Re: qmail ignores my sorry ass part II...
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:25:43PM -0700, Brett wrote: Ok, thanks. Here's some more info: I'm trying to send the mail with qmail-inject from the command line. I checked and the exit code I'm getting is 65280. I meant 5600 addresses, not messages, and yes, that's more or less how I'm placing the addresses except I'm doing it from a perl script that puts the addresses in a Bcc field and then makes a system() call which is just like calling from the Bcc field? Do you mean these address are on the command line or in the headers of the message? The difference is a lot more than more or less. In fact the difference is critical. If the latter then you have a different problem from what I suggested. If the former, then change to the latter as that's the best way as you cannot normally increase the command line limits without kernel rebuilds. Regards. command line. I think you may be onto something here with your theory of my being over the limit of command line arguments. The question is how do I increase that limit? And now I'm suddenly off-topic for this list, I know. Nevertheless, I'm sure I won't be the last qmail user to run into this problem and therefore it'll be useful to have this knowledge in the archives. Thanks again. -Original Message- From: Mark Delany [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 6:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: qmail ignores my sorry ass... You need to tell us a little more. Well, actually a lot more. How are you trying to send them? qmail-inject, smtp, qmail-queue? If you are running a command such as qmail-inject, what sort of exit code are you getting? Any error message? Do you mean 5600 emails or an email to 5600 addresses? If the latter, are you placing all the recipients on a command line, something like: /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject recipient1@dom1 recipient2@dom2 ... ? If so, have you perhaps exceeded the maximum length of the command line for your system? Are you perhaps exceeding the maximum number of command line arguments for your system? To check the exit status from the shell, go echo $? immediately after the command. The number is zero if all is well and other numbers indicate different types of errors. Regards. On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 04:37:41PM -0700, Brett wrote: ... when I try to send more than 5600 emails in one go. I mean, it completely ignores me. There's no mention of anything occuring in the logs whatsoever. Since I'm giving you so little to go on here, I'm mostly hoping for a general direction to start looking for a problem rather than a complete solution. Or hopefully this has happened to somebody before and they can tell me what they did to fix it. I've successfully recompiled the kernel and applied the big concurrency patch but not the big-todo one yet. I posted this before but didn't get much of a response except to check qmail-inject's exit status. Assuming I know how to do this, what will this prove? Thanks for any and all help. Brett. A big F you to all the unhelpful flamers in advance.
RE: qmail ignores my sorry ass part II...
Here's how I'm calling qmail-inject:
$mail_prog = '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject';
$mail = To: $to_name $to_email\r\n;
$mail .= From: $from_name $from_email\r\n;
if ($bcc) {
$mail .= Bcc: $bcc \r\n;
}
$mail .= Subject: $subject\r\n\r\n;
$mail .= $body\r\n;
system (echo '$mail' | $mail_prog);
The Bccs are in the header but they're still being inserted into the command
line which is what I meant by more or less. I actually don't really see
another way of getting all the bccs to qmail-inject.
-Original Message-
From: Mark Delany [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 12:36 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: qmail ignores my sorry ass part II...
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:25:43PM -0700, Brett wrote:
Ok, thanks. Here's some more info:
I'm trying to send the mail with qmail-inject from the command line. I
checked and the exit code I'm getting is 65280. I meant 5600 addresses,
not messages, and yes, that's more or less how I'm placing the addresses
except I'm doing it from a perl script that puts the addresses in a Bcc
field and then makes a system() call which is just like calling from the
Bcc field?
Do you mean these address are on the command line or in the headers of
the message? The difference is a lot more than more or less. In fact
the difference is critical. If the latter then you have a different
problem from what I suggested. If the former, then change to the
latter as that's the best way as you cannot normally increase the
command line limits without kernel rebuilds.
Regards.
command line. I think you may be onto something here with your theory of
my
being over the limit of command line arguments. The question is how do I
increase that limit? And now I'm suddenly off-topic for this list, I know.
