[gentoo-dev] Qmail help!

[gentoo-dev] Qmail help!

[Clay Mitchell]

Ok, have qmail starting up, but I can neither send nor receive mail with
it (machineon the same network, and I can't telnet to either port 25 or
110)

When trying to send mail via pine, I get this error:

Sending error: 451 qq trouble creating files in queue


Also, in my /var/log/mail.err I have this error over and over again:

Oct 20 22:09:08 monsoon qmail: 1003630148.003565 alert: unable to
opendir todo/0, sleeping...


What else... In my /etc/init.d/qmail, there is a TCPS variable pointing
at /usr/local/bin/tcpserver, but I have file there... What should this
be pointing to?

I'd really appreciate any help, if you have any ideas, I'd love to hear
them, this is rather important...

Thanks, 

-Clay Mitchell



Here's a ps aux | grep qmail

qmails     311  0.0  0.1  1376  396 ?        S    21:55   0:00
qmail-send
qmaill     319  0.0  0.1  1348  456 ?        S    21:55   0:00 splogger
qmail
root       320  0.0  0.1  1352  344 ?        S    21:55   0:00
qmail-lspawn ./.maildir/
qmailr     321  0.0  0.1  1348  340 ?        S    21:55   0:00
qmail-rspawn
qmailq     322  0.0  0.1  1328  308 ?        S    21:55   0:00
qmail-clean
root       773  0.0  0.1  1424  456 pts/0    S    22:00   0:00 grep
qmail

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qmail help!

[Gontran]

* Clay Mitchell (claymitchell@telocity.com) wrote:
> Ok, have qmail starting up, but I can neither send nor receive mail with
> it (machineon the same network, and I can't telnet to either port 25 or
> 110)
> 
> When trying to send mail via pine, I get this error:
> 
> Sending error: 451 qq trouble creating files in queue
> 
> 
> Also, in my /var/log/mail.err I have this error over and over again:
> 
> Oct 20 22:09:08 monsoon qmail: 1003630148.003565 alert: unable to
> opendir todo/0, sleeping...
> 
> 
> What else... In my /etc/init.d/qmail, there is a TCPS variable pointing
> at /usr/local/bin/tcpserver, but I have file there... What should this
> be pointing to?
> 
> I'd really appreciate any help, if you have any ideas, I'd love to hear
> them, this is rather important...
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> -Clay Mitchell
> 
> 
> 
> Here's a ps aux | grep qmail
> 
> qmails     311  0.0  0.1  1376  396 ?        S    21:55   0:00
> qmail-send
> qmaill     319  0.0  0.1  1348  456 ?        S    21:55   0:00 splogger
> qmail
> root       320  0.0  0.1  1352  344 ?        S    21:55   0:00
> qmail-lspawn ./.maildir/
> qmailr     321  0.0  0.1  1348  340 ?        S    21:55   0:00
> qmail-rspawn
> qmailq     322  0.0  0.1  1328  308 ?        S    21:55   0:00
> qmail-clean
> root       773  0.0  0.1  1424  456 pts/0    S    22:00   0:00 grep
> qmail
> 
Clay,

This thread is a good candidate for the gentoo-user list. :)

It looks like qmail-smtpd is not running -- which would explain nothing
listening on 25.  As far as your 'run' files, you should probably post them
to the gentoo-user list if you'd like any further assistance.

Nice hostname.

Rgds,
Gontran

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qmail help!

[Collins Richey]

[ snips ]

On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 19:32:26 -0700 Gontran <gontran@gontran.net>
wrote:

> * Clay Mitchell (claymitchell@telocity.com) wrote:
> > Ok, have qmail starting up, but I can neither send nor receive
> mail with
> > it (machineon the same network, and I can't telnet to either port
> 25 or
> > 110)


> Clay,
> 
> This thread is a good candidate for the gentoo-user list. :)
> 
> It looks like qmail-smtpd is not running

Sounds like a good suggestion (longterm).  My question about
mysql-perl would also fit there.  But at present wouldn't this be
sending the question into a black hole?  I'm subscribed to gentoo-user
as well, an there is absolutely nothing going.

-- 
Collins Richey
Denver Area
gentoo_rc6 xfce+sylpheed

RE: [gentoo-dev] Qmail help!

[Clay Mitchell]

Agreed. As far as I could see, there is nothing on the gentoo.org site
pointing at the user list, so the only way anybody would know anything
about it would be if they were on the dev list... So I figured I would
send it to the dev list so it would get attention...


Anyway, does anybody know what the tcpserver is? Is this like inetd or
is it something different? The rc script has this in it:

#TCPS="/usr/local/bin/tcpserver"
#RBL="/usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd"

exec $TCPS -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -uqmaild -gnofiles 0 smtp $RBL -b
-monsoon.net qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | splogger &
exec $TCPS -u0 -g0 0 110 qmail-popup /usr/local/bin/checkvpw qmail-pop3d
.maildir 2>&1 | splogger &

Obviously, the two exec lines use the TCPS and RBL variables, which
aren't set, because these files aren't on my system... Any idea what I
need to do to install these?

