qmail Digest 19 Mar 2001 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 1308

qmail Digest 19 Mar 2001 11:00:01 - Issue 1308 Topics (messages 59261 through 59274): Re: Please help, I have been trying to solve this for two weeks. 59261 by: Brett Randall 59262 by: Charles Cazabon Re: virtual users without virtual domains? 59263 by: Nick (Keith)

a tool/script to print the biggest mail servers in queue

I have noticed that whenever a large mail server is down (i.e. mail.com or yahoo.com) queue gets much bigger. This is normal and understandable, but sometimes a huge queue lags message delivery to mail servers that are working okay. Is there a tool / script that'd print the biggest mail servers i

Need testing.

Hi, I've made a mail-system. It's perl/qmail/postgre based. I need some testing and bug reports before I can release the code to the public. https://devnull.krot.org/signup nb: max 100 test users and 25 megs per user. please send bugs/questions/comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kirill

qmail-rspawn not starting under svscan

Well, I had qmail running fine when I was starting it using a SysV style init script (out of the old qmail howto), but when I tried to install djbdns, I ran into some trouble so I figured I'd try out svscan /service. Now, I can get qmail to accept mail from other systems when I start it under svs

[OT] supervise sshd?

I want to run the openssh daemon under supervise...should my "run" script be: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/sbin/sshd -D I am not sure what options to use with sshd. As above it seems to work; if I use no options it flips out; using fghack it seems to work but I always get a zombied (initial) sshd

Re: [OT] supervise sshd?

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:22:20AM -0500, Peter Cavender wrote: > I want to run the openssh daemon under supervise...should my "run" script be: > > #!/bin/sh > exec /usr/local/sbin/sshd -D > > I am not sure what options to use with sshd. > As above it seems to work; > if I use no options it flip

Re: [OT] supervise sshd?

* Peter Cavender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010319 10:12]: > I want to run the openssh daemon under supervise... > Anybody else doing this? http://koeln.ccc.de/~drt/ look for "A patch for OpenSSH for Unix".

Just a little question

exists a way in order to limit the dimensions of the attached ones in entrance ?

Re: Just a little question

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 04:23:41PM +0100, Simone Pirovano wrote: > exists a way in order to limit the dimensions of the attached ones in > entrance ? Did you translate your question with babelfish? Greetz, Peter.

RE: multilog and missing info

Sorry, http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto-old.html :-) -Original Message- From: Adam McKenna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 1:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: multilog and missing info On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 01:04:23AM -0700, Chris Bolt wrote: >

Re: Repeated Identical Messages

this is getting much weirder. following the message below, i tested both my backup and primary to see if they implemented help for qmail. here's what happened: when i test help by doing the following: from an ip inside the local network: >telnet mailhost.otec.com smtp [dkelley@mx1 qmail]# te

help - tcprules flaking out

here's my tcp.smtp file: 209.3.117.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 64.209.222.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 63.113.119.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow i'm compliling thusly: tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb tcp.smtp.tmp < /etc/tcp.smtp that compiles cleanly, but: tcpruleschceck /etc/tcp.smtp.

Re: help - tcprules flaking out

dan kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > tcpruleschceck /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb 209.3.117.1 [...] > it doesn't appear to be setting RELAYCLIENT. Is this even supposed to work this way? tcprulescheck expects to find the IP address in TCPREMOTEIP. Try invoking tcprulescheck according to the docume

Re: help - tcprules flaking out

* dan kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010319 12:13]: > [dkelley@mx1 /etc]# tcprulescheck /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb 209.3.117.1 > rule : > allow connection Try ``env TCPREMOTEIP=209.3.117.1 tcprulescheck /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb''. /pg -- Peter Green : Gospel Communications Network, SysAdmin : [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

relay tools from : http://www.abuse.net/relay.html

Hi !   my server is only relaying in this case : Relay test 9 >>> RSET<<< 250 flushed>>> MAIL FROM:<<< 250 ok>>> RCPT TO:<"relaytest%abuse.net"><<< 250 ok...

Re: help - tcprules flaking out

Dan Kelley (no relation) wrote: > here's my tcp.smtp file: > > 209.3.117.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" > 127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" > 64.209.222.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" > 63.113.119.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" > :allow > > tcpruleschceck /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb 209.3.117.1 > > yields: > > [dkelley@mx1 /etc]# tcprule

Re: relay tools from : http://www.abuse.net/relay.html

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 06:23:17PM +0100, ffx wrote: [snip] > somebody knows how to prevent qmail from accepting this kind of RCPT TO: ?? Read the f*cking big letters under the test report stating that your host may not be an open relay. Your host is not an open relay. Greetz, Peter.

