I run this script (/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run) to run my
qmail-smtpd :
#!/bin/sh
QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild`
NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild`
MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming`
exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.c
I'm having a very serious problem.. the mail queue is full of messages
(about 31k) and local delivery is very slow if at all. I get lot of those
temporary delivery errors in the logs.
The strange this is that nobody has touched anything on the server for a
loong time and everything has worked fin
Title: add users script for qmail, system, & samba
Qmail has come off with out a hitch! Thanks to Dave Sill for the
newbie documentation!
Does anyone have a script or know of a script that would allow you
to add users to qmail, system, & samba all at the same time with
one set of instructions?
On Thu Jan 25, 2001 at 12:38:18AM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote:
> > I'm having some difficulty setting up a sub-domain on my machine.
> > I'm trying to setup "lists.freezer-burn.org" and keep getting this result:
[...]
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > 208.38.9.171 does not like recipient.
> > Remote h
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:01:49PM -0700, Vincent Danen wrote:
> I'm having some difficulty setting up a sub-domain on my machine.
> I'm trying to setup "lists.freezer-burn.org" and keep getting this result:
>
> - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> T
> > PINE may be limited, but it sure is useful as a quick and dirty
> > console-base MUA. I figured out how to use in in about 3 minutes
> > without having to RTFM.
>
> If you've ever had to deal with the code, dirty is definitely an accurate
> description.
Well, yes. I once tried to hack just
Peter Cavender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> PINE may be limited, but it sure is useful as a quick and dirty
> console-base MUA. I figured out how to use in in about 3 minutes
> without having to RTFM.
If you've ever had to deal with the code, dirty is definitely an accurate
description.
> But
I'm having some difficulty setting up a sub-domain on my machine.
I'm trying to setup "lists.freezer-burn.org" and keep getting this result:
- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: failure notice
Date: 25 Jan 2001 04:52:40 -
> > But, it doesn't matter - Pine does IMAP right? (Isn't that it's real
> > reason for existence?) So hook your Maildirs up with IMAP, and point
> > Pine at that.
> >
> > Seems pretty simple to me.
>
> How about this: Use a non-crappy, open source e-mail client instead?
>
> --Adam
And what M
Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:46:48AM +0100, Markus Stumpf wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately I can't imagine an easy way to tell whether a binary
> > is built with or without the big-todo patch :(
>
> Well, to me, this situation seems quite clear. qmail-send s
this smells suspiciously to me like it may be a _hardware_ level problem.
Perhaps the disk has become inconsistent in a subtle way. Have you tried
fsck'ing the disk?
Charles Cazabon writes:
> Markus Stumpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:27:14PM -0600, Charles Cazabon
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:32:29AM +, James R Grinter wrote:
> But, it doesn't matter - Pine does IMAP right? (Isn't that it's real
> reason for existence?) So hook your Maildirs up with IMAP, and point
> Pine at that.
>
> Seems pretty simple to me.
How about this: Use a non-crappy, open so
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:46:48AM +0100, Markus Stumpf wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 08:25:44PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> > That's the funny part -- this is a machine which has worked fine for two
> > years, and just recently started giving me this trouble. I haven't changed
> > the qma
Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Ok, looks convincing. So, are you sure your qmail-send binary is
> bigtodo-aware?
It's an RPM that was built from Bruce Guenter's qmail-1.03+patches SRPM
about two years ago. The same RPM was installed on many other machines
around that time, and h
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 08:25:44PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> That's the funny part -- this is a machine which has worked fine for two
> years, and just recently started giving me this trouble. I haven't changed
> the qmail installation itself.
*smile* maybe the installation changed 1.5 yea
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 08:40:46PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Could you show us the output of
> > # ls -al /var/qmail/queue/todo
> > please, and tell is whether you're running with big-todo or not?
>
> Indeed, big-todo is in use. The output
Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Could you show us the output of
> # ls -al /var/qmail/queue/todo
> please, and tell is whether you're running with big-todo or not?
Indeed, big-todo is in use. The output:
[root@charon /root]# ls -al /var/qmail/queue/todo
total 100
drwxr-x--- 25 q
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 08:25:44PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
[snip]
> > Could it be the big-todo patch somehow failed?
