Re: ucspi-tcp and daemontools licenses?

[Patrick Berry]

on 6/28/00 9:17 PM, Vincent Danen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I've looked at the web pages for both tools and in the archives
> themselves, but I can't find anything having to do with licensing
> issues for these two programs.  I know they're not GNU, but I was
> wondering about distribution for them.
> 
> I've made Mandrake RPMs for them would like to know if I can
> distribute them.  The only changes I've made are to place the
> binaries in /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/bin.  Can I distribute
> binaries this way?  No patches or anything else have been applied to
> them.  Or do I have to put them into /usr/local/bin in order to
> distribute them?
> 
> Thank you in advance.  If you can point me to a page describing the
> license for either program as well, I would sincerely appreciate it
> (as I think the license should be included in the RPMs also).

A quick peek on the list archive came up with no definative answer.  The
only page that might help you out is:

ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/lists.html#qmaildist which tells you how to
subscribe to a list which is for distributors of qmail-related packages.
I'd have to assume that ucspi-tcp and daemontools are somewhat qmail
related.

Pat

Re: Random Qmail Questions

[Patrick Berry]

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] had the thought that... <<<

> > That's a feature, qmail doesn't want to run as root which it would have to
> > do.  Use ~alias/.qmail-root to send root's mail somewhere else.
> 
> Ah thank you. I knew I had forgotten to ask something. I aliases work
> under qmail. I've got some aliases under people's home directories, so
> they can accept mail from other addresses, but I haven't figured out how
> the ~alias/.qmail-x works. Do I need to put the address to forward to in
> the /.qmail-root file? Is it as simple as that?

Yup, just put a &your-login-here in ~alias/.qmail-root and all will be
well.

> > People say nice things about mutt.  The rest of us make do with worthless
> > unreliable MUAs.
> 
> Glad you brought up mutt. I've been wanting to switch to it for some time
> now. Unfortunately I haven't found an editor that works with it too well.
> It was using vi, but vi seems to forget to wrap the text, so it sends
> everything on this one long line. I tried using pico as well, but it sits
> there and asks me what file I want to save it as etc., which is just a
> pain. BTW, does mutt use Maildir, or will I have to set up a mutq filter
> for it as well?

All of the above problems can be fixed in the config files of vim and
mutt.  I know it's bad to assume that he is using vim instead of mutt,
but if he isn't he should be ;-)

.vimrc:
set tw=70   " always limit the width of text to n

.muttrc
set mbox_type="Maildir"
set mbox="$HOME/Maildir/"
set spoolfile="$HOME/Maildir/"

This setup works pretty well for me.


Pat
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Re: can't start

[Patrick Berry]

>>> James had the thought that... <<<

> Now, after having gone through the installation steps, qmail was running on
> my system, until I rebooted.  I thought I had placed the proper script in
> the proper startup file, but I guess I haven't.  But for starters, I don't
> know how to even START qmail manually.  I tried going into the qmail
> install directory and typed:
> 
> qmail start

Well, if you did indeed put the startup scripts in the right place you
would want to do this:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail start
(at least on redhat systems)

> but I got this error: bash: qmail: command not found

Which would make sense if you were in /usr/local/src/qmail or
whatever since the startup scripts don't live there.

> So then I went to the /var/qmail/bin directory, but got the same error.
> How do I get qmail to start again?  It was running before I rebooted.
> 
> I'll also mention that I couldn't get the step for rblsmtpd
> (http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html#10b) to work.. the
> "setuser" was a command that my system didn't understand.  Could this cause
> a problem?

Well, it looks like you got daemontool 6 where setuser was replaced
with setguid and other oddities.  I got bitten by that as well.  As
has been mentioned a couple of times, most of the HOWTOs haven't
caught up to the newest daemontools.

You might want to consult the nifty Life with Qmail and see if that
helps out any:
http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html

Pat

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relay rules question

[Patrick Berry]

Okay,

I have our smtp running under tcpserver and only machine in the office
can send mail through it.  But now, we have people dialing in from
home and wanting to use our smtp server.  They can't use the ISPs smtp
server because they want to send mail as
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and most people don't like you doing
that...

