qmail lspawn hassels??

2000-06-05 Thread TAG
Hi ALL, I have the qmail-mysql (Iain Pattersen patch) running and I get the following errors: 960186398.488070 delivery 40431: deferral: Temporary_failure_in_qmail-lspawn./ I get them every minute or so - the local queue has grown considerably since - ... Can anyone please shed some light as

Sorry, no mailbox ...

2000-06-05 Thread Goran Blazic
Ups, another problem... forgot about it before... I have a few virtual domain on my system, and now I want to use the mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the same address on different domains)... There was no way to do this, so I somehow tracked it to the fact, that I had a alias for info in the

qmail+maildrop+amavis

2000-06-05 Thread Nuno Ferreira
Hi, Two questions. Seems my ~/.qmail never gets executed by Qmail, so I am not able to have a functional maildrop or procmail. BTW, is ~/.qmail a script that gets executed by QMail or is it a file that is read by it to know how to perform to specific users. Also I can't seem to get any info on

Re: No log??

2000-06-05 Thread Eric Cox
Goran Blazic wrote: Hi... After installing qmail on my system, suddenly there was no logging activity anymore... Nothing new gets written into /var/log/messages anymore?!!? Does anyone have any ideas? What have you checked so far? Is syslogd still running? Friends are those who,

Re: qmail+maildrop+amavis

2000-06-05 Thread Eric Cox
Nuno Ferreira wrote: Hi, Two questions. Seems my ~/.qmail never gets executed by Qmail, so I am not able to have a functional maildrop or procmail. BTW, is ~/.qmail a script that gets executed by QMail or is it a file that is read by it to know how to perform to specific

patch for authenticate SMTP services

2000-06-05 Thread Nguyen Hong Son
Dear All Does someone show me a patch for authentication to SMTP services in qmail ? Thanks a lot Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

qmail Digest 5 Jun 2000 10:00:00 -0000 Issue 1023

2000-06-05 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 5 Jun 2000 10:00:00 - Issue 1023 Topics (messages 42648 through 42667): Re: Does someone knows what is this about? 42648 by: Russell Nelson mail.log; syslog 42649 by: Attila Csosz Re: smtp relay setup (faq 5.4) 42650 by: John Stile 42651 by:

Re: patch for authenticate SMTP services

2000-06-05 Thread Krzysztof Dabrowski
At 09:54 2000-06-05 +, Nguyen Hong Son wrote: Dear All Does someone show me a patch for authentication to SMTP services in qmail ? http://members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth/index.html K.

Re: smtp relay setup (faq 5.4)

2000-06-05 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
Following FAQ 5.4 steps for relay rules, I was was unsuccessful, but tcpd is not where the faq says it will be, so could that be the problem? Forget tcpd and use ucspi-tcp (tcpserver) instead. It's in the FAQ how to do it. Regards, Frank

Why not inetd?

2000-06-05 Thread Magnus Naeslund
I run a relatively low traffic mailserver. It runs qmail smptd and pop3 from inetd. I hear all the time that inetd sucks, but i never hear any reasons why. So my question is: why does inetd sucks? /Magnus Näslund

Problems with tcpserver

2000-06-05 Thread Holger Haeffelin
Hi all, I've got some problems with my tcpserver. It is configured to relay for some ip-adresses and block all others. I use the latest version of ucspi and I installed it as described. For most of the ip-adresses, tcpserver works fine, but in some cases, it allows relaying (with setting

Re: Why not inetd?

2000-06-05 Thread Peter Samuel
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Magnus Naeslund wrote: I run a relatively low traffic mailserver. It runs qmail smptd and pop3 from inetd. I hear all the time that inetd sucks, but i never hear any reasons why. So my question is: why does inetd sucks? Two that immediately come to mind: No inbuilt

Re: Why not inetd?

