Here's a little tool I made to get rid of unwanted mail already delivered
to ~/Maildir/ on the system (most of my 2000+ mail users _aren't_ the
smart ones when it comes to computers). The logic is quite simple:
You notice you're hit by a worm or chain letter or anything. So you set up
On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 11:17:32PM +0100, Alex Shipp wrote:
I think this therefore eloquently answers my previous question
and confirms my original feeling that it is a bad idea to post
virus warnings to this group.
I don't agree.
Posting Virus warning to a mailing list like this _can_ be a
Posting Virus warning to a mailing list like this _can_ be a good
idea, as long as they are *VALID*.
Well, *I* know they are valid, because I work in the AV industry.
(although of course I'm not infallible...but that's another story)
However, if other people see me posting, they will also be
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 07:17:00AM +0100, Alex Shipp wrote:
Posting Virus warning to a mailing list like this _can_ be a good
idea, as long as they are *VALID*.
Well, *I* know they are valid, because I work in the AV industry.
(although of course I'm not infallible...but that's another
This is just another reason to stop using microsoft, I bet you can make
linux use easier for your employee's, just use X-terminals (from NCD for
instance) and make a nice KDE or the like desktop for your user's, corel
office should be alright for professional use, paradox is almost
finished... So
Hi,
I am using qmail as my MTA and qmail-pop3 as my MUA. For client to
send and receive e-mail from my qmail server by using Netscape or
Microsoft Outlook as their pop client. They have to fill out the
incoming mail server and outgoing mail server. Does the incoming and
outgoing mail
At 12:07 04/05/00 +0300, R.Ilker Gokhan wrote:
SUBJECT: ILOVEYOU
YOU MUST DELETE IT BEFORE OPEN, ESPECIALLY IF YOUR OS IS WINDOWS !
http://www.hinterlands.org/iloveyou.html
Martin A. Brooks
The package said Windows NT 4 or better - I
The problem is that these viruses are based on user
stupidity/unawareness. A script attached to a mail sent to a Linux
system would do just as much damage to files the user has full
access to. If a user doubleclicks an unknown attachment in
Windows, you can bet he'd do the neccesary things to
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
On Tue, 9 May 2000, Kent Nilsen wrote:
The problem is that these viruses are based on user
stupidity/unawareness. A script attached to a mail sent to a Linux
system would do just as much damage to files the user has full
access to. If a user doubleclicks
qmail Digest 9 May 2000 10:00:00 - Issue 996
Topics (messages 41285 through 41399):
Which version of Qmail to use?
41285 by: James
41287 by: James
41306 by: Tony Wade
41351 by: John Palkovic
41358 by: John Palkovic
AVP and Scan4virus
41286
Patrick Bihan-Faou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, 08 May 2000:
Exactly my point: if you use such email addresses you will make it difficult
for a lot of people to send you email. I know there is a reply button on
outlook and once your email is in my address book, I don't have to worry
Bob Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, 08 May 2000:
To belabor what is perhaps obvious by now, RFC822 forbids 8-bit
characters in the local-part of an address (or anywhere else, for that
matter). The key lines are as follows:
atom= 1*any CHAR except specials, SPACE and
Jozef Hitzinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's a little tool I made to get rid of unwanted mail already
delivered to ~/Maildir/...It's not meant to replace on-delivery mail
filtering, but to supplement it.
You might also want to look at maildircmd, my addition to the serialmail
package.
Title: RE: Netscape and Microsoft Outlook
Should I use pop-3 server comes with qmail
Yes.
and also Maildir.??? or others ???
You can use Maildir...
Best regard,
Ilker G.
What if I have a client that will be using Free-i
(http://www.freei.com/) or any of the current free Internet connections
for his Internet connection to get and send mail? How do I allow relaying
from that server? Is this possible without an open relay?
james
Hi,
Thank you for your reply. Then how do i named them so my user can fill
in the incoming mail server and outgoing mail server field in Netscape or MS.
