Re: Setting Up a Secure, quick, Pop3 Toaster

2000-02-16 Thread Sven Veckes
Matt Mouser wrote: > Hi, > > I am setting up a server farm here. I plan to be running many domains on the > same machine. This machine will be running many services as well such as > http,ftp, mySQL, etc...Dns will be on a outside machine. All I need > qmail for is pop3 and for receiving mai

Re: Setting Up a Secure, quick, Pop3 Toaster

2000-02-16 Thread Olivier M.
Hi Matt, On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 03:11:03PM -0800, Matt Mouser wrote: > I am setting up a server farm here. I plan to be running many domains on the > same machine. This machine will be running many services as well such as > http,ftp, mySQL, etc...Dns will be on a outside machine. All I nee

mail.local:_unknown_name:_postmaster/ error

2000-02-16 Thread Gavin Cameron
Hi, Can anyone tell me what the following error message means? It from a machine that is quite happily running a number of virtual domains. The machine name is cliserv.itworks.com.au and that is in rcpthosts and locals. There is a ~alias/.qmail-postmaster file and it has a valid forwarding addr

Blank messages from qmail via POP

2000-02-16 Thread Jeremy G Byrne
Dear qmail gurus-- We recently installed qmail to replace sendmail under RedHat 5.1, and now I'm losing mail. The symptoms (under Eudora 3.0.1; no other clients tested): POP times out and leaves the last message downloaded entirely blank (no headers, no content), then _deletes_ the message, alon

run program in .qmail

2000-02-16 Thread Jason Huang
I am trying to run my program in .qmail. In my program , it will create a file and chage the mode to 755. But it doesn't work,the file still be 700.   Could someone tell me why?    

Re: blocking domains

2000-02-16 Thread Robert
Thank you... It sounds like it's exactly what I need.. I appreciate all the input on this. Thank you - Original Message - From: "Mark Mentovai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 11:00 PM Subject: Re: blocking domains > Robert wrote: > >Bu

Re: blocking domains

2000-02-16 Thread Mark Mentovai
Robert wrote: >But will they get a bounce message??? I'm not sure I follow you with the >"not allowed to post." I'm fairly sure these people use a commercial >hosting service, and I doubt seriously that they are privy to maillogs.. A failure of a MAIL FROM command issued to an SMTP server will

Re: blocking domains

2000-02-16 Thread Robert
But will they get a bounce message??? I'm not sure I follow you with the "not allowed to post." I'm fairly sure these people use a commercial hosting service, and I doubt seriously that they are privy to maillogs.. Thanks - Original Message - From: "Michael Boman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: blocking domains

2000-02-16 Thread Michael Boman
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 10:34:32PM -0600, Robert wrote: > Thanks for the help!! I looked at qmail-smtpd man pages and see how this > works now, but I'm curious about one thing. Will the blocked sender receive > a notice stating that they are blocked when they try to send an email to my > mail se

Re: blocking domains

2000-02-16 Thread Robert
Thanks for the help!! I looked at qmail-smtpd man pages and see how this works now, but I'm curious about one thing. Will the blocked sender receive a notice stating that they are blocked when they try to send an email to my mail server?? I'd like for them to know I'm doing it if possible. Tha

Re: blocking domains

2000-02-16 Thread Michael Boman
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 10:11:50PM -0600, Robert wrote: > Hello, > Is it possible to block incoming email from a certain domain from getting > to my users?? > > Thanks for any help!! > /var/qmail/control/badmailfrom is the file you should look at. Best regards Michael Boman -- W I Z O F F

blocking domains

2000-02-16 Thread Robert
Hello, Is it possible to block incoming email from a certain domain from getting to my users?? Thanks for any help!!

queue: wrong_owner (#4.3.5) and 'trouble creating files...(#4.3.0)'

2000-02-16 Thread Gordon McAllister
I apologize in advance for the length of this message--I've been reading this list and searching the archive and FAQ for some time, so I'm trying to anticipate all of the information about my problem that one might need to solve it... I've recently installed qmail-1.03 (no patches) and am tryi

Re: advice on moving /var to RAID?

