Re: Installing Qmail

1999-08-08 Thread Kevin Waterson

Waterfront Internet Service wrote:

> Hi, I am currently running sendmail but wish to change to qmail. I
> have read the instructions but they all say how to upgrade from
> sendmail to qmail. I want to delete sendmail as if it never existed
> and install qmail as if I never had a mail program installed. I know I
> will loose any messages that are in sendmails queue. Is this possible
> and how?
>
> What Operating System?



qmail-Linux-distribution

1999-08-13 Thread Kevin Waterson

I recall some time back there was much discussion about

having a linux distrobution with qmail rather than

sendmail. This, to me, makes more sense than I have

time for here. I also recall there being much debate

about Redhat wishing to do this, yet, for various

reasons this did not happen.

Every Redhat server I set up I need to go throuth the

process of ridding the system of sendmail and istalling qmail.

I use the memphis rpm and wrote up a simple install script

to to do this with. Then i thought how much easier this would

be if the rpms were part of the distribution rather and

installed during setup, rather than laboriously uninstalling

sendmail ( and applications that depend on sendmail)

So I started piecing together my own redhat clone (yes,

yet another) and would like to know what I need to do

to have qmail included with this distribution.

Did anything positive result from the experience with redhat?

What obligations do people have when distributing qmail?

All thoughts and suggestion gratefully accepted

Kevin Waterson

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Re: binaries

1999-08-14 Thread Kevin Waterson

Mate Wierdl wrote:

> Yes, the new qmail and qmail-run rpms are dropin replacements for the
> "memphis" rpm. qmail-run is Dan's naming for such a package.  And indeed,
> qmail-init is not entirely appropriate, since the package sets up other
> things as well (like links to sendmail).

Where can I download qmail-run?
I have poked about Dan's site but cannot see it listed

Kind regards

Kevin




summersoft redistribution

1999-08-15 Thread Kevin Waterson

>

Will the summersoft rpm distribution of qmail work as a drop in replacement for
sendmail
with Linux Redhat 6.0. If so, would I be breaking any laws/GPL/authors wishes by
including it in a customized distribution of my own.

Kind regards
Kevin




Re: daemontools binaries (was Re: binaries)

1999-08-19 Thread Kevin Waterson

Ira Abramov wrote:

> readme files in the packages or on DJB's site. Russ? could there be a
> little note about licensing on qmail.org? it's very confusing to a lot of
> people, especially now that GPL is in the news, it should be strictly
> mentioned on the page that Qmail and friends are not.

This would be very much appreciated by me for one.
I am trying to put together a small commercial distro
( another RedHat clone) and would like to have qmail
as a drop in replacement.
What am I allowed to use for this and what am I not.


Kevin


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Re: qmail-Linux-distribution

1999-08-19 Thread Kevin Waterson

Ira Abramov wrote:

>
>
> BeroLinux already did that, then Qmail disappeared when it was merged into
> Mandrake Linux. I sugest you switch to Mandrake as a platform (I love it.
> it's also recompiled for Pentium entirely) and ask them to add a legal
> Qmail binary distro into their install process, and make Sendmail an
> option and not a must. I'll join in to that request if you do...

This is what I am hoping to achieve, A legal qmail binary, not in their
distrobution,
in my own

Kevin




qmail distro and UID

1999-09-09 Thread Kevin Waterson

I am putting together a redhat clone and have omitted sendmail entirely.
of course exmh nmh fetchmail etc complain, but that can be remedied later.
I have been looking and reading up on qmail-run and var-qmail packages.

If I use the
qmail-run-4-4.i386.rpm
functions-3-3.i386.rpm

What should I use in the way of var-qmail.
My understanding is that it needs to be compiled on each machine, but
as this is a fresh install, but maybe used for upgrades, I am concerned
about
UID's. Should I simply create a .rpm from the source supplied or can
someone
recommend a better method.

Kind regards

Kevin



Re: qmail distro and UID

1999-09-10 Thread Kevin Waterson

Sam wrote:

>
>
> That has been the case at least since 4.0.  The problem is that Red Hat's
> installer forces a sendmail install no matter what, even if another package
> provides smtpdaemon.

