Re: Machine Specs

2000-04-11 Thread Juan E Suris
John White writes: > BTW, when you're ready to scale, check out cubix for their SBC based > chassis. 8 machines in 7U! Add redundant power, a layer 4 switch, > and a multi-host RAID 1+0 to act as the queue, and you're cooking. This sounds interesting to me. What would be a good example of a m

Re: Machine Specs

2000-04-11 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 08:50:43PM -0700, John White wrote: > tcpserver lets you do this in a couple different ways. First off, you > can set up your tcpserver to load balance qmail instances by originating > IP address. This isn't that attractive unless you have specific stats > in hand on orig

Re: Machine Specs

2000-04-11 Thread John White
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 04:29:23PM -0400, Jeff Commando Sherwin wrote: > > Right. I don't see much point in it then for inbound SMTP. Let the DNS and > > MX prefs do the job they were designed to do. IP address space isn't *that* > > expensive. > > > > its just that our current situation does no

Re: forwarding maildir messages

2000-04-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 12:54:08PM +1000, Manfred Bartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the easiest way to forward a whole bunch of messages in a > maildir to a different user account on a different system? Tag all of the messages and then mass bounce or forward them to the other user. T

forwarding maildir messages

2000-04-11 Thread Manfred Bartz
What is the easiest way to forward a whole bunch of messages in a maildir to a different user account on a different system? Thanks -- Manfred Bartz

Re: Messages don't get deleted

2000-04-11 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
+ Peter Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 08:27:31PM +0200, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: | > | Hello System, | > | > can anybody help me delete around 25000 messages from [...] | > find . -type f -print | xargs rm -f | | Or just: | | find . -type f -exec rm -f {} \; At the

Re: Anti-Spam Filter

2000-04-11 Thread Charles Cazabon
Duane Schaub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unfortunately, grepping won't work as the words are actually multi-word > phrases each and there must be a copy in EVERY users directory [...] > Any patching suggestions would be helpful as I am not comfortable coding > this myself. You might look

RE: Anti-Spam Filter

2000-04-11 Thread Duane Schaub
We used to use NTMail which had this feature built-in. Unfortunately, grepping won't work as the words are actually multi-word phrases each and there must be a copy in EVERY users directory Example List: angie.mackay Newport Internet Marketing Neuport Internet Marketing 702 Mangrove Avenue

FW: Problems with qmail-pw2u

2000-04-11 Thread Chris Tolley
My thanks, Bruce. This fixed everything. -Chris -Original Message- From: Bruce Guenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 4:00 PM To: Chris Tolley Subject: Re: Problems with qmail-pw2u On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 03:04:09PM -0500, Chris Tolley wrote: > Thanks for th

Re: Messages don't get deleted

2000-04-11 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Apr 11 2000, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > > Or just: > > find . -type f -exec rm -f {} \; > > Thanks for showing me once again that my decision of using NT as > desktop was right... Indeed, if you find that simple line complicated... :-) []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: Messages don't get deleted

2000-04-11 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Apr 11 2000, Soffen, Matthew wrote: > Stop qmail first or you risk deleting valid mail ... Well, that's not the case here. qmail will never deliver mail to cur, only to new (otherwise, I got the semantics wrong). Anyway, even if it did, it wouldn't make sense to stop q

Re: Anti-Spam Filter

2000-04-11 Thread Charles Cazabon
Travis Rail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there anyway that Qmail can filter incoming message for certain words. > Basically what I need is some kind of “Rejected Words List”. A message > comes in and is scanned and checked against a file containing a list of > words that the postmaster would l

Anti-Spam Filter

2000-04-11 Thread Travis Rail
Is there anyway that Qmail can filter incoming message for certain words. Basically what I need is some kind of “Rejected Words List”. A message comes in and is scanned and checked against a file containing a list of words that the postmaster would like to reject. If the email message contains o

Re: Problems with qmail-pw2u

2000-04-11 Thread Charles Cazabon
Chris Tolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No...I've been through all that... Check my previous posts. But here is > the output you asked for: Nonetheless, qmail is failing to find the "alias" user in your /etc/passwd. That is why qmail is failing. Why it can't find the alias user is anyone's

