[qmailtoaster] Server for only sending mail

2008-07-11 Thread Warren Melnick
I have a machine that sends email. All inbound is handled by another machine. I just need something that will grab the mail, queue it and send it to another internal server that will send the mail to its final destination. Initially I would need "sendmail" to be present (qmail's sendmail stub),

Re: [qmailtoaster] double mail receiving

2008-06-07 Thread Warren Melnick
Look at the qmail files in the user's MailDir. Often when a user is edited, if an older version of qmail wrote a line that is not exactly what vpopmail is expecting, it will write out a second line. I have some users that this repeatedly happens to. W On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Ali Özaltın

Re: [qmailtoaster] yahoo

2008-04-17 Thread Warren Melnick
Oh my favorite... The message means that: (1) some of the yahoo users that you are sending email to have flagged those emails as spam (2) You are sending more than yahoo's arbitrary limit or both. If oyu think you are doing nothing wrong, then fill out this form for yahoo: http://help.yahoo.com/

Re: [qmailtoaster] Maximums for maximum sizes

2008-03-17 Thread Warren Melnick
> You should be able to make sense of the columns and see the problem. If > you can't see what is wrong, then create another dummy domain using > vadddomain and add a couple users so you can see what the good data looks > like. > > Phil > > > -Original message--

Re: [qmailtoaster] Maximums for maximum sizes

2008-03-17 Thread Warren Melnick
ce did > you? That looks like the broken Vqadmin footprint on that quota. > > -P > > > -Original message- > From: "Warren Melnick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:46:43 -0400 > To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com > Subject: [qmailto

Re: [qmailtoaster] qmail-smtpd: qq soft reject temporarily rejected

2008-03-17 Thread Warren Melnick
Check your mysql server and make sure it is running. W On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Rodrigo Morais < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Problems with qmail. > momentary instability with qmail to send. > For 3 minutes becomes unavailable then normalizes and returns to send > normally. > Already rest

[qmailtoaster] Maximums for maximum sizes

2008-03-17 Thread Warren Melnick
I am seeing strange behavior when my client is setting maximums for a domain and a user. The maximums are very large numbers and I am wondering if perhaps these numbers have a maximum and are rolling over? Here is the info from that domain's home directory: # cat .qmailadmin-limits maxpopaccount

Re: [qmailtoaster] How to upgrade

2008-03-17 Thread Warren Melnick
um to use, but it is more time consuming since the > source needs to be compiled on your toaster instead of being precompiled > by > someone else. > > HTH > > Warren Melnick wrote: > > I have a question along the same lines. I have an older machine, > > probably a

Re: [qmailtoaster] How to upgrade

2008-03-17 Thread Warren Melnick
I have a question along the same lines. I have an older machine, probably about a year old. It was set up the old manual "scripts" way. Can this machine be updated by putting the repo into place and using yum or will that destroy the system? W On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Eric Shubert <[EM

Re: [qmailtoaster] TLS Secure

2008-02-14 Thread Warren Melnick
It depends on whether the port wants ssl as it is contacted or if it takes a normal connection and a STARTTLS command that then flips it into secure mode. W On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Eric Shubes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Mills wrote: > > > > I don't know about the port thing. SSL

Re: [qmailtoaster] Someone should offer support :)

2008-01-30 Thread Warren Melnick
On Jan 30, 2008 2:29 PM, Michael Handiboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have learned that the guys who (truly) know what the h#ll they're > doing are worth the 1-2 hour expense. > > I'll be in touch when I have time to spend with my QMT box. > > --mh I do this for a few clients. I do not take on

Re: [qmailtoaster] No one can send me messages

2008-01-18 Thread Warren Melnick
but localhost is probably not there. However you are sending the email may be the problem here. Be sure it goes out as [EMAIL PROTECTED] not just as test. W On Jan 18, 2008 2:37 PM, Ayesha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > I am testing my fresh instalation and I can send to a

Re: [qmailtoaster] Capturing outbound messages

2008-01-04 Thread Warren Melnick
Yes, all of the functionalityu you want is built in. Just create a new domain (does not need to be real) and tap all email to that domain. W On Jan 4, 2008 5:37 PM, dnk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tap it > > http://wiki.qmailtoaster.com/index.php/Taps > > > > > On Jan 4, 2008 2:31 PM, Dan M

Re: [qmailtoaster] Why is MySQL better than CDB for vpopmail?

