Long connect times

2001-06-14 Thread Jon Booth
Hi all, I am using QMail with xinetd. It takes ages for a PC internally (allowed to relay) to connect to the server. Outside servers can connect instantly. Where should I look to diagnose this problem Thanks for any help Jon Booth Lucid Logic Pty. Ltd. http://www.lucidlogic.com +61 3 9853

Re: Long connect times

2001-06-14 Thread Jörgen Persson
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:39:06PM +1000, Jon Booth wrote: Hi all, I am using QMail with xinetd. It takes ages for a PC internally (allowed to relay) to connect to the server. Outside servers can connect instantly. Where should I look to diagnose this problem I'm not familiar with xinetd

Re: Long connect times

2001-06-14 Thread Jon Booth
That would make sense. How can I stop it from doing reverse lookups? Its not practical from me to set up reverse DNS for these internal IPs. Thanks Jon On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jörgen Persson wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:39:06PM +1000, Jon Booth wrote: Hi all, I am using

qmail date sync prob?

2001-06-14 Thread Tim Rainier
We have an extendnet box running Debian. Our qmail program has a problem where it will stop functioning until we do something to modify the date. simply running a touch command on it, gets it back up and running. any ideas? Tim Rainier Manufacturing Systems Analyst Kalsec Inc. Office:

mini-qmail with smtp

2001-06-14 Thread Clemens Hermann
Hi, in a small network I want to have one qmail machine where all the clients can send their mails via smtp. This machine then will forward the mails via smtp to the smarthost of my provider. If I got it rigt, much of a normal qmail installation is not needed because no local delivery is

Re: Long connect times

2001-06-14 Thread Jörgen Persson
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 06:15:17PM +1000, Jon Booth wrote: That would make sense. How can I stop it from doing reverse lookups? Its not practical from me to set up reverse DNS for these internal IPs. I've got no clue how to do that with xinetd but it's use with qmail is mentioned in their

how do we integrate antivirus with qmail

2001-06-14 Thread hari_bhr
hi all how do i integrate antivirus scanner for incoming and out going mails. i have qmail+vpopmail+mysql any help will appriciate

Re: how do we integrate antivirus with qmail

2001-06-14 Thread Jeff Palmer
http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net Jeff Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 02:59 PM 6/14/01 +0530, you wrote: hi all how do i integrate antivirus scanner for incoming and out going mails. i have qmail+vpopmail+mysql any help will appriciate

Re: how do we integrate antivirus with qmail

2001-06-14 Thread Lars Hansson
hi all how do i integrate antivirus scanner for incoming and out going mails. i have qmail+vpopmail+mysql any help will appriciate http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net All information you need should be there. Cheers Lars Hansson Technical Consultant Unet Inc., Philippines

Re: patching qmail-smtpd.c twice

2001-06-14 Thread ari
Apply one patch and check the messages, backup qmail-smtpd.c and apply the other, check the message also. Apply one and then the other, if no strange messages, it's ok. But at most time the patchs are not very big and they have the line number and instructions that must stay, include (+)

Re: $EXT from users/assign

2001-06-14 Thread Charles Cazabon
Drew Raines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm setting up a mail server where my users each have a virtual email account in a Courier IMAP userdb file. My qmail interface with this works great, but I foresee problems when I start switching over all my users... maintenance. You're essentially

Re: mini-qmail with smtp

2001-06-14 Thread Charles Cazabon
Clemens Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in a small network I want to have one qmail machine where all the clients can send their mails via smtp. This machine then will forward the mails via smtp to the smarthost of my provider. If I got it rigt, much of a normal qmail installation is not

Re: qmail memory/queue issue

2001-06-14 Thread David Gartner
Christopher, I dunno about any of this, but I do know that 2.4.1 has a nasty IDE bug. Consider upgrading yer kernel soon! David Christopher Ferry wrote: I have recently inherited a bulk mailing system from a recently acquired company. All systems are running kernel 2.4.1 pre9 with

