Hi,
I get a problem with our mail server when we try
to send a mail with outlook express it
,responds:"An error occurred while sending mail. The
main server responded: MAILBLOCKED; see http://www.e-scrub.com/orbs/ Please check the
mainrecipients and try again."Also, can someone
tell me how
man, if it were me I'd kill all mail services and
wipe the queue clean .. Check the qmail home page there are a few queue repair
and fix tools avaliable... But simplest way is to rm- R queue and then either
(depending on how good you are) retouch the queue to set it up again or the
simpler
Standardized Bonehead Reply Form
Hrmphhh So I will take it for granted this is coming from a bonnifyed
bonehead then?
Be nice will ya..
Enough said I've been up almost 48hrs now upgrading three Linux Boxes..
Night all
--JT
- Original Message -
From: Lukas Beeler [EMAIL
Pushy little prick isn't he???
Best Advice we can give you.. Learn C code and go write your own because you
are obviously not going to listen to us. Ofcourse then again if ya got money
then hey I'm all ears what ya want and how much cash ya got? Otherwise see
ya in cyberspace.
--JT
P.S. Anyone
I had a similar problem however my resolve to it was to take an *OLD* 286 I
had laying around install a fairly bare installation of Linux on it and
installed the DNS service. Then I put that online behind my firewall and
added it's IP for port 53 to my NAT/Firewall and assigned it as the primary
I take that back, it's a 386... Drrr
Writting the message on it made me log into it just to check up on it been
awhile
--JT
- Original Message -
From: James Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: David Balatero [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Chin Fang
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday
I beg to differ...
I have a list of 40k I'll use to race ya.. Hell I'll even let you use a list
of 10k to race my list of 40k.. Me using qmail and you using Sendmail.. I'll
even go beyond that I'll limit the bandwidth my server can consume to
1600kb/s and you can use whatever you want.. I'll
on 127.0.0.1 and make this the primary resolver for the machine.
w
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 11:32:53AM -0700, James Stevens wrote:
I had a similar problem however my resolve to it was to take an *OLD* 286
I
had laying around install a fairly bare installation of Linux on it and
installed the DNS service
Wait a minute now... Who said anything about straight?
--JT
- Original Message -
From: Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: Netgear RP114 Router doesn't work well with Qmail POP daemon?
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 11:14:58PM
No, I show them well under the 512 limit.. Even then if the 'bigtodo-dns' I
believe it's called is installed then what does it matter??? I am correct
right?
--JT
Network Administrator
http://www.webcommanders.com
- Original Message -
From: Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
grrr hate it when I forget to reply to all...
--JT
- Original Message -
From: James Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: Hotmail, CNAME lookup failure, zone transfer...WTF?
That wasn't my message.. I
side note on this... I had the same problem about 6 months ago from a mom
and pop type hosting outfit.. I called them to ask them what was up and
after about 30 mintes of them telling me there was no problem we hung up and
I was ready to ban them from my entire network.. Then mysteriously about
Ok, tell me this list has a black list attached to it please .. ;)
--JT
- Original Message -
From: John Groseclose [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: AS SEEN ON NATIONAL TELEVISION
At 4:51 PM -0700 6/29/01, James Stevens wrote
Sorry Charles, I believe he got distracted by me.. I'm the one with the
Mandrake 8 box that it is working on and we were communicating via email and
not the list.. So the reason why he hasn't gotten to it yet was because of
me.. Anyways, he's done everything I have done and he is still having the
I know it
will work and it always does so it's just a habit of mine now... Laugh
--JT
- Original Message -
From: Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: RE: RE: RE: Problem with VAR directory during install
James Stevens
gets
sent without any problems.
The server is a AMD Duron with 128MB RAM. The system does little else other
than dial up every hour to collect send mail plus provide basic file
sharing.
Qmail has been installed with daemontools and seems to work well
any help would be appreciated
James
On Tue 19 Jun, 2001, Mark Jefferys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 08:56:13PM +0100, James R Grinter wrote:
Go look at timeoutread(), which *is* in your path. The select is in
the line right before where you wedge.
sorry, yes. You're right.
