qmail Digest 15 Feb 2000 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 912
Topics (messages 37175 through 37237):
Re: qmail on FFS with softupdates
37175 by: Len Budney
Web interface pop3 mail checker
37176 by: Martin
37177 by: H�ffelin Holger
37179 by: Charles Cazabon
About authentication with Maildir
37178 by: mulin
Re: address translation
37180 by: Bruno Wolff III
37205 by: Hans Sandsdalen
Re: remote localhost...
37181 by: Tiju
37184 by: Brian
how to have mail go out on different interfaces???
37182 by: Jeremy Hansen
Re: Anyone using Qmail in a corporate environment, got time on your hands ?
37183 by: Martin Lesser
37216 by: Russ Allbery
attachment and other logging!
37185 by: Martin
37193 by: brianb-qmail.technet.evoserve.com
daemontools-0.61 and qmailanalog
37186 by: Jeremy Hansen
37192 by: Frederik Lindberg
37218 by: Russ Allbery
37225 by: Russ Allbery
boot scripts
37187 by: a.kasates
37201 by: Magnus Bodin
37235 by: mulin
daemontools supervise help
37188 by: Peter Schultz
Re: GFS and Qmail and BIG mail servers
37189 by: adam.cybertrails.com
37190 by: Jeremy Hansen
Re: Problem Found
37191 by: Peter Samuel
37198 by: Ewen Fung
37199 by: Peter Samuel
37203 by: Ewen Fung
37204 by: Peter Samuel
receive mail again & again
37194 by: Keith, Yeung Wai Kin
-ERR
37195 by: kiwitp
37196 by: chupepe
Qmail & Majordomo
37197 by: Andrew Scott
37222 by: Russ Allbery
37227 by: petervd.vuurwerk.nl
How to delete a lot of spam mail in queue?
37200 by: �i�I��
37202 by: Magnus Bodin
problems with qmail and incoming mail
37206 by: James Timberlake
removing a msg from the queue
37207 by: Jim Breton
37208 by: Anand Buddhdev
37209 by: Jim Breton
37212 by: Anand Buddhdev
Attachment Problem
37210 by: Emmanuel Nee
Bad Return-Path: Qmail bag?
37211 by: Ilya
37213 by: Pavel Kankovsky
37214 by: petervd.vuurwerk.nl
37217 by: Ilya
37220 by: petervd.vuurwerk.nl
37223 by: Pavel Kankovsky
37226 by: Pavel Kankovsky
37228 by: Anand Buddhdev
37229 by: petervd.vuurwerk.nl
37233 by: Ilya
37234 by: petervd.vuurwerk.nl
Uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is_blank._(#4.2.1)/
37215 by: Shashi Dahal
37231 by: Robert Sander
Re: Big and/or famous sites using qmail?
37219 by: Jenny Holmberg
37221 by: petervd.vuurwerk.nl
37236 by: S Ashok Kumar
how do I
37224 by: Naren
37230 by: Naren
Mailing List
37232 by: Naren
Changing FROM:
37237 by: Michael Neubert
Administrivia:
To unsubscribe from the digest, e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To subscribe to the digest, e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To bug my human owner, e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To post to the list, e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Anand Buddhdev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Dan does not recommend the use of a softupdates file system for the
> queue. If FFS+softupdates = standard FFS+faster, then there should be
> no harm in using it.
This is something I _can_ comment on. In fact, I already did, in
message 42203 on this list:
"Len Budney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Using softupdates under *BSD gives you the reliability of sync
> > (somewhat more, actually), with nearly the speed of async.
>
> In October of 1999, that wasn't quite true...
>
> ``In particular, if you put a mail queue on a softupdates filesystem,
> you can lose mail when the power goes out, just as if you were using
> Linux.'' -- Dan Bernstein, <http://x38.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=539496358>
>
> From Dan's other comments in that thread, it appears that the rename()
> call returns success before the rename was committed to disk. Dan said
> ``mail programs'' rely on rename() to tell the truth. A look at the
> source code suggests that qmail is not one of them--qmail-queue doesn't
> use the rename() call.
>
> If link() is subject to the same complaint as rename(), then qmail
> probably _does_ have the same reliability problem on a softupdates
> filesystem as on an async filesystem.
Len.
--
Some people are suffering from the delusion that program modularity is
incompatible with good performance.
-- Dan Bernstein
|
I'm going to setup a web interfaced pop3 mail
checker for the isp I work for.
Yesterday I tried something called acmemail, a cgi
script written in perl.
I didn't get this thing working, and the is not
many manuals on this subject (as I could find).
Anyone have something to recommend?
It has to be safe and userfriendly, but it has to
excist something out there that I can get working on my qmail mail server
;)
// Martin
|
|
Holger
I'm going to setup a web interfaced pop3 mail
checker for the isp I work for.
Yesterday I tried something called acmemail, a
cgi script written in perl.
I didn't get this thing working, and the is not
many manuals on this subject (as I could find).
Anyone have something to recommend?
It has to be safe and userfriendly, but it has to
excist something out there that I can get working on my qmail mail
server ;)
// Martin
|
Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm going to setup a web interfaced pop3 mail checker for the isp I work for.
> Yesterday I tried something called acmemail, a cgi script written in perl.
> I didn't get this thing working, and the is not many manuals on this subject (as I
>could find).
> Anyone have something to recommend?
> It has to be safe and userfriendly, but it has to excist something out there that I
>can get working on my qmail mail server ;)
I've written a POP3 retriever in Python, and have had mail from a fellow who
is using it for just this purpose. You can read more about it and download
it from:
http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail/
Charles
--
----------------------------------------------------
Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions.
----------------------------------------------------
Hello qmail,
I change sendmail from RedHat 5.9 to qmail because I freshmeat in
Linux commonwealth and sendmail is very complicated to me.
First I setuped (or installed) qmail with using Maildir structure.
