Re: Strange problem

1999-07-02 Thread Adam D . McKenna
OK, I figured it out (sort of). ~alias/.qmail-postmaster was forwarding to root.. When I changed it to adam-postmaster, mail to root started working again. Anyone have an idea why this happened? --Adam On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 12:27:00AM -0400, Adam D . McKenna wrote: > Here's a dumb one. Can

Strange problem

1999-07-02 Thread Adam D . McKenna
Here's a dumb one. Can anyone tell me why this is happening? adam@spotted:~$ cat ~alias/.qmail-root adam-root adam@spotted:~$ cat ~adam/.qmail-root ./Mail/root/ I tried changing ~alias/.qmail-root to be adam-rt instead of adam-root but the same thing happens. - Forwarded message from [EMAI

Re: Mail List Attitude

1999-07-02 Thread ddb
Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 2 July 1999 at 21:05:09 -0400 > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Kevin King wrote: > > > My "experience" with this list has been overall farely pleasant - despite > > my stupid newbie questions. People like Dave Sill have been very patient. > > BUT, because I'm a newbie,

Re: qmail/tcpserver problem

1999-07-02 Thread Scott Schwartz
"Johan Van Gompel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I mean the latter. When I add e.g. 'hotmail.com' to rcpthosts, everyone | inside the LAN is able to send messages to that host. If I don't, they get | that darn 'not found in rcpthosts' message. Let's try a simple test. Our goal is to verify that

Re: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Jason Brooke
> isn't that incorrect... > I'm not prattling on endlessly about my ignorance. > I mean, if you think trying to clarify things means that I'm ignoreant, > so be it, but that's not what you said. Can we please drop this? Thanks jason

RE: autoconf?

1999-07-02 Thread David Harris
Yeah, that works. But it gets a tad more annoying when you want to install everything as root when you build the package and then have the RPM file apply the user and group ownerships. Also when you want to provide a packaged instcheck utility. I just created a conf-qmail_pack and conf-users_pac

Re: Is Qmail MAPI 2.0 compliant?

1999-07-02 Thread Robbie Walker
As Dave said, MAPI is a Windows API. Your professor is confusing the term MAPI Server to mean a mail-server (such as qmail or Sendmail) and the client-server behavior of a MAPI Server providing messaging services to other applications running on the same machine... Yes. I know they don't "have" t

Re: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Scott D. Yelich
On 2 Jul 1999, Joe Kelsey wrote: > I just can't stand listening to Scott prattle on endlessly about his own > ignorance anymore... isn't that incorrect... I'm not prattling on endlessly about my ignorance. I mean, if you think trying to clarify things means that I'm ignoreant, so be it, but th

Re: newbie question - aol cname failure patch

1999-07-02 Thread Sam
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Solomon B. Smith wrote: > Hello > > I'm a long-time Windows user, but can see many advantages to Linux, but I've > got a lot yet to learn... I've been reading this list and it has been quite > helpful in installing qmail successfully. > > I've installed the memphis rpms, acc

Re: Mail List Attitude

1999-07-02 Thread Sam
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Kevin King wrote: > My "experience" with this list has been overall farely pleasant - despite > my stupid newbie questions. People like Dave Sill have been very patient. > BUT, because I'm a newbie, sometimes even when I "RTFM" things don't > always click. I agree with Adam Mc

Re: What's the syslogd replacement called?

1999-07-02 Thread Robbie Walker
cyclog. Part of Dan's daemontools package. ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/daemontools.html At 10:09 AM 7/2/99 , you wrote: >There was discussion a while ago about a faster syslogd replacement >(part of the qmail distribution or something separate?), could someone >point me at some informaiton ab

Re: Local mail Server

1999-07-02 Thread Robbie Walker
Very Easy... depending on your level of skill. If you follow the directions in the tarball exactly (read EVERYTHING first, especially the FAQ) you can do it first try. I run the same system for an ISP mail server and it works, FLAWLESSLY. Outlook Express on Win98 are no problem. You should def

Re: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Asmodeus
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Racer X wrote: > > Installing QMail is much closer to attempting to learn to fly. The > > Installing qmail is nowhere near as dangerous as learning to fly. Flying > requires not only knowledge of theory but a large amount of practical > skill, and a lack of skill has serious

RE: Off topic - What is GFY?

