sqwebmail and qmail?

Hi All, I was wondering, is there a way to make a reply to a message sent from sqwebmail not show the username@FQDN but rather username@domain example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is what comes up now in response to a reply in a MUA, but I want it to be just [EMAIL PROTECTED] (where bar.c

Qmailadmin

Hi All, Through a fault of no one, it appears the password for postmaster for my default domain was changed, and no one can remember it. How can I change it manually, as I have root access to the machine in question, and I am the administrator. I see a file called vpasswd in the domain

test message

Test post to list

RE: slow smtp connection

>Tim, > > Why not just write an web interface for subscribing to the list. > In order to get to the actual form that asks for your email address, > you would have to answer some basic questions that can be found in > the FAQs and LWQ? Take the top 10 questions with multiple choice > an

sqwebmail-1.2.5

Hi All, With the help of inter7.com, I now have qmailadmin and vpopmail upgraded to the latest versions. I decided to have a go at it with upgrading sqwebmail to version 1.2.5 on my own. I found the following ./configure was used originally when sqwebmail was first installed: # ./conf

qmailadmin master passwd?

Hello All, How does one change the master password on qmail-admin (the web based interface for vpopmail)? I don't find any man pages for vpopmail? I'm running qmailadmin-0.26c and vpopmail-3.4.11 if that helps at all? Also, how difficult is it to upgrade to the latest versions

10,000 outbound emails

Hi All, I have qmail running on a pent-133 w/32MB, kernel 2.2.14, tcpserver, qmailadmin, vpopmail, amavis-0.2.1, and NAI's anti-virus software. Everything is working just fine, however, one of the supervisors wants to send 10,000 emails through the box to various users (aka a mass mailin

cyclog line?

Hi All, I'm looking to make my log files /var/qmail/log hold more info before starting a new file with cyclog: I have modified my startup script line to look like this for cyclog: /usr/local/bin/cyclog -s256000 /var/log/qmail (start and end stuff left off to save space) Now according t

limit size of outbound mail?

Hi all, I know that databyte will limit the size of outbound mail from qmail-smtpd to bytes, but which file does it go into in /var/qmail/control? On a unrelated note, I use cyclog to rotate my log files, can I add a -size parameter to increase the size of the log file, before it is cl

modifying script?

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 /var

funny entry in ps ax

Hi all, When I was watching mrtg on my web browser in class for qmail-concurrency, I didn't get a picture displayed (value was 0.0, btw), and when I got home, I logged into my linux box and did a ps ax, and found the following line. 8246 ttyp0SW 0:00 [tcpserver] instead of what

amavis and qmail

Here is a message I posted to the amavis mailing list: I tried running the /usr/sbin/scanmails as suggested in a previous message and this is what I got when I sent a test message to a user on my system (/var/log/qmail). I followed the README.qmail instructions from amavis-0.2.1 and mad

Re: Mail forwarding with .qmail-???

At 01:16 AM 2/15/01 +, you wrote: >On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:12:59PM -0500, Mathieu Martin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a few users who want their mail to be delivered locally and to be > > > > forwarded somewhere else at the same time. > > ie: User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wants to be able to conn

Amavis-0.2.1 and qmail (almost)

Hi All, After installing reformime and tnef on my machine which runs qmail, I was able to configure amavis-0.2.1 with the NAI anti-virus engine 4.1.20 from Network Associates, but in reading the qmail.README, and viewing the output from ./configure --enable-qmail (listed below) checking

amavis w/qmail

Hi All, I am working on installing amavis for scanning inbound/outbound emails with NAI's Virus Scan engine. I have a question, in running the ./configure for amavis, it says it needs reformime (which is a part of the maildrop package). If I compile and install maildrop, does it inter

posted on amavis, but wanted more info

Hi All, I am a rookie at adding anti virus scanning software to my SMTP/POP3 (which is qmail 1.03), and I have a few questions. I run OpenLinux 2.3 by Caldera), and the packages maildrop and tnef were not available in rpm format for my system, so I downloaded tarballs of maildrop

amavis and qmail

Hi All, Has anyone run NAI's anti-virus package via amavis on a system which has qmail, vpopmail, tcpserver, as it's MTA and supporting packages. I run a Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 box (pent 133 w/32MB, and the ./configure states: Sorry, you need to install metamail or reformime now, in doin

qmail and McAfee?

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?

addition to qmail init script

Hi All, I was wondering, would it be possible to add the following to my init script for qmail so that I can process tcprules changes on a easier basis: tcprules) cp /etc/tcp.smtp /etc/tcp.smtp.bak echo -n "tcprules file backed up..." tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb

Seamless e-mail virus scanner?

