Re: Enabling Identd using Tcpserver

2000-02-17 Thread Michael Boyiazis
ftp works just fine under tcpserver. I'd imagine telnet does too. mike. You don't have to choose between inetd and tcpserver; you can use them both. Use inetd for services like ident and ftpd and telnet, and use tcpserver for SMTP and POP and so forth. tcpserver doesn't prevent inetd

Re: Enabling Identd using Tcpserver

2000-02-17 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 10:32:23PM -0500, James Timberlake wrote: well how do i go about re-enabling inetd. inetd.conf no longer loads upon startup. i realized this once i installed and wasn't able to telnet or ftp in (good thing i also use ssh). i got both telnet and ftp working under

RE: Enabling Identd using Tcpserver

2000-02-17 Thread James Timberlake
actually i do know quite a bit about administering linux. that message came off sounding like i have no idea what i'm talking about. it's just that this has been driving me nuts and i'm a little worn out. inetd was running; just not properly. tcpserver had taken over and wasn't allowing it to

Re: Enabling Identd using Tcpserver

2000-02-17 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 01:38:45AM -0500, James Timberlake wrote: actually i do know quite a bit about administering linux. that message came Well how about you demonstrate it by showing us the analysis you have made of your problem? A good admin does as much debugging as they can. They do

About replacing INETD packet with UCSPI-TCP

2000-02-17 Thread mulin
Hello qmail, I've read UCSPI-TCP is very robust and reliable system. I've encountered that they don't work together. Who knows how to replace INETD with UCSPI-TCP send me some links or something else to help me with this question. Thanks in advance. Best regards, mulin

Re: qmail and spammers

2000-02-17 Thread Abel Lucano
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Martin A. Brown wrote: 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

RE: About replacing INETD packet with UCSPI-TCP

2000-02-17 Thread Greg Owen
I've read UCSPI-TCP is very robust and reliable system. I've encountered that they don't work together. Who knows how to replace INETD with UCSPI-TCP send me some links or something else to help me with this question. Inetd is a daemon that, when told to listen to a set of

Re: streamline symbolic links?

2000-02-17 Thread Brad Kanipe
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Smtp and Pop3 log empty??

2000-02-17 Thread Arisandy Arief
I install qmail 1-.03 + Ucspi-tcp + Daemontools 0.61 and follow step by step instruction in Life with Qmail... the daemon running well but my log file /var/log/qmail/smtpd/current and /var/log/qmail/pop3d/current always empty ?? there is already multilog t qmail-smtpd and pop3d process, but log

Re: streamline symbolic links?

2000-02-17 Thread Keith Warno
- Original Message - From: "Eric Lalonde" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 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

Solved:Separate logs with splogger ?

2000-02-17 Thread mack
Hi there, I've found the way to solve the problem. Please forget the previous messaage I've posted. Thanks anyway and sorry for wasting the bandwidth :-) -- W.H.L.

Re: Enabling Identd using Tcpserver

2000-02-17 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 09:44:05PM -0500, James Timberlake wrote: hi. i recently installed qmail via rpm and it replaced inetd with tcpserver. now all my services that i had running under inetd.conf are no longer available. i was able to get ftpd and telnetd back up and running because

RE: Enabling Identd using Tcpserver

2000-02-17 Thread James Timberlake
well how do i go about re-enabling inetd. inetd.conf no longer loads upon startup. i realized this once i installed and wasn't able to telnet or ftp in (good thing i also use ssh). i got both telnet and ftp working under tcpserver, but identd doesn't work still. i'd love to get inetd working

qmail Digest 17 Feb 2000 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 914

2000-02-17 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 17 Feb 2000 11:00:01 - Issue 914 Topics (messages 37301 through 37349): Re: Distribution List 37301 by: Anand Buddhdev POP Account checking 37302 by: Istvan Berko 37314 by: Magnus Bodin Re: pop3 and checkpassword 37303 by: Uwe Ohse

Re: About replacing INETD packet with UCSPI-TCP

2000-02-17 Thread Dave Sill
mulin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read UCSPI-TCP is very robust and reliable system. I've encountered that they don't work together. They work fine together as long as you don't try to combine them or overlap them. In other words, each service needs to be handled by either inetd or

Recent hotmail problems

2000-02-17 Thread Anand Buddhdev
I know this is off-topic, but I'd like to know if anyone else is seeing this: Over the last couple of weeks, I've been seeing a lot of '554 transaction failed' errors in my qmail logs for deliveries to hotmail.com addresses. In some cases, my customers have reported that even though they received

Lost Messages?

