mailbox dir

2000-06-16 Thread Vince
i configured qmail succesfully but my problem is whenever i sent an email to one of the users where my qmail was install i cant find the mail. in sendmail i know it was var/spool/mail where can i check that in qmail?

Re: mailbox dir

2000-06-16 Thread Kristina
What does your /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery file say? The most probable location is /home/username/Mailbox or /home/username/Maildir/cur, new, tmp At 15:30 00/06/16 +0800, you wrote: i configured qmail succesfully but my problem is whenever i sent an email to one of the users

Re: mailbox dir

2000-06-16 Thread List
You may try a 'ps -ef|grep qmail` and see if the appropriate qmail programs are running. Looking also at your log files may help in case there are errors. It is also important to note how you configured your qmail to deliver messages. This is what Vince said: i configured qmail

Re: mailbox dir

2000-06-16 Thread Vince
i have this message in my log file when i send a mail Jun 16 17:15:51 procmail qmail: 961146951.320518 delivery 25: deferral: Uh-oh:_home_directory_is_writable._(#4.7.0)/ Jun 16 17:15:51 procmail qmail: 961146951.323302 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 At 04:17 PM 6/16/00 +0800, you wrote:

Re: mailbox dir

2000-06-16 Thread List
Remove the write permissions for group and others from the directory. Qmail is pretty strict on permissions. This is what Vince said: i have this message in my log file when i send a mail Jun 16 17:15:51 procmail qmail: 961146951.320518 delivery 25: deferral:

Re: qmqpc/+env docs

2000-06-16 Thread mwangu
Peter, Thank you for your response. This will come in handy. The reason I was hoping there was a Perl way to do this, i.e. qmqpc messages into the qmail queue is for testing purposes for another app I am working on. Mike. --- Peter Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, mwangu

Re: mailbox dir

2000-06-16 Thread Kristina
Make sure you have this: % groupadd -g 110 qmgr ( A group id above 100) % useradd -u 120 -g 110 mailuser (A group id above 100) % chgrp qmgr /home % chmod 775 /home Goodluck, Kristina At 17:09 00/06/16 +0800, you wrote: Remove the write permissions for group and others from the directory.

qmail Digest 16 Jun 2000 10:00:00 -0000 Issue 1034

2000-06-16 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 16 Jun 2000 10:00:00 - Issue 1034 Topics (messages 43130 through 43202): Re: big-* patches and FD_SET() 43130 by: clemensF 43132 by: Petr Novotny Re: Help on qmail-qstat 43131 by: clemensF 43142 by: Dave Kelly qmail and pop3 43133 by:

Re: Help on qmail-qstat

2000-06-16 Thread System Administrator
Hi dave thanks for your help. but i have a problem now. i.e. there is no file with that name in the control directory. just by creating that file, help ? please let me know as soon as possible. regards, On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Dave Kelly wrote: If you have messages in the queue that are 4-5

Re: Help on qmail-qstat

2000-06-16 Thread Steffan Hoeke
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 07:02:55PM +0530, System Administrator wrote: Hi dave thanks for your help. but i have a problem now. i.e. there is no file with that name in the control directory. just by creating that file, help ? please let me know as soon as possible. If the file isn't

Re: Help on qmail-qstat

2000-06-16 Thread System Administrator
Hi steffan thanks for your prompt reply. i will do the necessary. On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Steffan Hoeke wrote: On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 07:02:55PM +0530, System Administrator wrote: please let me know as soon as possible. If the file isn't there it defaults to the mentioned 604800, i.e. one

secondry mail server setup

2000-06-16 Thread mandarine
Hi there What is the best way to setup qmail as a secondary mail server for a domain name, ie something.com has 2 MX records, second MX points to a mail server running qmail. I need qmail to act as a fallback server, if the first (also qmail :) goes down or si busy. Whats the best way of doing

Re: MX and POP3 on 2 machines

2000-06-16 Thread Michael T. Babcock
I'm going to try using a mini-qmail install as per the 'what about firewalls' section of that page. I'm wondering what facilities exist for distributing some of the Qmail work across two machines in the following way: 'mx.ourdomain' accepts connections from the outside world and handles

Re: [PATCH] Transparent maildir compression.

2000-06-16 Thread Michael T. Babcock
This would probably be most useful on machines with more CPU than drive space. Mind you, drive space does tend to be cheaper these days than CPU time. I'd be interested in stats on storage difference of 1000 E-mails with and without the patch, as well as CPU time used with and without. I doubt

Re: [PATCH] Transparent maildir compression.