2000-06-05 Thread Gjermund Sorseth
I run a relatively low traffic mailserver. It runs qmail smptd and pop3 from inetd. I hear all the time that inetd sucks, but i never hear any reasons why. So my question is: why does inetd sucks? /Magnus Näslund It does not give the programs it runs any information

Re: Problems with tcpserver

2000-06-05 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
fine, but in some cases, it allows relaying (with setting RELAYCLIENT="" !!!) for ip-adresses which should be blocked. Which addresses? Frank

Re: qmail+maildrop+amavis

2000-06-05 Thread Nuno Ferreira
Alright, what I am seeing is this. ~/.qmail is working, forward works swell for example, but I either cannot get the program (the | program) to work or I can but it is the program that's not working. My specific problem is this: in ~/.qmail I have ./Maildir/ | preline /var/local/bin/maildrop

Sender domain must resolve

2000-06-05 Thread Pablo Martínez Schroder
I'm having some problems sending mail to a specific domain... When qmail tries to send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from our mail server (212.49.139.237) and the sender is [EMAIL PROTECTED], bt.es mail server says "Sender domain must resolve". This don't happen when the mail server sends mails to

qmail-lspawn hassels

2000-06-05 Thread TAG
Hi ALL, I have the qmail-mysql (Iain Pattersen patch) running and I get the following errors: 960186398.488070 delivery 40431: deferral:Temporary_failure_in_qmail-lspawn./ I get them every minute or so - the local queue has grown considerably since - ... Can anyone please shed some light as

Re: qmail+maildrop+amavis

2000-06-05 Thread Paul Schinder
At 11:59 AM +0100 6/5/00, Nuno Ferreira wrote: Alright, what I am seeing is this. ~/.qmail is working, forward works swell for example, but I either cannot get the program (the | program) to work or I can but it is the program that's not working. My specific problem is this: in ~/.qmail I have

A addition for Chris Johnson's tarpit patch.

2000-06-05 Thread Rodrigo Severo
Dear List, I sent Chris and now I am sending to this list this addition I made for Chris Johnson's tarpit patch http://www.palomine.net/qmail/tarpit.html. I just made a patch to qmail-smtpd man's page to list the 2 new control files and environment variables Chris's patch creates. Rodrigo

$HOME/Mailbox delivery

2000-06-05 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, this guy has set up qmail with $HOME/Mailbox delivery. Now he wants to use ipop3d (part of uw-imap, he uses the RedHat 6.2 package) with $HOME/Mailbox. Do you have any idea how? Does it run that way "out-of-the-box"? I suggested him to use

Re: $HOME/Mailbox delivery

2000-06-05 Thread Will Harris
On 14:24 5.06.2000, Petr Novotny could be heard musing -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, this guy has set up qmail with $HOME/Mailbox delivery. Now he wants to use ipop3d (part of uw-imap, he uses the RedHat 6.2 package) with $HOME/Mailbox. Do you have any idea how? Does

How to get QMQP to work

2000-06-05 Thread Johan Almqvist
Hi! How can I get qmail to use QMTP between two boxes that there is a lot of traffic between? I tried putting the respective IP adresses in /var/qmail/control/qmqpservers, but that didn't do it. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
- ORBS blocks "unfriendly" sites criticising ORBS Is there a site with documentation on this? I'd like to check it out for myself. There is a bit more to it then that. Some people who disagree with how the ORBS is run block their relay tests. The ORBS considers this grounds for being

Re: How to get QMQP to work

2000-06-05 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
How can I get qmail to use QMTP between two boxes that there is a lot of traffic between? I tried putting the respective IP adresses in /var/qmail/control/qmqpservers, but that didn't do it. qmqpservers is for QMQP, not for QMTP. At the moment QMTP is supported by qmail-qmtpd and a program

Re: Sender domain must resolve

2000-06-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 12:27:49PM +0200, Pablo Martínez Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having some problems sending mail to a specific domain... When qmail tries to send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from our mail server (212.49.139.237) and the sender is [EMAIL PROTECTED], bt.es mail

Re: Problems with tcpserver

2000-06-05 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 12:29:39PM +0200, Holger Haeffelin wrote: I've got some problems with my tcpserver. It is configured to relay for some ip-adresses and block all others. I use the latest version of ucspi and I installed it as described. For most of the ip-adresses, tcpserver works

Re: Sender domain must resolve

2000-06-05 Thread Pablo Martínez Schroder
Bruno Wolff III wrote: There isn't any MX or A record associated with hidratel.com. Some sites check for the existance of an A record or MX record and refuse email if there isn't one. Not all sites do this. This also might be a problem with only some of the DNS servers authoritative for

Under heavy load?

2000-06-05 Thread Alex Povolotsky
Hello! I'm evaluating qmail performance (qmail with vpopmail, one domain, 1 users) and I've found that under 20 clients queue grows VERY fast. Each client retreives all mail from given account, and than send some mails to it. In 3 minutes qmail running on fairly powerful box gives:

programming with vpopmail - add account from web

2000-06-05 Thread Próspero, Esteban
Hi everyone! Where can I get more information about vpopmail api functions? I want to make an html page where anyone could pop into and add as a users of sqwebmail (a kind of Hotmail). I'm using qmail 1.03 and vpopmail. Thanks in advance!! Esteban Javier Próspero

Re: Large organizations using dnscache?