Yes, but in this case I have removed the sendmail rpms from the distro

Kevin



Re: qmail distro and UID

1999-09-10 Thread Kevin Waterson

David Harris wrote:

>
>
> If you are going to be installing a bunch of machines, you might invest in
> modifying the base package by modifying the installer's package groupings so
> that qmail is installed instead of sendmail. You see, sendmail is in the "base"
> group which is always installed. If you just modify this group, problem solved.
>
> Modify the groups by editing the RedHat/base/comps file and using the genhdlist
> utility to write the RedHat/base/hdlist file. The format is easy enough to
> understand.

Yes .This is what I have done

Kevin



Re: qmail distro and UID

1999-09-11 Thread Kevin Waterson

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Since this will be your distribution, you can just reserve the qmail
> uids. In this case, you can get away with a very simple spec file to
> build qmail (I can tell you if you need it).
That would be most helpful
> 
> But you might be concerned about people who would like to upgrade
> their RH system to yours (probably bad idea though).
My concern is not with people upgrading from RedHat but trying
to run the upgrade over an existing installation. If they had 500
users on the system and then tried to upgrade and install the qmail
packages.

kevin



Re: Kurt's Closet on qmail

1999-09-15 Thread Kevin Waterson

Magnus Bodin wrote:

>
>
> The most important statement to all administrators and OS distributors out
> there is to finally DUMP sendmail.
>
>

We have a linux distribution that is nearing beta and have removed sendmail
entirely
Sendmail has been replaced with qmail and it is hoped all will benifit from it
and
other OS distributors will follow suit.
When the distro is complete we will be seeking beta testers.
Anyone who wishes to be part of this effort may contact me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
or through this list.

Kevin Waterson



qmail distro

1999-09-16 Thread Kevin Waterson

I have put together the first beta of a RH clone
and deleted sendmail and used qmail instead.
What I need is approx 2 gig of server space outside
of Australia as Australia has limited bandwidth.
This would be a major distribution point, so 
high bandwidth would be needed.

I am not looking for a handout and am willing to pay
for the service.

I need only ftp access and need to load up a distro
+ source + iso

Please contact me if you can provide such a service or
know of a provider who can

Kind regards

Kevin



Qmail book

1999-09-21 Thread Kevin Waterson

Is there a qmail book?

Kevin



Re: block domain

1999-10-04 Thread Kevin Waterson

Franklin A Hays wrote:

> I want to block a specific domain (att.net) that is spamming my server,
> where/how can I set qmail up to block, or defer, anything originating
> from them?

badmailfrom

Kevin



Re: Injecting mail to be delivered into qmail

1999-02-12 Thread Kevin Waterson

Chris Green wrote:
> 
> Is there a simple way of injecting mail into qmail for delivery?
> Presumably it's the way that an MUA would use but I can't really find
> what that is with qmail.


echo to: user | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject

Kind regards

Kevin



Unable to checkpassword

1999-03-06 Thread Kevin Waterson

I have a new install of RH 5.2 on  a subdomain linux.oceania.net
I hope to have a mailing list set up here for our local lug.
I am installing memphis which I have done on several occasiions
but this time something is amiss.

qmail seems to be running fine and ps -aux gives
qmaild 313  0.0  0.7   840   404  ?  S07:40   0:00 tcpserver -v
-c40 -x
qmaild 330  0.0  0.6   800   344  ?  S07:40   0:00 tcpserver -v
-c40 -u8
qmaill 296  0.0  0.5   736   284  ?  S07:40   0:00 cyclog -s
100 /va
qmaill 311  0.0  0.4   720   228  ?  S07:40   0:00 accustamp
qmaill 312  0.0  0.5   736   284  ?  S07:40   0:00 cyclog -s
100 /va
qmaill 327  0.0  0.3   720   220  ?  S07:40   0:00 accustamp
qmaill 328  0.0  0.5   736   284  ?  S07:40   0:00 cyclog -s
100 /va
qmaill 336  0.0  0.4   720   228  ?  S07:40   0:00 accustamp
qmail
qmailq 339  0.0  0.5   736   296  ?  S07:40   0:00 qmail-clean
qmailr 338  0.0  0.5   736   280  ?  S07:40   0:00 qmail-rspawn
qmails 300  0.0  0.6   780   336  ?  S07:40   0:00 qmail-send

