Problems retrieving mail with Outlook Express...

1999-06-04 Thread admin
Hi all: We have installed qmail 1.03 with qmail-pop3d in our mail server. From time to time, there are users with Microsoft mail clientes (Outlook, Outlook Express, Internet Mail, occasionally Exchange) who can't retrieve messages with attachments. The mail program just hangs, or shows so

qmail Digest 4 Jun 1999 10:00:00 -0000 Issue 661

1999-06-04 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 4 Jun 1999 10:00:00 - Issue 661 Topics (messages 26236 through 26281): Qmail+sendmail 26236 by: Richard Letts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Outlook Express and IMAP 26237 by: "Dave Teske" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 26238 by: "Greg Owen {gowen}" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Compile??

1999-06-04 Thread Lars Balker Rasmussen
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 08:28:57AM -0500, Kris Keele wrote: > How do I compile qmail with gcc instead of cc? Check conf-cc. > Is there any documentation on this? Surprisingly, nothing I could find easily (grep conf-cc [A-Z]*), but you might want to read conf-* anyway. -- Lars Balker Rasmusse

Compile??

1999-06-04 Thread Kris Keele
How do I compile qmail with gcc instead of cc? Is there any documentation on this? Kris

pop server crashing nightly

1999-06-04 Thread
Hello, Ever night since I sent up my qmail pop server it has crashed sometime during the night. There is no/very little traffic on the machine and the machine did not reboot during the nights. The startup scripts in rc work fine. I'm running linux redhat 5.2. Has anyone experienced anything lik

Re: pop server crashing nightly

1999-06-04 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 08:37:33AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ever night since I sent up my qmail pop server it has crashed sometime > during the night. There is no/very little traffic on the machine and > the machine did not reboot during the nights. The startup scripts in > rc work fine

CR/LF problem

1999-06-04 Thread Lanik, Laurenz (21)
My provider has a "self-written" mailserver who can not connect to qmail. While looking at the log files we saw that qmail always sends this annoying "451 See http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/smtplf.html." message. Since we cannot change the other mailserver, - is there any chance to get qmail ignore t

Re: DNS and MX record question

1999-06-04 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 12:40:38AM -0600, Anthony Mutiso wrote: > This question has come up before on this list but I have not been able > to find a clear answer in the archives. > > I tried to mail a friend at domain that only had an MX record. > > i.e. > >#nslookup -query=A site1.com >

Re: DNS and MX record question

1999-06-04 Thread Anthony Mutiso
> "CJ" == Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CJ> bash$ dig site1.com [...clipped] CJ> Let me guess: site1.com isn't really the domain in CJ> question. You've chosen to hide the real domain name for some CJ> reason. Yes! I should have added that I changed the host names since I t

Changing from

1999-06-04 Thread scode
Warning Could not process message with given Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=oLBj+sq0vYjzfsbl; micalg=pgp-md5;protocol="application/pgp-signature"

Re: DNS and MX record question

1999-06-04 Thread Anthony Mutiso
> "PN" == Petr Novotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> So when I mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get the class delivery failure: >> >> : failure: >> Sorry,_I_couldn't_find_any_host_named_site1.com>._(#5.1.2)/ PN> Notice the extra > - that's what causes the fault. Ek! Did some chec

Getting Maildir + IMAP working

1999-06-04 Thread Dave Teske
Has anyone got this fully working? Here's my story. Qmail 1.03, the patched WU IMAP server running both POP and IMAP daemons. POP's working fine and for the most part so is IMAP. IMAP works great if the users mail box is in Mailbox format. However if the user is setup for Maildir delivery I see

checkpasswd

1999-06-04 Thread Stephane Morand
I'm using the checkpoppasswd supplied on Qmail.org: /* Alternative checkpassword for QPopup by Jedi/Sector One <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> */ /* Format of the configuration file is : * pop_login:crypted_password:real_login:path */ In the file /var/qmail/users/poppasswd there is a line like: testid:

Re: Getting Maildir + IMAP working

1999-06-04 Thread Todd at NM Technet
dave, all, i asked a very similar set of questions recently on this list. the result: the maildir driver for the UW imap server is very rudimentary. it works extremely well for inboxes, but not well for any other folders. i have patched it a bit to handle creating new maildirs correclty and c

