Re: I get timeouts

LWQ version 2001-06-07 and it suggests -R, -v and -l 0. But there must be an You forgot -H. I still get timeouts even thought I have used the flags below. Time for tcpdump. I really wonder what's happening here, maybe these netgears have a serious design flaw in their tcp

Qmail SMTP timing out.

Qmail has been working perfectly up until yesterday. What I did was: echo 10485760 /var/qmail/control/databytes and restarted qmail. While this is nothing major, ever since yesterday _some_ clients have been reporting timeouts on sending emails. I telnet from the clients machine to port 25 of

Re: Qmail SMTP timing out.

How can I tell it not to reverse lookup 192.168.* I don't know why it has just started doing this. Obviously someone has changed something I'm not aware of.

Backup mail server.

I accidentally deleted an email and couldn't find it on the qmail archives. The question is: What do I need to do for a backup mx record to store emails until the first mx comes back. I put the domain in rcpthosts, but not in locals, as I want it to store them until the first mx comes back. Was

alias documentation

maybe this is a stupidly easy question but I cant find where do I find out about the format of .alias files, and other documentation on them? Neil

Re: queue problems

thanks for the really prompt answer next time I will do a search of qmail.org Neil _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

queue problems

hi how can I completely purge queue of messages and fix the annoying bounce message? ... unforunately half asleep I noticed a problems with a message and deleted without stopping qmail 2001-04-29 01:47:12.220485500 delivery 4: deferral:

The new RFC's.

I admit I don't know anything about RFC's and the apparent latest versions for SMTP. What will this mean for qmail. Are there any significant changes in the way it works? Thanks.

Message-IDs...

where does the mesageID domain come from...? Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] this is not whats set in defaultdomain, me or plusdomain (using lwq setup) thanks Neil

Re: Sticky question about qmail-queue and qmail-smtpd interactions

Solution, stop emailing yer smutty pr0n to everyone.

Re: End of the qmail era?

So Lets see who runs the server at 00030315464031 IP address Saw it was a hoax when I saw the URL.. http://www.sendmail.net,,,news,2001,apr,01,3,5,@00030315464031/sm10/ Even funnier. Too bad for those who use a proxy, as it won't resolve 00030315464031 :)

Queue documentation.

I've read somewhere about the queue access times, how qmail keeps trying to send mail in the queue in some exponential way or something. Does anyone know where that piece of documentation is off hand? Thanks.

logrotate

hi, this is slightly off topic but I use debian and I have always had mailx installed due to logrotate depending on it. So with new security holes in mailx I was wondering what it did and whether qmail-inject or something could do it instead (maybe with a wrapper)? thanks Neil Grant

Re: How to interpret the Delivered-To: header

To me, that To: field whose address must surely have come from the envelope sender, at least shows that the message arrived at iname.net with the correct envelope sender. But I'm willing to bet a modest amount that iname.net mangled the envelope recipient of the bounce into

Username @ host.

Are any mailer daemons case sensitive with regards to the username? Qmail lets through any case username. Thanks.

Qmail logs.

I changed directory to /var/log/qmail and noticed it has only kept logs since the 2nd of March. Is it possible to rotate the logs monthly and stop qmail from creating new log files twice per day? Thankyou.

running qmail from /supervise

hi I am doing another qmail install and this time I have a /supervise directory for dnscache, so I thought it would make sense to run qmail from there, I am following lwq (most of the time). So I was wondering if anyone had already adapted the lwq start up script to do this, and is it a case of

Re: running qmail from /supervise

thanks Dave, I was on the right lines, I just didnt know any thing about svc. once the links are created to /service it will start automatically on boot up, but if it had been stopped before shutdown (svc -d) - it will need to be 'svc -u' ed on bootup? so qmail(in init.d) should still be linked

qmail-smtpd running as root.

How can I change the user that qmail-smtpd runs under? I've installed qmail on two other machines and qmail-smtpd runs as qmaild and not as root. However, what needs to be changed to make it run as qmaild instead of root? Thanks.

Extracting attachments from emails.

I am planning on sending backups of databases via automatic emails. Is it possible to automatically extract attachments from all emails to a certain address using some script and then unzipping the attachments or something along those lines? I know it's possible, I guess I'm asking for a

Re: Problem receiving email.

