On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Derek Callaway wrote:
> Hi, I'm having a problem with my qmail smtpd server becoming unresponsive
> when rblsmtpd cannot communiate with the RBL nameservers. Has anyone else
>From the manual page at http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/rblsmtpd.html:
-C: (Default.) Handle RBL looku
http://www.codegnome.org/scripting/showscript.php?script=qacct.sh
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lined in LWQ.
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with
the appropriate patch from qmail.org.
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l/control/concurrencyincoming.
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ever expect a FAT partition to be reliable. How many times have
you needed to run scandisk? Think about it.
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y the ones
about running the qmail scripts under csh instead of some other shell.
Better yet, start over with the www.lifewithqmail.org directions, instead
of the ones that come with qmail itself.
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> to process, or qmail-local error .
The same. qmail handles this automatically.
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ying to force something on
un-cooperative users, since they can more or less bypass your global
configs.
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esystem), and the
number of available filehandles on your system (defined in
/proc/sys/fs/file-max). You didn't say whether you were running out of
space, inodes, or filehandles, but if you're going to tackle the problem
in a comprehensive way, these items should be considered as we
types of accounts using the same daemon.
Does anyone know of a useful tutorial or how-to that would explain how to
configure such a system, or have some sample configs that I could work off
of?
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On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Nick (Keith) Fish wrote:
> Are your other aliases working properly (ie. root, postmaster,
> mailer-daemon, etc.)?
Yes. Any alias pointing to a real user (either local or remote) works
fine. It's only a problem with forwarding to .qmail-ext names.
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mething like this to
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ed to
codegnome.org. I'm also interested in setting up virtual users (i.e. users
without a login account) that are still part of the same domain as the
real users (e.g. codegnome.org). Is this possible, and if so, can the
virtual users and real users all get their pop mail from the same pop
daemon?
*why* the executable bit is necessary.
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is easier. Either use procmail as your default
delivery method, or add '|preline procmail' to your user's dot-qmail file.
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I was noticing that all the saved multilog files have the following
permissions:
-rwxr--r--
The "current" log does not have this bit set. Why do the old logs need the
executable bit set?
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f the web
admin interfaces seem to be focused on virtual users, so I'm not sure what
my alternatives are for a web front-end. Any suggestions?
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ion on
what it does.
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return $RETVAL
> }
Replace "daemon ${qmail}" with "csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc'" and see what
happens. The fact that qmail doesn't run right from sh/bash is mentioned
in the docs.
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mail if delivery fails.
EXITCODE=100
Hope this saves someone an afternoon. :)
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RON(9<<3) /* clock daemon */
#define LOG_AUTHPRIV(10<<3) /* security/authorization messages (private) */
#define LOG_FTP (11<<3) /* ftp daemon */
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might
actually slow the drive down, but I'm not really sure.
Opinions, anyone?
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t;<4>" /* warning conditions */
#define KERN_NOTICE "<5>" /* normal but significant condition */
#define KERN_INFO "<6>" /* informational*/
#define KERN_DEBUG"<7>" /* debug-level messages */
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does not have any mail application on it.
> ns2.mydomain.com does have qmail.
You can't. If you don't have an MTA on the system (qmail, sendmail,
postfix, whatever), mail will never leave the localhost.
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g in the docs (I
often am, since they aren't very extensive), but it helps to at least have
a foundation to understand the answers people give you.
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m) happens when the queue is filled
(out of descriptors, inodes, or blocks). Maybe it doesn't--enlightenment
is always welcome.
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lable to the system,
will I run into any problems if more than 4,000 messages are in the queue?
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On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How can I check whether the patch was successfully installed or not ?
Patch will exit with no errors.
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mail file.
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immediately bounce the message? I'd
like to avoid having these messages age in the queue, if possible.
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chmod the directories, what's
the least privelege that will allow pop3d to run, without allowing users
to clobber or access each other's Maildir files?
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Does anyone have an example of calling pop3d from the supervise startup
script (/etc/init.d/qmail) from LWQ? I'd really like to run it supervised,
if possible.
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On Fri, 9 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It's a text file, rite. But the 1st few lines looks like a readme. why
> ? Can i just save the file as 'big-todo.103.patch' in my qmail server
> and run the patch.
