Hello everyone. I would really appreciate any help that can be
offered. First, in the interest of full disclosure let me say that I am
a newbie to Linux and qmail.
I have managed to install our Redhat 6.1 system and get it connected to
our LAN and the Internet. I now would like to set up the
Hi,
I've two questions:
1) I'm planning on using qmail with Redhat linux for a high-load machine
(hardware raid scsi disks). Now I don't want to know which linux is better,
but I would like to know what extra tuning the operating system requires?
Does hdparm can boost the HW raid I/O
qmail Digest 16 Nov 2000 11:00:00 - Issue 1185
Topics (messages 52230 through 52310):
socket sending to qmail problem... please help...
52230 by: Luke Chiam
Re: Qmailanalog ...
52231 by: Michael Maier
Forwarding with same envelope address
52232 by:
Has anybody tried implementations of ETRN on QMail?
If yes, what would be a good choice and where can I get more information on
it?
Thanks in advance.
Brett Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure you actually understand how unix works. All the folders
in /home shouldn't be accessible to other users anyhow.
I'm not sure you're aware of how systems are actually configured. All
the user directories on my systems are world
Oliver Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So if my server's domain is domain.com, and I try to send
mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from my own local account (ie:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED]), qmail complaints that in the
MX list for domain.com, the first MX record points back to the original
"Andy Abshagen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Duplicate delivery:
Nov 15 21:24:27 mail qmail: 974341467.158027 delivery 34992: success:
did_0+0+2/
Single delivery:
Nov 15 21:24:28 mail qmail: 974341468.155358 delivery 34993: success:
did_0+0+1/
See the difference? The +2 vs. +1? That is the
OK. And what if there is not a .qmail- for each user???
Andy
-Original Message-
From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 8:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Duplicate messages.
"Andy Abshagen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Duplicate delivery:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Following the instructures given on Life with qmail, I am trying to
install qmail using the source codes. So far I a have downloaded qmail
and the two add-ons (daemontools and ucspi-tcp), and followed the steps
up to building (Section 2.5.5 in Life with qmail).
In the
"Andy Abshagen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK. And what if there is not a .qmail- for each user???
There's *always* a .qmail file, even if it's just the one specified on
the qmail-start command line. I don't know exactly how vpopmail sets
things up, but there's some difference between the
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
momentary snip
I'm not sure you're aware of how systems are actually
configured. All the user directories on my systems are world
readable/executable, and they're that way by default, not because I
did something to make it that way.
Now maybe
* Andy Abshagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001116 09:10]:
OK. And what if there is not a .qmail- for each user???
You mentioned, IIRC, that you are using vpopmail. What is in the
.qmail-default file for the domain in question?
/pg
--
Peter Green : Gospel Communications Network, SysAdmin : [EMAIL
hi !
I have qmail installed to deliver messages to mbox style mailboxes. Is
there an easy way to change it to Maildir ?
And next question - my users want to check their mailboxes via www.
Could you recommend me some program allowing this working fine with qmail ?
I have found oMail 0.94. What
The .qmail-default contains the following.
| /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail ''
/home/vpopmail/domains/d-vision.com/andy
| /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail ''
/home/vpopmail/domains/d-vision.com/randy
We want it to go to both users. And we have several other domains that are
setup the same
* Andy Abshagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001116 09:45]:
The .qmail-default contains the following.
| /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail ''
/home/vpopmail/domains/d-vision.com/andy
| /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail ''
/home/vpopmail/domains/d-vision.com/randy
This is wrong. vdelivermail will
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've just tried it with right 700 but it doesn't work. After setting
ist on right 703 it functions. I have tested it with an other
user. He can't read the mail and can't do commands like mv or
others.
Try this:
cd ~user/..
chown -R user.`id -g
Van Liedekerke Franky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2) I've found many remarks on qmail and reiserfs, but nobody agrees on
wether it's good or bad. So I won't start that here all over again but I
would like to ask:
does anybody use qmail+reiserfs on a high-load production machine?
Several
Hope you can help me with this
question:
When I send mail to xyz@localhost with pine, qmail returns the mail
as undeliverable, as it tries to send the mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(senfpott.gysar is my machine - obviously, it's not connected to the internet
with that domain name...)
Of
Sebastian Steinlechner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I send mail to xyz@localhost with pine, qmail returns the mail as
undeliverable, as it tries to send the mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(senfpott.gysar is my machine - obviously, it's not connected to the internet
with that domain name...) Of
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 08:48:31AM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote:
Another possible qmail attack is it's late bouncing for non-existent
users. Using a false envelope sender address you could fill up the
queue with double bounces. I consider this a more serious problem.
