qmail Digest 23 Apr 2000 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 980
Topics (messages 40466 through 40487):
Problem with Domain?
40466 by: Thomas Booms EDV
Re: Mailbox/Maildir pop ?
40467 by: Len Budney
40469 by: Bolivar Diaz Galarza
Re: backup MX host
40468 by: Tomasz Antczak
40470 by: Russell P. Sutherland
Group Emailing w/qmail
40471 by: Bill Parker
40472 by: Steffan Hoeke
40473 by: Bob Rogers
40481 by: Russell Nelson
40483 by: Ed Weinberg
Second mail server
40474 by: Martin Randall
40475 by: Gary Richardson
Home Directory ?
40476 by: Jim Ray
40477 by: Steffan Hoeke
40478 by: Steffan Hoeke
40480 by: Steffan Hoeke
40482 by: Jim Ray
BOUNCE MESSAGE
40479 by: Hemanta Sharma
system start script
40484 by: Zhiliang Hu
Little Qmail problem with 'HELO'
40485 by: tonnage.dayak.com
40486 by: Russ Allbery
40487 by: tonnage.dayak.com
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Hi all,
qmail generell is running good.
My current problem seems to be the fact, that mails send to
@mail.<domain> are accepted, but those send to @<domain> not.
Who can give me tips to solve this problem?
Thanks in advance.
Thomas
Les Higger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> do i need to convert to Maildir to run pop3d.
Yes.
> i ve got qmail working and have checkpasword working. I have only 50
> users using e-mail so i didnt use tcpserver.
It's good exercise anyway; you should try it. See
<http://www.pobox.com/~lbudney/linux/security/telnet-tcpserver.html> for
a worked-out example: running telnet under tcpserver.
Len.
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applications that exist today.
-- Dan Bernstein
I know almost nothing about linux and less about qmail. I have installed it
and it works with one mailbox. Can any of you please tell me how to add
users to my qmail linux and qmail at the same time?
Thanks,
Bolivar,
----- Original Message -----
From: Les Higger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 10:18 PM
Subject: Mailbox/Maildir pop ?
> do i need to convert to Maildir to run pop3d.
> i ve got qmail working and have checkpasword working. I have only 50
> users using e-mail so i didnt use tcpserver.
>
>
> *++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++*
> * Les Higger ITAF ,
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"Russell P. Sutherland" wrote:
>> mail to host server1 when it will be reachable again.
>>
>> What I must do for in this situation on server1 and server2 ?
>
>Add mydomain.com to /var/qmail/controls/rcpthosts
>on server2.mydomain.com, and make sure that mydomain.com
>is _not_ in /var/qmail/controls/locals.
OK. Thanks. But I have one question more. How many messages will be saved
on backup MX host ? And how long backup MX host store it in queue ?
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Greets, Thomas
* Tomasz Antczak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [22 Apr 2000 09:27]:
> >Add mydomain.com to /var/qmail/controls/rcpthosts
> >on server2.mydomain.com, and make sure that mydomain.com
> >is _not_ in /var/qmail/controls/locals.
>
> OK. Thanks. But I have one question more. How many messages will be saved
> on backup MX host ?
As many will fit on your disk partition that contains /var/qmail/queue.
In other words you are only limited by the size
of your disk.
> And how long backup MX host store it in queue ?
By default messages are stored for 1 week (604800 seconds).
To change this value create the queuelifetime file in
/var/qmail/control. For example to decrease the maximumu time
in the queue to 1 day:
echo 86400 > /var/qmail/control/queuelifetime
After making this change you _must_ stop and start qmail-send
in order for the new parameters to take effect.
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Hi All,
Does something like a group e-mail exist in qmail, example
group is sports
in sports group is:
larry, mike, pete, greg
so sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] would deliver to
all of those people...
is this something handled on the client end, or with qmail
Mail User Agents are Eudora Light, Netscape Mail, and Outlook
Express (all receive their accounts on 95/98/NT machines)
-Bill
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 10:25:00AM -0700, Bill Parker wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Does something like a group e-mail exist in qmail, example
> group sports
> so sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] would deliver to
> all of those people...