> > Or - that you have a big-todo queue layout and the active qmail
> > installation (or at least qmail-send) uses the vanilla qmail structure.
> > Then it would think the sub
Markus Stumpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:27:14PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> > I've also just noticed something else odd about the error messages -- aren't
> > the files in the split directories normally named by inode number? In this
> > case, the "missing" files
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 02:12:32AM +, James R Grinter wrote:
[snip]
> Indeed, qmail already uses a split queue/mess/ directory structure and
> it was a bit of an omission to assume that there would never be a
> surge of mail in one go (VERP list expansion is definitely good for
> creating this
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:27:14PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> I've also just noticed something else odd about the error messages -- aren't
> the files in the split directories normally named by inode number? In this
> case, the "missing" files all share the names of the split directories tha
Markus Stumpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think the benefit is with OSs having poor directory access routines.
Such as Solaris/UFS (and, to my knowledge, all the *BSDs that use UFS
have not improved this much either.)
> As directories are scanned on a linear basis access is faster scanning
>
"Pavel Kankovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Adam McKenna wrote:
>
> > The author of PINE flat out refuses to support Maildir.
>
> Umm...doesn't it sound familiar? ;)
But, it doesn't matter - Pine does IMAP right? (Isn't that it's rea
Keary Suska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Qmail stores references to messages in multiple locations in the queue. What
> this error likely means is that there are references to messages in the todo
> directory that don't exist in the mess directory. Find the messages via
> something like find /var/
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:45:53PM -0800, Register, Dadrien wrote:
> correctly, but I can't revieve email from outside networks. I can recieve
> email locally, so the qmail daemon seems to work. I'm pretty sure it has
> something to do with pop3d and tcpserver. Also, the MX records are setup
> cor
As far as I know qmail-pop3d only works with Maildir/ and you are using
Mailbox.
About the rest I am not able to say anything. Re-check your paths as I
didn't do that myself :-))
caspar
"Register, Dadrien" wrote:
>
> I have looked in the archives everywhere. I am pretty sure I have this setup
I have looked in the archives everywhere. I am pretty sure I have this setup
correctly, but I can't revieve email from outside networks. I can recieve
email locally, so the qmail daemon seems to work. I'm pretty sure it has
something to do with pop3d and tcpserver. Also, the MX records are setup
c
I was trying to use fetchmail to retrieve messages from a pop3 account
on a server running qmail-pop3d using tcpserver and vchkpw. It retrieved
all the messages although I did not specify "--all" flag to fetchmail. I
tried several time and every time fetchmail retrieves all the messages
again and
Qmail stores references to messages in multiple locations in the queue. What
this error likely means is that there are references to messages in the todo
directory that don't exist in the mess directory. Find the messages via
something like find /var/qmail/queue -name '*MESSAGEID*' where MESSAGEID
Greetings,
Here's an interesting one. On one of our lesser-used development boxes, we're
using an older version of Bruce Guenter's qmail+patches RPMs -- release 7,
which is mostly qmail, plus Russ Nelson's big-todo, and a few of Bruce's
convenience patches (like qmail-owners).
Here's what I don
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 09:36:34PM +0100, Clemens Hermann wrote:
> Can I do this by just adding the new domain to
> virtualdomains with the same user then the existing domain
Yes.\Maex
Hi,
I want to have an alias domain for an existing domain. I have several
mail users for my existiung domain and want to use the same users on my
new domain. E.g [EMAIL PROTECTED] shold automatically be accessible
via [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can I do this by just adding the new domain to
virtualdomains
Pupeno wrote:
> > Is it posible to create Maildir in /etc/skel/ (maildirmake
/etc/skel/Maildir)
Jurjen Oskam wrote:
> I have and it works great. Just a maildirmake in /etc/skel,
> doublecheck the permissions and you're off. Make a .qmail file there
> that points to the Maildir, too. :-)
The .qma
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:41:01 -0800 (PST), Al Sparks
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>--- Pupeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Is it posible to create Maildir in /etc/skel/ (maildirmake /etc/skel/Maildir)
>I don't know. You could easily experiment and see if it works.