1999-07-02 Thread Scott D. Yelich
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Alex Miller wrote: > In your negative response you wrote GFY. > That was your PUBLIC response here on this list. > Your PRIVATE email to me regarding making the > web site was hardly "Good For You" and you know it. > There are two kinds of people. Honest people and dishonest

Re: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Racer X
> It's understandable that as a flying newbie, you would think that > handed a set of keys, it would be "up to you" to know how to use > the plane. I would? I know that planes are fairly complicated and dangerous pieces of machinery and that a pilot's license is required to fly legally in most p

RE: Off topic - What is GFY?

1999-07-02 Thread Alex Miller
> Alex assumed that the acronym stood for some sort of insult or profanity. > Why? If you'll read the paragraph that I was replying to, you > can tell that > it was blatant flamebait. Alex proved this with his reaction. Actually Adam, I proposed making a web site In your negative response

RE: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Alex Miller
Ok, as a flying newbie I can understand what you are trying to say. As someone more experienced let me just explain that in reality, flying a plane is very different than driving a car. The physical skills are similar but the standards of access are quite different. It's understandable that as a

RE: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Scott D. Yelich
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Alex Miller wrote: > Threats of law suits > should I elaborate? rcpthosts... need I say more? ... anyway, wait until you get some idiot who wants to sue you because you are no longer an open relay. Scott

RE: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Troy Morrison
> Care to add to the list? I'm going to make a website on things you should > know, skills you should have, before attempting to install qmail. I'll > devote a special section called Why not just point people to lwq (which, no offense intended, is probably infinitely better than a resource from

Re: qmail/tcpserver problem

1999-07-02 Thread Adam D . McKenna
On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 05:27:54AM +0200, Johan Van Gompel wrote: > Adam D . McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How are you starting tcpserver? --Adam

Re: qmail/tcpserver problem

1999-07-02 Thread Johan Van Gompel
Adam D . McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How are you starting tcpserver? > Did you remember to compile your /etc/tcp.smtp into /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb using > tcprules? It did everything as described in FAQ #5.4, including compiling the rules in /etc/tcp.smtp into /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb using tcprule

Re: qmail/tcpserver problem

1999-07-02 Thread Scott Schwartz
Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | If tcpserver is bound only to the internal interface of a bastion host, then | there's no danger of being used as a relay from the outside world. ...until one day someone accidently changes something, or misunderstands or misapplies that advice. Given

Re: qmail/tcpserver problem

1999-07-02 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 05:48:48PM -0400, Scott Schwartz wrote: > | This host has more than one interface? If that's the case, you shouldn't even > | need any tcprules file, assuming that you want to allow anyone on your internal > | network to relay. If you're listening to port 25 only on the int

Re: qmail/tcpserver problem

1999-07-02 Thread Scott Schwartz
| This host has more than one interface? If that's the case, you shouldn't even | need any tcprules file, assuming that you want to allow anyone on your internal | network to relay. If you're listening to port 25 only on the internal | interface, then you can remove the rcpthosts file without fear

Re: qmail/tcpserver problem

1999-07-02 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 04:22:24AM +0200, Johan Van Gompel wrote: > Hello, > > Despite following the necessary instructions (#5.4) we are still > experiencing an outgoing mail problem with qmail 1.03. Unless I remove > /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts nobody can send mail outside the LAN. Do you rea

Re: qmail/tcpserver problem

1999-07-02 Thread Adam D . McKenna
How are you starting tcpserver? Did you remember to compile your /etc/tcp.smtp into /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb using tcprules? --Adam On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 04:22:24AM +0200, Johan Van Gompel wrote: > Hello, > > Despite following the necessary instructions (#5.4) we are still > experiencing an outgoin

qmail/tcpserver problem

1999-07-02 Thread Johan Van Gompel
Hello, Despite following the necessary instructions (#5.4) we are still experiencing an outgoing mail problem with qmail 1.03. Unless I remove /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts nobody can send mail outside the LAN. This is what I put in /etc/tcp.smtp: -- 192.168.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 127.:allow,RELA

