Re: Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

2008-04-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah? I've seen benchmarks with postfix spanking sendmail on performance, and exim handing it right to postfix. I've seen benchmarks that say just about anything. Even when they're not designed to produce a certain

Re: Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

2008-04-17 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Apr 14, 2008, at 20:18, Paul Lussier wrote: Sendmail is still (and probably will be for as long as Eric Allman is alive/maintaining it) the work-horse of the internet. If I need speed and throughput, I'd still choose sendmail. If I need massive scalability, I'll choose sendmail. If I

Re: Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

2008-04-14 Thread Coleman Kane
On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 18:23 -0400, Shawn O'Shea wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A more helpful suggestion is that you may want to set the

Re: Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

2008-04-14 Thread Coleman Kane
On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 19:24 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone want to give a presentation on switching from Sendmail to Postfix? Why would you ever want to do that? Primarily: Cleaner, easier configuration. I find

Re: Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

2008-04-14 Thread Tom Buskey
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday, Apr 13th 2008 at 08:13 -, quoth Ben Scott: =On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: = Anyone want to give a presentation on switching from Sendmail to =Postfix? I really

Re: Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

2008-04-14 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sendmail has a long history of security problems. I have to point out that the above statement would be equally true if one wrote Unix instead of Sendmail. (This is not a snide remark, although it may qualify as subtle.)

Re: Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

2008-04-14 Thread Tom Buskey
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sendmail has a long history of security problems. I have to point out that the above statement would be equally true if one wrote Unix instead of

Re: Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

2008-04-14 Thread Coleman Kane
On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 11:55 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sendmail has a long history of security problems.

Re: Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

2008-04-14 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
the 1st internet worm in 1988 was enabled because of the root access backdoor written into Sendmail. If I remember correctly, that back door was only available when Sendmail was run in debug mode. I seem to remember this because a friend of mine, Henry no relation Hall, was going to join us for

Re: Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

2008-04-14 Thread Paul Lussier
Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday, Apr 13th 2008 at 08:13 -, quoth Ben Scott: Why would you ever want to do that? Sendmail has more flexibility. This has been answered, however, I just wanted to add my .02 drachma: Just because something has more flexibility is not

Re: Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

2008-04-13 Thread Ben Scott
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A more helpful suggestion is that you may want to set the default_destination_recipient_limit in /etc/postfix/main.cf ... to 5. I don't know much of anything about Postfix, but I'm guessing that will impact all

Re: Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

2008-04-13 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Saturday, Apr 12th 2008 at 22:53 -, quoth Paul Lussier: =Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: = = A more helpful suggestion is that you may want to set the = default_destination_recipient_limit in /etc/postfix/main.cf (or wherever = main.cf is located on your particular install) to 5.

Re: Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

2008-04-13 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Sunday, Apr 13th 2008 at 08:13 -, quoth Ben Scott: =On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: = A more helpful suggestion is that you may want to set the = default_destination_recipient_limit in /etc/postfix/main.cf ... to 5. = = I don't know much of

Re: Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

2008-04-13 Thread Shawn O'Shea
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A more helpful suggestion is that you may want to set the default_destination_recipient_limit in /etc/postfix/main.cf ... to 5. I don't know much

Re: Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

2008-04-13 Thread Ben Scott
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone want to give a presentation on switching from Sendmail to Postfix? Why would you ever want to do that? Primarily: Cleaner, easier configuration. I find it costs me more to learn a new feature in Sendmail than

Re: Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

2008-04-12 Thread Coleman Kane
On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 10:40 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Add this to the end of your sendmail.mc Anyone know what the postfix fix is? Yeah. Install sendmail. ;) Seeya, Paul -derek A more

Re: Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

2008-04-12 Thread Paul Lussier
Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A more helpful suggestion is that you may want to set the default_destination_recipient_limit in /etc/postfix/main.cf (or wherever main.cf is located on your particular install) to 5. Adding (or changing) the following line in the file should do:

Re: Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

2008-04-12 Thread Coleman Kane
On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 22:53 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A more helpful suggestion is that you may want to set the default_destination_recipient_limit in /etc/postfix/main.cf (or wherever main.cf is located on your particular install) to 5. Adding (or

Re: Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

2008-04-11 Thread Paul Lussier
Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Add this to the end of your sendmail.mc Anyone know what the postfix fix is? -- Seeya, Paul ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

2008-04-11 Thread Derek Atkins
Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Add this to the end of your sendmail.mc Anyone know what the postfix fix is? Yeah. Install sendmail. ;) Seeya, Paul -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member,

Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

2008-04-10 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Thursday, Apr 10th 2008 at 13:35 -, quoth Ben Scott: =On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: = I run a list and all the mail to yahoo is backing up. It seems they now = have a limit of 5 recipients per envelope. = = That violates RFC-821, I'm pretty

RE: Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

2008-04-10 Thread Flaherty, Patrick
and as the French say Eez beeg fat accomplishmente. Extra points for Steven... It took me until I ran it thru google's language tools to get the joke. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org