[xmail] Re: problems getting sendmail to start
On Wednesday 01 October 2008 07:03:41 stuart smith wrote: I've just installed xmail 1.25 on a Fedora 9 64 bit system. This is to replace my 12 year old system running Fedora 6 and xmail 1.23. I've configured it using the Xmail Handbook by Jeffrey Laramie. After a reboot, the system initialisation doesn't get past sendmail. Luckily sshd is running by that time so I can log into the system. What I find is that the startup script /etc/rc5.d/S80sendmail is still running. As it doesn't complete, none of the subsequent startup runs. Any thoughts? FYI I haven't updated that handbook in years so it is a bit out of date. I assume you replaced the sendmail daemon as described here? http://ubaight.com/index.php?section=6#SendmailScript I haven't set up an XMail system in awhile, but XMail starts it's version of sendmail automatically and IIRC you should disable the sendmail startup script. Also, be careful when you update your server. In the past updating some mail related packages has re-installed sendmail replacing the XMail sendmail daemon and resetting the sendmail/postfix init scripts to start up. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: problems getting sendmail to start
On Wednesday 01 October 2008 09:17:33 stuart smith wrote: Thanks for the prompt reply Jeffrey. I had done the replacement of sendmail with the xmail versions. I followed your handbook to build my original server and figured as it worked, I'd do the same with this one. Am I right in saying that I should just disable the sendmail startup completely and just rely on xmail? If so this sounds like a lovely clean solution. That's correct. By default XMail starts it's own sendmail process. These days many distros also enable postfix by default, so make sure that postfix is also disabled. If either of the distro's sendmail or postfix daemons start before XMail they will bind to port 25 and prevent the XMail sendmail process from starting. If you run XMail in debug mode you should see the XMail sendmail porcess start. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: config files discussion
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 12:32, Davide Libenzi wrote: On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Dave Henderson wrote: Davide, Thanks for your reply. I can see your points. It was just a question I had as it seems alot of the daemons I use, use the apache style or a single config file method. The daemons also don't lock the files when reading them, they just read them upon startup (of course) and re-read them automatically within a certain period of time (to check for any changes made to them). I suppose both styles have their strengths and weaknesses. In either case, thanks for the reply. I'm not an heavy Apache user (actually, I use thttpd ;) but IIRC Apache is going in the exact opposite direction (splitting configs). In recent openSUSE releases httpd.conf is nothing more than comments and Include statements. All the actual configuration is divided up amongst the Included config files and directories. Most of the user configuration is in vhost containers that each have a vhostname.conf file in the vhosts.d directory. It takes a little getting used to but the design is actually very nice once you see how it works. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Fork error
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 02:27, Andréas Bratell wrote:
I've made an attempt to move my xmail to a VPS-server (virtual private
server) situated in a large hosting company in Sweden. The whole idea
sounded really great since they could provide me with a more stable
internet connection than I presently have. The downside is of cource I have
limited knowledge of the box I'm running. Other than it's a CentOS
distribution, I know nothing. :P
My probkem is I'm getting an error message every time a filter is supposed
to run. This is an error I've never seen before:
May 16 09:43:53 216892 XMail[25850]: Filter error (-97): Sender =
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Recipient = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Filter =
/var/MailRoot/bin/sa_filter.pl
May 16 17:36:07 216892 XMail[28404]: SMTP filter error (-97): Filter =
/var/MailRoot/filters/glst/glst
May 17 04:03:12 216892 XMail[22001]: Filter error (-97): Sender =
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Recipient = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Filter =
/var/MailRoot/filters/checkvirus.pl
According to documentation this means Error in function {fork}. This is
where I'm stuck. The error seems to prevent the filters to even begin to
run. So, this is where I'm stuck.
Any ideas, anyone?
Check the paths defined in the scripts or in the config files. The absolute
path to $MailRoot has probably changed but wasn't updated for these scripts.
Jeff
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[xmail] Re: SV: Re: Fork error
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 15:55, Andréas Bratell wrote:
I've made an attempt to move my xmail to a VPS-server (virtual private
server) situated in a large hosting company in Sweden. The whole idea
sounded really great since they could provide me with a more stable
internet connection than I presently have. The downside is of cource I
have limited knowledge of the box I'm running. Other than it's a
CentOS distribution, I know nothing. :P
My probkem is I'm getting an error message every time a filter is
supposed to run. This is an error I've never seen before:
May 16 09:43:53 216892 XMail[25850]: Filter error (-97): Sender =
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Recipient = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Filter =
/var/MailRoot/bin/sa_filter.pl
May 16 17:36:07 216892 XMail[28404]: SMTP filter error (-97): Filter =
/var/MailRoot/filters/glst/glst
May 17 04:03:12 216892 XMail[22001]: Filter error (-97): Sender =
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Recipient = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Filter
= /var/MailRoot/filters/checkvirus.pl
According to documentation this means Error in function {fork}. This
is where I'm stuck. The error seems to prevent the filters to even
begin to run. So, this is where I'm stuck.
Any ideas, anyone?
Check the paths defined in the scripts or in the config files. The
absolute
path to
$MailRoot has probably changed but wasn't updated for these scripts.
Jeff
Hi Jeff!
No, the paths are the same. I've used the patented copypaste-method to
verify that several times.
Are the scripts are executable? Problems with permissions throw that error.
Jeff
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[xmail] Re: XMail on FC4
On Sunday 12 March 2006 08:02, Dale Qualls wrote: Any horror stories about running xmail on FC4? I've given up on running it on Open Suse 10, it just doesn't like the hardware I guess (it's a strong running Dell but OpenSuse just drags on it. Stopping xmail takes forever, and eventually the processes are stopped but the /etc/init.d/xmail stop command never finishes, this along with other issues including my filter error -97 woes I've had XMail running on openSUSE 10 for a couple months now and haven't had any of those issues, but I have a very low volume server. Maybe XMail prefers AMD chips... ;-) Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: XMail on FC4
On Sunday 12 March 2006 11:20, Dale Qualls wrote: Hmmm. On this box it starts up fine but doesn't stop easily. It is an Intel chip. I know... a little tongue is cheek there. Dell is the last of the major PC manufacturers to refuse to use AMD chips. It appears that is about to end since their customers are demanding Opteron servers and Dell is said to be working on an AMD based line. I'm personally not a big fan of Intel, nevertheless if it were a chip issue I'm sure lot's of people would be having the same problems. Also, for some reason it's very sluggish. Running in debug mode showed approximately 8-10 seconds to connect via POP3 and SMTP from the client (and both were on a 100mb switch with nobody else on). In my experience slow connections have always been DNS or firewall related; waiting for the primary nameserver to timeout before trying the secondary, or a connection waiting for a response which is being blocked by a firewall. Another possibility is one of your filters is hanging which might explain all of your symptoms. If I recall correctly checkvirus.cfg has path settings that need to be changed when switching to SUSE. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Using XMail with php
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 00:03, Shiloh Jennings wrote: We have clients that use the mail() command, but I would not recommend it. You should use the PHPMailer class instead of the native mail() command. Many of the popular PHP applications already do this. http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/ Thanks. That worked great. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Using XMail with php
Hello Folks- I'm running XMail and Apache2 on a SuSE 9.2 box. Both servers have been up and running normally for months. I'm creating a web page that uses the php mail() function to send the data from a form. The php scripts work as expected except for the mail() function which fails. My question: If I run XMail in debug mode will I see an entry for any attempt to access the sendmail module, or will I only see an error if the connection is successful but the data is formatted wrong? I would expect that any attempt to connect would be displayed, but for some reason I'm not seeing anything at all. I've even tried connecting directly using: $fd = popen(/usr/sbin/sendmail,w); fputs($fd, .. Nothing. Yet I can log on and send mail from the command line using mail without problems. Any tips on getting the php mail() function to work with XMail? I'm running low on ideas here. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: [SPAM] Re: crazy spams
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 18:07, Eric Garnice wrote: Spam detection software, running on the system WebServer3.DMZ, has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see [EMAIL PROTECTED] for details. Content preview: Here's a fine attempt: X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on kermit.ms.comstock.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=175.5 Very impressive! Just the headers alone were enough to trigger my filter. required=6.5 tests=BAYES_99,DCC_CHECK, DIGEST_MULTIPLE,DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE,ENTITY_DEC_ALPHANUM,HTML_90_100, HTML_MESSAGE,J_WEEDS_A,J_WEEDS_B,J_WEEDS_C,J_WEEDS_D,J_WEEDS_E, J_WEEDS_F,J_WEEDS_G,J_WEEDS_H,J_WEEDS_L,J_WEEDS_M,J_WEEDS_N,J_WEEDS_O, J_WEEDS_P,J_WEEDS_R,J_WEEDS_S,J_WEEDS_T,J_WEEDS_U,J_WEEDS_V,J_WEEDS_W, J_WEEDS_Y,MIME_BOUND_DD_DIGITS,MIME_HTML_ONLY,MIME_HTML_ONLY_MULTI, MISSING_MIMEOLE,MSGID_SPAM_CAPS,PYZOR_CHECK,RATWARE_EGROUPS, RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E4_51_100,RAZOR2_CHECK, RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,SARE_FORGED_EBAY, If you check the scores this one got 104 points - ^ I've never seen that one but you're also using some modules I don't have installed. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Question about Kernel 2.6