>
> is this something handled on the client end, or with qmail
Could be handled by qmail, definately (at least IMHO) not by a MUA, or you could
create distribution lists in outlook....
Don't know about Eudora or Netscape.
But this is rather cumbersome.
> Mail User Agents are Eudora Light, Netscape Mail, and Outlook
> Express (all receive their accounts on 95/98/NT machines)
>
> -Bill
What you're describing here is, in fact, a mailing list ;-)
There's a program called ezmlm (easy mailing list manager) which handles these things
'automagically' once it's properly set up (which is rather easy if you follow the docs)
An alternative could be majordomo, etc...
If it's a static list which never changes i imagine it's possible to use a
.qmail-sports or something for this.
Greetz,
Steffan
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From: Bill Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 10:25:00 -0700
Hi All,
Does something like a group e-mail exist in qmail, example
group is sports
in sports group is:
larry, mike, pete, greg
The conventional term is "mailing list" or "distribution list."
so sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] would deliver to
all of those people...
Put their addresses in ~alias/.qmail-sports, one per line. For further
details, do "man dot-qmail". Note that this allows anyone on the planet
to send to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
is this something handled on the client end, or with qmail
Could be either. Or neither; for large lists, mailing list management
programs such as ezmlm (see http://www.ezmlm.org/) are more robust and
easier to maintain.
-- Bob Rogers
Bill Parker writes:
> Does something like a group e-mail exist in qmail, example
No, but you could create ~alias/.qmail-group-default, then you could
send mail to group-sports, like this:
|perl -e 'exec "forward ".((getgrnam($ENV{EXT2}))[3]);'
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At 10:25 AM 04/22/2000 -0700, Bill Parker wrote:
> Does something like a group e-mail exist in qmail, example
>
> group is sports
>
> in sports group is:
>
> larry, mike, pete, greg
>
> so sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] would deliver to
> all of those people...
>Read man dot-qmail. You do this by creating a .qmail file called
>.qmail-sports which contains the email addresses of larry, mike, pete, and
>greg on different lines.
-- Ed Weinberg
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Hello.
I want to run a second mail server.
I'm curious of how you do this.
I know about the MX, but if the accounts are on the primary mail server, and it goes
down, how do you ensure the the accounts and mail are duplicated on the second sever.
Does that make sense ?
Regards...Martin
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On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Martin Randall wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I want to run a second mail server.
>
> I'm curious of how you do this.
>
> I know about the MX, but if the accounts are on the primary mail server, and it goes
>down, how do you ensure the the accounts and mail are duplicated on the second sever.
>
> Does that make sense ?
A secondary MX doesn't function as a secondary pop. It only recieves the
mail and will continually attempt to forward it until the lower priority
smtp server comes back to life.
Pop and SMTP are two different entities.
I am trying to set up qmail for the first time and am having diffuculty with it.
Every time I start qmail this appears in the log.
"Unable to switch to home directory"
I went through all the dirs and files and checked permissions and checked the home
dirs in passwd.
TIA.
Jim Ray
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 12:51:11PM -0600, Jim Ray wrote:
> I am trying to set up qmail for the first time and am having diffuculty with it.
> Every time I start qmail this appears in the log.
> "Unable to switch to home directory"
> I went through all the dirs and files and checked permissions and checked the home
>dirs in passwd.
did you check INSTALL.ids ?
did you use an RPM or compile the source manually ?
> TIA.
> Jim Ray
Greetz,
Steffan
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On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 01:38:29PM -0600, Jim Ray wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 09:27:54PM +0200, Steffan Hoeke wrote:
> >
> > did you check INSTALL.ids ?
> yes, the usernames and group is set up as per INSTALL.ids
>
> > did you use an RPM or compile the source manually ?
> compile
>
> >
> > > TIA.
> > > Jim Ray
Ok:
* how do you start qmail ?
