Re: Future of qmail: will it care about viri/worms/etc?

2000-05-06 Thread Russell Nelson
Steve Wolfe writes: The problem isn't MUA's. The problem is that users were duped into executing a program of a malicious intent. And until the MUA is fixed, this will happen again, and again and again and again. Replace your MUA with something that's secure and you have solved the

Re: Future of qmail: will it care about viri/worms/etc?

2000-05-06 Thread Mrs. Brisby
Steve Wolfe writes: The problem isn't MUA's. The problem is that users were duped into executing a program of a malicious intent. And until the MUA is fixed, this will happen again, and again and again and again. Replace your MUA with something that's secure and you have solved the

tcprules problem

2000-05-06 Thread James
I'm trying to narrow down my problem with sending mail, but not receiving, and I am going through the "Life with qmail" steps (thanks for the suggestions on that).. but I have come to the step which will "Allow the local host to inject mail via SMPT" and I try to run "/usr/local/sbin/qmail cdb" I

Still can send, but not receive

2000-05-06 Thread James
I've reinstalled the tcprules and now I can execute "/usr/local/sbin/qmail cdb" but I'm still not getting any mail from the outside world. I can issue: echo To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject and it will go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but when I try to send to myself locally, I get

Re: Still can send, but not receive

2000-05-06 Thread Kevin Waterson
And why can't I get any outside mail? james What do you have in rcpt.hosts Kevin

Re: Still can send, but not receive

2000-05-06 Thread James
Kevin asked: :What do you have in rcpt.hosts Well, in my rcpthosts file I have localhost ns.mydomain.com and a couple of virtual domains that I will have to deal with later. Did you mean rcpt.hosts, or rcpthosts? james

Re: hack for filtering i love you worm

2000-05-06 Thread Rainer Link
Jason Haar wrote: scan4virus provides a "generic filter/scanner" to filter out eMails with a specific attachment name - which in case of "I love you" is a good thing, but it's very easy to change the file name (or the subject line), according to BugTraq this has happend. Err - no

EZMLM problems

2000-05-06 Thread jay
I'm using ezmlm 0.53 with ezmlm-idx 0.40. Have never set up a moderated mailing list before, but decided I wanted to try it out tonight. Set it up with: ezmlm-make -q -m /path/to/list /path/to/. list domain.com Set up a couple of test subscribers, and set up a moderator with ezmlm-sub

On-line web mail

2000-05-06 Thread Mark Lo
Hi, I am having a very very serious problem. I would like to use PHP mail function to send out a web page mail. Do I have to set up my mail server first ?? And Does this mail server must be located at the same location as my web server ??? Thank You Mark Lo

Help on SMTP !

2000-05-06 Thread Xionghui Chen
Hi, I'm new to qmail. I got problems hounding with SMTP now, I've read the FAQ though, but till now I've got no answer. I installed qmail step by step as to the INSTALL file, I also installed qpopper and WU-imap, now I can receive mail via pop and imap, and I also can send mail using

qmail Digest 6 May 2000 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 993

2000-05-06 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 6 May 2000 10:00:01 - Issue 993 Topics (messages 41086 through 41197): Re: hack for filtering "i love you" worm 41086 by: octave klaba 41092 by: Jesper Hess Nielsen 41095 by: Rainer Link 41096 by: octave klaba 41098 by: Jesper Hess

Re: .qmail questions

2000-05-06 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 05:20:25PM -0700, Chris Hanlon wrote: Is there anyway to restrict which users/groups can execute commands via the | option in there .qmail file? I realise that the problem could be solved by not giving users access to the .qmail file but this is not always an option.

I am Panic!!!

2000-05-06 Thread Mark Lo
Hi, I have followed the doc from "life with qmail" to install my qmail server. When I reboot the server, I got the following error messages stating that "execup : directory not found[failed]. I have placed the auto startup script in my /etc/rc.d/init.d directory. And I did create a

Re: .qmail questions

2000-05-06 Thread William E. Baxter
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 05:20:25PM -0700, Chris Hanlon wrote: A final questions is does anyone have a script to forward the results of a command to the person who sent the message? ie. run amalist then send the result of the command to the user who emailed [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Use qtools:

Virtual POP3, unable to relay root email

2000-05-06 Thread Christian Billen
Hello, I have setup Qmail in accordance with Paul Gregg's document on how to setup qmail with separate POP3 accounts (http://www.tibus.net/pgregg/projects/), I have setup my assign files with some entries for delivery, a couple pop accounts for pickup and it all works fine until I try to use the

Re: Open Today.

2000-05-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 05:44:45PM -0600, Irwan wrote: At 03:20 PM 5/4/00 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why this qmail mailling list doesn't use the rblsmtpd to prevent from Dial Up user abuse ? - rblsmtpd doesn't stop DialUp abuse. - too much qmail users mail from dialups to this list,

Re: Open Today.

