Re: [vchkpw] qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy
Tom you hit it right. My problem is tones of doublebounces of spam from forged return and bad addresses. I do not have doublebounceto file under /var/qmail/control/ How do I set it up and what should be in it, to have doublebounces go to that file instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwarding them to postmaster? I will create .qmail-doublebounce and put # in /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-doublebounce to delete all doublebounces Thanks, Sam - Original Message - From: Tom Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 1:59 AM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy On Nov 3, 2005, at 7:38 PM, Sam wrote: @4000436ab0a417e5a724 info msg 116176: bytes 2174 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 20947 uid 501 Looks like doublebounce messages. What do you have in /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto? I've set my server to have doublebounce in that file, and then put # in /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-doublebounce. That way doublebounces are just deleted -- 99.9% of them are crap and not worth looking at (e.g., spam from forged return addresses). -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] QmailAdmin: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ Vpopmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ You don't need a laptop to troubleshoot high-speed Internet: sniffter.com
RE: [vchkpw] qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy
Hi, Run the commands: #Echo doublebounce /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto #echo # /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-doublebounce In this way doublebounces will go to the user doublebounce, who's .qmail file has nothing in it and so the mail will fall into a black hole. I think this is what Tom is getting at. Andrew. -Original Message- From: Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 November 2005 14:50 To: vchkpw@inter7.com Subject: Re: [vchkpw] qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy Tom you hit it right. My problem is tones of doublebounces of spam from forged return and bad addresses. I do not have doublebounceto file under /var/qmail/control/ How do I set it up and what should be in it, to have doublebounces go to that file instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwarding them to postmaster? I will create .qmail-doublebounce and put # in /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-doublebounce to delete all doublebounces Thanks, Sam - Original Message - From: Tom Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 1:59 AM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy On Nov 3, 2005, at 7:38 PM, Sam wrote: @4000436ab0a417e5a724 info msg 116176: bytes 2174 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 20947 uid 501 Looks like doublebounce messages. What do you have in /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto? I've set my server to have doublebounce in that file, and then put # in /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-doublebounce. That way doublebounces are just deleted -- 99.9% of them are crap and not worth looking at (e.g., spam from forged return addresses). -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] QmailAdmin: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ Vpopmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ You don't need a laptop to troubleshoot high-speed Internet: sniffter.com ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. allpay.net Limited, Fortis et Fides, Whitestone Business Park, Whitestone, Hereford, HR1 3SE. Telephone: 0870 243 3434, Fax: 0870 243 6041. Website: www.allpay.net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
Re: [vchkpw] ramdisk with ext2 or tmpfs, vpopmail mysql - heap table : performance - too big disk load
Szeki - Inc wrote: Hi, It is a good idea to use heap tables for vpopmail query-s ? MyISAM tables for UPDATES, and HEAP for selects (they will be created from MyISAM)? I wanna to minimalize the disk subsystem impact. System is always waiting for disks(big load, can even reach 20-25). What is the ideal maximum concurrent conncetion limit with mysql ? I want to put the temp directories (spamassasin, clamd, other scanners) to ramdisk. What to use: 1. ramdisk, fixed size (set with kernel parameter), with ext2, looks like a real disk, with real filesystem 2. tmpfs, with maximized ramsize, eating always as many ram what is needed. cons ? What is the price for this freedom ? (can I use tmpfs on a debian server for the main /tmp ?) I can spend 512 or even 1024 Mb ram for ramdrives, or tmpfs. I need every idea, or solution, how can I reduce the disk usage on the system. I want to keep only what is necessery. I will turn of mail logging via syslog (deamontools is doing a great job logging mails, why waste the needed disk i/o power for syslog), other things ? What if I put qmails queue to ramdisk (or tmpfs ramdisk) ? (memory cards ? are good enough ?) I would try putting /var/qmail/queue on the ramdisk since you have the RAM already. I would also comment out the fsync() calls in the qmail source code. Ken Jones
