qmail Digest 15 Jun 1999 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 672
Topics (messages 26581 through 26639):
Unable to resolve sender
26581 by: Harald Hanche-Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
stralloc
26582 by: Van Liedekerke Franky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26583 by: Harald Hanche-Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26584 by: Andre Oppermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26616 by: "Fred Lindberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26622 by: "David Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
SMTP Connections
26585 by: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
virtual domain user .qmail-default question
26586 by: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26587 by: Basit Shehram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26588 by: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
$ to do this? Re: Concept: 'infinate' POP3 accounts per pop3 user.
26589 by: Paul Gregg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26591 by: Dave Kitabjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mailbox Quota
26590 by: Kelvin Koh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26593 by: Marlon Anthony Abao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Qmail, retrieveing POP3 and delivering
26592 by: "Steven Klass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26594 by: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26595 by: "Steven Klass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26596 by: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26625 by: "Steven Klass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Q: qmail + IMAP
26597 by: Christian Wiese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26599 by: Dave Teske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26603 by: Dave Teske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26604 by: Christian Wiese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26605 by: "David Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26610 by: Dave Teske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26611 by: Todd at NM Technet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26613 by: Dave Teske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26614 by: "David Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Holiday messaging: preventing loops?
26598 by: Dave Kitabjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26600 by: Anand Buddhdev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26601 by: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26606 by: Kai MacTane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26627 by: Giles Lean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
List manager! Off topic... Sorry!
26602 by: Geordon VanTassle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26609 by: "Fred Lindberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
rblsmtpd patched for multiple lookups
26607 by: Aaron Nabil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Blocking ExploreZip
26608 by: Mark Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26612 by: Greg Owen {gowen} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26615 by: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26624 by: Mark Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Qmail as selective relay.
26617 by: "Dimitri S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26618 by: Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26619 by: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26620 by: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26621 by: Robbie Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26623 by: "Dimitri S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Alias & virtual domains
26626 by: Stephane Morand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Selective Delivery
26628 by: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
alias directory owner, group, permissions
26629 by: "Alex Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
binmail
26630 by: "Alex Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
NFS Mounts
26631 by: Richard Roderick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26632 by: "Timothy L. Mayo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Official license
26633 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
26634 by: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26635 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tool for verifying addresses
26636 by: Anand Buddhdev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Competition to qmail ...again
26637 by: Amit Vadehra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[Fwd: Mailbox Quota]
26638 by: Diana Dewi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Looking for people to install qmail, will pay!
26639 by: "Max Cool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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+ Neil Aggarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| I just got this message from qmail and I cant quite figure out what
| it means or how to prevent it. I checked the FAQ and archives of
| this group to no avail.
It's not really a qmail problem, which is why it won't be in a qmail
FAQ.
| Here is the error message I received from qmail:
| -----------------------------------------------------
| Hi. This is the qmail-send program at neil86.august.net.
| I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
| addresses.
| This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
|
| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| Connected to 204.247.247.54 but sender was rejected.
| Remote host said: 553 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Unable to resolve
| sender neil<@JAMMConsulting.com> from neil86.august.net
What it means: In the war on spam, many sites have started rejecting
mail from nonexistent domains. Clearly, 204.247.247.54 thought at the
time that JAMMConsulting.com is such a domain. Perhaps they
misconfigured their mailer daemon to treat a temporary error as
permanent, giving a 5xx error instead of a 4xx one. Or perhaps your
ISP managed to lose your domain registration for a while.
What you can do: Not much, if the problem is at the receiving end.
You might want to look over your DNS setup to make sure it is correct.
It looks OK to me, but I am no expert.
- Harald
Hi,
maybe this is a stupid question, but my C knowledge is not that big, so I'm
asking it anyways:
There are a lot of stralloc calls in qmail, does this memory never needs to
be freed again?
Franky
+ Van Liedekerke Franky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| maybe this is a stupid question, but my C knowledge is not that big,
| so I'm asking it anyways:
| There are a lot of stralloc calls in qmail, does this memory never
| needs to be freed again?
Most of the time, it's freed by the most efficient algorithm
imaginable: _exit. Thanks to qmail's highly modular structure, most
qmail programs don't live long enough for the concept of memory leaks
to even apply. If you look in the long-running programs, though, you
will probably find that strings are not allocated frivolously. I have
never bothered to look carefully, but neither have I seen any signs of
the long-running daemons bloating with time.
- Harald
Van Liedekerke Franky wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> maybe this is a stupid question, but my C knowledge is not that big, so I'm
> asking it anyways:
> There are a lot of stralloc calls in qmail, does this memory never needs to
> be freed again?
Most of the time not because most programs live only for one delivery
(eg. qmail-lspawn, qmail-rspawn, qmail-local, qmail-smtpd... etc.), so
memory will be freed anyway on the exit of the program.
It matters only in long living daemons like qmail-send.
--
Andre
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 14:20:02 +0200, Van Liedekerke Franky wrote:
>There are a lot of stralloc calls in qmail, does this memory never needs to
>be freed again?
All strallocs are either global or static in subroutines. Look at
alloc.c/alloc_re.c. They allocate new memory only if needed and if a
string grows, the old memory is freed. Thus, at most you end up with
memory allocated for each "stralloc" that corresponds to the largest
string it has held. There are no leaks.
As mentioned in other posts, the memory is freed when the program
exits.
-Sincerely, Fred
(Frederik Lindberg, Infectious Diseases, WashU, St. Louis, MO, USA)
Fred Lindberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
<mailto:[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]> wrote:
> All strallocs are either global or static in subroutines. Look at
> alloc.c/alloc_re.c. They allocate new memory only if needed and if a
> string grows, the old memory is freed. Thus, at most you end up with
> memory allocated for each "stralloc" that corresponds to the largest
> string it has held. There are no leaks.
>
> As mentioned in other posts, the memory is freed when the program
> exits.
>
> -Sincerely, Fred
>
> (Frederik Lindberg, Infectious Diseases, WashU, St. Louis, MO, USA)
Oh, so is that part of the reason why almost all of the stralloc structures
are defined globally? I was wondering why dbj loved globals so much..
So,
stralloc foo = {0};
do_bar ()
{
mess around using foo as a scratchpad
}
would be better than:
do_bar ()
{
stralloc foo = {0};
mess around using foo as a scratchpad
}
because the only time memory is "leaked" using stralloc is when you throw away a
stralloc structure. And simply that the second example would use the same memory over
and over. Am I right here?
- David Harris
Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services
Thomas Balle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>The strange thing is that they dont deliver any mail when they connect,
>they merely connect repeatedly, up to several times a minute, and when that
>happens from 5 different servers at a time it does tie up rather many
>connections.
I smell a bare-LF problem.
>Well anyway I dont have a clue why they do so, I have exchanged mail with
>regularly before, and now they connect fine to my relay server, thus I get
>the deliveries that way.
