Re: Anti Virus

2000-08-04 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Brett Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From: Noel Mistula [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> From: Brett Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> From: Brett Randall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Dear Brett and Randall, your way of quoting *may* be convenient for you. It is, however, annoying for probably

Re: Anti Virus

2000-08-04 Thread Adam McKenna
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:17:41AM +0200, Robin S. Socha wrote: > your way of quoting *may* be convenient for you. It is, however, annoying > for probably everyone else (particularly people not reading your "threads" > in a row. It also adds a *massive* amount of unnecessary overhead. May I > sugg

Mail archive

2000-08-04 Thread Iain Smith
Hi there, I need a way of archiving a copy of all mail that is delivered by qmail - something I used to do with postfix using 'always bcc' Whats the best way of doing this? BTW, I'm using 1.03 & vpopmail 4.8.7. Cheers Iain Smith

Re: Mail archive

2000-08-04 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4 Aug 00, at 9:33, Iain Smith wrote: > I need a way of archiving a copy of all mail that is delivered by > qmail - something I used to do with postfix using 'always bcc' Whats > the best way of doing this? FAQ #8.2 (less /var/qmail/doc/FAQ)

How I can turn off delivery for user ?

2000-08-04 Thread Kornyakov Yevgeny
Hello How I can turn off delivery for user ? I use procmail, and if "| preline procmail" line is exist in the .qmail file, I get two identical letters. First letter from qmail delivery Second letter from procmail delivery I need use only procmail delivery. Thanks.

qmail Digest 4 Aug 2000 10:00:00 -0000 Issue 1083

2000-08-04 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 4 Aug 2000 10:00:00 - Issue 1083 Topics (messages 46072 through 46127): Creation of /Maildir/user/ instead of ~/Maildir 46072 by: Thomas Fahle 46076 by: Brett Randall Re: trouble injecting bounce message 46073 by: Joel Gautschi Re: Mailing list perform

Re: using fetchmail on qmail machine

2000-08-04 Thread Chris, the Young One
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:34:27AM -0400, Peter Green wrote: ! I don't know if it's the ``normal'' behavior, but I have localhost in my ! control/locals with the identical setup to you. $ grep localhost /var/qmail/control/locals localhost Yep, it's there. From a casual perusal of config.sh in th

Newbie help: qmail as a relay gateway

2000-08-04 Thread Leonard Tulipan
First of: I'm a newbie both to sendmail & qmail. (Read: don't flame me for my stupidity) The only thing I really achieved was compiling the packages (both sendmail & qmail seem to "work" fine in a sense that all the test complete successful) If you can point me to the correct URLS or Steps I ha

Re: Anti Virus

2000-08-04 Thread Paul Schinder
At 4:20 AM -0400 8/4/00, Adam McKenna wrote: >On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:17:41AM +0200, Robin S. Socha wrote: >> your way of quoting *may* be convenient for you. It is, however, annoying >> for probably everyone else (particularly people not reading your "threads" >> in a row. It also adds a *m

RE: Newbie help: qmail as a relay gateway

2000-08-04 Thread Leonard Tulipan
Yes, thank you, I have been looking thru that but since I don't know what my config is called, I don't know what to look at. I'm totally at loss, because I have never before configured a mail server. Just a short: do FAQ X.Y then install Package/Software Z then do FAQ A.B check everything is wor

Re: Mailing list performance

2000-08-04 Thread Dave Sill
"P.Y. Adi Prasaja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 08:14:32AM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: >> >> He apparently confused incoming concurrency with outgoing >> concurrency. Luckily, Postfix defaults to 50, so the results are still >> valid. > >Then you wrong either :-) No, I'm not

RE: Newbie help: qmail as a relay gateway

2000-08-04 Thread Greg Owen
Install qmail as described in INSTALL. For each domain you want to receive mail for: 1) Put that domain name in /var/qmail/control/rctphosts 2) Put domain.com:[w.x.y.z] in /var/qmail/control/smtproutes, where w.x.y.z is the IP address of your internal exchange server. 3) Make

Re: How I can turn off delivery for user ?

