qmail Digest 17 Feb 1999 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 554
Topics (messages 22033 through 22091):
Fastforward refuses to delivery root email
22033 by: Chris Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22041 by: Anand Buddhdev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22043 by: "Petr Novotny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22045 by: Chris Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22047 by: Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22050 by: Chris Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22053 by: Harald Hanche-Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Patches for Spam control
22034 by: "������� ������������" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Qmail 1.01 and multiple MX trouble
22035 by: Alessandro Ambrosini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22036 by: Harald Hanche-Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
qmail-pop3d is not working asap
22037 by: Marlon Anthony Abao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22038 by: Mark Delany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22039 by: Chris Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22040 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Image - Odinn Sorensen)
Qmail for NT
22042 by: "djcroark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22044 by: "Sam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22046 by: Mark Delany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22051 by: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22054 by: Stefan Paletta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22056 by: Harald Hanche-Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22075 by: Stefan Paletta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22084 by: "Rok Papez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22088 by: "Petr Novotny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
this user has no $HOME/Maildir (fwd)
22048 by: "Tony D'Andrade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
need suggestions (pop/imap or what)
22049 by: "Brian S. Craigie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
POP-Before-SMTP Solution
22052 by: Jeff Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Script Question
22055 by: "Matt D. Landry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22057 by: Harald Hanche-Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Can anyone see this ?
22058 by: "Tony D'Andrade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22059 by: Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
new-user template directory
22060 by: Andrew Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22062 by: Stefan Paletta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22064 by: Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22068 by: Chris Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sorry About -> Re: Can anyone see this ?
22061 by: "Tony D'Andrade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22065 by: Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22066 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mirko Zeibig)
[Fwd: qmail]
22063 by: Donna Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22082 by: Anand Buddhdev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
fastforward weirdness...
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Can you limit size of outgoing messages?
22069 by: Stefan Paletta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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22071 by: Stefan Paletta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22072 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New Dual Mount Copy Holder by Rubbermaid
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Why does qmail-smtpd cause dial-on-demand?
22074 by: Chris Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22076 by: Stefan Paletta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Building Alternative Back-ends to Qmail.
22077 by: Arjun Khanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
file names = inodes : why?
22078 by: Ari Rubenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22079 by: Mark Delany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22081 by: Brian Reichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22083 by: Mark Delany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Moving post office to qmail
22080 by: "A.Y. Sjarifuddin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22087 by: Stefan Paletta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Qmail mailing list and ReplyTo:
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22086 by: "Roman V. Isaev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Email addresses containg . ; eg <name>.<surname>@domain.net
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Hi,
I've finally switched works email over to qmail and it all works
wonderful even virtuals from /etc/aliases using fastforward. For some
reason it refuses to delivery mail to root i have an entry in aliases to
go to a non-root account. Printforward shows this correct address, i've
also tried removing the aliases entry and creating a ~alias/qmail-root
but i qmail-default is taken control (with the following
|/var/qmail/bin/fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb). Here is the log
entries:
Feb 16 11:02:52 dipsy qmail: 919162972.617328 starting delivery 1: msg
133349 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Feb 16 11:02:52 dipsy qmail: 919162972.618218 status: local 1/10 remote
0/20
Feb 16 11:02:52 dipsy qmail: 919162972.642381 delivery 1: deferral:
fastforward:_fatal:_unable_to_exec_qq_(#4.3.0)/
I'm trying to sort this out ASAP as all of roots emails is queued
locally but not been delivered!
Thanks,
Chris.
On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 11:06:08AM +0000, Chris Bond wrote:
qmail-local will refuse to run as root, and hence you can NEVER deliver to
root under the qmail system. You must alias root to an ordinary user,
usually the administator of the machine.
> Hi,
>
> I've finally switched works email over to qmail and it all works
> wonderful even virtuals from /etc/aliases using fastforward. For some
> reason it refuses to delivery mail to root i have an entry in aliases to
> go to a non-root account. Printforward shows this correct address, i've
> also tried removing the aliases entry and creating a ~alias/qmail-root
> but i qmail-default is taken control (with the following
> |/var/qmail/bin/fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb). Here is the log
> entries:
>
> Feb 16 11:02:52 dipsy qmail: 919162972.617328 starting delivery 1: msg
> 133349 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Feb 16 11:02:52 dipsy qmail: 919162972.618218 status: local 1/10 remote
> 0/20
> Feb 16 11:02:52 dipsy qmail: 919162972.642381 delivery 1: deferral:
> fastforward:_fatal:_unable_to_exec_qq_(#4.3.0)/
>
> I'm trying to sort this out ASAP as all of roots emails is queued
> locally but not been delivered!
