backup mail server

2000-04-18 Thread TAG
Hi, I have two mail servers - on is located in a different country - My question is how do I become a backup for that other server in the event that it goes down or looses connectivity?? I have added entries into DNS so as the two severs are secondary MX's for each other.. BUT what needs to be

qmail says #5.7.1

2000-04-18 Thread Max B. Khudik
Hi everybody! Maybe I am missing something essential in qmail documentation, but: I've installed qmail + qmail-pop3d on the machine with my dns server which is dual homed (so it works as proxy and mail serv). The machine is firewalled on external interface and absolutely open on internal

RE: Qmail failing ORBS test :-(

2000-04-18 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17 Apr 00, at 22:32, Mark Tippetts wrote: Sendmail is NOT the problem. Its presence is creating conditions where the problem manifests, but it's not to blame. It's simply accepting a message from a host it trusts. Why does it trust that

Re: qmail says #5.7.1

2000-04-18 Thread S.P. Hoeke
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 10:11:55AM +0200, Max B. Khudik wrote: Hi everybody! Maybe I am missing something essential in qmail documentation, but: I've installed qmail + qmail-pop3d on the machine with my dns server which is dual homed [snip] HELP! Any windows mail client (e.g. Netscape

Re: Outlook + UW IMAP + mbox + qmail

2000-04-18 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 08:18:48PM -0400, Eric M. Johnston wrote: Peter van Dijk wrote: After doing some experimentation, I discovered that the IMAP server is getting its time from the "From " header in the mbox, not the "Received:" or "Date:" headers, and passing this on to Outlook.

Non-root IMAP server possible?

2000-04-18 Thread Chris Green
Slightly off topic I know but I'd appreciate any pointers. Is there any such thing as an IMAP server (or similar) that one can set up as a *user* - i.e. without root access? I have two shell login accounts with excellent connectivity etc. which would be ideal for managing my E-Mail using IMAP

Re: backup mail server

2000-04-18 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 09:01:30AM +0200, TAG wrote: Hi, I have two mail servers - on is located in a different country - My question is how do I become a backup for that other server in the event that it goes down or looses connectivity?? I have added entries into DNS so as the two

Re: Non-root IMAP server possible?

2000-04-18 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 08:42:20AM +0100, Chris Green wrote: Slightly off topic I know but I'd appreciate any pointers. Is there any such thing as an IMAP server (or similar) that one can set up as a *user* - i.e. without root access? Should be no problem, you just won't be able to run it

OT: Help with SPAM

2000-04-18 Thread Abdul Rehman Gani
Hi, We are in the process of moving to qmail from Mailsite (on NT), but I face a problem with SPAM that I do not think will be solved by QMail. The sender of the spam is using a fake address on our domain as the from address in the spam. Although the spam itself is forwarded through

qmail Digest 18 Apr 2000 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 975

2000-04-18 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 18 Apr 2000 10:00:01 - Issue 975 Topics (messages 40170 through 40268): Move qmail and directories to new system - how...? 40170 by: Anthony White 40180 by: Chris Hardie 40185 by: Peter van Dijk qmail-pop3d 40171 by: John P. Looney

Re: Qmail on FreeBSD 4.0

2000-04-18 Thread Andre Oppermann
Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote: Hi, - Original Message - From: "Mike" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote: Looking quickly at the NetBSD and the FreeBSD code, I would say that they are not affected by that bug. Also solaris 2.5 is clean. I don't know about any of the

Re: Qmail on FreeBSD 4.0

2000-04-18 Thread Andre Oppermann
Peter van Dijk wrote: On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 10:31:51PM +0300, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: Hello Peter, code and not part of the stable branch, I'd avoid using it for any production servers till it's migrated to the stable tree. 4.0 went STABLE a couple of weeks ago. So should I go

Re: Qmail on FreeBSD 4.0

2000-04-18 Thread S.P. Hoeke
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 01:45:34PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote: Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote: Hi, - Original Message - From: "Mike" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote: Looking quickly at the NetBSD and the FreeBSD code, I would say that they are not affected

Re: backup mail server

2000-04-18 Thread Russell Nelson
TAG writes: I have two mail servers - on is located in a different country - My question is how do I become a backup for that other server in the event that it goes down or looses connectivity?? I have added entries into DNS so as the two severs are secondary MX's for each other..