2000-08-04 Thread Dave Sill
Kornyakov Yevgeny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I use procmail, and if "| preline procmail" line is exist in the .qmail >file, I get two identical letters. >First letter from qmail delivery >Second letter from procmail delivery >I need use only procmail delivery. If the only line in the .qmail fi

RE: maildirmake

2000-08-04 Thread Dave Sill
"Eddie Greer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >thanks for responding. The answer that I am trying to find is whether the >maildirmake command creates a file of any sort that keeps track of the >mailboxes. No, maildirmake makes a maildir. That's all; nothing else. >We changed someone's mailbox, Wha

Re: update Re: help - qmail rejecting mail. "no mailbox here by that name"

2000-08-04 Thread Dave Sill
J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I changed the alias to: >.qmail-joe:bob > >with the contents: bobj > >I restarted all qmail daemons.. and unfortunatly I >still get the "no mailbox here by that name". > >Any other sugguestions? No, that ought to work--assuming bobj is a valid mail user. For exam

domain splitting

2000-08-04 Thread Sheer El-Showk
Hi I'm posting this on several mail-related newsgroups to try to get as much information as I can I hope no one regards this as a spam: I would like to host mail for a single domain (ie all users should be [EMAIL PROTECTED]) on several (geographically distributed) machines, with users in each are

Re: Anti Virus

2000-08-04 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Paul Schinder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: This is all grossly off topic. I suggest taking this thread off the list ASAP and apologize for the inconvenience caused by my unnecessary rudeness. [my complaint about overhead through uncropped quotes] > Does anyone else see what he's complaining abo

trouble

2000-08-04 Thread Sumith Ail
Hi All I've installed qmail+patches from source rpms on my RH 6.2 1386 linux box from Bruce Guenter source distribution 1. daemontools 70-1 2. ucpspi-tcp-0.88-1 3. supervise-scripts-2.4 4. qmail-1.03+patches-14 Everythings fine but the smtp server takes a long time to initialize..like when I te

RE: trouble

2000-08-04 Thread Greg Owen
> Everythings fine but the smtp server takes a long time > to initialize..like when I telnet to port 25 on my > localhost...the 220 host.domain.com ESMTP appears but > after a long time. > > Has anybody experienced such a problem and was able to > solve this... Your tcpserver invocation

RE: Anti Virus

2000-08-04 Thread Brett Randall
> Because I reformatted his mail according to age-old standards. In short, > it boils down to the following: Some ideas for the list and it turns to this? Any voters to return to the topic of how to stop our users getting virii attacks? Thanks for opinions, defences, and updates on the latest ne

Re: Mailing list performance

2000-08-04 Thread Dave Sill
"David Dyer-Bennet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 2 August 2000 at 10:14:56 -0400 > > > > http://www.kyoto.wide.ad.jp/mta/eval1/eindex.html > >His methodology looks reasonably sound, now that I can read the >description of it. And he seems entirely aware

Qmail-Spawn

2000-08-04 Thread Slider
Can anyone reflect a little light as to why I might be getting this error?? 965396867.707127 delivery 8637: deferral: qmail-spawn_unable_to_create_pipe._(#4.3.0)/ 965396867.707147 status: local 41/120 remote 0/20 965396867.707234 delivery 8638: deferral: qmail-spawn_unable_to_create_pipe._(#4.3

Re: Anti Virus

2000-08-04 Thread Michael T. Babcock
I beg you to cite the place where this list abides by these "Age-old standards". I've cited some standards about mailing lists to people before -- but usually along the lines of "don't quote 100 lines and give only 1 of your own" or "don't use 10 line signatures". I don't complain about whether m

qmail-pop3d problem

2000-08-04 Thread kapil sharma
Hi, I have installed qmail-pop3d, checkpassword with qmail on redhat linux 6.2. I have entered the following lines in my "/etc/inetd.conf" file: pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup \ foo.com /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir I am able to conne

Re: Qmail-Spawn

2000-08-04 Thread Russell Nelson
Slider writes: > Can anyone reflect a little light as to why I might be getting this error?? Bad karma?? Too many years spent in pubs downing a warm one?? > 965396867.707127 delivery 8637: deferral: > qmail-spawn_unable_to_create_pipe._(#4.3.0)/ This is almost always due to some kind of ope

RE: qmail-pop3d problem

2000-08-04 Thread Brett Randall
OK. First make sure that the Maildir is readable by the group and user that will be using it, then make sure that the folder actually exists and that the folders leading up to it (eg /home) are readableby all users. This was a problem for me once. No guarantees but take a look... Brett. Manager