Unfortunately people are also dialing into MSN and want to use the
mailserver.  I don't want to allow the IP range for all of MSN...

Any suggestions?

Pat
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Re: Kurt's Closet on qmail

[Patrick Berry]

>>> Dave Sill had the thought that... <<<

> "Lyndon Griffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >But they are something to do with qmail, and not just because they have djb
> >in common.  Any newb stopping by this list or reading on of the how to's
> >will get the following information:  get qmail, but to make it work, also
> >get daemontools and ucspi-tcp.
> 
> That's "advice", not "information". I recommend ucspi-tcp and
> daemontools, but they're *not* required to use qmail.
> 
> -Dave
> 
> PS: newb? 2 qt. reale.

It's also advice that makes the newb's life much easier down the road.
At least, that is what I have found.

Pat

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Re: QMAIL-LDAP list

[Patrick Berry]

On 9/23/99 at 3:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Schmerold) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had the
thought:

> How do I subscribe to the QMAIL-LDAP list.  Is there a list of other QMAIL
> lists?

This should have everything you need:

From: http://www.nrg4u.com/ (the only LDAP link off the qmail.org page)

A mailing list for discussion of this patch is avail, send mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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Re: daemontools-0.53 not available in LWQ site

[Patrick Berry]

On 9/23/99 at 3:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Franklin A Hays)
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had the thought:

> I am installing qmail via Davids LWQ and was not able to find the
> daemontools-0.53 package at the koobera.math.uic.edu ftp site.  Is this
> critical and if so where can I find it now.
> 
> Thanks in advance...
> -frank
>
--- 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://spiiochem.okstate.edu/~frank
>
---

daemontools have moved up a version.  Since LWQ is written for use with 0.53 and
I found it easier to grab an rpm of daeomontools, but still do the regular qmail
source install.


For rpm links, check the very top of the qmail.org page for the binary links.

Pat

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Re: Hopefully my last question. :-)

[Patrick Berry]

On 9/23/99 at 5:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luis Campos de Carvalho)
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had the thought:

> On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Glenn Crownover wrote:
> 
> > Almost running smooth as silk here!  Just one last thing...
> > 
> > What is the recommended replacement in a qmail environment (using
> > Maildir now!) for /bin/mail?  I have cron jobs wanting to use it (among
> > many other apps).
> 
>   I don't remember for sure what's the real utility of /bin/mail.
>   
>   I'm guessing that you want to send mails.
>   
>   The program that you must use is /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject.
>   There is a nice man page about it. 
> 
>   Please somebody confirm this for me.
>   
>   Thank you a lot.

I don't think you need to replace /bin/mail.  I have a RedHat 5.2 box with
sendmail removed and /bin/mail works just fine with qmail.  Did you remove
/bin/mail yourself?  Is it not working now?

Pat

Re: Hopefully my last question. :-)

[Patrick Berry]

On 9/23/99 at 2:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glenn Crownover) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
had the thought:

> I had 'chmod'ed it to 0 per "REMOVE.binmail" (in /doc) step 2, as part
> of the INSTALL instructions.
> 
> Then I got this message from my cron job:
> 
> 
> 23 Sep 04:02:01 ntpdate[29031]: step time server 192.6.38.127 offset 1.067004
> sec
> /usr/lib/news/bin/news.daily: /bin/mail: Permission denied
> 

In the REMOVE.binmail file it just says to link it to a usable mailer.  I looked
at the mail and mutt man page and they seemed to be command line compliant.  I
would guess that most mailers are compliant that way.  You could just symlink
/bin/mail to /usr/bin/mutt or whatever...

Another option is to leave sendmail on the system in conjunction with qmail, but
I doubt that is really necessary.