2000-06-05 Thread Mate Wierdl
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 11:53:29AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 10:51:36AM -0400, Bennett Todd wrote: It's worse than that. The original version _did_ explicitly mention qmail (and Postfix) as replacements for sendmail that would settle the security problems. A

Re: programming with vpopmail - add account from web

2000-06-05 Thread Peter Green
also sprach Esteban.Prospero: Hi everyone! Where can I get more information about vpopmail api functions? http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/vpopmail.html I want to make an html page where anyone could pop into and add as a users of sqwebmail (a kind of Hotmail). I'm using qmail 1.03 and

Re: Sender domain must resolve

2000-06-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 03:37:30PM +0200, Pablo Martínez Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruno Wolff III wrote: There isn't any MX or A record associated with hidratel.com. Some sites check for the existance of an A record or MX record and refuse email if there isn't one. Not all sites

Re: qmail+maildrop+amavis

2000-06-05 Thread Nuno Ferreira
There are nothing out of the ordinary in the logs. With this configuration, however I am receiving the same mails several times and the queue grows, which means I must be injecting the same mail in the queue instead of forwarding it to another user. I read the maildrop man page, but I cannot

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Mate Wierdl
More evidence that the person running ORBS is incompetent. I now understand why I get these messages from ORBS dropped into my postmaster box. In what sense does ORBS think the described behavior of qmail is insecure? What problem do they refer to, anyways? It certainly is annoying to get

Re: No log??

2000-06-05 Thread clemensF
Goran Blazic: After installing qmail on my system, suddenly there was no logging activity anymore... Nothing new gets written into /var/log/messages anymore?!!? you might post /etc/syslog.conf and /etc/newsyslog.conf for us to check. -- clemens

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 10:48:24AM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote: More evidence that the person running ORBS is incompetent. He's not. I've spoken to him on several occasions and he is quite clueful. I now understand why I get these messages from ORBS dropped into my postmaster box. You will

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Len Budney
Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 10:48:24AM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote: More evidence that the person running ORBS is incompetent. He's not. I've spoken to him on several occasions and he is quite clueful. Not to restart another perennial flame-war, but why

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Ryan Russell
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Len Budney wrote: Not to restart another perennial flame-war, but why then does he blacklist people who block his probes? Is it really his intention to provide the service of blacklisting both a) open relays and b) people who disagree with him? As the mail admin for a

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread IDG New Media Support - André Paulsberg
Forget about ORBS. Anyone using/caring about ORBS should reconsider his decision: Before giving "judgement" over ORBS, please understand what they are doing and the possible effects (both good and bad) for "you" as a mail admin. - ORBS blocks "unfriendly" sites criticising ORBS You should

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 12:06:55PM -0400, Len Budney wrote: Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 10:48:24AM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote: More evidence that the person running ORBS is incompetent. He's not. I've spoken to him on several occasions and he is quite

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5 Jun 00, at 18:13, IDG New Media Support - Andr Paulsberg wrote: What a mail admin chooses to do with is ORBS information is up to him, and he may ignore some or all listings ORBS give out for "admin refused". How can I set up my filters to

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 06:13:57PM +0200, IDG New Media Support - André Paulsberg wrote: Forget about ORBS. Anyone using/caring about ORBS should reconsider his decision: Before giving "judgement" over ORBS, please understand what they are doing and the possible effects (both good and bad)

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Ryan Russell
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Peter van Dijk wrote: That is impossible. ORBS does not list a machine until it has received a relayed test message. If you know of any false positives, let me know too and I'd be happy to investigate. I have had several people run to me and say 'ORBS listed me but I'm

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5 Jun 00, at 18:28, Peter van Dijk wrote: - ORBS has IMHO too much false positives That is impossible. ORBS does not list a machine until it has received a relayed test message. Second (or higher) level relay _is_ a false positive. My ISP

Re: qmail questions

2000-06-05 Thread John Anderson
Hi, second, i have set up control/virtualdomains without any problems using the good faq. but, i haven't found anything about forwarding emails. let's assume i have set up test-domain.com:testuser in the virtual domain control file. now, any incoming mail is delivered to the local user

