checkpassword

1999-08-14 Thread Maria Zevenhoven
What is the most standard checkpassword - program? I get to this www.qmail.org and follow links from there, and I only get to a page with many different options, which all seem very complicated and unstandard. I tried a few, with no results.      -Maria

qmail Digest 14 Aug 1999 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 728

1999-08-14 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 14 Aug 1999 10:00:01 - Issue 728 Topics (messages 28938 through 28989): Vs: one more newbie-question 28938 by: Mirko Zeibig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qmail+AMaVis 28939 by: "Mats Haglund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> forward question. 28940 by: Anand Buddhdev <[EMAIL

Re: binaries

1999-08-14 Thread Mate Wierdl
Yes, the new qmail and qmail-run rpms are dropin replacements for the "memphis" rpm. qmail-run is Dan's naming for such a package. And indeed, qmail-init is not entirely appropriate, since the package sets up other things as well (like links to sendmail). I still do not know what option to rpm

Re: checkpassword

1999-08-14 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 12:13:21PM +0200, Maria Zevenhoven wrote: > What is the most standard checkpassword - program? The qmail author's checkpassword, which checks just system accounts, is at ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/software/checkpassword-0.81.tar.gz. > I get to this www.qmail.org and f

Re: binaries

1999-08-14 Thread Kevin Waterson
Mate Wierdl wrote: > Yes, the new qmail and qmail-run rpms are dropin replacements for the > "memphis" rpm. qmail-run is Dan's naming for such a package. And indeed, > qmail-init is not entirely appropriate, since the package sets up other > things as well (like links to sendmail). Where can I

maybe I posted wrong my question

1999-08-14 Thread Abel Lucano
Hi all How can I deny or limit or prevent hundreds of small messages delivered to an single Mailbox? This mailbombing could (or not) been sent from a valid email address: i can put this address in control/badmailfrom but this action always is taken after the damage. I'm running qmail-1.03 wit

Re: Maildir filename in .qmail file

1999-08-14 Thread Timothy L. Mayo
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, James W. Blackwell wrote: > Greetings, > > I need to be able to access the filename (ie, > 934495102.12993.qmail:2,) of the message just saved from within > a perl script launched by the .qmail-[username] file. > > I see there are several environmental variables that are

Maildir filename in .qmail file

1999-08-14 Thread James W. Blackwell
Greetings, I need to be able to access the filename (ie, 934495102.12993.qmail:2,) of the message just saved from within a perl script launched by the .qmail-[username] file. I see there are several environmental variables that are set in the shell, but not for the filename. Any help would

Re: Maildir filename in .qmail file

1999-08-14 Thread James W. Blackwell
Then is there any way to tell what this file is going to be called once it is delivered? There's got to be some mechanism for doing this. If the first line of my .qmail file is vdelivermail, and the second line runs the perl script, I would assume that it has already been delivered by the ti

Re: Maildir filename in .qmail file

1999-08-14 Thread Timothy L. Mayo
What is your perl script trying to do? Taking a first guess, I would say either have your perl script perform the final delivery or modify vdelivermail to do the post processing you require. On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, James W. Blackwell wrote: > Then is there any way to tell what this file is going t

Re: Maildir filename in .qmail file

1999-08-14 Thread James W. Blackwell
Some of our users strictly use our web frontend for reading their mail. This works pretty well, but it's slow having to communicate with the POP server when the user is trying to move around. What I'm doing is to parse out the mime parts of the message and store them along with header informa

Re: Maildir filename in .qmail file

1999-08-14 Thread Timothy L. Mayo
Your script is getting the email message on standard input. Why not just parse that and put it where you want it? On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, James W. Blackwell wrote: > Some of our users strictly use our web frontend for reading their > mail. This works pretty well, but it's slow having to communic

Re: Help!

