qmail Digest 26 Apr 2000 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 983
Topics (messages 40598 through 40646):
Error at vpopmail
40598 by: Irwan Hadi
40633 by: Ken Jones
Re: Recipient MTA is rejecting bounces
40599 by: Yusuf Goolamabbas
40600 by: Petr Novotny
40616 by: Bruno Wolff III
40635 by: Russ Allbery
Qmail privacy
40601 by: Kent Nilsen
40611 by: Bob Rogers
40617 by: John D. Mitchell
40623 by: Dave Sill
40626 by: Andre Oppermann
40631 by: John D. Mitchell
Vpopmail error - No Mailbox
40602 by: snowcrash
40621 by: Ken Jones
Re: request for GNU (not djb) install info
40603 by: Joost van Baal
webfrontend for .qmail editing
40604 by: Robert Sander
Re: Qmail behind firewall question
40605 by: Vincent Danen
40607 by: Vincent Danen
40608 by: Vincent Danen
pop3 error
40606 by: Madhav
DNS setup
40609 by: Steve Peace
40610 by: Bob Rogers
Thanks, eric RE: queue-fix 1.4 won't compile on IRIX6.5.3m
40612 by: John McCoy, Jr
Redirection help!!
40613 by: jpatrick.writeme.com
Re: ezmlm response]
40614 by: rvz
Re: Qmail IMAP AND Pop3 recomendations
40615 by: Scott Gifford
Re: sendfail
40618 by: Kai MacTane
removing name from distribution list
40619 by: Vladislav.Valikhovsky.acs-gsg.com
Re: Internet mail
40620 by: R.Ilker Gokhan
40622 by: Dave Sill
40624 by: R.Ilker Gokhan
Re: install-help!
40625 by: Dave Sill
Re: temporary failure warning message
40627 by: Dave Sill
40634 by: Rogerio Brito
40636 by: Russ Allbery
40637 by: Peter Samuel
Re: Messages lost in queue?
40628 by: Dave Sill
Re: system start script
40629 by: Dave Sill
Re: some doubts in qmail
40630 by: Dave Sill
setup of local delivery
40632 by: Mikhail Kuzminsky
Login problems with courier-imap
40638 by: Kristina
40640 by: Andre Oppermann
40644 by: Kristina
40645 by: Chris Green
40646 by: Kristina
Re: How do I enable user nobody to use qmail-inject?
40639 by: Charles Werbick
Lotus Notes and qmail
40641 by: John White
chopped messages
40642 by: John Conover
40643 by: Peter Samuel
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I got this error by checking mail at vpopmail +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +OK -ERR aack, child crashed What this mean then ?, how to fix it ? this only happened when I use username, and not username@domain. but I;ve update the /vpopmail/users as the FAQ said. Thanks in advance ;) ------- AFLHI 058009990407128029/089802---(102598//991024)
Irwan Hadi wrote: > > I got this error by checking mail at vpopmail > +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > +OK > -ERR aack, child crashed > > What this mean then ?, how to fix it ? > this only happened when I use username, and not username@domain. > but I;ve update the /vpopmail/users as the FAQ said. > > Thanks in advance ;) > > ------- > AFLHI 058009990407128029/089802---(102598//991024) make sure your tcpserver for pop is running as root. ken jones inter7
> A bounce message bounced. When this happens, qmail generates a > double-bounce and tries to send it to the local postmaster address. It > uses the completely invalid envelope sender "#@[]" to ensure that > double-bounces can't then bounce again and generate mail loops. > > You apparently are forwarding postmaster mail to another system which is > doing resolveable name checks on envelope senders, and doesn't like > qmail's special double-bounce sender. That is true, However I changed the forwarding to another system which doesn't do resolveable name checks and yet the messages are continuing to go the old system. (I changed /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster) and restarted qmail. Is this appropiate ? What are the alternatives to clear these messages from the queue Also, Do people see the benifit in doing resolvable name checks. Doesn't it hurt in the above scenario Thanks, Yusuf
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 25 Apr 00, at 19:36, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote: > That is true, However I changed the forwarding to another system which > doesn't do resolveable name checks and yet the messages are continuing > to go the old system. (I changed /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster) > and restarted qmail. Is this appropiate ? Unless your /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto says other than postmaster, this is appropriate. However, that doesn't clear the messages that have already been forwarded from postmaster to elsewhere. > What are the alternatives to clear these messages from the queue Well, if they cause that much trouble, there are ways to delete them. But I'd think they're mostly harmless, unless there's too many of them. (In that case, search the archives of this list; there have been way too many questions "How to delete all messages to person/host ****?" answered.) > Also, Do people see the benifit in doing resolvable name checks. I personally don't think they give you much benefits; what do you do if you get temporary DNS error? Temporarily reject the mail? I wouldn't like to see much of that. However, there _are_ cases where it can help, I believe. And I also think that any mail administrator is smart enough to count the odds and evens :-) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBOQV3QVMwP8g7qbw/EQK8OwCeOXzSGVog+3HAjWO1vIYuDzoL66EAn19j l2YOboCp4/JbwNxODSWbpQQH =rWIB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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]
> Also, Do people see the benifit in doing resolvable name checks. Doesn't > it hurt in the above scenario It encourages spammers to abuse real domain names so that someone can sue them. There have been a couple of successful law suits over sending spam with someone else's domain name. It keeps the bounce on the injecting system. This keeps your postmaster from dealing with misconfigured email clients at other sites.
