when does a message get split

1999-01-28 Thread Mate Wierdl
With all the talk about passing mail through serialline: When does a message with multiple recipients get split? More precisely, following TOISP in the serialmail package: Is the message already split when it is in ~alias/pppdir/, or they get split after (by maildirsmtp?!). Thx Mate

Re: Multiple outgoing messages

1999-01-28 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 08:20:32PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 05:42:03PM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote: > > Now that I think of it, QMQP won't give your users the instant gratification > > they're looking for (i.e. not having to wait for the entire message to be > > transferr

Re: Multiple outgoing messages

1999-01-28 Thread Mate Wierdl
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 05:42:03PM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 05:04:20PM +, Mark Carpenter wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 02:57:30PM +, Mark Carpenter wrote: > > > > Thanks. I was affraid of that. Drat! I finally got everything working > > > > together, to

Re: If it's not in $HOME/Maildir, where is it?

1999-01-28 Thread Mirko Zeibig
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:29:45 -0800, Bob McLaren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The MAIL=$HOME/Maildir environment variable in my /etc/profile is set >and verified. I think this should be MAIL=$HOME/Maildir/ with an ending slash. Regards Mirko -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] myhome_aka_~:http://sites.in

Re: "solutions for spam"

1999-01-28 Thread phil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What if these "legitimate" users wanted to send mail to my customers using some > > oddball protocol someone made up? The mail can be just as legitimate, but why > > do I have to start putting up servers for every protocol someone wants to make? > > Isn't that a _to

qmail-stmpd receiving mail from ccMail

1999-01-28 Thread kbo
We've setup a external qmail-1.03 BSDI machine to relay email in/out to an internal ccMail machine. Mail from the internet happily flows to the ccMail machine. However mail from ccMail to qmail-smtpd is never correctly received and processed. Is this a known problem? Are there any fixes or pat

Re: "solutions for spam"

1999-01-28 Thread Luca Olivetti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > There is even less I can do about your PTT than you can do about it. Well, I > suppose I could start a protest in front of your country's embassy in the US. > But I doubt if that would have any more effect than reducing my bank account > by the co

Re: problems with list?

1999-01-28 Thread Kai MacTane
Text written by Racer X at 02:03 PM 1/28/99 -0800: >Has anyone else been receiving multiple copies of any messages to the >list? I seem to be getting multiple copies (like 3 or 4) of any message >that's sent to the list as well as to me. Yeah, I've gotten about 3 or 4 copies of Len Budney's sati

Re: Multiple outgoing messages

1999-01-28 Thread Mark Delany
>Now that I think of it, QMQP won't give your users the instant gratification >they're looking for (i.e. not having to wait for the entire message to be >transferred over the phone line). Since with mini-qmail there's no local queue, >they're still going to have to wait until the message is queued

Re: Multiple outgoing messages

1999-01-28 Thread Sam
cap writes: > > consider compressing your outgoing email. In principle, it's possible > > to write a program which collates messages out of a maildir (after > > it's been put there by a wildcard smtproute delivering into the > > maildir), compresses them, uploads them to your server, decompresse

Re: If it's not in $HOME/Maildir, where is it?

1999-01-28 Thread Bob McLaren
An interesting side-note I thought I'd add, qmail-inject from the command line works perfectly. Using qmail-inject the message goes to ~bob/Maildir/new the way it's suppose to. So the question still stands, how do I configure qmail-smtpd to place mail where it's supposed to? The SMTP entry in m

Re: Multiple outgoing messages

1999-01-28 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 05:04:20PM +, Mark Carpenter wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 02:57:30PM +, Mark Carpenter wrote: > > > Thanks. I was affraid of that. Drat! I finally got everything working > > > together, too. Any suggestions for a package that would be good in > > > this situ

Another mailing list needed (Was: Re: problems with list?)