Thanks, Clay

-----Original Message-----
From: gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org
[mailto:gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org] On Behalf Of Collins Richey
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 11:13 PM
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Qmail help!


[ snips ]

On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 19:32:26 -0700 Gontran <gontran@gontran.net>
wrote:

> * Clay Mitchell (claymitchell@telocity.com) wrote:
> > Ok, have qmail starting up, but I can neither send nor receive
> mail with
> > it (machineon the same network, and I can't telnet to either port
> 25 or
> > 110)


> Clay,
> 
> This thread is a good candidate for the gentoo-user list. :)
> 
> It looks like qmail-smtpd is not running

Sounds like a good suggestion (longterm).  My question about mysql-perl
would also fit there.  But at present wouldn't this be sending the
question into a black hole?  I'm subscribed to gentoo-user as well, an
there is absolutely nothing going.

-- 
Collins Richey
Denver Area
gentoo_rc6 xfce+sylpheed

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RE: [gentoo-dev] Qmail help!

[Tom von Schwerdtner]

> Anyway, does anybody know what the tcpserver is? Is this like inetd or
> is it something different? The rc script has this in it:

I setup qmail on my server box (running FreeBSD) and the sample qmail line
in inetd.conf had a comment about using tcpserver and offers up the URL
http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html for further information.

HTH,
-Tom

RE: [gentoo-dev] Qmail help!

[Clay Mitchell]

Hey, I'm making progress here... Installed ucspi (shouldn't this be one
of the depends?) and I can now telnet to the pop server, but can't log
in. it won't accept my username/password (which is a valid account)

I can telnet to the smtp server, but it disconnects me immediately. 

Also, if I try sending mail with pine to an internal account, it sends,
but the receiving account doesn't get it. Any ideas there?

This is getting frustrating :)

Thanks, Clay

-----Original Message-----
From: gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org
[mailto:gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org] On Behalf Of Tom von
Schwerdtner
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 11:31 PM
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Cc: claymitchell@telocity.com
Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] Qmail help!


> Anyway, does anybody know what the tcpserver is? Is this like inetd or

> is it something different? The rc script has this in it:

I setup qmail on my server box (running FreeBSD) and the sample qmail
line in inetd.conf had a comment about using tcpserver and offers up the
URL http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html for further information.

HTH,
-Tom



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Re: [gentoo-dev] Qmail help!

[Gontran]

* Clay Mitchell (claymitchell@telocity.com) wrote:
> Hey, I'm making progress here... Installed ucspi (shouldn't this be one
> of the depends?) and I can now telnet to the pop server, but can't log
> in. it won't accept my username/password (which is a valid account)
> 
> I can telnet to the smtp server, but it disconnects me immediately. 
> 
> Also, if I try sending mail with pine to an internal account, it sends,
> but the receiving account doesn't get it. Any ideas there?
> 
 

Yeah, one other thing I noticed is that pm has the checkpasswd program
apropriately as a depend, but then proceeds to list checkvpw as the
password verification program to run.

This is part of Bruce G.'s vmailmgr suite, and is certainly not listed
as a depend.  So Clay, you'll want to change /usr/local/bin/checkvpw
to whatever the path to checkpasswd is.  Follow?

I might even suggest masking qmail, or modifying the ebuild to pm.  It
clearly will work as a sending agent 'right-outa-thebox', but as a complete
solution it's not quite ready.


Gontran

RE: [gentoo-dev] Qmail help!

[Clay Mitchell]

Ok, getting there. Installed checkpassword, fixed the syntax of the
rblsmtp in the smtp line and I can connect to both the smtp and pop
server.

With the pop server, I try to log in, give it my username and pass, and
it gives me:

-ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir
Connection closed by foreign host.

Now the user I'm using is a valid user... Does qmail have it's own user
list? Any ideas here?

Thanks
-Clay

-----Original Message-----
From: gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org
[mailto:gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org] On Behalf Of Gontran
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 12:39 AM
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Qmail help!


* Clay Mitchell (claymitchell@telocity.com) wrote:
> Hey, I'm making progress here... Installed ucspi (shouldn't this be 
> one of the depends?) and I can now telnet to the pop server, but can't

> log in. it won't accept my username/password (which is a valid 
> account)
> 
> I can telnet to the smtp server, but it disconnects me immediately.
> 
> Also, if I try sending mail with pine to an internal account, it 
> sends, but the receiving account doesn't get it. Any ideas there?
> 
 

Yeah, one other thing I noticed is that pm has the checkpasswd program
apropriately as a depend, but then proceeds to list checkvpw as the
password verification program to run.

This is part of Bruce G.'s vmailmgr suite, and is certainly not listed
as a depend.  So Clay, you'll want to change /usr/local/bin/checkvpw to
whatever the path to checkpasswd is.  Follow?

I might even suggest masking qmail, or modifying the ebuild to pm.  It
clearly will work as a sending agent 'right-outa-thebox', but as a
complete solution it's not quite ready.


Gontran

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