Yusuf Goolamabbas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That is true, However I changed the forwarding to another system which > doesn't do resolveable name checks and yet the messages are continuing > to go the old system. (I changed /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster) and > restarted qmail. Is this appropiate ? You didn't actually need to restart qmail. The problem that you're seeing is probably just that previous messages are already in the queue and qmail's already read the older .qmail file and figured out what addresses to send them to. It'll keep trying until they bounce, but all new messages should now be going to the new machine. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
Hello, I'm running qmail 1.01, which has been working perfectly for me. But once in a while a message double-bounces, and the message ends up in my mailbox. The problem is that the entire message, including the text of the mail and any attachments, ends up in my mailbox, which again means I can read other peoples mail if it qmail doesn't know where to send it. I can of course just be quiet about it and delete the mail as soon as I see it's not for my eyes, but it's still not fair to my users as I can potentially read private mail, and it's probably breaking some privacy law? I see some others here have had double bounces end up in their mailbox. Do you have access to the entire message as well? Any tips how to fix the "problem"? Kent R. Nilsen
From: "Kent Nilsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 13:57:27 +0200 Hello, I'm running qmail 1.01, which has been working perfectly for me. But once in a while a message double-bounces, and the message ends up in my mailbox. The problem is that the entire message, including the text of the mail and any attachments, ends up in my mailbox, which again means I can read other peoples mail if it qmail doesn't know where to send it. I can of course just be quiet about it and delete the mail as soon as I see it's not for my eyes, but it's still not fair to my users as I can potentially read private mail, and it's probably breaking some privacy law? There are confidentiality issues, certainly, but you should be educating your users that the only way to guarantee email privacy is to use PGP or equivalent -- in which case you would get content you couldn't decrypt. (Users also need to use valid return addresses when they send things, whether or not they want you to see their bounces.) I see some others here have had double bounces end up in their mailbox. Do you have access to the entire message as well? Any tips how to fix the "problem"? Kent R. Nilsen I'm of the opinion that it's better left alone. It is usually helpful for the user to see the content of their own bounces (in the single bounce case) in order to help discover what needs resending, and it's always helpful for sysadmins to see the content of double bounces so that they can distinguish spam from misconfigured local users. Speaking of which, I notice that your "from" address and your "reply-to" address are different . . . ? -- Bob Rogers
>>>>> "Kent" == Kent Nilsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...bounces include full-text of original message...] > I can of course just be quiet about it and delete the mail as soon as I > see it's not for my eyes, but it's still not fair to my users as I can > potentially read private mail, and it's probably breaking some privacy > law? Why on earth would you (or anyone :-) believe that email is private unless you explicitly make it so (by e.g., encrypting it)? Take care, John
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I see some others here have had double bounces end up in their >mailbox. Do you have access to the entire message as well? Any >tips how to fix the "problem"? You can use control/doublebounceto to direct double bounces to a special address that throws them away unread, strips the message bodies, or does some other processing. -Dave
"John D. Mitchell" wrote: > > >>>>> "Kent" == Kent Nilsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...bounces include full-text of original message...] > > I can of course just be quiet about it and delete the mail as soon as I > > see it's not for my eyes, but it's still not fair to my users as I can > > potentially read private mail, and it's probably breaking some privacy > > law? > > Why on earth would you (or anyone :-) believe that email is private unless > you explicitly make it so (by e.g., encrypting it)? Because it is supposed to be unless someone makes it public. And making it public is against the law at least in Europe. For example last month the supreme court of Switzerland has decided that emails are covered by the same secrecy of letters as traditional snail-mail letters. So the police has to obtain a court order to intercept, make copies and look at your emails. The same goes for the EU but it's not tested with an supreme court decision anywhere else AFAIK. -- Andre
Since this has nothing more to do with qmail, this will be my last public post on this. I'll reply privately in anything further. >>>>> "Andre" == Andre Oppermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>>> "John D. Mitchell" writes: [...] >> Why on earth would you (or anyone :-) believe that email is private >> unless you explicitly make it so (by e.g., encrypting it)? > Because it is supposed to be unless someone makes it public. Define "supposed to be"? Nothing in the protocols gives a crap about privacy. If you're sending email across an open network with no real control over who is going to receive a copy of the message and you *expect* privacy then you're insane -- of course, nobody (in their right mind :-) is accusing people/governments/etc. of actually acting rationally or with a clue. :-) > And making it public is against the law at least in Europe. Who said anything about "making it public". "Not public" != "private" in precisely the case that this qmail user has brought up. He's getting the bounce messages because that can be helpful in fixing a broken email system. The fact that he may (inadvertently) read the core content of the message while reading the bounce message means that the message is no longer "private" but it's certainly not (yet :-) be made "public". > For example last month the supreme court of Switzerland has decided that > emails are covered by the same secrecy of letters as traditional > snail-mail letters. So the police has to obtain a court order to > intercept, make copies and look at your emails. The same goes for the EU > but it's not tested with an supreme court decision anywhere else AFAIK. Well, to the extent that the law coincides with the reality of how email actually works that's swell. Relying on "the law" to protect your privacy is just plain foolishness. Take care, John
