Re: Need a little insite please

2000-04-03 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 01:57:02PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: See http://www.ohse.de/uwe/misc/backupmx.txt for why i dislike backup mail servers. 'file not found.' Ugh. Fixed. Regards, Uwe

qmail Digest 3 Apr 2000 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 960

2000-04-03 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 3 Apr 2000 10:00:01 - Issue 960 Topics (messages 39433 through 39447): Re: Poor documentation of anti-spam options? 39433 by: Peter van Dijk 39434 by: Peter van Dijk 39436 by: Patrick Bihan-Faou 39440 by: Chris Hardie Re: "special" chacters in

question about mail

2000-04-03 Thread Luka Gerzic
Hello! here is the problem... :) Ihave user A and i have user B. I need to copy all incomming and outgoing mail from user A to user B. System is on Qmail 1.03 and Qmailpop3d. Maildir support and lot of users. How can i do that ? Thank's for help. D r e n i k N e t w o r k s / Y u g o

About virtual domain and IP aliasing

2000-04-03 Thread Pablo Martínez Schroder
Hi there! I have some domains hosting in a computer, and I'm starting to apply bandwith management over them, so I have each domain hosted in an IP. With this I can control FTP and HTTP traffic, but I cannot manage the SMTP traffic because mail is throwed from the "primary IP" of the interface.

Re: vpopmail, virtual users on virtual domains always gives 'Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name.'

2000-04-03 Thread Markus Fischer
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 01:34:33AM -0400, anindya wrote : quick check: is testdomain.com in /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts? Yes it is. and what is the contents of your /var/qmail/control/{default|locals|me}? default does not exist locals contains _not_ any of the virtual domains

qmail and mailstone

2000-04-03 Thread Mitja Sarp
I'd like to do some mail benchmarking, and netscape's mailstone seemed to be a good choice. Running the smtp-test gives the following result though: nurja[9374] t=954768787: mailclient (4.1 built Jun 21 1999 12:03:47) nurja[9374] t=954768787: procs=1 threads=1 seconds=10 ramptime=10...

Re: qmail-smtpd on SCO OSR5.0.5

2000-04-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
This sounds a little like a problem that was reported to the bugtraq list last week. There are some places that are sending back broken packets. From memory, it was in response to pactkets setting socket options and these options were sent back as data. This primarily affects linux systems. On

Re: SV: vpopmail, virtual users on virtual domains always gives 'Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name.'

2000-04-03 Thread Markus Fischer
Hello Klaus, On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 03:18:41PM +0200, Klaus Hviid wrote : here is a little checklist - see if you have remembered everything. er... sorry, which checklist ? I had the same error once - I'd forgotten the d in qmail-pop3d init-script :) well, my init script in

Re: Poor documentation of anti-spam options?

2000-04-03 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 03:33:00PM -0500, Chris Hardie wrote: [snip] I would be happy to make an attempt at this documentation, as long as folks agree that it would be useful, and would be willing to provide feedback on what I come up with. I'll give feedback :) Greetz, Peter. -- Peter

Init scripts for smtp and pop3 services

2000-04-03 Thread Antonio Navarro Navarro
Hi all ! I have a RedHat Linux box with qmail + vpopmail. The SMTP service is started using tcpserver, and POP3 is started using inetd. I want to set up both services to be started/stoped using tcpserver. Where can I find a good script for doing this ? BEGIN OF CONF.SECTION OF FILE :

Re: qmail-smtpd on SCO OSR5.0.5

2000-04-03 Thread markd
It seems like using -o on tcpserver fixed this problem. -o stops tcpserver from calling setsockopt(). Discovered by running qmail-smtpd from inetd from where it worked just fine. Regards. On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 09:04:53AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: This sounds a little like a problem

