multiple auto-reply messgs...(simple??)

2000-05-15 Thread Marcelo J. Iturbe
Hello, I have several aliases poiting to the same mailbox. (info, support, sales, etc). How can I set up an individual auto reply for each alias when they all arrive at the same pop account? Thanks. *** ICQ 22921676

Re: SMTP AUTH - is there a patch for it in qmail?

2000-05-15 Thread Krzysztof Dabrowski
The page mentions that Outlook 97 doesn't work what about others? Outlook'97 does not have support for smtp-auth at all. '98 supports it. exactly like outlook express. Kris

Re: Message: -ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir

2000-05-15 Thread Timothy L. Mayo
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Bob Carpenter wrote: But I DO have the maildir as created by "maildirmake", no? [root@mercury bob]# ls -al Mai* -rw---1 bob bob 19136 May 12 13:07 Mailbox -rw---1 bob bob 8956 May 12 13:29 Maildir [root@mercury bob]# No, the

Message: -ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir

2000-05-15 Thread Bob Carpenter
I've searched through several qmail archives and saw this question appear many times, but never found a solution that helped me. I've been following Dave Sills "Life with qmail" pretty much to the letter. OK, actually _TO_ the letter. I'm finding that the server happily accepts e-mail on both

RE: Message: -ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir

2000-05-15 Thread Bob Carpenter
Thank you! It works! Now the mystery is how did I make that file in the first place? I'm SURE that I followed the instructions in the qmail 'INSTALL.maidir' to create this file. (as shown below) maildirmake $HOME/Maildir echo ./Maildir/ ~/.qmail But the directory now exists, the telnet to

SMTP AUTH - is there a patch for it in qmail?

2000-05-15 Thread Robert Varga
Hello all, is there a SMTP AUTH patch for qmail? Regards, Robert Varga

slow answer through firewall

2000-05-15 Thread Antje Koschel
Hello, we are testing a firewall setup at the moment and see the strange behaviour that connections from inside to an outside mailserver take about 30 seconds to initiate while the connection to port 25 of an outside proxy machine that forwards the requests to the outside mailserver is fast.

Re: slow answer through firewall

2000-05-15 Thread James R Grinter
Antje Koschel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: we are testing a firewall setup at the moment and see the strange behaviour that connections from inside to an outside mailserver take about 30 seconds to time delays with connecting to port 25 always say to me 'ident' - ie, is the remote system

RE: Share queue between servers and other questions.

2000-05-15 Thread Greg Owen
I'm on the list, no need to Cc me. Michael Boman wrote: What I want is to be able to share the queue between n+2 servers on each loocation Qmail's design specifically precludes putting the queue on a network filesystem, so you can't share it that way. One alternative is to

Re: multiple auto-reply messgs...(simple??)

2000-05-15 Thread Ronny Haryanto
On 15-May-2000, Marcelo J. Iturbe wrote: Hello, I have several aliases poiting to the same mailbox. (info, support, sales, etc). How can I set up an individual auto reply for each alias when they all arrive at the same pop account? The trick is to generate auto-reply _before_ they arrive

Re: multiple auto-reply messgs...(simple??)

2000-05-15 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 11:38:47AM -0400, Marcelo J. Iturbe wrote: I have several aliases poiting to the same mailbox. (info, support, sales, etc). How can I set up an individual auto reply for each alias when they all arrive at the same pop account? Do it in the control file for the

Re: qmail / mysql (/ldap)

2000-05-15 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 03:29:45PM +0200, Joerg Ebel wrote: is there a qmail-mysql-module, like qmail-ldap? You may take a look at http://www.softagency.co.jp/mysql/qmail2.en.html Never tried it myself ... \Maex -- SpaceNet GmbH | http://www.Space.Net/ | Stress

Re: Disable telnet to port 110

2000-05-15 Thread Paul Farber
WTF? Telnet has nothing to do with POP3. Comment out the telnet line in inetd.conf. If you need to filter port 110 that different, but it has nothing to do with POP3. Paul Farber Farber Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545 On Sun, 14 May 2000, Matthew wrote:

Re: Unix_Loveletter

2000-05-15 Thread Robert Varga
A mistype, Apple instead of Apache. Robert Varga On Mon, 15 May 2000, Robert Varga wrote: Maybe. I seem to remember about an interview on The Register with a spokesperson from Microsoft Benelux mentioned that he knows of Linux and Apache servers has been infected with Lovebug.

