Re: New Smail, how to use offline?

1998-01-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 23 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > > So despite turning of this feature, smail *does* check the DNS. I'll have > > another look at this and will probably file a bugreport. > > Yes, please do. Do so on my behalf as well. I'm behind a firewall >

Re: New Smail, how to use offline?

1998-01-23 Thread Joost Kooij
On 23 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > So despite turning of this feature, smail *does* check the DNS. I'll have > another look at this and will probably file a bugreport. Yes, please do. Do so on my behalf as well. I'm behind a firewall and without external DNS, so smail won't accept anymor

Re: New Smail, how to use offline?

1998-01-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 23 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > > So despite turning of this feature, smail *does* check the DNS. I'll > > have another look at this and will probably file a bugreport. > I don't recall if you said it's a dial-up connection, but

Re: New Smail, how to use offline? *BIG WARNING*

1998-01-23 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On 23 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > Time to revert to smail from bo and do further tests on a spare machine. This happened to me, too. I lost mail from mailing lists, so for me it wasn't that bad. Anyway, I (almost) removed smail from the equation. I have: . smail: queues mail and del

Re: New Smail, how to use offline? *BIG WARNING*

1998-01-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I noticed that fetchmail got slow, but I didn't associate this with smail. > But xconsole shows, that during fetchmail my local caching only nameserver > learns hostnames. > > So despite turning of this feature, smail *does* check the DNS. I'll hav

Re: New Smail, how to use offline?

1998-01-23 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On 23 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > So despite turning of this feature, smail *does* check the DNS. I'll > have another look at this and will probably file a bugreport. > > BTW: which package has libpcap ? This one is missing in tcpdump's > "Depends:" line. Another bugreport I guess.

Re: New Smail, how to use offline?

1998-01-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Other thing is that it seems to do a DNS lookup on every from address, > > and since my from contains [EMAIL PROTECTED], this can't be done when > > I'm offline. So if I can get this fixed I think I can use the newest > > smail again... Any sugg

Re: New Smail, how to use offline?

1998-01-23 Thread Adam Klein
On Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 11:12:07PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Basically, it seems to do a reverse lookup on the system connecting to > > it, but I think I sorted that out by putting allow_broken_hello, or > > something similar for localhost.

Re: New Smail, how to use offline?

1998-01-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Basically, it seems to do a reverse lookup on the system connecting to > it, but I think I sorted that out by putting allow_broken_hello, or > something similar for localhost. This should only be neccessary if the mailreader does a broken HELO. Pine is

New Smail, how to use offline?

1998-01-22 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi The newest smail seems to have a number of features well suited to fighting spam, but most of these things cause problems when trying to run your typical offline/fetchmail with pop config, so I have reverted to using the smail from my trusty bo CD till I can find out how to configure the newest