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 09:02, Chad Fleenor wrote: I am currently running xmail on Redhat 9 with kernel 2.4.20-8. On RedHat I had to insert the line export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4 into the xmail startup file. I am currently working on moving my mail server to a stronger box, running Suse 9 with kernel 2.6.5-7.97. Would I have to take this line out or is there any known issues with XMail running on this Kernel? I've run XMail on several different versions of SuSE without problems. I currently have a server running on 9.1 and am testing openSUSE 10.0-OSS, both unmodified and without any issues. I'm also running a mail server on Mandriva 2006.0 and while XMail runs fine, I've had trouble installing some of the SpamAssassin modules. I'd have to look it up, but off the top of my head I think it was the Net::Ident module that I couldn't install on Mandriva. My old mail server has been rock solid, currently with 385 days uptime. Very Nice! Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Return Code
On Saturday 21 January 2006 17:30, Jeffrey Laramie wrote: On Saturday 21 January 2006 16:33, Davide Libenzi wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Jeffrey Laramie wrote: Hello All, My servers mail reports to me daily using the XMail sendmail replacement program. My Mandriva based server makes the following entry in /var/log/messages every time a file is mailed: Jan 20 00:14:05 WebServer3 CROND[21612]: (root) MAIL (mailed 2642 bytes of output but got status 0x ) The mail is delivered fine and there are no further messages. Is something not right here or is it safe to ignore this output? That's -1 and XMail's sendmail never returns that. Yeah, I assumed that the return code was from nail or whatever process cron uses to send mail. Crontab is set to mail to root. I'll try putting in real address and see if cron likes that better. In any case the files get mailed so I'm not too worried about it. I'm seeing this on other Mandriva boxes that aren't running XMail. It doesn't appear significant. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Return Code
Hello All, My servers mail reports to me daily using the XMail sendmail replacement program. My Mandriva based server makes the following entry in /var/log/messages every time a file is mailed: Jan 20 00:14:05 WebServer3 CROND[21612]: (root) MAIL (mailed 2642 bytes of output but got status 0x ) The mail is delivered fine and there are no further messages. Is something not right here or is it safe to ignore this output? Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Return Code
On Saturday 21 January 2006 16:33, Davide Libenzi wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Jeffrey Laramie wrote: Hello All, My servers mail reports to me daily using the XMail sendmail replacement program. My Mandriva based server makes the following entry in /var/log/messages every time a file is mailed: Jan 20 00:14:05 WebServer3 CROND[21612]: (root) MAIL (mailed 2642 bytes of output but got status 0x ) The mail is delivered fine and there are no further messages. Is something not right here or is it safe to ignore this output? That's -1 and XMail's sendmail never returns that. Yeah, I assumed that the return code was from nail or whatever process cron uses to send mail. Crontab is set to mail to root. I'll try putting in real address and see if cron likes that better. In any case the files get mailed so I'm not too worried about it. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Mailman Xmail Mysql
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 07:14, Valdir Barbosa wrote: I am trying to make to function mailman with Xmail and mysql, but when sending email pra list does not go. What necessary to make? I am also using the SmartPost. I just installed a XMail with Mailman on a new server and it is quite tricky. 1. Is XMail installed and running by itself? Were you able to compile and install Mailman and create a list sucessfully? 2. Several important (to us) Mailman options are compiled in according to your ./configure command so make sure you have that right. If you're not sure run make distclean and re-build Mailman with the needed settings. 3. Check the paths in the Python scripts and the tab file to make sure they are correct for your system. I don't use mysql with XMail so I can't help you there. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: SMTP-Relaying only from Authorized Destinations?
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 09:54, Achim Schmidt wrote: Hello List, because of the amount of Virus-Emails we are facing a major problem now. First let me explain our current MX-Constellation: - Mail for exmaple.com has MX-Entries to mx.waaf.net - mx.waaf.net are several machines running postfix/virusscanner - if the email passes all tests it is delivered to the final destination machine running xmail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] also sent email through this xmail-box. Now there are more and more viruses that don't care about MX-Records and drectly try to deliver mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] to mail.exmaple.com. Mail.example.com resolves to the xmail-box. My solution to get rid of this non-filtered Virus-Emails is to only allow SMTP-connections to the xmail-box from our subnets, where the mx.waaf.net machines are located _AND_ from authorized IP-adresses (SMTP-AUTH, POP-before-SMTP). I just tried to use smtp.ipmap.tab - but with the result that only the mentioned subnets where allowed to relay and authoriezed IP-adresses where denied. I don't have an XMail solution to your problem, but if it were up to me I would prefer to handle this with DNS or firewall changes anyway. Idea 1 - Delete the mail CNAME (or change the host name and A record) for the example.com server. Assign a less obvious name like smtp42 and have the authorized clients use the smtp42 alias. Idea 2 - Adjust the firewall rules on mail.example.com to only allow port 25 connection from the authorized IPs and reject everything else. Idea 3 - If your server supports it, use DNAT on mail.example.com to forward port 25 traffic to mx.waaf.net. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: still on clamav and xmail...
On Monday 24 October 2005 03:10, jonn ah wrote: I dont see the filter getting fired... Make sure you use tabs only and have no spaces in your filters.post-data.tab file and check that each line ends with a line return, even the last line. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: still on clamav and xmail...
On Friday 21 October 2005 06:01, jonn ah wrote: hi all, Can anybody tell me which av filters (clamav) works on xmail? I followed chris franklin's directions on his av filter with xmail but it doesnt detect eicar's test virus when i send it thru xmail... This page has a list of XMail filters at the bottom. Check out the links to see which AV programs they support: http://www.ubaight.com/xmail/index.html If you're using Lindeman's Antivirus Filter there are instructions for Linux here: http://www.ubaight.com/xmail/xmailhandbook.html#Lindeman Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: messages to yahoo and or hotmail does not get delivered
On Friday 02 September 2005 11:32, Rob Arends wrote: Davide Wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] davide]$ dig greenbaycc.org. ns +trace greenbaycc.org. 86400 IN NS taadns02.taiasp.net. greenbaycc.org. 86400 IN NS taadns01.taiasp.net. ;; Received 88 bytes from 204.74.112.1#53(TLD1.ULTRADNS.NET) in 58 ms greenbaycc.org. 3600IN NS taadns01. ;; Received 54 bytes from 67.39.138.9#53(taadns02.taiasp.net) in 66 ms What's taadns01. ?? - Davide So why then do I get: C:\dig @61.88.88.88 greenbaycc.org. mx +trace ; DiG 9.2.3 @61.88.88.88 greenbaycc.org. mx +trace ;; global options: printcmd .. 493369 IN NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .. 493369 IN NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .. 493369 IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .. 493369 IN NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .. 493369 IN NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .. 493369 IN NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .. 493369 IN NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .. 493369 IN NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .. 493369 IN NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .. 493369 IN NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .. 493369 IN NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .. 493369 IN NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .. 493369 IN NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;; Received 356 bytes from 61.88.88.88#53(61.88.88.88) in 60 ms org.172800 IN NS TLD1.ULTRADNS.NET. org.172800 IN NS TLD2.ULTRADNS.NET. org.172800 IN NS TLD3.ULTRADNS.org. org.172800 IN NS TLD4.ULTRADNS.org. org.172800 IN NS TLD5.ULTRADNS.INFO. org.172800 IN NS TLD6.ULTRADNS.CO.UK. ;; Received 290 bytes from 198.32.64.12#53(L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 230 ms greenbaycc.org. 86400 IN NS taadns02.taiasp.net. greenbaycc.org. 86400 IN NS taadns01.taiasp.net. ;; Received 88 bytes from 204.74.112.1#53(TLD1.ULTRADNS.NET) in 250 ms greenbaycc.org. 3600IN MX 10 mail.greenbaycc.org. ;; Received 69 bytes from 67.39.138.9#53(taadns02.taiasp.net) in 270 ms Interesting. I get the same response as Davide. It seems there has been a change which hasn't completely propagated through the DNS tree. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Official 'Powered by XMail Banner' ...
http://www.fonsy.com/XMail.jpg http://www.fonsy.com/XMail_IAN88x31.jpg - This is my favorite so far. I'm going to play around with some designs tonight. If I come up with anything worthwhile I'll send it in. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Mailman ...
On Thursday 09 June 2005 13:55, Davide Libenzi wrote: Anyone using Mailman with XMail? Ecartis is totally screwed WRT encodings... I've got a couple of linux servers running it. Unfortunately the instructions and scripts on my site are out of date and I haven't had time to update them :-p If you want I can send you what I'm using, but it's only been tested on my servers. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Mailman ...
