syslog question.

1999-11-09 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
hiya, been looking through the archives, can't seem to find my answer. this is in my /etc/init.d/qmail file: #Starts qmail-send and qmail-l/rspawn etc. csh -cf 'qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail &' #Starts qmail-smtpd for incoming smtp connections. /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -D -lcia.com.au

2 Questions

1999-11-09 Thread James
1) I have had qmail working wonderfully on RedHat Mandrake 6.0 for many months now.. but I am having a problem with relaying. I've gone through the steps on this page: http://www.palomine.net/qmail/relaying.html but I am confused about something.. if I set up an ip address in rcpthosts, *and*

too many connections dying

1999-11-09 Thread Edward Castillo-Jakosalem
HI! I've been constantly monitoring our log files and have been noticing lately that there are too many deliveries dying (says connected...but_connection_died). I'm presently running qmail-send with 100 concurrent remote deliveries. Does this have something to do with our bandwidth? Our outgoing

too many connections dying

1999-11-09 Thread Edward Castillo-Jakosalem
HI! I've been constantly monitoring our log files and have been noticing lately that there are too many deliveries dying (says connected...but_connection_died). I'm presently running qmail-send with 100 concurrent remote deliveries. Does this have something to do with our bandwidth? Our outgoing

Usage of /var/qmail/users/assign (fwd)

1999-11-09 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I thought I'd repost this, in case the original (or any replies) got lost in the bitstream. The gist if my question is: when would I need to use assign instead of an alias? -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 12:42:05 -0800

new mbox2maildir

1999-11-09 Thread Keith Burdis
Hi there Guy Halse (of ezmlm-web fame :) has written a new version of mbox2maildir. This one is very nice because it preserves status flags, instead of just dumping all messages into new like the existing ones do. So, new messages go in new, read messages go in cur, and status flags like

Re: I want to accept, but I don't want to deliver

1999-11-09 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 06:58:00PM -0500, Jeremy Hansen wrote: > Basically I want to setup a dummy host that I can relay mail off of, but I > don't want it to actually send the mail to remote machines. Just run tcpserver + qmail-smtpd without starting qmail-send. The messages will be put on disk,

Re: Rewriting without date header in a perl oneliner

1999-11-09 Thread David L. Nicol
> I read the documentation of qmail-inject and it would do what I want > if I could filter out the old "Date" line. > > I can't (almost) write in Perl. I can write a C program. But first I > wanted to know if there is some already done script/program which > would delete a chosen line from RFC82

Re: delivery to a directory

1999-11-09 Thread Phil Howard
Patrick Berry wrote: > On 11/9/99 at 3:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Howard) had the thought: > > > Please don't suggest lots of userids and/or lots of .qmail files. I'm > > dead set on making this easy to administer, so those are not options. > > That's why I'm running things through a progra

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-09 Thread Sam
Dave Sill writes: > Each qmail-remote does one DNS lookup, so at most concurrencyremote The fact that qmail-remote barfs with a 'CNAME lookup failed' in certain well-known situations leads me to believe that there are at least two DNS lookups happening in qmail-remote: a CNAME, followed by an MX

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-09 Thread Sam
Stefan Paletta writes: > Sam wrote/schrieb/scribsit: > > different domains will result in only 5,000 DNS queries. Meanwhile, each > > instance of qmail-remote should diligently issue a DNS query - for a > > grand sum of 10,000 queries overall. > > When we're talking about lists of that size, y

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-09 Thread Sam
David Dyer-Bennet writes: > Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 8 November 1999 at 17:39:02 -0500 > > > > Pard'n me, but how does an additional DNS lookup for every recipient end > > up reducing the overall amount of DNS traffic? > > qmail does fewer DNS lookups than sendmail, and that should

Re: delivery to a directory

1999-11-09 Thread Stefan Paletta
Phil Howard wrote/schrieb/scribsit: > How can I tell qmail-local what directory (maildir format) to deliver to? Use safecat[1] or maildrop[2]. Stefan [1] http://www.nb.net/~lbudney/linux/software/safecat.html [2] http://i.am/mrsam

Re: delivery to a directory

1999-11-09 Thread Patrick Berry
On 11/9/99 at 3:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Howard) had the thought: > Please don't suggest lots of userids and/or lots of .qmail files. I'm > dead set on making this easy to administer, so those are not options. > That's why I'm running things through a program that figures it out. I could

delivery to a directory

1999-11-09 Thread Phil Howard
How can I tell qmail-local what directory (maildir format) to deliver to? I've got it set up so that for various virtual domains everything is going to a special userid. The .qmail-default file is set to run my program which determines what directory to put the mail in dynamically. Now how to I

