Re: Filtering Spamming

2000-08-16 Thread Eric Cox
Baltazar Quinterno wrote: Can anyone give me some tips for filtering incomming mails from certain hosts or e-mails adresses. Tons of info on the qmail site. Search for "rblsmtpd". Once that is installed, check out www.mail-abuse.org, and www.orbs.org. Im running Qmail+tcpserver,

Re: 4.7.1 error reported to netscape mail client

2000-08-16 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 01:55:08AM -0400, Dale Miracle wrote: I noticed a lot more e-mail activity lately and noticed people are sending to 5, 10, 15 people at a time. You get a couple people doing that and the 20 connection limit in qmail's smtpd is pegged until it can deliver the mail. I

Re: converting tai64n to something readable

2000-08-16 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 23:42:18 -0500 From: Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've read and reread DjB's documentation of the format and still find it quite confusing. For example, I still do not understand the significance of the first eight bytes of the stamp. I think it is the

Re: converting tai64n to something readable

2000-08-16 Thread Eric Cox
Ben Beuchler wrote: Since I do not know C, I do not have the luxury of using libtai. So I guess I would need a way of converting a specific time to it's tai64n equivalent. First, like some people have already said, learn C. If you ever need to write something that handles large amounts

Re: 4.7.1 error reported to netscape mail client

2000-08-16 Thread Dale Miracle
Ben Beuchler wrote: If you review the man page for qmail-smtpd, it will explain the usage of "concurrencyremote" which should solve your problem. Thanks for reply. I forgot to check thatI guess I wasn't thinking. I knew I had seen it somewhere. I looked through the install read me

qmail-etrn

2000-08-16 Thread meric
Hi folks, anyone used qmail-etrn, I have tried it and am getting an error of couldnt exec qmail-etrn how can I overcome this? Thanx Eric

Re: converting tai64n to something readable

2000-08-16 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
Ben Beuchler wrote: of using libtai. So I guess I would need a way of converting a specific time to it's tai64n equivalent. Thoughts? Suggestions? Look at http://www.lightwerk.com/djbdns/isotai64.c It generates only external TAI64, but a modification for external TAI64N could be made

Re: Filtering Spamming

2000-08-16 Thread Erwin Hoffmann
Hi, At 07:58 13.1.1997 -0300, Baltazar Quinterno wrote: Can anyone give me some tips for filtering incomming mails from certain hosts or e-mails adresses. my SPAMCONTROL patch gives you additional capabilities. See: http://www.fehcom.de/qmail_en.html Im running Qmail+tcpserver, does anyone

qmail Digest 16 Aug 2000 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 1094

2000-08-16 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 16 Aug 2000 10:00:01 - Issue 1094 Topics (messages 46716 through 46775): urgent for help about qmail 46716 by: ideal 46717 by: Brett Randall 46718 by: Brett Randall POP 46719 by: Marcilio Jorgensen Cassella 46721 by: Jack Barnett

How to host a partial domain using fastforward

2000-08-16 Thread Chris Harris
I am using qmail and fastforward. For a given domain, I want to leave some users' email in local mailboxes, and the rest I want to forward to another smtp server to deal with. In the qmail.faqts knowledge base, 'virtual domains and users', 'How can I host a fraction of a domain', there is the

RE: How to host a partial domain using fastforward

2000-08-16 Thread Brett Randall
I am using qmail and fastforward. For a given domain, I want to leave some users' email in local mailboxes, and the rest I want to forward to another smtp server to deal with. OK, this is how I would attempt it (I host full virtual domains...never tried this though). Get fastforward and

alert: cannot start: qmail-send is already running

2000-08-16 Thread Clemens Hermann
Hi Does anyone have an Idea where the message in the Subject could result from? I am working on getting up qmail on a SuSE system for 2 weeks now and this one last problem seems to kill my effort. I asked for help in comp.mail.misc, the SuSE groups and here some days ago but nobody could help

Re: alert: cannot start: qmail-send is already running

2000-08-16 Thread Erwin Hoffmann
Hello Clemens, At 12:58 16.8.2000 +0200, Clemens Hermann wrote: Hi Does anyone have an Idea where the message in the Subject could result from? Show us your process table: ps -aux | grep qmail I am working on getting up qmail on a SuSE system for 2 weeks now and this one last problem seems to

rblsmtpd emergency

2000-08-16 Thread Mate Wierdl
Thx for Chris J. for explaining why rblsmtpd stopped working with relays.mail-abuse.org. Such emergencies I think just really show the necessity to simplify "rbl" lookups. Namely, I think rblsmtpd/rbldns should work in such a way that any mail administrator should be able to set up a local

