Re: logging qmail and qmail-smtpd

1999-04-08 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Van Liedekerke Franky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm using tcpserver and cyclog to log qmail and qmail-smtpd. Now I would > like to know how to combine these two: in the qmail log I see who mailed to > whom, but I don't know the IP address, this is in the qmail-smtpd log. So > how can

Re: control/locals prolem

1999-04-08 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 09:17:09AM +0200, Uwe Ohse wrote: > > it_isn't_in_my_control/locals_file,_so_I_don't_treat_it_as_local._(#5.4.6) > > It Clearly show that the line'.mydomain.com' in control/locals has no any > > effect. :( > > Now what can do? > > Something like this should do it. > >

Re: control/locals prolem

1999-04-08 Thread Uwe Ohse
[.domain hack in locals] > > btw: i think that kind of game is evil. > > What risks or problems are there in this game then? This will simply not work: @domain.example hosta IN MX 10 hosta IN MX 20 server-with-my-dotdomain-in-locals-hack * IN MX 10 server-with-my-dotdomain-in-locals-

Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1) (FIXED)

1999-04-08 Thread chris
Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: 7USxvUzgj+ueQW0vQmWBJQ== > > Isn't qmail-local suppose to pick the UID in assign and deliver as > > the user defined there and if not, what user is it running as and how > > co

Virtualdomains - Alias style VS. User style

1999-04-08 Thread Reid Sutherland
What do you guys think the benefits would be to using the alias style for virtualdomains (~alias/.qmail-domain-user) or the user style ($HOME/user/.qmail-aliaseduser)? I'm trying to figure out the best way to add my virtual domains to qmail. What do you guys use with your setup? For those who are

Re: Virtualdomains - Alias style VS. User style

1999-04-08 Thread Chris Garrigues
> From: "Reid Sutherland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:54:26 -0400 > > What do you guys think the benefits would be to using the alias style for > virtualdomains (~alias/.qmail-domain-user) or the user style > ($HOME/user/.qmail-aliaseduser)? I'm trying to figure out the best w

Is *anybody* using XTND XMIT in qmail-pop3d ?

1999-04-08 Thread John Grant
Two days ago I asked if anybody had fixed the XMIT patches (that are v1.01 specific) to work with 1.03. The silence was deafening... It struck me that if no one is has done this, then maybe there is something about the whole concept that I should be aware of ? So, is anybody using XMIT ? Since i

Re: Is *anybody* using XTND XMIT in qmail-pop3d ?

1999-04-08 Thread Richard Letts
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, John Grant wrote: > So, is anybody using XMIT ? Since it's a standard feature in qpopper I would > hope that someone is doing this... it may be a standard feature in qpopper, the issue here is that it's not part of the POP standard, and so most mail clients don't seem to supp

Re: Is *anybody* using XTND XMIT in qmail-pop3d ?

1999-04-08 Thread John Grant
>On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, John Grant wrote: > >> So, is anybody using XMIT ? Since it's a standard feature in qpopper I would >> hope that someone is doing this... > >it may be a standard feature in qpopper, the issue here is that it's not >part of the POP standard, and so most mail clients don't seem

Re: Is *anybody* using XTND XMIT in qmail-pop3d ?

1999-04-08 Thread Juan Carlos Castro y Castro
John Grant wrote: > We want our remote users to be able to send email with our company domain > name on it, without a) having to have customer firewalls reconfigured, or > b)leaving our mail server open as a spam relay. No need to. You can use tcpserver to allow "relay" only from the internal IP

Ooops

1999-04-08 Thread Juan Carlos Castro y Castro
Sorry John Grant, I misunderstood your problem completely. It's much more complicated than I thought at first. You could use tcpserver and (urgh) recompile tcprules every time a company member visits a customer. Or... you could use tunelling. Theoretically, travelers could have their notebooks t

Why does ~alias/.qmail-sim.hamp do nothing?

1999-04-08 Thread Simon
My first post to this group - I hope this is not a question that has been asked before, but I could find it when I searched. I'm trying to get qmail to route incoming mails from my ISP, pulled down by fetchmail. Mail is sent either to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or to my wife, both of which are alia

authentication in proxy

1999-04-08 Thread Ganesh Kirti (EUS)
> Hi, We support single sign-on mechanism and user's don't need to > provide their userid and password to access their mails. My mail proxy > does > the authentication of user(and some application specific stuff) > and forwards the request to qmail server. I don't want qmail to do > authenticati

Re: qmail speed

1999-04-08 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Current speed is 20,000-40,000/hour on a PPRO200/PII350 Which is it? PPRO200 or PII350? How's your qmail configured? What does qmail-showctl say? What kind of connectivity do you have? Running a local nameserver? >with SCSI drives. Anybody know a better/faster way?

Re: Why does ~alias/.qmail-sim.hamp do nothing?