It doesn't. (Don't know about other
Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Three of the four are running Red Hat 6.2. That could simply be
because 75% of qmail systems are running RH 6.2, though. :-)
I see this problem occasionally, with mail being sent from a Solaris
2.6 system. It frequently happens for mail to one particular ISP
reporting
that it wouldn't clear the fd_sets on a timeout, I was unable to find
See above!
James.
message as it was delivered to me was:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
which includes a message number (68498) and my delivery address
(james-qmail=now.ie). This allows the mailing list software to
determine the message which bounced and the recipient to which it was
addressed.
Regards,
james
--
James
Andre Oppermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
First Aleph1 didn't like qmail/ezmlm at all... but appearently there
is nothing else out there which can do the job.
he's using ezmlm, with postfix judging by the headers.
James.
Any ideas on how to apend footers to all outgoing mail, I have seen some
solutions using cat to append a message, but this will not work with
multipart messages, so is there a definitive solution?
James Peacock.
.
Because giving real information is *always* right. Giving mangled
information is *rarely* right.
james
--
James Raftery (JBR54)
It's somewhere in the Red Hat district -- A network engineer's
freudian slip when talking about Amsterdam's nightlife at RIPE 38.
Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity.
(Dennis Ritchie)
Good GOD!!! I'm an idiot then
--JT :)
You are correct ;) Sendmail can only sustain one exsistance of it's
delivery object meaning it can't multithread like the newer MTA's soo
when sendmail runs a large q say 10k messages all those messages go into
q and get piped out through one thread instance of sendmail whereas qmail
simply
Yes, it's sad but true...
--JT
Original Message
On 4/25/01, 5:07:13 PM, Brett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding
RE: max concurrency for qmail is 500, what's it for sendmail?:
no way can it be 1. that would be ridiculous and yet...
-Original Message-
From: Henning Brauer
You can basically take the difference between the two and stick it up a
nat's a** ... Or at least thats my observation.. Everything I have read
so far goes with what ya say chris... But just for the fun of it why
doesn't everyone here on the list get together and will write up our own
EZ Mailing List Manager -- using mySQL
It's on the qmail.org home page..
--JT
Original Message
On 4/25/01, 5:35:39 PM, Brett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding
RE: max concurrency for qmail is 500, what's it for sendmail?:
James,
Thanks for the info here. I have a couple more questions
, 5:35:39 PM, Brett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding
RE: max concurrency for qmail is 500, what's it for sendmail?:
James,
Thanks for the info here. I have a couple more questions if you don't
mind.
What method are you using to cluster these six servers together? We're
looking to set
On 4/25/01, 5:18:57 PM, Markus Stumpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
regarding Re: max concurrency for qmail is 500, what's it for sendmail?:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:11:46AM +, James Stevens wrote:
Anyways theres my two cents .. Now I go home and sleep (trying to
remember what that word
On 4/25/01, 5:18:57 PM, Markus Stumpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
regarding Re: max concurrency for qmail is 500, what's it for sendmail?:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:11:46AM +, James Stevens wrote:
Anyways theres my two cents .. Now I go home and sleep (trying to
remember what that word
the MAILER DAEMON saying that
Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
And the mail actually got delivered!
Any clue anyone?
Thanks, James
You could always be mean like me g and block out the entire IP range
using tcprules.. IE: 216.42.:deny
But that's on the extreme side.. Will stop him cold from conecting to
your server but no one else from the ip range will be able to send you
anything either.. Then he could always goto
in Bruce's page?
No. tcpserver *replaces* inetd (for running qmail-smtpd). Follow the
instructions at http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/servers.html#tcpserver-smtpd
for using tcpserver to start qmail-stmpd. Then you can follow Bruce's
instructions.
Regards,
james
--
James Raftery (JBR54)
"
far they are, though. (IMP, a web-based email client
and another part of the Horde project, works nicely.)
(HP OpenMail has been around a long time - so to say that they
realised it would be an Exchange killer is quite funny!)
James.
is that you have a
publically available open-relay. It is that problem you need to fix.
Irritating bounce messages are just side effects of your open-relay.
james
--
James Raftery (JBR54)
"It's somewhere in the Red Hat district" -- A network engineer's
freudian slip when talking about A
with it. That
leaves the latter as the only other course of action.
james
--
James Raftery (JBR54)
"It's somewhere in the Red Hat district" -- A network engineer's
freudian slip when talking about Amsterdam's nightlife at RIPE 38.