2000-02-16 Thread John White
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 03:27:14PM -0800, Matt Harrington wrote: > i want to move /var to RAID (software RAID with > FreeBSD's "vinum"). i'd like a sanity check on what i > plan to do: Not sure what RAID level you're using. However, unless it's RAID1+0, you're increasing the first bottleneck wh

Re: qmail and spammers

2000-02-16 Thread Martin A. Brown
This line is broken for clarity... This is not elegant. Anybody have suggestions to make this better? Let's say you have some jerk spamming you from "wonderfrog.net" Here's how to bounce /any/ mail from that domain. | bouncesaying 'The mailbox does not exist.' /bin/sh -c \ 'exit $(echo

Re: Managing the Queue

2000-02-16 Thread Peter Samuel
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Steve Belt wrote: > when I run qmail-qstat, it says there are 2 messages in the queue. > When I rung qmail-qread, it shows no messages. > > Do I have a problem? How do I investigate this? I have read the FAQ - is > there a tool / doc for montoring and maintaining queues? Th

streamline symbolic links?

2000-02-16 Thread Eric Lalonde
It seems taht unless there is a symbolic link from /var/spool/mail/user to /home/user/Mailbox, the user will not be notified, if they are logged into the box, that they have new mail. Since I want users to be notified when new mail arrives, is there a way to streamline the process of creating symb

Re: Setting Up a Secure, quick, Pop3 Toaster

2000-02-16 Thread Russell P. Sutherland
* Matt Mouser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [16 Feb 2000 18:17]: > I am setting up a server farm here. I plan to be running many domains on the > same machine. This machine will be running many services as well such as > http,ftp, mySQL, etc...Dns will be on a outside machine. All I need > > Multiple

qmail and spammers

2000-02-16 Thread Erich Zigler
I was wondering if anyone knows any little tricks to defer spammers. I know of only allowing relaying for certain IPs. But what else is there? Is there an configuration that will limit the ammount of mail sent by a certain host during a space of time? -- Erich Zigler

advice on moving /var to RAID?

2000-02-16 Thread Matt Harrington
my system: FreeBSD 3.4, qmail, Maildir, daemontools, tcpserver. i want to move /var to RAID (software RAID with FreeBSD's "vinum"). i'd like a sanity check on what i plan to do: - bring /var2 online. /var2 = RAID - reboot into single user. don't start qmail & MySQL since they use /var. - co

Setting Up a Secure, quick, Pop3 Toaster

2000-02-16 Thread Matt Mouser
Hi, I am setting up a server farm here. I plan to be running many domains on the same machine. This machine will be running many services as well such as http,ftp, mySQL, etc...Dns will be on a outside machine. All I need qmail for is pop3 and for receiving mail and placing it in correct fol

Newbee Question

2000-02-16 Thread Roy Kerwood
I want to get sqwebadmail but I don't know how to setup the GDBM or DB database lookup... for sqwebmail can I get some advice please. Thanks Roy Kerwood Network Administrator Cityxpress.com 604-638-3800 Local 311

Addendum: getting mail sent to lists to resolve to correct host/domain

2000-02-16 Thread Ben Trussell
Also, my virtualdomains file contains "aquinas.pp.asu.edu:hdshc.asu.edu" (no quotation marks). thanks again.   - Original Message - From: Ben Trussell To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 3:52 PM Subject: getting mail sent to lists to resolve to correct host/dom

getting mail sent to lists to resolve to correct host/domain

2000-02-16 Thread Ben Trussell
  Hello all, I manage a university department's mailing lists, as well as their network and PCs.  My predecessor had set up qmail and ezmlm on a FreeBSD machine to allow teachers to have discussion list for their classes.  The machine's host and domain name differ slightly from the departmen

Re: strange emails for pop accounts.

2000-02-16 Thread Eric Lalonde
thanks for the insight..made the changes. funny the email doesn't even say that pine created the message. just the 'mail folder'. thanks again eric - Original Message - From: "Mark Mentovai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 2:46 PM Subject: R

Re: strange emails for pop accounts.