Pat

Re: Mass virtual hosting

[Patrick Berry]

On 9/27/99 at 10:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B. Engineer) wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat wrote:
> 
> > Dear List,
> > I want to setup 30,000+ virtual domains.  Is there any
> > performance problems with this large virtualdomains and rcpthosts
> > files?
> > Or is there any way to avoid using these files?  The domains are
> > of the same format: *.mydomain.com.
> 
> Hello:
>   Yes, I am also interested in hearing the list's view on this. My 
> /var/qmail/users/cdb file is at 20M+. I have 200K+ virtual users and I am 
> wondering if I should move away from the file based approach. 
> 
> Is there a patch that will use a database (postgres/mysql) for looking up 
> virtual users instead of the cdb file?
> 
> Anyone else facing the same issues??

You might want to check this message from the qmail archive:
http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/1999/08/msg01079.html

It talks about using cbd database for storing this information.

Pat
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Re: qmail-pop newbie security

[Patrick Berry]

On 9/27/99 at 4:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joshi, Vivek) wrote:


> Q1. I read somewhere the pop3 clients don't use encrypted passwords, is
> there a way to implement increased security in this case ?

Yes, but you need to make sure the clients can handle the kind of authentication
you want to use.

Check http://www.qmail.org for a number of checkpassword programs.

> Q2. What more do i need to install for increased security under telnet ?

Look into ssh (http://www.ssh.org).  Which is far beyond the scope of this
list...
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Re: pop3d - Unable to scan $HOME/Maildir??

[Patrick Berry]

On 9/27/99 at 5:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Rogers) wrote:


> 
> /var/qmail/popboxes/sadi-com/joe/Maildir:
> total 0
> drwx--2 popuser  qmail96 Sep 27 16:44 .
> drwx--3 popuser  qmail96 Sep 27 17:40 ..
> #

I think your Maildir has something wrong with it.  Did you use
/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake to create the Maildir?  You should see three folders
inside (cur, new, tmp).  

Pat
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Re: Newsgroups

[Patrick Berry]

On 9/28/99 at 7:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Booms EDV) wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> are there (feeding) servers which have groups about qmail?
> 
> Thomas

I believe that this list (and the archive) is about the best place to find talk
about qmail.  I checked deja and no qmail specific groups showed up.  You might
find some flame wars in the sendmail groups though ;-)

Pat
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Re: POP3d Problem

[Patrick Berry]

On 9/29/99 at 8:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Qmail-User) wrote:


> I tried changing this but no to no joy.  Outlook still says server could
> not be found.  I dropped to DOS and then tried to ping the server and
> there was no problem.

Try telneting to the server at port 110.  This should tell you if pop3 is
listening or not.

> After I have started to the pop3d I get a pid for the daemon and then a
> little while later I get the following:
> 
> [1]+  Donetcpserver -v -R 0 pop3
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup
> mail.cyberscapes.com.au /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d
> Maildir 2>
> &1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d

You might consider running your pop3d server though supervise.  This way, it is
stops running it will be started again.  There is ample documentation on this in
Life with Qmail. 

http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html

We should put the URL for lwq in the footer of every message ;-)

Pat
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Re: virtual domains help please

[Patrick Berry]

On 9/29/99 at 11:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith From) wrote:

> 
> /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains
> laiken.com:laiken001
> laiken.com:laiken002
> laiken.com:laiken003
> laiken.com:laiken004
> southwestern-av.com:swav001

You might want to use .qmail files in /var/qmail/alias instead...

/var/qmail/control/virtualdomains
laiken.com

/var/qmail/alias
.qmail-laiken001 <- contains &laiken001
.qmail-laiken002 <- contains &laiken002
.qmail-laiken003 <- contains &laiken003
.qmail-laiken004 <- contains &laiken004

Since you already added the users this should work fine...

Pat
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Re: qmail is not a replacement for sendmail

[Patrick Berry]

>>> Adam D. McKenna had the thought that... <<<

> From: Jay D. Dyson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> :
> : On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> :
> : > > Not everyone installing Unix/Linux nowadays is an OS guru.
> : >
> : > If they're playing the role of admin, they damn sure should be.  It's
> : > obvious from the beginning that they're not installing windoze 95.
> :
> : Okay, either I'm seriously underestimating my skill set or a lot
> : of other people are seriously overestimating the skill set necessary to
> : install Qmail without inflicting self-injury.
> :
> : Which is it?  I consider myself competent, but by no means a
> : turbo-guru of *nix by any stretch of the imagination.
> 
> Anyone who can read and comprehend the documentation and is moderately
> intelligent should be able to install qmail with a minimum of fuss.

