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QMail recipies at maurus.net

admin — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:52:46 +0000

Jonas from the maurus.net weblog is writing down some qmail recipies. The first entry is about “Forwarding mail and changing the envelope sender”.
I guess for everyone who is interested in qmail and working with it, there will be some helpful insights.

compile error on qmail and other djb products like ucspi-tcp, daemontools, djbdns, tinydns

admin — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:53:09 +0000

since the new gcc version is out, djb software has its problems with compiling. also netqmail has problems.
something with errno … bla…bla…bla…

there is a simple fix for that.
just go to the sourcecode and find the file conf-cc.
edit it and add the following code :
cc -O2 -include /usr/include/errno.h

now it should work.

UPDATE: little performance tuning for qmail + vpopmail

admin — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:59:37 +0000

after looking around, i found this entry in life with qmail. after changing all things descriped there, my qmail is running and running and breaking records.

in addition to that, you should look here at tcpserver config

little performance tuning for qmail + vpopmail

admin — Thu, 10 May 2007 11:31:51 +0000

i use qmail in combination with vpopmail from inter7 on my servers.

the most start scripts for qmail use tcpserver and tcpserver uses recursive dns for every request.
so if there is a lot of traffic or spam or whatever, tcpserver sometime takes to long to resolv these ip addresses and no more connections are able to be opened in that time.
the resultion is to set the params like this:

tcpserver -H

the -H means don’t resolve the ip.

simscan with clamd & spamassassin

admin — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:15:02 +0000

i use simscan to scan every mail on one of my mailservers.
i don’t often restart my servers, so sometime i get the following error in my smtp log file.

2007-04-20 12:11:13.004232500 connect(): No such file or directory

most of the time this happens when clamd or spamassassin is not started. normally this should happen on the restart.

in my case
clamd &
solved the issue.