qmail Digest 20 Aug 1999 10:00:00 -0000 Issue 734

1999-08-20 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 20 Aug 1999 10:00:00 - Issue 734 Topics (messages 29199 through 29260): Setting maximum attachment sizes 29199 by: "Bongo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 29201 by: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IMAP, PAM... and the home directory? 29200 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mail Filter of my own

1999-08-20 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Samar Vijay wrote: > I am thinking of writing a Mail Filter of my own. Can I use the CDB file that Qmail >uses for user authentication? > Is there any API dicumented ot something? What and Why do you want to authenticate in a mail filter? Is it an outgoing and/or incoming m

Qmail and IMAP

1999-08-20 Thread Bongo
I am running qmail with David Summers qmail-imap Linux RPM.   Although pop-3 connections work fine, users connecting with IMAP sends the imapd process anywhere between 40 and 100% for around 30 seconds, before they get delivery of their Inbox (or any other folder)   The server is a PII 400 w

Viewing cyclog logs

1999-08-20 Thread Ira Abramov
I had this idea... > in my free time (in a month? :-) I want to start working on a log > reviewing tool for cyclog. right now it's very inconveniant to run less on > a random logfile, since the filename changes once in a while, plus the > time stamps are not human readable. an interface to read

Re: daemontools binaries

1999-08-20 Thread Mate Wierdl
I just extend the fairly clearly described qmail license to the other djb products: a binary distribution which installs the same as if it was compiled (unpatched) from the tarball, and it behaves the same can be distributed w/o getting djb's personal permission. I do not see any problem Kevin

tcpserver not (sys)logging on redhat-5.2

1999-08-20 Thread torben fjerdingstad
Using redhat-5.2/linux and qmail-1.03-2, I have added some rblsmtpd's to the startup script /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail which now says: echo -n "Starting qmail: " /var/qmail/start-qmail & /usr/sbin/tcpserver -u 72 -g 201 0 smtp \ /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -rrelays.radparker.co

Re: Copy of all messages from host xxxx

1999-08-20 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 11:22:51AM +, Alain Cocconi wrote: See FAQ #5.5 from the qmail docs. It talk about a broken client, but it works for any client, and you can do whatever you like with the message, including keep a copy. > Hello, > > I'm searching a .qmail-default configuration for ke

Re: tcpserver not (sys)logging on redhat-5.2

1999-08-20 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 03:20:49PM +0200, torben fjerdingstad wrote: > Using redhat-5.2/linux and qmail-1.03-2, I have added some > rblsmtpd's to the startup script /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail which now says: > >echo -n "Starting qmail: " > /var/qmail/start-qmail & > /usr/sbin/tcp

fastforward and location of aliases file

1999-08-20 Thread Steve Tylock
(I used qmail for my tiny site within Kodak 3 years ago, and have just converted my new employer (~200 accounts) to it...) We have an automated environment where an LDAP server is the key data repository. Users manage aliases and forwarding through a web page. With sendmail, a backend took the d

Re: Mail Filter of my own

1999-08-20 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Samar Vijay wrote: > - Original Message - > From: Magnus Bodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Samar Vijay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: QMAIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 11:12 AM > Subject: Re: Mail Filter of my own > > > > On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Samar V

User Based Forwarding

1999-08-20 Thread Amit Vadehra
Hi,     I need to implement user based Email forwarding. This essentially means that i can have multiple users on one particular domain. There might be [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Both these users physically sit at different places say one is in London and one in New York. Now

Re: User Based Forwarding

1999-08-20 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 08:38:42PM +0530, Amit Vadehra wrote: > I need to implement user based Email forwarding. This essentially means that > i can have multiple users on one particular domain. There might be > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Both these users physically sit at > differe

Re: fastforward and location of aliases file

1999-08-20 Thread Mirko Zeibig
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 10:21:42AM -0400, Steve Tylock wrote: > (I used qmail for my tiny site within Kodak 3 years ago, and have > just converted my new employer (~200 accounts) to it...) > > We have an automated environment where an LDAP server is the key data > repository. Users manage aliase

Re: daemontools binaries (was Re: binaries)

1999-08-20 Thread Greg Hudson
> the daemontools binaries are included, they are, like all DJB > software other than Qmail itself, under PD (not GPL). Public domain would mean you can do anything you want with it. You can't; in particular, you are not allowed to distribute derivative works other than precompiled var-qmail pac