Re: domain splitting

2000-08-04 Thread Russell Nelson
Sheer El-Showk writes: > I would like to host mail for a single domain (ie all users should be > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) on several (geographically distributed) machines, > with users in each area receiving their mail at the local mail sever. The > hard part is, as bandwidth is a limiting issue, I

Re: Qmail-Spawn

2000-08-04 Thread Fernando Almeida
I would like to known WHAT is qmail-spawn too... :-) Slider wrote: > Can anyone reflect a little light as to why I might be getting this error?? > > 965396867.707127 delivery 8637: deferral: > qmail-spawn_unable_to_create_pipe._(#4.3.0)/ > 965396867.707147 status: local 41/120 remote 0/20 >

Re: Qmail-Spawn

2000-08-04 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 02:56:10PM +0100, Slider wrote: > > > Can anyone reflect a little light as to why I might be getting this error?? > > 965396867.707127 delivery 8637: deferral: > qmail-spawn_unable_to_create_pipe._(#4.3.0)/ One of the few errors I've covered in my brief error guide ;-)

Re: Anti Virus

2000-08-04 Thread Michael T. Babcock
- Original Message - From: "Robin S. Socha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > So you are basically advocating running a piece of exremely expensive > software with a mixed track record of functionality, running on an > unstable, expensive and insecure operating system for production > services? > [

RE: Anti Virus

2000-08-04 Thread Slider
Well, I think we should keep the topic! There are alot of inexperienced users out there like myself who are rather interested in this topic! Slider > Because I reformatted his mail according to age-old standards. In short, > it boils down to the following: Some ideas for the list and it turn

Re: qmail-spawn

2000-08-04 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 11:20:38AM -0300, Fernando Almeida wrote: > I would like to known WHAT is qmail-spawn too... :-) qmail-spawn is either qmail-lspawn or qmail-rspawn, as they both share the code in spawn.c where this error message lives and prospers. /magnus -- http://x42.com/

concurrencyremote up to 500

2000-08-04 Thread Ricardo Albano
Hello,I'm trying to get qmail running in a Solaris 7 box and get up to 500 qmail-remote proccesses at the same time, I do the following steps :   1. Before compiling qmail-1.03 I applyed the "big concurrency patch" 2. Set conf-spawn to 500 in the qmail source tree 3. make setup check 4. ech

RE: Anti Virus

2000-08-04 Thread Brett Randall
OK I wasn't planning on continuing my argument but since others are for me! ... > Incidentally, I dislike NT, Microsoft Outlook and Exchange as much as you > probably do. I dislike them as well. All our servers are transitioning to linux/openbsd EXCEPT for this one virus-scanning machine. Virtua

Re: using fetchmail on qmail machine

2000-08-04 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:34:27AM -0400, Peter Green wrote: > > Can someone let me know if the adding localhost to control/locals is > > the "normal" behaviour? I think a lot of people would like to use > > qmail as their own MTA instead of sendmail or postfix, so knowing > > this would be of g

Re: using fetchmail on qmail machine

2000-08-04 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:37:03PM +1200, Chris, the Young One wrote: > ! I don't know if it's the ``normal'' behavior, but I have localhost in my > ! control/locals with the identical setup to you. > > $ grep localhost /var/qmail/control/locals > localhost > > Yep, it's there. From a casual pe

Re: Unable to create pipe

2000-08-04 Thread Brett Randall
This was posted here just a few hours ago...look at it Brett Manager InterPlanetary Solutions http://ipsware.com/ -Original Message- From: Magnus Bodin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 12:25 AM To: qmail list Subject: Re: Qmail-Spawn On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at

Editing error messages

2000-08-04 Thread Erich Zigler
I was wondering if its possible to edit the error messages in qmail. And what is the simplest way to do it? For example, I want to change "This address is not in my rcpthosts" message to something different. -- Erich Zigler Sr. System Administrator Interesting

Re: qmail-pop3d problem

2000-08-04 Thread Chris, the Young One
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 07:47:27PM +0530, kapil sharma wrote: ! pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup \ ! foo.com /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir [...] ! +OK <15634.965386256@\> Are you sure that ``\'' is an acceptible line continuation charact

RE: qmail-pop3d problem

2000-08-04 Thread Brett Randall
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 07:47:27PM +0530, kapil sharma wrote: > ! pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup \ > ! foo.com /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir > [...] > ! +OK <15634.965386256@\> > > Are you sure that ``\'' is an acceptible line continu