>
> Thanks,
> Chris.
>
--
Anand
System Administrator
Africa Online Ltd
http://www.anand.org
> On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 11:06:08AM +0000, Chris Bond wrote:
>
> qmail-local will refuse to run as root, and hence you can NEVER
> deliver to root under the qmail system. You must alias root to an
> ordinary user, usually the administator of the machine.
Plus, since there certainly IS a user called root, /etc/aliases (or
fastforward, which is run from ~alias/.qmail-default) will not be
consulted. Am I right?
--
Petr Novotny, ANTEK CS
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.antek.cz
-- Don't you know there ain't no devil there's just God when he's drunk.
[Tom Waits]
Ok let me explain again the problem, fastforward refuses to send email for
the root account using the following:
1. Before we installed fastforward it was working fine with a
"~alias/.qmail-root" file with this in: "&[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
2. After creating "~alias/.qmail-default" with "|/var/qmail/bin/fastforward
-d /etc/aliases.cdb" root mail was refused with the error messages below:
Feb 16 13:02:20 dipsy qmail: 919170140.142274 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
Feb 16 13:02:28 dipsy qmail: 919170148.137147 starting delivery 198: msg
133306 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Feb 16 13:02:28 dipsy qmail: 919170148.137335 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
Feb 16 13:02:28 dipsy qmail: 919170148.308531 delivery 198: deferral:
fastforward:_fatal:_unable_to_exec_qq_(#4.3.0)/
3. I've tried deleting the .qmail-root alias and making an entry in
/etc/aliases with "root: gavinlew" in but it still refuses to delivery the
mail, giving exactly the same errors above.
If I do mailq -s I get the following (mailq script from qmHandle off the
qmail web page):
Messages in local queue: 76
Messages in remote queue: 0
All off the 76 messages as destinded to the root account but are having
trouble being delivered.
Any help on how to get it working would be greatly appriated.
Regards,
Chris.
Petr Novotny wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 11:06:08AM +0000, Chris Bond wrote:
> >
> > qmail-local will refuse to run as root, and hence you can NEVER
> > deliver to root under the qmail system. You must alias root to an
> > ordinary user, usually the administator of the machine.
>
> Plus, since there certainly IS a user called root, /etc/aliases (or
> fastforward, which is run from ~alias/.qmail-default) will not be
> consulted. Am I right?
> --
> Petr Novotny, ANTEK CS
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.antek.cz
> -- Don't you know there ain't no devil there's just God when he's drunk.
> [Tom Waits]
> On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 11:06:08AM +0000, Chris Bond wrote:
>
> qmail-local will refuse to run as root, and hence you can NEVER
> deliver to root under the qmail system. You must alias root to an
> ordinary user, usually the administator of the machine.
The original poster did say that he set up an alias for root. The
problem is that qmail does not seem to notice the alias.
Of course, the main problem is that he does not give enough details.
What is the alias? How is it set up exactly? Is he using
qmail-users?
Mate
Hi,
Yes it was users a assign file, stupid deb file i create made one i
deleted the assign file put a "." in it, ran qmail-newu and then created
my ~alias/qmail-root and it all worked nicely
Thankyou for the tip that helped be slove it, and to anyone else that
posted something that helped me.
Regards,
Chris
Mate Wierdl wrote:
> Are you using qmail-users?
>
> Mate
- "Petr Novotny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| [...] since there certainly IS a user called root, /etc/aliases (or
| fastforward, which is run from ~alias/.qmail-default) will not be
| consulted. Am I right?
No. As far as qmail-getpw is concerned, a user with UID 0 does not
exist. Hence the alias user is used instead. Quick demo:
; /var/qmail/bin/qmail-getpw root | tr '\000' :; echo
alias:151:151:/var/qmail/alias:-:root:
(The original problem in this thread is resolved, but I just wanted to
clear up this point.)
- Harald
Hi all,
Has anybody managed to install any of the anti-spam patches on qmail-1.03?
I tried to install both Lionel Widdifield's and Lambersten's patch with no
luck (some or all hunks are failing).
Any suggestions?
George Koulogiannis
I'm using Qmail 1.01 package on my Linux server running DEBIAN 2.0
The question is simple:
I want send an email to a remote domain/server.
This remote server has two MX record and the first machine (with highest
priority of 10)
is not responding: the service SMTP is down.
Well, I suppose that silently Qmail try the second server point by the
second MX record (with priority of 20) and this second server is my
machine.
The two machines have set up the same users.