although there is also
root   295  0.0  0.4   724   252  ?  S07:40   0:00 supervise
/var/lock/q
root   310  0.0  0.4   724   252  ?  S07:40   0:00 supervise
/var/lock/q
root   326  0.0  0.4   724   252  ?  S07:40   0:00 supervise
/var/lock/q
root   337  0.0  0.5   736   280  ?  S07:40   0:00 qmail-lspawn
# Using

In /var/lock
there is
qmailqmail-qmqpd  qmail-smtpd  subsys

Do these belong here?

I have checkpassword installed in /bin but when I try to collect mail
I get

Could not log into mail server
The server responded
This user has no $HOME/Maildir
Please enter a new password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ls /bin/checkpassword produses

-rwx--   1 root root 4460 Dec 11 00:27
/bin/checkpassword

I am able to send mail to the user from outside and the messages
are in  /home/kevin/Maildir/new  but I cannot retrieve them.
Perhaps the updated rpms are different from other installs on other
machines?


Any thoughts on this kindly appreciated

Kevin








Re: Unable to checkpassword Solution

1999-03-07 Thread Kevin Waterson

Once again I have found the solution in re-installing RedHat and qmail
This time there was no problems at all
Redhat installed normally
Qmail installed normally
ezmlm installed normally

Thanks particularly to Mate for his help
 After installing ezmlm, is it good/wise to upgrade to
ezmlm.edx


Kind regards

Kevin



Re: Getting Qmail to reject unknown MAIL FROM addresses...

1999-03-08 Thread Kevin Waterson

Jason Haar wrote:

> I know there's a bunch of patches out the to make Qmail do this, but I was
> wondering if anyone had done it in a similar fashion to rblsmtpd - i.e. it
> would do the check and then pass the connection onto the next part of the
> chain - rblsmtpd, qmail-smtpd, whatever.

I am sorry if I am missing something here, but are you wishing to setup
badmailfrom, thus denying acces to certrain domains??

Kevin




Re: HELP: need Checkpassword

1999-03-12 Thread Kevin Waterson

Patrick Paysant wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there someone nice enough to send the checkpassword
> package from Dan Bernstein to me by e-mail.
>

Do you mean the RPM ?

Kevin




Sendmail plus qmail

1999-03-21 Thread Kevin Waterson

Is it possible to run both sendmail and qmail on the one machine
I need to install innd adnd it requires sendmail apparently

Kind regards
Kevin




Re: qmail on seperate server

1998-12-22 Thread Kevin Waterson



I have two servers (both RH 5.2)
ns0.oceania.net 203.41.132.66
ns1.oceania.net 203.41.132.65

On ns0 I have httpd ftp DNS..yadda yadda
on ns1 I have qmail and DNS

I am unable to get qmail to send or recieve while it is on ns1
I have been able to run it on ns0 but I must have some thing amiss
in there some where. When I try to send mail I get n error saying
not in rcpthosts. What I have in control/rcpt is 
localhost
ns1.oceania.net
am I missing something here?

In my /var/named/ns1.oceania.net.hosts

; Mandatory minimum for a working domain
;
@   IN  SOA ns1.oceania.net. mail.oceania.net. (
199511301   ; serial, todays date + todays
serial #
28800   ; refresh, seconds
7200; retry, seconds
360 ; expire, seconds
96400 ) ; minimum, seconds
NS  ns1.oceania.net.
NS  ns0.oceania.net.
MX  10 mail.oceania.net.  ; Primary Mail Exchanger

ns0 A   203.41.132.66
ns1 A   203.41.132.65
ns2 A   203.41.132.71
wharfie A   203.41.132.75
anthem  A   203.41.132.76
kenny   A   203.41.132.77
kyleA   203.41.132.78
@   CNAME   ns0
localhost  IN   A   127.0.0.1
www CNAME   ns0
mailCNAME   ns1
ftp CNAME   ns0

somehow the two servers do not seem to like qmail running off on its own 

am I missing some thing basic here?