Yes. Patch is pretty smart about that sort of thing. :)
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ones work with qmail 1.03, and
which ones I should stay away from.
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orbs.org and outputs.orbs.org, and still didn't get a
successful block from your auto-tester.
The other address, relays.mail-abuse.org, doesn't work either, but that
has nothing to do with the change of service on ORBS afaik.
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On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Chris Johnson wrote:
> If you're using the latest version of rblsmtpd--the one that comes
> with ucspi-tcp--there's no -R option. See
> http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/rblsmtpd.html
I guess the new syntax didn't make it into the man pages. Thanks for the
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Chris Johnson wrote:
> rblsmtpd -r 'relays.mail-abuse.org:Open relay problem - see
> http://www.mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/nph-rss?query=%IP%>'
Where are you invoking this? If I put it in
/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run, I get an error.
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al/bin/rblsmtpd \
-rblackholes.mail-abuse.org -rdialups.mail-abuse.org \
-rinput.orbs.org -routput.orbs.org \
-arelays.mail-abuse.org /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1
And RSS and ORBS are still failing to block, but RBL and DUL work fine.
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gt; rblsmtpd only understands TXT records. See the second bullet at
> http://www.qmail.org/top.html#spam
I applied the patch, ran 'make && make setup check', and had exactly the
same results as before. DUL and RBL work, RSS doesn't. Argh!
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p.cdb -c "$MAXSMTPD" \
-u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd \
/usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -rdialups.mail-abuse.org \
/usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -rrelays.mail-abuse.org \
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1
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On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Dave Sill wrote:
> You're trying to analyze tcpserver's logs, not qmail-send's logs.
You're right. I changed /var/log/qmail/smtpd/current to
/var/log/qmail/current and it works fine. Thanks.
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/usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -rdialups.mail-abuse.org \
/usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -rrelays.mail-abuse.org \
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1
This should take care of things for you.
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cumentation.
> It's not exactly qmail-related, but a rblsmtpd should be configured
> more sophisticated (eg. not from command line).
sophisticated != GUI
Since qmail doesn't have a controlling TTY, how can rblsmtpd be a non-CLI
utility? Or did you have something else in mind?
status 0
? 983523531.142123500 tcpserver: status: 0/20
But when I pipe it through any of the z* commands, I get nothing except
the column headers from the z* command itself. What am I doing wrong?
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ogged to syslog. What can I do?
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do I do that?
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only found exit(1) in
subgetopt.3, and am not sure how this applies.
Can anyone help?
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ppened. Thanks. :)
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On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Ben Beuchler wrote:
> Do you have the linux source tree installed on your box? I'm guessing
> not.
Yes, I do: kernel-source-2.2.16-3.
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On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Ronny Haryanto wrote:
> Installing the package kernel-headers will suffice. It's not necessary
> to install the whole kernel source tree just to compile.
I have those, too: kernel-headers-2.2.16-3
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t 111 messages are,
though.
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/param.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /usr/include/errno.h:36,
from txt.c:7:
/usr/include/bits/errno.h:25: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory
make: *** [txt.o] Error 1
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nking
perhaps something in RHL had changed, it refused to compile.
So, aside from the compiling issue, does this error means something was
found in the RBL, or does it mean that the rblsmtpd program is failing?
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/var/qmail/bin/tcp-env /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd\
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
which only consults MAPS. Advice, please.
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On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote:
> 1. anyone have any suggestions as to what to use for anti-spam
> measures? there seems to be a number of options.
http://cr.yp.to/rblsmtpd.html
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On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Read the source of instcheck. It'll point you to hier.c Or else just
> run install ("make setup") again.
Any chance that re-running the installation could clobber something?
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uot; permissions are?
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On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Carsten Witt wrote:
> How can I forward a mail to another adress. Must I compile another
> modul. Or can I put this in /var/qmail/aliases/ ?
echo forwardee > ~alias/.qmail-forwarding:address
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d from the RBL.
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My /var/qmail/users/ files (assign and cdb) are owned by root:root. The
system seems to work fine in that configuration, but I wanted to know if
those were the proper permissions, or if those files are supposed to be
owned by the qmail group instead.