RE: [vchkpw] ramdisk with ext2 or tmpfs, vpopmail mysql - heap table : performance - too big disk load
What if I put qmails queue to ramdisk (or tmpfs ramdisk) ? (memory cards ? are good enough ?) I would try putting /var/qmail/queue on the ramdisk since you have the RAM already. I would also comment out the fsync() calls in the qmail source code. If you're going to do this, and care about the email not being lost in queue in the event of a crash, you need battery backed nvram. Otherwise you're playing Russian roulette with an automatic. I run ~100K messages a day through my servers with mysql using myisam tables, syslog logging, plus doing virus and antispam on the smtp hosts without any real issues using mirrored scsi disks. One idea I've been looking at to boost reliability and performance is using an iSCSI target on my filers for the /var/qmail data, since then I could connect a new server in the event of a failure, plus I get snapshots and the increased performance and reliability of the filers. However they use battery backed nvram and large raid sets to achieve their reliability. Hope that helps, Nick
Re: [vchkpw] ramdisk with ext2 or tmpfs, vpopmail mysql - heap table : performance - too big disk load
On Nov 4, 2005, at 7:10 AM, Ken Jones wrote: I would try putting /var/qmail/queue on the ramdisk since you have the RAM already. Does the OS back up the ramdisk to a physical disk on shutdown? If not, and you have to reboot your server (or if it goes down for maintenance), you'll lose any queued mail that hasn't been delivered yet, and the original senders won't know about it. I would also comment out the fsync() calls in the qmail source code. If it's on a ramdisk, the fsync() shouldn't have any performance impact, right? If you're running simscan and/or clamav, I'd think that keeping their temp directories on the RAM disk would give you the most performance benefit. If you crash and lose the contents, it's no big deal, and everything that comes through the server ends up going through that process. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] QmailAdmin: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ Vpopmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ You don't need a laptop to troubleshoot high-speed Internet: sniffter.com
Re: [vchkpw] Migrating users
On Friday 28 October 2005 05:03 pm, Juan Enciso wrote: Tom. But the rsync have problem when the directory tree is very big. What alternative could use against of rsync... Another technique for sync files? I've used rsync on ENORMOUS (read: 100+GB) mailstores. works fine. I couldn't possibly imagine migrating a large qmail/vpopmail system with something lesser than rsync. -Jeremy -- Jeremy Kitchen ++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the beginning was The Word and The Word was Content-type: text/plain -- The Word of Bob. file:///C|/DOCUME%7E1/JANET%7E1.JGL/LOCALS%7E1/TEMP/nsmail.tmp Description: PGP signature
Re: [vchkpw] qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy
On Thursday 03 November 2005 07:38 pm, Sam wrote: I noticed that one local user which I created when I installed qmail and before installing vpopmail, was getting lots of messages from qmail under /home/user/Maildir. what do your logs say about this? (Hint: if you had some of those messages you recently deleted around, they would certainly help ;) The directory was /home/user/Maildir/new was full of thousands of messages in this format: 12345678999.16207.qmail ,S=14766 yea, that's how qmail formats the filename, that is not helpful. When I tried to go in the directory to read one of the messages, the computer would hang. That is why I decided to delete the directory. Now my qmail log shows: @4000436ab0a416ec08cc new msg 116203 @4000436ab0a416ee27c4 info msg 116203: bytes 2061 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 20944 uid 507 @4000436ab0a417e5a724 info msg 116176: bytes 2174 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 20947 uid 501 those are double bounces, you can tell because of ther [EMAIL PROTECTED] envelope sender. I do not know what the messages are about and where they are going . /var/spool/mail has nothing in it. Under vpopmail I have [EMAIL PROTECTED] The qmail.domain.com is the local machine It took the system more than one hour to delete the /home/user/Maildir/new directory and /home/user/Maildir/tmp and left /home/user/Maildir/cur. Now the server is working fine, but qmail did not recreate the new and tmp directories again. it's not supposed to. -Jeremy Ok, but why qmail was writing to that directory? Thank you All for your help. Sam because double bounces get delivered to postmaster by default. If your 'defaultdomain' (which defaults to the contents of the 'me' file) is in locals, it delivers to there. My guess is you have, in ~alias/.qmail-postmaster, a line like user, and user has a maildir. Please show us the full, *unedited* output of qmail-showctl and we can assist you further. -Jeremy -- Jeremy Kitchen ++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the beginning was The Word and The Word was Content-type: text/plain -- The Word of Bob. pgp7clxlvKZtD.pgp Description: PGP signature
[vchkpw] keep a copy of all incoming and outgoing mail messages
Hi everyone, Is there a way to keep a copy of all incoming and outgoing mail messages with vpopmail?