2000-06-16 Thread jedi
Michael T. Babcock écrit: This would probably be most useful on machines with more CPU than drive space. Mind you, drive space does tend to be cheaper these days than CPU time. It depends on your email traffic. A small company usually has a single box for web/ftp/mail/fax/dns and no more

Re: [PATCH] Transparent maildir compression.

2000-06-16 Thread John P. Looney (Kate)
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 02:55:56PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: Michael T. Babcock écrit: This would probably be most useful on machines with more CPU than drive space. Mind you, drive space does tend to be cheaper these days than CPU time. It depends on your email traffic. A

Re: secondry mail server setup

2000-06-16 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 07:10:52AM -0700, mandarine wrote: What is the best way to setup qmail as a secondary mail server for a domain name, ie something.com has 2 MX records, second MX points to a mail server running qmail. I need qmail to act as a fallback server, if the first (also

Limiting SMTP connections

2000-06-16 Thread Michael T. Babcock
For those who know the SMTP protocol better than I: If I limit my incoming SMTP connections on a box to something small, say 5, what does happens to further incomings; are they simply ignored, or NAK'd, or what? And on what % of servers out there will this mean that the message bounces entirely

tcprules script

2000-06-16 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Does anyone have a quick script to check if a given tcprules file is newer than the .cdb version and generate the new one if it is? I'm not a big shell-script person. In other words, I'll write it in C if I have to ... -- _/~-=##=-~\_ -=+0+=- Michael T. Babcock

Re: Limiting SMTP connections

2000-06-16 Thread mandarine
the MTA connecting will fail and retry in which ever way it is configured, after having tried other IN MX on the domain. nicholas -- On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 11:19:27 Michael T. Babcock wrote: For those who know the SMTP protocol better than I: If I limit my incoming SMTP connections on a box

Re: tcprules script

2000-06-16 Thread Michael T. Babcock
I need to quit answering myself ... http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~pgp/linux/newer-0.1.tar.gz Returns 1 if first file is newer, 2 if second is newer, 0 if neither is. (I don't know if anyone else wanted this, but ...) "Michael T. Babcock" wrote: Does anyone have a quick script to check if

Re: Large Mail Cluster Questions

2000-06-16 Thread DGranath
I have to grow the system from a capability of 250K msg/day up to as much as 2.5M/day. I have to add virus detection, spam filters, and seperation for an encryption trunk. I'm assuming as many as five boxes in the cluster - I will have the baseline system online while I do this and then use the

Re: Large Mail Cluster Questions

2000-06-16 Thread markd
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 04:13:18PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to grow the system from a capability of 250K msg/day up to as much as 2.5M/day. I have to add virus detection, spam filters, and seperation for an encryption trunk. I'm assuming as many as five boxes in the cluster -

Interesting disclosure of domains subscribed to qmail list

2000-06-16 Thread markd
I know, I know, posting to both lists? But, tinydns made this easy and qmail is the list in question, so... I was just watching the tinydns logs when I mailed a message to the qmail mailing list. All of a sudden the query rate on my reply-address domain shot up as the log tail slid across the

ucspi-ipc is now available

2000-06-16 Thread William E. Baxter
The message below went to [EMAIL PROTECTED] yesterday. A number of people I expected to see it evidently did not. Please pardon the scattershot approach. W. The ucspi-ipc-0.50 package is now available. Please see the ucspi-ipc home page: http://www.superscript.com/ucspi-ipc/intro.html

Re: Large Mail Cluster Questions

2000-06-16 Thread Steve Wolfe
I have to grow the system from a capability of 250K msg/day up to as much as 2.5M/day. I have to add virus detection, spam filters, and seperation for an encryption trunk. I'm assuming as many as five boxes in the cluster - I will have the baseline system online while I do this and then use

Problems downloading via POP3

2000-06-16 Thread Andy Grimberg
I just recently setup a qmail server with vpopmail as the virtual domain / pop manager. I'm encountering a problem though. Users with "large" messages 10K are having problems retrieving their messages. The clients start pulling the messages but get stuck and eventually timeout on these

Re: Large Mail Cluster Questions

2000-06-16 Thread DGranath
The original estimate was that this would be evenly split 50/50 in/out. But I don't believe this. Our marketing/sales guys are really pushing the volume up on the outbound side. And new services will be added... I don't think I'll get real numbers until it's too late. I'm looking for a scalable

NT / Qmail interoperation

2000-06-16 Thread Jackson, Robert
Currently, we receive our incoming mail via NT Exchange server. We do not currently use our IBM RS6000 for any internet email purposes (ie, I am in unfamiliar territory with this project). Since our core business applications exist on the IBM system, I would like to develop the application that

RE: tcprules script

2000-06-16 Thread Kevin Bucknum
test also works with the newer than parm if test file1 -nt file2; then do something fi man test for all the options -Original Message- From: mbabcock [mailto:mbabcock]On Behalf Of Michael T. Babcock Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 11:04 AM To: qmail list Subject: Re: tcprules script