Re: alert: cannot start: qmail-send is already running

2000-08-16 Thread Clemens Hermann
Hello Clemens, Hi Erwin thanks for your help Show us your process table: ps -aux | grep qmail before qmail start the output is as follows: username 767 0.0 0.3 1264 504 pts/0 S 14:18 0:00 grep qmail after the qmail start root 775 0.0 0.1 1012 308 pts/0S14:21 0:00

forward

2000-08-16 Thread Anton G. Popov
Hi I need to have qmail send a copy of the messages for a local e-mail address to another email address. How is this done? 10x Anton G. Popov

Re: alert: cannot start: qmail-send is already running

2000-08-16 Thread Clemens Hermann
Hi, the error is up again. I rebooted, rebooted without starting qmail before, nothing works. Whenever i start qmail (qmail start) it seems to start o.k srvscan and loging and 2 seconds later the well nown error message (see subject) is repeated over and over. There still is no qmail-send

RE: forward

2000-08-16 Thread Brett Randall
I need to have qmail send a copy of the messages for a local e-mail address to another email address. This is one of those e-mails which shouldn't have to be answered...providing you have read FAQ etc man dot-forward /BR Manager InterPlanetary Solutions http://ipsware.com/

Re: alert: cannot start: qmail-send is already running

2000-08-16 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16 Aug 2000, at 14:51, Clemens Hermann wrote: the error is up again. I rebooted, rebooted without starting qmail before, nothing works. Whenever i start qmail (qmail start) it seems to start o.k srvscan and loging and 2 seconds later the well

RE: Forward

2000-08-16 Thread Brett Randall
What am I saying? : man dot-qmail /BR Manager InterPlanetary Solutions http://ipsware.com/

Re: alert: cannot start: qmail-send is already running

2000-08-16 Thread Clemens Hermann
Hi Petr thanks for assisting me solving the problem. What command exactly do you use to spawn qmail? (I mean, you're obviously using svscan and supervise; yes, I made everything 100% as described in Dave Sills Life with qmail. There it is described that way ;-) what does the DIR/run file

Re: alert: cannot start: qmail-send is already running

2000-08-16 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16 Aug 2000, at 15:26, Clemens Hermann wrote: What command exactly do you use to spawn qmail? (I mean, you're obviously using svscan and supervise; yes, I made everything 100% as described in Dave Sills Life with qmail. There it is

Re: Outlook choking on messages

2000-08-16 Thread Albert Hopkins
No, there are no single dots in any of the messages I've checked. The thing that a majority (all?) of the messages have in common is that they contain MIME-attached Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. This is not to say that all emails with Excel attachments choke, but if a client does choke on it

qmailadmin passwords

2000-08-16 Thread Iain Smith
Has anyone had a similar problem with qmailadmin vpopmail? I am unable to change the pop3 account passwords via the web interface. I get the message 'Failed to change password' All the permisions ownerships on the qmailadmin cgi seem correct as everything else works fine. I can change

Re: rblsmtpd emergency

2000-08-16 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 07:08:28AM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote: BTWY, I know many people are attached to using DNS for rbl lookups, but would not it be relatively simple to implement a server software using tcpserver that would just lookup an IP number in a .cdb database of IP numbers, and send

MYSQL y QMAIL

2000-08-16 Thread tigre21
Hello friend... I am from Peru I need change of Sendmail to Qmail agent MTA, but I would like use MYSQL as database of my users because I need have username majors of 8 characters and my system no could be. Where is these information? What is LDAP? Mysql 3.22.32 is very good with QMAIL? or

RE: How to host a partial domain using fastforward

2000-08-16 Thread Chris Harris
It seems that the aliases line suggested below, @virtdomain.com: $[EMAIL PROTECTED] tries to forward the mail literally to $[EMAIL PROTECTED], in other words fastforward is not substituting for the environment variable $LOCAL. How can I put a default forwarding rule like this in aliases?

