Mail delivery problems.

2001-02-20 Thread Anurag Jalan
Hi all, I recently removed Sendmail 8.9.3 from my Redhat 6.2 system and installed Qmail 1.03 following instructions from 'Life with qmail'. Aim : To allow 20 odd users on the intranet to access their email from various POP3 accounts on different servers and to allow them to send local email to

QUEUE PROBLEM

2001-02-20 Thread qmailu
Hi, We have setup a qmailserver with 3.5 lac customers and are facing a queue problem. Currently qmail-qstat shows 7 msgs in queue. We have set our concurrency limit (both local and remote as 250). The conf-split is 23. How do we get rid of this queue ??? Earlier we were running

auto responder

2001-02-20 Thread Raymond Orchison
Hi, I'm trying to get a mail autoresponder working. I'm using vpopmail and qmail. I have downloaded the autoreply from qmail.org and have the following .qmail file: |/home/vpopmail/domains/itis.co.za/info/autoreply/autoreply.pl $USER $RECIPIENT $SENDER If I send a message to this user, I

Re: Forward Domain

2001-02-20 Thread Henning Brauer
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:37:32AM +0100, David Krix wrote: You can do it with qmail. But a line like domain2.com:alias-domain2 into virtualhosts and create a file in ~alias named .qmail-domain2-default looking like this (all in one line) |preline -dr /var/qmail/bin/qmail-remote

Re: Mail delivery problems.

2001-02-20 Thread Adam Andrzej Jaworski
Hi, 1) 'Life with qmail' is excellent but try http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html it is my favourite HOWTO (thaaanks to Adam McKenna) 2) Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1) / error means that either you have bad Maildir structure or missing slash after

RE: Mail delivery problems.

2001-02-20 Thread Andrew Richards
I have found the following error in /var/log/maillog Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1) / Most likely, your qmail startup script refers to ./Maildir (which means an mbox style file called "Maildir") instead of ./Maildir/ (which means a Maildir called "Maildir").

Re: Mail delivery problems.

2001-02-20 Thread Henning Brauer
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:25:34PM +0530, Anurag Jalan wrote: defaultdelivery has been set to ./Maildir Wrong. Must be ./Maildir/ Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1) / -- Henning Brauer | BS Web Services Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459

Re: Forward Domain

2001-02-20 Thread Henning Brauer
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:05:29PM -, Someone wrote: Hi, All Qmail can check and forward domain to other mail server ? such as in mail server If [EMAIL PROTECTED] forward to xxx mail server else If [EMAIL PROTECTED] forward to yyy mail server How ? RTFM about smtproutes.

qmail Digest 20 Feb 2001 11:00:00 -0000 Issue 1281

2001-02-20 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 20 Feb 2001 11:00:00 - Issue 1281 Topics (messages 57544 through 57605): Re: dot in e-mail address e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 57544 by: Faried Nawaz QMAIL- QUEUE FILE SYSTEM FULL 57545 by: qmailu 57551 by: Charles Cazabon one email / same target MX / many

RE: Virtual Domains

2001-02-20 Thread Charrua
Yes, the other way is to use /var/qmail/controls/assign file... I posted instructions how to use this file: Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:42:07 +0100 Subject: Re: How to set up qmail for several "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? so You can check it out Hi, thank you

modifying script?

2001-02-20 Thread Bill Parker
Hi All, My qmail script currently looks like this (see below) case "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting: " env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \ qmail-start ./Maildir/ /usr/local/bin/accustamp \ | /usr/local/bin/setuser qmaill /usr/local/bin/cyclog

Re: rcphosts?

