strange problem with qmail

1999-04-27 Thread Kyle Buttress
Hi I'm having a strange problem with qmail and delivery? On one day the mail gets delivered to a particular virtualdomain user and the net day the same user gets a failure notice. I'm using qmail-1.03 -- Kyle Buttress [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nevermind

1999-04-27 Thread Robin Bowes
Matt, I setup my system at home like yours with no problem whatsoever. Mail me at home and I'll take you through my setup if you want. [EMAIL PROTECTED] R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanx for all the help but i've dumped qmail. i've "rtfm man qmail-inject" a bizzilion times but that

Re: qmail 14256 invoked by uid 0

1999-04-27 Thread Marlon Anthony Abao
At 12:08 PM 4/27/99 +0200, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: + Marlon Anthony Abao [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | qmail 14256 invoked by uid 0 | | Is this normal? if not, under what circumstances would this happen? | | Received: (qmail 14256 invoked by uid 0); 27 Apr 1999 01:00:20 - | Received: from

Re: qmail 14256 invoked by uid 0

1999-04-27 Thread Petr Novotny
Harald, here's my invocation. what's wrong with it? 301 being the uid of qmaild. usr/local/bin/tcpserver -c 400 -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -v -u 301 -g nofiles 0 smtp \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \ 21 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 --- this is a copy of the headers of a mail

smtproutes issue?

1999-04-27 Thread Robin Bowes
Hi, My smtproutes is currently as follows: eoc.org.uk:ms-mail.eoc.org.uk .eoc.org.uk: :relay.mail.uk.psi.net Basically, mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is forwarded to our MS Mail gateway; mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be delivered according to MX records; and outgoing mail is all relayed via our

Ezmlm + pgp?

1999-04-27 Thread Mark Turner
I've recently installed qmail + ezmlm(idx). Now I'm starting to think 'how I could munge outgoing ezmlm messages with pgp automatically?'...Selectable pgp version (tougher). Has anyone else trod this path? Regards + hail qmail!!! Markt PS. Strip the somewhere out for e-address.

Re: qmail 14256 invoked by uid 0

1999-04-27 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 01:27:42PM +, Petr Novotny wrote: Harald, here's my invocation. what's wrong with it? 301 being the uid of qmaild. usr/local/bin/tcpserver -c 400 -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -v -u 301 -g nofiles 0 smtp \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \ 21 |

Why users/assign didn't work

1999-04-27 Thread Xiaoxia Zhao
Hi, dear friend: Today, I installed qmail on my Freebsd 2.2. It works well. According to the manual, I assign all the incomming mail to a user called zhao whose uid and gid is 1000. I add the following line: +:zhao:1000:1000:/home/zhao::: to the /var/qmail/users/assign. When I send a

qmail-pop3d

1999-04-27 Thread Keith Burdis
I'm wanting to move a system over to maildirs and just got asked this question about qmail-pop3d: does it handle large mailboxes in qpopper style (ie stream off disk rather than the traditional method of slurp the whole lot into ram then stream out from there) I don't know C well enough

Re: Why users/assign didn't work

1999-04-27 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 08:21:07PM +0800, Xiaoxia Zhao wrote: Hi, dear friend: Today, I installed qmail on my Freebsd 2.2. It works well. According to the manual, I assign all the incomming mail to a user called zhao whose uid and gid is 1000. I add the following line:

Re: qmail-pop3d

1999-04-27 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 02:20:27PM +, Keith Burdis wrote: I'm wanting to move a system over to maildirs and just got asked this question about qmail-pop3d: does it handle large mailboxes in qpopper style (ie stream off disk rather than the traditional method of slurp the whole lot

Re: strange problem with qmail

1999-04-27 Thread Russell Nelson
Kyle Buttress writes: Hi I'm having a strange problem with qmail and delivery? On one day the mail gets delivered to a particular virtualdomain user and the net day the same user gets a failure notice. I'm using qmail-1.03 Hi, Kyle. sarcasmI've been using qmail since about a

: Why users/assign didn't work

1999-04-27 Thread Xiaoxia Zhao
Thanks. Yes, I ran qmail-newu, but I got the following messages: qmail-newu: fatal: bad format in users/assign I don't know why. I above line's format is bad? Xiaoxia Zhao -Original Message- ·¢¼þÈË: Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] ÊÕ¼þÈË: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ÈÕÆÚ:

Re: »Ø¸´: Why users/assign didn't work

1999-04-27 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 08:30:44PM +0800, Xiaoxia Zhao wrote: Yes, I ran qmail-newu, but I got the following messages: qmail-newu: fatal: bad format in users/assign I don't know why. I above line's format is bad? RTFM .. the last line in the assign file has to be a single dot (".") on a

Re: testing (please ignore)

1999-04-27 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 09:08:44PM +0800, Marlon Anthony Abao wrote: i just want to see if there are anymore (qmail xxx invoked by uid 0) entries in my headers. there aren't. anyone care to look too? everything fine. Greetz, Peter.