Re: Getting Maildir + IMAP working

1999-06-04 Thread David A Galbraith CIRT
Part of the problem is that when the driver was written they left out a MAJOR piece of code to handle copying mailmessages between DIFFERENT mailbox formats :)... to add that in take a look at any of the other mailbox routines in their MAILBOXTYPE_copy routine and see that they call mailproxyco

checkpassword from the command line

1999-06-04 Thread Don Rose
I know this has been posted in the past, but I can't figure it out for the life of me. Here's what I'm trying to do: Take a username and password from user entry (CGI script). Check it against the master password database. I have tried the command-line solution given on the qmail.org homepage,

receiving mail from the Internet

1999-06-04 Thread James P. Kannengieser
Hello, I just installed qmail 1.03 on Solaris 2.6 to create a mailhub on my lan. My firewall is set up to pass smtp connections to this mailhub on port 25. Although qmail delivers messages perfectly well for local user accounts from other local user accounts, it does not deliver messages sent to u

Re: receiving mail from the Internet

1999-06-04 Thread Dave Sill
"James P. Kannengieser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I installed ucspi-tcp and edited inetd.conf according to the FAQ. I have >also entered both domain names that this system should handle mail for in >/var/qmail/control/rcpthosts. Can anyone make any suggestions that might >help me resolve probl

additional info re: Internet email

1999-06-04 Thread James P. Kannengieser
Hello again. Since I sent my last message, I've been monitoring /var/log/syslog on my mailhub and noticed several new messages that pertain to this problem. Since most are repetitions, here's a good sample: Jun 4 14:45:45 nssec qmail: 928521945.769700 starting delivery 13: msg 309 to r emote [EM

Re: additional info re: Internet email

1999-06-04 Thread Dave Sill
"James P. Kannengieser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Even though I have edited inetd.conf for smtp under ucspi-tcp, I just >noticed that I can't find any reference to port 25 when I do a netstat >-an. Are you using inetd or tcpserver? What does inetd.conf say? What happens if you telnet to port

selective forwarding of mail

1999-06-04 Thread Mark Rizzo
Hello, I am new to Qmail and I have searched the archives and have not found my answer. Does Q-mail have any feature to control the forwarding of my e-mail based on the sender's domain or complete from address? It looks as though this can be done with outside tools but I am not sure if Qmail

Mass Mailign with Qmail vs. Sendmail

1999-06-04 Thread Mylo
Not sure if this went through the first time, I got a help msg back so here goes again: Hello all, I am investigating using qmail to send a mass mailing to our 2M user base. Currently we have been using sendmail. First, let me describe our current setup. We have 26 different sendmail's runni

Re: additional info re: Internet email

1999-06-04 Thread James P. Kannengieser
Here is what is in inetd.conf: tcpserver -v -u 7791 -g 2108 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/spollger smtpd 3 & I entered this according to the docs. As for telnetting to port 25, nothing happens when I do that. Very strange. Thanks, Jim On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Dave Sill wr

Re: receiving mail from the Internet

1999-06-04 Thread James P. Kannengieser
Thanks. Did that. My problem still persists, but that would have been necessary anyway. Also, thanks for the link. Jim On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Dave Sill wrote: > Sure. Make sure that all the domain names for the system are also in > "locals". > > See: > > http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.htm

Re: Mass Mailign with Qmail vs. Sendmail

1999-06-04 Thread kbo
I send out a monthly newsletter to a user base of 2.5 million using qmail. The marketing department stages the emails to be sent with 500,000 a day to track how it effects the web site. I use a pentium box with 128M ram, a raid disk with one qmail queue and OpenBSD. Delivery rates on that one ma

RE: additional info re: Internet email

1999-06-04 Thread Tim Hunter
do you have it set in /etc/services as well? > -Original Message- > From: James P. Kannengieser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 04, 1999 4:07 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: additional info re: Internet email > > > Here is what is in inetd.conf: > > tcpserver

RE: additional info re: Internet email

1999-06-04 Thread Robert Schader
Just joining in on this thread. Have you checked the spelling for splogger in your inetd.conf file? If you get nothing when telnetting to port 25 on the same machine, then something is not starting up right. If you are remote, is there a firewall in=between that blocks port 25? Did you send inetd

Re: additional info re: Internet email

1999-06-04 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On 04-Jun-99 James P. Kannengieser wrote: > Here is what is in inetd.conf: > > tcpserver -v -u 7791 -g 2108 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | > /var/qmail/bin/spollger smtpd 3 & > > I entered this according to the docs. As for telnetting to port 25, > nothing happens when I do that. Very

RE: additional info re: Internet email

1999-06-04 Thread James P. Kannengieser
Yes, I have smtp set in /etc/servies. Here is the line: smtp25/tcp mail Thanks. On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Tim Hunter wrote: > do you have it set in /etc/services as well? >