Re: Outlook choking on messages (update)

2000-08-16 Thread Albert Hopkins
One of my users today told me he was not using Outlook but Netscape, and it would always stop on message #6 and then hang eventually saying there was a problem with the server and to contact the sysadmin. So it appears that this may not be just an Outlook issue. As always, I copied message #6

Re: rblsmtpd emergency

2000-08-16 Thread Mate Wierdl
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 09:55:53AM -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 07:08:28AM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote: BTWY, I know many people are attached to using DNS for rbl lookups, but would not it be relatively simple to implement a server software using tcpserver that would

Re: Outlook choking on messages (update)

2000-08-16 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16 Aug 2000, at 10:22, Albert Hopkins wrote: One of my users today told me he was not using Outlook but Netscape, and it would always stop on message #6 and then hang eventually saying there was a problem with the server and to contact the

mail sendmail

2000-08-16 Thread sonam
i am running qmail on my system but i am getting sendmail messages in the log here's part of the log *** Aug 15 09:51:46 mail2 sendmail[9327]: JAA09325: [EMAIL PROTECTED], delay=00:00:30, xdelay=00:00:30, mailer=esmtp,

write error or disk full (#4.3.0)

2000-08-16 Thread sonam
While trying to send mail to a mailing list we get this error qmail-inject: fatal: qq write error or disk full (#4.3.0) can anyone help me why this is happening. the disk is not full bash-2.03# df -k Filesystemkbytesused avail capacity Mounted on /dev/md/dsk/d8144367

Re: mail sendmail

2000-08-16 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can someone help me, why sendmail is used to send mail although qmail is running. Because you didn't replace /usr/lib/sendmail and/or /usr/sbin/sendmail with symlinks to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail. -Dave

Re: write error or disk full (#4.3.0)

2000-08-16 Thread Paul Guglielmino
Check your inode usage. (df -i) Same thing just happened to us... Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While trying to send mail to a mailing list we get this error qmail-inject: fatal: qq write error or disk full (#4.3.0) can anyone help me why this is happening. the disk is not full

Re: write error or disk full (#4.3.0)

2000-08-16 Thread Paul Farber
Look into the 'write error' part. Have you checked your array with fsck or whatever utility you have for error checking? Paul Farber Farber Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545 On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While trying to send mail to a mailing

Re: mail sendmail

2000-08-16 Thread OK 2 NET - André Paulsberg
I am running qmail on my system but i am getting sendmail messages in the log here's part of the log [cut] Aug 16 11:05:19 mail2 sendmail[9695]: LAA09693: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=root (0/1), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, relay=mail.conde-dev.com. [206.136.72.122],

network solutions spam

2000-08-16 Thread John White
Anyone noticed a spike in the last month in spam from Network Solutions? I'm thinking about adding some of their domains to my badmailfrom as neither orbs nor maps seems to be blocking this spam. Anyone paying better attention than I to the source of this spam? John

RE: 4.7.1 error reported to netscape mail client

2000-08-16 Thread Ihnen, David
-Original Message- From: Ben Beuchler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] If you review the man page for qmail-smtpd, it will explain the usage of "concurrencyremote" which should solve your problem. Ben, that doesn't make sense. First of all, from man qmail-control

RE: mail sendmail

2000-08-16 Thread Ihnen, David
Maybe you didn't disable the sendmail binary, per the installation instructions. Maybe in combination you didn't remove sendmail from the init scripts, so it started up on a reboot. David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August

Re: write error or disk full (#4.3.0)

2000-08-16 Thread sonam
actually the mail started working when i tried to compress /var/log/syslog but now i am getting Aug 16 13:28:37 mail1 qmail: 966446917.031032 alert: unable to append to bounce message; HELP! sleeping... any thoughts!!! Sonam Wangchuk e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Paul Farber

Re: MYSQL y QMAIL

2000-08-16 Thread Jack Barnett
Hello friend... I am from Peru I need change of Sendmail to Qmail agent MTA, but I would like use MYSQL as database of my users because I need have username majors of 8 characters and my system no could be. Where is these information? What is LDAP? http://www.openldap.org

Re: Relaying stopped. How to remove SPAMMER status?

2000-08-16 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Tim Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): As I replied to Aaron out of band, I was not having a relay problem with QMail. The problem was an old sendmail installation. I spend a bit of time Ahh, sendmaul. Gotta love it. Well, congrats and welcome to the elite :) Aaron

Large volume tcpserver advice

2000-08-16 Thread Tyler J. Frederick
Hey all What's the highest any of you have set your -c tcpserver option to. (-c is the max amt of concurrent connections.) I have a machine that is accepting a TON of mail and lot is being deferred and the machine is thinking it's being SYN flooded as tcpserver isn't accepting the connections

Customizing default system responses??

