qmail Digest 27 Nov 2000 11:00:00 -0000 Issue 1196

2000-11-27 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 27 Nov 2000 11:00:00 - Issue 1196 Topics (messages 52855 through 52876): Re: identd 52855 by: Andrew Richards 52856 by: Romeyn Prescott Re: How can I add log in qmail-queue.c? 52857 by: Magnus Bodin 52874 by: Simon Liu 52875 by: Alex

Fw: How can I add log in qmail-queue.c?

2000-11-27 Thread Simon Liu
- Original Message - From: "Simon Liu" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Magnus Bodin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 11:56 AM Subject: Re: How can I add log in qmail-queue.c? - Original Message - From: "Magnus Bodin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "qmail list"

Re: Fw: How can I add log in qmail-queue.c?

2000-11-27 Thread Alex Pennace
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 05:18:18PM +0800, Simon Liu wrote: I want to know the start and end time the qmail-queue runs. I hope that log can be writen into files such as qmail/log/current. Rename qmail-queue to qmail-queue-original. Create a wrapper script qmail-queue that does the logging and

Re: secrets and lies

2000-11-27 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On 27-Nov-2000 Paul Jarc wrote: Programs - or rather, algorithms - *are* patentable in the US. You may think this is a ridiculous idea, and I may agree with you, but it's true nonetheless. That's not true. Algorithms are specifically _not_ patentable in the US. What _is_ patentable is a

necessary patches?

2000-11-27 Thread Clemens Hermann
Hi, now I have been using qmail for several months and I am quite satisfied. I change my server HW and for this and some other reasons I reinstall my System from scratch (FreeBSD 4.2). I have been digging around in the qmail.org page to find out which patches are needed for me. I was really

changing to tcpserver

2000-11-27 Thread Neil Grant
hi I have qmail running via inetd and want to use the relayctrl stuff - so need to use tcpserver instead - but I cant find any documentation in qmail for using it under tcpserver any help + pointers please Neil

Re: changing to tcpserver

2000-11-27 Thread Charles Cazabon
Neil Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have qmail running via inetd and want to use the relayctrl stuff - so need to use tcpserver instead - but I cant find any documentation in qmail for using it under tcpserver You might want to read Dave Sill's "Life with qmail". It describes how to set

Re: changing to tcpserver

2000-11-27 Thread Romeyn Prescott
At 2:26 PM + 11/27/00, Neil Grant wrote: hi I have qmail running via inetd and want to use the relayctrl stuff - so need to use tcpserver instead - but I cant find any documentation in qmail for using it under tcpserver any help + pointers please Neil Have you looked in

SMTP Routing

2000-11-27 Thread Daniel POGAC
I need reason for this situation... We are connected to our Internet Provider by Wave lan We have one router ( Linux ) with static IP adress 1.1.1.1. This router is connected to our local net and doing masquerade. On this router is running Qmail. I need that this router forward every mail

Attachments with qmail and vmailmgr

2000-11-27 Thread Johan Björk
Hello! I'm using qmail, VMailMgr, Courier-IMAP and PHP on my RedHat 7.0 box. The system is based on virtual user accounts, with Maildir. Are there any known issues with attachments/parts using this combination? The reason I ask is that I have a PHP-script that open up a mailbox and read a

How use I masquarading with qmail

2000-11-27 Thread Ruprecht Helms
Hi, how use I masquarading with qmail. I want send mail from our qmail-server (placed in the dmz) to an MS Exchangeserver in our lan. Our lan uses not routable IPadresses (192.168.x.x). Regards, Ruprecht --- INTERNOLIX Standards for

HELP!!

2000-11-27 Thread eric yu
Dear list, Does anyone know wht the "D" stands for under /var/qmail/queue/local?? My problem is that let say a local recipient is [EMAIL PROTECTED] So inside the queue, it should have an info/1/1, local/1/1, and the mess/1/1. However the local/1/1 state the following strange pattern: [EMAIL

user not receiving email.

2000-11-27 Thread eric yu
Dear list, I had a user named eric that doesn't receive email. Can anyone give me some suggestion?? Inside /var/qmail/control/locals, I had my_domain.com as localhost. and inside /var/qmail/users/assign file, I had: =eric:eric:uid:gid:/home/eric:-:: and the .qmail file in my home directory

Re: user not receiving email.