On Thursday 09 June 2005 14:46, Davide Libenzi wrote: On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Jeffrey Laramie wrote: On Thursday 09 June 2005 13:55, Davide Libenzi wrote: Anyone using Mailman with XMail? Ecartis is totally screwed WRT encodings... I've got a couple of linux servers running it. Unfortunately the instructions and scripts on my site are out of date and I haven't had time to update them :-p If you want I can send you what I'm using, but it's only been tested on my servers. I think I can figure out how to set it up. I was more interested about its inter-operation with XMail, especially WRT MIME encodings ... Well, obviously there's nothing I'm going to tell you about the technical side... From an admin standpoint, I've never had any problems or complaints concerning MIME, but my lists are very low volume non-technical users so I don't really see much besides text anyway. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: mailman python script
2. The script doesn't append entries to the log file, but instead writes over the first line each time. You'll have to add an a to the open-mode of the log file (or add a seek to the end). I fixed this, a problem with the log timestamp, and added logging for a successful script execution so that this log is consistant with the other mailman logs. The improved script is here: http://www.ubaight.com/xmail/mailman Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: mailman python script
1. If the sender uses capitalization in the list name, XMail correctly recognizes it and executes the correct command alias but the script doesn't match the name to the correct list. You might want to use a convetion for file names, and than use lower() to convert email addresses: http://python.active-venture.com/lib/module-string.html Both mailman and the integration scripts create and use lower case list names and cmdaliases, so everything is consistant at the filesystem level. I simply needed to take the mixed case list name provided by @@RCPT and convert it to lower case before evaluating it. I actually had already found the right command and inserted it in the correct place. I just screwed up the usage using name = lower(name) instead of name = name.lower(). It's fixed now and if anyone is interested the updated script is here: http://www.ubaight.com/xmail/mailman 2. The script doesn't append entries to the log file, but instead writes over the first line each time. You'll have to add an a to the open-mode of the log file (or add a seek to the end). I'd like to make some other changes in the logging procedure so I'll play around with this tonight when I have more time. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] mailman python script
Hello All, I need some help updating the python script that intergrates XMail with the mailman list manager. Unfortunately I didn't write the script, and since my programming skills are quite limited and don't include python, my attempts to modify the script aren't going anywhere. The 2 specific problems I have are: 1. If the sender uses capitalization in the list name, XMail correctly recognizes it and executes the correct command alias but the script doesn't match the name to the correct list. 2. The script doesn't append entries to the log file, but instead writes over the first line each time. Any programming help would be appreciated. Thanks, Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Wierd SPAM Addresses
Hey All, Every so often I get a batch of these messages sent to my backup mx. Someth= ing=20 seems to be wrong with the way the backup mx is handling the address since = I=20 rather doubt they are really sending mail to 3f4c0519.8000109. I'm concerne= d=20 that I might be losing legit messages. Any ideas what I might be doing wron= g=20 here? Jeff Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-AV-Scanned: yes =A02a04fa3c6dfdc79434ccd50a2eb6f83b Received: from ubaight.com (66.95.2.50:36979) =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0by Trans-Star.net with [XMail 1.20 ESMTP Server] =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0id S21593 for [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Sys= [EMAIL PROTECTED]; =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Wed, 9 Mar 2005 02:32:28 -0500 X-Deliver-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 02:32:27 -0500 X-MessageId: 1110353546294.1321208752.63e.WebServer4 X-SmtpMessageId: SBB47 From: ubaight.com PostMaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Error sending message [1110353546294.1321208752.63e.WebServer4] f= rom=20 [ubaight.com] X-MailerServer: XMail 1.20 X-MailerError: Message =3D [1110353546294.1321208752.63e.WebServer4] Serve= r =3D=20 [ubaight.com] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on WebServer3.DMZ X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3D-4.9 required=3D5.0 tests=3DBAYES_00 autolearn= =3Dno=20 =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0version=3D2.64 Status: R X-Status: NC X-KMail-EncryptionState:=20 X-KMail-SignatureState:=20 X-KMail-MDN-Sent:=20 =20 [00] XMail bounce: [EMAIL PROTECTED];Error=3D= [550=20 Mailbox unavailable [EMAIL PROTECTED]] [01] Error sending message [1110353546294.1321208752.63e.WebServer4] from= =20 [ubaight.com]. ID: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0SBB47 Mail From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rcpt To: =A0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Server: =A0 =A0NS1.Trans-Star.net [209.12.136.106] [02] The reason of the delivery failure was: 550 Mailbox unavailable [EMAIL PROTECTED] [04] Here is listed the message log file: [PeekTime] 1110353546 : Wed, 9 Mar 2005 02:32:26 -0500 ErrCode =A0 =3D -82 ErrString =3D [RCPT TO:] not permitted by remote SMTP server ErrInfo =A0 =3D 550 Mailbox unavailable [EMAIL PROTECTED] om SMAIL SMTP-Send RLYS =3D smtp.Loudoun-Fairfax.com SMTP =3D ubaight.com = =46rom =3D=20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To =3D [EMAIL PROTECTED] Failed ! SMTP-Error =3D 550 Mailbox unavailable [EMAIL PROTECTED] om SMTP-Server =3D smtp.Loudoun-Fairfax.com [05] Here is listed the initial part of the message: Received: from 217-162-207-61.dclient.hispeed.ch (217.162.207.61:3003) =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0by ubaight.com with [XMail 1.20 ESMTP Server] =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0id SBB47 for [EMAIL PROTECTED] m from=20 [EMAIL PROTECTED]; =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Wed, 9 Mar 2005 02:32:24 -0500 Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 07:21:05 + =46rom: Mubariz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: tegucigalpa.com,Best software pricesrita MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Wierd SPAM Addresses
[00] XMail bounce: [EMAIL PROTECTED];Error=3D= [550=20 Mailbox unavailable [EMAIL PROTECTED]] I get that kind of stuff all the time. It is usually caused by spammers harvesting things like post-IDs and messages IDs from the Internet, then e-pending domain names to them to try to make new addresses to sell on those millions CDs. OK, thanks Tracy. Just making sure I didn't have my configuration messed up. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Cron Sending Mail
On Sunday 06 February 2005 22:48, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: No, thats not it because sendmail works just fine from php or from the command line. My guess is I am missing a configuration file somewhere for cron, but i have been googleing all day to no avail Do you suppose it is possible to install ssmtp as well as xmail simply to handle the sendmail stuff? The threading on this thread is screwed up so you may have already answered this, but do you have the MAILTO parameter in your crontab file set to a real address? MAILTO=root doesn't work here. Use something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeff -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: checking mail flow
On Friday 04 February 2005 03:27, Spyros Tsiolis wrote: OK, /etc/init.d/xmail start where : vi xmail : XMAIL_CMD_LINE=-Md -Pl -Sl for logging smtp and pop3 messages right ? Then off to : /var/log/maillog Wrong place. Look in /var/MailRoot/logs for the xmail log files. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: OT Clamav Error Code:50?
On Friday 04 February 2005 15:52, Charlie Qualls wrote: Hello , I'm having a error come up. This just started recently (couple of weeks now) I'm running on Redhat 9.0, Xmail 1.21 and Clamav 1.9. Does anyone know what this is caused by? It appeared yesterday 3 times and once so far today but it's a almost daily occurrence. ClamAV has not scanned the mail due to an error. ClamAV quit with errorcode : 50 Description: Problem with initialization of virus database. Probably it doesn't exist in the default place or wrong file was passed to -database ClamAV 0.81 was just released a few days and they've made some changes (check your freshclam log for the warnings). Update to 0.81 and see if that helps. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Last Login Time
Mike Harrington wrote: Davide, Et. All Using the new last login time feature in userstat, and I've been getting some weird results. Some of the results are telling me that the last login time was July 27, 2004 which isn't possible. I checked the server times and everything is fine. Any ideas? I'm afraid I'm the culprit. You see that was my birthday and the party was so intense it warped the space time continuum... g Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Migrate mailboxes to different OS?
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 16:44, Jeff Buehler wrote: Under FreeBSD the existing port is way out of date (version 1.8 or something like that), so the simple (and I think proper) approach I use is to: 1. download the distro from the official xmail site and compile it 2. put a start/stop script at /usr/local/etc/rc.d (this may differ for netBSD or openBSD) in case this is helpful. It may be to *BSD users who generally anticipate an up-to-date port. I have been considering maintaining a port for FreeBSD but haven't gotten a sensible time block together yet. Does the standard XMail init script work on BSD systems? If so, then my instructions for building your own binary should also work for BSD. If you have a moment, take a look at http://www.ubaight.com/xmail/BeginnersGuide.html#BasicSetup and see if these instructions work. You can send me any changes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Migrate mailboxes to different OS?
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 16:41, Postmaster wrote: Jeff: Count me in for any help you may need (contrib, editing, proofing). I want to help get the Xmail documentation to a place that any PHB can feel comfort ;) You can email me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or at this postmaster address. Thanks Byrn. You can send info to me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll let you know when I start working on the next version. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Migrate mailboxes to different OS?