I installed the RPM source files provided by Bruce Guenter and added the vpopmail package from inter7.com. After the initial installation everything appeared to be working properly. However, about a week later I started recieving an error message "Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name." This is happening on every user on every virtual domain I created. These users all exist.. and as I stated before.. worked fine. I haven't changed anything and have no idea where to start looking to solve the problem. Anyone have some ideas? Daniel Daley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
snowcrash wrote: > > I installed the RPM source files provided by Bruce Guenter and added the > vpopmail package from inter7.com. After the initial installation everything > appeared to be working properly. However, about a week later I started > recieving an error message "Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name." This is > happening on every user on every virtual domain I created. These users all > exist.. and as I stated before.. worked fine. I haven't changed anything > and have no idea where to start looking to solve the problem. Anyone have > some ideas? > > Daniel Daley > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check for a cron job that rebuilds /var/qmail/users/assign. It may be over writting the file. Ken Jones Inter7
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 11:52:25AM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote: > From: Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Qmail List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mail-Followup-To: Qmail List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This is a bit offtopic: I was about to upload an init/run scripts > package when I noticed they would not work properly. The reason: the > install and mkdir programs of the GNU fileutils package on RH 6.1 do > not handle special bits properly. Consider On Debian GNU/Linux, version 2.2, which comes with fileutils 4.0l, I see mkdir behaving properly, while install seems broken: root@nagy /tmp/c# install -d -m2755 install root@nagy /tmp/c# mkdir -p -m2755 mkdir root@nagy /tmp/c# ls -ld install mkdir drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Apr 25 14:28 install drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 1024 Apr 25 14:28 mkdir On a SuSE 6.3 box, with fileutils 4.0, the result is: drwxr-xr-x 2 vanbaal users 1024 Apr 25 14:39 install drwxr-xr-x 2 vanbaal users 1024 Apr 25 14:39 mkdir I think mkdir was fixed in 4.0l, the fileutils changelog says: 1999-11-17 Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * src/mkdir.c (S_IRWXUGO): Define if necessary. (main): Use chmod to set the permissions if bits other than those of S_IRWXUGO were requested. Reported by Sami Farin. Apparently, this fix didn't make it into install.c. I'll report a bug against it. Thanks for pointing this out. Let's mail followups to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bye, Joost van Baal
Hi All! I am searching for a webfrontend for editing the .qmail Files. I do not need a complete Webmail-system or something similar. User should be able to log in using their browsers and then edit their .qmail files. I have not find anything searching the qmail.org site and if there is no such thing, I have to do the work. Greetings -- Robert Sander www.gurubert.de
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Peter Samuel wrote: > > Hello. I just setup a server for my father and I installed qmail because > > I use it here and it works great. His situation is a little different > > from my own, however. POP3 works great starting from inetd, but qmail > > gives errors. The error I get is: > > > > tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out port number for geceventures.com > > > > I'm starting qmail-smtpd with: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > QMAILUID=`id -u qmaild` > > NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` > > exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \ > > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcprules.d/smtpd.cdb \ > > -u $QMAILUID -g $NOFILESGID geceventures.com 25 \ > > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 > > Does "geveventures.com" resolve to an IP address? Yes. > Change "geceventures.com" to the IP address of the interfce you wish > to bind to, or make it 0 if you would like to bind to all available > interfaces. Ok, changed it to 0 and I get this in the logfile: tcpserver: fatal: no IP address for 504 Changed it to 10.1.1.2 (which is it's IP address) and I get: tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out port number for 10.1.1.2 I kept the SMTP port field to 25 (as above). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer Burn: http://www.freezer-burn.org
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Dave Sill wrote: > >tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out port number for geceventures.com > > > >I'm starting qmail-smtpd with: > > > >#!/bin/sh > >QMAILUID=`id -u qmaild` > >NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` > >exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \ > > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcprules.d/smtpd.cdb \ > > -u $QMAILUID -g $NOFILESGID geceventures.com 25 \ > > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 > > Make that "echo exec...", run it, verify that the expanded command is > correct--especially the UID and GID. dOh! That helped... I had accidentally put $QMAILDUID instead of $QMAILUID so the -u parameter was empty. Thank you, David! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer Burn: http://www.freezer-burn.org
