Re: problems with qmail-pop3d

2000-03-06 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Mate Wierdl wrote: You are probably not on the net directly, or your DNS is messed up. In the qmail-pop3d.init script, change the HOST line to HOST=your.host Did that and it works perfectly now. Got rid of the hard error that was coming up each time as well. If you

Re: problems with qmail-pop3d

2000-03-06 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Mate Wierdl wrote: Did you run maildirmake as the user, or as root? maildirmake has to be run as the user. Also, if you want qmail to deliver to maildir, not only you need to change defauldelivery, but you need to restart qmail (not qmail-smtpd). Yup, did this. Since

moving from mbox to maildir.

2000-03-06 Thread Eric Lalonde
my users currently get email in mbox format in /var/spool/mail, and i want to switch to /Maildir/ format. i know there are three subdirectories under the user's Maildir, but where do i copy currently unchecked email in /var/spool/mail, so that this mail will be listed under Maildir as 'unchecked'

Re: moving from mbox to maildir.

2000-03-06 Thread Russell P. Sutherland
* Eric Lalonde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [ 6 Mar 2000 22:09]: my users currently get email in mbox format in /var/spool/mail, and i want to switch to /Maildir/ format. i know there are three subdirectories under the user's Maildir, but where do i copy currently unchecked email in /var/spool/mail,

Re: Slightly OT: Bcc - who is repsonsible

2000-03-06 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Anand Buddhdev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 17:59:43 +0300 . . . There is some description of how the Bcc: field is to be handled in RFC 822, but it's very ambigious. Here's the relevant section: 4.5.3. BCC / RESENT-BCC This field contains the

trouble getting mail

2000-03-06 Thread Eric Lalonde
having trouble getting mail for my virtual domain. settings are as follows: daylightfading.org:daylightfading.org in virtualdomains daylightfading.org in rcpthosts =daylightfading.org-tom:popuser:523:100:/var/qmail/popboxes/daylightfading.o rg/tom::: in users/assign tom:(encrypted

Re: MX go boom!

2000-03-06 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 01:06:23PM -0500, Mark E. Drummond wrote: I was working from home last Friday when my boss sent me an email telling me that the MX had run out of swap (256MB physical swap) and needed to be rebooted. So I have gone searching my logs for telltale information but I have

Strange problems with tcpserver

2000-03-06 Thread Häffelin Holger
Hi there! I have a setup with qmail and tcpserver. I defined some ip-numbers allowed to relay in tcp.smtp, and the rest should be denied. In most cases, this filter works, but from customers I got the note that sometimes (not always reproducable) they can relay over this server. Is this a bug in

Re: Strange problems with tcpserver

2000-03-06 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 09:00:26AM +0100, Häffelin Holger wrote: Hi there! I have a setup with qmail and tcpserver. I defined some ip-numbers allowed to relay in tcp.smtp, and the rest should be denied. In most cases, this filter works, but from customers I got the note that sometimes (not

Re: Problems with adresses with hypens

2000-03-06 Thread Bernat Ginard
iv0 wrote: Bernat Ginard wrote: Hi all, We have a mail server with qmail and vpopmail and all is working right except that we have an address which is [EMAIL PROTECTED] and another one which is [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the mails sent to the second address go to the first. The rest

Re: qpopper and ~username/Mailbox format

2000-03-06 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Kristina wrote: I want to use qpopper2.53 to work with mail in the ~/Mailbox format. At the moment qpopper2.53 will not get mail in ~/username/Mailbox. What changes do I need to do to qpopper to get it to work? You'll find a patch at http://www.qmail.org to do this.

qmail Digest 6 Mar 2000 11:00:00 -0000 Issue 932

2000-03-06 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 6 Mar 2000 11:00:00 - Issue 932 Topics (messages 38222 through 38243): remove 38222 by: Jon Newman 38239 by: B H R Balaji. Slow SMTP 38223 by: Michael Anderson 38224 by: Chris Johnson 38225 by: courtney.whtz.com 38228 by:

MTA

2000-03-06 Thread nsaravanan
Dear all I need some information for configuring qmail as MTA. The setup is qmail will be configured to run qmail-smtpd in Machine A apart from that I have 2 systems MachineB- Domain1 MachineC- Domain2 I want qmail systems

RE: Strange problems with tcpserver

2000-03-06 Thread Häffelin Holger
Hi there! I have a setup with qmail and tcpserver. I defined some ip-numbers allowed to relay in tcp.smtp, and the rest should be denied. In most cases, this filter works, but from customers I got the note that sometimes (not always reproducable) they can relay over this

rblsmtpd + multiple listings

2000-03-06 Thread Mark E. Drummond
I am a bit confused ... I am looking at Aaron Nabil's patch to allow rblsmtpd to use multiple listing services ... but does rblsmtpd not already support multiple services? Of course it does, I'm using the rbl and relays.mail-abuse right now. Why the patch? --

