qmail Digest 21 Jul 1999 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 704
Topics (messages 27977 through 28008):
Logging tcpserver in.pop3d and cyclog
27977 by: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
tcpserver
27978 by: "Cedric Fontaine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
27979 by: "Petr Novotny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
27993 by: "Sam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
qmail and redhat 6.0
27980 by: "Fitzpatrick, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
27982 by: "Petr Novotny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
27983 by: "Fitzpatrick, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
27998 by: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
serialmail/autoTURN not working
27981 by: "Tom Furie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
27996 by: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Benchmarking
27984 by: Tony Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
27985 by: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Single UID
27986 by: "Alex Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
27987 by: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
27991 by: "Alex Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
27994 by: Ken Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Pb with aliases
27988 by: "Cedric Fontaine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
27989 by: "Petr Novotny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
qmail-smtpd: no connection has been opened
27990 by: Eric Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Return-Path
27992 by: David Villeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
28005 by: "Peter C. Norton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tcpserver and smtp
27995 by: "Cedric Fontaine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
27999 by: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fast email list questions
27997 by: Michael Amster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
28000 by: "Fred Lindberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Exporting mail off exchange server
28001 by: Ken Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
28008 by: Anand Buddhdev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
qmail problems
28002 by: Todd Backman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
28003 by: "Tim Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
28004 by: Todd Backman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ETRN
28006 by: "Peter C. Norton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
28007 by: "Adam D . McKenna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>This command for qmail-send
>supervise /var/supervise/qmail/send /var/qmail/rc | setuser qmaill cyclog
>/var/log/qmail &
That's unmodifed from my script, so it should work if the directories
/var/supervise/qmail/send and /var/log/qmail are set up right and
/var/qmail/rc logs to stdout.
>My directories are the same permissions etc
>drwxr-xr-x 4 qmaill root 1024 Jul 19 15:32 qmail/
>drwxr-xr-x 2 qmaill root 1024 Jul 19 15:23 pop3d/
>drwxr-xr-x 2 qmaill root 1024 Jul 19 14:50 smtpd/
Is this "ls -l /var/log/qmail"? If so, not that that qmail-send log
directory is /var/log/qmail, not /var/log/qmail/qmail.
>... the qmail-send messages I never see anywhere ...
Do you see the cyclog process running?
-Dave
I can't start tcpserver...
When I'm trying to start tcpserver with inetd.conf (on a RH 6.0), I get the
following message in the log file :
tcpserver/502 : [unknown services]
But if I launch with the same command directly on bash (not in the
inetd.conf, I mean), it works...
What shall I do ?
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> I can't start tcpserver...
>
> When I'm trying to start tcpserver with inetd.conf (on a RH 6.0)
Wrong. You either start tcpserver, or you start qmail-popup or
qmail-smtpd or whatever from inetd. You don't start tcpserver from
inetd.
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PGP key ID: 0x3BA9BC3F
-- Don't you know there ain't no devil there's just God when he's drunk.
[Tom Waits]
Cedric Fontaine writes:
> I can't start tcpserver...
>
> When I'm trying to start tcpserver with inetd.conf (on a RH 6.0), I get the
Very funny.
You do not start tcpserver from inetd.conf.
Read the manual page for tcpserver. Then read the manual page for inetd.
Hopefully, everything will click into place.
--
Sam
Hello. I am trying to install qmail on my redhat 6.0 system. I uninstalled
sendmail, and because of conflicts (i'm never brave enough to do --nodeps) I
had to uninstall mh, exmh and also fetchmail I believe. I started qmail in
/etc/inted.conf, made sure that /etc/services had the proper ports open.
netstat -an | grep 25 told me that something was listening to port 25
(hurrah!) and a ps -A showed that qmail was running.
However, whenever I telnet to my port 25 I get booted. It does "pick up"
and tells you that the escape character is ^[ and whatnot, but it
disconnects me real quickly. my hosts.allow and hosts.deny specify that the
localhost should be able to get through on port 25.
What else do I need to do, or what did I do wrong and how can I get things
to work properly.
Thanks,
matt
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> However, whenever I telnet to my port 25 I get booted. It does "pick up"
> and tells you that the escape character is ^[ and whatnot, but it
> disconnects me real quickly. my hosts.allow and hosts.deny specify that
> the localhost should be able to get through on port 25.
You don't specify which port gets through: You specify which
service name gets through. Or do you?
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PGP key ID: 0x3BA9BC3F
-- Don't you know there ain't no devil there's just God when he's drunk.
[Tom Waits]
Correct. Sorry for the misstatement.