Re: Unix_Loveletter

2000-05-15 Thread Robert Varga
Maybe. I seem to remember about an interview on The Register with a spokesperson from Microsoft Benelux mentioned that he knows of Linux and Apache servers has been infected with Lovebug. Interestingly that person was out of contact for quite a time after that, and MS Benelux denied that they

Re: SMTP AUTH - is there a patch for it in qmail?

2000-05-15 Thread Krzysztof Dabrowski
http://members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth/ Kris

qmail Digest 15 May 2000 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 1002

2000-05-15 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 15 May 2000 10:00:01 - Issue 1002 Topics (messages 41693 through 41711): Re: Disable telnet to port 110 41693 by: Matthew 41696 by: Uwe Ohse 41704 by: Daniel J. Zaccariello DNS configuration for virtual mail 41694 by: James 41697 by:

Re: slow answer through firewall

2000-05-15 Thread Chris Harris
we are testing a firewall setup at the moment and see the strange behaviour that connections from inside to an outside mailserver take about 30 seconds to initiate while the connection to port 25 of an outside proxy machine that forwards the requests to the outside mailserver is fast.

Re: slow answer through firewall

2000-05-15 Thread Antje Koschel
Thanks to all for your fast replies. Rejecting the ident* (auth at port 113) solved the probolem. Thanks, Antje On Mon, 15 May 2000, Administrator for OK 2 NET wrote: we are testing a firewall setup at the moment and see the strange behaviour that connections from inside to an outside

courier IMAP and Outlook problem

2000-05-15 Thread Derek Smith
Hi, I'm having difficulty getting MS Outlook 5 to create IMAP subfolders in Courier-IMAP. Does anyone have any experience of this, do they have it working? Can anyone offer any work around? Cheers, Del.

Metering POP related email traffic?

2000-05-15 Thread Chin Fang
Watching the logs created by qmail-pop3d, I can see that the access frequency is always increasing. A POP connection results the retrieval of a message of finite size. This takes bandwidth too. However, the logs created by tcpserver and qmail-pop3d do not contain any size info, and this makes

Re: Metering POP related email traffic?

2000-05-15 Thread James Raftery
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 09:39:33AM -0700, Chin Fang wrote: any size info, and this makes metering POP traffic difficult. We don't have control of our router, so I would be appreciative for any hints for an alternative. Perhaps your OS kernel supports IP firewalling with accounting? james --

Re: SMTP AUTH - is there a patch for it in qmail?

2000-05-15 Thread Jerry Walsh
Yes it does resolve, check your DNS At 04:12 PM 5/15/00 +0200, Robert Varga wrote: Unfortunately members.elysium.pl cannot be resolved. Does someone have the patch downloaded, or knows a working address? Robert Varga On Tue, 16 May 2000, Colin Humphreys wrote: Does this work with any

Re: courier IMAP and Outlook problem

2000-05-15 Thread Cono D'Elia
Hi Derek, There is a readme for setting up imap clients here: http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/README.imap.html Follow the instructions for the Outlook section. I have gotten it to work. Hope this helps, Cono - Original Message - From: Derek Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: qmail Mailing

Re: Metering POP related email traffic?

2000-05-15 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 09:39:33AM -0700, Chin Fang wrote: However, the logs created by tcpserver and qmail-pop3d do not contain any size info, and this makes metering POP traffic difficult. We don't have control of our router, so I would be appreciative for any hints for an alternative.

Re: Disable telnet to port 110

2000-05-15 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Daniel J. Zaccariello ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): You could: 1. Disable telnetd telnetd listens on port 23, by default. 2. Make the user's shell /usr/nologin or something (depends on your OS). If you think about this some more, you'll realize this isn't going to do anything for this

Re: Disable telnet to port 110

2000-05-15 Thread Paul Farber
I think the original poster is just 'scared' because the POP3 protocol uses cleartext command (telnet, perl script, python) could connect up and get mail. Thinking that telneting to 110 and giving the same commands at a console is somehow 'hacking' a system. It will blow thier mind when they

miniQmail and QMQP? (was: Share queue between servers)

2000-05-15 Thread Dave Kitabjian
1) Are any of you out there running miniQmail / QMQP? 2) What's the final word on which is recommended: multiple inbound SMTP servers, or a series of QMQP servers? (The goal is high volume / high availability). For the latter, here are the two configs I'm considering: Internet | |

Re: Metering POP related email traffic?