Re: Machine Specs

2000-04-11 Thread Jeff Commando Sherwin
> > Right. I don't see much point in it then for inbound SMTP. Let the DNS and > MX prefs do the job they were designed to do. IP address space isn't *that* > expensive. > its just that our current situation does not yeild me extra ip space. So I dont have access to it. Therefore, Im useing an

Re: Virtual Domain/ Email

2000-04-11 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 03:58:52PM +, Ronaldo Miranda wrote: > Hi, > > > my host has 2 domains > - foo.com > - bar.com > > and 2 unix account > - paul (paul wells) > - pyoung (paul young) > > how to do emails send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes paul and > [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to pyoung. >

RE: Problems with qmail-pw2u

2000-04-11 Thread Chris Tolley
Thanks for the effort. If anyone else has any other ideas, drop me a line. I'm going to download new source and start from scratch. -Chris -Original Message- From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 2:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Problems wit

Re: Virtual Domain/ Email

2000-04-11 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >my host has 2 domains > - foo.com > - bar.com > >and 2 unix account > - paul (paul wells) > - pyoung (paul young) > >how to do emails send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes paul and >[EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to pyoung. Make bar.com a virtual domain. See: http://Web.InfoAve.Net

RE: Problems with qmail-pw2u

2000-04-11 Thread Dave Sill
Chris Tolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Here is 'strace /usr/bin/qmail/qmail-pw2u >/etc/qmail/users/assign' from the source install: > >... >read(0, "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash\n"..., 8192) = 1196 >read(0, "", 8192) = 0 >write(2, "qmail-pw2u: fatal: unable to fin"...,

RE: Problems with qmail-pw2u

2000-04-11 Thread Chris Tolley
No...I've been through all that... Check my previous posts. But here is the output you asked for: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Nov 15 17:38 /var/qmail/alias -> ../../etc/qmail/alias I've even tried changing the /etc/passwd entry to match the hard link, with no difference. -Chris

Re: Machine Specs

2000-04-11 Thread markd
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 02:51:50PM -0400, Jeff Commando Sherwin wrote: > > > Is the front end SMTP server doing anything more than relaying? If it's only > > relaying then take it out of the picture. It's only adding a point of failure > > for you. > > no, the front end is not smtp relaying

Re: Maildir format info

2000-04-11 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 08:40:54AM -0700, Duncan Watson wrote: [snip] > Excellent. The astute may note that I currently don't use qmail on my office > box but I really love Maildir. One dutch ISP (cistron, the people who brought you Cistron radiusd) have implemented their own Maildir MDA, spawne

Re: Problems with qmail-pw2u

2000-04-11 Thread Charles Cazabon
Chris Tolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is 'strace /usr/bin/qmail/qmail-pw2u >/etc/qmail/users/assign' from the source install: > read(0, "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash\n"..., 8192) = 1196 > read(0, "", 8192) = 0 > write(2, "qmail-pw2u: fatal: unable to fin"..., 45q

Re: Patch Installation

2000-04-11 Thread Charles Cazabon
Scott Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running Red Hat Linux 6.1 and Qmail 1.03 and would like to apply the > big-dns patch and others. Can someone please give me detailed instruction on > how do this or point me to a web page were I can find this information. If you're not familiar with

Re: Re[2]: Messages don't get deleted

2000-04-11 Thread Russell Nelson
Gabriel Ambuehl writes: > > Or just: > > find . -type f -exec rm -f {} \; > > Thanks for showing me once again that my decision of using NT as > desktop was right... Go troll for flamage on Usenet. This is the qmail mailing list. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.c

Virtual Domain/ Email

2000-04-11 Thread Ronaldo Miranda
Hi, my host has 2 domains - foo.com - bar.com and 2 unix account - paul (paul wells) - pyoung (paul young) how to do emails send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes paul and [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to pyoung. all mails are stored at /var/mail/$user tia Att, _

Re: Machine Specs

2000-04-11 Thread Jeff Commando Sherwin
> Is the front end SMTP server doing anything more than relaying? If it's only > relaying then take it out of the picture. It's only adding a point of failure > for you. no, the front end is not smtp relaying its like an f5 box, essentially port forwarding to one of many internal ip addresse

