qmail Digest 9 Oct 2000 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 1148

qmail Digest 9 Oct 2000 10:00:01 - Issue 1148 Topics (messages 50177 through 50187): spam alarm as result from "help with girlfriend" 50177 by: Alexander Jernejcic Re: ORBS 50178 by: Alexander Jernejcic Re: Can't switch to queue directory. 50179 by: Alexander Jerne

Re: qmail list reply-to

* Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When did Cc change from Carbon Copy to Courtesy Copy? About the same time a carriage return became a line feed. Tell me, Vince, how *did* you manage to implement TCP/IP for that thing? -- Robin S. Socha

How to set this configuration?

Hello to all, please help me, i'm don't know how to make following configuration on my system, please consult me: 1. All UNDELIVERED mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] route to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. User1 have e-mail box on domain2.ru ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), but not have e-mail box in domain3.ru (both domai

Log file

Hi there, my qmail logfiles are filled with only this line over and over again. -- 971017556.174395 warning: trouble opening local/1/18700; will try again later -- Does anyone know what the problem is regards Mark van der Putten end -- Dis

RE: CST17030532ID - OK so I eat spam (fwd) (fwd)

Martin Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello marrandy, > >Thank you for writing to MSN Hotmail. >We have closed the account in question because of a violation of our Terms >Of Service (TOS). >You can read our TOS at: >http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/dasp/hminfo_shell.asp?content=tos E

RE: spam alarm as result from "help with girlfriend"

> From: Alexander Jernejcic > > i think "Wheres Mybrudda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]" did > gather adresses for spam-mail! > just received spam from "From Lily [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]" It doesn't have to be from that hotmail account, it could be any lurker on the list, or it could be from the maillis

Mass mbox to Maildir conversion

Hello, I need to convert approx. 170 users from mbox to Maildir format. The users have a /var/spool/mail/username as their current imap inbox and ~username/mail/multiplefilenames as imap folders. This exists on the old server. The new server will be laid out as follows: /var/qmail/maildirs/usern

Re: SPAM is not a big deal if you are getting only SPAM

Sorry for jumping in on that thread late ... We were affected by this "storm" (mass relaying though CZ servers) as they abuse two domains of customers of ours, for which we do backup MX. When the inject started the primary MX gave up quickly and we'd got all the bounces. Fortunately - as far as

Geez...

Geez you guys...I make you all laugh and look what you do. Close down two hotmail accounts in one day! No I do not collect spam addresses, my previous e-mail address was simply a sarcastic reply, just teasing one and all :) Please remember that each time you send an e-mail to the qmail mailing

Site down?

It seems that http://cr.yp.to site is down. Anyone knows where I can download qmail, uscpi-tcp and daemontools from? Thanks Nick

ITU-T (Off Topic)

Hi, First of all, Sorry for being Off-Topic. I am facing a little problem in order to get my qmail server on-line. In Hong Kong, I am to apply a license for mail server and this mail server has to be comply with ITU-T standard. I just want to ask what is the standard in ITU-T from a mail s

RE: spam alarm as result from "help with girlfriend"

Yeah, I just one today... it said: Congratulation! Sue has selected you to be her online lover. Click here http://LoveMatch.TV-Show.com/lover?Sue to chat with her online. It was from: From Lily [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] This sux! -Original Message- From: Alexander Jernejcic [mailto:[E

Mass mbox to Maildir conversion

Hello, I need to convert approx. 170 users from mbox to Maildir format. The users have a /var/spool/mail/username as their current imap inbox and ~username/mail/multiplefilenames as imap folders. This exists on the old server. The new server will be laid out as follows: /var/qmail/maildirs

different port numbers

Hi, I wanted to change the port numbers for the mail service (using qmail), while forwarding it from a firewall to the server:   ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 25 -R ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L  110 -R   Is it possible to install Qmail (and possibly manage it subsequently) so

Re: qmail list reply-to

Bruno Wolff III writes: > On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 05:33:34PM -0400, > Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Charles McLagan writes: > > > Now, one can trash Microsoft, or Netscape, or whoever > > > makes the MUA, but the bottom line is, this is how they > > > work and this is ho

OT: DJB docs mirrored?