For example, My ISP gives the incoming mail server as
pop.netvigator.com and outgoing mail server as mail.netvigator.com. is that
Hi,
I have installed qmail successfully. But when i use the command
"man qmail", it just show up a little details about qmail. Where can i
download the official and fully explained function about man page.
Thank You
Mark Lo
Hi,
I have installed qmail successfully. But when i use the command
"man qmail", it just show up a little details about qmail. Where can i
download the official and fully explained function about man page.
Oh...I have read a mail regarding the man page of qmail, that messages
stated that
Hi,
Oh...you mean, if my smtp and pop server is at one machine, so i can give my
user's outgoing mail server and incoming mail server the same name, is that
right??
Thank You
Mark
Jerry Walsh wrote:
You don't need to name them , they don't need to have seperate ip's, they
don't need to
It's safe to kill them. Certainly anything that is older than
24 hours is likely to be safe to kill.
It is possible that your kill comes after the 250 OK is sent
from the other end, but before qmail-smtpd communicates that
to qmail-send, but the probability is lower as you leave the
old
In one of the steps on "Life With Qmail" it suggests this:
"Allow the local host to inject mail via SMTP:
echo '127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""' /etc/tcp.smtp
/usr/local/sbin/qmail cdb"
The first line (starting with echo) worked.. but the second line (starting
with /usr) gave me an error when I
On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 11:42:37PM -0400, Bob Rogers wrote:
[snip RFC822 disallows 8-bit stuff]
This is not relevant. RFC822 talks only about headers+body. The issue in
this discussion is the SMTP (thus RFC821) addressing.
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in
On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 05:51:22PM -0400, Timothy L. Mayo wrote:
On Mon, 8 May 2000, David L. Nicol wrote:
RFC 821 page 29 (Section 4.1.2 COMMAND SYNTAX)
mailbox ::= local-part "@" domain
domain ::= element | element "." domain
element ::= name | "#" number | "[" dotnum "]"
dotnum ::=
Hi
I am receiving alot of spam to an account which has since been disabled on
my machine, how do i reject mail sent to this address without causing it to
bounce to postmaster?
TIA,
Jerry.
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In one of the steps on "Life With Qmail" it suggests this:
"Allow the local host to inject mail via SMTP:
echo '127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""' /etc/tcp.smtp
/usr/local/sbin/qmail cdb"
The first line (starting with echo) worked.. but the second line (starting
Two things I miss:
1. In Preferences: "Masquerade as". I call myself [EMAIL PROTECTED], but
sqWebMail tells the world that I'm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Causing problems
with mailing lists.
2. Sort by incoming order. A lot of people have their clock set wrong :-(
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have installed qmail successfully. But when i use the command
"man qmail", it just show up a little details about qmail. Where can i
download the official and fully explained function about man page.
Oh...I have read a mail regarding the man page of qmail, that
On Tue, 9 May 2000, James wrote:
What if I have a client that will be using Free-i
(http://www.freei.com/) or any of the current free Internet connections
for his Internet connection to get and send mail? How do I allow relaying
from that server? Is this possible without an open relay?
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In one of the steps on "Life With Qmail" it suggests this:
"Allow the local host to inject mail via SMTP:
echo '127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""' /etc/tcp.smtp
/usr/local/sbin/qmail cdb"
The first line (starting with echo) worked.. but the second line (starting
with
I am running qmail with redhat 6.1. When I try to send a message to
some outside domain then it
gives me the error
"553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)"
Folowing is the session :
bash$ telnet 216.6.15.209 25
Trying 216.6.15.209...
Connected to 216.6.15.209.
prob1.
I can send mail, but I can't receive mail.
/var/log/maillog says:
delivery 82: deferral: Temporary_error_on_maildir_delivery._(#4.3.0)/
status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
I created ~username/Maildir/
I created a link from /var/spool/mail/jstile to ~jstile/Maildir/
(I assumed Maildir is a
Hi to all,
I work at University and I have this problem:
I've configured QMail Mail Server.
