QMAIL Spam and queue handling

2000-03-19 Thread Christophe Lesur
Hi ! This last week, my qmail server was in trouble : One of my user have misconfigured a computer, so that the computer's security scanner mail it a report every second... :((( All was fine because qmail is solid rock software but, the rcpt domain's relayed by my qmail was unable to handle

qmail Digest 19 Mar 2000 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 945

2000-03-19 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 19 Mar 2000 11:00:01 - Issue 945 Topics (messages 38748 through 38779): Re: Maildir Scalability Question 38748 by: Uwe Ohse 38750 by: andy huhn 38751 by: Uwe Ohse 38761 by: Rogerio Brito Re: We come in Peace; or BREEDING, FEEDING, GIVING and

maildrop: Time out

2000-03-19 Thread Subba Rao
Hi, I get the following error, when I run fetchmail to get large sized mail. -- Mar 19 05:53:07 myhost fetchmail[4638]: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error Mar 19 05:53:38 myhost last message repeated 162985 times -- Fetchmail times

Re: FYI: FreeBSD 4 and alternate MTAs

2000-03-19 Thread petervd
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 04:43:26PM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote: FreeBSD 4 is starting to play nice with alternate MTAs. Maybe other systems have had this feature for hundreds of years, but FreeBSD has a new thing that lets you define your MTA and related programs in /etc/mail/mailer.conf; it no

Re: QMAIL Spam and queue handling

2000-03-19 Thread petervd
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 11:08:25AM +0100, Christophe Lesur wrote: Hi ! This last week, my qmail server was in trouble : One of my user have misconfigured a computer, so that the computer's security scanner mail it a report every second... :((( All was fine because qmail is solid rock

Re: QMAIL Spam and queue handling

2000-03-19 Thread Christophe Lesur
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HOW TO SELECTIVELY DELETE A LOT OF MESSAGE IN THE QUEUE? Ok, one that might work: Route the domain to 127.0.0.1 in smtproutes create a virtualdomain for it to deliver to nowhere (just a '#' in the .qmail file) No guarantees! :) My problem is that i MUST

Re: maildrop: Time out

2000-03-19 Thread Christophe Lesur
Subba Rao wrote: Fetchmail times out, with a message something to the effect, "maildrop: Time out quota exceeded". Do you have a quota fs enable? Are you using quota? Are the FS full? I have no problem with fetchmail and qmail, this should be a FS problem. Regards, Chris.

Qmail-users question

2000-03-19 Thread John P. Looney
I've hacked qmail-getpw to make a mail directory, if it doesn't exist, but there is a valid user (recently added to an oracle database). There is also a qmail users/assign file that has all the older users, and gets refreshed from the database every five minutes. Delivery to any users that are

Re: Qmail-users question

2000-03-19 Thread John P. Looney
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 02:15:00PM +, John P. Looney mentioned: root@mail1:/# qmail-getpw john_looney ; echo jplooney143143/mail//00/7c root@mail1:/# Mar 19 14:08:10 mail1 qmail-getpw: Calling syslog on john_looney Minor type in copying/pasting the mail. This does actually print:

Re: maildrop: Time out

2000-03-19 Thread Subba Rao
On 0, Christophe Lesur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subba Rao wrote: Fetchmail times out, with a message something to the effect, "maildrop: Time out quota exceeded". Do you have a quota fs enable? Are you using quota? Are the FS full? I have no problem with fetchmail and qmail, this

Checking From email in .qmail

2000-03-19 Thread Allan Thræn
Does anybody know how to make to make a .qmail-sos mailinglistfile only forward mails which has been sent from a certain emailadress ?

Re: Checking From email in .qmail

2000-03-19 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 06:20:50PM +0100, Allan Thræn wrote: Does anybody know how to make to make a .qmail-sos mailinglistfile only forward mails which has been sent from a certain emailadress ? | if SENDER="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; then forward "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; exit 99; fi But as you said

Re: Qmail-users question

2000-03-19 Thread John P. Looney
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 02:15:00PM +, John P. Looney mentioned: Anyone know why qmail-getpw wouldn't get called, if the username isn't in the assign file ? And the answer; If "alias" is in the users/assign file, it won't call qmail-getpw. Kate -- "The fool must be beaten with a

Re: Why fstat() in qmail-send.c:markdone()?

2000-03-19 Thread D. J. Bernstein
Fred Lindberg writes: It's obviously important or it wouldn't be there. It's a variable that was used with the original qmail queue structure. It's unused now, and can be removed safely. ---Dan

Re: FYI: FreeBSD 4 and alternate MTAs

2000-03-19 Thread D. J. Bernstein
Chris Johnson writes: It's very nice, and does away with the ugly symlinks. It does away with symlinks by inventing its own pointless file-based symlink format. It then needs an extra program to interpret that file. That program is, as it turns out, unreliable at high loads. If the kernel is

oMail-Webmail 0.91 - Mailing lists now running

2000-03-19 Thread Olivier M.
Hello again! oMail-webmail 0.91 is ready to be downloaded : changes includes more security, better folders and addressbook support, as well as a lots of little fixes. You will find more infos about this software on http://webmail.omnis.ch/omail.pl?action=about Todo: - add vmailmgrd

Re: blocking a user

2000-03-19 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 05:38:18PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to block a user from sending internal e-mail. Ive tried using tcprules to deny them but it dosent seem to be workingis there any way i could do this through qmail-queue or anythign else. This is a particularly good

Fw: ezmlm warning

2000-03-19 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
Hi all, Has anyone received a message like this recently? muncher.math.uic.edu has nothing to do with us and is definitly not listed as an MX for us! Regards, Marc-Adrian Napoli Connect Infobahn Australia +61 2 92811750 - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: Fw: ezmlm warning

2000-03-19 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 10:41:12AM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: Has anyone received a message like this recently? muncher.math.uic.edu has nothing to do with us and is definitly not listed as an MX for us! [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a subscriber to the qmail mailing list. When

tcpserver is not performed.

2000-03-19 Thread Hong Taeki
I installed qmail, fastforward, dot-forward, ucspi-tcp, checkpassword (with this order). But tcpserver is not performed. This is the end of my rc.local --- # to run qmailcsh -cf '/var/qmail/rc ' # to run smtp under

Re: tcpserver is not performed.

2000-03-19 Thread Eric Lalonde
Try including the full path to tcpserver. try /usr/local/bin/tcpserver Hope this helps Eric - Original Message - From: Hong Taeki To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 10:40 PM Subject: tcpserver is not performed. I installed qmail, fastforward,