-----Original Message-----
From: Petr Novotny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 10:53 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: qmail and redhat 6.0
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> However, whenever I telnet to my port 25 I get booted. It does "pick up"
> and tells you that the escape character is ^[ and whatnot, but it
> disconnects me real quickly. my hosts.allow and hosts.deny specify that
> the localhost should be able to get through on port 25.
You don't specify which port gets through: You specify which
service name gets through. Or do you?
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Petr Novotny, ANTEK CS
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.antek.cz
PGP key ID: 0x3BA9BC3F
-- Don't you know there ain't no devil there's just God when he's drunk.
[Tom Waits]
"Fitzpatrick, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello. I am trying to install qmail on my redhat 6.0 system. I uninstalled
>sendmail, and because of conflicts (i'm never brave enough to do --nodeps) I
>had to uninstall mh, exmh and also fetchmail I believe. I started qmail in
>/etc/inted.conf, made sure that /etc/services had the proper ports open.
>netstat -an | grep 25 told me that something was listening to port 25
>(hurrah!) and a ps -A showed that qmail was running.
>
>However, whenever I telnet to my port 25 I get booted. It does "pick up"
>and tells you that the escape character is ^[ and whatnot, but it
>disconnects me real quickly. my hosts.allow and hosts.deny specify that the
>localhost should be able to get through on port 25.
>
>What else do I need to do, or what did I do wrong and how can I get things
>to work properly.
I'd recommend installing using the instructions in "Life with qmail":
http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#installation
-Dave
Hello,
I initially posted this to the serialmail mailing list, but since it doesn't
look as though I'm getting any response there I thought I'd try here.
-----
I have qmail 1.03, ucspi-tcp 0.84 and serialmail 0.75 installed on Redhat
Linux 5.2 kernel 2.2.9.
The system essentially works, i.e. incoming mail goes into the correct queue
directory and I can use maildirsmtp to push queued mail to the target when
the link is up. The problem is that when the client machine sends mail out,
it doesn't trigger the server to send mail to the client. The logs don't
show anything to help me shed any light on the problem.
As far as I know I followed the instructions correctly, but nothing I do
seems to fix this problem.
Thanks for any help you can offer,
Tom.
"Tom Furie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I initially posted this to the serialmail mailing list, but since it doesn't
>look as though I'm getting any response there I thought I'd try here.
>
>-----
>
>I have qmail 1.03, ucspi-tcp 0.84 and serialmail 0.75 installed on Redhat
>Linux 5.2 kernel 2.2.9.
>
>The system essentially works, i.e. incoming mail goes into the correct queue
>directory and I can use maildirsmtp to push queued mail to the target when
>the link is up. The problem is that when the client machine sends mail out,
>it doesn't trigger the server to send mail to the client. The logs don't
>show anything to help me shed any light on the problem.
>
>As far as I know I followed the instructions correctly, but nothing I do
>seems to fix this problem.
As far as we know, you followed the instruction correctly. And as far
as we know, when one does that, the software works. So, as far as we
know, there's no problem. :-)
Perhaps if you showed us what you actually did, we could tell you if
it was right.
What *exactly* did you do to enable AutoTURN?
-Dave
Hi ,
Is there any tools that i can use to see how many emails Qmail is able to
deliver locally per Min/Sec/Hour.
Thanks
Tony Wade
The Internet Solution
Tel: (+27 11) 283 5483
Fax: (+27 11) 283 5401
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.is.co.za
#include <std/disclaimer.h>
Tony Wade writes:
> Is there any tools that i can use to see how many emails Qmail is able to
> deliver locally per Min/Sec/Hour.
Sure -- qmailanalog. It's on koobera.
--
-russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://crynwr.com/~nelson
Crynwr supports Open Source(tm) Software| PGPok | Government schools are so
521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur
Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
Paul and all,
The Qmail.org site doesn't seem to have any
reference to the Paul Gregg single uid
instruction sheet.
Has that been replaced? What's it's status?
Alex Miller
Alex Miller writes:
> Paul and all,
>
> The Qmail.org site doesn't seem to have any
> reference to the Paul Gregg single uid
> instruction sheet.
>
> Has that been replaced? What's it's status?
It's right there in plain sight:
<li>Paul Gregg has written instructions on how to configure qmail to
handle many mail users (multiple email addresses) with separate POP3
accounts - <a href="http://www.tibus.net/pgregg/projects/">without
using system accounts</a>.
--
-russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://crynwr.com/~nelson
Crynwr supports Open Source(tm) Software| PGPok | Government schools are so
521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur
Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
aha, that's it. The "Pennsylvania; Cerfnet & UUNET" mirror is out of whack.