Re: [vchkpw] keep a copy of all incoming and outgoing mail messages
Listas barbarojo wrote: Hi everyone, Is there a way to keep a copy of all incoming and outgoing mail messages with vpopmail? See qmailtap on the inter7 home page. www.inter7.com Regards, Rick
[vchkpw] is the dev version with enable spamassassin still available.
I was wondering if there was a version of vpopmail with spamassassin support that can be downloaded. I haven't been able to find it on SF or in any of the 5.4.x versions. I've seen mention of it in the source for vuserinfo.c and some defines in vpopmail.h but that's about it. .darrel.
Re: [vchkpw] is the dev version with enable spamassassin still available.
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Darrel O'Pry wrote: I was wondering if there was a version of vpopmail with spamassassin support that can be downloaded. I haven't been able to find it on SF or in any of the 5.4.x versions. I've seen mention of it in the source for vuserinfo.c and some defines in vpopmail.h but that's about it. As I understand it (also how my setup works), the usual way is to change qmail's deliverer to qmail-scanner.pl, which works with spamassassin and clamav, among others. James Longstreet
Re: [vchkpw] is the dev version with enable spamassassin still available.
James Longstreet wrote: On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Darrel O'Pry wrote: I was wondering if there was a version of vpopmail with spamassassin support that can be downloaded. I haven't been able to find it on SF or in any of the 5.4.x versions. I've seen mention of it in the source for vuserinfo.c and some defines in vpopmail.h but that's about it. As I understand it (also how my setup works), the usual way is to change qmail's deliverer to qmail-scanner.pl, which works with spamassassin and clamav, among others. Hi, I think you want to ask Ken Jones about that as he is the author of the spamassassin scanning built into the vdeliver executable. I thought he had released a patch against 5.4.10 but I don't see it on his page. A better option (IMHO) is simscan rather than qmail-scanner as it is a lot faster and more light weight than qmail-scanner. Regards, Rick
[vchkpw] smtp-auth and vpopmail
Hi I have installed a new box on linux with qmail (i follow life with qmail) + vpopmail + autorespond +ezmlm +qmailadmin + courier-imap All works fine. Now i need use smtp authentication. I found a qmail-smtpd-auth-057 patch by Dr. Erwin Hoffmann. But I cant aplied yet the patch. The reason is that I have looked for one tutorial (and I cant found) that tell me how to set up my smtp run file for use vchkpw for authentication Does somebody knows how to? If the answer is yes, please, tell me how Thanks in advance and regards Mario
Re: [vchkpw] smtp-auth and vpopmail
Mario Beltran wrote: Hi I have installed a new box on linux with qmail (i follow life with qmail) + vpopmail + autorespond +ezmlm +qmailadmin + courier-imap All works fine. Now i need use smtp authentication. I found a qmail-smtpd-auth-057 patch by Dr. Erwin Hoffmann. But I cant aplied yet the patch. The reason is that I have looked for one tutorial (and I cant found) that tell me how to set up my smtp run file for use vchkpw for authentication Does somebody knows how to? If the answer is yes, please, tell me how Thanks in advance and regards Mario Hi, If this is a new install you might want to look at http:://www.shupp.org/toaster and install using that guide instead. It will save you a lot of time and effort. It has all the patches you want and includes smtp-auth. If you are adverse to using a different package, see http://shupp.org/smtp-auth-tls/ Regards, Rick
[vchkpw] vpopmaild and php
Hi, is 'vpopmaild' project still open? I have seen from cvs vpopmaild.c file hasn't been modified since dec 2004, why? And php = vpopmaild? Thanks -- Cris, member of G.U.F.I Italian FreeBSD User Group http://www.gufi.org/
[vchkpw] suggestion on this error
hello guys... I just installed simscan and follow shupp instruction. I get this error in my log looks like that clamd is running twice.. clamd daemon 0.87.1 (OS: linux-gnu, ARCH: i386, CPU: i686)Fri Nov 4 20:09:05 2005 - Log file size limited to 5242880 bytes.Fri Nov 4 20:09:05 2005 - Reading databases from /usr/local/share/clamavFri Nov 4 20:09:05 2005 - ERROR: Socket file /tmp/clamd is in use by another process. I updated to 87.1 as you can see but wonder if the patches on shupp should be applied to the 87.1 version as well... Thanks.. Remo
Re: [vchkpw] qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy
Hi, The command #Echo doublebounce /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto worked. As for the second command #echo # /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-doublebounce Nothing happened. I do not know why, but I installed it using #touch .qmail-doublebounce then I put# and saved. It is working now. Thank you All. Sam - Original Message - From: Andrew Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 10:04 AM Subject: RE: [vchkpw] qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy Hi, Run the commands: #Echo doublebounce /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto #echo # /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-doublebounce In this way doublebounces will go to the user doublebounce, who's .qmail file has nothing in it and so the mail will fall into a black hole. I think this is what Tom is getting at. Andrew. -Original Message- From: Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 November 2005 14:50 To: vchkpw@inter7.com Subject: Re: [vchkpw] qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy Tom you hit it right. My problem is tones of doublebounces of spam from forged return and bad addresses. I do not have doublebounceto file under /var/qmail/control/ How do I set it up and what should be in it, to have doublebounces go to that file instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwarding them to postmaster? I will create .qmail-doublebounce and put # in /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-doublebounce to delete all doublebounces Thanks, Sam - Original Message - From: Tom Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 1:59 AM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy On Nov 3, 2005, at 7:38 PM, Sam wrote: @4000436ab0a417e5a724 info msg 116176: bytes 2174 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 20947 uid 501 Looks like doublebounce messages. What do you have in /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto? I've set my server to have doublebounce in that file, and then put # in /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-doublebounce. That way doublebounces are just deleted -- 99.9% of them are crap and not worth looking at (e.g., spam from forged return addresses). -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] QmailAdmin: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ Vpopmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ You don't need a laptop to troubleshoot high-speed Internet: sniffter.com ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. allpay.net Limited, Fortis et Fides, Whitestone Business Park, Whitestone, Hereford, HR1 3SE. Telephone: 0870 243 3434, Fax: 0870 243 6041. Website: www.allpay.net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
[vchkpw] simscan value
Hello all, I have a question about the simscan since I want to increase the value (5.0) to like 8.0 or higher for a specific domain etc.. here is the log: simscan:[9047]:CLEAN (0.30/5.00):0.8216s:vediamo:68.142.228.50:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] here is the setting in the simscan control.. italy1.com:clam=yes,spam=yes,spam_hits=1.0,attach=.mp3:clam=yes,spam=yes,spam_hits=20.1 which I set it at 1.0 but again it shows still 5.0 Thanks... BTW. I follow bill shupp installation.
Re: [vchkpw] simscan value
Thanks I found it. - Original Message - From: Remo Mattei To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 9:32 PM Subject: [vchkpw] simscan value Hello all, I have a question about the simscan since I want to increase the value (5.0) to like 8.0 or higher for a specific domain etc.. here is the log: simscan:[9047]:CLEAN (0.30/5.00):0.8216s:vediamo:68.142.228.50:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] here is the setting in the simscan control.. italy1.com:clam=yes,spam=yes,spam_hits=1.0,attach=.mp3:clam=yes,spam=yes,spam_hits=20.1 which I set it at 1.0 but again it shows still 5.0 Thanks... BTW. I follow bill shupp installation.
Re: [vchkpw] simscan value
Thanks I found it. - Original Message - From: Remo Mattei To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 9:32 PM Subject: [vchkpw] simscan value Hello all, I have a question about the simscan since I want to increase the value (5.0) to like 8.0 or higher for a specific domain etc.. here is the log: simscan:[9047]:CLEAN (0.30/5.00):0.8216s:vediamo:68.142.228.50:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] here is the setting in the simscan control.. italy1.com:clam=yes,spam=yes,spam_hits=1.0,attach=.mp3:clam=yes,spam=yes,spam_hits=20.1 which I set it at 1.0 but again it shows still 5.0 Thanks... BTW. I follow bill shupp installation.
