AW: php3 mail()

no, definitly the mail-function is right. the script works at another server. can there be a problem with the user rights?? @400038987c19390ada14 new msg 26694 @400038987c19390b14ac info msg 26694: bytes 282 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 2576 uid 30 @400038987c193915ab9c end msg 26694

Re: multilog datestamping

Mark Delany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just did a count of a couple of (smallish) log files and I found that > on average, qmail-send is logging 469 bytes per delivery and sendmail is > logging 430 bytes per delivery. FWIW, the qmail logging is piping into > logger. > My strawman conclusion

Re: AW: php3 mail()

Andreas Altenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > no, definitly the mail-function is right. the script works at another > server. can there be a problem with the user rights?? qmail's sendmail emulation isn't absolutely completely compatible with everything that sendmail does. It's possible that

New to Mailing List

Hi every one We are planning to start ISP with basic service like Mailing,CHAT,NEWS and WEB based on Linux Redhat 6.1 . We have decided to go for Qmail Mailing system. Our setup will have 5 centres (Initially) and each centre will have a minimum of 25,000 users and can grow up to 1,00,000 u

Re: SMTP problem

Andreas Altenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb/wrote: > Why is the connection refused? Do I have to configuer tecpserver?? Yes. (Or any other server that accepts connections and starts qmail- smtpd.) -- Claus Andre Faerber PGP: ID=1024/527CADCD FP=12 20 49 F3 E1 04 9

complex user routing

hi all, i  using qmail 1.03 with redhat 6.1 i want complex user routing i.e the mail fom particulor email add.   [EMAIL PROTECTED] will forwardes to another smtp server how can i use smtproutes for that will it possible in smtproutes   [EMAIL PROTECTED]:bom3.vsnl.net.in   pl reply immed.

Re: auto-reply in qmail

Alok Bhatt wrote: > Hi all, > i m using qmail 1.03 on rhl -6.1 and want auto reply with meaningful > text (say "message recieved, will reply soon"), when mail is delivered > to a user. > I tried using qreciept in .qmail, but that was not much of a help. Even > log file do not show any thing usefu

Re: pop3 start

Andreas Altenburg wrote: > > i read "life with qmail" and set ip my server correctly. i did not find the > part how to start the pop3d automatically. so i entered the lines of the doc > ("tcpserver..." to my boot script of qmail. Now each transaction is logged > to the console. Does anybody have

qmail Digest 3 Feb 2000 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 900

qmail Digest 3 Feb 2000 11:00:01 - Issue 900 Topics (messages 36558 through 36661): [stats on maillog files] 36558 by: Dewald Strauss 451 DNS temporary failure (#4.3.0) 36559 by: torben fjerdingstad 36560 by: petervd.vuurwerk.nl 36561 by: Sam Re: pop3 start

SPAMCONTROL101 Patch

Hi, for those folks, which did not consider applying this patch because of the spelling error RECEIPIENT (I apologize for that) -- here the corrected version. However, NO change to the logic has been applied. Thus, those ones using it already can happily stay with the old version. regards eh. s

Error on startup

my script:   env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \ tcpserver 0 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup orbital.inter7.com \ /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir   The paths are o.k., but I get the error "Maildir command not found" during start-up. Why??

SPAMCONTROL patch not working?

Hi, I've just setup a new Qmail-1.03 server running tcpserver and the SPAMCONTROL patch I received from Erwin Hoffmann. When I test my mailserver at http://www.abuse.net/relay.html it still failes at Relay test 6... so it seems the patch is not working. What could be wrong? Erwin Telematic

Re: SPAMCONTROL patch not working?

Erwin van Kroonenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've just setup a new Qmail-1.03 server running tcpserver and the >SPAMCONTROL patch I received from Erwin Hoffmann. When I test my mailserver >at http://www.abuse.net/relay.html it still failes at Relay test 6... so it >seems the patch is not

RE: multilog datestamping

"Tim Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Am I right in assuming that you can use a command such as >#!/bin/sh >exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t !tai64nlocal >/var/log/qmail/smtpd > >for logging qmail-smtpd and this will process the log through tai64nlocal >*after* co

Re: Error in piping message contents

Ryan Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am using qmail as my MTA on a RedHat Linux 5.2 server. I have setup >majordomo on the machine, but can't get it to work right. Here is what >my .qmail-majordomo file looks like: > > |/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper majordomo See: http://Web.InfoA

Re: SPAMCONTROL patch not working?

Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Erwin van Kroonenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've just setup a new Qmail-1.03 server running tcpserver and the >> SPAMCONTROL patch I received from Erwin Hoffmann. When I test my >> mailserver at http://www.abuse.net/relay.html it still failes at Rel

Re: Linux kernel turning for mail performance?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I strongly _dis_recommend mounting ext2fs filesystems sync. The system > I described earlier had _terrible_ performance at first, it turned > out this was because I followed the FAQ and mounted it sync. Agreed; that's a serious issue. I would recommend switching to a

Re: multilog datestamping

On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 01:15:35AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Mark Delany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I just did a count of a couple of (smallish) log files and I found that > > on average, qmail-send is logging 469 bytes per delivery and sendmail is > > logging 430 bytes per delivery. FW

Re: multilog datestamping

Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unfortunately, multilog still lacks, so far as I can see, the ability to > limit by both space *and* time so that you can create clear reporting > boundaries for log summaries. I'd love to have it roll to a new log after > either one day or the size li

Re: Linux kernel turning for mail performance?

On Thu, 03 Feb 2000 09:05:35 -0500 , "Len Budney" writes: > Agreed; that's a serious issue. I would recommend switching to a better > synchronous filesystem, though, rather than using ext2 async. > > Unfortunately, Linux offers few choices there. The BSD fs would be great > if it wasn't so imma

Re: Bandwidth

Nice work indeed. Perks of being in a niche market with government funding all over the place. Anyway, my original idea was a 2mbit line to cover all services including web. As you say web will be the most bandwidth consumptive (real word?) so as i can work that out roughly i am looking for em

Re: Linux kernel turning for mail performance?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, 03 Feb 2000 09:05:35 -0500 , "Len Budney" writes: > > > > Unfortunately, Linux offers few choices there. The BSD fs would be > > great if it wasn't so immature under Linux; > > Using softupdates under *BSD gives you the reliability of sync (somewhat > more,

Re: Linux Patch for fsync of metdata

On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 09:51:11AM -0800, Qmail wrote: > I'm curious if I need this patch on RH 6.1 or higher? Yes. Linux does not (and most likely will not ever) explicitly sync directory data (sometimes mistakenly called file metadata) when syncing the file data. The patch I think you're ref

Re: multilog datestamping

On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 08:26:33AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > If I remember correctly, Bruce Guenter wrote a patch to allow one of the > loggers to do exactly this, by having it close and reopen its log upon > receipt of a HUP or some such signal. However, I don't remember if it was > multil

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Bounce and virtualdomains

Question: how control a double-bounce in a virtualdomains environment. I'm using qmail 1.03 with two virtualdomains in a RedHat 6.1 Linux box. This is the content of various control files: ME: mydomain.org LOCALS: mydomains.org VIRTUALDOMAINS: domain1.org:dm1 domain2.org:dm2 In /var/qmail/ali

Re: qmail logging tools

Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 08:26:33AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > > If I remember correctly, Bruce Guenter wrote a patch to allow one of the > > loggers to do exactly this [...] > Close, but not quite. I just wrote a whole new logger that writes to a

Re: Linux kernel turning for mail performance?

