Re: HTML mail considered harmful

2000-04-13 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 03:35:45PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: WTF? Why is this mail in text/html only? Is this some kind of sick joke? Greetz, Peter. -- Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder | | 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; | C++ mak

Re: HTML mail considered harmful

2000-04-13 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 10:28:02AM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: > Petr Novotny writes: > > On 12 Apr 00, at 15:52, Russell Nelson wrote: > > > > > Yes. Bounce html-only email. Strip the html fork from > > > multipart/alternative email. > > > > Does anyone have such a code and is willing

nevermind: was qmail slow (or something like that)

2000-04-13 Thread Vincent Danen
Nevermind... I just read on Life with Qmail about the permissions on the trigger file... wasn't set to world writeable. Now it moves nice and fast. =) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 Webmaster fo

delivery speed very slow

2000-04-13 Thread Vincent Danen
Hi there. Is there a way to increase qmail's delivery speed? I've had a message sitting in the /var/qmail/queue/mess directory tree for over 15 minutes. There is the appropriate files in the /var/qmail/queue/todo. It's currently 12:21am and the earliest file sitting in that directory is from 1

Re: HTML mail considered harmful

2000-04-13 Thread rogers-qmail
From: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:35:45 -0400 (EDT) My code doesn't deal with the case of Content-Type: text/html as the only part. You could easily modify it to bounce such mail though. I can't say I've ever received text/html-only mail. I'm sur

Re: simple question

2000-04-13 Thread rogers-qmail
From: Irwan Hadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:07:20 -0700 At 22:36 13/04/2000 +, john smith wrote: >hi, > I am trying to follow the advices given to me to read life with qmail. I >have successfully reached the building process. so far so good. now my >

Re: Intelligent POP3 Server

2000-04-13 Thread Jacob Joseph
Would sending such bulletins to all users be unacceptable? What benefit would there be from doing otherwise? Jacob Joseph - Original Message - From: "Russell Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 8:26 PM Subject: Re: Intelligent POP3 Server

Messages being "lost"

2000-04-13 Thread Jacob Joseph
Hello everyone. I was having some troubles with all the messages recieved being dated only one date(rather than when they acutally arrived)--but reinstalling qmail-smtpd fixed that. I'm not sure what the problem was, so if someone could offer some insite, I'd appreciate it. Other than tha

Re: Intelligent POP3 Server

2000-04-13 Thread Russell Nelson
Gary Barnden writes: > I have a bit of a curly one and was wondering if anyone had done the same > thing and could point me in the right direction > > I need some sort of Intelligent POP3 Server that does this > > 1. User logs in and is authenticated > 2. POP3 Server checks username

Intelligent POP3 Server

2000-04-13 Thread Gary Barnden
Hello all, I have a bit of a curly one and was wondering if anyone had done the same thing and could point me in the right direction I need some sort of Intelligent POP3 Server that does this 1. User logs in and is authenticated 2. POP3 Server checks username against a database of Bu

Re: Sender domain must resolve error for some sites...

2000-04-13 Thread Anthony White
Chris Johnson wrote: > > Your name servers appear to be broken: There is no record pointing to the domain itself. It points to 'mail.movielink.net.au' All our incomming mail comes via one IP into a firewall, gets port forwarded to the mailserver and is processed. We have no problems receivi

what's wrong here ?

2000-04-13 Thread Ismal Hisham Darus
I keep getting this broken email from this particular site. Actually the mail coming with attachment but somehow it was broken while reaching my site. I ask the sender to send it to my hotmail account and it was ok. The attachment can be viewed properly. Could it be the Lotus Notes problem ? o

Re: VirtualDomains

2000-04-13 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 08:32:10PM +0100, Henrique Pais wrote: > in an email like [EMAIL PROTECTED] the user part cannot be grather than 12 > char. > > if so the qmail.lspawn will crash Says who? It works fine here. Are you running a patched version of qmail? Chris

Re: Sender domain must resolve error for some sites...