2000-11-27 Thread Charles Cazabon
eric yu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a user named eric that doesn't receive email. Can anyone give me some suggestion?? Inside /var/qmail/control/locals, I had my_domain.com as localhost. In the future, please don't obfusate your domain names. Post the real domains. and the .qmail

Re: HELP!!

2000-11-27 Thread Peter Samuel
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, eric yu wrote: Dear list, Does anyone know wht the "D" stands for under /var/qmail/queue/local?? My problem is that let say a local recipient is [EMAIL PROTECTED] So inside the queue, it should have an info/1/1, local/1/1, and the mess/1/1. However the local/1/1 state

CRON mailings

2000-11-27 Thread Paul Fontenot
I have several scripts that run and mail the output to root for analyses. These scripts were using a line such as: cron_job | mail -s "Log file output" root I think I must have missed something in the docs, since making the change to tcpserver, qmail and Maildir from postfix I know get none of

Re: necessary patches?

2000-11-27 Thread Dave Sill
Clemens Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my question is: Which patches should one not miss. I don't install any patches unless I know I need them. Only two of the dozens of qmails I've installed have been patched: - my list server has the big-concurrency patch, and - a pop/imap/smtp

Re: CRON mailings

2000-11-27 Thread Peter Samuel
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Paul Fontenot wrote: I have several scripts that run and mail the output to root for analyses. These scripts were using a line such as: cron_job | mail -s "Log file output" root I think I must have missed something in the docs, since making the change to tcpserver,

qmailanalog + qmailmrtg

2000-11-27 Thread Yamin Prabudy
Did anyone compile qmail-mrtg-1.0 from Sean ? where can i get the /var/log/qmail/qmail-send/current - how can i generate this file so the qmail-mrtg program can read it ? I used Sean Truman qmailmrtg script and seems like in qmail-mrtg.c had some problem in strncmp should be strcmp. Thanks in

Re: CRON mailings

2000-11-27 Thread Peter Samuel
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Paul Fontenot wrote: I have several scripts that run and mail the output to root for analyses. These scripts were using a line such as: It might also be a good idea to have a functioning return address. Here's what I saw when I replied to your first message: Hi. This

Re: CRON mailings

2000-11-27 Thread Brian Reichert
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 09:46:21AM -0800, Paul Fontenot wrote: I have several scripts that run and mail the output to root for analyses. These scripts were using a line such as: cron_job | mail -s "Log file output" root I think I must have missed something in the docs, since making the

Re: qmailanalog + qmailmrtg

2000-11-27 Thread Alex Khanin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Did anyone compile qmail-mrtg-1.0 from Sean ? where can i get the /var/log/qmail/qmail-send/current - how can i generate this file so the qmail-mrtg program can read it ? I used Sean Truman qmailmrtg script and seems like in qmail-mrtg.c had

Re: CRON mailings

2000-11-27 Thread Paul Fontenot
You are the man. Made those changes and everything is working like a champ. -Paul - Original Message - From: "Peter Samuel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Paul Fontenot" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 9:05 AM Subject: Re: CRON mailings On Mon, 27 Nov

Re: changing to tcpserver

2000-11-27 Thread Neil Grant
went through Dave Sill's "Life with qmail" and have ended up with a very non working qmail system in /var/log/qmail/current: @40003a22b5be2fde3044 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 in /var/log/qmail/smtpd/current there are tonnes of entries: @40003a22b5be3320091c tcpserver: fatal: unable

Re: changing to tcpserver

2000-11-27 Thread Neil Grant
sorry, got the bind error sorted (I think), I hadnt disbled smtp in the inetd! - Original Message - From: "Neil Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Qmail mailing list" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 6:42 PM Subject: Re: changing to tcpserver went through Dave Sill's "Life

Re: Strange problem with Maildir delivery - partial solution

2000-11-27 Thread Peter Schuller
This isn't entirely consistent with what you're describing, but the fact that you backed up and restored /var suggests that you may have screwed up the permissions on your trigger. See http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html#trigger Thanks! That did the trick. It lacked g+w/o+w. Now I just

Re: changing to tcpserver

2000-11-27 Thread Charles Cazabon
Neil Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: went through Dave Sill's "Life with qmail" and have ended up with a very non working qmail system [...] also what has happened to the dates - the tests on dates in daemontools worked? The dates are in TAI64N format. Pipe the log through `tai64nlocal` to