I usually choose arbitrary mirrors for mirrored sites rather than go to the
main one. I use the main one to get the list, then I pop over to a mirror. I
figure, that's what the webmaster would like me to do.
So I popped over to
http://qmail.sgi.net/qmail/top.html
Reading through it, I couldn't find it.
I did a Find on Paul's name and got stuff from him
and Paul Fox, but not that.
You're right, it IS on the main site, just not on
that mirror.
Alex Miller
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 10:46 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Single UID
>
>
> Alex Miller writes:
> > Paul and all,
> >
> > The Qmail.org site doesn't seem to have any
> > reference to the Paul Gregg single uid
> > instruction sheet.
> >
> > Has that been replaced? What's it's status?
>
> It's right there in plain sight:
>
> <li>Paul Gregg has written instructions on how to configure qmail to
> handle many mail users (multiple email addresses) with separate POP3
> accounts - <a href="http://www.tibus.net/pgregg/projects/">without
> using system accounts</a>.
>
> --
> -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://crynwr.com/~nelson
> Crynwr supports Open Source(tm) Software| PGPok | Government
> schools are so
> 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any
> rank amateur
> Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them.
> Homeschool!
>
Alex Miller wrote:
>
> Paul and all,
>
> The Qmail.org site doesn't seem to have any
> reference to the Paul Gregg single uid
> instruction sheet.
>
> Has that been replaced? What's it's status?
>
> Alex Miller
Try http://www.inter7.com/vchkpw/
It does single UID and we are doing alot of developement work
on it right now.
It also works with http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/
and MrSam's web based email reader
http://www.inter7.com/sqwebmail/
--
Ken Jones
I create, as told in the install manual, some aliases in the directory
/var/qmail/alias
I also create with maildirmake a Maildir in this directory... But I have the
following message :
Jul 20 16:10:53 server1 qmail: 932479853.238596 starting delivery 11: msg
483331
to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jul 20 16:10:53 server1 qmail: 932479853.238719 status: local 1/10 remote
0/20
Jul 20 16:10:53 server1 qmail: 932479853.246091 delivery 11: deferral:
Unable_to
_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/
Jul 20 16:10:53 server1 qmail: 932479853.246211 status: local 0/10 remote
0/20
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> I create, as told in the install manual, some aliases in the directory
> /var/qmail/alias I also create with maildirmake a Maildir in this
> directory...
It seems you did the maildirmake as root, not as alias. chown
might help, or rm -rf ~alias/Maildir/ and then
su alias -c "maildirmake ~/Maildir"
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http://www.antek.cz
PGP key ID: 0x3BA9BC3F
-- Don't you know there ain't no devil there's just God when he's drunk.
[Tom Waits]
I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.8 and qmail 1.03. Sending mail from pine works, retrieving
mail via a pop3 client works with regular and virtual users, however qmail-smtpd does
not work.
I'm running qmail-smtpd through tcpserver and have relaying correctly configured. For
a while qmail-smtpd was working, but I managed to break it somewhere along the line.
I'm looking for suggestions, I'm out of ideas as to what to look for. Here's what
happens:
When running qmail-smtpd with this:
tcpserver -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u82 -g1004 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd &
My pop3 client connects, then when it tries to send a message, I get the error from
the pop3 client "No connection has been opened."
When running qmail-smtpd with this:
tcpserver -u82 -g1004 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd &
I get the same message.
I can telnet to port 25 and issue commands using the smtp commands, and it
successfully sends a message, but when I receive the message, the message body
contains no data (even though I did enter some text after issuing the DATA command),
the "from address" is missing, and it says "Unkown user" for the name when I did
supply this information.
Any suggestions?
-Eric
At 06:33 PM 7/19/99 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 07:24:41PM -0400,
> David Villeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Return-Path is added by the *final* transport system. So why is it added by
>> qmail-inject?
>
>Are you sure about that? The man page indicates that it deletes return-path
Pretty much (you make me doubt so I will check the source code).
qmail-inject -n definitely produces a Return-Path field.
David.
______________________________________
David Villeger
(212) 972 2030 x34
http://www.CheetahMail.com
The Internet Email Publishing Solution
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 07:24:41PM -0400, David Villeger wrote:
> Return-Path is added by the *final* transport system. So why is it added by
> qmail-inject?
rfc 821 seems to define "transport system" not as a host, but more
generally. Specificly, I think this would address the question:
When the receiver-SMTP makes the "final delivery" of a
message it inserts at the beginning of the mail data a
[... removes page break ...]
return path line. The return path line preserves the
information in the <reverse-path> from the MAIL command.
