Howdy, all.
Our outbound mail server spends the vast majority of its resources
(attempting to) bounce mail (usually from spam :( ). The result is that
sometimes, when load is very heavy, normal outbound deliveries sit in the
queue and wait a while. So...
I'd like to set up a dedicated machine
Since nobody else seems able to do it, maybe you should write a book on
qmail?
Dave
;)
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 10:05 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Documentation Specialist Seeking Contract Work
However, when I ran qmail-qstat, it showed ~3300 messages in
the queue
(normally this is closer to 400). In the past, this has indicated an
onslaught on spam. But if resources are available, and smtp
and local have
concurrency available, I don't understand why ANY incoming
message would
repeatedly...
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Dave Kitabjian
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 10:43 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: so much qmail-smtpd activity, so little qmail-send
activity...
I recently started monitoring qmail-smtpd's activity via
"tcpserver -v", and at the m
Do you recommend
injecting from a remote
qmail machine? That would allow me to track the individual message's
delivery from the remote qmail's maillog, since it may never
make it to the
local server...
Hmm, I didn't think there was any question that messages were being
queued and the
messages in queue: 65
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0
- Original Message -
From: "Charles Cazabon" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "'Qmail Mailing List'" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 8:25 AM
Subject: Re: Requesting the services of Hercule Poi
Hey folks,
We have access to the envelope sender in $SENDER, but qmail munges the
envelope recipient via virtualdomains, resulting in $RECIPIENT which is
not a valid email address.
We all know that you can calculate the envelope recipient by taking
$RECIPIENT and removing $HOST from the
Hey, Vern!
Do my eyes deceive me or are you really finally printing and selling one
of the qmail tshirts?
http://www.cafepress.com/qmail0a/
I like both; any chance you'll have
http://vern.com/tshirts/qmail/qmail1d.html
for sale, too?
Dave
p.s. Newbies: check out
-Original Message-
From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 9:35 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: qmail auto reply looping
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1 user A has enable auto reply and put some text
2 user B has also enabled auto reply
Yea, I think I've gotten some of these, too.
In fact, sometimes I get a bounce message a MONTH or more after I posted
something to this list!
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Brett Randall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 7:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I recently started monitoring qmail-smtpd's activity via "tcpserver -v",
and at the moment it's burning through a steady 15-20 concurrencies,
scrolling by beyond readability.
Meanwhile, as I "tail -f maillog" for qmail-send's activity, it sits
predominantly idle, with an occasional message to
Well, we found it very helpful, although, yes, there were some pretty
confusing points. We never used any vpopwhatever stuff; just his HOWTO,
and it's working fine.
I could probably help you with some hurdles, but you'll have to be more
specific about what confuses you or what problem you're
Would you mind also posting the contents of your file, /var/qmail/rc?
Thanks,
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Eldar Imangulov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 2:58 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: URGENT!!! HELP!!! HP-UX fault
Hello ppl!
I have
HP-UX
ced?
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Eldar Imangulov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 8:40 AM
To: Dave Kitabjian; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: URGENT!!! HELP!!! HP-UX fault
here it is:
#!/sbin/sh
# Using splogger to send the log through syslog.
# Using q
When LOVELETTER hit, Johan was kind enough to post an example of the
actual, MIME-still-encoded, text of the virus:
http://www.almqvist.net/~johan/virus.txt
I've seen the helpful page about Stages.worm at:
Dear 8823544,
You will probably have more luck with qmail-ldap-specific issues on the
qmail-ldap mailing list:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ciao,
Dave
-Original Message-
From: 8823544 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 6:08 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
I looks like you're running into a resource limit, such as not enough
disk space, not enough RAM, or no more room in the process table to fork
a new process.
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Luis Bezerra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 12:20 PM
To: [EMAIL
1) Are any of you out there running miniQmail / QMQP?
2) What's the final word on which is recommended: multiple inbound SMTP
servers, or a series of QMQP servers? (The goal is high volume / high
availability).
For the latter, here are the two configs I'm considering:
Internet
|
|
Try Q-Cards:
http://www.kitabjian.com/dave/qmailhelp/
Q-Cards offers and end-to-end, flow-of-logic approach to Sending,
Receiving, and Retrieving email via qmail. It helps you to check each
roadblock along the way to confirm that it's working.
hth
Dave
:)
-Original Message-
We frequently get two Delivered-To headers when one qmail mailbox
forwards to another qmail mailbox.
