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On 9 Mar 00, at 10:47, Claus Frber wrote:
Well, the question here is, what's better: A security hole allowing
remote attackers to find out which email address is valid without
waiting for the bounce (and giving a valid return address in
Hi all !
I have a badmailfrom file for controling spammers, but it doesn't works as
I expected. If someone sends mail with an empty mailfrom (MAIL FROM:),
qmail is unable to check it against the badmailfrom database, even if the
header of the mail contains a From: field.
So I'm looking for one
I have installed David Summers imap-4.5-3mdir4.i386.rpm
but do not seem to be able to access IMAP
in my /etc/inetd.conf I have
imapstream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd imapd
What might I be missing
Kevin
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 10:09:30AM +0100, Antonio Navarro Navarro wrote:
2.- Reject all mail that comes from an specific mail server.
This one (misnumbered, btw) could be done with your tcpserver access lists.
Greetz, Peter.
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Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 09:22:18AM +1100, Kevin waterson wrote:
I have installed David Summers imap-4.5-3mdir4.i386.rpm
but do not seem to be able to access IMAP
in my /etc/inetd.conf I have
imapstream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd imapd
What might I be missing
After
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 09:06:48AM +0100, Petr Novotny wrote:
I believe it's better not to accept that mail in the first place.
Correction: It would be better if it was for free. Unfortunately,
checking whether a username exists (against large database) can
be arbitrarily slow; unless
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On 10 Mar 00, at 12:36, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
Are you saying that spending a few more resources checking up valid
usernames is better than accepting possibly large emails, and then
attempting to bounce them, and spending bandwidth, time and
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Petr Novotny wrote:
Adding one zillion system calls to validate the username is a DoS
attack waiting to happen, too. Which one would you rather have?
Current implementation does not avoid the execution of "one zillion system
calls", it postpones it until qmail-send
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On 10 Mar 00, at 10:56, Pavel Kankovsky wrote:
Current implementation does not avoid the execution of "one zillion
system calls", it postpones it until qmail-send decides to deliver the
message later. Yes, there are benefits: reduced latency of
Bruno Wolff III [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb/wrote:
If your goal is to get rid of spam double bounces, you don't have to
get the list exactly right. You just accept stuff for valid_user,
valid_user-.* and names defined in ~alias.
This does not work with invalid addresses for virtual domains: If
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Petr Novotny wrote:
I beg to differ. qmail-smtpd's are running in parallel, and need the
validation reasonably fast (otherwise SMTP connection times out,
and is retried; with suboptimal retry schedules of some MTA, that's
a disaster, quite likely). On the other hand,
Hi!
Does anybody knows about a script to convert MH folders into Maildir's, keeping
the status (read, unread) of each message?
I'm moving to Mutt + maildrop comming from xfmail, and I would like to preserve
the 100Mbytes of mail in about 50 mh folders I have... :)
If not, I'll have to hack
qmail Digest 10 Mar 2000 11:00:01 - Issue 936
Topics (messages 38365 through 38401):
Re: _I_couldn't_find_any_host_by_that_name._
38365 by: Crow, Ian
Local or/and virtualdomain?
38366 by: Martin Paulucci
Re: All mail for a domain into a single POP box (HOWTO?)
I'm under the impression that if I have qmail under the control of a
tcpserver with cdb, I can simply do the following to bypass the rblsmtpd
invocations:
192.168.1.1:allow,RBLSMTPD="",RELAYCLIENT=""
in order to allow an IP to relay, yes? Basically, I'm going to submit my
new dial-nets to the
Does anyone have a web-based mail filtering system, for qmail/maildrop
(and even something for defining "new email addresses" using the
"address-ext@" functionality) ? I'm using IMP as a front end for people
to get at CourierIMAP, and don't really fancy making up a idiot proof mail
filtering
Muhammad Ali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i want to change time from GMT to PST.. How?
I assume you mean how qmail timestamps incoming mail.
It's possible, but why? Your MUA should have the ability to display UTC
timestamps in local time. Outlook is a notable one that doesn't.