Re: qmail memory/queue issue

2001-06-14 Thread peter green
* Christopher Ferry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010614 09:59]: what is causing the leak. is it qmail or most likely the 2.4.1 pre9 kernel? Though I don't use the patches you described, I would guess that the old Franken-kernel you are using is probably the

Re: backup mail server help

2001-06-14 Thread Mike Cathey
Sorry, I forgot to include the list in the to... Any comments would be greatly appreciated, esp. in regard to nfs locking... Jeff, You make a very valid point, however this can be overcome in many ways. I am currently researching this for my employer. Here's a general overview of how I'm

RE: URGENT: Qmail-remote gone nuts

2001-06-14 Thread David U.
Here's an update. I have an email address called [EMAIL PROTECTED] (run via vpopmail) in /home/vpopmail/domains/everydns.net/support there is a .qmail file that just says cat .qmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] So this forwards all [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] However this morning it sent

RE: Long connect times

2001-06-14 Thread Mike Peppard
Try a stub resolver on the mailbox. In addition to your regular name server/cache you should get decent response times. The stub resolver needn't take much ram or cpu. If you didn't have a stub resolver already, you will notice a nice performance boost. Otherwise try playing with the cache.

Re: URGENT: Qmail-remote gone nuts

2001-06-14 Thread Charles Cazabon
David U. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this morning I awoke to find some 6000 emails in my inbox from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- they were the same exact 6000 emails. Perhaps their MTA isn't finishing the SMTP converstation properly, so they think they need to try delivery again? You said you don't

qmail y UUCP

2001-06-14 Thread GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI
Hi. I'm looking for info about configure qmail to use UUCP. I have the following configuration smail(sub1.domain.edu) | | dial-up | --- | smail(xxx.net) | |accept(sub1.domain.edu)|-- smail(domain.edu) ---

Re: URGENT: Qmail-remote gone nuts

2001-06-14 Thread Niles Rowland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I got rid of the support forward and now support seems to be reiceving mail fine -- but how I do clear my queue when qmail-qstat reports: messages in queue: 5046 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 Delete the queue and rebuild it. A good tool for that

Fw: many mails

2001-06-14 Thread Gianni Campanile
Can I qmail-queue more than one message at the time ? From the manual it seems that sender and message are only one, while recipients can be as many you wish. I would like to feed qmail-queue with a single file (or stdin) where all messages are packed together. Is it possibile ? What

missing syncdir lib??

2001-06-14 Thread Chris Moore
I know someone is going to think this is a stupid question, but I am having problems rebuilding qmail-1.03+patches. The 'make setup check' fails with the following: ./load auto-str substdio.a error.a str.a /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsyncdir collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make:

Re: many mails

2001-06-14 Thread Henning Brauer
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:08:26PM +0200, Gianni Campanile wrote: OK, I'll give up on preformance, at least for now. (I can not afford that cost) You still can call qmail-remote directly and switch back to qmail-inject only if this failes. thus the mails you could send in the first trial don't

Re: False alarms about services with tcpserver

2001-06-14 Thread Henning Brauer
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:55:55AM +0200, Andrea Cerrito wrote: Thank you for your reply. On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:29:05PM -0400, David Means wrote: If there is a way to configure Mon to report a service as down after a number of failures, then that is my recommendation. Just because

Re: qmail-ldap

2001-06-14 Thread Henning Brauer
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 11:18:52PM +0530, Rohit Gupta wrote: where do i find qmail-ldap to download can anyone give me a hint read http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ldap/. After that, download from nrg4u.com. -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de * * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459

Re: Hello , How to give Priority

2001-06-14 Thread Henning Brauer
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:08:01PM +0530, RAGHVENDRA SHUKLA wrote: Hello , How i can give priority in the qmail and how i can set delay factors for some mails/mailing lists . You cannot. -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de * * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459