2000-05-15 Thread Chin Fang
Well, mail must come into the system in order for it to be collected, so perhaps qmail-analog - the qmail log analysis tool ? It's available from www.qmail.org and is written by the author himself. We are using that for metering SMTP traffic. However, there are three traffic streams that

Re: Metering POP related email traffic?

2000-05-15 Thread Chin Fang
We are using Solaris boxes as mail servers. All mail servers have ipfilter installed. Ipfilter does offer ip traffic accounting, but as it's at IP level, so it's only useful to get overall bandwidth utilization, but I would also like to know which users are hogging up bandwidth most. The later

RE: Metering POP related email traffic?

2000-05-15 Thread Andrés
Try using IPAC, it generates graphs for bandwith. You can specify the IP, port... - Original Message - From: Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: James Raftery [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 8:17 PM Subject: Re: Metering POP related email traffic? We are

RE: miniQmail and QMQP? (was: Share queue between servers)

2000-05-15 Thread Duane Schaub
To achieve the High Availability and Transparent down time, we are using a VERY NICE protocol specific proxy from bluetail.com. Their programmers wrote code for telco switches and they have a product that includes auto-failover, load-balancing, etc and has MANY re-writing and features that

Re: is content level blocking possible

2000-05-15 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 11:04:48AM +0530, Madhav wrote: From the qmail server(on Linux machine) adminstrator point of view I have a question. All my end users are M$ windoze users. Let's say a mail with some virus prone attachment(which act on windoze) arrives through SMTP. Is there any

Problem with virtual domains.

2000-05-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
I'm having problems with a virtual domain. I wanted to set up a subdomain, arl.dynacare.com. Created a user, arl, for this virtual domain and put arl.dynacare.com:arl in virtualdomains. Then I proceded to make a bunch of user accounts using the arl-user convention. Then I'd create a

Re: Metering POP related email traffic?

2000-05-15 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 11:11:17AM -0700, Chin Fang wrote: [snip] I have a strong suspicision as of now, based on some casual snoop output reviews, that POP traffic is consuming about 30% of the total email bandwidth usage. I would like to find a way to make this metering more precise.

Re: Virtual Domain User not receiving mail

2000-05-15 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have finally been able to get Qmail to work with local users and receiving mail from outside my server. My next step is to try to get mail to my virtual domain users. I am using Mandrake 7.02. Here are the steps I have taken, but still cannot get mail

Re: Metering POP related email traffic?

2000-05-15 Thread Len Budney
Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 11:11:17AM -0700, Chin Fang wrote: I have a strong suspicision as of now, based on some casual snoop output reviews, that POP traffic is consuming about 30% of the total email bandwidth usage. Unless people have forwards

ezmlm list creation problem

2000-05-15 Thread cdowns
ok qmail works great / ezmlm works great , i got all the ezmlm-web.cgi running with .htaccess files but the problem i have is no matter who logs in over the cgi interface and creates a list , it goes under my account? how do i change to a global account? and also instead of having a list name

Re: ezmlm list creation problem

2000-05-15 Thread Steffan Hoeke
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 04:07:12PM -0400, cdowns wrote: ok qmail works great / ezmlm works great , i got all the ezmlm-web.cgi running with .htaccess files but the problem i have is no matter who logs in over the cgi interface and creates a list , it goes under my account? how do i change to

Re: Metering POP related email traffic?

2000-05-15 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 04:09:47PM -0400, Len Budney wrote: Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 11:11:17AM -0700, Chin Fang wrote: I have a strong suspicision as of now, based on some casual snoop output reviews, that POP traffic is consuming about 30% of

Re: Problem with virtual domains.