2000-02-17 Thread Jeff Russell, AIT
Hi there. Due to some server trouble this morning, our web and email services were down. We are now up and running, but no external messages have been obtained over those couple hours. However, external messages being sent to us currently do arrive. We have shutdown and restarted qmail.

Re: Lost Messages?

2000-02-17 Thread Dave Sill
"Jeff Russell, AIT" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Due to some server trouble this morning, our web and email services were down. We are now up and running, but no external messages have been obtained over those couple hours. However, external messages being sent to us currently do arrive. We have

RE: Lost Messages?

2000-02-17 Thread Tim Hunter
Well if I am reading your messages right I assume one of two things. 1. They are sitting at your secondary MX and it doesn't know your up yet 2. They got deferred from the senders and you will get them next time it tries to be sent. -Original Message- From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL

Use of symbolic links under qmail

2000-02-17 Thread Director tecnico--Nodo Nicarao
Hi, I would like ask you some simple question about the symbolic links unde qmail. Is it necessary to create symbolic links in order to qmail to work properly? I have read in the last messages that the only adventage on creating these links may be that the user will be notified if they recived

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

2000-02-17 Thread Gordon McAllister
Hello, all. much stuff deleted from original message 1. The log and qmail-qsanity are pointing at the problem--but why isn't the correct uid set for this message? Manually chown'ing the message to qmails results in immediate delivery. ^^

Re: Use of symbolic links under qmail

2000-02-17 Thread Eric Lalonde
I am going to give you the answer that was given to me. It is my understanding that if you export the MAILPATH in your system wide shell config file, it is not necessary to have symbolic links to /var/spool/mail/user. This is my understanding from my experiences with qmail, but I am not very

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

2000-02-17 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

no mail notification (WAS: streamlining symbolic links)

2000-02-17 Thread Eric Lalonde
I have added the following to /etc/bashrc: export MAIL="$HOME/Mailbox" Then i sent mail to the user. Waiting at least sixty seconds, the default time for new mail to be recognized by bash, I logged the user in and got "No mail." However, when I ran pine, there was one message waiting for the

Lost Messages?

2000-02-17 Thread Jeff Russell, AIT
Hi again. In case you couldn't tell, I'm pretty new at this qmail game. Qmail was set up before I arrived here and the person who did so managed to set it up without logs. I know its strange, but what can you do? Is there a way of setting up these logs now? As for the messages, I

Re: testing delivery ?

2000-02-17 Thread Russell Nelson
John P. Looney writes: 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,

Separate logs with splogger ?

2000-02-17 Thread mack
Hi there, I am using splogger/syslog to log my qmail server. It is working just find but I wonder if it is possible to log smtp, pop requests in separate log files. I know that multilog could do this but for some reason I have to use less reliable splogger/syslog. Any idea ? Thanks in

Enabling Identd using Tcpserver

2000-02-17 Thread James Timberlake
hi. i recently installed qmail via rpm and it replaced inetd with tcpserver. now all my services that i had running under inetd.conf are no longer available. i was able to get ftpd and telnetd back up and running because qmail came with files to run to get them to load. one service that i

RE: Enabling Identd using Tcpserver

2000-02-17 Thread James Timberlake
i checked the processes and there is one listed as inetd but identd is not working. i am running mandrake linux 6.1 if that is any help. and what do you mean by "just run it". -Original Message- From: Chris Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 22:40 To:

Re: no mail notification (WAS: streamlining symbolic links)

2000-02-17 Thread Eric Lalonde
Alright I've narrowed down my problem. If mail is sent to a user, and that user is already logged onto the box, then they do get informed that they have new mail. But If mail is sent to a user, and *then* they log into the box, they simply get "No mail." Even if the user gets a message that they

Re: Enabling Identd using Tcpserver

2000-02-17 Thread Mark Delany
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 10:53:24PM -0500, James Timberlake wrote: i checked the processes and there is one listed as inetd but identd is not working. i am running mandrake linux 6.1 if that is any help. and what do you mean by "just run it". These are really "how do administer a Linux

Re: no mail notification (WAS: streamlining symbolic links)

2000-02-17 Thread Mark Delany
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 08:38:40PM -0800, Eric Lalonde wrote: Alright I've narrowed down my problem. If mail is sent to a user, and that user is already logged onto the box, then they do get informed that they have new mail. But If mail is sent to a user, and *then* they log into the box,

Cyrus authentication and SASL

2000-02-17 Thread Shishir Gundavaram
Hello, Since Cyrus now uses SASL for authentication, does anyone out there have any SASL handlers for authenticating out of a CDB (or DB or GDBM) database or out of a text delimited file. I'm curious, those of you who're using Cyrus and qmail as a POP toaster, what are you using for