Re: lame question

1999-11-09 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 11:45:03AM -0800, David McCall wrote: > Wish there was a graphic picture of the qmail parts and the addons with > their various functional locations and requirements or even > a flow chart showing how stuff should move under various conditions. See the INTERNALS file that

Re: lame question

1999-11-09 Thread Patrick Berry
On 11/9/99 at 11:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David McCall) had the thought: > Wish there was a graphic picture of the qmail parts and the addons with > their various functional locations and requirements or even > a flow chart showing how stuff should move under various conditions. Never fear! h

lame question

1999-11-09 Thread David McCall
Wish there was a graphic picture of the qmail parts and the addons with their various functional locations and requirements or even a flow chart showing how stuff should move under various conditions. I'm really not seeing the big picture at all and I feel less than smart right now. my qmail see

Re: strange quirk in qmail-local

1999-11-09 Thread Dave Sill
"Barry Smoke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >...I get a defferal_can't_chdir_to_Maildir. Check the owner and mode of $HOME/Maildir and its subdirectories. They should be rwx by owner and owner should be the user. -Dave

Re: more qmail with rh6.1

1999-11-09 Thread Dave Sill
Steve Kapinos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My problem is though, when I telnet to port 25 to deliever a message via >smtp, everything looks fine, but I never see the message. > >[root@hootch qmail-smtpd]# telnet 127.0.0.1 25 >Trying 127.0.0.1... >Connected to 127.0.0.1. >Escape character is '^]'.

RE: Qmail with rh 6.1

1999-11-09 Thread Steve Kapinos
Trying your echo test failed to put anything in maillog, so I moved towards something 'looking right, but not working right'. I changed the .conf to from the following: it had mail.*none in the /var/log/messages line and then below that had mail.* to goto /var/log/maillog I commented out th

more qmail with rh6.1

1999-11-09 Thread Steve Kapinos
Ok, Thanks for the help from the list.. I now have proper logging from qmail from splogger into my syslog. I believe the problem is some sort of conflict of sequencing of mail.none and mail.* in my copy of syslogd, because once I put mail.* on a line before another line that had mail.none in

Re: strange quirk in qmail-local

1999-11-09 Thread Dave Sill
"Barry Smoke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am getting a wierd message pertaining to the sticky bit on users >home directory. And that message is? -Dave

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-09 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Dave Sill wrote: > >> Say you send a message to a list of 10,000 addresses using >> sendmail. What's the first thing it does? It looks up the MX for each >> recipient so it can sort by MX and minimize the number of connections. > >I doubt very much th

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-09 Thread Stefan Paletta
Sam wrote/schrieb/scribsit: > different domains will result in only 5,000 DNS queries. Meanwhile, each > instance of qmail-remote should diligently issue a DNS query - for a > grand sum of 10,000 queries overall. When we're talking about lists of that size, you will for sure have the resources

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-09 Thread Dave Sill
Steve Vertigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dave Sill wrote: > >> Say you send a message to a list of 10,000 addresses using >> sendmail. What's the first thing it does? It looks up the MX for each >> recipient so it can sort by MX and minimize the number of connections. > >Why is that? Lets say

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-09 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 8 November 1999 at 17:39:02 -0500 > On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > > In a pathological case, qmail can use a lot more network bandwidth > > because of the duplication of messages going to the same system. In > > practice this is rarely a s

strange quirk in qmail-local

1999-11-09 Thread Barry Smoke
I am getting a wierd message pertaining to the sticky bit on users home directory.  I know that chmod -t %HOME clears that, but after doing that I get a defferal_can't_chdir_to_Maildir.   I have put a Maildir in my skeleton directory, in /etc I call qmail with  ./Maildir/ in the line I h

Re: Forward, Relay ... or what is it ??

1999-11-09 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9 Nov 99, at 15:16, Thomas Foerster wrote: > I accept mail for businessakademie.com. But then, i need to connect to > 195.30.221.30 and then send the received mail to there. You might consider using smtproutes if you only want to override DNS. >

Forward, Relay ... or what is it ??