I can back this up.  I've been thrown into sys admin duty recently.  I
was able to get qmail+pop3 up in about a day and a half.  I didn't
have a plan.  This was bad.  I just downloaded the src and compiled,
then went searching for the INSTALL file.  Then to qmail.org, the
searched the archive for hours.

> The problem is the people who don't want to read and learn.  This usually
> includes *nix newbies.

Well, now that everything is up and running, I'm scared what will
happen if/when something goes wrong... but then that's why I keep up
with the qmail list ;-)

Pat
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The qmail problem that wasn't

[Patrick Berry]

Hi.

I was about to email the list in a panic about a problem that I though was qmail 
related.  I've been
subjected to a lack of sleep as of late so my powers of observation seem to be a 
little below
average right now.  I couldn't figure out why qmail stopped relaying mail.  I check 
everything.  I
restarted everything.  I searched the archive up and down.  I check the Programming 
Internet Email
book desperate for clues.  

Then I actually took 2 seconds to look at the response I was getting from smtp...and 
it was
sendmail.  Shivers start to go down my spine.  What the hell was going on here?

Turns out someone had restarted the box and before they did modified the 
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail
file to start up again.  A handy exit 0 had been placed there before...

Anyway, killed sendmail (and fixed it's start up script again), started up qmail again 
and every
thing was fixed.

I'm alone at the office, it's late, I'm seeing things and I just had to tell someone...

Sorry about that...

Pat
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Re: lame question

[Patrick Berry]

On 11/9/99 at 11:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David McCall) had the
thought:

> Wish there was a graphic picture of the qmail parts and the addons with
> their various functional locations and requirements or even
> a flow chart showing how stuff should move under various conditions.


Never fear!

http://www.nrg4u.com/ has nice big color pix of the qmail picture.

As for your other questions you might want to poke around qmail.org for a
pop password checker thingy.  There are more than one floating around out
there.

Pat
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Re: delivery to a directory

[Patrick Berry]

On 11/9/99 at 3:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Howard) had the thought:

> Please don't suggest lots of userids and/or lots of .qmail files.  I'm
> dead set on making this easy to administer, so those are not options.
> That's why I'm running things through a program that figures it out.

I could be way off base here, but it sounds like your dead set on
reinventing the wheel.  If you have to have a directory for the userid to
hold the Maildir, what is the problem with having a .qmail file to tell
qmail to deliver to that Maildir?

Pat
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check HOST in dot-qmail

[Patrick Berry]

I've set up an alias to allow mail to be sent to all the people in our
office.  I would like to protect this alias from the 'outside'...

Would there be any problems with just doing a simple check ala
if [ $HOST != freestyleinteractive.com ]
go away
else
everything is cool and go ahead and deliver
fi

Is there something bad that could happen that I might be over looking in my
approach?  Would it be best to execute an external shell script from the
dot-qmail file and check the return value of that script and then decide
what to do?

Pat
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Re: check HOST in dot-qmail

[Patrick Berry]

on 12/14/99 10:10 AM, Boris Atanassov had the thought:

> Check the ip-chains howto to disable access from the outside to the SMTP port.
> --Bobby

That might be bad since we actually do want mail from the outside world.
I'm just afraid that the alias might get out in some sales person message as
a cc: and then some bozo will reply to all and thus spam our entire office.

I just want to exclude outside hosts on that alias.

Pat
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Re: Using Qmail as a dedicated SMTP/POP3 server...

[Patrick Berry]

on 12/16/99 4:20 PM, Roy Sandgren had the thought:

> Greetings to all of you!
> 
> I'm running Qmail today, but I have a few wishes that I'm not able to
> fullfill by myself.
> 
[wishes snipped]

It sounds like all of your needs can be meet with any number of solutions
available from http://www.qmail.org

Pat
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Re: persistent connections for qmail file programs

[Patrick Berry]

on 1/6/00 2:25 PM, Peter Gradwell had the thought:

> Hi ya,
> 
> If I have a perl script, in a .qmail- file, which connects to a mysql
> database, has anyone considered how to make the mysql connection persistent.
> 
> Would it be at all possible to have persistence in the program run by a
> ..qmail file?