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 13:33, Postmaster wrote: Thanks for these tips all. I've been putting my expetience with this migration down into writing and I hope to submit it to Jeffery Laramie for his HowTo. Which reminds me. Since there are have been quite a few features added lately I'm planning on an update in the next few months. If anyone can contribute there are a few things I could use: 1. I only run SuSE 9.1 here so I don't have any recent experience with RH or other *nix flavors. If anyone has tips for other distros I'll be glad to add them. 2. I'm always interested in correcting any factual errors or obsolete instructions. Just point them out. 3. In the past there were a couple of inquiries about foreign language translations but nobody ever followed up. If you translate it I'll host it. 4. I've never purported to be an expert and I don't use some of the more advanced XMail features. If anyone else wishes, you can feel free to send me your notes on how you configured your system and I'll incorporate your experiences into the document. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Migrate mailboxes to different OS?
Sergio Perrone wrote: Jeffrey: I can do the translation to spanish, if you need it. Sergio Perrone Yes, excellent. I'm saving a scrapbook of configuration tips and other info from mailing list posts while I'm working on other projects. Any other tips, notes, configuration instructions, etc. can be sent to me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Once I start writing I'll send drafts to the contributors off list for technical review and proof reading. For the last version I spent a lot of time revising and formatting. This time I just plan to refresh the current text and spend more effort adding new info. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Spanassassin Not Learning
Morning All, I'm using Don Drakes's sa_filter script to call spamassassin in my filters.in.tab file. It works ok but still misses lots of spam. So I'm trying to configure bayesian learning through sa-learn. The sa-learn command works fine and I have learned over 200 messages. As far as I can tell the filter hasn't caught a single message yet. Any hints on getting this configured right would be appreciated. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Spanassassin Not Learning
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 09:34, Chad Fleenor wrote: Did you configure your local.cf file in the /etc/mail/spamassassin directory? Yes. Here's the content: # Add your own customisations to this file. See 'man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' # for details of what can be tweaked. # # Rewrite the Subject: line with SPAM .* if set to 1 (default=1) rewrite_subject 1 # Report briefly, recommended for report_header==1 (default=0) use_terse_report 1 # Path to the Bayesian database files. bayes_path /etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes # Allows sharing of data files. bayes_file_mode 0666 Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Spanassassin Not Learning
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 11:01, Jeffrey Laramie wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 09:34, Chad Fleenor wrote: Did you configure your local.cf file in the /etc/mail/spamassassin directory? Yes. Here's the content: # Add your own customisations to this file. See 'man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' # for details of what can be tweaked. # # Rewrite the Subject: line with SPAM .* if set to 1 (default=1) rewrite_subject 1 # Report briefly, recommended for report_header==1 (default=0) use_terse_report 1 # Path to the Bayesian database files. bayes_path /etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes Hmmm. After reviewing this, I think this path is wrong. I'm going to change it and see if that fixes it. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] RDNS
Hi All- The mail server belonging to a client of mine mail.client.com uses another server relay.client.com to relay outgoing mail. mail.client.com appears to be correctly configured but relay.client.com doesn't resolve. Mail from this domain is bounced when it fails the XMail RDNS check. I'm trying not to piss off a client, but it's my understanding that according to standards the relay must have an A or CNAME record. Is this correct? If so, could someone point me to the rfc that states this so I can gently point this out to the client? I've been looking in RFC2821 but I'm not finding what I'm looking for. Thanks, Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: RDNS
On Thursday 11 November 2004 19:28, Tracy wrote: At 19:22 11/11/2004, Jeffrey Laramie wrote: Hi All- The mail server belonging to a client of mine mail.client.com uses another server relay.client.com to relay outgoing mail. mail.client.com appears to be correctly configured but relay.client.com doesn't resolve. Mail from this domain is bounced when it fails the XMail RDNS check. I'm trying not to piss off a client, but it's my understanding that according to standards the relay must have an A or CNAME record. Is this correct? If so, could someone point me to the rfc that states this so I can gently point this out to the client? I've been looking in RFC2821 but I'm not finding what I'm looking for. RFC 2821, section 3.6 3.6 Domains Only resolvable, fully-qualified, domain names (FQDNs) are permitted when domain names are used in SMTP. In other words, names that can be resolved to MX RRs or A RRs (as discussed in section 5) are permitted, as are CNAME RRs whose targets can be resolved, in turn, to MX or A RRs. Local nicknames or unqualified names MUST NOT be used. There are two exceptions to the rule requiring FQDNs: - The domain name given in the EHLO command MUST BE either a primary host name (a domain name that resolves to an A RR) or, if the host has no name, an address literal as described in section 4.1.1.1. - The reserved mailbox name postmaster may be used in a RCPT command without domain qualification (see section 4.1.1.3) and MUST be accepted if so used. Ah, there it is. Thanks Tracy Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: XMail Log Help
On Thursday 04 November 2004 13:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff: Here's the command line and output you asked for, including socket bind errors. /var/MailRoot/bin/XMail -Md -Pl -Sl -Fl -Cl -Ll SMAIL thread [00] started SMAIL thread [01] started SMAIL thread [02] started SMAIL thread [03] started SMAIL thread [04] started SMAIL thread [05] started SMAIL thread [06] started SMAIL thread [07] started SMAIL thread [08] started SMAIL thread [09] started SMAIL thread [10] started SMAIL thread [11] started SMAIL thread [12] started SMAIL thread [13] started SMAIL thread [14] started SMAIL thread [15] started Socket bind error Socket bind error Socket bind error [XMail 1.8 (Linux/Ix86) PSYNC Server] started Socket bind error LMAIL thread [00] started LMAIL thread [01] started LMAIL thread [02] started Still no new log files being written to $MAIL_ROOT/logs. You have another mail process running, such as sendmail or postfix. You need to disable these so they don't start up at boot time, kill the currently running process (or reboot), then try the XMail commands again. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: XMail Log Help
On Thursday 04 November 2004 14:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Jeff Davide, for your inputs. Output from netstat -t -n -a -p before starting XMail (actual addresses replaced with w.x.y.z to protect the identity of the guilty): Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:32768 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 788/rpc.statd tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:32769 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 969/xinetd tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 760/portmap tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:60000.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1126/X tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1102/httpd tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1109/sshd tcp0 48 w.x.y.z:22w.x.y.z:6222 ESTABLISHED 12444/sshd and after: Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:32768 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 788/rpc.statd tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:60170.0.0.0:* LISTEN 12569/XMail tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:32769 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 969/xinetd tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:110 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 12569/XMail tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:79 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 12569/XMail tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 760/portmap tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:60000.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1126/X tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1102/httpd tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1109/sshd tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 12569/XMail tcp0288 w.x.y.z:22w.x.y.z:6222 ESTABLISHED 12444/sshd I don't see any conflicts. Do you? Nope. Looks just like mine. Did you replace /usr/sbin/sendmail with the sendmail script and exe from the XMail package? For some reason if the sendmail thread fails logging gets screwed up. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Backup MX record
On Friday 01 October 2004 07:51, Alex Young wrote: I have been trying to find out the best way to setup Xmail to act as a backup mail server for one of our customers. He is running an Exchange server on its own IP as the primary MX record for his domain. I need to be able to setup Xmail so it holds any email for him until his connection/server comes back up. What would be the best way of doing this with my Xmail server? Take a look here. This will get you started. http://www.ubaight.com/xmail/BeginnersGuide.html#custdomset Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: xmail v1.20 troubles
On Thursday 02 September 2004 03:27, Spyros Tsiolis wrote: Hello people, Long time, no write :-) OK ! I've installed the new xmail v1.20 on a slackware 10.0 box and it works fine. It's actually the first time I've setup a box to do multiple domain mail handling and it seems it does the trick :-) However, there is one little thing bugging me; If I try to send to anyone in the world (from the inside to the outside), it never gets delivered. Not even postmaster message (message undelivered, will keep trying etc.). Make sure the XMail sendmail server is running. For example if your Slackware install included postfix as it's default mail agent it may be binding to the smtp port and blocking the XMail agent from starting up. If you start XMail in debug you should see the XMail sendmail server start up. Otherwise, check for a sendmail or postfix process and disable it so it won't start up on boot (or better yet, unistall it). Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: XMail Startup Help
On Thursday 05 August 2004 11:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is the output from -Md generated? If you run XMail in debug from the command line, the output is to the screen (stout) and to the log files if you enabled those switches. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Domain Literals
