HI ALL,
IS there a way of flushing the qmail queue - PLEASE HELP!!!
Many thanks
_Tonino
At 10:51 27/01/00 +0200, the wonderful TAG said:
HI ALL,
IS there a way of flushing the qmail queue - PLEASE HELP!!!
kill -ALRM qmail-send
or, if you're using memphis RPMS:
/etc/rc.d/inet.d/qmail.init alrm
all explained at http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/admin.html#queuerun
peter
--
peter at
At 01:16 27.1.2000 -0500, you wrote:
| Hi
| I'm a new qmail user having a problem with relays. I'm using tcpserver
| with 3 domains in rcpthosts and the following in etc/tcp.smtp
|
| 192.168.1.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
| 127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
|
| According to what I've read, this should allow
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 09:41:34PM -0800, Faried Nawaz wrote:
Russell Nelson wrote:
Faried Nawaz writes:
And how does someone with /bin/false as their shell put commands in their
.qmail files?
The sysadmin put /bin/false into /etc/shells, and now ftp lets them
deposit
Hi everyone!
Is it possible to set qmail to only allow authenticated smtp session to
send messages ??
RFC 2554
Any hints?
We use qmail to send out large subscriber emagazine/newsletter mailings (2
million messages/week), and we seem to have a problem with some subscribers
getting duplicates. I have seen fixes for duplicates on inbound mail, but
does anyone know how to address our problem on outbound mail. Onelist
Hi,
I received a message from orbs.org that our mailhost is relay server. I
thought I fixed the problem by installing ucspi-tcp-0.84 but when I checked
our mailhost on http://www.abuse.net/relay.html I got the following relay
error:
Relay test 6
RSET
250 flushed
MAIL
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 11:46:19AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 11:38:20AM +0100, Erwin van Kroonenburg wrote:
Hi,
I received a message from orbs.org that our mailhost is relay server. I
thought I fixed the problem by installing ucspi-tcp-0.84 but when I
qmail Digest 27 Jan 2000 11:00:01 - Issue 893
Topics (messages 36122 through 36219):
Re: SetEnv QMAILSUSER not working in Apache conf
36122 by: Vince Vielhaber
36132 by: Chris Hardie
qmail and dnscache
36123 by: Petr Novotny
36131 by: iv0
36133 by:
Hi,
With qmail-qread, qmail-qstat and qmHandle, I can watch the queue, but
how can I see the current open stmp session that are receiving messages? And
how can I get more information about these messages?
Best regards,
Ari
Pavel Kankovsky wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Russell Nelson wrote:
2. qmail-send is run as root?
Yup. Well, qmail-start is run as root. Along the line it gives up
its rootness, becoming qmail-send, and leaving only qmail-lspawn
running as root.
Login is run as root. It
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 10:02:45AM +0100, Dr. Erwin Hoffmann wrote:
Hi,
try my SPAMCONTROL Patch I posted into this group recently.
However, I really advise everybody NOT to use the LOOPBACK address to be
included in the relaying control mechanism. Its easy enough to fake that.
It's easy
HI,
Is there a way of sending all users a broadcast message??
--Many thans
Tonino
Hi
This is more of a petty annoyance than anything else, but I'd like to
know if anyone else has experienced it. I recently was contacted by a
user saying that they were getting bounce messages back each time they
tried to send mail to a particular local address. Upon further
investigation it
I just noticed in my logs that a specific host, mrelay0.starwave.com keeps
opening a smtp connection every minute or so. Should I just outright deny
this connection from connecting or is there a way to find out what is going
on?
Nothing shows up in my logs as far as something being delivered.
Peter Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 10:39:46AM -0500, Tim Hunter wrote:
I just noticed in my logs that a specific host, mrelay0.starwave.com keeps
opening a smtp connection every minute or so. Should I just outright deny
this connection from connecting or is there a
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 10:39:46AM -0500, Tim Hunter wrote:
I just noticed in my logs that a specific host, mrelay0.starwave.com keeps
opening a smtp connection every minute or so. Should I just outright deny
this connection from connecting or is there a way to find out what is going
on?
Any ideas???
Encourage your users to hate Outlook ...