,
RedHat, etc.
RedHat can be made sufficiently tight to keep me happy. It just involves
liberal application of 'rpm -e'.
james
--
James Raftery (JBR54)
"It's somewhere in the Red Hat district" -- A network engineer's
freudian slip when talking about Amsterdam's nightlife at RIPE 38.
PD" should be "$MAXSMTPD".
-u "$QMAILDUID" -g "$NOFILESGIS" 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
"$NOFILESGIS" should be "$NOFILESGID"
Regards,
james
--
James Raftery (JBR54)
"It's somewhere in the Red Hat district" -- A network engineer's
freudian slip when talking about Amsterdam's nightlife at RIPE 38.
6:13 -0900
From: "James A. Crippen" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: Spectrum Wireless, Inc.
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i686)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Test 6
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-
Chad Ziccardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What are the most common cause of deferreds?
In my experience, a) remote hosts being poorly run and maintained, b)
with poor network connections, c) or very busy (which brings you back
to a, really.)
James.
ut it down to them being broken,
James.
domain. Delegation and the
nameservers were fine, as it was the second address I tried (which
also failed with a 5xx code)
Very messy, and not very good for their customers.
James.
from accessing it anyway.
(Students of Unix variations will also know that Solaris and some
other OSs don't correctly enforce permissions on the named pipe itself
anyway.)
James.
could just make all clients talk through POP3 or IMAP.
(That might discount Elm, but I wouldn't consider that a great loss)
James.
a hitch.
One small gotcha; use preline. See
http://lists.omnipotent.net/qmail/199701/msg6.html
james
--
James Raftery (JBR54)
"It's somewhere in the Red Hat district" -- A network engineer's
freudian slip when talking about Amsterdam's nightlife at RIPE 38.
Precedence headers, or anything that might
give you a clue).
But it's a good start.
James.
the ability to have user interfaces sat atop, to indicate how far
a batch-run has got.)
James.
opt/qmail/..., as should alias/.)
Dan's right that it's a mess, for sure.
James.
kus Stumpf has been working on some improved qmail-smtpd logging.
James.
of validation in the
past - check the list archives.
James.
file with:
|/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and it worked just fine. Why do you need perl? Starting it, writing
a file and then starting qmail-inject is rather expensive.
Regards,
james
--
James Raftery (JBR54)
"It's somewhere in the Red Hat district" -- A network
the
script is ran by qmail-local.
Please define "refuses". Doesn't execute? Gives an error? Siliently
discards mail?
Any suggestions for how to write a script to
get around this problem?
Use one of the auto-responders on http://www.qmail.org/top.html?
james
--
James Raftery (JBR5
if it fails to do so it will
remove the file.
Messages in local queue: 0
Messages in remote queue: 2
don't know about the descrepancy in numbers, sorry.
James.
ps aux
will display all the processes and the % of memory in use.
Greg James
-Original Message-
From: Kurth Bemis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 5:37 PM
To: Sumith Ail; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: High MEM Usage??
At 09:34 AM 2/4/2001, Sumith Ail
There was recently some talk on this list about about patching ipme.c to add
0.0.0.0 to qmail's list of known local addresses.. and the original poster
supplied a patch. However, the patch was only _part_ of a bigger patch..
leaving those of us that aren't familiar with qmail's code in the
? That's the question..
James.
Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:32:29AM +, James R Grinter wrote:
But, it doesn't matter - Pine does IMAP right? (Isn't that it's real
reason for existence?) So hook your Maildirs up with IMAP, and point
Pine at that.
Seems pretty simple to me
Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 02:12:32AM +, James R Grinter wrote:
[snip]
Indeed, qmail already uses a split queue/mess/ directory structure and
it was a bit of an omission to assume that there would never be a
surge of mail in one go (VERP list
hat
it didn't (not sure which of those two cases you were specifically
referring to), and that puzzles me.
James.
it's real
reason for existence?) So hook your Maildirs up with IMAP, and point
Pine at that.
Seems pretty simple to me.
James.
to qmail-smtpd to log useful things
would also be of help to me: I've seen, and am looking at Maex's code.)
James.
