qmail-pop3d question

2000-03-17 Thread Michael Chao
I got all the same error message while booting my Linux box: "tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out port number for pop-3"   I just installed the qmail packages from the var-qmail & qmail-run rpms. Can somebody tell me how to fix this problem?? Thanks a lot!!

Re: qmail-pop3d question

2000-03-17 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 04:33:02PM +0800, Michael Chao wrote: > I got all the same error message while booting my Linux box: > "tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out port number for pop-3" > > I just installed the qmail packages from the var-qmail & qmail-run rpms. > Can somebody tell me how to

RE: qmail-pop3d question

2000-03-17 Thread Haffelin Holger
Hi!   Replace pop-3 by 110. This is the port number. Then try to run your startup script for tcpserver.   CU, Holger -Original Message-From: Michael Chao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Freitag, 17. März 2000 09:33To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: qmail-pop3d question I got a

Deferral when host doesn't exist

2000-03-17 Thread Chris Green
Did this not get through to the list when I sent it yesterday? I didn't see any responses and one usually gets something even if it is just RTFM! ;-) - Forwarded message from Chris Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I get the occasional deferral like the following:- Mar 16 11:24:36 server qma

Re: Deferral when host doesn't exist

2000-03-17 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17 Mar 00, at 8:50, Chris Green wrote: > I get the occasional deferral like the following:- > > Mar 16 11:24:36 server qmail: 953205876.814716 delivery 4: deferral: > Sorry,_I_couldn't_find_any_host_by_that_name._(#4.1.2)/ That means that the do

Re: tcpserver unable to fork?

2000-03-17 Thread brianb-qmail
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Today I got the following message in my SMTP logs: > > tcpserver: warning: dropping connection, unable to fork: temporary failure > tcpserver: status: 146/256 In an act of desperation, I started another tcpserver to listen on another interface.

Re: Deferral when host doesn't exist

2000-03-17 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:00:32AM +0100, Petr Novotny wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 17 Mar 00, at 8:50, Chris Green wrote: > > > I get the occasional deferral like the following:- > > > > Mar 16 11:24:36 server qmail: 953205876.814716 delivery 4: deferral: > >

Re: Deferral when host doesn't exist

2000-03-17 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17 Mar 00, at 9:46, Chris Green wrote: > Well this doesn't seem to agree with what I'm seeing, the incorrectly > addressed mail was sent to @enterprises.net, whereas it > should have been sent to @enterprise.net and I was definitely > getting the d

Re: Deferral when host doesn't exist

2000-03-17 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 09:46:15AM +, Chris Green wrote: > Well this doesn't seem to agree with what I'm seeing, the incorrectly > addressed mail was sent to @enterprises.net, whereas it > should have been sent to @enterprise.net and I was > definitely getting the deferral message. If you do

Getting pop3d to work

2000-03-17 Thread TEK-KEE WANG
Hi, Platform : HPUX 11.0 1). Installed qmail 1.03 2). configured qmail to use Maildir 3). configured Maildir in each user. 4). Tested local delivery : OK 5). Tested delivery from a remote sendmail : OK. 6). Installed and tested checkpassword : OK 7). configured pop3d as described in FAQ. Coul

Re: Getting pop3d to work

2000-03-17 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 06:21:52PM +0800, TEK-KEE WANG wrote: > 7). configured pop3d as described in FAQ. > > Could not make connection from pop3 client. > > Debug using telnet : trace follows : > > -> telnet0110 > <- +OK ^^ How are you running q

Re: Deferral when host doesn't exist

2000-03-17 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:00:05AM +0100, Petr Novotny wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 17 Mar 00, at 9:46, Chris Green wrote: > > Well this doesn't seem to agree with what I'm seeing, the incorrectly > > addressed mail was sent to @enterprises.net, whereas it > > s