Regards, Frank
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is more of a petty annoyance than anything else, but I'd like to
know if anyone else has experienced it. I recently was contacted by a
user saying that they were getting bounce messages back each time they
tried to send mail to a particular local address. Upon
"Eric LaLonde" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've moved the file /var/spool/mail/user to ~user/Mailbox and made a
symbolic link back to /var/spool/mail/user, but it doesn't seem to
stay. It will say that I have new mail in /var/spool/mail/user, and
then when i go to view that mail via 'mail', it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I sent to a mailing list it ques the entire list (175,000 addresses)
then the que takes forever (24 hours) to deliver. Anyway to speed this up?
The server is a dedicated P 450, 128Meg, RedHat. Dedicated to qmail.
1. Increase concurrencyremote. Rebuild with
John White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Symptoms: users can issue USER and PASS commands, but an immediate
-ERR unable to write pipe
is issued.
contents of
/service/qmail-pop3d/run:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \
triceratops.com
"Randolph S. Kahle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"[...] deferral: Connected_to_151.xxx.x.xx_but_connection_died._(#4.4.2)/"
The email is being send to an address person_name@company.com that
works when I send the email through another SMTP server. So, I thought this
might be a DNS problem. I
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 10:39:46AM -0500, Tim Hunter wrote:
I just noticed in my logs that a specific host, mrelay0.starwave.com keeps
opening a smtp connection every minute or so. Should I just outright deny
this connection from connecting or is there a way to find out what is going
on?
Chris Readle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Chris Readle wrote:
I'm having a bit of strand queue behaviour. Basically I've got 50+ (I
think 54, without looking) local-bound messages in the queue that I
cannot get to flush no matter what I try. I've tried sending an ALRM, a
HUP,
Greetings!
I am using qmail with FreeBSD 3.3, and when my users telnet in, ssh in or
login from a terminal, it does not tell them they have new mail, when they
do (in the case of ssh, it says "no mail" regardless). I am using
/home/user/Mailbox for delivery. For telnet, I'm using telnetd via
They may be sending a bare linefeed in the message. Qmail seems to have
this problem. From what I understand it's not gonna be fixed bacause it's
the other server's fault not a qmail problem.
Paul Farber
Farber Technology
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ph 570-628-5303
Fax 570-628-5545
On Thu, 27 Jan
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 09:12:44AM -0800, Scott Schappell wrote:
Greetings!
I am using qmail with FreeBSD 3.3, and when my users telnet in, ssh in or
login from a terminal, it does not tell them they have new mail, when they
do (in the case of ssh, it says "no mail" regardless). I am using
Scott Schappell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am using qmail with FreeBSD 3.3, and when my users telnet in, ssh in or
login from a terminal, it does not tell them they have new mail, when they
do (in the case of ssh, it says "no mail" regardless). I am using
/home/user/Mailbox for delivery.
From: "Mark E. Drummond" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 23:16:20 -0500
Wrong-o! Want to send a nicely formatted proposal (with appropriate
highlights etc) to the department director so you can get funding for
that million dollar server upgrade project? Good luck doing it in
"Scott Schappell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am using qmail with FreeBSD 3.3, and when my users telnet in, ssh in or
login from a terminal, it does not tell them they have new mail, when they
do (in the case of ssh, it says "no mail" regardless). I am using
/home/user/Mailbox for
"Jeff Russell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This account is not on the list, but if you could respond to this I'd
appreciate it.
I'm not sure if this is qmail or not, but I can't send messages outside of
our firewall, nor can I get messages in.
What happens when you try? They disappear? They
Thomas Schachner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it possible to set qmail to only allow authenticated smtp session to
send messages ??
RFC 2554
I don't know if it's RFC 2554, but there are patches on www.qmail.org
that implement SMTP authentication.
-Dave
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Andras Tudos - Computronic, C3 wrote:
At 2000.01.24 20:58, Monday, you wrote:
On 24/01 19:28, Andras Tudos - Computronic, C3 wrote:
I have an operational theory question: when the load in a qmail setup
[...snip...]
not occur in a sendmail or other MTA based
Joe Millay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
QUESTION #1:
The [LWQ] instructions say there should be a file named INSTALL.ids in the
source directory. I couldn't find it, so per the instructions I added:
alias:*:7790:2108::/var/qmail/alias:/bin/true
qmaild:*:7791:2108::/var/qmail:/bin/true
Scott Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do I set *.domain as a local delivery in
/var/qmail/control/locals or do I need to do something entirly
different?
