Re: CHANGING INETD

2000-08-19 Thread Greg White
- Original Message - From: Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Qmail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 11:02 PM Subject: Re: CHANGING INETD On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 08:54:54PM -0700, Greg White wrote: qmail will work fine as a daemon, but you get some really handy

Re: yahoo down?

2000-08-19 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 18 2000, Ben Beuchler wrote: Hmm. Telnetting to the server on port 25 says that it is something called YSmtp. And sending it a 'help' command returns '250 OK. Yahoo! MTA'. Sounds like something proprietary... Humm... Some of their messages seem hauntingly familiar. :-)

Re: Queue Time

2000-08-19 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 18 2000, Michael T. Babcock wrote: I'm not Dan, but this is slightly less mathematical than it sounds. The main point (if I understand DJB here) is: Its only an hour late? Another 10 minutes will hurt about "this much". Its a day late? Another hour will probably also hurt about

qmail Digest 19 Aug 2000 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 1097

2000-08-19 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 19 Aug 2000 10:00:01 - Issue 1097 Topics (messages 46938 through 47016): Re: Sort maildir and send smallest first 46938 by: Andrew Richards 46939 by: Chris, the Young One prioq (was Re: Sort maildir and send smallest first) 46940 by: Chris, the Young

Off-Topic: Maildirs as folders

2000-08-19 Thread Len Budney
I know there is a recurring thread, "Which readers use maildirs as folders?" The problem is, the answer is always the same: mutt. No other mailer uses maildirs as local folders, although a few can use maildirs as incoming mail spools. (If I'm wrong about this, please let me know!) Yes, mutt is

Re: obtaining TCPREMOTEIP during delivery

2000-08-19 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 11:37:31PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: Sounds like a header-insert environment variable for qmail-smtpd is in order. Then all the things that run before it, including tcpserver and rblsmtpd, could set up stuff in that variable which would become headers in the

Re: Queue Time

2000-08-19 Thread richard
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Rogerio Brito wrote: I was looking for more detains about the mathematical side of the things (e.g., what is the measure of "hurt", in your words or the cost to which Dan refers?) and like why the optimal retry schedule is essentially independent

Re: Queue Time

2000-08-19 Thread markd
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 07:42:04PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Rogerio Brito wrote: I was looking for more detains about the mathematical side of the things (e.g., what is the measure of "hurt", in your words or the cost to which Dan refers?) and like

qmail domain heiarchy

2000-08-19 Thread Barry Smoke
I am the network administrator for a public school system in ARkansas. We have just implemented a single qmail mail server for the districtwhich consists of 8 schools, on 5 different site locations. our 4 remote elementary schools have 384K dedicated internet connectionsand our main

relay-ctrl

2000-08-19 Thread Clemens Hermann
Hi, after having successfully set up qmail I really start loving it ;-). The only way to get it secure for my purpose seemed to be a smtp after Pop implementation. So I downloaded the relay-ctrl-2.0.tar.gz package and installed it as described. I changed the following lines in defines.h:

Re: qmail domain heiarchy

2000-08-19 Thread John White
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 12:22:12PM -0500, Barry Smoke wrote: I am the network administrator for a public school system in ARkansas. We have just implemented a single qmail mail server for the districtwhich consists of 8 schools, on 5 different site locations. our 4 remote elementary

FW: qmail domain heiarchy

2000-08-19 Thread Barry Smoke
-Original Message- From: Barry Smoke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 1:34 PM To: John White Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: qmail domain heiarchy when their internet connection is outwhich happens often, I would like for local e-mail delivery to

RE: yahoo down?

2000-08-19 Thread Al Sparks
According to the http://www.qmail.org site, Yahoo! is using qmail. === Al --- Brett Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At times, in the past, I've even had bounces saying that a yahoo user doesn't exist. An e-mail the day after might go fine, then a few days later it'll go astray

Re: FW: qmail domain heiarchy

2000-08-19 Thread John White
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 01:52:35PM -0500, Barry Smoke wrote: Who is they? The remote schools? All connections? How "dedicated" is a connection which is often down? remote schools... Ok. I would like to have some sort of system that catches mail to this server, checks the headers

RE: relay-ctrl

2000-08-19 Thread Brett Randall
When I pop the server, the IP of the client gets listed correctly in /var/spool/relay-ctrl. But it is not pssible to send any Mail wit a foreign adress even if the adresse is listed there. Hi Clemens. It would REALLY help us with more details about this. What does qmail-stat show? What do

RE: qmail domain heiarchy

2000-08-19 Thread Brett Randall
We have just implemented a system virtually exactly like this. It took me about three weeks to research, design, implement and test. I have been planning on writing a HOWTO but life is just s hectic... It implements a combination of qmail, fastforward, NIS, NFS, SMTP routing, and all with a

Re: yahoo down?

2000-08-19 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 01:30:22PM -0700, Al Sparks wrote: According to the http://www.qmail.org site, Yahoo! is using qmail. I believe they use it for their outbound queue, but apparently not for their inbound mail. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL

qmail-lint?

2000-08-19 Thread Russell Nelson
Tim Jones writes: The installation appears good -- qmail-lint reports no problems. How many other newbies use qmail-lint? I"m wondering if I should change it so that it "enforces" the use of ucspi-tcp and daemontools. It's just so much easier to get working, even though it makes for more

Re: converting tai64n to something readable

2000-08-19 Thread Russell Nelson
Ben Beuchler writes: Yeah, I seem to have a mental glitch lately that tells my fingers to type "it's" in all the wrong places. It's hard to get right. I've read the doc you mention. I found it rather tough to follow. I just received some info from Russ that I think is unlocking my

Re: obtaining TCPREMOTEIP during delivery

2000-08-19 Thread Russell Nelson
Ben Beuchler writes: It appears that $TCPREMOTEIP is only available to qmail-smtpd. It is no longer in the environment during final message delivery. No, but you can get the same information from parsing the Received: headers: while() { last if /^$/; $address = $2 if

Re: qmail and IP addresses.....

2000-08-19 Thread Russell Nelson
Steve Wolfe writes: 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? Only for incoming, by handing the IP address to tcpserver. It could be done for outgoing,

Re: logselect

2000-08-19 Thread Russell Nelson
Ben Beuchler writes: On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 11:45:58PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: I've released my logselect program as a patch to daemontools-0.70. I'm sorry if this seems like a silly question, but what is the intended uuse for this program? Remote log retrieval? Yes. I've

Re: Linux Mandrake qmail packages available

2000-08-19 Thread Russell Nelson
Vincent Danen writes: Please, when testing, make sure they comply with http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html and http://cr.yp.to/qmail/var-qmail.html. This is the only way they will be approved by DJB, so if there are any discrepencies, please let me know. As far as I know, Dan is giving