But then I decided to use ezmlm mail list service. But it doesn't
work with Maildir as far as I know (I read ezmlm documentation and
didn't find there anything about ezmlm & Maildir in qmail system).
So I returned Mailbox structure by changing some files. I achieved
qmail was forwarding and recieving mail, but I couldn't get mail by
pop3 because of authentication error. I tried to make setuid root
to /bin/checkpassword as it was mentioned in one resent letter, but
it didn't work - the result is the same. My settings in /etc/inetd.conf
pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup
MYHOST.MYDOMAIN.COM /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir
Please help who knows where a dogs is buried.
Best regards,
mulin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 10:50:46AM +0100,
Hans Sandsdalen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> How do I make qmail understand addresses like host!user@domain?
>
> I have installed HP jetadmin on a Solaris 7 system, and when
> there are printing errors it sends a mail to the user with
> addresses like this.
> --
> /hans
What do you want to do with the mail? Qmail mail will send such mail to
'domain' which can then do something with the email. If 'domain' is the
local machine it will accept the mail and try to deliver it to the user
'host!user'. If the 'host!user' string is fixed or at least has only a
small number of variations in your case, then you can use a .qmail file(s)
to forward the mail somewhere else.
Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 10:50:46AM +0100,
> Hans Sandsdalen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > How do I make qmail understand addresses like host!user@domain?
> >
> > I have installed HP jetadmin on a Solaris 7 system, and when
> > there are printing errors it sends a mail to the user with
> > addresses like this.
> > --
> > /hans
>
> What do you want to do with the mail? Qmail mail will send such mail to
> 'domain' which can then do something with the email. If 'domain' is the
> local machine it will accept the mail and try to deliver it to the user
> 'host!user'. If the 'host!user' string is fixed or at least has only a
> small number of variations in your case, then you can use a .qmail file(s)
> to forward the mail somewhere else.
I just want to remove the "host!" part of the string. I could of
course use .qmail files, but this will be a lot of work. There
is not a fixed number of hosts nor users at each host.
--
/hans
> greetings...
>
> i am having trouble with qmail...it seems to be treating messages
> addressed in the form user@localhost as mail to be delevered remotely
> instead of locally...i get the same error every time (#5.4.6)
>
> what i'm trying to do is use fetchmail to d/l messages from remote
> servers, but since it defaults to sending to user@localhost my messages
> aren't arriving as desired...
>
> if anyone would like to get back to me on this it would be greatly
> appreciated...i'll provide any further required information. i have a
feeling
> that there is a very simple solution to my problem, but i have been
> unable to find it despite many hours of unproductive
> reading/tinkering...
>
>
Try putting "localhost" in control/locals. This solved the same problem for me
Tiju.
> Try putting "localhost" in control/locals. This solved the same problem for me
i have tried that many times...i have also put it in control/rcpthosts,
with disastrous results (all of my mails being returned to their
respective senders with error messages...).
perhaps i can explain the problem more clearly. qmail will accept and
deliver messages addressed to 'user' but not to 'user@localhost'. when
a message is addressed to localhost, qmail complains 'that domain isn't
in my list of allowed rcpthosts'.
why doesn't qmail locally deliver mail addressed to localhost?
is it uncommon for qmail to behave this way? or does qmail do this by
default for some reason?
I have three domains. If I send mail from domain1, I would like it to go
out interface 1, if I send mail from domain2, I want it to go out
interface2, if I send mail from domain3, I want it to go out interface3.
Is this possible? Does this have to do wiht bindroutes?
Thanks
-jeremy
"John P. Looney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> However, the boss isn't convinced that a Linux or BSD box running free
> software can be A) supported B) handle as much as exchange, and C) run in
> a Corporate environment (he doesn't consider universities or ISPs to be a
> "Corporate environment!).
ROTFL
> Could someone with a bit of time on their hands, that's working with a
> 5,000+ user base, with free software email me off-list, with something I
> can send to said Pointy Haired Boss ? I think one or two *working*
> commerical sites would be sufficent.
Tell him about hotmail:
1. hotmail is part of M$
2. hotmail has about 50.000.000+ users
3. hotmail is using qmail
4. hotmail tried IIRC 2 years ago to switch from qmail to exchange but
they failed.
If that's not enough - have a look at www.qmail.org - there you find
some more really big sites/companies running qmail.
Best regards
Martin
Martin Lesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tell him about hotmail:
> 1. hotmail is part of M$
> 2. hotmail has about 50.000.000+ users
> 3. hotmail is using qmail
> 4. hotmail tried IIRC 2 years ago to switch from qmail to exchange but
> they failed.
Unless you've independently verified this last point, I wouldn't pass it
along. I've received fairly reliable indications that this is pure urban
legend and never actually happened.
It's worth keeping in mind that Hotmail, as part of Microsoft, has access
to the source code of the operating system and some direct engineering
support, and therefore may very well be able to do things with NT or Win2K
that the rest of us couldn't.
--
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
|
Is it possible to figure out when a e-mail has an
attachment comming in?
I have a quite slow connection, and if a person is
really evil he could just send me an attachment on 100mb. :)
I could always find a solution to kill the incoming
mail, but isn't it a way to log this things?
And an easy way to deny the incoming
mail?
// Martin
|
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Martin wrote:
> Is it possible to figure out when a e-mail has an attachment comming in?
> I have a quite slow connection, and if a person is really evil he could just send me
>an attachment on 100mb. :)
See the qmail-smtpd manpage and look for "databytes".