2008-01-03 Thread Warren Melnick
Actually, some of your points are quite valid for small servers. However if you run a server with dozens, or even hundreds of domains each with dozens of hundreds of users, mysql becomes far more usable and scalable. Much of the services in the toaster (mysql, spamassassin, etc) can be moved off

Re: [qmailtoaster] wrong default domain name

2007-12-14 Thread Warren Melnick
Try /etc/hosts and /etc/sysconfig/network and see what they have. W On Dec 14, 2007 10:47 AM, Istvan Köpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Both contains "rsfind.ro" at least that is what mc shows. > > > > Jake Vickers wrote: > Istvan Köpe wrote: > So? That's it? Nobody has any ideas? > > > > >

Re: [qmailtoaster] question -- stupid

2007-12-12 Thread Warren Melnick
Check to see if his domain has an SPF record in place that is incorrect. Also check his mail server IP(s) in the RBLs. W On Dec 12, 2007 10:24 AM, David Milholen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > I have been away for a while and I have a dumb question. > I was receiving emails from a clien

Re: [qmailtoaster] CHKUSER dropping username with '

2007-12-04 Thread Warren Melnick
That would be incorrect. According to the RFC a single quote is absolutely a valid email character. Basically every printable character except for ()<>@,;:\".[] (of course @ goes in the middle). Valid characters are: !"#$%&'*+-/0123456789=? ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ^_ `abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy

Re: [qmailtoaster] qmail is officially public domain

2007-11-30 Thread Warren Melnick
Getting into CentOS would mean either having it in the extras repo (fine with me) or convincing RedHat to include it in RHEL, which would first mean getting it into Fedora and making sure it is stable. W On Nov 30, 2007 11:42 AM, A M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2007/11/30, Johannes Weberhof

Re: [qmailtoaster] qmail is officially public domain

2007-11-30 Thread Warren Melnick
TED]> wrote: > this means no more building on your own. you no longer need build > tools installed on your mail server (those of us with no dev server). > you only need to yum intall the qmail packages and yum update when new > packages are in! > > On Nov 30, 2007 8:57 AM

Re: [qmailtoaster] qmail is officially public domain

2007-11-30 Thread Warren Melnick
What does that mean for this project and similar ones? Not that all of the common patches can be rolled into qmail itself and configured with switches (in files, etc). Any thoughts? W On Nov 30, 2007 4:53 AM, Harry Zink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FINALLY! > > Great news, indeed. Binary distr

Re: [qmailtoaster] changing root password on mysql - effect the toaster?

2007-11-21 Thread Warren Melnick
The toaster uses whatever password you have in the /home/vpopmail/etc/vpopmail.mysql file. It is one line that usually looks like this: localhost|0|vpopmail|SsEeCcRrEeTt|vpopmail 5 fields separated by pipes. I believe the order is: server port (0 for unix pipes) user password database Regards

Re: [qmailtoaster] relay email through an alternate server

2007-11-17 Thread Warren Melnick
In the simplest situation, you just use the smtproutes file to route all email to the secondary server and put a line into tcp.smtp to allow relaying from the first server, In the more complex situation, where the ISP does not allow you to have any outgoing connections to port 25 (optonline.net is

Re: [qmailtoaster] COnsulta sobre QmailAdmin

2007-11-15 Thread Warren Melnick
I believe qmailadmin is a c program. You would have to edit the source code and recompile it. W On Nov 15, 2007 2:24 PM, Ariel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Correct, which should edit, > Templates? > > - > > El 15/11/07, Warren Melnick <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [qmailtoaster] COnsulta sobre QmailAdmin

2007-11-15 Thread Warren Melnick
If I understand you correctly, and you can understand me correctly... This is probably not all that difficult of a fix. You just want to have the MYSQL call sort by the pw_gecos field instead of the pw_name field. Good Luck! W On Nov 15, 2007 8:36 AM, Ariel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lista >

Re: [qmailtoaster] what proces that qmailtoaster do before doing chkuser

2007-11-14 Thread Warren Melnick
Sound like you may have old rbl settings. Whenever one went offline in the old days (last year) it would cause exactly those symptoms. W On Nov 14, 2007 7:45 AM, Jake Vickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PakOgah wrote: > > Dear Guys, > > Roy and I has been troubleshooting this "problem" for 2 d

Re: [qmailtoaster] qmail-smtpd: qq soft reject (mail server temporarily rejected message (#4.3.0))