Re[2]: backup mail server

2000-04-18 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
This is a bad idea. Why? Because you're setting yourself up for the situation a friend was just in. His main server went down, and the secondary kicked in. Unfortunately, the secondary server had become misconfigured (or was never configured correctly in the first place) and his email

postoffice migration question

2000-04-18 Thread Kelly Prescott
We recently purchased an ISP running postoffice on NT from software.com... Does any one know an easy way to migrate from it to the qmail Maildir format? Also, does any one have any idea of how to get the passwords out of the program? Sorry in advance if this is a little off topic, but as this is

Re: OT: Help with SPAM

2000-04-18 Thread Chris Hardie
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Abdul Rehman Gani wrote: Hi, We are in the process of moving to qmail from Mailsite (on NT), but I face a problem with SPAM that I do not think will be solved by QMail. The sender of the spam is using a fake address on our domain as the from address in the spam.

Re: supervise question

2000-04-18 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 01:25:51AM -0400, lluisma wrote: Hi all, I have this entry for qmail-pop3d which is under supervise: #!/bin/sh exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup host.name.gov \ /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d

Re: Re[2]: backup mail server

2000-04-18 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Gabriel Ambuehl on Tue, 18 Apr 2000 14:58:00 +0300: Do you mean this seriously? I can't see a problem with a secondary which is using exactly the same config (we normally clone our systems as the first one except for the lack of the entries in local or virtual... As long as your

Re: OT: Help with SPAM

2000-04-18 Thread Kai MacTane
At 4/18/2000 09:16 AM -0500, Chris Hardie wrote or quoted: On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Abdul Rehman Gani wrote: 3. The spam messages contain only US based toll free numbers (1-888-258-4753 and 888-533-1018). I am not in the US so I need some help in tracking the owners of these numbers. Can

qmail install

2000-04-18 Thread Bill Parker
Hi All, I have built a pent-200 w/64MB of ram, and it has a pair of NIC's for so the machine can be used for IP masq if needed, it also has a digiboard PC/Xem ISA card for dial in support (digiboard support is already working)... I would like to know if this would be a good machine to

kmail and maildir support

2000-04-18 Thread Mate Wierdl
I asked kmail's maintainer if kmail has maildir support, or if they are planning on supporting maildir in the future. The brief reply was: "no to both questions". Does anybody know the reason? We know the reason in case of pine... Mate

kbiff and maildir

2000-04-18 Thread Mate Wierdl
But kbiff does support maildir. Mate

RE: backup mail server

2000-04-18 Thread Greg Owen
This is a bad idea. Why? Because you're setting yourself up for the situation a friend was just in. His main server went down, and the secondary kicked in. Unfortunately, the secondary server had become misconfigured (or was never configured correctly in the first place) and his email

wierd fastforward behaviour

2000-04-18 Thread Russell P. Sutherland
I'm running fastforward 0.51 on a Linux machine. Normal (default domain) forwarding works fine. My problem is that email sent to a virtual user always ends up going to the default address: @400038fc7ed7129915e4 info msg 164054: bytes 435 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 5716 uid 503

RE: Compile Error

2000-04-18 Thread Soffen, Matthew
Nope.. Even that won't be a 100 % (so I found). You may need to modify : conf-cc and conf-ld to point to gcc instead of cc Matt Soffen Web Intranet Developer http://www.iso-ne.com/ == Boss- "My boss says we need some

RE: Compile Error

2000-04-18 Thread Greg Owen
Matt Soffen wrote: Greg Owen wrote: It means that Solaris ships without a C compiler, so you can't compile anything. To fix it, either purchase Sun's compiler, or download a precompiled version of GCC for Solaris. Nope.. Even that won't be a 100 % (so I found). You may

