Re: [qmailtoaster] Mailing List Files

[Jake Vickers]

On 02/15/2010 02:21 PM, MagicWISP Sales wrote:


I have a minor problem - well major for somebody, LOL.  I have a 
mailing list setup for one of my domains, I thought she was going to 
keep it pretty small, and didn't think it was something she would use 
much.  Well I was wrong.  Her list has grown to about 750 customers.  
I never backed it up, and didn't worry about it (my stupidity I know), 
anyway the server it resided on took a tank this week.  I can mount 
the drive and find the directory it is in, but for some reason I can't 
copy all of the files.  Not sure what the problem is.  Can somebody 
tell me what files I need from it to recreate the entire list.  She 
didn't archive her addresses on a soft copy, all she has is a hard 
copy, so it is going to be a very time consuming task to get it 
running again - and she is my wife's sister, so I kinda am stuck 
fixing it - LOL.


Thanks in advance for any help somebody might have.




The files will be in the mailstore:
/home/vpopmail/domains/your-domain.com/list_address/subscribers
They're in a "binary" format, but you can read them with a text editor 
if you are unable to just copy them to the new machine after recreating 
the mailing list.

Re: [qmailtoaster] Qmail DataBase

[Jake Vickers]

On 02/15/2010 11:56 AM, Malik Madni wrote:

Thanks Jake.
but the video at the given URL is not complete. can you let me know 
where to download that video???




2nd page:
http://video.qmailtoaster.com/video/how-to-backup-qmailtoaster.html
http://video.qmailtoaster.com/video/how-to-restore-qmailtoaster-system.html

RE: [qmailtoaster] Re: Virtual QMT

[MagicWISP Sales]

I found a script on a VMWare community site that is a champ!  It makes a
snapshot and does a backup then removes the snapshot, so you see no downtime
unless you want it to.  Here is the link:

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-10382;jsessionid=5B6DF0EF2EFDE96949DF
F1547838FA9E

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Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Virtual QMT

I use a clone VM, then daily I  shutdown the clone do an export.
If you use Vsphere4, and all the gimmicks, your can do " Live backup " IE
back up a Running VM. but it gets costly.

I just use ESXi, as I sais above, I have a clone VM( using Jakes replication
Videos ) then I shutdown clone, do the export to my NAS, .

you can also just use the built in qmail-backup, scp that to your NAS etc.




> How are you guys backing up your VM's?  I love the idea of using a 
> virtual machine, and was playing with one that got pressed into service
this week.
>  It appears to be running pretty smoothly, now I am going to try to 
> fine tune it.  My biggest concern is trying to back it up.  I am 
> hoping I can just tar the VM and move it to a NAS.  Is this possible - 
> or do I need to shut it down first.  I would love the idea of a 
> nightly backup of the entire VM.  It would sure make restoration a snap.
>
>
>>> Jake Vickers wrote:
 Eric Shubert wrote:
> Phil Leinhauser wrote:
>>
>> Is there anything like a load tester for QMT to mimic the 500 
>> user limit?
>>
>
> I don't know of one. (Doesn't mean there isn't one)
>
> It'd be nice to have a testing harness of some sort for QMT. 
> Anyone up for writing one?
>

 One of the setups I was working on was Xen, but there is one running
 ESX. They have 500 users, all using IMAP, and some users experience
 8-10
 minute lags in accessing their imap stores (or webmail).
 IMAP processes have been increased, and the softlimit has also been
 increased.
 I do agree we could use some testing tools (this should be on the
 devel
 list, and can easily be added to the "tools" section of the subversion
 repo).
 I used to have a script around here somewhere that dumped 10K emails
 to
 load test, but haven't used it in a long time and would have to really
 dig to find it.
 I just wonder if the imap load isn't hitting a limitation in the
 VMware
 storage structure. The system has enough horse power and lots of RAM.
 'sar' shows the cpu is not working very hard. When running a 'du -sh
 *'
 on the /home/vpopmail/domains takes as long as 7 minutes on a couple
 domains, which is what points me towards a VMware filesystem
 suspicion,
 since that "test" is not even using imap but straight file access.
>>>
>>> That's a good guess. I'll think about it a bit.
>>>
>>> Courier or Dovecot? (Not that it matters a whole lot if filesystem
>>> access is slow)
>>>
>>> Which elevator type is running on the guest? (noop appears to be best)
>>> Any idea which elevator ESX is configured to use?
>>> Which ESX version?
>>>
 As a side thought - anyone ever looked at freshmeat on some pop/imap
 testing tools?

