qmail Digest 6 Sep 1999 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 751
Topics (messages 29855 through 29873):
help: qmail question
29855 by: Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newbee to Qmail
29856 by: Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
29857 by: Magnus Bodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
29858 by: "James J. Lippard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Problems with tcpserver
29859 by: "Martin Paulucci" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
29861 by: Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Login shell for telent clients
29860 by: Bill Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
can't start
29862 by: James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
29863 by: Patrick Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
29864 by: James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
29865 by: James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
29866 by: Magnus Bodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
29867 by: James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
29868 by: "James J. Lippard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
29869 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
29870 by: James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
29871 by: James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Setting qmail to be a local server and a gateway
29872 by: Mark Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Error message in mail.log
29873 by: Mark Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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You went back to your old style of not giving detals about your setup,
no log output. Your report sounds like:
"I have a Toyota. It does not work; please Help!"
Mate
I just got qmail up and installed on my system. I am coming from a Sendmail
8.9.3 setup. Here are the following issues that I am having a hard time
figuring out:
1. How to get qmail to use the /etc/aliases I was using when I was
running sendmail.
2. How to set a Smarthost for outgoing mail.
3. Whatis the equivalent of mailstats for qmail
TIA
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On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote:
> 1. How to get qmail to use the /etc/aliases I was using when I was
> running sendmail.
install fastforward. And then learn about .qmail-files.
> 2. How to set a Smarthost for outgoing mail.
what is that?
> 3. Whatis the equivalent of mailstats for qmail
qmailanalog
Look at http://www.qmail.org/
And don't miss Dave Sills "Life with qmail"
<http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html>
cheers,
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On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote:
> I just got qmail up and installed on my system. I am coming from a Sendmail
> 8.9.3 setup. Here are the following issues that I am having a hard time
> figuring out:
> 2. How to set a Smarthost for outgoing mail.
Looks like your other two questions have been answered already. For this
one, put a file names smtproutes in /var/qmail/control that contains
:smart.host.name
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Hi!!
I'm having some trouble with tcpserver. I'm trying to use relaying,
and I already have a process running with the following parameters:
qmaild 3464 238 0 23:33:43 ? 0:00 tcpserver -H -R -v -
x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u101 -g100 0 25 rblsmtpd /var/qmail/bin
and also a file, which I compiled with tcprules in /etc/tcp.smtp and
tcp.smtp.db with this contents:
# cat /etc/tcp.smtp
200.20.10.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
200.43.4.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
:allow
Where 200.20.10.X is a local private network and 200.43.4.X is my
C class of internet.
The problem I'm having is that telnetting from the same mail server
to port 25 it says it can't relay :
553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)
But I'm supposed to be an allowed client to relay....I'm on that list
What should I do?.
Thanks!
Best regards,
Martin Paulucci
http://www.ServiRED.COM
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On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Martin Paulucci wrote:
> Hi!!
>
> I'm having some trouble with tcpserver. I'm trying to use relaying,
> and I already have a process running with the following parameters:
>
> qmaild 3464 238 0 23:33:43 ? 0:00 tcpserver -H -R -v -
> x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u101 -g100 0 25 rblsmtpd /var/qmail/bin
>
> and also a file, which I compiled with tcprules in /etc/tcp.smtp and
> tcp.smtp.db with this contents:
> # cat /etc/tcp.smtp
> 200.20.10.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
> 200.43.4.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
> :allow
>
> Where 200.20.10.X is a local private network and 200.43.4.X is my
> C class of internet.
> The problem I'm having is that telnetting from the same mail server
> to port 25 it says it can't relay :
> 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)
That's because 127.0.0.1 is not specified as an IP address that is allowed
to relay. If you're telnetting to localhost, you're coming from the
127.0.0.0/8 network.
At 08:37 PM 9/4/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Is there a way to have in.telnetd present the client with a different
>shell than the default shell (bash) listed in the /etc/login.defs file?
