Re: Errors retrieving large attachments

1999-04-13 Thread Allen Versfeld
Eric Ess wrote: > > Allen Versfeld wrote: > > Eric Ess wrote: > > > > A user of my mail system is having problems retrieving emails with attachments >larger than 10k or so. They receive 'server timed out' messages. They are using >Outlook Express as their email client. I'm using qmail 1.03 on

Re: Qmail, IMAP, POP

1999-04-13 Thread Balazs Nagy
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Brad (Senior Systems Administrator - Americanisp, LLC.) wrote: > I have qmail with pop3 and Maildir's. > Would like it if we can run IMAP, along with the pop3 and > smtp. Use Maildir-powered pine and pine's imapd. -- Regards: Kevin (Balazs)

Re: adding a header to all e-mail

1999-04-13 Thread Tim
Thanks for the note - I poked around some more and it looks like the simplest way is to put a wrapper around qmail-queue. We'll just have to be more careful about upgrading our distribution. Thanks, Tim On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 11:44:49AM +0300, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 1999

qmail Digest 13 Apr 1999 10:00:00 -0000 Issue 609

1999-04-13 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 13 Apr 1999 10:00:00 - Issue 609 Topics (messages 24159 through 24215): how to turn of logging? 24159 by: "Ramesh Panuganty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 24162 by: Harald Hanche-Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SMTP Error... 24160 by: Jim Beam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: qmail-ldap run error

1999-04-13 Thread Van Liedekerke Franky
sounds like a library problem to me... > -- > From: BoLiang[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 1:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: qmail-ldap run error > > Hi > >After I setup the qmail-ldap package on a Redhat5.2, >I run i

messages ... have been bouncing"

1999-04-13 Thread Ralf Nagel
Hi, I just received above warning from the qmail list server. Some of the messages (from April 1st) have been bouncing: 123.123.123.123 does not like recipient remote host said [...] we do not relay I forwarded the warning message to my provider asking for an explanation. This is the answer.

Show: ...... 10K of 100K

1999-04-13 Thread Attila Csosz
Is there any console based tool which can help me to see the advance of sending a large file? Like the wget program. I send sometimes large files and I'd like to see the advance of the process of the sending my mail. Thanks Attila RedHat 5.2/Kernel 2.0.36/ppp only

Re: Non-ASCII-characters in Header

1999-04-13 Thread Dave Sill
Juergen Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm searching for a patch which lets qmail to accept mails with characters >>126 ( e.g. german umlauts ) in the mail headers. I searched all archives >but it seems no one didn't ask for this up to now. I just sent myself a test message with such cha

Re: Non-ASCII-characters in Header

1999-04-13 Thread Juergen Schubert
Hello Dave, > I just sent myself a test message with such characters in the subject >and qmail didn't complain. Please provide an example bounce message >demonstrating the problem. This is a sample error message. I think your XEmacs is a good one and encodes the Subject MIME compliant.

Re: Non-ASCII-characters in Header

1999-04-13 Thread thomas . erskine-dated-a20ace8c96e3c6fa
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Juergen Schubert wrote: [snip] > This is a sample error message. I think your XEmacs is a good one and > encodes the Subject MIME compliant. [snip] > Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 11:51:29 +0200 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Juergen Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: fär The

Re: Non-ASCII-characters in Header

1999-04-13 Thread Stefan Paletta
Juergen Schubert wrote/schrieb/scribsit: > Hi. This is the qmail-send program at janus.pks-software.de. > 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. > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > kaufmann: Message

Re: Non-ASCII-characters in Header

1999-04-13 Thread Juergen Schubert
Hello Stefan, you gave me the final tip, thank you very much! > This is not an error message from qmail. >Is there anything in the .qmail file that controls this address? It's the deliver from the cyrus-IMAPD which causes the troubles and I blamed qmail instead, my fault :-( But I think this

Re: [Q] qmail speed "again"

1999-04-13 Thread Dave Sill
I'm replying to several messages here (see References), but I'm not going to bother attributing each quote. >> >qmail will always be faster than sendmail [unless you send one message >> >to a large number of addresses on the same remote host]. >> >> No, qmail will usually win here, too, because

Re: messages ... have been bouncing"

1999-04-13 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
+ Ralf Nagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | I just received above warning from the qmail list server. | Some of the messages (from April 1st) have been bouncing: | | 123.123.123.123 does not like recipient | remote host said [...] we do not relay | | I forwarded the warning message to my provider askin

[Q] qmail speed for 'bulk' mails - thanks for the response!