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Dave Kitabjian wrote: > What about removing the "exec" completely? > > I don't see why exec is necessary, and I don't know if your script > variables will be passed into the new process created by the exec. No, the exec part is ok. I had put a type-o in one of the variables. It works now, just tried it and it delivers mail ok. <phew> Dang my eyes! =) Thanks people. Appreciate the help. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer Burn: http://www.freezer-burn.org
Hi all, I have installed qmail in one machine using rpms from "bruceg-qmail+patches" and it is working fine. Now I installed qmail in a new machine using the same rpms. Both installations are identical. I looked into them carefully. I couln't find any difference. The problem is pop3 is not working properly in the new machine. It is giving authentication failure error when I am trying to retrive mails through a pop3 client. But mails are getting delivered into /Maildir/new. Only retrieval is giving problem. I tried telnetting to port 110 in this machine. It says authentication failure and connection closed. Can anyone tell me what the problem is. Thanks in advance, Madhav
From: "Steve Peace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 09:58:34 -0400 . . . I know that I need to have entries the files in /var/qmail/control, but I am not certain what entries, and what files need to be changed. /var/qmail/control/locals and /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts -- put your new domain(s) there. If I had more time, I would love to figure it out more on my own, but the wonderful world of business dictates that everything be done by yesterday. Any help would greatly be appreciated. Steve Peace This is the F-est of FAQs; it has been asked three or four times in the last few weeks. People tend to ignore repetitive posts, and so you are likely to get faster response by checking the archives. P.S. This list is great resource and everyone has been extremely helpful to a qmail newbie like myself. No argument here. -- Bob Rogers
I was afraid of that, looks like I need to do an emergency queue rebuild instead, without re-importing the old queue. ************************************* John McCoy, Jr Systems Administrator Central Systems, Mills College 510-430-3321 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************* -----Original Message----- From: Eric Huss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 8:28 PM To: John McCoy, Jr Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: queue-fix 1.4 won't compile on IRIX6.5.3m Sounds like a bug in the Irix linker. Try looking to your OS vendor for patches. Or you can try installing gnu binutils (and then recompiling gcc instructing it to use the binutils version of ld). However, this is a tricky and dangerous path to take. -Eric > Unfortunately I'm still new to all this, I have made sure I have the latest > versions of gcc++ and it's libraries. I've been able to compile the program > on Solaris 2.6 & 7 boxes without a problem, however the broken queue is on > the SGI box. > > Has any body tried this under IRIX? > Eric you mentioned libraries from D.J. Bernstein, do I need to get these? > Can I use qmail-sanity's output and go in and delete files manually, > instead? > > Help I'm desperate, my maillog file grows by 1Meg every couple hours!!!
Hope someone can help a qmail newbie with incoming mail redirection. I only have control of my .qmail-default file. All 5 domains are handled by this one .qmail-default file. It looks like this: |vdeliver Hosting company uses Virtual Manager to deliver email Need the following to take place: Any incoming email that has the following: *@domain1.com <redirected to> [EMAIL PROTECTED] *@domain1.net <redirected to> [EMAIL PROTECTED] *@domain1.org <redirected to> [EMAIL PROTECTED] *@domain2.net <redirected to> [EMAIL PROTECTED] *@domain2.org <redirected to> [EMAIL PROTECTED] *=wildcard Yes I have set 5 domain1.com POP accounts. My hosting company will NOT help me with redirecting email to a certain address. So I've searched the qmail mailing list but have not found exactly what I'm looking for. Maybe this: |conredirect [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ "$TO" = "${DEFAULT}@domain1.com" ] |conredirect [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ "$TO" = "${DEFAULT}@domain1.net" ] |conredirect [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ "$TO" = "${DEFAULT}@domain1.org" ] |conredirect [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ "$TO" = "${DEFAULT}@domain2.net" ] |conredirect [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ "$TO" = "${DEFAULT}@domain2.org" ] |vdeliver I would still have to have what is presently in my .qmail-default file?? Would this create a Loop?????? Hope someone can help. -Patrick ------------------------------------------------------------- Get free personalized email at http://www.switchboardmail.com
> I'm in the process of migrating about 1500 accounts from Netscape > SuiteSpot mail server to a qmail/vpopmail/ezmlm-idx/etc environment, > and am having a bit of trouble with moving from the old to new mailbox > (maildir actually) format. Anyone ever dealt with this particular > scenario > before? If so, would love to hear any pointers. > > Thanks, > rvz
Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. This is a generic help message. The message I received wasn't sent to any of my command addresses. See http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html for more information about qmail. Please read http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail/faq.html before sending your question to the qmail mailing list. --- Here are the ezmlm command addresses. I can handle administrative requests automatically. Just send an empty note to any of these addresses: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Receive future messages sent to the mailing list. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Stop receiving messages. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Retrieve a copy of message 12345 from the archive. DO NOT SEND ADMINISTRATIVE REQUESTS TO THE MAILING LIST! If you do, I won't see them, and subscribers will yell at you. To specify [EMAIL PROTECTED] as your subscription address, send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I'll send a confirmation message to that address; when you receive that message, simply reply to it to complete your subscription. --- Below this line is a copy of the request I received. Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: (qmail 17218 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2000 14:58:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.busynet.net) (63.90.203.1) by muncher.math.uic.edu with SMTP; 25 Apr 2000 14:58:21 -0000 Received: from n9.org ([63.90.203.11]) by mail2.busynet.net (Netscape Messaging Server 3.56) with ESMTP id 1197 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 10:03:33 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 10:02:20 -0500 From: rvz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Migration from Netscape SuiteSpot to qmail Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm in the process of migrating about 1500 accounts from Netscape SuiteSpot mail server to a qmail/vpopmail/ezmlm-idx/etc environment, and am having a bit of trouble with moving from the old to new mailbox (maildir actually) format. Anyone ever dealt with this particular scenario before? If so, would love to hear any pointers. Thanks, rvz
"Peter Janett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's all working OK, but now I need to be able to access the accounts via > IMAP. I have been looking into Courier-IMAP, but if possible, I'd like the > IMAP server to use the same checkpasswd I'm using for POP3 access. I solved this problem with a hack. I wrote a script to run before checkpassword and clean up what imaplogin sends to it, then another program to clean up what checkpassword does and set up the environment how imapd expects it. I start up tcpserver like this. The interesting lines are the preimap.pl, checkpassword, and postimap.pl lines. I also use POP-style bulletins, which is the qmail-popbull line; you may not need it in your environment. ( nohup supervise /var/supervise/qmail/imap.143 \ tcpserver -R -c 100 -v \ -u 400 -g 400 \ 0 143 \ ${exec_prefix}/sbin/imaplogin \ /usr/tools/src/imaptest/preimap.pl \ /var/qmail/bin/checkpassword \ /usr/tools/src/imaptest/postimap.pl \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popbull /var/qmail/bulletins \ ${exec_prefix}/bin/imapd Maildir & ) preimap.pl and postimap.pl are as follows: ------preimap.pl--------- #!/usr/local/bin/perl use POSIX; open(AUTHIN,"<&=3"); @lines=<AUTHIN>; close(AUTHIN); ($fdR,$fdW) = POSIX::pipe() or die "Couldn't create pipe: $!\n"; defined($pid=fork()) or die "Couldn't fork: $!\n"; if (!$pid) { # Child POSIX::dup2(3,$fdR); POSIX::close($fdW); exec(@ARGV); die "Couldn't exec: $!\n"; } open(AUTHOUT,">&=$fdW") or die "Couldn't open fd #$fdW as AUTHOUT: $!\n"; # Ignore first two shift(@lines); shift(@lines); grep(s/\n/\0/,@lines); print AUTHOUT @lines, "Y123456\0"; close(AUTHOUT); #exit(0); ----- -----postimap.pl----- #!/usr/local/bin/perl delete $ENV{AUTHUSER}; $ENV{AUTHADDR}="test\@test"; $ENV{AUTHFULLNAME}=""; delete $ENV{AUTHEXPIRE}; $ENV{AUTHENTICATED}="yes"; exec(@ARGV) or print "exec failed!: $!\n"; -----
At 4/24/2000 09:22 PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote or quoted: >I often wonder what the Internet would be like without the various people >who have made the Internet what it is: Dan Bernstein, Linus Torvalds, Jon >Postel. I hate to point this out, especially here, but Eric Allman is also one of the people who made the Internet what it is. Sendmail runs in an awful lot of places. The Morris Worm of '88 wouldn't have been possible without Allman's software. Like it or not, I believe he does belong on that list. (As do Thompson, Kernighan, Ritchie, Cerf and Wall.) >Oops, check that. We now know what the Internet is like without Jon. No kidding. I had high hopes for ICANN, but they've been pretty well dashed. I definitely preferred IANA. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Kai MacTane System Administrator Online Partners.com, Inc. ----------------------------------------------------------------- From the Jargon File: (v4.0.0, 25 Jul 1996) finger trouble /n./ Mistyping, typos, or generalized keyboard incompetence (this is surprisingly common among hackers, given the amount of time they spend at keyboards). "I keep putting colons at the end of statements instead of semicolons", "Finger trouble again, eh?".
After having sent the "unsubscribe" request, I am still receiving messages from the mailing list. I followed the instructions bellow to have my name removed from the mailing list. What else do I need to do to stop receiving these messages? Thanks, Vladislav Valikhovsky --->>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Stop receiving messages.
Title: RE: Internet mailHelp me please!!!!1-----Original Message-----
From: R.Ilker Gokhan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 3:29 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Internet mailHi all,
Ok. I am changing my question. I assume I have two Qmail server.user name Qmail hostname Qmail hostname
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>deneme.test.com---------> deneme2.test.com--------> internetI want to set if deneme.test.com receive a request e-mail to internet (for example [EMAIL PROTECTED]) it forwards to deneme2.test.com.
How can I set this configuration?
Thanks in advance..Ilker G.
-----Original Message-----
From: R.Ilker Gokhan
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 4:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Internet mailHi to all,
I have a mail system that is MS Exchange server 5.5 at the local sites. I 'm using INC (Internet mail connector) on Exchange server for internet mail. . I'm using NT4.0 on local and remote sites. I 've wanted to use Qmail on the remote sides so I 've installed qmail1.03 (without any patch) to use on remote sites to posting and getting mail with the local sites via SMTP and POP3 protocol. Any user on the remote site can posting mail to any user on the local sites or getting. But remote site's user can't send any mail to the internet. In the same way they can't get any mail. I have MX entry for MS Exchange on DNS. I've scan FAQ but I couldn't find any information about this.Shortly, I mean that:
site users-------------------->qmail server-------------------------->MS Exchange server----------------------->InternetHow can I set this smtproutes to internet mail?
