Bare LF and zombie processes

1999-08-04 Thread Ferhat Doruk
Hi people, I have two questions; After some our client's Bare LF problem, I used fixcr according to DJB's suggestion and I started qmail-smtpd process by using a command like this: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 200 -u 82 -g 81 0 smtp \ sh -c

qmail doesn't deliver mail

1999-08-04 Thread Bernat Ginard
Hi all, I've installed qmail, and I can send mail to remote servers, but I can't send mail to local users: I have configured it to send the mail to ~/Maildir. It doesn't writte error messages to the log and nevertheless return the message to the sender, it simply disapears. I suppose the

qmail Digest 4 Aug 1999 10:00:00 -0000 Issue 718

1999-08-04 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 4 Aug 1999 10:00:00 - Issue 718 Topics (messages 28488 through 28543): unable to exec qq 28488 by: Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28489 by: "Petr Novotny" [EMAIL PROTECTED] tcprules: fatal 28490 by: Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED] tcpserver unable to bind

Re: Qmail UCE Virtualdomains

1999-08-04 Thread Robert Varga
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Nguyen Dang Phuoc Dong wrote: 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 First probable

Re: question on AUTOTURN

1999-08-04 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 08:52:56AM +0800, Goh Sek Chye wrote: Lets say one of my existing ISDN customer has the following MX records: customer.com IN MX 10 mx1.customer.com(customer mail server) customer.com IN MX 20 mx2.customer.com(customer mail server) customer.com IN MX

RE: mail volume

1999-08-04 Thread Pieckiel, Kevin A
How do you increase the fd limit? I know that on a login shell, I can use ulimit to change certain limits for the current login and any child processes, but how on earth do you change that for a daemon that runs at startup and in the background? Kevin -Original Message- From: David

Re: mail volume

1999-08-04 Thread Dave Sill
Daemeon Reiydelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Going out on a limb, my guess would be you could expect 50-100 1000 byte messages per second (or better) outbound with an OC-12, hardware assist, etc. OC-12 is 622 Mbps, or roughly 60 MBps. Say sending a 1k message with SMTP uses 3k bandwidth--that's

RE: mail volume

1999-08-04 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How do you increase the fd limit? I know that on a login shell, I can use ulimit to change certain limits for the current login and any child processes, but how on earth do you change that for a daemon that runs at startup and in the background?

Re: mail volume

1999-08-04 Thread Cris Daniluk
Not necessarily. These messages contain information on stock portfolios. They're consequentially quite large. Plus, a 1k message is easily a 2k message after headers. Plus you neglect to consider the time it takes to establish the connection, resolve the domains, and have an ident request sent

RE: tcpserver/checkpassword

1999-08-04 Thread Dave Sill
"Alvaro Escobar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made the same mistake. When we read Live with qmail of Dave Sill, we see checkpasswd. But the correct form is checkpassword. That's been fixed for some time, now. -Dave

RE: mail volume

1999-08-04 Thread Pieckiel, Kevin A
Even though I don't have a file called /proc/sys/kernel/file-max? I don't know much of anything about the proc filesystem. Please, tell me how you are privvy to that information. I have been looking for that (and other similar) info for a while now, and it's nowhere to be found in the linux

Re: mail volume

1999-08-04 Thread Dave Sill
"Cris Daniluk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not necessarily. These messages contain information on stock portfolios. They're consequentially quite large. Plus, a 1k message is easily a 2k message after headers. The assumption was OC-12 and 1k messages. My point was that even at T3/1k messages,

RE: mail volume

1999-08-04 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Let's move to private mail - this is linux-related and not qmail- related. Even though I don't have a file called /proc/sys/kernel/file-max? You don't? Are you using Linux? :-) Which version? Which kernel? (uname -a) I don't know much of

Re: qmail doesn't deliver mail

1999-08-04 Thread Dave Sill
Bernat Ginard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed qmail, and I can send mail to remote servers, but I can't send mail to local users: I have configured it to send the mail to ~/Maildir. It doesn't writte error messages to the log and nevertheless return the message to the sender, it simply

Thanking Dave Sill

1999-08-04 Thread Russell Nelson
Dave Sill writes: What do your logs say? I want to take a moment to publicly thank Dave Sill. He's been *the* man on the spot for qmail users, both with his Living With Qmail document and asking the right questions of users who have a problem. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bare LF and zombie processes

1999-08-04 Thread Dave Sill
Ferhat Doruk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After some our client's Bare LF problem, I used fixcr according to DJB's suggestion and I started qmail-smtpd process by using a command like this: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 200 -u 82 -g 81 0 smtp \ sh -c