2007-11-13 Thread Warren Melnick
I think the hooks are there, since it was calling it and failing. W On Nov 13, 2007 2:43 PM, Jake Vickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Warren Melnick wrote: > > Still giving a problem. How is spamassassin called? I would like ot be > able to do some tests without actu

Re: [qmailtoaster] qmail-smtpd: qq soft reject (mail server temporarily rejected message (#4.3.0))

2007-11-13 Thread Warren Melnick
Still giving a problem. How is spamassassin called? I would like ot be able to do some tests without actually turning it on. W On Nov 13, 2007 2:22 PM, Warren Melnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > aha! Missing module for spamd > > duh > > W > > > On Nov 13, 2007

Re: [qmailtoaster] qmail-smtpd: qq soft reject (mail server temporarily rejected message (#4.3.0))

2007-11-13 Thread Warren Melnick
aha! Missing module for spamd duh W On Nov 13, 2007 2:18 PM, Jake Vickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Warren Melnick wrote: > > I tried changing mine to your and it starting giving the error again. > > W > > On Nov 13, 2007 2:01 PM, Jake Vickers <[EMAIL P

Re: [qmailtoaster] qmail-smtpd: qq soft reject (mail server temporarily rejected message (#4.3.0))

2007-11-13 Thread Warren Melnick
I tried changing mine to your and it starting giving the error again. W On Nov 13, 2007 2:01 PM, Jake Vickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Warren Melnick wrote: > > OK, so away from Yahoo and back to reality... What should my tcp.smtp > > file contain? > > Here is wh

Re: [qmailtoaster] qmail-smtpd: qq soft reject (mail server temporarily rejected message (#4.3.0))

2007-11-13 Thread Warren Melnick
OK, so away from Yahoo and back to reality... What should my tcp.smtp file contain? W On Nov 13, 2007 1:53 PM, Jake Vickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've got things set to this in my tcp.smtp file. I'm still getting yahoo > > deferrals. > > > > > 127.:allow,RELA

Re: [qmailtoaster] qmail-smtpd: qq soft reject (mail server temporarily rejected message (#4.3.0))

2007-11-13 Thread Warren Melnick
It could be the power of the machine. This is an older machine, a dell 2450. Dual P3, 1GHz. (I didn't choose the machine, the client did). W On Nov 13, 2007 11:36 AM, Jake Vickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Warren Melnick wrote: > > But this was not "a while"

Re: [qmailtoaster] qmail-smtpd: qq soft reject (mail server temporarily rejected message (#4.3.0))

2007-11-13 Thread Warren Melnick
Erik, I sent one of my SMTP logs to you privately. W On Nov 13, 2007 11:04 AM, Erik A. Espinoza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paste info from the smtp log and the send log. > > Erik > > On Nov 13, 2007 6:58 AM, Warren Melnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What

Re: [qmailtoaster] qmail-smtpd: qq soft reject (mail server temporarily rejected message (#4.3.0))

2007-11-13 Thread Warren Melnick
But this was not "a while". This was all incoming email. W On Nov 13, 2007 10:29 AM, Jake Vickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Warren Melnick wrote: > > It took changing this: > > > :allow,BADMIMETYPE="",BADLOADERTYPE="M",CHKUSER_RCPTL

Re: [qmailtoaster] qmail-smtpd: qq soft reject (mail server temporarily rejected message (#4.3.0))

2007-11-13 Thread Warren Melnick
to this: :allow,BADMIMETYPE="",BADLOADERTYPE="M",CHKUSER_RCPTLIMIT="50",CHKUSER_WRONGRCPTLIMIT="10",DKSIGN="/var/qmail/control/domainkeys/%/private" in tcp.smtp. W On Nov 13, 2007 10:10 AM, Jake Vickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Warren Melnick wr

[qmailtoaster] qmail-smtpd: qq soft reject (mail server temporarily rejected message (#4.3.0))

2007-11-13 Thread Warren Melnick
What would cause this? qmail-smtpd: qq soft reject (mail server temporarily rejected message (#4.3.0)) qmailctl stat shows authlib: up (pid 9617) 1266291 seconds clamd: up (pid 9626) 1266291 seconds imap4: up (pid 9631) 1266291 seconds imap4-ssl: up (pid 9642) 1266291 seconds pop3: up (pid 9700)

