qmail Digest 10 Aug 1999 10:00:00 -0000 Issue 724

1999-08-10 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 10 Aug 1999 10:00:00 - Issue 724 Topics (messages 28734 through 28787): Qmail newbie POP problem.. 28734 by: "Thomas M. Sasala" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28737 by: Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28743 by: "Thomas M. Sasala" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28744 by:

Re: 20,000 mailboxes...

1999-08-10 Thread Mirko Zeibig
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 11:47:39PM -0400, Robbie Walker wrote: Yeah, hotmail.com is running 20,000 [grin] it seems to work pretty darn well, considering. gmx.de runs qmail as well, which is one of the german (IMHO better) answers to hotmail.com. Once upon a time someone in this list told

Re: Mail Queue Alias

1999-08-10 Thread Andre Oppermann
Waterfront Internet Service wrote: Hi, Is there something that will show me the messages that are in the queue and what their status is? I have run qmail-qstats and it says I have 50 messages in the queue. man qmail-qread -- Andre

assign file

1999-08-10 Thread Ana Belén Santos
I'm using the vchkpw package and I want to know how can I create the file assign so real users can get their mails with pop too. (virtual users can but no real users because I don't have entries for them in the assign file) . How can I do that?? Ana Santos

Re: 20,000 mailboxes...

1999-08-10 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: I was just wondering if anyone is running a qmail server with 20,000 users? And if so, how does it handle and what hardware are you running? One of the biggest swedish ISP:s (algonet) are using qmail for their 5+ users. Solaris, Sun and

Re: 20,000 mailboxes...

1999-08-10 Thread Stanley Horwitz
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: Hi there, I was just wondering if anyone is running a qmail server with 20,000 users? And if so, how does it handle and what hardware are you running? Any help is most appreciated! If I am not mistaken, AOL and Hotmail both run qmail

Re: assign file

1999-08-10 Thread Robbie Walker
man qmail-pw2u man qmail-newu use this file to create an assign file from your password file. Edit this file to remove the unneccessary entries (ftp, nofiles, bin and others) and merge this information into your existing assign file. There should only be one . on a line by itself at the end of

Squashing 20,000 rumors...

1999-08-10 Thread Russell Nelson
Mirko Zeibig writes: Once upon a time someone in this list told (or is it on djb's site?), Redhat would do it's lists with qmail as well. Yes, they used to, but no longer. They had some trouble with qmail, didn't ask for help, and bagged it. Stanley Horwitz writes: If I am not mistaken,

small script for linuxconf

1999-08-10 Thread Mirko Zeibig
Hello, I wrote a small script for userconf (part of linuxconf, the redhat-system-manager), which will update some qmail-entries each time a user is created/deleted. What it'll do: - create/delete a new entry in /var/qmail/users/mailnames to automatically send redirect mail for [EMAIL

queue modification

1999-08-10 Thread David Harris
Hi, I've got a queue full of messages to an SMTP server that is dead. I don't want them all to be bounced, but rather, I want to have these messages sent to another address and thus SMTP server than they are destined. Is there any way to muck with the queue to implement this? I don't mind taking

Re: queue modification

1999-08-10 Thread Jos Backus
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:22:03AM -0400, David Harris wrote: I've got a queue full of messages to an SMTP server that is dead. I don't want them all to be bounced, but rather, I want to have these messages sent to another address and thus SMTP server than they are destined. Is there any way

Re: 20,000 mailboxes...

1999-08-10 Thread Rick McMillin
So how do the ISP's with those large customer bases deal with authentication? What methods do they use? Passwd? LDAP? MySQL? Rick - Original Message - From: Stanley Horwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Marc-Adrian Napoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999

RE: queue modification

1999-08-10 Thread David Harris
Jos Backus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Use an smtproutes entry perhaps, and SIGALRM qmail-send? I thought about that, but I need to change more than just the SMTP server otherwise the old recipient would be rejected by the new SMTP server. This is weird because the recipient of the

RE: Web Mail on Qmail.