2000-08-16 Thread Kadre, Da
Hello, Can someone share with me how to customize the bounce messages and any other default message wordings? The system messages are thoughtful and all, but a little overly so for me. :) Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yoda.worldevolution.net. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your

Re: write error or disk full (#4.3.0)

2000-08-16 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actually the mail started working when i tried to compress /var/log/syslog but now i am getting Aug 16 13:28:37 mail1 qmail: 966446917.031032 alert: unable to append to bounce message; HELP! sleeping... any thoughts!!! I bet you have a

Re: Customizing default system responses??

2000-08-16 Thread Dave Sill
"Kadre, Da" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone share with me how to customize the bounce messages and any other default message wordings? The only way to do that is to modify the source code and rebuild. If you do modify the bounce message, *please* make sure your modification conforms to

fastforward and \accounts

2000-08-16 Thread R. Benjamin Shapiro
Sorry if this question is in a FAQ somewhere, I couldn't find it answered anywhere. We are moving from sendmail to qmail and are quite happy with the results except for one thing. Even with fastforward, we can't get all our aliases to work properly. Basically, we have lots of entries in

auth/identd?

2000-08-16 Thread John Conover
Is it wise to run auth/identd on an email gateway? Thanks, John -- John ConoverTel. 408.370.2688 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 631 Lamont Ct. Cel. 408.772.7733 Campbell, CA 95008 Fax. 408.379.9602 http://www.johncon.com

Re: fastforward and \accounts

2000-08-16 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 01:04:42PM -0700, R. Benjamin Shapiro wrote: The support_manager account gets copies of all incoming mail to these accounts. This isn't quite the intrusion that it might seem. Email accounts for personal use are provided and not snooped on. This just helps us make

RE: Customizing default system responses??

2000-08-16 Thread Kadre, Da
550 Sorry, I can't open that file: not a directory. Cannot retrieve info, any other info? Da -Original Message- From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 12:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Customizing default system responses?? "Kadre, Da"

Re: Customizing default system responses??

2000-08-16 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
From: "Kadre, Da" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 13:25:37 -0700 550 Sorry, I can't open that file: not a directory. Cannot retrieve info, any other info? Dave's suggestion works for me. However, you may have better luck with http://cr.yp.to/proto/qsbmf.txt Ian

Re: 4.7.1 error reported to netscape mail client

2000-08-16 Thread Dale Miracle
"Ihnen, David" wrote: Ben, that doesn't make sense. First of all, from man qmail-control concurrencylocal10 qmail-send concurrencyremote 20 qmail-send these files are controlled by qmail-send Secondly, concurrency of

Re: MYSQL y QMAIL

2000-08-16 Thread Michael T. Babcock
The most-frequently used way to do this is with LDAP or vpopmail (both well-used, "non-standard" qmail modifications). - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello friend... I am from Peru I need change of Sendmail to Qmail agent MTA, but I would like use MYSQL as database of

Re: qmail-pop3d problem: No mail delivery to Maildirs

2000-08-16 Thread David Benfell
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 10:06:09AM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, I've defined a user, Jim.Morley. When I send test msgs to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", the Qmail Mailer- Daemon returns "Sorry, no mailbox here by that name." qmail doesn't deliver mail to users

qmail and IP addresses.....

2000-08-16 Thread Steve Wolfe
On a machine with multiple IP addresses bound to one NIC, is it possible to control which IP address qmail will use for incoming and/or outgoing SMTP connections? For POP3? steve

Re: qmail and IP addresses.....

2000-08-16 Thread Sean C Truman
replace the /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd with something like this /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v 199.111.111.111 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd same with your pop3 startup file. Sean Truman www.prodigysolutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message -

Re: qmail and IP addresses.....

2000-08-16 Thread Sean C Truman
Please read up on your programs.. tcpserver opts host port prog opts is a series of getopt-style options. host is one argument. port is one argument. prog consists of one or more arguments. tcpserver waits for connections from TCP clients. For each connection, it runs prog, with descriptor 0

Re: qmail and IP addresses.....

2000-08-16 Thread Paul Jarc
Vince Vielhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Sean C Truman wrote: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v 199.111.111.111 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd That will only allow hosts with the address 199.111.111.111 to connect, not connections to that address. You have that backwards.