Re: Deferral when host doesn't exist

2000-03-17 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 05:18:57AM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 09:46:15AM +, Chris Green wrote: > > Well this doesn't seem to agree with what I'm seeing, the incorrectly > > addressed mail was sent to @enterprises.net, whereas it > > should have been sent to @enterpri

qmail and coda

2000-03-17 Thread Production Team 2
Hello. We are planning to use two PC for our mail system sharing a directory using coda. The DNS will be used to alternatively give one of the computer as smtp server. I would like to know if it is safe to only create one qmail queue under the shared directory as as far as I know the file name i

Re: Deferral when host doesn't exist

2000-03-17 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
> Basically I suppose it's a risk of having a domain which is likely to > have other domains with similar names, it's also a risk which is > likely to increase as the net becomes bigger. Whole life is a risk. > Is there a way to ask qmail to send warning messages (to the user or > to the postmas

Re: Getting pop3d to work

2000-03-17 Thread TEK-KEE WANG
Thanks, Chris. The inetd.conf line reads : pop3 stream tcp nowait root /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup /bin/checkpassword \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir In my last mail, in the telnet trace the x is a number.number Tek Kee. Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03/17/2000 06:27:5

Re: Getting pop3d to work

2000-03-17 Thread TEK-KEE WANG
Pter, checkpassword came from the same source. It was tested OK based on instructions contained in the distribution. Thanks, Tek Kee. "Petr Novotny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03/17/2000 06:25:45 PM

qmail Digest 17 Mar 2000 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 943

2000-03-17 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 17 Mar 2000 11:00:01 - Issue 943 Topics (messages 38603 through 38672): Deferral when host doesn't exist 38603 by: Chris Green 38659 by: Chris Green 38660 by: Petr Novotny 38662 by: Chris Green 38663 by: Petr Novotny 38664 by: Chr

Re: Deferral when host doesn't exist

2000-03-17 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:48:11AM +0100, Frank Tegtmeyer wrote: > > Is there a way to ask qmail to send warning messages (to the user or > > to the postmaster) when such deferrals occur? > Yes, there is a program call qmail_bounce. Look at www.qmail.org for > Brian T. Wightman and his delayed ma

Re: Getting pop3d to work

2000-03-17 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 06:51:08PM +0800, TEK-KEE WANG wrote: > The inetd.conf line reads : > > pop3 stream tcp nowait root /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup > /bin/checkpassword \ > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir I don't use inetd for this kind of thing, but I think it wants the first argument of

smart relay host

2000-03-17 Thread Don Owens
Is there a qmail equivalent to sendmail's "Smart Relay Host"? I am trying to set up qmail on a server to use more than one relay for outgoing mail. With sendmail, I just set the smart relay host to relay.host. When sendmail sends the message out, it chooses a host from among the MX records fo

Re: qmail and coda

2000-03-17 Thread Dave Sill
"Production Team 2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We are planning to use two PC for our mail system sharing a directory >using coda. The DNS will be used to alternatively give one of the >computer as smtp server. > >I would like to know if it is safe to only create one qmail queue >under the share

Re: qmail and coda

2000-03-17 Thread Systems
> That's not the real problem, which is that the queue was designed to > be "owned" by a single qmail installation. > > -Dave Thanx. To solve this problem we are going to run two queues and only share the users directories. This sound good for you ?? Thomas

Re: Master Accounts and Multiple domains

2000-03-17 Thread Dave Sill
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 10:20:19PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > >> > I tried to add in virtualdomains: >> > anydomain.com:alias-anydomain >> > >> > then adding in /alias/.qmail-anydomain-default with the >> > | forward [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > with this setup e

Re: qmail and coda

2000-03-17 Thread Dave Sill
"Systems" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >To solve this problem we are going to run two queues and only share the >users directories. >This sound good for you ?? Yes. -Dave

Re: tcpserver unable to fork?