1999-01-28 Thread Andrzej Kukula
On 28 Jan 99 at 22:12, Richard Letts wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Racer X wrote: > > > Has anyone else been receiving multiple copies of any messages to the > > list? I seem to be getting multiple copies (like 3 or 4) of any message > > that's sent to the list as well as to me. > > no, I'm not

RE: two questions about set-up

1999-01-28 Thread Joe Garcia
Hmmm Maybe I can play with it and turn it into a real tarpit, I am rather rough when it comes to C programing, let me take a look when I get it. Also what do you mean by hosts.allow, I have come up to speed on qmail pretty quickly, but I don't remember any mention of hosts.allow > -Original

Re: problems with list?

1999-01-28 Thread Richard Letts
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Racer X wrote: > Has anyone else been receiving multiple copies of any messages to the > list? I seem to be getting multiple copies (like 3 or 4) of any message > that's sent to the list as well as to me. no, I'm not getting that problem, however I'm seeing loads of email t

Re: Multiple outgoing messages

1999-01-28 Thread Paul Schinder
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 05:04:06PM -0500, Joe Garcia wrote: } Hey some of us youngins weren't around for the low bandwidth (modem) email } days, which is what UUCP was created for. I couldn't even begin to tell you } how to set up UUCP it my life depended on it. >:) The funny part about } this

Re: Multiple outgoing messages

1999-01-28 Thread Mark Carpenter
> On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 02:57:30PM +, Mark Carpenter wrote: > > Thanks. I was affraid of that. Drat! I finally got everything working > > together, too. Any suggestions for a package that would be good in > > this situation. The boss isn't going to let that fly. > > In those situations in

RE: Multiple outgoing messages

1999-01-28 Thread Joe Garcia
Hey some of us youngins weren't around for the low bandwidth (modem) email days, which is what UUCP was created for. I couldn't even begin to tell you how to set up UUCP it my life depended on it. >:) The funny part about this is that I am old enough to remeber a pre-web Internet. Anyw

problems with list?

1999-01-28 Thread Racer X
Has anyone else been receiving multiple copies of any messages to the list? I seem to be getting multiple copies (like 3 or 4) of any message that's sent to the list as well as to me. If no one else has had this problem, feel free to ignore. I don't have any mail filters set up but I suppose it

Re: two questions about set-up

1999-01-28 Thread John R Levine
> > Question two. Can someone suggest a way that I can get qmail to do > > tarpitting, or at least point me to a good wrapper to do tarpitting?? > > John Levine has such a thing. He's deep in the throes of finishing a > book, and I don't know if he kibos, so I'll CC: him just to get his > att

Re: Multiple outgoing messages

1999-01-28 Thread cap
> > Mark Carpenter writes: > > Thanks. I was affraid of that. Drat! I finally got everything working > > together, too. Any suggestions for a package that would be good in > > this situation. The boss isn't going to let that fly. > > Well, if bandwidth is really at a premium at your site, y

FW: Multiple outgoing messages

1999-01-28 Thread Joe Garcia
Please don't use postfix, as if I remember correctly it is not OSS in the sense that anytime IBM feels like it they can tell you to buy it or stop using it.in other words they let everybody on the internet help add little tidbits to it then they can say to you...well pay for this or stop usi

RE: two questions about set-up

1999-01-28 Thread Joe Garcia
What has this got to do with this subject thread?? Please create you own subject thread so as not to confuse the others. Joe > -Original Message- > From: Scott D. Yelich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 4:32 PM > To: Joe Garcia > Cc: qmail-general > Subject:

If it's not in $HOME/Maildir, where is it?

1999-01-28 Thread Bob McLaren
I just started learning Linux last week and am installing a few internet services to include qmail. When I send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] my /etc/maillog reports that everything went fine, however when I try to retrieve the email using POP3 I have no messages. And when I look in /home/bob/Ma

RE: two questions about set-up

1999-01-28 Thread Scott D. Yelich
Is the list slow today? I have a system where qmail-popup has been working fine... inetd sez: pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup spy.org /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir Now whenever I try to use pop, even with an account with

Re: Multiple outgoing messages

1999-01-28 Thread Mark Carpenter
Having the client dump straight to the ISP via SMTP is my top choice at the moment. The fact that the client machine couldn't just dump the mail and then be able to log-off isn't going over very well, though. Sending a large file at the end of the day would keep the person from logging off for

Re: Multiple outgoing messages

1999-01-28 Thread Mark Carpenter
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >Thanks. I was affraid of that. Drat! I finally got everything working > >together, too. Any suggestions for a package that would be good in > >this situation. The boss isn't going to let that fly. > > If qmail doesn't fit, try Postfix. It's still beta, though.