Re: qmail assign file ...

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 07:39:55PM +0200, Alex Kramarov wrote: > I am forwarding an e-mail from the RPMS list, discussing the qmail rpm by > Bruce Guenter. The point is, that running qmail-pw2u effectively destroys > the /users/assign file and all virtual domain info that is there. the > question

vpopmail ip-alias-domains

I've compiled vpopmail with ip-alias-domains=y but am unable to use pop on virtual domains without the % sign. DNS and reverse are set up correctly. HELP! Eric Bockstahler System Administrator Jiffy-tite Company, Inc. 4437 Walden Ave. Lancaster, NY 14086 (716) 681-7200 voice (716) 681-7788 fax

MAIL FROM: <#@[]>

Hello, I'm noticing a fair amount of spam coming into our system where the sending server is using MAIL FROM: <#@[]>. Is there a quick an easy way to block this using tcpserver and/or rblsmtpd? I would like to setup something like: RULE:allow,RBSMTPD="Domain of sender address does not exist."

RE: Repeated Identical Messages

Your servers are probably behind a Cisco PIX firewall. J. > -Original Message- > From: dan kelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: ÄåõôÝñá, 19 Ìáñôßïõ 2001 6:35 ìì > To: Markus Stumpf > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Repeated Identical Messages > > > > this is getting much weirde

Re: vpopmail ip-alias-domains

Eric Bockstahler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've compiled vpopmail with ip-alias-domains=y but am unable to use pop on > virtual domains without the % sign. DNS and reverse are set up correctly. > HELP! Provide logs proving it, and error messages showing its not working. Then if people on the

Re: qmail assign file ...

Alex Kramarov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am forwarding an e-mail from the RPMS list, discussing the qmail rpm by > Bruce Guenter. The point is, that running qmail-pw2u effectively destroys > the /users/assign file and all virtual domain info that is there. the > question is, how do we deal wit

Question about the REMOVE.binmail document

I'm trying to get qmail running on Redhat 7.0. The REMOVE.binmail document states 2. Remove permissions from the binmail binary: # chmod 0 /usr/libexec/mail.local Because I have /bin/mail rather than /usr/libexec/mail.local, I typed # chmod 0 /bin/mail I'm confused about the next p

Log's.

Is there a way to get qmail to produce more readable logs somewhat similar to sendmail's logs? --- Brad Dameron[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Account Executive 877-663-4349 TSCNet Online Services

Re: Just a little question

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 04:23:41PM +0100, Simone Pirovano wrote: > exists a way in order to limit the dimensions of the attached ones in > entrance ? Read about databytes in qmail-smtpd(8). Bye, Joost -- Joost van Baal. . heart[EM

Re: Log's.

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to get qmail to produce more readable logs somewhat similar >to sendmail's logs? Use matchup from qmailanalog: http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#qmailanalog -Dave

Re: MAIL FROM: <#@[]>

"Jamin A. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm noticing a fair amount of spam coming into our system where the >sending server is using MAIL FROM: <#@[]>. Really? Where's it coming from? Sure you're not seeing this in double bounces? -Dave

Re: Qmail newbie question

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 12:19:57PM -0800, Johnson, Garrett wrote: > Why isn't tcpserver running (keeping in mind that it isn't passing any email > right now)? Something more disturbing is that when I run mconnect without > arguments I get: > > tcpclient: unable to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 25: c

[OT] tcpserver configuration

Sorry in advance, if I am widely offtopic with this question. Is there a possibility to limit the number of processes that can be invoked by a special client? I mean something like the -c option, except that it should define the allowed number of processes per requesting client. For example I wa

Re: MAIL FROM: <#@[]>

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Dave Sill wrote: > "Jamin A. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I'm noticing a fair amount of spam coming into our system where the > >sending server is using MAIL FROM: <#@[]>. > > Really? Where's it coming from? Sure you're not seeing this in double > bounces? That's w

Re: Qmail newbie question

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 12:19:57PM -0800, Johnson, Garrett wrote: > This is what I get from ps -ef | grep qmail: > > root 503 502 0 Mar16 ?00:00:00 supervise qmail-send > root 505 502 1 Mar16 ?00:54:39 supervise qmail-smtpd > qmaill 507 504 0 Mar16 ?