Hello, I have a regular need to get to DJB's documentation (affects several of his software packages). There once was a mentioning on this list that some of you mirror this documentation. I'd like to get these addresses, and suggest they be put online at an easy-to-find address so one could get

Qmail + netware

Is it possible to use qmail+ldap so that when you create a user with Netware 5 qmail would also be able to get the new user from ldap? I haven't looked into this too deeply yet. I was wondering if anybody has tried this, or knows if it's not possible? Jon. -- ICMP - The protocol that likes to g

Re: qmail list reply-to

On Sun 2000-10-08 (17:28), Robin S. Socha wrote: > >> No. Reply-to-Recipient is necessary and sufficient. > > And what if the sender isn't on the list? > > Then the sender should ask for a Cc: - remember kids, it isn't called > Courtesy Copy for nothing. Sending a Cc: to someone obviously subscr

Re: qmail list reply-to

On 8 Oct 2000, Robin S. Socha wrote: > * Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When did Cc change from Carbon Copy to Courtesy Copy? > > About the same time a carriage return became a line feed. Tell me, I ask 'cuze every email program I've looked at here calls it "carbon copy". >

how to

How can i UNSUBSCRIBE from this list?

Re: Mass mbox to Maildir conversion

What did you think of mbox to Maildir conversion tools that can be found on www.qmail.org? Regards. On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 02:39:36PM +0300, Mike Jackson wrote: > Hello, > I need to convert approx. 170 users from mbox to Maildir format. The users > have a /var/spool/mail/username as their cu

RE: qmail list reply-to

> Then the sender should ask for a Cc: - remember kids, it isn't called > Courtesy Copy for nothing. I thought it was Carbon Copy? /BR Manager InterPlanetary Solutions http://ipsware.com/

Re: Geez...

On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 07:59:45PM +, Wheres Mysista wrote: > Geez you guys...I make you all laugh and look what you do. Close down two > hotmail accounts in one day! And given that he always originates his hotmail email to this list from the same IP address means that it's no great secret w

quotas?

Hi there: I'm having a very weird problem with my mail server. To be brief: I'm hosting 2 virtual domains. Have qmail + vpopmail running over FreeBSD-4.1. The problem: when somebody sends a message to one of the users of one virtual domain, the server bounces the m

Mrs. Brisby's patch for qmail-smtpd.c for username/password auth

Does anyone know of any reason not to install this patch if the functionallity is kind-of-needed? I mean does it affect performance for example? I am no c-guru and the diff i didn't on patch and the original doesn't give me any hints to wethr or not it is sane to use the patch... the reason i

Re: different port numbers

On Mon, 09 Oct 2000 15:58:58 +0200, "Marco" wrote: > Is it possible to install Qmail (and possibly manage it subsequently) so that it can >respond to port numbers and ? > If so, what should I do? Yes, it is possible. You need to change the invocation of tcpserver to use port ins

Re: different port numbers

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 03:58:58PM +0200, Marco wrote: > ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 25 -R > ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 110 -R > > Is it possible to install Qmail (and possibly manage it subsequently) so that > it can respond to port numbers and ? If so, what should I

RE: spam alarm as result from "help with girlfriend"

hi, the coninsitence is astonishing! i received many answers - all the same spam i received... btw: i did not now, that the mailing list is mirrored into a newsgroup ;) a == Alexander Jernejcic email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] begin LOVE-LETTER-

RE: qmail-ldap-help

hi, the permissions are ok, since they are world readable. i assume in ldapserver theres the hostname of the ldapserver to connect to? if so, is the hostname ok? as you see, i don't use the ldap-patch myself, i just tried to help... i add the qmail-list to the cc, just to let someone else the cha

RE: CST17030532ID - OK so I eat spam (fwd) (fwd)

