tom
>
>- Original Message -
>From: "Ian Truelsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 6:38 AM
>Subject: newbie question
>
>
>> I just installed qmail under RedHat 7.1
>>
>> It passes all the internal tests, but I am not able to get anything 
from>> outside the local machine. I know I have not set something up 
properly, or>> failed to set something up, but I can't figure out what it is that is
>wrong.
>>
>> All I get when I try to email my machine at 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>is
>> messages from the mail daemon where I send it from saying that it 
can't>find
>> the address and will keep trying. Now ihtruelsen.2y.net works with my
>apache
>> server, and I am able to get access to my website which is on the same
>> machine.
>>
>> Any thoughts would be helpful.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Ian.
>> 
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>>
>>
>
>

Re: Newbie question-CJK

[arjen-bind]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Constantine Koulis wrote:

> I  can connect POP3 to the unix users but i cannot receive any email.
> When i open the unix-user i made his home directory to be :
> /home/username.
> Is this the correct one for qmail?If not which is?

Yes it is. I think you should first tell us if local deliveries fail or
succeed. If they succeed, where is the mail put? What popdaemon do you
use?

> 
> Another thing Do i need to put in the /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts all the 
> domains that i want to send email?

Of course not. rcpthosts stands for ReCiPienThosts; hosts you want qmail
to accept mail for. You put allowed IP's/hostnames into the config files
for tcpserver, which you should use with qmail.

http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html


> Thats impossible.I have to put all the domains in the world?LIke 
> hotmail.com,yahoo.com..

If you should have (and you must not) then I bet there was a wildcard for
it ;)

Grtz,

Arjen.

Re: Newbie question-CJK

[Tom Beer]

Hi,
>
>
> I  can connect POP3 to the unix users but i cannot receive any email.
> When i open the unix-user i made his home directory to be :
> /home/username.
> Is this the correct one for qmail?If not which is?

this depends on your configuration, in most cases it is
hint: link /var/spool/mail/user + maildir / mailbox
see lwq

>
> Another thing Do i need to put in the /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts all the
> domains that i want to send email?

all the domains which allowed to _send_ mails


Start reading the man pages and lwq and www.qmail.org

Tom

Re: Newbie question-CJK

[Constantine Koulis]

I would like to know why i can receive emails from the internet using pine 
with the user X and from the OUtlook Express lets say using again user X 
dont receive anything..

>From: "Tom Beer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Constantine Koulis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: "qmail list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Newbie question-CJK
>Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 12:14:23 +0200
>
>Hi,
> >
> >
> > I  can connect POP3 to the unix users but i cannot receive any email.
> > When i open the unix-user i made his home directory to be :
> > /home/username.
> > Is this the correct one for qmail?If not which is?
>
>this depends on your configuration, in most cases it is
>hint: link /var/spool/mail/user + maildir / mailbox
>see lwq
>
> >
> > Another thing Do i need to put in the /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts all 
>the
> > domains that i want to send email?
>
>all the domains which allowed to _send_ mails
>
>
>Start reading the man pages and lwq and www.qmail.org
>
>Tom
>

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Re: Newbie question-CJK

[arjen-qmail]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Constantine Koulis wrote:

> Dear sir.
> 
> About local delivery i can send from root to local users but from local 
> users to root nothing.As well i can send from local users and root to 
> outside world.

Where is mail for your local users stored?
Do you check ~alias/ for root mail?

> I cannot receive to root from anywhere.
> I can receive from outside world to local users USING PINE.Not outlook 
> express or IMAP.

Where is the mail stored?

> I am using Courier-IMAP and i believe also POP3 

You believe? Better make sure...


> and i tried to install 
> vmailmgr but i have some small problems with it.Cant compile vmailmgr 
> and from the rpms the vmailmgr-daemon deon start.


PLz send to the list and not to me personally...

Grtz,

Arjen.

Re: Sorry newbie question

[asantos]

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>"qmailsvc: warning: unable to chdir to /var/qmail/supervise/run: not a
>directory"
>
>why is it trying to chdir to the that dir  ?? is that a file for running
>/var/qmail/rc ? 
>
>i am at a stand still ... thanx in advance 


I think you didn't followed step 8 of the INSTALL file:

8. Copy /var/qmail/boot/home (or proc) to /var/qmail/rc

Possibly some remains from your previous install.

Armando


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Re: Sorry newbie question

[Dave Sill]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>But for some reason this install is acting very wierd. I did a "standard"
>(if there is such a thing) install of qmail.

The standard qmail install is detailed in "INSTALL" in the source
tree. Is that what you did?

>Everything worked fine up
>until the test email.  I am using Maildir. When i try to stop/restart/start
>qmail i get this message 
>
>"qmailsvc: warning: unable to chdir to /var/qmail/supervise/run: not a
>directory"
>
>why is it trying to chdir to the that dir  ?? is that a file for running
>/var/qmail/rc ? 

It's supposed to be. How are you doing things like "stop/restart/start 
qmail"? Exactly what commands are you entering? If you're running
scripts, what do they contain?

-Dave

Re: qmail newbie question

[Faried Nawaz]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerald Willmann) writes:

  BINMAIL.remove told me to remove /bin/mail but link it to some other
  mailer, eg mailx. Since I don't have mailx, what are other options? Can
  I somehow use qmail-inject? 

What is your operating system?

  
  Under sendmail I could mail people at other stanford hosts by simply using
  someone@hostname as the address, without .stanford.edu. How can I achieve
  the same with qmail?  

See the man page for qmail-inject and read up on defaulthost and
defaultdomain. 


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Re: qmail newbie question

[Gerald Willmann]

On 6 Jun 1999, Faried Nawaz wrote:

>   BINMAIL.remove told me to remove /bin/mail but link it to some other
>   mailer, eg mailx. Since I don't have mailx, what are other options? Can
>   I somehow use qmail-inject? 
> 
> What is your operating system?

linux 2.0.32, libc5, RH4.0 
  
>   Under sendmail I could mail people at other stanford hosts by simply using
>   someone@hostname as the address, without .stanford.edu. How can I achieve
>   the same with qmail?  
> 
> See the man page for qmail-inject and read up on defaulthost and
> defaultdomain. 

well, I had/have stanford.edu in defaultdomain but it does not work. 
[gerald@willmann control]$ ls
defaultdomain  locals me plusdomain rcpthosts
[gerald@willmann control]$ cat defaultdomain
stanford.edu
Just tried to send an email to geraldw@leland and get mailer-domain
complaining that: Sorry, I couldn't find any host named leland. (#5.1.2)  

thanks,  Gerald 

Re: qmail newbie question

[Faried Nawaz]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerald Willmann) writes:

  linux 2.0.32, libc5, RH4.0 

Do you have /usr/bin/Mail, or perhaps is mailx part of some package on your 
CD?  /usr/bin/Mail should work in place of mailx.


  well, I had/have stanford.edu in defaultdomain but it does not work. 

I'm not certain about this, but what's in your /etc/resolv.conf?