This is the "long way" as I don't really know the "short war".  You could
set up Apache+mod_perl+my_sql and have the dot-qmail file send stuff to a
cgi.  I'm not to sure about any other ways.

> or am i totally mad?

Pat

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Re: AW: php3 and qmail

[Patrick Berry]

on 2/1/00 12:27 PM, Andreas Altenburg had the thought:

> i changes the line in the php3.ini-dist to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail
> 
> In spite of this, the mail is not send. In the http-error-log there is a
> line /usr/sbin/sendmail -no such directory or file. But i do not find the
> line in my php3.ini-dist file. Where can it be???
> 
> 

>From Life with Qmail http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html

kill PID-of-sendmail
mv /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail.old # may not be needed
mv /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail.old # may not be needed
chmod 0 /usr/lib/sendmail.old /usr/sbin/sendmail.old
ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/lib
ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin

This will make sure that qmail will handle you mail.

Pat

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Re: Book

[Patrick Berry]

on 4/29/00 12:53 AM, suresh had the thought:

> Does anybody know of a good book on qmail
> Suresh

Your best bet for the time being is to grab a postscript version of Life
with Qmail from : http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/qmail.html and print it out.

There is an O'Reilley book in the works, but it will be out When It's
Ready(tm).

Pat

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Re: PERL filtering...

[Patrick Berry]

on 5/5/00 10:32 AM, John W. Lemons III had the thought:

> I have recently deployed a freeware procmail script that does a very good
> job filtering out various forms or malicious mail.  So far it has caught all
> the ILOVEYOU mail and a few of the variants we have seen.  Since I use QMail
> on my own machine, can procmail scripts be used with QMail?  Most of the
> script uses some well crafted PERL code, so if not, it could probably be
> shoe-horned into a form that QMail will utilize.  Any suggestions?

You are better off using something like scan4virus at the queue level.
http://www.geocities.com/jhaar/scan4virus/

While it is probably not advised, I am using it without the QMAILQUEUE
patch.  Instead, the scan4virus program receives the mail, scans it, then
passes it to my renamed qmail-queue program.

Right now I deny all .vbs attachments.  Yes, this is rather draconian and
there might be a 1 in 100,000,000,000,000 chance that someone really needs
to send a .vbs attachment.  Those are the breaks...

Pat

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Re: PERL filtering...

[Patrick Berry]

on 5/5/00 10:55 AM, octave klaba had the thought:

> setuping scan4vuris I have this error
> 
> Cannot find unzip on your system!
> 
> 2 stupid questions:
> - where can I find it out for linux ?

http://freshmeat.net

> - do I need to use McAfee with ? if yes, whch version ? an url ?

No, but should have at least one kind of scanner.  It is easier if you use
one that is already tested and on the list.  Or you can simply use the built
in perl scanner.  Freshmeat also has links for cirus scanners.

Pat

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

[Patrick Berry]

on 5/5/00 12:27 PM, Keith Warno had the thought:
> 
> qmail is a programmer's MTA.  (Un)fortunately the world isn't full of
> programmers.  When things like the "love bug" hit the main stream, getting
> everyone to frantically and quickly slam their doors shut in the faces of
> all that is unwanted, qmail users should be able to do the same.  Er, that
> is, without having to write some quick, untested "hack" to do it.  Or
> install a 2nd copy of qmail and then write a quick, untested "hack".
> 
> qmail needs filtering rules for this "love bug" sort of thing, ie, a new
> control file or set of control files.  These days, filtering by the MTA is
> probably more of a necessity than a feature.

What makes you think that the fixes that instantly sprang up for sendmail,
et. all weren't quick hacks?  With the design of qmail I am able to do more
general filtering and it keeps me from having to use a 1 meg procfile
recipe.  I use scan4virus.