2000-02-16 Thread Mark Mentovai
Eric Lalonde wrote: >however, sometimes a very strange thing happens: >If mail is sent to the user on my system, and the user uses pine to read the >mail, and then deletes it, and then later checks their mail from the pop >server using outlook express or equivilent, they get the following email >m

Re: strange emails for pop accounts.

2000-02-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Eric Lalonde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > however, sometimes a very strange thing happens: > If mail is sent to the user on my system, and the user uses pine to read > the mail, and then deletes it, and then later checks their mail from the > pop server using outlook express or equivilent, they

strange emails for pop accounts.

2000-02-16 Thread Eric Lalonde
I recently modified procmail and recompiled it to deliver to /home/user/Mailbox. Then I made a symbolic link between /home/user/Mailbox and /var/spool/mail/user. Qmail's startup script on my box is identical to the one in /var/qmail/boot/proc. Mail delivery works and pine.conf was modified so pine

Re: Managing the Queue

2000-02-16 Thread Steve Wolfe
> when I run qmail-qstat, it says there are 2 messages in the queue. > When I rung qmail-qread, it shows no messages. > > Do I have a problem? How do I investigate this? I have read the FAQ - is > there a tool / doc for montoring and maintaining queues? http://www.qmail.org , choose a mirror. "e

Re: Strange Problem

2000-02-16 Thread iv0
Bill Parker wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm running qmail v1.03, qmailadmin, tcpserver, vpopmail...what I want to > do is have a copy of all mail received at [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwarded to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (i.e. have one copy deposited in his mail dir at work, and the > other to his ISP, b

max recipients killing instead of bouncing.

2000-02-16 Thread Michael Boyiazis
Sorry if you are seeing this twice. I don't think it made it to the list. I've done the below w/ a 5XX series error and the exit(1). Unfortunately I seem to be tossing mailing list emails out, not just the joker trying to mail to 2000 people at once. My understanding was that the mailing list s

Strange Problem

2000-02-16 Thread Bill Parker
Hi All, I'm running qmail v1.03, qmailadmin, tcpserver, vpopmail...what I want to do is have a copy of all mail received at [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (i.e. have one copy deposited in his mail dir at work, and the other to his ISP, but when I do this with .qmail-sha

Managing the Queue

2000-02-16 Thread Steve Belt
when I run qmail-qstat, it says there are 2 messages in the queue. When I rung qmail-qread, it shows no messages. Do I have a problem? How do I investigate this? I have read the FAQ - is there a tool / doc for montoring and maintaining queues? Thanks, Steve B.

Spam deflection

2000-02-16 Thread Shawn P. Stanley
Hi, I'm receiving spam through various open SMTP relays but originating from a specific network IP and I'd like to block messages originating from that network IP while allowing e-mail from the various open SMTP relays. What's the best way to do that? I've tried communicating with the open rela

Re: POP Account checking

2000-02-16 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 01:40:26PM -0800, Istvan Berko wrote: > Hi There... > > I was wondering if there is a package that allows me to check a pop account > on an external server, rewrite the address and inserts it into the local > server. man fetchmail /magnus -- http://x42.com/

Re: Totally boggled..

2000-02-16 Thread Dave Sill
Henrik =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D6hman?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >5.) qmail begins a new msg with id 539092 (there has not yet been a second >bounce for that mail, only a second report of failure,) delivery 2352 > >6.) qmail carries out delivery 2352 successfully, and begins the forward to >[EMAIL PROT

qmail-pop3d not timing out?

2000-02-16 Thread Fred Backman
(1) If I want to change the qmail-pop3d timeout, is it correct to modify the line int timeout = 1200; in qmail-popup.c and qmail-pop3d.c? If not, how do I go about? (2) I did just that, changing it from 1200 to 30, but the timeout only seems to work in the authentication stage, ie. before i'm a

Re: Totally boggled..

