Re: databytes max msg per domain

1999-05-21 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 08:06:52PM -0300, Eric Dahnke wrote: I am in need of setting message size limits on a per virtual domain basis. I've got a system wide /control/databytes limit, and can see that I can limit on a per user basis via: |bouncesaying 'Message too big' [ `wc -c` -gt

Unable to run qmail-remote??

1999-05-21 Thread Ralf Guenthner
Hi I had some undeliverable messages this morning and the reason stated by qmail was Unable to run qmail-remote. What could be the reason? System is qmail 1.03, running supervised as suggested in the FAQ: supervise /var/run/qmail /var/qmail/rc Thanks for any hints Ralf

Is it possible to reject mail from sites with incorrect inverse DNS records

1999-05-21 Thread Yusuf Goolamabbas
Hi, I run a mail server with an upatched qmail-1.03 and tcpserver with rblsmtpd. Is it possible to reject mail from sites which don't have correct inverse DNS records (PTR records). If there is patch for qmail/tcpserver, would appreciate a pointer to it and a usage example Thanks, Yusuf

Virtual domains and ezmlm-idx

1999-05-21 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a virtual domain jpcad.cz which is mapped to an existing used jpcadcz. There is a list called beta in that domain; that list should also exist in digest version. When I post to the list, the message is distributed to all the regular

Re: Segmentation fault

1999-05-21 Thread Fred Backman
Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: Your qmail-send trace is more interesting. It shows qmail-send detecting a pending bounce for message 313551, then setting up pipes and forking, the child trying but failing to run qmail-queue in order to inject the bounce message. You should look at the

Re: Mac OS X

1999-05-21 Thread Stefan Osterman
Hi I haven't try but it should work. I could be a problem with NetInfo for the userdatabase so you better use virtual users, Qmail-LDAP or similar. PS. I haven't actually looked at Mac OS X that much, only the former NextStep/OpenStep. //Stefan At 12:54 AM 99/05/21 +0200, Joergen Persson

strange errorcode

1999-05-21 Thread Van Liedekerke Franky
Hi, sometimes when people from the internet sent mail to one of my clients, they get the following back from their emailserver (in this case xs02-078.support.nl [195.114.229.78]) 451 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... I/O error: Error 0 Now I know this is not a qmail error message, but does anybody know

Works (was Re: Segmentation fault)

1999-05-21 Thread Fred Backman
Just a quick note to let you know that it works now. All I did was remove the optimization flag -O2 from the gcc and now qmail-send/qmail-alias whatever doesn't crash. Though, there must still be a bug in the code...removing -O2 is just a temporary work-around. Call me lazy. Thanks to all, Fred

Disk Quota+Qmail

1999-05-21 Thread Shashi Dahal
Dear All ! I have Redhat 5.2 with Qmail as the MTA. Each user of the system has limited disk quota. When I send mails to any user whose quota is finished, Qmail just loggs "Temporary Deferral on Mail Delivery" and the mails just remains on queue. I want the mails to be bounced back to the

Re: Is it possible to reject mail from sites with incorrect inverse DNS records

1999-05-21 Thread Yusuf Goolamabbas
Thanks, for the info However, note that in my experience i have not seen any adverse effects of allowing connections from sites which have no PTR records. Why do you want to reject these connections? Wouldn't spammers be likely to come from sites with such credentials, OTOH, It might affect

Re: Segmentation fault

1999-05-21 Thread Robin Bowes
Fred Backman wrote: I sure will, but not for the time being. I will have to apply the patches to v1.03 as well and this will take too long time to do now. Just out of curiousity, what do your patches do? R. -- Robin Bowes - System Development Manager - Room 405A E.O.C., Overseas House,

RE: strange errorcode

1999-05-21 Thread Van Liedekerke Franky
there are no disk errors reported on my mailserver, the queue is certainly not full and all other mail with big attachments are coming in just fine. Can I thus conclude the problem is remote server related? Franky -- From: Ricardo Oliveira[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: Is it possible to reject mail from sites with incorrect inverse DNS records

