qmail Digest 28 Nov 2000 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 1197

qmail Digest 28 Nov 2000 11:00:01 - Issue 1197 Topics (messages 52877 through 52956): necessary patches? 52877 by: Clemens Hermann 52892 by: Dave Sill changing to tcpserver 52878 by: Neil Grant 52879 by: Charles Cazabon 52880 by: Romeyn Prescott

Re: Henning Brauer's reply

Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 01:38:24 -0600 From: Chris Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Since we were on the subject of wasted bandwidth; I've been reading this thread about 'Secrets and lies' lately. Exactly what purpose does this subject serve on this list? There are probably lots of clev

any experts - Checkpoppasswd logging

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

Re: ORBS - NOT!

Hello On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.

Re: Logs using & getmail/fetchmail

* Andy KKS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) message/external-body ^? Could you turn this crap off, please? > Qmail has it's own logs, but I would also like that other two > would be making logs. Simply grab http://pobox.com/~tu/qmail-conf.html and *read

pop3 question??

Hi ALL, Is it possible to simulate pop3 conections to a mail server and authenticate the user and tell that user that he has no mail ?? The reasoning behind this is I want a temp backup server that can take the pop3 strain while I make some modifications to the main mail server ?? ANY Ideas ??

Re: Another idiot who doesn't know how to make smtpd work

On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 06:29:46PM +0100, Aleksander Rozman - Andy wrote: > > Pine always tells me 'SMTP greeting failure: 421 SMTP connection went away'. You could try to convince pine not to talk smtp to your server, but just use the /usr/sbin/sendmail interface to qmail-inject. Hope this h

Please Help me: supervise:fatal

Hi, I'm using strictely "Live With Qmail" instructions. When I stop and run qmail script (in /etc/rc.d/inet.d/), I got the following error: "supervise:fatal:unable to start qmail-smptd/run: exec format error". Can you help me to fixe this error? PS: I use Linux RedHat6.2, desactivating

rblsmtpd and firewall

I turned on my firewall and I looked at my logs when I found this message: smtpd: 975401579.539737 tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out port number for /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd What's the port number and protocol(TCP or UDP) that rblsmtpd use ? t

Re: rblsmtpd and firewall

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:00:04AM -0300, Roberto Samarone Araujo (RSA) wrote: > I turned on my firewall and I looked at my logs when I found this message: > > smtpd: 975401579.539737 tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out > port number for /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd > > What's

Re: rblsmtpd and firewall

> > Your startup script is messed up. Post it and someone will tell you how to fix > it. > Ok ... I put in my qmail.rc this : /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -b 64 -c 64 -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -g 82 -u 82 -t 600 0 /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | /var/qmai

Re: rblsmtpd and firewall

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:37:40AM -0300, Roberto Samarone Araujo (RSA) wrote: > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -b 64 -c 64 -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -g 82 -u 82 -t 600 > 0 /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | > /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd & You're missing the port argument. You need

Re: qmail-ldap-mysql

Am Dienstag, 28. November 2000 13:26 schrieb suresh: > Hi > I have configured ldap-mysql, I don't know about ldap-mysql, and most of the others won't, too. You are on the wrong list. > I am trying to setup qmailldap patch > I am trying to get started . > what db/tables do i need to create on th

qmail imapd?

hello list, i'm new to qmail. i've installed successfully qmail, qmail-smtpd and qmail-pop3d. i would like to know if there's an imap server - working together with qmail - too? regards achim

Re: qmail imapd?

* achim@venus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001128 08:37]: > hello list, > > i'm new to qmail. Welcome! You ought to know about the qmail home page, chalked full of useful links and whatnot. > i've installed successfully qmail, qmail-smtpd and qmail-pop3d. > i would like to know

Re: Henning Brauer's reply

Am Dienstag, 28. November 2000 07:28 schrieb Chris Olson: > > > You should have read a least the documentation before wasting bandwidth > > > and our time. > > I did read the documentation, but this was something I could not find > > any documentation on, or else I didn't know where to look. I fo

Re: Please Help me: supervise:fatal

Ould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using strictely "Live With Qmail" instructions. When I > stop and run qmail script (in /etc/rc.d/inet.d/), I got the > following error: > "supervise:fatal:unable to start qmail-smptd/run: exec > format error". I would say you've got a typo in your qma

Handling To: entries (defaulthost?)

we have lately gotten tons of mails from external senders with weird To: entries based on various email client address books with commas, semicolons, whitespaces and such. so i now want to *stop* qmail from automatically expanding "To: whatever" into "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" so that only intact [E

Re: Handling To: entries (defaulthost?)