2000-05-06 Thread Johan Almqvist
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 07:50:44PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 05:44:45PM -0600, Irwan wrote: why this qmail mailling list doesn't use the rblsmtpd to prevent from Dial Up user abuse ? - rblsmtpd doesn't stop DialUp abuse. Yes it does, if you use the

Qmail

2000-05-06 Thread Mark Lo
Hi, I just installed qmial following life with qmail. After the auto start...then I found two "qmaill" is running. Any ideas??? Thank You Mark Lo

Re: Checkpassword for OpenBSD

2000-05-06 Thread Dale Miracle
jon wrote: Dear fellows, #1. OpenBSD gots a port for checkpassword, its in /usr/ports/mail/checkpassword.. #2, are you sure its /bin/checkpassword and not /usr/local/bin/checkpassword? #3, OpenBSD 2.7-beta is out, try it, its great... #4, is your checkpassword executable and owned by

Re: Checkpassword for OpenBSD

2000-05-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 03:27:58PM -0400, Dale Miracle wrote: jon wrote: Dear fellows, #1. OpenBSD gots a port for checkpassword, its in /usr/ports/mail/checkpassword.. #2, are you sure its /bin/checkpassword and not /usr/local/bin/checkpassword? #3, OpenBSD 2.7-beta is out,

Re: Qmail

2000-05-06 Thread J.M. Roth
Hi. qmaill is there username that the process is using. I'm having several things (accustamp and cyclog) running with uid qmaill. Regards! --jmr - Original Message - From: "Mark Lo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 21:30 Subject: Qmail Hi,

scan4virus

2000-05-06 Thread Warren J. Beckett
Hi, Does anyone have much experience with scan4virus? I have install the latest version on my redhat 6.2 box and it works well... Exept than when I add entries to block certain file type of attachment it does detect any of them. I am trying to block mp3's and Cough vbs attachments. I have

Re: Future of qmail: will it care about viri/worms/etc?

2000-05-06 Thread Alex Shipp
Steve Wolfe writes: The problem isn't MUA's. The problem is that users were duped into executing a program of a malicious intent. Ah, but in most cases it was the MUA. If the MUA is the 'right' (wrong?) version of Outlook, then the virus activates on reading or previewing the virus.

Re: Open Today.

2000-05-06 Thread Len Budney
Johan Almqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 07:50:44PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: - too much qmail users mail from dialups to this list, so blocking dialups would not be a good thing. It's not very probable that they'd use list.cr.yp.to as their outgoing mail

Re: scan4virus

2000-05-06 Thread Patrick Berry
on 5/6/00 12:58 PM, Warren J. Beckett at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone have much experience with scan4virus? I have install the latest version on my redhat 6.2 box and it works well... Exept than when I add entries to block certain file type of attachment it does detect

Re: scan4virus

2000-05-06 Thread Johan Almqvist
On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 05:58:24AM +1000, Warren J. Beckett wrote: Does anyone have much experience with scan4virus? Yup ;- I have install the latest version on my redhat 6.2 box and it works well... Exept than when I add entries to block certain file type of attachment it does detect

Re: Future of qmail: will it care about viri/worms/etc?

2000-05-06 Thread Alex Shipp
Here in .au there are rumblings of legislation for ISPs to block virii Its mathmatically provable that there exists an infinite number of files which cannot be analysed by any virus scanner - that it to say, the virus scanner would be unable to prove that the file definately does not contain a

Re: Future of qmail: will it care about viri/worms/etc?

2000-05-06 Thread Alex Shipp
But if you are the first one to sell 'secure' qmail servers you will be the MS of .au! We have already been doing this for the last 2 years Perhaps we should set up an office in AU! ;-) That and make profit along the way! What an excellent idea!

RE: scan4virus

2000-05-06 Thread Warren J. Beckett
I have tried what you have both said.. When I do a antivirus-qmail-queue.pl -r I get File: putty.exe Size: 1 bytes Description: TEST File: eicar.com Size: 69 bytes Description: EICAR Test Virus File: .vbs Size: Any Description: Visual Basic Attachments Are not allowed So

Can somebody explain aliases? or .qmail contents?

2000-05-06 Thread James
I'm still having a problem with getting mail from the outside world, but I can send mail out from root just fine. I'm thinking that maybe my problem has something to do with alias? Maybe if I understood HOW Qmail actually sees a user on a system to deliver mail, I'd better understand how to get

Re: Can somebody explain aliases? or .qmail contents?

2000-05-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 02:29:59PM -0700, James wrote: Here is how I have my locals set: localhost ns.mydomain.com mydomain.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can't have full adresses in locals. Only domainnames are allowed. Greetz, Peter. -- Peter van Dijk -

Anti-virus

2000-05-06 Thread Andrés
Hello. I've been looking for programs to install with my Qmail to detect those nasty virus. The only program which seems to work with Qmail is Scan4virus and AMaViS (this one hasn't been tested). Is there anyone more? Which one is the best? Thanks.