>The man page says you can have a different login program specified at
>the command line for in.telnetd. Would it be a hassle to recompile a
>version of login to change the .defs file? Where is the source code of
>login?
Joel, just so you know, my system was compromised by a pissant hacker from
the following location: 134.96.59.1 (which is a proxy machine located in
the .de domain which is either germany or denmark)...the exploit occurred
because an attempt was made at telnetting into the box (telnet access is
now closed, and commented out in /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/services)...I
strongly advise against using telnet even with tcpwrappers...it took me
the better part of 1.5 hours to get my system back to normal usage,
damage done was to /etc/passwd and qmail v1.03...
I would like to know how something like this could happen, would the
problem have been caused by a rapid fire type of attack, and if so,
what can be done to counter such stupidity (I don't think notifying
the site admin will be of much good, but i'm not sure about this)?
-Bill
p.s. - I got good help by Ken Jones at inter7 to get my system back up
and running, but this should serve as warning not to use telnet in any
way shape or form...<sigh>
I'm using Red Hat Mandrake 6.0, and I've gone through the Adam McKenna
steps (http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html) for installing
qmail. Before this qmail installation, I was able to use sendmail just
fine, except I had problems getting the virtual email setup to work, so
I've decided to use qmail.
Now, after having gone through the installation steps, qmail was running on
my system, until I rebooted. I thought I had placed the proper script in
the proper startup file, but I guess I haven't. But for starters, I don't
know how to even START qmail manually. I tried going into the qmail
install directory and typed:
qmail start
but I got this error: bash: qmail: command not found
So then I went to the /var/qmail/bin directory, but got the same error.
How do I get qmail to start again? It was running before I rebooted.
I'll also mention that I couldn't get the step for rblsmtpd
(http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html#10b) to work.. the
"setuser" was a command that my system didn't understand. Could this cause
a problem?
Thanks for any help.
james
>>> James had the thought that... <<<
> Now, after having gone through the installation steps, qmail was running on
> my system, until I rebooted. I thought I had placed the proper script in
> the proper startup file, but I guess I haven't. But for starters, I don't
> know how to even START qmail manually. I tried going into the qmail
> install directory and typed:
>
> qmail start
Well, if you did indeed put the startup scripts in the right place you
would want to do this:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail start
(at least on redhat systems)
> but I got this error: bash: qmail: command not found
Which would make sense if you were in /usr/local/src/qmail or
whatever since the startup scripts don't live there.
> So then I went to the /var/qmail/bin directory, but got the same error.
> How do I get qmail to start again? It was running before I rebooted.
>
> I'll also mention that I couldn't get the step for rblsmtpd
> (http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html#10b) to work.. the
> "setuser" was a command that my system didn't understand. Could this cause
> a problem?
Well, it looks like you got daemontool 6 where setuser was replaced
with setguid and other oddities. I got bitten by that as well. As
has been mentioned a couple of times, most of the HOWTOs haven't
caught up to the newest daemontools.
You might want to consult the nifty Life with Qmail and see if that
helps out any:
http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html
Pat
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At 09:14 PM 9/5/99 Pat wrote:
>Well, it looks like you got daemontool 6 where setuser was replaced
>with setguid and other oddities. I got bitten by that as well. As
>has been mentioned a couple of times, most of the HOWTOs haven't
>caught up to the newest daemontools.
>You might want to consult the nifty Life with Qmail and see if that
>helps out any:
>http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html
In the life with qmail, his qmail script also has "setuser".. if I replace
all setuser's with "setguid" will this fix my problem? I went to the
correct directory this time to start qmail, and it tried to start, but it
hit the line in the script "setuser" and quit. I'll go and change all the
"setuser" text I can find.
james
>In the life with qmail, his qmail script also has "setuser".. if I replace
>all setuser's with "setguid" will this fix my problem?