Re: Anti Virus

2000-08-04 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Michael T Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From: "Robin S. Socha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Michael, I thought you were making sense when you suggested ending this thread in PM. Unfortunately, I was wrong. So here goes... > Deal with the question at hand, please. , | A+14 [Slider

Re: trouble

2000-08-04 Thread Sean C Truman
Your also might want to look into installing dnscache http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/dnscache-1.00.tar.gz and have a local caching only server running on the qmail machine. Sean Truman - Original Message - From: Greg Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Qmail List (E-mail) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Frid

Re: concurrencyremote up to 500

2000-08-04 Thread Charles Cazabon
Ricardo Albano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello,I'm trying to get qmail running in a Solaris 7 box and get up to 500 > qmail-remote proccesses at the same time, I do the following steps : [...] > But I noticed that the maximun number of "qmail-remote procs" is 30 ! My > box is a high traff

RE: qmail-pop3d problem

2000-08-04 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5 Aug 00, at 1:49, Brett Randall wrote: > The command line is interpreted by bash (I take it you are using bash) > before the program that is being called (try typing some nonexistant > command followed by a '\' and there will be no error) so qmai

Re: concurrencyremote up to 500

2000-08-04 Thread Ricardo Albano
I can't imagine where to start the diagnostic, I think the problem is in the OS Limit but I need some specific pointers to the problem to ask Sun peoples. >Ricardo Albano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello,I'm trying to get qmail running in a Solaris 7 box and get up to 500 >> qmail-remote proc

Re: using fetchmail on qmail machine

2000-08-04 Thread markd
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:27:00AM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:37:03PM +1200, Chris, the Young One wrote: > > > ! I don't know if it's the ``normal'' behavior, but I have localhost in my > > ! control/locals with the identical setup to you. > > > > $ grep localhost /

RE: qmail-pop3d problem

2000-08-04 Thread Brett Randall
> I beg to differ. > > 1. inetd doesn't support wrapped lines in /etc/inetd.conf. At least > mine doesn't. It doesn't know about the second line at all. > > 2. inetd doesn't run the command through bash. Where did you > hear that? My apologies :> It is 2am over here and I forgot this is an inetd

Re: concurrencyremote up to 500

2000-08-04 Thread Charles Cazabon
Ricardo Albano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It is almost certainly a resource limit the system is imposing. It may be > >fds, or it could be something else. What are you limits currently set to? > >Have you tried changing them? You seem to have diagnosed your own problem > >here. > I can't im

Re: duplicating sendmail's virtusertable

2000-08-04 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 11:05:47PM -0400, Sam Carleton wrote: > > > I also need to change the from header from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am trying to stealth my user account because > > > it is the only account able to su in as root. I would prefer if folks > > > do not kno

Re-injecting complete messages

2000-08-04 Thread Brett Randall
Hi...I've been asked by a fellow sysadmin to reinject a number of complete e-mails (containing every original header field and the body with the standard one-line gap) into the mail system for delivery to their relevant locations, both locally and remotely. What is the best way of doing this? Than

Re: Editing error messages

2000-08-04 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:28:27AM -0500, Erich Zigler wrote: > I was wondering if its possible to edit the error messages in qmail. > And what is the simplest way to do it? > > For example, I want to change "This address is not in my rcpthosts" > message to something different. They are hard-c

Re: Editing error messages

2000-08-04 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Erich Zigler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering if its possible to edit the error messages in qmail. And > what is the simplest way to do it? Grab an editor and UTSL. > For example, I want to change "This address is not in my rcpthosts" > message to something different. That'd be

Re: Anti Virus

2000-08-04 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Brett Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK I wasn't planning on continuing my argument but since others are for me! I'm still against you, Brett, so let's see how far we'll get... ]:-> >> Incidentally, I dislike NT, Microsoft Outlook and Exchange as much as >> you probably do. > I dislike

Bah!