Charles
Hi!,
Thanks for the tip. I need to implement something like that, but I only need to send
to the remote address the From and Subject of the email. Any idea how to strip that
from the message?. We are going to implement an email forward service to cell phones
and pagers, so I need only to send
How would I setup and alias to someones pager
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) without creating a local account to
forward the mail from. Or can I not do that. I am new to qmail.. In
sendmail I just added the line to /etc/alliases and was done with it...
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 10:16:27AM +, Christopher Tarricone wrote:
How would I setup and alias to someones pager
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) without creating a local account
to forward the mail from. Or can I not do that. I am new to qmail.. In
sendmail I just added the line to /etc/alliases and
Hi,
You could look at a package called "sieve" from the Cyrus IMAP project. It
is not a web-based, but at least it is server based.
Patrick.
hey all,
this mail concerns the behaviour of the qmail imap daemon together
with vpopmail 3.4.11 under qmail 1.03 on a suse linux system.
i've come around some problem with the shared folders system under
courier. i can have shared maildirs and they're doing their job very
well - the problem
Will using RSS/DUL/RBL etc prevent someone from a blocked site from
sending mail to postmaster at a site using the RSS etc? This is
certainly a Bad Thing
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Gang
That Yikes! error message looks like something inside vpopmail.
That's probably the best place to track it down.
Ken Jones
markus stalder - mails + media wrote:
hey all,
this mail concerns the behaviour of the qmail imap daemon together
with vpopmail 3.4.11 under qmail 1.03 on a suse
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Pavel Kankovsky wrote:
Current implementation does not avoid the execution of "one zillion system
calls", it postpones it until qmail-send decides to deliver the message
later.
This is not quite correct. If you add recipient checking to qmail-smtpd
you are adding an
Howdy !
I'm running a standard LWQ install and everything is working except that
I can't send to AOL - I can send to Yahoo OK.
I have no patches installed because I looked from the archive that the
DNS issues had been resolved by AOL.
The Log shows this for an AOL message send:
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:46:52 -0500 , "Mark E. Drummond" writes:
Will using RSS/DUL/RBL etc prevent someone from a blocked site from
sending mail to postmaster at a site using the RSS etc? This is
certainly a Bad Thing
Yes, and I agree.
I solved this problem by patching qmail-smtpd to
We've seen this as well.
My understanding was that AOL was having internal mail problems, and that's
why those AOL customers weren't receiving the message. AOL was reluctant to
admit fault, but that's what it turned out to be.
If this turns out to be something else, I'd like to know what you
I had this problem once. It had nothing to do with qmail. AOL, earthlink ...
check the From: and/or Reply-To: domain to make sure it is valid.
I had my internal NIS domain in one of those fields and it would never make
it through.
Send mail to yourself and check.
-jim
Howdy !
I'm
I have updated the fixup-queue program available at:
http://www.users.uswest.net/~cmikk/fixup-queue.tar.gz
New in this release:
Bug fixes:
* fixup-queue now behaves properly when qmail-smtpd
exits (e.g. when receiving a bare newline). Before,
it would just hang. Now, it exits just like
I just installed qmail and made sure it was working with smtp.
I compiled autorespond.c per the instructions, and I am getting an error in
my maillog:
Mar 10 12:48:00 defiant qmail: 952710480.249168 delivery 18: deferral:
AUTORESPOND:_Unable_to_create_file_for_[[EMAIL PROTECTED]].
I would
"Greg Kopp" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I compiled autorespond.c per the instructions, and I am getting an error in
my maillog:
autorespond.c isn't part of qmail. Did you check with the author?
-Dave
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
delivery 24129: failure:
Connected_to_160.124.122.142_but_sender_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:_501_unacceptable_mail_address/
Is this a proble on my side or theirs??
Both. They refused your message because they didn't like the envelope
return path. It's their problem
Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However I have a very strong suspision that this is not an error w/in
q-mail because my server is underneith *3* levels of nats, and when I try
to telnet to the respective ip addresses (yahoo, aol, etc's mail server)
port 25, the connection will die on me also.
I wanted to say thank you to everytone that helped, amazingly enough I
was able to solve the problem by installing the dns patch, and using my
isp as a relay.
