RE: Closing SMTP connection

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Alex Miller wrote: You could telnet to my port 25 and you would be disconnected immediately, no extra carriage return required ;-) I'm struggling with getting my system running with QMail for this very reason. The day before yesterday I misconfigured qmail

Re: Newbie Question - Please Read!

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, gene Campbell wrote: I just tried this howto. It is the best one yet for helping understand this system. But, I still can't get smtp to work. That is if I send from another place to my system with qmail, it is bouced back. I get this ___ Hi. This is the qmail-send

Re: Simple Questions - Don't Flame Please!

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Could someone give an please configuration example of this. I would like to know which files to modify and how. -- Regards Martin Rehr / Supermall APS / Denmark Alex Miller wrote: If I understand it correctly when you set up a virtual host, you set it up something like

Re: Pine, Mutt, and Maildir

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
"Alex Miller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | However, Mutt seems to be looking for the Mailbox, and I can't see an option | for setting it to use Maildirs. Set $MAIL to point to your maildir. But... is it my imagination or does mutt read the whole maildir, and then write it back? That's just

Re: Newbie Question - Please Read!

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
I just tried this howto. It is the best one yet for helping understand this system. But, I still can't get smtp to work. That is if I send from another place to my system with qmail, it is bouced back. I get this ___ Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.surfup.com. I'm afraid I wasn't

Re: Newbie Question - Please Read!

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
gene Campbell wrote: I just tried this howto. It is the best one yet for helping understand this system. But, I still can't get smtp to work. That is if I send from another place to my system with qmail, it is bouced back. I get this ___ Hi. This is the qmail-send program at

Re: Newbie Question - Please Read!

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Kevin King wrote: I recently got my RH Linux box working wtith Qmail (with a huge amount of help from Dave Sill). When I installed Qmail setup the following files as such: I found this web site tonight that might help some people. I am also trying to setup qmail my self because

Newbie Question - Please Read!

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
I recently got my RH Linux box working wtith Qmail (with a huge amount of help from Dave Sill). When I installed Qmail setup the following files as such: defaultdomain: srccomputer.net locals: localhost src1.xtremesportsmidland.com src1.turfspecialties.com src1.srccomputer.net me:

Pine, Mutt, and Maildir

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Ok, finally, using the rpm I was able to get QMail working on my system. The Qmail that it created is certainly different that the one I compiled directly, more on that later. I rempoved my old Pine and installed the new one that recognizes Maildirs. It works, I'm very pleased about that.

RE: RPM install question

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Thanks, that helps :-) -Original Message- From: Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 9:23 PM Cc: Qmail Subject: Re: RPM install question On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Alex Miller wrote: I am attempting the RPM install since I can't figure out why my SMTP host

Re: RPM install question

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Alex Miller wrote: I am attempting the RPM install since I can't figure out why my SMTP host isn't working when I installed QMail and Uninstalled sendmail. There are 2 parts of the first step which are confusing. "b) Make sure that the shadow-utils (see the qmail

RPM install question

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
I am attempting the RPM install since I can't figure out why my SMTP host isn't working when I installed QMail and Uninstalled sendmail. There are 2 parts of the first step which are confusing. "b) Make sure that the shadow-utils (see the qmail spec file for what version is needed) because the

qmail Digest 19 Jun 1999 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 676

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
qmail Digest 19 Jun 1999 10:00:01 - Issue 676 Topics (messages 26867 through 26897): large attachments, tcpserver timeouts 26867 by: "Sam" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 26874 by: "Aaron L. Meehan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 26880 by: Markus Stumpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] local messages,

Qmail's queue directory Linux

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
L.S, The following section is from the Installing Configuring page of the Cyrus IMAP server: 8.LINUX SYSTEMS ONLY: Set the configuration, user, quota, and partition directories to update synchronously. Failure to do this may lead to data corruption and/or loss of mail after a system crash.

RE: Newbie Question - Please Read!