Well, analizing mail.log it's about 20 hours that Qmail try to connect
the first server (down) but not the second (my).
WHY ? :-))
Thanks
Alessandro Ambrosini
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Alessandro Ambrosini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| I want send an email to a remote domain/server.
| This remote server has two MX record and the first machine (with highest
| priority of 10)
| is not responding: the service SMTP is down.
Does it refuse connections to the SMTP port, or does it accept a
connection and then drop it? In the latter case, qmail will not go to
the next MX. In the former case, or if the server is simply not
reachable, it should.
- Harald
hello,
is it the proper behavior of qmail-pop3d not to give out mails as soon as
they get the user Maildirs?
i noticed this behavior when i moved to the Maildir format and to
qmail-pop3d. i see the mail files in ~/Maildir/new/ but when i fire up a
POP3 client, it says that i don't have any mails!
i did the pop3 conversation myself by telneting the port 110 of my mail
server and sure enough, it says that no mails :(
however after a period of around 3-5 minutes, i get my mails. so it is no
question that the pop3 server is working or not.
am using home directories over NFS so is this the problem?
Thanks in advance!
-marlon
At 08:06 PM 2/16/99, Marlon Anthony Abao wrote:
>hello,
>
>is it the proper behavior of qmail-pop3d not to give out mails as soon as
>they get the user Maildirs?
>
>i noticed this behavior when i moved to the Maildir format and to
>qmail-pop3d. i see the mail files in ~/Maildir/new/ but when i fire up a
>POP3 client, it says that i don't have any mails!
>
>i did the pop3 conversation myself by telneting the port 110 of my mail
>server and sure enough, it says that no mails :(
>
>however after a period of around 3-5 minutes, i get my mails. so it is no
>question that the pop3 server is working or not.
>
>am using home directories over NFS so is this the problem?
Almost certainly. qmail-pop3d does nothing special. All it does is a
readdir() on Maildir/[new|cur]. If the OS doesn't return the files, then
that's the end of the story.
It's also easy to test without going thru the network version:
$ cd
$ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir
list
quit
$
Probably something to do with caching by the local NFS client.
Regards.
What line do you have in inetd.conf?
Marlon Anthony Abao wrote:
> hello,
>
> is it the proper behavior of qmail-pop3d not to give out mails as soon as
> they get the user Maildirs?
>
> i noticed this behavior when i moved to the Maildir format and to
> qmail-pop3d. i see the mail files in ~/Maildir/new/ but when i fire up a
> POP3 client, it says that i don't have any mails!
>
> i did the pop3 conversation myself by telneting the port 110 of my mail
> server and sure enough, it says that no mails :(
>
> however after a period of around 3-5 minutes, i get my mails. so it is no
> question that the pop3 server is working or not.
>
> am using home directories over NFS so is this the problem?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -marlon
Hello Marlon.
Tue 16 Feb 1999 20:06, Marlon Anthony Abao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> is it the proper behavior of qmail-pop3d not to give out mails as soon
> as they get the user Maildirs?
> however after a period of around 3-5 minutes, i get my mails. so it
> is no question that the pop3 server is working or not.
For some reason qmail-pop3d ignores mails dated in the future. Check the
time sync of your machines.
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are there any plans to port Qmail to windows NT???
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djcroark writes:
> are there any plans to port Qmail to windows NT???
I hope not.
--
Sam
At 12:55 PM 2/16/99 GMT, Sam wrote:
>djcroark writes:
>
>> are there any plans to port Qmail to windows NT???
>
>I hope not.
On a more serious note, I believe that this has been discussed before (that's
code for check the archives).
Currently qmail has significant dependencies on Unix - especially file
system semantics and the security model (UID/GID+filesystem). To port to NT
requires a significant rewrite and possibly a redesign. I don't believe
that anyone, including the author, have ever made any pronouncements about
making an NT port.
So my guess is "very unlikely".
Regards.
djcroark writes:
> are there any plans to port Qmail to windows NT???
None. Windows NT handles forking very badly, and qmail needs forking
to be cheap. Why not replace NT with a free operating system? I
always recommend that people have a separate machine as their email
hub anyway, with no user accounts.
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Mark Delany wrote/schrieb/scribsit:
> On a more serious note, I believe that this has been discussed before
Yes. This was when I went to try it.
> Currently qmail has significant dependencies on Unix - especially file
> system semantics and the security model (UID/GID+filesystem). To port to
> NT requires a significant rewrite and possibly a redesign.
I used cygwin32, which emulates a Unix environment quite well.