The problem that this presents is that there is always more than one way to
do it so you have 18 different perl scripts to do the same task ;-)

We have a dedicated test machine for qmail, so testing 'quick hacks' usually
isn't a problem.  I know this isn't an option for everyone, but before you
apply any kind of patch to sendmail or other MTAs I would think you want to
test it as well.
 
Pat
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Re: scan4virus

[Patrick Berry]

on 5/6/00 12:58 PM, Warren J. Beckett at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone have much experience with scan4virus?
> 
> I have install the latest version on my redhat 6.2 box and it works
> well... Exept than when I add entries to block certain file type of
> attachment it does detect any of them. I am trying to block mp3's and
>  vbs attachments.
> 
> I have entered the following lines in the  antivirus-attachments.txt.
> 
> .vbs0No VBS
> .exe0No Exec
> 
> *.vbs   0Visual Basic Attachments Are not allowed
> *.exe   0No exec
> 
> When I use the -g option everything is ok. But looking at the log it tells
> me that during perlscan no virus was found. I am going insain here. The db
> file is updating but if I delete it the scan4virus doesn't even complain
> about it.

I was having problems with .18.  Try upgrading to .19, that worked for me.

Also, don't use *.vbs, just use .vbs.

Pat

Re: Filtering

[Patrick Berry]

on 5/12/00 3:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] had the thought:

> Hello !
> I'm rather a beginner not only with QMAIL but with unix as a whole. I
> just wanted to ask if anyone can help - something I didn't find
> anywhere.
> I want to filter some incoming messages - both local and remote.
> However, I want to filter them as they are coming, not when they have
> come and have been placed in the queue. The whole idea is to prohibit
> big attachments and to deny any mail with huge attachments before it
> has arrived - for the sake of saving bandwidth, so I want to reject as
> it comes before its being delivered already. I hope this makes sense.
> 
> Thank you very much,
> Peter
> 
> 
> 

Try using /var/qmail/control/databytes

This will allow you to control the size of the messages...

http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#config-files

Pat
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Re: Purpose of this list

[Patrick Berry]

on 5/18/00 7:11 AM, Steve Peace had the thought:

> You do not need to improve anything!  LWQ and your deamenor on this list is
> outstanding.

Trying to not sound like a gratuitous 'me too' I have to say he is right.
Unfortunately I started my qmail career before LWQ was released but still if
you take these (and maybe other) common steps before posting:
Read INSTALL -> Read FAW -> Search list archives

you will have a much better experience on this list.  I've set up qmail on
at least 8 machines now with a variety on configurations and I stay on this
list because I learn something new/cool every day.  Occasionally I can spot
an easy problem and help someone out.  Isn't that is what it's supposed to
be all about?  I guess it's that or asking when the book will be out ;-)

Pat
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Re: securing pop3 sessions

[Patrick Berry]

on 5/24/00 8:03 PM, Russell Nelson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>> I'm afraid the best way is also the only way, and it doesn't exist. You
>> cannot use POP3 without sending passwords in the clear.
> 
> Doesn't anybody implement APOP??

The Gnome/Helixcode guys are working on an outlook type app that does APOP.
Outlook Express for the mac does SSL and "secure password" but does not
mention APOP in the docs or in the configuration.

Pat

linuxcare MTA page

[Patrick Berry]

Found this page comparing MTAs at linuxcare.com



They also have a nice table comparing the major MTAs.  Qmail does quite
nice, coming in second to postfix.

Pat

Re: Upgrading fron sendmail to Qmail, queue problems

[Patrick Berry]

on 6/5/00 8:20 PM, net admin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi Folks;
> I am upgrading a FreeBSD sendmail server to Qmail, did go through the FAQ
> and docs extensively, qmail runs and I see all the processes running but
> when I try to send mail to local user I get the following errors:
> 
> qmaili delivery 1: defferal: fastforward:_fatal:_
> qq:_trouble_creating_files_in_queue(#4.3.0)/

Did you try queue-fix?  I have never used it but it may give you some more
clues.

http://www.netmeridian.com/e-huss/queue-fix.tar.gz

Pat