Re: warning: trouble opening remote

2001-06-14 Thread Dave Sill
Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're running qmail configured as per http://www.lifewithqmail.org, then the following commands will fix the problem: svc -dx /service/qmail setlock /service/qmail/supervise/lock sh -c '/var/qmail/queue/*/0/{348381,348335,348013}' For LWQ, the

RE: Log Entry question

2001-06-14 Thread Drew Hawn
My run script is: exec env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:$PATH \ qmail-start '|dot-forward .forward |preline /usr/bin/procmail' -Original Message- From: Chris Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 5:09 PM To: Drew Hawn Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Log Entry

Re: yet more trouble with daemontools and supervise

2001-06-14 Thread Dave Sill
Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Sill wrote: Logging via splogger (syslog). Which is deprecated in LWQ, now, correct? Yes. Sure that's qmail-smtpd/log/run? Looks more like qmail-smtpd/run. D'oh! #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t

Re: Fw: many mails

2001-06-14 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Gianni Campanile wrote: Can I qmail-queue more than one message at the time ? From the manual it seems that sender and message are only one, while recipients can be as many you wish. I would like to feed qmail-queue with a single file (or stdin)

Re: URGENT: Qmail-remote gone nuts

2001-06-14 Thread Dave Sill
Niles Rowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I got rid of the support forward and now support seems to be reiceving mail fine -- but how I do clear my queue when qmail-qstat reports: messages in queue: 5046 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 Delete the

Re: qmail date sync prob?

2001-06-14 Thread Russell Nelson
Tim Rainier writes: We have an extendnet box running Debian. Our qmail program has a problem where it will stop functioning until we do something to modify the date. simply running a touch command on it, gets it back up and running. any ideas? This is not a problem I've ever heard of

Re: Fw: many mails

2001-06-14 Thread Charles Cazabon
Gianni Campanile [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I qmail-queue more than one message at the time ? From the manual it seems that sender and message are only one, while recipients can be as many you wish. I would like to feed qmail-queue with a single file (or stdin) where all messages are

Re: missing syncdir lib??

2001-06-14 Thread Charles Cazabon
Chris Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know someone is going to think this is a stupid question, but I am having problems rebuilding qmail-1.03+patches. The 'make setup check' fails with the following: ./load auto-str substdio.a error.a str.a /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsyncdir collect2:

Re: False alarms about services with tcpserver

2001-06-14 Thread Andrea Cerrito
I hope I just discovered my problem, and I hope it will help other people too. As I said, I'm using CodaFS: sometimes Coda (a network fs) may respond slow to open files because files is modified on another host, or because getting info from master servers is delayed, and so on. Looking at my run

Re: yet more trouble with daemontools and supervise

2001-06-14 Thread Stephen Bosch
Dave Sill wrote: Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Sill wrote: Logging via splogger (syslog). Which is deprecated in LWQ, now, correct? Yes. Sure that's qmail-smtpd/log/run? Looks more like qmail-smtpd/run. D'oh! #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill

Re: URGENT: Qmail-remote gone nuts

2001-06-14 Thread Guillermo Villasana Cardoza
actually queue-fix will do the job right... I know I have done it. just delete de subfolders in the queue and run the queue-fix Terius - Original Message - From: Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 10:11 AM Subject: Re: URGENT: Qmail-remote

RE: URGENT: Qmail-remote gone nuts

2001-06-14 Thread David U.
-Original Message- From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Yeah, he probably won't lose any important messages... heh, yeah, I *would* want to do that. No, queue-fix fixes corrupt queues. To delete and rebuild, you should rm -rf /var/qmail/queue and make setup check from the qmail

Re: URGENT: Qmail-remote gone nuts

2001-06-14 Thread Dave Sill
Guillermo Villasana Cardoza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actually queue-fix will do the job right... I know I have done it. I didn't mean to imply that it wouldn't work, just that it's preferable to use the rm/make method since it's definitive and doesn't require downloading/installing a