Brian
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.baquiran.com
AIM: bbaquiran
So I'm using multilog and qmailanalog. I did some searching on the mail
list and found some scripts that do the hex conversion, etc, but I'm
seeing somewhat strange results anyway. All my time signatures change
each time I run the logs through the setup of scripts and qmailanalog even
though the log doesn't change:
cat tmp | tai64n | ./tai64n2time | /usr/local/qmailanalog/bin/matchup |
/usr/local/qmailanalog/bin/zoverall
I get:
Total delivery attempts: 5922
success: 27
failure: 5
deferral: 5890
Total ddelay (s): 3.802111
Average ddelay per success (s): 0.140819
Total xdelay (s): 610.980386
Average xdelay per delivery attempt (s): 0.103171
Time span (days): 1.7806e-05
Average concurrency: 397.144
run it again:
Total delivery attempts: 5922
success: 27
failure: 5
deferral: 5890
Total ddelay (s): 3.822751
Average ddelay per success (s): 0.141583
Total xdelay (s): 458.048486
Average xdelay per delivery attempt (s): 0.077347
Time span (days): 2.18007e-05
Average concurrency: 243.18
The ./tai64n2time is a perl scirpt posted by Jos Backus
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
while (<>) {
if (my($s,$t,$rest)=/^\@.(\w{15})(\w{8})(.*)/) {
$s = hex($s);
$t = hex($t); $t =~ s/500$//;
$_ = "$s.$t$rest\n";
}
} continue {
print;
}
exit 0;
also I have tai64nfrac which is a c program that I believe does
the same thing, and I get the same results.
Any help on this?
Thank
-jeremy
What do you do with fd5 (man matchup)?
-- Fred
Frederik Lindberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What do you do with fd5 (man matchup)?
if [ -s qlog.deferred ] ; then
cat qlog.deferred "$1" | tai64nfrac | matchup > qlog 5> qlog.deferred
else
tai64nfrac < "$1" | matchup > qlog 5> qlog.deferred
fi
--
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
Jeremy Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So I'm using multilog and qmailanalog. I did some searching on the mail
> list and found some scripts that do the hex conversion, etc, but I'm
> seeing somewhat strange results anyway. All my time signatures change
> each time I run the logs through the setup of scripts and qmailanalog
> even though the log doesn't change:
> cat tmp | tai64n | ./tai64n2time | /usr/local/qmailanalog/bin/matchup |
> /usr/local/qmailanalog/bin/zoverall
So what's tmp (ie, where does it come from)? Just looking at that command
line, it looks a lot like you're adding timestamps to every line fresh
each time you run the above command pipeline, which means that you're
giving every line pretty much the same timestamp.
tai64n is intended to be used to put an accurate timestamp on each line
*when it's logged*, not after the fact. Since you're using multilog, you
don't need it at all; just use the t action in multilog.
--
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
Newbie question:
While installing qmail I found this paragraph:
14. Add
csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &'
to your boot scripts, so that the qmail daemons are restarted
whenever your system reboots. Make sure you include the &.
To which exactly boot scripts should I add this line?
Thank you in advance.
____________________________________________________________________
Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at
http://webmail.netscape.com.
On Sun, Mar 23, 2036 at 06:45:08AM +0200, a . kasates wrote:
> Newbie question:
>
> While installing qmail I found this paragraph:
>
> 14. Add
> csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &'
> to your boot scripts, so that the qmail daemons are restarted
> whenever your system reboots. Make sure you include the &.
>
> To which exactly boot scripts should I add this line?
Don't. Take a look at "Life with qmail"
<http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#start-qmail> and you'll see that
Dave Sill has written a good guide to start qmail including a fine system
startup/shutdown script.
/magnus
--
http://x42.com/
Hello a,
Tuesday, February 15, 2000, 3:16:52 AM, you wrote:
ak> Newbie question:
ak> While installing qmail I found this paragraph:
ak> 14. Add
ak> csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &'
ak> to your boot scripts, so that the qmail daemons are restarted
ak> whenever your system reboots. Make sure you include the &.
ak> To which exactly boot scripts should I add this line?
ak> Thank you in advance.
ak> ____________________________________________________________________
ak> Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at
http://webmail.netscape.com.
It depends on you system initialisation type (BSD or SysV). I have
RedHat 5.9 distr with SysV initialisation (or booting process). I
placed it in /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail script and put links in all
/etc/rc.d/rc#.d folders on it. Another way is for BSD init type: place
it in rc.local (the last way is suitable for both BSD and SysV types)
Best regards,
mulin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I have qmail set up almost the way I want it. My last remaining question is
that when I do a 'qmail stat' I get the following error. It seems that I do
not have supervise set up quite right.
qmail-send/log: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist
qmail-smtpd/log: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist
I believe this is due to the fact that I have not correctly started
supervise to look over the processes. I followed the instructions Dave Sill
gives on his lwq web page, and I am wondering if someone might be able to
help point out my shortcoming.
Thanks,
Pete...
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 12:41:10AM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> I have just become aware of the GFS project and I am BLOWN AWAY.
>
> I don't know how this project reached production quality status and escaped my
> radar until now. I got an email from my VAR for StorageTek disk arrays today
GFS is most cool. You should be aware, however, that it is not
yet production quality. The journaling code is mostly done, but it is
not stable yet. Client errors can (and do) result in corruption of the
entire filesystem. (As of a few weeks ago)
It should be nearing Alpha quality at this point, but it is not ready
for production use.
> and tell me what you think. Does this sound like a good way to cluster mail
> servers to you too?
It is the holy grail of mail clustering. :) It's just not there
quite yet. I have priced it out, though, and you can build quite
an effective (and large) mail cluster for under 100k with it.
If you're still interested in looking at it, BoxHill makes some
excellent storage arrays that support hardware SCSI Dlocking. Good
juju.
Adam
--
------------------------------------------------------------------
Adam Jacob - Cyber Trails Phone - (602)906-1752
Sr. Systems Administrator Pager - (602)447-9531
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax - (602)906-1799
* Evil Lord of the Sysadmin Sith Darth Rmdashrf *
------------------------------------------------------------------
Also have a look at silicon-gear.com, that also makes a Dlock array.
-jeremy
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 12:41:10AM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> > I have just become aware of the GFS project and I am BLOWN AWAY.