2000-02-16 Thread Henrik Öhman
Okay, I'll clarify a little. I'm not currently using qmailanalog, so I'll try to do it in words. [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced a bounce due to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 195.41.46.148 does not like recipient. This bounce was supposed to be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uid 1014), but was instead sent to [

Re: pop3 and checkpassword

2000-02-16 Thread Steve Wolfe
> This is what happens when I telnet port 110. > #telnet mail.server 110 > trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > connected to mail server > Escape character is '^]' > +ok <573.950693006@INIT VERSION=sysvinit-2.74 > user mike > +ok > pass gomike > -ERR authorization failed > Connection closed by foreign host >

Re: ezmlm-idx 0.40 and web archives...

2000-02-16 Thread Fred Lindberg
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 10:12:01 -0500, Angus Robertson wrote: >Is it possible to have the ezmlm-idx web archive on a seperate server >from the qmail/ezmlm server? Yes, and no. The idea with ezmlm-cgi is to access the archive directly without the [admin and space] overhead of separate storage. Thus,

Re: Totally boggled..

2000-02-16 Thread Dave Sill
Henrik =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D6hman?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I checked the logs.. I can't make sense out these with the funky line wrapping, and without knowing more about your system (e.g., who are UID's 21 and 1044, and how is mail to henrik.ohman handled?). Try running "matchup" from qmailana

testing delivery ?

2000-02-16 Thread John P. Looney
I've hacked up a version of getpw to authenticate off an Oracle database, and, surprise surprise, it doesn't work. From reading docs, qmail-inject seems to be pretty similar to the old "sendmail -v" I used to use to use to debug broken sendmail systems. However, the man page is a bit confusing fo

qmailanalog and senders?

2000-02-16 Thread TAG
Hi, How do you use qmailanalog to determine the amount of message sent to a particular domain?? Thanks Tonino

Re: why wont q-mail use other mail exchanger??

2000-02-16 Thread Greg Owen
>ok, I read that thread (or most of it anyway) interesting discussion - but >this isn't the problem I'm having... >I can't connect to the remote host at all... I tried to connecting to the host >with telnet and the connection just times-out (I even logged the packets and >didn't get any replys

Totally boggled..

2000-02-16 Thread Henrik Öhman
This morning I got a message from the qmail-list that one of the messages to me had bounced. Well, my mailer-daemon did deliver a bounce.. --- Date: 4 Feb 2000 10:44:21 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.gammadata

Re: pop3 and checkpassword

2000-02-16 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 10:33:10PM +1300, kiwitp wrote: > Escape character is '^]' > +ok <573.950693006@INIT VERSION=sysvinit-2.74 the qmail-popup command (more precisely the "main" function) was started with a garbled command line and environment. That is, it thinks "INIT VERSION=sysvinit-2.74"

POP Account checking

2000-02-16 Thread Istvan Berko
Hi There... I was wondering if there is a package that allows me to check a pop account on an external server, rewrite the address and inserts it into the local server. Thanks Istvan

Re: Distribution List

2000-02-16 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 02:07:33PM +0500, Muhammad Ali wrote: >I want to make distribution lists in Qmail. How? man dot-qmail. -- See complete headers for more info

qmail Digest 16 Feb 2000 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 913

2000-02-16 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 16 Feb 2000 11:00:01 - Issue 913 Topics (messages 37238 through 37300): Attachement logging 37238 by: Christian Wiese Custom mail directories 37239 by: John P. Looney 37240 by: petervd.vuurwerk.nl 37243 by: John P. Looney 37244 by: Anand

pop3 and checkpassword

2000-02-16 Thread kiwitp
This is what happens when I telnet port 110. #telnet mail.server 110 trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx connected to mail server Escape character is '^]' +ok <573.950693006@INIT VERSION=sysvinit-2.74 user mike +ok pass gomike -ERR authorization failed Connection closed by foreign host I can't for the life of

Distribution List

2000-02-16 Thread Muhammad Ali
I want to make distribution lists in Qmail. How?

Uh-oh:_Again

2000-02-16 Thread Shashi Dahal
Dear all ! I am posting this again. For some time now, I have been getting a lot of messages like "Uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is_blank._(#4.2.1)/" I have checked the entries in .qmail files of the respective home directories, but everything seems pretty normal. It is normal in aliases a