I have 

search mydomain.com.
nameserver ...
nameserver ...

and I sent mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from baz.mydomain.com by simply
typing "mail fn@foobar".
  
  
faried.
-- 
[an error occurred while processing this directive]

Re: qmail newbie question

[Gerald Willmann]

On 7 Jun 1999, Faried Nawaz wrote:

> Do you have /usr/bin/Mail, or perhaps is mailx part of some package on your 
> CD?  /usr/bin/Mail should work in place of mailx.
 
/usr/bin/Mail is a link to /bin/mail and both are part of the mailx rpm
which does not contain any mailx, though
could someone please explain why it tells us to remove /bin/mail
and what to use in its place.
I find it kind of funny that at the end of the INSTALL file it tells you
to use mail to report success after having previously instructed you to
disable it.

> I'm not certain about this, but what's in your /etc/resolv.conf?
> I have 
> search mydomain.com.
> nameserver ...
> nameserver ...

same here, without the dot after the domain 

thanks Faried, 
   Gerald

Re: qmail Newbie question.....

[Greg Owen {gowen}]

> Tonight I was thinking that the Firewall could be the problem when a
> Firewall Techie told me that he has seen this problem before and
> suggested that it is the mail server doing a reverse-IDENT and the
> Firewall is blocking it (both internally and externally) and the default
> timeout is about 30 SECONDSsounds like to solution.
...
> And how do I stop it or change the timeout to be 1 second if possible?

You are correct in deducing that the 30 second delay is an ident
timeout.

The solution is to either open up Ident on the firewall or turn off the
ident lookup.  If you're using tcpserver (ucspi), there are several options:

   -r (Default.)   Attempt  to  obtain TCPREMOTEINFO from
  the remote host.

   -R Do not attempt to  obtain  TCPREMOTEINFO  from  the
  remote host.

   -ttimeout
  Give  up  on  the  TCPREMOTEINFO connection attempt
  after timeout seconds. Default: 26.

If you're not using tcpserver, check the manual for whatever you're
using (inetd?).

--
gowen -- Greg Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: qmail newbie question

[Anonymous]

On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Gerald Willmann wrote:
> Hi there, just finished installing qmail and it seems to work fine. Only
> have the following questions:
> BINMAIL.remove told me to remove /bin/mail but link it to some other
> mailer, eg mailx. Since I don't have mailx, what are other options? Can
Heh, really you do not need remove /bin/mail , if you're using linux.
AFAIR the idea was to remove /bin/mail that is a part of seandmail's
package, but /bin/mail in linux Red Hat 5.0 & 5.2 (& probably all from
4.5(?) or even older versions) is a part of separate package & it works
fine for me since I'm using qmail (around of half year). This _should_(?) 
be cleared in the FAQ, or let's anyone more experienced corret me if I'm
wrong.

Bye.Olli.

Newbie Question - Please Read!

[Anonymous]

I recently got my RH Linux box working wtith 
Qmail (with a huge amount of help from Dave Sill). When I installed Qmail setup 
the following files as such:
defaultdomain:
srccomputer.net
locals:
localhost
src1.xtremesportsmidland.com
src1.turfspecialties.com
src1.srccomputer.net
me:
src1.srccomputer.net
plusdomain:
srccomputer.net
rcpthosts:
localhost
src1.xtremesportsmidland.com
src1.turfspecialties.com
src1.srccomputer.net

I am confused about what is a "virtual" domain. The problem I am 
having is how do I setup Qmail where I could have "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 
and [EMAIL PROTECTED], and [EMAIL PROTECTED] all at the 
same time. My PC does not currently do DNS, it is done by my IP (if this even 
matters).  Each domain has it's own IP address setup on the APACHE server. My PC's name is 
"src1.srccomputer.net"- is this the FQDN? I know I am confused about 
"what is a virtual domain". Qmail and QPOP are working fine. I just 
want to setup some more aliases.
Thanks in advance,
Kevin King
 

Re: qmail newbie question

[Anonymous]

Gerald Willmann writes:
> Under sendmail I could mail people at other stanford hosts by simply using
> someone@hostname as the address, without .stanford.edu. How can I achieve
> the same with qmail?  
> 
> Finally I saw in the FAQ how to configure pine to use qmail-inject instead
> of SMTP - what are the pros and cons?

With qmail-inject, you can use someone@hostname instead of
[EMAIL PROTECTED], provided that
control/defaultdomain is set up properly.

With SMTP (qmail-smtpd), messages headers are not rewritten.
So it is up to Pine to complete these abbreviated addresses.

-- 
Tetsu Ushijima

one more newbie-question

[Maria Zevenhoven]

I put the line on qmail-pop3d into my 
inetd.conf, and restarted inetd. Still my pop3d doesn't start. Why's that? What 
can I do to run qmail-pop3d

[newbie question] IP logging?

[Stefan Laudat]

How can I see the incoming IPs of my pop3 clients?
Thanks!

-- 
Stefan Laudat 
http://www.pepsicola.ro/~stefan
---
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken

Re: FW: Newbie Question

[Charles Cazabon]

Louis Mushandu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > Fits qmail installation and all was fine until I tried to send email to
> > the box.   It produces the following error message

And wrote it twice.  Woohoo.  Hint:  if no one replies to your question the
first time you post it, posting exactly the same text again won't get you
any better response.  

Someone did actually reply with the correct answer, though.

> > 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)

The domain you're trying to receive mail for isn't in /var/qmail/control/locals.
Therefore qmail doesn't consider it a local domain.  Therefore it can't
deliver it.

> > and below is control details
> > 
> > /var/qmail/control
> > 
> > ::
> > bouncefrom
> > ::
> > postmaster

This is very hard to read; instead of typing this out in an oddball format,
you'll get better results if you include the output of the `qmail-showctl`
command.

Charles
-- 
---
Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
GPL'ed software available at:  http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/
Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions.
---

Re: Qmail newbie question

[Chris Johnson]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 12:19:57PM -0800, Johnson, Garrett wrote:
> Why isn't tcpserver running (keeping in mind that it isn't passing any email
> right now)?  Something more disturbing is that when I run mconnect without
> arguments I get:
> 
> tcpclient: unable to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 25: connection refused

Did you start tcpserver to listen for SMTP connections? It won't start if you
don't start it.

Chris

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Re: Qmail newbie question

[Gerrit Pape]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 12:19:57PM -0800, Johnson, Garrett wrote:
> This is what I get from ps -ef | grep qmail:
> 
> root   503   502  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 supervise qmail-send
> root   505   502  1 Mar16 ?00:54:39 supervise qmail-smtpd
> qmaill 507   504  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t
> qmails 508   503  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 qmail-send
> qmaill 510   506  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t
> root   520   508  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 qmail-lspawn ./Mailbox
> qmailr 521   508  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 qmail-rspawn
> qmailq 522   508  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 qmail-clean
> root  3883   505  0 12:20 ?00:00:00 supervise qmail-smtpd
> 
kill 3883.

