qmail Digest 2 Jul 2001 10:00:00 -0000 Issue 1413
Topics (messages 65281 through 65299):
Re: courier-imapd, folders and delivery
65281 by: Peter Schuller
Qmail configration
65282 by: Leonardo Quirini
65283 by: Thorkild Stray
Qmail/tcpserver woes
65284 by: Matt Hubbard
65288 by: MarkD
Re: Qmail logging problems with Lifewithqmail directions
65285 by: Gary Townsend
Re: Solaris vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD
65286 by: Stuart Krivis
65287 by: Stuart Krivis
65289 by: Adam McKenna
MX record in DNS and Qmail
65290 by: alexus
65291 by: Henning Brauer
65292 by: alexus
^M character at the end of each line
65293 by: Thum Chee Weng, Ronnie
65294 by: Csaba Bobak
Big - to - do patch not much useful
65295 by: D Rajesh
multilog problem
65296 by: Lorac Thelmwood
qmail-send cpu and imapd / Maildir
65297 by: Will Yardley
[Partially OT] Getmail with SSL
65298 by: Leonardo Quirini
High Volume....
65299 by: Xavier Pegenaute
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> > I want to switch from POP3 to IMAP (finally).
>
> I cannot imagine why any enterprise would want to switch from POP3 to
> IMAP. They are designed to do completely different things. POP3
> exists to get the email the heck off your server as quickly as
> possible, whereas IMAP is designed to keep the email on your server
> forever.
>
> Unless you chose the wrong protocol in the first place, why are you
> switching?
Firstly, I'm not an enterprise :)
Secondly, POP3 is easily chosen because it's more compatible in general.
There are hardly any MUA:s out there that doesn't support it properly, while
the same is not true for IMAP. I've switched to IMAP because it gives me
more freedom to switch MUAs and access my mail from anywhere with an IMAP
capable client.
Wheather the mail is stored locally or on the server doesn't make much
difference in my cast, except in so far as it affects availability.
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Hi everyone,
i have a question: on my laptop i've installed qmail, and i want to
configure it for this scenario: i can use a ppp connection (at home) and a
ethernet connection (at the university). The mail servers are obiovously
different...
I want qmail to distinguish when sending mail between the two connections
on the fly (without scripts to be run at command line if possible), and use the
correct smtp server. I've find some docs for the two single case, but
nothing for the situation over.
How can i do ? :)
TIA
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Leonardo Quirini
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On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Leonardo Quirini wrote:
>Hi everyone, i have a question: on my laptop i've installed qmail, and i
>want to configure it for this scenario: i can use a ppp connection (at
>home) and a ethernet connection (at the university). The mail servers
>are obiovously different... I want qmail to distinguish when sending
>mail between the two connections on the fly (without scripts to be run
>at command line if possible), and use the correct smtp server. I've find
>some docs for the two single case, but nothing for the situation over.
>How can i do ? :)
If you're using DHCP, simply make the dhcp client change the value in
smtproutes according to which address it obtains.
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Thorkild
Greetings all,
I've come across a situation that has me a bit confused and with a system
that is effectively down at the moment. Here is what has occurred thus far:
I've had a LWQ setup running for about 4 months now without issue. Over this
time, I've accumulated 22k email boxes on 8k domains. Last week, I made a
mistake that should've been a temporary issue that has ballooned into a
serious situation. The rcpthosts file was deleted, which, of course, made
the box start to reject email. I rebuilt the rcpthosts list the next
morning, and expected all to be well. Soon after the reload, we began to see
our SMTP service go painfully slow, only allowing a trickle of emails to get
in. So the rcpthosts list going blank and then being rebuilt is not the
problem, but I suspect that due to unrelated misconfiguration, the box was
unprepared to handle the backlog of email due to the 10 hours of downtime(or
it was just coincidence).
I have noticed that if I do a "qmail stop" and then a "qmail start", about
20 successful SMTP connections immediately come in, and then even though
qmail is still running, no more connections can get thru. If I leave it be,
then they will very slowly come in over time. When looking at a "netstat" I
see the following:
[...several more pop3 connections...]