Morning All, Well I'm still waiting for my ISP to resolve my RDNS problem but at least I know it's not a problem with my mail server. While looking at the report from dnsreports.com I see that they are warning that my mail server doesn't accept domain literals. I seem to recall reading somewhere recently that this was no longer required or even desirable. Any thoughts on this? If I wanted to accept domain literals, how would I configure that? Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: DNS Issue
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 22:39, Tracy wrote: At 21:32 7/27/2004, Jeffrey Laramie wrote: On Tuesday 27 July 2004 20:13, John Kielkopf wrote: http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=209.12.136.106 Yeah, looks like you have no PTR record visible. Your bandwidth provider should be able to create it for you, or delegate a reverse lookup zone to you. Yeah, this is pretty weird. I have my own name servers and I've always had RDNS configured I assume correctly. Now nobody can do the lookup outside my LAN. Based on the 'dig' that Tracy did, the lookup ends at my ISP and never even queries my name server. My best guess is that my ISP provides DNS for the other IPs in my block and their configuration is preempting my server. I've got a trouble ticket started with my ISP to see if they can resolve this. Jeff That's pretty much it, I'd say. Either they need to delegate authority for your subnet to your DNS servers, or they need to establish PTR records for your IP addresses. Some ISPs do this without charge, but don't count on it - a lot of ISPs are using the extras to make up for the money they lose in bandwidth fees. However, for simple PTR records, the charge should not be exorbitant - usually a one time charge It's fixed now. My ISP instituted a new policy that all IPs had to have a PTR record so they... broke mine (?). Yeah, and they took 28 hours to fix it and didn't even apologize that they crippled my mail server for over a day. Argghh! At least they didn't charge me for fixing their screwup. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] DNS Issue
Hey Folks, I just had an email bounced back saying my mail server doesn't have a reverse DNS entry: [00] XMail bounce: [EMAIL PROTECTED];Error=[554 5.7.1 The server sending your mail [209.12.136.106] does not have a reverse DNS entry. Connection Rejected. Please contact your Dial-Up/DSL/Network ISP Provider. Default Reject!] I've had my mail server configured this way for years and never had a problem before. I just re-checked it and I don't see anything wrong. Could someone else take a look at my DNS configuration and help me figure out why it doesn't work now? Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: DNS Issue
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 16:09, Sergio Casagrande wrote: You could try to use http://www.dnsreport.com/ to test your configuration. Ciao. Sergio C. Great site. Thanks Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: DNS Issue
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 16:09, Tracy wrote: At 15:42 7/27/2004, Jeffrey Laramie wrote: Hey Folks, I just had an email bounced back saying my mail server doesn't have a reverse DNS entry: [00] XMail bounce: [EMAIL PROTECTED];Error=[554 5.7.1 The server sending your mail [209.12.136.106] does not have a reverse DNS entry. Connection Rejected. Please contact your Dial-Up/DSL/Network ISP Provider. Default Reject!] I've had my mail server configured this way for years and never had a problem before. I just re-checked it and I don't see anything wrong. Could someone else take a look at my DNS configuration and help me figure out why it doesn't work now? Jeff C:\nslookup Default Server: karen.arisiasoft.com Address: 66.219.172.36 set type=ptr 209.12.136.106 Server: karen.arisiasoft.com Address: 66.219.172.36 *** karen.arisiasoft.com can't find 106.136.12.209.in-addr.arpa.: Non-existent domain Works fine from here: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ nslookup Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases. Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead. Run nslookup with the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing. set type=ptr 209.12.136.106 Server: 192.168.0.2 Address:192.168.0.2#53 106.136.12.209.in-addr.arpa name = NS1.Trans-Star.net. Hmmm... This may be a firewall issue Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: DNS Issue
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 20:13, John Kielkopf wrote: http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=209.12.136.106 Yeah, looks like you have no PTR record visible. Your bandwidth provider should be able to create it for you, or delegate a reverse lookup zone to you. Yeah, this is pretty weird. I have my own name servers and I've always had RDNS configured I assume correctly. Now nobody can do the lookup outside my LAN. Based on the 'dig' that Tracy did, the lookup ends at my ISP and never even queries my name server. My best guess is that my ISP provides DNS for the other IPs in my block and their configuration is preempting my server. I've got a trouble ticket started with my ISP to see if they can resolve this. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Spammers / viruses bypassing MX records?
On Wednesday 14 July 2004 17:00, Kirk Friggstad wrote: Hey all: We've recently installed a Barracuda (rack-mount spam firewall based on Spam Assassin, also does virus scanning) on our network in front of our XMail system, and pointed our MX records to deliver mail to the Barracuda instead of directly to our server. This change was made over a month ago, but we still find some spammers and viruses (especially W32/Zafi.B) are delivering directly to our XMail server instead of following the MX records to the Barracuda. The mail server is not at the same IP address as our default @ record for the domain, but it does have A records for mail and smtp. If you have a publicly accessable IP address on your server it will always be open to smtp traffic regardless of MX records. Does your Barracuda device also contain a stateful firewall? The easiest answer is to keep the mail server inside the firewall and block forwarding of smtp traffic (and everything else!) to internal servers. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Cannot stop undelivered message
On Thursday 08 July 2004 23:47, Wyman Szeto wrote: Dear sir I try to send mail out...Unfortunately!, it cannot send out... It send the undelivered message back forever... Can anyone help me? Probably, but we need to know more information. Tell us things like: a) What OS you are using. b) What version of XMail. c) Describe the problem in more detail. d) Tell us what you've tried already. e) Did you get any error messages? If so what were they? f) Do you have any filters installed? Which ones? Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Error message since updating to 1.20
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 12:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have ALWAYS had to make those DIR manaually. Xmail has never made them for us. Only the numbered ones does it make. What OS are you using? They are created correctly for me on Linux. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Domain mailproc
That's because logic dictates that a domain-scope mailproc doesn't replace individual mailboxes' mailproc (or cmdalias), but is run in addition to them, before them.. Like an inhereting ACL permission system (May be a good thing to add a no inheritance switch to the mailbox mailproc.tab/cmdalias). Anyone has any opinions? Am I going the right way or am I a weirdo here? :) Let's vote. :) I vote for you to be the wierdo. I'm sick of the job. ;-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: 1.19-pre05 (Unix and Win32) ...
On Saturday 22 May 2004 15:58, you wrote: I made 1.19-pre05 for Unix (source) and Win32 (source and binaries): http://www.xmailserver.org/xmail-1.19-pre05.tar.gz http://www.xmailserver.org/xmail-1.19-pre05.win32bin.zip I'd like to receive reports from all the architectures XMail runs on, that on 1.19 count one more (OSX). This one it is running fine on my Linux box hosting xmailserver.org. Installed and running on SuSE 9.0 (I obviously have no life). BTW, I'm showing 27 threads which seems to be more than 1.17 used. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: RemoveSpoolErrors
On Friday 21 May 2004 09:34, Davide Libenzi wrote: On Fri, 21 May 2004, Roman Dusek wrote: Agree, this behaviour causes that unsuccessful spam messages are bugging XMail spool. It is fixed now. Thanks. Can you post a link? Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Relaying Issue
Morning All, The last 2 days it appears my mail server has incorrectly forwarded (or at least attempted to forward) a message to the wrong IP. This is on a system that had been running for months without change. Some additional info: SuSE 8.2 fully updated XMail 1.17 Contents of custdomain tab file ubaight.com.tab: smtprelay smtp.ubaight.com Entry in smtp log file: Trans-Star.net81.215.123.23 2004-05-17 20:38:06 dsl81-215-31511.adsl.ttnet.net.tr ubaight.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] SC214 RCPT=OK 0 dsl81-215-31511.adsl.ttnet.net.tr Trans-Star.net81.215.123.23 2004-05-17 20:38:07 dsl81-215-31511.adsl.ttnet.net.tr ubaight.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] SC214 RECV=OK 1839 dsl81-215-31511.adsl.ttnet.net.tr First 3 entries in firewall log of receiving server: May 17 20:38:10 LServer1 kernel: Lan-Host: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:c0:f0:57:af:cc:00:0c:76:3a:30:94:08:00 SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=192.168.0.1 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=4638 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=32861 DPT=25 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 May 17 20:46:12 LServer1 kernel: Lan-Host: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:c0:f0:57:af:cc:00:0c:76:3a:30:94:08:00 SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=192.168.0.1 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=4909 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=32862 DPT=25 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 May 17 20:54:47 LServer1 kernel: Lan-Host: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:c0:f0:57:af:cc:00:0c:76:3a:30:94:08:00 SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=192.168.0.1 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=5154 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=32863 DPT=25 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 This hasn't happened before and I probably wouldn't have even noticed except that it tried to send to one of my internal firewalled servers and the packets were logged and dropped. There shouldn't be a problem with DNS since the box XMail is on is also the authoritative name server for ubaight.com. The rest of the mail for this domain is forwarded without problems and has been for months. Any ideas why this is happening or any other info I can provide? Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Relaying Issue
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 12:31, CLEMENT Francis wrote: Does a dns lookup for smtp.ubaight.com on the xmail machine give the = good ip ? Yes If ok, see your xmail smail log to see where xmail connected to send = the mails ... If bad IP, try this (clear xmail dns cache) : stop xmail empty xmail 'dnscache/mx' empty xmail 'dnscache/ns' restart xmail if good IP : Did you change anything on the receiving machine ? or in a firewall or nat device ? There is no entry in the smail logs that correspond to this message. Maybe a cached lookup got corrupted somehow. I'll clear the cached records and see if that fixes it. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Platform wars