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Will Harris
My 2 rappen/centimes: Second (or higher) level relay _is_ a false positive. No it's not - positive is positive. You provide relaying or you don't. Are you or are you not responsible for maintaining some standard of net ethics? My ISP has been listed recently because they're doing a

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5 Jun 00, at 19:01, Will Harris wrote: No - advise them of their problem, and suspend mail service until they have fixed their faulty servers. Most ISPs have contracts with their network customers explicity forbidding spamming of any

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 06:21:10PM +0200, Petr Novotny wrote: [snip] On 5 Jun 00, at 18:13, IDG New Media Support - André Paulsberg wrote: What a mail admin chooses to do with is ORBS information is up to him, and he may ignore some or all listings ORBS give out for "admin refused".

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 06:36:04PM +0200, Petr Novotny wrote: [snip] On 5 Jun 00, at 18:28, Peter van Dijk wrote: - ORBS has IMHO too much false positives That is impossible. ORBS does not list a machine until it has received a relayed test message. Second (or higher) level

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 07:06:58PM +0200, Petr Novotny wrote: [snip] I have yet to see a contract saying "Thou shalt not run an open relay." Our contracts with CoLo's do, implicitly or explicitly. We are allowed to block port 25 towards colo's (and we do) if we hear about an open relay.

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5 Jun 00, at 19:12, Peter van Dijk wrote: The only correct choice is 1. If your customer has an open relay, block them on your own smarthost until they fix their problem. Oh thanks. In other words, you're giving me the following

Re: Why not inetd?

2000-06-05 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Peter Samuel wrote: It has a rate limiting "feature" whereby it will stop servicing a port for 10 MINUTES if it thinks the rate of incoming connections is too high (I have flat lined a remote inetd with qmail-remote from a 14k4 modem). tcpserver doesn't care about rate, it

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 07:20:05PM +0200, Petr Novotny wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5 Jun 00, at 19:12, Peter van Dijk wrote: The only correct choice is 1. If your customer has an open relay, block them on your own smarthost until they fix their problem.

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5 Jun 00, at 19:27, Peter van Dijk wrote: If one of your customers runs an open relay, you should force your customer into fixing it, or make sure yourself that they can't cause any damage. Open relays found by spammers tend to cause great

Re: Why not inetd?

2000-06-05 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5 Jun 00, at 12:02, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: inetd by default has the above behaviour, but can be overridden in the configuration file to accept any number of connections. That's bad, too. I want to limit the number of live incoming

dot-qmail in vpopmail

2000-06-05 Thread Pablo Martínez Schroder
It is possible to use a .qmail file with vpopmail... I have tried a .qmail file in ~vpopmail/domains/mydomain.tld/user with the lines ./Maildir/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] but qmail tries to send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and tries to execute with sh "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" I've also tried to use

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 07:36:43PM +0200, Petr Novotny wrote: [snip] On 5 Jun 00, at 19:27, Peter van Dijk wrote: If one of your customers runs an open relay, you should force your customer into fixing it, or make sure yourself that they can't cause any damage. Open relays found by

RE: dot-qmail in vpopmail

2000-06-05 Thread Próspero, Esteban
!Hola Pablo! I think you should put a .qmail-usuario under ~vpopmail/domains/mydomain.tld/.qmail-usuario. Look at vpopmail man page or http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/vpopmail.html the dot-qmail section. Suerte! Esteban Javier Próspero From: Pablo Martínez Schroder [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: Sorry, no mailbox ...

2000-06-05 Thread clemensF
Goran Blazic: address [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the same address on different There was no way to do this, so I somehow tracked it to the fact, that I had how is somehow? could you please describe this in more detail? -- clemens

Re: Sender domain must resolve

2000-06-05 Thread clemensF
Pablo Martínez Schroder: When qmail tries to send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from our mail server (212.49.139.237) and the sender is [EMAIL PROTECTED], bt.es mail server says "Sender domain must resolve". how about this: you either find the lines in the sources where this error is raised

Re: How to get QMQP to work

2000-06-05 Thread clemensF
Johan Almqvist: How can I get qmail to use QMTP between two boxes that there is a lot of traffic between? I tried putting the respective IP adresses in /var/qmail/control/qmqpservers, but that didn't do it. how about this: you setup qmail-qmtpd on both machines to serve on a tcp- port