>   Should there be more processes running? Why isn't tcpserver
> running (keeping in mind that it isn't passing any email right now)?

qmaild should run tcpserver. Your run script seems to be broken.
Check with svstat /service/qmail-smtpd.
Ckeck /service/qmail-smtpd/run, check the logs.

Gerrit.


-- 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
innominate AG
 the linux architects
tel: +49.30.308806-0  fax: -77  http://www.innominate.com

Re: Qmail newbie question

[Kurth Bemis]

At 03:37 PM 3/19/2001, Gerrit Pape wrote:

did you read life with qmail?  read it at www.lifewithqmail.org.  Use the 
init script from there and you shouldn't have any problems. :-)

~kurth

PS - to the list - yes, i know this is what I answer for every 
answer...however almost every question can be answered in LWQ.  When ppl 
subscribe to this list there should be a notice in the welcome-notice that 
says "If your planning on asking questions, first read life with qmail 
written by David Still. (http://www.lifewithqmail.org)"

:-)

>On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 12:19:57PM -0800, Johnson, Garrett wrote:
> > This is what I get from ps -ef | grep qmail:
> >
> > root   503   502  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 supervise qmail-send
> > root   505   502  1 Mar16 ?00:54:39 supervise qmail-smtpd
> > qmaill 507   504  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t
> > qmails 508   503  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 qmail-send
> > qmaill 510   506  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t
> > root   520   508  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 qmail-lspawn ./Mailbox
> > qmailr 521   508  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 qmail-rspawn
> > qmailq 522   508  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 qmail-clean
> > root  3883   505  0 12:20 ?00:00:00 supervise qmail-smtpd
> >
>kill 3883.
>
> >   Should there be more processes running? Why isn't tcpserver
> > running (keeping in mind that it isn't passing any email right now)?
>
>qmaild should run tcpserver. Your run script seems to be broken.
>Check with svstat /service/qmail-smtpd.
>Ckeck /service/qmail-smtpd/run, check the logs.
>
>Gerrit.
>
>
>--
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> innominate AG
>  the linux architects
>tel: +49.30.308806-0  fax: -77  http://www.innominate.com

RE: Qmail newbie question

[Johnson, Garrett]

 Thanks for all the quick responses. Gerrit Pape
pointed me in the right direction. My run script for
starting tcpserver had a typo in it. Once fixed tcpserver,
qmail-remote, and qmail-smtpd immediately came up on their own.
I can also mconnect to port 25 now.
  Thanks again.

Garrett Johnson
SFGH, Dean's Office, School of Medicine


-Original Message-
From: Chris Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 12:39 PM
To: Johnson, Garrett
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: Qmail newbie question


On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 12:19:57PM -0800, Johnson, Garrett wrote:
> Why isn't tcpserver running (keeping in mind that it isn't passing any
email
> right now)?  Something more disturbing is that when I run mconnect without
> arguments I get:
> 
> tcpclient: unable to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 25: connection refused

Did you start tcpserver to listen for SMTP connections? It won't start if
you
don't start it.

Chris

Re: Qmail newbie question

[Noah Sematimba]

Well have you tried to start tcpserver anyway?

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Johnson, Garrett wrote:

> Please forgive my ignorance. I'm trying to learn.
> 
> I have set up a secondary Qmail server on RedHat 7.0 and it 
> seems to have come up without a problem, but I'm having a 
> hair-pulling time trying to test if it works properly. It has 
> passed some basic tests. For instance I can use qmail-inject 
> to email other servers. But the number of processes being run 
> is awfully small.
> This is what I get from ps -ef | grep qmail:
> 
> root   503   502  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 supervise qmail-send
> root   505   502  1 Mar16 ?00:54:39 supervise qmail-smtpd
> qmaill 507   504  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t
> qmails 508   503  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 qmail-send
> qmaill 510   506  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t
> root   520   508  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 qmail-lspawn ./Mailbox
> qmailr 521   508  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 qmail-rspawn
> qmailq 522   508  0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 qmail-clean
> root  3883   505  0 12:20 ?00:00:00 supervise qmail-smtpd
> 
>   Should there be more processes running? Why isn't tcpserver
> running (keeping in mind that it isn't passing any email right now)?
>   Something more disturbing is that when I run mconnect without
> arguments I get:
> 
> tcpclient: unable to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 25: connection refused
> 
>   When I run a portsniff from another computer port 25 doesn't
> show up? Is this some sort of security or is something wrong?
> Maybe I'm worrying about nothing, but this seems weird.
> Please be patient with the Qmail newbie. I'd be glad to supply
> more information if required.
> 
> -Garrett
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 

newbie question with concurrency remote

[Michael Geier]

I am running qmail on:
RedHat 6.2
256 Mb Ram

I set concurrency remote = 150...

however, most of the time, it seems like only a handful of remote processes
are running, even though the queue backs up (right now, over 14000 msgs in
queue and only 20 remote processes running)...

Anybody have an idea about how to force it to run faster or at least not
kill off my qmail-remote processes?

New to this list so hope I provided enough info.

Michael Geier
CDM Sports Systems Administrator
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
phone: 314.991.1511 x 6505

ppp and relay newbie question

[Eduardo Moor]

Hi qmailers

I am running qmail 1.03 for our local users, and it connects to the internet
by a ppp link , using serialmail to send and fetchmail to download mail, and
it works fine.
Now I'm trying to deliver all local mail to other host without any luck.
I removed all entries from "locals" and add one in smtproutes wich points
our domain to the new host "Mydomain.com:192.168.1.100"
What happend is that all outgoing mail goes fine  to the pppdir ( my
virtualdomains file says ":alias-ppp", and from there to my ISP, but when I
try to send something to my domain, it also goes to the pppdir, it never
reaches the smtproute, and if I include our domain in "locals" it reach the
users in the actual host, never the new one. May be this should be simple,
but I feel blind at this time.
Any help will be welcome.

Thanks.


Eduardo Moor

and yet another NEWBIE question

[חיים הלפרן]

OKOK, i finally 
read the "life with qmail" article as recomended...
i installed the 
qmail system from scratch
it works now with 
the qmail-pop3d and the qmail using maildir ...
now, to my 
questions:
i have 3 MX records 
pointing to this machine:
domain1.com, 
domain2.com and domain3.com
i have a dns entry 
for every domain as mail.domain1.com pointing to this machine also - lets call 
it mailer.domain4.com
now, i understood 
that i can have the following addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i just have to use 
the virtualdomains with domain1.com:dom1 and 
domain2.com:dom2
and then the users 
of the pop will be dom1-sales and dom2-sales
i hope that up to 
here im right
now, i dont want to 
have /home/dom1-sales/Mailbox and /home/dom2-sales/Mailbox
but instead have 
/mailuser/dom1-sales/Mailbox and 
/mailuser/dom2-sales/Mailbox
is this possible 
and if so, how?
also, i inserted 
the command for pop3 as described in life with qmail into the 
inetd.conf
when i test is as 
instructed on the machine itself it works great
but when i telnet 
to 110 from another machine, the authentication always doesnt accept the 
password...
HELP
and thanks again 
for pointing out that article, it helped make sense of all this new things and 
concepts...
 