Sniff port 25 to/from your server during one of these exchanges. See
exactly what's going on. If you can't do that, try using recordio from
ucspi-tcp to record the SMTP dialogue.
-Dave
Basit Shehram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>auxilium42.com:basit-auxilium42.com
>auxilium42.net:basit-auxilium42.net
>auxilium42.org:basit-auxilium42.org
>
>now, the problem is, in teh ~basit directory, i have a
>.qmail-auxilium42.com-info file, and a .qmail-auxilium42.net-info and .org
>file.
qmail replaces .'s in extension addresses with :'s. Rename your .qmail
files like:
.qmail-auxilium42:net-inf
See:
http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#dots-in-extensions
-Dave
let me ask you this, then why does .qmail-auxilium42.com-info and
.qmail-auxilium42.com-help work? the problem is that
.qmail-auxilium42.com-default does not work....
but i'll give it a shot!
/basit
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Dave Sill wrote:
> Basit Shehram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >auxilium42.com:basit-auxilium42.com
> >auxilium42.net:basit-auxilium42.net
> >auxilium42.org:basit-auxilium42.org
> >
> >now, the problem is, in teh ~basit directory, i have a
> >.qmail-auxilium42.com-info file, and a .qmail-auxilium42.net-info and .org
> >file.
>
> qmail replaces .'s in extension addresses with :'s. Rename your .qmail
> files like:
>
> .qmail-auxilium42:net-inf
>
> See:
>
> http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#dots-in-extensions
>
> -Dave
>
Basit Shehram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>let me ask you this, then why does .qmail-auxilium42.com-info and
>.qmail-auxilium42.com-help work? the problem is that
>.qmail-auxilium42.com-default does not work....
I don't think any of them really worked. The dot-qmail man page clear
states:
WARNING: For security, qmail-local replaces any dots in
ext with colons before checking .qmail-ext.
-Dave
Seeing as nobody has offered to do this free ;)
I'd be interested to hear is anyone out there is interested in developing
this project for me. It doesn't seem like a difficult task - security of the
resultant qmail-pop3d is also important.
I can swing $200-$300 for this.
Please email me if you are interested.
Regards,
Paul.
In article <7jhl3c$lvp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>> Paul Gregg writes:
>>> Assume this setup is running perfectly (ok, I have 4,000 users using it).
>>>
>>> Essentially I'm thinking of enabling the user to login via POP3 as
>>> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with their normal password. (I've written the
>>> checkpasswd so it's easy to authenticate ok).
>>>
>>> What methodology could be used so that if they login with a specific
>>> email address as a POP3 user then they only "see" email which is destined
>>> for that user. but if they logged in without a user@ part then they would get
>>> everything.
>> You'll need a custom POP3 server for that. When the POP3 server
>> initializes and scans the Maildir for messages, it should ignore messages
>> that do not have a Delivered-To: address for the login user.
>> Maildir-based POP3 servers are childishly simple, and you should be able to
>> write one up, or modify an existing one, in no time at all.
> Ok, I figured out how best to code this up.
> Essentially, one needs to patch get_list() in qmail-pop3d.c
> get_list calls maildir_scan() (in maildir.c) to return a list of filenames,
> which get_list() then parses through to build a list of files/emails
> which are in the Maildir.
> This routine needs to also add the Delivered-To: checks that are in
> serialsmtp.c from the serialmail package.
> Simply we could call checkpasswd qmail-pop3d Maildir and checkpasswd could
> exec @ARGV, but add user@host to the args (so qmail-pop3d could read it).
> The check would need to find the Delivered-To: (first one) line
> and do a search in the string for /user@host/ (the login pop3 id).
> (checkpasswd could munge it whatever way you wanted to cover for user%host
> if you had to).
> Anyone feel up to the task? I'm afraid my C coding skills leave much to
> be desired - never got time to learn :(
I missed the beginning of this thread, so pardon this if it's moot.
But I couldn't help noticing that someone wants to use
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' as POP authentication ids.
I tried to do this and ran into a serious problem: Netscape Mail chokes on
the "@". It assumes you mistakenly entered your email address when you
really meant to put your POP id. So it converts it to, in your example,
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]', chopping off the '@theirname.domain.com' part.
So we chose to avoid the "@". If my C skills were more proficient or I had
more time, I'd still keep it as "@" internally but hack checkpassword so
that Netscape users only could use an alternate character, such as "%"
(thanks, Paul).
Dave
...
> >>> Essentially I'm thinking of enabling the user to login via POP3 as
> >>> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with their normal password. (I've written
the
> >>> checkpasswd so it's easy to authenticate ok).
...
Hi,
I am using vchkpw, my email directories are as follows:
/home/vpop/domains/blah.org/ , /home/vpop/domains/abc.com
Recently, there is a need to set a 5mb quota to all mailboxes in my
system. Using Paul Gregg's mailquotacheck script, I tried to accomplish
the task. It didn't work; running the script in
/home/vpop/domains/abc.com/.qmail-default will limit the abc.com up to
5mb of space for all emails together.
How can I set the quota for each individual mailbox? I wish to use a
single UID/GID for my email system only. Please advice.
Thanks,
Kelvin Koh
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- 0 1 - just my 2 bits. --
from mailquotacheck.sh :
<snip>
...
# Get the users 'home' directory - where there .qmail file is
dir="$HOME"
...
</snip>
make sure 'dir' somehow points to the actual user directory
and
<snip>
...
# What is the maildir's current disk usage
du=`$du -sk $dir/Maildir | $awk {'print $1'}`
...
</snip>
notice the addition of '/Maildir' after the '$dir'. this will only check
the Maildir directory below the actual home directory.
(sorry don't know about vchkpwd)
-marlon
At 09:26 PM 6/14/99 -0400, Kelvin Koh wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am using vchkpw, my email directories are as follows:
>
>/home/vpop/domains/blah.org/ , /home/vpop/domains/abc.com
>
>Recently, there is a need to set a 5mb quota to all mailboxes in my
>system. Using Paul Gregg's mailquotacheck script, I tried to accomplish
>the task. It didn't work; running the script in
>/home/vpop/domains/abc.com/.qmail-default will limit the abc.com up to
>5mb of space for all emails together.
>
>How can I set the quota for each individual mailbox? I wish to use a
>single UID/GID for my email system only. Please advice.
>
>Thanks,
>Kelvin Koh
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -- 0 1 - just my 2 bits. --
>
>
>
>
>
Hey all!
Hey I finally have qmail set up, and it was much easier the 100th or so
time:-) Seriously, this was about the third attempt (relatively new to
Linux) and things finally started to show some improvement. It's critical
to read the doc's and if you don't understand re-read..
Anyway I have a couple of questions. I am connected to my ISP
(Speedchoice) via Ethernet. Does anyone know if I can monitor port 25 (SMTP)
for mail. My schooling on this involves reading the net3 how-to, so go easy
on me. I would think that if I have a "permanent" connection to my ISP that
I should be able to monitor my host name (Static IP) and that should be it?