The decision to handle
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 08:22:53PM -, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
UIC is paying its ISP for a measly 14Mbps. UIC has been hitting this
limit more and more frequently since the beginning of September. The
packet-loss rate averages over 2% now, even if you don't count the
recent 30-hour outage,
First let me state that I'm sure this is a rather stupid question, but I was
stumped by it for a bit. If this is covered in a HOWTO or other document
somewhere, please feel free to refer me to said document.
I've been attempting to setup a qmail server for a short time now. I've
looked at
martin langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
pd: what distro are you using that sets users directories to 755?
Solaris, IRIX, TRU64 UNIX, etc.
755 is traditional for UNIX.
-Dave
Jamin Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As it stands currently I've been stuck at testing local delivery. Every
test message I tried would result in a bounce. In the bounced message I
could see that for some reason qmail was adding additional information to
the addresses. For example if I
Greets qmailers.
One one my lusers insists on using emacs rmail for reading mail. I'm
not an emacs user so I don't know a lick about it, but I do know it
doesn't talk to the Maildir format. It wants mbox format.
Normally I would have her mail delivered to both Maildir and Mailbox but
NFS is
yep, setup in both files.
it just won't let me relay mail locally between accounts, because it
complaints it loops back to the MX record.
Oliver
--- Scott Gifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is the local domain in both 'locals' and 'rcpthosts'?
ScottG.
Oliver Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I have a domain integrationsoft.com, when I get mail on one account
(user1), and login, and attempt to forward the mail to another account
(user2), on the same domain/server qmail complaints:
from /var/log/messages:
Nov 15 15:38:38 m3 sendmail[50960]: eAFNccL50958: SYSERR(phate): MX
list
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:12:23AM -0800, Oliver Menzel wrote:
I have a domain integrationsoft.com, when I get mail on one account
(user1), and login, and attempt to forward the mail to another account
(user2), on the same domain/server qmail complaints:
from /var/log/messages:
Nov 15
there is an error when I try to send a messages by a client as Eudora or
Netscape Messenger to other server as Hotmail or Yahoo, the message is:
And error occurred while sending mail.
The mail server reponded:
sorry, that domain isn´t in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)
Thanks!
I just thought my sendmail was a link to the corresponding qmail
program, but I skipped that step during installation
Regards,
Oliver
--- Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:12:23AM -0800, Oliver Menzel wrote:
I have a domain integrationsoft.com, when
Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I said "sounds like". And in the context in which his opinion was presented,
it sounds a lot like MS's.
I read it as if he meant (not a quote, but my interpretation):
Don't rely on people testing your software, even if you offer money
for found
Keith Warno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
One one my lusers insists on using emacs rmail for reading mail. I'm
not an emacs user so I don't know a lick about it, but I do know it
doesn't talk to the Maildir format. It wants mbox format.
Three comments:
1. GNUS, another EMACS mail/news reader,
Quoting Peter Cavender ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Hi-
I have a qmail server hosting several virtual domains, and all mail
delivered to recipients in the virtual domains have a Delivered-To
header line indicating the "main" domain name of the server.
Fascinating. Is that a government secret,
Romeo Manzur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
there is an error when I try to send a messages by a client as Eudora or
Netscape Messenger to other server as Hotmail or Yahoo, the message is:
And error occurred while sending mail.
The mail server reponded:
sorry, that domain isn´t in
Thanks for the help from those who have assisted.
I've not used maildir2mbox in the past; I know it "does not protect
against simultanous access by another maildir2mbox" (from maildir(5))
but is it safe to use over NFS?
Thanks again,
kw
--
3:40pm up 3 days, 16:47, 4 users, load average: 0.00,
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 08:55:03AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
Essentially you want AutoTURN. It's better than ETRN and requires no
special support by the client.
We use a similar approach.
However, we do queue the eMails in Maildirs mapped to domain names,
i.e.
Just a few messages ago, I asked almost the same question. Here's what
Charles Cazabon told me:
qmail-inject (which is called by the sendmail wrapper) appends
/var/qmail/control/defaultdomain to any hostname not containing a dot.
It's in the manpage for qmail-inject.
The quick solution is to
In addition (again thanks to Charles) you could try adding system.system to
your locals file.
No. Don't do that. It's a completely bogus solution. Better to understand what you
want to do and use the configuration appropriately. For example, consider:
defaultdomain, plusdomain and the like. A
Keith Warno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks for the help from those who have assisted.