Kind regards

Kevin
   
   
 



qmail-inject

1998-12-30 Thread Kevin Waterson

I wish to send the content of a text file to users on my system without
attaching it.

I have tried
cat file | echo to: user | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject

but while it sends a mail it does include the contents of the file

Any ideas?

Kind regards

Kevin




Shadow Passwords

1999-03-28 Thread Kevin Waterson



 
I have qmail installed on several machines using Redhat 5.2
Currently passwords are not shadowed.
Will qmail be affected if I shadow the passwords
Kevin
 


memphis problems

1999-01-18 Thread Kevin Waterson

In light of the first problem, No make was not installed.
Installed make, and various headers and installed (all via telnet) ok
Mate - also used daemontools-0.53-16.src.rpm which was the latest I
could find.

All seemed to install ok and when I do
echo to:kevin | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject

It leaves a message in /home/kevin/Maildir/new

but when I try to collect the mail I get
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that host,
it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't treat it as local.
(#5.4.6)

in control locals I have
.portmacquarie.com
portmacquarie.com

portmacquarie.com being the domain name

All ideas greatfully accepted

Kevin

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Re: checkpassword RPMs?

1999-04-05 Thread Kevin Waterson

Chris Garrigues wrote:

> > From:  Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date:  Mon, 5 Apr 1999 15:53:37 -0600
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 04:40:07PM -0500, Chris Garrigues wrote:
> > > Is there an existing RPM anywhere for checkpassword?
> >
> > Yes.  I have one at
> >   http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~bguenter/distrib/checkpassword/
>
> If you check your ftp logs you'll see I've already been there.  It's 0.76,
> however, and 0.81 appears to be the latest.

I have 81-2 on a site ftp://linux.oceania.net/pub/memphis




Banning a domain

1999-01-05 Thread Kevin Waterson

I need to ban a domain from emailing anyone on a domain.

Do I need to setup up badmailfrom or some thing??

Kind regards

Kevin




Re: Filtering email from specific addresses

1999-01-08 Thread Kevin Waterson

Rick McMillin wrote:

> Is there a way to configure QMail to not accept
> (block) incoming messages from a specific email
> address? Before we made the switch to QMail, we
> were using Sendmail 8.9 and did this using the
> "access.cf" file to accomplish this.
>

jsut set up control/badmailfrom and put in there

[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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memphis problems (solution)

1999-01-20 Thread Kevin Waterson

OK the solution turned out to be frustration
After much hacking at various files I decided to reinstall
RedHat and Memphis

all went off without a hitch

The problem? Probably me

Thanks to all for suggestions, I did learn some from the experience.

Kind regards

Kevin

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Re: qmail on Linux

1999-11-12 Thread Kevin Waterson

Joe Millay wrote:

> Would it be better to re-install Linux without sendmail and then install
> qmail? I have not configured sendmail, so suppose it is a wash. But, I
> am new to this email-server thing and I don't want sendmail to interfere
> with qmail.

No need to re-install, infact it would make no difference as sendmail is
part of the base install of rh and will install no matter what you do.
( I have fixed this behaviour and removed sendmail from the RH distro and
put in qmail, along with some other goodies, will release it soon)

I have also made up a simple script to automate the process of installing
qmail on redhat using rpms.
The rpms and install script can be found on my ftp at
ftp.oceania.net
I think in the /pub/linux/qmail directory

WARNING.
The install script will stop and delete sendmail and any dependant
packages.
these include nmh, exmh, fetchmail

Enjoy

Kevin



Re: Hotmail

1999-12-14 Thread Kevin Waterson

Monte Mitzelfelt wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Tim Hunter wrote:
>
> > In my queue I have 9 messages with attachments for hotmail.com, I noticed
> > the problem about a week ago, it has probably been longer.  Any ideas for
> > contacting hotmail and letting them know how upsetting this makes us Admins?
>
> I sent mail to every damn contact address that I could find.  I encourage
> all others to do the same.

