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1999-01-21 Thread vincent_bardon
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how to use virtualdomains

1999-01-21 Thread Iwao Makino
Hello all. I have read and searched around qmail site, but didn't get an idea of... on the same machine IP using qmail which is hosting a abc-mart.com and xyz-mart.com on shops.com what if all three want to have sales, info, help etc. Is it a way to set [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Switching machines and delivery of queued messages?

1999-01-21 Thread jason
Thanks Sam, I changed the MX record and all is well. Now all the mail is getting passed from ns.compusense.com running qmail to mail.int.compusense.com running qmail. I can read my mail with an IMAP client no problem. Is there a standard way to configure the IMAP client in terms of outbound

Qmail and autologin via PPP to ret. remote email for diffirent users with different accounts / paswds / pop servers.

1999-01-21 Thread Deya Motawie
Dear All, I have a server running qmail, managing a site that is not connected to Internet. However, all the users have different accounts with different (id's and passwd's ) , so we would like to have a script that will send first all remote mail to internet, when connecting to our

Re: System w/o /etc/passwd

1999-01-21 Thread Balazs Nagy
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Robert Adams wrote: user on the system. Anyone know of a way to get around this? Say, to tell qmail to drop all mail to something like /mail/u/s/username? Virtual hosting. I do the same. Regards: Jul -- #!/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj

new version of qmail

1999-01-21 Thread Van Liedekerke Franky
Hi, just wandering when/if the next version is comming out? I see lots of patches and fixes that could be bundled together for a new qmail: ldap, uce, oversize dns, and many more. I always see "qmail 2" mentioned in the mailing list... If there was a turn on/off method for these extras, instead

Re: new version of qmail

1999-01-21 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
- Van Liedekerke Franky [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | just wandering when/if the next version is comming out? This should probably make it into the FAQ... The obvious answer is that qmail 2 is released when it is finished. Like most people who develop free software while having many other commitments,

Re: VERH [was VERB]

1999-01-21 Thread Keith Burdis
On Thu 1999-01-21 (04:40), Russell Nelson wrote: Fred Lindberg writes: On 19 Jan 1999 20:11:56 -, Russell Nelson wrote: Okay, VERP has solved the bounce problem. Now we need VERB (Variable Envelope Recipient in Body) to solve the unsubscribe problem. Basically, we need

mbox and maildir

1999-01-21 Thread A.Y. Sjarifuddin
Dear All, Once again, I'd like to know how to setup dot-qmail to be able using both maildir and mailbox in every home directory? Thanks

Re: mbox and maildir

1999-01-21 Thread Mate Wierdl
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 08:39:48PM +0700, A.Y. Sjarifuddin wrote: Dear All, Once again, I'd like to know how to setup dot-qmail to be able using both maildir and mailbox in every home directory? ./Mailbox ./Maildir/ -- --- Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis

ORBS listing qmail hosts?

1999-01-21 Thread Jeff Hayward
As you may know the ORBS "open relay" listing service is back in business. There is a thread on news.admin.net-abuse.email (ref: Message-Id: 785s3a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]) which hints that ORBS will be listing qmail sites due to the "bounce to forged sender" attack that Russ noted here some time ago.

Fw: ORBS Returns

1999-01-21 Thread Adam D. McKenna
For those who are not fans of obscurity, here is the news post that was referred to RE: ORBS --Adam -Original Message- From: Paul Schmehl TINLC#[EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email Date: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 7:02 PM Subject: Re: ORBS Returns :On 21 Jan 1999

Re: Fw: ORBS Returns

1999-01-21 Thread Jeff Hayward
Sorry, I had assumed that folks are generally competent enough to retrieve the article from, say, dejanews given the message-id. Three clicks, 1 cut/paste. My error. -- Jeff On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Adam D. McKenna wrote: For those who are not fans of obscurity, here is the news post that was

Re: ORBS listing qmail hosts? [maybe not]

1999-01-21 Thread Jeff Hayward
Sorry to follow up my own post but I note that as of now ORBS (http://www.orbs.org) is *not* listing the host mentioned in the referenced usenet article, so this may have been a false alarm. -- Jeff

RE: ORBS Returns

1999-01-21 Thread Soffen, Matthew
I just tried this little "exploit" on the qmail 1.01 machine at my house: Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mail.soffen.com ESMTP HELO testing 250-mail.soffen.com 250-PIPELINING 250 8BITMIME MAIL FROM:testing 250 ok RCPT TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 553 sorry,

Anyone got any ideas?

