Re: Setting up Qmail for the first time

1999-05-10 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 08:33:18AM +0100, Charles Zealey wrote: > Everybody tells me how easy it is to set up but frankly I'm struggling. I > think I've followed all the instructions (several times) but when I come to > run Qmail-start it just disappears without trace. Please, how can I find >

Host unknown

1999-05-10 Thread x
ok, i installed some Memphis package, tried sending to my IP and i got back: ... Host unknown (Name server: xx.yy.zz.nn: host not found) ? i found http://qmail-docs.surfdirect.com.au/docs/qmail-antirelay.html .. sed 's/:.*//' < virtualdomains | cat - locals | sort > rcpthosts i have put my IPs

qmail Digest 10 May 1999 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 636

1999-05-10 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 10 May 1999 10:00:01 - Issue 636 Topics (messages 25377 through 25394): [problem] looking for advices/pointers (qmail on ppp server) 25377 by: Qmail ML <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 25378 by: Qmail ML <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> EZMLM 25379 by: "Julian L.C. Brown" <[EMAI

configuration questions

1999-05-10 Thread Achim Gosse
Title: configuration questions hello, i'm new to qmail and i have some questions about it. i heard, that qmail is an espacially safe mta. so i want to install it as an email gateway for my firewall. my configuration looks like this: -internet---firewall (ipchains)/qmail---exchange- i want

Re: configuration questions

1999-05-10 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 12:26:54PM +0200, Achim Gosse wrote: >i'm new to qmail and i have some questions about it. >i heard, that qmail is an espacially safe mta. so i want to install it >as an email gateway for my firewall. >my configuration looks like this: >-internet---fire

qmail-smtpd start error!

1999-05-10 Thread Achim Gosse
Title: qmail-smtpd start error! --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- 926346923.348859 supervise: fatal: unable to acquire lock: temporary failure -- what's wrong??? achim

qmail doesn't accept any connections on port 25

1999-05-10 Thread Achim Gosse
Title: qmail doesn't accept any connections on port 25 hello, i've installed qmail like it is described in the qmail faq. internal mail deliviery is running fine, but qmail doesn't get any emails from outside and doesn't accept any connections per telnet on port 25 (telnet localhost 25). an

RE: qmail doesn't accept any connections on port 25

1999-05-10 Thread Soffen, Matthew
can you give some more data ? What does the mail log say ? How do you start qmail. what is the command line you use to start qmail ? What is in your inetd.conf file for SMTP ? > -Original Message- > From: Achim Gosse [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 11:00 AM > T

Re: qmail doesn't accept any connections on port 25

1999-05-10 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 05:00:21PM +0200, Achim Gosse wrote: > hello, > > i've installed qmail like it is described in the qmail faq. > internal mail deliviery is running fine, but qmail doesn't get any emails > from outside and doesn't accept any connections per telnet on port 25 > (telnet local

how do I purge the queue ?

1999-05-10 Thread Claudiu Balciza
(qmail 1.03/RedHat5.2/kernel 2.2.5) Hi, Whenever I tweak with my firewall rules, qmail fails to deliver messages (that's ok). I can see them on the queue. But when it retries to send those certain deffered messages it fails again. I tried sending a new message with the exact to/from/subject/cont

AW: qmail doesn't accept any connections on port 25

1999-05-10 Thread Achim Gosse
Title: AW: qmail doesn't accept any connections on port 25 i start qmail by tcpserver. i got the rc script by the qmail faq website and i made my changes. the log says, that rblsmtpd is missing. i've installed ucspi-tcp-0.84 and daemontools-0.53, like described in the howtos. what went

AW: AW: AW: qmail doesn't accept any connections on port 25

1999-05-10 Thread Achim Gosse
Title: AW: AW: AW: qmail doesn't accept any connections on port 25 > > PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/var/qmail/bin > > USERID=1001    # CHANGE THIS TO YOUR QMAILD UID!!! > > GROUPID=101  # CHANGE THIS TO YOUR NOFILES GID!!! > > > > case "$1" in > > start) > > echo -n "Starting mail-t