RE: backup mail server

2000-04-18 Thread Greg Owen
I have two mail servers - on is located in a different country - My question is how do I become a backup for that other server in the event that it goes down or looses connectivity?? Firstly, consider why you are setting up a secondary. Does it offer any advantages over letting the

RE: Messages stuck in queue

2000-04-18 Thread John McCoy, Jr
I got queue-fix but it wont compile I get this at the very end of the compile: ld32: Segmentation fault. Removing output file... *** Error code 1 (bu21) System: SGI Indy r5000 IRIX 6.5.3m let me know if you need more I'm not sure of the version of gcc installed. Sorry I'm still a newbie but

Re: backup mail server

2000-04-18 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
From: Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 08:44:39 -0400 (EDT) I have two mail servers - on is located in a different country - My question is how do I become a backup for that other server in the event that it goes down or looses connectivity??

Re: backup mail server

2000-04-18 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 08:55:46AM -0600, Andy Bradford wrote: Thus said Gabriel Ambuehl on Tue, 18 Apr 2000 14:58:00 +0300: Do you mean this seriously? I can't see a problem with a secondary which is using exactly the same config (we normally clone our systems as the first one except

RE: Message Error

2000-04-18 Thread Soffen, Matthew
1) You didn't setup your control files properly (/var/qmail/control/*) Read the INSTALL.ctl file (its in your build directory). Did you run the config script ? 2) Yes. Read the INSTALL.maildir file (its in your build directory). It explains maildir vs. mbox. Also you probably should read

Re: Message Error

2000-04-18 Thread Steve Wolfe
I installed the qmail in my server which run Linux. I configured all things normally. However, when I try to send a message the program (in this case, Eudora) give the follow message: Can't send to ''. The server gives this reason: '553 sorry, that domain isn't in my

Re: Qmail on FreeBSD 4.0

2000-04-18 Thread Sascha Schumann
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 02:01:09PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote: Peter van Dijk wrote: On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 10:31:51PM +0300, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: Hello Peter, code and not part of the stable branch, I'd avoid using it for any production servers till it's migrated to the

problem with alias file pointing to a pipe

2000-04-18 Thread Erick Hallick
I have just finished installing qmail onto a machine running AIX 4.3. Everything seems to be working well, except for some aliases I have set up. I need emails to particular addresses to be piped into a script which generates a page. So, I have the following file setup:

Re: Message Error

2000-04-18 Thread Kai MacTane
At 4/18/2000 11:45 AM -0600, Steve Wolfe wrote or quoted: better answer: Each user will need in their home directory: ~/Maildir/ ~/Maildir/new ~/Maildir/cur ~/Maildir/tmp all with permissions 600. They should also have a .qmail file containing "./Maildir/". The permissions should be

Compilation

2000-04-18 Thread Marcos dos santos Costa
Dear Friends (again), Well, I compiled again the qmail and when I executed the ./config for check my configuration, it show this: Your hostname is pegasus. Your host's fully qualified name in DNS is ol33-106.openlink.com.br. Putting ol33-106.openlink.com.br into control/me... Putting

Re: Compilation

2000-04-18 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Marcos dos santos Costa wrote: Dear Friends (again), Well, I compiled again the qmail and when I executed the ./config for check my configuration, it show this: Your hostname is pegasus. Your host's fully qualified name in DNS is ol33-106.openlink.com.br. Putting

Re: Re: Message Error

2000-04-18 Thread Marcos dos santos Costa
Dear Kai, I know that each user will need theses directory in your home. But the problem is: How I can do it? Because I have more 100 users in system. There is some utility or some command that do it just once? Hugs, Frederiko Costa Rio de Janeiro-Brazil On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:33:01 -0700,

Check timestamps

2000-04-18 Thread Jose de Leon
Is there a way to check when a qmail-qpop user (Maildir format) last checked their email? Is there a timestamp left anywhere? Thanks, Jose de Leon System Administrator InVision Telecommunications (209) 549-8800

Re: Re: Message Error

2000-04-18 Thread Steve Wolfe
I know that each user will need theses directory in your home. But the problem is: How I can do it? Because I have more 100 users in system. There is some utility or some command that do it just once? I was hoping that someone else had a utility to do it. : ) For new users, I have the