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I thought I'd repost this, in case the original (or any replies) got lost
in the bitstream. The gist if my question is: when would I need to use
assign instead of an alias?
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Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 12:42:05
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, G. Ryan Fawcett wrote:
> I was wondering if it was possible to forward root email to an out side
> address. For
echo "&[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ~alias/.qmail-root
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On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, john wrote:
> I installed ezmlm and after finishing the installation when I tested
> like ezmlm-make command it gave me an error message file not found.
How about posting the error? My guess is that ezmlm's files aren't in your
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this correctly? If so, what are the practical
implications? They seem almost interchangeable to me.
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works fine for
me. YMMV.
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On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Rogerio Brito wrote:
> I know this is VERY off-topic, but do you know any "good" MUA
> for Windows?
Pegasus is manual-ware. It's very solid, feature-rich, and powerful. Not
the most user-friendly, though--but then, that wasn't you
d-forward protocol. IM is not. QED.
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On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> > I copied the qmail installation basically by doing:-
> > cp -R /oldvar/qmail/* /var/qmail
Hmmm. I tarred my qmail directory and moved it to another
partition. Doesn't tar preserve permissions by default?
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h! That's a reason I can understand, and can live with. :) Security is a
big issue at my site, so anything that enhances security is okay by me. I
just like having a reason. Thanks for the info.
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l
time, instead of GMT?
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how it changed,
though. If I find out, I promise you'll be the second one to know. :)
I couldn't find any info on the trigger file. Can you explain how qmail is
using this named pipe, and why it has to be world-writable?
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On Sat, 16 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Look at the end of the timestamps one is ZULU or GMT.. the other is
> your "local" time PDT (Pacific Daylight Time).
So /bin/mail doesn't recognize the local time format?
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How can I modify the frequency at which qmail processes the queue?
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For some reason, qmail has gotten into a state where it will only deliver
mail when killed and then restarted. After a restart, it refuses to
deliver local mail after the first batch has been processed.
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-0700 (PDT)
Any ideas as to what's wrong, and how I can fix it?
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ther secret spell I was supposed to incant. :)
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I made a small goof when setting a new mount point for /var/qmail. Can
anyone tell me what the default permissions of /var/qmail are? The
subdirectories are unchanged; it;s just /var/qmail that might have been
modified.
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I made a small goof when setting a new mount point for /var/qmail. Can
anyone tell me what the default permissions of /var/qmail are? The
subdirectories are unchanged; it;s just /var/qmail that might have been
modified.
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without adding the forward line that creating ~alias/.qmail-contract would
add.
Is that possible, or is what I'm trying to do outside the realm of what
qmail does?
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ng up?
While I could set up everything with an ~/alias/.qmail-foo forward, I
would really prefer not to have to do so.
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lesson: perseverence! :)
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The problem seems to lie somewhere with tcp-env. Here is a line from my
logs:
Oct 10 23:23:57 tjacobs tcp-env[1184]: refused connect from
shell11.ba.best.com
So, it seems like tcp-env is actually refusing the connection. Any ideas
on how to debug this further?
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e it recommends tcpserver for
heavily-used environments, my needs aren't so great. I really don't want
to have to run a seperate service for this.
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':' instead of '.' when setting up local aliases, and
the incoming dots will get handled properly.
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tried prefacing it
with tcpd, but that didn't do much good either. Suggestions?
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write the From: header in your email. Just set up your
MUA to write what you want in that header, and qmail shouldn't overwrite
it. The default is just that: a default, in case nothing is specified.
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Put your "real" email address into /var/qmail/control/defaultdomain. That
should create all new emails as being from that domain.
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On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Markus Stumpf wrote:
> They probably are, but they go to
>/var/qmail/man
> Add this directory to your MANPATH environemt variable and the "man"
> command will find them.
Thanks. It worked like a charm. :)
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The man pages were not installed by default. How can I install them?
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cause qmaill
is part of the nofiles group. Isn't security being compromised by allowing
qmaill to own files?
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Does anyone has such a beast? Is it even a good idea?
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r hour)
- = peak seconds
1544
So, assuming your numbers are accurate, you could clear 22,000 queued
messages of that size is 327.72 seconds of maximum throughput. That's only
an average sustained throughput of about 9.2%.
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