I have and it works great. Jus
> Can anyone ping (or otherwise connect to www.microsoft.com ???)
>
> I can't get that or any other microsoft site to respond... ???
Their DNS is being fscked. These links surfaced on the djbdns list:
http://www.wirednews.com/news/business/0,1367,41387,00.html
http://computer
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:06:30PM +0100, Jacques WERNERT wrote:
> So I'll make a test with "queuelifetime=0" to see if my number of
> qmail-remote will increase dramatically.
You surely DON'T want to do this.
This will cause every message that cannot be delivered with the first
try to be bounce
Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Is anyone else experiencing this? If I do a netstat on our internet mail
> relay i can see multiple ESTABLISHED pop3 connections from different IP
> addresses from AOL. Being a corporate mail server, I find it difficult to
> believe there are, sa
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:59:26PM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> Yes there are (answering my own post). Scanning todo/ takes longer, if
> you are using the big-todo patch, because every subdir has to be
> scanned, instead of just one dir.
>
> Where *is* the benefit in the big-todo patch?
I thin
Lieven Van Acker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>There are a number of customers, whose incoming and outgoing e-mail must be
>rerouted via a central service that provides virus-scanning. As these
>customers are connected each to various ISP's, and we want to provide the
>virus-scanning service (and e
Found this on Netscape "news:"
Microsoft
Sites Offline
Microsoft confirmed
Wednesday that
several of its online
sites were unavailable
and have been d
That's what happens when you run Microsoft products. :-)
Seriously though, there is an article on CNET this
morning about the outage, MS hasn't had any comment
yet but it's affecting many of their highprofile sites.
Evidently their .uk site is still up and has some
kind of statement about this.
D
Can anyone ping (or otherwise connect to www.microsoft.com ???)
I can't get that or any other microsoft site to respond... ???
Jesse
Is anyone else experiencing this? If I do a netstat on our internet mail
relay i can see multiple ESTABLISHED pop3 connections from different IP
addresses from AOL. Being a corporate mail server, I find it difficult to
believe there are, say 28, people off site using AOL to POP mail.
Is the
Hello,
I think I've found some explanations.
In the thoughts file, I've found:
qmail-send doesn't have any notions of precedence, priority, fairness,
importance, etc. It handles the queue in first-seen-first-served order.
One could put a lot of work into doing something different, but that
work
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:44:06PM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> Are there any negative sideeffects of setting conf-split too high?
Yes there are (answering my own post). Scanning todo/ takes longer, if
you are using the big-todo patch, because every subdir has to be
scanned, instead of just one
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> In /var/log/qmail/smtpd/current I got a lot of lines like this
> @40003a6df5b40ea09354 tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already
> used
Something is already listening on port 25. Did you remember to stop/remove
sendmail? Remove the
Hi all!
I have problems with qmail, I have been trying a few time to install qmail
without success. Now I followed "Life with qmail" and I stoped at step 2.9
about the Test Installation. In test.deliver everything seems to work fine
but
in test.receive nothing works. When I do telnet to the box "t
Alex Le Fevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 24 January 2001 at 08:03:09 -0800
> I've got a working qmail system up and running now --
> but only one user on it gets mail. All the other users
> I'm trying are getting the error "Unable to chdir to
> maildir (4.2.1)" in the maillog when trying to
I've got a working qmail system up and running now --
but only one user on it gets mail. All the other users
I'm trying are getting the error "Unable to chdir to
maildir (4.2.1)" in the maillog when trying to deliver
mail to them.
All of these undeliverable users have Maildirs in
their home direc
"Jesse Sunday" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>starting delivery 26: msg 92275 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
>delivery 26: failure:
>preline:_fatal:_unable_to_run_procmail:_file_does_not_exist/
>status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
>bounce msg 92275 qp 27352
>end msg 92275
>
>
starting delivery 26: msg 92275 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
delivery 26: failure:
preline:_fatal:_unable_to_run_procmail:_file_does_not_exist/
status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
bounce msg 92275 qp 27352
end msg 92275
Does this look familiar to anyone???