1999-08-10 Thread David Harris
Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I presume then you leave your telnet port open on your servers because, after all, it is secure. I presume you never make a mistake programming. You can't have it both ways. If you place the following disclaimer on your SqWebMail site, please don't get

sending a message to all users

1999-08-10 Thread Eric Dahnke
Hello Kind List, I know this has been asked before, but couldn't come up with anything in the archives. This is for a system with about 5000 users. I've got a perl script which will deliver the message to every user on the system who has a Maildir. But can't figure out the best mechanism for

Re: smtp problem with quotes on hostname end of hostname

1999-08-10 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble when using qmail to relay mail via smtp. When I send email to an address like [EMAIL PROTECTED], I get a failire notice which says: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"": Sorry, I couldn't find any host named harmony-ds.com"". (#5.1.2) Note the two quotes on the end

Re: smtp problem with quotes on hostname end of hostname

1999-08-10 Thread Scott Bender
Yep, that was the problem. Is it me, or is the FAQ wrong about setting up relaying with tcpd. It say to put the following in hosts.allow: tcp-env: 1.2.3.4, 1.2.3.5: setenv = RELAYCLIENT This sets the variable "=" to RELAYCLIENT. Am I missing something? I'm just doing "setenv RELAYCLIENT".

RE: sending a message to all users

1999-08-10 Thread David Harris
Jay D. Dyson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I'm generally for kludges in situations like this. (On Solaris) su - cd /export/home echo "" /etc/aliases echo "allusers:" /etc/aliases ls -al |grep drw |grep -v "\." |cut -b54-70 /etc/aliases

Re: 20,000 mailboxes...

1999-08-10 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Rick McMillin wrote: So how do the ISP's with those large customer bases deal with authentication? What methods do they use? Passwd? LDAP? MySQL? At this point (large customer based, complex professional installation) I would definitely consider consulting a

Re: 20,000 mailboxes...

1999-08-10 Thread Ira Abramov
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Magnus Bodin wrote: One of the biggest swedish ISP:s (algonet) are using qmail for their 5+ users. Solaris, Sun and NetWork Appliances hardware. Internet Zahav here in Israel is THE biggest ISP in the country currently... 150k users. we use Qmail for all outgoing mail

Re: queue modification

1999-08-10 Thread richard
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, David Harris wrote: Hi, I've got a queue full of messages to an SMTP server that is dead. I don't want them all to be bounced, but rather, I want to have these messages sent to another address and thus SMTP server than they are destined. Is there any way to muck with

RE: 20,000 mailboxes...

1999-08-10 Thread Van Liedekerke Franky
check out the ldap patch then... -- From: Ira Abramov[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 4:47 PM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 20,000 mailboxes... On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Magnus Bodin wrote: One of the biggest swedish ISP:s

Re: Squashing 20,000 rumors...

1999-08-10 Thread Ira Abramov
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Jeffrey Skelton wrote: What about Critical Path? Do they use qmail - or at least something derived from qmail. Egroups.com both in and out, AFAIK, and ezmlm for the list management (or derivative of)

Re: 20,000 mailboxes...

1999-08-10 Thread Andre Oppermann
Ira Abramov wrote: On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Magnus Bodin wrote: One of the biggest swedish ISP:s (algonet) are using qmail for their 5+ users. Solaris, Sun and NetWork Appliances hardware. Internet Zahav here in Israel is THE biggest ISP in the country currently... 150k users. we use

Re: Squashing 20,000 rumors...

1999-08-10 Thread Andre Oppermann
Jeffrey Skelton wrote: At 09:10 AM 8/10/99 , Russell Nelson wrote: Stanley Horwitz writes: If I am not mistaken, AOL and Hotmail both run qmail and as you probably know, there's something like 4,000,000 AOL users. You might find more info of this nature on the Qmail Web site.

Re: assign file

1999-08-10 Thread Mirko Zeibig
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:00:53AM -0400, Robbie Walker wrote: man qmail-pw2u man qmail-newu use this file to create an assign file from your password file. Edit this file to remove the unneccessary entries (ftp, nofiles, bin and others) and Or include the unneccessary entries in

Re: 20,000 mailboxes...

1999-08-10 Thread Russell Nelson
Magnus Bodin writes: On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Rick McMillin wrote: So how do the ISP's with those large customer bases deal with authentication? What methods do they use? Passwd? LDAP? MySQL? At this point (large customer based, complex professional installation) I would

Re: Squashing 20,000 rumors...

1999-08-10 Thread Sam
Jeffrey Skelton writes: What about Critical Path? Do they use qmail - or at least something derived from qmail. They host a lot of mailboxes. Netzero runs Qmail on their mail servers. However, it appears that they run qmail-smtpd as root... Naughty boys. -- Sam

Re: 20,000 mailboxes...

1999-08-10 Thread Russell Nelson
Ira Abramov writes: High time I switch to a DB instead of a multi-megabyte passwd file. any ideas, ready-made delivery tools? same DB should also authenticate for Radius and pop. non-qmail specific replies will be happily accepted offlist too. On a reasonably fast machine (450Mhz, Fast

Re: Web Mail on Qmail.