Re: [qmailtoaster] Domain Keys/Yahoo Blocking

2007-11-12 Thread Warren Melnick
Do you have a properly formatted SPF record in place for your domain? W On Nov 12, 2007 9:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whom ever helps you will ultimately help me as well. Not only do I have > this > problem with yahoo but email to hotmail just plain disappears. Not even

Re: [qmailtoaster] Slow delivery of email with attachments

2007-11-09 Thread Warren Melnick
Check your logs to see how long it took for the antivirus and spam software to process the email. It might not be a long delivery time, it might just be taking a long time to get through the scans if you are low on memory or CPU cycles. W On Nov 9, 2007 12:28 PM, Chris Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: [qmailtoaster] SMTP problems

2007-11-09 Thread Warren Melnick
Checking mail does not use SMTP, it uses IMAP. Check to see that iptables and whatever frewall you are using are allowing the IMAP ports through. SMTP has to be working from outside of the company, as that is how all email is delivered from other mail servers. W On Nov 9, 2007 12:19 PM, Richard

Re: [qmailtoaster] Can't relay from internal servers?

2007-11-09 Thread Warren Melnick
You might want to chattr +i that file so that upgrades cannot overwrite it. W On Nov 8, 2007 12:38 AM, PakOgah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you upgrade / re-install your qmailtoaster packages ? > if so then it may overwrite tcp.smtp file > > because once I was updating my toaster and tcp.smt

Re: [qmailtoaster] user masquerading help

2007-11-09 Thread Warren Melnick
I cannot speak to the first part, but the second part will need to be done carefully and you need to understand the ramifications... By making all mail go to that box, the person distributing the email will have to do so WITHOUT using email. Otherwise when you try to distribute those emails, they

Re: [qmailtoaster] Can't receive email from certain domain

2007-11-08 Thread Warren Melnick
$ ping rakartini.bum.go.id ping: unknown host rakartini.bum.go.id The name does not resolve so that sender has to be fake. W On Nov 8, 2007 8:19 PM, isnandar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Masters, > > Please give me some advise about my problems as on subject. I tried to > checked and found

Re: [qmailtoaster] QT / Courier-IMAP and Apple's Leopard (OS X 10.5)

2007-11-08 Thread Warren Melnick
Given that this statement was posted on Apple Insider: " Mac OS X 10.5.1will also deliver a significant number of bug fixes relating to Leopard's email client", I would take a wait-and-see approach before we start suggesting that the bug is n the toaster side. W On Nov 7, 2007 4:58 PM, dnk <[EMAI

Re: [qmailtoaster] QT / Courier-IMAP and Apple's Leopard (OS X 10.5)

2007-11-08 Thread Warren Melnick
Given that this statement was posted on Apple Insider: " Mac OS X 10.5.1will also deliver a significant number of bug fixes relating to Leopard's email client", I would take a wait-and-see approach before we start suggesting that the bug is n the toaster side. W On Nov 7, 2007 4:58 PM, dnk <[EMAI

[qmailtoaster] Interesting paper from djb

2007-11-06 Thread Warren Melnick
A paper from djb entitled 'Some thoughts on security after ten years of qmail 1.0' http://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.pdf Interesting read for those who are so interested... W

Re: [qmailtoaster] Invalid Sender

2007-11-05 Thread Warren Melnick
what does your machine think its hostname and domainname are? Give the output of those 2 commands please. W On 11/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2007-11-05 10:00:26.443602500 CHKUSER rejected sender: from <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]::> > remote > 249> rcpt <> : invalid sender

Re: [qmailtoaster] QT / Courier-IMAP and Apple's Leopard (OS X 10.5)

2007-11-04 Thread Warren Melnick
My feeling is that you are right, it should be looked into, although this is the wrong forum to post bugs in the Leopard mail client. W On 11/3/07, Harry Zink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, of course not, which is why I carefully worded my subject line. > > I've used it under Tiger and its Ma

Re: [qmailtoaster] restrict mailserver not accept more than 5000 mails from one user/ip in a day

2007-11-02 Thread Warren Melnick
There was a post a few months back about restricting the number of times an IP can connect in a given time with iptables. You might be able to adapt that to help out. W On 11/2/07, Davide Bozzelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ashok Chauhan ha scritto: > > Hi List, > > > > How i can restrict my

Re: [qmailtoaster] qmailmrtg - cpu, eth graphs?