2000-04-13 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 10:26:17AM -0700, Anthony White wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a very specific problem sending mail to certain domains that > do reverse verification of mail. They come up with > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Error, sender domain must resolve... > delivery deferre

Sender domain must resolve error for some sites...

2000-04-13 Thread Anthony White
Hi there, I have a very specific problem sending mail to certain domains that do reverse verification of mail. They come up with From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Error, sender domain must resolve... delivery deferred... I have set up qmail so it masquerades all mail to come from '[EMAI

Re: Two email addresses and the rest to a virtual domain

2000-04-13 Thread Russell Nelson
Matthew Harrell writes: > > Hi, > I would like [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be delivered normally > but all other @foo.bar mail to go to one address - let's say [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Can I use a virtualdomain entry for this? I'm hesitant to just try it since > this i

Re: Two email addresses and the rest to a virtual domain

2000-04-13 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 07:51:06PM -0400, Matthew Harrell wrote: > I would like [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be delivered normally but all > other @foo.bar mail to go to one address - let's say [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can I use > a virtualdomain entry for this? I'm hesitant to just try i

Re: simple question

2000-04-13 Thread Irwan Hadi
At 22:36 13/04/2000 +, john smith wrote: >hi, > I am trying to follow the advices given to me to read life with qmail. I >have successfully reached the building process. so far so good. now my >question is about ./config . how should I configure my dns? I don't think I >have a domain. I on

Two email addresses and the rest to a virtual domain

2000-04-13 Thread Matthew Harrell
Hi, I would like [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be delivered normally but all other @foo.bar mail to go to one address - let's say [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can I use a virtualdomain entry for this? I'm hesitant to just try it since this is an operating system and I don't want to

Blocking mail from a single address?

2000-04-13 Thread Bill Parker
Hi all, I'm running qmail v1.03 and vpopmail, would like to know how to block mail from a certain user who has become a pest bombarding our mail server with stupid advertisements, etc...Is this somewhere in the docs (I vaguely remember something about badmailfrom, but will it work with vp

simple question

2000-04-13 Thread john smith
hi, I am trying to follow the advices given to me to read life with qmail. I have successfully reached the building process. so far so good. now my question is about ./config . how should I configure my dns? I don't think I have a domain. I only have a hostname. Do I use my ISP's domain name?

Re: HTML mail considered harmful

2000-04-13 Thread Kai MacTane
At 4/13/2000 03:35 PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote or quoted: >Why bother? If they provide a text fork, then they're saying that >either alternative has the full information. Why pester them to not >send a text/html part in addition? Because I'd like to discourage people from sending mails that

Re: newbie help

2000-04-13 Thread Charles Cazabon
S.P. Hoeke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you have a POP account with your ISP, you need something like fetchmail to > get your POP mail from your ISP and deliver it to your qmail SMTP service, wich > in turn can deliver it locally (ie to your un*x user account) Well, not "need". My POP3

Re: HTML mail considered harmful

2000-04-13 Thread Alex
>I can't say I've ever received text/html-only mail. I have. It was javascripted spam, with the text encrypted and decoded by the javascript, presumably so that content analysers could not recognise the email as spam. This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delive

Re: Logfile analyzer for Qmail

2000-04-13 Thread Charles Cazabon
Steve Scoggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know of a good logfile analyzer for Qmail? Yes, qmail-analog, by the same author. Look at www.qmail.org, or cr.yp.to for pointers. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon

Logfile analyzer for Qmail

2000-04-13 Thread Steve Scoggins
Hello   Does anyone know of a good logfile analyzer for Qmail?   Steve  

Re: mail bombardement :(

2000-04-13 Thread Ronny Haryanto
On 13-Apr-2000, Irwan Hadi wrote: > >just a simple .qmail-black-list or something like that?!?!? > > echo 'user@domain' >> /var/qmail/badmailfrom Did you mean /var/qmail/control/badmailfrom ? > after that run kill -HUP qmail-smtpd to make your new > "configuration" work That shouldn't be neces