1999-05-21 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 05:52:17PM +0800, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote: Thanks, for the info However, note that in my experience i have not seen any adverse effects of allowing connections from sites which have no PTR records. Why do you want to reject these connections? Wouldn't spammers

Re: strange errorcode

1999-05-21 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 11:52:57AM +0200, Van Liedekerke Franky wrote: there are no disk errors reported on my mailserver, the queue is certainly not full and all other mail with big attachments are coming in just fine. Can I thus conclude the problem is remote server related? It is

suervising apache, squid, etc

1999-05-21 Thread Robin Bowes
Has anyone used supervise to control apache, or squid, or mysql? Any sample scripts would be appreciated... R. -- Robin Bowes - System Development Manager - Room 405A E.O.C., Overseas House, Quay St., Manchester, M3 3HN, UK. Tel: +44 161 838 8321 Fax: +44 161 835 1657

Re: Segmentation fault

1999-05-21 Thread Fred Backman
Robin Bowes wrote: Fred Backman wrote: I sure will, but not for the time being. I will have to apply the patches to v1.03 as well and this will take too long time to do now. Just out of curiousity, what do your patches do? Mainly interface with a custom made user db. Totally

Re: Disk Quota+Qmail

1999-05-21 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 03:27:27PM +0500, Shashi Dahal wrote: The mail should bounce back. However, when you set the queue lifetime to 2 days, the message will not bounce at exactly 2 days. qmail will make one last attempt to deliver the email, after the 2 days are up, and if it fails, then it

Re: Is it possible to reject mail from sites with incorrect inverse DNS records

1999-05-21 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 05:52:17PM +0800, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote: These days spammers are quite clever, and use hosts that have proper reverse DNS. You are more likely to succeed in spam protection if you use things like RBL. Thanks, for the info However, note that in my experience i have

Re: Is it possible to reject mail from sites with incorrect inverse DNS records

1999-05-21 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 03:46:38PM +0800, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote: No patch needed. Run tcpserver with the -p (PARANOID) option. Now, if it receives a connection, and there is no PTR for that IP, tcpserver will unset the TCPREMOTEHOST variable. Then instead of running qmail-smtpd directly, run

Re: Unable to run qmail-remote??

1999-05-21 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 09:46:51AM +0200, Ralf Guenthner wrote: Check permissions on qmail-remote by running "make check" in the qmail source directory. They might be wrong. If so, run "make setup" to fix it. Also check to see that your computer's not running out of file descriptors. A section

Re: Virtual domains and ezmlm-idx

1999-05-21 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 09:48:40AM +0100, Petr Novotny wrote: I have a virtual domain jpcad.cz which is mapped to an existing used jpcadcz. There is a list called beta in that domain; that list should also exist in digest version. When I post to the list, the message is distributed to all

order of operations

1999-05-21 Thread jwelsh
hey, im running qmail 1.03 and have my smtproutes set up like so .quintiles.com:[10.1.1.1] quintiles.com:[10.1.1.1] but when qmail sends to domains like somedomain.quintiles.com it seems to be doing a dns lookup to find out where to send the mail to.. isnt this supposed to be captured in the

Re: suervising apache, squid, etc

1999-05-21 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
+ "Robin Bowes" [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | Has anyone used supervise to control apache, or squid, or mysql? Not me, but I'll offer an observation, since people frequently misunderstand this (I am not saying you are one of these people): You cannot use supervise to control daemons that fork to put

Re: suervising apache, squid, etc

1999-05-21 Thread Robin Bowes
Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: + "Robin Bowes" [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | Has anyone used supervise to control apache, or squid, or mysql? Not me, but I'll offer an observation, since people frequently misunderstand this (I am not saying you are one of these people): You cannot use supervise

Re: Virtual domains and ezmlm-idx

1999-05-21 Thread kbo
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 09:48:40AM +0100, Petr Novotny wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a virtual domain jpcad.cz which is mapped to an existing used jpcadcz. There is a list called beta in that domain; that list should also exist in digest version. When

Re: Virtual domains and ezmlm-idx

1999-05-21 Thread Fred Lindberg
On Fri, 21 May 1999 09:48:40 +0100, Petr Novotny wrote: I have a virtual domain jpcad.cz which is mapped to an existing used jpcadcz. There is a list called beta in that domain; that list should also exist in digest version. When I post to the list, the message is distributed to all the

Which RFCs?

