Re: Serious help needed, please.

1998-12-31 Thread Russell Nelson
Brian Nelson writes: > Uhm, I'm sorry. Do you still love me? > > s/bozo.com/pocketscience.com/g > > I was saving myself typing time. Does it matter what the real domain name is? Sometimes. It's annoying when people ask for help, then hide crucial details. You'd be surprised how often i

Re: I believe I've found an SMTP (SMTPLF) Receive Bug in QMAIL (really!)1.03

1998-12-31 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 03:42:29AM +, Dru Nelson wrote: > > Hi, > > I was working here and a friend was sending some email to a buddy about a > party. > He is using Nextstep/Openstep INTEL with a thing called PopOver. > > I did a tcpdump of the traffic and here is what I saw > > >

RE: I believe I've found an SMTP (SMTPLF) Receive Bug in QMAIL (

1998-12-31 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On 01-Jan-99 Dru Nelson wrote: > > --90A9CF018D6185DABFF7525C > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > Hi, > > I was working here and a friend was sending some email to a buddy about a > party. > He is using Nextstep/Openstep INTEL with

I believe I've found an SMTP (SMTPLF) Receive Bug in QMAIL (really!)1.03

1998-12-31 Thread Dru Nelson
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Re: Help needed with tcpserver on RedHat

1998-12-31 Thread Mate Wierdl
The qmail initscripts are in the qmail rpm. They will be put in /etc/rc.d/init.d The tcprules files are also set up by the qmail rpm. ftp://moni.msci.memphis.edu/pub/qmail -- --- Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis

Re: Qmail running with wrong uids.

1998-12-31 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 10:35:17PM +0100, Johan 22Orbit22 Mjönes wrote: > > >Let me guess.. qmail-local processes? qmail-inject? Those are _supposed_ > >to run as the user getting or sending mail. > > > >If this is not the problem, please give us process listings that show qmail > >processes runn

Help needed with tcpserver on RedHat

1998-12-31 Thread Seek3r
Anyone have a guide to implementing tcpserver? I am fairly new to Linux, I understand computers well so I am learning quickly, but I still have a ways to go. Im trying to install tcpserver, I have read why its better than inetd, and want to completely convert from inetd to tcpserver. I am also tr

Re: Serious help needed, please.

1998-12-31 Thread Mark Delany
>>> In almost all cases, it's best to provide the true domain and log info >>> unadulterated. [snip] >>Perhaps normally this would be an issue, but this is strictly a qmail issue. >>sendmail works just dandy for me. > >Yeah yeah. That's what they all say :> And I'm only half joking here. We co

Web-based front-end?

1998-12-31 Thread Patrick Greenwell
Before I re-invent the wheel, Are there any freely available web-based front ends for dealing with ezmlm-based mailing lists? TIA /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Patrick Greenwell(800) 299-1288 v

Re: Serious help needed, please.

1998-12-31 Thread Mark Delany
At 03:23 PM 12/31/98 -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: >> Sure does. In numerous cases it's a DNS interaction that may be causing a >> problem. By cloacking the domain, you make it impossible for others to test >> their theory on a possible cause of your problem. >> >> I'm not saying DNS is related in yo

Re: Serious help needed, please.

1998-12-31 Thread Brian Nelson
> Sure does. In numerous cases it's a DNS interaction that may be causing a > problem. By cloacking the domain, you make it impossible for others to test > their theory on a possible cause of your problem. > > I'm not saying DNS is related in your case, just providing the reasoning. > > Furthermor

Re: Serious help needed, please.

1998-12-31 Thread Mark Delany
At 02:32 PM 12/31/98 -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: >Uhm, I'm sorry. Do you still love me? > >s/bozo.com/pocketscience.com/g > >I was saving myself typing time. Does it matter what the real domain name is? Sure does. In numerous cases it's a DNS interaction that may be causing a problem. By cloack

Re: Serious help needed, please.

1998-12-31 Thread Brian Nelson
Uhm, I'm sorry. Do you still love me? s/bozo.com/pocketscience.com/g I was saving myself typing time. Does it matter what the real domain name is? Russell Nelson wrote: > Brian Nelson writes: > > ok, here is the situation: > > > > I have the domain bozo.com > > No you don't. Larry Harmon

Re: Serious help needed, please.