What is in ~hob/.qmail? [hob@hob hob]$ cat ~/.qmail ./Maildir/ [hob@hob hob]$ Don't run qmail-smtpd as root. This problem is completely separate from the issue that prompted your query. It's not being run as root. qmaill1922 0.0 1.0 1100 320 ?S18:36 0:00

Re: Problem receiving mail.

The problem is, no mail can be delivered to the host because of the looping error. I don't know where the loop is, or how to fix it. On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Charles Cazabon wrote: Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have followed Dave Sill's tutorial to install qmail, what could I have missed

Problem receiving email.

:32:08 +1000 (EST) From: Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII test

Problem receiving mail.

Below is the output from /var/log/qmail/current I have followed Dave Sill's tutorial to install qmail, what could I have missed in order to get this error? Thanks... @40003a9f25fa002e499c info msg 131091: bytes 753 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 1705 uid 501 @40003a9f25fa00b7bd1c starting

Re: Text-mode web browser

On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 11:17:14AM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote: hey guys, this is another subject, but could any of you suggest a different text web browser other than Lynx? Links. http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/ It even handles tables properly. w3m is also quite nice.

SMTP routing based on From: address?

use two different "sendmail" binaries/wrappers to pre-determine which SMTP server the mail is routed to? -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SMTP routing based on From: address?

Adam McKenna writes: On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 02:47:21PM -0700, Andy Bradford wrote: On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:39:22 GMT, "Grant Edwards" wrote: It's sort of an odd request, but I'd like to route outgoing mail to one of two SMTP servers, but I don't want to d

Re: SMTP routing based on From: address?

Charles Cazabon writes: Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alternatively, is there any way I could use two different "sendmail" binaries/wrappers to pre-determine which SMTP server the mail is routed to? Have two different qmail installs (/var/qmail1 and /var/qma

using lwq I get an error with supervise

when I try to run qmail start after installing (the lwq way) I get a lot of errors: multilog: fatal: unable to switch to current directory: access denied so I am assuming that a log directory hasnt got the right permissions or ownership, my /var/log/qmail directory is owned by qmaill, so

Virtual domains and forwarding.

1. I have another domain I need to host on my machine. Is it possible to send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it will forward to an email address (external to the domain.com machine) without the email data passing through domain.com? I don't think this is possible.

Re: Virtual domains and forwarding.

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Keary Suska wrote: I am not sure what you mean here by, "without the email data passing through domain.com." If your host is listed as the mail host for the domain, it will have to handle it one way or another. Well say you send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The mail server

Re: Virtual domains and forwarding.

Actually, domain.com *will* accept the message, i.e., it will store it locally in its queue. Using the virtualdomains/smtproutes option I listed in my previous email, the message will then be sent on to the remote host automatically without requiring a valid local user part of the address or

Re: Virtual domains and forwarding.

I'm trying to avoid data coming through the 56k modem mail server. Yes I know you get what you pay for ;) On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Keary Suska wrote: What do you mean by "pass through?" What are you trying to avoid? -K From: Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:5

Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox

cd /home/user/Maildir/new Delete the file that is 12 MB On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote: Is it possible to remove a email from a user mailbox? because I have a email with about 12M of attachement in the mailbox. thanks ckh :)

Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox

, not the entire mailbox ckh :) - Original Message - From: "Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "kh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:17 AM Subject: Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox cd /home/user/Maildir/new Delete th

Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox

mail_file_name --Pete On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote: the problem is, what is the better text editor I can use rather than vi, since the attachement has thousands of lines. - Original Message - From: "Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "kh" [EMAIL PRO

Re: Another mystery #@[]

I get them, I think it's user: anonymous when crontab emails the output from a cronjob... I think, something close to that maybe. On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Peter Drahos wrote: Hi I have quite a few of these in my mail.log file. Did anybody see this before Jan 14 06:55:33 ebox qmail:

Re: Documentation of qmailanalog

Try the docs that come with qmailanalog. /usr/local/qmailanalog/doc/MATCHUP On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I am searching for the Documentation of qmailanalog from last one day on net. but unable to find it.Please suggest me where i can get that or

Re: qmailanalog scripts

What's the point? If you have root on the machine you can view it from the terminal session. Just output the results of the various reports that qmailanalog has to a file that is available on your web server. On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Clemens Hermann wrote: Hi, did anyone make the attemt to get

Re: ENOUGH WITH THE FRIGGIN VIRII WARNINGS!