2000-03-17 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In an act of desperation, I started another tcpserver to listen on >another interface. I noticed that I can only run a max of around 150 >smtpd's simultaneously, whether under one tcpserver or two. You're likely hitting some OS resource limit like max processes per use

concurrencyremote

2000-03-17 Thread Vaz, Len
Is there anyway of changing concurrencyremote while qmail is running and have it take affect? Thanks, Len

Re: concurrencyremote

2000-03-17 Thread Dave Sill
"Vaz, Len" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there anyway of changing concurrencyremote while qmail is running and >have it take affect? No. -Dave

Re: smart relay host

2000-03-17 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 05:09:36AM -0800, Don Owens wrote: > relay.host instead of to one of relay.host's mail exchangers. Does > anyone know how to make qmail use multiple relays for outgoing mail? changing this line in qmail-remote.c: switch (relayhost ? dns_ip(&ip,&host) : dns_mxip(&ip,&hos

Re: weird

2000-03-17 Thread Ricardo Cerqueira
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 05:08:23PM -0500, Keith Warno wrote: > eh? > > That would work; try "man forward" :) > Erm... it would, you're right... (*blush*) Ricardo > - Original Message - > From: "Ricardo Cerqueira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To

Re: Spam, orbs, maps

2000-03-17 Thread Russell Nelson
Peter Schultz writes: > Hi, > > I'm just curious about other people's opinions on which > solution is best. Maildrop seems cool, but it's interesting > to note that it doesn't recieve a mention on qmail's home > page. Procmail doesn't even support qmail natively (although > it looks like

Pop3 authentication

2000-03-17 Thread Jonathan Fortin
Hello, About having an open relay, im using tcpserver /w qmail, how do i setup qmail so it can authentication first thru pop3, then let the user relay when he wants to send mail, thank you.. Jonathan Fortin, Network Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Revelex

Re: Throughput from qmail

2000-03-17 Thread Russell Nelson
Vaz, Len writes: > I know this is an open ended question with a lot of variables involved, but > is there a place or does anyone know what the throughput might be for mail > being sent out via qmail. How many emails/sec has qmail been known to send > to the outside world with optimal configura

Re: TCPRULES help

2000-03-17 Thread Russell Nelson
Jay Moore writes: > I would like to add the following to my tcp.smtp file for tcprules: > > .domain.com:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" > > My question is can you use domain names with tcprules, or does it > have to be IP addresses. In the man page all expamples use Ips and > not domains. There's

spam/orbs, tcp-env, TCPREMOTEIP, and procmail -p

2000-03-17 Thread Chris Hardie
Hi. I'm currently implementing the "spam blocking on a per user basis" solution using rblcheck and procmail. I've got everything in place and all the command line tests pass just fine, but for some reason, by the time procmail has gotten a hold of the message, the TCPREMOTEIP environment variab

Re: spam/orbs, tcp-env, TCPREMOTEIP, and procmail -p

2000-03-17 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17 Mar 00, at 10:24, Chris Hardie wrote: > Hi. I'm currently implementing the "spam blocking on a per user > basis" solution using rblcheck and procmail. I've got everything in > place and all the command line tests pass just fine, but for some

Re: Getting pop3d to work

2000-03-17 Thread TEK-KEE WANG
Chris, Thanks. You are right. I missed out an additional qmail-popup argument. Putting it into the inetd.conf entry makes pop3 works. Tek Kee. Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03/17/2000 08:32:41 PM

Re: spam/orbs, tcp-env, TCPREMOTEIP, and procmail -p

2000-03-17 Thread Chris Hardie
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Petr Novotny wrote: > Sure. Please think about how qmail works: > qmail-smtpd gets message, passes to qmail-queue, message gets > queued, stop. > qmail-send wakes up, passes message to qmail-local, it passes > message to procmail. > > The TCPREMOTEIP is present only in the

Re: spam/orbs, tcp-env, TCPREMOTEIP, and procmail -p

2000-03-17 Thread Chris Hardie
Strike that, there's one included with the rblcheck package, it just didn't install by default with FreeBSD's /usr/ports make. Sorry for the laziness and sloth exhibited here on my part. :) Chris On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Chris Hardie wrote: > These things being said, does anyone have a good or

Re: shutting down tcpserver (pop3d) cleanly?

