XQM Win32 to access Linux MailRoot?

[mrjms]

That's great, but the link is broken for the download.

Justin

[hschneider]

I've just put the final release online:
http://xmail.marketmix.com



Bye,
Harald

-- Download XMail Queue Manager 1.04 NOW: http://xmail.marketmix.com

[Kalin]

hello,

Okay I ran into the same problem (with newest version) (remotely accessing a linux xmail server from windows) and I set the MAIL_ROOT properly after I mounted the linux drive, and I got the Xmail Server Service not found, then it dies (exactly the same as you)

so here's how I fixed it, I installed xmail on my computer (as a service) doesn't really matter much about configuration, then after I got into xqm I could change it to go remotely instead of local (altho I'm still messing around with this.... just thought I'd post an update)

[Kalin]

Hello, I'm back :-)


Okay where I am now is I got the agent installed and the xqmwin running and it sees the xmail server okay (says it's running) but when I hit query it just sits there and hangs (if I do it to that local xmail server I was talking to, it's almost instantaneous) it also doesn't seem to be doing any network traffic so I'm not totally sure what it is doing, it just sits there (yes it is a big xmail server so maybe it will take awhile) I dunno, just seems weird, let me know if you can help :-)

Thanks

kalin

[hschneider]

Can you access/browse the Linux path from your remote machine (with explorer not with XQM) or does a password requester pop up?

You have to be authenticated on the Linux machine to access the path. Also remove any slashes at the end of the path in the network settings of XQM.

Also make sure that you run XQM 1.05.

You also can verify if the agent runs by clicking INFO on the XQM toolbar. Agent version and remote address are displayed here if communication is OK.

[hschneider]

Please let me know what the prob was, so I can impove the next release - thanks!

[Kalin]

hey again :-)

I've got one idea you may want to implement. Have xqmagent warn you if MAIL_ROOT isn't set and then die, rather than just die (I couldn't figure out for so long when xqmagent just would not run)

Anyway I'm still having a bit of trouble with the remote stuff. I do connect to the agent (gives me the version/IP in the info screen) I have tried both the \\ip\share and mounting the network drive but it still just sits there at the query for a long time. (I can browse to either of these with explorer no problem, so I am authenticated already)

I've even tried mounting the drive and pretending I was local (with no agent) still no dice. I'm not sure where to go from here...

Thanks for your help, your program seems pretty kewl from the pictures as least :-)

[hschneider]

Can you please post me the exact path you entered? Maybe there is something special about it ....

[Kalin]

well the exact path should be fine because I can mount (map) that drive from explorer, it shouldn't be a problem, I'm not sure why it just hangs on the query (unless it can't handle so many (the server has over 300 domains on it) it just goes \\<server ip>\xmail

[hschneider]

Seems to be everything OK, assumed that xmail is the folder with the spool folder inside. The number of domains is not relevant, since the spool size remains the same.

What exactly is displayed in the statusbar at the bottom after pressing the green Query Button ?

Does the animation window come up?

What version of XMail do you run? It's tested with versions >= 1.9.
If my information is correct, versions <1.9 use another spool format.

Thanks for your feedback!

[Kalin]

well xmail is a share that points to /var/MailRoot which works (I can browse from explorer)

the statusbar says querying queue and the Please Wait animation comes up and just sits there

Xmail version is 1.10

(was upgraded from like 1.1 tho, not fresh 1.10)

[hschneider]

Hmm ... looks OK from every angle. The only explanation might be a very large queue - maybe some 1000s frozen messages .. this might take some while. Just leave it on a couple of minutes ...

[hschneider]

Please replace the .exe with the version from:
marketmix.com/downloads/beta/xqmwin.zip

and let me know the result. Thanks!

[Kalin]

heh, xqm/cmd told me 2037 frozen messages (uhm, yeah may just delete them all real soon here, there's about 20 that I actually want to keep, but not a big deal if I lose them) I tried the new binary and let it set in the query (using all my cpu :-) for maybe 50 minutes (forgot it was running :-)
but still just hanging on the please wait animation, I dunno man :-)

[hschneider]

This debug version is 4 times as slow than the release. But the assumed 12 minutes are a hint for a slow machine or network or smb connection. On a standard installation XQM has to browse 4256 folders to get the spool contents. That takes some time and stresses the smb service.

Nevertheless on my system a remote queue with 2000 messages is processed in approx. 20 seconds.

I think about letting the agent process the queue, which might bring a speed improvement on slow smb connections ...

BTW: There are a lot of resources how to tune samba:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/solrhe/Securing-Op...ap29sec287.html
http://sunsite.dk/samba/oreilly/using_samba/
http://linuxperf.nl.linux.org/fileserving/samba.html
http://uk.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/textdocs/Speed2.txt
http://uk.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/textdocs/Speed.txt