Haim Halpern

 

Antw: Re: qmail Newbie question.....

[Ralf Guenthner]

Another possible solution:

On the firewall allow outbound ident from your mailserver, but disallow inbound ident 
TO your mailserver. That's how I do it . (I know it's a bit unfair  )

Cheers
Ralf

Re: Newbie Question - Please Read!

[Anonymous]

On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, gene Campbell wrote:

> I just tried this howto.  It is the best one yet for helping understand
> this system.  But, I still can't get smtp to work. That is if I send from
> another place to my system with qmail, it is bouced back.  I get this
> 
> ___
> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.surfup.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)
> ---
> 
> I feel like I'm getting somewhere with this.  But, I have no idea how I'm
> going to get POP mail working.

what should mail.surfup.com do with the mail for surfup.com?

do ONE ONLY of the following:

if it should deliver it locally put
surfup.com into control/locals
   delivery is now done to local users

if surfup.com is one of many individual domains then put
surfup.com:username-surfup into control/virtualdomains
   delivery is now controlled by ~username/.qmail-surfup-*

if it should deliver to somewhere else then put
surfup.com:[ip.address.of.somewhereelse] into control/smtproutes
   mail will be forwarded to the host on the ip address inside the square
   brackets. you could put a hostname in there if you like.

Re: Newbie Question - Please Read!

[Anonymous]

I just tried this howto.  It is the best one yet for helping understand
this system.  But, I still can't get smtp to work. That is if I send from
another place to my system with qmail, it is bouced back.  I get this

___
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.surfup.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)
---

I feel like I'm getting somewhere with this.  But, I have no idea how I'm
going to get POP mail working.

- gene


At 1:06 AM -0400 6/19/99, Dale Miracle wrote:
>> Kevin King wrote:
>>
>> I recently got my RH Linux box working wtith Qmail (with a huge amount
>> of help from Dave Sill). When I installed Qmail setup the following
>> files as such:
>>
>
>I found this web site tonight that might help some people. I am also
>trying to setup qmail my self because sendmail's virtual mail setup is
>EVIL..I hate m4 and makemap . Any how here is the link
>http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html
>
>I found it while searching through many howto's and web pages trying to
>make sense of the hundreds of interpretations of the qmail doc's.  I
>read it all the way through and it sounds pretty good...to bad I found
>it at 1 am :( I have been staring at this monitor of mine for over 3
>hours now.  I think I am just going to remove what I have and install
>qmail fresh tomorrow.
>I hope this help's, I know it made more sense to me...
>   Later,
>--
>
>Dale Miracle
> System Administrator
>  Teoi Net

Re: Newbie Question - Please Read!

[Anonymous]

gene Campbell wrote:
> 
> I just tried this howto.  It is the best one yet for helping understand
> this system.  But, I still can't get smtp to work. That is if I send from
> another place to my system with qmail, it is bouced back.  I get this
> 
> ___
> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.surfup.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)
> ---
> 
> I feel like I'm getting somewhere with this.  But, I have no idea how I'm
> going to get POP mail working.
> 
> - gene
> 
> At 1:06 AM -0400 6/19/99, Dale Miracle wrote:
> >> Kevin King wrote:
> >>
> >> I recently got my RH Linux box working wtith Qmail (with a huge amount
> >> of help from Dave Sill). When I installed Qmail setup the following
> >> files as such:
> >>
> >
> >I found this web site tonight that might help some people. I am also
> >trying to setup qmail my self because sendmail's virtual mail setup is
> >EVIL..I hate m4 and makemap . Any how here is the link
> >http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html
> >
> >I found it while searching through many howto's and web pages trying to
> >make sense of the hundreds of interpretations of the qmail doc's.  I
> >read it all the way through and it sounds pretty good...to bad I found
> >it at 1 am :( I have been staring at this monitor of mine for over 3
> >hours now.  I think I am just going to remove what I have and install
> >qmail fresh tomorrow.
> >I hope this help's, I know it made more sense to me...
> >   Later,
> >--
> >
> >Dale Miracle
> > System Administrator
> >  Teoi Net

I read in one the howto's tonight that you need to put all systems in
your net that do your mx (mail exchange) in fqdn (fully qualified domain
name) format in the control/locals file.  An example of fqdn is,
demon-spawn.teoi.net .
If you can help it do not use cname's as your mx records in your dns.
(ignore the following if you already know ;) ) cnames are conical or
alias names for A records in dns.  A records are the real names of
machine, A records combined with your domain name gives you your fqdn. 
MX is mail exchanger (mail server).  My mail server is
demon-spawn.teoi.net it has a cname of smtp.teoi.net .  The mx record
uses demon-spawn.teoi.net not smtp.teoi.net .  You can get away with
using cnames but some systems will not work using that.

I sent a message to your system and looked at the message transcript. 
(after checking your dns if needed) make sure your domain name is in
defaulthost, defaultdomain, plusdomains and your mail server's fqdn in
locals, me, rcphosts .  I had qmail working tonight with pine (didn't
have pop setup for qmail) with this config.  Any questions just ask.
Later,
-- 

Dale Miracle
 System Administrator
  Teoi Net

Re: Newbie Question - Please Read!

[Anonymous]

> Kevin King wrote:
> 
> I recently got my RH Linux box working wtith Qmail (with a huge amount
> of help from Dave Sill). When I installed Qmail setup the following
> files as such:
> 

I found this web site tonight that might help some people. I am also
trying to setup qmail my self because sendmail's virtual mail setup is
EVIL..I hate m4 and makemap . Any how here is the link
http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html

I found it while searching through many howto's and web pages trying to
make sense of the hundreds of interpretations of the qmail doc's.  I
read it all the way through and it sounds pretty good...to bad I found
it at 1 am :( I have been staring at this monitor of mine for over 3
hours now.  I think I am just going to remove what I have and install
qmail fresh tomorrow. 
I hope this help's, I know it made more sense to me... 
Later,
-- 

Dale Miracle
 System Administrator
  Teoi Net

RE: Newbie Question - Please Read!

[Anonymous]

well, if you have Redhat Linux like I do here has been my experience.

I installed QMail using the tarball, running through each step carefully by
hand, and with help from members on this list, finally got it to work. I
could send mail out (unlike you) but I couldn't recieve remote email. I was
sure that I had done something wrong with the remove sendmail steps since my
system did not have things configured exactly as described in the INSTALL,
and I wasn't that confident in my guesses.

So last night I took down the RPM's (a whole bunch of them, and set the
whole thing up, deleting my qmail install, rpm'ing the src, then rpming the
required preinstall stuff, and finally rpming qmail).

When I rebooted it worked and was very different. There was a whole new
qmail process running when I did ps-aux, there was no /var/qmail/rc file at
all, there was a whole slew of extra .qmail-*** files in my alias folder,
and lo and behold it worked, in particular, I could now send myself mail
from the outside world.