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
well, if you have Redhat Linux like I do here has been my experience. I installed QMail using the tarball, running through each step carefully by hand, and with help from members on this list, finally got it to work. I could send mail out (unlike you) but I couldn't recieve remote email. I was

RE: Pine, Mutt, and Maildir

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Ok, thanks Scott but pardon my stupidity, where should I set this, rc.local with a set command? I have Redhat, and am not clear on setting environment variables. I know this is the kind of thing I should know but I've been puzzled by setting environment variables for a while now, all the

Re: Newbie Question - Please Read!

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 08:04:04AM -0400, Alex Miller wrote: well, if you have Redhat Linux like I do here has been my experience. I installed QMail using the tarball, running through each step carefully by hand, and with help from members on this list, finally got it to work. I could send

Re: Qmail's queue directory Linux

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 12:07:11PM +0200, Peter van der Landen wrote: Also set the queue directory of the mail daemon to update synchronously. The following example is for sendmail: /sbin/chattr +S /var/spool/mqueue Should I conclude from this that somehow Linux is extra

Imap

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Hi, I've been trying to implement a web based email system using imp. To do this imap is required, I'm currenting using 4.6BETA (4.5 does the same tho) with the maildir patches in the contributed area. There seems to be serveral bugs (or features!) that seem to break certain parts of imp,

Re: Pine, Mutt, and Maildir

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Recently, Alex Miller had the following to say about RE: Pine, Mutt, and Maildir: Ok, thanks Scott but pardon my stupidity, where should I set this, rc.local with a set command? I have Redhat, and am not clear on setting environment variables. I know this is the kind of thing I should know

qmail/dns resolution

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Lame question time... qmail stopped delivering outbound mail, and is echoing error messages like this: Jun 19 09:26:08 fromagerie qmail: 929798768.674689 delivery 1307: deferral: Sorry,_I_couldn't_find_any_host_by_that_name._(#4.1.2)/ However, all the nameservers defined in resolv.conf on

RE: Newbie Question - Please Read!

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
I don't think that's entirely accurate. That is, if Redhat (mine is Linux Mandrake - Redhat + KDE) systems are no different than other systems then the documentation would be written slightly differently. For example: The /var/qmail/doc/INSTALL file says: 16. Set up qmail-smtpd in

Re: qmail/dns resolution

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Adam Rothschild wrote: Lame question time... qmail stopped delivering outbound mail, and is echoing error messages like this: Jun 19 09:26:08 fromagerie qmail: 929798768.674689 delivery 1307: deferral: Sorry,_I_couldn't_find_any_host_by_that_name._(#4.1.2)/ However, all the

Re: qmail/dns resolution

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 03:02:46PM +, Mikko Hyvarinen wrote: chmod o+r /etc/resolv.conf maybe? Already done. -a

Re: Newbie Question - Please Read!

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Alex Miller wrote: When I did the RPM install, it works, I can recieve mail, but nowhere in my /etc/inetd.conf is SMTP configured. Aha. That's because you're using the memphis RPM which controls qmail from... However, in /etc/rc.d/init.d there are several new files which are not

Re: Pine, Mutt, and Maildir

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
I used mutt with a large (1500 message) mailbox file once and the performance was way worse than with large maildirs. --Adam - Original Message - From: Scott Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Qmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 19, 1999 2:06 AM Subject: Re: Pine, Mutt, and Maildir

Re: Pine, Mutt, and Maildir

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
"Adam D. McKenna" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I used mutt with a large (1500 message) mailbox file once and the performance | was way worse than with large maildirs. So mutt has two problems, then. Neither bsd mail nor mh has difficulty with much bigger inboxes.

Re: Imap

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
On 19 Jun 1999, Chris Bond wrote: Hi, I've been trying to implement a web based email system using imp. To do this imap is required, I'm currenting using 4.6BETA (4.5 does the same tho) with the maildir patches in the contributed area. I have done exactly this. Well, almost exactly. We

Re: Pine, Mutt, and Maildir

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Maybe, but I wouldn't really compare mutt to either of those.. Those are both low-feature command line mail readers no? mutt is still faster than pine for mbox.. and it handles maildir format (much) faster than mbox. --Adam - Original Message - From: Scott Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pine, Mutt, and Maildir

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Warning Could not process message with given Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=STPqjqpCrtky8aYs; micalg=pgp-md5;protocol="application/pgp-signature"

The Maildir format

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Warning Could not process message with given Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=GV0iVqYguTV4Q9ER; micalg=pgp-md5;protocol="application/pgp-signature"

Re: Killing qmail - is it safe?