Re: Setting up Qmail for the first time

1999-05-10 Thread Doug Lumpkin
Also make sure you have a /var/qmail/control/me file that reads: your.hostname.com If this isn't in there, qmail just seems to disappear... -- Doug Lumpkin PacInfo Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charles Zealey wrote: > Everybody tells me how easy it is to set up but frankly I'm struggling. I > th

strange problems with qmail on OpenBSD-current

1999-05-10 Thread Pavel Korovin
Solved. Brain damage. The core of the problem was not-working qbiff and misconfigured vmailmgr - i used these programs to execute from .qmail. Just 8 hours of sleep - and the problem was solved :) What a shame!!! Sorry. --- Pavel Korovin SMTP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PSTN: +7 (095) 721-26-00

qmail doesn't accept any messages

1999-05-10 Thread Achim Gosse
Title: qmail doesn't accept any messages --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- 926351484.770763 tcpserver: status: 1/40 926351484.771106 tcpserver: pid 10118 from 62.132.88.21 926351484.773343 tcpserver: ok 10118 firewall.nasa20.com:62.132.88.11:25 :62.132 .88.21::3051 926351487.004716 tcpserver: end 1011

Re: secondary MX

1999-05-10 Thread Matt Buford
Well the main thing I can say is don't share secondary MX with other services. I've seen it happen many times where an ISP does secondary MX for a downstream (perhaps on ISDN) mail server. That mail server gets mailbombed, and becomes unreachable. Now the attack moves over to take out your serv

Qmail as an IMail replacement

1999-05-10 Thread Jonathan W Herbert
Hello, I'm working on migrating the email for some 160+ domains over to qmail from IMail (NT). I've used qmail in the past, but never for something this large in scale. I imagine at some point, you could even do maildir delivery with load-balanced mail servers to something like a netapp, but i d

pine and maildir

1999-05-10 Thread Adam D. McKenna
I have been distributing the c-client library patch from my website (http://www.flounder.net/qmail/) for quite a while now. My question is, has anyone updated this patch so that it works with the newest version of pine? Is anyone willing to? The current patch works on pine 3.96, which is a rathe

Re: Qmail as an IMail replacement

1999-05-10 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 9:29 am -0700 10/5/99,the wonderful Jonathan W Herbert wrote: >My problem is that the majority of these users are `real' users, >in that they need to pop for their mail, as well as be able to >send mail through this new host. > >I'm having trouble understanding if this is possible, although i

AW: qmail doesn't accept any messages

1999-05-10 Thread Achim Gosse
Title: qmail doesn't accept any messages sorry, that was a firewall problem.   achim    --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- 926351484.770763 tcpserver: status: 1/40 926351484.771106 tcpserver: pid 10118 from 62.132.88.21 926351484.773343 tcpserver: ok 10118 firewall.nasa20.com:62.132.8

Mail receiving problems

1999-05-10 Thread Damir Cosic
I am running Red Hat 5.2 and tried to replace sendmail with qmail but experienced some problems. Installation went pretty smoothly, but when it came to test, it failed. Well, maybe failure is not correct word, since I didn't get an error message, but I didn't get what I expected either. I tried

piping mail to news server

1999-05-10 Thread Samuel Dries-Daffner
Here is a simple program I wrote that pipes email messages to a news server. We are testing out the idea of concurrent qmail aliases and local news groups and this program has been very useful. I have added the following to a .qmail alias file: | /usr/local/bin/q2news.pl NEWS.SERVER.HERE NEWS.GR

Re: procmail issues

1999-05-10 Thread Andy Walden
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Peter van Dijk wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 02:30:57PM -0400, xs wrote: > > > > hey all, i recently tried going back to some procmail scripts i had before > > and am getting the follow error: > > > > none the less, if i mkdir /var/spool/mail, and ln -s $HOME/Maildir > >

Re: procmail issues

1999-05-10 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 02:30:57PM -0400, xs wrote: > > hey all, i recently tried going back to some procmail scripts i had before > and am getting the follow error: > > none the less, if i mkdir /var/spool/mail, and ln -s $HOME/Maildir > /var/spool/mail/$USER, it says it's a bogus file and rena

Qmail to procmail and back again?