Nevertheless, I'm sure I won't be the last qmail user to run into this
problem and therefore it'll be useful to have this knowledge in the
archives. Thanks again.
-Original Message-
From: Mark Delany [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 6:17 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: qmail ignores my sorry ass...
You need to tell us a little more. Well, actually a lot more.
How are you trying to send them? qmail-inject, smtp, qmail-queue?
If you are running a command such as qmail-inject, what sort of exit
code are you getting? Any error message?
Do you mean 5600 emails or an email to 5600 addresses? If the latter,
are you placing all the recipients on a command line, something like:
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject recipient1@dom1 recipient2@dom2 ...
?
If so, have you perhaps exceeded the maximum length of the command
line for your system? Are you perhaps exceeding the maximum number of
command line arguments for your system?
To check the exit status from the shell, go echo $? immediately
after the command. The number is zero if all is well and other numbers
indicate different types of errors.
Regards.
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 04:37:41PM -0700, Brett wrote:
... when I try to send more than 5600 emails in one go. I mean, it
completely ignores me. There's no mention of anything occuring in the
logs
whatsoever. Since I'm giving you so little to go on here, I'm mostly
hoping
for a general direction to start looking for a problem rather than a
complete solution. Or hopefully this has happened to somebody before and
they can tell me what they did to fix it. I've successfully recompiled
the
kernel and applied the big concurrency patch but not the big-todo one
yet.
I
posted this before but didn't get much of a response except to check
qmail-inject's exit status. Assuming I know how to do this, what will
this
prove? Thanks for any and all help.
Brett.
A big F you to all the unhelpful flamers in advance.
RE: qmail ignores my sorry ass part II...
would almost seem easier to make an alias out of the list, then just send one email... or maybe cycle the emails through a programming loop, putting 100 users on an email, send it, continue loop... -Original Message- From: Mark Delany [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 2:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: qmail ignores my sorry ass part II... On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:25:43PM -0700, Brett wrote: Ok, thanks. Here's some more info: I'm trying to send the mail with qmail-inject from the command line. I checked and the exit code I'm getting is 65280. I meant 5600 addresses, not messages, and yes, that's more or less how I'm placing the addresses except I'm doing it from a perl script that puts the addresses in a Bcc field and then makes a system() call which is just like calling from the Bcc field? Do you mean these address are on the command line or in the headers of the message? The difference is a lot more than more or less. In fact the difference is critical. If the latter then you have a different problem from what I suggested. If the former, then change to the latter as that's the best way as you cannot normally increase the command line limits without kernel rebuilds. Regards. command line. I think you may be onto something here with your theory of my being over the limit of command line arguments. The question is how do I increase that limit? And now I'm suddenly off-topic for this list, I know. Nevertheless, I'm sure I won't be the last qmail user to run into this problem and therefore it'll be useful to have this knowledge in the archives. Thanks again. -Original Message- From: Mark Delany [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 6:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: qmail ignores my sorry ass... You need to tell us a little more. Well, actually a lot more. How are you trying to send them? qmail-inject, smtp, qmail-queue? If you are running a command such as qmail-inject, what sort of exit code are you getting? Any error message? Do you mean 5600 emails or an email to 5600 addresses? If the latter, are you placing all the recipients on a command line, something like: /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject recipient1@dom1 recipient2@dom2 ... ? If so, have you perhaps exceeded the maximum length of the command line for your system? Are you perhaps exceeding the maximum number of command line arguments for your system? To check the exit status from the shell, go echo $? immediately after the command. The number is zero if all is well and other numbers indicate different types of errors. Regards. On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 04:37:41PM -0700, Brett wrote: ... when I try to send more than 5600 emails in one go. I mean, it completely ignores me. There's no mention of anything occuring in the logs whatsoever. Since I'm giving you so little to go on here, I'm mostly hoping for a general direction to start looking for a problem rather than a complete solution. Or hopefully this has happened to somebody before and they can tell me what they did to fix it. I've successfully recompiled the kernel and applied the big concurrency patch but not the big-todo one yet. I posted this before but didn't get much of a response except to check qmail-inject's exit status. Assuming I know how to do this, what will this prove? Thanks for any and all help. Brett. A big F you to all the unhelpful flamers in advance.