> >
> > I don't know how this project reached production quality status and escaped my
> > radar until now. I got an email from my VAR for StorageTek disk arrays today
>
> GFS is most cool. You should be aware, however, that it is not
> yet production quality. The journaling code is mostly done, but it is
> not stable yet. Client errors can (and do) result in corruption of the
> entire filesystem. (As of a few weeks ago)
>
> It should be nearing Alpha quality at this point, but it is not ready
> for production use.
>
> > and tell me what you think. Does this sound like a good way to cluster mail
> > servers to you too?
>
> It is the holy grail of mail clustering. :) It's just not there
> quite yet. I have priced it out, though, and you can build quite
> an effective (and large) mail cluster for under 100k with it.
>
> If you're still interested in looking at it, BoxHill makes some
> excellent storage arrays that support hardware SCSI Dlocking. Good
> juju.
>
> Adam
>
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Adam Jacob - Cyber Trails Phone - (602)906-1752
> Sr. Systems Administrator Pager - (602)447-9531
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax - (602)906-1799
> * Evil Lord of the Sysadmin Sith Darth Rmdashrf *
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
http://www.xxedgexx.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---------------------------------------------
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Ewen Fung wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got this problem for few weeks but still got no idea about
> that....even I've searched the archive.
>
> This is the qmail 1.03 running on Solaris x86 v2.7. I've tried to use
> .qmail to run a vacation program for the users. The .qmail contains the
> following 2 lines:
>
> ./Maildir/
> |preline /usr/bin/vacation -j syssupp
Don't use /usr/bin/vacation with preline!
Quoting from the www.qmail.org pages (and myself :)
If you use qmail's preline utility, remember that preline expects
to pipe the entire mail message through the specified program. If
the specified program closes standard input before preline has
finished, preline will exit with a transient failure and you'll see
the following error in your logs:
deferral: preline:_fatal:_unable_to_copy_input:_broken_pipe/
You'll see this problem if you try to use the sendmail version of
vacation.
Grab my qmail-vaction program (currently at 1.3 but I hope to have 2.x
available next month)
ftp://ftp.uniq.com.au/pub/tool/qmail/
Regards
Peter
----------
Peter Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Technical Consultant or at present:
eServ. Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: +61 2 9206 3410 Fax: +61 2 9281 1301
"If you kill all your unhappy customers, you'll only have happy ones left"
Dear Peter,
Thanks for your help.
In fact, I've already installed the qmail version vacation, but the problem
persists.
When I use "make" to compile the vacation, the src line 477 containing
syntax error. I've changed to close(MSG) (instead of close<MSG>), then I can
compile it successfully. Is it correct?
Besides, the user will got a .qmail which contains
./Maildir/
so that the mail will store in ./Maildir/new instead of "Mailbox". However,
the vacation will detect whether the .qmail exists. If exists, it assumes
the vacation is enabled which is not the case we expected...Is there any
configuration flag needed in the Makefile.
Yes, the error message about "Broken Pipe" is what I saw in the syslog.
Also, I've a testing POP3 account. I've sent only one mail to that user,
and the mail duplicated more than 200 times for only 7 days. So is it
related to that "Broken Pipe" problem?
I'm now using qmail-vacation without "Preline" in the .qmail file ...
Please help...
Thanks a lot for your kindly help.
rdgs,
Ewen Fung
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Samuel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 7:34 AM
To: Ewen Fung
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Problem Found
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Ewen Fung wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got this problem for few weeks but still got no idea about
> that....even I've searched the archive.
>
> This is the qmail 1.03 running on Solaris x86 v2.7. I've tried to use
> .qmail to run a vacation program for the users. The .qmail contains the
> following 2 lines:
>
> ./Maildir/
> |preline /usr/bin/vacation -j syssupp
Don't use /usr/bin/vacation with preline!
Quoting from the www.qmail.org pages (and myself :)
If you use qmail's preline utility, remember that preline expects
to pipe the entire mail message through the specified program. If
the specified program closes standard input before preline has
finished, preline will exit with a transient failure and you'll see
the following error in your logs:
deferral: preline:_fatal:_unable_to_copy_input:_broken_pipe/
You'll see this problem if you try to use the sendmail version of
vacation.
Grab my qmail-vaction program (currently at 1.3 but I hope to have 2.x
available next month)
ftp://ftp.uniq.com.au/pub/tool/qmail/
Regards
Peter
----------
Peter Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Technical Consultant or at present:
eServ. Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: +61 2 9206 3410 Fax: +61 2 9281 1301
"If you kill all your unhappy customers, you'll only have happy ones left"
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Ewen Fung wrote:
> Dear Peter,
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> In fact, I've already installed the qmail version vacation, but the problem
> persists.
>
> When I use "make" to compile the vacation, the src line 477 containing
> syntax error. I've changed to close(MSG) (instead of close<MSG>), then I can
> compile it successfully. Is it correct?
Correct. A stupid mistake introduced my me to correct something weird
with an older version of Perl.
>
> Besides, the user will got a .qmail which contains
> ./Maildir/
> so that the mail will store in ./Maildir/new instead of "Mailbox". However,
> the vacation will detect whether the .qmail exists. If exists, it assumes
> the vacation is enabled which is not the case we expected...Is there any
> configuration flag needed in the Makefile.
The Makefile only installs the program. When the user invokes vacation
it assumes that if a .qmail file exists, then it must have been
created by vacation (the exact behaviour of the Sun sendmail program).
You can always manually edit the .qmail file (The new version of
vacation will have more intelligence and look inside the .qmail file).
>
> Yes, the error message about "Broken Pipe" is what I saw in the syslog.
>
> Also, I've a testing POP3 account. I've sent only one mail to that user,
> and the mail duplicated more than 200 times for only 7 days. So is it
> related to that "Broken Pipe" problem?