So my feeling is that Redhat systems are sufficiently different from the
norm that their own unique install of QMail is required and the only way to
get that right now, is by using RPM's.

Alex Miller

> -Original Message-
> From: gene Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 1999 1:25 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Newbie Question - Please Read!
>
>
> I just tried this howto.  It is the best one yet for helping understand
> this system.  But, I still can't get smtp to work. That is if I send from
> another place to my system with qmail, it is bouced back.  I get this
>
> ___
> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.surfup.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)
> ---
>
> I feel like I'm getting somewhere with this.  But, I have no idea how I'm
> going to get POP mail working.
>
> - gene
>
>
> At 1:06 AM -0400 6/19/99, Dale Miracle wrote:
> >> Kevin King wrote:
> >>
> >> I recently got my RH Linux box working wtith Qmail (with a huge amount
> >> of help from Dave Sill). When I installed Qmail setup the following
> >> files as such:
> >>
> >
> >I found this web site tonight that might help some people. I am also
> >trying to setup qmail my self because sendmail's virtual mail setup is
> >EVIL..I hate m4 and makemap . Any how here is the link
> >http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html
> >
> >I found it while searching through many howto's and web pages trying to
> >make sense of the hundreds of interpretations of the qmail doc's.  I
> >read it all the way through and it sounds pretty good...to bad I found
> >it at 1 am :( I have been staring at this monitor of mine for over 3
> >hours now.  I think I am just going to remove what I have and install
> >qmail fresh tomorrow.
> >I hope this help's, I know it made more sense to me...
> > Later,
> >--
> >
> >Dale Miracle
> > System Administrator
> >  Teoi Net
>
>
>
>

Re: Newbie Question - Please Read!

[Anonymous]

On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 08:04:04AM -0400, Alex Miller wrote:
> well, if you have Redhat Linux like I do here has been my experience.
> 
> I installed QMail using the tarball, running through each step carefully by
> hand, and with help from members on this list, finally got it to work. I
> could send mail out (unlike you) but I couldn't recieve remote email. I was
> sure that I had done something wrong with the remove sendmail steps since my
> system did not have things configured exactly as described in the INSTALL,
> and I wasn't that confident in my guesses.
> 
> So last night I took down the RPM's (a whole bunch of them, and set the
> whole thing up, deleting my qmail install, rpm'ing the src, then rpming the
> required preinstall stuff, and finally rpming qmail).
> 
> When I rebooted it worked and was very different. There was a whole new
> qmail process running when I did ps-aux, there was no /var/qmail/rc file at
> all, there was a whole slew of extra .qmail-*** files in my alias folder,
> and lo and behold it worked, in particular, I could now send myself mail
> from the outside world.
> 
> So my feeling is that Redhat systems are sufficiently different from the
> norm that their own unique install of QMail is required and the only way to
> get that right now, is by using RPM's.

Redhat systems are no different from anything else, and there's nothing to
preclude installing qmail from the tarball. I've installed qmail on several
Redhat boxes, always from the tarball. You follow the qmail installation
instructions, remove (or at least disable the script that starts) sendmail, and
start your qmail stuff from some script that runs at bootup, and you're in
business. This is exactly how it's installed on any system. 

You do, of course, have to know a little about how things start up at boot time
on a Redhat system, but you'd have to know that about any system.

Chris

RE: Newbie Question - Please Read!

[Anonymous]

I don't think that's entirely accurate. That is, if Redhat (mine is Linux
Mandrake - Redhat + KDE) systems are no different than other systems then
the documentation would be written slightly differently.

For example:

The /var/qmail/doc/INSTALL file says:

16. Set up qmail-smtpd in /etc/inetd.conf (all on one line):
smpt stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env
tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd

This is what I did when I installed using the tarball, despite the warning
near the old commented out smtp line claiming that smtp is set in the
sendmail scripts (later steps about that). However I could not recieve mail
and when I ran telnet 127.0.0.1 25 I got a disconnected host.

When I did the RPM install, it works, I can recieve mail, but nowhere in my
/etc/inetd.conf is SMTP configured.

However, in /etc/rc.d/init.d there are several new files which are not
mentioned at all in the tarball INSTALL like qmail-pop3d.init,
qmail-qmpqpd.init, qmail-qmpt.init, qmail-smtpd.init, qmail.init and they
each have pointers in the /etc/rc.d/rc#.d files.

This is just one example of differences (there are quite a few others) that
I noticed from the effect of using the RPM install vs. the tarball RTFM
install. But of course the really important difference for me is that the
RPM install resulted in the successful ability to recieve mail, whereas my
careful tarball installation did not.

Alex Miller


> -Original Message-
> From: Chris Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 1999 8:24 AM
> To: Alex Miller
> Cc: gene Campbell; Qmail
> Subject: Re: Newbie Question - Please Read!
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 08:04:04AM -0400, Alex Miller wrote:
> > well, if you have Redhat Linux like I do here has been my experience.
> >
> > I installed QMail using the tarball, running through each step
> carefully by
> > hand, and with help from members on this list, finally got it to work. I
> > could send mail out (unlike you) but I couldn't recieve remote
> email. I was
> > sure that I had done something wrong with the remove sendmail
> steps since my
> > system did not have things configured exactly as described in
> the INSTALL,
> > and I wasn't that confident in my guesses.
> >
> > So last night I took down the RPM's (a whole bunch of them, and set the
> > whole thing up, deleting my qmail install, rpm'ing the src,
> then rpming the
> > required preinstall stuff, and finally rpming qmail).
> >
> > When I rebooted it worked and was very different. There was a whole new
> > qmail process running when I did ps-aux, there was no
> /var/qmail/rc file at
> > all, there was a whole slew of extra .qmail-*** files in my
> alias folder,
> > and lo and behold it worked, in particular, I could now send myself mail
> > from the outside world.
> >
> > So my feeling is that Redhat systems are sufficiently different from the
> > norm that their own unique install of QMail is required and the
> only way to
> > get that right now, is by using RPM's.
>
> Redhat systems are no different from anything else, and there's nothing to
> preclude installing qmail from the tarball. I've installed qmail
> on several
> Redhat boxes, always from the tarball. You follow the qmail installation
> instructions, remove (or at least disable the script that starts)
> sendmail, and
> start your qmail stuff from some script that runs at bootup, and you're in
> business. This is exactly how it's installed on any system.
>
> You do, of course, have to know a little about how things start
> up at boot time
> on a Redhat system, but you'd have to know that about any system.
>
> Chris
>

Re: Newbie Question - Please Read!

[Anonymous]

Alex Miller wrote:
> 
> When I did the RPM install, it works, I can recieve mail, but nowhere in my
> /etc/inetd.conf is SMTP configured.

Aha. That's because you're using the memphis RPM which controls qmail
from...

