Re: Mailbox/Maildir pop ?

2000-04-22 Thread Len Budney
Les Higger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do i need to convert to Maildir to run pop3d. Yes. i ve got qmail working and have checkpasword working. I have only 50 users using e-mail so i didnt use tcpserver. It's good exercise anyway; you should try it. See

Re: backup MX host

2000-04-22 Thread Tomasz Antczak
"Russell P. Sutherland" wrote: mail to host server1 when it will be reachable again. What I must do for in this situation on server1 and server2 ? Add mydomain.com to /var/qmail/controls/rcpthosts on server2.mydomain.com, and make sure that mydomain.com is _not_ in

RE: Mailbox/Maildir pop ?

2000-04-22 Thread Bolivar Diaz Galarza
I know almost nothing about linux and less about qmail. I have installed it and it works with one mailbox. Can any of you please tell me how to add users to my qmail linux and qmail at the same time? Thanks, Bolivar, - Original Message - From: Les Higger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Second mail server

2000-04-22 Thread Martin Randall
Hello. I want to run a second mail server. I'm curious of how you do this. I know about the MX, but if the accounts are on the primary mail server, and it goes down, how do you ensure the the accounts and mail are duplicated on the second sever. Does that make sense ? Regards...Martin --

Re: Second mail server

2000-04-22 Thread Gary Richardson
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Martin Randall wrote: Hello. I want to run a second mail server. I'm curious of how you do this. I know about the MX, but if the accounts are on the primary mail server, and it goes down, how do you ensure the the accounts and mail are duplicated on the second

Home Directory ?

2000-04-22 Thread Jim Ray
I am trying to set up qmail for the first time and am having diffuculty with it. Every time I start qmail this appears in the log. "Unable to switch to home directory" I went through all the dirs and files and checked permissions and checked the home dirs in passwd. TIA. Jim Ray

Re: Home Directory ?

2000-04-22 Thread Steffan Hoeke
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 12:51:11PM -0600, Jim Ray wrote: I am trying to set up qmail for the first time and am having diffuculty with it. Every time I start qmail this appears in the log. "Unable to switch to home directory" I went through all the dirs and files and checked permissions and

Re: Group Emailing w/qmail

2000-04-22 Thread Russell Nelson
Bill Parker writes: Does something like a group e-mail exist in qmail, example No, but you could create ~alias/.qmail-group-default, then you could send mail to group-sports, like this: |perl -e 'exec "forward ".((getgrnam($ENV{EXT2}))[3]);' -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Home Directory ?

2000-04-22 Thread Jim Ray
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 10:00:49PM +0200, Steffan Hoeke wrote: Maybe asking the obvious, but : have you tried the script WITHOUT the recordio part ? and what is $alias_empty filled with ? the first \ in \"$alias_empty\" is treated as a line continuar isn't it ? Removed the $alias_empty part

Re: Group Emailing w/qmail

2000-04-22 Thread Ed Weinberg
At 10:25 AM 04/22/2000 -0700, Bill Parker wrote: Does something like a group e-mail exist in qmail, example group is sports in sports group is: larry, mike, pete, greg so sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] would deliver to all of

system start script

2000-04-22 Thread Zhiliang Hu
I installed qmail 1.03 and it works fine on my Digital unix4.0D. However when I tested my system script starting the qmail at boot: #!/sbin/sh if [ -f /var/qmail/rc ]; then /var/qmail/rc echo "Starting qmail server" echo "Please wait .." /sbin/sleep 5 else

Little Qmail problem with 'HELO'

2000-04-22 Thread tonnage
I run a virtual qmail system with many virtual domains. Generally, there have been no problems untill we ddecided to send email to hotmail.com. I use a combination of sqwebmail, and vchkpw in combination with qmail. I kept seeing error 554 in communication with hotmail. Upon sniffing the

Re: Little Qmail problem with 'HELO'

2000-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
tonnage [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know how to either hardcode the HELO msg's or have it take the host name from the "From:" field in an email? See the man page for qmail-remote: CONTROL FILES helohost Current host name, for use solely in saying hello to the remote

Re: Little Qmail problem with 'HELO'

2000-04-22 Thread tonnage
Thank you! This has fixed my problem. Is there a way to put in virtual hosts into helohost? Though this isn't very important! Thanks! Alex Russ Allbery writes: tonnage [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know how to either hardcode the HELO msg's or have it take the host name