Re: qpop3 keeps alive!
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 09:15:25AM -0200, Ari Arantes Filho mumbled: > env - PATH="$PATH" svscan & > echo $! > /var/run/svscan.pid You are getting the pid of the env program. You must start svscan without a wrapper like env in order to get echo $! to work. /Martin
Re: INSTALL.ids & OpenBSD 2.8
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 05:43:03AM -0800, Rick Updegrove mumbled: > Hello, > I am just curious will this work on OpenBSD 2.8? > or will I have to add them with my editor. > Yes, they will work. However you must change the shell from '/nonexistent' to '/sbin/nologin' I'm unsure if you can specify the username and groupname before the options though. The manpage specifies to put them at the end. /martin
Re: Accept mail for hostmaster@.*
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 03:44:20PM +0100, Fredrik Steen mumbled: > | > > | > I'm trying to setup a Qmail server. I need it to accept mail for > | > hostmaster@.* without any configuration for new hosts. Umm.. I think you are making it harder than what it really is. If the qmail server is setup to as MX and is ready to receive mail all you need to do is add yourdomain.com to /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts. Dont forget to restart qmail. That will tell qmail to start receiving mail for your new domain. If you already have a .qmail-hostmaster file in /var/qmail/aliases then your are ready to receive. /M
Re: Load Balancing with qmail
Yes and no, well actually just yes but one option is easy the other is not. If you are talking about desktop clients where you manually can enter a hostname to use as SMTP server then it is easy. If you on the other hand mean to loadbalance your MX records that will be a bit tricky (or atleast expensive). Anyhow, to loadbalance yuor desktop clients all you need to do is setup DNS roundrobin for the SMTP host. DNS roundrobin is not perfect but will suffice for the most of us. MX records rarely need loadbalancing since you have the prefference setting in the MX record itself. If the most preffered server is "full" the sending host will simply pick the MX record with the second best prefference and so on. However if you really want _real_ loadbalancing I would recommend thirdparty software or hardware. /Martin On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 10:33:01AM +0300, Andrew Wafula mumbled: > Hi, > > Is there any way one can do load balancing with qmail, i.e I have two > machines both with qmail set up and running. Is there a way that I can have > them both serving as smtp servers without the clients knowing which machine > is sending the ail for them? > > Andrew >
Re: Need Arguments for qmail
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:11:55AM -0500, Russell Nelson mumbled: > > Your anti-useless-use-of-cat crusade is a waste of people's time. It > comes from the old days where machine time was more important than > people time. We left those days at least five years ago. > So, just because we have faster computers we should make programs that are not as efficient as they "used" to be? Your filosofy is pretty much what Microsoft is working on and I for one do not like it. If you can make it fast, then make is _fast_. Not because you have to but because you can, there is no need to write less efficient code just because a fast computer make the new, albeit slow, code run just as fast as the old code, the fast one, on an slow machine. Thats just being dumb. /martin
Re: Qmail and time zone
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 03:57:32PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet mumbled: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kari Suomela) writes: > > > How do I get Qmail to include the proper time zone info in the > > messages? My sendmail machines have it, but anything coming from Qmail > > has -. The machines are otherwise identical RH 7.0 boxes. > > Basically, you won't. Qmail is putting in the time correctly, but > it's stating it in GMT. This is actually more useful; mail often Actually that's not quit true. On my OpenBSD system I set my timezone in the kernel configuration. If you look in the headers of this mail you will see I have GMT+1 (MET). Not sure how, if possible, you set the timezone with a "hard" value on a Linux system. /Martin
Re: Qmail and time zone
Aargh! Nevermind, I just realized why I did set a hardvalue in the kernel config. I did this so that qmail would show the time as GMT and not MET ie. qmail used the MET time which is GMT+1 but it still wrote it as -. When setting a hard value of -60 in the kernel the error was fixed. Sorry about confusing things a bit... /M On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 11:44:50PM +0100, Martin Akesson mumbled: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 03:57:32PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet mumbled: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kari Suomela) writes: > > > > > How do I get Qmail to include the proper time zone info in the > > > messages? My sendmail machines have it, but anything coming from Qmail > > > has -. The machines are otherwise identical RH 7.0 boxes. > > > > Basically, you won't. Qmail is putting in the time correctly, but > > it's stating it in GMT. This is actually more useful; mail often > > Actually that's not quit true. On my OpenBSD system I set my timezone > in the kernel configuration. If you look in the headers of this mail > you will see I have GMT+1 (MET). > > Not sure how, if possible, you set the timezone with a "hard" value on a > Linux system. > > /Martin
Re: Qmail and time zone
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 05:08:43PM -0500, Kari Suomela mumbled: > DB> Basically, you won't. Qmail is putting in the time correctly, but > DB> it's stating it in GMT. This is actually more useful; mail often > DB> crosses timezone boundaries, and having the received headers *all* > DB> use > > This is very annoying! I've spent lots of time training the users to > configure their clients properly, and now my qmail server sends out > garbage, which defeats the purpose. :( > I dont see where the problem is. The client can only set the 'Date:' headers anyway. The 'Received:' headers on the other hand are set by the MDA and should all use the same timezone, GMT. The users will never see these headers anyway and most ISPs will only be happy with this configuration, atleast I know I would be. /M