2000-03-17 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
> > This starts tcpserver/pop3d, but how do I go about shutting it down cleanly? >Anything nicer than a 'kill'? > > kill uses the ``SIGTERM'' by default, which politely asks the process > to die after it has cleaned up. > > kill -KILL shoots the process without warning. OK, kill (regular, not

Re: shutting down tcpserver (pop3d) cleanly?

2000-03-17 Thread Dave Sill
Otis Gospodnetic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >OK, kill (regular, not -9) is fine with me :) >Is there an easy (i.e. 'automatic') way of getting the PID of the tcpserver? daemontools -Dave

Re: Pop3 authentication

2000-03-17 Thread Charles Cazabon
Jonathan Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > About having an open relay, im using tcpserver /w qmail, how do i setup > qmail so it can authentication first thru pop3, > then let the user relay when he wants to send mail, thank you.. Bruce Guenter has written a package which does exactly this.

Re: smart relay host

2000-03-17 Thread Russell Nelson
Don Owens writes: > If I put the relay host name in smtproutes, qmail delivers it to > relay.host instead of to one of relay.host's mail exchangers. Does > anyone know how to make qmail use multiple relays for outgoing mail? Sure. Make a new hostname with multiple A records that point to e

Re: qmail and coda

2000-03-17 Thread Adrian Pavlykevych
Hi! If you want to use Coda for Maildirs, you have to make small patch to qmail-local: Coda doesn't support file links between directories, so you need substitute link(),unlink() for rename(). Her is the patch, but I can't vouch for it - haven't used it on production machine. *** qmail-local.

Qmail without DNS

2000-03-17 Thread wilke
I´m begin to install qmail in my computer and i have a direct conection with the internet, Should i had to have a DNS entrie for qmail make a relay on messages to a external smtp and pop3?? Can i use a qmail just for do relay between smtp servers?? There are another more easy way to do this??

Qmail Problem..

2000-03-17 Thread Jonathan Fortin
Hello, Im having some problems on certain issues, how do i setup qmail so it will only accept emails thru the smtp server if the to: is to our domain and not to any other domain, so we can stop relayers.. Thanks Jonathan Fortin, Network Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: qmail and coda

2000-03-17 Thread Thomas Mangin Office
Ok thank you for this *very* useful information. I will let anyone knows how this installation is going (Give us a week at least we are quite busy ... Who isn't) Thomas - Original Message - From: Adrian Pavlykevych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Production Team 2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL

Qmail Relay Question

2000-03-17 Thread Jonathan Fortin
Hello, How , in qmail, do i only allow mail to host to our domain.com so if users try accessing our server, they can only send to our domain.com and not other domains, how do i do this in qmail? thank you. Jonathan Fortin, Network Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: shutting down tcpserver (pop3d) cleanly?

2000-03-17 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Hi Petr, I did what you said - I put pop3d under supervise as well (I already had smtpd under supervise). It looks like pop3d is running fine, but authentication fails for some reason now and I'm wondering if it is because I'm trying to run pop3d under user 'qmaild' ? >> more /var/qmail/super

Re: shutting down tcpserver (pop3d) cleanly?

2000-03-17 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17 Mar 00, at 9:45, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > #!/bin/sh > QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` > NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` > exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 > pop-3 /var/qmail/

Re: TCPRULES help

2000-03-17 Thread Russell Nelson
Anand Buddhdev writes: > With the new tcpserver v 0.86, you can use hostnames. See the > documentation. Hrm. But Chuck Foster/John Levine's patch is still useful, because it allows you more control over the results of the PTR lookup. Anybody interested in bringing it up to date (it's on qmai

Re: Qmail Relay Question

2000-03-17 Thread markd
As a Network Administrator do you get frustrated with people who ask you questions and make no effort to find the answer themselves? Do these people seem too lazy to take the time to learn or they think that their time is more valuable than yours? Do you respond better to people who have made som

Re: Qmail without DNS

2000-03-17 Thread Charles Cazabon
wilke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I´m begin to install qmail in my computer and i have a direct conection with the >internet, Should i had to have a DNS entrie for qmail make a relay on messages to a >external smtp and pop3?? > Can i use a qmail just for do relay between smtp servers?? There ar

Re: Qmail Relay Question

2000-03-17 Thread Lee Trotter
I have been watching this list for a few weeks now. And the people on here are the most un-helpful people I have seen. Your typical answer to a question is man this or man that. And yes I understand that there are people that don't read the docs, but this list is typical of linux users/adminis

Re: Qmail Relay Question

2000-03-17 Thread markd
> here are the most un-helpful people I have seen. Your typical answer to a I'm teaching him to fish. You want to keep feeding him fish. I think my way is actually more helpful. Regards.