2000-08-04 Thread Holborn BongMiester
Hi all, I've finally got my arse around to using tcpserver. Well I say using, more like installing and then ripping my hair out. Is there any _useful_ documentation, with some examples out there on how to use it? I saw one snippet that mentioned it goes in inetd.conf If so what the bleeding p

Re: Editing error messages

2000-08-04 Thread Bryan Ischo
"Robin S. Socha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Erich Zigler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I was wondering if its possible to edit the error messages in qmail. And > > what is the simplest way to do it? > > Grab an editor and UTSL. > > > For example, I want to change "This address is not

terminology (was Re: duplicating sendmail's virtusertable)

2000-08-04 Thread Chris, the Young One
``The "From: " header'' and ``The envelope "from " header''---I knew I was confused the first time I read the message... On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 11:22:12AM -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote: ! My error. I did not read your request carefully enough. The "From: " ! header is entirely under the control of

Re: Anti Virus

2000-08-04 Thread Steve Wolfe
> > I dislike them as well. All our servers are transitioning to > > linux/openbsd EXCEPT for this one virus-scanning machine. > > Interestingly, this will leave this one machine open to attacks against the > OS itself. Strange notion of security. Well, in a world devoid of any other security m

Re: Bah!

2000-08-04 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 05:45:06PM +0100, Holborn BongMiester wrote: > I've finally got my arse around to using tcpserver. > > Well I say using, more like installing and then ripping my hair out. > > Is there any _useful_ documentation, with some examples out there > on how to use it? I saw o

Re: Anti Virus

2000-08-04 Thread Chris, the Young One
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 01:13:05AM +1000, Brett Randall wrote: ! I trust stuff I pay for more ! than free, open source scripting efforts. Just a peace-of-mind. This reminds me of http://www.ultraviolet.org/treed/lam.txt. :-) ---Chris K. -- C

Re: Editing error messages

2000-08-04 Thread Erich Zigler
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:40:14PM -0400, Bryan Ischo wrote: > The people who read bounce mails are typically those who sent it, which, > 99% of the time, is a person who is completely unfamiliar with mail > systems. Your actually quite right. > To them, something like, "You cannot sent mail to

Re: using fetchmail on qmail machine

2000-08-04 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:03:07AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Unless you lack a loopback interface :-) I believe that localhost should > > > be in control/locals, at least by default. > > > > Hmmm... it never put it in mine... wierd. Oh well, now I know that > > this is "normal".

Re: Bah!

2000-08-04 Thread Holborn BongMiester
Ben Beuchler wrote: > You have a very charming way of asking for help. Also of not reading > readily and freely available documentation. Maybee I should of took a break and then asked. Dan's links on his main page are hidden everywhere. I followed the 'installing tcpserver' and also the other uc

RE: Bah!

2000-08-04 Thread Hubbard, David
I'd hire that 12 year old if he/she could tell me what the damn status codes for tcpserver meant. :-) Seriously though, those pages need some updates, I spent an hour or two searching the archives of this list the other day to find out the reason my post card cgi perl script needed to have \r\n

Re: Bah!

2000-08-04 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 06:14:39PM +0100, Holborn BongMiester wrote: > I guess I asked for that :) Been a bad day at work and I've been having > helll with tcpserver and pop3d and qmail-smtpd. My apologies. I'm a tad short-tempered myself. Anyway, tcpserver is quite easy. I found it preferabl

Re: Bah!

2000-08-04 Thread Chris, the Young One
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 01:08:05PM -0400, Hubbard, David wrote: ! The only thing I had to search on ! was the fact that my tcpserver was logging the undocumented ! status=256 which seems to be spit out for multiple problems. It's not really undocumented. The status code in th

Re: Re-injecting complete messages

2000-08-04 Thread Scott Gifford
"Brett Randall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi...I've been asked by a fellow sysadmin to reinject a number of complete > e-mails (containing every original header field and the body with the > standard one-line gap) into the mail system for delivery to their relevant > locations, both locally a

patch to require helo before mail from

2000-08-04 Thread Darrell Wright
I have written a patch to force clients to say helo first. ahelocheck.diff

Problems w/ pop3

2000-08-04 Thread Adam McKenna
Some people where I work use pop3 at home and at work. When they check their mail from home, they are leaving the messages on the server. The problem happens when they get to work the next day. Apparently, when using the old pop3 server, messages they had already downloaded from home were marke

Re: Anti Virus

2000-08-04 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Steve Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [scanning for MS viruses under MS OSes] > Well, in a world devoid of any other security mechanisms, perhaps. > But it's perfectly easy to simply deny all traffic to the machine not > related to SMTP, at the router, firewall, and on the machine itself. > I

Re: Bah!