Re: mail bombardement :(

2000-04-13 Thread Irwan Hadi
>just a simple .qmail-black-list or something like that?!?!? echo 'user@domain' >> /var/qmail/badmailfrom after that run kill -HUP qmail-smtpd to make your new "configuration" work or just do . /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail restart --- AFLHI 058009990407128029/089802---(102598//991024)

Bounce handling--VERP

2000-04-13 Thread Brad Johnson
What's the best way to build a bounce-handling capability in coordination with qmail? What are the proper source files to look at in ezmlm to discover how it does it? The qmail-ezmlm bounce picture would be helpful, something in higher detail than "ezmlm uses qmail's VERPs to send a bounce-probe

Re: newbie help

2000-04-13 Thread Steve Wolfe
> > It might help if the domain existed according to the root name servers... > > why is it that so many of the Qmail-related sites are so often > > inaccessable? I've never seen such a wildly succesfull program where so > > many of the support sites were so inaccessable. : ) > > That was obvio

Re: HTML mail considered harmful

2000-04-13 Thread Ronny Haryanto
On 13-Apr-2000, Kai MacTane wrote: > At 4/13/2000 10:28 AM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote or quoted: > >Yes, anyone has such code. It's now at http://www.qmail.org/no-alternative. > This looks pretty cool, but it would be even cooler if it could be set to > generate a bounce message to the sender,

Re: newbie help

2000-04-13 Thread Charles Cazabon
Steve Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try reading "Life with Qmail" it can be found at > > http://web.infave.net/~dsill/lwq.html > > > It might help if the domain existed according to the root name servers... > why is it that so many of the Qmail-related sites are so often > inaccessable?

Re: HTML mail considered harmful

2000-04-13 Thread Russell Nelson
Title: Re: HTML mail considered harmful Kai MacTane writes: > At 4/13/2000 10:28 AM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote or quoted: > > >Yes, anyone has such code. It's now at http://www.qmail.org/no-alternative. > > This looks pretty cool, but it would be even cooler if it could be set to > gene

Re: newbie help

2000-04-13 Thread Steve Wolfe
> Try reading "Life with Qmail" it can be found at > http://web.infave.net/~dsill/lwq.html It might help if the domain existed according to the root name servers... why is it that so many of the Qmail-related sites are so often inaccessable? I've never seen such a wildly succesfull program wh

VirtualDomains

2000-04-13 Thread Henrique Pais
Hi, I have a problem with the virtualdomains, in an email like [EMAIL PROTECTED] the user part cannot be grather than 12 char. if so the qmail.lspawn will crash help please - Henrique Pais HLC Telecomunicaçoes e Multimedia, SA Tel. : 424 40 40 Fax

Re: APOP for qmail_popup/qmail_pop3d

2000-04-13 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 02:05:27PM -0500, John Coy wrote: > I've honestly spent quite a bit of time searching > the web and the mailing list archive for hints > on getting APOP to work with the qmail_popup+qmail_pop3d+ > checkpassword programs. I've seen references for > a "checkpw" program which

Re: HTML mail considered harmful

2000-04-13 Thread Kai MacTane
At 4/13/2000 10:28 AM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote or quoted: >Yes, anyone has such code. It's now at http://www.qmail.org/no-alternative. This looks pretty cool, but it would be even cooler if it could be set to generate a bounce message to the sender, telling them that this email address doe

Re: newbie help

2000-04-13 Thread Steve Peace
Try reading "Life with Qmail" it can be found at http://web.infave.net/~dsill/lwq.html Steve P. - Original Message - From: "john smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 6:35 PM Subject: newbie help > hello, > > I have read the HOWTO and miniH

APOP for qmail_popup/qmail_pop3d

2000-04-13 Thread John Coy
I've honestly spent quite a bit of time searching the web and the mailing list archive for hints on getting APOP to work with the qmail_popup+qmail_pop3d+ checkpassword programs. I've seen references for a "checkpw" program which replaces checkpassword, but all the links for it are broken. Does

RE: Impact on qmail of no $TCPREMOTEINFO / IDENT ?