Surprisingly, the file I had to tweak most, was the Makefile (but since
cygwin32 includes sed...). The rest compiled quite well without any
changes to the C code, IIRC. This was all I could test.
Disclaimer: the NT server is gone now (wasn't even mine). No NT at this
shop. I agree completely with Russell in msg. #27580.
Stefan
- Stefan Paletta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| I used cygwin32, which emulates a Unix environment quite well.
| Surprisingly, the file I had to tweak most, was the Makefile (but since
| cygwin32 includes sed...). The rest compiled quite well without any
| changes to the C code, IIRC. This was all I could test.
qmail needs inode numbers to generate unique message numbers. Does NT
have something equivalent to inode numbers? If not, how do you
generate unique message numbers? I am not saying it can't be done,
only that it may be nontrivial. (Hmm, have a separate server process
hand them out on demand?)
- Harald
Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote/schrieb/scribsit:
> Does NT have something equivalent to inode numbers?
I don't know for sure (FATfs at least hasn't).
The question is rather, does cygwin have inode numbers?
I just tried (on 95) and "ls -i" reports something reasonable.
Stefan
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 23:51:17 +0100 (MET), Stefan Paletta wrote:
>I don't know for sure (FATfs at least hasn't).
>The question is rather, does cygwin have inode numbers?
>I just tried (on 95) and "ls -i" reports something reasonable.
All FSs have a unique ID for a smallest allocation block they can
allocate. FAT does *not* have an inode number, but it *has* cluster
number; cluster number is unique just in the same way as inode
number.
best regards,
Rok Papez,
Student at Faculty of Computer and Information Science,
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
> All FSs have a unique ID for a smallest allocation block they can
> allocate. FAT does *not* have an inode number, but it *has* cluster
> number; cluster number is unique just in the same way as inode
> number.
No it isn't in the right way. (Hint: What do SpeedDisk, Defrag etc.
do?)
--
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.antek.cz
-- Don't you know there ain't no devil there's just God when he's drunk.
[Tom Waits]
Hi i set up qmail and it works fine for those who have shell access
but not for my users who login through pop server. When they try to login
they get the message:
"The mail server responded:
this user has no $HOME/Maildir
Please enter a new password"
I read the man page on "Maildir". My question is how do i set up a
maildir if it is not set up when i add a new user? If i have to manually
set up a "Maildir" and its subdirectories how do i get the messages in the
current $HOME/Mailbox file exported into the "Maildir" ? Also what
permissions do i set for the "Maildir" and its subdir's ?
I noticed this line in my inetd.conf:
#<off># pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d
Is this correct ? If so how does qmail-pop3d run?
I also installed ucspi-tcp and checkpassword to try it that way. I ran the
checkpasswd tests from the command line it worked fine and i have
qmail-popup and checkpasswd set to run on startup.
# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup host /bin/checkpassword pwd
+OK <...@host>
user sam
+OK
pass baker
/home/baker
It is not a "case" problem.
any help would be appreciated.
thanks in advance
td
Hi. Sorry if this is slightly O/T. I do have qmail installed, so may be
relevant.
Currently I've got a mixture of users using various clients for reading email.
The most popular method is POP3 using qpopper. However, this leaves some
users with the inability to change their pop3 password, since it is tied to
their unix account login password and they don't know how to log in to change
it.
Is there a scheme which would provide the users with the ability to change their
own password from the client end, using a standard client such as Netscape
Messenger, Eudora, Outlook etc?
Would IMAP allow this?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Brian
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can a cdb file be rebuilt multiple times per minute without any problems?
Yes
What about if the cdb file is on a nfs filesystem?
Make sure you turn off attribute caching, which has performance
implications.
My original thought for handling this would be to simple have my
checkpassword 'touch' a file (with remote ip addr as name), and then
either modify tcpserver to check if the file exists to allow access, or
build a cdb from all the files in the directory. Anyone have any
thoughts?
I wouldn't build a CDB for every POP connect, it just doesn't scale.
A shell script run from tcpserver to touch/check time on the file(s)
would work for a low volume system.
On my multiple-worker-machine service I wrote a pair of small DJB
pipeline programs (check, which is run from tcpserver and before
qmail-smtpd to set the RELAYCLIENT variable, and record, which is
run after qmail-popup and before the POP server) and a daemon which
maintains a database of these entries. We do about 90 record/check
transactions per second at peak time and it works very well.
The code isn't really releasable at this point as I am in the
middle of converting it to use multicast & multiple database
daemons. I'll be happy to share it when that is done.
