[courier-users] Re: New Discussions

2003-11-10 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Vincent Lee writes: Hi, Just have a few new questions I faced would like to ask for help, as follows: 1) I'm using 2 Courier mail server, running Solaris 9 with Courier-MTA latest version, which 1 server shared the whole Courier /etc config directory to another server. But unfortunately, ESMT

Re: [courier-users] Re: New Discussions

2003-11-10 Thread Systems Administrator
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Vincent Lee writes: > > > Hi, > > > > Just have a few new questions I faced would like to ask for help, as > > follows: > > > > 1) I'm using 2 Courier mail server, running Solaris 9 with Courier-MTA > > latest version, which 1 server shared the whole C

RE: [courier-users] Re: New Discussions

2003-11-10 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
Same wrote: >> 2) How to send an email to whole userdb mail user account? >Write a shell script to do that. Maybe this is a dumb question... or maybe it has been asked and answered... but could I hard link a file directly to the "new" folder of all my users (resulting in a single copy of the d

Re: [courier-users] Re: New Discussions

2003-11-11 Thread Vincent Lee
Sam, Thanks. I think I got the idea for items (2) and (3). But for number 1, the error occured when I try to run the default init script provided in Courier website, installation section. While I run it, it will cause another server ESMTPD service not running and cause "courieresmtpd: [ID 702911

Re: [courier-users] Re: New Discussions

2003-11-11 Thread Vincent Lee
ay, November 11, 2003 8:32 PM Subject: Re: [courier-users] Re: New Discussions Sam, Thanks. I think I got the idea for items (2) and (3). But for number 1, the error occured when I try to run the default init script provided in Courier website, installation section. While I run it, it will c

Re: [courier-users] Re: New Discussions

2003-11-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
Vincent Lee wrote: The original init script works only with 2 esmtpd servers, after I commented the sections as follows:- makealiases makesmtpaccess & -msa esmtpdcert Beware that you'll continue having trouble as long as you use GDBM files on an NFS mount. --

Re: [courier-users] Re: New Discussions

2003-11-12 Thread Vincent Lee
t. Rgrds, Vincent - Original Message - From: "Gordon Messmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:12 AM Subject: Re: [courier-users] Re: New Discussions Vincent Lee wrote: > The original init script works only with

Re: [courier-users] Re: New Discussions

2003-11-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
Vincent Lee wrote: What you mean of having troble in using GDBM files on an NFS mount? What kind of issues it can be, which using GDBM files? Any examples? I have running both mail servers using NFS share courier config for 1 day, it seems okay at the moment, but I done any 'reboot' on machine yet.

Re: [courier-users] Re: New Discussions

2003-11-12 Thread Vincent Lee
Gordon, I see. This is bad. In that case, do you have any solution or idea to take care this problem? Vincent - Original Message - From: "Gordon Messmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Courier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:59 AM

Re: [courier-users] Re: New Discussions

2003-11-12 Thread Jon Nelson
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Vincent Lee wrote: > Gordon, > > I see. This is bad. > In that case, do you have any solution or idea to take care this problem? Yes. A shell script that sleeps 10 seconds and stats the files that /may/ be updated.. Once updated, simply issue a 'courier restart' and continue

Re: [courier-users] Re: New Discussions

2003-11-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
Vincent Lee wrote: I see. This is bad. In that case, do you have any solution or idea to take care this problem? Right now, I share a master copy of etc/courier on an nfs mounted directory. This copy does not have any .dat files. Periodically, I rsync that dir to /etc/courier, and run 'makealia

Re: [courier-users] Re: New Discussions

2003-11-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
Gordon Messmer wrote: Another possibility would be to use etc/courier on an NFS mounted directory, and symlink each .dat file to /var/local/etc/courier/ (create the dir yourself). Modify each make* script to keep the dat files in that location. The attached patch would modify makealiases to do

RE: [courier-users] Re: New Discussions

2003-11-13 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
just result in a few retransmits wouldn't it? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gordon Messmer Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 2:38 PM Cc: Courier Subject: Re: [courier-users] Re: New Discussions Gordon Messmer wrote: > > Another p

Re: [courier-users] Re: New Discussions

2003-11-13 Thread Vincent Lee
8 AM Subject: Re: [courier-users] Re: New Discussions Gordon Messmer wrote: > > Another possibility would be to use etc/courier on an NFS mounted > directory, and symlink each .dat file to /var/local/etc/courier/ (create > the dir yourself). Modify each make* script to keep the dat f

RE: [courier-users] Re: New Discussions

2003-11-13 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
u would need to restart all the servers after rebuilding any of the DB files which are used. m/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Vincent Lee Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 7:58 AM To: Gordon Messmer Cc: Courier Subject: Re: [courier-users] Re:

Re: [courier-users] Re: New Discussions

2003-11-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
Mitch (WebCob) wrote: Perhaps a dumb question, or two... To create new dat files and invalidate the old file handles the make* scripts have to be run - the script which calls these could call all the appropriate courier restarts - couldn't it? In the window between these new events, the temporary