Hi All, Is there a seamless drop-in email virus scanner program which will work with qmail v1.03, tcpserver, vpopmail, and qmailadmin packages installed on my system, one system in here got munched by the love bug virus. Any ideas, my mail system works nicely, but don't want to have to i

Re: strange occurance in qmail

At 04:46 PM 10/11/00 +0100, you wrote: >On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 07:37:07AM -0700, Bill Parker wrote: > > minute on qmail-pop3d. Also, when I try to telnet to the mail server from > > another machine > > on my lan which is allowed to do so, I notice a delay as well in gettin

strange occurance in qmail

I've been running qmail for a while now on my linux box (pent-133, 32MB of ram), but in the last week or so, I notice that when users attempting to connect via their MUA (usually windows clients), qmail is taking upwards of 60-90 seconds to respond, and I am using the -H and -R options with tcp

hosting domain via vpopmail

Hi All, I have qmail v1.03, vpopmail, tcpserver, and qmailadmin installed at my site...question I have is: assume that www.someplace.com brings up a web page assume that www.someplace.com is in our Class C assume that mail.someplace.com has a priority of 10

invalid characters in a email address?

Hi All, Could someone give me a list of characters (ascii) which are NOT valid in a e-mail address...We had a problem with a user interface, and want to add code to prevent occurance from happening again... -Bill

Re: qmail book coming?

At 03:44 PM 7/6/00 -0700, you wrote: >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672319454/qid%3D962246891/sr%3D1-2/0 >02-4056617-0867210 I dunno, we have been hearing about the qmail book coming out for a while now, so I would reserve judgement until it actually hits the shelf...I've always said

logcheck-1.1.1 and qmail...

Hello All, I recently installed the logcheck-1.1.1 program from psionic.com/abacus to have my boxes mail updates to me on a hourly basis, however, when the script executed, it comes back with: /usr/sbin/sendmail: no such file or directory Now, since I run qmail (smtp/pop3d) on another s

group email information

Hi All, Here is something I would like to know how to do: I have qmail 1.03, qmail-admin, vpopmail, and tcpserver installed in my system. I want to use a "group" email address so that when someone in my office sends a mail to say "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", all the techs receiv

blocking mail from a certain address or domain

Hello All, I need to block my mail server from receiving anymore mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] inserting this into 'badmailfrom' in /var/qmail/controls do what I want? -Bill

2nd HD in working system

Hi All, I have an interesting question here...I have a system which has 2HD's in it, a 1.8GB and a 4GB both in drive caddies for quick removal. drive 1 /dev/hda1 has a fully bootable OpenLinux 2.3 system with kernal mods to allow me to mess with software RAID stuff... dr

Group Emailing w/qmail

Hi All, Does something like a group e-mail exist in qmail, example group is sports in sports group is: larry, mike, pete, greg so sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] would deliver to all of those people... is this something handled on

qmail install

Hi All, I have built a pent-200 w/64MB of ram, and it has a pair of NIC's for so the machine can be used for IP masq if needed, it also has a digiboard PC/Xem ISA card for dial in support (digiboard support is already working)... I would like to know if this would be a good machine to p

Blocking mail from a single address?

Hi all, I'm running qmail v1.03 and vpopmail, would like to know how to block mail from a certain user who has become a pest bombarding our mail server with stupid advertisements, etc...Is this somewhere in the docs (I vaguely remember something about badmailfrom, but will it work with vp

Re: Web interface

At 01:57 PM 3/15/00 -0500, you wrote: > >Can anyone recommend a good web interface for qmail with >maildirs, virtualhosts and sql backend which includes an >addressbook and is relatively easy to configure? Take a look at qmail-admin and vpopmail at http://www.inter7.com -Bill

Problem locating large email

Hi all, Some insane person at my company attempted to e-mail a very large file attachment from a Macintosh (around 10megs)...I know ...how can I locate this monster on my linux box if I need to prevent the mac from trying to retrieve the failed e-mail that was sent? -Bill

mail with improper addresses

Hello All, I cleaned out a bunch of email from under the postmaster account which was mis-addressed to various actual users on my system (mispelled email names, etc)...How can I make the system bounce these messages, rather than having them clutter up my postmaster box? -Bill

How do I set length of time deferrals last?