RE: Thanking Dave Sill

1999-08-04 Thread Van Liedekerke Franky
I totally agree on this! Franky -- From: Russell Nelson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 3:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Thanking Dave Sill Dave Sill writes: What do your logs say? I want to take a moment to publicly

RE: Thanking Dave Sill

1999-08-04 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Van Liedekerke Franky wrote: I totally agree on this! Ditto! Vince. Franky -- From: Russell Nelson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 3:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Thanking Dave Sill Dave

Thanking Russ Nelson (was: Thanking Dave Sill)

1999-08-04 Thread Dave Sill
Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to take a moment to publicly thank Dave Sill. He's been *the* man on the spot for qmail users, both with his Living With Qmail document and asking the right questions of users who have a problem. Russ, you're too kind. For four years you've been

OT, quitting mailsubj from within a script

1999-08-04 Thread Eric Dahnke
Hello List, We have the following script on our mailserver to catch telnet attempts: #!/bin/sh logger "WARNING!!! Somebody wants to log into the system!!!" /var/qmail/bin/mailsubj "Login attempt at Mail Server!" [EMAIL

Re: OT, quitting mailsubj from within a script

1999-08-04 Thread Jim Arnott
Try : echo | /var/qmail/bin/mailsubj "Login attempt at Mail Server!" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -jim Hello List, We have the following script on our mailserver to catch telnet attempts: #!/bin/sh logger "WARNING!!!

Re: qmail and procmail

1999-08-04 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im fishing for suggestions for my qmail box at home. I'm trying to get rid of spam and have installed the rblsmtp program to help.. What I'd like to also do is learn how to filter stuff thats not specifically addressed to me with procmail. Looking at Dave Sill's

RE: mail volume

1999-08-04 Thread David Villeger
At 08:56 AM 8/4/99 -0400, Pieckiel, Kevin A wrote: How do you increase the fd limit? I know that on a login shell, I can use ulimit to change certain limits for the current login and any child processes, but how on earth do you change that for a daemon that runs at startup and in the background?

Re: Thanking Dave Sill

1999-08-04 Thread Brad Shelton
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 09:25:48AM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: Dave Sill writes: What do your logs say? I want to take a moment to publicly thank Dave Sill. He's been *the* man on the spot for qmail users, both with his Living With Qmail document and asking the right questions of users

Re: qmail and procmail

1999-08-04 Thread vogelke
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 12:49:56 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: J What I'd like to also do is learn how to filter stuff thats not J specifically addressed to me with procmail. I've included a small .procmailrc file which does that below. You can add additional checks, and then make your

Qmail PMDF on a SPARC 450 under Sol 7

1999-08-04 Thread David McCall
anyone done it? does it work? any comments? thanks ahead of time dmc

Re: qmail and procmail

1999-08-04 Thread Sam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Should I try to get procmail to work or would maildrop be a lot easier? And if maildrop would be the preferred method, does anyone have any rules for for blocking things not specifically addressed to the local user (i.e.

can 'alias' run programs?

1999-08-04 Thread Brian Reichert
I must be utterly misunderstanding the documentation. I"m trying to create a system-wide alias to catch pager requests. So, I created: # cat ~alias/.qmail-page | /usr/local/bin/sendpage -B -S -c Subject: -f "$EXT" # ls -l ~alias/.qmail-page -rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 84 Aug 4 19:55

Re: question on AUTOTURN

1999-08-04 Thread Goh Sek Chye
Hi! Thanks for your suggestion. I have a question though: in the startup script: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -v -u 1003 -g 1002 0 smtp \ /bin/sh -c ' /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd cd /var/qmail/autoturn exec /usr/local/bin/setlock -nx $TCPREMOTEIP/seriallock \

qmail-newu: fatal: bad format in users/assign

1999-08-04 Thread Nguyen Dang Phuoc Dong
I installed Qmail 1.03 + UCE patch + Maildrop filter 4 month ago. I'm feel very happy because anything well. Now we have a branch office, and I intend to use e-mail offline service. I'd downloaded and installed serialmail. Follow the instructions described in FROMISP and TOISP, I'd set up a

Re: qmail-newu: fatal: bad format in users/assign

1999-08-04 Thread Goh Sek Chye
# into /var/qmail/control/assign. (in my case, 202 = qmaild UID, 201 = #nofiles GID) # #Then I run qmail-newu and it says "qmail-newu: fatal: bad format in #users/assign". Make sure your last line in users/assign file ends with a line with only a dot like this: . # #I had read the qmail-users,

Re: mail volume

1999-08-04 Thread Daemeon Reiydelle
"Pieckiel, Kevin A" wrote: How do you increase the fd limit? I know that on a login shell, I can use ulimit to change certain limits for the current login and any child processes, but how on earth do you change that for a daemon that runs at startup and in the background? The parameter

Re: can 'alias' run programs?