2001-02-20 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
what if i want to relay to all but only from my host ie none other than my domain users can actually relay through me What do you mean by "domain users"? Computers at your LAN? This situation is covered in the FAQ. Have a look at http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/servers.html#authorized-relay

Re: warning: trouble opening remote/4/r

2001-02-20 Thread Charles Cazabon
flint [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today,I saw there were many messages like this in the maillog: 982653149.920320 warning: trouble opening remote/4/r Your queue is corrupt. Did you manually remove any messages from the queue? Get qmail-queuefix from www.qmail.org to fix this. Charles --

Suppressing Bounce Messages

2001-02-20 Thread Manvendra Bhangui
I have a problem on my site where lot of my users who have subscribed to external free subscriptions are no longer there. Due to this around 8 bounce message are getting generated daily and clogging up my queue. Is there any way to silently discard these messages without generating a

Re: Suppressing Bounce Messages

2001-02-20 Thread Johan Almqvist
* Manvendra Bhangui [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010220 15:28]: I have a problem on my site where lot of my users who have subscribed to external free subscriptions are no longer there. Due to this around 8 bounce message are getting generated daily and clogging up my queue. Is there any way to

Re: Suppressing Bounce Messages

2001-02-20 Thread Matthew Patterson
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Manvendra Bhangui wrote: I have a problem on my site where lot of my users who have subscribed to external free subscriptions are no longer there. Due to this around 8 bounce message are getting generated daily and clogging up my queue. Is there any way to silently

1 host with several hostnames

2001-02-20 Thread Massimo Quintini
I have installed QMAIL in a host called "realname.aaa.bbb.ccc" (MX record in DNS). On this server I have defined 10 users. This host should accept mails for "virtual1.aaa.bbb.ccc", "virtual2.aaa.bbb.ccc" and "aaa.bbb.ccc" (For example: a mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] MUST go in [EMAIL PROTECTED], a

Assistance reading mail headers

2001-02-20 Thread George Garvey
I'm not very good at reading mail headers. Are the following someone trying to use our system as a relay? From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Feb 20 06:45:14 2001 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 23391 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2001 06:45:14 -0800

Please Help Me Test My AV SW

2001-02-20 Thread jsunday
This might be a weird request, but I am wondering if anyone would be willing to send me virus infected emails to test my setup... all I have here is the Anna, and my AV stops that... but if a few of you would send me different ones, maybe ones that would get by the AV scan...

unable to establish an smtp connection

2001-02-20 Thread Mark Lo
Hi, I am using qmail as my smtp mail server and pop server, I have found out something strange. That is, qmail is not able to established an smtp connection at the first time. I didn't mean the mail never being send out, but it has to be send out sereval times in order to get it

Re: Assistance reading mail headers

2001-02-20 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:00:27AM -0800, George Garvey wrote: I'm not very good at reading mail headers. Are the following someone trying to use our system as a relay? No. It's someone sending to a wrong address. Greetz, Peter.

Re: 1 host with several hostnames

2001-02-20 Thread Charles Cazabon
Massimo Quintini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed QMAIL in a host called "realname.aaa.bbb.ccc" (MX record in DNS). Funny, it doesn't look like there's an MX record for realname.aaa.bbb.ccc . I can't even find a server which knows about the .ccc domain. I have done MANY tests

Re: unable to establish an smtp connection

2001-02-20 Thread Charles Cazabon
Mark Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this normal ?? If no, what causes this problem !! status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 @40003a91df743b68a804 delivery 45: deferral: Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/ Completely normal. The remote mailserver didn't accept the

How do I unsubscribe

2001-02-20 Thread Shane Wise
As much as I hate people who do what I am doing now How do I unsubscribe?!?! Thanks! Shane Wise For Current Nashville Weather http://www.nashvilleweather.net

Re: unable to establish an smtp connection

2001-02-20 Thread Mark Lo
Hi Charles, I got the error messages very often, what should I do ?? Mark - Original Message - From: Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 11:17 PM Subject: Re: unable to establish an smtp connection Mark Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

badrcptto

2001-02-20 Thread Alex Kramarov
I just had a virus sent to a distribution list, that is supposed to be for my organisation internal use only and includes all of my server recipients. The list is based on .qmail with all recipients names. I was thinking to block people from sending to his list, read a little ezmlm-idx, but

(OT) DJB-itization

2001-02-20 Thread [gill]
Hi, I wonder if anyone has put together a package/script to lay on top of any popular distributions of *nix to replace everything with the DJB version. For example a base FreeBSD install could have such a distro installed to replace sendmail with qmail, inetd with ucspi-tcp, BIND with djbdns,

Re: (OT) DJB-itization

2001-02-20 Thread Carl
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:10:47AM -0500, [gill] wrote: I wonder if anyone has put together a package/script to lay on top of any popular distributions of *nix to replace everything with the DJB version. For example a base FreeBSD install could have such a distro installed to replace