If I sound really **un-edu-ma-cated** feel free to tell me what my wrong
line of thinking involves.
Steven M. Klass
Physical Design Engineer
Andigilog Inc.
7404 W. Detroit Street, Suite 100
Chandler, AZ 85226
Ph: 602-940-6200 ext. 18
Fax: 602-940-4255
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.andigilog.com/
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"Steven Klass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hey I finally have qmail set up, and it was much easier the 100th or so
>time:-) Seriously, this was about the third attempt (relatively new to
>Linux) and things finally started to show some improvement. It's critical
>to read the doc's and if you don't understand re-read..
That's good advice, the re-read part.
> Anyway I have a couple of questions. I am connected to my ISP
>(Speedchoice) via Ethernet. Does anyone know if I can monitor port 25 (SMTP)
>for mail. My schooling on this involves reading the net3 how-to, so go easy
>on me. I would think that if I have a "permanent" connection to my ISP that
>I should be able to monitor my host name (Static IP) and that should
>be it?
If:
1. you have a static IP address (you do), and
2. there is no MX record for your system pointing to your ISP's
mail hub (I can't tell), and
3. you have qmail-smtpd configured properly on your system via
inetd or tcpserver, (part of the normal qmail installation
process) then:
You should be able to receive mail on your system directly via SMTP.
-Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: PLUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Qmail Mailing List
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 7:16 AM
Subject: Re: Qmail, retrieveing POP3 and delivering
: "Steven Klass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >
: > Hey I finally have qmail set up, and it was much easier the 100th or
so
: >time:-) Seriously, this was about the third attempt (relatively new to
: >Linux) and things finally started to show some improvement. It's
critical
: >to read the doc's and if you don't understand re-read..
:
: That's good advice, the re-read part.
:
: > Anyway I have a couple of questions. I am connected to my ISP
: >(Speedchoice) via Ethernet. Does anyone know if I can monitor port 25
(SMTP)
: >for mail. My schooling on this involves reading the net3 how-to, so go
easy
: >on me. I would think that if I have a "permanent" connection to my ISP
that
: >I should be able to monitor my host name (Static IP) and that should
: >be it?
:
: If:
:
: 1. you have a static IP address (you do), and
: 2. there is no MX record for your system pointing to your ISP's
: mail hub (I can't tell), and
Please help me out on this one, what is an MX record.. I thought you might
lead me to this, would you mind explaining this a little bit or pointing me
to the faq.
: 3. you have qmail-smtpd configured properly on your system via
: inetd or tcpserver, (part of the normal qmail installation
: process) then:
:
: You should be able to receive mail on your system directly via SMTP.
:
: -Dave
:
"Steven Klass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Please help me out on this one, what is an MX record.. I thought you might
>lead me to this, would you mind explaining this a little bit or pointing me
>to the faq.
It's a nameserver record that points to the mail exchanger for a given
domain. RFC 974 (see
http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#more-information) has the
details.
Basically, when host A sends a message to host B, it looks in the DNS
for an MX record pointing to host B's mail exchanger. If it doesn't
find one, it tries to send directly to host B.
Here's how you can look up a host's MX:
de5@sws5$ nslookup
Default Server: x10ns.ens.ornl.gov
Address: 128.219.200.249
> set type=mx
> speedchoice.com
Server: x10ns.ens.ornl.gov
Address: 128.219.200.249
Non-authoritative answer:
speedchoice.com preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail01.detroit.speedchoice.com
speedchoice.com preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.phoenix.speedchoice.com
Authoritative answers can be found from:
speedchoice.com nameserver = ns1.detroit.speedchoice.com
speedchoice.com nameserver = ns2.detroit.speedchoice.com
mail01.detroit.speedchoice.com internet address = 24.221.95.31
mail.phoenix.speedchoice.com internet address = 24.221.30.31
ns1.detroit.speedchoice.com internet address = 207.238.183.71
ns2.detroit.speedchoice.com internet address = 24.221.95.3
>
This says that a message addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be
sent to either mail01.detroit.speedchoice.com or
mail.phoenix.speedchoice.com. Since they both have the same preference
(10), either can be used.
Your system could be configured as an SMTP server, but if it has an MX
record pointing elsewhere, no remote systems will ever try to send it
mail, it'll go to the host identified in the MX record.
-Dave
See Comments below
: It's a nameserver record that points to the mail exchanger for a given
: domain. RFC 974 (see
: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#more-information) has the
: details.
Thank you for the RFC link.
: Non-authoritative answer:
: speedchoice.com preference = 10, mail exchanger =
mail01.detroit.speedchoice.com
: speedchoice.com preference = 10, mail exchanger =
mail.phoenix.speedchoice.com
:
: Authoritative answers can be found from:
: speedchoice.com nameserver = ns1.detroit.speedchoice.com
: speedchoice.com nameserver = ns2.detroit.speedchoice.com
: mail01.detroit.speedchoice.com internet address = 24.221.95.31
: mail.phoenix.speedchoice.com internet address = 24.221.30.31
: ns1.detroit.speedchoice.com internet address = 207.238.183.71
: ns2.detroit.speedchoice.com internet address = 24.221.95.3
: >
:
: This says that a message addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be
: sent to either mail01.detroit.speedchoice.com or
: mail.phoenix.speedchoice.com. Since they both have the same preference
: (10), either can be used.
: Your system could be configured as an SMTP server, but if it has an MX
: record pointing elsewhere, no remote systems will ever try to send it
: mail, it'll go to the host identified in the MX record.
In light of what you said and the reading that I just did, please verify the
following is true. Unless my ISP (speedchoice.com) changes _thier_ MX
tables, I cannot do this. If I wanted to this thier MX tables would somehow
(??) have to change. This brings me to DNS, and if I wanted to run a DNS
server, then I should be able to do it? Sorry if I sound really wacked, I
am trying to not jsut configure this, but to really understand it too.
Thanks so much.
Steven
:
: -Dave
:
hi folks,
i've installed qmail with pop3 support without any dificults.
now I wanted to setup an IMAP server, but where should I start.
I've followed several discussions about Qmail & IMAP.
What IMAP server should I use and what additional software do I need to
add IMAP support to my Qmail server ?
Is there a "QMAIL-IMAP-HOWTO" ?
Thank you very much
best regards
christian
Here's my 2cent's
It depends on which mail box mode your using.
-Mailbox mode - then the patched UW IMap server works fine
-Maildir mode - The UW Imap server dosne't work well with maildirs,
particularly copying messages from the main Maildir to subfolders does not
work. I recently switched to Cyrus Imap server and it works real nice for
me (haven't had any problems yet), but it is a pain having to create both a
user in both qmail and cyrus.
