.qmail - deliveries and bounces

1999-09-07 Thread Markus Stumpf
I'm still using qmail-1.01 on that machine. Today I noticed something did (no longer) work, what I thought already did (and I have a few of the emails in my folder dated later than the last modification date of the .qmail file) I want to create a bounce message for accounts of ppl that no longer

Security Issue on qmail

1999-09-07 Thread jackie
Hello, I am a rookie on using qmail, but I can feel the power of it, really amazing. I have several questions about the implementation of qmail. If possible, please give me some advice. Thanks. (1) Anti-relay Issue Any security risk about Mail Relaying? If I really want to get rid of relay, wh

qmail Digest 7 Sep 1999 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 752

1999-09-07 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 7 Sep 1999 10:00:01 - Issue 752 Topics (messages 29874 through 29937): Check the RCPT TO: against 29874 by: "Einar Bordewich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 29885 by: Balazs Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 29891 by: Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 29914 by: "Einar Bordewi

Re: limiting the file size of bounces ?

1999-09-07 Thread Jedi/Sector One
Van Liedekerke Franky wrote: > their is a patch available for limitting bounce sizes. Maybe it is still on > the qmail pages, otherwise search in the mailarchives (someone recently > posted it again). I upchucked the patch at the following URL : http://www.jedi.claranet.fr/qmail-bounce.patch

queue problem

1999-09-07 Thread Enrico Mangano
Hello guys!! 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 think i have a problem with serialmail. I created the maildir pppdir with maildirmake in /var/qmail/alias/ and my script to send emails is this: #!/bin/sh DIR=/var/qmail/alias/pppdir

Re: .qmail - deliveries and bounces

1999-09-07 Thread Robert Varga
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Markus Stumpf wrote: > > ~alias/.qmail-joe: > &[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | (cat /var/qmail/alias/NO-WORKER.TXT; exit 100) > > (which I thought already worked, doesn't any longer) only a bounce > message is delivered. > However if I use > > ~alias/.qmail-joe: > |forward [EMAIL PR

Re: Security Issue on qmail

1999-09-07 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 05:39:15PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I am a rookie on using qmail, but I can feel the power of it, really > amazing. > > I have several questions about the implementation of qmail. If possible, > please give me some advice. Thanks. > > (1) Anti-relay

Re: restarting qmail

1999-09-07 Thread thomas . erskine-dated-0032bb2c1b3a3b69
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Stephen Berg wrote: > I just added a new virtual domain to a qmail server and am curious as > to the best/easiest way to restart qmail so it will see the changes > in the rcpthosts and virtualdomains file under /var/qmail/control. For information on which program reads which

a bug again?

1999-09-07 Thread Marcin Jaskowiak
Hi, I have two problems with qmail... first it seems that it doesn't use aliases in user's home directories (e.g. /home/john/alias/.qmail-john:doe). The second is that qmail's pop3d server doesn't use aliases (in /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-*) when downloading mails... : user john.doe pass blurp it

Re: a bug again?

1999-09-07 Thread Ira Abramov
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Marcin Jaskowiak wrote: > I have two problems with qmail... first it seems that it doesn't use > aliases in user's home directories (e.g. > /home/john/alias/.qmail-john:doe). that's not in the user's homedir, that's a subdir "alias" that you invented. if you create ~john/.qma

Re: a bug again?

1999-09-07 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I have two problems with qmail... first it seems that it doesn't use > aliases in user's home directories (e.g. > /home/john/alias/.qmail-john:doe). You seem confused what the .qmail files do. BTW - what is /home/john/alias? It is a subdirectory o

Re: a bug again?

1999-09-07 Thread Marcin Jaskowiak
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Petr Novotny wrote: > You seem confused what the .qmail files do. BTW - what is > /home/john/alias? It is a subdirectory of john's home? That's not > the right way. There's a system-wide user called alias, his home is > probably /var/qmail/alias, and .qmail-john:doe should

Re: a bug again?

1999-09-07 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > You seem confused what the .qmail files do. BTW - what is > > /home/john/alias? It is a subdirectory of john's home? That's not > > the right way. There's a system-wide user called alias, his home is > > probably /var/qmail/alias, and .qmail-joh

Try this problem...

1999-09-07 Thread Kurt Hindenburg
I'm running qmail 1.03 on RH6.0 on a single dial-up ppp machine. I have had no problems for weeks and now when I try to send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get the following in the mail log: Sep 7 07:44:29 cherrycoke qmail: 936704669.009694 starting delivery 77: msg 159 827 to re

Re: Any ideas?