Re: CRON mailings

2000-11-27 Thread Peter Samuel
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Paul Fontenot wrote: You are the man. Made those changes and everything is working like a champ. One of many. Glad to hear it works now. -- Regards Peter -- Peter Samuel[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-smith.org (development)

Re: changing to tcpserver

2000-11-27 Thread Dave Sill
"Neil Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: went through Dave Sill's "Life with qmail" and have ended up with a very non working qmail system Sorry to hear that. in /var/log/qmail/current: @40003a22b5be2fde3044 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 That's normal. in /var/log/qmail/smtpd/current

Re: changing to tcpserver

2000-11-27 Thread Neil Grant
The dates are in TAI64N format. Pipe the log through `tai64nlocal` to convert them to human-readable format. can I get them stored 'human-readable'? my /var/log/qmail is filling up with: 2000-11-27 20:29:02.459841500 PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin

Re: changing to tcpserver

2000-11-27 Thread Andy Bradford
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:06:03 EST, Dave Sill wrote: I recommend copying and pasting the scripts, rather than typing them in by hand. Unless you're in Florida, in which case, entering manually is more accurate. ROTFLOL!!! This has got to be one of the best Florida jokes I have seen. :-)

Re: changing to tcpserver

2000-11-27 Thread Charles Cazabon
Neil Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles Cazabon wrote: The dates are in TAI64N format. Pipe the log through `tai64nlocal` to convert them to human-readable format. can I get them stored 'human-readable'? Not easily. However, it's simple to do `tai64nlocal /path/to/log/current |

RE: How use I masquarading with qmail

2000-11-27 Thread Alexander Jernejcic
hi, Ruprecht Helms wrote: how use I masquarading with qmail. I want send mail from our qmail-server (placed in the dmz) to an MS Exchangeserver in our lan. Our lan uses not routable IPadresses (192.168.x.x). it's a common (and, btw., wise) setup, to hide exchangeservers from the internet, using

Re: changing to tcpserver

2000-11-27 Thread Neil Grant
got it working - I had commented out the old qmail line with the " and ' in made a new one using: qmail-start ./Mailbox then it got onfused by the commenting out part way through a command - I presume the \ mean that the command continues on the nex line? many thanks Neil

BUG-FIX: SPAMCONTROL patch

2000-11-27 Thread Erwin Hoffmann
Hello everybody, due to a bug in the logging E-mails with an originator having MAIL FROM: with invalid MX-Record, SPAMCONTROL 1.4.0 may eventually yield a qmail-smtpd crash (segmentation fault) depending on your logging scheme. The bug was already introduced in version 1.1.0 but became apparent

unsubcribe

2000-11-27 Thread Andras K.
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.qmail Question

2000-11-27 Thread Hans-Juergen Schwarz
Hallo all, I like to forward a Address in the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a .qmail File. So I created the file .qmail-j:g: but it doesn´t work. Message comes back with "Sorry no mailbox here by that name" What went wrong? How can I handle that? I´m using qmail 1.03 and vpopmail 4.9.4 regards

Re: .qmail Question

2000-11-27 Thread Romeyn Prescott
At 4:02 PM +0100 11/27/00, Hans-Juergen Schwarz wrote: Hallo all, I like to forward a Address in the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a .qmail File. So I created the file .qmail-j:g: but it doesn´t work. Message comes back with "Sorry no mailbox here by that name" What went wrong? How can I handle

html log evaluation

2000-11-27 Thread Clemens Hermann
Hi, is there a package out there which produces qmail HTML-statistics from the logfiles? I have had a look at qmailmrtg but it does not semm to be what I am looking for. I have several virtual mail-domains and the most importent number I need is the complete traffic per virtual domain per month

Qmail domain...

2000-11-27 Thread Javier Morquecho Morquecho
Hi.. I'm using Qmail, In my mail client I have to put all the e-mail address, some like [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I just have one domain, how can I tell Qmail use just one domain???, I mean it ever use the "mail.com" domainand at the login screen I jus supply the name of the account..

checkpassword problem with large amounts of mail

2000-11-27 Thread drew
Hi, The problem we are having maybe an easy fix I am not sure though. We have qmail-1.03 running on FreeBSD 4+ using checkpassword and this obviously means Maildir type mail boxes. The problem is that when we get large amounts of mail, say more than 2000 messages, something bombs out and

Re: changing to tcpserver

2000-11-27 Thread Neil Grant
so now my nice working qmail system is running via tcpserver it has lots of extra process's and more root ones root 11495 0.0 0.5 1088 324 pts/1SNov27 0:00 supervise qmail-s root 11497 0.0 0.5 1088 324 pts/1SNov27 0:00 supervise qmail-s qmails 11503 0.0

Re: Qmail domain...