1999-04-13 Thread Silver CHEN
Dear Sir: I'm the one that causes 'a lot' discussion about the topic 'qmail speed'. I've read through the whole mail-threads, and thanks for anyone that give even a word here. I HAVE to say that I like qmail, and I don't hate sendmail too - that's not my point here. If anything other

Re: Non-ASCII-characters in Header

1999-04-13 Thread Timothy L. Mayo
qmail does NOT reject messages with invalid characters in the headers. IT DOES NOT PARSE THE HEADERS. Are you using cyrus for IMAP service. Cyrus does this by default. Again, this error is NOT coming from qmail, it is coming from whatever you are using to do the final delivery. On Tue, 13 Apr

Re: Non-ASCII-characters in Header

1999-04-13 Thread Fred Lindberg
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 09:37:18 +0200, Juergen Schubert wrote: >I'm searching for a patch which lets qmail to accept mails with characters >>126 ( e.g. german umlauts ) in the mail headers. I searched all archives >but it seems no one didn't ask for this up to now. Please post an actual bounce me

helping qmail vs. lame MTAs

1999-04-13 Thread John R. Levine
>>Actually, if you are unfortunate enough to have a list of addresses sorted >>by the right side of the @, qmail can be a big loser here. ... >somedomain is poorly configured. Should qmail assume all sites are >poorly configured? Should properly configured sites suffer because >some sites are poo

talk on qmail

1999-04-13 Thread Marlon Anthony Abao
hello, i have been tasked to talk to a linux conference here in the philippines about qmail. now most of the guys in this technical conference are using sendmail as their mail server and so am bound to be very scrutinized. could anyone give me their reasons why they switched to

Re: [Q] qmail speed for 'bulk' mails - thanks for the response!

1999-04-13 Thread Dave Sill
Silver CHEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Someone said that qmail is weaker if I send many 'RCPT TO:' in one SMTP > transactions than sendmail. Well, I don't know the inside story, but I > do worry about that statement. Don't worry. There are very rare situations in which sendmail can be fast

Re: Non-ASCII-characters in Header

1999-04-13 Thread Greg Owen {gowen}
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Juergen Schubert wrote: > you gave me the final tip, thank you very much! > > > This is not an error message from qmail. > >Is there anything in the .qmail file that controls this address? > > It's the deliver from the cyrus-IMAPD which causes the troubles and I > blamed q

Re: talk on qmail

1999-04-13 Thread Greg Owen {gowen}
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Marlon Anthony Abao wrote: > could anyone give me their reasons why they switched to qmail > from sendmail or any other mail server? anything convincing enough > for most of you would most likely be convincing for most other ppl not > in the know :) One word:

Re: [Q] qmail speed "again"

1999-04-13 Thread Marc Slemko
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Dave Sill wrote: > >> >qmail will always be faster than sendmail [unless you send one message > >> >to a large number of addresses on the same remote host]. > >> > >> No, qmail will usually win here, too, because sendmail serializes. > >> Sendmail only wins when the message

Re: Show: ...... 10K of 100K

1999-04-13 Thread Fred Lindberg
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 14:46:18 +0200, Attila Csosz wrote: >Is there any console based tool which can help me to see the advance >of sending a large file? Like the wget program. >I send sometimes large files and I'd like to see the advance of the process of >the sending my mail. No, but if you hav

Re: [Q] qmail speed "again"

1999-04-13 Thread Mark Delany
At 08:42 AM Tuesday 4/13/99, Marc Slemko wrote: >On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Dave Sill wrote: > >> >> >qmail will always be faster than sendmail [unless you send one message >> >> >to a large number of addresses on the same remote host]. >> >> >> >> No, qmail will usually win here, too, because sendmail

Re: [Q] qmail speed for 'bulk' mails - thanks for the response!