1999-09-07 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 12:09:14AM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: >> Dave Sill writes: >> > >: The qmail logs show remote concurrency over any given time period. >> > >> > Not directly, as far as I can tell. Anyone have a script that'll parse >> > a log and chart con

qmail won't start

1999-09-07 Thread Scott MacDonald
Hi,   I am trying to install qmail on a RedHat 6.0/2.2.10 box and I have followed the life with qmail directions up to the Section 2.8 where you are supposed to first try and start qmail, and RedHat won't even recognize the qmail binary as a binary? When I try to start it with the script or

Re: qmail won't start

1999-09-07 Thread Dave Sill
"Scott MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am trying to install qmail on a RedHat 6.0/2.2.10 box and I have >followed the life with qmail directions up to the Section 2.8 where >you are supposed to first try and start qmail, and RedHat won't even >recognize the qmail binary as a binary? When

Re: Problems getting started

1999-09-07 Thread Mate Wierdl
I'd add 2 as a runlevel qmail should run at. Mate

Re: fastforward: wildcards

1999-09-07 Thread Ira Abramov
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Kush wrote: > I have a mail gateway and it forwards email to specific mail hosts in my > network. I have a few mailing lists on these mail hosts, but the mail > gateway (with fastforward) is unable to forward any email destined to > the ezmlm list email addresses. > > I have

Re: qmail won't start

1999-09-07 Thread Scott MacDonald
Here is the part from the "Life with Qmail" I got hung up on. #!/bin/sh # Using stdout for logging # Using control/defaultdelivery from qmail-local to deliver messages by default exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start "`cat /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery`" accustamp Use your e

Re: qmail and > 4,000 users ?

1999-09-07 Thread Stephen C. Comoletti
Actually, there are about 9k of them in the default domain, and virtual domain support was done via alias/fastforward (leftover from an old sun setup qmail by another admin). So 9k in one vpasswd right now. I'm pushing them out into individual vpasswd files one at a time as each customer has to c

Virtual Domains

1999-09-07 Thread Keith From
I have read and read and read the man pages, online resources, and anything else i could get my hands on to try and resolve this problem on my own. Now I turn to the masses for assistance.   my mail server is: mail.cbssol.com I have all my local mail running just fine.   I created a new use

Re: Virtual Domains

1999-09-07 Thread Adam D . McKenna
Does Brian have a .qmail-default file in his homedir? --Adam On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 11:21:59AM -0500, Keith From wrote: > I have read and read and read the man pages, online > resources, and anything else i could get my hands > on to try and resolve this problem on my own. Now I > turn to the m

Re: Virtual Domains

1999-09-07 Thread Sam
Keith From writes: > I have read and read and read the man pages, online > resources, and anything else i could get my hands > on to try and resolve this problem on my own. Now I > turn to the masses for assistance. > > my mail server is: mail.cbssol.com > I have all my local mail running just f

Re: Virtual Domains

1999-09-07 Thread Keith From
GOT IT. thanks for everyones help. Keith - Original Message - From: Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Keith From <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 11:30 AM Subject: Re: Virtual Domains > Keith From writes: > > > I have read and read and rea

tcprules for qmail-pop3d

1999-09-07 Thread Damon Parker
Can someone tell me what the correct syntax for the qmail-pop3d.cdb is, or where to look to find the syntax and possible commands. I can't get the pop3d to run through anything other than inetd, when I try to run it through the tcp wrapper I get a 'hard-error.' The only thing I can figure is

Re: tcprules for qmail-pop3d

1999-09-07 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7 Sep 99, at 11:41, Damon Parker wrote: > Can someone tell me what the correct syntax for the qmail-pop3d.cdb is, or > where to look to find the syntax and possible commands. What is qmail-pop3d.cdb? You mean the database for tcpserver, or somet

single-UID setup problem

1999-09-07 Thread Giorgio Bozio
hello, I have installed qmail some months ago deciding to configure it to work with a system user per mailbox; now I'm trying to configure a single UID setup for a virtual domain we have. I followed stricly the "Single-UID based POP3 box HOWTO" by Paul Gregg but I wasn't able to get it working. It

daemontools 0.61 and qmailanalog?

1999-09-07 Thread Sebastian Andersson
Since daemontools now produces hexadecimal TAI64N labels and the qmailanalog programs want decimal TAI64N labels, they need to be converted somewhere. Are there any patches to matchup that does that already? /Sebastian

Re: Maildir and Pine-4.10

1999-09-07 Thread Kai MacTane
Text written by Josh Pennell at 08:53 PM 9/6/99 -0700: > >I downloaded the patched pine src from >http://3.am/pine4.10.maildir.tar.gz and built it on an Intel Solaris 2.6 >box. This is eerily reminiscent of my troubles with the same version of Pine, building on a Red Hat Linux 5.1 (Intel) box. >

Re: qmail and > 4,000 users ?

1999-09-07 Thread Robin Bowes
> Actually, there are about 9k of them in the default domain, and virtual domain > support was done via alias/fastforward (leftover from an old sun setup qmail by > another admin). So 9k in one vpasswd right now. I'm pushing them out into > individual vpasswd files one at a time as each customer h

Pine 4.10 and Qmail 1.03

1999-09-07 Thread Josh Pennell
Hello, I downloaded the patched for Maildir version of pine-4.10 and built it on a Solaris 2.6 intel box. I have tried the following to try to get pine to read my Maildir inbox // edits to the ~/.pinerc file inbox-path="inbox" inbox-path=~/Maildir inbox-path=~/Maildir/ inbox-path=$HOME/Maildir

Re: qmail won't start

1999-09-07 Thread Dave Sill
"Scott MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Here is the part from the "Life with Qmail" I got hung up on. > >#!/bin/sh > ># Using stdout for logging ># Using control/defaultdelivery from qmail-local to deliver messages by >default > >exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ >qmail-start "`cat /

Can I allow relaying for a single _user_?

