Re: Re: Can I use qmail for this purpose? (newbie)

>From: "Robin S. Socha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Are you sure you want to run a server? I know what you are saying but uou have to start somewhere and learn somehow ... >I beg to differ. OpenBSD is quite fine (DJB himself certainly does >not use >it for no good reason, eh?) and it has everything

Re: Re: Can I use qmail for this purpose? (newbie)

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 07:43:43AM +, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote: > >From: "Robin S. Socha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Are you sure you want to run a server? > I know what you are saying but uou have to start somewhere and learn > somehow On a production system? Did you bring a Ferrari to yo

can qmail rewrite an email adresse to resend it to the good serveur ??

I need to replace a netscape mesenger server fonctionality with Qmail: the netscape fonctionality --- all mails are recieve to the same server. when it receive an email it looks on the LDAP if he have to deliver it locally or remotely. if it is remotely it rewrite the adre

dnscheck; Not logging Invalid SENDER

Greetings: I have dnschecking enabled: nodnscheck: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is checked for existing Domains. My problem is that some senders continue trying and my logs fill with hundreds of Invalid SENDER lines for the each rejected message. Is there any way to prevent qmail logging these?

Re: can qmail rewrite an email adresse to resend it to the goodserveur ??

> I need to replace a netscape mesenger server fonctionality with Qmail: > is it possible with QMAIL? > sure it is, but ...how ??? It is simple after some reading. > all mails are recieve to the same server. > when it receive an email it looks on the LDAP if he have to deliver it > locally

Re: Can I use qmail for this purpose? (newbie)

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 05:58:53AM +, Robert Sander wrote: > On 8 Aug 2001 07:01:31 +0200, > Jean-Christian Imbeault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Our office uses Windows and MS Outlook. Can Outlook work with qmail? Can > > users just POP or IMAP off of qmail? Do I need another piece of sof

Re: Re: Can I use qmail for this purpose? (newbie)

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 07:43:43AM +, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote: > >From: "Robin S. Socha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I beg to differ. OpenBSD is quite fine (DJB himself certainly does >not use > >it for no good reason, eh?) and it has everything you need as > >ports and packages. > No ports

Re: Re: Can I use qmail for this purpose? (newbie)

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 02:22:15AM -0500, Robin S. Socha wrote: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:59:06AM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: [snip] > > The manpages do install themselves automatically. You just have to > > tell man to check /var/qmail/man as well. (The way to do this is > > OS-dependent). >

Re: dnscheck; Not logging Invalid SENDER

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:17:42AM +0200, Lou Hevly wrote: > Greetings: > > I have dnschecking enabled: > > nodnscheck: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is checked for existing Domains. > > My problem is that some senders continue trying and my logs fill with > hundreds of Invalid SENDER lines for the

deleting messages from the queue

How to delete a mail from the the queue? ( this messages appear in qmail-qread, qmail-qstat ). Thanks Attila -- - - Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Debian 2.2 Linux / 2.2.13 / qmail - - PGP key: gpg --keyserver keys.pgp.com --recv-

RE: can qmail rewrite an email adresse to resend it to the good serveur ??

I think it is fastfoward. no ? but i wrote that using a user-oriented virtual-domain tables was more than 100x faster than using aliases. but ... what is a user-oriented virtual-domain tables ? thanx -Message d'origine- De : Christo Maasdorp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : m

Re: dnscheck; Not logging Invalid SENDER

At 12:11 08/08/01, Peter van Dijk wrote: >On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:17:42AM +0200, Lou Hevly wrote: > > Greetings: > > > > I have dnschecking enabled: > > > > nodnscheck: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is checked for existing > Domains. > > > > My problem is that some senders continue trying and my lo

what is a user-oriented virtual-domain tables

I try to replace an interresting netscape messenger function with qmail. auto-rewrite an email address and send it to the good server -- ex: receive an email for [EMAIL PROTECTED] rewrite to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and sending it --- the b

Receiving mail using qmail

Hi All, I am using qmail 1.03 to send out mails from my Linux box. Other than qmail I use big concurrency patch and dns patch. I am not able to receive mails using qmail. The processes that are running currently are : 21345 ?S 1:59 qmail-send 21346 ?S 11:17 splogger qm

Re: Receiving mail using qmail

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 01:07:21PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The processes that are running currently are : > > 21345 ?S 1:59 qmail-send > 21346 ?S 11:17 splogger qmail > 21347 ?S 0:00 qmail-lspawn ./Mailbox > 21348 ?S 0:41 qmail-rspawn >

qmail-pop3d inbox messages limit

I have noticed that if a user has more than about 5500 messages in their inbox the server dies with the following error: -ERR unable to scan $HOME/Maildir I look at qmail-pop3d.c but couldn't see anything that would explain this. Any thoughts? Thanks, Alberto Alonso Marlabs Inc. http