RE: fastforward and location of aliases file

1999-08-20 Thread David Harris
Steve Tylock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: [[snip]] > I have fastforward, and have modified most of the backend to work > with ~user/.qmail, and still run the rest out of /etc/aliases. > > I'd like this backend to work as a user other than root, but > newaliases requires the file /etc/aliases

pine patches

1999-08-20 Thread Mate Wierdl
If you want, I can extract the patches from the src rpm for you. What you wrote about patches and nonprogrammers was exactly my point; for nonprogrammers (and I assume many mail administrators may not be), it is hard to figure out which patches they need to get for what they want. www.qmail.org

Re: daemontools binaries (was Re: binaries)

1999-08-20 Thread Russell Nelson
Kevin Waterson writes: > Ira Abramov wrote: > > > readme files in the packages or on DJB's site. Russ? could there be a > > little note about licensing on qmail.org? it's very confusing to a lot of > > people, especially now that GPL is in the news, it should be strictly > > mentioned on th

Re: POP takes >20sec to connect ???

1999-08-20 Thread Bill Parker
At 03:54 PM 8/19/99 -0500, you wrote: >> When connecting to my pop server, it takes between 20-30 seconds to >> connect. After connecting, everything is fast. I have tested my client >> with pop servers on other machines and I don't experience this delay (i.e. >> it is a server problem). > >run

RE: pine patches

1999-08-20 Thread Soffen, Matthew
Actually the mail administrator MAY be a non-programmer. (in fact where I work, our postmaster is a tech / system maint person). And I bet that this is more the norm, than an exception. Matt > -Original Message- > From: Mate Wierdl [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 20, 1

Re: pine patches

1999-08-20 Thread James Smallacombe
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 11:25:57AM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote: : If you want, I can extract the patches from the src rpm for you. I didn't see an SRPM anywhere...if I had I would have extracted it on my Linux box, but I sure appreciate it :) : What you wrote about patches and nonprogrammers was ex

Re: daemontools binaries (was Re: binaries)

1999-08-20 Thread Dave Sill
Greg Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ira Abramov wrote: >> >> the daemontools binaries are included, they are, like all DJB >> software other than Qmail itself, under PD (not GPL). > >Public domain would mean you can do anything you want with it. You >can't; in particular, you are not allowed

Re: pine patches

1999-08-20 Thread Dave Sill
James Smallacombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >For sure. In the past 3+ years I've been running qmail, Sendmail's gotten >a whole lot better, both from a security standpoint, and an ease of >configuration standpoint. 1) Lack of reported vulnerabilities <> more secure. 2) Sendmail's performance

Re: pine patches

1999-08-20 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 20 August 1999 at 15:51:59 -0400 > James Smallacombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >For sure. In the past 3+ years I've been running qmail, Sendmail's gotten > >a whole lot better, both from a security standpoint, and an ease of > >configuration sta

Re: daemontools binaries (was Re: binaries)

1999-08-20 Thread Greg Hudson
> For *qmail*. See the Subject of this message. Yeah, sorry about that. Some of the reasoning in my message remains valid (lack of a license is not an indication of public domain status), but of course the specific facts were irrelevant.

Re: pine patches

1999-08-20 Thread Chris Garrigues
> From: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 15:51:59 -0400 (EDT) > > 2) Sendmail's performance still lags far behind current-generation >MTA's. ...and will continue to as long as it runs that stupid rule based system to rewrite addresses that don't need to be rewritten.

How do I unsubscribe

1999-08-20 Thread Diego Puertas
Sorry to ask this but I've lost the subscription mail and can't find instructions on the web page. I just don't have time to read all this mail. Thanks

Re: pine patches

1999-08-20 Thread Russell Nelson
James Smallacombe writes: > For sure. In the past 3+ years I've been running qmail, Sendmail's gotten > a whole lot better, both from a security standpoint, and an ease of > configuration standpoint. If qmail is going to remain a desirable > alternative, it has to move forward as well. DJB'

recommended pltform?

1999-08-20 Thread Lyndon Griffin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there a recommended platform for running QMail - hardware and software? I'm looking at needing to push out up to 3mm emails a day, and -so far- I'm not seeing the performance that I think I should be. Thanks in advance, <:)  Lyndon Griffin Syste

Re: recommended pltform?