Re: (OT) DJB-itization

2001-02-20 Thread Charles Cazabon
Carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Soon I'll do it, I'm hyped about the idea, it'd be cool if some people talked more about the idea, i.e. what would they want in it. Wishlist: a djb replacement for Vixie cron. Especially topical at the moment. Charles --

qmail smtp

2001-02-20 Thread Pablo Martin De Natale
Hi, somebody know how can I delete the outgoing messages tail ? Thanks

RE: unable to establish an smtp connection

2001-02-20 Thread schoon
Mark, Charles and the list, I go this error message as well. What caused it for me was an improperly configured ipchains script used on my public gateway. Once I configured the script to allow outgoing port 25 requests to anywhere, that solved the problem. This error msg can be difficult

RE: unable to establish an smtp connection

2001-02-20 Thread schoon
Well, that depends: is qmail taking incoming request or initiating an outgoing request. This assumes the ipchains script is being used on your gateway computer. The script for a firewall is different. incoming request: -s $anywhere $unprivports -d $ipaddr 25 outgoing reponses to input request:

Re: Ezmlm capacity

2001-02-20 Thread Charles Cazabon
Jasper McIntosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I also confirm that Ezmlm doesn't do anything too weird with the qmail queue, and that I should still compile qmail with a really high conf-split of around 2500 (I read that the Linux FS's like it up there, but I guess that subject is more suited

The Same email keeps getting sent to qmail

2001-02-20 Thread Kep Brown
I have tried going through the qmail archives and have not found this problem anywhere. If it is, please excuse me asking the same question again. Problem. Emails sent from outside servers are being recieved over, and over and over again. Description Email sent from outside to our inside

Listen only to One ethernet Card

2001-02-20 Thread Mark Lo
Hi, How to tell qmail only listen to one sigle interface. for example, eth0="203.122.222.222" eth0:0="203.122.222.223" How to tell qmail to use eth0 only for incoming and outgoing connections ?? Thank You Mark

Re: Listen only to One ethernet Card

2001-02-20 Thread Henning Brauer
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 03:48:54AM +0800, Mark Lo wrote: Hi, How to tell qmail only listen to one sigle interface. for example, eth0="203.122.222.222" eth0:0="203.122.222.223" How to tell qmail to use eth0 only for incoming and outgoing connections ?? incoming: man

Re: Mail hub for relay and outgoing only - no local

2001-02-20 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) How do I prevent qmail from trying to deliver locally on the qmail server? Leave control/locals empty. 2) How can I correctly set-up the group redirects in a way that will eliminate (if not reduce) duplication due to an error sending to one address in the group?

Re: unable to establish an smtp connection

2001-02-20 Thread Mark Lo
Hi, you mean : from my ipaddr 25 to anywhere 25 ??? orfrom my ipaddr 25 to anywhere $unprivports ??? which one is it ?? Thank you Mark - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21,

Re: Cannot receive mail from other mail server

2001-02-20 Thread Kris Kelley
MY /etc/tcp.smtp SETTING (after it I convert to /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb using tcprules) is as follows: 127.0.0.:allow,REALYCLIENT="" 192.168.0.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 192.168.1.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow,RELAYCLIENT="" I suspect this is your problem, and if it isn't, it will be. That last line

Re: queue is not going down...

2001-02-20 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem with messages staying in the queue. I was running some tests that relayed 7,000 messages through one qmail server (n201) to another qmail server (saturn) which processed the messages locally. All on a local network. [root@n201 bin]# ./qmail-qstat

Re: queue keeping messages

2001-02-20 Thread Charles Cazabon
Karen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a couple of weeks now qmail has been keeping messages in the queue about one to one and a half hours after the message is sent. So everyone is complaining that they don't receive their mail right away. The permissions on "trigger" are probably wrong.

queue keeping messages

2001-02-20 Thread Karen
For a couple of weeks now qmail has been keeping messages in the queue about one to one and a half hours after the message is sent. So everyone is complaining that they don't receive their mail right away. Didn't have any probs before this (except for people incompletely stop and restart qmail