Re: qmail-pop3d inbox messages limit

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:22:14AM -0500, Alberto Alonso wrote: > I have noticed that if a user has more than about 5500 messages > in their inbox the server dies with the following error: > > -ERR unable to scan $HOME/Maildir > > I look at qmail-pop3d.c but couldn't see anything that would > ex

file permissions

Hi, I want to install qmail on a Virtual Vault. Is there any workaround to do this? If there is none, what files are accessed by qmail and what permissions must these files have set (minimum)? I would also need this for daemontools, ucspi-tcp, vpopmail, ezmlm and courier-imap. Thanks a lot Ma

Re: qmail-pop3d inbox messages limit

Peter van Dijk wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:22:14AM -0500, Alberto Alonso wrote: > > I have noticed that if a user has more than about 5500 messages > > in their inbox the server dies with the following error: > > > > -ERR unable to scan $HOME/Maildir > > > > I look at qmail-pop3d.c but

Re: Can I use qmail for this purpose? (newbie)

Jean-Christian Imbeault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But after installing both the OS and qmail and going through the install > procedure it then hits me, is qmail the right tool? (shows how much I knew > before starting). > > Our office uses Windows and MS Outlook. Can Outlook work with qma

daemonstools compile problem on mdk8

I could compile daemontools-0.70 on several platforms, but had no luck on Linux Mandrake 8.0: ./compile tai64n.c ./load tai64n time.a unix.a byte.a ./compile tai64nlocal.c tai64nlocal.c: In function `main': tai64nlocal.c:54: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast tai64nloc

Re: Help! Bizarre qmail incident...

Darren Kukulka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wondering if anyone can enlighten me on some strange qmail behaviour. This doesn't sound like any known behaviour of qmail I've ever experienced, or even heard about. > Qmail is currently acting as a primary SMTP forwarder for a client of > ours as

Re: deleting messages from the queue

Attila Csosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How to delete a mail from the the queue? ( this messages appear in > qmail-qread, qmail-qstat ). What problem are you trying to solve? Having a few messages show up in the qmail-qstat output for a few days is perfectly normal. Charles -- ---

Re: daemonstools compile problem on mdk8

torben fjerdingstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I could compile daemontools-0.70 on several platforms, > but had no luck on Linux Mandrake 8.0: [...] > tai64nlocal.c:56: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type This is answered in the mailing list archives at least a hundred times. Charles --

Re: daemonstools compile problem on mdk8

On 08 Aug 2001 16:09:04 +0200, torben fjerdingstad wrote: > I could compile daemontools-0.70 on several platforms, > but had no luck on Linux Mandrake 8.0: > > ./compile tai64n.c > ./load tai64n time.a unix.a byte.a > ./compile tai64nlocal.c > tai64nlocal.c: In function `main': > tai64nlocal.c:5

failure to deliver to mailbox

Hey everyone, I've emailed the list once with this problem and discussed it with one of the subscribers but we never really came to any sort of conclusion. I am running Mandrake 8.0 with qmail (installed according to LWQ) as well as qmail-scanner as a means of protecting my users against virii

Re: virtualdomains vs. VERP and Delivered-To

On 8 Aug 2001, John R. Levine wrote: > Like I said: > > > It's true, qmail doesn't work the way you might first have guessed it > > does. That doesn't mean it's wrong. The fact qmail--or any other piece of software--does something does not mean it is correct. Executive summary: qmail breaks V

Re: failure to deliver to mailbox

Michel Rondeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only possible reason that I can think of is that qmail-scanner > bypasses qmail's traditional queue and uses its own. If this is the case, then the problem has nothing to do with qmail. Try the qmail-scanner list. > So basically, I'm just wonde

Where to store extended envelope info in /var/qmail/queue ?

Vanilla qmail 1.03 stores the envelope sender address (preceded by an F and followed by a NUL) in a file in the directory /var/qmail/info/. RFC 1869 ("SMTP Service Extensions") allows one to pass additional information on the MAIL command line after the FROM: . Some of this information should in

Re: deleting messages from the queue

Will someone PLEASE define "few." I've got over 400 BOUNCE messages alone in my queue. Some of them for almost a week (I know they'll timeout after a week (and that the timeout is configurable), but this is ridiculous. I have tons of mail in the queue going to pm0.net (see www.postmastergene

Re: deleting messages from the queue

On 08 Aug 2001 14:09:18 +, eric wrote: > > Will someone PLEASE define "few." I've got over 400 BOUNCE messages alone > in my > queue. Some of them for almost a week (I know they'll timeout after a week > (and > that the timeout is configurable), but this is ridiculous. > > I have tons of