On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 09:32:36AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Using softupdates under *BSD gives you the reliability > of sync (somewhat more, actually), with nearly the speed > of async. softupdates are supposed to help keep your filesystem in a consistent state while providing asyncronou

Re: Bounce and virtualdomains

"Alessandro Ambrosini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Question: how control a double-bounce in a virtualdomains >environment. Short answer: I don't think you can. Sounds like a nice feature for qmail 2, though. >VIRTUALDOMAINS: >domain1.org:dm1 >domain2.org:dm2 > >In /var/qmail/alias there are usu

Re: Error on startup

"Andreas Altenburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >my script: > >env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \ > tcpserver 0 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup orbital.inter7.com \ > /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir > >The paths are o.k., but I get the error "Mai

Re: Error on startup

On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 01:20:39PM +0100, Andreas Altenburg wrote: > my script: > > env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \ > tcpserver 0 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup orbital.inter7.com \ > /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir > > The paths are o.k.,

Re: complex user routing

"sachin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i want complex user routing i.e the mail fom particulor email add. Is that "from" or "for"? I'll assume "from". >[EMAIL PROTECTED] will forwardes to another smtp server >how can i use smtproutes for that will it possible in smtproutes > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Error in sending mails

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I sometimes encounter errors like "error writing to >network, error reading from network, connection reset >by remote side 10054, etc" even without attachments.Do >I need to adjust something? How is that. We need lots more details. -Dave

Re: delete mails in queue

mail_manoj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want to delete mails that's in queue for the last four days. Does it >effect on qmail-send because few days ago I deleted mails in queue that's >caused qmail stop, and I had to restart the qmail. So, I want to know the >safest way to delete it. 1) stop qm

Re: Linux kernel turning for mail performance?

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000 11:47:43 -0700 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > AFAIK, the benefits of softupdates over fully asyncronous > operation has not been well proven. softupdates assure that the > metadata on the disk is always in a consistant state. It says > nothing about the data. Neither does van

Re: load balancing

"Muhammad Ali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have three qmail servers for my LAN. Two are directly connected to >Internet for receiving and sending of mails for my LAN. Third one is >POP3 server. All users first send their mails to POP3 server which >then forwards outgoing mails to one of the two

RE: Broken tcp_wrappers (resulting in selective relaying not work ing)

Stephen Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Well ive installed about 8 servers with selective relaying with >tcpserver and they all work fine, but this one isnt, Ive went through >everything I know and still can't resolve it... Post details and maybe we'll spot something you missed. >I might just

Re: Linux kernel turning for mail performance?

On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 01:07:47PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Neither does vanilla FFS (which is apparently Dan's > benchmark for reliability). That's why the fsync() > call was invented. FFS/softupdates honors fsync > calls, FFS/async does not. That's the difference. I believe that ext

Re: "shell-init: could not get current directory"

"Mullen, Patrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This is the line I'm using to start the pop3 demon is: > >tcpserver -v 0 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup myhost.net \ >/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1 | \ >/var/qmail/bin/splogger qmail-pop3d 3 & > >This line works perfec

Re: HOw:very virtual domains - copy mail between domains

"Bolmehag, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just moved from sendmail to qmail. Now I have domainaliases in the >sendmail configuratio that looks like this: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Mail is received for [EMAIL PROTECTED] and is copied and sent out to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] . F

Re: Linux kernel turning for mail performance?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 01:07:47PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Neither does vanilla FFS (which is apparently Dan's > > benchmark for reliability). That's why the fsync() > > call was invented. FFS/softupdates honors fsync > > calls, FFS/async does not. That

Re: Linux kernel turning for mail performance?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In my past 7 years of using Linux I have never seen an ext2 filesystem > that fsck could not fix. In my 7+- years, I haven't either. My worst experience was the time I had to use the -b option (fsck told me to, so I did, and it worked). I've lost about 3 files in that

RE: "shell-init: could not get current directory"

> Off hand, I'd guess it's a permission problem. Check the modes on all > the parent directories of the Maildir. Compare them with the system > that works right. Here is what happens when I do this manually -- [me@myhost me]$ telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.locald

Re: qmail logging tools

On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 12:31:53PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > Out of curiosity, have you done any comparisons (performance or feature) > of qfilelog vs. multilog vs. cyclog? Well, let's try. Performance: - qfilelog, multilog, and cyclog all read messages from stdin and write to a single f

Re: Linux kernel turning for mail performance?

