Problem with Log File

2000-11-02 Thread Christophe . Andreoli
Hello ! I am testing my Qmail installation, according to test.deliver. with echo to: gast | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject I didn't find the file written by multilog. I verified that multilog is running, as you see with ps. root 253 246 0 08:59 ?00:00:02

creating a .qmail

2000-11-02 Thread Ruprecht Helms
Hi, how can I create a file .qmail. In different Pages for qmail is mentioned that you have to edit the .qmail. I havn't found such file. Where can I find a manpage for dot-qmail, because the manpage isn't install on my host. Regards, Ruprecht

qmail-send sitting idle, doing nothing

2000-11-02 Thread Stanislav Grozev
Hi, i have the following problem with qmail-1.03 on redhat 6.2 system: when I mail a message (either through the sendmail wrapper or by using qmail-inject directly) it is written to the todo directory in the queue but qmail-send ignores it, as the todo is empty -

Re: Prolem (carefully) explained

2000-11-02 Thread Howard Miller
OK, my system is set up as cat /var/qmail/alias/.qmail* howard howard howard cat /var/qmail/rc #!/bin/sh exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start '|dot-forward .forward ./Maildir/' I do NOT have a .qmail file in my home directory. the rc script is copied as is from the HOWTO.

Re: creating a .qmail

2000-11-02 Thread Cyril Bitterich
Hi Ruprecht, how can I create a file .qmail. In different Pages for qmail is mentioned that you have to edit the .qmail. There are different ways to do this. the most straightforward way would be an: echo "text" .qmail so assuming you want Maildir-delivery you type: echo "./Maildir/"

qmail Digest 2 Nov 2000 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 1172

2000-11-02 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 2 Nov 2000 11:00:01 - Issue 1172 Topics (messages 51435 through 51493): Re: dot-qmail 51435 by: Jenny Holmberg Re: Serialmail bounce messages 51436 by: Ruprecht Helms Re: Can't get POP3 Authorisation to work 51437 by: Howard Miller 51445 by:

Re: Prolem (carefully) explained

2000-11-02 Thread Cyril Bitterich
Hi Howard, Howard Miller wrote: my system is set up as cat /var/qmail/alias/.qmail* howard howard howard change this to howard cat /var/qmail/rc #!/bin/sh exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start '|dot-forward .forward ../Maildir/' i'd say it should read: exec

Local delivery

2000-11-02 Thread Dewald Strauss
Hi ppl, I have a secondary MX for a domain "dex.co.za" pointing to my qmail box. The primary MX points to an Exchange server, the Exchange server is on our local LAN. I created a virtual domain for "dex.co.za" on the qmail box. Is it possible that I can forward the email received for

Re: maildir2mbox doesn't work

2000-11-02 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/ MAIL=$HOME/mbox MAILTMP=$HOME/.mailtemp maildir2mbox Error. MAILTMP not set (or something like that) Did you ever hear about the difference between environment variables and shell variables? You need to do export MAILDIR export MAIL export MAILTMP Regards;

Re: Local delivery

2000-11-02 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
I created a virtual domain for "dex.co.za" on the qmail box. Don't do that. dex.co.za has to go only into /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts. Is it possible that I can forward the email received for "dex.co.za" locally over the LAN?? Yes, you may use the MX from DNS or better (for DNS outages)

Re: Prolem (carefully) explained

2000-11-02 Thread Howard Miller
Mmmmr The extra dot in the rc file was a typing error, but I have changed the layout to your suggestion. I did echo to: howard /var/qmail/qmail-inject again The log file for this looks like... @40003a014cd1031b95ec status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 @40003a014d5616ba61dc starting

Re: maildir2mbox doesn't work

2000-11-02 Thread Howard Miller
Yes,yes,yes, I have been made to look stupid with this one quite enough thank you. It does work, I agree! In my haste, the exports when clean out of my head. Stoopid!!! Unix - too much to remember! Howard At 12:13 02/11/00 +0100, you wrote: MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/ MAIL=$HOME/mbox

Re: Prolem (carefully) explained

2000-11-02 Thread Brett Randall
On Thu, 02 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is dot-forward? If it is something to do with local delivery is it perhaps ignorant of Maildir directories? Should I have a different setup here? Yes...what are you using the dot-forward line for? exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \

Re: Prolem (carefully) explained

2000-11-02 Thread Howard Miller
I did it like this because it is in the HOWTO, I don't understand what those parameters do! I am off to try your version, wish me luck! Thanks, Howard At 22:41 02/11/00 +1100, you wrote: On Thu, 02 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is dot-forward? If it is something to do with local

Re: Prolem (carefully) explained

2000-11-02 Thread Johan Almqvist
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 11:31:16AM -0800, Howard Miller wrote: Mmmmr The extra dot in the rc file was a typing error, but I have changed the layout to your suggestion. Give us the rc file again. dot-forward:_fatal:_unable_to_re ad_./Maildir/:_is_a_directory/ It strikes me that

Re: World's largest mailing list?

2000-11-02 Thread Johan Almqvist
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 07:46:08AM -, John Conover wrote: Its not exactly a qmail question, but does anyone know how many email addresses are on the world's largest mailing list, and the OS/HW/MTA it runs on? Average messages per day? What do you mean by the world's largest? Most

Re: Yahoo delivery failure - short test and proposal

2000-11-02 Thread Rich Feather
Count me in. I'm seeing the same problem. Peter van Dijk wrote: On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 06:47:43PM +1100, Brett Randall wrote: [snip] I am putting forward a proposal that, to help ourselves, our staff, and the hundreds of thousands of Yahoo Mail patrons, we should contact Yahoo and

Re: Prolem (carefully) explained

2000-11-02 Thread Howard Miller
OK!!! Progress with the new stripped down /var/qmail/rc file it works providing the message is sent through SMTP. qmail-inject still doesn't work. If I echo to it the message just vanishes. If I use mail (via the sendmail wrapper I presume) I get an error. Anyway... root@sql:/var/qmail/bin

Re: Yahoo delivery failure - short test and proposal

2000-11-02 Thread Brett Randall
On Thu, 02 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Count me in. I'm seeing the same problem. Well, I'm not really after an army of followers, but I would more like to see people taking some degree of initiative, giving the list information on what the problem would be, e-mail addresses of people

Re: Prolem (carefully) explained

2000-11-02 Thread Brett Randall
On Thu, 02 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK!!! Progress with the new stripped down /var/qmail/rc file it works providing the message is sent through SMTP. qmail-inject still doesn't work. If I echo to it the message just vanishes. If I use mail (via the sendmail wrapper I presume)

Re: Prolem (carefully) explained

2000-11-02 Thread Howard Miller
Dh! Did you ever have one of those days?? Well spotted that man... thanks. HM At 23:35 02/11/00 +1100, you wrote: On Thu, 02 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK!!! Progress with the new stripped down /var/qmail/rc file it works providing the message is sent through SMTP.

Re: Prolem (carefully) explained

2000-11-02 Thread Joost van Baal
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 11:35:54PM +1100, Brett Randall wrote: On Thu, 02 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: qmail-inject still doesn't work. If I echo to it the message just vanishes. If I use mail (via the sendmail wrapper I presume) I get an error. That's because you overwrote

Re: Help with username is different from email address.

2000-11-02 Thread Joost van Baal
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 03:47:41PM -0600, Eric Walters wrote: I am using the maildir format with qmail. I am also using virtualdomains to host different domains. All users are remote. I am using the freebsd UNIX local usernames and passwords for authentication. I am attempting to use the

Re: Yahoo delivery failure - short test and proposal

2000-11-02 Thread Ricardo Cerqueira
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 11:28:53PM +1100, Brett Randall wrote: On Thu, 02 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Count me in. I'm seeing the same problem. Well, I'm not really after an army of followers, but I would more like to see people taking some degree of initiative, giving the list

Re: qmail-list fork? (was: [sic] people are definately starting to harvest emailadresses on th is list...)

2000-11-02 Thread Jörgen Persson
I hardly read the list nowdays due to the noise. I agree - there's a need for a fork. -- Jörgen On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 07:37:13AM +0100, Magnus Bodin wrote: On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 02:08:14AM +0200, Felix von Leitner wrote: PS: If anyone is interested in a mailing list about technical

Re: Yahoo delivery failure - short test and proposal

2000-11-02 Thread Brett Randall
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about giving them numbers? See? :) This is the kind of unexpected response which is good to gather up before we talk to Yahoo... By the way, I'm not against Yahoo, I just think their sysadmins need a good kick up the rear and maybe even a good

Mail server problems.