2000-04-13 Thread Dave Kitabjian
Thanks for the info. >Why don't you try it - it's very easy to do. I know it's easy to do. Actually, we've had the -R flag on tcpserver for a couple of months now. And I haven't *observed* any negative side effects. But qmail is a complex system, so there could be side effects going on that I wo

Re: HTML mail considered harmful

2000-04-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 09:42:10AM +0100, > > Horses for courses, PGP has its place but not on mailing lists for > example. I disagree. It can be important to establish you always sign messages to lend credibility for when you want to deny posting/sending some message. PGP signed messages will

Re: AOL rejects mail

2000-04-13 Thread Russell Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello. > > We people at mbhs.edu just changed our ISP. We updated all out > nameservers for the new MX IP,and mail seems to be working for > certain sites, but not all. AOL, erols, compuserve seem to be > rejecting our mail. I'm not certain what is wrong./ Has

RE: AOL rejects mail

2000-04-13 Thread Soffen, Matthew
AOL Ignores Time To Live fields in DNS.. It can/will take them up to a week to see DNS changes.. Matt Soffen Web Intranet Developer http://www.iso-ne.com/ == Boss- "My boss says we need some eunuch programmers." Dilbert - "I think

Re: AOL rejects mail

2000-04-13 Thread markd
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 01:35:51PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello. > > We people at mbhs.edu just changed our ISP. We updated all out nameservers for the >new MX IP,and mail seems to be working for certain sites, but not all. AOL, erols, >compuserve seem to be rejecting our mail. I'm

RE: AOL rejects mail

2000-04-13 Thread Greg Owen
> We people at mbhs.edu just changed our ISP. We updated all > out nameservers for the new MX IP,and mail seems to be > working for certain sites, but not all. AOL, erols, > compuserve seem to be rejecting our mail. I'm not certain > what is wrong./ Can you show us a bounce message

Re: HTML mail considered harmful

2000-04-13 Thread Russell Nelson
Petr Novotny writes: > On 12 Apr 00, at 15:52, Russell Nelson wrote: > > > Yes. Bounce html-only email. Strip the html fork from > > multipart/alternative email. > > Does anyone have such a code and is willing to share it? Yes, anyone has such code. It's now at http://www.qmail.org/no-

dans web site at cr.yp.to

2000-04-13 Thread Martin Randall
Hello. I wanted to look at Dan's web pages linking from the qmail.org site. I get nothing back from clicking on the links. Tried with two ISP's. It was working last week. What's going on ? Regards...Martin -- --- (A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail? Microsoft

dans web site at cr.yp.to

2000-04-13 Thread Martin Randall
Hello. The site is back now although I haven't received the original mail yet. Perhap's the were down ? Martin --- I wanted to look at Dan's web pages linking from the qmail.org site. I get nothing back from clicking on the links. Tried with two ISP's. It was wo

AOL rejects mail

2000-04-13 Thread rkacker
Hello. We people at mbhs.edu just changed our ISP. We updated all out nameservers for the new MX IP,and mail seems to be working for certain sites, but not all. AOL, erols, compuserve seem to be rejecting our mail. I'm not certain what is wrong./ Has anyone had this type of problem before? T

SHADOW + QMAIL

2000-04-13 Thread Hemanta Sharma
Hi all, How do I make qmail work with my shadowded password file?? I already have a working file but whenever i shadow the password file, it give me authentication faliure message. Pls help Thanks in advance!! Hemanta Sharma

Re: pre-filtering mail before delivery

2000-04-13 Thread Dave Sill
"Phil Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would like to pre-filter mail before delivery. Since I want to do this >both for mail to be locally delivered as well as mail to be relayed, it >would seem I need to do that at qmail-send or earlier. I could live with >locally originated mail not bein

