qmail questions

hi, i am new into qmail. i started installing qmail yesterday and now, 20 hours later, it works great with virtual domains support ! really good stuff compared to sendmail ! but, there are still some questions not answered to me yet. first of all i haven't found any informations about how to li

rejecting emails

hi, i haven't found a hint about configuring qmail to refuse accepting emails from either ip's or domains or simply an email-address. i would like to refuse accepting emails from i.e. baddomain.com or [EMAIL PROTECTED] how could this be achieved ? regards, jens

vpopmail vs. qpopper

hi, are their significant differences between vpopmail and qpopper ? i heard rumours saying qpopper is a big security hole ?? -- jens --- department computer science, university of dortmund linux ... life's too short for re

the point with the dot in dot-qmail

hi, i would like to forward incoming emails for an special user of a virtual domain to an external email-address. my emailformat is always i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED], which nearly all of my customers want to have. all emails to vdomain.com are delivered to a local user "vdomain" and fetched via pop3

timestamp problem

hello, i am running qmail on a suse linux server with its systemclock set correctly. unfortunately, qmail sets an incorrect time to every outgoing mail. system time and time in mails differs in exactly 2 hours, i.e. writing a mail at 16:00 o'clock sets time to 14:00 o'clock in the mail. any idea

inetd vs. ucspi-tcp

hi, is there a difference in using qmail-pop3d with either inetd or ucspi-tcp ? regards, jens --- department computer science, university of dortmund linux ... life's too short for reboots!

vpopmail - why ?

hi, i have installed qmail with vpopmail and it delivers emails perfectly. so, for what purposes is vpopmail for ? what can't be done without vpopmail? regards, jens --- department computer science, university of dortmund l

pop3d problem

hi, today i installed pop3d using ucspi-tcp 0.84. whenever i try to fetch email via pop3 using netscape messenger on a windows box, netscape says: "this user has no $HOME/Maildir. Enter a new password". what does this mean ? -- jens -

Re: pop3d problem

hi, > The user you are trying to fetch mail as doesn't have a Maildir in his/her > home directory, did you use maildirmake for those users ? no, i didn't :-(. so, after running maildirmake /home/georg/Maildir netscape messenger can connect, but there is nothing to fetch, although i have several

Re: pop3d problem

hi, > > i have several testemails waiting. any idea, what's still wrong ? > How do you *know* those mails are in $HOME/Maildir/ ? i don't :-). > they could, just as well, be in $HOME/Mailbox or /var/spool/mail/[username] yes, they are in /var/spool/mail/georg so, how to get them to /home/geo

Re: pop3d problem

hi, > > i have several testemails waiting. any idea, what's still wrong ? > How do you *know* those mails are in $HOME/Maildir/ ? i don't :-). > they could, just as well, be in $HOME/Mailbox or /var/spool/mail/[username] yes, they are in /var/spool/mail/georg so, how to get them to /home/geo

Errormsg: Maildir is a directory

hi, i told qmail to deliver emails to /home/[user]/Maildir, but whenever qmail tries to deliver an email, it prints "unable_to_open_./Maildir:is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)" somebody here who could tell me how to get this fixed ? -- regards jens --

thanks to all

hi, just a short note for the list. thanks to all who supported me the last two weeks with many, many tips and hints on getting qmail working. two weeks ago i was absolutely new to qmail, today i have a fine webserver running with a perfectly working qmail. thanks a lot to all of you ! -- rega

sorry, no mailbox by that name

hi, today i got my webserver connected to the internet. of course, there were some things to do. but the most worst thing i am struggling with is the following: i am running qmail together with qmail-pop3d. now, the following problem occurs today: i can send emails from console to any of my fri

solved! (Re: sorry, no mailbox by that name)

hi, i fixed the problem right now ! it was a dns and not qmail problem. mydomain.com was always resolved to www.mydomain.com and of course qmail didn't know what to with email for [EMAIL PROTECTED] because it was configured for mydomain.com in control/virtualdomains only :-). this problem was cau

no progess indicator with messenger

hi, since i moved from sendmail to qmail i have no progress indicator when popping emails with netscape messenger. i am running qmail-pop3d. it isn't that necessary, but some customers would like to see the size of incoming messages. how to fix this ? regards, jens --

configuring backmailservers

hi, i am running a webserver with fine working qmail on it. a friend of mine has an own server, too. now, we would like to configure the follwing. his qmail-server should act as backup-mailserver for my system and my qmail-server should be his back-mailserver. the question now is, if it is enou

Re: Quota on outgoing mail

hi peter, > > are making constant overloads on my bandwidth... > > echo 10485760 > /var/qmail/control/databytes is this really enough ? i remember to read once that qmail has to be compiled specially to use this feature. -- jens

Re: Quota on outgoing mail

hi, > > Yes, this really is all that needs to be done---no special compiling or > > patches. Read the man pages and you'll see. ;-) > > And once you have that limit in place, just make sure your users don't > send two mails of half the size to get around this limit... > > databytes will stop n

problem with relaying

hi, i am running a linuxbox with qmail serving several virtual maildomains. i have passwd-users for pop3. now, i would like to open my system to some secure ip-adresses of some of my customers networks for them to send there emails via my system. i put them to /etc/tcp.smtp and built a new databa