Re: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Racer X
> > >Let me ask you this. If you got into an airplane, a Cessna 150, > > and I handed > > >you a key, could you start it? Is the key what starts it? Should > > you turn it > > >like a car key? Is there a difference between turning it left or right? > > Technically, if you try to fly a plane, and y

Re: info

1999-07-02 Thread Racer X
If you insist on doing this, could do please do the rest of the list a favor and not CC us on replies? We already know how to unsubscribe from the mailing list because we read the welcome message when we subscribed in the first place. shag - Original Message - From: Alex Miller <[EMAIL

Re: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Racer X
> Wouldn't the person on the help line be just a bit negligent if they failed > to ask. Do you have a learner's permit and are you seated next to a licensed > driver over 18? No, I'm sorry, I really don't think it's GM's responsibility to make sure that everyone using their product is legally ent

Re: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Richard Letts
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Richard Letts wrote: > for years bind allowed '_' in domain names. at one version they 'fixed' > this and thousands of zone files around the world had to be fixed. Who is > to say at some point in the future the server won't implement the > checking. > > I guess bind doesn't

newbie question - aol cname failure patch

1999-07-02 Thread Solomon B. Smith
Hello I'm a long-time Windows user, but can see many advantages to Linux, but I've got a lot yet to learn... I've been reading this list and it has been quite helpful in installing qmail successfully. I've installed the memphis rpms, according to Keith Burdis' how-to instructions. I've download

Re: autoconf?

1999-07-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, Russ, I guess you've never been bitten by config.cache. No, I can honestly say that I've never been bitten by config.cache. I've run configure, seen a bunch of things show up as cached when I knew I didn't have a valid cache, and deleted the ca

RE: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Alex Miller
> -Original Message- > From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, July 02, 1999 3:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Howto > > > "Alex Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Let me ask you this. If you got into an airplane, a Cessna 150, > and I handed > >you a k

Re: Off topic - What is GFY?

1999-07-02 Thread Adam D . McKenna
Ah, now you've pinpointed the logic behind my use of an acronym.. (they're so fun!) Alex assumed that the acronym stood for some sort of insult or profanity. Why? If you'll read the paragraph that I was replying to, you can tell that it was blatant flamebait. Alex proved this with his reaction

Re: Off topic - What is GFY?

1999-07-02 Thread Vern Hart
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, McGinnis, Tom wrote: > > I've tried and tried, but can't seem to figure out why "GFY" is so > offensive. Obviously I haven't figured out the real meaning. "Good for > you" is all I can come up with. When I first saw it, I too thought it was "Good For You" but based on whats

Re: I get to be offline for a week!

1999-07-02 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 09:01:35PM -0400, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > Chris, when you get that filter written would you mind sharing a copy? > Unless I get a few minutes to do it myself, then I'll share. > > Scott, can you say **plonk** ? Maybe the freds could extend ezmlm with an rfish option?

qmail-unsubscribe

1999-07-02 Thread Jhirley Fonte
Title: qmail-unsubscribe qmail-unsubscribe

Off topic - What is GFY?

1999-07-02 Thread McGinnis, Tom
I've tried and tried, but can't seem to figure out why "GFY" is so offensive. Obviously I haven't figured out the real meaning. "Good for you" is all I can come up with. -Tom

Re: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Richard Letts
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Scott D. Yelich wrote: > Ok, so we've beaten the dead horse with the fact that MX records can't > be CNAMES... so why does bind allow this? Go figure. for years bind allowed '_' in domain names. at one version they 'fixed' this and thousands of zone files around the world ha

Re: Serialmail won't run from cron

1999-07-02 Thread Dave Sill
Eric Dahnke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm using serialmail-70 over a ppp link for outgoing mail on a linux >box. From the ip-up scripts it runs perfectly. However, if the conection >stays up, I call serialmail from a crontab on the hour. Smells like an environment difference. >I have the pat

