Re: ezmlm capabilities

2000-06-14 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 07:01:18AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all, > > I want to find out how many email can ezmlm handle up to. I am running a HP > E60 with 156 RAM now. How about a list with a million or half a million > users? Anoyone have any ideas? Thank you. It depends on the v

Re: Security warning: using linuxconf(RedHat 6.2) and permissions of /usr/sbin/sendmail (fixed)

2000-06-14 Thread Peter Bieringer
H, At 13:42 08.06.2000 -0400, Jim Simmons wrote: >To stop it from making this change, I believe you can edit >/usr/lib/linuxconf/redhat/perm and remove the /usr/sbin/sendmail line. Thanks for the hint, I found the file where linuxconf takes its information. Here a diff for qmail installation: --

OFF-TOPIC (Dan's DNS servers)

2000-06-14 Thread Michael Boman
I remeber that one part of Dan's DNS software can reply different IP's depending on where you are comming from.. could someone please remind me what part of the DNS software that is? Best regards Michael Boman -- W I Z O F F I C E . C O M L I M I T E D - Your Online Office Wizard 16 Tanner

Re: OFF-TOPIC (Dan's DNS servers)

2000-06-14 Thread James Raftery
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 05:25:39PM +0800, Michael Boman wrote: > I remeber that one part of Dan's DNS software can reply different IP's > depending on where you are comming from.. could someone please remind me > what part of the DNS software that is? Hi Michael, That sounds like pickdns: http:/

qmail Digest 14 Jun 2000 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 1032

2000-06-14 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 14 Jun 2000 10:00:01 - Issue 1032 Topics (messages 43030 through 43068): Re: Qmail on Linux 43030 by: Peter Green Qmail & ETRN 43031 by: Tony Wade 43032 by: Magnus Bodin Running Courier-IMAP 0.33 43033 by: Martin Langhoff smtpd server very slo

big-* patches and FD_SET()

2000-06-14 Thread Toens Bueker
Hi *, I'm sure it's an FAQ but I haven't found any hints on this until now. >From my days with squid (http://squid.nlanr.net/), I tought I'd now how to increase the filedescriptor limit on Solaris. For qmail I did the same (edit /etc/system and add 'set rlim_fd_max = 4096'). But I still canno

qmail setup with openbsd 2.7. and SMTP

2000-06-14 Thread Andreas Keiser
Hi since weeks I am trying to setup qmail without success. So I want to start from scratch again. Is there anybody who already installed qmail on OPENBSD 2.7. ? 1. Where can I get the source, which I can compile with OPENBSD 2.7. (When I compiled I had problems -> user alias not found, bu

Any reason not to run supervise?

2000-06-14 Thread Russell Nelson
Mike Denka writes: > I don't use a supervisor unless it's hidden in the default configuration, > but this is my startup script: I'm just curious: is there any reason not to run supervise? -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPo

Re: Any reason not to run supervise?

2000-06-14 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14 Jun 00, at 9:20, Russell Nelson wrote: > Mike Denka writes: > > I don't use a supervisor unless it's hidden in the default > configuration, > but this is my startup script: > > I'm just curious: is there any reason not to run supervise? "It

POP Server keeps dying.

2000-06-14 Thread blue
My pop server keeps dying. I only have 5 users on my system. Why would this be happening ? I am looking at the logs for hours but I do not get any information from them. I am running my pop server like this: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mymail.server.com \ /b

Mass virtual hosting with qmail

2000-06-14 Thread Nick Kew
I'm looking for a mass-virtual-hosting patch for qmail: (1) Has anyone written such a thing? (2) If not, does anyone else think it would be useful for me to write one? In more detail, my requirement is for mass hosting at valet.webthing.com (see http://valet.webthing.com/ for a previe

Problems in qmail's Installation

2000-06-14 Thread SANTOLALLA OSCAR
Dear Colleagues, I decided to follow the installation's instructions of the document "Life with qmail". The unique observation is I'm not using DNS because I want to use it only for internal mail. I must have made some mistake. The errors made clear when i tried to start qmail. When i execute "

ELM with Maildirs?

2000-06-14 Thread Enrique Vadillo
Is there some modified ELM somewhere that works with Maildirs? or maybe just patches? thanks! Enrique-

Re: smtpd server very slow

2000-06-14 Thread Luca Zancan
Thank you all (Tore, Heinrik, Ed, ecc.) for the hints. I have found the solution to my problem. I have added the "-l 192.168.254.99" switch to the tcpserver launch (192.168.254.99 is the IP address of my mail server, of course) and now "telnet 192.168.254.99 25" is immediate! Thank you again Luca

Error 4294967295... What is this?