2000-11-02 Thread Rob Hines Jr.
I have something of a large recurring problem. I've looked over the web and searched all the resources that I know of to make this dern thing work correctly. Here is the problem: - A user, using an earthlink 56K dialup tries to send mail through my smtp server. - 9 times out of 10, the mail

Re: Yahoo delivery failure - short test and proposal

2000-11-02 Thread Ricardo Cerqueira
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:34:24AM +1100, Brett Randall wrote: On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about giving them numbers? See? :) This is the kind of unexpected response which is good to gather up before we talk to Yahoo... By the way, I'm not against Yahoo, I just

Sorry, me again still confused

2000-11-02 Thread Howard Miller
Sorry guys, need a bit of advice. I have (at last) the basic system working properly, and now I need to add POP3. If you don't mind I will ask about a few things I don't get before I go off and screw it all up again. I need... POP3/SMTP access for virtual users, no local users at all

Qmail with split distribution servers

2000-11-02 Thread Darren Honeyball
Hi, I'm about to set-up a mail distribution server, with 1 control host, and 3 distribution hosts. Can anybody point me in the direction of any documents on how to do this? TIA, Darren -- +++ | Darren Honeyball | DDI:

Re: Mail server problems.

2000-11-02 Thread Brett Randall
On Thu, 02 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off, a little more description in the subject when you post to the list helps us all prioritise a little more...I know it doesn't change anything for you, but please try, and wrap your lines at 80 chars. - 9 times out of 10, the mail fails

RE: Mail server problems.

2000-11-02 Thread Kevin Bucknum
Earthlink recently stopped allowing SMTP traffic out of their network except from their mail servers. I've had to change several of my dial up users settings to used Earthlink's servers for out going mail. On a positive note, they did stop requiring that the reply to field point to one of their

Re: Problem with Log File

2000-11-02 Thread Charles Cazabon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: @40003a0121b12c862ba4 alert: cannot start: unable to read controls @40003a0121b233ef76ac alert: cannot start: unable to read controls @40003a0121b33a6cb404 alert: cannot start: unable to read controls @40003a0121b50467d0b4 alert:

Re: Sorry, me again still confused

2000-11-02 Thread Howard Miller
Sorry, forget the bit about password veriification, I got the right bit in the INSTALL for vpopmail!! I really just need to know what the best thing to do with the pop3 startup script is. Ta At 13:49 02/11/00 -0800, you wrote: Sorry guys, need a bit of advice. I have (at last) the basic

Re: Qmail with split distribution servers

2000-11-02 Thread Brett Randall
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm about to set-up a mail distribution server, with 1 control host, and 3 distribution hosts. Can anybody point me in the direction of any documents on how to do this? Its not a HOWTO yet, but take a look at my reference docs at

Re: Sorry, me again still confused

2000-11-02 Thread Brett Randall
On Thu, 02 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need... POP3/SMTP access for virtual users, no local users at all Web access to mail boxes Web user administration would be nice I have looked at the vpopmail package and its addons qmailadmin and sqwebmail, which seem ideal -

mailtraffic logging, inclusive Subject: field

2000-11-02 Thread Olivier M.
Hello, For a project, I'd need to find a way to log the mail traffic on a qmail server, but not just sender and recipient: subject is also needed. For sender, recipient and size, the maillogs would be enough. But I have to find a way to include the subject into the log. Is anybody already

Re: qmail-send sitting idle, doing nothing

2000-11-02 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 11:59:31AM +0200, Stanislav Grozev wrote: Hi, i have the following problem with qmail-1.03 on redhat 6.2 system: when I mail a message (either through the sendmail wrapper or by using qmail-inject directly) it is written to the todo directory in

Unable_to_switch_to_/var/qmail/

2000-11-02 Thread Christophe . Andreoli
I am testing my Qmail installation, according to test.deliver. with echo to: me| /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject But I get the following erro. Why ?r: @40003a0151032f698ce4 starting delivery 22: msg 3383 to local me@servermail2 .nse-int.de @40003a0151032f6b270c status: local 1/10