On Monday 17 May 2004 08:43, Benny wrote: This mailing list has been over this junk conversation too many times. This issue has nothing to do with what is at hand. The real issue is open source. Yes and No. Yes this discussion is moving off topic and no the issue isn't open source. It's XMail. We would all be better off now if all the energy that went into arguing about programming languages had been spent writing code, creating documentation, or spent on other productive activities. Each of us is free to program in whatever language he chooses and everyone else is free to use it or not. Let's agree to disagree and channel all this passion and energy back into XMail and it's related projects. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Ecartis Update
FYI the original authors of ecartis have reappeared and have stated that they intend to maintain the product with security patches and bug fixes, however they consider the project completed and don't forsee any new features or releases. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Xmail, FreeBSD and ecartis/mailman
On Tuesday 06 April 2004 18:22, Ken Larkman wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davide Libenzi Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 3:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [xmail] Re: Xmail, FreeBSD and ecartis/mailman Nope, it is called by XMail from the script. Well, that sux. I re-ran lisset.pl after changing the UID/GID and it still isn't creating the symlinks. I can't find any evidence that ecartis is even running. The ecartis.tab is getting called but that's about it. Did you try following this example: http://www.ubaight.com/xmail/BeginnersGuide#Ecartis I haven't used this in awhile, but it worked when I set up my system. Make sure you use the files linked from the page. They are a different version than Davide uses and are not interchangable. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Documentation
Hi All, I believe that Dale and Benny are refering to my 'Beginner's Guide' in a previous thread. Unfortunately my guide is designed specifically for Linux users (although it probably is helpful for other unix like OSes). I don't have any other types of servers to experiment with and have gone as far as I can with my hardware, time constraints, and knowledge of XMail. If anyone is interested in contributing to the guide, adding documentation for another OS, or translating it to another language, I'll be happy to coordinate the effort, serve as editor, and share the credit (or blame) :-) Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Documentation
On Thursday 01 April 2004 11:38, Benny wrote: I too, am using Linux(SuSE to be exact). Do you have the link Jeffrey? I would like to look at it to see if there is anything I can add to it, as far as plugins and such. Sure http://www.ubaight.com/xmail/BeginnersGuide.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: (quite urgent) question
On Thursday 12 February 2004 13:27, Spyros Tsiolis wrote: Chaps, I would be gratefull for any takers on this. This is really pressing me now. ... .. Hello again people, OK. A simple question. I am still struggling with spamassassin and I don't know how to continue. The question is this : Should I just teach spamassassin or should I install Don Drakes' filter ? Or is there another option between the two ? I simply use Don's script. I don't remember your previous postings. What's the issue? Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: undeliverables coming to secondary server
Dale Qualls wrote: Hiya gang: I'm going to ask this question again, as I haven't yet received a reply = regarding it. Here's my config Primary Server (admin domain is fvgsc.org) one of the domains on this server is thequallsfamily.com Backup Server (admin domain is pmnhg.net) thequallsfamily is a custom domain on this server doing smtp relay in case = the primary is down (this works, tested by taking the primary down, = sending messages then bringing the primary up later and the messages get = pushed over by the backup) If a message goes to the Primary (as in the message below to [EMAIL PROTECTED] sfamily.com did) and the user doesn't exist on the domain (just as sales = doesn't exist), the message then comes to the backup server (instead of = going back to the sender as a 550). The backup server ends up with the = message frozen (which is where the message below came from) as a message = from the postmaster on the backup server. Shouldn't the message go back to the sender from the primary server and = never even be looked at by the secondary except to do the relay back to = the primary? Also, it seems like a lot of messages come to the secondary even though = the primary is never down (it's on a full T-1 and it is NOT a busy domain, = I'd guess less than a couple hundred messages a day). It could be that = only the undeliverables for thequallsfamily.com come to the backup, but = I'd guess that they should never interact with the [EMAIL PROTECTED] as = far as an undeliverable message goes) Any advice? Maybe I have something configured wrong? I followed the docs = exactly (at least I believe so). Thanks!! Do you have the postmaster parameter in the server.tab file for primary server set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm guessing here but I think what is happening is the primary server is bouncing the mail sent to sales using [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the Mail From value. Since the mail is using a forged address the bounce message is bouncing back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your secondary server as undeliverable. Jeff Here is one of the messages that keeps getting frozed because it has no = place to go. ***= 127.0.0.1:0;127.0.0.1:0;Wed, 4 Feb 2004 04:48:55 -0600 pmnhg.net XA4E MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MAIL-DATA X-AV-Scanned: yes 64bac0815050b73791b8520b5bb6a126 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 04:48:55 -0600 X-MessageId: 1075891733340.1015835.MAIL2 X-SmtpMessageId: SA4D From: pmnhg.net PostMaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Error sending message [1075891733340.1015835.MAIL2] from = [pmnhg.net] X-MailerServer: XMail 1.17 (Linux/Ix86) X-MailerError: Message =3D [1075891733340.1015835.MAIL2] Server =3D = [pmnhg.net] [00] XMail bounce: [EMAIL PROTECTED];Error=3D[550 = Mailbox unavailable [EMAIL PROTECTED]] [01] Error sending message [1075891733340.1015835.MAIL2] from [pmnhg.net]= .. ID:SA4D Mail From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rcpt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Server:mail.fvgsc.org [66.147.129.196] [02] The reason of the delivery failure was: 550 Mailbox unavailable [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05] Here is listed the initial part of the message: X-AV-Scanned: yes d46ec02fcd728750fc3fc38f5dafebf9 Received: from ns2.flibbermail.com (62.85.3.131:4415) by pmnhg.net with [XMail 1.17 (Linux/Ix86) ESMTP Server] id SA4D for [EMAIL PROTECTED] from [EMAIL PROTECTED] cana.com; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 04:48:52 -0600 Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by ns2.flibbermail.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.3) with ESMTP id = J87Gz033128256 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:45:19 + (GMT) (envelope-from www) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Regena Shepherd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Website Intro and Animated Logo Design Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:45:19 + (GMT) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with = any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - ns2.flibbermail.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - ns2.flibbermail.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [80 80] / [80 80] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=3D=3D_NextPart_000_0222_01C3C64F.FBD71A00 =09 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Filters Not Triggering
Toby Reiter wrote: Hey all, I have Xmail 1.16 on Linux with SpamAssassin and ClamAntivirus running with the standard filters for these programs (i.e. Lindeman's AV filter and Don Drake's SA filter). In general, these filters work great, but recently we've been noticing a few email messages that have been not filtered, I'll give examples: a) Messages that are sent within our local network or that are being SMTP Relayed through a server on our local network are being missed by the AV filter or by both filters. Sometimes these messages will be SA filtered without being AV filtered, but they are never just AV filtered. b) Messages with encoding errors (usually b/c they have poorly attached virus attachments) and which are being SA filtered but not AV filtered c) In a few limited cases, a well-encoded message from outside the network is SA filtered but not AV filtered. Does anyone have any ideas about this? Since the filters do work 75 - 85% percent of the time (or more) I don't really feel like going into debug mode is necessarily going to help: I think this is more of a Why isn't this working in theory? question than a syntax error in one of my filter files. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Which filter runs first? Which versions of the filters are you running? Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: a simple question
Spyros Tsiolis wrote: Taken from the spamassassin page : Installation Simply copy the two executables to where you want them. Then, configure your system to run spamd in the background, and where your mailer invokes 'spamassassin' instead invoke 'spamc'. It's that easy! spamd and spamc there being in the limelight. OK ! where your mailer invokes 'spamassassin' instead invoke 'spamc'. It's that easy ! Whoa ! Not for me it isn't ! Would anyone know how exactly one invokes spamassassin ? Don't remember doing that! You don't directly invoke spamc. The filter you install in XMail calls Spamassassin. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: spamassassin again
Spyros Tsiolis wrote: Hello list, Apologies, but would any guru out there suggest a document on setting up sa with xmail ? Like a vanilla sa installation with xmail ? Any ideas ? Any help would be greatly appreciated. [I am running in circles again :-)] For a Linux installation this might help: http://www.ubaight.com/xmail/BeginnersGuide.html Check out the section on filters. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: relaying issue
Tracy wrote: At 10:38 1/13/2004, Jeffrey Laramie wrote: That's kinda interesting. You have multiple A records pointing to 66.219.172.36. We're getting a little OT here but why do you use A records instead of CNAMEs? I know there was some debate about this years ago and at that time the conventional wisdom was that CNAMEs were better. I don't know what the 'preferred ' configuration is these days. Because RFC2822 specifies that A records for mail servers should not be CNAMEs...:) Good reason! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: relaying issue
chabral wrote: Jeffrey Laramie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you by any chance have a link to this document? This is something I really need to keep up on. Here you can find all rfcs: http://www.rfc-index.com/ Great, thanks. You've provided a valuable resource *and* cured my insomnia with a single link ;-) Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: AW: Re: AW: Re: XMail growing memory image ...