Re: old popdeamons don't do ~user/Mailbox

1999-04-27 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the filetree organized that much different on different Unices? Yep. The ~/.qmail files I'd suggest to put into ~/etc/qmail, rather than hiding them among the lots of various other `dotfiles' that you encounter in users' homes. I can't agree with you there.

Re: Forged senders with our domain

1999-04-27 Thread Robin Bowes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to use qmail as smtp gateway. I have configured qmail to relay mail selectively from our mail servers. How? Are you using tcpserver? It seems to me little elegant to manage this away qmail's control files but it really works. Maybe I could apply Rask

Re: Forged senders with our domain

1999-04-27 Thread Jeff Hayward
The "lack", as it were, is in your thinking through the problem. There is no way, short of sender authentication, to tell whether an incoming message which has a sender address in your domain is legitimate or forged. Consider the case of a mailing list hosted at another site (the qmail list), as

Re: qmail does his job slowly

1999-04-27 Thread Russell Nelson
Heiko Romahn writes: Hi, I have a problem with qmail-1.03. And nobody I know could help me. Wenn I poll my pop3-server with fetchmail an deliver these mails to qmail or when I,m sending mails from my workstation to somone else, the mails hang in the queue. qmail-qstat tells

Re: strange problem with qmail

1999-04-27 Thread Russell Nelson
Eric Shafto writes: Russ, your criticism is valid, but not helpful. It would have taken less effort for you to tell Kyle what info he should be providing. How about starting with a description of what he expected to happen, and what really did happen? I would think that would be obvious.

Re: strange problem with qmail

1999-04-27 Thread Dave Sill
Eric Shafto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russ, your criticism is valid, but not helpful. It would have taken less effort for you to tell Kyle what info he should be providing. If people doesn't know how to solve the problem themselves, they may well not know what information is important or

Re: qmail-qmtpd

1999-04-27 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 12:05:00PM +0100, Robin Bowes wrote: Doug McClure wrote: Is there a practical application where this is used? Yes. Consider the following setup: Internet | Bastion Host | = Firewall, eg Router

Re: Forged senders with our domain

1999-04-27 Thread david . jorrin
Original Article: http://www.egroups.com/list/djb-qmail/?start=27523 The "lack", as it were, is in your thinking through the problem. There is no way, short of sender authentication, to tell whether an incoming message which has a sender address in your domain is legitimate or forged.

2 Questions.

1999-04-27 Thread Andy Walden
First, whats the command/procedure to apply the dns.c patch. Second, there is a link on the qmail site to a program the logs pop3 data to splogger. The link is dead though. Ideally I could find something that logged actual bad passwds (like cistron -y does), but I would settle for any

Re: 2 Questions.

1999-04-27 Thread Scott Schwartz
Andy Walden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | First, whats the command/procedure to apply the dns.c patch. On line 24, change PACKETSZ to 115. Or, equivalently, cd to the source directory and paste this ed script into your xterm: ed dns.c 24c static union { HEADER hdr; unsigned char buf[115]; }

Re: qmail-qmtpd

1999-04-27 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 10:36:18AM -0400, Chris Johnson wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 12:05:00PM +0100, Robin Bowes wrote: Doug McClure wrote: Is there a practical application where this is used? The bastion host has a mini-qmail installation; qmail-queue is replaced by

Help! Queue file getting VERY large

1999-04-27 Thread Guenthner, Ralf DIRZ 612
Hi I've been using qmail for a year now with no problems. But now the HD of the Linux system is filling up and by means of find I found a 91 MB (!) file in the directory /var/qmail/queue/mess/46458. What the hell is this file and how can I decrease its size? It seems to contain parts of all

qmail-smtp: ok from linux, deny from windows client

1999-04-27 Thread Claudiu Balciza
I have qmail 1.03 I can send mail to outside from linux I can get mail through pop3 from windows I can email to myself from windows I cannot send out mai from windows the server rejects the outer address with "553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts" what am I missing ?

Procmail and assign?

1999-04-27 Thread Andy Walden
How can procmail be used with an assign db? thanks, andy -- --- Andy WaldenWork Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator, Pers Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MTCO Communications

Re: Help! Queue file getting VERY large

1999-04-27 Thread Dave Sill
"Guenthner, Ralf DIRZ 612" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using qmail for a year now with no problems. But now the HD of the Linux system is filling up and by means of find I found a 91 MB (!) file in the directory /var/qmail/queue/mess/46458. What the hell is this file and how can I

Re: Procmail and assign?