Re: Can somebody explain aliases? or .qmail contents?

2000-05-06 Thread Dale Miracle
James wrote: I'm still having a problem with getting mail from the outside world, but I can send mail out from root just fine. I'm thinking that maybe my problem has something to do with alias? Maybe if I understood HOW Qmail actually sees a user on a system to deliver mail, I'd better

Re: Can somebody explain aliass? or .qmail contents?

2000-05-06 Thread James
Dale wrote: :In the ~alias directory you should have among others a .qmail-root :by default it will have nothing in it. Where exactly is the ~alias directory? james

Re: Can somebody explain aliass? or .qmail contents?

2000-05-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 03:23:08PM -0700, James wrote: Dale wrote: :In the ~alias directory you should have among others a .qmail-root :by default it will have nothing in it. Where exactly is the ~alias directory? /var/qmail/alias usually. Greetz, Peter. -- Peter van Dijk -

help qmail+vpopmail+ezmlm+qmailadmin+sqwebmail

2000-05-06 Thread Kapil Nanda
The scenariois : I have installed qmail1.03 on Mandrake Linux 6.0. And the local domain is "velosmed.com" and the local accounts by creating actual users on that system works. I am able to send and receive emails Then I installed vpopmail from www.inter7.com; then ezmlm ; and qmailadmin

Re: Can somebody explain aliass? or .qmail contents?

2000-05-06 Thread Mrs. Brisby
On Sat, 6 May 2000 15:23:08 -0700 (PDT), James wrote: Dale wrote: :In the ~alias directory you should have among others a .qmail-root :by default it will have nothing in it. Where exactly is the ~alias directory? ~username is a convention used by most UNIX(ish) shells. it means "username's

Re: scan4virus

2000-05-06 Thread Warren J. Beckett
Here is the debug. I can't see it compain about anything Regards Warren 07/05/2000 06:52:35:19149: all finished 07/05/2000 07:00:39:19177: +++ starting debugging for process 19177 07/05/2000 07:00:39:19177: setting UID to EUID so subprocesses can access files generated by this script

Re: scan4virus

2000-05-06 Thread Mark Lo
Hi, Where can i get scan4virus? Thank You Mark "Warren J. Beckett" wrote: I have tried what you have both said.. When I do a antivirus-qmail-queue.pl -r I get File: putty.exe Size: 1 bytes Description: TEST File: eicar.com Size: 69 bytes Description: EICAR Test

QMail Performance Question Miscellaneous Issues

2000-05-06 Thread Chun Hoh
Dear QMail users, I am a QMail newbie and I would like some advice on some qmail performance issues. I have a question about qmail regarding its mail handling capacity. How many remote emails can qmail send simulataneously, assuming it is run on a Dual-CPU PIII 500Mhz with 512Mb RAM and a

Re: QMail Performance Question Miscellaneous Issues

2000-05-06 Thread Steve Wolfe
I have a question about qmail regarding its mail handling capacity. How many remote emails can qmail send simulataneously, assuming it is run on a Dual-CPU PIII 500Mhz with 512Mb RAM and a SCSI hard disk? The internet bandwidth is 10 Mbps. A lot. : ) There is a hard-coded limit to

Unable to Telnet

2000-05-06 Thread Mark Lo
Hi, I am not able to telnet 127.0.0.1 25 to my smpt port. And I have checked that I haven't setup anything listening to port 25 expect smpt itself. What do i do wrong here. I was following the life with qmail manual. and I got everything running except the above. Thank you Mark Lo

Re: Unable to Telnet

2000-05-06 Thread Xionghui Chen
I got the same problem, anybody help out? - Original Message - From: "Mark Lo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 12:18 PM Subject: Unable to Telnet Hi, I am not able to telnet 127.0.0.1 25 to my smpt port. And I have checked that I haven't

Re: Unable to Telnet

2000-05-06 Thread Vince Vielhaber
What EXACTLY is the line that starts qmail-smtpd? Also what does either ps -axww or ps -ef show you?? Vince. On Sun, 7 May 2000, Xionghui Chen wrote: I got the same problem, anybody help out? - Original Message - From: "Mark Lo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

qmail installation

2000-05-06 Thread Daniel
Hi, 1) I have installed Slackware 7.0 with kernel 2.2.13 without procmail and fetchmail, then I install qmail-1.03. Could qmail work without those two tools (procmail or fetchmail)? 2) If I have installed qmail, then I telnet to mail.domain.com 25/110 is work well, but I can't get the mail

Re: scan4virus

2000-05-06 Thread Johan Almqvist
On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 11:52:29AM +1000, Warren J. Beckett wrote: Here is the debug. I can't see it compain about anything Can you send us `ls -lsa /var/spool/qmailscan/` ? -Johan -- Johan Almqvist