Use pine On 17 Jan 2001, Brett Randall wrote:

Re: TWO INSTANCES OF QMAIL

In my opinion you shouldn't be running two instances of qmail on the same machine and nor should you ever change the default mail port which is 25. On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, qmailu wrote: Hi, How do I run two instances of qmail on the same machine - the first one listening on port 25 (default

Re: Two questions (mail to everyone, webmail)

Edit the /home/admin/.qmail file. Add all the addresses you want to be on the "list", the file will look something like this: ./Maildir/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] EOF On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, [iso-8859-1] Ould wrote: Hello, 1) suppose I want to create a group "admin" on my system

OT: getting help with tcpserver

hi I am having problems using tcpserver, I am trying to run sshd under it. There doesnt seem to a list related to ucspi-tcp stuff so I am asking here. Please reply off list. Is there a mailing list I can join about tcpserver? anyone run sshd from tcpserver? My problem is that sshd is setup and

Re: Abnormal Hard Disk Activity

I've had this problem. When a user zipped up 100+ MB of mp3's and was trying to send the attachment to a university 10 MB quoted shell. As it was trying to resend often it would need to open the file to read it, that created lots of hard drive activity. I would suggest checking your queue or logs

Problem when starting qmail.

[root@sphinx qmail]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail start Starting qmail: svscan. [root@sphinx qmail]# multilog: fatal: unable to switch to current directory: access denied I've followed Dave Sill's qmail installation manual.

Re: relaying?

It should be an IP address. On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Kurth Bemis wrote: ok well with the qmail-smtp problems outta the way i am confused about relaying rules this is my /etc/tcp.smtp file 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" g4.net:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" however this does not

Fw: ezmlm warning

hi, sorry to post this as I am sure this an OT, but I received this and as far as I can tell some messages original addressed to me from the mailing list went to [EMAIL PROTECTED]@iname.com instead of me - and then ezmlm thinks about deleting me from the mailing list - what's going on? any help

changing to tcpserver

hi I have qmail running via inetd and want to use the relayctrl stuff - so need to use tcpserver instead - but I cant find any documentation in qmail for using it under tcpserver any help + pointers please Neil

Re: changing to tcpserver

ure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ . whats have I missed? thanks Neil Grant - Original Message - From: "Charles Cazabon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Qmail mailing list" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 2:31 PM Subject: Re: changing to tcpserver

Re: changing to tcpserver

sorry, got the bind error sorted (I think), I hadnt disbled smtp in the inetd! - Original Message - From: "Neil Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Qmail mailing list" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 6:42 PM Subject: Re: changing to tcpserver went throu

Re: changing to tcpserver

The dates are in TAI64N format. Pipe the log through `tai64nlocal` to convert them to human-readable format. can I get them stored 'human-readable'? my /var/log/qmail is filling up with: 2000-11-27 20:29:02.459841500 PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin

Re: changing to tcpserver

got it working - I had commented out the old qmail line with the " and ' in made a new one using: qmail-start ./Mailbox then it got onfused by the commenting out part way through a command - I presume the \ mean that the command continues on the nex line? many thanks Neil

Re: changing to tcpserver

these shouldnt all be running can I get rid of most this? they appear when I start qmail with Dave's script and then dont go away Neil Grant - Original Message - From: "Neil Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Qmail mailing list" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000

Re: Mailbox ownership

? - Original Message - From: "Robin S. Socha" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Qmail mailing list" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 4:14 PM Subject: Re: Mailbox ownership * Neil Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. ( ) text/plain (*) crap/html_by_mircosoft a

aliases and ...

I have started seting up qmail and have everything working apart from the aliases for root, postmaster, etc and smtp (which i havent started on yet) everything is installed in its default place ie /var/qmail/ in /var/qmail/alias I have done 'touch .qmail-root' and then 'chmod 644 .qmail-root'

qmail, Mailbox and finger

now that I have symbolic links in /var/spool/mail pointing to the /home/user/Mailbox, finger gives 'finger: /var/spool/mail/user: Permission denied' is there any way aroiund this error? many thanks Neil Grant

smtp problems

hi, my qmail smtp server will only accept emails destined for my its own domain how do I get it to send to other domains - like it can internally on the server many thanks Neil Grant

telneting to pop3

hi, I was wondering what commands I can use to read email when I telnet to the pop3 port, what other commands are ther? Neil Grant

