qmail Digest 8 Dec 1999 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 843

1999-12-08 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 8 Dec 1999 11:00:01 - Issue 843 Topics (messages 34031 through 34083): Re: Secondary mail Q 34031 by: Peter Gradwell Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent? 34032 by: Peter Gradwell 34039 by: Richard Roderick 34041 by: Peter Gradwell

RE: Problems receiving mail

1999-12-08 Thread Tony Wade
Paul, I would suggest using tcpserver. http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html alternativly, ensure that you have the right comment in /etc/inetd.conf Tony Wade The Internet Solution Tel:(+27 11) 283 5000 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] #include std/disclaimer.h I wouldn't be so paranoid if you

Re: Virtual domains stuff

1999-12-08 Thread Adam D . McKenna
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:48:10AM -0500, Adam D . McKenna wrote: then, in ~alias/.qmail-foo, put: Sorry, this should be ~alias/.qmail-foo-default --Adam

Selective rejection

1999-12-08 Thread Jose G. Dinuncio F.
I'm developing a filtering script to decide if a (valid) mail should be accepted by qmail or not. It takes its decision mainly based on the number of RCPTs (but it could consider other info too). My questions are: *) How can I integrate this script whit qmail? I'm thinking in making the script

RE: THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!!!

1999-12-08 Thread thomas . erskine-dated-3b62142540175ead
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Dustin Miller wrote: I guess I'm just on a crusade to get people to be a little more compassionate and considerate of others. Whether it's jammering on a cellular phone in the middle of a movie, or insulting someone for their behavior, there are always situations that

maxrcpt.patch

1999-12-08 Thread Jorge Rocha
Where i can find maxrcpt.patch for qmail 1.03? I have look in list history, and i can't find it! Thanks, -- Jorge Rocha [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 2017297 www.pagenet.com.br - Pager 61914

Re: [Fwd: Re: Attachments]

1999-12-08 Thread petervd
On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 06:18:35AM -0500, Bill Hults wrote: Hi The file doesn't exist. Then that's not the problem. Greetz, Peter. -- Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/womanizer/pretending coder | | 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; | C++ makes it harder, but when

Re: [Fwd: Re: Attachments]

1999-12-08 Thread petervd
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 08:44:32PM -0500, Bill Hults wrote: Hi I created it put 200 in it. I get UNABLE_TO_WRITE ./Mailbox DISK_QUOTA_EXCEEDED. Any thoughts anyone. Ehm... quota? Greetz, Peter. -- Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/womanizer/pretending coder | | 'C makes it

Amavis and Q-Mail

1999-12-08 Thread Dustin Miller
I know it was being discussed (briefly), but I do not recall a resolution being made. How can we get Amavis running under QMail? I want to screen these incoming messages for Virii, and I do not believe we reached a consensus on how to do it. Anyone else running Amavis? Dustin Miller,

Question/Summary of qmail UCE filtering capabilities; what my perfect MTA does

1999-12-08 Thread Lorens Kockum
I have a list of things I want from an MTA. Today, as I see it, none will do all I want, so I have to compromise. My question is about the qmail filtering capabilities, I think I'm up to date on the rest. What I would want as an MTA would be - simple configuration for simple cases (I like

Re: THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!!!

1999-12-08 Thread craig
When someone makes a snide, demeaning, or insulting comment, does it truly make them feel better? Does it better the situation? Rarely. But, just as you took it upon yourself to tell others, who were complaining about the guy posting off-topic material to the list, that *they* were

Re: THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!!!

1999-12-08 Thread Simon Rae
Fair comment. However, would it not be an idea to remove Chris from being a recipient on this thread. After all, that's what all the fuss was about to begin with :) Si

Re: How to get your qmail server into ORBS

1999-12-08 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |case "$LOCAL" in *[%\"@\!:\;]*) bouncesaying 'You are evil. Get Lost(tm).' ;; *) forward "$LOCAL"@haarlem-2000.vuurwerk.nl ;; esac Here's what I use: |if echo $LOCAL |grep -q "%" ; then \ echo "percent hack relaying not allowed"; exit 100; fi |if echo $LOCAL

Re: when does qmail-local add the Deliverd-To line?

1999-12-08 Thread Jos Backus
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 04:41:13PM +0100, Markus Wuebben wrote: Problem is now that I am missing the Delivered-To line, qmail normally adds. You can add it yourself by prepending $ENV{'DTLINE'} to the safecat input. -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never

Re: THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!!!

1999-12-08 Thread Julian L.C. Brown
Hrmm, that's a fairly lengthy response my qmail compatriot. Recently I have seen a lot of these "get me off the list" or "help me because I say so" kind of messages and quite frankly my fuse ran out so I felt it necessary to say something perhaps to make myself feel better :) Forgive me, but you

can nott telnet to port 25

1999-12-08 Thread Ning Wu
Hi. I am a newbie of Mail world. I am trying to install Qmail on my Red Hat box. I installed qmail and can telnet localhost 25 and everything looks fine. But when I try to connect from other host. $telnet myhost 25 trying 24.12.XX.XX... It just hangs there. I can't figure out what's wrong. I

Re: [Fwd: Re: Attachments]

1999-12-08 Thread Bill Hults
Hi I've checked the quota situation since quotas are assigned to most users but this user is exempt I just copied a 3 MB file into his directory locally. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 08:44:32PM -0500, Bill Hults wrote: Hi I created it put 200 in it. I get

Re: can nott telnet to port 25

1999-12-08 Thread Fred Backman
Can you reach your Linux host on any other port? If you have access to tools such as traceroute or ping, try these and see if you can reach your mail host from the external host. Also try the reverse, e.g. try reaching the external host from inside the mail host. Ning Wu wrote: Hi. I am a

Re: Filtering on MAIL FROM:

1999-12-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 11:59:19PM +0100, Stefaan A Eeckels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a colleague who claims that many ISPs (he lives in Canada, so probably Canadian ISPs) refuse mail based on the MAIL FROM: command. To me, that seems inane and futile, but as I'm not an ISP, and

Re: when does qmail-local add the Deliverd-To line?