Yes. The message is deferred because preline exited with the
appropriate status. qmail tries the delivery again and folows the
instructions in the .qmail file, one of which is to save the message
in the user's Maildir/ It stopped after 7 days as that is the default
queuelifetime value.
> I'm now using qmail-vacation without "Preline" in the .qmail file ...
Good! That should stop the problem.
Regards
Peter
----------
Peter Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Technical Consultant or at present:
eServ. Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: +61 2 9206 3410 Fax: +61 2 9281 1301
"If you kill all your unhappy customers, you'll only have happy ones left"
Dear Peter,
>> I'm now using qmail-vacation without "Preline" in the .qmail file ...
>Good! That should stop the problem.
No, the problem still persists...
I still got duplicated messages in the user's maildir.
Feb 15 11:28:26 email qmail: 950585306.707779 delivery 360303: deferral:
preline
:_fatal:_unable_to_copy_input:_broken_pipe/
Feb 15 11:29:13 email qmail: 950585353.023807 delivery 360322: deferral:
preline
:_fatal:_unable_to_copy_input:_broken_pipe/
Any other reasons?
Thanks for your quick response.
rdgs,
Ewen Fung
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Ewen Fung wrote:
> Dear Peter,
>
> >> I'm now using qmail-vacation without "Preline" in the .qmail file ...
>
> >Good! That should stop the problem.
>
>
> No, the problem still persists...
>
> I still got duplicated messages in the user's maildir.
>
> Feb 15 11:28:26 email qmail: 950585306.707779 delivery 360303: deferral:
> preline
> :_fatal:_unable_to_copy_input:_broken_pipe/
> Feb 15 11:29:13 email qmail: 950585353.023807 delivery 360322: deferral:
> preline
> :_fatal:_unable_to_copy_input:_broken_pipe/
>
> Any other reasons?
You're STILL using preline. The log entry tells you that. There is NO
need to use preline with MY vacation. In fact, you should NOT use it
with my vacation program.
If you want to use the vacation program that ships with Solaris then
use this in your .qmail file:
./Maildir/
| preline sh -c '/usr/bin/vacation username; cat > /dev/null'
This will make preline happy.
Regards
Peter
----------
Peter Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Technical Consultant or at present:
eServ. Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: +61 2 9206 3410 Fax: +61 2 9281 1301
"If you kill all your unhappy customers, you'll only have happy ones left"
Dear All,
We have 5 qmail (1.03) pop3 servers(pop1 to 4) running RH6.1 (2.2.13) with
openldap (1.27), all the pops running same configurations. Some of qmail
users (on pop1, pop2) cannot retrieve e-mail and request all e-mail in
server. Moreover they recieved the same e-mail again and again. After moving
their mailbox to other pops, problem solved. However, I am frustrated in
moving the users again & again. Anyone has the same case before ?
Keith Yeung
Feels like: SUNDAY (www.sunday.com)
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have just installed qmail under linux red hat 6.0. Everything seems to
working
ok but pop3. when i try to connect to the pop server i get ERR usage: popup
hostname subprogram. I am running checkpassword..Here is the line in my
inetd.conf.(pop3 stream tcp nowait root
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup hostr) can anyone help whit this??
Thanks
Jerry
|
Had the same problem last week.
I've solved it, but to help u i need to know if u r going to
use POP3 with Maildir's or with mbox (dafault if u installed Qmail from
rpm's)
|
I have just switched my majordomo list over to a new host. I have found
that when I subscribe a name and address together, e.g.:
"Andrew Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
that there are problems sending out the mail. I have been told that the
problem is that the host is using qmail instead of sendmail, and that qmail
does not like to see names. It interprets the whole thing as one address.
1. Is this true?
2. If it is, is there a way around it (besides dropping the names from the
list)?
Thank you very much!
Andrew Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have just switched my majordomo list over to a new host. I have found
> that when I subscribe a name and address together, e.g.:
> "Andrew Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> that there are problems sending out the mail. I have been told that the
> problem is that the host is using qmail instead of sendmail, and that
> qmail does not like to see names. It interprets the whole thing as one
> address.
> 1. Is this true?
Yup.
> 2. If it is, is there a way around it (besides dropping the names from
> the list)?
You would need to fix the program that's being used to send outgoing mail
so that it strips the name out of the address before passing it to qmail.
I don't know of anyone who's already done this work for the general case;
my mjinject script handles it for the simpler case of:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Doe)
though, and could probably be extended to handle the more general case.
You can get it from <ftp://ftp.eyrie.org/pub/software/majordomo/mjinject>.
--
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 01:41:13AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Andrew Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I have just switched my majordomo list over to a new host. I have found
> > that when I subscribe a name and address together, e.g.:
>
> > "Andrew Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > that there are problems sending out the mail. I have been told that the
> > problem is that the host is using qmail instead of sendmail, and that
> > qmail does not like to see names. It interprets the whole thing as one
> > address.
>
> > 1. Is this true?
>
> Yup.
>
> > 2. If it is, is there a way around it (besides dropping the names from
> > the list)?
>
> You would need to fix the program that's being used to send outgoing mail
> so that it strips the name out of the address before passing it to qmail.
> I don't know of anyone who's already done this work for the general case;
> my mjinject script handles it for the simpler case of:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Doe)
>
> though, and could probably be extended to handle the more general case.
> You can get it from <ftp://ftp.eyrie.org/pub/software/majordomo/mjinject>.
I think djb's mess822 lib could help out a lot here...
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder
|
| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
| C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.'
| Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
Dear all:
How do i delete a lot of spam mail in the qmail queue?Is there any tool to
help me to handle spam mail in queue.
Tony Chang
System Engineer
Information Technology Division
Hoshin Gigamedia Center Inc
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 12:52:28PM +0800, �i�I�� wrote:
> Dear all:
> How do i delete a lot of spam mail in the qmail queue?Is there any tool to
> help me to handle spam mail in queue.