>>
>>
>> Courier is running. I may switch them to dovecot since it handles the
>> larger mailboxes better (some boxed are 7+ Gigs in total size). I still
>> think it's a filesystem issue though, as a 'du -sh' command takes so
>> long.
>> I do not have much more information as to the ESX setup however. They
>> did
>> have the mailstore mapped via NFS and switching that to a "local"
>> filesytem decreased the issues by 50% or more. They moved a busy host to
>> another ESX server and that decreased the issues even more, but they
>> still
>> experience 1-3 issues per day, always during peak times.
>>
>> And when I compare that against a 1500+ user system I have on a
>> bare-metal
>> server (mixed pop3 and imap) that does not have any issues (and 1/2 the
>> hardware horsepower), the only other thing I can point a finger at at
>> this
>> point would be VMware.
>>
>> Some testing tools would be great to reproduce this type of thing. Did
>> anyone come up with any ideas yet?
>>
>>
>>

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[qmailtoaster] DKIM / DNS Question

[Scott Hughes]

I am having some issues getting DKIM to work properly and I suspect that my
DNS (bind) may be the cause.  I have two DNS servers and here are the two
records is question (I am also putting in the two DomainKeys lines as well):

NS1 (total of 3 lines):

_domainkey  IN  TXT "o=-"
private._domainkey  IN  TXT "k=rsa;
p=MEwwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEBBQADOwAwOAIxAM+53oTiFynv3SgIagdTrk6YfT4V4FMoLTvWeM6xOAmJCBP+qwHFVegq61nNS9Q9mQIDAQAB"
dkim1._domainkey.renshawauto.net. IN  TXT "v=DKIM1; k=rsa; t=y;
p=MEwwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEBBQADOwAwOAIxAN300mDSGSlgqxf3Dtw12ThU7vLCo7QPzlXpVWcU3Zxhsgeri5iOjC8QZgW7DMHgdQIDAQAB"

NS2 (total of 4 lines):

$ORIGIN renshawauto.net.
_domainkey  TXT "o=-"
$ORIGIN _domainkey.renshawauto.net.
dkim1   TXT "v=DKIM1\; k=rsa\; t=y\;
p=MEwwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEBBQADOwAwOAIxAN300mDSGSlgqxf3Dtw12ThU7vLCo7QPzlXpVWcU3Zxhsgeri5iOjC8QZgW7DMHgdQIDAQAB"
private TXT "k=rsa\;
p=MEwwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEBBQADOwAwOAIxAM+53oTiFynv3SgIagdTrk6YfT4V4FMoLTvWeM6xOAmJCBP+qwHFVegq61nNS9Q9mQIDAQAB"

Also, I noticed that my seconday (NS2) is putting quite a few ORIGIN
statements in it's file that are NOT in the primary server's file.

All of my domains are exactly like this, except that instead of '
renshawauto.net.' - I have put the correct domain name.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[qmailtoaster] Mailing List Files

[MagicWISP Sales]

I have a minor problem - well major for somebody, LOL.  I have a mailing
list setup for one of my domains, I thought she was going to keep it pretty
small, and didn't think it was something she would use much.  Well I was
wrong.  Her list has grown to about 750 customers.  I never backed it up,
and didn't worry about it (my stupidity I know), anyway the server it
resided on took a tank this week.  I can mount the drive and find the
directory it is in, but for some reason I can't copy all of the files.  Not
sure what the problem is.  Can somebody tell me what files I need from it to
recreate the entire list.  She didn't archive her addresses on a soft copy,
all she has is a hard copy, so it is going to be a very time consuming task
to get it running again - and she is my wife's sister, so I kinda am stuck
fixing it - LOL.

 

 

 

Thanks in advance for any help somebody might have.

 

 

 

 

 

Jack Martin

 

MagicWISP

 

RE: [qmailtoaster] Qmail DataBase

[Malik Madni]

Thanks Jake.

but the video at the given URL is not complete. can you let me know where to 
download that video???


 


Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:47:03 -0500
From: j...@qmailtoaster.com
To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com
Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] Qmail DataBase

Malik Madni wrote: 


Thanks Jake.
the script that u have given at Qmailtoaster site will also take backup of 
Users mailbox as well??let suppose my system crashed then i have to install 
qmail server by following the steps you provided on the site??then if i run the 
backup script then will it resotre users mailboxes as well???
 