Dave
-Original Message-
From: PPPindia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 1:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Two Delivered-To headers - Why ?
Setup:
Thank you all for your feedback.
I don't see where my login needs reconciling.
Yes, I realized after I sent the email that your logic was not flawed.
(Your login is probably okay, too ;)
Thanks again.
Dave (K)
Regarding: http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html#multi-rcpt
Dave S,
I'm having trouble accepting this logic. You mention 3 options:
"Say you're an MTA, and one of your users sends a message to three
people on hostx.example.com. There are several ways you could do this.
1. You could
What about removing the "exec" completely?
I don't see why exec is necessary, and I don't know if your script
variables will be passed into the new process created by the exec.
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 11:49 AM
To:
Thanks for the info.
Why don't you try it - it's very easy to do.
I know it's easy to do. Actually, we've had the -R flag on tcpserver for
a couple of months now. And I haven't *observed* any negative side
effects. But qmail is a complex system, so there could be side effects
going on that I
I've researched $TCPREMOTEINFO and "ident lookups". And, for everyone
else's benefit, I included the useful snippets below.
-- My question is, what impact is there on qmail of not having
$TCPREMOTEINFO available?
We are switching to all Cisco Pix firewalls which, unlike our previous
firewalls,
Thanks for the reply.
The man pages say qmail-smtpd required $TCPREMOTEINFO, but it doesn't
Really? Where? I didn't see that and the code in qmail-smtpd.c suggests
that it's optional.
Hmm. Well, the qmail-smtpd man page says:
"... qmail-smtpd must be supplied
several
thing I can trust (ignoring spoofing) is the IP address
shown in the Received: header from which my server got the message.
Thanks guys,
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 10:45 AM
To: Dave Kitabjian
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED
Hi, folks.
It's time for me to understand this stuff clearly once and for all,
partly so that I can handle spam intelligently and properly.
I'm unclear on the exact relationships between the following:
---
1) MUA: "From", "To", "Bcc", "Reply Address" fields
2) SMTP: "MAIL
On Tuesday, March 14, 2000 4:46 PM, Paul Farber [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
Hello all,
Having one heck of a time with Outlook Express 4/5 timeing out when
sending mail.
Are there any timers to adjust in the app or on the server side (qmail
1.03) to get rid of these MS 'features'?
We've seen this as well.
My understanding was that AOL was having internal mail problems, and that's
why those AOL customers weren't receiving the message. AOL was reluctant to
admit fault, but that's what it turned out to be.
If this turns out to be something else, I'd like to know what you
*** newsyslog ***
Maybe I'm lucky, or something. We use FreeBSD almost exclusively, and it
includes a fantatic tool called "newsyslog". I would think some of you
would have it too, since it's been around since 1987 and came out of MIT.
Anyway, newsyslog automatically maintains N generations
VM is a web-based email client:
http://www.mintersoft.com/products/visualmail/index.html
It works fine when using sendmail as the SMTP server. And, of course, qmail
works fine apart from VM.
But when using qmail as the smtp server for VM, AND subsequently reading
the mail in VM,
Unfortunately, *I* don't know the answer to your question, but I would go
to:
http://cr.yp.to/ezmlm.html
and ask the "ezmlm" list. I'm sure they can give you an answer.
Dave
On Sunday, February 20, 2000 2:11 AM, Brandon Wolf
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
This hopefully will be
Try Q-Cards:
http://www.kitabjian.com/dave/qmailhelp/
It will walk you through step by step. Let me know how it works out for you.
Dave
On Tuesday, February 01, 2000 3:44 AM, jandj [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
Hello
We are setting up an small ISP and would like to use
We use a variation on the same HOWTO. All you do is:
1) rcpthosts:
theirdomain.com
2) virtualdomains:
theirdomain.com:theirdomain-com
3) assign:
+theirdomain-com:popuser:888:888:/u1/...theirdomain-com/default:-::
Then, in the directory /u1/...theirdomain-com/default:
4) create Maildir
It's probably simply a problem with the shell's special treatment of .
I don't know how qmailadmin works, but we have a shell script for adding
user accounts. In such cases, we have to call the command similar to:
# create_user.sh f\b
That is, we quote the character, and everything
For some reason, all mail to "drh.net" has been expiring and returning to
me for weeks. So I'm posting this here hoping that either Dave Harris is
still subscribed or one of you folks might be able to help me with
smtp-poplock. Here goes!