Unable to send remote messages

2000-04-03 Thread Gilberto Rodrigues
I installed qmail v1.03, daemontools v0.70 and ucspi-tcp v0.88 on a Sun server to test them and now I'm following the delivery test procedures provided by qmail package. All the daemons are running, and I can send local-local and local-error messages, but when I try to send a local-remote

Re: qmail and mailstone

2000-04-03 Thread markd
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 05:02:48PM +0300, Mitja Sarp wrote: I'd like to do some mail benchmarking, and netscape's mailstone seemed to be a good choice. Running the smtp-test gives the following result though: nurja[9374] t=954768787: mailclient (4.1 built Jun 21 1999 12:03:47)

Re: Unable to send remote messages

2000-04-03 Thread markd
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 04:59:11PM +0100, Gilberto Rodrigues wrote: I installed qmail v1.03, daemontools v0.70 and ucspi-tcp v0.88 on a Sun server to test them and now I'm following the delivery test procedures provided by qmail package. All the daemons are running, and I can send

Re: Unable to send remote messages

2000-04-03 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 3 Apr 00, at 16:59, Gilberto Rodrigues wrote: All the daemons are running, and I can send local-local and local-error messages, but when I try to send a local-remote message, it gives me CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._(#4.4.3) no matter what

Perl regex patch for badmailfrom envelope checks

2000-04-03 Thread Will Harris
I've made a patch which allows you to use a new control file, badmailfromperl, to specify Perl regular expressions to be used when checking the validity of the envelope sender. http://will.harris.ch/bmf-perl.tar.gz regards, Will

supervise and multilog running, qmail not.

2000-04-03 Thread Jennifer Tippens
Hoping somebody can help me... I set up qmail as in LWQ. If I start qmail with /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail start it says it started. but ps -A | grep qmail yeilds nothing. If I do a /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail stat, it says that the processes are running-- the process numbers it lists are

Re: supervise and multilog running, qmail not.

2000-04-03 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to telnet to port 25, then checked /var/log/qmail/smtpd/current, and it says biglongnumber tcpserver: warning: dropping connection, unable to run /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd: access denied permissions on it are: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 26108 Apr 3 04:12

Re: vpopmail, virtual users on [...] - solved!

2000-04-03 Thread Markus Fischer
Just for anyone interested (mostly for people using debian!): Compiling vpopmail with ./configure leaves a problem: 'vadddomain' needs to call 'qmail-newu' after modifieng /var/qmail/control/users/assign . ./configure detects '/var/qmail/' and assumes 'qmail-newu' is in '/var/qmail/sbin/', which

question and need for help... :(

2000-04-03 Thread Luka Gerzic
here is the situation. i need to monitor person A incomming and outgoing mail. All mail that person A recieve or send, need to be copyed to person B. Can anyone help me out ? D r e n i k N e t w o r k s / Y u g o s l a v i a Luka Z. Gerzic Graphic design, prepress, html, networking

qmail relay opened

2000-04-03 Thread Luis Bezerra
Hello everyone, my qmail MTA is accepting mails like test%test.com.br anyone has one patch for resolve this problem? regards -- - Luís Bezerra de A. Junior [EMAIL PROTECTED] SecrelNet Informática LTDA Fortaleza - Ceará - Brasil Fone: 021852882090

syslogd and qmail problem

2000-04-03 Thread Ricardo D. Albano
I get in problems, I'm running qmail in a large site as inbound relay. After a few days running qmail the perfomance decrease a lot, makeing the system practically unoperable. I run a top to see the resources utilised by each proccess and I notice that syslod is usgin 95% os the CPU !!!, this

Re: syslogd and qmail problem

2000-04-03 Thread markd
What did you think of the suggestion in FAQ 7.7? On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 04:13:57PM -0300, Ricardo D. Albano wrote: I get in problems, I'm running qmail in a large site as inbound relay. After a few days running qmail the perfomance decrease a lot, makeing the system practically unoperable. I