Re[2]: Messages don't get deleted

2000-04-11 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
> Or just: > find . -type f -exec rm -f {} \; Thanks for showing me once again that my decision of using NT as desktop was right... Best regards, Gabriel

Re: Messages don't get deleted

2000-04-11 Thread Peter Green
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 08:27:31PM +0200, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > + Gabriel Ambuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > | Hello System, > | > can anybody help me delete around 25000 messages from Maildir/cur , please > | > also when rm -f * comamned is ececuted it says /bin/rm Arguments list too > | >

Re: Messages don't get deleted

2000-04-11 Thread markd
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 02:32:51PM -0400, Soffen, Matthew wrote: > Stop qmail first or you risk deleting valid mail ... No, that's not true or necessary. Delivery only involves tmp and new, furthermore delivery to a specific user can be defered as discussed in the dot-qmail manpage with chmod +

Re: Messages don't get deleted

2000-04-11 Thread markd
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 11:19:56AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > THis is more a Unix question than qmail. The easiest way if it's all messages, > is this: > > mv cur cur.old > mkdir cur > rm -rf cur Er, I meant of course rm -rf cur.old Hopefully this typo is obvious to all but me :>

Re: Machine Specs

2000-04-11 Thread markd
> > For inbound SMTP you don't need a load balancer or layer 4 switch, simply > > use multiple MX entries. Let the DNS do the "load balancing" and let the > > sending MTAs figure out when a server isn't available. > > > > If you have internal people sending to SMTP servers, that's a case that > >

Re: Replacing syslogd

2000-04-11 Thread Dave Sill
"Ricardo D. Albano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I hear that multilog is a good choice to replace syslogd, where can I get >the sources http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html >and how to install multilog to log the qmail logs ? http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#start-qmail -Dave

Re: Messages don't get deleted

2000-04-11 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
+ Gabriel Ambuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | Hello System, | > can anybody help me delete around 25000 messages from Maildir/cur , please | > also when rm -f * comamned is ececuted it says /bin/rm Arguments list too | > long. | | What stops you from using, say | rm 91* | rm 92* | rm 93* Easier is:

RE: Messages don't get deleted

2000-04-11 Thread Soffen, Matthew
Stop qmail first or you risk deleting valid mail ... (or do a mv cur cur.del; mkdir cur) . Then do a rm -rf cur.del Matt Soffen Web Intranet Developer http://www.iso-ne.com/ == Boss- "My boss says we need some eunuch programmers."

RE: Problems with qmail-pw2u

2000-04-11 Thread Chris Tolley
Here is 'strace /usr/bin/qmail/qmail-pw2u /etc/qmail/users/assign' from the source install: execve("/usr/bin/qmail/qmail-pw2u", ["/usr/bin/qmail/qmail-pw2u"], [/* 26 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0x8052e20 open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY)= -1 ENOENT (No such file

Re: Patch Installation

2000-04-11 Thread Dave Sill
Scott Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am new to Linux and Qmail and need information on how to apply the various >Qmail patches. I have searched the Mailing List Archives and qmail.org but >have not been able to find detailed information on how to apply the patches. Patch installation isn't

Re: Messages don't get deleted

2000-04-11 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello System, > can anybody help me delete around 25000 messages from Maildir/cur , please > also when rm -f * comamned is ececuted it says /bin/rm Arguments list too > long. What stops you from using, say rm 91* rm 92* rm 93* and so on? That should help (I'm not sure about the naming, is it simp

Re: Messages don't get deleted

2000-04-11 Thread markd
THis is more a Unix question than qmail. The easiest way if it's all messages, is this: mv cur cur.old mkdir cur rm -rf cur Make sure that cur has appropriate ownership and permissions. On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 11:56:17PM +0530, System Administrator wrote: > hi > > can anybody help me delete ar