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:pop3 66.74.215.231:4542
TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:pop3 66.74.215.231:4542
TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:pop3 24.167.206.98:1240
TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:pop3 65.4.131.26:1247
TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:pop3 208.191.34.40:3539
TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:pop3 65.4.131.26:1246
TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:pop3 65.4.131.26:1245
TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:pop3 65.11.146.164:1121
TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:pop3 65.4.131.26:1246
TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:pop3 65.4.131.26:1245
TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:pop3 65.11.146.164:1121
TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:pop3 c327691-a.grnsbrg1:1071
TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:pop3 65.11.146.164:1118
TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:pop3 adsl-80-40-124.mia:4278
TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:pop3 65.24.43.27:2869
TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:pop3 65.24.43.27:2869
TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:pop3 64.68.236.161:3033
TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:pop3 208.191.34.40:3536
TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:pop3 ool-18b88b07.dyn.o:1951
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:pop3 ool-18b88b07.dyn.o:1948
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 208.162.63.130:2439
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 64.211.240.238:37129
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 64.211.240.238:37129
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 208.50.170.31:4152
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 192.147.236.1:4795
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 64.211.240.238:37118
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 64.211.240.238:37106
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 208.50.153.24:54923
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 206.64.128.6:40610
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 206.64.128.6:40610
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 139.76.67.20:42768
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 64.4.9.55:3234
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 207.69.200.157:8125
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 205.184.38.2:44352
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 207.217.120.14:53273
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 210.118.246.250:2886
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 64.211.240.232:13211
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 209.208.202.178:3833
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 208.50.144.69:5865
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 148.233.27.132:4087
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 207.150.192.30:1066
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 208.184.37.231:3667 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 65.10.73.142:36399 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 148.233.27.132:4087
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 207.150.192.30:1066
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 208.48.26.72:8948 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 205.150.6.55:3250 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp mail1.stofanet.dk:1521 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 216.33.156.140:63931 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp mail-out.chello.n:21159 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 216.33.156.140:63933 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 216.33.149.107:2532 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 207.217.120.14:57736 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 208.237.254.8:1189 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 207.151.14.107:3166 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 64.12.136.161:57745 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 204.86.96.11:39465 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 200.42.0.148:2089 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 65.32.1.39:64871 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 208.237.254.8:1190 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 209.87.128.98:3944 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 207.0.62.253:1169 SYN_RECV
[...several more smtp connections in the SYN_RECV state...]
A few minutes later, I did another "netstat". For brevity, here are the
"established smtp" connections reported this second time:
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 208.162.63.130:2439
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 64.211.240.238:37129
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 208.50.170.31:4152
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 192.147.236.1:4795
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 64.211.240.238:37118
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 64.211.240.238:37106
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 208.50.153.24:54923
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 206.64.128.6:40610
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 139.76.67.20:42768
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 64.4.9.55:3234
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 207.69.200.157:8125
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 205.184.38.2:44352
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 207.217.120.14:53273
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 210.118.246.250:2886
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 212.29.65.201:3937
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 64.37.73.213:41102
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 64.211.240.232:13211
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 209.208.202.178:3833
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 208.50.144.69:5865
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 148.233.27.132:4087
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 207.150.192.30:1066
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail1.godaddy.com:smtp 207.150.192.30:1066
ESTABLISHED
What I've noticed is that virtually all of the same connections are still
there. This makes sense given that every time I do a "qmail stop" and then a
"qmail start" I am able to get ~20 more emails delivered, because the first
~20 SMTP servers to connect are served, but then they don't disconnect and
get out of the way for new connections to be made.
So, I _think_ that I'm either wanting to increase the number of established
connections I can make, or I need to reconfigure to make those established
smtp connections disconnect as soon as they're done sending email(or both).
However, you guys are the gurus I'm leaning on for insight, so I am, of
course, open to any ideas as to the cause.