Re: installing qmail

hi, thanks for the help, it was the linux 14 link, having two admins of a server is a right pain! someone gets half way through upgrading the kernel and gives up - all without telling me - arg! hopefully - no error messages is a good sign thanks Neil

~alias?

hi, I am having problems with cd ~alias; touch .qmail-postmaster .qmail-mailer-daemon .qmail-root where is ~alias? is it a directory in /var/qmail/alias that I create, does it need my name in it? many thanks Neil Grant

syslog and qmail-inject

hi, thanks for the help on previous posts. I am now stuck trying to find syslog - its not in /var/log as far as I can tell I have qmail running but echo to:neil | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject doesnt work, Neil

problems ... again

hi, next problem is: The message will show up immediately in your mailbox, and syslog ... everything appears fine in syslog but the email doesnt end up in my mailbox (in pine) and /var/qmail/users/neil/ the /var/qmail/users/neil/Mailbox is being found by pine but doing: echo to:neil |

Re: problems ... again

mailbox, and syslog thanks - Original Message - From: Aaron L. Meehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: qmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 9:37 PM Subject: Re: problems ... again Quoting Neil Grant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): hi, next problem is: The message will show up

Re: problems ... again

but the mail doesnt get to the mailboxes thanks for the help Neil Grant - Original Message - From: Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Neil Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: qmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 11:07 PM Subject: Re: problems ... again On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 10

installing qmail

I am trying to setup qmail but I get stuck: #make setup check ./compile sig_alarm.c In file included from /usr/include/signal.h:300, from sig_alarm.c:1: /usr/include/bits/sigcontext.h:28: asm/sigcontext.h: No such file or directory make: *** [sig_alarm.o] Error 1 thanks Neil

qmail-date-localtime.patch

I have a question about the qmail-date-localtime patch written by John Saunders. What files does this patch modify exactly? I have a rpm based install, and would like to see if it's possible to just replace the files that this patch modifies.. any help would be appricaited thanks Grant

Forward all but one address ?

Well after a successful installation that receives email for a domain and just sends it on to the real server I have hit a snag. Current fix: smtproutes contains the following: domain_to_relay.com:server_to_relay_to Alas *one* email address at domain_to_relay.com has to stay local to my

How to set up a null server ?

I need to build a server that receives all email for a domain and forwards it all to another mail server. If I put: relay_me.com:relay_server.some_other_domain.com in smtproutes, is that all I need ? I need to receive all mail destined for relay_me.com and just foward it along... ---

Re: X-Face headers

to find some. -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: smtp question

Rob Genovesi wrote: I'd like to move outgoing mail services to another machine without affecting the incoming mail. Because of my previous setup all of my clients have both POP and SMTP servers set to "mail.mydomain.com" If you can discriminate by incoming IP address you can direct

Is *anybody* using XTND XMIT in qmail-pop3d ?

Two days ago I asked if anybody had fixed the XMIT patches (that are v1.01 specific) to work with 1.03. The silence was deafening... It struck me that if no one is has done this, then maybe there is something about the whole concept that I should be aware of ? So, is anybody using XMIT ? Since

Re: Is *anybody* using XTND XMIT in qmail-pop3d ?

On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, John Grant wrote: So, is anybody using XMIT ? Since it's a standard feature in qpopper I would hope that someone is doing this... it may be a standard feature in qpopper, the issue here is that it's not part of the POP standard, and so most mail clients don't seem

QMAIL XTND XMIT patches vs. 1.03 ?

Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 15:06:31 -0700 Message-ID: 01be8079$b9d38d80$c700c1df@bluefish MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express Unix 5.00.2013.1312 X-MimeOLE:

RE: qmail and relaying to an aliased address...

yes it is /usr/bin/procmail ok I mean sending an email through smtp-pop client it can send anything to anyone.. but I get the below message when I try to send to an aliased address.. (works fine say though pine) Mar 30 18:33:57 lan qmail-smtpd: 922847637.576748 14661: DENYMAIL:

Re: qmail and relaying to an aliased address...

-_try_again_later. relay client.stephenson.cc [192.168.1.3] FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Sam wrote: Grant Stephenson writes: hello... I am having a problem with qmail when I send email through pop on my server... the mail sits in the que, and doesn't go out, because