Hi All, How does one set the amount of time a message is deferred before it is returned to sender, I would like to chop it down to say 3 to 5 days, etc? -Bill

Strange Problem

Hi All, I'm running qmail v1.03, qmailadmin, tcpserver, vpopmail...what I want to do is have a copy of all mail received at [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (i.e. have one copy deposited in his mail dir at work, and the other to his ISP, but when I do this with .qmail-sha

how do I do this?

Hello All, How can I create the following situation: running the following goodies: ezmlm-0.53 qmail-1.03 ucspi-tcp-0.84 daemontools-0.53 sqwebmail-0.31 autorespond-1.0.0 qmailadmin-0.26c qmail-mrtg-0.1 vpopmai

How to stop this from occuring?

Hello All, I'm getting wierd messages in my /var/log/qmail area, specifically: 949561301.842459 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 949561301.842489 starting delivery 784: msg 668402 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] 949561301.842543 status: local 2/10 remote 0/20 949561301.842573 starting delivery

Re: Logging information about each email.

>> >> Any hints on where to start? >> > >> >Your maillogs. They contain all this information. >> >> Heh, true, but not when each mail was received or sent...now what? > >Yes they do, have another look :) > Ok, here is an sample from my current log file :) 949438248.678057 status: local 0/10 rem

Blocking Spam in qmail?

Hello All, I have the following addresses which generate some periodic spam to my system: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] How does one go about dealing with this mess, as much as I would love to block the aol.com domain 8^), I can't do it ca

Re: relay logging

At 05:04 PM 11/30/99 -0500, you wrote: >I suspect what you mean is that you want to log attempts to use your SMTP >server as a relay. That would not be logged by tcpserver, and qmail-smtpd >(which is doing the actual rejecting, of the recipients, not the connection) >doesn't emit any logging infor

stunnel + qmail + vpopmail

Hello All, I was wondering if there is any need for something like stunnel when used in conjunction with qmail + vpopmail for secure transmission of usernames and passwords for pop3d based stuff...or does it encrypt on it's own (not that I see from initial install) -Bill

Re: deferral - how long ?

At 05:50 PM 11/22/99 +, you wrote: >On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 04:48:59PM +, John P. Looney wrote: >> How long will an undeliverable mail be deferred, before it's returned to >> it's sender ? I've seen a few "Delivery deferred" mails in my queue for >> over a week now... > >604800 seconds (a

RE: Benchmarks

At 08:56 PM 11/16/99 -0500, you wrote: >On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Sam wrote: > >> >> { char buf[512]; while (read(0, buf, 512) > 0); } > > >Oops. I just realized that this will not work very well. > >After getting a 551, the sender will send at least one SMTP command, for >which it will await a respo

Newlines Patch?

At 10:28 AM 11/16/99 -0500, you wrote: >On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 09:50:25AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > > AMD K6-2 333 >> > > 384MB RAM >> > > UW SCSI disk on Buslogic controller >> > > True tulip 100bTX NIC on 3com 10/100 switch, full-dup >> > > RH6 w/ 2.2.13 kernel >> > > qmail-1.03 + jb

DNS (SMTP/POP3)

Hello, After adding an entry for 192.168.3 to my named.conf file, I am getting faster response on smtp/pop3 via qmail on my LAN, however, I was wondering if I could get better performance if I added the class C range I was assigned via UUnet to my caching DNS server (still learning DNS,

how do I accept mail for a given domain?

Hello All, Running qmail v1.03, vpopmail, chkpasswd, tcpserver, etc...mail works well for the primary domain (smtpd/pop3d)...now what I am trying to is is accept mail for a domain foo.com, so if someone sends a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], it goes to an actual user in the primary domain. A

I know i'm stupid

How does one solve this problem (I know i'm an idiot, so don't laugh)... Hi. This is the qmail-send program at xxx.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. : Sorry. Although I'm liste

Ipchains and smtp/pop3?

Hello all In running OpenLinux 2.2, and using ipchains, is there any optimizations which could be done with ipchains to speed up pop3/smtp access? Currently, I am only using two rules for ipchains on all machines which use ip masq in the office (about 25 or so): # enable ip forw

Still trying to figure out delay on smtp/pop3

Hello All, I am still trying to figure out why smtp/pop3 requests take so long to respond or process when users try to send/retrieve mail off of the server... Machine Specs: Pent-133, 32MB, 1.6GB HD, CD-ROM, 2 Intel EEPro NIC's eth0 has static class C IP address connect

SMTP connections

Hello All, Since I didn't get a reply back with this msg, I thought I would try again :) With the help of Ken Jones at inter7.com, I have qmail running on a slightly faster pent-133 (as opposed to a pent-100), and things are working well, however, how fast should an SMTP connection take

SMTP connections

Hello All, With the help of Ken Jones at inter7.com, I have qmail running on a slightly faster pent-133 (as opposed to a pent-100), and things are working well, however, how fast should an SMTP connection take to this box (it has a static IP which is part of our companys class C), and run

MANPATH variable?