Re: Qmail Relay Question

2000-03-17 Thread Dan Barber
He is fishing... for an answer. Why don't you just answer the poor guy? Or do you think that you're going to singlehandedly change the way he acts by being rude? Regards Dan Barber On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > here are the most un-helpful people I have seen. Your typical

Re: Qmail Relay Question

2000-03-17 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17 Mar 00, at 13:37, Lee Trotter wrote: > "I don't > have the time for you because you are not as smart as me" That's not it. "This is Unix - stop acting so clueless" is more apt. > Frankly I don't have the time to search though hundreds > of em

Re: Qmail Relay Question

2000-03-17 Thread Charles Cazabon
Lee Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been watching this list for a few weeks now. And the people on > here are the most un-helpful people I have seen. I would beg to disagree with you. There is very little flaming on the list. > Part of the problem with linux is it's very cryptic

Re: Qmail Relay Question

2000-03-17 Thread Ted Deppner
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 01:37:45PM -0500, Lee Trotter wrote: > I have been watching this list for a few weeks now. And the people on > here are the most un-helpful people I have seen. Your typical answer to a > question is man this or man that. And yes I understand that there are people I bel

Re: Qmail Relay Question

2000-03-17 Thread Lee Trotter
> > Frankly I don't have the time > > to search though hundreds of emails in the archive, so I'll ask my question. > > Hopefully someone will take time out of his or her busy day to answer it > > So, your time is too valuable to waste looking for answers on your own, > but you expect other people

Re: Qmail Relay Question

2000-03-17 Thread Lee Trotter
> > as cryptic as the liunx/qmail documentation. Frankly I don't have the time > > to search though hundreds of emails in the archive, so I'll ask my question. > > If you don't have the time to read installation and maintenance documentation > you probably don't have the time to properly secure yo

Re: Qmail Relay Question

2000-03-17 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17 Mar 00, at 13:58, Lee Trotter wrote: > If all the questions have been answered then whats the point of a mailing > list? To answer the complicated questions, obviously. Not all questions have been answered. Those that have been are archived s

Re: Qmail Relay Question

2000-03-17 Thread Steve Wolfe
> I have been watching this list for a few weeks now. And the people on > here are the most un-helpful people I have seen. Your typical answer to a > question is man this or man that. When I first signed up to this list, I wondered why people didn't just give answers, then I realized: It g

qmail logs

2000-03-17 Thread Vaz, Len
Using multilog. I have one file with an extension with of .u Under what circumstances would that happen? Len

Re: Qmail Relay Question

2000-03-17 Thread Dave Sill
"Lee Trotter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have been watching this list for a few weeks now. And the people on >here are the most un-helpful people I have seen. I don't think you're being fair. Even people who "rudely" tell someone to read the FAQ or a man page are being helpful. Truly unh

RE: qmail logs

2000-03-17 Thread Tim Hunter
This happens when logging is not shutdown properly, like a system crash or a -KILL. -Original Message- From: Vaz, Len [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 2:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: qmail logs Using multilog. I have one file with an extension with of .u U

Re: Qmail Relay Question

2000-03-17 Thread Ted Deppner
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:00:41PM -0500, Lee Trotter wrote: > > > Frankly I don't have the time to search though hundreds of emails in > > > the archive, so I'll ask my question. > > > > If you don't have the time to read installation and maintenance > > documentation you probably don't have the