I find it easier to do something like
echo "@hotmail.com"  >> /var/qmail/control/badmailfrom

I encourage all others to do the same

Kevin



New SMTP setup

2000-01-10 Thread Kevin Waterson

I am setting up  a new qmail server to act as our smtp

the system is a newly installed RedHat 6.1 on a dual P133 SCSI
I hope to add a POP to it when this is done.

This is the commands I used to install it using the rpms...

rpm -e exmh
rpm -e nmh
rpm -e mutt
rpm -e fetchmail
rpm -e sendmail
rpm -Uvh daemontools-*.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh daemontools-*.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ucspi-tcp-*.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh var-qmail-create-1.03-102memphis.src.rpm
rpm -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/var-qmail-create.spec
rpm -Uvh
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/var-qmail-create-1.03-102memphis.i386.rpm
cp var-qmail-1.03-2-gnu-linux-i686.tar.gz /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/
rpm -bb var-qmail.spec
rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/qmail-1.03-102memphis.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh qmail-run-4-4.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh qmailanalog-*.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh tcpserver-initscripts-*.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh checkpassword-0.81-2.i386.rpm

I then editted /var/qmail/rc to read
qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail
for Maildir support

This is not working
Is their something I have missed here?
When I do ps aux it shows no daemons running and I cannot get
echo to: user | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject to deliver to a useer

kind regards
Kevin



Re: New SMTP setup

2000-01-11 Thread Kevin Waterson

Mate Wierdl wrote:

> Why are you doing these steps?
>
> rpm -e exmh
> rpm -e nmh
> rpm -e mutt
> rpm -e fetchmail

I do not use or want them

Kevin



Re: New SMTP setup

2000-01-11 Thread Kevin Waterson

Mate Wierdl wrote:

> > This is not working
> > Is their something I have missed here?
>
> yes, reading the the appropriate READMEs.  In particular, the READMEs
> do not say anything about the step
>
> cp var-qmail-1.03-2-gnu-linux-i686.tar.gz /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/

My reason for this was that by default a rpm is built from source when
the
source.tar.gz file is located in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
So that when the .spec file is run to the .tar.gz file is located there
rpm -bb var-qmail.spec
 builds the rpm and locates the newly created  rpm in
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386

and
rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/qmail-1.03-102memphis.i386.rpm
to install the created rpm

but, that is just my understanding of RPM.
I could be mildly/wildly mistaken





SMTP not working

2000-01-13 Thread Kevin Waterson

I have a fresh install of qmail and wish to run SMTP and POP on seperate
machines
Currently I have qmail active on smtp but it does not seem to be
delivering the Mail
to the Maildirs. I have editted everything I could find to say ./Maildir/
instead of mailbox.

When a mail is sent /var/log/qmail-smtp gives a message
947813893.747750 tcpserver: status: 1/40
947813893.751138 tcpserver: pid 5625 from 192.168.0.9
947813893.770585 tcpserver: ok 5625 :192.168.0.3:25
:192.168.0.9:kevin:1042
947813893.812094 tcpserver: end 5625 status 0
947813893.812132 tcpserver: status: 0/40

but the mail does not appear in the users Maildir/new?

Kevin



Re: New SMTP setup

2000-01-13 Thread Kevin Waterson

I have now installed qmail to run as smtp using the following commands
rpm -e exmh
rpm -e nmh
rpm -e mutt
rpm -e fetchmail
rpm -e sendmail --nodeps
rpm -Uvh functions-*.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh daemontools-*.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ucspi-tcp-*.i386.rpm
rpm --rebuild qmail-1.03-102memphis.src.rpm
rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/qmail-1.03-102memphis.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh qmail-run-4-4.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh qmailanalog-*.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh tcpserver-initscripts-*.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh checkpassword-0.81-2.i386.rpm
reboot