> 
> However, in /etc/rc.d/init.d there are several new files which are not
> mentioned at all in the tarball INSTALL like qmail-pop3d.init,
> qmail-qmpqpd.init, qmail-qmpt.init, qmail-smtpd.init, qmail.init and they
> each have pointers in the /etc/rc.d/rc#.d files.

...a set of scripts that use djb's daemontools!

> > > So my feeling is that Redhat systems are sufficiently different from the
> > > norm that their own unique install of QMail is required and the only way to
> > > get that right now, is by using RPM's.
> >
> > Redhat systems are no different from anything else, and there's nothing to
> > preclude installing qmail from the tarball. I've installed qmail
> > on several Redhat boxes, always from the tarball. You follow the qmail installation
> > instructions, remove (or at least disable the script that starts)
> > sendmail, and start your qmail stuff from some script that runs at bootup, and 
>you're in
> > business. This is exactly how it's installed on any system.

This is exactly *one* way to install on any system.  It is the the
*default* installation method.

I think the problem here is one of mis-understanding just what an RPM
distribution is.  There is no "official" RPM distribution of qmail. 
There are a couple of contributed RPMs which result in a qmail
installation that is setup and configured according to the personal
preferences of the RPM author.

Mate Wierdl (who does the memphis RPM) chooses to not start qmail from
inetd and uses daemontools and a very nice set of rc scripts.  I was so
impressed with this approach that I replicated it on our FreeBSd boxes
at work.

So, in summary, there's more than one way to skin a cat; or install a
qmail in this case!

R.
-- 
Two rules to success in life: 
  1. Don't tell people everything you know.
 -- Sassan Tat

Re: Newbie Question - Please Read!

[Anonymous]

>> On Sat, 19 Jun 1999 08:04:04 -0400, 
>> "Alex Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

A> So my feeling is that Redhat systems are sufficiently different from the
A> norm that their own unique install of QMail is required and the only way
A> to get that right now, is by using RPM's.

   I'm running RedHat-5.0 on a Pentium-Pro, and the only problem I had
   with compiling qmail from sources is creating a fake DNS setup.  I don't
   have a modem hooked up at home.  *sob*

-- 
Karl Vogel
ASC/YCOA, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433, USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  or  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Most Likely to Be at the Opening of An Envelope:
  Ellen Degeneres & Anne Heche.--Movieline, November 1998

RE: Newbie Question - Please Read!

[Anonymous]

I used the Memphis distribution which I got from the qmail.org sit a link
called RPM (it's on moni something)

My current status is:
Deliveries work great.
Virtual Domains, and hosting works great.
POP3 authentication (checking mail from the outside world) fails
SAMBA is broken (I think due to the fact that the Memphis distribution
installs it's own TCP handling)

There have been a lot of helpful suggestions since Sunday as to what might
be wrong with POP3. My guess is that I need to change the qmail-pop3d.init
scripts in the rc#.d files to S...blah rather than K...blah so the sequence
is correct (this is one of the suggestions)

Since Sunday night I haven't been able to get to my Linux machine long
enough to try these suggestions. I'll keep the list appraised of what pans
out.

Alex

> -Original Message-
> From: gene Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 5:41 PM
> To: Alex Miller
> Subject: RE: Newbie Question - Please Read!
>
>
> I have tried one RPM.  It didn't work.  Can you point me to the RPM you
> used.  (Yes, I am running RedHat Linux.)  Also, are you able to check mail
> from the outside world?  I want to be able to read and send from a client
> Mac, and a client PC.  If the RPM you used didn't get you this far, than I
> might end up with half a system and totally confused to the point that I
> can't finish the job myself.
>
> thanks for the reply. - gene
>
> >well, if you have Redhat Linux like I do here has been my experience.
> >
> >I installed QMail using the tarball, running through each step
> carefully by
> >hand, and with help from members on this list, finally got it to work. I
> >could send mail out (unlike you) but I couldn't recieve remote
> email. I was
> >sure that I had done something wrong with the remove sendmail
> steps since my
> >system did not have things configured exactly as described in
> the INSTALL,
> >and I wasn't that confident in my guesses.
> >
> >So last night I took down the RPM's (a whole bunch of them, and set the
> >whole thing up, deleting my qmail install, rpm'ing the src, then
> rpming the
> >required preinstall stuff, and finally rpming qmail).
> >
> >When I rebooted it worked and was very different. There was a whole new
> >qmail process running when I did ps-aux, there was no
> /var/qmail/rc file at
> >all, there was a whole slew of extra .qmail-*** files in my alias folder,
> >and lo and behold it worked, in particular, I could now send myself mail
> >from the outside world.
> >
> >So my feeling is that Redhat systems are sufficiently different from the
> >norm that their own unique install of QMail is required and the
> only way to
> >get that right now, is by using RPM's.
> >
> >Alex Miller
> >
> >> -Original Message-
> >> From: gene Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 1999 1:25 AM
> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Subject: Re: Newbie Question - Please Read!
> >>
> >>
> >> I just tried this howto.  It is the best one yet for helping understand
> >> this system.  But, I still can't get smtp to work. That is if
> I send from
> >> another place to my system with qmail, it is bouced back.  I get this
> >>
> >> ___
> >> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.surfup.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)
> >> ---
> >>
> >> I feel like I'm getting somewhere with this.  But, I have no
> idea how I'm
> >> going to get POP mail working.
> >>
> >> - gene
> >>
> >>
> >> At 1:06 AM -0400 6/19/99, Dale Miracle wrote:
> >> >> Kevin King wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> I recently got my RH Linux box working wtith Qmail (with a
> huge amount
> >> >> of help from Dave Sill). When I installed Qmail setup the following
> >> >> files as such:
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >I found this web site tonight that might help some people. I am also
> >> >trying to setup qmail my self because sendmail's virtual mail setup is
> >> >EVIL..I hate m4 and makemap . Any how here is the link
> >> >http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html
> >> >
> >> >I found it while searching through many howto's and web pages
> trying to
> >> >make sense of the hundreds of interpretations of the qmail doc's.  I
> >> >read it all the way through and it sounds pretty good...to bad I found
> >> >it at 1 am :( I have been staring at this monitor of mine for over 3
> >> >hours now.  I think I am just going to remove what I have and install
> >> >qmail fresh tomorrow.
> >> >I hope this help's, I know it made more sense to me...
> >> >  Later,
> >> >--
> >> >
> >> >Dale Miracle
> >> > System Administrator
> >> >  Teoi Net
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

Re: one more newbie-question

[Petr Novotny]

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> I put the line on qmail-pop3d into my inetd.conf, and restarted inetd.
> Still my pop3d doesn't start. Why's that? What can I do to run qmail-pop3d

1. How does the line look like?
2. What does "telnet localhost 110" do?
3. What about your hosts.{allow,deny}?

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 [Tom Waits]

Re: one more newbie-question

[Anand Buddhdev]

On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 10:39:14AM +0200, Maria Zevenhoven wrote:
  
>I put the line on qmail-pop3d into my inetd.conf, and restarted inetd.
>Still my pop3d doesn't start. Why's that? What can I do to run
>qmail-pop3d

It would help if you can show us the line you have put into your
inetd.conf. Maybe there's a typing error or syntax error which you
haven't seen.