RE: Complicated problem with fastforward and aliases

1999-01-28 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On 28-Jan-99 Cristiano Lincoln Mattos wrote: > > Hi, > > I am migrating a Solaris 2.5.1 box from Sendmail to > qmail 1.03.. i have had no problems, with delivery to normal > accounts, up until now. We have a large /etc/aliases file, > which we want to keep.. so i installed fastforward, t

RE: two questions about set-up

1999-01-28 Thread Joe Garcia
> > Question two. Can someone suggest a way that I can get qmail to do > > tarpitting, or at least point me to a good wrapper to do tarpitting?? > > What's tarpitting? Tarpitting is when a spammer tries to send a bunch, say 100,000, of mail messages through your server. When that spammer reach

Re: Pattern-matching and filtering

1999-01-28 Thread Len Budney
Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Further, so that such mails aren't dropped by "BCC filters", a header > > must always be introduced which includes the recipient address. I > > suggest "Resent-to". > > Ok. So the spammer will put a Resent-To header in his mails. Not too hard > to do,

Re: When the book coming out Russell??

1999-01-28 Thread Russell Nelson
Joe Garcia writes: > What is the ETA of the book nowadays Russell?? Depends on the production schedule and all, so I have no authoritative information. I'd guess some time in August, assuming that johnl and I stick to our part of the schedule. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://cry

Complicated problem with fastforward and aliases

1999-01-28 Thread Cristiano Lincoln Mattos
Hi, I am migrating a Solaris 2.5.1 box from Sendmail to qmail 1.03.. i have had no problems, with delivery to normal accounts, up until now. We have a large /etc/aliases file, which we want to keep.. so i installed fastforward, to handle it. All works fine, except for one problem: if t

Re: two questions about set-up

1999-01-28 Thread Russell Nelson
Joe Garcia writes: > Question one. If I set up ~/control/me to read foo.bar for all servers in a > multi-server environment (more that one host doing relay for a domain) is it > possible to screw up the message id, or should I not use ~/control/me and > set up idhost, domainhost, etc. individ

Re: two questions about set-up

1999-01-28 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 03:44:19PM -0500, Joe Garcia wrote: > Question one. If I set up ~/control/me to read foo.bar for all servers in a > multi-server environment (more that one host doing relay for a domain) is it > possible to screw up the message id, or should I not use ~/control/me and > se

Re: I'm stuck

1999-01-28 Thread James Smallacombe
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Dave Hansen wrote: > Hello All, > > I have this in my inetd.conf > > smtpstream tcp nowait qmaild /usr/sbin/tcpd > /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd If this is actually how it looks in your /etc/inetd.conf file, your problem is that it's not all

When the book coming out Russell??

1999-01-28 Thread Joe Garcia
What is the ETA of the book nowadays Russell??

Re: Pattern-matching and filtering

1999-01-28 Thread Russell Nelson
Kai MacTane writes: > Text written by Len Budney at 05:07 PM 1/27/99 -0500: > > > >Does any non-spammer routinely include >25 (or even >5) BCC's in a > >message? The only exception I can think of is corporate email, which, > >of course, is immune to such rules since the corporate mail server

Re: Pattern-matching and filtering

1999-01-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 03:31:53PM -0500, Len Budney wrote: > Kai MacTane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Text written by Len Budney at 05:07 PM 1/27/99 -0500: Does any > > >non-spammer routinely include >25 (or even >5) BCC's in a message? > > >The only exception I can think of is corporate email,

two questions about set-up

1999-01-28 Thread Joe Garcia
Question one. If I set up ~/control/me to read foo.bar for all servers in a multi-server environment (more that one host doing relay for a domain) is it possible to screw up the message id, or should I not use ~/control/me and set up idhost, domainhost, etc. individually?? Question two. Can som