Thanks for helps
Ilker G.
"R.Ilker Gokhan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Help me please!!!!1 I'll try. >Ok. I am changing my question. I assume I have two Qmail server. > >user name Qmail hostname Qmail >hostname >[EMAIL PROTECTED]>deneme.test.com---------> >deneme2.test.com--------> internet > >I want to set if deneme.test.com receive a request e-mail to internet (for >example [EMAIL PROTECTED]) it forwards to deneme2.test.com. > >How can I set this configuration? You have two qmail hosts: deneme.test.com and deneme2.test.com. Users submit mail to deneme.test.com. If the mail is not for a local recipient, you want it forwarded to deneme2.test.com? If that's right, set up deneme.test.com with the usual control files, then create control/smtproutes with the following: :deneme2.test.com That says "deliver all remote mail to deneme2.test.com". -Dave
Title: RE: Internet mailThank you very much for reply... i will try immediately..
see you....
Ilker G.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 8:14 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Internet mail
"R.Ilker Gokhan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Help me please!!!!1
I'll try.
>Ok. I am changing my question. I assume I have two Qmail server.
>
>user name Qmail hostname Qmail
>hostname
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]>deneme.test.com--------->
>deneme2.test.com--------> internet
>
>I want to set if deneme.test.com receive a request e-mail to internet (for
>example [EMAIL PROTECTED]) it forwards to deneme2.test.com.
>
>How can I set this configuration?You have two qmail hosts: deneme.test.com and deneme2.test.com. Users
submit mail to deneme.test.com. If the mail is not for a local
recipient, you want it forwarded to deneme2.test.com?If that's right, set up deneme.test.com with the usual control files,
then create control/smtproutes with the following::deneme2.test.com
That says "deliver all remote mail to deneme2.test.com".
-Dave
"suresh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >./compile qmail-local.c > >/usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed > >*** Error code 1 > >make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `qmail-local.o' > >Is the language software necassary(i got no such cd) or can i loda a >different compiler and try The message you're getting is telling you that you haven't installed Sun's C compiler, which is an extra-cost, unbundled product. You can either buy it and install it, or install a free compiler such as GCC. If you install GCC, you'll need to modify conf-cc and conf-ld to point to "gcc" instead of "cc". -Dave
Kai MacTane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >As things stand with qmail right now, a user sending mail through qmail >gets one of three things: > >1) A successful delivery. >2) A bounce message (liable to happen within a few minutes under most > circumstances). >3) An eventual failure (which takes queuelifetime). There are, of course, other failure modes that will not result in a bounce. The SMTP protocol just wasn't designed to be perfectly reliable. We can whine about that, dream up various mechanisms to improve reliability, and write code to implement them, but in the end the situation won't really change. A reliable SMTP would no longer be SMTP. We'd need new MTA's and MUA's supporting the new protocol. It'd take years to define the protocol and develop the first implementations. It'd take more years for every system on the Internet to upgrade to the new protocol. A quick cost/benefit analysis shows that it ain't gonna happen. >In the case of a failure to deliver, the user will not get *any* warning >about it until queuelifetime has passed. I think that the option to have >qmail (or a plug-in or add-on program) deliver a message back to the user >stating that the message hasn't gone through yet, after an >admin-configurable length of time (presumably somewhere from 4-24 hours), >would be a useful thing. There is, as has already been pointed out, a patch that does this. Unfortunately, that patch has been orphaned. I still think that if nondelivery warnings are done at all, they should be generated at the time of the first failed attempt. E.g.,: Hi. This is your friendly neighborhood mailer. I just tried to deliver your message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] But I was unable to reach example.com. I'll keep trying to delivery the message occasionally for (queuelifetime/(3600*24)) days. If you don't hear from me again before then, your message was delivered. >This isn't necessarily a qmail feature request, since I can see a strong >case to be made for having this be an add-on. But it is a dissenting view >that I thought should be aired, because I'd like to counterbalance the view >I see here of "Messages like that are horrible; why would anyone want them?" I think they're annoying but I would never question anyone's right to have the feature. -Dave
On Apr 25 2000, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'd also significantly reduce the queue lifetime; honestly, if the > message can't be delivered in two or three days, most e-mail users > these days seem to have already concluded it will never get there > and get really confused when it comes through. If you're considering less than seven days for queuelifetime, do set it to at least four days -- it's frequently the case where a message was not delivered because some computer failed on a Friday afternoon and it can only be replaced/fixed on Monday morning and e-mails can't be delivered in the mean time... :-( So, three days may be a little short. Or should this mean that secondary MXs, once fought against begin to become a necessary condition? []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogerio Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/ Nectar homepage: http://www.linux.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/opeth/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Rogerio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, three days may be a little short. Or should this mean that > secondary MXs, once fought against begin to become a necessary > condition? I use secondary MXes for all of my e-mail precisely because I want control over the queuing if a system goes down. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Rogerio Brito wrote: > > If you're considering less than seven days for queuelifetime, > do set it to at least four days -- it's frequently the case > where a message was not delivered because some computer failed > on a Friday afternoon and it can only be replaced/fixed on > Monday morning and e-mails can't be delivered in the mean > time... :-( > > So, three days may be a little short. Or should this mean that > secondary MXs, once fought against begin to become a necessary > condition? Good point. Here in Oz we've just had a 5 day weekend, thanks to Easter falling late and ANZAC day coming straight after Easter. Choose a value appropriate to your environment. 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"
Aled Treharne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We had a power failure here the other day, and since then I'm getting >messages like this one in the log file: > >Apr 24 09:57:16 marilyn qmail: 956588236.339152 warning: trouble opening >remote/15/551670; will try again later >Apr 24 09:57:20 marilyn qmail: 956588240.349218 warning: trouble opening >info/22/554598; will try again later >Apr 24 09:57:42 marilyn qmail: 956588262.359546 warning: trouble opening >remote/4/551705; will try again later > >What can I do to fix this? The files in question don't exist. Run qmail-sanity or queue-fix, both available from www.qmail.org. -Dave
Zhiliang Hu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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? Are you sure qmail wasn't started? Maybe it started, but because you didn't "nohup" it, it was killed when the startup shell exited. Are you sure the startup script was run? Stick a: env >/tmp/qmail-startup at the top of the file and reboot. Then look for /tmp/qmail-startup. >BTW, I am new so I am not on your list yet. Please reply to me >directly -- Thanks!! Done. -Dave
"Madhav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >1. The following is the assign file i have. here the first field is the mail >address, 2nd user name(linux > user). > my problem is i am able to recieve mails sent to both the linux user >and the mailaddress (in my > case [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]). whereas i want to >recieve mails > addressed to madhav only (ie those addressed to mail addresses > only). The qmail-users mechanism allows to add aliases, but it doesn't prevent delivery to other deliverable addresses. If you want to make mail to a valid user bounce, set up an assign entry to redirect it to a ~alias/.qmail-nosuchuser containing: |bouncesaying "no such user" >2. my mail clients will be accessing mails only through pop and smtp for >receiving and sending mails. for every mail user is it mandatory to >create a linux user? No, there are various "virtual user" solutions available from www.qmail.org. -Dave
Dear netters, I'm newbie in Qmail world. I've installed Qmail 1.03 & fastforward 0.51 under SGI O2/IRIX 6.3. But I didn't find in docs an answers to few questions about local mail delivery. 1) Is it possible (and how) to setup Qmail and fastforward with /bin/mail as a local delivery agent *and* deliver all the mail messages to particular user - blah , for example, - to pipe like |usr/people/blah/program > /usr/people/blah/blahfile ? 2) Is it possible (and how) to setup qmail-local (as local delivery agent) to deliver a) mail for any user to /var/mail/user b) but excluding user blah - for which mail should be transferred to pipe |/usr/people/blah/program > /usr/people/blah/blahfile ? Thanks for help ! Mikhail Kuzminsky Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry Moscow
I have courier-imap compiled correctly on Solaris7 but when I try to login I get, "Connection closed by foreign host.". In the syslog I only get, " imaplogin: Connection, ip=[127.0.0.1]" When I give the correct username and password I get the "connection closed" error. When I enter a wrong username andpassword I do get the expected "Login incorrect" error....which means imap is authenticating. Any hints would be great. Please note that I have not made any configuration changes to imap following compilation. Perhaps imap requires some configuration in some files??? Thanks Kristina *****************Actual output: (Note: "ldaptest" is hostname) root@ldaptest(29)%telnet ldaptest imap Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2000 Double Precision, Inc. See COP YING for distribution information. 1 login kristina password Connection closed by foreign host. ****************Actual output in syslog: Apr 25 15:30:57 ldaptest imaplogin: Connection, ip=[127.0.0.1]
Kristina wrote: > > I have courier-imap compiled correctly on Solaris7 but when I try to login I > get, > "Connection closed by foreign host.". In the syslog I only get, > " imaplogin: Connection, ip=[127.0.0.1]" > > When I give the correct username and password I get the "connection closed" > error. When I enter a wrong username andpassword I do get the expected > "Login incorrect" error....which means imap is authenticating. > > Any hints would be great. > Please note that I have not made any configuration changes to imap following > compilation. > Perhaps imap requires some configuration in some files??? Are you using the auth_imap authentication module from qmail-ldap? -- Andre