1999-04-08 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Fetchmail passes mail over as simon.hampton@localhost and I can teach >users/assign to tackle simon.hampton and deliver it linux user sim, but why >cannot I set up a .qmail file in ~alias to do this? For security reasons, qmail replaces "."'s with ":"'s in .qmail file

Re: qmail speed

1999-04-08 Thread dirk
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 03:59:18PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Current speed is 20,000-40,000/hour on a PPRO200/PII350 > > Which is it? PPRO200 or PII350? 20K/hour for PPRO200 40K/hour for PII350 > How's your qmail configured? What does qmail-showctl say? concurre

Re: Is *anybody* using XTND XMIT in qmail-pop3d ?

1999-04-08 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 04:08:57PM -0300, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote: > John Grant wrote: > > > We want our remote users to be able to send email with our company domain > > name on it, without a) having to have customer firewalls reconfigured, or > > b)leaving our mail server open as a sp

Re: qmail speed

1999-04-08 Thread Mark Delany
Ug. You're invoking qmail-queue for each recipient? Is that necessary? Most of your system resources are probably spend putting individual messages into the queue and deleting individual messages as they're delivered. Try this as an alternative injection script: ( sed s/^/Bcc: / What speed sho

Re: Why does ~alias/.qmail-sim.hamp do nothing?

1999-04-08 Thread Stefan Paletta
Simon wrote/schrieb/scribsit: see Subject Because ~alias/.qmail-sim:hamp does. FAQ 4.6 Stefan

Re: Why does ~alias/.qmail-sim.hamp do nothing?

1999-04-08 Thread Timothy L. Mayo
>From "man dot-qmail": WARNING: For security, qmail-local replaces any dots in ext with colons before checking .qmail-ext. For convenience, qmail-local converts any uppercase letters in ext to lower-case. Based on this, your qmail file should be named: ~alias/.qmail-sim:hamp On Thu, 8 Apr 19

Re: qmail speed

1999-04-08 Thread Craig I. Hagan
> >Current speed is 20,000-40,000/hour on a PPRO200/PII350 with > >SCSI drives. Anybody know a better/faster way? yup, you can get about an order of magnitude speed boost if you are willing to play a little faster and looser -- however if your machine crashes there may be some risk in having a c

Re: qmail speed

1999-04-08 Thread David Villeger
At 04:33 PM 3/9/99 -0500, Craig I. Hagan wrote: >what you can do is remove ALL of the fsync calls >in qmail. This will DRAMATICALLY speed up queue >operations as it allows the OS (e.g. linux/freebsd) to >take full advantage of their filesystem cache. The >risks of doing this should be obvious. OTO

Re: qmail speed

1999-04-08 Thread Craig I. Hagan
I did it across the board (all files, there were a few) in qmail-1.03. I also ran my filesystem with atime turned off. -- craig On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, David Villeger wrote: > At 04:33 PM 3/9/99 -0500, Craig I. Hagan wrote: > >what you can do is remove ALL of the fsync calls > >in qmail. This will

'number only' aliases

1999-04-08 Thread Jerry Rose
I'm an end user of qmail rather than an admin and I have very little in-depth knowledge of qmail so please go easy on me if this is a dumb question. I've looked through the FAQ but there didn't seem to be anything about this. All of my .qmail-alias files work perfectly except for one: .qmail-36

Re: 'number only' aliases

1999-04-08 Thread Giles Lean
On Thu, 08 Apr 1999 16:15:41 -0500 Jerry Rose wrote: > .qmail-360 > In theory, mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be delivered. Qmail spits > it back out and moans about it. 1.03 likse a ~alias/.qmail-360 file here just fine. No idea what your problem is, sorry. Giles

Re: Ooops

1999-04-08 Thread Ludwig Pummer
At 12:15 PM 4/8/99 , Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote: >Or... you could use tunelling. Theoretically, travelers could have their >notebooks to establish a IP-over-IP connection to your server from >wherever they are. This way, they'd be "local" no matter where they are. > >I had this idea 30 seco

Re: qmail speed

1999-04-08 Thread David Villeger
At 05:13 PM 4/8/99 -0400, David Villeger wrote: >Then, I did it with qmail-queue: qmail-send did not like it (got something >like "Sorry, message has wrong owner"). I never got to investigate (I >recall the problem was in spawn.c though). I just tried it again (I thought this was too weird), and

Help with logfile?

1999-04-08 Thread Joe Junkin
Hi all. Running on Redhat 5.2 with the 2.2.5 kernel upgrade. Something went batty with qmail yesterday and I am not sure why. Every time I tried to send a message the system would spawn multiple smtp and queue processes. These would remain listed indefinitely and the message never set. I think it

Re: 'number only' aliases

1999-04-08 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Well, if you're an end-user rather than the sysadmin, I am *guessing* you would not have permission to add files to ~alias, so perhaps your mail should be addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Like I said, just guessing here.. Aaron Quoting Jerry Rose ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm an end user of qmail

modify outgoing headers

1999-04-08 Thread 914
Hiya i am not at all fimiliar with qmail, but i am using a qmail drop-box (this one) for some net-related business.. (bianca.com) the nature of that business exposes me to a variety of nuts and freaks, and i'd like to conceal the originating IP address in my outgoing headers if you look

Re: Help with logfile?