2000-08-04 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Holborn BongMiester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any _useful_ documentation [for tcpserver], with some examples > out there on how to use it? You've already been pointed to DJB's site. There also exists a tarball with man pages at http://innominate.de/, compiled by G. Pape. > I saw

Re: patch to require helo before mail from

2000-08-04 Thread Scott Gifford
"Darrell Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have written a patch to force clients to say helo first. Out of curiosity and not unpleasantness, why would one want such a patch? I've seen that sendmail has options to do the same thing, and have never understood exactly what it accomplishes.

sqwebmail & qmail-pop3d ?

2000-08-04 Thread Jens Georg
hi, i am running a small internet-server with several virtual domains and i would like to install sqwebmail for my customers. the question is: does qmail work together with /Maildir format and a running qmail-pop3d or do i need the install vpopmail ? user should be able not open new pop3 accounts

What a mess...

2000-08-04 Thread Goran Blazic
Hi... I have a problem for wich I haven't got a clue on where to start looking for a possible sollution... There is this company that wanted to have mails coming to their domain... (slofit.si). Ok, no problem, a virtual mail domain... But no, they had to go ask their internet provider first, and

Re: What a mess...

2000-08-04 Thread markd
Sounds like a job for fetchmail unless the ISP offers ETURN services. fetchmail connects to a remote POP server (so that it can slurp all the mail for a single mailbox) and reinjects it into your local mail system. It's not necessarily perfect depending on the ISPs mail system (especially wrt ret

Re: What a mess...

2000-08-04 Thread Darrell Wright
I believe procmail does this. I do not use it, but I remember reading it in a document somewhere. I would try there. Darrell Wright - Original Message - From: "Goran Blazic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 2:22 PM Subject: What a mess... : Hi.

Re: Problems w/ pop3

2000-08-04 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 02:00:24PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote: > Some people where I work use pop3 at home and at work. When they check their > mail from home, they are leaving the messages on the server. The problem > happens when they get to work the next day. Apparently, when using the old >

Re: What a mess...

2000-08-04 Thread Charles Cazabon
Goran Blazic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a problem for wich I haven't got a clue on where to start looking for > a possible sollution... [...] > My idea is: Get the mails from the mailbox and inject them into qmail... Is > this possible? I dont really have the time to test this and try

Re: What a mess...

2000-08-04 Thread Charles Cazabon
Following up on my own reply, I wrote: > > You might also try my own 'fetchmail'... Of course, I meant "my own 'getmail'". My bad. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software

filter by subject and deliver elsewhere

2000-08-04 Thread M.B.
http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2000/06/msg00284.html The above link sends one to a script that filters based on subject. It bounces the mail. I, however, wish to instead forward this email to an alternative Maildir. How might I do that? mike. __

Re: domain splitting

2000-08-04 Thread Sheer El-Showk
Thanks, but my real concern is that all the mail NOT go through a SINGLE mail server (in terms of bandwithd). If I do what you suggested [EMAIL PROTECTED] still has to go through location A (the full message, including attachements has to be received at that location) which means that it becomes

Re: Mailing list performance

2000-08-04 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 4 August 2000 at 09:37:29 -0400 > "David Dyer-Bennet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 2 August 2000 at 10:14:56 -0400 > > > > > > http://www.kyoto.wide.ad.jp/mta/eval1/eindex.html > > > >His methodology look

Re: domain splitting

2000-08-04 Thread Chris Garrigues
> From: Sheer El-Showk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 21:13:32 + (WET) > > > Thanks, but my real concern is that all the mail NOT go through a SINGLE > mail server (in terms of bandwithd). If I do what you suggested > [EMAIL PROTECTED] still has to go through location A (the f

Re: Anti Virus

2000-08-04 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Michael T. Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 4 August 2000 at 10:02:54 -0400 > I beg you to cite the place where this list abides by these "Age-old > standards". > I've cited some standards about mailing lists to people before -- but > usually along the lines of "don't quote 100 lines and

tcpserver hanging

2000-08-04 Thread Adam McKenna
Does anyone know why tcpserver would do this? It seems to be randomly hanging on incoming connections, about 1 in every 10: Connection closed by foreign host. adam@orbicus:~$ telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK <25910.965424763@orbicus>

/var/qmail/rc

2000-08-04 Thread James
I've installed qmail from the FreeBSD ports collection, and I'm trying to get it going... so when reading the help documents, I see references to /var/qmail/rc. I don't see this file. I even checked in the distribution tarball, and I don't see this file. Is there something I'm missing?