No I am not using the auth_imap authentication module yet because I can't even get courier-imap to work using default authentication. Although, my ultimate goal is to use the auth_imap module I can't get courier-imap working with /etc/passwd. Any help appreciated as to why I am getting "connection closed" as soon enter the correct username an password! Has anyone got courier-imap running correctly on Solaris 7? Do I need to configure anything after compilation? Thanks, Kristina At 03:03 00/04/26 +0200, you wrote: > Kristina wrote: > > > > I have courier-imap compiled correctly on Solaris7 but when I try to login I > > get, > > "Connection closed by foreign host.". In the syslog I only get, > > " imaplogin: Connection, ip=[127.0.0.1]" > > > > When I give the correct username and password I get the "connection clos ed" > > error. When I enter a wrong username andpassword I do get the expected > > "Login incorrect" error....which means imap is authenticating. > > > > Any hints would be great. > > Please note that I have not made any configuration changes to imap following > > compilation. > > Perhaps imap requires some configuration in some files??? > > Are you using the auth_imap authentication module from qmail-ldap? > > -- > Andre >
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 09:31:09AM +0900, Kristina wrote: > I have courier-imap compiled correctly on Solaris7 but when I try to login I > get, > "Connection closed by foreign host.". In the syslog I only get, > " imaplogin: Connection, ip=[127.0.0.1]" > > When I give the correct username and password I get the "connection closed" > error. When I enter a wrong username andpassword I do get the expected > "Login incorrect" error....which means imap is authenticating. > > Any hints would be great. > Please note that I have not made any configuration changes to imap following > compilation. > Perhaps imap requires some configuration in some files??? > Yes it does, you need to edit one or two entries in imapd.config, in particular you need to set ADDRESS to your real IP address. -- Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.isbd.co.uk/
Thankyou. I have changed the IP Address in imapd.config but I still get the same "connection closed" error when I login to imap. Besides IP Address, what else needs to be changed in imapd.config to get it up and running? Any hints would be great, Kristina At 09:09 00/04/26 +0100, you wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 09:31:09AM +0900, Kristina wrote: > > I have courier-imap compiled correctly on Solaris7 but when I try to login I > > get, > > "Connection closed by foreign host.". In the syslog I only get, > > " imaplogin: Connection, ip=[127.0.0.1]" > > > > When I give the correct username and password I get the "connection clos ed" > > error. When I enter a wrong username andpassword I do get the expected > > "Login incorrect" error....which means imap is authenticating. > > > > Any hints would be great. > > Please note that I have not made any configuration changes to imap following > > compilation. > > Perhaps imap requires some configuration in some files??? > > > Yes it does, you need to edit one or two entries in imapd.config, in > particular you need to set ADDRESS to your real IP address. > > -- > Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WWW: http://www.isbd.co.uk/ >
Geoff, Is it feasable for you to run Apache as your qmail user/group? Or do you have other stuff on that server too? Regards, Charles Werbick The Wirehouse -----Original Message----- From: Geoff Everist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 02:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How do I enable user nobody to use qmail-inject? Charles Werbick wrote: > > Geoff, > You permissions do indeed seem correct. Are there any log messages? > > Regards, > Charles Werbick > The Wirehouse Hrm....curiouser and curiouser.... It all appears to be tied up with environment settings. There is typically only one Qmail environment setting on my system, that is QMAILMFTFILE, which is set to ~username/.lists. When I was testing previously, I was using su username, which preserves the current environment variables. Clearly the new user will not have permissions to access the file set in QMAILMFTFILE, and therefore is bombing out around here somewhere: x = env_get("QMAILMFTFILE"); if (!x) return; r = control_readfile(&mft,x,0); if (r == -1) die_read(); /*XXX*/ if (!r) return; If I use su - nobody, I am no longer getting the error doing it manually and the message is being send according to the logs (i.e. everything looks normal). Which takes me back to my original problem. I having problems sending mail with IMP. I _thought_ it may have been the user nobody problem, but clearly it is not. Basically it appears to send mail, but all I get is the dreaded qmail-inject: fatal: read error message in my apache error log, and the mail disappears into the void. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your help so far, Cheers Geoff Everist
Anyone manage Lotus Notes on their Enterprise? I'm wondering if it's possible to use the groupware features (shared calendar, etc) of Notes while maintaining qmail as the smtp and pop server... John
I'm trying to run down a problem with MS software, (particularly Outlook,) where large email attachments are being chopped into many small messages. I was told that an MTA, like qmail, can ask the MUA to do such things. Is this true? Thanks, John -- John Conover [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.johncon.com/ 631 Lamont Ct. Tel. 408.370.2688 http://www.johncon.com/ntropix/ Campbell, CA 95008 Fax. 408.379.9602 http://www.johncon.com/nformatix/
On 26 Apr 2000, John Conover wrote: > > I'm trying to run down a problem with MS software, (particularly > Outlook,) where large email attachments are being chopped into many > small messages. > > I was told that an MTA, like qmail, can ask the MUA to do such things. > > Is this true? No. qmail doesn't _ask_ the sending system ANYTHING. qmail will _tell_ the sending system certain things, if configured to do so. For example, if qmail-smtpd has been configured to reject messages above a certain size (as defined by the numeric value in /var/qmail/control/databytes, or the DATABYTES environment variable) it will tell the remote system that the message is too big. If the remote system is smart enough to realise why it can't send the message, then it can choose to send it in smaller chunks. The remote system will have to have intelligence sufficient to understand many different MTA error messages. Such intelligence is beyond the scope of qmail (and probably outlook as well). 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"