Qmail newbie question

Please forgive my ignorance. I'm trying to learn. I have set up a secondary Qmail server on RedHat 7.0 and it seems to have come up without a problem, but I'm having a hair-pulling time trying to test if it works properly. It has passed some basic tests. For instance I can use qmail-inject to

RE: MAIL FROM: <#@[]>

I have seen the same entries in my logs and i traced it back to be a perl form script i use as a contact form on a webpage i host that was causing the MAIL FROM: <#@[]> in my logs thanks Jps -Original Message- From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 2:26

Re: Qmail newbie question

At 03:37 PM 3/19/2001, Gerrit Pape wrote: did you read life with qmail? read it at www.lifewithqmail.org. Use the init script from there and you shouldn't have any problems. :-) ~kurth PS - to the list - yes, i know this is what I answer for every answer...however almost every question can

multiple checkpassword routines

I have some domains in vpopmail and some in vmailmgr, both of which need to do POP. Before I go requesting another IP address, is there a checkpassword dropin that actually executes an arbitrary number of other checkpassword dropins and, finding one that works, executes the rest of the command lin

Re: vpopmail ip-alias-domains

Eric Bockstahler wrote: > > I've compiled vpopmail with ip-alias-domains=y but am unable to use pop on > virtual domains without the % sign. DNS and reverse are set up correctly. > HELP! > > Eric Bockstahler > System Administrator > Jiffy-tite Company, Inc. > 4437 Walden Ave. > Lancaster, NY 14

RE: Repeated Identical Messages

What would a PIX have to do with it? I am having a random mutiple delivery problem, and I am behind a PIX. Thanks Kep _ ants.com scout Kep Brown Systems, Network and Database Administrator phone: (805) 560-3781 fax: (805) 560-3991 e:

RE: Qmail newbie question

Thanks for all the quick responses. Gerrit Pape pointed me in the right direction. My run script for starting tcpserver had a typo in it. Once fixed tcpserver, qmail-remote, and qmail-smtpd immediately came up on their own. I can also mconnect to port 25 now. Thanks again. Garrett Johnson SFGH

Control files

Is there a better description of what each file does in the /var/qmail/control directory? --- Brad Dameron[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Account Executive 877-663-4349 TSCNet Online Services www

Re: Repeated Identical Messages

Kep Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What would a PIX have to do with it? I am having a random mutiple delivery > problem, and I am behind a PIX. The PIX contains a (supposedly transparent) SMTP proxy which has, in the past, had very broken behaviour. Charles -- -

Re: Control files

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 01:22:30PM -0800, Brad Dameron wrote: > > Is there a better description of what each file does in the > /var/qmail/control directory? man qmail-control, perhaps? Greetz, Peter.

Re: Control files

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 01:22:30PM -0800, Brad Dameron wrote: > > Is there a better description of what each file does in the > /var/qmail/control directory? Better than what exactly? Better than "man qmail-control" which identifies all control files and the relevant program in turn each have a

RE: Repeated Identical Messages

as someone here was nice enough to point out to me: by default, certain versions of PIX software come out of the box with fixup protocol smtp 25 enabled. this implements something called 'Mail Guard', which rewrites smtp conversations, only allowing rfc 821 commands. we've been having two typ

Re: Control files

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 01:22:30PM -0800, Brad Dameron wrote: > Is there a better description of what each file does in the > /var/qmail/control directory? Better than what? Try man qmail-control. Chris PGP signature

Re: Control files

> Is there a better description of what each file does in the > /var/qmail/control directory? Better than what? Try "man qmail-control". That will give you an overview of what each file does, what it's default is, and what other man pages to read for more detail. ---Kris Kelley

Re: Control files

Brad Dameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a better description of what each file does in the > /var/qmail/control directory? `man qmail-control` Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROT

RE: Repeated Identical Messages

Hey thanks, That seems to have solved the problem. Now I am going to spend the next 30 minutes cussing myself out for not thinking about that myself. Kep _ ants.com scout Kep Brown Systems, Network and Database Administrator phone: (8