Re: /var/qmail/rc

2000-08-04 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 03:13:26PM -0700, James wrote: > I've installed qmail from the FreeBSD ports collection, and I'm > trying to get it going... so when reading the help documents, I > see references to /var/qmail/rc. I don't see this file. I even > checked in the distribution tarball, and I

Re: domain splitting

2000-08-04 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:13:32PM +, Sheer El-Showk wrote: > Thanks, but my real concern is that all the mail NOT go through a SINGLE > mail server (in terms of bandwithd). If I do what you suggested I don't think it's possible to avoid that. Which server mail is sent to is a function of

Re: domain splitting

2000-08-04 Thread Adam McKenna
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 05:25:46PM -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote: > On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:13:32PM +, Sheer El-Showk wrote: > > > Thanks, but my real concern is that all the mail NOT go through a SINGLE > > mail server (in terms of bandwithd). If I do what you suggested > > I don't think it

RE: domain splitting

2000-08-04 Thread Ihnen, David
If you wish to load balance mail through several servers, then just use a load balancing scheme like through red hats new product, though I forget its name, or use a cisco loaddirector or an F5 BigIP or any number of farm solutions. Each server can have a copy of the user table and route to the a

Softgoods payload app using PayPal and qmail?

2000-08-04 Thread Thomas David Kehoe
Should I use qmail for this application? I was going to write it in PHP. Qmail looks interesting, but I have zero experience with it. I want customers to e-mail money to my website, and my website automatically e-mails them a file (text, photo, MP3, etc.). I want to use PayPal to handle the cre

Re: Softgoods payload app using PayPal and qmail?

2000-08-04 Thread Chris Garrigues
> From: Thomas David Kehoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 16:40:38 -0700 > > Comments, suggestions? Would this be easier to do in qmail or in PHP? umm, qmail isn't a programming language. qmail could call a php script (or a perl script or a c program) which would do this. qmai

Re: domain splitting

2000-08-04 Thread Russell Nelson
Sheer El-Showk writes: > Thanks, but my real concern is that all the mail NOT go through a SINGLE > mail server (in terms of bandwithd). If I do what you suggested > [EMAIL PROTECTED] still has to go through location A (the full message, > including attachements has to be received at that loc

Re: Softgoods payload app using PayPal and qmail?

2000-08-04 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Thomas David Kehoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 4 August 2000 at 16:40:38 -0700 > Comments, suggestions? Would this be easier to do in qmail or in PHP? Can > I hire a qmail consultant to write this for me? I find the "qmail or PHP" question confusing. For a moderate volume (and you say you

Re: tai64n -- why?

2000-08-04 Thread Russ Allbery
David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, when I first looked at it. As is often the case with Dan, I just > disagree. It's not straight text in the sense I mean; it's not human > readable. Of all the strange choices Dan's made that I've encountered > in working with qmail, this is

Re: Now redhat's mailling lists have been removed to mailman and postfix

2000-08-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Irwan Hadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > , PayPal/Confinity, Red Hat's mailing lists, Hypermart.net, Casema, > ^^ > Rediffmail.co.in, Topica, MyNet.com.tr, FSmail.net, and vuurwerk.nl. > at www.qmail.org/top.html should be removed right ? It c

Re: Editing error messages

2000-08-04 Thread Eric Cox
Bryan Ischo wrote: > > The people who read bounce mails are typically those who sent it, which, > 99% of the time, is a person who is completely unfamiliar with mail > systems. > > To them, something like, "You cannot sent mail to that site using this > mail server", or somesuch, would be less

Re: Mailing list performance

2000-08-04 Thread P.Y. Adi Prasaja
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 07:58:20AM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: > No, I'm not wrong. If you're going to "correct" someone, please check > your facts first. oh .. well ... Here is your previous post: > He apparently confused incoming concurrency with outgoing > concurrency. What are you trying to say

Problems whith scan4virus

2000-08-04 Thread Kornyakov Yevgeny
Hi all !!! I have installed perl based programm Scan4virus from Jason Haar but I have problems whith execute this program. When I try execute I get next message == www:/var/qmail/bin# ./antivirus-qmail-queue.pl -t YOU HAVEN'T DISABLED SET-ID SCRIPTS IN THE KERN

Unable to create pipe

2000-08-04 Thread Ricardo Albano
I get a lot of errors like this in the qmail logs :   delivery 4770: deferral: qmail-spawn_unable_to_create_pipe._(#4.3.0)/   How can I solve this ?, I readed the FAQ and mailling list archives but I can't find this.   Thanks RDA.-