Here is the tcpserver line I am currently using for smtp:
22482 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -l
mail1.godaddy.com -P -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 120 -u 503 -g 502 0 smtp
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
And a ps -ax | grep qmail:
[root@mail1 qmail]# ps -ax | grep qmail
692 ? S 0:11 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s1000000 n20
/var/log/qmail
29658 ? S 0:00 supervise qmail-smtpd
29660 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail
29800 ? S 0:00 supervise qmail-send
29804 ? S 0:00 qmail-send
29806 ? S 0:00 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/
29807 ? S 0:00 qmail-rspawn
29808 ? S 0:00 qmail-clean
2334 ? S 0:00 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail1.godaddy.com
/bin/che
2835 ? S 0:00 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir
3555 ? S 0:00 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail1.godaddy.com
/bin/che
3558 ? S 0:00 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail1.godaddy.com
/bin/che
3596 ? S 0:00 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir
3597 ? S 0:00 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir
3674 ? S 0:00 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail1.godaddy.com
/bin/che
3681 ? S 0:00 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir
Any assistance is greatly appreciated. If there is any other information you
need, please let me know.
Thanks,
Matt Hubbard
Go Daddy Software
> morning, and expected all to be well. Soon after the reload, we began to see
> our SMTP service go painfully slow, only allowing a trickle of emails to get
> in. So the rcpthosts list going blank and then being rebuilt is not the
Well, it may not be a real problem, it may be just slow connections
using up your concurrency. In this case it should eventually sort
itself out.
Having said that, you don't mention whether the box is very busy nor
what sort of internet connection you have. That would be useful to
know. Futhermore, you don't say whether SMTP deliveries are occuring
or not. Is the qmail-send log ticking over with new deliveries?
While Matt might have omitted some useful information, he does however
make our life a lot easier because he gives plain data and the *real*
domain. This allowed me to do a couple of test connections to his
server which makes things a lot clearer. Here's what happens for me:
$ telnet mail1.godaddy.com 25
Trying 63.241.136.35...
telnet: connect to address 63.241.136.35: Network dropped connection on reset
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
Thanks Matt. That tells me a lot. Specifically that the port is being
listened to - so tcpserver is running correctly, that connections are
being accept - so the tcpserver listen socket hasn't reach the backlog
limit, but then something fails...
> I have noticed that if I do a "qmail stop" and then a "qmail start", about
> 20 successful SMTP connections immediately come in, and then even though
This is a worry as your tcpserver line has a concurrency of 120 as
shown here.
> Here is the tcpserver line I am currently using for smtp:
>
> 22482 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -l
> mail1.godaddy.com -P -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 120 -u 503 -g 502 0 smtp
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
I'd expect you to see a lot more than 20 qmail-smtpd processes
running.
In conjunction with the results of the telnet test I suspect a limits
problem that is stopping tcpserver from forking as many processes as
it wants.
Do you log the tcpserver output? If so, what does it show? If not, can
you start logging (I don't know whether LWQ includes this).
Does your tcpserver start script use softlimit to set the process
limits? If so, can you include -p130 or some such? However tcpserver
is started you'll need to raise the limit on the number of children it
can fork.
Regards.
permissions for /var/log/qmail
[root@mail qmail]# ll
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 2 qmaill root 4096 Jun 29 15:44 pop3d/
drwxrwxr-x 2 qmaill root 4096 Jun 16 15:37 smtpd/
************************************************************************
Permissions for /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/
[root@mail qmail-smtpd]# ll
total 12
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 16 15:36 log/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 317 Jun 16 15:28 run*
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 1 09:32 supervise/
************************************************************************
Permissions for /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3d/
[root@mail qmail-smtpd]# ll ../qmail-pop3d/
total 12
drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 16 18:15 log/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 219 Jun 16 18:07 run*
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 1 09:32 supervise/
************************************************************************
Permissions for /var/qmail/supervise
[root@mail qmail-smtpd]# ll ../
total 12
drwxrwxr-t 4 root root 4096 Jun 16 17:56 qmail-pop3d/
drwxrwxr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 16 16:10 qmail-send/
drwxrwxr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 16 17:46 qmail-smtpd/
************************************************************************
the file that runs the logging for qmail-smtpd
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t \
/var/log/qmail/smtpd
***********************************************************************
The file that runs the logging for the qmail-pop3d
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t \
/var/log/qmail/pop3d
***********************************************************************
ps -aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 1.4 1064 468 ? S Jun30 0:04 init [3
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jun30 0:00 [kflushd]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jun30 0:00 [kupdate]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jun30 0:00 [kswapd]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< Jun30 0:00 [mdrecoveryd]
root 246 0.0 1.1 1048 388 ? S Jun30 0:00 /sbin/dhcpcd
eth0
root 293 0.0 1.8 1168 588 ? S Jun30 0:00 syslogd -m 0
root 303 0.0 2.4 1448 796 ? S Jun30 0:00 klogd -k
/boot/System.map-2.2.17-21mdksecure
root 316 0.0 1.9 1280 628 ? S Jun30 0:00 crond
root 329 0.0 1.5 1100 516 ? S Jun30 0:00 inetd
root 336 0.0 3.7 2336 1200 ? S Jun30 0:01 sshd
xfs 395 0.0 8.9 3964 2904 ? S Jun30 0:00
xfs -port -1 -daemon
root 411 0.0 4.8 4548 1564 ? S Jun30 0:00
/usr/sbin/cupsd
root 422 0.0 1.2 1032 400 tty1 S Jun30 0:00
/sbin/mingetty tty1
root 423 0.0 1.2 1032 400 tty2 S Jun30 0:00
/sbin/mingetty tty2
root 424 0.0 1.2 1032 400 tty3 S Jun30 0:00
/sbin/mingetty tty3
root 425 0.0 1.2 1032 400 tty4 S Jun30 0:00
/sbin/mingetty tty4
root 426 0.0 1.2 1032 400 tty5 S Jun30 0:00
/sbin/mingetty tty5
root 427 0.0 1.2 1032 400 tty6 S Jun30 0:00
/sbin/mingetty tty6
root 429 0.0 1.0 1064 328 ? S Jun30 0:00 svscan
/service
root 432 0.0 0.9 1028 296 ? S Jun30 0:00 supervise
qmail-send
root 433 0.0 0.9 1028 296 ? S Jun30 0:00 supervise
qmail-smtpd
root 434 0.0 0.9 1028 296 ? S Jun30 0:00 supervise
qmail-pop3d
root 435 0.0 0.9 1028 296 ? S Jun30 0:00 supervise log
qmails 436 0.0 1.1 1084 372 ? S Jun30 0:00 qmail-send
qmaild 437 0.0 1.4 1100 464 ? S Jun30 0:00
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l 0 -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 20 -u 503
root 438 0.0 0.9 1056 312 ? S Jun30 0:00
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H -l 0 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop
qmaill 442 0.0 0.9 1040 292 ? S Jun30 0:00
/usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/pop3d
root 446 0.0 0.9 1040 312 ? S Jun30 0:00 qmail-lspawn
./Maildir/
qmailr 447 0.0 0.9 1040 304 ? S Jun30 0:00 qmail-rspawn
qmailq 448 0.0 0.9 1032 320 ? S Jun30 0:00 qmail-clean
root 883 0.0 3.9 3644 1292 ? S Jun30 0:00
/usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D
root 896 0.0 3.9 2892 1284 ? S Jun30 0:00
/usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd -D
root 920 0.0 5.9 4020 1936 ? S Jun30 0:01
/usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D
root 7548 0.0 5.5 2996 1800 ? S 09:40 0:00 sshd
gary 7549 0.0 4.2 2256 1380 pts/0 S 09:40 0:00 -bash
root 7563 0.0 2.8 1920 924 pts/0 S 09:40 0:00 su
root 7564 0.0 4.4 2300 1432 pts/0 S 09:40 0:00 bash
root 7591 0.0 2.5 2468 820 pts/0 R 09:49 0:00 ps -aux
-----Original Message-----
From: pop corn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 10:37 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Qmail logging problems with Lifewithqmail directions
Yes, please:
1) post the run files
2) show the directory permissions/owners
3) show ps output to see what processes are running
(sometimes people get mutiple smtpd's running, for instance)
>From: "Gary Townsend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Qmail logging problems with Lifewithqmail directions
>Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 10:29:39 -0700
>
>hi there i setup qmail according to the directions on life with qmail and i
>seem to be having an odd difficulty my qmail -send and qmail-smtpd seem to
>be logging to stdout yet my qmailpop is logging to a file. the log files
>are
>both supposed to be outputting to a log file and i am using multilog as per
>the instructions on lifewithqmail any ideas i can post the run files whihc
>implement the logging if that might be helpful.