2000-06-14 Thread Z
I'm jsut starting out with qmail and it installed correctly, but every time i try to pop my mail i get error 4294967295 and it doesn't say anything else. I've installed checkpassword and i use qpop3. my dns has my domain as the MX record and i put the proper information in the inetd.conf and re

Install question

2000-06-14 Thread Joe Denney
Hi all, Am running RH 6.2, and attempting my first install of qmail. Looking at the readme for qmail-run and it talks about a 'functions rpm'. What is this? I can find no reference on RedHat's website and a search of the faq and archives for this list don'tshow anything. Am I making this hard

qmail-pw2u hang?

2000-06-14 Thread Paul Farber
hello all I'm tring to use the utility qmail-pw2u to convert the passwd file to the users file for qmail and when I run the qmail-pw2u it simply stalls(?). I was expecting to see the users file dumped to the screen but I get nothing. I'm using RH 6.1 with approx 10 users. Passwords are shadowe

qmail-pw2u - got it!

2000-06-14 Thread Paul Farber
Never mind.. RTFM second time and figureed it out... DOH! Paul Farber Farber Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545

RE: Install question

2000-06-14 Thread Khadaji Shin
Thanks to all for the help. Will try again. Think I was probably making it to complicated. BTW, nice to be on a list where people still care enough to reply w/o sarcasm and or RTFM   Joe

vpopmail/qmail admin

2000-06-14 Thread Paul Farber
Hello all, I'm using qmail 1.03 and trying to add qmailadmin support for administrating the accounts. How do I keep the existing account in place while still utilizing the qmailadmin features or having to redo all the accounts under /home/vpopmail/domain/?? Any tips?? Paul Farber Farber Techn

logging tcpserver activity

2000-06-14 Thread Ben Beuchler
Is there an easy way to log tcpserver activity? Thanks, Ben -- The spectre of a polity controlled by the fads and whims of voters who actually believe that there are significant differences between Bud Lite and Miller Lite, and who think that professional wrestling is for real, is naturally ala

Re: big-* patches and FD_SET()

2000-06-14 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 11:58:20AM +0200, Toens Bueker wrote: > ./chkspawn > Oops. Your system's FD_SET() has a hidden limit of 1024 descriptors. edit qmail-1.03/conf-spawn, set the value to a number less then or equal to 509. > How can I increase this 'hidden limit'? You can try what is d

Re: logging tcpserver activity

2000-06-14 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 01:28:40PM -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote: > Is there an easy way to log tcpserver activity? Use tcpserver with the -v switch and pipe the output into multilog from the daemontools package. Chris

RE: qmail hanging - best way to restart

2000-06-14 Thread Mike Denka
The problem with the soft kill is that, as you say in your message, it takes some time for all connections to come to a graceful conclusion and then you're still often left with some that hang. Unfortunately our mail server is in production offering both smtp and pop services for thousands of cus

forwars. pop accounts dissappearing!!! help me..

2000-06-14 Thread Nick
OK.. i have a mail server running qmail 1.03 vpopmail qmailadmin and sqwebmail this 1 user had some problems with his account on a virtualdomain. when i created it i set is up as a forward. to forward this mail. i also already had about 12 other forwards setup on this virtualdomain. those al

error

2000-06-14 Thread Fernando B. Hallberg
friends someone had already this error: deferral: Connected_to_200.250.15.3_but_swender_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:_451_ma ilto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ thank's Fernando B. Hallberg Conectta Webmarketing http://www.conectta.com.br Cascavel - Paraná - Brasil

secure strategy to add v-users from cgi

2000-06-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
hi list, I'm looking for a safe way to add users to a webmail service set up on qmail + vmailmgr + courier-imap + twig (a php mailclient). The part missing is, you guessed, adding new users automagically. Now I'm straining my head to think of the safest solution to give inmmediate registrati

Bouncing mail w/ no reverse DNS

2000-06-14 Thread Sgt Chains
Forgive me if this is somewhere in the Docs, I can't find it. I would like to bounce inbound mail that comes in that can't resolve reverse DNS. A lot of net admins out there have started to not setup DNS entries for their dial-up accounts believing that this is a better approach than registering

Re: Any reason not to run supervise?

