Re: M$ Exchange - qmail

1999-08-03 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If I am [EMAIL PROTECTED], and I want to get all mail for victim.org, what would happen in the following scenario: I have root privliges for attacker.org, and for the purpose of attack I will accept mail destined for victim.org. I issue an

qmail Digest 3 Aug 1999 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 717

1999-08-03 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 3 Aug 1999 10:00:01 - Issue 717 Topics (messages 28454 through 28487): Internet draft for VERP 28454 by: "D. J. Bernstein" [EMAIL PROTECTED] M$ Exchange - qmail 28455 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28456 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28459 by: Dave Sill [EMAIL

tcpserver unable to bind

1999-08-03 Thread Paul Farber
Hello all, Still trying to get tcpserver to run two qmail-pop3d's on one machine. The host name is mail.f-tech.net and I have an eth0 (207.44.65.16) and eth0:0 (vmail.f-tech.net 207.44.65.14). .16 is a "real" domain, .14 is for vchkpw and virtual domains. No matter what I do it seems that

mail volume

1999-08-03 Thread Cris Daniluk
I know this question has been asked before, in sometimes quite violent threads, but I'll ask again anyway. We are looking to send high volume bulk emails to customers. The emails will be personalized to each user. Basically we're sending them out specific investment information which they ask

Missing piece of my big-todo patch

1999-08-03 Thread Russell Nelson
Bruce Guenter writes in private email, forwarded with permission: While testing the performance of a big todo directory, I observed that qmail-qstat miscounted the number of messages in the todo directory. The following trivial patch needs to be added to yours. Thanks, Bruce. I've

Re: unable to exec qq

1999-08-03 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bash: ./qmail-queue: Operation not permitted An Alta Vista search on "operation not permitted" yielded lots of hits. It seems to be related to IP firewalls. You might try "strace /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue" to see more detail about where it's failing. -Dave

Re: tcprules: fatal

1999-08-03 Thread Dave Sill
Diana Dewi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody can help me? May be this problem ever ask before, I've got some problem when get mail. I use tcpserver for POP3. And I've got error message : tcprules: fatal: unable to parse this line: 202.155.12.172:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" Where are you seeing this

Re: unable to exec qq

1999-08-03 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You might try "strace /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue" to see more detail about where it's failing. But can you strace a suid binary as a normal user? I think not. The solution I came up with was to strace "setuser user /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue" as

Re: mail volume

1999-08-03 Thread Russell Nelson
Cris Daniluk writes: My question then is, in your honest, semi-unbiased opinions, do you think we would see *significant* results by switching to a qmail environment? You'll be floored by the results, although I would put the queue on its own SCSI drive. Your reaction will be "Why was I

tcpserver/checkpassword

1999-08-03 Thread Bob Ross
I'm running Linux Slackware 2.0.35, I have been running Qmail on three other machines now just over a year. Right now I run Qmail mail from inetd and had been working great. I only wanted to install tcpserver because of the spam filtering I could do with it. I installed Qmail 1.03(tarball), and

Re: tcpserver unable to bind

1999-08-03 Thread Paul Farber
This is what I get. tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used 13255 p1 S0:00 supervise /var/lock/qmail-vpop3d tcpserver -c100 -u0 -g0 207.44.65.14 pop-3 qmail-popup 207.44.65.14 /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw qmail-vpop3d 13307 p1 S0:00 supervise /var/lock/qmail-vpop3d

Re: tcpserver/checkpassword

1999-08-03 Thread Brad Shelton
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 08:54:21AM -0700, Bob Ross wrote: I'm running Linux Slackware 2.0.35, I have been running Qmail on three other machines now just over a year. Right now I run Qmail mail from inetd and had been working great. I only wanted to install tcpserver because of the spam

Re: tcpserver unable to bind

1999-08-03 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 13255 p1 S0:00 supervise /var/lock/qmail-vpop3d tcpserver -c100 -u0 -g0 207.44.65.14 pop-3 qmail-popup 207.44.65.14 /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw qmail-vpop3d 13307 p1 S0:00 supervise /var/lock/qmail-vpop3d tcpserver -c100 -u0 -g0