Re: qmail logs

2000-03-17 Thread Dave Sill
"Vaz, Len" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Using multilog. I have one file with an extension with of .u >Under what circumstances would that happen? >From ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/daemontools/multilog.html: .u: This file was being created at the moment of an outage. It may have been t

CNAME in MX

2000-03-17 Thread Mate Wierdl
Can a CNAME in an MX record cause a problem for qmail? I mean, our sysadm set up cs.memphis.edu preference = 10, mail exchanger = mx.cs.memphis.edu where mx.cs.memphis.edu is an alias. If it can, how exactly? Thx Mate

Re: Qmail Relay Question

2000-03-17 Thread Racer X
- Original Message - From: "Lee Trotter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "qmail list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Fri 17 Mar 2000 10:58 Subject: Re: Qmail Relay Question > My time is not more valuable then yours I never said it was however if I can You pretty clearly implied it was, if you didn't

Re: CNAME in MX

2000-03-17 Thread Scott D. Yelich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Sigh. Here we go again. Scott -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBONKLGFpGPE+AF6qBAQHJWAQAtRxevMTwJMYbGw1xerYKgd7UMDgZagGF KTILWlFSQNElBDc7lOdwTR0xORfrOxn7jyNvOWSEGEsQxrRUB2LUFxpk0XjNi3bN fzicmZR/GE6PzWbuW8PNrJpD2xeD854nw7iVDOEPAKAiKCSlFUoQ

Re: Qmail Relay Question

2000-03-17 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Ted Deppner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 17 March 2000 at 11:01:10 -0800 > Be clear on this point: The informed person asking the tough question gets > _excellent_ support from this list. I have to agree with this. I've even gotten excellent support on *easy* questions; maybe I was just luc

Re: Qmail Relay Question

2000-03-17 Thread cfm
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:19:42PM -0500, Dave Sill wrote: > "Lee Trotter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I have been watching this list for a few weeks now. And the people on > >here are the most un-helpful people I have seen. > > I don't think you're being fair. Even people who "rudely" t

Re: Qmail Relay Question

2000-03-17 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Lee Trotter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am also on an IIS list and not once has someone been put down for not ^^^ Well, that explains it. > searching the archives or reading one of the manuals, which are not nearly > as cryptic as the liunx/qmail documentation. Frankly I do

Re: CNAME in MX

2000-03-17 Thread Christopher Tarricone
Mate Wierdl wrote: > > Can a CNAME in an MX record cause a problem for qmail? > I mean, our sysadm set up > > cs.memphis.edu preference = 10, mail exchanger = mx.cs.memphis.edu > > where mx.cs.memphis.edu is an alias. > > If it can, how exactly? > > Thx > > Mate Grab O'Reilly & Associate DN

Re[2]: Qmail Relay Question

2000-03-17 Thread Jason.Baker
pretty much all of the mailing lists that I am on agree on one point. Asking newbie questions is ok, we were all newbies at one point. BUT, their is a way to ask them that will give you the most response without having to put on a pair of Nomex Underwear. "I did A, I expected B, I received C.

RE: Qmail Relay Question

2000-03-17 Thread Chad Day
Totally agree. I've asked a couple questions I regretted asking once I got a response saying "man xxx", but even that helped me by pointing me to the correct man page.. was looking in the wrong place a lot of the time, or just didn't understand how qmail functioned.. but I think I did a good job

Re: CNAME in MX

2000-03-17 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 01:34:32PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: > Can a CNAME in an MX record cause a problem for qmail? > I mean, our sysadm set up > > cs.memphis.edu preference = 10, mail exchanger = mx.cs.memphis.edu > > where mx.cs.memphis.edu is an alias. > > If it can, how exactly? Yes.