2000-05-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
Nevermind, problem solved. I had put arl.dynacare.com in /var/qmail/locals. Now that I've taken it out everthing works fine. On Mon, 15 May 2000, Albert Hopkins wrote: I'm having problems with a virtual domain. I wanted to set up a subdomain, arl.dynacare.com. Created a user, arl,

Accessing Qmail using Netscapes mail client

2000-05-15 Thread dean klimt
I amhaving a problem using Netscape's mail client. I am getting an error msg stating that an there is a problem with the pop3 mail server. I believe that my set up is correct. I have used several of availble HOWTO's on qmail and I always seem to get stuck at this point. Currently I have

Re: is content level blocking possible

2000-05-15 Thread Jason Haar
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 11:04:48AM +0530, Madhav wrote: Hi all, From the qmail server(on Linux machine) adminstrator point of view I have a question. All my end users are M$ windoze users. Let's say a mail with some virus prone attachment(which act on windoze) arrives through SMTP. Is

Re: BACKUP POP SERVER

2000-05-15 Thread David L. Nicol
Make sure you have round-robin turned on in your DNS, assuming that both POP servers have the same name. If that doesn't work, bother half your users and have them change their settings to point to the second machine. I don't see what is saved by this arrangement, over having all the users

Re: multiple auto-reply messgs...(simple??)

2000-05-15 Thread Marcelo J. Iturbe
Hi, Maybe I am going around this all wrong. I am having troubles creating the auto-reply scripts. The script is in PERL and I am trying to capture the message. I tried to do a print on ARGV and ENV but both arrays are empty. How do I grab the email message? I would also like to modify the

Re: Disable telnet to port 110

2000-05-15 Thread David L. Nicol
How about a really short time-out? Automated POP3 clients waste no time typing at the prompt -- Mark could analyze the delay his MUAs have between connection and sending auth commands; and patch pop3d accordingly. Or he could patch pop3 to require (not just accept) encrypted

sending bulk personalized email

2000-05-15 Thread Michael Waples
I have a client that needs various mailing lists and needs to send around 100,000 messages a day - he needs to handle bounces and subscriptions automatically- ezmlm-idx seems perfect but for one thing - he needs each meesage personalized -to say hi fred - hi barney etc etc and even personalized

Re: qfilelog...

2000-05-15 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 09:12:58PM -0700, Jason Ingham wrote: I'm using the scripts that come with the memphis RPM's for qmail v1.03. They come setup by default for cyclog. Here's the pertinent part of the script: # Grab the daemontools init functions . $INITDIR/daemontools.functions It

Qmail-Imap-Maildir

2000-05-15 Thread FabriceK
I have installed souce of imap : courier-imap-0.32 from inter7.combut it doesn't work goodThen Iinstalled the imap-4.7 package from the Mandrake 7.02(I also tryed the imap package (version:4.5-3mdir4) I prefer use package than source.I create Maildir with the command : maildirmake

Re: Disable telnet to port 110

2000-05-15 Thread Paul Farber
Network/server latentancy and a poor MUA (OUTLOOK!) could cause a lot of 'could not connect to host' errors. Funny thing is.. it's working. qmail-pop3 is secure (right?) and it needs cleartext commands to log in, authenticate and pass mail. It sure dosen't look broke to me.. why are we trying

distributed redundnat queue architecture (for M Bowman)

2000-05-15 Thread David L. Nicol
Michael Boman wrote: A server goes down [and the mail should been taken care of by another server, automatically and samlessly.] A single point of failure is not an option. Best regards Michael Boman At the cost of more WAN traffic, you could add patches so that on delivery failures,

Re: distributed redundnat queue architecture (for M Bowman)

2000-05-15 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 05:41:49PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote: [snip] Depending on the various costs (WAN bandwitdh, CPU, storage space, programmer time) this architecture could result in something similar to usenet, with each extended queue storage server contacting the others at regular

Weird startup troubles

2000-05-15 Thread Michael R. Jinks
Hi, all. I'm running qmail 1.02 on Linux/UltraSPARC. If I run /var/qmail/rc ...by hand, qmail starts and runs flawlessly. But if I use the init script that came with the source code: #!/bin/csh -cf /var/qmail/rc ...which is the way I have qmail set to start at boot, I get something like

Re: Virtual Domain DNS MX question

2000-05-15 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 05:31:34PM -0700, James wrote: I've created a few virtual domains on my system (Linux Mandrake 7.02), and they are all working well. Now I wish to redirect mail sent to any one of the virtual domains to the correct place. I have only one question at this point

Re: Share queue between servers and other questions.