[newcomer] Problems installing Qmail+VMailMgr+Courier-Imap

2000-06-05 Thread Martin A. Langhoff
hello, I've come across HOWO recently added to the linux HOWTO's, written by Dan Kuykendall, titled "Qmail VMailMgr and Courier-ImapHOWTO". This HOWTO guided me though the prep/compile/install for - ucspi-tcp - daemontools - supervise-scripts - qmail - vmailmgr -

Re: [newcomer] Problems installing Qmail+VMailMgr+Courier-Imap

2000-06-05 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 03:04:54PM -0300, Martin A. Langhoff wrote: [snip] Now, the symptoms I could gather: - syslogd taking 50% processor time syslog sucks. daemontools (which you installed) come with multilog which does a far better job. - command line utilities like

Re: programming with vpopmail - add account from web

2000-06-05 Thread Bruno Negrão
Why don't you use de qmailadmin program. It does what you are trying to do. You can get it at the inter7's site. -Mensagem Original- De: Próspero, Esteban [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: Segunda-feira, 5 de Junho de 2000 12:21

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 09:13:24AM -0700, Ryan Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It makes perfect sense, from a certain point of view. The ORBS guys want to list relays. The run across an address block that has a number of open relays, and the adminitrators of that block aren't responsive

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Ryan Russell
Except that sites that block probes rather than fix open relays really belong in a different kind of list. I think the ORBS would be better off just listing confirmed open relays. If they would do this, a lot Peter van Dijk confirmed that we are listed in a different category from regular

system rebooted, sendmail took over, how do I send those messages now

2000-06-05 Thread Susan Short
Our sun OS 2.7 mail server had a system panic on Friday and it rebooted. I hadn't configured the boot scripts yet and our other sysadmin didn't call me (I was on vacation). This morning I saw that qmail hadn't started and sendmail (which had never been configured to work) had queued all the

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 07:09:57PM +0200, Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That depends on your filtering software. It seems djb's rblsmtpd does not have an option to change this. That sucks. Your choice is hereby reduced (by DJB, not by any people at ORBS) to 'block everything ORBS

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Greg Hudson
ORBS also lists tarpitting people, although as spam relays they are unsusable, too. Anybody clueful enough to do tarpitting should block relaying. There exists sites which do not have a nice block of IP addresses which describe all of their valid mail relay users. For such sites, tarpitting

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Bruno Wolff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think I will be able to use them again as I only want to block inputs and outputs, since the ORBS seems to catch sites faster than the RSS. That's because RSS requires evidence that the relay is actually being abused, whereas ORBS will list any machine

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 03:17:06PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 07:09:57PM +0200, Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That depends on your filtering software. It seems djb's rblsmtpd does not have an option to change this. That sucks. Your choice is hereby

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 05:19:49PM -0400, Greg Hudson wrote: ORBS also lists tarpitting people, although as spam relays they are unsusable, too. Anybody clueful enough to do tarpitting should block relaying. There exists sites which do not have a nice block of IP addresses which

Re: Qmail and conf-spawn

2000-06-05 Thread Eric Cox
clemensF wrote: David Dyer-Bennet: identical program invocations get to run their own copy of the program text. I don't believe this last bit is the case. It's clearly not the case on Linux, anyway, as displayed by the various size numbers in 'top'. but linux processes

Re: Qmail and conf-spawn

2000-06-05 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 04:57:30PM -0700, Eric Cox wrote: clemensF wrote: David Dyer-Bennet: identical program invocations get to run their own copy of the program text. I don't believe this last bit is the case. It's clearly not the case on Linux, anyway, as

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread John R. Levine
There exists sites which do not have a nice block of IP addresses which describe all of their valid mail relay users. For such sites, tarpitting is a much better solution than relay blocking. MIT is one of them (many of its mail relay users are customers of random outside ISPs), The amount of

Re: system rebooted, sendmail took over, how do I send those messages now

2000-06-05 Thread David L. Nicol
Susan Short wrote: Next question, is there another way I can send this mail without getting sendmail to work? One way to proceed is to divide up the queue into messages, and then feed each message into qmail-inject. You will need to "crack" your sendmail's method of storing its queue, but

maximum recipients.