>
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--On Thursday, June 28, 2001 12:18:02 PM +0000 Uwe Ohse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> just feels like a system, rather than a hodge-podge of parts. Solaris
>> also has this feel to it.
>
> How do you manage to ignore the /usr/ucb (and xpg4 and ...) compatibility
> braindamage?
I just ignore it. :-)
I admit that I was doing a wee bit of trolling in that there has been a lot
of "Slowlaris" sentiment on this list.
I do prefer Solaris on SPARC. That's my personal preference and that's
that. It has worked well for me.
I'm also a *BSD fan. I would choose FreeBSD first for x86 hardware. I also
like NeXT/OPENSTEP and used that successfully for a long time. And I just
bought a Mac so I can run OS X.
It's Linux that leaves me a bit cold. It's good, and Debian is quite
impressive in many ways. I even installed SGI's XFS port with RH 7.1 and
it's quite competent. But Linux still feels chaotic and the documentation
sucks.
Just my opinion. And I did preface the subject of my reply with an OT so
that it could be ignored more readily.
--On Saturday, June 30, 2001 08:29:37 PM -0700 Adam McKenna
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 03:53:59PM -0400, Steve Fulton wrote:
> I swear to god, I wish people on this list would stop talking out of their
> asses. The reason big businesses run Solaris is the same reason they run
> NT -- they like having a big company "supporting" their software. This
> is an area where the MS/Sun FUD against Open Source has been effective.
Sun has contributed to the Open Source community. I also notice that much
of the money being made on open source software is in the support arena.
Isn't that what RedHat is selling these days?
A number of the leading lights of open source are now working for major OS
vendors. What do you make of that?
Apple is well on its way to becoming the largest volume vendor of unix. How
will that affect things?
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:08:33PM -0400, Stuart Krivis wrote:
> Sun has contributed to the Open Source community. I also notice that much
> of the money being made on open source software is in the support arena.
> Isn't that what RedHat is selling these days?
Sun contributes just enough to make it *appear* as though they care about
open source, however, those of us who have recently met with Sun
sales engineers and heard the FUD they spread about Open Source software and
OS's know a different story.
As far as RedHat support, yeah, it's there. But I've yet to hear the phrase
"nobody ever got fired for buying {RedHat,Linux}" in the corporate world.
> A number of the leading lights of open source are now working for major OS
> vendors. What do you make of that?
Who, exactly, are you speaking of? I prefer not to comment on
generalizations.
> Apple is well on its way to becoming the largest volume vendor of unix. How
> will that affect things?
Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
--Adam
Hello
i added another MX record for my domain where and what i should add into
qmail in order for qmail to act as a backup?
Thanks in advance
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 08:37:12PM -0400, alexus wrote:
> Hello
>
> i added another MX record for my domain where and what i should add into
> qmail in order for qmail to act as a backup?
Put the domain(s) in question into /var/qmail/rcpthosts and nowhere else as
you could have read in the archives athousand times.
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Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity.
(Dennis Ritchie)
the reason why i desided to post this question is 'cause i was also have
been told that i need to create file smtproutes and add my domain there.. so
i just wanted to double make sure, sorry for bothering anyone on the list
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From: "Henning Brauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: MX record in DNS and Qmail
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 08:37:12PM -0400, alexus wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > i added another MX record for my domain where and what i should add into
> > qmail in order for qmail to act as a backup?
>
> Put the domain(s) in question into /var/qmail/rcpthosts and nowhere else
as
> you could have read in the archives athousand times.
>
> --
> * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de *
> * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany *
> Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity.
> (Dennis Ritchie)
>
Hi,
I've noticed a ^M character in some plain text email messages in the qmail
queue.
Why is it there and how can i remove it ?
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> I've noticed a ^M character in some plain text email messages in the
qmail
> queue.
> Why is it there
The ^M is the remain of a M$ machine's CR/LF pair, not converted.