Bennett
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Dave Sill wrote:
Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However I have a very strong suspision that
"Martin Paulucci" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My default domain is working for a couple of months in both the
virtualdomains and the defaultdomain + rcpthosts. Should I take it
out from one of those?. I'm using vpopmail +sqwebmail .
I ran the qmail-lint and it gave me this output:
#
"Gabriel Ambuehl" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But outgoing mails piped to /usr/lib/sendmail addressed to nonlocal domains
are not delivered. Instead of delivery, /var/log/qmail/current only notes
that qmail wasn't able to do an smtp connect.
OK, so qmail wasn't able to connect to the remote sites.
Quoting Jim Arnott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I had this problem once. It had nothing to do with qmail. AOL, earthlink ...
check the From: and/or Reply-To: domain to make sure it is valid.
In which case the mail would be blocked after MAIL FROM, as in:
250 rly-yg04.mx.aol.com OK
mail from:[EMAIL
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joel Dudley) wrote:
well I thoght I had my qmail working, but I have a little problem. I was
sending some test messages to some accounts on the server and they never got
there. I never got a undeliverable mail message so I was wondering where they
went. I did
From: Dewald Strauss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:20:57 +0200
I sent a mail from the console (echo test | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED])
and right after that these messages started to appear.
Did I break something by doing this, or is it just coincidence ?
Probably.
Patrick Bihan-Faou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need some information for configuring qmail as MTA.
qmail is an MTA in any configuration.
The setup is
qmail will be configured to run qmail-smtpd in Machine A
apart from that I have 2 systems MachineB- Domain1
Glenn Crownover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My rcpthosts file was:
bluejava.com
investnetcafe.com
...
Examining the dialog, I noticed that the RCPT TO: line was "RCPT TO:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]" followed by the error message. Then I
remembered I had made a change to my zone file for
lemonlainey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have this in my /etc/init.d folder on a Solaris 2.6
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x/var/qmail/control/tcp.smtp.cdb -v -u 101 -g
100 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
In what file?
Each time I check my email, the server executes another instance of this,
I am currently using INETD instead of the tcpserver as a, I got to get
it running, temp patch. Does anyone know of any instrutions or have any
how-to's on setting up tcpserver (For virtual and primary domains). Heck
even a copy of some lines from a running inetd.conf would be nice
Christopher Tarricone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am currently using INETD instead of the tcpserver as a, I got to get
it running, temp patch. Does anyone know of any instrutions or have any
how-to's on setting up tcpserver (For virtual and primary domains). Heck
even a copy of some lines from a
Hello Steve,
Well I decided to test my mail server here so I used a domain name that
we own and added an MX record for it pointing to the qmail server. Then on
my Linux box I did
/home/vpopmail/bin/vadddomain silverware-inc.com
/home/vpopmail/vadduser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I then sent a
It's obviously important or it wouldn't be there. Can anyone explain
why?
From qmail-send.c: markdone():
for (;;)
{
fd = open_write(fn.s);
if (fd == -1) break;
if (fstat(fd,st) == -1) { close(fd); break; }
if (seek_set(fd,pos) == -1) { close(fd); break; }
if (write(fd,"D",1)
Petr Novotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb/wrote:
Correction: It would be better if it was for free. Unfortunately,
checking whether a username exists (against large database) can
be arbitrarily slow; unless you're planning to overload your busy
box, forget it; qmail-smtpd just carries on the
Hi,
[...]
My problem is that instead of the sender's email address, qmail-remote
puts
lo0... in the initial MAIL FROM: command when it forwards
an
email.
qmail-remote doesn't make up envelope return paths. If it's using
lo0..., that's because that's what the message
In reading the setup of QMail at the following address
http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html
It show how to make a new startup file. Am I going to need anything in
my inetd.conf or can I comment out the smtp and pop3 sections?
"Fred Lindberg" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's obviously important or it wouldn't be there. Can anyone explain
why?
Forgive my speculation--if I'm wrong, somebody correct me! My guess is
that fstat() follows open() because of system-specific open() bugs.
On NFS, for example, open() will
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On 10 Mar 00, at 19:01, Claus Frber wrote:
Well, it depends: If you end up accepting too much mail to invalid
addresses, checking in advance is cheaper than sending out many
bounces.
Exactly. Now did you do measurements? :-) What did you find?
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