> we have lately gotten tons of mails from external senders with weird To: > so i now want to *stop* qmail from automatically expanding > "To: whatever" into "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" This has nothing to do with the To: header. Somehow you get the mail through SMTP (external senders?) - Then only

Re: pop3 question??

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:01:48PM +0200, tag wrote: > Hi ALL, > > Is it possible to simulate pop3 conections to a mail server and > authenticate the user and tell that user that he has no mail ?? > > The reasoning behind this is I want a temp backup server that can take > the pop3 strain while

creating an aliases.cdb without newaliases?

I've looked and not found much so here goes: I have used newaliases on several systems, however it only creates an aliases.db. Perhaps I'm overlooking something simple. I've gotten the cdb source, used cdbmake, doesn't seem compatible, cdbmake-12 does the same thing. I end up with a .cdb file how

qmail startup error --xrealloc: cannot reallocate...

I'm running a Debian system with Qmail 1.03.  Everything has been workingfine, until yesterday the server quit accepting connections on port 25.  Ichecked and qmail-send, qmail-lspawn, qmail-rspawn, and qmail-clean are allrunning fine, but the tcpserver for qmail is not running.  I stopped i

smtp auth over sasl

hello, does anyone know about an sasl patch for qmail? or are there builtin features for sasl smntp auth i haven't found yet? thanks in advance achim.

The whole mail puts into the local queue?

Dear all, Does anyone experienced that part or whole of the mail has been put piece by piece in the qmail queue's local directory (/var/qmail/queue/local/23/57890) rather than just the receiver's mail address?? Any problems that may leads to this symptom??? thanks and regards, Eric -- _

Re: The whole mail puts into the local queue?

On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, eric yu wrote: > Dear all, > > Does anyone experienced that part or whole of the mail has been put piece by piece >in the qmail queue's local directory (/var/qmail/queue/local/23/57890) rather than >just the receiver's mail address?? > > Any problems that may leads to thi

Re: The whole mail puts into the local queue?

> Does anyone experienced that part or whole of the mail has been put piece by > piece in the qmail queue's local directory (/var/qmail/queue/local/23/57890) > rather than just the receiver's mail address?? This is how qmail normally operates. All messages are first placed in the queue before be

qmail startup error --xrealloc: cannot reallocate..

I'm running a Debian system with Qmail 1.03.  Everything has been workingfine, until the other day the server quit accepting connections on port 25.  Ichecked and qmail-send, qmail-lspawn, qmail-rspawn, and qmail-clean are allrunning fine, but the tcpserver for qmail is not running.  I stopp

qmail-pop3d

Hi, We had a mail server running Qmail 1.03 with the paths to authenticate against the MySQL DB. We use maildir. We had qmail-pop3d running on it. But some of our users can't receive their email via pop3. They use Outlook or Netscape, and when there are many messages (20 or more) or bigger mes

Blocking qmails by subject

Hi, I would like to know how can I block emails by subject. Is it possible to do with qmail ?? How can I do that ? thanks, Roberto Samarone Araujo

Re: The whole mail puts into the local queue?

On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Kris Kelley wrote: > > Does anyone experienced that part or whole of the mail has been put piece > by > > piece in the qmail queue's local directory > (/var/qmail/queue/local/23/57890) > > rather than just the receiver's mail address?? > > This is how qmail normally operates

Re: The whole mail puts into the local queue?

Peter Samual wrote: > > This is how qmail normally operates. All messages are first placed in the > > queue before being sent out, in case the machine crashes before the SMTP > > transaction is complete. > > No it isn't. qmail-queue puts only the local recipient addresses in > /var/qmail/queue/l

Re: The whole mail puts into the local queue?

On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Kris Kelley wrote: > Peter Samual wrote: > ... > > No it isn't. qmail-queue puts only the local recipient addresses in > > /var/qmail/queue/local/*/*. The message itself is placed in > > /var/qmail/queue/mess/*/*. > > Whoops, read too quickly. Apologies. > > > I think his

virtual domains

I have a mail server running qmail and accepting mail for a virtual domain via fastforward (all mail addressed to @mydomain.com is sent to a user).  Mail coming into this server for the virtual domain is being sent to the users mailbox just fine.   Now I want to use this users mailbox as a mu

Re: creating an aliases.cdb without newaliases?