ps aux shows
qmaill 368  0.0  0.6  1084  340 ?S18:32   0:00 cyclog -s
100
qmails 371  0.0  0.6  1120  380 ?S18:32   0:00 qmail-send
qmaill 391  0.0  0.5  1068  300 ?S18:32   0:00 accustamp
qmaill 392  0.0  0.6  1084  340 ?S18:32   0:00 cyclog -s
100
qmaild 394  0.0  0.8  1196  488 ?S18:32   0:00 tcpserver
-v -c40
qmaill 405  0.0  0.5  1068  304 ?S18:32   0:00 accustamp
qmail
root   406  0.0  0.5  1088  324 ?S18:32   0:00
qmail-lspawn ./Ma
qmailr 407  0.0  0.5  1088  324 ?S18:32   0:00
qmail-rspawn
qmailq 408  0.0  0.6  1080  340 ?S18:32   0:00 qmail-clean

Why does qmail-smtpd not show?

Kind regards

Kevin



Maildir setup

2000-01-13 Thread Kevin Waterson

In the qmail/doc/INSTALL.maildir it says to edit /var/qmail/rc
and replace ./Mailbox with ./Maildir/
and "by creating a maildir in the new-user template directory"
Where is this directory?

Kind regards
Kevin



Re: New SMTP setup

2000-01-14 Thread Kevin Waterson

Anand Buddhdev wrote:

>
> qmail-smtpd is launched by tcpserver for each incoming connection.
>

as was my thinking.
thank you for your concise and promt reply

Kevin




Re: Maildir setup

2000-01-14 Thread Kevin Waterson

Anand Buddhdev wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 05:54:51PM +1100, Kevin Waterson wrote:
>
> I noticed something weird in your headers:
>
>
> --
> See complete headers for more infl

I am moving our mail behind a firewall and our local network.
The IP of the machine I am sending from is 192.168.0.9
the gateway is 203.41.132.67
I am not using DNS for the email to the outside world for mail
from this terminal

Kevin



Re: Maildir setup

2000-01-14 Thread Kevin Waterson

Mate Wierdl wrote:

>
>This is so important that I repeat it: if you want to change where
>and how qmail delivers local mail, you need to change
>/var/qmail/defaultdelivery/rc, and not /var/qmail/rc.  In this
>respect, qmail-run's setup is different from the default; the
>scripts in /var/qmail/boot do not get used by qmail-run's
>initscripts.

yes as it was before it was split into two packages.
Thank you for your patience
I have printed the README onto a 2x4 and had the
secretary beat me obout the head with it.

Kind regards
Kevin



Re: New SMTP setup

2000-01-14 Thread Kevin Waterson

With qmail up and running I send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The mail seems to send without problems and
/var/log/qmail-smtpd/@0947882916 shows

947887469.145793 tcpserver: status: 1/40
947887469.149571 tcpserver: pid 722 from 192.168.0.9
947887469.164402 tcpserver: ok 722 :192.168.0.3:25
:192.168.0.9:kevin:1637
947887469.205235 tcpserver: end 722 status 0
947887469.205273 tcpserver: status: 0/40

But when I look in /home/user/Maildir/new there is nothing.
So I do echo to: user | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject and all is well

What is happening here?

Kevin



Re: Maildir setup

2000-01-18 Thread Kevin Waterson

Jose Pedro Pereira wrote:

> Try /etc/skel ...
> The name says it all...

hmm, there is nothing in this dir?
What should be there?
Could I be missing something?

Kind regards
Kevin



imap

2000-03-10 Thread Kevin waterson

I have installed David Summers imap-4.5-3mdir4.i386.rpm 
but do not seem to be able to access IMAP
in my /etc/inetd.conf I have

imapstream  tcp nowait  root/usr/sbin/tcpd  imapd

What might I be missing

Kevin



Re: Future of qmail: will it care about viri/worms/etc?

2000-05-05 Thread Kevin Waterson

"David L. Nicol" wrote:

> Keith Warno wrote:
> >
> > there should be no need to "hack" qmail
>
> And there isn't!  Why do people persist on insecure MUAs?