Re: Multiple outgoing messages

1999-01-28 Thread Len Budney
Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, if bandwidth is really at a premium at your site, you should > consider compressing your outgoing email. That recalls something I've pondered lately. Why not implement a QMQP-like protocol in which the "data" portion of the exchange is compressed

Re: Multiple outgoing messages

1999-01-28 Thread Russell Nelson
Mark Carpenter writes: > Thanks. I was affraid of that. Drat! I finally got everything working > together, too. Any suggestions for a package that would be good in > this situation. The boss isn't going to let that fly. Well, if bandwidth is really at a premium at your site, you should consi

Re: I'm stuck

1999-01-28 Thread Brian L. Gentry
Dave Hansen wrote: > > Hello All, > > I have this in my inetd.conf > > smtpstream tcp nowait qmaild /usr/sbin/tcpd > /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd Are the two lines above on one line in inetd.conf? Have you looked in syslog and/or messages ? There may be some i

Re: Pattern-matching and filtering

1999-01-28 Thread Len Budney
Kai MacTane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Text written by Len Budney at 05:07 PM 1/27/99 -0500: Does any > >non-spammer routinely include >25 (or even >5) BCC's in a message? > >The only exception I can think of is corporate email, which, of > >course, is immune to such rules since the corporate ma

Re: Newbie configuration

1999-01-28 Thread Russell Nelson
> And by the way, what is an MX? .Ah "How a client finds a server" An SMTP client can choose an SMTP server several ways. The most common way is that the SMTP client found delivery information in the domain name system (DNS -- http://www.crynwr.com/rfc1035/). An SMTP client can look up the m

Re: qmail-pop3d

1999-01-28 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 12:23:45PM -0800, Ramesh Vadlapatla wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I am trying to follow the instructions on your web site to start a > > qmail-pop3d. > > But when I use the below command, I get a message saying that the port > > is already in use. > > > > I do not have a qmail-

qmail-pop3d

1999-01-28 Thread Ramesh Vadlapatla
> Hello! > > I am trying to follow the instructions on your web site to start a > qmail-pop3d. > But when I use the below command, I get a message saying that the port > is already in use. > > I do not have a qmail-pop3d running. So how can I find out what is > already running on that port and how

Re: Multiple outgoing messages

1999-01-28 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 02:57:30PM +, Mark Carpenter wrote: > Thanks. I was affraid of that. Drat! I finally got everything working > together, too. Any suggestions for a package that would be good in > this situation. The boss isn't going to let that fly. In those situations in which you'r

Re: Pattern-matching and filtering

1999-01-28 Thread Kai MacTane
Text written by Len Budney at 05:07 PM 1/27/99 -0500: > >Does any non-spammer routinely include >25 (or even >5) BCC's in a >message? The only exception I can think of is corporate email, which, >of course, is immune to such rules since the corporate mail server can >handle them appropriately. Ye

Re: I'm stuck

1999-01-28 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
- Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | I have this in my inetd.conf | [...] I think the only standard response you get from this list these days to that kind of question is "Don't use inetd, use tcpserver instead." (For qmail-smtpd, that is, not necessarily all services.) It's to be found in the

Re: "solutions for spam"

1999-01-28 Thread l41484
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [forcing legitimate users to call you, cause u don't accept mail from > > them] > > What if these "legitimate" users wanted to send mail to my customers using some > oddball protocol someone made up? The mail can be ju

Re: Multiple outgoing messages

1999-01-28 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Thanks. I was affraid of that. Drat! I finally got everything working >together, too. Any suggestions for a package that would be good in >this situation. The boss isn't going to let that fly. If qmail doesn't fit, try Postfix. It's still beta, though. See www.postfi

Re: Multiple outgoing messages

1999-01-28 Thread Mark Carpenter
Thanks. I was affraid of that. Drat! I finally got everything working together, too. Any suggestions for a package that would be good in this situation. The boss isn't going to let that fly. 8<---snip > > splits it. Is there any way around this? We often send messages > > with attachments and

Re: "solutions for spam"