Re: outgoing messages

2001-02-20 Thread Dave Sill
kat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to automate the whole thing i.e. when a user send mail from KDEmail, netscape or any email client, it should queue the mails in a directory [i.e the user should feel that mail is delivered] and when I connect to net it should send the mails to the specified

unable to recieve remote mail

2001-02-20 Thread Webmaster
I'm fairly new at this, last week was the first time I had ever comfit's qmail. but it was working fine for a while, now we are unable to receive any messages from remote hosts. Local mail works fine, and even sending mail to a remote host has no problems, it;s receiving mail which is a

Re: unable to recieve remote mail

2001-02-20 Thread Kris Kelley
...now we are unable to receive any messages from remote hosts. You mentioned local mail works fine. Does that mean email sent from one local user logged in directly to the machine to another local user works fine? If so, then the problem may be that something's not listening for remote SMTP

Followup: badrcptto

2001-02-20 Thread Alex Kramarov
Since I have recieved no other suggestions on my prevous mail, I have altered the badrcptto patch to support the behavour described before (do not apply badrcptto rules if RELAYCLIENT is set). If anyone is interested, the patch can be found at http://212.179.48.82/badrcptto/ -Original

Re: unable to recieve remote mail

2001-02-20 Thread Henning Brauer
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:26:27PM -0800, Webmaster wrote: I'm fairly new at this, last week was the first time I had ever comfit's qmail. but it was working fine for a while, now we are unable to receive any messages from remote hosts. Local mail works fine, and even sending mail to a remote

Re: pop3 dying

2001-02-20 Thread Dave Sill
mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should I add: | /var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3 3 On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Peter van Dijk wrote: On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 04:02:58PM +, mick wrote: grep for pop3 on mail.log and daemon.log for pop3 (digital unix) returns nothing. this is how it is called:

RE: queue keeping messages

2001-02-20 Thread Karen
thanks for the reply but i did a "make check" in src directory and nothing complained. Here is my trigger: drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail1024 Dec 16 1999 . drwxr-x--- 11 qmailq qmail1024 Dec 16 1999 .. -rw--- 1 qmails qmail 0 Jan 12 2000 sendmutex

FW: queue keeping messages

2001-02-20 Thread Jeremy Anttila
-Original Message- From: Karen Cutrer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 3:56 PM To: Jeremy Anttila Subject: RE: queue keeping messages This is wierd. I cannot get test messages sent from the internet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] yet i got your message right away

Receipts...

2001-02-20 Thread Lukasz Felsztukier
Hello I'm having problems with sending mails which require a receiver to acknowledge reception of a mail (I guess it's called receipt in Microsoft talk). I'm sending these mails thru my qmail server, and it returns them to me with an error. Is there a switch somewhere in qmail to enable this ?

Re: unable to recieve remote mail

2001-02-20 Thread Sean Escriva
thx for kick in the rear, i'm not sure why i didn't realize that before i figured it out quickly now though: [root@pbgnw log]# dig mx pbgnw.com ; DiG 8.2 mx pbgnw.com ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4 ;; flags: qr aa rd

Re: unable to recieve remote mail

2001-02-20 Thread Kris Kelley
Well that's part of my problem, I'm not sure how to interpret the logs fully. They're fairly intuitive once you've stared at them for a bit. Much easier to read than sendmail's. Feb 12 03:33:49 pbgnw qmail: 981966829.691748 new msg 30135 Feb 12 03:33:49 pbgnw qmail: 981966829.691874 info

Re: (OT) DJB-itization

2001-02-20 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Soon I'll do it, I'm hyped about the idea, it'd be cool if some people talked more about the idea, i.e. what would they want in it. Wishlist: a djb replacement for Vixie cron. Especially topical at the moment. But

Re: unable to recieve remote mail

2001-02-20 Thread Charles Cazabon
Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pbgnw.com. IN MX 10 mail.pbgnw.com.; EXTREF It's still not fixed. mail.pbgnw.com is a CNAME; MX must point at an A record, not a CNAME. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon

Cannot receive mail from other mail server

2001-02-20 Thread kali
Hi, all, I install Qmail in /var/qmail directory, under Linux environ. I encount a qmail SMTP problems, is there anybody help me to resolve my problems. I searched all related doc in www.qmail.org, no result to be reached. thanks in advance. WHAT I CAN DOI can telnet