Take a look at qmhandle: <http://www.io.com/~mick/soft/qmhandle.html>
Don't forget to stop qmail before you mess around in the queue.
/magnus
--
http://x42.com/
\ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign - Say NO to HTML in email and news
x
i recently installed and set up qmail on my mandrake 6.1 linux box. i was
going through the TEST files and ran into some problems. i can send mail out
and within the box, but any mail sent to the box seems to disappear. there
are no bounce notices sent when i send a message with an unknown user, nor
does a user on the box receive any messages sent to him from the outside. in
my qmail-smtpd file i have:
127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
:allow
i assume this means that this allows the localhost to relay and allows
everyone else to send mail to the box. my qmail-pop3d file is a duplicate. i
browsed to my /var/qmail/users dir and there is nothing there. is that the
problem and if so what type of file goes there and how do i generate it.
this is really driving me nuts. also the log files in /var/log/qmail don't
seem to tell me anything.
thanks,
James
What is the "correct" way to remove a message from the queue?
I had a huge bounce message that was being delivered to one of my own
addresses and I didn't want to bother sending it only to end up downloading
it again.
IIRC I stopped qmail-send but qmail-remote was still running (maybe it
wasn't, I can't recall, but it's not an issue) and I killed it with a
-9. Then I removed the message from /var/qmail/queue/mess/0/ but either
qmail-qread would give me this error:
warning: trouble with #1955: file does not exist
I looked around a bit more and found /var/qmail/queue/remote/0/1955 and
info/0/1955 and removed them as well.
Everything seems to be OK now, but are there any other files I missed
and did I do the right thing, or is there a better way?
Thanks.
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 03:21:35AM -0500, Jim Breton wrote:
> IIRC I stopped qmail-send but qmail-remote was still running (maybe it
existing qmail-remotes are allowed to finish deliveries, _after_ which
qmail-send exits.
> wasn't, I can't recall, but it's not an issue) and I killed it with a
> -9. Then I removed the message from /var/qmail/queue/mess/0/ but either
Very bad practice. In general, on a unix system, try to kill a process
with kill -TERM first, and if that doesn't work, _then_ try kill -KILL
(or kill -9).
> qmail-qread would give me this error:
>
> warning: trouble with #1955: file does not exist
>
> I looked around a bit more and found /var/qmail/queue/remote/0/1955 and
> info/0/1955 and removed them as well.
>
> Everything seems to be OK now, but are there any other files I missed
> and did I do the right thing, or is there a better way?
Well, you were on the right track, and you did eventually end up doing
the right thing, but you must be careful when trying to mess around with
qmail's queue directly.
Generally, you want to remove
/var/qmail/queue/{info,mess,remote,local}/hash/#number
to completely remove a message, where #number is the message id number.
--
See complete headers for more info
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 11:43:53AM +0300, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
> Very bad practice. In general, on a unix system, try to kill a process
> with kill -TERM first, and if that doesn't work, _then_ try kill -KILL
> (or kill -9).
I did. It didn't stop, so then I used -9.
> Well, you were on the right track, and you did eventually end up doing
> the right thing, but you must be careful when trying to mess around with
> qmail's queue directly.
>
> Generally, you want to remove
>
> /var/qmail/queue/{info,mess,remote,local}/hash/#number
>
> to completely remove a message, where #number is the message id number.
Thanks!
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 03:48:31AM -0500, Jim Breton wrote:
> > Very bad practice. In general, on a unix system, try to kill a process
> > with kill -TERM first, and if that doesn't work, _then_ try kill -KILL
> > (or kill -9).
>
> I did. It didn't stop, so then I used -9.
Hang on... If I read this right, you killed qmail-send with a -9 ? Bad.
This is what you're supposed to do:
kill qmail-send (standard kill, not kill -9)
... it waits for it's qmail-remote children to finish ....
kill qmail-remotes (standard kill, not kill -9)
... now qmail-send will die on its own ...
--
See complete headers for more info
Hi,
I'm current running qmail on a mandrake 6.0 box. Everthing is working
fine except for some little hicup here. When I tried sending a mail with
a binary attachment, the recipent recieve the mail with an attachment as
per send. But when the sender tries sending a ascii text attachment, the
text in the attachment got pasted on instead of an attachment. I would
be greatful if someone could shred some light on how I can solve this
little problem.
Regards
begin:vcard
n:Nee;Emmanuel
tel;cell:96963658
tel;fax:3388380
tel;home:2431413
tel;work:3383808
x-mozilla-html:FALSE
adr:;;;;;;
version:2.1
email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
fn:Emmanuel Nee
end:vcard
A mail contain:
From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Qmail generate:
Return-Path: <"���� ����������������� <Gusp"@ufatel.ru>>>
Why? How can I correct it?
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: failure notice
Date: 12 Jan 2000 04:21:37 -0000
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at ufatel.ru.
I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce
bounced!
<���� ����������������� <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>>:
Sorry, I couldn't find any host named ufatel.ru>>. (#5.1.2)
--- Below this line is the original bounce.
Return-Path: <>
Received: (qmail 9240 invoked for bounce); 12 Jan 2000 04:21:35 -0000
Date: 12 Jan 2000 04:21:35 -0000
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "���� ����������������� <Gusp"@ufatel.ru>>
Subject: failure notice
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at ufatel.ru.
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 194.67.23.37 but sender was rejected.
Remote host said: 501 <"���� ����������������� <Gusp"@ufatel.ru>>>:
malformed address: >> may not follow <"���� �����������������
<Gusp"@ufatel.ru>
--- Below this line is a copy of the message.
Return-Path: <"���� ����������������� <Gusp"@ufatel.ru>>>
Received: (qmail 9238 invoked from network); 12 Jan 2000 04:21:21 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO rustam) (192.168.110.3)
by ms.ufatel.ru with SMTP; 12 Jan 2000 04:21:21 -0000
Message-ID: <000e01bf5cc5$50964000$036ea8c0@rustam>
From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Nicholas V. Mednov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re:
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:21:47 +0300
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="koi8-r"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2417.2000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300
......