Re: Qmail Relay Question

2000-03-17 Thread Lee Trotter
> Quoting Lee Trotter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I am also on an IIS list and not once has someone been put down for not > ^^^ > Well, that explains it. > Ah one of the Linux is better then NT people, each technolgy has it's place. Don't assume one is better then the other. > > s

To Clear something up

2000-03-17 Thread Lee Trotter
To clear somethings up.  I aplogize to everyone who I offended here, I can relate with people who post here frustated because their system doesn't work and they are trying to find answers and as such it annoyes me greatly when people are more willing to put them down then to help them.   Dav

We come in Peace; or BREEDING, FEEDING, GIVING and TAKING (was: Qmail Relay Question)

2000-03-17 Thread Magnus Bodin
One of the key factors when selecting open source, free and GPL source software is that you cannot expect to get anything more than what's provided. If you give, you'll get. This mailinglist is a loose community of both givers and takers. Some people need only to find the http://www.qmail.org/

Re: Qmail Relay Question

2000-03-17 Thread Adam McKenna
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 03:48:22PM -0500, Lee Trotter wrote: > > > Quoting Lee Trotter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I am also on an IIS list and not once has someone been put down for not > > ^^^ > > Well, that explains it. > > > Ah one of the Linux is better then NT people, each

relay question

2000-03-17 Thread Jonathan Fortin
Hello, Ive read webwave qmail faq and another qmail faq, and i was wondering how to i setup relay so only users can send email thru our smtp if its going to a user from our domain... So what i did was edit /etc/tcp.smtp and add 207.61.176.194:allow:RELAYCLIENT="" and then ran tcpmakectl to

Re: CNAME in MX

2000-03-17 Thread Mate Wierdl
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 12:44:24PM -0700, Scott D. Yelich wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Sigh. > > Here we go again. > > Scott Thx, so how will qmail get confused ? Mate

Re: CNAME in MX

2000-03-17 Thread Mate Wierdl
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 05:04:36PM -0500, Adam McKenna wrote: > I see BIND complaining about MX records pointing to CNAMES all the time, but > I've never had a problem with qmail failing to deliver to any of those hosts > AFAIK. Now, having a CNAME in *our* MX could somehow cause trouble to remot

Re: relay question

2000-03-17 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Jonathan Fortin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Ive read webwave qmail faq and another qmail faq, and i was wondering how to > i setup relay so only > users can send email thru our smtp if its going to a user from our domain... Hey, looks like you have been reading that thread :) > edit /etc/tcp.

Re:relay question

2000-03-17 Thread Jason.Baker
Pretty much the same question, but asked in a much better way. In RC, you want something more like tcpserver -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u $UID -g $GID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd & at least that is the way that we did it this weekend. We also setup our /etc/tcp.smtp file to have 10.1.1.252

Single UID and Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name

2000-03-17 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Hello, I'm trying to set up qmail (pop3d) with a single user and I'm getting the following error in syslog: delivery 17: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ I followed the directions at http://www.tibus.net/pgregg/projects/ I created 'popuser', here is the /etc/passwd entr

Re: How can I operate two identical qmail servers?

2000-03-17 Thread John White
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:34:09PM -, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > I'm searching for an easy solution to operate two servers using qmail that > have both the exact same mails on them (so some kind of mirroring) to ensure > the mails don't get killed when one server fails. I understand, that this i

Re: Qmail Relay Question

2000-03-17 Thread Len Budney
"Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have been watching this list for a few weeks now. And the people > > on here are the most un-helpful people I have seen. Your typical > > answer to a question is man this or man that. > > When I first signed up to this list, I wondered why people d

this error will be a challenge...

2000-03-17 Thread J.M. Roth \(iip\)
Hello there. Recently, most mail is kept in the queue with the following error in the log: 953345547.577072 delivery 1: deferral: /bin/sh:_-c:_line_2:_syntax_error:_unexpected_end_of_file/ Ok, the reason is obvious... if I look at the file in the queue (/var/qmail/queue/local/22/46206 for exampl

Re: this error will be a challenge...

2000-03-17 Thread markd
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 03:20:40AM +0100, J.M. Roth iip" wrote: > Hello there. > > Recently, most mail is kept in the queue with the following error in the > log: > 953345547.577072 delivery 1: deferral: > /bin/sh:_-c:_line_2:_syntax_error:_unexpected_end_of_file/ You've missed a crucial line he