HOORAH! I just love getting "confirmed kills", it's almost a good to see someone elses. :) Thanks, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Martin Randall wrote: > *** Begin of forwarded message *** > > Date: 08-Oct-00 12:05:58 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: CST

RE: spam alarm as result from "help with girlfriend"

I got one of those too. Lily is not cute. :) -Original Message- From: Don Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 1:27 PM To: Qmail Subject: RE: spam alarm as result from "help with girlfriend" > From: Alexander Jernejcic > > i think "Wheres Mybrudda [mailto:[

Re: how to

Gustavo Schroeder wrote: > > How can i UNSUBSCRIBE from this list? send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /Martin

Re: qmail list reply-to

> From: "Brett Randall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 07:00:06 +1000 > > > Then the sender should ask for a Cc: - remember kids, it isn't called > > Courtesy Copy for nothing. > > I thought it was Carbon Copy? Considering that the majority of Internet users these days are so youn

Re: different port numbers

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 03:58:58PM +0200, Marco wrote: > Hi, > I wanted to change the port numbers for the mail service (using qmail), while >forwarding it from a firewall to the server: > > ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 25 -R > ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 110 -R > > Is it possi

Re: ITU-T (Off Topic)

Hi, At 15:38 9.10.2000 +0800, Mark Lo wrote: >Hi, > >First of all, Sorry for being Off-Topic. I am facing a little problem >in order to get my qmail server on-line. In Hong Kong, I am to apply a >license for mail server and this mail server has to be comply with ITU-T >standard. I just wan

Re: Qmail + netware

Hi, At 09:17 9.10.2000 +0100, Jonathan Fanti wrote: >Is it possible to use qmail+ldap so that when you create a user with >Netware 5 qmail would also be able to get the new user from ldap? I >haven't looked into this too deeply yet. I was wondering if anybody has >tried this, or knows if it's no

Re: spam alarm as result from "help with girlfriend"

On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 01:27:26PM -0500, Don Wright wrote: > > From: Alexander Jernejcic > > > > i think "Wheres Mybrudda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]" did > > gather adresses for spam-mail! > > just received spam from "From Lily [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]" > > > It doesn't have to be from that hotmail

Re: qmail list reply-to

- Original Message - From: "Robin S. Socha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 11:28 AM Subject: Re: qmail list reply-to > * Bruno Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 05:33:34PM -0400, Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

cmd5checkpw 0.22 - update

Hello.. A new, updated version of cmd5checkpw (needed for cram-md5 authentication in qmail-smtp auth patch) is released. Changes: - fix for a crash when user is not found in the passwd database. - Support for PLAIN/LOGIN auth (so you can use cmd5checkpw for both CRAM-MD5 and PLAIN/LOGIN). Chan

Re: ITU-T (Off Topic)

Hi, Offtopic Again !! Sorry !! Does anyone know ...Do I need a license to operate a mail server in Hong Kong.?? How about in US ? Thank You Mark - Original Message - From: Erwin Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mark Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, Octo

Question on Relay Control

What file do I need to create in the control directory to enable relay control? Actually I would like to enforce User Name and Password Authentication from anything incomming to qmail.   Secound question.. What happened to www.qmail.org   --JT

Re: qmail list reply-to

On 8 Oct 2000, Robin S. Socha wrote: > * Bruno Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 05:33:34PM -0400, Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > >> No. Reply-to-Recipient is necessary and sufficient. > > And what if the sender isn't on the list? > > Then the sen

Re: Site down?

you can download qmail from my server if you want, just tell me, the other programms i dont have yours romeo On Son, 08 Okt 2000, Nick Lekic wrote: > It seems that http://cr.yp.to site is down. > Anyone knows where I can download qmail, uscpi-tcp and daemontools from? > > Thanks Nick -- " R o

RE: qmail list reply-to

>Considering that the majority of Internet users these days are so young that >the have never seen carbon paper, Regardless of age, if you were a trouble maker in school, you got quickly acquainted with it. In 4th grade, I remember having to write 5000 times: "When singing Old Dan Tucker, I wi

Re: Geez...