We have a need for smtp-poplock right now, and we're
Interesting. Check "man tcpserver". Note that:
The server's address is given by host and port. host can
be 0, allowing connections from any host; or a particular
IP address, allowing connections only to that address; or
a host name, allowing connections to the
We have been using the term "mail forwarding" with our customers in the
same way that the USPS uses it: when your mail arrives at your mailbox, it
is "redirected" to a remote location (via a "" entry in .qmail).
However, we have been told by a somewhat educated customer that this
process is
Hey Folks,
When you get some free time, take a look at:
http://www.kitabjian.com/dave/qmailhelp/
I originally prepared these "Q-Cards" for our intranet to help our internal
(and future) staff debug, diagnose, and maintain our qmail-based email
servers when I'm out of town.
Then it
O'Reilly doesn't even list it under their Upcoming Books :(
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/new.html
A better question might be, "By the time the qmail book comes out, will it
contain anything that we haven't already figured out the hard way?"
Don't forget to check Life With Qmail:
Yes, Netscape is a problem, even in the new versions. You would think you
could turn off the "smart @" interpretation, but I don't think you can.
Netscape always assumes you were mistaken when you included the "@", and
strips off the rest.
We decided to use pop ids such as:
Greetings folks,
Ever since I implemented the "fixcr" addition to "smtpd", I've noticed that
over time my qmail servers accumulate a large number (several dozen) pairs
of processes: "fixcr" and "sh -c fixcr | /usr/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd".
--
ps
Ah, the truth comes out...
Now does anyone know how to insert carriage returns under FreeBSD 3.0?
Dave
On Thursday, August 05, 1999 11:37 AM, Chris Garrigues
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
From: "Leon Vismer" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 17:18:59 +0200
If you have to
Sorry, I forgot that it was builtin.
bourne shell is preferred, /bin/sh. But if I could even do it in csh, that would be
better than nothing!
Dave
On Thursday, August 05, 1999 12:26 PM, Brad Shelton [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 12:21:58PM -0400, Dave Kitabjian
What are the industry-standard names for the following email services:
--
1) They can have:
any_name@their_domain
and a separate POP for each. (.qmail-any_name)
I ask this question with great trepidation. Either I'm the only one brave
enough to ask, or I'm the only one stupid enough to have to ask, but...
What does the "q" in "qmail" mean?
Dave
p.s. Since I'm going to get flamed for stupidity, let me ask another
question:
If LWQ insists that the
What are the industry-standard names for the following email services:
-
1) They can have:
any_name@their_domain
and a separate POP for each. (.qmail-any_name)
I'm not sure I understand the "raison d'etre" of the new list. That is, how is the new
list substantially different from this one?
Dave
On Wednesday, June 30, 1999 10:01 AM, Alex Miller [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
I pump all my qmail list mail files to a special folder and am adept at
Here's something I keep handy for such occasions:
#!/bin/sh
#
# bulk_forward.sh, Dave Kitabjian, 6/3/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
# Forwards an entire directory of email to somewhere else using Qmail.
#
if [ $# -ne 2 ]
then
echo "Usage: $0 source_directory desination_address"
exit 1
I had the same problem once.
Assuming you have access to an FTP Proxy server, enable it in your web
browser. Otherwise, you may never get to Dan's qmail page,
ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/qmail.html.
HTH.
Dave
On Saturday, June 26, 1999 11:16 PM, Denis Voitneko [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
can be improved.
Dave
p.s. I created this script today to purge out a bunch of spam from the same
domain; so, it searches the "From:" line. This might have to change for
other spammers.
#!/bin/sh
#
# purge_spam.sh
#
# Dave Kitabjian
# [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
# As a parameter, give strin
I missed the beginning of this thread, so pardon this if it's moot.
But I couldn't help noticing that someone wants to use
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' as POP authentication ids.
I tried to do this and ran into a serious problem: Netscape Mail chokes on
the "@". It assumes you mistakenly entered your
ome length in
research to configure things so that a holiday message could be properly
"replied" to, but perhaps disabling this is inevitable?)
Thanks in advance!
Dave
-
#!/bin/sh
#
# holiday.sh
#
# Dave Kitabjian, 6/11/99
# [EMAIL PROTEC
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