1999-09-07 Thread Aijaz A. Ansari
Hello, all. I'm running qmail 1.03 on Red Hat 5.2 with a slightly modified (for use with cucipop) version of smtp-poplock to allow for relaying after a successful POP authentication. All users are using Mailbox and not Maildir. There is one user who insists that checking for email before sendin

Re: queue problem

1999-09-07 Thread Dave Sill
Enrico Mangano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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 think i have a problem with serialmail. >I created the maildir pppdir with maildirmake in >/var/qmail/alias/ and my script to send emails is this: > >

Re: REQUEST: Correct /var/qmail/rc for IRIX (binm?+df)?

1999-09-07 Thread Dave Sill
"Jay D. Dyson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've set up everything find, but the rc script to use has me >befuddled. I want the mail to be written to /var/spool/mail and all, but >when I try most every invocation as supplied, I get large errors and the >mail isn't delivered. What invocati

Re: Any ideas?

1999-09-07 Thread Dave Sill
Matthew Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Actually, these two cases are similiar machines but the first has one >processor and the second two. That's probably the difference you're >seeing here. They are running the same kernel revision except one is >compiled for SMP. That doesn't explain

bare line feed?

1999-09-07 Thread Michael Boyiazis
Greetings, I log smtp connects to a file and at certain times one user will seem to be getting pounded with mail from a particular IP. When I check the maildir there is nothing new there. There are no errors going to the syslog. Could this be the bare linefeed issue? Would that cause the ch

Re: Security Issue on qmail

1999-09-07 Thread Peter Samuel
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I am a rookie on using qmail, but I can feel the power of it, really > amazing. > > I have several questions about the implementation of qmail. If possible, > please give me some advice. Thanks. > > (1) Anti-relay Issue > > Any security

Re: Maildir and Pine-4.10

1999-09-07 Thread James Smallacombe
I was a little curious about this, so I went and downloaded the very same file (to make sure I didn't tar the wrong source tree or something) and built the thing agoin on my Solaris 2.5 (sparc) box and it works fine. It also works fine on the box I'm typing this from (FreeBSD 3.2). I use $HOME/

Re: RAID 5 and queue restore

1999-09-07 Thread johnjohn
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 01:22:08PM -0500, wrote: > Suppose I was running a DPT RAID 5 controller and the mail queue was > stored on this RAID array. What will happen to the inode structure of > the queue if one of the disks fails, I replace it and the controller > rebuilds it? Nothing. You're c

Re: .qmail - deliveries and bounces

1999-09-07 Thread Russell Nelson
Markus Stumpf writes: > I want to create a bounce message for accounts of ppl that no longer > work here, but I also want to drop the mail into a valid users mailbox. > > ~alias/.qmail-joe: > &[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | (cat /var/qmail/alias/NO-WORKER.TXT; exit 100) > > (which I thought alrea

Maildirmake

1999-09-07 Thread courtney
Hey everyone- I am just ready to put my Qmail server running under FreeBSD 3.2-Stable on line, but I'm having one minor problem. I created an account for myself and used "maildirmake" to created my home directory's maildir- but now I am trying to add the rest of my users, but I get an error whe

Re: Maildirmake

1999-09-07 Thread James Smallacombe
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey everyone- I am just ready to put my Qmail server running under FreeBSD > 3.2-Stable on line, but I'm having one minor problem. I created an account > for myself and used "maildirmake" to created my home directory's maildir- > but now I am trying

maildirsmtp won't send procmailed messages

1999-09-07 Thread Claudiu Balciza
I use a dial-up (offline) mail server qmail-1.0.3 + serialmail-0.75+safecat on RedHat Linux It works great. The offline mailser just stores the outgoing mail into a maildir and maildirsmtp sends it when invoked. But when I filter the outgoing mail through procmail+safecat, maildirsmtp just ignores

Potential hole?

1999-09-07 Thread Dmitry Niqiforoff
Hello! Yesterday I found that any user are able to start any program at server with .qmail file. This could be potentially dangerous, AFAIU. As an example: I denied TELNET access (disabled the service in inetd.conf), but any user can put "|in.telnetd" in their .qmail file (ofcourse, there shoul

Re: Potential hole?

1999-09-07 Thread Sebastian Andersson
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 11:24:45AM +0500, Dmitry Niqiforoff wrote: > Is there any suggestions about how to avoid all the potential > problems? Yes. 1) Hack qmail-local to deny | usage for your users (check the gid?). 2) Prevent the users from creating .qmail files. Our users homedirs are owned

web messaging

1999-09-07 Thread Ilya Krel
Is something hotmail-like possible for QMail? are there programs which allow it?