1999-08-14 Thread Martin Paulucci
Hi Ken, > Look at your file /var/qmail/rc > > My guess is that file starts qmail with Mailbox format. > change ./Mailbox to ./Maildir/ and everything should work. Thanks, I will change it on monday. Can I ask you something else?. I'm using the vchkpw and the thing is that when I try to admin

Binaries for Solaris SPARC 2.6

1999-08-14 Thread Martin Paulucci
Hi everybody, Me again, sorry for the mess.I've compiled the qmail with the Sparccompiler 3.01 (from Sun) and sometimes it hangs and dissapears. I would like to try other set of binaries (maybe compiled with other compiler). Can somebody tell me where can I get them?. Or at least give me a wa

Re: Maildir filename in .qmail file

1999-08-14 Thread James W. Blackwell
This worked great. Thanks. while () did the trick! --James -- ASCII Ribbon campaign against HTML E-Mail / \ load "linux",8,1 Date sent: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 14:35:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "Timothy L. Mayo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

IMAP drivers with helper indexes databases (was RE: Inode/file limits)

1999-08-14 Thread David Harris
Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > My webmail CGI creates a cache file that stores the headers of all the > messages in the Maildir. The cache file gets automatically rebuilt when > new messages arrive. I compare the timestamps to figure out when I need > to rebuild the cache file. Works

bounced email

1999-08-14 Thread Sienna
When someone sends an email to an invalid address, it's getting bounced back to us and we are getting a lot of email link this. What do you all do with them? Is there any way to set up an auto reply that sends the message back to the sender with a message saying it was undeliverable? Thanks, Si

Re: IMAP drivers with helper indexes databases (was RE: Inode/filelimits)

1999-08-14 Thread Sam
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, David Harris wrote: > This is the way to do it. I'm concerned that the IMAP Maildir driver does not > store any kind of database like this, so it has to scan all of the files to > produce summary information. The method you are taking of storing a helper > index is the way to

Re: bounced email

1999-08-14 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 04:12:16PM -0400, Sienna wrote: > When someone sends an email to an invalid address, it's getting bounced back > to us and we are getting a lot of email link this. What do you all do with > them? Is there any way to set up an auto reply that sends the message back > to th

Re: IMAP drivers with helper indexes databases (was RE: Inode/filelimits)

1999-08-14 Thread Russell Nelson
Sam writes: > On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, David Harris wrote: > > > This is the way to do it. I'm concerned that the IMAP Maildir driver does not > > store any kind of database like this, so it has to scan all of the files to > > produce summary information. The method you are taking of storing a h

RE: IMAP drivers with helper indexes databases (was RE: Inode/filelimits)

1999-08-14 Thread David Harris
Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > I don't use IMAP and I've looked inside c-client only briefly, on a couple > of occasions. Currently, it scales to about a 1,000 messages per folder > or INBOX, before it starts to slow down and eat memory. This is > reasonable for a webmail CGI, but for

DNS 8.2.1 installed

1999-08-14 Thread Bill Parker
hello again, Thanks to the help of some guys on here and IRC, I have installed bind 8.2.1 from a tarball which I got from isc.org, now I am ready to try to implement a caching DNS server, it appears to be working, now I have a question, since I used the DNS How-to on the sunsite page (I c

Re: DNS 8.2.1 installed

1999-08-14 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 12:52:55PM -0700, Bill Parker wrote: > Thanks to the help of some guys on here and IRC, I have installed bind 8.2.1 > from a tarball which I got from isc.org, now I am ready to try to implement a > caching DNS server, it appears to be working, now I have a question, since I

RE: IMAP drivers with helper indexes databases (was RE: Inode/filelimits)

1999-08-14 Thread Sam
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, David Harris wrote: > Okay. Lets assume we've got some kind of database backend for the index file > where we can add, remove, and modify records. How exactly would one keep it in > sync with the Maildir? I guess each time you would have to compare the messages > in the maild

Re: binaries

1999-08-14 Thread Ira Abramov
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Mate Wierdl wrote: > I still do not know what option to rpm you are talking about that would allow > patches to be applied on the fly. I doubt that is possible: some patches do > not use the %patch macro. > welp, I saw it once and I can't remember the syntax. the basic ma

Re: bounced email

1999-08-14 Thread Sienna
Well, actually; I have a user we will call [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have in .qmail-alias myself set up to receive all undeliverable mail. When someone send s mail to say [EMAIL PROTECTED], I get it. What I want to do is for me to get it buit also the user that sent it to get a message such as "No s