My sentiment exactly.
Why should I have to expend valuable time and resources fixing
Microsofts dud ware.
Here in .au there are rumblings of legislation for ISPs to block virii,
these people have no concept of the difference between a virus and
a worm or any other type of exploit, yet pressure is mounting on ISPs
and, if legislated, means ISPs will be liable for loss and damage and
loss of production because MS constantly fail to secure their systems.
To effect this type of policy one would need to prohibit all
attachments,
scan each mail for vb/java script and why not peersonally read/censure
each mail


Kevin




Re: Still can send, but not receive

2000-05-06 Thread Kevin Waterson

>
>
> And why can't I get any outside mail?
>
> james

What do you have in rcpt.hosts

Kevin




Re: tcprules

2000-10-18 Thread Kevin Waterson

Jerry Lynde wrote:

> In other words, relax... you're not relaying... have a refreshing drink and
> breathe deeply cuz it's all good.

Thank you for that, I feel somewhat relieved.
Now, why would oceania.net be listed on orbs as an open relay?
-- 
Kind regards

Kevin Waterson



orbs and qmail

2000-10-19 Thread Kevin Waterson

Recently, after running qmail for 3 years on our
primary mail server, we found ourselves listed on orbs.
It seems we were acting as an open relay and that
many mailers were simply bouncing mail from our
domain.

I made a check of the server and all was well but
when I checked it from the facility at
abuse.net I found it was reporting an open relay.

The problem it seems stems from qmails handling of
one of the tests has qmail accepting the mail and
dealing with it internally, so that probably ever
qmail server will eventually end up listed on orbs,
with an incorrectly assumed open relay.

But we needed action quickly as users were complaining
so we had to switch our primary server to sendmail, to
avoid any confusion.

Now, if Orbs are incorrectly listing services perhaps
we here need to follow up with our legal people.

Kind regards

Kevin Waterson



Re: orbs and qmail

2000-10-20 Thread Kevin Waterson

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> On 20-Oct-2000 Kevin Waterson wrote:
> >
> > I made a check of the server and all was well but
> > when I checked it from the facility at
> > abuse.net I found it was reporting an open relay.
> >
> > The problem it seems stems from qmails handling of
> > one of the tests has qmail accepting the mail and
> > dealing with it internally, so that probably ever
> > qmail server will eventually end up listed on orbs,
> > with an incorrectly assumed open relay.
> 
> ORBS doesn't use the abuse.net tests to determine who is
> an open relay.  
To quote from the ORBS site
Try Abuse.Net's new relay tester (requires registration). This is the
only web-based tester which carries out the same set of tests which ORBS
does. 

>Typically, ORBS requires the delivery of a
> piece of email via the alleged open relay before adding
> that host ot its list.  A properly configured qmail server
> will not act as an open relay even as it fails the abuse.net
> test.
So what is point of having a test that does not give correct
results? It would seem any qmail server will fail the test as
qmail will accept the miscreant mail and deal with it internally.
This behaviour, according to ORBS, will have you listed as an
open relay.


-- 
Kind regards

Kevin Waterson



Re: orbs and qmail

2000-10-22 Thread Kevin Waterson

"John R. Levine" wrote:

> I wish there were some way I could make this stuff more idiot
> resistant, but some idiots can resist anything.

This is helpful and informative in what manner?
Degenerated to abuse, how appropriate from abuse.net

regards

Kevin Waterson



Re: orbs and qmail

2000-10-22 Thread Kevin Waterson

Alex Pennace wrote:

> It is no more abusive than pestering a mailing list about conclusions
> reached while ignoring big bold blinking letters. RTFM.
> 
>   
>Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature

What happened? when they said brains you thought they said "trains"
and missed yours?
This is a mailing list for asking questions, perhaps not everyone
is as enlightened as you, I did not ignore anything, as quoted earlier
by some other helpful soul "
The text on the orbs.org website is, unfortunatly, misleading"
then went on quite politely and cleared things up nicely.

-- 
Kind regards

Kevin Waterson