1999-01-21 Thread Chris Naden
This may not be the appropriate list, but does anyone have an explanation for a fully working and stable version of pine on a system where pine.conf does not appear to exist? I'm stumped. ~Chris

Re: ORBS Returns

1999-01-21 Thread Adam D. McKenna
I don't know what the guy's problem is. It says quite clearly in RFC821 that the MAIL command can only be used to set the return-path. I've replied via news. I hate it when clueless people start admining things like this. --Adam

Re: ORBS Returns

1999-01-21 Thread Adam D. McKenna
From: Soffen, Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] :RCPT TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) :MAIL TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :503 one MAIL per message (#5.5.1) This was probably changed later on because the RFC says that the MAIL command should clear

RE: ORBS Returns

1999-01-21 Thread Soffen, Matthew
As I said, I think that his qmail has been hacked (by someone who didn't know what they were doing). Matt Soffen Webmaster - http://www.iso-ne.com/ == Boss- "My boss says we need some eunuch programmers." Dilbert - "I think he means UNIX and I

RE: ORBS Returns

1999-01-21 Thread Soffen, Matthew
Ok.. It must have been changed in qmail 1.02 or 1.03 (Sorry.. Then I guess it wasn't hacked). Matt Soffen Webmaster - http://www.iso-ne.com/ == Boss- "My boss says we need some eunuch programmers." Dilbert - "I think he means UNIX and I already know

Re: new version of qmail

1999-01-21 Thread Dave Sill
Van Liedekerke Franky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just wandering when/if the next version is comming out? I see lots of patches and fixes that could be bundled together for a new qmail: ldap, uce, oversize dns, and many more. I always see "qmail 2" mentioned in the mailing list... If there was a

Re: VERH [was VERB]

1999-01-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 09:11:00AM -0600, Fred Lindberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19 Jan 1999 20:11:56 -, Russell Nelson wrote: There is rfc2069 which describes how to put unsubscribe info into headers. I think putting it there, maybe doing VERH expansion like VERP -@[] or separate

Re: VERH [was VERB]

1999-01-21 Thread Fred Lindberg
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:26:54 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: I think you mean RFC 2369 (The Use of URLs as Meta-Syntax for Core Mail List Commands and their Transport through Message Header Fields). RFC 2069 is the HTTP RFC. Sorry ... Yes. Thanks! It's a standards-track rfc and proposes the

Netscape and Maildir

1999-01-21 Thread Steve Vertigan
I just converted a system to qmail wtih Maildir delivery. Most clients seem fine but one client rang up who said that Netscape would connect, start downloading headers and then hang. I assumed this was to do with Netscapes inaccurate progress bar and a large message but later that day got a

Re: ORBS Returns

1999-01-21 Thread Mate Wierdl
So between this exmaple and the fact that his qmail seems to have been hacked so that it allows the directive MAIL TO to work, I don't know what to believe. I think `mail to' is interpreted as `mail from' under qmail-smtpd. You can even use `mail cookie' if you want to, like mail

Re: Fw: ORBS Returns

1999-01-21 Thread Mate Wierdl
For those who are not fans of obscurity, here is the news post that was referred to RE: ORBS How does that post show that a qmail host is an open relay? Qmail simply sent a bounce to the envelope sender about an unknown local mailbox. Perhaps the poster thought that if qmail-smtpd

Re: Fw: ORBS Returns

1999-01-21 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Mate Wierdl wrote: For those who are not fans of obscurity, here is the news post that was referred to RE: ORBS How does that post show that a qmail host is an open relay? Qmail simply sent a bounce to the envelope sender about an unknown local mailbox.