My purpose is send mail not immediately, but I would that the messages stay
in the queue for a few time.
I would that when a ISDN router comes up, the "E-Mail start".
In actual scenario, every time that
Carlo Manuali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My purpose is send mail not immediately, but I would that the messages stay
in the queue for a few time.
I would that when a ISDN router comes up, the "E-Mail start".
In actual scenario, every time that I send a message the router comes up!!!
Déjà vu...
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 08:53:33 +0200
Bob Rogers (Mon 08.0500-23:47):
Not here, but that may not mean much. My guess is that mutt is
expecting the named program to be sendmail-compatible and is passing it
extra options, but qmail-inject is not
At 10.54 09/05/2000 -0400, Dave Sill wrote:
Carlo Manuali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My purpose is send mail not immediately, but I would that the messages stay
in the queue for a few time.
I would that when a ISDN router comes up, the "E-Mail start".
In actual scenario, every time that I send a
From: Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 15:08:03 +0200
On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 11:42:37PM -0400, Bob Rogers wrote:
[snip RFC822 disallows 8-bit stuff]
This is not relevant. RFC822 talks only about headers+body. The issue in
this discussion is the SMTP
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 11:16:05AM -0400, Bob Rogers wrote:
From: Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 15:08:03 +0200
On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 11:42:37PM -0400, Bob Rogers wrote:
[snip RFC822 disallows 8-bit stuff]
This is not relevant. RFC822 talks only
Did you symlink qmail to /usr/local/sbin?
James wrote:
In one of the steps on "Life With Qmail" it suggests this:
"Allow the local host to inject mail via SMTP:
echo '127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""' /etc/tcp.smtp
/usr/local/sbin/qmail cdb"
The first line (starting with echo) worked.. but the
Carlo Manuali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, but my problem is on the serialmail...
Can you be more specific? The method I proposed *does* work if
properly configured.
-Dave
First, ask your Internet Provider to mail you an Unsubscribing Kit. Then
follow these directions.
The kit will most likely be the standard no-fault type. Depending on
requirements, System A and/or System B can be used. When operating System A,
depress lever and a plastic dalkron unsubscriber
At 5/9/2000 07:41 AM -0700, John Stile wrote or quoted:
delivery 82: deferral: Temporary_error_on_maildir_delivery._(#4.3.0)/
status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
I created ~username/Maildir/
I created a link from /var/spool/mail/jstile to ~jstile/Maildir/
(I assumed Maildir is a directory based on
John Stile [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
delivery 82: deferral: Temporary_error_on_maildir_delivery._(#4.3.0)/
status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
I created ~username/Maildir/
I created a link from /var/spool/mail/jstile to ~jstile/Maildir/
(I assumed Maildir is a directory based on it's name, but it
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.
On a dual celeron 466 with 512Mb ram. and 3 10k
hi all
i've a problem ;-)
i have some mails in my queue that qmail want deliver, it always gives me
the following errormessage:
delivery 127: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/
what is going wrong ? .. i have restarted qmail and now its working normal
again and is delivering
Jerry Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am receiving alot of spam to an account which has since been disabled on
my machine, how do i reject mail sent to this address without causing it to
bounce to postmaster?
You can't reject it during the SMTP dialogue, so your best bet is to
throw it in the
I have a simple, non-qmail question:
How do you do it? You write and maintain a massive quantity of qmail
documentation. You seem to post more responses to more questions on the
list than is humanly possible! Many of the questions are rather inane,
and yet the closest thing I've seen to an
Speaking of (un)awareness: This script is inaccurately called a
virus.
