RE: Please help newbie with 2 questions
Qmail doesn't use /etc/aliases unless patched to do otherwise. Root mail would be handled by a .qmail file in ~alias Read INSTALL.alias, and look at the man page dot-qmail.0 Basically create a .qmail-root in ~alias, and put [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the .qmail-root to have mail to root forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The second question I will leave to the qmail gods.. -Steve -Original Message- From: Reuben King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 2:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Please help newbie with 2 questions I have read the FAQ and studied individual setup guides but I am still stumped on these two issues: 1) I cannot get anything sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to forward to account "reuben".. I have edited my /etc/aliases file and ran "newaliases" to compile the /etc/aliases.cdb file, but no go. I have verified it is working, because I have another forward "azzy" which forwards to "reuben" fine. Here's the /etc/aliases file: # Mail Aliases bin: root daemon: root decode: root dumper: root games: root ingres: root mailer-daemon: root manager: root nobody: root operator: root postmaster: root system: root toor: root uucp: root root: reuben webmaster: reuben azzy: reuben .. any ideas? I read somewhere that qmail doesn't deliver to the root account, so I'll need to forward it to another account. 2) Any outgoing mail to a server other than what is in the rcpthosts file will get kicked back to me with an error. I cannot possibly list every conceivable host on the Internet! Can I put a wildcard in there? FWIW-- My MX record on the DNS is still only set to pointing to my current email server (gandalf -- an entirely different machine).. I was going to wait until I have tested this new qmail server out fully before making any changes. Could this be the problem? Thanks in advance, -Reuben King
RE: Please help newbie with 2 questions
The second question I will leave to the qmail gods.. Not a Qmail God by any stretch of the imagination but here goes... 2) Any outgoing mail to a server other than what is in the rcpthosts file will get kicked back to me with an error. I cannot possibly list every conceivable host on the Internet! Can I put a wildcard in there? FWIW-- My MX record on the DNS is still only set to pointing to my current email server (gandalf -- an entirely different machine).. I was going to wait until I have tested this new qmail server out fully before making any changes. Could this be the problem? I'm gonna start with an assumption here (dangerous, I know). I assume you can send mail fine from the Qmail host but other hosts in your domain can not send mail through the Qmail server to the net. If the is the case, and you are using tcpserver, then you need to allow your Qmail server to relay mail for hosts in you domain. If your network in 1.2.3, then you can add the follow: '1.2.3.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""' to your /etc/tcp.smtp file. Now run: tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.tmp /etc/tcp.smtp chmod 644 /etc/tcp.smtp* Now your Qmail host will accept SMTP mail from any host in the 1.2.3 network. If you have other networks you need to relay, add them to /etc/tcp.smtp as well. Also see: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html (a very good doc, thanks Dave!!!) Specifically: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#relaying HTH, Peter Abplanalp StorageTek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please help newbie with 2 questions
"Reuben King" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I cannot get anything sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to forward to account "reuben".. I have edited my /etc/aliases file and ran "newaliases" to compile the /etc/aliases.cdb file, but no go. You're using fastforward, I take it? I read somewhere that qmail doesn't deliver to the root account, so I'll need to forward it to another account. qmail doesn't deliver to the superuser, but aliases for root that point to non-superusers or remote addresses are OK. 2) Any outgoing mail to a server other than what is in the rcpthosts file will get kicked back to me with an error. I cannot possibly list every conceivable host on the Internet! Calm down. Nobody expects you to. See: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#relaying FWIW-- My MX record on the DNS is still only set to pointing to my current email server (gandalf -- an entirely different machine).. I was going to wait until I have tested this new qmail server out fully before making any changes. Could this be the problem? No. -Dave
RE: Please help newbie with 2 questions
"Reuben King" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I cannot get anything sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to forward to account "reuben".. I have edited my /etc/aliases file and ran "newaliases" to compile the /etc/aliases.cdb file, but no go. You're using fastforward, I take it? Yes.. I was instructed to modify a file to take advantage of fastforward and followed the instructions. I'd repost the exact instructions I was given, but the #@$@# website it is on is not answering right now. (http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/qmail/index.html) I can verify that the forwarding using /etc/aliases IS working, as I said, because any forwards I put in there other than root are functioning correctly. It's anything that goes to root that disappears into the void. I've looked for any logging to track, but I see nothing in /var/logs that is mail related.. I read somewhere that qmail doesn't deliver to the root account, so I'll need to forward it to another account. qmail doesn't deliver to the superuser, but aliases for root that point to non-superusers or remote addresses are OK. 2) Any outgoing mail to a server other than what is in the rcpthosts file will get kicked back to me with an error. I cannot possibly list every conceivable host on the Internet! Calm down. Nobody expects you to. See: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#relaying FWIW-- My MX record on the DNS is still only set to pointing to my current email server (gandalf -- an entirely different machine).. I was going to wait until I have tested this new qmail server out fully before making any changes. Could this be the problem? No. I deleted the rcpthosts file and now outgoing mail works fine. Thanks for your help, Dave! -RK
RE: Please help newbie with 2 questions
"Reuben King" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's anything that goes to root that disappears into the void. I've looked for any logging to track, but I see nothing in /var/logs that is mail related.. How are you doing logging? splogger? cyclog? If splogger, have you looked at /etc/syslog.conf? I deleted the rcpthosts file and now outgoing mail works fine. This is The Wrong Thing To Do, as I've explained to you in private mail. -Dave
RE: Please help newbie with 2 questions
Figured out my problem-- Silly RPM put a blank ".qmail-root" file in the /var/qmail/alias directory Now I need to figure out how to get the logging working... I looked in my syslog.conf and found no mention of anything QMail related.. -Original Message- From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 2:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Please help newbie with 2 questions "Reuben King" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's anything that goes to root that disappears into the void. I've looked for any logging to track, but I see nothing in /var/logs that is mail related.. How are you doing logging? splogger? cyclog? If splogger, have you looked at /etc/syslog.conf? I deleted the rcpthosts file and now outgoing mail works fine. This is The Wrong Thing To Do, as I've explained to you in private mail. -Dave
RE: Please help newbie with 2 questions
"Reuben King" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's anything that goes to root that disappears into the void. I've looked for any logging to track, but I see nothing in /var/logs that is mail related.. How are you doing logging? splogger? cyclog? If splogger, have you looked at /etc/syslog.conf? Um... I don't know what's logging.. whatever is the default installed logger with RH6.1 .. I looked at /etc/syslog.conf .. saw lots of purty lines... nothing about qmail, though. Sorry for the thickheaded newbie pestering... :) Thanks for all the help, -RK