Hope this helps
--Dave
At 10:52 AM 6/14/99 , Christian Wiese wrote:
>hi folks,
>
>i've installed qmail with pop3 support without any dificults.
>now I wanted to setup an IMAP server, but where should I start.
>I've followed several discussions about Qmail & IMAP.
>What IMAP server should I use and what additional software do I need to
>add IMAP support to my Qmail server ?
>Is there a "QMAIL-IMAP-HOWTO" ?
>
>Thank you very much
>
>best regards
>
>christian
At 11:25 AM 6/14/99 , you wrote:
>Humph.
>
>I'm about to have a co-worker patch a the qmail-imap server to support
>virtual POP/IMAP users for each virtual domains using Maildirs, while still
>allow the UNIX users to pick up their mail from the /var/spool/mail mbox
>files. I need IMAP support, so I can't start from qmail-pop3d, but I'm
>planning to start from the UW server in David Summers' qmail-imap Linux RPM
>which is based on Mattias Larsson's patch to add maildir to the imap server.
>(all mentioned at qmail.org) I'm looking at the qmail-imap-4.5.BETA version
>of this RPM which is at:
> ftp://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/qmail
That's the server I was running too. The basic problem is that the UW
server can't handle transferring messages to different types of mail boxes.
So if I have an "Inbox" that is in Maildir format and I create sub-folders
(which are created in Mailbox format) the server won't let you copy stuff
from the "inbox" to your sub-folders. If you check the archives this was
discussed sometime in the last 3-4 weeks (look for messages in the thread
"getting maildir + imap working").
--Dave
>You say that this software has problems with Maildirs? If so, I would help
>if you could give me some descriptions of the problems that you've been
>experiencing. If there is stuff that needs to be fixed, I could have this
>guy go over the maildir support source code with a fine tooth comb to get
>any problems out. I took a brief skim over the patch and it didn't look too
>daunting.
>
>
> - David Harris
> Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services
>
Hi Dave.
thank you for your quick response ...
Dave Teske wrote:
> Here's my 2cent's
>
> It depends on which mail box mode your using.
>
Sorry, I use the Maildir format.
>
> -Mailbox mode - then the patched UW IMap server works fine
>
> -Maildir mode - The UW Imap server dosne't work well with maildirs,
> particularly copying messages from the main Maildir to subfolders does not
> work. I recently switched to Cyrus Imap server and it works real nice for
> me (haven't had any problems yet), but it is a pain having to create both a
> user in both qmail and cyrus.
Do you have a HOWTO for the Cyrus Imap configuration steps with qmail, or do
you know some websites, where I can get additional informations.
thank you very much
christian
Dave Teske [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> That's the server I was running too. The basic problem is that the UW
> server can't handle transferring messages to different types of mail
boxes.
> So if I have an "Inbox" that is in Maildir format and I create sub-folders
> (which are created in Mailbox format) the server won't let you copy stuff
> from the "inbox" to your sub-folders. If you check the archives this was
> discussed sometime in the last 3-4 weeks (look for messages in the thread
> "getting maildir + imap working").
>
> --Dave
Okay, I just looked back and read that thread (along with a few other
threads about the same issue), and I think I now understand the root of the
problem: sub-folders are created in Mbox format, so when the INBOX is in
Maildir format, moving messages from the INBOX to other folders is not
supported because of an inadequacy in the Maildir driver. Is this on target?
>From what I read, it almost looks like the problem has been fixed by "Todd
at NM Technet". He said:
From: Todd at NM Technet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 11:16:57 -0600
Subject: Re: Getting Maildir + IMAP working
[snip]
> the result: the maildir driver for the UW imap server is very
> rudimentary. it works extremely well for inboxes, but not well for any
> other folders. i have patched it a bit to handle creating new maildirs
> correclty and copying between the inbox and other folders, but it doesn't
> handle other folders very elegantly yet.
[snip]
If all the folders are kept in Maildir format (which I rather prefer) then
the function of moving messages between folders of different formats is not
required. Right? However, he says that this "doesn't handle other folders
very elegantly yet". What does this mean? That creation and usage of these
additional Maildir folders is messy? Or that he does not like being
restricted to just using Maildir folders?
(Kind of weird to be asking you what he meant... so that's why I cc'ed this
message to him.)
Todd: Could you post a copy of this patch to the list or send it to me?
This seems like a good solution - to only use Maildir folders. If Todd's
patch is kind of messy, perhaps I could take another hack at implementing
the same thing.
- David Harris
Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Teske [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 11:57 AM
To: qmail-list
Subject: RE: Q: qmail + IMAP
At 11:25 AM 6/14/99 , you wrote:
>Humph.
>
>I'm about to have a co-worker patch a the qmail-imap server to support
>virtual POP/IMAP users for each virtual domains using Maildirs, while still
>allow the UNIX users to pick up their mail from the /var/spool/mail mbox
>files. I need IMAP support, so I can't start from qmail-pop3d, but I'm
>planning to start from the UW server in David Summers' qmail-imap Linux RPM
>which is based on Mattias Larsson's patch to add maildir to the imap
server.
>(all mentioned at qmail.org) I'm looking at the qmail-imap-4.5.BETA version
>of this RPM which is at:
> ftp://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/qmail
That's the server I was running too. The basic problem is that the UW
server can't handle transferring messages to different types of mail boxes.
So if I have an "Inbox" that is in Maildir format and I create sub-folders
(which are created in Mailbox format) the server won't let you copy stuff
from the "inbox" to your sub-folders. If you check the archives this was
discussed sometime in the last 3-4 weeks (look for messages in the thread
"getting maildir + imap working").
--Dave
>You say that this software has problems with Maildirs? If so, I would help
>if you could give me some descriptions of the problems that you've been
>experiencing. If there is stuff that needs to be fixed, I could have this
>guy go over the maildir support source code with a fine tooth comb to get
>any problems out. I took a brief skim over the patch and it didn't look too
>daunting.
>
>
> - David Harris
> Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services
>
At 12:50 PM 6/14/99 , David Harris wrote:
>Okay, I just looked back and read that thread (along with a few other
>threads about the same issue), and I think I now understand the root of the
>problem: sub-folders are created in Mbox format, so when the INBOX is in
>Maildir format, moving messages from the INBOX to other folders is not
>supported because of an inadequacy in the Maildir driver. Is this on target?
Yes that's they way I understand it.