Re: tcpserver/checkpassword

1999-08-03 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Bob Ross wrote: I'm running Linux Slackware 2.0.35, I have been running Qmail on three other machines now just over a year. Right now I run Qmail mail from inetd and had been working great. I only wanted to install tcpserver because of the spam filtering I could do with

Re: tcpserver/checkpassword

1999-08-03 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm running Linux Slackware 2.0.35, I have been running Qmail on three other machines now just over a year. Right now I run Qmail mail from inetd and had been working great. I only wanted to install tcpserver because of the spam filtering I could

GOT IT! tcpserver unable to bind

1999-08-03 Thread Paul Farber
Dumb mistake.. I only added a the IP to the 2nd instance of pop3d, forgetting the first.. which was still set to bind to all ip's (ie the 0 was still there). Put the hostname on both tcpserver lines and its in there! Thanks for all the helpyou're on the christmas card list! Paul D. Farber

Re: tcpserver/checkpassword

1999-08-03 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are you absolutely sure about that path? Is checkpasswd in /var/qmail/bin or /bin? I don't run it, it just doesn't look right. It's wherever you copy it to. There's not make install in the makefile (or at least there hasn't

tcpserver/password

1999-08-03 Thread Bob Ross
I made a change to the spelling of password thanks for catching that. When I telnet to localhost 110 I get the +OK 110.numbers.domain name then I enter quit to get out. I also found that tcpserver does not start from the rc.local file, I have to run it manually, I did check and rc.local is

Re: mail volume

1999-08-03 Thread Daemeon Reiydelle
I have run test loads on QMAIL inbound delivery (messages were identical 1000 bytes plus 300+ bytes of header) where we exceeding 1200 emails per minute (20 per second) on a single 400Mhz Intel uniprocessor Unix system (I did not increase the lspawn limit from its default). To drive the test we

Re: mail volume

1999-08-03 Thread Dave Sill
Daemeon Reiydelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the bottleneck will be your internet pipe, ... Probably the spool disk, unless you've got multiple boxes flooding the pipe. Either FB or Linux will build qmail with ease and works fine. True, but if one or the other handles 1024 file

Re: mail volume

1999-08-03 Thread richard
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Cris Daniluk wrote: question then is, in your honest, semi-unbiased opinions, do you think we would see *significant* results by switching to a qmail environment? Also, should this be so, which operating system should we be running qmail under? Which is the most "qmail

Bug fix for supervise pipe patch

1999-08-03 Thread Bruce Guenter
Greetings. I just put a revised supervise-pipe patch up at: http://em.ca/~bruceg/rpms/daemontools/supervise-pipe.diff This fixes a bug that would cause supervise to not re-write the status file when exiting after terminating its supervised children (ie, after running "svc -dx") such that

Re: mail volume

1999-08-03 Thread David Villeger
At 02:32 PM 8/3/99 -0400, Dave Sill wrote: Daemeon Reiydelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Either FB or Linux will build qmail with ease and works fine. True, but if one or the other handles 1024 file descriptors so concurrencyremote can go over 256, that would be a major plus since the hardware

Getting qmail

1999-08-03 Thread Sammy Ominsky
Is there anywhere to find the qmail source tarballs besides koobera? Someone seems to have done something bad to the ftp server there. Thanks, ---sambo

RE: Getting qmail

1999-08-03 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On 03-Aug-99 Sammy Ominsky wrote: Is there anywhere to find the qmail source tarballs besides koobera? Someone seems to have done something bad to the ftp server there. Try www/software on koobera. They were moved. Vince. --

Problem with installation.