Re: Machine Specs

2000-04-11 Thread Jeff Commando Sherwin
Ok, some of this is above my head (which obviously needs to be resolved :) ), but maybe i can clarify more here. > For inbound SMTP you don't need a load balancer or layer 4 switch, simply > use multiple MX entries. Let the DNS do the "load balancing" and let the > sending MTAs figure out when a

Messages don't get deleted

2000-04-11 Thread System Administrator
hi can anybody help me delete around 25000 messages from Maildir/cur , please ? also when rm -f * comamned is ececuted it says /bin/rm Arguments list too long. pine takes around half an hour minimum to open the inbox, and then once we start marking the messages for deletion ti ahngs after about

Re: Machine Specs

2000-04-11 Thread markd
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 01:01:33PM -0400, Jeff Commando Sherwin wrote: > > > > I think you need to give us a better idea of the big picture. The first post > > made it sound like a single machine, now you talk about NFS servers, multiple > > IP addresses, separate access server, etc. > > Fair e

Re: Machine Specs

2000-04-11 Thread Jeff Commando Sherwin
> I think you need to give us a better idea of the big picture. The first post > made it sound like a single machine, now you talk about NFS servers, multiple > IP addresses, separate access server, etc. Fair enough, I thought i was going to be able to sneak this one in as a small question. I g

Replacing syslogd

2000-04-11 Thread Ricardo D. Albano
I hear that multilog is a good choice to replace syslogd, where can I get the sources and how to install multilog to log the qmail logs ? Tnx. RDA.-

RE: Machine Specs

2000-04-11 Thread Greg Owen
> > I'd think that the CPU and memory will be fine, but I'd > > suggest he gets a couple of spindles so that he can > > separate out the queue. > > ah! ok. this is the big question. multiple queues. He said multiple spindles, not multiple queues. Multiple spindles simply means

Re: Machine Specs

2000-04-11 Thread markd
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 12:30:49PM -0400, Jeff Commando Sherwin wrote: > Im also in the process of spec'in out some machines. > > > > > Hmm. Would that depend on whether the 250K are mostly in or outbound? > > > > If my mails are mostly inbound, (usr dirs over nfs). > > > It might also depend

Re: Machine Specs

2000-04-11 Thread Jeff Commando Sherwin
Im also in the process of spec'in out some machines. > > Hmm. Would that depend on whether the 250K are mostly in or outbound? > If my mails are mostly inbound, (usr dirs over nfs). > It might also depend on what they are using to access the email, if it's > qpopper and /var/mail then I'd wan

Patch Installation

2000-04-11 Thread Scott Wilson
I am new to Linux and Qmail and need information on how to apply the various Qmail patches. I have searched the Mailing List Archives and qmail.org but have not been able to find detailed information on how to apply the patches. I am running Red Hat Linux 6.1 and Qmail 1.03 and would like to apply

Re: Adding users...

2000-04-11 Thread Irwan Hadi
At 10:58 10/04/2000 -0400, Steve Peace wrote: > > I am a relative newbie to qmail. I have setup a RedHat 6.0 server running > qmail. After a couple of days I finally got everything working. It all > workings 100% perfect for what I need it to do. I only have one problem, I > am setting this

Re: Machine Specs

2000-04-11 Thread markd
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 03:25:45PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 07:20:03PM -0400, blue wrote: > > I am looking at purchasing a new machine to set-up qmail. We are estimating > > a build up to > > appx 250,000 emails a day. What kind of system (PC) would you recommend fo

Re: Maildir format info

2000-04-11 Thread Duncan Watson
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 08:11:23AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > Duncan Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I just started using maildirs with mutt and procmail. I am planning on > > writing a utility to allow me to search all of my maildir folders for mail > > matching certain regexps a

Re: qmail stopped responding

2000-04-11 Thread Dave Sill
Jon Rust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Suddenly qmail stopped responding today. Telnet to port 25 gave me >the standard telnet "connected to" and "escape character is ^]" but >no smtp prompt. ps aux showed many smtp processes. This is precisely the behavior one observes when tcpserver's connecti

Re: Maildir format info

2000-04-11 Thread Charles Cazabon
Duncan Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just started using maildirs with mutt and procmail. I am planning on > writing a utility to allow me to search all of my maildir folders for mail > matching certain regexps and then linking them into a result folder also a > maildir that I could the