Re: virtualdomains vs. VERP and Delivered-To

On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 01:44:54PM +, Charles M. Hannum wrote: > > Don't think of Delivered-To: as an address. Think of it as a unique > > magic cookie derived from email delivery path. You can always > > reconstruct the address if you know something about the delivery path, > > and sometime

Re: failure to deliver to mailboxes

Hallo again, This is the output of a ps auxwww grep qmail: - root 1238 0.0 0.2 1320 336 ?S08:53 0:00 supervise qmail-send root 1240 0.0 0.2 1320 336 ?S08:53 0:00 supervise qmail-smtpd root 1242 0.0 0.2 1320 336 ?S08:53

Re: failure to deliver to mailboxes

Michel Rondeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: re: messages are getting "stuck" > This is the output of a ps auxwww grep qmail: [...] > root 1238 0.0 0.2 1320 336 ?S08:53 0:00 supervise > qmail-send [...] > qmails1247 0.0 0.3 1388 436 ?S08:53 0:00 qmail

re: stuck messages

Heya, Mail was not being delivered when I did that ps and there were two messages waiting to be delivered at the time. No, I did not stop and start qmail. How exactly does one go about doing a truss/strace - as I said, I'm rather new to this linux world... Thanks again, Michel PS: Out of cu

Re: deleting messages from the queue

eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "Charles Cazabon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Why is it ridiculous? Mail sometimes can't be delivered; hosts are > > down, networks are down, services are down or busy, users make typos. > > "A few" depends on a lot of things; if your server handles

Can anyone explain this?

The following is something I've noticed as a recurrent problem that I'm having. qmail-send processes just seem to get "stuck". I assumed they were waiting on a response from a slow MX, but in order to try to avoid this I have set /var/qmail/control/timeouremote to 180 seconds $ date ; ps ax |

Re: stuck messages

Michel Rondeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mail was not being delivered when I did that ps and there were two messages > waiting to be delivered at the time. No, I did not stop and start qmail. Two messages? Probably they were deferred, due to timeouts or whatever. That's perfectly normal.

Re: deleting messages from the queue

> "Charles Cazabon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > "Charles Cazabon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Why is it ridiculous? Mail sometimes can't be delivered; hosts are > > > down, networks are down, services are down or busy, users make typos. > >

Re: Can anyone explain this?

pm0.net are a notorious spammer. They presumably are spamming many invalid users at this site. The saving grace is their IP address can be determined and tcpserver (deny) is your friend. Regards. On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 03:34:44PM +, eric allegedly wrote: > > > The following is something

Vpopmail + qmail + mysql, 1 last problem

Here is my situation. Almost everything is working. I've set up qmail and vpopmail using mysql. I can log a user into a virtual domain through mailtoweb and read any emails that I may have. I can send emails to my virtual domain users from any other account(hotmail for example), but when I

Re: deleting messages from the queue

eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Use tcpserver to refuse all connections from pm0.net. Voila, no more > > > > problem. > > > > > > tcpserver (unless patched) requires IP ADDRESSES. > > > > No longer true. tcpserver accepts hostnames just fine, with appropriate > > syntax. See the do

Re: Is there a better way to log qmail smtp & pop3

On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:31:29PM +, board master wrote: Please don't use HTML formatted mail The archives will tell you more about pop3d than the tcpserver log. The following article[1], by Bernstein himself, might interest you. Jörgen [1]

Re: Can anyone explain this?

eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The following is something I've noticed as a recurrent problem that I'm > having. qmail-send processes just seem to get "stuck". [...] Well, qmail-remote anyway. > Anyone else seeing similar stuff happening? I'm running qmail-1.03 without > any patches unde

Re: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:04:50PM +1200, Jason Haar wrote: > We have exactly the same issue here. Exchange goes down. Mail backs up on > Qmail servers. Exchange comes back up. USERS ARE TOLD ITS WORKING AGAIN. > Users then wonder why it takes up to 2 hours for queued mail to get to them. > USERS

Re: failure to deliver to mailboxes

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:08:43AM -0600, Michel Rondeau wrote: > What's the prognosis Dr. Charles? ;) You still haven't answered the famous "Wdtls". a ps aux is hardly a log file. -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de * * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany

How to remove from the list?

Is this correct?

My /etc/aliases looks like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] @mail3.soid.ch test2 First line: All emails with the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] will sent to the extern email-address [EMAIL PROTECTED] - it works good :-) Second line: All emails to @mail3.soid.ch will sent to the local user test2

Re: Is this correct?