-- Jeff Hayward
Greetings,
This is my first post to the list...sorry if it's a silly
question. I'm trying to set up an auto-reply feature for employees that
are out of the office..can I set up a mailing list type script that allows
employees to set an option that they are out of the office and my script
will auto-reply to any messages sent to the employee, and has anybody done
anything like this? I'd appreciate any information..thanks much!
I'm using qmail1.01 and qpopper2.3 with popauth on a RedHat 4.2
box...kernel 2.0.35
Cheers!,
Matthew Landry Design Trust Inc
Systems Developer 150 Danbury Rd.
Network Administrator Wilton Ct. 06897
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (203)-761-1412
http://www.destru.com fax: (203)-761-1419
- "Matt D. Landry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| I'm trying to set up an auto-reply feature for employees that are
| out of the office..can I set up a mailing list type script that
| allows employees to set an option that they are out of the office
| and my script will auto-reply to any messages sent to the employee,
| and has anybody done anything like this?
It's been done. It's called the vacation program (try man vacation on
your system). Beware of home cooking in this area - it is just too
easy to create mail loops. Also note that most (all?) versions of the
vacation program must be run as ``|preline vacation ...'' from the
.qmail file.
- Harald
Can anyone see this post ?
I am having problems with pop logins. I followed the faq and nothing is
working. Any tips would be appreciated.
regards
td.
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Tony D'Andrade wrote:
>
> Can anyone see this post ?
Nope.
>
> I am having problems with pop logins. I followed the faq and nothing is
> working. Any tips would be appreciated.
Can you provide some details?
Vince.
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Hi,
I'm installing Qmail. The document INSTALL.maildir has this sentence,
"The system administrator can setup Maildir as the default for everybody
by creating a maildir in the new-user template directory and replacing
./Mailbox with ./Maildir/ in /var/qmail/rc"
My question: where is this 'new-user template directory'? Does it
mean /var/qmail/new-user, /var/qmail/users/new-user or
/var/qmail/control/new-user, or something else yet again?
cheers,
Andrew Richards.
Andrew Richards wrote/schrieb/scribsit:
> I'm installing Qmail. The document INSTALL.maildir has this sentence,
> "The system administrator can setup Maildir as the default for everybody
> by creating a maildir in the new-user template directory and replacing
> ./Mailbox with ./Maildir/ in /var/qmail/rc"
> My question: where is this 'new-user template directory'?
What OS are you on?
How do you normally create new users? If you use a program, read its
manpage and search for "skeleton".
Do you have a /etc/skel dir?
Stefan
It is usually /etc/skel. It is *not* a qmail specific concept.
Mate
On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 05:01:19PM -0000, Andrew Richards wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm installing Qmail. The document INSTALL.maildir has this sentence,
> "The system administrator can setup Maildir as the default for everybody
> by creating a maildir in the new-user template directory and replacing
> ./Mailbox with ./Maildir/ in /var/qmail/rc"
>
> My question: where is this 'new-user template directory'? Does it
> mean /var/qmail/new-user, /var/qmail/users/new-user or
> /var/qmail/control/new-user, or something else yet again?
>
Well fancy that, someone else finds that bit of documentation a bit
'opaque' too! :-)
The new user template directory is that used by the Linux 'adduser'
command and its relatives. Do a 'man adduser' to find out more.
It's nothing at all to do with qmail.
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Sorry about the subject but i had 2 previous posts with no response. I was
unsure if anyone saw them. Anyway I am running qmail-1.03-11 and ezmlm.
I installed the rpm src packages on a Redhat 5.2 system.
The problem i am having is that my Netscape, Eudora etc clients cannot log
into they're mailboxes via pop server.
I followed the FAQ "How do i set up qmail-pop3d?"
I installed uscspi-tcp and checkpassword. I put:
tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mymailhost \
/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &
in my start up files.
When the above process is running I get the following message when trying
to log in via Netscape Mail.
"The mail server responded:
authrization failed
Please enter a new password"
I know that the password is correct because i ran the tests for
checkpasswd.
There is a file /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail-pop3d.init. What is this file for ?
Does this start the pop server on startup ? I stopped the above
process and tried to run this script and then log in via Netscape and I
get:
"The mail server responded:
this user has no $HOME/Maildir
Please enter a new password."
I know the password is correct. I set up $HOME/Maildir with cur/ tmp/
new/ subdirectories and the proper permissions but i still get the same
message.
thanks for your response.
> On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Tony D'Andrade wrote:
>
> >
> > Can anyone see this post ?
>
> Nope.
>
> >
> > I am having problems with pop logins. I followed the faq and nothing is
> > working. Any tips would be appreciated.