> From what I read, it almost looks like the problem has been fixed by "Todd
>at NM Technet". He said:
I haven't tried or looked at the patch in question so I'll let Todd respond
to the rest of this
> - David Harris
> Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services
--Dave
howdy,
sorry to disappoint, but i don't have any patches to distribute on this.
most of the fixes were the result of extremely unscientific 'mucking' that
i would probably not want to distribute (for example, at one point i
deleted the mbox driver from the source tree entirely to get the Maildir
used, even though the Maildir driver was specified as higher precedence).
even in the 'fixed' state, the behavior is still sub-optimal (each Maildir
shows up as both a folder and a folder of folders in all of the clients
i've tried--some special exclusions of 'new', 'cur', and 'tmp' would need
to be written to change this behavior.
as far as i can tell, this issue simply wont get fixed properly until mark
crispin (of UW) decides he can stop hating DJB long enough to formally
incorporate the Maildir driver (i really dispise technical decisions made
on personality grounds).
so, in short: no patches here. just ill-conceived hacking that mostly
works but would be trouble for anyone else.
sorry,
todd underwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Dave Teske wrote:
> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 14:21:56 -0400
> From: Dave Teske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: David Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, qmail-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Q: qmail + IMAP
>
> At 12:50 PM 6/14/99 , David Harris wrote:
>
> >Okay, I just looked back and read that thread (along with a few other
> >threads about the same issue), and I think I now understand the root of the
> >problem: sub-folders are created in Mbox format, so when the INBOX is in
> >Maildir format, moving messages from the INBOX to other folders is not
> >supported because of an inadequacy in the Maildir driver. Is this on target?
>
> Yes that's they way I understand it.
>
>
> > From what I read, it almost looks like the problem has been fixed by "Todd
> >at NM Technet". He said:
>
> I haven't tried or looked at the patch in question so I'll let Todd respond
> to the rest of this
>
> > - David Harris
> > Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services
>
> --Dave
>
>
At 12:43 PM 6/14/99 , Christian Wiese wrote:
>Hi Dave.
>Do you have a HOWTO for the Cyrus Imap configuration steps with qmail, or do
>you know some websites, where I can get additional informations.
Not that I know of, but the docs for setting up the Cyrus server got me
through that part. Just remember when you create a user their "name" is
something like "users.Myname". As for setting up qmail to work with it the
archives contain several solutions. I only have a few users so I just added
the following to each users .qmail: | /usr/bin/qmail/preline -f
/usr/cyrus/bin/deliver -e -a "$USER" "$USER"
>thank you very much
>
>christian
One note of caution if you need to move messages in your existing Maildir
to the Cyrus mailboxes be careful with re-injecting the messages. I got a
whole bunch of people pissed at me when I accidentally sent the messages
back to this list.
--Dave
Todd at NM Technet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> howdy,
>
> sorry to disappoint, but i don't have any patches to distribute on this.
> most of the fixes were the result of extremely unscientific 'mucking' that
> i would probably not want to distribute (for example, at one point i
> deleted the mbox driver from the source tree entirely to get the Maildir
> used, even though the Maildir driver was specified as higher precedence).
>
> even in the 'fixed' state, the behavior is still sub-optimal (each Maildir
> shows up as both a folder and a folder of folders in all of the clients
> i've tried--some special exclusions of 'new', 'cur', and 'tmp' would need
> to be written to change this behavior.
Okay. You don't have a fully working patch yet. Nooo problem. I have way too
much experience patching systems that I didn't fully understand. :-) I'd
still appreciate getting my hands on you work, as it would give me a
starting point. I understand that you don't want to release it as a "patch"
because it's really now just a "hack". But perhaps you could release it with
a proviso that this is not a real solution to the problem? And if not to the
list, could you send me a copy so I can try to develop a real production
patch? I'd appreciate it.
> as far as i can tell, this issue simply wont get fixed properly until mark
> crispin (of UW) decides he can stop hating DJB long enough to formally
> incorporate the Maildir driver (i really dispise technical decisions made
> on personality grounds).
Oh, I didn't know. That's sad.
> so, in short: no patches here. just ill-conceived hacking that mostly
> works but would be trouble for anyone else.
>
> sorry,
>
>
> todd underwood
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks,
- David Harris
Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services
I developed a script to support holiday messages. It appears to work very
nicely with one important exception (that I expected): if a person on
holiday sends a message to another person on holiday, they get an infinite
loop of holiday notifications to each other (thank God for quota
enforcement!)
Anyway, below is the guts of my script, which is pretty basic. So my
question to y'all is, what logic do other "holiday" algorithms employ to
prevent such looping? Could I make a more judicial choice of environment
variables to use for the sender and recipient? (I went to some length in
research to configure things so that a holiday message could be properly
"replied" to, but perhaps disabling this is inevitable?)
Thanks in advance!
Dave
-------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/sh
#
# holiday.sh
#
# Dave Kitabjian, 6/11/99
# [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
# This script should be entered into a user's .qmail file as |holiday.sh
# It depends on the SENDER environment variable, provided by qmail-local;
# HOME and HOST are also used.
# It permits delivery and replies with a message found in .holiday
#
# Should be able to use $USER @ $HOST, but we using a single-uid
# configuration of Qmail. HOST is okay, but USER must be pulled from
# home directory:
# (We don't use $LOCAL since we don't know where the username ends and
# the domain begins without hacking $HOME)
QMAILUSER=`basename $HOME` # used by qmail-inject to set "From:" header
QMAILHOST=$HOST # used by qmail-inject to set "From:" header
export QMAILUSER
export QMAILHOST
qmail-inject $SENDER <"$HOME/.holiday"
exit 0
-------------------------------------------------
On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 10:48:47AM -0400, Dave Kitabjian wrote:
Your script has two big failings. It is not checking to see who the sender
is, and it is not setting the return path of the vacation message to null,
ie. <>.
Your user on holiday may receive bounces - they will have the SENDER
variable set to null. You cannot reply to such a message. Similarly, your
vacation messages must be sent out with a null sender, like this:
qmail-inject -f '' $SENDER <"$HOME/.holiday"
Doing these basic checks will at least make sure you don't start a series
of loops. Also, it is advisable for vacation scripts to check for a header
called "precedence:" in the message, and if it is present, and has the value
of "junk", "bulk" or "list" to NOT send vacation replies to these messages,
because the list owner will get them and it is irritating. There is also
the possibility of automatic unsubscription with some lists.
Anyway, why go to all this hassle. There are ready programs to do exactly
this for you - unix systems come built in with a vacation message, and
there's one available on www.qmail.org if you don't like the built-in
vacation program.
> I developed a script to support holiday messages. It appears to work very
> nicely with one important exception (that I expected): if a person on
> holiday sends a message to another person on holiday, they get an infinite
> loop of holiday notifications to each other (thank God for quota
> enforcement!)
>
> Anyway, below is the guts of my script, which is pretty basic. So my
> question to y'all is, what logic do other "holiday" algorithms employ to
> prevent such looping? Could I make a more judicial choice of environment
> variables to use for the sender and recipient? (I went to some length in
> research to configure things so that a holiday message could be properly
> "replied" to, but perhaps disabling this is inevitable?)
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Dave
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # holiday.sh
> #
> # Dave Kitabjian, 6/11/99
> # [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> #
> # This script should be entered into a user's .qmail file as |holiday.sh
> # It depends on the SENDER environment variable, provided by qmail-local;
> # HOME and HOST are also used.