On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 08:51:17PM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote: > 2. *BSD FFS (with and without softupdates) honors fsync() for data > AND metadata in any case. > > -> The fsync() call returns when the data and metadata is written >to the disk. > > == reliable for DJB Why

Semd multipart messages with flash embeded

Hello, I want to send messages with flash animations embeded (multipart mime messages). Is this possible? How? Thanks, Carlo Gibertini

RE: "shell-init: could not get current directory"

"Mullen, Patrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Any ideas where I should look for these >permissions problems? Say the full path to Maildir is /home/user/Maildir. Do: ls -ld / ls -ld /home ls -ld /home/user ls -ld /home/user/Maildir ls -ld /home/user/Maildir/* Compare the results with a working

Re: Semd multipart messages with flash embeded

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I want to send messages with flash animations embeded (multipart mime >messages). I'm sorry to hear that. :-) >Is this possible? How? Don't know, but (a) it's not a qmail question, and (b) very few MUA's will be able to display such messages properly. -Dave

RE: Semd multipart messages with flash embeded

> I want to send messages with flash animations > embeded (multipart mime messages). Oh, dear God. Please don't abuse the mail infrastructure this way. It's really not designed for it. If you take a 1k binary file (say a VERY small picture or something, which is much smaller than flash) and a

Re: popbull

TAG writes: > Is there some documentatoin about using popbull around - if so - please > point me? How is the qmail-popbull man page (included in the patch) failing you? -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | "Ask not what y

Re: Filtering out email addresses with pipe symbol

Charles Leeds writes: > We were audited and one of the findings was that our qmail server allowed > addresses with the pipe symbol in them, which was reported in our audit as a > bad practice. Sounds like a good time to pick new auditors. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelso

Re: MIME

Jeff Russell, AIT writes: > Quick question? > > Does qmail support MIME? Depending on what you mean, the answer is either definitely yes or definitely no. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | "Ask not what your countr

Re: Linux kernel turning for mail performance?

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000 13:29:03 -0700 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 08:51:17PM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > 2. *BSD FFS (with and without softupdates) honors fsync() for data > > AND metadata in any case. > > > > -> The fsync() call returns when the data and met

Re: SPAMCONTROL patch not working?

At 16:12 3.2.2000 +0100, you wrote: > >When I test something like "mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" the spampatch does work! :) >But are you sure I can pass all tests on abuse.net/relay.html with the spampatch? Because that's why I got the patch... > >Regards, > >Erwin > > Hi, the RELAY test (accord

Re: Linux kernel turning for mail performance?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I believe that ext2 honors fsync() as well (but not in 2.3 yet). > Could someone who knows more confirm? The metadata is still > asyncronous though so FFS with softupdates is probably better. ext2 has always honored fsync. You fsync a file, and its data goes off t

RE: "shell-init: could not get current directory"

> Say the full path to Maildir is /home/user/Maildir. Do: [ snip getting of full path permissions ] > Compare the results with a working Maildir on a working > system. If you > don't see the problem, post the output of those commands here. They are exactly the same (except that originally I h

qmail and rblsmtpd

Hi All, I'm new the list and hopefully have an easily answered questions, which is : How do I apply the coorect options to get rblsmtpd to work with qmail. This is my current tcpserver command line : /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -u 101 -g 100 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd & I want to

qmail-clean does not work

Hi all, When I tried running qmail-clean, both when all other qmail daemons are stopped and when the daemons are running, it seems to hang. i.e. as you hit the carriage return, it will just keep running. Is it alright to stop qmail then remove the ffg. subdirectories under: /tmp/queue/local/nn /

Re: qmail-clean does not work

On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 02:07:43PM -0800, DeChavez , Andrew wrote: > When I tried running qmail-clean, both when all other qmail daemons are > stopped and when the daemons are running, it seems to hang. i.e. as you hit > the carriage return, it will just keep running. Don't run qmail-clean. It's

RE: qmail-clean does not work

yeah right...check the man page! I need to clean out obsoleted emails that are spooled, because, for some non-qmail reason, didn't get sent right away. Right now, here's what I do to clean it up /etc/init.d/qmail stop cd /tmp/queue/remote for i in `ls` do rm ${i}/2*# cause they usually s

RE: "shell-init: could not get current directory"

> Just for a test, try making both of those mode 755 or 750. I made both ~ and ~/Maildir mode 755, and the results were exactly the same. :( Anywhere else you want me to try? Here is a complete listing of the situation through telnet and the test from checkpassword's INSTALL -- [user@host us

Re: qmail-clean does not work

On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 03:32:20PM -0800, DeChavez , Andrew wrote: > I need to clean out obsoleted emails that are spooled, because, for some > non-qmail reason, didn't get sent right away. Why do you need to remove them from the queue? qmail will do that itself once they're in there for longer t

OT: fsync semantics (was Re: Linux kernel ....)