>
> Can you provide some details?
>
> Vince.
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Again, I think you did not read the README in the ftp directory where
you got the rpm from. There is a qmail-pop3d initscript already
included. The README tells you how to set it up.
I know the password is correct. I set up $HOME/Maildir with cur/ tmp/
new/ subdirectories and the proper permissions but i still get the same
message.
What are the correct permissions? What is the ownership on the
Maildir? Did you use maildirmake to make the Maildir?
How did you set up the popusers? (It is not enough to say:
as in the FAQ)
Mate
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 13:11:30 -0500 (EST),
Tony D'Andrade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "The mail server responded:
> this user has no $HOME/Maildir
> Please enter a new password."
>
> I know the password is correct. I set up $HOME/Maildir with cur/ tmp/
> new/ subdirectories and the proper permissions but i still get the same
> message.
Did you setup your Maildir with maildirmake? Try to telnet to your
POP-daemon ("telnet localhost 110"), enter USER name <-| PASS passw <-| and
see what happens.
Did you set your MAIL-variable to $HOME/Maildir/, the complete path should
be given.
Regards
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> Hello.
>
> I'm having a problem with pop3 authentication using qmail 1.03 on a FreeBSD 3.0
> stable system. Hardware is a pII/300 with 192megs ram, a 2gig uw-scsi primary
> for the OS and system files, and 2 6.5gig uw-scsi drives using vinum for
> stripping which has maildirs only. smtp works flawlessly so far. Pop3 fails with
> "-ERR authorization failed". I have checkpassword 0.81 and ucspi-tcp-0.84
> installed and running, however being unfamiliar with the checkpassword package,
> I dont know how it's doing the check. BSD uses a shadow password scheme, however
> file names are not consistent with other OS's which use similar. Linux/Solaris
> use passwd/shadow. BSD uses passwd/master.passwd.
>
> I will also be needing to use an alternate db for the passwd file when this
> machine goes production. My dialip users are authenticated on a Solaris 2.6
> server using radius. I was planning to use rsync perhaps and keep a copy of the
> passwd/shadow file from the solaris box on the mail server..in which case I need
> a copy of checkpasswd compiled on the bsd machine but configured to run with the
> solaris shadow file.
>
> I'm using following command line for pop3 right now,
>
> tcpserver -c300 -uXX -gYY 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail.myisp.com \
> /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
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On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 12:25:03PM -0500, Donna Phillips wrote:
> > I'm using following command line for pop3 right now,
> >
> > tcpserver -c300 -uXX -gYY 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail.myisp.com \
> > /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &
what are the values of XX and YY? For qmail-pop3d, checkpassword must run as
root to be able to check passwords. If you run as some ordinary user, it
won't work.
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I posted this message last Friday but I don't see any answers for this
problem. So I'm sending it again.
Thanks,
> Hi! I'm using qmail1.03+fastforward 0.51 on linux box..
> The setforward manpage says internal forwarding looping are discarded as
> below:
> ------------------------------------------------
> DUPLICATES
> When fastforward is building the recipient list for a mes�
> sage, it keeps track of the recipient addresses and exter�
> nal mailing lists it has used. If the same command shows
> up again, it skips it. For example:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED];
>
> A message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> only once. (This also means that addresses in an internal
> forwarding loop are discarded.)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> But when I tested it, it delivered the same mail twice.
> Here is my /etc/aliases:
> ---------------------
> haha: hehe, hihi
> hehe: jijisa
> hihi: jijisa, airheech
> ----------------------
> If I send mail to haha, it should send one copy of mail to jijisa and
> airheech as man page said(jijisa is a duplicate recipient. So fastforward
> should send a message only one time).
> But actually jijisa got two copies....
>
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Heechul
>
>
Andrzej Szydlo wrote/schrieb/scribsit:
> How could I assign a value to the DATABYTES variable using tcpd?
tcp-env: 10.0.0: setenv=DATABYTES 100
> How could I set both RELAYCLIENT and DATABYTES?
Dunno.
Stefan
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Stefan Paletta wrote:
>
> Andrzej Szydlo wrote/schrieb/scribsit:
>
> > How could I assign a value to the DATABYTES variable using tcpd?
>
> tcp-env: 10.0.0: setenv=DATABYTES 100
>
> > How could I set both RELAYCLIENT and DATABYTES?
man tcprules
------ cut here ------
Any number of variables may be listed:
127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT="",TCPLOCALHOST="movie.edu"
------ cut here ------
> Dunno.