Pascal de R. wrote: Dear Jeffrey, lundi 12 janvier 2004 at 16:53:00, you said : Jeffrey Have you tried using the kernel from the RPM? I'm not sure to understand your suggest ? Poor choice of words, I should have said binary not kernel. You can install XMail RPM file which uses a pre-built binary that works on most systems. Have you tried using this binary on your system? Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: AW: Re: AW: Re: XMail growing memory image ...
Pascal de R. wrote: lundi 12 janvier 2004 at 18:21:26, you said : Jeffrey Pascal de R. wrote: Dear Jeffrey, lundi 12 janvier 2004 at 16:53:00, you said : Jeffrey Have you tried using the kernel from the RPM? I'm not sure to understand your suggest ? Jeffrey Poor choice of words, I should have said binary not kernel. You can Jeffrey install XMail RPM file which uses a pre-built Jeffrey binary that works on most Jeffrey systems. Have you tried using this binary on your system? Except one version built by Davide on RH8, no. But in same time I'm not sure to find it on RPMFind ? You can find the link to the RPM on the xmailserver home page. I don't know what system Davide compiled this on. This may be the binary you already tried. http://www.xmailserver.org/xmail-1.17-1.i386.rpm Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: relaying issue
Dale Qualls wrote: Great, thank you. I was wondering about the reverse DNS lookup that some mailservers do. If my xmailserver has a default domain of mydomain.org and a reverse DNS = lookup pointing to mydomain.org all is well. But, if myseconddomain.org = users send a message to a place that does reverse DNS lookups and it = resolves back to mydomain.org, is it common for the receiving server to = reject the message for relaying? In a standard DNS configuration you would have a domain 'zone' file for each domain name and a 'reverse lookup' zone file for each block of IPs. The zone file typically has records that resolve a name to an IP address: myhost A 12.34.56.78 The reverse lookup zone file has the opposite record: 78 PTR myhost.mydomain.org The reverse lookup zone file knows what domain each IP is in. If a remote mail server does a reverse lookup and gets mydomain instead of myseconddomain, then it's configured wrong and you need to contact the ISP or whomever handles DNS for these domains. It would be good policy for the remote mail server to reject any address that fails RDNS lookup since it's most likely either spoofed or broken. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] More Changes to Guide
Hi All, I've made some changes to the Sections II and III of the Beginner's Guide to clarify some instructions and make a few corrections. Section II has been changed to clarify the issue of mail domains vs local network domain starting with the chapter Configure XMail's Server.tab File. I have also corrected the description of the CtrlClnt -s switch in Sections II and III and changed the names of the placeholders to better reflect the required values. I encourage anyone who reads or uses the Guide to let me know of any problems or inaccuracies. I'm still very new to XMail myself and I while I'm pretty strong on 'how' I don't always fully understand 'why' and this can lead to errors. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Beginner's Guide
John D. Bowne wrote: On Tuesday 06 January 2004 08:27 pm, Jeff wrote: Hi All, I have posted an update to my Beginner's Guide at: Hi Jeff, Sorry to keep hitting you on this, I found another small thing in your excellent Beginners Guide. In the section Adding or Deleting a User Account, the -s parameter is supposed to specify the server address. Unless the name of the mailserver that you are using is mydomain.org, the useradd and userdel commands that you've given will fail. Ouch, This is a big one. :-(( It's amazing nobody has mentioned this before. The -s parameter is mis-labeled as being the name of the rootdomain. Actually it should be the name of the server running XMail such as myserver.mydomain.org. That entry was the template I used for all the other commands so that mistake was propagated throughout the entire guide. Arrggg!! So sorry. I'll fix it ASAP. Might want to add a statement about setting the server address. If the test is being run on the same server, then 'localhost' should work (I haven't tested this). Using localhost doesn't work, but if you use the server name or IP address it's fine. If you have correctly defined search domains you can also use just the server name without the domain name. I think correctly labeling this parameter should clear up any confusion on this. I hope that this helps, johnbo You've been a great help, thanks. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: R: Re: cmdaliases
Sergio Casagrande wrote: Yes, I have 3 server that have the same primary domain. The gw server could be another domain, but it isn't important. We have 2 locations connected by internet and I wish create a local = server that manage the local account and the remote server that manage = the remote accounts (performance problems). Unforunately all accounts have the same domain. If I were you I'd put bandwidth/new server at the top of my shopping list. :-) Hardware and bandwidth is cheap compared to the cost of managing 3 primary servers on the same domain. To answer your original question, when we were working on the XMail interface to Mailman we tried to use wildcards and other tricks to get XMail to forward non-matches to a script but we were unable to get it to work. As far as I know you have to match a user or cmdalias. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: CtrlClnt
Dale Qualls wrote: Okay, here's another example of my ignorance. I have a CtrlClnt file in my /var/MailRoot/bin directory, but tryint to = run it gets me nowhere. I get a bash: CtrlClnt: command not found This generally means that bash doesn't know the path to the executable. You either need to cd to the /var/MailRoot/bin directory and run the command from there, or use the full path in the command such as /var/MailRoot/bin/CtrlClnt -s mydomain.org... etc. I use a windows interface for configuration of xmail (I found it because = this CtrlClnt gave me so much grief) but I think I need CtrlClnt to = release frozen messages and to flush queues. Is there another way to = resend the messages? Can I just move them to the rsnd directory? Also, is there a way to change the time that messages go from rsnd to = froz? My home system can't be on-line more than 10 hours a day (don't = laugh, I live in the woods and can't get high speed internet :) so = messages that are sent after I shutdown at home come to one of my offices = (which I use as my backup) but they go frozen before my home system can = come back on-line. If the office server is running XMail take a look here: http://www.ubaight.com/xmail/BeginnersGuide.html#SecondaryDomain This describes how to set up the office as a backup server including a blurb on increasing the Qt and/or Qr values on the secondary server when the primary is prone to long periods of down time as in your case. I know, I'm more trouble than I'm worth :) No problem. It's always good to read as much as you can ahead of an installation like this. It makes things go much easier. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: CtrlClnt
Dale Qualls wrote: I receive that bash error while in the /var/MailRoot/bin directory. Do you still get it if you use the full path? Did you use a ./ in front of it like this: ./CtrlClnt -s mydomain.org... ? Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: URGENT !!
Gustavo Galvan wrote: Is not possible send messages with size 10 lines of text. The server was running fine 1 year aprox. (updated in 2003-11 with 1.17) = and=20 now (yesterday and today) has this problem. Help please. Has anything in your system changed? New hardware, anything like that? Is there any info in your XMail logs or system logs that might help? Try running XMail in debug mode and post the output. I'm not an expert here but someone else may be able to use the info to help you. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Problem with XMail
Dustin C. Hatch wrote: I am having a problem with the Xmail server. When the server is started, I cannot login to pop3 smtp or ctrl, and I know it is running, because the top command shows it. It is always an active process, and consumes about 8-10% of my processor and about 1-2% of my memory. It causes my hard drive to be active all the time, and it is hard to use the system because of the drastic slow-down. I have enabled logging in the xmail script in the init.d folder, but no logs are ever created, ls on the logs folder always returns nothing. Did you try running it from the command line in debug mode? Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Problem with XMail
Dustin C. Hatch wrote: Yes running from the command line, no debug mode, didn't even kno it existed :P Could you help me in that area? Sure, try this: export MAIL_ROOT=/var/MailRoot /var/MailRoot/bin/XMail -Md -Pl -Sl -Fl -Cl -Ll ||This will start XMail in debug mode and enable logging. Note that the 2nd letter in the switches is a lowercase L. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Problem with XMail
Dustin C. Hatch wrote: Yes, and there should be activity to log, I have sent messages through the server, and used XMail Administrator to access ctrl, but still no logs. I thought it might be relavant to say that when the server ran windows, Norton Antivirus kept notifying me that it was scanning outgoing messages CONSTANTLY. Hundreds of messages were being send per minute, and when I would stop XMail, so would the activity. Hmmm, is any mail going through? It almost sounds like XMail is generating errors while logging, sending notifications to the postmaster, which are bouncing or looping generating all the activity you see. Make sure the /var/MailRoot/logs directory exists and has it's permissions set to 700. What output are you getting on the console during this activity? Anyone else out there is welcome to jump in with suggestions. I'm running out of ideas. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Beginner's Guide
Hi All, I have posted an update to my Beginner's Guide at: http://www.ubaight.com/xmail/BeginnersGuide.html Sections I and II have only minor housekeeping changes but I've split Section III into 2 sections. Section III is now devoted to examples of common administrative commands and Section IV focuses on filters. Section IV turned out to be a bigger project that I planned. I added a section on the XM_Fprot_Filter Anti-virus filter and updated Lindeman's filter section to include instructions for his newly released Version 1.9. Davide contributed some updated scripts for the Ecartis Mail List section which improved security. Please note that the scripts posted on my site are specific to this new configuration and you cannot use older files with the same name. The section to connect the XMail to the Mailman List Manager is new also. I ran into some problems setting this up on my server so I called for reinforcements. Martijn Pieters wrote a python script to provide a more robust interface between XMail and Mailman as well as a python script similar to lisset.pl which creates the command alias entries for you. I am confident that these programs will work without any problems, however you need to know that they have had limited testing on only a couple servers. I recommend you do your own testing before using them on production boxes. Given that the Guide now uses scripts that are unique and that I will probably end up maintaining, I need to begin using some sort of version manager. This is new territory for me so I welcome any suggestions from the list. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Supplement to AV post...