I've not used maildir2mbox in the past; I know it "does not protect
against simultanous access by another maildir2mbox" (from maildir(5))
but is it safe to use over NFS?
NFS is only less safe than
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Peter van Dijk wrote:
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 10:13:44AM +0100, Markus Stumpf wrote:
It probably would also be cool to have a cdb for vitualdomains, just
like morercpthosts.
That would mean that virtualdomains updates are instantly instead of
only happening at
Our one qmail/vpopmail server is about to become a node in a load
balanced pool of mail servers. I plan to mount the queue via NFS (I am
now, in fact) but am wondering about the control files. It seems that
at least SOME of them should be safe to share over NFS. Any thoughts or
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 05:40:27PM -0600, Ben Beuchler wrote:
Our one qmail/vpopmail server is about to become a node in a load
balanced pool of mail servers. I plan to mount the queue via NFS (I am
now, in fact) but am wondering about the control files. It seems that
Ouch. You will, at
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 02:49:24PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 05:40:27PM -0600, Ben Beuchler wrote:
Our one qmail/vpopmail server is about to become a node in a load
balanced pool of mail servers. I plan to mount the queue via NFS (I am
now, in fact) but am
Thus spake Mate Wierdl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I thought it was possible that Dan would give some hints on his view
on secure programming in these notes.
Don't talk.
Read his code and you will understand.
Software is secure iff the architecture and trust model is sound, which
you can verify
I have had my qmail setup for several years and just now have started to
notice that some recipients are returning:
550 relaying mail to ... is not allowed.
This happens when a virtual user is relaying through my server and the
servername is not the same as the recipient.
For example: I send
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 10:03:06PM +0100, Balazs Nagy wrote:
[snip]
It probably would also be cool to have a cdb for vitualdomains, just
like morercpthosts.
That would mean that virtualdomains updates are instantly instead of
only happening at SIGHUP?
There is no performance
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:01:13AM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote:
[snip]
My question is why is not it better for qmail-queue *immediately* write
the "received" line identifying the user?
That will not solve the problem, just create a race-condition.
Greetz, Peter
--
dataloss networks
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 02:55:51AM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote:
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 10:03:06PM +0100, Balazs Nagy wrote:
[snip]
It probably would also be cool to have a cdb for vitualdomains, just
like morercpthosts.
That would mean that virtualdomains updates are instantly
it just won't let me relay mail locally between accounts,
because it complaints it loops back to the MX record.
If a domain is listed in control/locals, then the MX record is never even
looked at. MX records apply only to remote deliveries.
Chris
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 06:02:44PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 02:55:51AM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote:
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 10:03:06PM +0100, Balazs Nagy wrote:
[snip]
It probably would also be cool to have a cdb for vitualdomains, just
like
I apologize for my error in not providing the actual logs. I had thought I
did provide enough detailed information. I am very sorry for my error in
judgement.
However, it appears that my problem may have been that I was using the
system name only, not the FQDN. I would like to thank everyone
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:47:50AM +0100, Markus Stumpf wrote:
Working around the need for a kill -HUP to reread virtualdomains would
(for performance reasons) imply to have a mechanism to notice changes
to the cdb (timestamp on file e.g.) and only refresh when changed.
This however could
I am forwarding bounce warnings from 2 mailing lists I
subscribe to...(imp, and vmailmgr)
I want to know...I found that there was not a carraige return
after the bryant.dsc.k12.ar.us entry in control/rcpthosts
, I just added one, but is that why these messages have been
bouncing...but
Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Our one qmail/vpopmail server is about to become a node in a load
balanced pool of mail servers. I plan to mount the queue via NFS (I am
now, in fact) but am wondering about the control files. It seems that
at least SOME of them should be safe to
I made two mistakes, when I wrote that I want to have a cdb ;-)
We're currently experiencing some temporary performance problems with
our qmail server. This is due to large smtproutes and rcpthosts files
and some I/O bottleneck on the disk they're located.
Mistake 1) A cdb wouldn't help
I have strange delay --
If clients (or other servers) d't use my
SMTP server during 10 (or more) minutes
appear timaut about 1 min.
After this timeout all working OK - without
some timeout till next pause from work SMTP server...
I use tcpserver with -R -H options and Slackware linux...
I suspect
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 12:43:55PM +0600, Kornyakov Yevgeniy wrote:
I have strange delay --
If clients (or other servers) d't use my
SMTP server during 10 (or more) minutes
appear timaut about 1 min.
After this timeout all working OK - without
some timeout till next pause from work SMTP
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