1999-05-10 Thread Ralf Nagel
Hi, is it possible to handle incoming mail to procmail for further processing (for example corrections of redundant Reply-to lines or bad subject lines: the german AW: unstead of Re: etc) and then give it back to qmail for delivery in a maildir? Thanks, Ralf

procmail issues

1999-05-10 Thread xs
hey all, i recently tried going back to some procmail scripts i had before and am getting the follow error: May 10 14:33:36 rhino qmail: 926360703.993456 new msg 253997 May 10 14:33:36 rhino qmail: 926360704.000787 info msg 253997: bytes 228 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 1299 uid 500 May 10 14:33:

Re: procmail issues

1999-05-10 Thread xs
i figured out a solution, in $HOME/.qmail-test1 i put: |preline procmail -m /home/xs/.procmailrc and it seems to work. -xs end +-+ |Greg Albrecht KF4MKT [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |Safari Internetwww.safari.net| |Fort Lauderdale, FL1-888-537-9550|

Fundamental flaws in List-Unsubscribe

1999-05-10 Thread D. J. Bernstein
Fred Lindberg writes: > rfc2369 is the way to do it. No. Let's say a user clicks the ``unsubscribe'' button while he's looking at an old message from the SOS mailing list. What should the MUA do? RFC 2369 suggests that the MUA follow the List-Unsubscribe instructions in that message. But what h

Re: root mail

1999-05-10 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 02:35:10PM -0700, David McCall wrote: > suppose I want to get mail as root. > is there a safe way other than routing it to another user? There is no other way, be it safe or unsafe. Apart from forwarding to another host ofcourse, or having procmail/binmail deliver. G

root mail

1999-05-10 Thread David McCall
suppose I want to get mail as root. is there a safe way other than routing it to another user? thankx dmc

Re: smtproutes failover

1999-05-10 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 05:09:25PM -0400, Jason wrote: > is it possible to something like this in smtproutes? > so that it if it fails trying to send to the first host (10.1.1.1), > qmail > will try sending it to the second host (10.1.1.2).. ive tried this and > it seems to be just taking whateve

smtproutes failover

1999-05-10 Thread Jason
is it possible to something like this in smtproutes? so that it if it fails trying to send to the first host (10.1.1.1), qmail will try sending it to the second host (10.1.1.2).. ive tried this and it seems to be just taking whatever entry is last, which isnt the desired effect.. :) domain.com:

Re: Host unknown

1999-05-10 Thread x
/* i installed Memphis package, played around, tried sending to my IP and i got back: ... Host unknown (Name server: xx.yy.zz.nn: host not found) */ rpm -e [...]; rm -fR /var/queue; rm -fR /etc/tcp*; reinstall ? would that solve it ? any shorter solution ?

RE: setting relay clients

1999-05-10 Thread Wilson Fletcher
1) Make sure tcp-wrappers are installed. Mine were I'm using RedHat 5.1 with kernel 2.034 2) You must modify your inetd.conf as specified in the FAQ. I used inetd I did not use TCP wrappers 3) You must edit your hosts.allow as indicated in your email. Try putting the IP of your computer only

setting relay clients

1999-05-10 Thread Jari Tenhunen
Hope I didn't post this twice... The problem is that I can't make qmail accept relayclients. I did everything like they say in Qmail FAQ #5.4 but qmail-smtpd still rejects any relay attempts. I get messages saing the domain is not listed in rcpthosts. And I thought setting RELAYCLIENT would caus

Re: procmail issues

1999-05-10 Thread xs
ecuse me that should be $HOME/Mailbox end +-+ |Greg Albrecht KF4MKT [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |Safari Internetwww.safari.net| |Fort Lauderdale, FL1-888-537-9550| +-+ On Mon, 10 May 1999, Peter van Dijk wrote: >On

Is there a similar feature to sendmail's 'access_db' macro ?

1999-05-10 Thread Yusuf Goolamabbas
Hi, I want to setup a front-end which does spam-management to a set of qmail boxes and I was wondering if there was a way to get a similar feature as sendmail's FEATURE('access_db') which allows one to reject both senders/recipients at the SMTP level Thanks, Yusuf Yusuf Goolamabbas [EMAIL PRO

Re: Host unknown

1999-05-10 Thread x
> /* > i installed Memphis package, played around, > tried sending to my IP and i got back: > ... Host unknown (Name server: IP: host not found) > */ > rpm -e [...]; rm -fR /var/queue; rm -fR /etc/tcp*; reinstall ? > would that solve it ? no it didn't. can anyone provide a solutio