RE: Control files

Brad: I am new to qmail, but I will try to answer your question. Control files are Qmail's way of storing configuration data. Qmail uses lots of individualized control files, each of which defines one piece of the qmail puzzle. For example, /var/qmail/control/me is the most important control f

plusdomain

What is ths plusdomain file used for? Also can I leave the locals file empty? --- Brad Dameron[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Account Executive 877-663-4349 TSCNet Online Services www.tsc

Re: plusdomain

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 03:49:10PM -0800, Brad Dameron wrote: > > What is ths plusdomain file used for? Also can I leave the locals file > empty? The plusdomain contains the domain added to the back of a hostname if you put in a '+'. Read man qmail-inject for the whole scoop. You can leav

Re: Repeated Identical Messages

My first foray into using ezmlm+qmail resulted in a few users getting up to hundreds if copies of the email. Does this mean that they are probably behind a PIX with this broken feature? Why wouldn't it happen with all of their other email? Is it a qmail incompatibility? -K > From: dan kelley <[

Message queue growing and not sending.

We had a gig queue and did a kill -ALRM on qmail-send and it still continued to grow. It looked like we had created some type of loop that was not deliverable and just growing. After we removed the queue and restarted everything seemed to go ok. Anyone else encounter this before? --- Bra

Strange problem...

Hello, I have been running qmail for about 6 months without any problems. Since yesterday, people have been complaining that they are not receiving any email.. So I sent a few tests ones and sure enough they were not arriving, Nor are they bouncing! The error message in the log states: qmail: 9

virtual domains ONLY?

Is it possible to ONLY use virtual domains with qmail? An example: My mail machine is mail.mydomain.com. It also accepts mail for yourdomain.com and ourdomain.com. ourdomain and yourdomain are set up and working through virtual domains. What I'd like to do is also have mail sent to mydomai

Re: virtual domains ONLY?

Sean Brown writes: > Is it possible to ONLY use virtual domains with qmail? An example: > > My mail machine is mail.mydomain.com. It also accepts mail for > yourdomain.com and ourdomain.com. ourdomain and yourdomain are set up and > working through virtual domains. What I'd like to do

Re: Message queue growing and not sending.

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 05:43:55PM -0800, Brad Dameron wrote: > > We had a gig queue and did a kill -ALRM on qmail-send and it still > continued to grow. It looked like we had created some type of loop that was > not deliverable and just growing. After we removed the queue and restarted > e

how can i send mails serially

Dear all,   I am using qmail 1.03 on Red Hat 6.2 . I am providing mailing solution to varrious domains which are listed in my locals as well as in my virtualdomain files. Mx pointing of all these domain is my qmail server.   For few domains i am simple forwarding mails to their destination s

Re: Strange problem...

Also check you file /var/adm/messages for disk problems. Additionally just go to the directory where your mails are getting delivered and try to create a file i.e. touch junk Regards Manny - Original Message - From: Marcelo . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, Marc

Re: how can i send mails serially

man -M /var/qmail/man qmail-control Check out the concurrencyremote control file. -sc On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:37:12AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm > Precedence: bulk > Delivered-To: m

Re: how can i send mails serially

Dear sir, I do have a file comcurrencyremote in /var/qmail/control and it has a value 120. And still i am facing problem bcoz qmail try to send mails simultaneuosly with destination server and establish multiple smtp connection with destination server and bandwidth get choked. Is there any way

Re: vpopmail ip-alias-domains

> > I've compiled vpopmail with ip-alias-domains=y but am unable to use pop on > > virtual domains without the % sign. DNS and reverse are set up correctly. > vpopmail no longer depends on DNS. Use the vipmap program. > What is this vipmap...where can I get an FAQ and download of this program.

Re: how can i send mails serially

> I do have a file comcurrencyremote in /var/qmail/control and it has a value > 120. > Is there any way by which i can establish only one single conection with > remote server and can send all the pending mails to the destination server If it is coNcurrencyremote, put 1 in it and there will b

virtual + real users in same domain

I know a few people have asked this question (including me) and gotten the answer that, yes, it can be done. However, neither LWQ nor qmail.org really have any how-to's that cover this particular type of setup--in particular, a useful discussion of how users can retrieve POP3 mail from both types

qmail assign file ...

I am forwarding an e-mail from the RPMS list, discussing the qmail rpm by Bruce Guenter. The point is, that running qmail-pw2u effectively destroys the /users/assign file and all virtual domain info that is there. the question is, how do we deal with that, and how should programs like vpopmail dea