Re: Check timestamps

2000-04-18 Thread Russell Nelson
Jose de Leon writes: Is there a way to check when a qmail-qpop user (Maildir format) last checked their email? Is there a timestamp left anywhere? Sort-of, but not really. You could check the read timestamp on .../cur, but that's not really reliable. Look at what qmail-popbull does, which

Unable to receive outside email

2000-04-18 Thread Ben Anderson
I am unable to receive mail from outside of the local machine. Internal works fine, any suggestions. Log shows: @400038fcda11227c25dc delivery 1182: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._( #4.2.1)/ @400038fcda11227c54bc status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 @400038fcda2e21ebd0a4 starting

Re: mail-abuse.org

2000-04-18 Thread David L. Nicol
Peter van Dijk wrote: On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 07:08:39PM -0400, Len Budney wrote: "Luis Bezerra" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [edited out] Or are you an autoresponder? If so, are you available under the GPL? Maybe I can run you from procmail, to annoy people who annoy me. If not GPL,

WebMail

2000-04-18 Thread Travis Leuthauser
I'm looking for some real life experiences/opinions on a web interface that reads mail directly from Maildir. I'm interested in offering a web interface for my customers. I'm running qmail 1.03 with the pop3d daemon. Any opinions would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Travis Leuthauser

Qmail config: getting closer additional info

2000-04-18 Thread Tim_Clifton
When testing reciving mail as documented in TEST.receive, I follow the steps as follows but when I log in to the user's account and type the '$mail' command I receive "no mail for user" : . SMTP server test: Forge some mail locally via SMTP. Replace ``me'' with your username and ``domain''

Re: WebMail

2000-04-18 Thread Mordac
sqwebmail is good stuff. www.inter7.com/sqwebmail - Original Message - From: "Travis Leuthauser" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 2:18 PM Subject: WebMail I'm looking for some real life experiences/opinions on a web interface that reads mail

qmail + vpopmail problems...

2000-04-18 Thread Mario Rafael
Hi I have just installed qmail + vpopmail, I have also configured the roaming users capability (at least tryed to ;), the virtual pop mail works, I created a virtual domain, I can send email to it and receive via the pop-server, one of the problems I have is that I cannot access mail for

Re: using perl to send a list message (with qmail)

2000-04-18 Thread David L. Nicol
Not tested. May provoke unpleasent censure. Use at own risk. open (LIST,"/home/justin/www/cgi-bin/lovely_people.list"); foreach (LIST) { #send mail to "$_" } 2)this list has about 1000 people, and it takes more than a couple minutes for perl to go through that

Compiling

2000-04-18 Thread Mike Alexander Sauvain
what it means when i compile qmail with make setup check: ./load auto-uid substdio.a error.a str.a fs.a ./compile auto-gid.cauto-gid.c: In function `main':auto-gid.c:20: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'./load auto-gid substdio.a error.a str.a fs.a ...

Re: Compiling

2000-04-18 Thread Kristina
I have posted the same question in the past. Apparently it is not an error. Nothing to worry about. If you need a technical explanation you will find it in the archives as their was much discussion as the result of my post. Kristina At 02:04 00/04/19 +0200, you wrote: what it means when i

Re: How to set /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-xxxx ./Maildir/ up.

2000-04-18 Thread Anthony White
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 10:13:36AM -0700, Anthony White wrote: During my initial tests I had no forwarding set up for '~/alias/.qmail-postmaster' or '~alias/.qmail-root'. Any mail to these accounts placed the mail in 'mbox' format under the '~/alias'

Re: How to set /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-xxxx ./Maildir/ up.

2000-04-18 Thread markd
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 10:45:47AM -0700, Anthony White wrote: The logs should show you what delivery is being made for those addresses, what do they show? Are they delivering or are they failing to deliver and sitting in the queue? Until I set up forwarding to the system admin they sat

Someone else brought it up, and i noticed mine wasnt working :)

2000-04-18 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
My local deliver to postmaster/root/mailer-daemon isnt working either, now that i check it.. Here's the info. This machine is running vmailmgrd and is working perfectly. Neither mail delivered to postmaster@ the local machine name, or at the virtual domain are being delivered.