1999-04-27 Thread Dave Sill
Andy Walden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can procmail be used with an assign db? Each entry in assign points to a directory where qmail looks for .qmail files. Put the "| procmail" line in the appropriate file. -Dave

vacation progam

1999-04-27 Thread Richard Shetron
I've been reading the manpages for qmail and either I've missed something simple or done something stupid, I can'tget the vacation program to work. my .qmail file is: ./Maildir/ |/usr/local/bin/vacation multics messages keep getting delivered over and over again and no vacation message is sent

Re: vacation progam

1999-04-27 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been reading the manpages for qmail and either I've missed something simple or done something stupid, I can'tget the vacation program to work. my .qmail file is: ./Maildir/ |/usr/local/bin/vacation multics messages keep getting delivered over and over again and

send/receive mail

1999-04-27 Thread Sherrill (Pei-chih) Verbrugge
I installed qmail using Memphis rpm packages. I use Test.deliver and Test.receive to test the qmail server. It went fine except I couldn't find the "test" email anywhere. Redhat5.2 didn't create Mailbox automatically when I create a new user and send a test message to him/her. What should I

Re: vacation progam

1999-04-27 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 02:45:53PM -0400, Richard Shetron wrote: my .qmail file is: ./Maildir/ |/usr/local/bin/vacation multics Don't know which version of vacation you are using, but you should probably use |preline -d /usr/bin/vacation multics as the "standard" vacation programs

conf-break

1999-04-27 Thread Doug McClure
I changed the character in conf-break to + and have no earthly idea how to make lists work at this point (or any submailboxes). user-list fails; user+list fails. Any ideas? -doug

RE: Qmail and Open-SMTP

1999-04-27 Thread Gordon Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -Original Message- From: Russell Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 3:44 PM To: Qmail List (E-mail) Subject: Re: Qmail and Open-SMTP Gordon Smith writes: I have been trying, rather unsuccessfully, to get

RE: Qmail and Open-SMTP

1999-04-27 Thread Russell Nelson
Gordon Smith writes: Checkpassword is patched with the PAM diffs and the Open-smtp patch. Had no probs compiling. /etc/tcp.smtp.filter.newer isn't being updated though. Did you install /usr/local/bin/pop3-record ? Is it marked executable? -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re:Just a quick question (stupid one at that)

1999-04-27 Thread Ludwig Pummer
At , yessure wrote: Impossible. Im setting up my mail server but i dont have a valid domain name. will qmail work via ip like [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ? or do i have to have a valide domain name to get it to work correctly? Others have already responded that it is possible,

Message headers expose local net

1999-04-27 Thread d. divine
Messages sent from the local network show the host's IP address and name in the header. What setting will prevent internal network information being sent over the internet (sending only the qmail host name, address and sender@domain.). thank you.

Re: Message headers expose local net

1999-04-27 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 06:32:32PM -0500, d. divine wrote: Messages sent from the local network show the host's IP address and name in the header. What setting will prevent internal network information being sent over the internet (sending only the qmail host name, address and

After qmail install mail is broken

1999-04-27 Thread Stephen Lavelle
Having recently installed qmail (and uninstalled sendmail) on a RH 2.0.36 box. The following happens; Fetchmail appears to fetch from my isp ok when I open pine to read mail I get the message: 'can't open mailbox; /home/stephen/Folder where are my messages? Can anyone help? Regards, Stephen

Qmail/Ezmlm rewrites headers?

1999-04-27 Thread phate
Hi All, Please forgive me if this question was already asked, I searched on the archives, but couldnt find it. I'm setting up a mailing list using Ezmlm-idx.. I've setup everything properly, but the problem is when the user sends a message to subscribe, he's asked to reply to a cookie based

Re: After qmail install mail is broken

1999-04-27 Thread Justin Bell
On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 01:37:57PM +1000, Stephen Lavelle wrote: # Having recently installed qmail (and uninstalled sendmail) on a RH 2.0.36 # box. The following happens; # Fetchmail appears to fetch from my isp ok # when I open pine to read mail I get the message: # 'can't open mailbox;

Maildir folder

1999-04-27 Thread BoLiang
I'm using a qmail-imap on my redhat5.2 box, it works well with Mailbox format, is it possible to use a Maildir ( new cur tmp) format? BoLiang [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: qmail-smtp: ok from linux, deny from windows client

1999-04-27 Thread Claudiu Balciza
yes, that's true (and solved my problem). thanks you all. Claudiu -Original Message- From: Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Claudiu Balciza [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: qmail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 20:49 Subject: Re: qmail-smtp: ok from linux, deny from windows

Warning: return type of `main´ is not `int´

1999-04-27 Thread Oden Eriksson
Hi there, I have just upgraded my rh5.2 system to starbuck (5.9) with egcs- 1.2.3-12 and glibc-2.1.1-5 and getting a lot of warnings like this: qmail-local.c: In function `main´: qmail-local.c:448 Warning: return type of `main´ is not `int´ Is this severe and if so

~{;X84~}: qmail 1.03 and RH5.2

1999-04-27 Thread Xiaoxia Zhao
However, my issue is when I try to use ".qmail-default" in the users home directory to accept ALL addresses for his "@domainname.com" it simply doesn't work. I have also tested this with ".qmail-user" in the users home directory for a "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" address and this also doesn't work. I