> # It permits delivery and replies with a message found in .holiday
> #
>
> # Should be able to use $USER @ $HOST, but we using a single-uid
> # configuration of Qmail. HOST is okay, but USER must be pulled from
> # home directory:
> # (We don't use $LOCAL since we don't know where the username ends and
> # the domain begins without hacking $HOME)
> QMAILUSER=`basename $HOME` # used by qmail-inject to set "From:" header
> QMAILHOST=$HOST # used by qmail-inject to set "From:" header
> export QMAILUSER
> export QMAILHOST
>
> qmail-inject $SENDER <"$HOME/.holiday"
>
> exit 0
> -------------------------------------------------
--
System Administrator
See complete headers for address, homepage and phone numbers
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I developed a script to support holiday messages. It appears to work very
>nicely with one important exception (that I expected): if a person on
>holiday sends a message to another person on holiday, they get an infinite
>loop of holiday notifications to each other (thank God for quota
>enforcement!)
That's not really a loop, which is when a single message travels a
curcular path, it's a ping-pong (or circle jerk, to use a cruder
term), which is when two autoresponders respond to each other.
>Anyway, below is the guts of my script, which is pretty basic. So my
>question to y'all is, what logic do other "holiday" algorithms employ to
>prevent such looping?
They keep track of which addresses they've responded to, and only send
one per vacation, one per day, one per hour, etc. They also look for
"Precedence: bulk", don't reply to MAILER_DAEMON amd postmaster,
etc. Basically, this is a tricky job, and it's best left to the
experts.
Peter Samuel has written a nice vacation program for qmail. From the
man page:
AUTHOR
Peter Samuel, Uniq Professional Services
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AVAILABILITY
The latest version of vacation for qmail should always be available from
ftp://ftp.uniq.com.au/pub/tools
-Dave
Text written by Anand Buddhdev at 06:16 PM 6/14/99 +0300:
>
>Anyway, why go to all this hassle. There are ready programs to do exactly
>this for you - unix systems come built in with a vacation message, and
>there's one available on www.qmail.org if you don't like the built-in
>vacation program.
While I think it's a good thing that you mentioned the preexisting software
to Mr. Kitabjian, I'd like to point out that writing software, even
software that's already been written, is an important part of learning to
program. It's possible that's what he's doing.
Or, to put it another way, re-inventing the wheel is a waste of time for
normal people -- but not for people who are learning to be wheelwrights. :)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Kai MacTane
System Administrator
Online Partners.com, Inc.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
>From the Jargon File: (v4.0.0, 25 Jul 1996)
block transfer computations /n./
[from the television series "Dr. Who"] Computations so fiendishly
subtle and complex that they could not be performed by machines. Used
to refer to any task that should be expressible as an algorithm in
theory, but isn't.
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:48:47 -0400 Dave Kitabjian wrote:
> I developed a script to support holiday messages. It appears to work very
> nicely with one important exception (that I expected): if a person on
> holiday sends a message to another person on holiday, they get an infinite
> loop of holiday notifications to each other (thank God for quota
> enforcement!)
You might find http://www.pobox.com/~djb/proto/mailloops.txt
interesting reading, and there is at least one vacation style program
linked off the qmail.org page, plus, of course, vacation. :-)
Ciao,
Giles
Sorry to waste the bandwidth, but I need to know if the QMAIL list is set
up to do digests. My mail-server is getting mad at me. :)
Thanks,
Geordon
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:51:24 -0500, Geordon VanTassle wrote:
>Sorry to waste the bandwidth, but I need to know if the QMAIL list is set
>up to do digests. My mail-server is getting mad at me. :)
No - but I have a sublist that sends out a daily (at 1100 UTC) digest.
To subscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you ever need to unsubscribe, mail the address in the
"List-Unsubscribe" header of the digest (it contains your subscription
address, so it will always work).
-Sincerely, Fred
(Frederik Lindberg, Infectious Diseases, WashU, St. Louis, MO, USA)
Since I didn't see any in the mailing list archives, here are some diffs
to patch rblsmtpd to support multiple RBL's. Caveat is that I've only
been using these for speed testing different RBL schemes, but it does seem
to work as intended. You can test it with something like...
$ TCPREMOTEIP=127.0.0.2 ./rblsmtpd -rdul.map.vix.com -rrbl.maps.vix.com /bin/id
diff -c -r rblsmtpd-0.70/rblsmtpd.c rblsmtpd-0.70-local//rblsmtpd.c
*** rblsmtpd-0.70/rblsmtpd.c Tue Aug 25 08:58:22 1998
--- rblsmtpd-0.70-local//rblsmtpd.c Mon Jun 14 10:26:15 1999
***************
*** 10,15 ****
--- 10,17 ----
#include "ip.h"
#include "env.h"
+ #define MAX_RBL_DOMAINS 8
+
#define FATAL "rblsmtpd: fatal: "
void die_sys() { _exit(111); }
***************
*** 109,114 ****
--- 111,119 ----
char **argv;
{
int opt;
+ int rblcnt = 0;
+ int i;
+ char * rbldoms[MAX_RBL_DOMAINS];
while ((opt = getopt(argc,argv,"t:r:Rb")) != opteof)
switch(opt) {
***************
*** 115,121 ****
case 't': scan_uint(optarg,&timeout); break;
case 'R': flagrblsafe = 1; break;
case 'b': flagbounce = 1; break;
! case 'r': rbldomain = optarg; break;
default: usage();
}
argv += optind;
--- 120,126 ----
case 't': scan_uint(optarg,&timeout); break;
case 'R': flagrblsafe = 1; break;
case 'b': flagbounce = 1; break;
! case 'r': if (rblcnt < MAX_RBL_DOMAINS) rbldoms[rblcnt++] = optarg; break;
default: usage();
}
argv += optind;
***************
*** 122,128 ****
if (!*argv) usage();
res_init();
! check();
execvp(*argv,argv);
strerr_die4sys(111,FATAL,"unable to run ",*argv,": ");
}
--- 127,140 ----
if (!*argv) usage();
res_init();
! if (rblcnt == 0) {
! check();
! } else {
! for (i=0; i<rblcnt; i++) {
! rbldomain = rbldoms[i];
! check();
! }
! }
execvp(*argv,argv);
strerr_die4sys(111,FATAL,"unable to run ",*argv,": ");
}
--
Aaron Nabil
There is much interest here in the idea of blocking email carrying
ExploreZip so we don't have to rely on end-user intelligence(?!) to
prevent an infestation. I realise that sticking filters into the pipe
like this is not necessarily as good idea but nonetheless ...
Assuming I had a reliable "fingerprint" in a mail message, I could write
a quick perl script to parse for that fingerprint and `cat /dev/null`
any mail matching the print (or maybe just forward it to me or
whatever). My questions are a) has anyone inserted scripts into the pipe
like this before, b) does anyone have an example script, c) how do I go
about putting it into the pipe?