Re: (OT) DJB-itization

2001-02-20 Thread Henning Brauer
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:13:36AM +0100, Robin S. Socha wrote: * Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Soon I'll do it, I'm hyped about the idea, it'd be cool if some people talked more about the idea, i.e. what would they want in it. Wishlist: a

Need Arguments for qmail

2001-02-20 Thread Peter Cavender
Hi- I volunteered to talk about and "defend" qmail at a Linux Users' Group meeting where there will be people speaking on 3 or 4 of the main MTAs. I am competent in setting up and maintaining qmail, but I must say that I am unable to respond properly to a lot of the criticism of qmail, mostly

Re: (OT) DJB-itization

2001-02-20 Thread Peter Cavender
Carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Soon I'll do it, I'm hyped about the idea, it'd be cool if some people talked more about the idea, i.e. what would they want in it. Wishlist: a djb replacement for Vixie cron. Especially topical at the moment. Charles Same here. I sent an off-list

Local Deliveries Slow

2001-02-20 Thread Manvendra Bhangui
Hi, I am having a tough time migrating to qmail. I have applied the concurrency patch and set the concurrency limit to 250. Inspite of that I do not see the qmail-lspawn forking more than 2 or 3 processes at any given point of time. What could be the problem? My local queue is currently at

tcpserver prints to console!?!

2001-02-20 Thread Paul Farber
hello all... updating qmail to use svscan / daemontools-0.70 and ucspi-tcp-0.88. with the line: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -q -ladmin.f-tech.net -xtcp.cdb -- 0 25 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd running I still get tcpserver messages to the console. the -q should shut tcpserver up shouldn't it

Re: Need Arguments for qmail

2001-02-20 Thread Kyle
Peter, One rather trivial complaint I've heard quite a few times is "Oh, yeah, install qmail if you want to add 100 system accounts to run it". What many don't realize is this is one major reason why qmail is so secure - by using multiple users in executing the various parts, it only

Re: tcpserver prints to console!?!

2001-02-20 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Paul Farber on Wed, 21 Feb 2001 00:28:56 EST: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -q -ladmin.f-tech.net -xtcp.cdb -- 0 25 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd I think you need a 21 at the end of that line (and that line should be all on one line). Also, the multilog part of the qmail-smtpd dosen't

how to hide the alias-user_name

2001-02-20 Thread keng heng
hi, I'm using djb fast-forward to do the virtual domain emailling system, but Inoticed that in he mail header, I'll get the Delivered-To: alias-user_name@virtual1.com, then finally Delivered-To: user_name@real_host_domain.com is it anyway to hide the Delivered-To:

multilog not getting messages?

2001-02-20 Thread Paul Farber
Hello all (again) this is coming up on the console after setting up daemontools .70 (svscan): starting delivery 47: msg 224960 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 delivery 47: success: did_1+0+0/ status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 end msg 224960 new msg 224960 info msg 224960:

one user handling hundreds of virtual domains

2001-02-20 Thread Winifred Sanchez
Is it safe to assign more than a hundred virtual domains to only one qmail user? Can it handle hundreds or even thousands of messages that may arrive all at once for hundreds of accounts of each virtual domain? Get your small business started at Lycos Small Business at

Re: (OT) DJB-itization

2001-02-20 Thread Carl
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:43:44PM -0500, Peter Cavender wrote: Same here. I sent an off-list email to DJB just a few days ago asking if he was contemplating such a project. As far as the DJB-ification tool, what I do is just make a big shell script that nukes the undesired software, and

Re: Need Arguments for qmail

2001-02-20 Thread Jason Radford
Recently switching from sendmail to qmail I have observed the difference in architecture between the two. The modularization of qmail appeals to me in both simplicity and elegance, and it's superiority was evident in my smtp benchmarking between the two MTAs. The only thing I miss from an

Re: How do I unsubscribe

2001-02-20 Thread Sumith Ail
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Shane Wise writes: As much as I hate people who do what I am doing now How do I unsubscribe?!?! Thanks! Shane Wise For Current Nashville Weather http://www.nashvilleweather.net