RE: URGENT: Qmail-remote gone nuts

2001-06-14 Thread Dave Sill
David U. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: now I just want to know why [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6000 times (until /var filled I assume) instead of just once. this is all via localhost, no other machines involved. I'd look at the logs, from the beginning of the incident. -Dave

Mime Encoding

2001-06-14 Thread Anstett, Brad
Hi, Does anyone know what the default length that qmail sets for a MIME encoded string for attachments. I had a programmer set it at 4320 and the mail and attachment can across corrupted. Is there anyway to increase the string length that qmail will accept. Thanks Brad Anstett

Re: yet more trouble with daemontools and supervise

2001-06-14 Thread Dave Sill
Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, my logs are filling up with garbage Garbage or log entries? Sample, please? (and I get that silly file does not exist error when I run qmail stat) Sample? -Dave

i can't sending out

2001-06-14 Thread budsz
Hi...there I compiled qmail in FreeBSD 4.2 with daemontool, ucspi, i tried send between local user, yes i was success: @40003b27f4a0263e5a14 new msg 62796 @40003b27f4a0266bfdac info msg 62796: bytes 617 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 244 uid 1009 @40003b27f4a035ab76bc starting delivery

Multilog log file size specification

2001-06-14 Thread Alex Khanin
I've read the manpage and it states you should use the ssize action, So I put this in my /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /backup/log/qmail ssize 50 nnum 50 That is ignored. If I put it this way: #!/bin/sh

Re: Mime Encoding

2001-06-14 Thread MarkD
You are confused. qmail does not look at the contents of the email at all. qmail has no concept of MIME, attachments, default lengths or anything. If the email is corrupted it's because your programmer submitted it to qmail in a corrupted state. Get your programmer to write the email to a file

Re: Mime Encoding

2001-06-14 Thread Russell Nelson
Anstett, Brad writes: Hi, Does anyone know what the default length that qmail sets for a MIME encoded string for attachments. I had a programmer set it at 4320 and the mail and attachment can across corrupted. Is there anyway to increase the string length that qmail will accept. Sigh.

Re: Mime Encoding

2001-06-14 Thread Charles Cazabon
Anstett, Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what the default length that qmail sets for a MIME encoded string for attachments. I had a programmer set it at 4320 and the mail and attachment can across corrupted. Is there anyway to increase the string length that qmail will accept.

Re: yet more trouble with daemontools and supervise

2001-06-14 Thread Stephen Bosch
Hello... Dave Sill wrote: Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, my logs are filling up with garbage Garbage or log entries? Sample, please? Sorry -- it's just that I quoted it at great length before... okay, I'll get it. Stephen Bosch wrote: Hello, gentlemen: I've looked

Re: Multilog log file size specification

2001-06-14 Thread Charles Cazabon
Alex Khanin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read the manpage and it states you should use the ssize action, So I put this in my /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /backup/log/qmail ssize 50 nnum 50 That is

Re: yet more trouble with daemontools and supervise

2001-06-14 Thread Dave Sill
Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my /var/log/maillog fills up with stuff like this: Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.411296 end msg 1005715 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.507199 new msg 1005716 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.507323 info msg 1005716: bytes

Re: backup mail server help

2001-06-14 Thread Adam Jacob
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 06:03:41AM -0600, Jeff Palmer wrote: And if your NFS server goes down, both servers are useless. In which case, what was the point of having a backup server again? Which is why you deploy this with something like a NetApp filer, that lets you deliver to NFS, and

Re: yet more trouble with daemontools and supervise

2001-06-14 Thread Charles Cazabon
Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Sill wrote: Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, my logs are filling up with garbage Garbage or log entries? Sample, please? Sorry -- it's just that I quoted it at great length before... [...] Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail:

RE: Multilog log file size specification

2001-06-14 Thread Michael Boyiazis
-Original Message- From: Alex Khanin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 11:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Multilog log file size specification I've read the manpage and it states you should use the ssize action, So I put this in my

RE: Multilog log file size specification

2001-06-14 Thread Willy De la Court
On Thursday, June 14, 2001 20:22, Alex Khanin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I've read the manpage and it states you should use the ssize action, So I put this in my /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t