1999-01-28 Thread Russell Nelson
Scott D. Yelich writes: > Is there any way to *easily* debug or trace checkpassword to > see what it is doing and why it thinks that authorization has > failed? Yes. You can use the instructions on http://www.qmail.org/top.html#checkpassword to discern whether the problem is in the pop setup

Re: Multiple outgoing messages

1999-01-28 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 02:21:39PM +, Mark Carpenter wrote: > I've looked through the archives for this problem. I gather that there > is nothing I can do about it, but I want to be sure we're talking > about the same thing. > > I am using qmail with a dial-up ISP who isn't running qmail. I

Re: "solutions for spam"

1999-01-28 Thread Scott D. Yelich
I have not changed my system or qmail -- yet, my qmail has stopped working. I'm seeing that I can connect to qmail-popup and give the user USER and pass PASS commands, but it always tells me that the authorization failed. I have tested the same user and password combinations with FTP and they

Re: Newbie configuration

1999-01-28 Thread craig
>On 27 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> If you don't understand a term or phrase you read, trust me, you >> *have* to go find its definition before you proceed. > >Where can I find definitions for this stuff? Are there any >mailing lists, FAQs, RFCs I should look at? And by the way, >what is

Re: "solutions for spam"

1999-01-28 Thread l41484
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Chris Garrigues wrote: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:20:14 +0100 (MET) [snip] > Hopefully, you do say that you don't allow the sending of SPAM from your I say no such thing, since i don't have customers. :-) > customers. You can then route

Multiple outgoing messages

1999-01-28 Thread Mark Carpenter
I've looked through the archives for this problem. I gather that there is nothing I can do about it, but I want to be sure we're talking about the same thing. I am using qmail with a dial-up ISP who isn't running qmail. If I have a message that has two different addresses in the "To:" field, q

Re: Best way to defer mail from an application

1999-01-28 Thread Chris Nelson
Have your application exit with error 111 if the db server is down, qmail will try the delivery again later. On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Michael Amster wrote: > Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 10:58:27 -0800 > From: Michael Amster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

I'm stuck

1999-01-28 Thread Dave Hansen
Hello All, I have this in my inetd.conf smtpstream tcp nowait qmaild /usr/sbin/tcpd /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd This makes it so that hosts.allow file is used to allow boxes to send mail to this box. Although now I cannot send anything to the box. It gives me

Best way to defer mail from an application

1999-01-28 Thread Michael Amster
Hi: We are writing an application which takes mail and uses a database to do some operations before delivery. If the database server is down (it happens), we'd like to defer the mail rather than build a temporary queue. What's the best way to defer an incoming mail without causing bounces? Is

Re: "solutions for spam"

1999-01-28 Thread phil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > We _offer_ what we offer. We do not have to say "we do not offer ..." and > > list those things that we do not offer. We don't offer donuts and coffee > > delivery in the morning, but we don't have to put that in the contract. > > Off course. But Don't u offer mail

Re: Virtual domains using qmail

1999-01-28 Thread Chris Johnson
Is lakesedge.org also in control/locals, by chance? If so, take it out and HUP qmail-send. Chris On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 08:43:06AM +, Chris Naden wrote: > Hi; I've managed, after some help from various members > of this list (primarily Mate) to get qmail set up and running, > and it's

Re: "solutions for spam"

1999-01-28 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 11:28:45AM -0600, Chris Garrigues wrote: > /sbin/ipfwadm -I -a accept -P tcp -S 10.0.0.0/8 -D default/0 25 -r 25 > > Now, anything they try to send to port 25 anywhere will be intercepted by qmail > on your firewall and you can filter it out yourselves only allowing outgoi

Re: checkpassword

1999-01-28 Thread Scott D. Yelich
> > /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d ./ & blah! my previously working checkpassword just stopped working. How strange. I'm sure it's something other than checkpassword, but since I can log in, I wonder what it could be that is making checkpassword fail. Has anyone else experienc

Re: "solutions for spam"

1999-01-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 11:28:45AM -0600, Chris Garrigues wrote: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:20:14 +0100 (MET) > > > > On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > That's not what we are discussing. I'm not paying you to receive my mai > > l, > > > > yo