RE: Problems with qmail-pw2u

2000-04-11 Thread Dave Sill
Chris Tolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Oops...Here is the output from 'strace /usr/bin/qmail/qmail-getpw alias' >from the RPM install: We already know that that works OK. Now we need to see what qmail-pw2u is doing. Try: strace /usr/bin/qmail/qmail-pw2u /etc/qmail/users/assign -Dave

RE: Minimal MX Mail and Proxy Confusion

2000-04-11 Thread Soffen, Matthew
Umm.. What do you mean ? A little more info might be useful. 1) Does your mail server have multiple interfaces/domains (i.e. 2 NIC cards. One for outside traffic and one for inside traffic). Or is the mail server a "real" machine (a valid routable IP address) ? 2) Can you get INSIDE mail to wo

Re: Machine Specs

2000-04-11 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 07:20:03PM -0400, blue wrote: > I am looking at purchasing a new machine to set-up qmail. We are estimating > a build up to > appx 250,000 emails a day. What kind of system (PC) would you recommend for > this > kind of traffic ? A simple PII/350 with 128mbyte will do jus

Re: Adding users...

2000-04-11 Thread Albert Hopkins
Set up the /etc/skel directory as you would want the default user's home directory. Also, consider the "newusers" command available in Red Hat 6. On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Steve Peace wrote: > I am a relative newbie to qmail. I have setup a RedHat 6.0 server > running qmail. After a couple of day

Minimal MX Mail and Proxy Confusion

2000-04-11 Thread Steve Craft
Slightly OT - My proxy server has 3 "holes" through it passing port 23,25,143 traffic directly to my qmail box. I am trying to get the mail traffic to my mail server from both sides of the proxy. Can anyone example me the minimal DNS MX record entry/entries necessary to make this work? Thanks

Re: special user

2000-04-11 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 10:06:04AM +0800, Jason Huang wrote: > I have a special user account as [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > The specail user just can receive some designated domain(or just localhost ) . > Thought SENDER environment variable in dot-qmail can do it , > but it still can be faked . >

Re: Redirecting email messages into a local database

2000-04-11 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 10:44:19AM +0800, ywshum wrote: > I would like my qmail server to able to write messages received for the > local recipients to a local database . It can or cannot be at the > expense of local delivery to Maildir. > > So how do i do it? Is that some configuration file for

Re: How do I unsubscribe?

2000-04-11 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 08:26:04AM +0530, Murthy Raju wrote: > Can somebody tell me how to unsubscribe from the list? You can't. If you haven't read and saved the first confirmation message for the mailing list or written an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (as stated in the header of every list ma

Re: RFC: Qmail Anti-Spam HOWTO

2000-04-11 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 12:35:52AM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > Except it doesn't. Closer examination reveals it's failing on the test > to make sure we ip_scaned the entire string, but I can't see why. > + if (!remotehost[ip_scan(remotehost, &ip)]) { Except that should be remoteip, not

qmail Digest 11 Apr 2000 10:00:00 -0000 Issue 968

2000-04-11 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 11 Apr 2000 10:00:00 - Issue 968 Topics (messages 39799 through 39859): Re: locking out mail accounts ... 39799 by: Tullio Andreatta Re: QMQPD question 39800 by: Henrik Öhman Re: ref mailing list 39801 by: Tullio Andreatta Another SMTPd question.

Re: SPAMCONTROL not work properly

2000-04-11 Thread Erwin Hoffmann
Hi, thanks for the response. 1. I presume you installed the SPAMCONTROL patch as mentionend in the INSTALL.spamcontrol. To verify that you should have a look into the directory from where you installed qmail and browse the file spamcontrol.log and mail me this file. (a) The propper installation

Qmail compilation errors on RH 6.1 distro.

2000-04-11 Thread Madhav
Hi all, I have downloaded qmail-1.03+patches-12.src.rpm from the site http://em.ca/~bruceg. I have applied all the patches given. I have created the uids. Then I compiled the qmail using "make setup check". Then I got the following error. [root@server1 qmail-1.03]# make setup check ./load auto-st