1999-04-13 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 11:27:15AM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: > Silver CHEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Someone said that qmail is weaker if I send many 'RCPT TO:' in one SMTP > > transactions than sendmail. Well, I don't know the inside story, but I > > do worry about that statement. > >

IRIX NFS, qmail

1999-04-13 Thread Doug McClure
Does anyone have any experience (real world) with the speed/reliability of IRIX NFS? We're looking at distributed ring of POP3/SMTP servers with a single NFS server (right now) to hold all users' mail and directly accept mail as the primary MX and a secondary MX to back it up. The POP3/SMTP server

Re: [Q] qmail speed "again"

1999-04-13 Thread Dave Sill
Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >...Please give me an example of how to set it up so that a >remote site can open as many connections as it wants (which you think it >should be able to do) without monopolizing the system. I don't care if a remote site uses all available SMTP connections

Re: talk on qmail

1999-04-13 Thread Dave Sill
Greg Owen {gowen} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Marlon Anthony Abao wrote: >> could anyone give me their reasons why they switched to qmail >> from sendmail or any other mail server? anything convincing enough >> for most of you would most likely be convincing for most o

Re: [Q] qmail speed for 'bulk' mails - thanks for the response!

1999-04-13 Thread Dave Sill
Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dave Sill wrote: >> >> ...with sendmail, one process delivers to all >> recipients, and only one connection is ever open to a remote >> site. ... > >Hmm very untrue in fact. Sendmail will under several circumstances >[none of which I will explain here but

Re: talk on qmail

1999-04-13 Thread Greg Owen {gowen}
> I couldn't agree more. That's why I switched to qmail. However, that > one word reason is unlikely to convince sendmail fans, who will > immediately counter that sendmail hasn't had a serious security > problem in months/years. You should be prepared to argue that that > doesn't mean sendmail i

Virtual Users (?)

1999-04-13 Thread Gary Stewart
I'm trying to setup qmail to have 2 sepearate domains and 2 seperate usernames. for example [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] are 2 seperate boxes, but want to be able to host them on the same machine, but keep each billybob seperate. is this possible with qmail? Gary Stewart [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Show: ...... 10K of 100K

1999-04-13 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 11:08:18AM -0500, Fred Lindberg wrote: > On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 14:46:18 +0200, Attila Csosz wrote: > > >Is there any console based tool which can help me to see the advance > >of sending a large file? Like the wget program. > >I send sometimes large files and I'd like to see

Re: [Q] qmail speed for 'bulk' mails - thanks for the response!

1999-04-13 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 01:23:17PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: > Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Dave Sill wrote: > >> > >> ...with sendmail, one process delivers to all > >> recipients, and only one connection is ever open to a remote > >> site. ... > > > >Hmm very untrue in fact. Sendma

FW: Web Interface to Qmail on Linux

1999-04-13 Thread Matthew Kaing
Hi, I like users to be able to access and manage their email via a browser. Does anyone know of a web-based interface to Qmail or other similar packages for Linux that is freeware? Thanks, Matthew Bora Kaing

Re: FW: Web Interface to Qmail on Linux

1999-04-13 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 11:11:50AM -0700, Matthew Kaing wrote: > Hi, I like users to be able to access and manage their email via a browser. > Does anyone know of a web-based interface to Qmail or other similar packages > for Linux that is freeware? web.horde.org/imp/, if I'm not mistaken. Greet

Re: FW: Web Interface to Qmail on Linux

1999-04-13 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 11:11 am -0700 13/4/99,the wonderful Matthew Kaing wrote: >Hi, I like users to be able to access and manage their email via a browser. >Does anyone know of a web-based interface to Qmail or other similar packages >for Linux that is freeware? www.endymion.com/products/mailman -- peter at gr

Re: web inteface to Qmail

1999-04-13 Thread Mark Swanson
http://www.focalmail.com/ -- Y2K - We're all gonna die.