/qmail/bin is on mounted with either the
noexec or nosuid option? If so, you need to remove those options. The
qmail binaries need to be executed and qmail-queue is setuid qmailq.
james
--
James Raftery (JBR54)
"Managing 4000 customer domains with BIND has been a lot like
herding
in order that it can be "safe" - although
you should note that the recommendation is still to deliver locally
and read remotely if you must (obviously on a dedicated NFS server you
can't deliver locally.)
James.
to the originating user.
although clearly the bounce that results from that could direct the
recipient to send the mail elsewhere. Which may, or may not be, what
the original poster was wanting to avoid.
James.
Exactly.. I have 7 instances of qmail running on a Linux box (don't ask why
its a rather long complicated story) and has been that way for about a year
now.. No lost messages or anything. Just make sure your running the big
concurrency patch. Other than that as far as performance .. It does work
How many people here on this list actually open up an executable that was
sent to you via email before scanning it anyways???
--JT
- Original Message -
From: "Scott D. Yelich" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Keith, Yeung Wai Kin" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January
at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] with any suggestions! Local users actually get the
mail and the .qmail's are in the same directory as the mailing lists .qmails
Thanks,
James Clark
-
Jan 17 13:11:54 leat qmail: 979755114.882956 info msg 361545: bytes 684 from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 16680 uid
Thanks, that worked.. ;)
Earthlink.net is another one doing the same thing. I also added them to
smtproutes which resolved the problem..
earthlink.net:[207.217.120.28]
--JT
- Original Message -
From: "Jesse Sunday" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Bill Nugent" [EMAIL
and yahoo.ca to be down 20% of the time.
ditto yahoo.co.uk - for the same reason. Their MX hosts are regularly
too busy.
Many sites also bounce mail with 'unknown user' at certain times of
the day. Anyone would think they weren't updating user-lists
atomically...
James.
tc/tcp.smtp.tmp /etc/tcp.smtp cp
/etc/tcp.smtp /etc/tcp.smtp.bak
chmod 644 /etc/tcp.smtp*
;;
james
--
James Raftery (JBR54)
"Managing 4000 customer domains with BIND has been a lot like
herding cats." - Mike Batchelor, on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
l accounts with
dots ?
qmail replaces dots with colons before delivery. Rename the file as
.qmail-ar:rubin and it should work as expected.
(Is this in the man pages? I couldn't find it during a quick search)
james
--
James Raftery (JBR54)
"Managing 4000 customer domains with BIND has been a lot
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:02:24AM -0500, Greg Owen wrote:
man dot-qmail:
Aha! Thanks.
(That's a funny place to put it. Why not in the qmail-local man page?)
james
--
James Raftery (JBR54)
"Managing 4000 customer domains with BIND has been a lot like
herding cats." - Mike
will win in a conflict situation.
My preference is for seperate files to specify artificial routes for
smtp and qmtp, and for the instructions in qmtproutes to be processed
first, thereby winning in any conflict situation.
james
--
James Raftery (JBR54)
"Managing 4000 customer domains with BIN
logging output.
james
--
James Raftery (JBR54)
"Managing 4000 customer domains with BIND has been a lot like
herding cats." - Mike Batchelor, on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
it should act as a relay for into
control/rcpthosts (and nowhere else!).
Put
:exchangeserver.yourdomain.com
into control/smtproutes.
man qmail-remote for info. on smtproutes.
james
--
James Raftery (JBR54)
"Managing 4000 customer domains with BIND has been a lot like
herding cats." - Mike
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 11:09:27AM +, James Raftery wrote:
Put
:exchangeserver.yourdomain.com
into control/smtproutes.
Thinko Alert!
That should be
yourdomain.com:exchangeserver.yourdomain.com
in control/smtproutes.
james
--
James Raftery (JBR54)
"Managing 4000 customer do
an MUA that does the right thing.
james
--
James Raftery (JBR54)
"Managing 4000 customer domains with BIND has been a lot like
herding cats." - Mike Batchelor, on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
give some clue
as to what's happening.
Do you have a firewall? Is it recording dropped/denied traffic? Is your
upstream ISP blocking you?
What domain are you trying to receive mail for?
james
--
James Raftery (JBR54)
"Managing 4000 customer domains with BIND has been a lot like
herdin
announced in the DNS as 203.164.92.195. Is that
correct?
