Re: [courier-users] connection to courier SMTP server from certain machines has long delay

2003-12-10 Thread John Belmonte
Bowie Bailey wrote: It looks like an ident lookup (port 113). In the good case it is being rejected by either a firewall or the target machine. In the bad case, the request is just being ignored (probably by a firewall). The solution is to either disable ident lookups, or fix the firewall to either

[courier-users] connection to courier SMTP server from certain machines has long delay

2003-12-10 Thread John Belmonte
Hello, I'm using Courier 0.42.2. My email client was showing a symptom of a long delay (30-40 seconds) when connecting to a Courier SMTP server. I've tracked this delay down to the SMTP server. If you just telnet to the server, the delay happens between the initial connection and when the se

Re: [courier-users] Re: couriermlm annoying "yes" confirmation

2003-11-04 Thread John Belmonte
Tim Hunter wrote: Its not up to me to accept the patch, but I can see why you want it. In my opinion its not necessary, but if you insist your users are this ignorant I cannot argue. It's not about user ignorance. Computers are supposed to make our lives easier, not make us jump through hoops.

Re: [courier-users] Re: couriermlm annoying "yes" confirmation

2003-11-04 Thread John Belmonte
Sam wrote: Since the purpose of the confirmation request is to make sure that the human being that owns this address actually sent the subscription request, it obviously won't be very useful to have a confirmation process that can be easily fooled by an autoresponder. ?? It would take 5 minutes

Re: [courier-users] couriermlm read-only lists

2003-11-03 Thread John Belmonte
I wrote: Is there some way to make a read-only list with courier-mlm? Let me qualify this by saying that I'm looking for a solution that doesn't require the list moderator to wade through spam. -- http:// if ile.o g/ --- This SF.net email is

[courier-users] couriermlm annoying "yes" confirmation

2003-11-03 Thread John Belmonte
Hello, I'd like a way to disable the courier-mlm requirement that the subject of confirmation messages be altered (by adding "yes"). I can't see what added security this provides that is worth the penalty in ease of use. -- http:// if ile.o g/ -

[courier-users] couriermlm read-only lists

2003-11-03 Thread John Belmonte
Is there some way to make a read-only list with courier-mlm? If not, isn't it ironic that the courier project has a read-only list (courier-announce), but the software itself can't do this? -- http:// if ile.o g/ --- This SF.net email is s

Re: [courier-users] Re: mailfilter and promailrc

2003-09-20 Thread John Belmonte
Sam Varshavchik wrote: dick hoogendijk writes: ... after three conditions (OR, OR, OR). I don't know how to translate this ... :0 HB * ^Content-Type: multipart/(mixed|alternative) * ^Content-Type:.*(audio/x-|application|x-rasmol) * name=.*\.(scr|com|bat|pif|lnk|exe) You want AND, not OR. ... if (/

[courier-users] webmail password change problem

2003-08-04 Thread John Belmonte
I'm not able to change userdb passwords from webmail. I've gone through the entire mailing list archive and didn't find anything helpful. I can change passwords from the authtest utility fine. I suspect some kind of permissions problem. Is there any way to debug this? Thanks,