Well, that didn't fix it.. I get this error now:
./qmail: setguid: command not found
Is there anything else I can try?
james
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, James wrote:
> >In the life with qmail, his qmail script also has "setuser".. if I replace
> >all setuser's with "setguid" will this fix my problem?
>
> Well, that didn't fix it.. I get this error now:
> ./qmail: setguid: command not found
>
> Is there anything else I can try?
I would try to install daemontools, as the HOWTO, and lwq advises.
The daemontools package includes setuser or setguid, depending on
version of daemontools.
http://pobox.com/~djb/daemontools.html
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At 07:09 AM 9/6/99 magnus wrote:
>I would try to install daemontools, as the HOWTO, and lwq advises.
>The daemontools package includes setuser or setguid, depending on
>version of daemontools.
I have already installed daemontools, and checked it with:
date | ./tai64n | ./tai64nlocal
date | sh -c './multilog t e 2>&1' | ./tai64nlocal
and my output was:
1999-09-05 22:23:21.323922500 Sun Sep 5 22:23:21 PDT 1999
1999-09-05 22:26:13.056125500 Sun Sep 5 22:26:13 PDT 1999
I notice that in my /usr/local/bin directory, I don't see setguid, but I do
see a setuidgid. Should there be a setguid in that directory?
james
Try "setuidgid", not "setguid".
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On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Magnus Bodin wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, James wrote:
>
> > >In the life with qmail, his qmail script also has "setuser".. if I replace
> > >all setuser's with "setguid" will this fix my problem?
> >
> > Well, that didn't fix it.. I get this error now:
> > ./qmail: setguid: command not found
> >
> > Is there anything else I can try?
>
>
> I would try to install daemontools, as the HOWTO, and lwq advises.
> The daemontools package includes setuser or setguid, depending on
> version of daemontools.
>
> http://pobox.com/~djb/daemontools.html
>
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>
>
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 10:27:03PM +0100, James wrote:
> At 07:09 AM 9/6/99 magnus wrote:
> >I would try to install daemontools, as the HOWTO, and lwq advises.
> >The daemontools package includes setuser or setguid, depending on
> >version of daemontools.
>
> I have already installed daemontools, and checked it with:
> [...]
>
> I notice that in my /usr/local/bin directory, I don't see setguid, but I do
> see a setuidgid. Should there be a setguid in that directory?
Sorry. I should have written setuidgid.
Either download the OLD version of daemontools and use the instructions in
HOWTO and/or life with qmail, or "reread" the documentation with the changes
mentioned here in mind:
http://qmail.x42.com/koobera/www/daemontools/upgrade.html
(my qmail.org-mirror, couldn't get hold of djb:s site at the time)
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At 10:24 PM 9/5/99 Jim Lippard wrote:
>Try "setuidgid", not "setguid".
Ok.. that worked, but it opened up a whole host of other errors.. so back
to work I go.
james
Ok.. now I have tried to clean up as much as possible, and I have to issue
this command to start qmail:
./qmail start
and when I do, I get this:
Starting qmail: qmail-sendsupervise: usage: supervise dir
qmail-smtpdsupervise: usage: supervise dir
.
Does this mean I am getting a supervise error or something? Or are things
sort of working ok?
james
Hi,
Is it possible to configure a qmail server to receive and store email for
POP3 retrieval for some virtual domains, and also have it act as a gateway
which simply forwards e-mails for other virtual domains to servers within a
connected internal network.(all domains have MX record pointing to the qmail
server)??
Can this be achieved through a combination of the smtp-routes and virtual
domain settings on the qmail server? If so could it please be outlined as we
are looking at possibly using qmail for this.
Many thanks
Mark Parker
Hi again.
Have been attempting to configure the qmail server to perform sections of
the functionality I mentioned in my previous email. However I am receiving
an error when the qmail server attempts to forward the mail to another
server.
The error contains the phrase "Unable_to_Read_Control_Files"
Does anyone now if I have made a fundamental error in my configuration which
would result in this and a possible solution.
Thanks again.
Mark Parker