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:46:04AM -0500, Collin B. McClendon wrote: > I've looked and not found much so here goes: > I have used newaliases on several systems, however it only creates an > aliases.db. The man page for newaliases indicates otherwise. > Perhaps I'm overlooking something simple.

Install and communicate two qmail servers is possible?

Hi, I want helps of anyone already running qmail or at least having a simple idea on how configurating both local server (which is in my LAN, behind a firewall, not visible to internet)and a second server(in my DMZ region, visible by internet but well serve only for sinding to and receiving mails

unable to control /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send

I have installed Qmail a few times on Mandrake OS, and it worked fine. I go exactly according to Qmail how to by Adam McKenna. Now I tried to install on RedHat7 (and posted ome questions last week). I cameup with a dead end, so droped down to 6.2, but still I getthe following; svc: warning: unable

qmail logging

I have qmail running on a Debian Linux box, and hopefully someone can clarify for me how qmail is supposed to handle it's logging processes. I find log directories in /var/log/qmail and I would assume this is where qmail is supposed to do it's logging. However, after some searching, I find /var/

Re: Install and communicate two qmail servers is possible?

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:39:33AM -0800, Ould wrote: > Hi, > > I want helps of anyone already running qmail or at least > having a simple idea on how configurating both local server > (which is in my LAN, behind a firewall, not visible to > internet)and a second server(in my DMZ region, visible

Re: unable to control /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 02:34:37PM -0500, Silberman, Malcolm (BHR) wrote: > I have installed Qmail a few times on Mandrake OS, and it worked fine. I go > exactly according to Qmail how to by Adam McKenna. Now I tried to install on > RedHat7 (and posted ome questions last week). I cameup with a dea

Error messages - what do they mean?

Hi! I'm getting stuff like this in my logs: Nov 28 22:16:09 sol qmail: 975446169.345287 warning: trouble marking remote/9/96701; message will be delivered twice! Nov 28 22:16:09 sol qmail: 975446169.347416 delivery 8796: deferral: qmail-spawn_unable_to_create_pipe._(#4.3.0)/ This seems to mean

Re: Error messages - what do they mean?

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:22:02PM +0100, Johan Almqvist wrote: > Hi! > > I'm getting stuff like this in my logs: > > Nov 28 22:16:09 sol qmail: 975446169.345287 warning: trouble marking > remote/9/96701; message will be delivered twice! > Nov 28 22:16:09 sol qmail: 975446169.347416 delivery 87

Re: Handling To: entries (defaulthost?)

Frank Tegtmeyer schrieb: > I doubt that the sender is really external - you wouldn't get the mail > through SMTP because of missing MX records. good point > I think there is a wild > running script or a buggy SMTP client inside your network. > > Regards, Frank you were right, i found the bad

RE: unable to control /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send

I have attched the output of ls -lR /var/qmail hope it helps, thanks for your help! Regards -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 3:06 PM To: QMail Mailing List Subject: Re: unable to control /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-sen

RE: unable to control /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send

oops wrong file attached here it is -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 3:06 PM To: QMail Mailing List Subject: Re: unable to control /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 02:34:37PM -0500, Silbe

Re: Error messages - what do they mean?

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:50:58PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It may have to do with too little memory (I use qmail-scanner, and a lot > > of other stuff runs on this machine with 32 megs of RAM). It may be the > > case that this only happens when I put extra load on the machine, I'll > >

Re: unable to control /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send

It looks like you haven't started the supervise process. The svc command is looking for files in the /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/suervise directory and they only get created when the supervise process is running. Check your startup scripts to ensure that supervise is started prior to issuing

Re: unable to control /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send

* "Silberman, Malcolm \(BHR\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have installed Qmail a few times on Mandrake OS, and it worked > fine. I go exactly according to Qmail how to by Adam McKenna. Now I > tried to install on RedHat7 (and posted ome questions last week). I > cameup with a dead end, so droped dow

Re: virtual domains

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 02:17:35PM -0500, Rick Glunt wrote: > I have a mail server running qmail and accepting mail for a virtual domain via >fastforward (all mail addressed to @mydomain.com is sent to a user). Mail coming >into this server for the virtual domain is being sent to the users mail

How to use qmail to get mails of a different domaine?