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000 15:12:00 -0500 (EST) , Russell Nelson writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I believe that ext2 honors fsync() as well (but not in 2.3 yet). > > Could someone who knows more confirm? The metadata is still > > asyncronous though so FFS with softupdates is probably better.

Usage "accounting" with Qmail in Real Time?

Hi Folks, I'm trying to put together a solution for a custom application for a client. Essentially for each email sent I want to generate a confirming email back to the sender and to a third party with date, time, and file size. I need this to occur immediately and automatically. Any thoughts

RE: qmail-clean does not work

Which file/process does qmail check the files in queue/info/* against? How about files under queue/mess/* queue/remote/* queue/local/* ? Can I do this (touch -t) while qmail is up? -a -Original Message- From: 'Chris Johnson' [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 3

Re: qmail-clean does not work

On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 04:11:07PM -0800, DeChavez , Andrew wrote: > Which file/process does qmail check the files in queue/info/* against? I don't know what this means. > How about files under queue/mess/* queue/remote/* queue/local/* ? Don't worry about them. When the message is bounced, they

RE: qmail-clean does not work

I meant: Which file/process does qmail compare the files in queue/info/* against? You suggested that I do touch -t 0101 so that files in the subdirs queue/info/* will become older than. tnx! -a -Original Message- From: Chris Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thurs

Re: qmail-clean does not work

older than the current time, obviously. shag - Original Message - From: DeChavez , Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thu 3 Feb 2000 16.22 Subject: RE: qmail-clean does not work I meant: Which file/process does qmail compare the files in queue/info/* against? Y

Re: qmail-clean does not work

On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 04:22:00PM -0800, DeChavez , Andrew wrote: > I meant: > > Which file/process does qmail compare the files in queue/info/* against? That's exactly what you said the first time. > You suggested that I do touch -t 0101 so that files in the subdirs > queue/info/* will be

Re: qmail-clean does not work

This is what I do to clean the queue: find /var/qmail/queue -type f -name '[0-9]*' -exec touch -d 19900101 '{}' ';' Then, if I'm in a hurry, I kill -ALRM then qmail-send process. This is safe to do with qmail running, AFAIK. -o-o-

RE: qmail-clean does not work

I had this wild thought that the queuelifetime value is compared with when the qmail daemons were started, such that if I recently started qmail (/etc/init.d/qmail start) and if I have a queuelifetime of 7 days, then everything spooled, including the obsoleted messages, will get sent Thanks f

RE: "shell-init: could not get current directory"

> I don't recognize "shell-init", but it's not part of qmail. Well, after grinding the heck out of my hard drive, I finally found both "shell-init" and "could not get current directory" in the same program. As should have been expected, they were from /bin/bash (and /bin/sh which is only a symb

RE: "shell-init: could not get current directory"

Sounds like it's time to modify your /etc/inetd.conf or tcpserver and add strace and make sure you dont have any typos. On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Mullen, Patrick wrote: >> I don't recognize "shell-init", but it's not part of qmail. > >Well, after grinding the heck out of my hard drive, I >finally foun

RE: Broken tcp_wrappers (resulting in selective relaying not working)

Stephen Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Well ive installed about 8 servers with selective relaying with >tcpserver and they all work fine, but this one isnt, Ive went through >everything I know and still can't resolve it... Post details and maybe we'll spot something you missed. >I might just