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 11:19:56AM +0200, Kent Nilsen wrote:
The problem is that these viruses are based on user
stupidity/unawareness. A script attached to a mail sent to a Linux
system would do just as much damage to
Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a simple, non-qmail question:
How do you do it? You write and maintain a massive quantity of qmail
documentation. You seem to post more responses to more questions on the
list than is humanly possible! Many of the questions are rather inane,
Bob Rogers (Tue 09.0500-11:04):
Hmm. On my Red Hat 6.0 system, "man sendmail" (for the sendmail 8.9.3
version originally installed) explains "-B" as follows:
-Btype Set the body type to type. Current legal values [are]
7BIT or 8BITMIME.
mine too. my mistake.
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 01:22:46PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote:
I have a full "real life", which is why I don't always respond quickly
to list questions.
Does it perchance involve empty beer bottles :
In fact Dave, couldn't be a nicer guy. He once swapped something of value
with me for a couple
I am running qmail with redhat 6.1. When I try to send a message to some
outside domain then it
gives me the error
"553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)"
Folowing is the session :
bash$ telnet 216.6.15.209 25
Trying 216.6.15.209...
Connected to 216.6.15.209.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 01:22:46PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote:
I have a full "real life", which is why I don't always respond quickly
to list questions.
Does it perchance involve empty beer bottles :
See:
http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/beer.html
Or, for the bigger
Mikko Hänninen writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, 08 May 2000:
Correct. Uppercase LETTERS (my emphasis :). The typical preciseness of these
manpages suggests to me that if it says letters, then that's all it means,
no more, no less...and a quick squizz at the
On Tue, 9 May 2000, Len Budney wrote:
At FORE systems we had a phone support person who would shout those
things, so loud that everybody in building one could hear it. He was
astoundingly imaginative and colorful, and many of his remarks are not
printable.
Eventually, somebody spied on his
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 01:51:12PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
mikko.hänninen@myserver and MIKKO.HÄNNINEN@myserver, or do I need to
Oh, and you'd need a *lot* more than two qmail files if it didn't do
this. What if someone sent to extensions like Mikko,
At FORE systems we had a phone support person who would shout those
things, so loud that everybody in building one could hear it. He was
astoundingly imaginative and colorful, and many of his remarks are not
printable.
Eventually, somebody spied on his work, and noticed that he was deftly
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 12:30:01PM -0600, Steve Wolfe wrote:
[snip]
Back in the day when I did tech support, that sort of thing wasn't
uncommon at all. We were all pretty good at doing things like carrying on
conversations with other techs, playing hackysack, etc., while helping
GARY GENDEL writes:
I just noticed that the qmail list server puts itself as a carbon-copy. Is
this preferred over a reply-to? In any event, how do I set this up?
Actually, ezmlm doesn't do anything to the headers. The mail goes out
in the same form it came in -- as the user wrote it.
OK, time to look stupid.
I get the following message when I telnet in
grep: /var/qmail/defaultdelivery/rc: No such file or directory
I thought I followed Dave Sill's instructions carefully in
Life with Qmail and the Install instructions in the source
package. Obviously, I missed something.
On Tue, 9 May 2000, Steve Wolfe wrote:
Back in the day when I did tech support, that sort of thing wasn't
uncommon at all. We were all pretty good at doing things like carrying on
conversations with other techs, playing hackysack, etc., while helping
customers, unbeknownst to them. Every
Hi,
I am trying to use the qmail-smtpd program. Every time I try to
specify the recipient, I get the following message:
553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)
I did a man on the qmail-smtpd program and it mentions something about a
rcpthosts file. How do I
Eric Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I get the following message when I telnet in
grep: /var/qmail/defaultdelivery/rc: No such file or directory
I thought I followed Dave Sill's instructions carefully in
Life with Qmail and the Install instructions in the source
package. Obviously, I missed
At 08:02 PM 5/9/00 +0800, Mark Lo wrote:
Hi,
I have installed qmail successfully. But when i use the command
"man qmail", it just show up a little details about qmail. Where can i
download the official and fully explained function about man page.
http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html
Eric Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I get the following message when I telnet in
grep: /var/qmail/defaultdelivery/rc: No such file or directory
Wait a minute...you get that when you telnet to port 25? That's not
good...