> Wheres. Nice name. I'm sure it's your real one. *snicker* - Casey P.S. Gotta love the new "bounce" option in the right-click menu of my mail client's messages

qmail.org site down?

It's quite possible that I missed something, but: When I visit http://www.qmail.org, I am redirected to http://www.qmail.org/vbn/unreachable.vbn and get a message saying "Welcome to Elastic Networks. Sorry the file that you have requested is not reachable from this side of the network..."

Re: ITU-T (Off Topic)

On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 03:21:33AM +0800, Mark Lo wrote: > Hi, > > Offtopic Again !! Sorry !! Does anyone know ...Do I need a license to > operate a mail server in Hong Kong.?? How about in US ? In US, definitely no. In Hong Kong, not sure, but that would seem very unlikely. Greetz, Pete

Re: qmail list reply-to

Chris Garrigues wrote: > Considering that the majority of Internet users these days are so young that > the have never seen carbon paper, that term seems to be as obsolete as > "dialing" a telephone. Uh, I see carbon paper almost everyday. A lot of post offices still use it for keeping copies of

Re: Mrs. Brisby's patch for qmail-smtpd.c for username/password auth

Martin Jespersen wrote: > Does anyone know of any reason not to install this patch if the functionallity is kind-of-needed? > > the reason i ask is that it is listed so far down on the site that i thought it might not be seen > as a 'good' patch... Assuming by "the site" you mean qmail.org, I dou

Re: Mrs. Brisby's patch for qmail-smtpd.c for username/password auth

I have qmail 1.03 with this patch only running on a Sun Ultra Enterprise 2 w/ 1.2G of RAM and the auth cycle for smtp server is VERY slow, it noticably slows down the mail delivery. I wish there was a solution, but I haven't found one yet. Other than making SMTP respond with crippling slowness,

Re: spam alarm as result from "help with girlfriend"

"jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah, > > I just one today... Just a little addition to this annoyingly drawn-out thread... I haven't received any spam at all since I've joined this list...much impressed considering my past experiences! I am virtually convinced that the spam people are rece

/var/qmail/alias question

I work for a school district, and we just converted 8 mercury mail servers running on novell over to one district mail server, running qmail. I am running domain(ip) aliasing on this machine, so we can do mail forwarding for the old domains. IE.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question on Relay Control

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:30:46PM -0700, James Stevens wrote: > What file do I need to create in the control directory to enable relay > control? Make sure rcpthosts contains only the names of the domains for which you wish to receive mail. This will prevent anyone fom using you as a relay. To a

Re: /var/qmail/alias question

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:36:55PM -0500, Barry Smoke wrote: > This is all working perfectly, except for a few strange name problems. The good news is, it's easy to fix. The bad news is, you have probably set up your virtual domains and aliases incorrectly for your situation. For each of the d

RE: spam alarm as result from "help with girlfriend"

It's also posted in html on the web. http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2000/10/threads.html Jim -Original Message- From: Alexander Jernejcic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 2:30 PM To: Qmail Subject: RE: spam alarm as result from "help

Re: Help with my girlfriend?

Hmmm... good choice X-Originating-IP: [203.164.3.167] On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 08:33:22PM +, Wheres Mybrudda wrote: > Hello. Is this the right place to come for help with my girlfriend? A friend > told me that if I came to the Qinky Mothers After Indigenous Lesbians list > then you can te

assign and deferring mail.