1999-05-21 Thread Stephen Anderson
I'm having a hard time finding out which RFCs document various protocols. I was hoping someone could point me where to look to find the applicable RFCs for: SMTP, POP3, LDAP, HTML, and MIME. If anyone could help me out, I'd appreciate it!

Re: Which RFCs?

1999-05-21 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
+ Stephen Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | I'm having a hard time finding out which RFCs document various protocols. | I was hoping someone could point me where to look to find the applicable | RFCs for: | | SMTP, POP3, LDAP, HTML, and MIME. | | If anyone could help me out, I'd appreciate it!

Backup mail server, MANY MAIL servers

1999-05-21 Thread ivan
hi, How can I setup a QMAIL as a backup mail server, what I have in mind ?! I have other email server (under NT) and I want if it is down the second mail server (in this case QMAIL) to recieve and send mail and second, users still to have access to their POP3 mail boxes. If this is not posiblle

Re: qmail/fictitious domain/ppp connection

1999-05-21 Thread Eric Berg
I did two things to resolve this issue. Remember that there are only two hosts in this scenario: an internal sendmail host and a qmail/gateway host. /etc/sendmail.cf go this to set my official domain name Dj$w.nylug.org and I per Adam McKenna's advice, I "put a domain that resolves into

open smtp performance

1999-05-21 Thread Krzysztof Dabrowski
i have a little question regarding open smtp's performance under heavy load. Running a separate shell process and then recreate tcprules for every pop3 connection looks like an overkill for me. We have a 3000+ users serer here and we HAVE to implement some kind of authentication before relaying

Re: Backup mail server, MANY MAIL servers

1999-05-21 Thread kbo
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 05:44:39PM +0300, ivan wrote: hi, How can I setup a QMAIL as a backup mail server, what I have in mind ?! I have other email server (under NT) and I want if it is down the second mail server (in this case QMAIL) to recieve and send mail and second, users still to

Re: open smtp performance

1999-05-21 Thread Timothy L. Mayo
I am using Russel Nelson's POP3 before SMTP very successfully here on a single server handling 10,000 users. I had to modify it slightly though. My tcprules update code makes sure that I have not already got a rule that covers the new IP before adding it. This works well and I will be

Re: open smtp performance

1999-05-21 Thread Krzysztof Dabrowski
At 11:14 99-05-21 -0400, you wrote: I am using Russel Nelson's POP3 before SMTP very successfully here on a single server handling 10,000 users. I had to modify it slightly though. My tcprules update code makes sure that I have not already got a rule that covers the new IP before adding it.

Re: suervising apache, squid, etc

1999-05-21 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 11:13:11AM +0100, Robin Bowes wrote: I've used supervise in control squid in the past, and it was a life-saver, since my squid had a tendency to crash unexpectedly. Supervise kept it alive. I started it the usual way: supervise /usr/local/squid/supervise

qmail and lotus notes

1999-05-21 Thread jwelsh
anyone using qmail to relay to louts notes? we are doing this now by using qmail to relay to our internal lotus notes server. The notes server only allows 8 incomming smtp sessions at a time.. when i dump my queue by sending -ALRM to qmail-send, it only seems to dump a few messages.. the notes

Re: Multiple Domains with Aliases

1999-05-21 Thread Donna Phillips
We have just recently spun up a new mail server running qmail 1.03. The problem I am running into is the moderate amount of email from the few hours our main server was offline that has seemed to get stuck in the queue. What would be the least painful and most efficient way of getting mail from

Qmail quotas with mailquotacheck.sh

1999-05-21 Thread Peter Janett
I'm using Paul Gregg's checkpasswd setup to create pop users that are not system users. It's working great, but now I need to add mail quotas. So, I'm attempting to use his mailquotacheck.sh, from http://www.tibus.net/pgregg/projects/qmail/mailquotacheck/mailquotacheck.sh I can't quite get