Re: ORBS Returns

1999-01-21 Thread Justin Bell
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 11:46:06AM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: # #:RCPT TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] #:553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) #:MAIL TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] #:503 one MAIL per message (#5.5.1) # # I do not get this in 1.03 anymore (I can

Re: ORBS Returns

1999-01-21 Thread Mate Wierdl
:RCPT TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) :MAIL TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :503 one MAIL per message (#5.5.1) I do not get this in 1.03 anymore (I can specify as many MAIL as I want). Mate

changing the VERP delimiter

1999-01-21 Thread Tim Pierce
[ I sent this to qmail-help a month or so ago, but had no response. ] I'm using qmail as the outbound mail agent on a machine that runs sendmail for incoming mail. I would like to modify qmail to use "+" in constructing per-recipient VERPs on outgoing mail. That's necessary to make sendmail

Re: VERH [was VERB]

1999-01-21 Thread Russell Nelson
Keith Burdis writes: How about a header like: X-Append: To unsubscribe send mail to: qmail-unsubsribe-$USER=$[EMAIL PROTECTED] And then the contents of that header get appended to the end of the message. That way you don't actually have to alter the contents of the message at all.

Re: Three solutions for spam

1999-01-21 Thread Andy Smith
On 19 Jan 1999 16:05:32 -0800, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Racer X [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Of course there is. Blocking port 25 for all their dialup lines is a simple router configuration. Re-enabling it on a customer-by-customer basis on dynamic dialups requires software to

file descriptors

1999-01-21 Thread Jozef Gniadek
Hi folks Maybe this is out of topic. On sun with solaris 2.5.1 are running mail server and web server, I got error msg, something like ' out of file descriptors, too many open files'.. What I should do?, how I may to increase file descriptors?, if this is posible... Any ideas..

Re: file descriptors

1999-01-21 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 02:25:16PM -0500, Jozef Gniadek wrote: Hi folks Maybe this is out of topic. On sun with solaris 2.5.1 are running mail server and web server, I got error msg, something like ' out of file descriptors, too many open files'.. What I should do?, how I may to

Re: file descriptors

1999-01-21 Thread James Smallacombe
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Peter C. Norton wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 02:25:16PM -0500, Jozef Gniadek wrote: Hi folks Maybe this is out of topic. On sun with solaris 2.5.1 are running mail server and web server, I got error msg, something like ' out of file descriptors, too many open

No HELO greeting from qmail-send?

1999-01-21 Thread Daniel Garcia
hi, I sent few hundred emails, after few days I got almost all of them back with the same error below : Hi. This is the qmail-send program at . I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

problem routing message to pipe

1999-01-21 Thread Bryan White
I am having an odd problem routing a message to a pipe. There is a file /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-eztest that contains: |/home/arcamax/ezinesub [EMAIL PROTECTED] The intent is to forward mail that ezinesub rejects to the specified user. This works fine. There are actually several identical alias

Re: problem routing message to pipe

1999-01-21 Thread Russell Nelson
Bryan White writes: I am having an odd problem routing a message to a pipe. There is a file /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-eztest that contains: |/home/arcamax/ezinesub [EMAIL PROTECTED] The intent is to forward mail that ezinesub rejects to the specified user. This works fine. There

Re: problem routing message to pipe

1999-01-21 Thread Bryan White
I am having an odd problem routing a message to a pipe. There is a file /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-eztest that contains: |/home/arcamax/ezinesub [EMAIL PROTECTED] The intent is to forward mail that ezinesub rejects to the specified user. This works fine. There are actually several

Re: No HELO greeting from qmail-send?