2000-06-05 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
Hi all, Is there any control file for qmail that will set a maximum recipient count for any mail coming into qmail-smtpd? Regards, Marc-Adrian Napoli Network Administrator Connect Infobahn Australia +61 2 9281 1750

Users Backup

2000-06-05 Thread Edilmar Alves
Hi, I would like to backup the users I created with QMailAdmin (vpopmail users, not UNIX users). Is it only backup passwd file from vpopmail ? If I lost my server, the only thing I need to do is to override the vpopmail passwd ... begin:vcard n:Alves;Edilmar tel;fax:+55(67)741-4530

/bin/sh:_/home/vpopmail/bin/postmaster:_No_such_file_or_directory/

2000-06-05 Thread shaoming
Hi to all! I'm using vpopmail to manage my virtualdomains. Recently, I encountered one problem with one of my domain. The e-mails for the domain do not get to their respective mailboxes, the log for one particular session is attached below. It seem to complain about not finding a certain

/bin/mail

2000-06-05 Thread Charlie Chrisman
im trying to get qmail to deliever its mail using /bin/mail and i get this line in the maillog: Jun 5 21:53:48 ns1 qmail: 960256428.605530 delivery 8: deferral: Unable_to_open_/bin/mail:_access_denied._(#4.2.1)/ any ideas? thanks, Charlie Chrisman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (606) 269-7946 Home (606)

Re: /bin/mail

2000-06-05 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 10:37:24PM -0400, Charlie Chrisman wrote: im trying to get qmail to deliever its mail using /bin/mail and i get this line in the maillog: Jun 5 21:53:48 ns1 qmail: 960256428.605530 delivery 8: deferral: Unable_to_open_/bin/mail:_access_denied._(#4.2.1)/ How did you

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread clemensF
Bruno Wolff III: Except that sites that block probes rather than fix open relays really belong in a different kind of list. I think the ORBS would be better off just listing confirmed open relays. If they would do this, a lot yes, this makes sense. -- clemens

Upgrading fron sendmail to Qmail, queue problems

2000-06-05 Thread net admin
Hi Folks; I am upgrading a FreeBSD sendmail server to Qmail, did go through the FAQ and docs extensively, qmail runs and I see all the processes running but when I try to send mail to local user I get the following errors: qmaili delivery 1: defferal: fastforward:_fatal:_

Qmail problems - mail won't send

2000-06-05 Thread slvrchair
Mail seems to be building up my mail queue (I can tell from running qmail- qstat). I am new to qmail so I don't know quite how everything works yet. What would cause the mail to build up in the queue and not send, and how would I fix it? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Re: Qmail problems - mail won't send

2000-06-05 Thread Irwan Hadi
At 11:30 PM 6/5/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mail seems to be building up my mail queue (I can tell from running qmail- qstat). I am new to qmail so I don't know quite how everything works yet. What would cause the mail to build up in the queue and not send, and how would I fix it? first

Re: /bin/sh:_/home/vpopmail/bin/postmaster:_No_such_file_or_directory/

2000-06-05 Thread shaoming
Hi to all, I have manage to find the problem. It seem that the .qmail-default contain incorrect info. It was pointing to | /home/vpopmail/bin/postmaster But what puzzles me is : How did that line get into the .qmail-default file in the first place? The file is automatically managed by

Re: Upgrading fron sendmail to Qmail, queue problems

2000-06-05 Thread Patrick Berry
on 6/5/00 8:20 PM, net admin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks; I am upgrading a FreeBSD sendmail server to Qmail, did go through the FAQ and docs extensively, qmail runs and I see all the processes running but when I try to send mail to local user I get the following errors: qmaili

Error #4.4.2

2000-06-05 Thread PipE
i Got Return mail from my Mail server Follow like this Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mbox.samart.co.th. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 203.146.42.135

Re: Error #4.4.2

2000-06-05 Thread List
It goes something like the receiving host received the message but the connection was cut off before an acknowledgment was sent back to you. The mail was probably sent already. For more info, the qmail list archive can be very handy. :-) It's at http://www-archive.ornl.gov:8000 This is what

Re: Scanning outgoing attachments

2000-06-05 Thread Jason Haar
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 08:41:11PM -0300, Ricardo D. Albano wrote: I think the best choice is to write a qmail-remote wrapper. My scan4virus harness (replaces/augments qmail-queue) reports this info... http://www.geocities.com/jhaar/scan4virus/ -Original Message- From:

Re: programming with vpopmail - add account from web

2000-06-05 Thread kingram
Bruno Negro wrote: Why don't you use de qmailadmin program. It does what you are trying to do. You can get it at the inter7's site. Negative... Qmailadmin from INTER7.COM is great to admin tasks not for people who wants to POP and create their own accounts. In qmailadmin only postmaster can