Re: Log Entry question

2001-06-14 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 08:56:48AM -0700, Drew Hawn wrote: My run script is: exec env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:$PATH \ qmail-start '|dot-forward .forward |preline /usr/bin/procmail' That's not it. What script are you using to start qmail-smtpd? What I'm getting at: are you putting tcpserver

Re: backup mail server help

2001-06-14 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 12:42:28PM -0700, Adam Jacob wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 06:03:41AM -0600, Jeff Palmer wrote: And if your NFS server goes down, both servers are useless. In which case, what was the point of having a backup server again? Which is why you deploy this with

Re: yet more trouble with daemontools and supervise

2001-06-14 Thread Stephen Bosch
Charles Cazabon wrote: Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Sill wrote: Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, my logs are filling up with garbage Garbage or log entries? Sample, please? Sorry -- it's just that I quoted it at great length before... [...]

Re: yet more trouble with daemontools and supervise

2001-06-14 Thread Stephen Bosch
Hullo again... Dave Sill wrote: Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my /var/log/maillog fills up with stuff like this: Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.411296 end msg 1005715 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.507199 new msg 1005716 Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail:

Re: yet more trouble with daemontools and supervise

2001-06-14 Thread Charles Cazabon
Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Each of those messages has a different qmail-queue PID. From this, you can deduce that the sender is connecting to your server, sending the message, and somehow disconnecting or misinterpreting qmail's response to the DATA command. The sender

Migrating a Maildir to another qmail box

2001-06-14 Thread Al Sparks
It comes time to move my email, located in a $HOME/Maildir to another machine, also running qmail. I tar the $HOME/Maildir transfer it to the new machine (with a different name btw) and restore it to the new $HOME/Maildir. What else do I need to do to make qmail on the new machine see it?

help : qmail-popup3d

2001-06-14 Thread Carlos Baptista
hi all, i have a very small problem.. qmail-popup3d stops the connection after 1 minute. this append with any type of client that i use (kmail, outlook, eudora, even with email client from nokia 9110/9210). it doesn't matter how many messages there is in the mailbox.. it just stops after 1

Using mail.local to put the mail in /var/mail/username

2001-06-14 Thread benl
Hello All, I've searched the FAQ and mailing list archive but couldn't find a solution. I'm hoping someone can help me. My box has linux 7.0, qmail 1.0.3 I can successfully run qmail where it delivers the mail to the Maildir or Mailbox in the user's home dir. Now I'm trying to make it

Re: Using mail.local to put the mail in /var/mail/username

2001-06-14 Thread Nick (Keith) Fish
benl wrote: @40003b2866de266761fc delivery 12: deferral: mail.local:_/var/spool/mail/benl:_Permission_denied/ Here's the permissions on /var/spool/mail drwxrwxr-x2 root qmail4096 Jun 14 17:04 mail Thanks, Ben Qmail Wannabe The user should own that Mailbox, not

Re: Migrating a Maildir to another qmail box

2001-06-14 Thread hari_bhr
hi take a back of all /var/qmail/control directry /var/qmail/usersdirectry and restore - Original Message - From: Al Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: qmail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 4:07 AM Subject: Migrating a Maildir to another qmail box It comes time

Re: Qmail ADMIN!!! Please Help

2001-06-14 Thread Santosh Pasi
Hi, gcc -I. -g -O2 -c qmailadmin.c qmailadmin.c:30: vpopmail.h: No such file or directory ^ qmailadmin.c:31: vauth.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [qmailadmin.o] Error 1 On your system,

Re: Long connect times

2001-06-14 Thread Jon Booth
OK I have set up reverse DNS and it works great. The reason I was hesitant to set it up was I was using my ISPs DNS to resolve not my local but I am now forwarding from my local to theirs Thanks Jon Booth On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Russell Nelson wrote: Jon Booth writes: Hi all, I am using