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Ilya wrote:
> From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Qmail generate:
> Return-Path: <"ĂÓŃĎ Áŕřőëĺáîďňčöĺďđîě <Gusp"@ufatel.ru>>>
Are you sure this piece of junk was generated by qmail?
> Return-Path: <"ĂÓŃĎ Áŕřőëĺáîďňčöĺďđîě <Gusp"@ufatel.ru>>>
> Received: (qmail 9238 invoked from network); 12 Jan 2000 04:21:21 -0000
> Received: from unknown (HELO rustam) (192.168.110.3)
> by ms.ufatel.ru with SMTP; 12 Jan 2000 04:21:21 -0000
> Message-ID: <000e01bf5cc5$50964000$036ea8c0@rustam>
> From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The message was received via SMTP. The bogus return path was supplied by
SMTP client (MS Outlook? oh, what surprise!). Hmm...yes, it is somewhat
questionable whether it is a good thing that qmail is willing to accept
such garbage at all and waste resources trying to deliver it (and be
blamed for breaking it in the end).
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 10:20:32AM +0100, Pavel Kankovsky wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Ilya wrote:
>
> > From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Qmail generate:
> > Return-Path: <"?�?? �???�?��???�???�? <Gusp"@ufatel.ru>>>
>
> Are you sure this piece of junk was generated by qmail?
>
> > Return-Path: <"?�?? �???�?��???�???�? <Gusp"@ufatel.ru>>>
> > Received: (qmail 9238 invoked from network); 12 Jan 2000 04:21:21 -0000
> > Received: from unknown (HELO rustam) (192.168.110.3)
> > by ms.ufatel.ru with SMTP; 12 Jan 2000 04:21:21 -0000
> > Message-ID: <000e01bf5cc5$50964000$036ea8c0@rustam>
> > From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> The message was received via SMTP. The bogus return path was supplied by
> SMTP client (MS Outlook? oh, what surprise!). Hmm...yes, it is somewhat
> questionable whether it is a good thing that qmail is willing to accept
> such garbage at all and waste resources trying to deliver it (and be
> blamed for breaking it in the end).
Well how would qmail decide that that address is potentially bogus?
I don't know. That address is, even, potentially _valid_.
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder
|
| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
| C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.'
| Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
Pavel Kankovsky wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Ilya wrote:
>
> > From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Qmail generate:
> > Return-Path: <"���� ����������������� <Gusp"@ufatel.ru>>>
>
> Are you sure this piece of junk was generated by qmail?
>
Return-Path is generated by server, not client!
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 12:30:59PM +0300, Ilya wrote:
> Pavel Kankovsky wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Ilya wrote:
> >
> > > From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Qmail generate:
> > > Return-Path: <"???? ????????????????? <Gusp"@ufatel.ru>>>
> >
> > Are you sure this piece of junk was generated by qmail?
> >
> Return-Path is generated by server, not client!
Return-Path is a direct copy of the SMTP 'MAIL FROM' part, which is supplied
by the client.
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder
|
| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
| C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.'
| Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Ilya wrote:
> Pavel Kankovsky wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Ilya wrote:
> >
> > > From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Qmail generate:
> > > Return-Path: <"ĂÓŃĎ Áŕřőëĺáîďňčöĺďđîě <Gusp"@ufatel.ru>>>
> >
> > Are you sure this piece of junk was generated by qmail?
>
> Return-Path is generated by server, not client!
Yes, it is. But its contents is a copy of any text sent by a client as an
argument of SMTP "MAIL FROM:" command. qmail is (might be) guilty of
accepting it, not of making it up.
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Return-Path: <"?Ó?? Á???ë?áî???ö???î? <Gusp"@ufatel.ru>>>
> Well how would qmail decide that that address is potentially bogus?
> I don't know. That address is, even, potentially _valid_.
It is not. "ufatel.ru>>" has never been a valid domain name. And I hope it
will never be a valid name.
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 12:30:59PM +0300, Ilya wrote:
> > > From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Qmail generate:
> > > Return-Path: <"???? ????????????????? <Gusp"@ufatel.ru>>>
> >
> > Are you sure this piece of junk was generated by qmail?
> >
>
> Return-Path is generated by server, not client!
False. The contents of Return-Path: are taken from the
MAIL FROM: command in SMTP. If the Outlook client supplied garbage in
its MAIL FROM:, then that's what Return-Path: will contain.
--
See complete headers for more info
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 10:45:43AM +0100, Pavel Kankovsky wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > > > Return-Path: <"?�?? �???�?��???�???�? <Gusp"@ufatel.ru>>>
>
> > Well how would qmail decide that that address is potentially bogus?
> > I don't know. That address is, even, potentially _valid_.
>
> It is not. "ufatel.ru>>" has never been a valid domain name. And I hope it
> will never be a valid name.
Hmm I was only looking at the part before the @. Indeed, this address is
invalid. But qmail can hardly know that, apart from the >> at the end.
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder
|
| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
| C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.'
| Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
Ilya wrote:
> A mail contain:
>
> From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Qmail generate:
>
> Return-Path: <"���� ����������������� <Gusp"@ufatel.ru>>>
>
> Why? How can I correct it?
>
>
From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?=
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- it have " (quotation mark) before =?=
and Qmail generate bad Return-Path!
Is quotation mark permissible in mime encoded From: string?
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 01:08:33PM +0300, Ilya wrote:
> Ilya wrote:
>
> > A mail contain:
> >
> > From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Qmail generate:
> >
> > Return-Path: <"???? ????????????????? <Gusp"@ufatel.ru>>>
> >
> > Why? How can I correct it?
> >
> >
>
> From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?=
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> - it have " (quotation mark) before =?=
> and Qmail generate bad Return-Path!