RE: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Dave Sill
"Alex Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Let me ask you this. If you got into an airplane, a Cessna 150, and I handed >you a key, could you start it? Is the key what starts it? Should you turn it >like a car key? Is there a difference between turning it left or right? > >Would you be an idiot if

Mail List Attitude

1999-07-02 Thread Kevin King
My "experience" with this list has been overall farely pleasant - despite my stupid newbie questions. People like Dave Sill have been very patient. BUT, because I'm a newbie, sometimes even when I "RTFM" things don't always click. I agree with Adam McKenna, if you ask nicely, you'll probably get a

Serialmail won't run from cron

1999-07-02 Thread Eric Dahnke
Hello, I'm using serialmail-70 over a ppp link for outgoing mail on a linux box. From the ip-up scripts it runs perfectly. However, if the conection stays up, I call serialmail from a crontab on the hour. I have the path to tcpclient set as a system wide path, and call serialmail from the cronta

RE: info

1999-07-02 Thread Alex Miller
The way to unsubscribe from an ezmlm list is based on it's name. This name of this list is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (via the People's Republic of Tonga) So to unsubscribe send a blank email to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] from your subscribing email address. For more about ezmlm check out http://w

untopical (Re: Howto)

1999-07-02 Thread Scott Schwartz
"Durham, Kenneth J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | General Motors doesn't have a help line for people who don't know how | to drive. "An analogy is like a cup of instant coffee. It can wake you up, but it's not the real thing." --- Peter da Silva | Imagine if they did... http://www.gm.com/v

RE: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Alex Miller
> General Motors doesn't have a help line for people who don't know how > to drive. Imagine if they did... You mean a help line like their web page? http://www.gm.com/vehicles/us/owners/partners_safety/e830.html Wouldn't the person on the help line be just a bit negligent if they failed to ask.

RE: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Alex Miller
Profanity isn't that complicated. A single paragraph, that says, "GFY" is profanity. It is an acronym and unlike the RTFM acronym, it's actual meaning is meant as full value. That's what I'm referring to. Alex Miller P.S. I wasn't quoting anyone, or if I did that was a typo. I was SAYing "Don

Re: Is Qmail MAPI 2.0 compliant?

1999-07-02 Thread Dave Sill
Ritchie Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We just set up a RedHat 6.0 server to be used as a mail server in our >deparment at school. Is Qmail MAPI 2.0 compliant? I am not really sure >what his even is, but one of the professers is hesitant to let us dump >Groupwise and switch to qmail if it isn

Re: info

1999-07-02 Thread Dave Sill
> May sombody point me where I should send msg to unsubscribe >from this list. I'm taking vacation and may mailbox will be very fast >full. See: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#mailing-lists -Dave

Is Qmail MAPI 2.0 compliant?

1999-07-02 Thread Ritchie Hill
We just set up a RedHat 6.0 server to be used as a mail server in our deparment at school. Is Qmail MAPI 2.0 compliant? I am not really sure what his even is, but one of the professers is hesitant to let us dump Groupwise and switch to qmail if it isn't. Also, is there an easy way to go from gr

info

1999-07-02 Thread gniadej
Hi May sombody point me where I should send msg to unsubscribe from this list. I'm taking vacation and may mailbox will be very fast full. Jozef

RE: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Alex Miller
> But what *you* have to understand is that if you're that much of a > newbie, you probably shouldn't be trying to install qmail. Respectfully, you're wrong. QMail does what I need it to do. Sendmail doesn't. The fact that I still haven't resolved my firewall problems or can't set up my own DNS

RE: autoconf?