Slightly OT: Bcc - who is repsonsible

2000-03-06 Thread Markus Stumpf
Hoi folx, just had a discussion with a support person. Their MUA is not deleting Bcc: Lines from the header. They claim it's within the repsonsibility of the MTA to look at the headers and "do the right thing". IMHO this is wrong. However all I could find about it was RFC1123 section 5.2.1,

Re: Slightly OT: Bcc - who is repsonsible

2000-03-06 Thread petervd
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 03:29:06PM +0100, Markus Stumpf wrote: Hoi folx, just had a discussion with a support person. Their MUA is not deleting Bcc: Lines from the header. They claim it's within the repsonsibility of the MTA to look at the headers and "do the right thing". IMHO this is

Re: Slightly OT: Bcc - who is repsonsible

2000-03-06 Thread Timothy L. Mayo
The Bcc header should be removed by the MUA prior to sending. Anything else means it is NOT a Bcc! On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Markus Stumpf wrote: Hoi folx, just had a discussion with a support person. Their MUA is not deleting Bcc: Lines from the header. They claim it's within the

Re: rblsmtpd + multiple listings

2000-03-06 Thread Russell Nelson
Mark E. Drummond writes: I am a bit confused ... I am looking at Aaron Nabil's patch to allow rblsmtpd to use multiple listing services ... but does rblsmtpd not already support multiple services? Of course it does, I'm using the rbl and relays.mail-abuse right now. Why the patch?

Re: Slightly OT: Bcc - who is repsonsible

2000-03-06 Thread dusan
man qmail-header?

Re: problems with qmail-pop3d

2000-03-06 Thread Mate Wierdl
You are probably not on the net directly, or your DNS is messed up. In the qmail-pop3d.init script, change the HOST line to HOST=your.host If you tell me what your host's name is, I can find out what could be wrong. Mate

Re: Slightly OT: Bcc - who is repsonsible

2000-03-06 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 03:29:06PM +0100, Markus Stumpf wrote: Hoi folx, just had a discussion with a support person. Their MUA is not deleting Bcc: Lines from the header. Then it's the villain. They claim it's within the repsonsibility of the MTA to look at the headers and "do the

Re: Slightly OT: Bcc - who is repsonsible

2000-03-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Timothy L Mayo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Bcc header should be removed by the MUA prior to sending. Anything else means it is NOT a Bcc! Every Unix mail client I'm aware of that uses /usr/lib/sendmail or the equivalent as the mail sending interface passes Bcc to it and expects it to deal

Re: problems with qmail-pop3d

2000-03-06 Thread Mate Wierdl
Did you run maildirmake as the user, or as root? maildirmake has to be run as the user. Also, if you want qmail to deliver to maildir, not only you need to change defauldelivery, but you need to restart qmail (not qmail-smtpd). Since you seem to have installed qmail from the Memphis rpm,

Re: Slow SMTP

2000-03-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 04:41:44AM +0100, Markus Stumpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 10:17:22PM -0500, andy huhn wrote: What is the difference between ident-lookups and DNS? And why would either one affect incoming mail? Ident lookups try to gather information about

qmail delivery problems

2000-03-06 Thread John P. Looney
I've hacked qmail-getpw to get Maildir locations from an external database. It worked fine for a while, but recently it's stopped delivery, giving 5.1.1 errors. It's still calling the qmail-getpw program, as I've changed it to print out debug messages, and it's returning sucess (and the

Re: Slightly OT: Bcc - who is repsonsible

2000-03-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 03:29:06PM +0100, Markus Stumpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hoi folx, just had a discussion with a support person. Their MUA is not deleting Bcc: Lines from the header. They claim it's within the repsonsibility of the MTA to look at the headers and "do the right

Re: rblsmtpd + multiple listings

2000-03-06 Thread Mark E. Drummond
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 09:39:41AM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: rblsmtpd lets you invoke multiple instances of itself. Aaron's patch allows you to avoid an extra exec() of the same program. Ah! I see. I guess I'll keep an eye on the load and see what happens as I add other listings. My MX

Re: Effective anti spamming

2000-03-06 Thread Mark E. Drummond
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 01:21:43PM -0800, Aaron L. Meehan wrote: RSS has blocked 2294 smtp connections. DUL has blocked 306 smtp connections. RBL has blocked 3767 smtp connections. Using just rbl+rss since Feb 29 16:50: rbl has blocked 415 connections. rss has blocked 14894 connections.