Hello, Suppose I have two domaines (mymachine1.example1.com and mymachine2.example2.com) each having it's intenet-IP and mail server. example1.com use qmail server, how I can tell qmail to get all mails of example2.com mail server and sending them for destinated users on my LAN? Thanks _

RE: unable to control /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send

I feel like an idiot, went back and checked my scripts and had the qmail script in the svscan script. Thanks Mark for pointing the direction. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 4:01 PM To: QMail Mailing List Subject: Re:

qmail capasity ?

Hi   I have a system where domains/mail is added to files, no mysql databases.   Would it be difficult, or problematic to allow a customer to use 1 000 pop3 email accounts ?   Any advice is appriciated!   Are Haugsdal

Re: qmail capasity ?

On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Are Haugsdal wrote: > Hi > > I have a system where domains/mail is added to files, no mysql databases. > > Would it be difficult, or problematic to allow a customer to use 1 000 > pop3 email accounts ? > > Any advice is appriciated! If you use the vpopmail-package from in

Re: Amazon says the book will be out next month. Russ?

Ben Beuchler writes: > I know the book topic has been beat to death (something like 575 > messages in the archives) but Amazon claims that it will be > available next month. Nothing at all appears on the O'Reilly site > except for the old "Ask Tim" columns from 1998. > > >http://www.amaz

Re: ORBS helps hackers to break into srevers

Piotr Kasztelowicz writes: > Qmail is one MTA only, which suports and propagates ORBS "moral" Who does this? Not me. If anybody asks about ORBS, I tell them not to use it. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | The best wa

more than 65535 accounts on one mail server

Hello everyone! Im sorry if this question has been asked 10 times and im # 11.. I admin quite a large mail server that is currently running sendmail/qpopper, it has about 6 accounts on it currently. I know that UNIX has a limit on the UID's of 65534, any file that has a UID higher t

Re: secrets and lies

Greg White writes: > Paul Jarc wrote: > > Dan's software isn't open source. > > Oh, really? By whose definition? By the Open Source Initiative's, the vice-president of which is yours truly. It's okay if you don't believe us when we say it's not Open Source, but you'll find yourself in a sm

Re: more than 65535 accounts on one mail server

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 07:48:47PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >that UNIX has a limit on the UID's of 65534, any file that has a UID >higher than that number defaults back to UID0.. Actually, it's more like they get UID%65534, but it's a similar result ;-) >I have read the MySQL patch, and f

Re: more than 65535 accounts on one mail server

Am Mittwoch, 29. November 2000 04:48 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... > I admin quite a large mail server that is currently running > sendmail/qpopper, it has about 6 accounts on it currently. I know > that UNIX has a limit on the UID's of 65534, any file that has a UID > higher than that numbe

newbie question

Hi I have installed qmail-ldap patch,whenever i start the qmail ,i get this info I have made a file in the control folder and i tried by entering the ip address as well as by the dns name i am not able start the debug process even after i set the env variable ,Is there any particular syntax i sho

Re: newbie question

Am Mittwoch, 29. November 2000 13:24 schrieb suresh: > Hi > I have installed qmail-ldap patch You posted this on qmail-ldap's list, there it is right. Here it is false. No one can and will answer your question here. -- Henning Brauer | BS Web Services Hostmaster BSWS | Roedings

Re: ORBS helps hackers to break into srevers

Hello > Who does this? Not me. If anybody asks about ORBS, I tell them not > to use it. OK :-), Sorry if you have take my remarks personal. I had many problems with ORBS and will say that negative results of its activity should be streng said. If you are this same opinion as I - OK, thank you

Relaying Question (Wait! I read the FAQ and searched the archives)

Before you dump this mail message to /dev/null, I have a relaying question.. I setup the anti-relaying rules all fine and dandy according to the FAQ with tcpserver.. Everything works fine, *but* i need the ability to filter by DNS hostmask and IP address.. I tried the following test: This setup

Re: Relaying Question (Wait! I read the FAQ and searched the archives)

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:12:45PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I setup the anti-relaying rules all fine and dandy according to the FAQ > with tcpserver.. Everything works fine, *but* i need the ability to filter > by DNS hostmask and IP address.. I tried the following test: > > This setup w