1999-07-02 Thread Mate Wierdl
If you want build root support, I've got a patch to the qmail-1.03 distribution that adds that in. Well, does not something like DESTDIR=/okidoki make make man mkdir -p $DESTDIR/var/qmail chmod 755 $DESTDIR/var/qmail echo $DESTDIR/var/qmail > conf-qmail make install make inst

RE: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Durham, Kenneth J
Alex, As you quoted "Don't think that the behavior on this list isn't completely public, and potentially newsworthy." This is a very public mailing list and from what i remember freedom of speach is still in affect. One of the greatist things in america is that if someone does not like something o

RE: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Alex Miller
Actually, Things I find objectionable: RTFM, particularly, when the issue is misunderstanding what was read, or not having the right prior knowledge, instead of when the user didn't actually read the manual. In India, confessions are prohibited in the courts because it is recognized that their u

Re: autoconf?

1999-07-02 Thread Sam
Russell Nelson writes: > Russ Allbery writes: > > Also note that Dan is reinventing parts of autoconf in his build process; > > that's what all those try programs are. He's doing precisely the same > > thing that autoconf does, namely write out a little program, compile it, > > and see what

Re: Behaviour of qmail about not valid "Mail from:" adresses

1999-07-02 Thread Sam
Diego Puertas writes: > Sam wrote: > > > Diego Puertas writes: > > > > > When I put wrong email adresses (i.e.: "|/sbin/mkmess [EMAIL PROTECTED]" , or > > > "//@%^&*|" ) in the mail from command of a qmail server, the server does > > > not protest, as sendmail does. Postfix does the same as qm

Re: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Paul J. Schinder
On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 07:50:32AM -0700, Durham, Kenneth J wrote: } Being a newbi as alex in qmail an other things. You guys have to understand } that alot of the manuals are made for linux users and not newbies. The text } as well as explination of alot of the commands do not make any sense at

Re: Behaviour of qmail about not valid "Mail from:" adresses

1999-07-02 Thread Diego Puertas
Sam wrote: > Diego Puertas writes: > > > When I put wrong email adresses (i.e.: "|/sbin/mkmess [EMAIL PROTECTED]" , or > > "//@%^&*|" ) in the mail from command of a qmail server, the server does > > not protest, as sendmail does. Postfix does the same as qmail. > > > > What are the reasons and

Re: New qmail list et al

1999-07-02 Thread Dirk Harms-Merbitz
That would be after the signup process. Dirk On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 11:10:49PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: > Dirk Harms-Merbitz writes: > > How do you identify an idiot during the signup process? > > They respond to off-topic postings. > > -- > -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://cryn

memphis rpm(Re: Howto)

1999-07-02 Thread Mate Wierdl
Finally, I installed the Memphis RPM, I noticed immediate differences. 1) First, there is no rc file in /var/qmail. The README in my ftp directory explains the differences between the tarball and the rpm's setup. 2) There were additional daemons running, particularly the tcp se

Re: "rcpthosts may include wildcards"

1999-07-02 Thread Adam D. McKenna
On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 10:55:33AM -0400, Dave Kitabjian wrote: > > This is probably very simple, but indulge me. > > man for qmail-smtpd says: > > rcpthosts may include wildcards: > > heaven.af.mil > .heaven.af.mil > > So is the "." the wildcard? My current

"rcpthosts may include wildcards"

1999-07-02 Thread Dave Kitabjian
This is probably very simple, but indulge me. man for qmail-smtpd says: rcpthosts may include wildcards: heaven.af.mil .heaven.af.mil So is the "." the wildcard? My current understanding is: heaven.af.mil - will allow all email to @heaven.af.m

Re: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Adam D. McKenna
On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 07:50:32AM -0700, Durham, Kenneth J wrote: > Being a newbi as alex in qmail an other things. You guys have to understand > that alot of the manuals are made for linux users and not newbies. The text > as well as explination of alot of the commands do not make any sense at

RE: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Durham, Kenneth J
Being a newbi as alex in qmail an other things. You guys have to understand that alot of the manuals are made for linux users and not newbies. The text as well as explination of alot of the commands do not make any sense at all to someone that is new. If the manuals were also out with text that

Re: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Mate Wierdl
I believe the point was that you read your car manual to see where the power connects are for the stereo your also reading a manual for to install. Or, in other words, read your linux manual to learn how to use your inetd correctly while you read the qmail manual as you install it.