1999-08-04 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 08:15:06PM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote: I must be utterly misunderstanding the documentation. I"m trying to create a system-wide alias to catch pager requests. So, I created: # cat ~alias/.qmail-page | /usr/local/bin/sendpage -B -S -c Subject: -f "$EXT"

Re: mail volume

1999-08-04 Thread richard
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Daemeon Reiydelle wrote: (2.6 or later). There may be limitations within e.g. qmail-[lr]spawn about how many children it can manage. I am not working with that code right know so I don't know. Anyone? This is what people have been trying to say -- the protocol between

Re: mail volume

1999-08-04 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Daemeon Reiydelle wrote: (2.6 or later). There may be limitations within e.g. qmail-[lr]spawn about how many children it can manage. I am not working with that code right know so I don't know. Anyone?

Re: qmail-newu: fatal: bad format in users/assign

1999-08-04 Thread Nguyen Dang Phuoc Dong
Hello, +AD4-Make sure your last line in users/assign file ends with a line with only a +AD4-dot like this: +AD4-. +AD4- Exactly+ACE- Thank you very much. It's not qmail problem. I didn't read the qmail-users manual page carefully. I'm terribly sorry, :-) Best regards, Dong

spanning lines in .qmail

1999-08-04 Thread Adam D . McKenna
if I make a .qmail file that looks like this: | echo "Dear $SENDER, Thank You for joining our e-newsletter. This e-mail is a confirmation that you have been added to our e-newsletter mailing list. " | MAILNAME="Flounder.net autoresponder" qmail-inject $SENDER qmail says: 933825055.140515

Re: spanning lines in .qmail

1999-08-04 Thread Paul Farber
try adding \ at the end of each line. Paul D. Farber II Farber Technology Ph. 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Adam D . McKenna wrote: if I make a .qmail file that looks like this: | echo "Dear $SENDER, Thank You for joining our e-newsletter. This e-mail

Re: spanning lines in .qmail

1999-08-04 Thread Adam D . McKenna
never mind, I figured it out. the answer was "man echo" --Adam On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 12:11:38AM -0400, Paul Farber wrote: try adding \ at the end of each line. Paul D. Farber II Farber Technology Ph. 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Adam D .

Backward Alias System

1999-08-04 Thread Daniel Callan
Hi all, I know that the archive is full of alias problems but so far I cannot seem to find someone mentioning the simplest (and worst) problem of them all: If an account exists that is the same name as a virtual-domain specific alias (or even any alias for that matter), the account takes

non-existant host - defered?!

1999-08-04 Thread Ira Abramov
I just noticed messages to non-existant hosts (due to typos or whatever) don't get bounced, but instead stay stuck in the queue for the full lifetime (1 week here). any REALLY good reaon for that?

queue problem

1999-08-04 Thread Enrico Mangano
Sorry, but I'm new with serialmail. I have a Debian 2.1 with kernel 2.0.34, qmail 1.03, serialmail 0.75, ucspi_tcp 0.84 and mutt 0.95. I have a problem with serialmail. I created the maildir pppdir with maildirmake in /var/qmail/alias/ and my script to send mails is this: #!/bin/sh

Re: Backward Alias System

1999-08-04 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Daniel Callan wrote: Hi all, I know that the archive is full of alias problems but so far I cannot seem to find someone mentioning the simplest (and worst) problem of them all: If an account exists that is the same name as a virtual-domain specific alias (or even any

Re: mail volume

1999-08-04 Thread Ludwig Pummer
At 07:31 PM 8/4/1999 -0700, Daemeon Reiydelle wrote: In FreeBSD and Linux it probably still does. You will need to read up on kernel tuning parameters. Can't have someone thinking unfavorably of FreeBSD, now can I? (don't bother responding to that, I know that wasn't your intention) toy#

Re: question on AUTOTURN

1999-08-04 Thread
In order to invoke maildirsmtp, you have to know the host, the prefix, and the dir. The AUTOTURN file describes a method in which all these things are obtained from $TCPREMOTEIP. You can do it any other way. For your case, I would do it this way. In virtualdomains: virt.dom:autoturn-username