-- 
See complete headers for more info

Vs: one more newbie-question

[Maria Zevenhoven]

>1. How does the line look like?

pop3 stream tcp nowait root /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup eof.saitti.net 
/usr/bin/checkpassword 
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir
(I tried to put it al on one line, and I guess it is, even it shows up as 2 lines 
whatever I view it with.

2. What does "telnet localhost 110" do?

Nothing

3. What about your hosts.{allow,deny}?
nothing as deny yet, because atm we're just testing...

-Maria

Re: one more newbie-question

[Petr Novotny]

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> pop3 stream tcp nowait root /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup
> eof.saitti.net /usr/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir
> (I tried to put it al on one line, and I guess it is, even it shows up as
> 2 lines whatever I view it with.

Is your checkpassword in /usr/bin? (Executable for root?) Does 
your entry in /etc/services say "pop3" - since my says "pop-3"?

> 2. What does "telnet localhost 110" do?
> 
> Nothing

What's nothing? (Any info in logs?)


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 [Tom Waits]

Vs: one more newbie-question

[Maria Zevenhoven]

>Is your checkpassword in /usr/bin?
i don't find the whole thing...  maybe I'm just stupid`? =)

> (Executable for root?) Does 
>your entry in /etc/services say "pop3" - since my says "pop-3"?
no - so that's one thing...

> 2. What does "telnet localhost 110" do?

there's just nothing in the port...

Vs: one more newbie-question

[Maria Zevenhoven]

I changed the line to pop-3 (the rest same as earlier) and now I get into telnet 110.

well, I put user maria7
server replies +OK
then pass X
server says the passwd is invalid.
Should I get this, because I'm using mailbox, not maildir, or is something still 
wrong? 

-Maria

Vs: one more newbie-question

[Maria Zevenhoven]

Now I'm confused...


> >Uhm. Is your checkpassword really installed and working? Without 
> >it, you can't go on.
> Installed. can I check if it's working somehow?

- From www.qmail.org:
Mark Delany has a clever way to test your checkpassword with a bit of command line 
re-direction. For example, with username fred, password bloggs, 
printf "fred\0bloggs\0Y123456\0" | /bin/checkpassword `which id` 3<&0
will execute /bin/id if the password is right. 

The printf is a bit trickier to manipulate if the username/password starts with a 
digit. If you haven't a printf then enter the data into a file with your favourite 
binary editor, such as emacs, and then it's simply:
/bin/checkpassword /bin/id 3http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html

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 [Tom Waits]

Vs: one more newbie-question

[Maria Zevenhoven]

Somehow I seem to be gettting problems with everything I tired to put 
/home/maria7/Maildir/ in my .qmail - file. Now my mail doesn't go into Mailbox, but 
also not in Maildir.

Newbie question about Remote Mailbox

[Christophe . Andreoli]

 Hello,

sorry if the question is stupid.


I would like that my qmail server saves for example an email for the user
candreol
in a remote mailbox candreol that is on another computer (in my case a
lotus notes server).

 How  is done the configuration on Qmail ?


 thank you

Newbie question about new users

[Christophe . Andreoli]

 How do I create a new Qmail User ?

I made a new User "michael" with yast, but Qmail , event after rebooting,
doesn't know the user
and complains that no Mailbox with this name is present.
how do you do it ?

  Thanks!

RE: [newbie question] IP logging?

[Steve Kapinos]

If you setup qmail with tcpserver, accustamp, and cyclelog, as per the
HOWTOs, you should be getting logging of qmail-pop3d connections in
/var/log/qmail/qmail-pop3d

-Steve

-Original Message-
From: Stefan Laudat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 7:36 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie question] IP logging?


How can I see the incoming IPs of my pop3 clients?
Thanks!

--
Stefan Laudat
http://www.pepsicola.ro/~stefan
---
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken

List Courtesy (was Newbie question)

[Jamin Collins]

I may be out of line here.  However, this is not the first time I've seen
snappy rude responses from people in response to others asking for help.  I
am simply quoting this message as it is the most recent.  

Sure, some of the postings for help may not contain all the information that
a more experienced person would have.  But to respond to them with a
statement to the effect of "send all necessary information" is crazy.  There
is a certain level of experience necessary to know what may or may not be
needed to diagnose a problem.  As many of the people posting without this
level of information are new to either Linux or qmail (or both) there needs
to be some understanding on everyone's behalf.  And telling someone to RTFM
is normally of little to no help.  I've been told several times to RTFM
without any indication as to which manual.  This is of little to no help to
anyone.

As for qmail, I will be the first to tell you that LWQ and the installation
instructions with qmail itself are for the most part highly inadequate.  I
tried setting qmail up just from the instructions included with the source
twice, with no luck.  Additionally, I tried LWQ twice, with no luck.  It
wasn't until I purchased "Running qmail." that I actually got the thing to
work.  I'm sure that if I went back to either set of instructions (source or
LWQ) that both would be adequate for the installation now that I've done it
before.  However herein lies the problem.  The documentation that currently
exists is really only helpful to someone that has already installed the
software once before.  But, I've digressed.

IMHO, everyone that is offering help via a list such as this should be
courteous to those asking for help.  If you can't be courteous, I ask that
you please refrain from posting.  Snapping at a user asking for help will
accomplish nothing more than making the user angry and hesitant from posting
in the future.  IIRC, these are not the goals of this list or any other
support list.

I realize, as do most of the user's posting, that support here is provided
by individuals donating their time of their own free will.  All I ask is
that common courtesy be extended to those asking for help.

Jamin W. Collins

-Original Message-
From: Henning Brauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 3:11 AM
To: suresh; Qmail-Ldap@Argus. Pipeline. Ch
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Newbie question


Am Mittwoch, 29. November 2000 15:11 schrieb suresh:

Suresh, for first writing such nonsens to the list and asking me for help
off 
list does not fit together. before asking other busy people for help (it is 
no paid support staff here, we all have our work to do!), you should

-have read the docs at least twice
-checked if you fulfilled the requirements for qmail-ldap, both on you 
installation and youself (yes, the wonderfull sentence "you should have 
fairly good knowledge of qmail and ldap..." and so on in bold letters aside 
to the dowload link on the wepages
-if you ask a question, provide all necessary information, in general as
much 
as possible. At least OS, versions (including patch version), _complete_ 
logs, configuration
-checked all logs yourself, including ldap logs, set loglevel to highest 
possible value - helps a lot