Re: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Scott Schwartz
"Alex Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Any other books you can think of that are worthwhile, particularly those | that might help with installing QMail. The Unix Programming Environment, by Kernighan and Pike (It's dated, but seminal.)

RE: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Mate Wierdl
No magic maybe, but perhaps a different syntax in the inetd that Redhat uses. No, syntax for Rh inetd is the same as in the INSTALL: 16. Set up qmail-smtpd in /etc/inetd.conf (all on one line): smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env

RE: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Mate Wierdl
>I have installed the line >from FAQ 5.1 >in the ined.conf > >tcpserver -u 501 -g 500 0 smtp /car/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd & The FAQ never said to put the above line in inetd.conf. It says put the above line in your sys startup files. tcpserver is used *instead of* inetd. The FAQ cannot really b

RE: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Alex Miller
It's great. That being said vigorously sincerely, there are a few improvements. 2.8.1 discusses /var/qmail/rc The memphis RPM which, so far, was the only way I could get QMail to function differs from conventional setups in that there is no /var/qmail/rc file. It would be nice if something wer

Re: What's the syslogd replacement called?

1999-07-02 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 03:09:24PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: You're looking for cyclog, which is part of the daemontools package. Find it at: ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/pub/software/daemontools-0.53.tar.gz > There was discussion a while ago about a faster syslogd replacement > (part of the qmai

What's the syslogd replacement called?

1999-07-02 Thread Chris Green
There was discussion a while ago about a faster syslogd replacement (part of the qmail distribution or something separate?), could someone point me at some informaiton about it please. -- Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://ww

Re: autoconf?

1999-07-02 Thread Fred Lindberg
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999 08:11:03 -0400 (EDT), Russell Nelson wrote: >Sorry, Russ, but autoconf is a lose (compared to Dan's methods -- >obviously it's much better than the old "edit the Makefile; edit >config.h; make; iterate" way). It's just wrong, all the way. >Something can solve a problem but st

RE: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Dave Sill
"Alex Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Wether you like it or not, there is going to be a new set of install >documents for QMail. No problem, there's room for plenty more. Before you charge off, though, please take a few minutes to skim "Life with qmail" and a drop me a line telling me wher

RE: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Dave Sill
"Alex Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Later, recently, Dave Sill pointed out the reason why, which incidentally, >ISN'T yet in the manual, not the inetd manual, nor any qmail manual. Not yet >anyway. Oh yes it is. "Life with qmail", which is *certainly* a qmail manual, says: 4.For a ligh

Re: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Dave Sill
"Scott D. Yelich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Yes. Everything I need is on the Internet, well, except for good >documentation -- Have you read "Life with qmail"? If you have, I'd be happy to hear what you think needs improvement. The URL: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html -Dave

RE: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Alex Miller
Ok So, on a web page giving people a list of things they should know (including links to man pages, other web pages etc.) Should the following be included as Sun only? sunrpc, portmap And the NFS daemons, again, are statd and lockd Sun only? Would something like this be reasonable? Linux basi

RE: local mail server

1999-07-02 Thread Alex Miller
Is there a particular reason why you don't want QMail to work beyond the scope of your network? SMTP handling will send mail out to the world POP-3 and IMap will handle sending and recieving mail via remote machines (i.e. not the localhost machine running QMail) I don't have Pop3 working yet (to

Re: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 06:31:49AM -0400, Alex Miller wrote: > > inetd/xinetd/tcpd and anything running under them > > sunrpc (nfsd, statd, lockd, etc.) > > portmap > > tcpserver > > named > > ok, I think we got inetd covered. > > xinetd (that's not on my system, nor is it listed in LINUX in a

Re: autoconf?