Dale Qualls wrote: Could someone suggest where I can get the proper script and where I should = place it? Man, this is confusing. Thanks! You may want to go back to the Beginner's Guide and re-trace all the steps. You've jumped around and skipped important parts of the installation. To install the Mail-Sendmail script from the command line type: |perl -MCPAN -e 'install Mail::Sendmail'| The script will download and install itself. I'm not aware of any additional configuration needed. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Supplement to AV post...
Dale Qualls wrote: I tried doing the MCPAN and it fails, is there any other way to install = it? Yes. You can go here and download the tar file: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mail-Sendmail/ Gosh, I'm hosing this thing bad... I'm going to try it on a different box, maybe that will shed some light :) Did you install a new version of perl? If the MCPAN installation didn't work you most likely have either an internet connection problem or a perl problem, and my money is on a perl problem. What error do you get when you try to install with MCPAN? Can you run other perl scripts? Make sure the first line of any perl script points to the perl version you are using. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: AV Config
Dale Qualls wrote: Hi all! I'm pretty new to Linux and really new to Xmail (tried out eXtremail and = have found that I liked this better). I've got everything running that I need except Anti-Virus and SpamAssassin = (I'll worry about SA later). I've followed two different HOWTOs (the = Xmail Beginners guide at http://www.ubaight.com/xmail/BeginnersGuide.html = and also the one from lindeman.org) for Lindeman's script and I'm not = getting anywhere. I perused the archives and didn't find much that helped. The mail process just fine, as if there wasn't a virus attached (I'm = sending the Eicar.com attachment). Run XMail in debug mode and check the output. You need to run it from the command line since the debug output goes to stdout and not to a file. To enable logging you need to add the appropriate switches. Try: |export MAIL_ROOT=/var/MailRoot /var/MailRoot/bin/XMail --debug -Md -Pl -Sl -Fl -Cl -Ll | Note that the second character of each switch is a lower case L. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: AV Config
Dale Qualls wrote: Thanks much! Can I run that line from the startup script so logging is always enabled? = Can you give me any tips on how to do so? You need to edit the XMail startup script. If you use SysV it should be installed in /etc/init.d or /etc/rc.d/init.d. Change the XMAIL_CMD_LINE parameter to include the switches you wish to use. Something like this: XMAIL_CMD_LINE=-Md -Pl -Sl -Ql -Yl -Fl -Cl -Ll I'll add a description of this into my Guide so that it will be clearer for future users. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Supplement to AV post...
Dale Qualls wrote: I have Sendmail.pm running now I think. I installed SendMail.pm v 2.09 = from http://www.tneoh.zoneit.com/perl/SendMail/ and it compiled correctly, = but it created SendMail.pm (note the capital M). I renamed it to = Sendmail.pm and copied it to a folder named Mail that I created under = /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.0.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/ (or something like = thatI got confused). I don't think this is the right perl script. You should be using the Mail-Sendmail script. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Details about next release ?
Peter Lindeman wrote: Davide Libenzi wrote: can you give some details about the next release? What can we expect ? :) 1) IMAP 2) Calendar 3) UUCP support 4) Integrated AV 5) Integrated SPAM filters 6) Integrated auto-reply 7) Integrated parental control Only one of the above is true. Guess? :-) I hope 7 ;-)) Yeah and I'll give the key to my Dad. Maybe then he can get me to stop playing with XMail and do my homework like a good boy. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Details about next release ?
Davide Libenzi wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Harald Schneider wrote: Davide, can you give some details about the next release? What can we expect ? :) 1) IMAP 2) Calendar 3) UUCP support 4) Integrated AV 5) Integrated SPAM filters 6) Integrated auto-reply 7) Integrated parental control Only one of the above is true. Guess? :-) If you put in parental contol does this mean I'll finally be able to control my parents? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Starting with xmail
yahoo wrote: Thanks for the reply. How stable is the current version? The linux version is extremely stable. I've never had a crash and I haven't heard any discussion on this list regarding crashes or major failures for any of the supported OSs. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: av script not stopping
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 11:37, you wrote: Hi Benny: Funny - never thought to try that myself - I'll try playing around with that myself next time I see a hung process. However, the file in the slog directory is substantially different from the message in the mess directory - the file is a log of XMail's delivery attempts for the message (good for debugging frozen and/or bounced messages). If you're looking for an actual message file in the correct spool format, you'll probably want to log in the froz directory instead. Kirk OK, here's a crazy thought. Benny hung the script by read an incorrectly formatted file. Could there be an exploit out there that screws with the mail headers and causes the same problem? Just throwing out ideas here. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: av script not stopping
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 12:05, you wrote: Hi Jeff: That thought had occurred to me - but since (at least in my case) by the time I notice a hung filter, the file is no longer in the spool, I haven't had a chance to examine it. Looking through the filter errors in my /var/log/messages, the sender's addresses all look spammy, so maybe there's a fubar spam mailer out there that has some screwed headers etc. in it? Again, without being able to recover the actual message spool file, there's no way to tell, and I'm just making (hopefully educated) guesses... Kirk. If we're on the right track here, then having the script log the input data to a temp file before processing and deleting it when finished might be useful. When a process hangs the undeleted temp file would still be there for forensic examination, unless of course the argument itself causes the error. Either way we'd know more than we know now :-) We'll have to see what Peter thinks of our ramblings. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: av script not stopping
Hey All, I just remembered that my SpamAssassin daemon, spamd, died the same night that I had checkvirus.pl hang. I didn't think much of it at the time but... neither program had any problems in 6+ weeks prior to that. Coincidence? Did anyone else have that happen? Jeff On Tuesday 09 December 2003 09:48, you wrote: Hi Everyone, I am running Suse Linux with XMail ver 1.16 and using Peter Lindmans AV script. The problem I am having is that the script is not always dying so I end up with like 15 processes of it just hanging there in limbo??? I have two servers doing the exact same thing and it just slows them down big time. Any ideas? Ben - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: av script not stopping
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 16:27, you wrote: Benny wrote: The only other information that might help is that I am using ClamAV and ONLY clamav for my virus scanning. Plus, the only other filter I am using is the SpamAssassin filter. I have the SpamAssassin filter running first and then Peter's AV script. These filters are running for ONLY the filters.in.tab I am going to turn off the SpamAssassin filter by removing it from filters.in.tab. Then i will see if it happens or as often and post back here. Does it make a change when you first run the AV script and then Spamassasin? This is how it works here in filters.in.tab * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 av-filter.tab * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 safilter.tab Is it a possibility that the AV script is started but the message is allready dropped by the sa filter? Hi Peter I have 2 servers set up exactly this way with the AV fllter first, and I've had the problem in both of them now. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Mail List Managers
Hi All, I'm interested in knowing what mailing list managers have been sucessfully used with XMail. I know that Ecartis and Mailman are being used. Are there any others? What are the relative strengths and weaknesses of the different packages? Things like ease of installation, reliability, ease of use, security, features. Thoughts? Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Beginner's Guide
As always, I welcome any comments, suggestions, or criticisms. I hope this is helpful. Jeff You could also add installing Mailman with Xmail so users can choose between Ecartis and Mailman. I have made install notes here: http://xmailforum.homelinux.net/index.php?showtopic=1179 --Sasa Good idea, I'll give it a try Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Beginner's Guide
Hi Everyone, There is an updated version of my Beginner's Guide now available here. http://www.ubaight.com/xmail/BeginnersGuide.html For those of you who haven't seen the draft, The Guide has been completely re-written and has a number of new sections. If you read the draft then the only substantial change is the addition of a section on installing the Ecartis mailing list manager. The link above permanently replaces the previous link so if anyone linked to the previous version they should update their page. As always, I welcome any comments, suggestions, or criticisms. I hope this is helpful. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Remove password in pop3 log and CtrlClnt userlist command
On Saturday 29 November 2003 19:56, Michael Hauck wrote: Hi everyone! I'm using XMail on my server and it runs very nicely. The only thing I don't like is the output of the unencrypted password in the pop3 log and when I use the userlist command in the CtrlClnt tool. I don't think the admin has to know user passwords. Is there an easy way to change this? I have had a look at the code but it's not very well documented (or I simply missed the documentation...). I tried editing the CTRLDo_userlist function but that didn't help. Thanks! mike Hi Mike, This was discussed at length on this list a few months ago. Many of us are concerned about XMail storing passwords in log files, particularly unencrypted ones. Davide's point is that the logs are only accessable by root so it doesn't make any difference if the log shows passwords. At this point my recommendation is: If you are concerned about this use Mike Howeth's system or any other configuration that gives those files additional protection. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