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Warning Could not process message with given Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=IbVRjBtIbJdbeK1C; micalg=pgp-md5;protocol="application/pgp-signature"

Re: Pine, Mutt, and Maildir

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
"Adam D. McKenna" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Maybe, but I wouldn't really compare mutt to either of those.. Those are both | low-feature command line mail readers no? They're high-feature command line readers with high-feature GUI wrappers available.

Quota proposal.

1999-06-19 Thread Sam
For some time I've been racking my brains about various ways to implement Maildir quotas in situations where you cannot use filesystem-based quotas -- such as when you use a virtual domain manager where all Maildirs have the same uid/gid. Before I waste any more time on this, I'm going to wait

Re: The Maildir format

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, where can I read up on the specifics on the Maildir format? That is, an actual specification suitable if you want to programatically manipulate Maildirs. Try 'man maildir' on a qmail-installed system. -- Russ Steffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

qmail problem

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
I' ve installed RedHat 6 and Qmail. I followed strictly the instructions there and i have some problems with ~alias/ directory permissions and .qmail files in there. Some files in bin/ were installed with root owner. Is this okay? I can't manage to do a thing with the ~alias directory. i

RE: qmail problem

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
The user you want to be to set up the qmail files is alias Assuming you have created an alias user (and all the other required qmail users) su alias cd alias touch .qmail-postmaster touch .qmail-mailer-daemon touch .qmail-root If you decide to use Maildirs eventually each of those

Re: Quota proposal.

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
QMAIL-LDAP has native quota support that works very well, it could easily be stripped out and used stand-alone. Sam writes... For some time I've been racking my brains about various ways to implement Maildir quotas in situations where you cannot use filesystem-based quotas -- such as when you

Web Based E-Mail

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
I am looking for suggestion on an open-source Web based e-mail system. TIA -Gentry- GarfNet Internet Service Provider

Re: Web Based E-Mail

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Check out SQwebmail. It's working great for us. http://www.inter7.com/sqwebmail/ At 05:37 PM 6/19/99 , you wrote: I am looking for suggestion on an open-source Web based e-mail system. TIA -Gentry- GarfNet Internet Service Provider Robbie Walker

RE: Web Based E-Mail

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
If you want a serious web-based solution to anything, start with the robust. Go to www.php.net PHP is a server-side scripting language that, among many other things, can talk to a wide variety of databases. Unlike iHTML, or Allaire's Cold Fusion, or ASP, it is open-source, and I would say far

RE: Web Based E-Mail

1999-06-19 Thread Chris Bond
IMP is wrote completely with PHP, but can use mysql and other databases as a backend for perferences and contact lists. Chris Quoting Alex Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you want a serious web-based solution to anything, start with the robust. Go to www.php.net PHP is a server-side

Re: qmail problem

1999-06-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Alex Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Assuming you have created an alias user (and all the other required qmail users) su alias cd alias touch .qmail-postmaster touch .qmail-mailer-daemon touch .qmail-root It works just fine to have root own the files in ~alias. Ironically, I have

ANNOUNCE: imap-maildir

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
ANNOUNCE: imap-maildir imap-maildir: production quality UW-imap server Maildir support http://www.davideous.com/imap-maildir/ Quick Summary: The University of Wisconsin IMAP server by Mark Crispin, one of the most popular IMAP servers, does not have built-in Maildir support. There is a patch

imap with single-uid setup? (was: ANNOUNCE: imap-maildir)

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Hi! "David" == David Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David up a few issues and make the UW-IMAP server fully workable David with Maildirs and qmail. Would it be possible to imap with a single-uid pop3 setup? We would like to use IMP on a mailserver running this setup, but I can't

RE: imap with single-uid setup? (was: ANNOUNCE: imap-maildir)

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Yes, it's possible. But it's not very simple as the IMAP server was not setup to have a new authentication method just plug in cleanly like the qmail-pop3d setup. You also have to deal with the fact that the IMAP server is happy to allow the user to open folders not in their home directory, but