>
> Stefan
>
>
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote/schrieb/scribsit:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Stefan Paletta wrote:
>
>>
>> Andrzej Szydlo wrote/schrieb/scribsit:
>>
>> > How could I assign a value to the DATABYTES variable using tcpd?
>>
>> tcp-env: 10.0.0: setenv=DATABYTES 100
>>
>> > How could I set both RELAYCLIENT and DATABYTES?
>
> man tcprules
Andrzej asked about how to do it with tcpd.
Stefan
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Stefan Paletta wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote/schrieb/scribsit:
> > On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Stefan Paletta wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Andrzej Szydlo wrote/schrieb/scribsit:
> >>
> >> > How could I assign a value to the DATABYTES variable using tcpd?
> >>
> >> tcp-env: 10.0.0: setenv=DATABYTES 100
> >>
> >> > How could I set both RELAYCLIENT and DATABYTES?
> >
> > man tcprules
>
> Andrzej asked about how to do it with tcpd.
You're too right. Mea culpa.
Try
tcp-env: 10.0.0.: setenv DATABYTES 100:setenv RELAYCLIENT ""
> Stefan
>
>
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I have qmail installed on my Linux RedHat 5.2 system and all seems to
work about OK. I am using Nick Leverton's 'holdremote' patch to send
mail when the PPP connection comes up.
When I send mail from a local (i.e. on the Linux system) it works as
expected, i.e. the mail is queued and gets sent next time there is a
connection. However mail from other users which gets sent to qmail's
SMTP server always brings the connection up which is a bit of a pain.
qmail-smtpd is being run by tcoserver, I have the line:-
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -v -g 80 -u 80 0 smtp
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 4
in /var/qmail/rc.
Yet again the 'simple' configuration of a mail server on Linux doesn't
quite work as required!
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Chris Green wrote/schrieb/scribsit:
> However mail from other users which gets sent to qmail's
> SMTP server always brings the connection up which is a bit of a pain.
Try adding -H to tcpserver's options.
Look in tcpserver's manpage for options that cause lookups and see which
you can turn off.
Stefan
Hi :
I downloaded the 1.03 version of the software. I have untarred and have
been reading thru the man pages, INTERNALS file and most of the FAQ.
I am trying to build an alternative back-end engine to that used
by qmail-send <-> qmail-lspawn <-> qmail-local
The requirement is that incoming messages via smtp or qmail inject
be handled initially by qmail- but forwarded onto another daemon (written
in Java). This daemon will process the message, check authorization
and do any other processing required. The eventual delivery of the message
would then be done using the JavaMail Apis.
The current thinking is as follows: Please give your comments/input on it.
a.) Keep the qmail-send program intact and have it interact just as it
does with qmail-lspawn.
b.) I am assuming that qmail-lspawn is created once only(from qmail-start.c)
- and it interacts with qmail-send on one end. And takes the message and
execs qmail-local which handles the eventual dispatch.
c.) Modify qmail-lspawn so that it will initialize the Java VM - ONCE only.
and build a handle to the object which will communicate with the Java
server.
Then instead of execing "qmail-local" each time- we would use the java VM
handle to dispatch the message to the java server.
The advantage of this approach is that multiple execs are not done- so it
could be less expensive than "execing" a local process- especially if the
local process is initializing the Java Vm machinery each time.
The disadvantage is that error handling- and server unavailable contingencies
will be handled in the same thread as that of qmail-lspawn (unless we
Multi-thread it).
I forgot to mention- I have looked at dot-qmail
man page and I completely understand that I could invoke a program
using it. This program could handle the connection with the Java Server.
The advantage of this is that I dont change qmail sources at all!
But the disadvantage seems to be that I would loose performance!
Please give your input. If others have developed plugins to qmail and
can send me some url's, gottcha's and warnings that would be great!
Thanks in advance.
-Arjun Khanna
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> qmail needs inode numbers to generate unique message numbers.
This has come up a few times here (we are running qmail on a good number
of machines.)
Is the inode just a handy unique number? Or are there file access
speed tricks, e.g. opening files directly using inode.
I would like it to be more convenient to manage the queue while mail is
being delivered... :-)
- Ari
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At 18:10 16/02/99 -0800, Ari Rubenstein wrote:
>
>On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
>
>> qmail needs inode numbers to generate unique message numbers.
>
>This has come up a few times here (we are running qmail on a good number
>of machines.)
>
>Is the inode just a handy unique number? Or are there file access
>speed tricks, e.g. opening files directly using inode.
Handy unique filename. Vastly superior to tmpnam() and all the lame
variants that go with it.