1999-08-20 Thread Russell Nelson
Lyndon Griffin writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Is there a recommended platform for running QMail - hardware and > software? I'm looking at needing to push out up to 3mm emails a day, > and -so far- I'm not seeing the performance that I think I should be. I've

RE: recommended pltform?

1999-08-20 Thread Lyndon Griffin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That's what I've heard, as well... My problem is getting past 100k / day / host. I seem to be at that roadblock. No matter what I try: fd limits, patches, different injection methods, one big-ass-pipe to the internet... BTW, I have several of the

Re: How do I unsubscribe

1999-08-20 Thread Ludwig Pummer
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Diego Puertas wrote: > Sorry to ask this but I've lost the subscription mail and can't find > instructions on the web page. Every message sent from the list has a header called 'Mailing-List' which tells you to contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for help. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the un

Re: recommended pltform?

1999-08-20 Thread Peter C. Norton
It's called the "run away from IDE" code. The disk system in a U10 is pathetic as an email server. -Peter On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 04:24:38PM -0700, Lyndon Griffin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > That's what I've heard, as well... My problem is getting past 100k /

Opinions on a mail filter?

1999-08-20 Thread Mark E. Drummond
I have the following setup. Currently my mail is spooled on my mail hub and I access it using IMAP. I am running qmail locally with delivery to my ~/Maildir/. If I turn on mail fowarding on my mailhub to send mail to my local machine (which is the goal here) all my mail gets stuck in ~/Maildir/. N

Re: Opinions on a mail filter?

1999-08-20 Thread Dave Sill
"Mark E. Drummond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >So everything is set up except for the mail filter and I am wondering >which I should use. I have some experience with procmail but have not >managed to get it to work with qmail. Is there a filter that I can stick >in the pipe that will deliver to

RE: Copy of all messages from host xxxx

1999-08-20 Thread Ben Beuchler
Completely off topic, but I find it interesting that Outlook 98 decided that this particular thread was of an obscene nature and marked it as an "Adult", filtering it into my trash folder... Perhaps Redmond doesn't like any competition for the dreaded Exchange server... -- The phrasing,

Re: Copy of all messages from host xxxx

1999-08-20 Thread James Smallacombe
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 07:38:27PM -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote: : Completely off topic, but I find it interesting that Outlook 98 decided that : this particular thread was of an obscene nature and marked it as an "Adult", : filtering it into my trash folder... : : Perhaps Redmond doesn't like any c

RE: recommended pltform?

1999-08-20 Thread Sam
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Lyndon Griffin wrote: > Ultra 10, single CPU @ 333mHz, 512mb RAM, running Solaris 7 Qmail is a very parallel system. To push the envelope you should throw a bunch of CPUs in there. Also, I'd bump up to as much RAM is you can, which you can use for caching the disk, and,

Re: SQWebMail or IMP?

1999-08-20 Thread Tim Tsai
> http://www.mollymail.com This just uses emumail, which is available free (with advertising). Tim

Re: SQWebMail or IMP?

1999-08-20 Thread Martin Paulucci
Dear Tim, > > http://www.mollymail.com > This just uses emumail, which is available free (with advertising). Oh...gottcha...anyway I'm looking a hotmail kind of webmail...any suggestion??? Best regards, Martin Paulucci http://www.ServiRED.COM [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell Phone: 15-4935-4246 Telepho

qmail-send and the processes it spawns

1999-08-20 Thread Bill Johnson
I'm presently working on a project to place concurrency limits on mails sent by qmail, and I have a few questions 1) Does there exist a method within qmail right now (or a patch to qmail) that will enable me to limit the number of sockets qmail-send and associates will open to a given IP during a

Re: daemontools binaries (was Re: binaries)

1999-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the daemontools binaries are included, they are, like all DJB software > other than Qmail itself, under PD (not GPL). I'm fairly sure that Dan's software is not in the public domain. It requires a specific and explicit statement by the author to place s

Re: recommended pltform?

1999-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Lyndon Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ultra 10, single CPU @ 333mHz, 512mb RAM, running Solaris 7 An Ultra 10 is a pathetically low-performance low-end server in my experience, particularly for disk-intensive applications distributed across multiple disks. Go to an Ultra 2 with SCSI disk