Hello all, I just had a brain lock, where does one modify the MANPATH variable so that it is good system wide, and not for each user individually? -Bill

Re: QMail startup strangeness

Sometime on Sept 14, 1999, Trevor Harrison said: At 12:48 PM 9/14/99 -0600, you wrote: >I've installed qmail on 2 other boxes serveral months ago, no problem. This weekend, I installed qmail 1.03 on my home box, which I just updated to Caldera 2.3. i'm curious, i'm running an OpenLinux 2.2 box,

tcprules

Hello All, I'm running qmail v1.03 on a system which has tcpserver/tcprules installed on it, now I am preparing to install qmail on my backup linux box (P133 vs P100, OpenLinux 2.2)...now until this is done, I would like users to be able to relay from an address of 192.168.3.x (current us

Re: Login shell for telent clients

At 08:37 PM 9/4/99 -0400, you wrote: >Is there a way to have in.telnetd present the client with a different >shell than the default shell (bash) listed in the /etc/login.defs file? >The man page says you can have a different login program specified at >the command line for in.telnetd. Would it be

RE: restarting qmail

At 01:17 AM 9/4/99 -0400, you wrote: >Stephen, > > A kill -HUP seems to always work for me. > /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail stop /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail start will also work well :) -Bill

Re: POP takes >20sec to connect ???

At 03:54 PM 8/19/99 -0500, you wrote: >> When connecting to my pop server, it takes between 20-30 seconds to >> connect. After connecting, everything is fast. I have tested my client >> with pop servers on other machines and I don't experience this delay (i.e. >> it is a server problem). > >run

Re: DNS 8.2.1 installed

>On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 04:28:31PM -0400, Chris Johnson wrote: >> You're in the right direction. If your server doesn't know the answer to a >> question (it's not authoritative and the answer isn't in cache), it'll ask >> someone else. This may be a root server if no information at all about the

DNS 8.2.1 installed

hello again, Thanks to the help of some guys on here and IRC, I have installed bind 8.2.1 from a tarball which I got from isc.org, now I am ready to try to implement a caching DNS server, it appears to be working, now I have a question, since I used the DNS How-to on the sunsite page (I c

Re: Always, always!

At 02:49 PM 8/13/99 -0700, you wrote: >Quoting Bill Parker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> >> Nod, I see a tarball for that stuff...have to download from isc.org, >> since the tarball installs with root privledges, it should put every >> thing in the right location (if my u

Re: Always, always!

I got my config from LDP - sunsite.unc.edu, linux documentation project, look up the DNS HOWTO. It's pretty well documented. I just printed it out and cut and pasted the files... You may have to download the latest version of BIND (8.1.3??) to make it work. quite possible, here is the output f

Re: Always, always!

> >Bill Parker wrote: >> >> At 11:07 AM 8/12/99 -0400, you wrote: >> U, i'm a little confused here, I don't admin my own DNS (UUNET does >> that for me), is there a difference between DNS and a caching nameserver? >> > >No. DNS most like

Re: Always, always!

At 11:07 AM 8/12/99 -0400, you wrote: >James Raftery writes: > > On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 02:15:17PM +0100, Simon Rae wrote: > > > line traffic. Does this sound feasible? Is there anything I can do to > > > remedy this apart from splash out extra cash on a line upgrade (assuming > > > this is the

Re: Strangeness in 95/98 machine and qmail

At 12:52 PM 6/3/99 +1200, you wrote: >Check the qmail FAQ under the allow selective relaying bit... chances are >this machine is no longer within the range you specified. > >I assume you're using tcpserver, specifying an IP range here... if not, >specifically allow this machine to relay as well.

Strangeness in 95/98 machine and qmail

Hello all, I am writing in the hope someone can give me a clue as to what might have happened. I have a machine in our office which has a real ip address ending in .214 (it used to end in .249)...Now, ever since it was changed, outlook express (the MTA the guy uses) has been barfing sen

blocking mail send/receive from a domain?