Greetings, Last week or so i mentioned that i have a mechanism to queue mail when a control file exists. This is through a hack to qmail-getpw.c. Someone else commented that if /var/qmail/alias/assign is being used as a forwarding mechanism, that qmail-getpw is not used and that qmail-local is

Re: qmail list reply-to

> I thought it was Carbon Copy? > > /BR Did you think to consult with Robin Silly Socha before you came to that conclusion? No, I didn't think so. Damn you, your operating system, and your harmful, evil, un-Gnus mail client to a burning hell. jason

Re: ITU-T (Off Topic)

In the immortal words of Mark Lo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Offtopic Again !! Sorry !! Does anyone know ...Do I need a license to > operate a mail server in Hong Kong.?? How about in US ? Although many of us think it would be a great idea, you do not need a license to operate a mail server

FW: /var/qmail/alias question

that makes sense...but what about the hundreds of users that had nothing change... right now [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to /home/bsmoke/Maildir and [EMAIL PROTECTED] goest to /home/bsmoke/Maildir because all of these domains are in /var/qmail/control/locals so 99% of all the other users a

Re: FW: /var/qmail/alias question

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 06:30:29PM -0500, Barry Smoke wrote: > > > > that makes sense...but what about the hundreds of users that had nothing > change... > right now [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to /home/bsmoke/Maildir > and [EMAIL PROTECTED] goest to /home/bsmoke/Maildir > because all of the

Log file

Oops i wan't subscribed to the list >Hi there, > >my qmail logfiles are filled with only this line over and over again. >-- >971017556.174395 warning: trouble opening local/1/18700; will try again later >-- > >Does anyone know what the problem is and how it can be fixed ?? > rega

OK Me had enuf of defending self...

FYI, 203.164.3.x addresses are NAT-based firewalls for an Australian-based ISP with 10's of thousands of customers. Is the Originating IP address of the spam the same as mine was? (Check mine now...you really think I would use my personal IP address for sending humorous and somewhat embarassing

Re: Site down?

On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 11:16:38AM -0400, Nick Lekic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that http://cr.yp.to site is down. > Anyone knows where I can download qmail, uscpi-tcp and daemontools from? > > Thanks Nick My guess is that the transformer fire in Chicago may have had an effect. It k

Re: Mrs. Brisby's patch for qmail-smtpd.c for username/password auth

ok thx :) Btw. i've installed it and it runs fine, but only now do i find out that i am supposed to supply the commandline with a chackpassword program (the path to it). I haven't done this, and yet it works fine any clue how/why? :) /Martin Kris Kelley wrote: > > Martin Jespersen wrote:

Re: Mrs. Brisby's patch for qmail-smtpd.c for username/password auth

*DOH!* Just found out that what it does is: it doesn't check passwords an thus authenticate all *YIKES* Sorry for being such a newbie... /Martin Martin Jespersen wrote: > > ok thx :) > > Btw. i've installed it and it runs fine, but only now do i find out that i am >supposed to supply the >

Re: DJB Girlfriend V 1.0 - a solution for all

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:24:27PM -0700, Ihnen, David wrote: > Since we all know the DJB writes the best little programs, we should > commission him to write a girlfriend/wife program. Not only would it be Unfortunately any such girlfriend program from DJB, while being the absolute best quality

Maildir not working

I'm trying to use the Maildir format for the mails with qmail. But I don't know why, it's not working (/Mailbox works good). I'm using to start it this script: #!/bin/sh # Using splogger to send the log through syslog. # Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Mailbox by default. exec env - P

Re: ITU-T (Off Topic)

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Peter van Dijk wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 03:21:33AM +0800, Mark Lo wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Offtopic Again !! Sorry !! Does anyone know ...Do I need a license to > > operate a mail server in Hong Kong.?? How about in US ? > > In US, definitely no. In Hong Kong, n

Re: qmail list reply-to

"Jason Brooke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I thought it was Carbon Copy? > > > > /BR > > > Did you think to consult with Robin Silly Socha before you came to that > conclusion? > No, I didn't think so. > > Damn you, your operating system, and your harmful, evil, un-Gnus mail client > to a

RE: qmail-ldap-help

I have entered the IP address in the file(ok?) -Original Message- From: Alexander Jernejcic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 7:43 PM To: suresh Cc: Qmail Subject: RE: qmail-ldap-help hi, the permissions are ok, since they are world readable. i assume in ldapser