1999-07-02 Thread Russell Nelson
Russ Allbery writes: > Also note that Dan is reinventing parts of autoconf in his build process; > that's what all those try programs are. He's doing precisely the same > thing that autoconf does, namely write out a little program, compile it, > and see what happens. So he's actually using p

Re: databytes

1999-07-02 Thread Andre Oppermann
Vince Vielhaber wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > > Janos Farkas wrote: > > > > > > On 1999-07-02 at 11:09:56, Van Liedekerke Franky wrote: > > > > I have a small question about the databytes control file: > > > > does a mail first get stored on local disk before the size

Re: databytes

1999-07-02 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Andre Oppermann wrote: > Janos Farkas wrote: > > > > On 1999-07-02 at 11:09:56, Van Liedekerke Franky wrote: > > > I have a small question about the databytes control file: > > > does a mail first get stored on local disk before the size is checked? > > > > No, qmail-smtpd c

RE: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Alex Miller
"Any competent system administrator needs to know the syntax that the base networking daemons on his operating system use, and if he doesn't know the syntax, he should at least know where to look it up." Adam > inetd/xinetd/tcpd and anything running under them > sunrpc (nfsd, statd, lockd, etc.)

qmail Digest 2 Jul 1999 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 689

1999-07-02 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 2 Jul 1999 10:00:01 - Issue 689 Topics (messages 27367 through 27464): Howto 27367 by: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 27370 by: "Alex Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 27375 by: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 27380 by: "Alex Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Alex Miller wrote: > available on Access. I don't understand why Postgres doesn't yet support the > alter table command) PostgreSQL has supported ALTER TABLE at least since 6.4 (the first time I tried using it). > > Any other books you can think of that are worthwhile, part

Re: databytes

1999-07-02 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 11:17:10AM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a small question about the databytes control file: > > > > does a mail first get stored on local disk before the size is checked? > > Becuase if so, a client can send mails of 10 GB... they won't go through,

Re: databytes

1999-07-02 Thread Andre Oppermann
Janos Farkas wrote: > > On 1999-07-02 at 11:09:56, Van Liedekerke Franky wrote: > > I have a small question about the databytes control file: > > does a mail first get stored on local disk before the size is checked? > > No, qmail-smtpd checks it continously while passing the message data to > q

Re: databytes

1999-07-02 Thread Janos Farkas
On 1999-07-02 at 11:09:56, Van Liedekerke Franky wrote: > I have a small question about the databytes control file: > does a mail first get stored on local disk before the size is checked? No, qmail-smtpd checks it continously while passing the message data to qmail-queue. As soon as it founds i

Re: databytes

1999-07-02 Thread Andre Oppermann
Van Liedekerke Franky wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a small question about the databytes control file: > > does a mail first get stored on local disk before the size is checked? > Becuase if so, a client can send mails of 10 GB... they won't go through, > but they would block the server completely.

databytes

1999-07-02 Thread Van Liedekerke Franky
Hi, I have a small question about the databytes control file: does a mail first get stored on local disk before the size is checked? Becuase if so, a client can send mails of 10 GB... they won't go through, but they would block the server completely... Franky

Re: Undelivered mail

1999-07-02 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 06:52:54PM -0600, Jeff Lush wrote: I can think of 2 possibilities: 1. (server side): The timestamp on the message files is in the future, and so qmail-pop3d does not "see" them. To fix, simply touch the files. # touch ~username/Maildir/new/* 2. (client side): The client

Re: Qmail stops working

1999-07-02 Thread Doug Lumpkin
Answers follow below... Dave Sill wrote: > Doug Lumpkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > snip... > How are you running qmail-smtpd? Via tcpserver, inetd, or what? Show > us the the commands. > tcpserver... /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c100 -u502 -g500 0 smtp \ /var/qmail/bin/qm

Re: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Scott D. Yelich
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Adam D. McKenna wrote: > > the RFC, it will just state something like "MX records can't point to > > CNAMES" -- and never really state why this is so. > You were given the answer to this two days ago and didn't bother to read > it. Russ just answered you again, let's see i

Re: Howto

1999-07-02 Thread Adam D. McKenna
On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 12:08:20AM -0600, Scott D. Yelich wrote: First of all I'd like to apologize to the entire list for posting this. I had told myself I wasn't going to post any more on this thread, but it's just too funny to keep away from. This, however, WILL be my last post, and as for s