> Is quotation mark permissible in mime encoded From: string?
Doesn't really matter, qmail doesn't care.
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder
|
| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
| C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.'
| Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
Dear all !
For some time now, I have been getting a lot of messages like
"Uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is_blank._(#4.2.1)/"
I have checked the entries in .qmail files of the respective home
directories, but everything seems pretty normal. It is normal in aliases
also. and I am not able to figure out the problem.
Any suggestions ?
Shashi
Below is a copy of my maillog
Feb 15 15:07:01 trishakti qmail: 950606521.621234 status: local 7/15 remote
23/100
Feb 15 15:07:01 trishakti qmail: 950606521.835757 delivery 145360:
deferral: Uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is_blank._(#4.2.1)/
Feb 15 15:07:01 trishakti qmail: 950606521.898550 status: local 6/15 remote
23/100
Feb 15 15:07:02 trishakti qmail: 950606522.124749 starting delivery 145363:
msg 417990 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Feb 15 15:07:02 trishakti qmail: 950606522.479406 status: local 7/15 remote
23/100
Feb 15 15:07:02 trishakti qmail: 950606522.604962 delivery 145354:
deferral: Uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is_blank._(#4.2.1)/
Feb 15 15:07:02 trishakti qmail: 950606522.729928 status: local 6/15 remote
23/100
Feb 15 15:07:02 trishakti qmail: 950606522.854386 delivery 145355:
deferral: Uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is_blank._(#4.2.1)/
Feb 15 15:07:03 trishakti qmail: 950606523.039231 status: local 5/15 remote
23/100
Feb 15 15:07:03 trishakti qmail: 950606523.275425 delivery 145356:
deferral: Uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is_blank._(#4.2.1)/
Feb 15 15:07:03 trishakti qmail: 950606523.592265 status: local 4/15 remote
23/100
Feb 15 15:07:03 trishakti qmail: 950606523.834870 delivery 145357:
deferral: Uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is_blank._(#4.2.1)/
Feb 15 15:07:04 trishakti qmail: 950606524.124876 status: local 3/15 remote
23/100
Feb 15 15:07:04 trishakti qmail: 950606524.328302 delivery 145358:
deferral: Uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is_blank._(#4.2.1)/
Feb 15 15:07:04 trishakti qmail: 950606524.505329 status: local 2/15 remote
23/100
Feb 15 15:07:04 trishakti qmail: 950606524.775995 delivery 145359:
deferral: Uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is_blank._(#4.2.1)/
Feb 15 15:07:04 trishakti qmail: 950606524.987900 status: local 1/15 remote
23/100
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 03:15:51PM +0545, Shashi Dahal wrote:
> Dear all !
>
> For some time now, I have been getting a lot of messages like
> "Uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is_blank._(#4.2.1)/"
This happens if you do not set the default delivery method at qmail-startup in
the rc-file. It happens to me when I edited /etc/init.d/qmail with "ae" where
ae looses a linebreak and suddenly two lines were commented out where I only
want to have one commented out ...
Use better editors is my advice ;-)
Greetings
--
Robert Sander www.gurubert.de
Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 12:02:17PM +0800, Michael Boman wrote:
> > Wouldn't it great if there was a list of big/famous sites that uses qmail
> > as their MTA?
>
> I just compiled a list of these from searching through the qmail mailing
> list archives:
[snip]
> Algonet (Sweedish ISP with 50,000+ users)
Actually, Algonet is part of Telenordia, and has in all about 300,000
users or so. All mail is run on qmail, though we're now using the
Bluetail Mail Robustifier as frontend for the qmail boxen. They make
an extremely good, fast and stable combination.
/Jenny, mailadmin at Telenordia/Algonet
--
"I live in the heart of the machine. We are one."
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 10:39:28AM +0100, Jenny Holmberg wrote:
> Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 12:02:17PM +0800, Michael Boman wrote:
> > > Wouldn't it great if there was a list of big/famous sites that uses qmail
> > > as their MTA?
> >
> > I just compiled a list of these from searching through the qmail mailing
> > list archives:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Algonet (Sweedish ISP with 50,000+ users)
>
> Actually, Algonet is part of Telenordia, and has in all about 300,000
> users or so. All mail is run on qmail, though we're now using the
> Bluetail Mail Robustifier as frontend for the qmail boxen. They make
> an extremely good, fast and stable combination.
What does Bluetail Mail Robustifier do?
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder
|
| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
| C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.'
| Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
> What is Bluetail Mail Robustifier? I couldn't find any pointers on the Net.
Thanks.
- Ashok
>
> Actually, Algonet is part of Telenordia, and has in all about 300,000
> users or so. All mail is run on qmail, though we're now using the
> Bluetail Mail Robustifier as frontend for the qmail boxen. They make
> an extremely good, fast and stable combination.
>
> /Jenny, mailadmin at Telenordia/Algonet
>
> --
> "I live in the heart of the machine. We are one."
|
How do I remove myself from this
list???
|
|
How do I remove myself from this mailing list,
please
|
|
Please could someone tell me how to unsubscribe
from this list
PLEASE.............
But I still receive mail.... I have lost that address
now....
PLEASE HELP ME SOMEONE..........
My mailbox is overflooding
|
Hello,
I have a question concerning the FROM: line in the mail header. I think
it should be a very common problem, but I can't find the answer in the
FAQ's. Maybe someone could direct me to the right document....
Here is my configuration:
external:
We receive our mails via fetchmail from the 1.ISP.
We send our mails to a 2.ISP via serialmail.
Mails which are deliverd external, show in the FROM-line: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It should be: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
internal:
Our Clients are WindowsXXX, they receive their mails from our
pop3-server. They send their mail to our smtp-server. I found in the
FAQ's, how to setup the changing of the FROM line, when using
qmail-inject. But that won't work with smtp.
Thanks for any idea!
Michael