1998-12-31 Thread Russell Nelson
Brian Nelson writes: > ok, here is the situation: > > I have the domain bozo.com No you don't. Larry Harmon Pictures Corporation does. How about you try again, and *trust* us? -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://crynwr.com/~nelson Crynwr supports Open Source(tm) Software| PGPok |

Serious help needed, please.

1998-12-31 Thread Brian Nelson
ok, here is the situation: I have the domain bozo.com Mail comes into the main MX record for bozo.com to mail.bozo.com, running sendmail. I am in an internal machine called pip.bozo.com I have configured qmail to receive mail and deliver locally to pip and pip.bozo.com mail.bozo.com has an al

Re: Qmail running with wrong uids.

1998-12-31 Thread Johan \"Orbit\" Mjönes
>Let me guess.. qmail-local processes? qmail-inject? Those are _supposed_ >to run as the user getting or sending mail. > >If this is not the problem, please give us process listings that show qmail >processes running as shell users. > techserv:~$ ps axu | grep qmail #104215449 0.0 0.3 83

Re: Qmail running with wrong uids.

1998-12-31 Thread Johan \"Orbit\" Mjönes
No, i've checked and there are no duplicate uids (at least none concerning the involved users). /Johan > >This is not a problem people commonly have. Look at your /etc/passwd >and make sure that you don't have any duplicated userids. Something

Re: qmail behind a firewall

1998-12-31 Thread Randy Cain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 08:18:51AM -0600, Randy Cain wrote: > > > Randy tells me the domain in question is statesource.com. > > > > > > statesource.com.1h50m30s IN MX 30 mail3.webzone.net. > > > statesource.com.1h50m30s IN MX 10 mail.webzone.net. > >

Re: root user masquerading from cron or at

1998-12-31 Thread Russell Nelson
Brian S. Craigie writes: > Hi again. > > I searched the mailing list and once again found a question but no answer. > Perhaps it was answered off-list. [comment: why doesn't the mailing list set > reply-to to the list?] Because that confuses people whose email client has a Reply button. Th

Re: Frivolous forking [getpwnam]

1998-12-31 Thread peak
On 23 Dec 1998, D. J. Bernstein wrote: > Petr Novotny writes: > [ if there's a security hole in getpwnam() ] > > Then the whole system is fucked up, > > Not necessarily. There are very few privileged programs that feed > untrusted data to getpwnam(), aside from MTAs. Login. Ftp daemon. SSH da

Need to remove lots of unsent mail

1998-12-31 Thread dmilne
A very joyous New Year to all. I would like to discard several large blocks of mail. One of our employees thoughtfully forwarded the entire content of his mail directory (two years worth - no quotas at the old employer!) to our machine. In an equally thoughtful manner, this individual forwa

root user masquerading from cron or at

1998-12-31 Thread Brian S. Craigie
Hi again. I searched the mailing list and once again found a question but no answer. Perhaps it was answered off-list. [comment: why doesn't the mailing list set reply-to to the list?] Anyway, I see from the faq how to set MAILNAME for a user in their environment, (or MAILUSER) but how do I do

Re: Qmail running with wrong uids.

1998-12-31 Thread Russell Nelson
Johan \"Orbit\" Mjönes writes: > I'm setting up qmail on my machine (as you might know by my previous > messages =). > > Anyone, I have just discovered that QMail for some reason is runnning as > some of my shell-users, and not the users I set up in the installation. This is not a problem p

Re: POP3: dns lookups ?

1998-12-31 Thread Russell Nelson
Mike Gerber writes: > I have the following problem: > > A LAN is connected to a qmail-Server which is connected to Cisco > Router. Now, when a local client (WinNT, Outlook97/98) gets mail > via POP3 from the qmail-Server, the Cisco dials up. I would like to > stop these unnecessary Dial-

Re: POP3: dns lookups ?