Re: qmail ignores my sorry ass part II...
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:57:11PM -0700, Brett wrote:
Here's how I'm calling qmail-inject:
$mail_prog = '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject';
$mail = To: $to_name $to_email\r\n;
$mail .= From: $from_name $from_email\r\n;
if ($bcc) {
$mail .= Bcc: $bcc \r\n;
}
$mail .= Subject: $subject\r\n\r\n;
$mail .= $body\r\n;
system (echo '$mail' | $mail_prog);
The Bccs are in the header but they're still being inserted into the command
line which is what I meant by more or less. I actually don't really see
another way of getting all the bccs to qmail-inject.
Ahh. You've got them on echo's command line. I've never quite seen it
done that way before...
There are *much* better ways that avoid such limits. Try this:
OPEN(MP, | $mail_prog) or die ...
print MP To: $to_name $to_email\r\n;
print MP From: $from_name $from_email\r\n;
if ($bcc) {
print MP Bcc: $bcc \r\n;
}
print MP Subject: $subject\r\n\r\n;
print MP $body\r\n;
close(MP) or die ...;
No command line limit, no echo, no lumpy $mail variable. I'd also be
inclined to print a separate Bcc: header for each recipient, but
that's just my must always scale mentality.
Hmm. It must be unix/perl day on the qmail list.
Regards.
Re: qmail ignores my sorry ass part II...
Brett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's how I'm calling qmail-inject: [...] system (echo '$mail' | $mail_prog); The Bccs are in the header but they're still being inserted into the command line which is what I meant by more or less. I actually don't really see another way of getting all the bccs to qmail-inject. That's why it's failing, it would seem. I'm no Perl coder, but there's a way to open the qmail-inject process, with your Perl process having one end of a pipe, the other end of which is connected to stdin of qmail-inject. You're trying to push a huge amount of data through the shell, which is totally unnecessary. You don't use any of the features of the shell here, so why bother with it? There's some examples of other people doing this in Perl in the mailing list archives. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. ---
RE: qmail ignores my sorry ass part II...
Rock. This works like a charm. Thanks a lot.
-Original Message-
From: Mark Delany [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 2:17 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: qmail ignores my sorry ass part II...
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:57:11PM -0700, Brett wrote:
Here's how I'm calling qmail-inject:
$mail_prog = '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject';
$mail = To: $to_name $to_email\r\n;
$mail .= From: $from_name $from_email\r\n;
if ($bcc) {
$mail .= Bcc: $bcc \r\n;
}
$mail .= Subject: $subject\r\n\r\n;
$mail .= $body\r\n;
system (echo '$mail' | $mail_prog);
The Bccs are in the header but they're still being inserted into the
command
line which is what I meant by more or less. I actually don't really see
another way of getting all the bccs to qmail-inject.
Ahh. You've got them on echo's command line. I've never quite seen it
done that way before...
There are *much* better ways that avoid such limits. Try this:
OPEN(MP, | $mail_prog) or die ...
print MP To: $to_name $to_email\r\n;
print MP From: $from_name $from_email\r\n;
if ($bcc) {
print MP Bcc: $bcc \r\n;
}
print MP Subject: $subject\r\n\r\n;
print MP $body\r\n;
close(MP) or die ...;
No command line limit, no echo, no lumpy $mail variable. I'd also be
inclined to print a separate Bcc: header for each recipient, but
that's just my must always scale mentality.
Hmm. It must be unix/perl day on the qmail list.
Regards.