2000-11-27 Thread Kris Kelley
I'm using Qmail, In my mail client I have to put all the e-mail address, some like [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I just have one domain, how can I tell Qmail use just one domain???, I mean it ever use the "mail.com" domainand at the login screen I jus supply the name of the account.. Your

Re: changing to tcpserver

2000-11-27 Thread Henning Brauer
Am Dienstag, 28. November 2000 01:01 schrieb Neil Grant: so now my nice working qmail system is running via tcpserver it has lots of extra process's and more root ones Oh my god, they killed kenney Obviously you started svscan in /, so LOTS of useless supervises around. check you

ORBS - NOT!

2000-11-27 Thread Chris Olson
How do I configure qmail to *NOT* use ORBS.org for spam filtering? I tried to remove the line in the startup scripts relating to ORBS, and the SMTP server refuses to run without it. I don't want to start a flame war, but this outfit (ORBS) is blocking IP addresses unnecessarily - please read

Re: ORBS - NOT!

2000-11-27 Thread markd
I don't know what sort of qmail install you are running but qmail does run without ORBS. In fact the default qmail does not have any ORBS testing. What must have happened is that someone specifically added the ORBS test on your server. You need to tell us more about your system. Specifically the

Re: ORBS - NOT!

2000-11-27 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 06:28:42PM -0600, Chris Olson wrote: How do I configure qmail to *NOT* use ORBS.org for spam filtering? I tried to remove the line in the startup scripts relating to ORBS, and the SMTP server refuses to run without it. There's no such thing as "the" line in the

Re: ORBS - NOT!

2000-11-27 Thread Chris Olson
Chris Johnson wrote: There's no such thing as "the" line in the startup script relating to ORBS, and nobody has any idea what your particular startup line looked like before or what it looks like now. OK. I assumed that all installations of qmail used this. I'm running a Corel Server

Re: ORBS - NOT!

2000-11-27 Thread markd
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 07:01:20PM -0600, Chris Olson wrote: Chris Johnson wrote: There's no such thing as "the" line in the startup script relating to ORBS, and nobody has any idea what your particular startup line looked like before or what it looks like now. OK. I assumed that

Re: ORBS - NOT!

2000-11-27 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 07:01:20PM -0600, Chris Olson wrote: OK. I assumed that all installations of qmail used this. I'm running a Corel Server Version (Debian) Linux box and qmail 1.03 came with the distribution. This is a fresh install and the script has not been modified. The startup

Re: user not receiving email.

2000-11-27 Thread Peter Samuel
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, eric yu wrote: Dear Peter, Thanks for the response. It doesnt show any log, because when I telnet localhost 25: mail from:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ok rcpt to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 sorry, no such user That is NOT a qmail-smtpd error message. Do you

Re: user not receiving email.

2000-11-27 Thread eric yu
That doesn't prove it is the process listening on port 25. There is NO occurrence of the string "550" or "no such user" in the qmail source. qmail-smtpd doesn't know (or care) about users. How are you starting qmail-smtpd (show us the script). I'm using svscan (daemontool 0.70) to look

Help : POP3 connect from unknown@ []

2000-11-27 Thread qaz '
Hi, I followed PaulGregg doc, and have setup single UID mail system. The only problem is , the checkpoppasswd log showing "checkpoppasswd: POP3 connect from unknown@ []" "checkpoppasswd: pop3checkpasswd: FAILED: qazaka - no such user from unknown@" Supposely, the log

Re: HELP!!

2000-11-27 Thread eric yu
What is your default delivery mechanism (ie what are the arguments after qmail-start in your startup script? Does this user have a .qmail file, and if so what does it look like. no, actually when I do /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread: 27 Nov 2000 14:10:48 GMT #82186 1404 sender done local

Re: HELP!!

2000-11-27 Thread Peter Samuel
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, eric yu wrote: What is your default delivery mechanism (ie what are the arguments after qmail-start in your startup script? Does this user have a .qmail file, and if so what does it look like. no, actually when I do /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread: 27 Nov 2000

Re: user not receiving email.