1999-08-03 Thread Chhabra
Hi ! I am new to qmail and also to Linux admin (somewhat). I am running RH 6.0 on a P-133 machine with 64MB RAM. My scenario is single machine with a dial up TCP IP link with my ISP and multiple users. I wish to map all users to my email address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]); i.e., all non

Re: mail volume

1999-08-03 Thread Dave Sill
David Villeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even with more than 1024 file descriptors, you can't have concurrencyremote go over 256 without patching qmail. You're right, I was confusing two issues: the concurrency remote limit and insufficient file descriptors. Under older Linux kernels, the

Re: Getting qmail

1999-08-03 Thread Russell Nelson
Sammy Ominsky writes: Is there anywhere to find the qmail source tarballs besides koobera? Someone seems to have done something bad to the ftp server there. There's a mirror at ftp://ftp.qmail.org/pub/koobera.math.uic.edu/ which uses a more conventional (translation: insecure) FTP server.

Re: mail volume

1999-08-03 Thread Daemeon Reiydelle
Dave Sill wrote: Daemeon Reiydelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the bottleneck will be your internet pipe, ... Probably the spool disk, unless you've got multiple boxes flooding the pipe. A couple of pieces. Performance tuning any system consists of finding which of a series of

Re: Getting qmail

1999-08-03 Thread Scott D. Yelich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: There's a mirror at ftp://ftp.qmail.org/pub/koobera.math.uic.edu/ which uses a more conventional (translation: insecure) FTP server. What do you mean insecure? What's the deal with DJB's FTP with no LS and crazy

Re: Getting qmail

1999-08-03 Thread Russell Nelson
Scott D. Yelich writes: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: There's a mirror at ftp://ftp.qmail.org/pub/koobera.math.uic.edu/ which uses a more conventional (translation: insecure) FTP server. What do you mean insecure? Dan's

Re: mail volume

1999-08-03 Thread David Villeger
At 03:44 PM 8/3/99 -0400, Dave Sill wrote: David Villeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even with more than 1024 file descriptors, you can't have concurrencyremote go over 256 without patching qmail. You're right, I was confusing two issues: the concurrency remote limit and insufficient file

Re: Getting qmail

1999-08-03 Thread Greg Hudson
Dan's anonftpd chroots itself, and there's no way out. Crackers simply cannot break authentication because there *is* no authentication. Anybody can download only the files in the ftpd directory. Anything else is less secure. But giving Dan's anonftpd the binary label "secure" and

Re: Getting qmail

1999-08-03 Thread Sammy Ominsky
Russ Nelson wrote: There's a mirror at ftp://ftp.qmail.org/pub/koobera.math.uic.edu/ which uses a more conventional (translation: insecure) FTP server. Thankyaverrymuch. Now, questions for the general population: Following the instructions in Life With qmail, I'm at step 2.5.5; Do the

Re: Getting qmail

1999-08-03 Thread Scott D. Yelich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: Dan's anonftpd chroots itself, and there's no way out. Crackers simply cannot break authentication because there *is* no authentication. Anybody can download only the files in the ftpd directory. Anything else

Re: Getting qmail

1999-08-03 Thread Russell Nelson
Greg Hudson writes: Dan's anonftpd chroots itself, and there's no way out. Crackers simply cannot break authentication because there *is* no authentication. Anybody can download only the files in the ftpd directory. Anything else is less secure. But giving Dan's anonftpd the

some mail gets delivered, some doesn't

1999-08-03 Thread Kurt V. Hindenburg
Hello, I'm running qmail with serialmail and the ucspi-tcp program. I likely don't have the aliases/control set up right, but I can recieve mail. However when I try to deliver mail, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Since it's the same command, I can't tell what the difference

Re: Getting qmail

1999-08-03 Thread Scott D. Yelich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: I didn't say anonftpd was secure. I said that the ftp server I'm using was insecure (wuftpd -- check it out on www.rootshell.com), and that by comparison, anonftpd was secure. Everything in the security field is

Re: Can I do this with qmail?