Yes, it does back up the mailboxes as well. The restore script also restores 
the mailboxes. I did a video on a backup and restore if you care to watch them 
(http://video.qmailtoaster.com)

  
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[qmailtoaster] Re: Video Question

[Jake Vickers]

Scott Hughes wrote:
In your video, "First Configuration Steps of QmailToaster", you made a 
reference to the fact that the viewer would need to create 'root' and 
'anonymous' accounts (I assume this would be for QmailToaster reports 
and such).


I just wanted to ask if there is somewhere that I can look to find 
more information.  I saw this in my logs which made me think of your 
reference in the video:


@40004b75eabd020bac8c.s:@40004b75b7280c5d61e4 spamdyke[22062]: 
TIMEOUT from: anonym...@mail.renshawauto.net 
 to: r...@mail.renshawauto.net 
 origin_ip: 66.255.244.203 
origin_rdns: webserv01.renshawauto.us 
 auth: (unknown) reason: TIMEOUT


I certainly do not wish to annoy you with questions, but I didn't 
think this question was appropriate for the qmail list. Please let me 
know if it is ok for that list, and I won't trouble you directly.


Thanks,

Scott



Actually I will answer this on the list since it is a Qmailtoaster 
related question. You can ask any Qmailtoaster related question on the 
list. We even get off-track sometimes and answer DNS questions on the 
list since it affects your mail server.
The root and anonymous accounts are configured in the /var/qmail/alias 
directory. In there you will find .qmail-mailer-daemon, 
.qmail-postmaster, .qmail-root, and occasionally .qmail-anonymous. In 
those files (note that they are hidden - they have a . before the 
filename!) you will find what user each aliases to. In other words, 
we'll use .qmail-root as an example. In there you will probably find 
&postmas...@yourdomain.com. Whenever a message is generated for "root", 
it will be sent to postmas...@yourdomain.com. Each of those files can be 
configured for a different user, or they can be aliased to a single file 
if you want all of those messages to go to the same place.
I'll mark this as one of the topics I should follow up with a video on. 
I'm sure when I made reference to it in the initial video that I had 
planned on going back and covering this topic, but have not gotten 
around to it yet.

Re: [qmailtoaster] Mails at ISP

[Jake Vickers]

Malik Madni wrote:

Thanks Jake for your kind reply.
i have one confusion. according to my understanding fetchmail will pop 
all mails lying at ISP server. if i want that Fetchmail will pop the 
mails of few selected users and rest of the mails will be on ISP 
server than in this case what i have to do???
 
 


You have to configure fetchmail to fetch each individual account. It 
cannot grab all of them at once - it needs a username/password for each 
account you want it to fetch mail for.

Re: [qmailtoaster] Qmail DataBase

[Jake Vickers]

Malik Madni wrote:

Thanks Jake.
the script that u have given at Qmailtoaster site will also take 
backup of Users mailbox as well??let suppose my system crashed then i 
have to install qmail server by following the steps you provided on 
the site??then if i run the backup script then will it resotre users 
mailboxes as well???
 


Yes, it does back up the mailboxes as well. The restore script also 
restores the mailboxes. I did a video on a backup and restore if you 
care to watch them (http://video.qmailtoaster.com)

RE: [qmailtoaster] Mails at ISP

[Malik Madni]

Thanks Jake for your kind reply.

i have one confusion. according to my understanding fetchmail will pop all 
mails lying at ISP server. if i want that Fetchmail will pop the mails of few 
selected users and rest of the mails will be on ISP server than in this case 
what i have to do???

 

 


Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:06:57 -0500
From: j...@qmailtoaster.com
To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com
Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] Mails at ISP

On 02/14/2010 02:09 AM, Malik Madni wrote: 


let me describe my scnario to you.
suppose my Internet connection is not good.my mails are placed at ISP server.i 
want to install Qmail server at my end but also want to store mails at ISP 
server.my requirement is that after some time my qmail server contact to ISP 
server pop all mails to one account in Qmail server. then local users will get 
email from Qmail server. let suppose my Internet link goes down. then no mail 
will be bounced it will be placed at ISP server now again when my Internet link 
restored then my Qmail server connect to ISP server and get all mail to one 
account and distribute mails to respective local accounts.
how can i accomlish this???
  

This could be accomplished with fetchmail. Look back in the message archives - 
there were a couple discussions about this not too long ago.

  
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