RE: Broken tcp_wrappers (resulting in selective relaying not working)

sorry I forgot to change : [root@proxy /]# cat /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts1 | grep lan1.com.au to [root@proxy /]# cat /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts | grep lan1.com.au I renamed it to rcpthosts1 just so the file isnt read when I restart qmail.so ignore the 1 at the end..qmail reads in

Re: Broken tcp_wrappers (resulting in selective relaying not work ing)

On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 12:16:28PM +1100, Stephen Mills wrote: > [root@proxy /]# cat /etc/tcp.smtp > 203.17.254.:allow, RELAYCLIENT="" ^ Remove the space before RELAYCLIENT. Chris

RE: "shell-init: could not get current directory"

> Sounds like it's time to modify your /etc/inetd.conf or > tcpserver and add > strace and make sure you dont have any typos. ARGH! I was saying just today that I hate computers, and I now have a fresh reminder of why. Suddenly, it works. Unfortunately, I don't know why it suddenly works, but

How do I create a Maildir directory when I am adding a user?

How do I create a Maildir directory when I am adding a user? I am running FreeBSD 3.4 with qmail 1.03 and it's various goodies installed from the ports collection. I want to use the $HOME/Maildir with qmail. How do I create this directory automatically when I add a user via the adduser program?

Re: How do I create a Maildir directory when I am adding a user?

On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 06:03:40PM -0800, Max wrote: > How do I create a Maildir directory when I am adding a user? > > I am running FreeBSD 3.4 with qmail 1.03 and it's various goodies installed > from the ports collection. I want to use the $HOME/Maildir with qmail. How > do I create this direc

RE: "shell-init: could not get current directory"

> Where and why would bash be called while connecting to > qmail-pop3d, I'd look into your checkpasswd implementation, since that's the point at which the message gets printed. How does qmail-pop3d run checkpasswd? I wouldn't have thought system() knowing Dan's way of doing things, but perhaps

RE: Broken tcp_wrappers (resulting in selective relaying not work ing)

Chris, It works ! Thanks. I owe you a slab of beer and a barby :) --Stephen -Original Message- From: Chris Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 12:38 PM To: Stephen Mills Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Broken tcp_wrappers (resulting in selective rela

RE: How do I create a Maildir directory when I am adding a user?

> # cd /usr/share/skel && /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake Maildir Or, this may be appropriate (and shorter ;) -- # /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake /etc/skel/Maildir Check your system for where "skel" (the skeleton directory structure for new users) resides. I would assume there would only be one "skel"

Re: Bandwidth

If I understand correctly, you don't need to plan bandwidth for web browsing, as that goes through the dial-in provider, but you do need to plan for smtp bandwidth, as that's in-house? I'm reading page 33 of the Jan 31, 2000 Netword World magazine, which has an article quoting stats from Ferris R

RE: qmail-clean does not work

DeChavez , Andrew writes: > P.S. Does anybody know when the Qmail book is gonna be published? Well, I was just working on it yesterday -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | "Ask not what your country 521 Pleasant Valley

Re: OT: fsync semantics (was Re: Linux kernel ....)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Thu, 3 Feb 2000 15:12:00 -0500 (EST) , Russell Nelson writes: > > ext2 has always honored fsync. You fsync a file, and its data goes > > off to disk. You fsync a directory and its data goes off to disk. > > The only reason this surprises anyone is because the B

Re: OT: fsync semantics (was Re: Linux kernel ....)

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000 23:15:41 -0500 (EST) , Russell Nelson writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > What use is syncing the data to disk, if you can't > > get to it after a crash? It might as well have just > > stayed in cache otherwise > > fsync the data if you want the data on disk. > fsy

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On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 01:12:59PM +0800, Michael Boman wrote: > I know that this is not a real solution, but it needs to be done. > > I need a 'goomailfrom' ie: people or domains that exist in the list is > allowed to relay. I suppose it is something opposit for 'badmailfrom' that > dont allow c

Re: OT: fsync semantics (was Re: Linux kernel ....)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Why require two separate fsync() calls when one > will do? Because it's faster to only do the one. What is the point of spending 10% of your disk throughput taking steps to prevent something that never happens? Your machine is more likely to be destroyed in a terro