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:01:02AM -0800, Bill Parker wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I was wondering, is it possible to run McAfee Anti-Virus for Linux (it can
> monitor
sure : check qmail-scanner :
http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.org
Olivier
--
__
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I was wondering, is it possible to run McAfee Anti-Virus for
> Linux (it can monitor smtp and pop3 stuff) and qmail at the
> same time. I have the tarball on a McAfee CD-ROM for use
> and installation. Has anyo
amavis.org
it is a wrapper that works with qmail to send all mail messages to the virus
scanner, and bounce if they contain a virus.
it is awesome!!
-Original Message-
From: Bill Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 8:01 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: qm
Hi All,
I was wondering, is it possible to run McAfee Anti-Virus for Linux (it can
monitor
smtp and pop3 stuff) and qmail at the same time. I have the tarball on a
McAfee CD-ROM
for use and installation. Has anyone on the list done this, and if so, can
someone give
me a few pointers?
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:40:22PM -0800, Rohit Gupta wrote:
> could anybody pls help me out with maildirwatch command and the env variables
>associated with it...
> or rather give me an example on how to use it..
>
maildirwatch, hum, watches your Maildir for new mail.
it takes no parameters b
could anybody pls help me out with maildirwatch
command and the env variables associated with it...
or rather give me an example on how to use
it..
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:44:16PM +0100, Markus Stumpf wrote:
> What I did once was to compile an identical copy of qmail but with
> another location of the queue directory (however on the same physical
> disk) and install it.
> Compile a copy of qmail with big todo.
> Stop all qmail services (al
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:59:04AM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> The todo-queue is *slowly* getting smaller (71288 now, compared to 71690
> when I started typing), but the complete queue is growing (100121
> now).
What I did once was to compile an identical copy of qmail but with
another locatio
Are there any negative sideeffects of setting conf-split too high?
Greetz, Peter.
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 12:49:10PM +, Jose AP Celestino wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:43:24PM +0100, Carlos Caba?as wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> > I am trying to install ldap-qmail.Can anybody tell me what this error means
> > (i have created the ldapserver file and ldap is working)
> >
qmail Digest 24 Jan 2001 11:00:01 - Issue 1254
Topics (messages 55786 through 55845):
what does this mean?
55786 by: em`s
55787 by: Alex Pennace
Re: Patches
55788 by: Markus Stumpf
55791 by: Sumith Ail
55801 by: Charles Cazabon
Re: 502 unimplemented
Hi,
Sorry can't help here but though would like to know how to setup the
concurency levels in tcpserver which is discussed below.
Regards
Sumith
- Original Message -
From: Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 3:29 PM
Subject: large t
One of my big qmail boxes is not keeping up with the flow of mail:
messages in queue: 98620
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 71690
It's a dual PIII with 1GB of RAM.
concurrencylocal is 1024 (usage hardly ever goes above 3)
concurrencyremote is 256 (usage varies from 0 to about a 50 -
Hi!
I have a problem with qmail-local, when one of mailboxes runs over quota limit
and a few new messages addressed to this mailbox come. Problem is that
qmail-lspawn spawns as many qmail-local processes, as concurrencylocal defines
and if there is more then concurrencylocal deliveries to this ov
+ "Vegard Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| but i havent got any sendmail scripts under /var/qmail/bin/...
| Is this right?
No. Your qmail installation is broken.
(BTW /var/qmail/bin/sendmail is a program, not a script.)
- Harald
> I read in a howto that you should link the old sendmail scripts in
> /usr/sbin/sendmail to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail, but i havent got any sendmail
> scripts under /var/qmail/bin/... Is this right?
Actually, you should have /usr/sbin/sendmail (and, while you are at it
/usr/lib/sendmail) both be
Did the spammer run a Rumpelstilksken on your system (for a in `cat
/usr/dict/words` ; do cat spam | mail $[EMAIL PROTECTED] ; done), or did the
spammer attempt to use you as a relay? Or do you have so many users that
when someone sends mail to all of them at once, it kills your servers?
I am s
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