Here, final delivery means the message leaves the SMTP
world. Normally, this would mean it has been delivered to
the destination user, but in some cases it may be further
processed and transmitted by another mail system.
so a reverse-path would have to be provided in an smtp conversation.
To accomodate local and remote delivery, I'd guess that having it
start life as a return path is easier.
> On the same subject, if I send an email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] without
> the Return-Path field (e.g. by using qmail-queue) but using VERP (so that
> the envelop sender becomes [EMAIL PROTECTED]), the
> email.com server writes the Return-Path as <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> stripping everything left of the equal sign.
They've broken themselves, I think.
> As far as I can tell this only happens with email.com (and other domain
> names they host). Is this a problem with their mail server or should I
> always include the Return-Path field, against RFC822?
Didn't RN send a message to the list about this? Bad, bad email.com.
--
The 5 year plan:
In five years we'll make up another plan.
Or just re-use this one.
It seems that everyhing is now ok on my server... Just a problem !!
Tcpserver is running... It's ok for pop-3 but it seems that my smtp server
doesn't work ? How can i figure out where the problem ?
(host adress is www.easysoftnet.com )
"Cedric Fontaine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It seems that everyhing is now ok on my server... Just a problem !!
>Tcpserver is running... It's ok for pop-3 but it seems that my smtp server
>doesn't work ? How can i figure out where the problem ?
What does "doesn't work" mean? What happens when you telnet to port
25? Do you see the tcpserver process in a "ps -ef" or "pw waux"?
-Dave
I have a customer who will sign up members of their site for timely
financial information (sounds familiar, huh?)
In the past few months, there were comments by people who recommend a
method of sending out mail by directly connecting to the server and only
queueing mail that could not be sent in the first try.
Our situation is that we will have identical mails. I want to use VERP
so that I can keep track of bouncing messages and score them.
What I wanted to know is how people did the injection of messages? Did
you call qmail-inject? How did you do the queueing? Did you use VERP?
If so, did you have to create the VERP address?
Any info would be helpful. Thanks,
-MA
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Michael Amster [EMAIL PROTECTED]
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 300 Tel: 310.576.0770
Marina Del Rey, CA 90292 Fax: 310.576.2011
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 11:55:48 -0700, Michael Amster wrote:
>Our situation is that we will have identical mails. I want to use VERP
>so that I can keep track of bouncing messages and score them.
I would use ezmlm (http://www.pobox.com/~djb/ezmlm.html), replacing
ezmlm-return with a [very simple] bounce scorer, especially if the
address list is relatively constant. If not, replace the part in
ezmlm-send that reads the addresses (or putsubs.c from ezmlm-idx) with
your own db interface.
-Sincerely, Fred
(Frederik Lindberg, Infectious Diseases, WashU, St. Louis, MO, USA)
Does anyone know if it is possible to do the following with ms Exchange.
We have a ton of email in an NT exchange server. It will soon
be replaced with a redhat/qmail server.
If possible, we'd like to have the exchange server send all
the users mail over to the qmail server via smtp. Then the
qmail server can save the email into the new users setup.
There is some feature in the Exchange server that provides for
exporting email boxes. Anyone know what that does?
--
Ken Jones
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/ - web based qmail adminstration
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 02:29:39PM -0500, Ken Jones wrote:
> Does anyone know if it is possible to do the following with ms Exchange.
>
> We have a ton of email in an NT exchange server. It will soon
> be replaced with a redhat/qmail server.
>
> If possible, we'd like to have the exchange server send all
> the users mail over to the qmail server via smtp. Then the
> qmail server can save the email into the new users setup.
>
> There is some feature in the Exchange server that provides for
> exporting email boxes. Anyone know what that does?
I'm not an expert with Exchange, but if the existing mailboxes are in
MBX format, then you should be able to simply copy them over to the
Redhat box, and install them in /var/spool/mail, and then use pine to
read them. If you don't have pine, you will have to convert MBX format
to MBOX, and then you can use pine/mutt/mail to read them. You can find
MBX-to-MBOX by looking at the freebsd ports collection and finding the
source URL from there. http://www.freebsd.org
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Greetings,
I have inherited a freebsd box running qmail...and I have never used qmail
before. What I would like to know is:
What are the functions of the 'todo' and 'intd' directories? There are
tons of msgs in them and qmail does not seem to be processing them. I have
moved the files out of the directory (backed them up) and moved a small
amt. of them back in to see if the dirs. were just overloaded, restarted
qmail and attempted to run qmail-send with no luck. If someone could hit
me with the clue stick it would be greatly appreciated... ;^)
After looking at the qmail archives I am unable to resolve this issue.
Thanks in advance.