RE: ucspi-tcp

2000-04-13 Thread Carlos Gustavo Werner
Title: RE: ucspi-tcp That will be very useful!!! > -Original Message- > From: Ismal Hisham Darus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 12:05 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: ucspi-tcp > > > Where is the best place to discuss for tcpserver ? from the mail

Re: HTML mail considered harmful

2000-04-13 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 10:04:36AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 09:42:10AM +0100, > > > > Horses for courses, PGP has its place but not on mailing lists for > > example. > > I disagree. It can be important to establish you always sign messages to > lend credibility for

Re: HTML mail considered harmful

2000-04-13 Thread Duncan Watson
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 08:51:06AM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 02:05:11PM -0600, Scott D. Yelich wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > > > > (1) I complained about a guy's 17 line signature that could > > be compressed down to 4 lines... he complained about

qmail Digest 13 Apr 2000 10:00:00 -0000 Issue 970

2000-04-13 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 13 Apr 2000 10:00:00 - Issue 970 Topics (messages 39927 through 40003): Re: VERP RFC 39927 by: John White 39928 by: John White 39930 by: John White 39972 by: Russ Allbery 39979 by: markd.bushwire.net Re: Machine Specs 39929 by: J

pre-filtering mail before delivery

2000-04-13 Thread Phil Howard
I would like to pre-filter mail before delivery. Since I want to do this both for mail to be locally delivered as well as mail to be relayed, it would seem I need to do that at qmail-send or earlier. I could live with locally originated mail not being filtered, so qmail-smtpd is not out of the q

Re: mail bombardement :(

2000-04-13 Thread Puck
Hi ! > We have been bombarded with mail from a single account all night. I > need to know how i "blacklister" the user. He's been mailing 200 mail > pr. sec. for a couple of hours :( > I can't seem to find it anywhere in the FAQ :( Damn this guy ! put [EMAIL PROTECTED] into /var/qmail/control/

RE: Reports on qmail+LDAP

2000-04-13 Thread Keith, Yeung Wai Kin
oops ! this is the first time I use mrtg. sorry for innocent Thanks Keith > -Original Message- > From: Russell Nelson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 12:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Reports on qmail+LDAP > > Keith, Yeung Wai Kin writes: >

mail bombardement :(

2000-04-13 Thread Klaus Hviid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 We have been bombarded with mail from a single account all night. I need to know how i "blacklister" the user. He's been mailing 200 mail pr. sec. for a couple of hours :( I can't seem to find it anywhere in the FAQ :( just a simple .qmail-black-lis

Re: HTML mail considered harmful

2000-04-13 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 02:20:26AM -0600, Scott D. Yelich wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Chris Green wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 02:05:11PM -0600, Scott D. Yelich wrote: > > Well I have to admit I have some sympathy with him there, I'd much > > prefer

Re: HTML mail considered harmful

2000-04-13 Thread Scott D. Yelich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Chris Green wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 02:05:11PM -0600, Scott D. Yelich wrote: > Well I have to admit I have some sympathy with him there, I'd much > prefer that people *didn't* post PGP signed messages where it isn't > necessary. It

How to setup clustering and qmqpd?

2000-04-13 Thread ywshum
Hi everyone, I'm using qmail with ldap patch. Hi there, I would like to implement clustering, ie a few qmail servers with the same domain name. Problem is, there is no documentation on how to set this up. I already know that the mailhost attribute in ldap must point to the other qmail servers.

Re: HTML mail considered harmful

2000-04-13 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 02:05:11PM -0600, Scott D. Yelich wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > (1) I complained about a guy's 17 line signature that could > be compressed down to 4 lines... he complained about my 9 > line PGP signature. clue. > Well I have to admit I have some sym

Re: HTML mail considered harmful

2000-04-13 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12 Apr 00, at 15:52, Russell Nelson wrote: > Yes. Bounce html-only email. Strip the html fork from > multipart/alternative email. Does anyone have such a code and is willing to share it? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPG