Re: [Already solved.] ezmlm without username-listname?

2000-02-10 Thread Henrik Öhman
Fred Lindberg wrote: On Wed, 09 Feb 2000 18:05:02 +0100, Henrik Öhman wrote: The correct solution was of course to change ~/testlist/inlocal and ~/testlist/outlocal from user-testlist to saying just testlist. The correct solution is to set up the list with the correct name right away.

maxrcpts patch and user groups?

2000-02-10 Thread TAG
HI ALL, I have used the maxrcpts patch and I want to configure it so that certain user groups can have different settings to others. The problem is I do not want them to be set by IP as we assign IP's to dial-up users PLESE HELP MANY THANKS Tonino

Re: maxrcpts patch and user groups?

2000-02-10 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 11:48:11AM +0200, TAG wrote: I have used the maxrcpts patch and I want to configure it so that certain user groups can have different settings to others. The problem is I do not want them to be set by IP as we assign IP's to dial-up users If you don't disinguish one

Re: Egg on my face

2000-02-10 Thread Petri Kaukasoina
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 12:47:08AM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: However, the machine still crashes from time to time. And apparently a few times it lost mail. I guess my fsync patch would have helped.

Re: Big and/or famous sites using qmail?

2000-02-10 Thread petervd
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 10:38:54PM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 11:55:04AM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote: Wouldn't it great if there was a list of big/famous sites that uses qmail as their MTA? I just compiled a list of these from searching through the qmail mailing

Re: Big and/or famous sites using qmail?

2000-02-10 Thread Fred Backman
I'm not speaking for USA.NET as I have no clue what they use or do, but it's possible they have a non-qmail smtp mail server for incoming traffic, and separate qmail processes running for the outgoing traffic. Bruce Guenter wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 12:44:16PM +, Blaine Lefler wrote:

Re: Big and/or famous sites using qmail?

2000-02-10 Thread Keith Warno
SuSE.com and -- I'm presuming SuSE.de -- also use qmail, as well as ezmlm for their mailing lists. http://www.suse.com/Maillist/index_en.html 1 of the 3 lists I'm on (the English discussion list, suse-linux-e) generates about 2 or 3 times as much traffic as this list daily. Can't say much more

qmail Digest 10 Feb 2000 11:00:00 -0000 Issue 907

2000-02-10 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 10 Feb 2000 11:00:00 - Issue 907 Topics (messages 36965 through 37041): Re: concurrencyremote 36965 by: Dave Sill Documentation 36966 by: Allen Versfeld 36971 by: Russell Nelson Re: qmail-imap, cyrus imap, qmail 36967 by: Dave Sill

Re: Big and/or famous sites using qmail?

2000-02-10 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
SuSE.com and -- I'm presuming SuSE.de -- also use qmail, as well as ezmlm for their mailing lists. Not officially :) SuSE stuff told me that they not agree with the mail administrator who set this up. They force postfix. I tried to get predefined qmail user ids into the distribution and

Re: Egg on my face

2000-02-10 Thread Len Budney
Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Russell Nelson wrote: Well, hell, you'll probably lose mail even if you're running a journaling filesystem, like that. Contrary to popular belief, a journaling fs does not guarantee that all of your data is intact, just that the integrity

autoresponder

2000-02-10 Thread Elliot Goldstein
I am trying to make an autoresponder work on a user in a virtual domain in qmail. the user has a .qmail file in /var/qmail/alias/ directory that directs the mail to the users home directory on the default domain on the machine. I am using a simple autoresponder script that works but it gives the

Re: checkpw, APOP

2000-02-10 Thread Paul Schinder
At 2:58 PM -0500 2/10/00, Dave Sill wrote: Paul Schinder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2:39 PM -0500 2/10/00, Dave Sill wrote: I installed Shinya Ohira's checkpw checkpassword replacement, and it works fine with "checkpw" (standard USER + PASS authentication), but with "checkapoppw" I get

Re: checkpw, APOP

2000-02-10 Thread Paul Schinder
At 2:39 PM -0500 2/10/00, Dave Sill wrote: I installed Shinya Ohira's checkpw checkpassword replacement, and it works fine with "checkpw" (standard USER + PASS authentication), but with "checkapoppw" I get "authorization failed". I'm using fetchmail, but I have the same problem when I "manually"

Re: checkpw, APOP

2000-02-10 Thread Dave Sill
Paul Schinder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ fetchmail -vv fetchmail: 5.1.0 querying emaildev (protocol APOP) at Thu, 10 Feb 2000 14:49:04 -0500 (EST) fetchmail: POP3 +OK [EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: POP3 APOP de5 377129bbb5e2a8e84b0576cddaf384c9 fetchmail: POP3 -ERR authorization failed fetchmail:

Re: Databytes and users?

2000-02-10 Thread Faried Nawaz
Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TAG writes: Is it possible to set a databytes file for a specific user that will overide the system wide databytes file?? Only if that user has a fixed IP address. There's another way around that problem -- the pop-before-you-send-mail

Re: dos attacks

2000-02-10 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Marek Narkiewicz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Would it be possible to lmit the number of spawns that tcpserver can make from one ip address concurrently to preven one ip spawning up to the limit of concurrent daemons and denying access to that daemon? I can't think of a way to do it from what

rblsmtpd and patch for qmail

2000-02-10 Thread kevin
Hi All, I'm want to apply a patch to rblsmtpd which allows it to use more than one listing service. Where do I put the patch file and what are the commands to apply the patch ? My patch file multirbls.diff currently sits in the directory : /TEMP/rblsmtpd-0.70 Is this right and how to I

Re: Journalling and email loss

2000-02-10 Thread Len Budney
Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Len Budney wrote: Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Russell Nelson wrote: Well, hell, you'll probably lose mail even if you're running a journaling filesystem... False. Mail will not be lost if if rename() or

checkpw, APOP

2000-02-10 Thread Dave Sill
I installed Shinya Ohira's checkpw checkpassword replacement, and it works fine with "checkpw" (standard USER + PASS authentication), but with "checkapoppw" I get "authorization failed". I'm using fetchmail, but I have the same problem when I "manually" generate the APOP hash. How can I debug

Way too many messages in queue.

2000-02-10 Thread Voitenko, Denis
Title: Way too many messages in queue. I have a puny machine that does mail for one of my clients. It appears that they have a ton of messages in the queue as such: messages in queue: 418 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 How exactly would I interpret this data and what do I do

Logging

2000-02-10 Thread Brian Johnson
I'm looking for a way to add a Bcc: line to all e-mails that come through my smtp server. I'm trying to log all the e-mail that people send through my server to another pop box so I can just download the messages, and then filter them or whatever I want with my mailreader. has someone written a

RE: Big and/or famous sites using qmail?

2000-02-10 Thread Sean Casey
Topica.com (highly modified) something like 2.5-3 million messages a day (I don't work there, but a lot of my friends do...) Sean

Re: Way too many messages in queue.

2000-02-10 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
messages in queue: 418 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 How exactly would I interpret this data and what do I do about it? Normally no need to worry. There are 418 messages that could not be delivered until now. There are several reasons possible: not enough bandwith or no

Re: Way too many messages in queue.

2000-02-10 Thread John P. Looney
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 10:01:31AM -0500, Voitenko, Denis mentioned: I have a puny machine that does mail for one of my clients. It appears that they have a ton of messages in the queue as such: messages in queue: 418 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 How exactly would I

Re: Way too many messages in queue.

2000-02-10 Thread alexander . jernejcic
first look with ps, if qmail-send and its three little friends (rspawn, lspawn, clean) are running. then have glance at the output of qmail-qread. is there only one host you are not reaching or are there many? you could ask qmail-tcpto, if there are troubles specific to one special connections.

Re: checkpw, APOP

2000-02-10 Thread Dave Sill
Paul Schinder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2:39 PM -0500 2/10/00, Dave Sill wrote: I installed Shinya Ohira's checkpw checkpassword replacement, and it works fine with "checkpw" (standard USER + PASS authentication), but with "checkapoppw" I get "authorization failed". I'm using fetchmail, but I

RE: Way too many messages in queue.

2000-02-10 Thread Greg Owen
I have a puny machine that does mail for one of my clients. It appears that they have a ton of messages in the queue as such: messages in queue: 418 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 How exactly would I interpret this data and what do I do about it? 1) Run qmail-qread

Re: checkpw, APOP

2000-02-10 Thread Paul Schinder
At 3:21 PM -0500 2/10/00, Dave Sill wrote: Solaris 7 SPARC, gcc 2.8.1. Compiler bug, maybe? I'm using 2.95.2 now, and it was 2.95.1 that compiled the checkpw that does this: leprss% fetchmail -vv -c --protocol APOP mors.gsfc.nasa.gov Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: fetchmail: 5.2.0

Re: Big and/or famous sites using qmail?

2000-02-10 Thread Mate Wierdl
How about: sunsite.auc.dk and some big .edu domains like Ohio State (orb1.osu.edu). Sadly though, UIC does not run qmail on their mail servers. I think one needs to be a bit more precise when listing sites that use qmail. For example, RedHat uses qmail only to host the mailinglists (on

qmail-qread

2000-02-10 Thread Roberto Samarone Araujo
I would like to know what the fields of qmail-qread mean . For Example : 7 Feb 2000 15:35:40 GMT #635162 2305 local [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't understand what the field means , it sometimes appear as #@[] . I would like to know How can I delete a mail from queue

conf-users a conf-qmail

2000-02-10 Thread Jiri Rosenmayer
Folks I want to run multiple instances of qmail. My question is: "If I already run 1 instance of qmail and I want to run second, have I create another users (qmaild, qmails, ..) or I can use these users from first qmail instance ?? Is there some problem if these users have different home

Re: qmail-qread

2000-02-10 Thread Greg Owen
I would like to know what the fields of qmail-qread mean . For Example : 7 Feb 2000 15:35:40 GMT #635162 2305 local [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't understand what the field means , it sometimes appear as #@[] . is a "null return path." When mail bounces, the

Virus checker

2000-02-10 Thread Daniel A. Denes
Hello list, can someone recommend a virus-checking solution that will run with qmail as well as without (i.e., run standalone and check non-mail files)? Platform is debian. Help really appreciated! TIA, Daniel mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

maildir access

2000-02-10 Thread Marek Narkiewicz
How do i go about reading from a maildir without ncroaching on the security of the maildir? ie what is the procedure for reading emails from one. Also where can i find the spec for maildirs like an rfc or similar. cheers -- Marek Narkiewicz, Systems Director WelshDragon ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: maildir access

2000-02-10 Thread Manfred Bartz
Marek Narkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do i go about reading from a maildir without ncroaching on the security of the maildir? ie what is the procedure for reading emails from one. Basically you need a MUA (Mail User Agent) which is capable of reading from maildirs. Mutt is one. I

Re: Journalling and email loss

2000-02-10 Thread Len Budney
(Sam) Well, hell, you'll probably lose mail even if you're running a journaling filesystem... (me) False. Mail will not be lost if if rename() or link() (depending on (Sam) Who said anything about the message already being on the filesystem? (me) Then your

checkpassword on Solaris 7

2000-02-10 Thread Mark Parker
Hi, presently I am fighting to setup pop3 access to the qmail server. I have attempted to use both the commands/configurations from the FAQ (using tcpserver) and from the Living With Qmail doco (using inetd) and I receive the same error using both. telnet hostname 110 +OK

Re: maildir access

2000-02-10 Thread Len Budney
Marek Narkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do i go about reading from a maildir without ncroaching on the security of the maildir? Depends what you mean by ``security''. If you really mean ``security'', then the answer is: only do it if they're your emails (or you're authorized). If you

Re: Journalling and email loss

2000-02-10 Thread Len Budney
Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Len Budney wrote: Which brings us back to link() or rename()... And, if close() does not update the metadata, there's no reason why link or rename should either. What this REALLY brings us back to is the fact that the only thing that

Re: maildir access

2000-02-10 Thread Marek Narkiewicz
Ok thanks a lot, you answered my (rather badly phrased) question perfectly. I intend to offer my clients a web based interface to their pop3 mail in conjunction with a java aplet based live notificationt that they have new mail. As the account that they will be using will be their standard pop3

Re: maildir access

2000-02-10 Thread Len Budney
Marek Narkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now in order for the java server to update the client when new mail is available it needs some way of knowing which mails have already been read by the web client. The easiest way, if your maildir clients all play nice, is that files in maildir/new

maildir - MIME web-viewer ?

2000-02-10 Thread Olivier M.
Hello, The last week, I tried a few webmail solutions, based on imap and pop. Some are pretty, but actually, I think it is silly to use pop, when we could simply use a CGI to read the mails _directely_ from user Maildir (with password check naturally). As I'm probably not the first one getting

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

2000-02-10 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 11:15:41PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: [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

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

2000-02-10 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 12:02:49AM +0100, Bolmehag, Peter wrote: Hi 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

Re: maildir - MIME web-viewer ?

2000-02-10 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 07:33:12AM +0100, Olivier M. wrote: Hello, The last week, I tried a few webmail solutions, based on imap and pop. Some are pretty, but actually, I think it is silly to use pop, when we could simply use a CGI to read the mails _directely_ from user Maildir (with

FFS with softupdates (Re: Journalling and email loss)

2000-02-10 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 11:21:08PM -0500, Len Budney wrote: Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Len Budney wrote: Which brings us back to your mistake; you make a claim about ``journalling filesystems'' which is true for some, and false for others... I did not