1999-12-08 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is how the .qmail-file looks like. | /usr/local/bin/myScript.pl Problem is now that I am missing the Delivered-To line, qmail normally adds. Why? Because you're delivering to a pipe, not a mailbox. (See "man qmail-command"). Try doing: | preline -f

Re: secondary mail relay: rcpthosts AND SMTPROUTES

1999-12-08 Thread David L. Nicol
Steve Vertigan wrote: if it was really a lower priority why did the error message begin "I am listed as the *primary mx* for this host"? Because there's a bug in the way the determination of "primary MX" is made. I have not looked at the source code of how the determination is made. $ dig

Re: can nott telnet to port 25

1999-12-08 Thread Ning Wu
All the other ports work normally. FTP, Telnet, etc Here is my /etc/inetd.conf ftp stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -L -i -o telnet stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd #gopher stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd gn # do not

Re: can nott telnet to port 25

1999-12-08 Thread Dave Sill
Ning Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All the other ports work normally. FTP, Telnet, etc But when I try to connect from other host. $telnet myhost 25 trying 24.12.XX.XX... It just hangs there. I can't figure out what's wrong. I don't have special settings of TCP Wrapper. You're

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-08 Thread David L. Nicol
Peter Gradwell wrote: [1] Which is why, if your mail server is the best MX preference host How does qmail make this determination? Does it get the preference fields from the dns and choose the lowest one, or does it rely on a system call? qmail-remote.c refers to subroutined defined in

Error compiling Qmail on AIX 4.3.2 with GNU gcc v2.95 and GNU make v3.74

1999-12-08 Thread Shields Michael
I'm a newbie @ compiling and don't know where to begin fixing this. I'm not even sure this is the correct list to post to, apologies if not! Any help greatly appreciated! (When I tried using IBM's make cc I got different errors) The error reads: #. #./compile auto-str.c #auto-str.c: In

tcpserver error

1999-12-08 Thread Jennifer Tippens
Hi List! I have configured something incorrectly. I just can't figure out where. I tried to test my installation by sending a message locally and it did not work. In var/log/qmail/smtpd/current I get the following repeating error: biglongnumber tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out IP address

Re: secondary mail relay: rcpthosts AND SMTPROUTES

1999-12-08 Thread David L. Nicol
"Timothy L. Mayo" wrote: domain.tld. 86400 MX 200 nnn.nn.nn.nnn ^ This is your problem. An MX record may ONLY point to a A record machine name. Fix your DNS and I can guarantee that

RE: tcpserver error

1999-12-08 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On 08-Dec-99 Jennifer Tippens wrote: Hi List! I have configured something incorrectly. I just can't figure out where. I tried to test my installation by sending a message locally and it did not work. In var/log/qmail/smtpd/current I get the following repeating error: biglongnumber

Re: qmail-1.03+patches-8.src.rpm

1999-12-08 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 09:31:32AM +0100, Hans Sandsdalen wrote: when I run "rpm --rebuild qmail-1.03+patches-8.src.rpm" the process stops with: + PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.2: line 168: syntax error: unexpected end of file Bad exit status from

qmail anti-virus

1999-12-08 Thread Carsten Witt
Hello there, Have anybody any virus-scanner with qmail installed. Like amavis on linux ? I must know how to installed it on my system. CU Carsten

Re: Filtering on MAIL FROM:

1999-12-08 Thread Sam
Markus Stumpf writes: On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 11:02:16AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: Another problem is that some places have started blocking messages with empty envelope sender addresses, because some spammers use them to get past the domain blocking. Yeah, but one must be really a

Re: Virtual domains stuff

1999-12-08 Thread 'Michael Boman'
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:49:55AM -0500, Adam D . McKenna wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:48:10AM -0500, Adam D . McKenna wrote: then, in ~alias/.qmail-foo, put: Sorry, this should be ~alias/.qmail-foo-default --Adam It doesnt work. My files looks like this: cat

Re: Virtual domains stuff

1999-12-08 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 09:39:07AM +0800, 'Michael Boman' wrote: cat ~alias/.qmail-wizoffice.com.sg-default |forward "$[EMAIL PROTECTED]" $ man 5 dot-qmail [ ... ] WARNING: For security, qmail-local replaces any dots in ext with colons before checking .qmail-ext.

How to set up a null server ?

1999-12-08 Thread John Grant (Concordant Networks)
I need to build a server that receives all email for a domain and forwards it all to another mail server. If I put: relay_me.com:relay_server.some_other_domain.com in smtproutes, is that all I need ? I need to receive all mail destined for relay_me.com and just foward it along... ---

Re: How to set up a null server ?

1999-12-08 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 06:17:39PM -0800, John Grant (Concordant Networks) wrote: I need to build a server that receives all email for a domain and forwards it all to another mail server. relay_me.com:relay_server.some_other_domain.com in smtproutes, is that all I need ? That should do it.