Unable_to_switch_to_/var/qmail/

2000-11-02 Thread Christophe . Andreoli
-- Weitergeleitet von Christophe Andreoli/NSE/DE on 02.11.2000 16:10 --- Christophe Andreoli 02.11.2000 15:57 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopie: Thema:Unable_to_switch_to_/var/qmail/ alias:_access_denied. I am testing my Qmail

Me yet again - qmailadmin this time

2000-11-02 Thread Howard Miller
I may be posting this in the wrong place - sorry if so. I am trying to install qmailadmin, I run the ./configure script and it complains that it can't find my autoresponder binary. Err... what is it going on about. What does an autoresponder binary look like, am I likely to have one, and if

Re: Problem with Log File

2000-11-02 Thread Schwarz Hans-Juergen
Hello Christophe, Thursday, November 02, 2000, 10:11:55 AM, you wrote: @40003a0121b33a6cb404 alert: cannot start: unable to read controls @40003a0121b50467d0b4 alert: cannot start: unable to read controls do you got your domain name in the /var/qmail/control/me -File? Are the dns

Re: mailtraffic logging, inclusive Subject: field

2000-11-02 Thread Peter Green
also sprach qmail: Personally, I think I would first try to catch all the mails using http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/admin.html#copies , and then parse all the messages "by hand". But I guess there would be a better solution ? :) If you are using Bruce's RPMs (which I'm guessing you are, based on

Re: qmail-list fork? (was: [sic] people are definately starting to harvest emailadresses on th is list...)

2000-11-02 Thread Johan Almqvist
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 02:25:23PM +0100, Jörgen Persson wrote: I hardly read the list nowdays due to the noise. I agree - there's a need for a fork. On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 07:37:13AM +0100, Magnus Bodin wrote: On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 02:08:14AM +0200, Felix von Leitner wrote: PS: If

Re: Me yet again - qmailadmin this time

2000-11-02 Thread Stanislav Grozev
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 03:10:44PM -0800, Howard Miller wrote: I may be posting this in the wrong place - sorry if so. I am trying to install qmailadmin, I run the ./configure script and it complains that it can't find my autoresponder binary. Err... what is it going on about. What does

Re: Unable_to_switch_to_/var/qmail/

2000-11-02 Thread Johan Almqvist
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 03:57:08PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firstl, thank you, NOT!, for sending this message twice. The rights of /var/qmail are: drwxr-xr-x 2 aliasqmail4096 Nov 2 09:23 alias drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail4096 Oct 23 10:54 bin drwxr-xr-x 2

Re: qmail-send sitting idle, doing nothing

2000-11-02 Thread Stanislav Grozev
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:53:39AM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote: On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 11:59:31AM +0200, Stanislav Grozev wrote: http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html#trigger thanks, that fixes it, it wasn't world writable. Chris -tacho -- [i don't follow] | [http://daemonz.org/

RE: Me yet again - qmailadmin this time

2000-11-02 Thread Tim Hunter
Check the qmailadmin website: http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin And yes this is not exactly the right place, there is a mailing list for each of inter7's products. -Original Message- From: Howard Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 6:11 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: Return receipt [T2000103100V0]

2000-11-02 Thread Enrique
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Enrique, Thanks for your reply. The return receipt requested feature (when activated on an outgoing email) allows you to ask that the recipient notify you that the message has been displayed on his/her screen (and hopefully read). This notification will

Problem in getting forwarded mails

2000-11-02 Thread Ruprecht Helms
Hi, I have the problem that I have a mailserver in the DMZ with 2 testaccounts. The mails for these mailaccounts will be forwarded from another mailserver. The result is that the mails won''t arive in the mailbox. Here the part of the logfile Nov 2 23:53:44 mail qmail: 973205624.108283

Can I run multiple qmail-smptd on one install

2000-11-02 Thread Rob Hines Jr.
I sent an email about problems with my users reaching my SMTP server via Earthlink dialup. Several responded and from that I found that Earthlink was blocking SMTP except to their mail server. My immediate idea for a solution was to run a second qmail-smtpd on another port that Earthlink is not

Problem in getting forwarded mails

2000-11-02 Thread Ruprecht Helms
Hi, I have the problem that I have a mailserver in the DMZ with 2 testaccounts. The mails for these mailaccounts will be forwarded from another mailserver. The result is that the mails won''t arive in the mailbox. Here the part of the logfile Nov 2 23:53:44 mail qmail: 973205624.108283

command confirmation interface [à la ezmlml]