Re: pop 110 / daemontools / tcpserver / MySQL

2000-04-18 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
the POP service shouldnt be run under supervise. It is started on a PER connection basis. You can either use /etc/inetd.conf to load your pop server, or use the (suggested method) and use tcpserver to invoke it. the LWQ web site is probably the best first stop for information.

Fw: Compilation

2000-04-18 Thread Mike Alexander Sauvain
try to do ./config-fast yourhost.dname.top - Original Message - From: Stephen F. Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 7:40 PM Subject: Re: Compilation Marcos dos santos Costa wrote: Dear Friends (again), Well, I compiled again the qmail and

Re: Qmail on FreeBSD 4.0

2000-04-18 Thread Patrick Bihan-Faou
Hi, I remember one patch in FreeBSD shortly before 4.0-release which, according to the cvs log, was supposed to fix this problem. I'll see if I can dig it up. If this bug is not fixed someone who is affected should file a PR with FreeBSD gnats. Yep, there was a first attempt at fixing it,

pop daemontool

2000-04-18 Thread Mike Alexander Sauvain
./run in services of deamtools exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup host.name.gov \ /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir works, but how i can generate any ouput ? thx mike

Re: Someone else brought it up, and i noticed mine wasnt working :)

2000-04-18 Thread Anthony White
Hey guys, I worked it out, very simple... Log in as root. Create the following: (where '~/' is your qmail directory, usually /var/qmail) '~/alias/Maildir' '~/alias/Maildir/cur' '~/alias/Maildir/new' '~/alias/Maildir/tmp' 'chown -R alias /var/qmail/alias/Maildir' 'chgrp -R qmail

Re: Check timestamps

2000-04-18 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "Jose de Leon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 13:24:47 -0700 What exactly do you mean by "not really reliable"? Do you mean sometimes the cur dir timestamps and sometimes it doesn't? Or do you mean that the timestamp itself may be off a few minutes? If it is off

Re: Re[2]: backup mail server

2000-04-18 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Andy Bradford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 08:55:46 -0600 Yes seriously. Most MTA's will queue email for at least 3 days, so unless your hardware failure lasts that long then you should be fine. Andy But not always. My ISP (which shall remain nameless --

qmail deleting Maildir/cur directory (fwd)

2000-04-18 Thread Ian Shaughnessy
I am having a really odd problem; qmail keeps deleting my Maildir/cur directory. None of my users have ever had this problem, and I only have this problem on my non-root account. What could be going on? I am using Pine, and I am not sure if that could be the problem or not... frankly I am

Re: qmail deleting Maildir/cur directory (fwd)

2000-04-18 Thread markd
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 09:42:14PM -0700, Ian Shaughnessy wrote: I am having a really odd problem; qmail keeps deleting my Maildir/cur Really? Perhaps it would help if you identified *when* it got deleted. Does it get deleted when new mail arrives, when you start pine when you pop in to get

Re: qmail deleting Maildir/cur directory (fwd)

2000-04-18 Thread Ian Shaughnessy
Thats one of the things.. I am not sure exactly when. Sometime between 11am and 2pm today, that much I can give you, but I have scoured the logs for any hint of when this might be happening and I cant find anything. All I know is when I checked my mail this morning it was all there, but when I

Re: Maildir not working

2000-04-18 Thread Peter Samuel
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Madhav wrote: Hi all, I have this problem of Maildir not working properly. To install qmail, I have followed all the steps listed in Life with qmail site( including Maildir). In the multilog, I am getting the following message when I send a message from root to one

Re: why can't I do this?

2000-04-18 Thread Adam McKenna
Well, this isn't actually for me. I'm trying to create a workaround to allow an upgrade to qmail 1.03 for a client who is currently using a heavily modded qmail 1.01. (the person who made the modifications is gone, and the current source doesn't compile. nice, huh?) Basically, they don't want