Re: Slightly OT: Bcc - who is repsonsible

2000-03-06 Thread petervd
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 09:15:22AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 03:29:06PM +0100, Markus Stumpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hoi folx, just had a discussion with a support person. Their MUA is not deleting Bcc: Lines from the header. They claim it's within the

Scan4Virus SegFault

2000-03-06 Thread Mark E. Drummond
I have this in my logs: 952357783.899146 Segmentation Fault - core dumped 952357783.902286 X-Scan4Virus: corrupt scanner/resource problems - exit status 35584 Mail seems to be working fine nonetheless. I've even nabbed 4-5 virus/trojan ladden(sp) emails. --

Re: Slightly OT: Bcc - who is repsonsible

2000-03-06 Thread Chris Garrigues
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 16:46:09 +0100 On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 09:15:22AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: I think it is useful to consider there as being three types of mail programs instead of just two. There MTAs, MUAs and injection programs. I believe it is

Re: Slightly OT: Bcc - who is repsonsible

2000-03-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 10:03:33AM -0600, Chris Garrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Back in the 80's, when I was a Lisp Machine administrator, the Symbolics email system would send bcc'd mail *with* the bcc header to those who were on the BCC list and without it to those who weren't.

Another error Was: Re: Scan4Virus SegFault

2000-03-06 Thread Mark E. Drummond
Here is another one: 2000-03-03 11:56:51.986824 X-Scan4Virus: Unable to close pipe to /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue (#4.3.0) - 2000-03-03 11:56:52.083784 X-Scan4Virus: Unable to queue message (28416). (#4.3.0) - Illegal seek Any ideas? -- __

Rewriting subject line

2000-03-06 Thread Derek Watson
Here's what I'm trying to achieve - When an email gets sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the message gets processed by it's .qmail file, and gets forwarded to a short list of addresses within that file. That works fine, and it was really easy to do. What I would like is to rewrite the subject line of

MX go boom!

2000-03-06 Thread Mark E. Drummond
Hi all. Last Friday my MX choked and I am trying to determine why (so I can defend qmail because I am sure it will get blamed). I am a big qmail fan, but my boss is not. Not that he does _not_ like qmail, just that he prefers to go with the old standby's like sendmail, or commercial products like

stupid question

2000-03-06 Thread Joel Dudley
Ok, well I set up qmail according to the LWQ guide and it seems to be working as I successfully sent a message through it. My installation of qmailadmin went fine. However, I have one dumb problem. I cant log in!!! Who is the postmaster!! I thought I set myself up as the postmaster but my

Re: MX go boom!

2000-03-06 Thread Charles Cazabon
Mark E. Drummond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So anyway, my MX is a Sun E250, dual 300MHz UltraSPARC II's, 256MB of RAM [snip] OT: I have seen the occasional 40/40 ... should I be increasing some parameter here? Any wild guesses about how many connections I should/could allow on this hardware

Re: Rewriting subject line

2000-03-06 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 12:50:38PM -0500, Derek Watson wrote: Here's what I'm trying to achieve - When an email gets sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the message gets processed by it's .qmail file, and gets forwarded to a short list of addresses within that file. That works fine, and it was

Problem with qmail-remote

2000-03-06 Thread Patrick Bihan-Faou
Hi, I am having quite a fight with qmail right now. I looked through the archive for a possible solution, but I did not find anything. If this has been addressed before, please feel free to flame me personally as long as you include a pointer to where I could find the answer, thanks! I use

qmail ok but don't deliver mail, stay in queue

2000-03-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all I'm running Qmail latest version on a Linux Red Hat 6.0 (installed from tarball), all seems to be ok but when i send a mail it doesn't arrive to the destinatary, it stay in queue. How can i solve the problem? Thanks

Re: Scan4Virus SegFault

2000-03-06 Thread Jason Haar
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 11:00:44AM -0500, Mark E. Drummond wrote: I have this in my logs: 952357783.899146 Segmentation Fault - core dumped 952357783.902286 X-Scan4Virus: corrupt scanner/resource problems - exit status 35584 Mail seems to be working fine nonetheless. I've even nabbed 4-5

qmail woes

2000-03-06 Thread Joel Dudley
Ok, I have qmail admin loging me into my domain. However, when I create a new pop user in qmailadmin it doesnt completely work. The folders and directory are created in the vpopmail directory under the correct domain. However, I cant successfully send any mail to this user. They just get

qmail and procmail

2000-03-06 Thread clifford thurber
Hello, I have a procmail filter setup for a qmail alias that we use. In the .qmail-alias file I have the following: |/var/qmail/bin/preline /opt/procmail/bin/procmail -m -p /var/qmail/alias/procma ilrcs/myalias.rc [EMAIL PROTECTED] The permission on /opt/procmail/bin/procmail are 655. I keep

question

2000-03-06 Thread Joel Dudley
What does a text mean when it is referring to dot-qmail processing? What are dot-qmail files and what is in them??? Thanks. - Joel

Re: question

2000-03-06 Thread petervd
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 03:38:37PM -0700, Joel Dudley wrote: What does a text mean when it is referring to dot-qmail processing? What are dot-qmail files and what is in them??? Thanks. man dot-qmail Greetz, Peter. -- Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder

RE: question

2000-03-06 Thread Stephen Mills
Hi Joel Refer to the source code for documentation on this /usr/src/qmail-1.03/INSTALL.alias Regards, Stephen -Original Message- From: Joel Dudley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 9:39 AM To: Qmail Mailing List Subject: question What does a text mean when it