1998-12-31 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 05:32:03PM +0100, Mike Gerber wrote: > I have the following problem: > > A LAN is connected to a qmail-Server which is connected to Cisco > Router. Now, when a local client (WinNT, Outlook97/98) gets mail > via POP3 from the qmail-Server, the Cisco dials up. I would like

Re: Qmail running with wrong uids.

1998-12-31 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 04:27:30PM +0100, Johan 22Orbit22 Mjönes wrote: > I'm setting up qmail on my machine (as you might know by my previous > messages =). > > Anyone, I have just discovered that QMail for some reason is runnning as > some of my shell-users, and not the users I set up in the in

POP3: dns lookups ?

1998-12-31 Thread Mike Gerber
I have the following problem: A LAN is connected to a qmail-Server which is connected to Cisco Router. Now, when a local client (WinNT, Outlook97/98) gets mail via POP3 from the qmail-Server, the Cisco dials up. I would like to stop these unnecessary Dial-Ups. Am I right that qmail-pop3d gets

Qmail running with wrong uids.

1998-12-31 Thread Johan \"Orbit\" Mjönes
I'm setting up qmail on my machine (as you might know by my previous messages =). Anyone, I have just discovered that QMail for some reason is runnning as some of my shell-users, and not the users I set up in the installation. I'm quite confused, and would really like some help on how to solve t

Re: qmail behind a firewall

1998-12-31 Thread Randy Cain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 05:54:50PM -0600, Randy Cain wrote: > > However, we have a slight problem. We have between our email server and > > the Internet a firewall. Someone sent an email to a remote destination > > that has multiple MX records. The preference 10 machi

Re: Forwards / POP

1998-12-31 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 09:51:29AM +0100, Dimitri SZAJMAN wrote: > Hi All ! > > Everything is OK, remains just a little problem : > > What is the qmail/control/locals for ? It defines which domains you handle locally. Not virtual domains, not domains you are fallback MX for. Just domains you ha

[DOC][UPDATE] intro to qmail in french

1998-12-31 Thread Djalil Chafai
Hi all ! «Introduction à qmail» is an introduction to qmail for french speaking users. I've finished the 0.4 version recently using Davenport DocBook. Ideas/Comments/Critisism are welcome. http://savage.iut-blagnac.fr/projets/doc/qmail/v0.4/ http://www.linux-france.com/article/mail/qmail/intro/

Re: Frivolous forking

1998-12-31 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Dec 25, 1998 at 11:03:30AM -0500, Sam wrote: > On Fri, 25 Dec 1998, Adam D. McKenna wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 24, 1998 at 07:19:21PM -0500, Sam wrote: > > > On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: > > No. RedHat is targetting the enterprise market. RedHat seems to be targ

Re: Multi-user virtual-domains with QMail

1998-12-31 Thread Brian S. Craigie
On 30-Dec-98 Russell Nelson wrote: > .LP > So you want to micro-manage email to a virtual domain? No problem. > Let's say that you have the following line in virtualdomains: > .Ps > domain.com:alias-domain > .Pe > That will cause mail to \fBuser\fP\fI\@domain.com\fP to be > controlled by \fI~ali

Re: What should qmail-smtpd log

1998-12-31 Thread Chuck Foster
On 29 Dec 1998, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote: >I'm currently logging (because of > http://www.gbar.dtu.dk/~c948374/qmail/qmail-antispam4.diff>) ... I generally log the SMTP command transactions, and any failure on their part (ie. what the remote end sees, I see too, except for successes), t

Forwards / POP

1998-12-31 Thread Dimitri SZAJMAN
Hi All ! Everything is OK, remains just a little problem : What is the qmail/control/locals for ? Should I put in domains for witch I am MX ? I know that when I forward I don't have to put the virtual domain in it. But for a pop ? And for a virtualdomain with pops en forwards ? Thank you. C

Re: qmail-inject

1998-12-31 Thread Russell Nelson
Peter van Dijk writes: > On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 01:42:13PM +1100, Kevin Waterson wrote: > > I wish to send the content of a text file to users on my system without > > attaching it. > > > > I have tried > > cat file | echo to: user | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject > > > > but while it send