RE: syslogd and qmail problem

2000-04-03 Thread Greg Owen
I get in problems, I'm running qmail in a large site as inbound relay. After a few days running qmail the perfomance decrease a lot, makeing the system practically unoperable. I run a top to see the resources utilised by each proccess and I notice that syslod is usgin 95% os the CPU !!!,

RE: syslogd and qmail problem

2000-04-03 Thread Greg Owen
What did you think of the suggestion in FAQ 7.7? IIRC, 'cyclog' (referred to in FAQ 7.7) has been replaced with 'multilog' in newer versions of daemontools. -- gowen -- Greg Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Need a little insite please

2000-04-03 Thread Greg Owen
See http://www.ohse.de/uwe/misc/backupmx.txt for why i dislike backup mail servers. 'file not found.' Ugh. Fixed. Based on my reading of that, you don't dislike backup MX servers, you just dislike ISPs who misconfigure them. There's lots of other (good) ways and

Re: Perl regex patch for badmailfrom envelope -- Re: Poor documentation of anti-spam options?checks

2000-04-03 Thread Barbara Koch-Hoffmann
Hi, it seems that we continously revent the wheel.. 1. This patch does already exist (see below). 2. All the SPAM discussion is a ricochet of the old stuff - why doesn't qmail have a good documentation. Pls. have a look at my WEB page:

Re: qmail relay opened

2000-04-03 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 04:10:40PM -0300, Luis Bezerra wrote: Hello everyone, my qmail MTA is accepting mails like test%test.com.br anyone has one patch for resolve this problem? Unless you did something wrong, it is not delivering these mails. It is therefore not a problem.

Re: Re: supervise and multilog running, qmail not.

2000-04-03 Thread Jennifer Tippens
Ah, Ha! Doh. Oops. drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Mar 29 07:59 / drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Apr 3 04:06 /var drw-r--r-- 11 root qmail 4096 Apr 3 05:00 /var/qmail drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail 4096 Apr 3 04:12 /var/qmail/bin sooo... chmod 755 /var/qmail That was the answer I needed. Thank you so

RFC: Qmail Anti-Spam HOWTO

2000-04-03 Thread Chris Hardie
All, In response to the "Poor Documentation of Anti-Spam Options" thread (that I started) and ones like it on the mailing list, I've written what I hope is the most comprehensive document available on anti-spam methodologies from a qmail perspective.

permissions on messages

2000-04-03 Thread Jennifer Tippens
Is there a good way of changing the mode on all incoming messages to a certain user? I need the messages to be read/writable by all members of the primary group and not only to the user. I thought I could maybe do something in the .qmail file... Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, Jennifer

Re: RFC: Qmail Anti-Spam HOWTO

2000-04-03 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 04:07:43PM -0500, Chris Hardie wrote: In response to the "Poor Documentation of Anti-Spam Options" thread (that I started) and ones like it on the mailing list, I've written what I hope is the most comprehensive document available on anti-spam methodologies from a

Re: RFC: Qmail Anti-Spam HOWTO

2000-04-03 Thread Chris Hardie
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Jonathan McDowell wrote: I want to check all incoming messages to see if they're on DUL, ORBS, RSS, RBL or whatever and if so add a header to the message, say an "X-Spam-Warning: DUL" or the like. I know this is a trivial one line config option for Exim, but I haven't

RE: syslogd and qmail problem

2000-04-03 Thread Ismal Hisham Darus
does anyone knows how to log the kernel if using the multilog ? i manage to log the deamon process but not the kernel. Ismal Hisham Mohd Darus Asst. Manager, System Support John Hancock Life Insurance (Malaysia) Berhad

should I use ulimit too ?

2000-04-03 Thread Irwan Hadi
I installed qmail based on LWQ howto. The init script from LWQ doesn';t contain any ulimit -v 2048 for example. Should I put the ulimit command manually, to protect the qmail box from DoS attack or not ? Or supervise can do it automatically ? --- AFLHI