Hello All, I would like to know how the qmail book is coming along, and as a side note, I have a domain which is being a PITA in terms of not wanting to stop one of it's customers from auto mailing...the domain is email.com, and I would like to block any mail from being sent from my serve

Re: US Crypto export limits ruled unconstitutional

At 03:32 PM 5/6/99 -0600, you wrote: > >Go DAN!!! I can wait for qmail2 if this is what your up too... > >http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,0-36217,00.html?st.ne.lh..ni I wouldn't get too happy yet, I live in the area of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, they have been reversed more than any oth

Qmail to multiple users on same system

Hello All, I have an interesting question, I am using .qmail to forward a copy of a message received by a user on my linux box (qmail v1.03), and I have the &username@location and it works fine for a single & entry, now how can I send a message in this way: Want to send a message to [EMA

Changing RH 5.1 to OpenLinux 2.2

Hello, I am going to wipe RH 5.1 off of my test Linux box, and install OpenLinux 2.2 (the latest distro from Caldera)...Now since it is glibc based, I have a few questions about drive layout: The following products are going to be installed on the hard drive: qm

CNAME problem solved, I think, but another ???

Hello, I believe I have my CNAME problem with AOL solved, but it will take a day or two to be certain. On a more difficult note, I have the following script to stop, start, restart, and status qmail (which was furnished by inter7.com, good commercial support for qmail IMO): [billp@odie

Re: AOL Cname lookup failure???

At 05:32 PM 4/3/99 -0500, you wrote: >On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 02:21:31PM -0800, Bill Parker wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> Apr 3 13:36:19 odie qmail: 923175379.711394 starting delivery 1798: >> msg 356449 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Apr 3 13:36:19 odie qmail: 92

Re: AOL Cname lookup failure???

>> >> Apr 3 13:36:19 odie qmail: 923175379.711394 starting delivery 1798: >> msg 356449 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Apr 3 13:36:19 odie qmail: 923175379.711795 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 >> Apr 3 13:36:19 odie qmail: 923175379.969619 delivery 1798: deferral: >> CNAME_look up_failed_temp

AOL Cname lookup failure???

Hello All, I get a message from AOHell users in my /var/mail/log which states the following: Apr 3 13:36:19 odie qmail: 923175379.711394 starting delivery 1798: msg 356449 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apr 3 13:36:19 odie qmail: 923175379.711795 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 Apr 3 13:3

qmail failure w/qmail.init

Hello, I am in need of a lot of help, I am no longer able to send or receive qmail at all on my main server at work...We had a power failure, and when the system restarted, all the qmail daemons started up, but Eudora and other remote MUA's responded with connection refused. I al

qmail strangeness

Hello All, I am running qmail v1.03, but when I try to telnet to my SMTP port (25) it takes upwards of 60 seconds or more to respond. Does anyone have an idea as to what could be wrong? I am using tcpserver to control qmail's control -Bill

Helping a guy out with qmail

Hello all, I am trying to give a guy some assistance with qmail, he is running a linux box which is on a private network (i.e. the FQDN is NOT known to the internet)...now when he sends mail with Outlook Express (on his lan to the Linux box) he gets the following: heres the error (i thin

Qmail RPM available?

Hello, I was wondering if a QMAIL RPM is available for Linux (RH or Caldera, etc)? -Bill

qmail tuning question

I have a question regarding the following message...To start, let me give you some details, I have a box which runs OpenLinux 1.2 (Caldera) that has qmail v1.03 installed, and is known to UUNET as a mail exchanger. The other day, UUNET's DNS server(s) crapped out, so mail had a tough time going n

DNS and MX Question

Hello all, I have an interesting question, on my production Linux box, Ihave it registered as a MX with UUNET (since i don't run my own DNS, yeah I know), and i have their DNS as the first entry for nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf...(We have a T-1 thru UUNET) Now, we also have a

qmaild and tcpserver processes?

Hello All, I was wondering if someone could explain exactly what is happening when i issue a ps aux | grep "qmaild"...here is the output for your examination: qmaild 196 0.0 0.6 828 208 ? S Dec 8 8:17 /usr/local/bin/tcpser qmaild 24056 0.2 0.6 824 216 ? S 13:5

System Loggers not recording mail, etc...

Hello all, I was wondering what would cause my Col 1.2 Base system to stop logging messages from my MTA (Qmail v1.03), /var/log/messages, /var/log/secure, etc...syslogd is running on my system...! -Bill

Re: Why Red Hat is not distributing qmail

> >Sendmail is *the* UNIX mailer. Everyone knows how to work it. It's >well documented, well proven, and hopefully most of the major bugs >have been found. We can tweak the source any way we see fit. Not >many (paying) customers are complaining about it. Sure, qmail is >better,