Re: convert netscape mails to qmail

1999-01-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 04:51:28PM +0100, Van Liedekerke Franky wrote: > anybody has a script for converting (or resending) netscape mail messages to > qmail format. The netscape mail messages are also in some kind of Maildir > format, but when I change the name to (timestamp).$$.`hostname` and >

Re: checkpassword

1999-01-28 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:49:13AM +0100, Martin Staael wrote: > > Hi > > I have this configuration - starting qmail-pop3d > > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail.xx.net \ > /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d ./ & > > I have this user list that checkpassw

Re: "solutions for spam"

1999-01-28 Thread l41484
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > That's not what we are discussing. I'm not paying you to receive my mail, > > > > your users are paying you, so that they can receive _their_ mail. Either > > > > them come from dial-up or not. > > > > > > There are some services we choose to

Re: "solutions for spam"

1999-01-28 Thread Chris Garrigues
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:20:14 +0100 (MET) > > On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > That's not what we are discussing. I'm not paying you to receive my mai > l, > > > your users are paying you, so that they can receive _their_ mail. Eithe > r > > > t

Re: convert netscape mails to qmail

1999-01-28 Thread Bart Blanquart
Van Liedekerke Franky wrote: > anybody has a script for converting (or resending) netscape mail messages to > qmail format. The netscape mail messages are also in some kind of Maildir > format, but when I change the name to (timestamp).$$.`hostname` and > I try reading them (using POP3), I get th

RE: convert netscape mails to qmail

1999-01-28 Thread Van Liedekerke Franky
When I say Netscape mail messages, I mean this on the server side. There each message is stored seperately in a users Inbox, ready for POP3. Is that also mailbox format? > -- > From: Sam[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 5:06 PM > Cc: '[EMAIL PRO

Re: convert netscape mails to qmail

1999-01-28 Thread Sam
Van Liedekerke Franky writes: > Hi, > > anybody has a script for converting (or resending) netscape mail messages to > qmail format. The netscape mail messages are also in some kind of Maildir > format, but when I change the name to (timestamp).$$.`hostname` and > I try reading them (using POP3)

convert netscape mails to qmail

1999-01-28 Thread Van Liedekerke Franky
Hi, anybody has a script for converting (or resending) netscape mail messages to qmail format. The netscape mail messages are also in some kind of Maildir format, but when I change the name to (timestamp).$$.`hostname` and I try reading them (using POP3), I get the correct number of messages, but

Re: "solutions for spam"

1999-01-28 Thread phil
> > > That's not what we are discussing. I'm not paying you to receive my mail, > > > your users are paying you, so that they can receive _their_ mail. Either > > > them come from dial-up or not. > > > > There are some services we choose to offer to our customers and there are > > some services t

Re: Bouncing specific users

1999-01-28 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 7:51 am -0600 on 28/1/99, the great Mate Wierdl wrote: > >| bouncesaying "Pete is a bad boy, and cannot receive mail" > more to the point - I hate being called pete and it amuses me no end that some spammers have picked up 'pete' rather than 'peter' thanks Peter -- gradwell dot com ltd -

Re: Bouncing specific users

1999-01-28 Thread Mate Wierdl
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 08:30:37AM +, Peter Gradwell wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently aquired control of a new domain and am supporting it under qmail. > > My boss wants me to accept mail for all addresses at saiddomain.com and > deliver them to person x (which is easy using a .qmail-default)

Re: TCPServer and Relaying

1999-01-28 Thread Petr Novotny
> venus:/var/qmail/bin# /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R > -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb > -c100 -u7791 -g2108 0 smtp \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd & > [1] 30531 > > Tcpserver runs and goes into background... > > When a SMTP connection is established... > > venus:/var/qmail/bin# tcpserver: warning: d

TCPServer and Relaying

1999-01-28 Thread root
Hi All, Thanks for the help on setting up the virtual hosting, that is now working, However the tcpserver refuses to run, with the configuration below, the paths exist everythin runs when inetd calls qmail-smtpd direct. venus:/var/qmail/bin# /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb

Re: Bouncing specific users

1999-01-28 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 01:08:30PM +, Petr Novotny wrote: > > That should be: > > > > |exit 100 > > What about > |bouncesaying 'This address no longer accepts mail' > inside the .qmail file > (man bouncesaying) That will only work with qmail 1.03. That guy didn't tell us what version of qm

Re: "solutions for spam"

1999-01-28 Thread l41484
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > That's not what we are discussing. I'm not paying you to receive my mail, > > your users are paying you, so that they can receive _their_ mail. Either > > them come from dial-up or not. > > There are some services we choose to offer to our custome

Re: Bouncing specific users

1999-01-28 Thread Petr Novotny
> That should be: > > |exit 100 What about |bouncesaying 'This address no longer accepts mail' inside the .qmail file (man bouncesaying) -- Petr Novotny, ANTEK CS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.antek.cz -- Don't you know there ain't no devil there's just God when he's drunk.

Re: Bouncing specific users

1999-01-28 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 09:34:03AM +0100, Van Liedekerke Franky wrote: > Perhaps: > > exit 100 That should be: |exit 100 Musn't forget the pipe. -- Anand System Administrator Africa Online Ltd http://www.anand.org

qmail Digest 28 Jan 1999 11:00:09 -0000 Issue 534

1999-01-28 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 28 Jan 1999 11:00:09 - Issue 534 Topics (messages 20978 through 21042): qmail-lint-0.51 20978 by: Peter Haworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> again: maildir question: why chdir()? 20979 by: Uwe Ohse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mailbox size question 20980 by: Abel Lucano

checkpassword

1999-01-28 Thread Martin Staael
Hi I have this configuration - starting qmail-pop3d /usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail.xx.net \ /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d ./ & I have this user list that checkpassword should follow #xx: /var/qmail/users > cat assign =martin:martin:1120:0:/webdi

RE: Virtual domains using qmail

1999-01-28 Thread Van Liedekerke Franky
try putting > lakesedge.org: alias-leorg > in virtualdomains. Let me know if it works then... > -- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 9:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Virtual domains using qmail > >

Virtual domains using qmail

1999-01-28 Thread Chris Naden
Hi; I've managed, after some help from various members of this list (primarily Mate) to get qmail set up and running, and it's delivering localhost messages very well. However; The test domain that I'm using as a virtual domain is lakesedge.org ; the files that are relevant are, as I un

RE: Bouncing specific users

1999-01-28 Thread Van Liedekerke Franky
Perhaps: exit 100 if I'm not mistaking... > -- > From: Peter Gradwell[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 9:30 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Bouncing specific users > > Hi, > > I've recently aquired

Bouncing specific users

1999-01-28 Thread Peter Gradwell
Hi, I've recently aquired control of a new domain and am supporting it under qmail. My boss wants me to accept mail for all addresses at saiddomain.com and deliver them to person x (which is easy using a .qmail-default) but we want to reject a specific address, [EMAIL PROTECTED] What do I put in

RE: Virtual Domain/Users not working proeprly

1999-01-28 Thread Van Liedekerke Franky
If you don't wan't an extra local account: put virtual.com only in control/rcpthosts. Then in virtualdomains, put the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:alias-user1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:alias-user2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:alias-user3 virtual.com:alias-virtual and use the alias files in control/alias: .qmail-us

Two way email gateway

1999-01-28 Thread Lorenzo Cavassa
Hello, i need your advice to build a splitted email system: server 1 (run qmail and is MX for several domains): - get inbound external email - filter with antispam/UCE/relay rules and allow post only to defined users ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], but not

RE: rcpthosts, locals

1999-01-28 Thread Samuel Dries-Daffner
chown alias to the output file made a big difference after a few edits to the script in the .qmail-alias file. All is well (on this one!) Thanks for all your help :) Samuel On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > > On 27-Jan-99 Samuel Dries-Daffner wrote: > > > > Well now I am seeing

Re: Pattern-matching and filtering

1999-01-28 Thread Tim Pierce
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 12:33:02PM -0500, Len Budney wrote: > James Smallacombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Selective filtering is ALL about pattern-matching. > > Correct, which is why it is flawed. If pattern matching were applied > uniformly, then soon all spam will be 100% 822-compliant, an