2000-06-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Petr Novotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "It eats up space in process table." > As in "sendmail is superior to qmail because it doesn't eat up space in > process table". (Overheard this just an hour ago...) I've encountered this some too; it's an interesting psychological effect that I think

Re: No logs / supervise/ok doesn't exist...

2000-06-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
given to me by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : > This appears to be a problem with the older versions of the > qmail+patches RPM. To fix it, you need to stop and start svscan. > -- > Bruce Guenterhttp://em.ca/~bruceg/ >

Re: qmail setup with openbsd 2.7. and SMTP

2000-06-14 Thread clemensF
> Andreas Keiser: > Is there anybody who already installed qmail on OPENBSD 2.7. ? freebsd here, starting with 2.2.8 upto 4.0 never any problems. > 1. Where can I get the source, which I can compile with OPENBSD 2.7. >(When I compiled I had problems -> user alias not found, but I set up

maildirsmtp timing out

2000-06-14 Thread Ben Beuchler
I am attempting to use a variation of the AUTOTURN configuration described in the serialmail docs for a customer with an intermittent connection. He is the primary MX and we just queue it up in a Maildir until he connects. While his connection is up, I can remove him from the 'virtualdomains' fi

Re: big-* patches and FD_SET()

2000-06-14 Thread clemensF
> Toens Bueker: > ./chkspawn > Oops. Your system's FD_SET() has a hidden limit of 1024 descriptors. does qmail really take up that many fd's at a time? clemens

Re: Any reason not to run supervise?

2000-06-14 Thread clemensF
> Petr Novotny: > As in "sendmail is superior to qmail because it doesn't eat up > space in process table". (Overheard this just an hour ago...) which is why qmail, consisting of many *small* programs, is vwery well suited to unix. if you read the source, you will find a very unix-stylish prog

RE: Bouncing mail w/ no reverse DNS

2000-06-14 Thread Michael Boyiazis
> Forgive me if this is somewhere in the Docs, I can't find it. > > I would like to bounce inbound mail that comes in that can't resolve > reverse DNS. > > A lot of net admins out there have started to not setup DNS > entries for > their dial-up accounts believing that this is a better approac

Re: Mass virtual hosting with qmail

2000-06-14 Thread clemensF
> Nick Kew: > deal with it). I don't want to have to add anything to rcpthosts > (or morercpthosts), locals or virtualdomains for every domain. you don't? but then people might try to use your setup to base spamming on. clemens

Re: maildirsmtp timing out

2000-06-14 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 03:27:38PM -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote: > While his connection is up, I can remove him from the 'virtualdomains' > file and send him mail directly without any difficulty. However, when I > either invoke maildirsmtp from tcpserver or from the command line, > maildirsmtp time

Maildir prob

2000-06-14 Thread Z
how do io make sure that the messages are going to the correct place. i keep getting errors like: starting delivery 52: msg 869324 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: local 4/10 remote 0/20 delivery 49: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ status: local 3/10 remote 0/20

RE: Bouncing mail w/ no reverse DNS

2000-06-14 Thread Dave Kelly
You can use the patch at http://www.qmail.org/qmail-1.03-mfcheck.3.patch to do this. I have used it, and love it. We were seeing MUCH more spam from nonexistant domains than legitimate ones, so this helped out a ton. Call me old school, but I think every return address should have a valid, reso

RE: Bouncing mail w/ no reverse DNS

2000-06-14 Thread Dave Kelly
Ah, but just because it comes from an open relay with a valid DNS entry doesn't mean the "From:" address is valid. That's what the patch at qmail.org checks, so it can bounce it to the original sender if it needs to. The problem I was running into was that we'd get so much SPAM with an unresolvab

Re: Maildir prob

2000-06-14 Thread Manfred Bartz
Z <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > how do io make sure that the messages are going to the correct place. > i keep getting errors like: > > starting delivery 52: msg 869324 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: > local 4/10 remote 0/20 delivery 49: deferral: > Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ > s

Unnecessary overhead on modular design (was: Re: Any reason not to run supervise?)