At 22:33 08.08.2001 +0200, Severin Olloz wrote: >Is there a possibility to design the /etc/aliases-file that qmail sents >directly to the user test2 without the virtualdomain-file? i don't know, but fastforward & /etc/aliases is deprecated, use /var/qmail/users/assign & ~alias/.qmail-name instead

Re: your mail

eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The tcprules syntax above is the correct one; the problem here is you're > > not invoking tcprulescheck properly. It takes the remote host > > information in an environment variable, not as an argument. > > I also tried the following: > > $ export TCPHOSTN

Re: Flame Bait: Using Qmail as a front-line mail server

On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 09:00:46PM -0400, Steve wrote: > 1. Is it possible to list the Qmail server as the primary MX record and > > still forward the mail to its final destination? All my research says > no, > but I need to be certain. Yes, use smtproutes. See the manual page for qmail-remote

Outbound mail sent through relay server?

Anyone know how I can have Q-mail send all of it's mail through my relay server? --- Brad Dameron Network Account Executive TSCNet Inc. www.tsc

Re: Outbound mail sent through relay server?

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 03:00:59PM -0700, Brad Dameron wrote: > > Anyone know how I can have Q-mail send all of it's mail through my relay > server? Use smtproutes. See the manual page for qmail-remote.

Re: Is there a better way to log qmail smtp & pop3

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 09:01:33PM +0200, Jörgen Persson wrote: > > The archives will tell you more about pop3d than the tcpserver log. The > following article[1], by Bernstein himself, might interest you. > > Jörgen > [1]http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/1998/08/msg00896.html

Re: Is this correct?

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:37:20PM +0200, Lukas Beeler wrote: > At 22:33 08.08.2001 +0200, Severin Olloz wrote: > >Is there a possibility to design the /etc/aliases-file that qmail sents > >directly to the user test2 without the virtualdomain-file? > i don't know, but fastforward & /etc/aliases is

Re: Flame Bait: Using Qmail as a front-line mail server

> > 1. Is it possible to list the Qmail server as the primary MX record and > > > > still forward the mail to its final destination? All my research says > > no, > > but I need to be certain. > > Yes, use smtproutes. See the manual page for qmail-remote. Or create a ton of forwarding

qmail-queue question

I’ve got a slight problem here and hoping that someone can help solve this.  Due to a high volume of stupid users and mailing list addicts on our network (a small isp) we tend to get a lot of bounced messages, or messages to address that don’t exist or what have you.  The problem here is th

Re: virtualdomains vs. VERP and Delivered-To

>Executive summary: qmail breaks VERP under certain circumstances. Revised executive summary: qmail's VERP works fine, but some people are more than a little unclear on the way virtual domains work. >Let H be a host running qmail, A and B users at H, and V a virtual domain >redirected to B@H. Le

Re: virtualdomains vs. VERP and Delivered-To

On 8 Aug 2001, John R. Levine wrote: > Well, actually, it should be bounced to A-X=V@H, and that's exactly > where it goes since that's the address that VERP creates. (I presume > M was a typo for H there.) Oops. Yes, it should read A-X=V@H. > >Unfortunately, the return address in the scenario

after using .forward, can use also have copy of the message?

can .forward remain a copy to original user email maildir? what is the difference between &[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] in .forward file?

Re: after using .forward, can use also have copy of the message?

> On Thu, 09 Aug 2001 11:55:15 -0400, qmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > can .forward remain a copy to original user email maildir? what is > the difference between &[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] in .forward > file? .forward isn't really the way to go... The bolt-on is just provided as

genericstable equivalent?

Hey folks... Ok, its time to try to talk qmail into doing some virtualdomains for me. I admit its rather annoying to only have the option of doing a -prepend instead of mapping ala sendmails virtualusertable... But I find NO equivalent for sendmails genericstable ?!?!?! Is this true? To clari

Re: genericstable equivalent?

> On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 23:03:42 -0700 (PDT), David Raistrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >said: > mail sent from the robert31 local account would show as being from: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] for all intents and purposes. man qmail-inject [cr] / CONTROL FILES [cr] Depends what you mean by "local account".

Mandrake 8.0 with postfix

Q1.) I am setuping with Mandrake 8.0 kernal 2.4.3, how can I remove all postfix? Q2.) Should I stop all the pop3 and IMAP service in Xinetd? Q3.) I should use courier-imap and qmail-pop3? Q4.) I have many existing email account with user name like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is it ok? Q5.) Is it I should

Re: Mandrake 8.0 with postfix

> On Thu, 09 Aug 2001 14:37:21 -0400, qmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Q1.) I am setuping with Mandrake 8.0 kernal 2.4.3, how can I remove > all postfix? rpm -e --nodeps postfix > Q2.) Should I stop all the pop3 and IMAP service in Xinetd? Yes. > Q3.) I should use courier-imap and qmail-