Re: NT / Qmail interoperation

2000-06-16 Thread markd
This is pretty trivial to do. All you need is a standard qmail install with a single entry in /var/qmail/control/smtproutes which points to your exchange server. That way all mail submitted to qmail will be forward via smtp to your exchange server. You may want to set concurrencyremote

Re: Large Mail Cluster Questions

2000-06-16 Thread markd
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 07:07:51PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The original estimate was that this would be evenly split 50/50 in/out. But I don't believe this. Our marketing/sales guys are really pushing the volume up on the outbound side. And new services will be added... I don't think

Re: Password problems:

2000-06-16 Thread Z
well, what i decided to do was switch to qpopper and use the --enable-home-dir-mail=Mailbox and it worked fine. now one thing that i don't understand is the rcpthosts file. it seems like it would be a file that would decide who gets to use qmail as the SMTP server, but when i try to send a

Help with startup Script

2000-06-16 Thread Jürgen Hoffmann
Hi everyone, first I am new to qmail and I am using qmail with vpopmail and mysql support. I have several questions: Using the startup-scripts from www.inter7.com plus the startup scripts from My Life with qmail (of course I have adjusted the scripts from life with qmail to the needs of vpopmail

Ascii art summary

2000-06-16 Thread Alan Chandler
I am new to this list having just about set up qmail on a home network linux server for the first time. I spent hours over a number of days pouring through the documentation and the qmail.org web site looking for help - and whilst I think I now have a picture NOWHERE could I find a summary of

Re: Ascii art summary

2000-06-16 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 11:04:59PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: NOTE: you must restart qmail whenever one of 'control files' are changed. That's only true for some of them. Lots of them are read for every invocation of qmail-smtpd or qmail-remote, for example, and qmail-send can be told of new

Re: Password problems:

2000-06-16 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 03:33:20PM -0500, Z wrote: well, what i decided to do was switch to qpopper and use the --enable-home-dir-mail=Mailbox and it worked fine. now one thing that i don't understand is the rcpthosts file. it seems like it would be a file that would decide who gets to

Re: mailbox dir

2000-06-16 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 06:52:49PM +0900, Kristina wrote: Make sure you have this: % groupadd -g 110 qmgr ( A group id above 100) % useradd -u 120 -g 110 mailuser (A group id above 100) % chgrp qmgr /home % chmod 775 /home The user "mailuser" is allowed to create file/directories in

Re: Interesting disclosure of domains subscribed to qmail list

2000-06-16 Thread Markus Stumpf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] deleted from recipients. On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 09:34:43AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know, I know, posting to both lists? But, tinydns made this easy and qmail is the list in question, so... The reason I'm pointing this out is that I find it interesting that it

Blocking a specific address

2000-06-16 Thread Bolivar Diaz Galarza
One of my clients does not like to receive e-mail from exposed.freewebsites.com, how do I block this server? it is ot in the mail-abuse or orbs.org database Bolivar,

Re: Blocking a specific address

2000-06-16 Thread Troy Frericks
Search the FAQ for an explanation of the 'badmailfrom' file. # At 07:00 AM 6/16/00 , Bolivar Diaz Galarza wrote: One of my clients does not like to receive e-mail from exposed.freewebsites.com, how do I block this server? it is ot in the mail-abuse or orbs.org database Bolivar,

Re: Blocking a specific address

2000-06-16 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 07:00:26AM -0500, Bolivar Diaz Galarza wrote: One of my clients does not like to receive e-mail from exposed.freewebsites.com, how do I block this server? it is ot in the mail-abuse or orbs.org database There is a patch for qmail-smtpd.c floating around (sorry, I

Re: Blocking a specific address

2000-06-16 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 07:07:19PM -0500, Troy Frericks wrote: Search the FAQ for an explanation of the 'badmailfrom' file. This is useless if you try to block a whole server - unless all messages have a sender address *@domain of course. \Maex -- SpaceNet GmbH |

RE: Blocking a specific address

2000-06-16 Thread Bolivar Diaz Galarza
Thanks for the tip, I will try that monday and post the results. Bolivar, - Original Message - From: Markus Stumpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bolivar Diaz Galarza [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 7:39 PM Subject: Re: Blocking a specific address On Fri,

Re: Blocking a specific address

2000-06-16 Thread Johan Almqvist
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 08:14:50AM -0500, Bolivar Diaz Galarza wrote: Thanks for the tip, I will try that monday and post the results. Another way to go is to put the offending host into your smtp.rules or what it's called in your setup with 10.0.1.1:deny so they can't even connect. Be sure