Re: qmail and IP addresses.....

2000-08-16 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Sean C Truman wrote: Please read up on your programs.. tcpserver opts host port prog opts is a series of getopt-style options. host is one argument. port is one argument. prog consists of one or more arguments. tcpserver waits for connections from TCP clients. For

RE: 4.7.1 error reported to netscape mail client

2000-08-16 Thread Ihnen, David
Dale: Although your remote concurrency DOES appear to be a problem, I do not believe this is the problem encountered by the netscape user. If you have extended periods of time during which you have 20/20 connections used, by all means, raise the remote concurrency limit. I keep mine at 120,

RE: How to host a partial domain using fastforward

2000-08-16 Thread Brett Randall
Ah ok... the $LOCAL environment variable works fine in the .qmail files but obviously not aliases. I suggest either reading the fastforward docs to see if there is some way of doing this, or trying: @virtdomain.com: @remotemxhost.somedomain.com OR, finding some way of using

Outbouns SPAM Control

2000-08-16 Thread Ricardo Albano
Any know how can I limit the number of emails that a user can send with the same subject in a determined period of time ? RDA.-

RE: qmail and IP addresses.....

2000-08-16 Thread M.B.
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Sean C Truman wrote: replace the /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd with something like this /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v 199.111.111.111 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd could I then change this to the following?

Happy Meal ERROR

2000-08-16 Thread Ricardo Albano
Hello, I was installed a NETRA T1 Server with RH6.2/sparc and QMAIL-1.03, When I put my new box in production I get tons of errors in my console like this : eth0: Link is up using external transceiver at 100Mb/s, Half Duplex.eth0: Error interrupt for happy meal, status = 0400eth0:

Is This Annoying Enough?

2000-08-16 Thread Bruno Prior
A short while before the self-righteous thread on How To Annoy People Whose Help You Need, I posted a request for help with a problem I was experiencing. Not a single one of the supposedly helpful people of this list have bothered to reply. Having read the thread, it occurs to me that perhaps the

Re: Is This Annoying Enough?

2000-08-16 Thread Peter Green
also sprach bgprior: [diatribe snipped] Anyone got a clue? (and I'm not just referring to the specific problem) Bruno, Sorry about the lack of response. On a related issue, it seems your yearly support contract to the mailing list has run out. Please send US$5,000 and we'll get right on it.

qmail-default and bounce

2000-08-16 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
hi all, sure to be a question asked before, but i can't seem to find a working solution. /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-default cops all the bad addresses, but if i forward that to a mailbox the people don't get a bounce. At the moment the file contains: [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is a mailbox i've

Re: qmail-default and bounce

2000-08-16 Thread Chris, the Young One
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 01:20:08PM +1000, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: |echo 'No such user'; exit100 This is same as using ``|bouncesaying "No such user"''. in the first line which bounces the mail, but no mail is put into the defaultalias mailbox. Is there anyway to do both? Yes. Put your

Re: 4.7.1 error reported to netscape mail client

2000-08-16 Thread Dale Miracle
"Ihnen, David" wrote: Dale: Although your remote concurrency DOES appear to be a problem, I do not believe this is the problem encountered by the netscape user. If you have extended periods of time during which you have 20/20 connections used, by all means, raise the remote concurrency

Re: auth/identd?

2000-08-16 Thread Chris, the Young One
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 07:55:22PM -, John Conover wrote: Is it wise to run auth/identd on an email gateway? It's up to you. Since your gateway software probably always runs as the same user, the ident conveys no additional

Qmail Installation

2000-08-16 Thread Ramzi S. Abdallah
Hi, I am trying to migrate from sendmail to qmail. The compilation and tests were successful however I can not seem to be able to run the qmail daemon. When I telnet to port 25 I get"telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused" I am using the shell proc file which is in

Converting entries from passwd to /var/qmail/users/assign

2000-08-16 Thread Brett Randall
Hi there It has recently come to our attention here that it is becoming more necessary for mail to be held for non-system users (ie to be relayed at a later stage for other users, but not necessarily users that will use this particular POP/SMTP server). In this case, we would like to create an

Re: Converting entries from passwd to /var/qmail/users/assign

2000-08-16 Thread Chris, the Young One
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 03:30:02PM +1000, Brett Randall wrote: Does anybody know of a script, or can even tell me what needs to be done to copy the entries over (automatically, not manual entry)? - I can make a script no probs. What made