I can't get a connection to port 25 on that machine -- something is
dropping the packets. Might somebody have applied an access list to a
router of yours, or perhaps your upstream ISP has put an access list in
place?
james
--
James Raftery (JBR54
/relaymailfrom.html
[ found from http://www.qmail.org/top.html ]
james
--
James Raftery (JBR54)
"Managing 4000 customer domains with BIND has been a lot like
herding cats." - Mike Batchelor, on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
delivery slots and
'clog the remote queue'.
Such is life. Analyse your logs. Watch your local/remote concurrency.
Wield a big stick.
james
--
James Raftery (JBR54)
"Managing 4000 customer domains with BIND has been a lot like
herding cats." - Mike Batchelor, on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 12:14:03AM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote:
FYI, we're halfway there. Not bad for a worldwide holiday weekend.
Hi,
Add another.
james
--
James Raftery (JBR54)
"Managing 4000 customer domains with BIND has been a lot like
herding cats." - Mike Batchelor,
experienced
several problems with mailto: and reply links when using ezmlm. Some
clients that I know have problems are Yahoo, Excite, etc.
In the short term, I have modified my bounce processor to parse DSN's and
qmail bounce reports.
Thoughts?
Thanks.
James
-Original Message-
From
.
I can use the badmailfrom control file to block mail from someone, but I am
looking to block mail to a list of people.
As always, thanks for the help.
James
?
Thanks for the help.
James
, Aaron "L." Meehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
regarding Re: Outlook Express Prank:
Quoting James Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Without going into a 20 page technical look at every bug here's some
simple tips even biggeners should know.
1. Don't use the 'Preview' plane.
2. Don't
Well let's see.. Been Managing Unix systems for about 5 years now .. Did
start on Mac's then Windows then Unix so yeah I kinda went the long way
but I have been using Outlook Express almost since the beging.. It has
just been recently that I have started using other MUA's ... However I
don't
?
Thanks for the help.
James
Ok this is weird I have the autoresponder installed and vmailmgr
installed and everything is working as far as vertiuals are concerened.
The problem I am having is with the auto responder script itself. When I
send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] the message arrives triggers the
autoresponder
Raise Hand...
--JT
I agree! I have over 200 mailing lists, and 1500 pop accounts all
running off of qmail servers. I have asked very few questions to this
list and have found the list helpful in the past. However this recent
bickering is just not worth it anymore.
V/r
Jay
Original Message
On 12/6/00,
not appear to
have the designated trailer included in the messages. Again, no real
pattern to this one either.
I am running the latest version of qmail and ezmlm/ezmlm-idx on Redhat 6.2
with double confirmation disabled (I am doing the double-opt in elsewhere).
Thanks for the help.
James
on 12/1/00 13:18, QBA at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I did 'ps -aux | grep qmail-smtpd' and got no message so I don't have it
running. And that's why I have two more questions:
1. What means this line (about qmail) in my /etc/inetd.conf ? (I wrote it
in my earlier message)
Include the line
on 12/1/00 13:29, QBA at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I also typed 'telnet 0 25' and here is what I got:
Trying 0.0.0.0...
Connected to 0.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 qbaroot.dyndns.org ESMTP
'help'
214 qmail home page: http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html
'quit'
221 qbaroot.dyndns.org
his script you can list the
messages in the queue , verbose a message in
the queue or delete a message on the queue.
-Original Message-----
From: James Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 5:04 AM
To: Ezmlm List; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help! Emergency
I setup a list wrong and now people are responding to the list (was
supposed to be a newsletter type list for an online store), so the
responses are going to about 60,000 people. Not good. I have killed the
box for now. I have deleted the list, how can I clean out the queue so
these
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 12:18:46PM -, Mark Anderson wrote:
I don't even know where to start.
Start by looking to your logs.
james
Hi,
While thinking this over, I became confused so I was
wondering if someone could shed some light on adding
an outgoing-only qmail server to a network/domain.
Any docs, references, etc, for pointers are very much
appreciated.
What I would like to do is this:
host1 - primary MX for
Hi Dave,
Dave Sill wrote:
OK, so where are you stuck?
oops, sorry ;)
I must have sent out the message in the middle of my racing
thoughts.
I was wondering whether to include host2 also as an MX in the
dns records although host1 is the only MX handling incoming and
part of outgoing (none
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