2000-11-02 Thread martin langhoff
hi, I'm starting to be fond of the easy path qmail gives me to turn email addresses into commands. Now, besides my nicey development box, some of these commands could be useful for my users, but I'd like to implement a 'confim source of command' feature like ezmlm has. Just

Re: mailtraffic logging, inclusive Subject: field

2000-11-02 Thread Olivier M.
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:31:06AM -0500, Peter Green wrote: Personally, I think I would first try to catch all the mails using http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/admin.html#copies , and then parse all the messages "by hand". But I guess there would be a better solution ? :) If you are using

RE: Return receipt [T2000103100V0]

2000-11-02 Thread Tim Hunter
Works for me using outlook and outlook express, I have never tried Netscape. Looks like this: Disposition-Notification-To: "Tim Hunter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is sent from a qmail server and received by a qmail server. Perhaps you have something stripping it out along the way? -Original

Re: Can I run multiple qmail-smptd on one install

2000-11-02 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Rob Hines Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 2 November 2000 at 12:04:02 -0500 I sent an email about problems with my users reaching my SMTP server via Earthlink dialup. Several responded and from that I found that Earthlink was blocking SMTP except to their mail server. My immediate idea

Re: Can I run multiple qmail-smptd on one install

2000-11-02 Thread Charles Cazabon
Rob Hines Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sent an email about problems with my users reaching my SMTP server via Earthlink dialup. Several responded and from that I found that Earthlink was blocking SMTP except to their mail server. My immediate idea for a solution was to run a second

Re: Can I run multiple qmail-smptd on one install

2000-11-02 Thread Matt Brown
"Rob Hines Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I sent an email about problems with my users reaching my SMTP server via Earthlink dialup. Several responded and from that I found that Earthlink was blocking SMTP except to their mail server. My immediate idea for a solution was to run a second

Forwarding

2000-11-02 Thread Dave Gresham
Hello, I am running Qmail 1.03 on FreeBSD, and am using the MailDir format. fqdn of this machine is twqmail1.ltfinc.net. currently, i have the following.qmail file for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ./MailDir/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whenever I send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the message does go

ANNOUNCE: qrblcheck -- rbl checking for .qmail

2000-11-02 Thread Jon Rust
I took rblcheck and added some extra code to read a message from stdin, find the IP of the last relay. It then compares a rating, based on running lookups against various RBL-style lists, against the value supplied on the command line. These mods make it suitable to be used in a .qmail file. In

RE: Can I run multiple qmail-smptd on one install

2000-11-02 Thread Greg Owen
My immediate idea for a solution was to run a second qmail-smtpd on another port that Earthlink is not blocking. My question is, can I run multiple instances of qmail-smtpd concurrently on different ports through supervise and tcpserver, Yes. Merely invoke tcpserver twice, with

Re: Wildcard MX Obsolescence

2000-11-02 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): i know that the problem is at my machine, and not on the remote email server. ( i xxx'd out the relevant things as i'm a contractor, and the company has very specific policies of my using their name... i like to work, if you know what i mean s)

RE: Problem in getting forwarded mails

2000-11-02 Thread Greg Owen
Here the part of the logfile Which machine is this logfile from? The forwarding host, or the final destination? And which machine is 212.185.23.250? Nov 2 23:53:47 mail qmail: 973205627.559026 delivery 7: success: 212.185.23.250_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_OK./

Re: Me yet again - qmailadmin this time

2000-11-02 Thread Sean Reifschneider
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 06:03:01PM +0200, Stanislav Grozev wrote: you can get the autoresponder from the same place you got qmailadmin (http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/) or if you want you can disable it with a configure option - see ./configure --help I was under the impression that you could

Re: qmail-scanner + which antivirus ?

2000-11-02 Thread Martin Lesser
"Olivier M." [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unfortunately avp is not free, the license-fee for a (linux) mail-server is about 100$/year. this would be acceptable. Are the updates automatic, or do they have to be done manualy ? (wget something, for example). How should the updates be done

Re: Wildcard MX Obsolescence

2000-11-02 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1.2.3.4 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 554 myclient.server.domain.com[1.2.3.4]: Client host rejected: Will not relay via wildcard MX records - reference http://www.server.domain.com/DNS/wildmx.html Giving

Re: mailtraffic logging, inclusive Subject: field

2000-11-02 Thread Jason Haar
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 03:47:47PM +0100, Olivier M. wrote: Hello, For a project, I'd need to find a way to log the mail traffic on a qmail server, but not just sender and recipient: subject is also needed. Qmail-Scanner can certainly give you that - plus attachment data per message.