My Setup: I have and external mail gateway running qmail which forwards
legit mail to an internal mail hub running Netscape Messaging Server,
which the end-users access with IMAP.
A qmail savvy friend of mine has indicated that this is _not_ a good
idea but nonetheless I need to consider it.
--
___________________________________________________________________
Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Services
Linux Uber Alles perl || die
...there are two types of command interfaces in the world of
computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.
- Dan Bernstein, Author of qmail
PGP Fingerprint = 503D A72D AF41 2AD1 D433 C514 98D9 9A39 B25A 2405
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Mark Drummond wrote:
> There is much interest here in the idea of blocking email carrying
> ExploreZip so we don't have to rely on end-user intelligence(?!) to
> prevent an infestation. I realise that sticking filters into the pipe
> like this is not necessarily as good idea but nonetheless ...
I spent 5 minutes last friday looking at using 'condredirect' to
bounce anything with the string 'Till then, blah blah blah' into an admin
mailbox. It silently didn't work. I didn't care enough to look too
deeply into it at the time, but if we're going to be discussing fixes, I'd
love to hear the right way to use condredirect...
gowen
Greg Owen {gowen} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Mark Drummond wrote:
>> There is much interest here in the idea of blocking email carrying
>> ExploreZip so we don't have to rely on end-user intelligence(?!) to
>> prevent an infestation. I realise that sticking filters into the pipe
>> like this is not necessarily as good idea but nonetheless ...
>
> I spent 5 minutes last friday looking at using 'condredirect' to
>bounce anything with the string 'Till then, blah blah blah' into an admin
>mailbox. It silently didn't work. I didn't care enough to look too
>deeply into it at the time, but if we're going to be discussing fixes, I'd
>love to hear the right way to use condredirect...
Dan posted a similar "fix" for melissa, though he didn't use
condredirect or mess822:
]From: "D. J. Bernstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
]Subject: Re: Melissa Virus
]Date: 29 Mar 1999 22:03:55 -0000
]
][EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
]> The sendmail "fix" is silly. It's 4 lines (or something), and all it does
]> is search for a string in the subject line. That "fix" is more
]> likely to bounce good mail than it is to catch the virus.
]
]Indeed. Legitimate messages do occasionally contain the same ``Important
]Message From'' subject line that the Melissa worm produces. If, however,
]someone does want this ``fix'' for qmail, here's a sample one-liner to
]put before ./Mailbox in /var/qmail/rc or in the POP-toaster .qmail file:
]
] | bouncesaying VIRUS awk '/^Subject: I am a virus/{exit 0}/^$/{exit 1}END{exit 1}'
]
]To test, put this line into ~you/.qmail-melissa and send some messages
]to you-melissa. If you have Microsoft users with their own .qmail files,
]they can decide for themselves whether to add this to .qmail.
]
]---Dan
-Dave
Please excuse my stundedness but here is my /var/qmail/rc:
#!/bin/sh
# Using splogger to send the log through syslog.
# Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Maildir/ by default.
exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start | bouncesaying VIRUS awk '/^Subject: hello/{exit 0}/^$/{exit
1}END{exit 0}' \
./Maildir/ splogger qmail
I know there is an error in here, but what. Should there really be a
pipe in there? If so, how does qmail-start see the ./Maildir/ ?
--
___________________________________________________________________
Mark E Drummond Royal Military College of Canada
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Services
Linux Uber Alles perl || die
...there are two types of command interfaces in the world of
computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.
- Dan Bernstein, Author of qmail
PGP Fingerprint = 503D A72D AF41 2AD1 D433 C514 98D9 9A39 B25A 2405
At 19:11 13/06/99 -0400, Robbie Walker wrote:
>Note: sorry if the last post was off-topic and HTML... I had a stroke or
>something! [grin]
>
>You can find the homepage (and the current link for ucspi-tcp) here
>http://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/ucspi-tcp.html
>
>The rest of Dan's software can be found at this page...
>http://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/software.html
Hi
Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.
lynx: Can't access startfile http://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/ucspi-tcp.html
[zyrtex@kali zyrtex]$
-- Dimitri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 14-Jun-99 Dimitri S. wrote:
> At 19:11 13/06/99 -0400, Robbie Walker wrote:
>>Note: sorry if the last post was off-topic and HTML... I had a stroke or
>>something! [grin]
>>
>>You can find the homepage (and the current link for ucspi-tcp) here
>>http://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/ucspi-tcp.html
>>
>>The rest of Dan's software can be found at this page...
>>http://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/software.html
>
>
> Hi
>
> Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.
>
>
> lynx: Can't access startfile http://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/ucspi-tcp.html
> [zyrtex@kali zyrtex]$
It should be:
ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/ucspi-tcp.html
Vince.
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"Dimitri S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.
>
>lynx: Can't access startfile http://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/ucspi-tcp.html
>[zyrtex@kali zyrtex]$
s/http/ftp/
-Dave
Dimitri S. writes:
> lynx: Can't access startfile http://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/ucspi-tcp.html
> [zyrtex@kali zyrtex]$
http://www.qmail.org/koobera/www/ucspi-tcp.html will also work.
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My bad. [Robbie looks woefully at floor for making a fool of himself in
public.]
At 03:26 PM 6/14/99 , you wrote:
>Dimitri S. writes:
> > lynx: Can't access startfile http://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/ucspi-tcp.html
> > [zyrtex@kali zyrtex]$
>
>http://www.qmail.org/koobera/www/ucspi-tcp.html will also work.
>
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At 15:16 14/06/99 -0400, Dave Sill wrote:
>"Dimitri S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.
>>
>>lynx: Can't access startfile http://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/ucspi-tcp.html
>>[zyrtex@kali zyrtex]$
>
>s/http/ftp/
You and Vince are right. Thank you, and I hope the ucspi-tcp-0.84.tar.gz
version will run the same way as the ucspi-tcp-0.84.tar.gz because the doc
on http://qmail-docs.surfdirect.com.au/docs/qmail-antirelay.html is for
ucspi-tcp-0.80.tar.gz... or any doc for installing the 84 ?
Bye, thank you !
-- Dimitri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi there,
I have just set up my server as a virtual domains. It works great. The
only problem is the alias system. It doesn't work anymore.
I hardly found any doc about that. Any pointer or help are welcome.
In my virtualdomains file:
myserver.domain1.com:domain1-com
What format to use for using the ~alias system?
I tried to add in virtualdomains:
myserver.domain1.com:domain1-com
myserver.domain1.com:alias-user
But it doesn't work.
Thanks!
Hello,
I am in the process of setting up a mail server
with qmail and UW Imap for use in an environment
where not all of the users are allowed access to
external email. Evryone gets internal, but not
everyone is allowed to mail outside the company.