No, just telnet in on port 23. The message is displayed as if it were
Hi; I'm running qmail on freebsd on a HP Vectra with 64megs of RAM
and running into what I'm sure is a stupid and avoidable problem.
I was sending out about 100,000 messages through the box. It churned through
about 50,000, but with the queue at around 35,000, it started choking and
stopped
Peter van Dijk wrote:
[the 821] definition is incorrect, in that it allows stuff like
[10.10.10.1].vuurwerk.nl
I think this was superseded in a later RFC.
Thanks, all!
I wonder if Postel meant for constructions such as Peter's error
to signify numeric addresses internal to private
Hi!
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 04:02:39PM -0400, Brad Johnson wrote:
Hi; I'm running qmail on freebsd on a HP Vectra with 64megs of RAM
and running into what I'm sure is a stupid and avoidable problem.
Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity iused ifree %iused
Mounted on
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 04:02:39PM -0400, Brad Johnson wrote:
Hi; I'm running qmail on freebsd on a HP Vectra with 64megs of RAM
and running into what I'm sure is a stupid and avoidable problem.
[snip scary stuff]
Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity iused ifree %iused
A couple days ago, I suddenly got a lot bounced messages (I am a
postmaster). Looking into their envelopes further, I realized
actually they all orginated from a web server in our server cluster.
Our qmail is implemented with anti-relay mechanism, but all web
servers are selective relays - to
His disk has plenty of physical capacity left, but is out of inodes. He's
asking if it's possible to increase the amount of inodes, since he still
has space left.
On Tue, 9 May 2000, Johan Almqvist wrote:
Hi!
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 04:02:39PM -0400, Brad Johnson wrote:
Hi; I'm running qmail
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 11:01:11PM +0200, Johan Almqvist wrote:
Hi!
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 04:02:39PM -0400, Brad Johnson wrote:
Hi; I'm running qmail on freebsd on a HP Vectra with 64megs of RAM
and running into what I'm sure is a stupid and avoidable problem.
Filesystem 1K-blocks
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 03:12:52PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
Peter van Dijk wrote:
[the 821] definition is incorrect, in that it allows stuff like
[10.10.10.1].vuurwerk.nl
I think this was superseded in a later RFC.
Thanks, all!
I wonder if Postel meant for constructions such
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 02:01:48PM -0700, Chin Fang wrote:
[snip]
I have been thinking how to deal with this, but a fact, that messages
from the web servers generally only have the web server's identity
(e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) in the From line, makes it difficult to
single the offending
Greg Owen wrote:
:If you entered the second line with that " mark, that's your
:problem. Do it without the " mark.
I didn't enter it with the " mark.
:If you didn't actually use the " mark, then make sure you've created
:the symlink from /usr/local/sbin/qmail to /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail, as is
Steve Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I wish I could go on about the things that people said to me, the things
I said to people, and the things I heard other techs say - but it would
be a novel. Technical support is definitely a unique learning
experience
No kidding. Taught me the
On May 09 2000, Carlo Manuali wrote:
Ok, but my problem is on the serialmail...
do you know other ways?
There may be many other ways indeed, but what is the problem
with the solution Dave has proposed? I use it every day, since
that's how I send my e-mail to my ISP's
Hi
I have a few simple (hopefully) simple questions.
1. Is it possible to use procmail to sort mail into multiple maildirs user one user
account?
ie: qmail list in one maildir and mutt list in another maildir and normal mail to a
third maildir all
under the same user account?
2. Does
From: Lael Heinig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 12:06:12 -0700
Hi,
I am trying to use the qmail-smtpd program. Every time I try to
specify the recipient, I get the following message:
553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)
I
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