2000-05-15 Thread John White
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 05:09:46PM +0800, Michael Boman wrote: A server goes down that resolvs in global or local downtime (ok, the box itself is down, but the mail should been taken care of by another server without we need to plug the raid-set into another box). We should be able to say:

Stupid Sendmail tricks?

2000-05-15 Thread John White
On a mailing list I administer, bounces from a subscriber go to the person in the From: header. The subscriber is from leisureworld.org, who's mx is mail.pajo.com bash-2.03$ telnet mail.pajo.com 25 Trying 216.116.96.4... Connected to mail.pajo.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mail.pajo.com

Anonymizing Email

2000-05-15 Thread Alec Grynspan
I need to make any mail that my system relays from a specific domain look as if it came from my system, including headers. eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED] sends mail via a local dial-up in Georgia. I need to recognize secret.com, grab the message and change the header to look as if it came from my

Pummelling limiting, again

2000-05-15 Thread John R Levine
An acquaintance of mine who has a religious devotion to sendmail tells me that the next version of sendmail will have a swell new feature. As we all know, one of the aspects of sendmail that makes it so exciting to use is that it will accept an unlimited number of simultaneous inbound

Re: Pummelling limiting, again

2000-05-15 Thread Michael R. Jinks
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 12:33:20AM -0400, John R Levine wrote: My thought would be to keep some estimate of server load based on the time from the connection attempt to the banner, or maybe the response to the HELO, and throttle connections to a host when it got significantly slower than it

Re: Stupid Sendmail tricks?

2000-05-15 Thread Rogerio Brito
On May 15 2000, John White wrote: Is it really possible to configure Sendmail 8.9.x to bounce messages to someone other than the envelope sender?!?!?!?! I don't know the answer to your question with any margin of certainty, but I'd guess that it is possible. My ISP does

Virtual Domain DNS MX question

2000-05-15 Thread James
I've created a few virtual domains on my system (Linux Mandrake 7.02), and they are all working well. Now I wish to redirect mail sent to any one of the virtual domains to the correct place. I have only one question at this point that I'd like to clear up. I can't find any reference in the

Re: Share queue between servers and other questions.

2000-05-15 Thread Michael Boman
On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 12:47:53AM -0700, John White wrote: On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 10:02:24PM +0800, Michael Boman wrote: What I want is to be able to share the queue between n+2 servers on each loocation as well as be able to split a single domain's mailstorage so each users doesn't need

can not send mail to remote host

2000-05-15 Thread chenweih
I'd set up 2 mail server in my intranet. server A 's IP is 10.16.104.100 head.mytest.com server B's IP is 10.16.103.102 alpha.mytest.com i'd install qmail 1.03, tcpserver and checkpassword. a DNS is running on server A. when i try to send a mail from server B to server A, i got the follow

Re: can not send mail to remote host

2000-05-15 Thread Mulindwa Eric
Can these servers ping each other? E On Mon, 15 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd set up 2 mail server in my intranet. server A 's IP is 10.16.104.100 head.mytest.com server B's IP is 10.16.103.102alpha.mytest.com i'd install qmail 1.03, tcpserver and checkpassword. a

Re: slow answer through firewall

2000-05-15 Thread Administrator for OK 2 NET
we are testing a firewall setup at the moment and see the strange behaviour that connections from inside to an outside mailserver take about 30 seconds to initiate while the connection to port 25 of an outside proxy machine that forwards the requests to the outside mailserver is fast.

Re: slow answer through firewall

2000-05-15 Thread Rodrigo Severo
Antje, we are testing a firewall setup at the moment and see the strange behaviour that connections from inside to an outside mailserver take about 30 seconds to initiate while the connection to port 25 of an outside proxy machine that forwards the requests to the outside mailserver is

Re: SMTP AUTH - is there a patch for it in qmail?

2000-05-15 Thread Colin Humphreys
Does this work with any Outlook versions? The page mentions that Outlook 97 doesn't work what about others? thanks, Colin - Original Message - From: Krzysztof Dabrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 11:34 PM Subject: Re: SMTP AUTH - is there a