Is there a method of setting this up all on one
machine?
thanks
caleb
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Caleb Rutan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Office phone:(313)566-2371
Manager, Information Systems - First of Michigan
Better tried by twelve than carried by six.
-- Jeff Cooper
<-------------------------
I just ran instcheck from my install directory and got the following
message.
instcheck: warning: /var/qmail/alias has wrong owner
instcheck: warning: /var/qmail/alias has wrong group
instcheck: warning: /var/qmail/alias has wrong permissions
Boy, I didn't leave any any possible misconfiguration of this directory out
in the cold!
Anyway, so here is the scoop on the directory
drwx------ 3 alias nofiles 1024 June 13 23:46 alias
Now I tried changing the owner to root, qmaild, qmaill, qmailp, qmailq,
qmailr, qmails but the complaint about the owner keeps happening
I have read over the install files (as many as I could find without a LIST
of all of them) and the apparently relevant one, INSTALL.alias makes no
mention of the proper ownership, group, or permissions for alias (as well as
not mentioning that the .qmail-postmaster, etc... files need to contain
./Maildir/ if they are going to work with Maildirs which is the option I
chose after READING the installation files, recommending it for all sorts of
good reasons.
As near as I can tell my only real FAILURE is that I can't recieve mail from
a remote host, but I'm not sure if this problem has anything to do with THAT
problem.
Alex Miller
The file REMOVE.binmail says that I should NOT remove binmail if I installed
QMAIL to use binmail. That sounds like sage advice.
The problem is that I don't KNOW wether I installed QMAIL to use binmail or
not. I have no recollection of that but is that the default?
I followed all the instructions including the recommendation to use Maildirs
(which meant I had to change a number of the steps in the rest of the
install since the doc is written assuming you ignore that particular
recommendation).
So I just don't know if binmail should be removed or not.
I can't recieve mail from a remote site but I don't know if having binmail
still active is the cause of the problem.
Alex (bright but dyslexic) Miller
I'm curious about which parts of Qmail should not be mounted via NFS.
I am using Maildir
I am using multiple mail servers to work on the same data behind a serveriron.
Can the multiple servers share a queue directory?
What about the entire /var/qmail direcotory?
Thanks for any advice.
Richard
/var/qmail/queue CANNOT be shared. /var/qmail/bin can only be shared
between identical machines (including the 7 qmail users and groups). The
rest may be shared. The user home directories may be shared as well.
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Richard Roderick wrote:
> I'm curious about which parts of Qmail should not be mounted via NFS.
>
> I am using Maildir
> I am using multiple mail servers to work on the same data behind a serveriron.
>
> Can the multiple servers share a queue directory?
> What about the entire /var/qmail direcotory?
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> Richard
>
>
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localconnect(sm)
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One Monroeville Center, Suite 850
Monroeville, PA 15146
(412) 810-8888 Phone
(412) 810-8886 Fax
Hi all,
I'm looking for an official license for QMail. I can't
seem to find it on the qmail.org web site, or in the
qmail tarball. Any pointers?
-- Keith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for an official license for QMail. I can't
> seem to find it on the qmail.org web site, or in the
> qmail tarball. Any pointers?
http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail/dist.html
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On 15 Jun, Russell Nelson wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm looking for an official license for QMail. I can't
> > seem to find it on the qmail.org web site, or in the
> > qmail tarball. Any pointers?
> http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail/dist.html
That actually wasn't what I was looking for; I wanted a user
license, not a distributor's license. However, I think I've
found what I want: Dan's philosophy statement, at
http://pobox.com/~djb/softwarelaw.html
It basically says that qmail is yours to do with as you
wish, as long as you don't redistribute with your changes
as the same product. I don't know how legally binding
his stand is, but it's good enough for me.
-- Keith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm finding that the larger and more complex my qmail setup becomes, the
more difficult it is for me to trace the path an address follows through
the qmail system. With sendmail/exim, there is the -bt command line option,
which tells us whether the address will be treated as local or remote, and
if remote, what MXs will be looked at, and if local, whether it will be
delivered to a maildir, mbox or pipe, without actually delivering a
message.
I realise that qmail is modular, and so there's no easy way to determine
what really happens. I was thinking of writing a small perl script to
"emulate" the decisions made by qmail-send, qmail-lspawn and qmail-rspawn,
and print the results to tell me where an address ends up. I'm particularly
interested in finding out what happens to a local address, ie. was it
looked up in users/cdb, or /etc/passwd, or did it end up in
~alias/.qmail-default, etc.
Has anyone already written such a tool, or can anyone give me any better
ideas on how I can proceed with this?
--
Anand
Hi,
I have to do some testing on qmail so that i can kill the
competition like exchange and lotus notes...
I have to implement qmail for multiple domains and send mail meant
for the internet to an ISP WE are on a lease line...
I need to check how fast it is so that and show the same.
The PROBLEM that i face is that when qmail is trying to send a mail to
the internet through the relay server of my ISP , from the local machine
.. the queue of the mail being sent remains for as long as 3 min.
I need to flush the mails immediately so that the overall throughput
can be faster...
Please can you suggest a solution to flush these mails immediately.
The DNS setting does not work as i am able to ping the server
immediately so the name seems to get resolved pretty quickly,when it is
sending it looks for bandwidth which is not available(i presume).
Isn't there a place where one can specify the time out and retry time ??
The problem seems to be in flushing mails immediately to the ISP server
.
Thanks in advance
Amit
Hi,
You can edit mailquotacheck.sh (Paul Gregg's) with
quota=5120 **Quota mailbox 5MB**
$dir="/home/vpop/domains/$USER/$EXT"
and in your /home/vpop/domains/abc.com/.qmail-default :
|mailquotacheck.sh /home/vpop/domains/abc.com/$POPUSERS/Maildir/
If you want set quota for each individual mailbox (2MB),
/home/vpop/domains/abc.com/kelvin/.quota
and in .quota is :
2048
That's it. I hope it can help you.
Thank's
-=Diana Dewi=-
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Menara Batavia Lt. 6
Jl. KH. Mas Mansyur Kav.126
Jakarta - Indonesia (10220)
At 09:26 PM 6/14/99 -0400, Kelvin Koh wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am using vchkpw, my email directories are as follows:
>
>/home/vpop/domains/blah.org/ , /home/vpop/domains/abc.com
>
>Recently, there is a need to set a 5mb quota to all mailboxes in my
>system. Using Paul Gregg's mailquotacheck script, I tried to accomplish
>the task. It didn't work; running the script in
>/home/vpop/domains/abc.com/.qmail-default will limit the abc.com up to
>5mb of space for all emails together.
>
>How can I set the quota for each individual mailbox? I wish to use a
>single UID/GID for my email system only. Please advice.
>
>Thanks,
>Kelvin Koh
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>
>
>
>
>
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Hi All,
I am looking for someone who can install qmail in
my server. I will pay for it.
Please contact me for the pricing.
Thanks.
Regards,
Max