2000-11-27 Thread eric yu
ps auxww | grep smtpd That will show which smtpd daemon is running. ps auwx|grep qmail-smtpd root 28146 0.0 0.0 1088 324 ?SNov06 0:00 supervise qmail-smtpd qmaild 14488 0.0 0.0 1572 440 ?S01:40 0:00 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd Eric --

Re: user not receiving email.

2000-11-27 Thread Peter Samuel
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, eric yu wrote: ps auxww | grep smtpd That will show which smtpd daemon is running. ps auwx|grep qmail-smtpd root 28146 0.0 0.0 1088 324 ?SNov06 0:00 supervise qmail-smtpd qmaild 14488 0.0 0.0 1572 440 ?S01:40 0:00

mailq

2000-11-27 Thread Paul Fontenot
What is the equivalent of the mailq command? Is it qmail-queue? And if so can I just drop it in place of mailq in my scripts? -Paul

Re: user not receiving email.

2000-11-27 Thread Peter Samuel
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Peter Samuel wrote: But the smtpd session you showed before was NOT qmail-smtpd. Do it again and show us the whole session: telnet 1.2.3.4 25 helo bozo help mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] quit On the assumption

Re: mailq

2000-11-27 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 06:53:03PM -0700, Paul Fontenot wrote: What is the equivalent of the mailq command? Is it qmail-queue? And if so can I just drop it in place of mailq in my scripts? It's qmail-qread. On my systems I symlink /usr/bin/mailq to /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread. Chris

Re: mailq

2000-11-27 Thread Peter Samuel
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Paul Fontenot wrote: What is the equivalent of the mailq command? Is it qmail-queue? And if so can I just drop it in place of mailq in my scripts? /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread You need root privileges (or qmailq really) to run it. It's output format is VERY different

Re: mailq

2000-11-27 Thread markd
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 09:07:03PM -0500, Peter Samuel wrote: On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Paul Fontenot wrote: What is the equivalent of the mailq command? Is it qmail-queue? And if so can I just drop it in place of mailq in my scripts? /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread You need root

Re: ORBS - NOT!

2000-11-27 Thread Henning Brauer
Am Dienstag, 28. November 2000 02:01 schrieb Chris Olson: rblsmtpd -rrelays.orbs.org /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 | setuser qmaill accustamp | \ setuser qmaill cyclog -s500 -n5 /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd Sorry Chris, how braindead are you? Is it really _so_ hard to see where orbs is

Re: ORBS - NOT!

2000-11-27 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 05:42:58AM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: Am Dienstag, 28. November 2000 02:01 schrieb Chris Olson: rblsmtpd -rrelays.orbs.org /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 | setuser qmaill accustamp | \ setuser qmaill cyclog -s500 -n5 /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd Sorry

qmail-ldap-mysql

2000-11-27 Thread suresh
Hi I have configured ldap-mysql,I am trying to setup qmailldap patch I am trying to get started . what db/tables do i need to create on the mysql ,are there any docs about this I am tryng to use the schema from ftp://ftp.eyeo.com/qmail/qmail.schema thanx in advance Suresh Mithi.com Pvt.

Re: Henning Brauer's reply

2000-11-27 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Chris Olson on Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:28:26 CST: I believe I'm no more braindead than you are. At least I have the common courtesy to not post a derogatory statement like this on the list, nor would I even send a private email to anyone containing a Granted, it is pretty rude to send

Re: Henning Brauer's reply

2000-11-27 Thread Chris Olson
Andy Bradford wrote: snipped for brevity to qmail and linux and possibly the whole *NIX mentality I'm sure you have a handful. Did you suddenly inherit someone else's job? Oh, I most certainly did. Ask me anything you want to know about WIN NT and I can answer your questions. I'm brand new

Logs using getmail/fetchmail

2000-11-27 Thread Andy KKS
Hi ! I know this is another "newbie" question, but I still need help. I have now succesfully setup qmail, pop3 and smtp (both from qmail). Qmail has it's own logs, but I would also like that other two would be making logs. In FAQ of qmail is sample how to do this with snmp, but if I start

RE: Logs using getmail/fetchmail

2000-11-27 Thread CHIU, Jonathan
I only comment the second question: I am using getmail which get mails from a pop3 account. I am happy with that and I haven't got the wrong mail from it. However, you better get a larger pop3 account if you really want to implement this. Regards, Jonathan -Original