1999-11-09 Thread Thomas Foerster
Hi there, i have the following problem : I accept mail for businessakademie.com. But then, i need to connect to 195.30.221.30 and then send the received mail to there. At the moment, i use ~alias/.qmail-businessakademie-default : | forward ${DEFAULT}@195.30.221.30 But the Mailer at this IP

qmail-inject and timezone

1999-11-09 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, is there a switch to ask qmail-inject to put the Date: stamp in the local timezone? I can perfectly understand why all the Received: headers use GMT - but qmail-inject? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: h

Re: Cyrus+qmail: mmap() errors with big messages. .

1999-11-09 Thread Christian S . Bell
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 12:48:44PM +0100, Joerg Lenneis wrote: | | Christian S Bell: | | > Hello, | | [...] | | > Output from imapd.log: | > IOERROR: mapping new message file for user.csbell: Not enough space | > Output from syslog: | > 942122791.318715 delivery 53726: deferral: |421_4.3.0_d

Re: Cyrus+qmail: mmap() errors with big messages. .

1999-11-09 Thread Joerg Lenneis
Christian S Bell: > Hello, [...] > Output from imapd.log: > IOERROR: mapping new message file for user.csbell: Not enough space > Output from syslog: > 942122791.318715 delivery 53726: deferral: >421_4.3.0_deliver:_failed_to_mmap_new_message_file_/ [...] What are the ulimits for the user i

Re: imap quota reached

1999-11-09 Thread Joerg Lenneis
Shane Clements: > Hi, > I have qmail 1.03 running and delivering with the cyrus deliver > program. When a user has reached the quota limit on their mailbox, the > logs show: > Nov 8 15:44:53 mail qmail: 942104693.358273 starting delivery 95: msg > 985125 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Nov

qmail Digest 9 Nov 1999 11:00:00 -0000 Issue 815

1999-11-09 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 9 Nov 1999 11:00:00 - Issue 815 Topics (messages 32646 through 32732): qmail: alert: cannot start: unable to switch to 32646 by: Jean-Pierre H. Dumas 32648 by: Vince Vielhaber Re: best way to handle postmaster 32647 by: James Raftery Re: qmail remote d

error from relay mailer

1999-11-09 Thread Robin Bowes
Hi, I just replied to a message received as a result of a post to this list and have just got this error message back: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients. The following address(es) failed:

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-09 Thread Steve Vertigan
Dave Sill wrote: > Say you send a message to a list of 10,000 addresses using > sendmail. What's the first thing it does? It looks up the MX for each > recipient so it can sort by MX and minimize the number of connections. Why is that? Lets say you have to deliver to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL P

poplocks the Mailbox

1999-11-09 Thread Luis Bezerra
I have one problem with the Mailbox of my users: When one user gets your messages and your mail software breaks down the connection with my server, your Mailbox stays locked and, after some time, it is unlocked. Is there one good solution for this problem? Is there thisproblem when I use Maildi

pop locks the Mailbox

1999-11-09 Thread Luis Bezerra
I have one problem with the Mailbox of my clients: When one user gets your messages and tour mail software breaks down the connection with my server, your Mailbox stays locked and, after some time, it is unlocked. Is there one good solution for this problem? Is there thisproblem when I use Maild

SPAM!!!!!

1999-11-09 Thread Luis Bezerra
Hello everyone, could you give one good solution for spam in qmail ? regards -- - Luís Bezerra de A. Junior [EMAIL PROTECTED] SecrelNet Informática LTDA Fortaleza - Ceará - Brasil Fone: 021852882090 -

mail sdk / api required

1999-11-09 Thread Holger Hug
Hi there!I'm looking for a qmail API helping me to filter incoming and outgoingmails. Will you please be so kind as to give me a hint where to findsuch an API.Thanks a lot !Holger Hug  

Re: Rewriting date

1999-11-09 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 09:18:15AM -, Petr Novotny wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > since nobody answered the first question, I shall try to reword it: > > My qmail installation supports mail clients on local LAN. These > clients may be deemed "broken cl

(Kein Betreff)

1999-11-09 Thread Holger Hug
Hi there! I'm looking for a qmail API helping me to filter incoming and outgoing mails. Will you please be so kind as to give me a hint where to find such an API. Thanks a lot ! Holger Hug

Rewriting date

1999-11-09 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, since nobody answered the first question, I shall try to reword it: My qmail installation supports mail clients on local LAN. These clients may be deemed "broken clients" (irrepairably) as they put completely incorrect date stamps in the outgo