There's no wildcard mechanism for control/locals. You'll need to list
all of the domains.
-Dave
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Question: How can i configure same name for two different domains. As alias
in QMAIL directory forwards the mail only through the user name and it
doesn't see the domain name. I feel the problem can be sorted out by "
Virtual Domain " concept.
Kindly suggest is
"Chris Garrigues" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sounds like a job for PDF. It'll even look the same everywhere.
Or a URL pointing to HTML on a local web server.
-Dave
Hi
Is it possible to stop qmail sending or receiving email if the from: and to:
fields contain incomplete addresses i.e. username and not
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Your help is really appreciated.
Faried Nawaz wrote:
Chris Readle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Chris Readle wrote:
I'm having a bit of strand queue behaviour. Basically I've got 50+ (I
think 54, without looking) local-bound messages in the queue that I
cannot get to flush no matter what I try. I've tried
"Adil Tahiri" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it possible to stop qmail sending or receiving email if the from: and to:
fields contain incomplete addresses i.e. username and not
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
qmail doesn't look at the From: or To: fields. It uses the SMTP
envelope addresses. There's no easy way
Thanks for all the suggestions and answers. In the end, though, I tried
the simple fix of:
# ln -s /home/user/Mailbox user
# chown user file
# chgrp group user
# chmod 500 user
and it worked just fine, whether connecting via telnet, ssh or a term. Only
odd thing I noticed was that the owner
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 12:48:51PM -0500, Dave Sill wrote:
Scott Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do I set *.domain as a local delivery in
/var/qmail/control/locals or do I need to do something entirly
different?
There's no wildcard mechanism for control/locals. You'll need to list
all of
I sent this separately to Robert, then realized he wasn't the original
questioner :). From what I noticed, in my locals file all it says is:
localhost
silvertree.org
And any mail addressed to user@sub.silvertree.org gets delivered as a
local. As an example, I have the following hosts:
tintagel
Using the straight script out of LWQ a: script stop
will kill smtpd and pop3 supervise, but not the underlying
tcpserver and then restarting doesn't work becasue the port
is bound.
Here's the run files:
#!/bin/sh
QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild`
NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild`
exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m
Mark E. Drummond wrote:
Wrong-o! Want to send a nicely formatted proposal (with appropriate
highlights etc) to the department director so you can get funding for
that million dollar server upgrade project? Good luck doing
it in plain text. And tables?
Actually, I've never seen anyone do
I have 36 messages which appear to be permanently stuck in the queue,
I'm running qmail 1.03 with the holdremote patch on Mandrake Linux
6.1.
Normally everything runs quite smoothly but I sent a *lot* of mail
(by my standards!) last night, probably a few hundred messages in
ten minutes or so and
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On 27 Jan 00, at 20:31, Chris Green wrote:
I have tried 'kill -ALRM qmail-send' but that doesn't seem to
encourage anything to happen.
Try running qmail-tcpok _before_ ALRMing qmail-send.
What do I have to do to get rid of these
messages? It
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 09:39:58PM -, Petr Novotny wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On 27 Jan 00, at 20:31, Chris Green wrote:
I have tried 'kill -ALRM qmail-send' but that doesn't seem to
encourage anything to happen.
Try running qmail-tcpok _before_ ALRMing
Chris Readle wrote:
Faried Nawaz wrote:
Chris Readle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Chris Readle wrote:
I'm having a bit of strand queue behaviour. Basically I've got 50+ (I
think 54, without looking) local-bound messages in the queue that I
cannot get to flush no
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 12:39:11PM -0800, Mark Delany wrote:
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 08:31:09PM +, Chris Green wrote:
I have 36 messages which appear to be permanently stuck in the queue,
I'm running qmail 1.03 with the holdremote patch on Mandrake Linux
6.1.
Normally everything
Hi All!
How can I get the MX record for my domain? I don't have direct access to the
DNS.
Thanks
JES
* Juan E Suris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [27 Jan 2000 18:47]:
How can I get the MX record for my domain? I don't have direct access to the
DNS.