Re: [Q] qmail speed for 'bulk' mails - thanks for the response!

1999-04-13 Thread Dave Sill
Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 01:23:17PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: >> >> You got me. Of course you're right. I meant to say that when >> delivering a single message "immediately", i.e., not from the queue, >> sendmail will only open one connection at a time. > >

Re: [Q] qmail speed "again"

1999-04-13 Thread Keith Burdis
On Tue 1999-04-13 (09:56), Dave Sill wrote: > I'm replying to several messages here (see References), but I'm not > going to bother attributing each quote. > > >> >qmail will always be faster than sendmail [unless you send one message > >> >to a large number of addresses on the same remote host].

Re: [Q] qmail speed for 'bulk' mails - thanks for the response!

1999-04-13 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 03:36:20PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: > Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 01:23:17PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: > >> > >> You got me. Of course you're right. I meant to say that when > >> delivering a single message "immediately", i.e., not fro

qmail/ezmlm writing strange envelope From?

1999-04-13 Thread David Lindes
Hi all, I'm a bit of a newbie to qmail, so my apologies in advance if this is a FAQ or if I don't explain things correctly, but here goes: I've got a setup on my ISP's machine using qmail where they are hosting several virtualdomains for me, and I am setting up mailing lists within some of those

Re: [Q] qmail speed "again"

1999-04-13 Thread Stefan Paletta
Keith Burdis wrote/schrieb/scribsit: > Remember that we're talking about sending one message to a large number of > addresses on the same remote host. In general qmail is faster, but I think in > this case any MTA that does multiple rcpt to's will be quicker. AFAIK, sendmail has a limit of "RCPT

Re: [Q] qmail speed "again"

1999-04-13 Thread ddb
Keith Burdis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 13 April 1999 at 21:39:09 + > What I had in mind was that with sendmail you can do: > > HELO > MAIL FROM > RCPT TO: > RCPT TO: > > RCPT TO: > DATA > ... > > whereas with qmail, since it doesn't do

Re: Virtual domains and rcpthosts... PROBLEM!

1999-04-13 Thread Mark Delany
>But when I send from an account in other server (a webmail free service) >to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I get the following bounce: > >--- >The original message was received at Tue, 13 Apr 1999 18:45:46 -0300 >(EST) > from [200.246.7

Re: Virtual domains and rcpthosts... PROBLEM!

1999-04-13 Thread Juan Carlos Castro y Castro
Mark Delany wrote: > > Right. How about putting nabla.com.br in /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts? I did!!! That's why it's weird! :-O -- ___THE___ "Commercial OS vendors are, at the moment, all closed \ \ / / economies, and doomed to fall in their competition with \ V / open economies

RE: cyclog vs. syslog (was: Queue limit question)

1999-04-13 Thread Arnaldo Mandel
Dave Sill wrote (on Apr 12, 1999): > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >What are the advantages/disadvantages of cyclog over syslog? [...] > Disadvantages: only logs messages sent to stdout, only logs messages > from local system, doesn't chunk logs by day/week/etc--only by size, > dates/times

Virtual domains and rcpthosts... PROBLEM!

1999-04-13 Thread Juan Carlos Castro y Castro
Hi. I have virtual domains on our server. One of which is nabla.com.br. We use rcpthosts to block spammers and tcpserver to allow pop. Our main domain is pcshop.com.br, which works fine. My virtualdomains reads like this: ---

Re: [Q] qmail speed "again"

1999-04-13 Thread Craig I. Hagan
> I think you should get information on latency for message from a machine > running a large distribution lst to see where it's spending its time probably waiting for those slug domains which have either * slow links * slow dns * are no longer in services but, that is ju

Re: [Q] qmail speed "again"

1999-04-13 Thread Richard Letts
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Keith Burdis wrote: > Remember that we're talking about sending one message to a large number of > addresses on the same remote host. In general qmail is faster, but I think in > this case any MTA that does multiple rcpt to's will be quicker. if the effect latency of the con

Re: Virtual domains and rcpthosts... PROBLEM!