2000-06-14 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Jun 14 2000, Russ Allbery wrote: > I've encountered this some too; it's an interesting psychological > effect that I think slows the adoption of qmail a bit. Because > qmail is so modular and actually exposes its internal interfaces to > the degree of having separate binaries running, people t

Re: Maildir prob

2000-06-14 Thread Eric Cox
Manfred Bartz wrote: > > Z <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I want it send to ~/Mailbox > > your ~/.qmail file must contain ``./Mailbox'' (relative to the user's > home directory, or the full path, e.g. ``/home/username/Mailbox''. I think it's ./Mailbox/ (i.e. with the trailing slash) Eri

Fixing open relay

2000-06-14 Thread Dewald Strauss
Hi everybody, Some @#%^%& spammer decided to abuse my mailserver today, and it ended up in orbs. I really want to fix this, but need some help. I have the following setup: qmail 1.03 with ucspi and daemontools vpopmail sqwebmail I am hosting mail for 7 domains, all connecting to the server via

Re: Maildir prob

2000-06-14 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 04:24:47PM -0700, Eric Cox wrote: > > your ~/.qmail file must contain ``./Mailbox'' (relative to the user's > > home directory, or the full path, e.g. ``/home/username/Mailbox''. > > I think it's > > ./Mailbox/ > > (i.e. with the trailing slash) I believe if you incl

Re: Fixing open relay

2000-06-14 Thread Eric Cox
Dewald Strauss wrote: > > In /etc/qmail/locals I have just the domainname of the server. > In /etc/qmail/control/rcpthosts I have the names of the 7 domains > In /etc/tcpcontrol there are 2 files: pop-3.rules and smtp.rules > both these files have all 7 domainnames with > :allow,RELAYCLIENT=""

Re: Fixing open relay

2000-06-14 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jan 22, 1980 at 02:38:51AM +0200, Dewald Strauss wrote: [snip] > In /etc/qmail/locals I have just the domainname of the server. > In /etc/qmail/control/rcpthosts I have the names of the 7 domains This combination doesn't make sense. If locals is in /etc/qmail, so is rcpthosts. Either one

Re: big-* patches and FD_SET()

2000-06-14 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 10:42:21PM +0200, clemensF wrote: > > Toens Bueker: > > > ./chkspawn > > Oops. Your system's FD_SET() has a hidden limit of 1024 descriptors. > > does qmail really take up that many fd's at a time? It needs 2 for every remote delivery, for example. One fd is passed by qm

Re: Maildir prob

2000-06-14 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 04:24:47PM -0700, Eric Cox wrote: > Manfred Bartz wrote: > > > > Z <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I want it send to ~/Mailbox > > > > your ~/.qmail file must contain ``./Mailbox'' (relative to the user's > > home directory, or the full path, e.g. ``/home/username/Ma

relay-ctrl-1.4 on Solaris

2000-06-14 Thread Kristina
Has anyone managed to successfully compile relay-ctrl 1.4 on Solaris 6 or 7? If so, please let me know how you managed to compile it. Thankyou, Kristina

please help me !!! qmail and vpopmail

2000-06-14 Thread Dirgantara R T
dear Netter's I have a problem about qmail my komputer running qmail and vpopmail ,..and qmail-smtpd is ok !!,..but problem in qmail-pop3d qmail-smtpd can send to local or to internet and understand send to /home/vpopmail/domains/*mydomains*/users but qmail-pop3d has error can't read a passwd f

AUTH-SMTP: Compling on Solaris

2000-06-14 Thread Kristina
I am trying to patch qmail-1.03 with qmail-smtpd-auth-0.24 on Solaris 7 but the patch fails. Please let me know what I should do. % cd qmail-1.03 % patch < /usr/local/SRC/SMTPAUTH/qmail-smtpd-auth-0.24/qmail-smtpd.patch Looks like a new-style context diff. Hunk #3 failed at line 25.

Re: AUTH-SMTP: Compling on Solaris

2000-06-14 Thread TAG
Kristina wrote: > > I am trying to patch qmail-1.03 with qmail-smtpd-auth-0.24 on > Solaris 7 but the patch fails. > Hi, I have tried many times to get patches installed under solaris and they always give that error - seemingly no matter what parameters are passed to patch !! :( BUT -I apply

Re: Fixing open relay

2000-06-14 Thread Dewald Strauss
Hi again, In /var/qmail/control I have symlinks pointing to /etc/qmail. This seems to work fine. Anything else that could be wrong ? - Original Message - From: Eric Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dewald Strauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 3:

Re: big-* patches and FD_SET()

2000-06-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Uwe Ohse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 11:58:20AM +0200, Toens Bueker wrote: >> How can I increase this 'hidden limit'? > You can try what is described in /usr/include/sys/select.h, but i don't > know whether this will do something good: The C library might know too > m