2007-10-31 Thread Warren Melnick
If you really want info like that, I would suggest that you put munin into place. It does a far better job than any other package I know. W On 10/31/07, Aaron Spurlock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was poking through the qmailmrtg stuff and found that there are a bunch > of charts commented o

Re: [qmailtoaster] vQregister and CAPTCHA

2007-10-30 Thread Warren Melnick
Anyone who is going to do this, consider using recaptcha ( http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html ) to do it - it is a worthy endeavor. W On 10/29/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, I got vqregister hooked up and working but now I need some security so > captcha of course is a

Re: [qmailtoaster] ip changed mail server

2007-10-28 Thread Warren Melnick
What JP suggests is very important and often overlooked. Get your current TTL for the A record that corresponds to your mail server down to something like 60 right now so that you do not end up with a perfectly valid new IP, but then find out that everyone who communicates with you often has the o

Re: [qmailtoaster] I think i want to start over,

2007-10-26 Thread Warren Melnick
First do a vdominfo on each of the domains (/home/vpopmail/bin/vdominfo domainname) and see if they are there. If not then vadddomain should do what you want. W On 10/26/07, Per Qvindesland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well that should have taken the pain out of the mysqld but I must admit > t

Re: [qmailtoaster] I think i want to start over,

2007-10-25 Thread Warren Melnick
Try an even easier one (as root): /etc/init.d/mysql restart That should stop then start the mysql server. It might be mysqld instead of mysql in some cases. Do both the stop and start succeed? W On 10/25/07, Jake Vickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jim Shupert, Jr. wrote: > > hello JP > >

Re: [qmailtoaster] 550 error???

2007-10-25 Thread Warren Melnick
The proper resolution would be to contact the administrator of the domain(s) in question and ask them to put in the proper SPF records to allow RIM to send email from their domain. W On 10/25/07, Jake Vickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michael Maness wrote: > > Keep getting this when anyone o

Re: [qmailtoaster] I think i want to start over,

2007-10-25 Thread Warren Melnick
s? Try this: mysql --user=vpopmail > --password=SsEeCcRrEeTt --host-localhost vpopmail > I tried that and got an " unknown option --host-localhost " > > so. what does that tell us? > > Thnaks again > > j > > > > - Original Message - > *From:* War

Re: [qmailtoaster] I think i want to start over,

2007-10-24 Thread Warren Melnick
Check the following: (1) Is mysql running. If not, be sure that the mysql-server rpm is installed and that it is running and set to run on boot (2) Is there a vpopmail database? (Check that /var/lib/mysql/vpopmail exists, is a directory and s owned by mysql:mysql) (3) Can the vpopmail user acces

Re: [qmailtoaster] TAPS

2007-10-24 Thread Warren Melnick
again, creating yet another email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which will again get tapped, etc. You must create an email box outside of that domain. What I generally do is create a complementary .int domain (mydomain.int) and have the tapped emails go there. W On 10/24/07, Warren Melnick <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [qmailtoaster] TAPS

2007-10-24 Thread Warren Melnick
You cannot tap to the same domain if you are tapping the entire domain. That creates an endless loop. W On 10/23/07, seekuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Sir, > > I send taps email to same domain. > > below are the data: > > Thanks. > > -- > Sandeil > > > for taps: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[

Re: [qmailtoaster] Problems sending to Yahoo

2007-10-23 Thread Warren Melnick
I don't know about Yahoo, but AOL has an entire department that will look up your IP, tell you what you are doing wrong and guide you toward doing it right (the postmaster group). Does the defer message contain a URL? Sometimes they do. Here is a page on Yahoo that I found by googling: http://he

Re: [qmailtoaster] Problems sending to Yahoo

2007-10-23 Thread Warren Melnick
AOL is not actually all that picky. Al they ask is that you make your emails compliant and actually remove the people who click the SPAM button from your list. A slong as your spam complaints stay low they are happy. The question is: What are you doing about bouncebacks? If you are not removing

Re: [qmailtoaster] Security Holes?

2007-10-21 Thread Warren Melnick
What you are seeing might not have anything to do with your box. If you do not have SPF records set up for your domain, anyone can send mail with your domain in the From address, claiming that it came from you. When the spam hits an invalid email address, the bounce will come back to you, since y

[qmailtoaster] TAP Question

2007-10-12 Thread Warren Melnick
Hi all! I used ot be on this list a job ago at [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email is just my personal one. I had a request to set up a mail server for a client that saves copies of all incoming email in one mailbox and all outgoing email in another. I was figuring on setting up [EMAIL PROTECTED] and