1999-08-03 Thread Fred Lindberg
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 16:40:44 +0200, torben fjerdingstad wrote: 1) Spam_friends support on smtp level not possible. Can be done on a later level which means goodbye to rblsmtpd and hello to a flooded postmaster mailbox. Why not put it on a separate host/IP? Leave that open. Small specific

Re: mail volume

1999-08-03 Thread Cris Daniluk
At 03:44 PM 8/3/99 -0400, Dave Sill wrote: David Villeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even with more than 1024 file descriptors, you can't have concurrencyremote go over 256 without patching qmail. You're right, I was confusing two issues: the concurrency remote limit and insufficient file

RE: tcpserver/checkpassword

1999-08-03 Thread Alvaro Escobar
I'm running Linux Slackware 2.0.35, I have been running Qmail on three other machines now just over a year. Right now I run Qmail mail from inetd and had been working great. I only wanted to install tcpserver because of the spam filtering I could do with it. I installed Qmail

Re: mail volume

1999-08-03 Thread Russell Nelson
Cris Daniluk writes: I was under the impression that the "big" qmail patches by Russell would increase this concurency level above 256. No. The big-todo patch simply hashes the todo directories. It allows you to inject email faster than qmail-send can process it, without creating humongo

Re: Getting qmail

1999-08-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Scott D Yelich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: Dan's anonftpd chroots itself, and there's no way out. Crackers simply cannot break authentication because there *is* no authentication. Anybody can download only the files in the ftpd directory. Anything

Re: mail volume

1999-08-03 Thread Cris Daniluk
[snip] No, although you can run more than one instance of qmail on a machine if it runs into that has a limit. But, can you run 2 instances of qmail sharing the same queue? Or would you have to create 2 separate queues and come up with a distributed method to populate them? Cris

Re: mail volume

1999-08-03 Thread Jaye Mathisen
If you're not going to stripe multiple volumes, why do you need a RAID controller? Any decent OS these days with a UBC will cache as much data as possible, so I would not expect too much more performance from a single drive, and a modern OS. FreeBSD with softupdates would probably work just

Re: mail volume

1999-08-03 Thread johnjohn
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 01:59:43PM -0400, Cris Daniluk wrote: I have to throw in one more question, albeit somewhat off topic, it has definite relevance. We're going to put in a raid controller with a hell of a cache in it (64 mb probably). My question then is, what type of disk configuration

Re: mail volume

1999-08-03 Thread Richard Shetron
Modern OS's also don't know things like drive geometry. Good caching disk controllers do a better job of optimizing disk I/O. We've always seen major improvements in disk I/O with DPT caching controllers over just adding RAM to Linux. The OS has less 'dirty' buffers to track and worry about as

Re: mail volume

1999-08-03 Thread Russell Nelson
Cris Daniluk writes: No, although you can run more than one instance of qmail on a machine if it runs into that has a limit. But, can you run 2 instances of qmail sharing the same queue? Or would you have to create 2 separate queues and come up with a distributed method to populate

Qmail UCE Virtualdomains

1999-08-03 Thread Nguyen Dang Phuoc Dong
Hi all, I'd installed Qmail 1.03 with Qmail-UCE patch. It's working fine except virutal domain not works. I'd already set up a virtual domain as follow: 1. In my DNS virt.domINMX10mail.mycompany.com 2. In control/rcpthosts, I'd aready added the folowing line: virt.dom 3. In

Re: Qmail UCE Virtualdomains

1999-08-03 Thread Sam
Nguyen Dang Phuoc Dong writes: virt.dom: myunixaccount Check to make sure that, in your case, this account's home directory has global read and execute permissions. -- Sam

Re: Qmail UCE Virtualdomains

1999-08-03 Thread Russell Nelson
Nguyen Dang Phuoc Dong writes: Hi all, I'd installed Qmail 1.03 with Qmail-UCE patch. It's working fine except virutal domain not works. I'd already set up a virtual domain as follow: 1. In my DNS virt.domINMX10mail.mycompany.com 2. In control/rcpthosts,

Re: Qmail UCE Virtualdomains

1999-08-03 Thread Nguyen Dang Phuoc Dong
Hello Sam, Yes, it's exactly my problem. Thank you very much+ACE- Best regards, Dong -Original Message- From: Sam +ADw-mrsam+AEA-geocities.com+AD4- Cc: Qmail List +ADw-qmail+AEA-list.cr.yp.to+AD4- Date: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 12:14 PM Subject: Re: Qmail UCE +ACY- Virtualdomains