> ...and how can i remove it ?
For the existing messages in the queue I'd say sed or alike.
For upcoming messages, you will have to find the point of
misconfiguration. I could not tell you which side you should look for it
(client or server).
Csaba
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Hi All,
I have a server installed with qmail. I have applied DNS patch
and Big-to-do patch and running qmail from 3 different
directories parallelly.
But, I am able to send 15 mails a second only Inspite
of all the above !!!!
Without Big-to-do patch also qmail gave me same performance !!!
But, Is there anyway or config by which I can send say
100 mails a second ????
Thanks & Regards, Rajesh, tech solutions, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Intercept
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so here is my problem... I did find some mention of
this problem in the archives, but no solution to this
problem.
I installed qmail as per
http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html (including pop3)
now what i see is multilog: fatal: unable to lock
directory /var/log/qmail: temporary failure
I checked over this page many times, and can not see
that I did anything wrong. Did I miss something?
My other comment is that under section 5.2.1.2
it should tell you to make the following dirs
(/var/log/qmail/pop3d /var/log/qmail/pop3d/log)
before creating those files since the system won't
allow you to make the files when the dirs don't exist
(at least on my system it won't).
My mail server is running right now, but any messages
I send don't leave my system, and I don't receive any
messages.
if this has been explained somewhere I apologize, but
I could not find an answer.
I'm running debian linux with kernel 2.4.5, and i'm
not a linux guru.
lorac
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I'm new to the list so feel free to flog me if these questions are
archived somewhere (i haven't been able to turn up anything on a couple
of searches).
1)
I'm running qmail on a debian box; i'm pretty sure it was built from the
qmail-src 1.03-14 debian source package. there has been some debate as
to whether this is normal; i've heard from a couple people that the
qmail-send process is supposed to take up all the avail cpu when nothing
else is using it; is that right? here's a typical output of 'top'... as
you can see the load is a bit high for a machine that's doing nothing
but accept mail for 30-40 people and provide imap / ssl imap service.
the load rarely gets too high, and qmail does seem to allow other procs
to take up some cpu, but generally qmail-send is taking up at least
40-50 percent of the cpu, and the load is often between 1 and 2 even in
the evening when the box is being used for very little.
1:05am up 54 days, 10:06, 1 user, load average: 1.28, 1.32, 1.24
67 processes: 58 sleeping, 4 running, 5 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 33.0% user, 66.9% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 516576K av, 461880K used, 54696K free, 14500K shrd, 398160K buff
Swap: 1020116K av, 5496K used, 1014620K free 27264K
cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME
COMMAND
168 qmails 13 0 212 188 108 R 0 98.6 0.0 74778m
qmail-send
8046 william 2 0 1284 1284 688 R 0 0.9 0.2 0:00 top
446 dallas 0 0 1008 1000 336 S 0 0.3 0.1 0:12 imapd
1 root 0 0 108 64 48 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:28 init
2 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:02
kflushd
3 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:47
kupdate
4 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 kpiod
5 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:13
kswapd
84 daemon 0 0 84 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00
portmap
172 qmaill 0 0 208 200 160 S 0 0.0 0.0 8:49
splogger
173 root 0 0 156 120 56 S 0 0.0 0.0 5:30
qmail-lspawn
174 qmailr 0 0 140 112 84 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:19
qmail-rspawn
175 qmailq 0 0 116 100 76 S 0 0.0 0.0 1:02
qmail-clean
179 root 0 0 388 372 300 S 0 0.0 0.0 214:40
syslogd
186 root 0 0 448 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 klogd
2)
has anyone had much luck with any type of imapd other than courier for
qmail using Maildir? i was able to get the uw Maildir patches to work,
but it didn't seem to work well with 'dot' subfolders. When creating
folders from netscape the new folders were created in the main home
directory, and '.' subfolders and sub-subfolders didn't show up.
Hi,
everyone knows if there is a version of getmail with SSL support (or a
patch or... ) ?
Thanks in advance and sorry for the off-topic :)
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Leonardo Quirini
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Hi all..
i can try any prime number for hashing ..? ( is
limited?)
and, is possible have two qmail over the same queue
..?
Thanks for all..
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