1999-04-08 Thread Andrzej Kukula
On 8 Apr 99 at 15:17, Joe Junkin wrote: > But, when I was trouble shooting the problem I moved and then blew away > /var/log/maillog. > I expected another to be created instantly. One did not appear, so I touch'd a > new one and it remains empty after a day. I ran a grep in the /var/log director

Re: modify outgoing headers

1999-04-08 Thread Stefan Paletta
914 wrote/schrieb/scribsit: > headers if you look at the header of this note you should see that > i'm on chaos.resnet.uconn.edu [137.99.166.70] > > how can i force qmail to NOT send that RECIEVED FROM line? Modify qmail-smtpd to not write that header or see FAQ 5.5. Stefan

Re: modify outgoing headers

1999-04-08 Thread 914
> > Modify qmail-smtpd to not write that header or see FAQ 5.5. > > Stefan OK.. cool... except that i don't see how FAQ 5.5 has anything to do with it. Still, if i can get away without modifying any binaries, i'll be happy maybe you could be a little more explicit with what you mean? o

Re: qmail speed

1999-04-08 Thread dirk
Each message is personalized to the recipient. They truly are 230,000 different messages. That why it is fed into the queue. Dirk On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 01:12:58PM -0700, Mark Delany wrote: > Ug. You're invoking qmail-queue for each recipient? Is that necessary? > > Most of your system resourc

Re: 'number only' aliases

1999-04-08 Thread Eric Dahnke
Also, some unices (RH) complain about usernames which begin with numbers. In your case 360 is an alias, so that wouldn't matter, but it is something to keep in mind. - eric + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Spark Sistemas E-mail - presentado por IWCC Argentina S.A. Tel: 4702-1958

Re: Help with logfile?

1999-04-08 Thread Eric Dahnke
And instead of deleting the log, do a cp /dev/null /var/log/maillog, same result as a del and you don't have to worry about those problems. - eric + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Spark Sistemas E-mail - presentado por IWCC Argentina S.A. Tel: 4702-1958 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: qmail speed

1999-04-08 Thread dirk
What kind of speed improvement are you seeing? dirk On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 06:16:17PM -0400, David Villeger wrote: > At 05:13 PM 4/8/99 -0400, David Villeger wrote: > >Then, I did it with qmail-queue: qmail-send did not like it (got something > >like "Sorry, message has wrong owner"). I never g

Autoreply for incoming email.

1999-04-08 Thread hsilver
A few versions back (I think 1.00 but I could be wrong) of qmail, I seem to recall someone posted a very simple way to send an automatic reply for all messages that came _into_ a user's Mailbox (or Maildir for that matter) by adding one or two lines to the .qmail file in the user's home directory

Re: Is *anybody* using XTND XMIT in qmail-pop3d ?

1999-04-08 Thread John Grant
> >So it looks like I'll be redoing the patches (and of course posting the >results). > Well it looks like I have a working version with XMIT. When I have had time to test it properly I'll post the patches...

Tcpserver echoing?

1999-04-08 Thread MountaiNet Tech Support
I start all my qmail stuff with this in /etc/rc.d/rc.local: csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &' /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -v -u 1002 -g 101 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd & 2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 & /usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup edwin.mounet.

Re: Tcpserver echoing?

1999-04-08 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 07:45:08PM -0400, MountaiNet Tech Support wrote: > I start all my qmail stuff with this in /etc/rc.d/rc.local: > > csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &' > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -v -u 1002 -g 101 0 smtp > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd & > 2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splog

Re: Autoreply for incoming email.

1999-04-08 Thread Tillman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A few versions back (I think 1.00 but I could be wrong) of qmail, I > seem to recall someone posted a very simple way to send an automatic reply > for all messages that came _into_ a user's Mailbox (or Maildir for that > matter) by adding one or two lines to the .qmail

Auto responder

1999-04-08 Thread Martin Searancke
Does anyone know of any Auto Responding Software or Scripts to attach to QMail. I.e. To receive the email as normal but also send a reply to the sender as soon as its received. The scripting available in the .qmail files looks powerful enough to do what I want but im sorry im just a bit of a novic

Opps fond one.

1999-04-08 Thread Martin Searancke
I must be blind, I just found exactly what I was looking for at the web site, Martin Martin Searancke CommSoft Group Ltd. Level 6, 90 Symonds St Auckland, New Zealand [EMAIL PROTECTED] +64 21 778592

qmail Digest 8 Apr 1999 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 604

1999-04-08 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 8 Apr 1999 10:00:01 - Issue 604 Topics (messages 23972 through 24016): Is the double bounce's envelope sender wrong? 23972 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23990 by: "Fred Lindberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> QMTP suggestion 23973 by: "Fred Lindberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>