1999-04-13 Thread Juan Carlos Castro y Castro
Something occurred to me: Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote: > > But when I send from an account in other server (a webmail free service) > to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I get the following bounce: > > >>> RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <<< 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts

Re: Virtual domains and rcpthosts... PROBLEM!

1999-04-13 Thread Mark Delany
At 07:37 PM Tuesday 4/13/99, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote: >Something occurred to me: > >Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote: >> >> But when I send from an account in other server (a webmail free service) >> to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I get the following bounce: >> >> >>> RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: FW: Web Interface to Qmail on Linux

1999-04-13 Thread Sam
Matthew Kaing writes: > Hi, I like users to be able to access and manage their email via a browser. > Does anyone know of a web-based interface to Qmail or other similar packages > for Linux that is freeware? http://www.inter7.com/sqwebmail/ Only for Maildir mailboxes. -- Sam

Re: [Q] qmail speed "again"

1999-04-13 Thread Silver CHEN
> What I had in mind was that with sendmail you can do: > > HELO > MAIL FROM > RCPT TO: > RCPT TO: > > RCPT TO: > DATA > ... > > whereas with qmail, since it doesn't do multiple rcpts, you'd have to do: > > for i = 1 to n > HELO > MAIL FROM >

Qmail queue stuck all the time, any ideas ?

1999-04-13 Thread Dinesh Punjabi
Hi: I have installed & configured qmail on my freebsd machine running FreeBSD 2.2-960130-SNAP. I am running into some strange qmail behavior. I have configured qmail under tcpserver. Queues are permanently stuck and messages keep accruing in the queue. When the machine is rebooted, tcpserver st

Re: qmail speed

1999-04-13 Thread David Lindes
Hi Dirk et al, Hmm, after reading this thread, I see that I have a thought on how to help with this that doesn't seem to exactly be stated here... (though some similar things have been) I venture this suggestion with some trepidation, being that a) I'm a newbie to qmail, and b) I'm a newbie to

Re: Qmail queue stuck all the time, any ideas ?

1999-04-13 Thread Mark Delany
>I am running into some strange qmail behavior. >I have configured qmail under tcpserver. > >Queues are permanently stuck and messages keep >accruing in the queue. When the machine is rebooted, >tcpserver starts, apparently qmail also does, but >qmail dies. Apparently? You don't know? What inte

Re: IRIX NFS, qmail

1999-04-13 Thread David Lindes
Doug McClure wrote: > > Does anyone have any experience (real world) with the speed/reliability of > IRIX NFS? We're looking at distributed ring of POP3/SMTP servers with a > single NFS server (right now) to hold all users' mail and directly accept > mail as the primary MX and a secondary MX to b

Re: IRIX NFS, qmail

1999-04-13 Thread Mark Delany
>One word comes to mind when I hear "NFS" and "mail" in the same >breath... Ick. > >I admit I do not have any experience with qmail specifically in >this area, or even any with IRIX in this area (my IRIX >experience lies elsewhere), but the one time I was at a site >that delivered mail into an NF

Re: IRIX NFS, qmail

1999-04-13 Thread David Lindes
Mark Delany wrote: > > My experience (and others on this list) differs. Maildir on a reliable NFS > system is an excellent way of sharing a filestore across multiple front end > systems. Hmm... interesting. > I agree that NFS is *not* well suited to V7 mailboxes and the associated > locking

Re: IRIX NFS, qmail

1999-04-13 Thread Marlon Anthony Abao
Dave, we have been deploying a very large mail service with the home directories are mounted on NFS. we currently have 5 SMTP/POP3 boxes, each with thier own queues accepting connections via a round-robin dns. this boxes are the front-ends for another 5 Data servers which just se

POP security question

1999-04-13 Thread Joe Junkin
Hello all, When a pop user logs in to check mail, they send their user password in clear text over the network. So, a pop user account could be comprimised, and is therefore unsecure. On a mail server I administer, I set all of the qmail user accounts shell to be /bin/false which disallows a direc