XQM Win32 to access Linux MailRoot?

[mrjms]

I recenlty setup an XMail linux box. I saw your link from the xmail website and thought, "Awsome, a remote queue manager for Windows!" I then found out that it does not remotely manage the Linux MailRoot queues. The server does not have an x11 environment, and I really would love to have a queue manager from my Win2k laptop gui.

Is this an idea that's in the works?
Is this possible by running Samba and sharing the MailRoot over the network to access from my Win2k PC?

Thanks for any input!

Justin



Edited by - mrjms on 23 September 2002 07:31:48

[hschneider]

Hi,

you have 2 possibilities:

- Use XQM/CMD via telnet on your Linux box
- Use a batch file to call xqmwin with e.g.:

@echo off
set MAIL_ROOT=\192.168.1.111varMailRoot
xqmwin.exe

This lets you access the mailroot of a remote machine. But take care, defrost and start server won't work. Maybe I'll implement a more comfortable procedure into one of the next releases ...

Thanks for your feedback!



Bye,
Harald

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[mrjms]

Okay, thanks

Do I have to use the batch file idea? Or can I just put in my environment variables that MAIL_ROOT is \xmailservervarMailRoot ?

Thanks

Justin

[mrjms]

Ok,
Here's an update as to what occured.
I now have my envronment variable set correctly and when xqmwin.exe runs it gives the following error message:

"XMail Server Service not found!
Make sure, that XMail is correctly installed."

I'm assuming now it won't run because I don't have XMail installed on the Windows PC. Is there an easy way around this, or will I have to wait for you to (hopefully) come out with an update that supports this? Thanks for working with me on this.


Justin



Edited by - mrjms on 24 September 2002 06:11:58

[hschneider]

I think you have tried XMail on your notebook before and there is still a key in the registry: Just rename or delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/GNU/XMail with regedit.

You can also use this key to point to the remote machine ...

One of the next releases will support full cross platform remote management. There will be a XQM Agent on the remote machine managing server restarts (which is not possible at the moment with that workaround).

Bye,
Harald

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[mrjms]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/GNU/XMail is not in the reg. I'm still getting the same problem. The same error also occured when I tried running it from a PC that it had not run on previosly.

Thanks.

Justin

[hschneider]

You have to make sure that the env variable MAIL_ROOT is available.
Open a command prompt, set the variable and call xqmwin.exe from the prompt.

Setting the variable from the command prompt and clicking the .exe won't work, because the variable is only visible for the command shell ..

It can also be a problem with the path resolution. Try the IP instead of the machine name.
Also make sure that you can do a cd to that path ...



Bye,
Harald

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[mrjms]

I have used to IP, and I can see the MailRoot. I have set the variable MAIL_ROOT as a system environment variable. I don't get the error about finding MAIL_ROOT anymore, it's just the service error.

If you can testify to making it work like this, that's all I need, and I'll do my best to get it to work.

Thanks for all of you help.

Justin

[hschneider]

What happens after confirming this error message?
XQM should come up and you should be able to browse the queue of the remote machine ..

Bye,
Harald

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[mrjms]

After I click "OK" it just closes...

Justin

[mrjms]

Sorry, correction...

After I click "OK"
It brings up that python window quickly and then closes
I can't catch all what it says, tho

Justin

[hschneider]

Hmmm ... works on my machine -- OK ... please wait for the update where remote control will be implemented. I have to change some internal things, which cannot be influenced by this workaround. I'll let you know, when you can beta test the new version.



Bye,
Harald

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[mrjms]

Excellent,

Thanks.

You can email me at jsmith@buchertech.com
please mention xmail queue manager in the subject :)

Thanks again.

Justin

[hschneider]

Hi,

current status:
- Written an agent for Win32 and Linux, which manages server start,shutdown,restart and status queries on the remote machine.
- The agent runs on the remote machine as a service (Win32) or as a daemon (Linux)
- XQM and its agent communicate via XML RPC (Remote Procedure Call) which runs
through any firewall that has http and the agent's port enabled.
- Only trusted IPs are served by the agent.
- Port and trusted IP list are user defined.

This makes remote admin from any platform to any platform possible.

ToDo:
- Making XQM a RPC client with a GUI setup option.

You can beta test ASAP ... -)



Bye,
Harald

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[hschneider]

OK .. things are ready to beta test:

Download
http://marketmix.com/downloads/beta/xqmagent_linux.tgz
if you have XMail on a Linux machine.

http://marketmix.com/downloads/beta/xqmagent_win32.zip
if XMail is running on NT

Install the agent by following the instructions in README.txt

Download
http://marketmix.com/downloads/beta/xqmwin_103.zip

Click the new Network icon and set up for remote access.

ToDo:
Catching some errors like NO_MAILROOT, NO_AGENT etc.




Bye,
Harald

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