> PLEASE DO NOT READ NEWBIE QUESTION IF WANT TO USE THOSE DEROGATORY
> STATEMENTS .YU DONT EVEN HELP EITHER .I AM SURE THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE WHO
> WOULD LIKE TO HELP!
> -Original Message-
> From: Henning Brauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 6:55 AM
> To: suresh; Qmail-Ldap@Argus. Pipeline. Ch
> Subject: Re: Newbie question
>
>
> Am Mittwoch, 29. November 2000 13:24 schrieb suresh:
>
> You are giving us much to less infos to help you. Check if the file
> mentioned
> in the error message exists and is world readable. If not, RTFM before
> asking
> here.
>
> > Hi
> > I have installed qmail-ldap patch,whenever i start the qmail ,i get this
> > info
> > I have made a file in the control folder and i tried by entering the ip
> > address as well as by the dns name
> > i am not able start the debug process even after i set the env variable
>
> ,Is
>
> > there any particular syntax i should be calling qmail-start for this?
> >
> >
> > bash-2.03# Nov 29 11:11:21 qmailjol qmail: [ID 748625 mail.alert]
> > 975467481.7424
> > 69 alert: cannot start qmail-lspawn or it had an error! Check if
> > ~control/ldapse
> > rver exists
> >
> > Suresh
> > Mithi.com Pvt. Ltd.
> > --
> > Send and receive mail in Indian languages
> > Register free at http://www.mailjol.com
>
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>
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newbie question. please recommend solution

[sridhar]

I'm trying to make qmail under my solaris work.
I have solaris 2.8 running on Ultra-2.

Now here is scenario:
I got the q-mail smtpd working (not the way they say in the documentation -- but it 
works).
Now I'm trying to set up virtual users. I want to use vmailmgr because of the web 
interface + I want to set up real virtual users. Basically I want to set up e-mail 
accounts for people without actually creating a UNIX account for each user. YET: they 
should be able to access their virtual mail using a POP server. (Kinda like what 
hotmail, coolmail.net, and other mail providers do).

Anyway: here is my problem:
I compiled and installed vmailmgr. Is there any documentation on how to set it up? 
Does anyone know what configuration files I need to edit?? So anyway, I did like they 
told me to. I created a user to store all virtual mail. This user is called 'hehe'. 
Then I edited /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains and added two lines:

swaru:hehe
localhost:hehe

Here is the thing: I DO NOT have a domain YET. SO in my /etc/hosts file, I added swaru 
as my machine name. SInce I'm not part of any network (it's a system at which is soon 
going to be a web/mail server), I named my machine swaru (swami + guru :-).

Then I did vhost setup under the username hehe. Then I did valiasadd, etc. to finish 
it off. The two aliases i added to user hehe were 'me' and 'myself' and 'myname' 
(actually I added three :-)

Anyway, when I tried to send mail to me@swaru, or myname@swaru, or myself@swaru, it 
DOES NOT work.  BUT: when I send mail to hehe@swaru, I get the mail delivered.

Can someone please help! I would really appreciate it if someone could point me to a 
very simple and step-by-step documentation. I already read the qmail docs and vmailmgr 
docs millions of time. They are  not organized well and annoying

thanks so much,
-sridhar

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newbie question on forwarding email

[Virginia Chism]

My server is a UNIX box with BSDI 4.0, Apache, Qmail, and Frontpage.  My
BSDI and QMail were set up by someone else (no longer with us) and I am
pretty much a newbie in this arena

A Frontpage client wants to publish a form to be received on my server
addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and relayed (forwarded/redirected) to her
personal email address which is not on my server.  The first hurdle was to
add  SMTPHost mymailserver.address.com in the frontpage.cnf AND her
domainname.cnf file .

Now I have been told that I need to add herdomain.org to the QMail list of
allowable 'local' domains.

Reading on, in LWQ 3.5 it seems I may need to set her up in /var/qmail/alias
as well?  If so, I would set her up as 'info'?  And how do I set it up to
redirect to her personal [EMAIL PROTECTED]?

Do I also need to do adduser 'info' in the BSDI side of the server?

Can anyone point me in the right direction?  And, is there anything else I
need to configure so this will work?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Re: newbie question with concurrency remote

[Dave Sill]

"Michael Geier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I am running qmail on:
>   RedHat 6.2
>   256 Mb Ram
>
>I set concurrency remote = 150...
>
>however, most of the time, it seems like only a handful of remote processes
>are running, even though the queue backs up (right now, over 14000 msgs in
>queue and only 20 remote processes running)...

Are you sure concurrencyremote is set to 150? You restarted qmail-send
after changing it? The logs reflect the 150 setting?

>Anybody have an idea about how to force it to run faster

Faster disk
More memory
Faster network
Replace syslog with multilog
Install djbdns, run dnscache
Kill non-qmail processes
Faster CPU

>or at least not kill off my qmail-remote processes?

What makes you think qmail-remote processes are being killed off?

-Dave

Re: newbie question with concurrency remote

[Charles Cazabon]

Michael Geier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> I set concurrency remote = 150...
> 
> however, most of the time, it seems like only a handful of remote processes
> are running, even though the queue backs up (right now, over 14000 msgs in
> queue and only 20 remote processes running)...

Most likely you did not restart qmail after changing concurrencyremote, as
20 is the default maximum for this.  `man qmail-send` for details.

Charles
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RE: newbie question with concurrency remote

[Michael Geier]

thanks for the tips Dave...

to those that had replied:
I had rebooted qmail (frequently)...
I installed djbdns, killed splogger, and rebooted server

things seem to be much better.

-Original Message-
From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 12:30 PM
To: Qmail Mailing List
Subject: Re: newbie question with concurrency remote


"Michael Geier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I am running qmail on:
>   RedHat 6.2
>   256 Mb Ram
>
>I set concurrency remote = 150...
>
>however, most of the time, it seems like only a handful of remote processes
>are running, even though the queue backs up (right now, over 14000 msgs in
>queue and only 20 remote processes running)...

Are you sure concurrencyremote is set to 150? You restarted qmail-send
after changing it? The logs reflect the 150 setting?

>Anybody have an idea about how to force it to run faster

Faster disk
More memory
Faster network
Replace syslog with multilog
Install djbdns, run dnscache
Kill non-qmail processes
Faster CPU

>or at least not kill off my qmail-remote processes?

What makes you think qmail-remote processes are being killed off?

-Dave

Re: and yet another NEWBIE question

[Paul Jarc]

> now, i dont want to have /home/dom1-sales/Mailbox and
> /home/dom2-sales/Mailbox but instead have /mailuser/dom1-sales/Mailbox
> and /mailuser/dom2-sales/Mailbox
> is this possible and if so, how?

You can make entries for these addresses in /var/qmail/users/assign,
and let the homedir field be /mailuser/dom1-sales, etc.  Or if these
addresses have system accounts (which doesn't necessarily sound like
the best way to do it, but it seems that's what you're doing), then
you can let /mailuser/dom1-sales be the actual home directory for the
dom1-sales user.  (How to change an account's home directory depends
on the kind of system you have; check your system documentation, we
won't necessarily be able to help you.)

> also, i inserted the command for pop3 as described in life with
> qmail into the inetd.conf
> when i test is as instructed on the machine itself it works great
> but when i telnet to 110 from another machine, the authentication always
> doesnt accept the password...

What exactly did you do to test it?  What exactly are you doing when
it fails?


paul