It's not for speed - excepting speed of creating a unique filename.
Regards.
On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 01:18:33PM +1100, Mark Delany wrote:
> >Is the inode just a handy unique number? Or are there file access
> >speed tricks, e.g. opening files directly using inode.
>
> Handy unique filename. Vastly superior to tmpnam() and all the lame
> variants that go with it.
>
> It's not for speed - excepting speed of creating a unique filename.
I seem to recall the inode numbers biting people who were copying
filesystems (backups, changing disks). If your assertions are
correct, wouln't it make some sense to come up with some other
cheap unique filename?
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At 02:26 AM 2/17/99 -0500, Brian Reichert wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 01:18:33PM +1100, Mark Delany wrote:
>> >Is the inode just a handy unique number? Or are there file access
>> >speed tricks, e.g. opening files directly using inode.
>>
>> Handy unique filename. Vastly superior to tmpnam() and all the lame
>> variants that go with it.
>>
>> It's not for speed - excepting speed of creating a unique filename.
>
>I seem to recall the inode numbers biting people who were copying
>filesystems (backups, changing disks). If your assertions are
>correct, wouln't it make some sense to come up with some other
>cheap unique filename?
Possibly. What do you propose? The current method guarantees a unique file
name first time, every time. Since it's needed for every new mail, you want
it to be efficient, right?
An alternative to your suggestion is to alert people to this dependency and
write a few tools/scripts to assist on those rare occassions that people need
to migrate or restore.
Once alerted though it's mostly a non-problem. For changing disks I found it
just as easy to set a global smtproutes to forward the queue to another
system and I'd be very surprised if many people restore a mailq from backup.
Regards.
We'd like to move our post office to qmail, the problem is in the users
password.
Post office using MD5 encryption with a seed (64 char).
Any idea how to change this MD5 encryption to qmail?
Thanks in advance.
A.Y. Sjarifuddin wrote/schrieb/scribsit:
> Post office using MD5 encryption with a seed (64 char).
> Any idea how to change this MD5 encryption to qmail?
The only part in "qmail" that cares about passwords is the checkpassword
program used by the pop3 daemon.
Just modify Dan's checkpassword or any of those you find on
http://www.qmail.org/ (e.g. in perl).
Stefan
Hi!
Why doesn't Qmail mailing list set the
Reply To: field to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
It is very anoying that I must type the
mailing list address for every message
I respond to.
best regards,
Rok Papez,
Student at Faculty of Computer and Information Science,
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
On 02/17, Rok Papez wrote:
> Why doesn't Qmail mailing list set the
> Reply To: field to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
> It is very anoying that I must type the
> mailing list address for every message
> I respond to.
Touchy question. As listowner, I can say Reply-To brings more
harm than good: people tend to forget about it and post private
messages to the list. Very embarassing, and sometimes leads to
THE conflict (I saw some).
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I've searched the archives and i couldn't locate
anything dealing with this.
I'm trying to set up an email address @ a virtual
domain using qmail (current release). You guys
were very helpful to me in getting it set up at all
and everything has worked smoothly so far. Now I wanted
to set up an address with a . in it; that is for example
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
qmail file;
/var/qmail/alias/.qmail-dom-foo.bar
containing
&foobar, then &foobar@localhost then &[EMAIL PROTECTED]
It repliled 'no mailbox here' with all of
the above variations.
I then removed .bar from the filename; as with
/var/qmail/alias/.qmail-dom-foo
containing &[EMAIL PROTECTED]
the user does exist, everything else is right. The second
config worked.
Can anyone tell me why I can't have <>.<> email
names and what I should do about it?
~cHris
At 11:12 AM 2/17/99 +0000, you wrote:
>> Can anyone tell me why I can't have <>.<> email
>> names and what I should do about it?
>
>Security reasons (like delivering to ../../../etc/passwd); use ':'
>instead of '.' - man qmail-local I think
Ahh.. This works. thanks very much, Petr;
nb. I couldn't find a manual entry for it,
but provided it works that doesn't bother
me. Thanks alot once again.
~cHris
At 10:09 am +0000 17/2/99,the wonderful Chris Naden wrote:
>
>Can anyone tell me why I can't have <>.<> email
>names and what I should do about it?
use colons.
AFAIK
.qmail-domain-foobar:wibble
will work.
look:
At 5:48 pm -0800 8/2/99,the wonderful Russ Allbery wrote:
>
>It's possible to use this to great effect to avoid having too many files
>in the same directory and to more logically organize things. Since qmail
>converts periods to colons, there's really no security problem with it.
peter.
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