Re: mkpasswd.pl and checkpasswd

1999-06-04 Thread Paul Gregg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Could anyone help me? > I'm using the checkpoppasswd supplied on Qmail.org: > /* Alternative checkpassword for QPopup by Jedi/Sector One <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> */ > /* Format of the configuration file is : > * pop_login:crypted_password:real_login:path *

Re: Mass Mailign with Qmail vs. Sendmail

1999-06-04 Thread johnjohn
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 01:04:25PM -0700, Mylo wrote: > I am investigating using qmail to send a mass mailing to our 2M user base. > Currently we have been using sendmail. First, let me describe our current > setup. We have 26 different sendmail's running as deamons on 26 different > mqueue's.

rcpthosts

1999-06-04 Thread Robert Schader
Hello all, I am new to qmail and am working on migrating to it from a system called Post.Office from www.software.com. I have had a little experience with sendmail, but not much. Anyway, I have looked at the FAQ and tried searching the mailing list and have not found an answer to my question. Here

Re: Mass Mailign with Qmail vs. Sendmail

1999-06-04 Thread Mylo
How do you actually insert the files into the queue? I ran a few tests using qmail-inject for each individual mail but I don't know how well that will utilize "same domain" queue'ing. -- Tim "Mylo" Madams -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I send out a monthly newsletter to a us

Re: Mass Mailign with Qmail vs. Sendmail

1999-06-04 Thread Mylo
Each message contains magical unique information for the specific user. The way it's done right now (in sendmail) I wrote a perl script that writes the queue files. This uses file locking and since sendmail is caring about locked files it won't try to send them while they're still being written.

Re: Mass Mailign with Qmail vs. Sendmail

1999-06-04 Thread dirk
We something similar for a client a while ago. They are now mailing their newsletters out at a rate of 150,000/hour with two machines. The trick is to use qmail-remote directly and only queue stuff that doesn't get out the first try. Dirk On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 01:04:25PM -0700, Mylo wrote: > N

Re: Mass Mailign with Qmail vs. Sendmail

1999-06-04 Thread Mylo
By "same domain" queue'ing I was refering to queue'ing messages targeted at the same remote domain (See also: aol.com) into the same queue as to allow Qmail (in our current case sendmail) to force messages to one mail host through the same process to improve performance. -- Tim "Mylo" Madams --

Re: rcpthosts

1999-06-04 Thread Justin Bell
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 05:07:08PM -0400, Robert Schader wrote: # You would think that the rcpthosts file could serve a better purpose by # allowing the machines listed in it to send anywhere, instead of any machine # out on the internet to only send files to the machines in rcpthosts, which # in

Re: rcpthosts

1999-06-04 Thread Scott Schwartz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Schader) writes: | It seems to me that the rcpthosts functionality is reversed from what it | should be. I thought that maybe the functionality I wanted was to be found | in the locals file, but that seems to control what machines qmail will | accept mail for and hold loc

Re: Mass Mailign with Qmail vs. Sendmail

1999-06-04 Thread Mylo
That's sounding happy, but how do you limit the number of qmail-remote's that are gonna get spawned. Aren't you running the risk of thousands, or should I say millions of them starting at once. -- Tim "Mylo" Madams -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] once [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We something similar for a

Re: Mass Mailign with Qmail vs. Sendmail

1999-06-04 Thread Mylo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 02:39:16PM -0700, Mylo wrote: > > Each message contains magical unique information for the specific user. > > > > The way it's done right now (in sendmail) I wrote a perl script that writes > > the queue files. This uses file locking and since s

Re: Mass Mailign with Qmail vs. Sendmail

1999-06-04 Thread dirk
You count or measure system load... that's part of the scripts that you need to create to feed into the qmail-remotes. Dirk On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 03:17:33PM -0700, Mylo wrote: > That's sounding happy, but how do you limit the number of qmail-remote's that are > gonna get spawned. Aren't you r

Re: Mass Mailign with Qmail vs. Sendmail

1999-06-04 Thread johnjohn
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 03:20:36PM -0700, Mylo wrote: > In fact, this whole machine is dedicated to mass mailing... But we obviously > can't dump 2M+ files into the queue's before we start qmail-send. This isn't obvious to me. Why not? > We need > some way of piping them in at just about the

Re: Mass Mailign with Qmail vs. Sendmail

1999-06-04 Thread Russell Nelson
Mylo writes: > In fact, this whole machine is dedicated to mass mailing... But we obviously > can't dump 2M+ files into the queue's before we start qmail-send. Obviously you can, as long as you increase queue_split, and apply my big-todo patch, found on www.qmail.org. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL

Re: Mass Mailign with Qmail vs. Sendmail

1999-06-04 Thread Mylo
Oh really, so each message will be a seperate process. Doesn't sendmail do some magic in this case? I know that it at least is better about caching DNS records internally if many messages are destined to the same domain. -- Tim "Mylo" Madams -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >

Re: rcpthosts

1999-06-04 Thread Robert Schader
apis wrote: > > o Have you looked at Postfix? > > http://www.postfix.org > > o Very nifty and easy to install as it is more *sendmail* > > replaceable without worrying much about changes in mail system as > > Qmail requires. > > Apis > Well, yes, I did look at Postfix a

Re: Mass Mailign with Qmail vs. Sendmail

1999-06-04 Thread kbo
I send out a monthly newsletter to a user base of 2.5 million using qmail. The marketing department stages the emails to be sent with 500,000 a day to track how it effects the web site. I use a pentium box with 128M ram, a raid disk with one qmail queue and OpenBSD. Delivery rates on that one ma

Re: additional info re: Internet email

1999-06-04 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On 04-Jun-99 James P. Kannengieser wrote: > Here is what is in inetd.conf: > > tcpserver -v -u 7791 -g 2108 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | > /var/qmail/bin/spollger smtpd 3 & > > I entered this according to the docs. As for telnetting to port 25, > nothing happens when I do that. Very

Re: Q: Is it possible to bind 2 diffrent qmail instances on 2 diffrent network interfaces

1999-06-04 Thread D. J. Bernstein
> Connected to 199.246.67.190 but my name was rejected./Remote host said: 501 > HELO requires a valid host name as operand: 'web1.cheetahmail.com' rejected > from www.cheetahmail.com remote address [206.132.30.31]: Host name does not > match remote address. That server is violating RFC 1123, sect

Re: Mail server load testing

1999-06-04 Thread Fred Lindberg
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 01:26:19 -0500, Dave Teske wrote: >Does anyone know of any apps that can do load testing on mail servers. I've >seen a bunch that do web server load testing but none for mail servers. I've >got our server on a tiny (486 w/P90 upgrade chip & 24mb ram)box and I'd like >to see how

failure noticequestions questions questions

1999-06-04 Thread Julian L.C. Brown
Dear Group, I had a customer call me up concerned about eliminating spam. How would I exclude emails containing AOL.COM or the word SEX from being delivered altogether? Regards, Julian L.C. Brown Internet Technology Consultant Interware Systems Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interw

Life with qmail

1999-06-04 Thread Dave Sill
I've written a manual for qmail called "Life with qmail". It's not 100% finished, but there's enough there that it's useful. The idea was to put together a one-stop guide for qmail that binds all of the available documentation and web pages into one place. It doesn't duplicate everything in the m

How to start the Virus-Scanner

1999-06-04 Thread sl
I am trying to run the amavis package together with qmail. If i put |/usr/sbin/scanmails $SENDER $RECIPIENT /var/here/lays/the/Maildir/ into one .qmail-file everything works fine. But i would like qmail to scan every mail so i tried starting qmail like this: exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$

Re: ezmlm-manage acceping multiple domains in inhost

1999-06-04 Thread Frederik Lindberg
Jay Soffian writes: > > I have a list that was recently moved to a new hostname and I'd like > ezmlm-manage to be able to accept messages at either address. That is, > I'd like to be able to put multiple domains into inhost, but > ezmlm-manage doesn't support this. So I can either patch ezmlm-ma

Re: Mass Mailign with Qmail vs. Sendmail

1999-06-04 Thread dirk
We something similar for a client a while ago. They are now mailing their newsletters out at a rate of 150,000/hour with two machines. The trick is to use qmail-remote directly and only queue stuff that doesn't get out the first try. Dirk On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 01:04:25PM -0700, Mylo wrote: > N

Re: receiving mail from the Internet

1999-06-04 Thread Dave Sill
"James P. Kannengieser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I installed ucspi-tcp and edited inetd.conf according to the FAQ. I have >also entered both domain names that this system should handle mail for in >/var/qmail/control/rcpthosts. Can anyone make any suggestions that might >help me resolve probl

Reviewers/proofreaders wanted

1999-06-04 Thread Dave Sill
I've got enough of my qmail guide complete that it's worth reviewing: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html It's still less than half done, though, so don't bother telling me that section X.Y is empty. :-) Let me if like it, hate it, or don't care either way. If you think it needs reorganizing

Re: additional info re: Internet email

1999-06-04 Thread Dave Sill
"James P. Kannengieser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Even though I have edited inetd.conf for smtp under ucspi-tcp, I just >noticed that I can't find any reference to port 25 when I do a netstat >-an. Are you using inetd or tcpserver? What does inetd.conf say? What happens if you telnet to port