1999-01-21 Thread Richard Letts
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Daniel Garcia wrote: hi, I sent few hundred emails, after few days I got almost all of them back with the same error below : Hi. This is the qmail-send program at . I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent

Re: problem routing message to pipe

1999-01-21 Thread Russell Nelson
Bryan White writes: Bingo! /home/bryan was 770 and thus 'alias' had no access. I should have checked the log file in the first place. Sorry. You gotta watch that if you're using qmail-getpw as well. qmail-getpw is trusted about as far as qmail-lspawn can throw it (that is, not very far),

qmail and mailing list of Real Audio attachments

1999-01-21 Thread cfm
Has anyone had experience with qmail and the sending of large attachments like Real Audio to mailing lists 500 or so recipients? Other than the huge bandwidth suck am I likely to run into anything other than the usual MUA confusion? Some mailing list software gets really confused. How about

Re: qmail and mailing list of Real Audio attachments

1999-01-21 Thread Mark Delany
I can't think of any reason why either ezmlm or qmail would get confused by large outbound mails. Additionally, I've never seen any of them get confused by large mails either. Regards. At 06:25 PM 1/21/99 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone had experience with qmail and the sending

QMAIL question

1999-01-21 Thread Gonzalo S.
Hi All.. I have a question about the SINGLE-UID-HOWTO.TXT file.. if anyone has read' it.. I can get QMAIL-POP3D to authenticate the 'Virtual POP3 account' with no problems... but my only problem is when u try to email this 'virtual account'.. qmail-smtpd rejects it with the error 'no mailbox

Re: qmail and mailing list of Real Audio attachments

1999-01-21 Thread Sam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone had experience with qmail and the sending of large attachments like Real Audio to mailing lists 500 or so recipients? Other than the huge bandwidth suck am I likely to run into anything other than the usual MUA confusion? Some mailing list

qmail-pop3d/child crashed

1999-01-21 Thread David Ressman
Hi there. I recently cut over from sendmail to qmail and have been very pleased with the results so far. We seem to only have on problem: We're getting complaints from customers (so far using only eudora) that they'll start to download their messages (as little as 5, as many as 200) and the

Local delivery and host masquerading, again

1999-01-21 Thread Niels Jensen
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Niels Jensen wrote: So, some of my control files are: me:f64.work.com locals:f64.work.com (to define local addresses) defaultdomain: work.com defaulthost: sonic.net (my ISP) plusdomain:work.com smtproutes::mail.sonic.net If I send

Re: Local delivery and host masquerading, again

1999-01-21 Thread Sam
Niels Jensen writes: If I do this, then when I mail stuff remotely through my ISP's mailserver, the return address for me is my work address, which I do not want. Somehow I have to make qmail change my address to [EMAIL PROTECTED] whenever mail is sent rmotely, and keep it to nielsj, or

Re: QMAIL question

1999-01-21 Thread Stuart Young
At 22:45 22/01/99 +1100, Gonzalo S. wrote: I have a question about the SINGLE-UID-HOWTO.TXT file.. if anyone has read' it.. I can get QMAIL-POP3D to authenticate the 'Virtual POP3 account' with no problems... but my only problem is when u try to email this 'virtual account'.. qmail-smtpd

Building new mail system

1999-01-21 Thread Robert Adams
Hello all, We're putting together a new box to handle mail.. thought I would pick your brains a little for advice. Hopefully someone has done this already. We are planning on using 4x9gig Cheetahs in a RAID 0+1 configuration.. Currently we are looking at two RAID-RAID controllers. 1) Mylex 2

Re: Local delivery and host masquerading, again

1999-01-21 Thread Russell Nelson
Niels Jensen writes: If I do this, then when I mail stuff remotely through my ISP's mailserver, the return address for me is my work address, which I do not want. Somehow I have to make qmail change my address to [EMAIL PROTECTED] whenever mail is sent rmotely, and keep it to nielsj,

Re: Question about POP3 access

1999-01-21 Thread Aijaz A. Ansari
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 11:34:40PM -0600, Aijaz A. Ansari wrote: ... However, I cannot send mail from within MSOE to domain names that I do not host (specifically anyone at interaccess.com). I get the common `sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)' ... My