* ntcpserver or inetd or ...
* what's the command line ?
Greetz,
Stef
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On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 01:49:43PM -0600, Jim Ray wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 09:44:01PM +0200, Steffan Hoeke wrote:
> > Ok:
> > * how do you start qmail ?
> > * ntcpserver or inetd or ...
> > * what's the command line ?
> >
> This is in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail file for start. I basically tried to
>duplicate a previously running version of qmail. Except for the 'recordio' portion
>of the script.
>
> case "$1" in
> start)
> echo -n "Starting mail-transfer agent: qmail"
> sh -c "/usr/sbin/qmail-start \"$alias_empty\" $logger &"
> # prevent denial-of-service attacks, with ulimit
> #ulimit -v 2048
> sh -c "/usr/local/bin/tcpserver \
> -u 71 -g 65534 -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb 0 smtp \
> recordio \
> /usr/sbin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | /usr/bin/logger -t qmail -p mail.notice &"
> echo "."
> ;;
>
Maybe asking the obvious, but :
have you tried the script WITHOUT the recordio part ?
and what is $alias_empty filled with ? the first \ in \"$alias_empty\" is treated as a
line continuar isn't it ?
Greatz,
Steffan
BTW: if you want others to give input, reply to the list, and not personally to me ....
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On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 10:00:49PM +0200, Steffan Hoeke wrote:
> Maybe asking the obvious, but :
> have you tried the script WITHOUT the recordio part ?
> and what is $alias_empty filled with ? the first \ in \"$alias_empty\" is treated as
>a line continuar isn't it ?
Removed the $alias_empty part and it starts without any errors.
>
> Greatz,
> Steffan
> BTW: if you want others to give input, reply to the list, and not personally to me
>....
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Hi all,
Which file do I have to edit to change the mailer-daemon message like this
At 07:14 PM 4/22/00 +0000, you wrote:
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at 123.def.com.
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]>:
Reason for failure:
Unknown local POP user /home/abc/
(#5.1.1)
Thanks,
Hemanta
I installed qmail 1.03 and it works fine on my Digital unix4.0D.
However when I tested my system script starting the qmail at boot:
#!/sbin/sh
if [ -f /var/qmail/rc ]; then
/var/qmail/rc &
echo "Starting qmail server"
echo "Please wait .........." && /sbin/sleep 5
else
echo "qmail server could not be started."
fi
qmail was not started at boot, although the script works when
tried at the command line. (the script was in /.../rc3.d)
Any hint?
BTW, I am new so I am not on your list yet. Please reply to me
directly -- Thanks!!
Zhiliang
I run a virtual qmail system with many virtual domains. Generally, there
have been no problems untill we ddecided to send email to hotmail.com.
I use a combination of sqwebmail, and vchkpw in combination with qmail.
I kept seeing error 554 in communication with hotmail. Upon sniffing the
connection I saw that qmail was saying "HELO localhost" instead of "HELO
<virtual host>" or at least "HELO <statically set hostname>".
Does anyone know how to either hardcode the HELO msg's or have it take the
host name from the "From:" field in an email?
Thanks!
Alex
tonnage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone know how to either hardcode the HELO msg's or have it take
> the host name from the "From:" field in an email?
See the man page for qmail-remote:
CONTROL FILES
helohost
Current host name, for use solely in saying hello to the remote
SMTP server. Default: me, if that is supplied; otherwise
qmail-remote refuses to run.
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Thank you! This has fixed my problem. Is there a way to put in virtual
hosts into helohost? Though this isn't very important!
Thanks!
Alex
Russ Allbery writes:
> tonnage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Does anyone know how to either hardcode the HELO msg's or have it take
> > the host name from the "From:" field in an email?
>
> See the man page for qmail-remote:
>
> CONTROL FILES
> helohost
> Current host name, for use solely in saying hello to the remote
> SMTP server. Default: me, if that is supplied; otherwise
> qmail-remote refuses to run.
>
> --
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