- Todd
=========================================================================
Todd Backman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "there are two major products
UNIX Systems Administrator that came out of berkeley
Flying Crocodile Inc. lsd and unix.
Seattle, WA we don't believe this to be
"Chaos is a good teacher..." a coincidence." j.s.anderson
=========================================================================
Taken from Life With qmail by Dave Sill
D.3. Queue structure
The file INTERNALS in the build directory discusses the details of queueing
more thoroughly.
intd envelopes under construction by qmail-queue
todo complete envelopes
my guess is that qmail-queue broke a few times?
any indication in your logs? are the files readable?
More info please
-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Backman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 5:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: qmail problems
Greetings,
I have inherited a freebsd box running qmail...and I have never used qmail
before. What I would like to know is:
What are the functions of the 'todo' and 'intd' directories? There are
tons of msgs in them and qmail does not seem to be processing them. I have
moved the files out of the directory (backed them up) and moved a small
amt. of them back in to see if the dirs. were just overloaded, restarted
qmail and attempted to run qmail-send with no luck. If someone could hit
me with the clue stick it would be greatly appreciated... ;^)
After looking at the qmail archives I am unable to resolve this issue.
Thanks in advance.
- Todd
=========================================================================
Todd Backman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "there are two major products
UNIX Systems Administrator that came out of berkeley
Flying Crocodile Inc. lsd and unix.
Seattle, WA we don't believe this to be
"Chaos is a good teacher..." a coincidence." j.s.anderson
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I am unsure about the reason for it's failure. I guess I was just lucky to
inherit the problem... ;^) There are no log files regarding this. The
files are readable. ex:
machine# more 143099
u0^@p15606^@[EMAIL PROTECTED]^@[EMAIL PROTECTED]^@
machine#
is in both intd and todo.
machine# ./qmail-qstat
messages in queue: 115248
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 549
when I run 'qmail-send' it just sits there and does not send any of the
files out...
I apologize for being clueless here but I have never dealt with qmail
before and this was dumped into my lap...
Thanks again.
- Todd
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Tim Hunter wrote:
> Taken from Life With qmail by Dave Sill
>
> D.3. Queue structure
> The file INTERNALS in the build directory discusses the details of queueing
> more thoroughly.
>
> intd envelopes under construction by qmail-queue
> todo complete envelopes
>
> my guess is that qmail-queue broke a few times?
> any indication in your logs? are the files readable?
> More info please
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Backman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 5:26 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: qmail problems
>
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> I have inherited a freebsd box running qmail...and I have never used qmail
> before. What I would like to know is:
>
> What are the functions of the 'todo' and 'intd' directories? There are
> tons of msgs in them and qmail does not seem to be processing them. I have
> moved the files out of the directory (backed them up) and moved a small
> amt. of them back in to see if the dirs. were just overloaded, restarted
> qmail and attempted to run qmail-send with no luck. If someone could hit
> me with the clue stick it would be greatly appreciated... ;^)
>
> After looking at the qmail archives I am unable to resolve this issue.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> - Todd
>
Don't try this at home unless you're running linux! Results will
probably be bad.
To the original question, look at the solutions provided at www.qmail.org.
-Peter
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 11:09:00AM +1000, Simon Elder wrote:
> Woops that should be killall -ALRM qmail-send
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tuesday, 20 July 1999 9:37
> Subject: Re: ETRN
>
>
> >Another way I have found to do this is to write a script that runs from a
> >cron job say ~ every 10 minutes that checks if the customer has dialled
> into
> >you term server. If they have then the script just does a
> >'killall -HUP qmail-send' .. which forces everything deferred in the queue
> >to be sent again.
> >
> >Not a pretty solution but it works for my small queue.
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Frank Greven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Date: Monday, 19 July 1999 10:11
> >Subject: ETRN
> >
> >
> >>He,
> >>
> >>I'am running qmail 1.03 on an RH 6.0 (2.2.5) box and I host mail for
> >special
> >>domain.
> >>Our client's mail server (no Linux/Unix maschine) makes a dial-up
> >connection to
> >>the internet and then want's to to get his emails delivered from our
> >server.
> >>
> >>I've heard something about ETRN which is applied but I don't know what
> >exactly
> >>to do.
> >>
> >>Can anybody help me out?
> >>
> >>Thanks a lot,
> >>Frank
> >>
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> >
>
--
The 5 year plan:
In five years we'll make up another plan.
Or just re-use this one.
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 05:09:53PM -0700, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> Don't try this at home unless you're running linux! Results will
> probably be bad.
>
> To the original question, look at the solutions provided at www.qmail.org.
>
> -Peter
Nah, solaris killall errors if you don't supply exactly 1 argument.
YMMV. :)
--Adam