If you mean: How do I register the MX record for my domain:
When you registered the domain, there were at least two
DNS entries. Get the
Thanks.
My problems is that remote mail is not arriving. The qmail logs shows no
SMTP acitivity what so ever, so this lead me to think that the MX is wrong,
but to my untrained eye it seems right.
[suris@domain qmail]# host -t mx domain.com
domain.com.domain.com is a nickname for www.domain.com
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 07:25:09PM -0500, Juan E Suris wrote:
Thanks.
My problems is that remote mail is not arriving. The qmail logs shows no
SMTP acitivity what so ever, so this lead me to think that the MX is wrong,
but to my untrained eye it seems right.
[suris@domain qmail]# host -t
Anyway, in your case it looks like you have your MX record pointing at a
CNAME.
Don't do that.
And, of course, fire your DNS admin. BIND will complain very clearly in
the logs if you're pointing MX at a CNAME. If they haven't been watching
the logs, then they are asking for very large
I am sorry if I was annoying, but my server has not been security tested yet
so I don't want to make it public until it is. When the time is right I will
not be so _annoying_.
CNAME?
JES
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 07:25:09PM -0500, Juan E Suris wrote:
Thanks.
My problems is that remote mail
Title: RE: FLUSH QUEUE
properly reading the documentation will reveil that if you send an ALRM to qmail-send daemon, it will then start flushing the queue, although qmail will do this automatically after a while of idling
--Stephen
-Original Message-
From: root [mailto:root]On
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 09:23:39PM -0800, Faried Nawaz wrote:
Stig Hackvän wrote:
qmail invokes commands with /bin/sh regardless of the user's login shell, so even
if a user has /bin/false for a shell, that user's .qmail file can be used to gain
shell access.
And how does someone with
It's probably not a good idea to be using an ftp config that allows users
with non-real shells to log in. That's generally considered a Bad Thing
(tm). If you really want something that supports virtual-style users well,
look into NcFTPd. It's (mostly) commercial, and closed-soruce, but it does
I recently "upgraded" to the latest versions of ucspi-tcp and
daemontools on my qmail based MX. Although it seems to be operating just
fine, I get the following messages on the console:
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-send/supervise/lock: temporary
failure
supervise: fatal: unable to
Chris Garrigues wrote:
Sounds like a job for PDF. It'll even look the same everywhere.
PDF is very nice, I'd love to see it as a defacto standard, if not PS,
but Acrobat costs $$$ and I refuse to spend $$$ on something when a
perfectly good (free) alternative is available. Not only do I work
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 08:07:28PM -0800, Stig Hackvän wrote:
is it reasonable to use the shell field of the password database to permit or deny
shell access to a username. qmail should respect this.
The problem, as I see it, is that qmail is more flexible than e.g. sendmail
and not only
On 27-Jan-00 Scott Schappell wrote:
SNIP
That also has to assume the MX entry is correct
for his domain, that all mail goes to that machine.
In my example: silvertree.org IN MX 10 arthur.silvertree.org.
The FAQ I am referencing is:
http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/incominghost.html#local
SNIP
On 27-Jan-00 Robert Sander wrote:
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 12:48:51PM -0500, Dave Sill wrote:
Scott Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do I set *.domain as a local delivery in
/var/qmail/control/locals or do I need to do something entirly
different?
There's no wildcard mechanism for
Hi,
I am working on qmail-1.03 on red-hat linux 6.1.
I accidently deleted files named 1, 2, 3, etc from
/var/qmail/queue/local and mess.
now qmail shows:
Jan 28 12:09:57 alok qmail: 949041597.388541 alert: unable to opendir
mess/0, sleeping...
Jan 28 12:10:07 alok qmail: 949041607.398535 alert:
The DNScache package includes a dnstrace tool that's designed to debug
these problems. ``dnstrace 15 briefme.com 192.5.5.241'' shows that
* one of the briefme.com servers is down;
* one of the servers says briefme.com MX remove-it.com;
* the other three servers listed by the parent
Sir,
I am using Qmail and I want
to receive mail for "mynet.com.pk" and want to forward it to our another
mailserver
"welcome.mynet.com.pk" for
relaying. But I want to make the Qmail an open relay too. So i deleted
recpthosts to make open relay. I
put "mynet.com.pk" in locals
but not
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