1999-08-10 Thread Sam
David Harris writes: Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I presume then you leave your telnet port open on your servers because, after all, it is secure. I presume you never make a mistake programming. You can't have it both ways. If you place the following disclaimer on your

Re: assign file

1999-08-10 Thread Ken Jones
Ana Belén Santos wrote: I'm using the vchkpw package and I want to know how can I create the file assign so real users can get their mails with pop too. (virtual users can but no real users because I don't have entries for them in the assign file) . How can I do that?? Ana Santos

binaries

1999-08-10 Thread Mate Wierdl
var-qmail packages and binary rpms are in ftp://moni.msci.memphis.edu/pub/qmail/var-qmail It is absolutely necessary that you read the README and INSTALL.rpm in that dir. In particular, the var-qmail rpm is named qmail for now since rpm just cannot upgrade properly a package with a different

Re: binaries

1999-08-10 Thread Ira Abramov
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Mate Wierdl wrote: var-qmail packages and binary rpms are in ftp://moni.msci.memphis.edu/pub/qmail/var-qmail Comments are welcome please don't take this the wrong way... but compared to the RPMs I like to use (one directory above it, same FTP site), what are the added

Re: Web Mail on Qmail.

1999-08-10 Thread Thomas M. Sasala
Please take it offline. Thanks. David Harris wrote: Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: If it's good enough for Microsoft, it's good enough for me. If I lifted the exact verbiage from their End User License Agreement (any actual product, pick your favorite), and used it

Re: Web Mail on Qmail.

1999-08-10 Thread Sam
David Harris writes: Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: If it's good enough for Microsoft, it's good enough for me. If I lifted the exact verbiage from their End User License Agreement (any actual product, pick your favorite), and used it instead, would that make you feel more

compile warnings

1999-08-10 Thread Mate Wierdl
When I compile any of the djb software on my RedHat 6.0 system (glibc2, egcs-1.1.2), I get warnings like instcheck.c: In function `main': instcheck.c:103: warning: return type of `main' is not `int' Is there a particular reason why these warnings started to come up? Thx Mate --- Mate Wierdl

Re: compile warnings

1999-08-10 Thread Sam
Mate Wierdl writes: When I compile any of the djb software on my RedHat 6.0 system (glibc2, egcs-1.1.2), I get warnings like instcheck.c: In function `main': instcheck.c:103: warning: return type of `main' is not `int' Is there a particular reason why these warnings started to come up?

Re: compile warnings

1999-08-10 Thread Dustin Marquess
At 04:45 PM 8/10/99 , Mate Wierdl wrote: When I compile any of the djb software on my RedHat 6.0 system (glibc2, egcs-1.1.2), I get warnings like instcheck.c: In function `main': instcheck.c:103: warning: return type of `main' is not `int' Is there a particular reason why these warnings

HOWTO prevent one user from sending

1999-08-10 Thread Mike McLeish
I have an abuser who loves to send tons of email jokes from his account on my machine, but doesn't seem to be reading any! He's an employee, so I can't just disable his account completely. What I'd like to do is prevent him from sending any more email, but allow him to continue to receive email.

Re: HOWTO prevent one user from sending

1999-08-10 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Mike McLeish wrote: I have an abuser who loves to send tons of email jokes from his account on my machine, but doesn't seem to be reading any! He's an employee, so I can't just disable his account completely. What I'd like to do is prevent him from sending any more

Re: HOWTO prevent one user from sending

1999-08-10 Thread Russell Nelson
Mike McLeish writes: I have an abuser who loves to send tons of email jokes from his account on my machine, but doesn't seem to be reading any! He's an employee, so I can't just disable his account completely. What I'd like to do is prevent him from sending any more email, but allow him

[Q] a simple but important question - how often will qmail 're-scan' the queue?

1999-08-10 Thread Silver CHEN
Dear All: I have a simple question, how often will qmail 're-scan' the queue? In sendmail, I can set '-q15m' to let sendmail process mqueue every 15 minutes, but in qmail, how can I achieve this? - I don't want to compare them here, just some example. The man page onlye said it will

Re: [Q] a simple but important question - how often will qmail're-scan' the queue?

1999-08-10 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Silver CHEN wrote: I have a simple question, how often will qmail 're-scan' the queue? In sendmail, I can set '-q15m' to let sendmail process mqueue every 15 minutes, but in qmail, how can I achieve this? - I don't want to compare them here, just some example.