Re: problem with relaying

yway, thanks for all your great responses ! thanks ! Jens Georg wrote: > > hi, > > i am running a linuxbox with qmail serving several virtual maildomains. > i have passwd-users for pop3. now, i would like to open my system to > some secure ip-adresses of some of my customers ne

qmail & http://www.mail-abuse.org/

hi, i am running qmail and i would like to configuere it to refuse any mails received from an blacklisted host at http://www.mail-abuse.org/. has somebody already configuered this ? -- regards, jens --- department computer

problem with virtual domains

hello list, after running qmail for 8 weeks now without any trouble so far, qmail starts driving me crazy today ! i am running a webserver with qmail as mailsystem. furthermore i am running my own named. i set up mydomain.com correctly in named with the following subdomains: mx.mydomain.com IN

Re: problem with virtual domains

hi, > That sounds like a problem in the home directory > for the user 'georg' Those are the easiest ones to > mess up too since they're not in the qmail config directory. > Did you possibly remove or change any of your .qmail files? no, i didn't change anything. yesterday everything worked perf

solved - Re: problem with virtual domains

hi, today i solved the problem which was caused by a nasty character in the line mydomain.com:georg* in virtualdomains. of course, georg* is no local user and so it's clear why qmail cannot find a mailbox for that user! that character was not visibile in joe, but when printing it to paper, it ap

problem with virtual user

hi, i have a little confusing problem with qmail: i can send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (where bob is a real user), but i cannot send email to i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] where bobby is a virtual user. somebody can help me please ? this works sometimes, but after rebooting the machine i.e. sometimes

virtual user problem

hi, i have strange things happening here with my mailserver: i have the following set up in .../control/virtualdomains domain.com:georg www.domain.com:georg domain2.com:georg www.domain2.com:georg i can send emails without trouble to @www.domain.com. qmail delivers this to georg-@www.mydomain

sqwebmail & qmail-pop3d ?

hi, i am running a small internet-server with several virtual domains and i would like to install sqwebmail for my customers. the question is: does qmail work together with /Maildir format and a running qmail-pop3d or do i need the install vpopmail ? user should be able not open new pop3 accounts

usage of qmailanalog

hi, can somebody please tell me how to analyse /var/log/mail using the qmailanalog utils ? i followed the manpages, but output is always empty. -- regards, jens --- department computer science, university of dortmund linux

qmail & t-online.de - NAME_lookup_failed_temporarily.

hi there, we have a nasty problem with qmail which refuses to send emails to users at t-online.de. delivery always fails with an errormessage saying: deferral: CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._(#4.4.3)/ we tried to fix this by compiling qmail again using a patch as advised in lwq at http://Web.

list down ?

hi, didn't get message from this list since days now. is it down ? -- regards, jens --- department computer science, university of dortmund linux ... life's too short for reboots! begin:vcard n:Georg;Jens x-mozilla-html:F

svscan

hi, where to find svscan ? -- jens --- instant networks - netzwerkmanagment & internetfullservices http://www.instant-networks.de

problems with qmailanalog utils

hi, i have a big problem with qmailanalog, because i never get an output. i have one mail-logfile in /var/log/mail. i piped this thru matchup and i.e. thru zoverall, but i never get an output. zoverall i.e. says "completed messages:0" although my system logs hundreds of mail a day. any idea wher

problems with qmailanalog utils

hi, i have a big problem with qmailanalog, because i never get an output. i have one mail-logfile in /var/log/mail. i piped this thru matchup and i.e. thru zoverall, but i never get an output. zoverall i.e. says "completed messages:0" although my system logs hundreds of mails a day. any idea whe

Re: problems with qmailanalog utils

hi brett, thanks for your hint with multilog. now it works ! and, yes, i know lwq and it's great ! ps: zoverall always throws a "division by zero error". did you notice and fix it ? > OK Start by looking at Life With Qmail and setting up your logging using > multilog. Also, you may want to look

qmail error

hi, while sending emails to AOL qmail reports the following error-messages: Remote host said: 501 syntactically invalid HELO argument(s) Remote host said: 501 HELO requires domain address i did not find anything about this in the faqs. somebody here who can help me ? regards, jens

qmail syntax problem

hi, while trying to send mails to aol, qmail always reports the following: Remote host said: 501 syntactically invalid HELO argument(s) Remote host said: 501 HELO requires domain address i haven't found anything about this in the docs. somebody here who can explain to me what's going on there ?

Re: qmail syntax problem

hi, while checking that qmail installation i found the problem: /var/qmail/control/me was empty ! after telling this to my customer, he told me that he has re-installed qmail because of some other problems and forgot to fill ../control/me with life again ! thanks for your help! > Remote host sai

Temporary_error_on_maildir_delivery._(#4.3.0)

hello list, i have several fine running qmailboxes all working perfectly since months. today i got a strange failure on one machine for one special user, although the machine's qmail-configurationfiles were not touched during the last months. for one special user i get a "Temporary_error_on_mail