Re: command confirmation interface [à la ezmlml]

2000-11-02 Thread Charles Cazabon
martin langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm starting to be fond of the easy path qmail gives me to turn email addresses into commands. Now, besides my nicey development box, some of these commands could be useful for my users, but I'd like to implement a 'confim source of command'

qmail-rspswn

2000-11-02 Thread Erich Zigler
I had been getting complaints lately that mail was being delivered slower then usual through one of my servers. This server houses several semi-high traffic domains and a fairly large traffic mailing list. I logged into the server and the queue wasn't that bad. 150 messages or so. But when I

Re: Yahoo delivery failure - short test and proposal

2000-11-02 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Peter van Dijk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 06:47:43PM +1100, Brett Randall wrote: [snip] I am putting forward a proposal that, to help ourselves, our staff, and the hundreds of thousands of Yahoo Mail patrons, we should contact Yahoo and pester them to get their

RCPTHOSTS Dilemma

2000-11-02 Thread Anthony Abby
I'm having a problem with RCPTHOSTS and relaying. Without RCPTHOSTS (or MORERCPTHOSTS) my mail server is an open relay, and yet I'm having difficulty setting it up so that my Listserv (Listar), which runs on the same box as QMail, can send out email to list subscribers? I have the following in

Re: qmail-rspswn

2000-11-02 Thread markd
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 02:10:33PM -0600, Erich Zigler wrote: I had been getting complaints lately that mail was being delivered slower then usual through one of my servers. This server houses several semi-high traffic domains and a fairly large traffic mailing list. I logged into the server

Re: Yahoo delivery failure - short test and proposal

2000-11-02 Thread Peter Green
also sprach aaron: The inet-access list has a regular contributor from Yahoo, by the name of Derek Balling. I can't find his official yahoo address, but he posts to Usenet as dredd at megacity.org (he has some posts in alt.sysadmin.recovery, perhaps he will be able to empathize with us :).

Re: high performance configs [was: Blocked pipe to qmail-queue]

2000-11-02 Thread Sean Reifschneider
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 12:53:27PM +, Greg Cope wrote: Out of interest does the Netfilter have a large / battery backed cache to decrease the I/O / disk bottle neck ? Yes. They have a chunk of NVRAM which ACKs the write request as soon as it's committed there. This gives it the ability to

RE: Help with username is different from email address.

2000-11-02 Thread Eric Walters
Let me make sure I understand correctly. If I use the assign method, do I still need to create an .qmail-user file in jdoe's directory? Do I only have to do this if he wants it to forward to another local or remote address? With the assign method, how does it handle multiple John@domain

QMail is't starting....

2000-11-02 Thread Javier Morquecho Morquecho
I just instaled QMail, but it is not starting, I can not to telnet to my machine by 25 or 110 ports (I can to do a normal telnet), where can to check ??, I'm using RedHat Thanks... Ing. J@vier Morquecho Morquecho Cedetel Desarrollo de proyectos comerciales Tel : 177-10-87 Cel :

Re: Help with username is different from email address.

2000-11-02 Thread Joost van Baal
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 04:03:36PM -0600, Eric Walters wrote: Let me make sure I understand correctly. If I use the assign method, do I still need to create an .qmail-user file in jdoe's directory? Do I only If you say, in assign, =john:jdoe:uid:gid:/home/jdoe::: then messages to john

Re: high performance configs [was: Blocked pipe to qmail-queue]

2000-11-02 Thread Jeff Mayzurk
Short of a threaded qmail-remote (or qmail-send/qmail-remote hybrid), a pre-forked pool of qmail-remotes waiting on a common socket would probably be a significant improvement. In short, Apache-style process management. Well, remember that Apache is pre-forking the *LISTENERS*, not

Re: high performance configs [was: Blocked pipe to qmail-queue]

2000-11-02 Thread Jeff Mayzurk
Out of interest does the Netfilter have a large / battery backed cache to decrease the I/O / disk bottle neck ? Yes. 32MB of write cache and 512MB of read. We've found NetApp boxes to work very well for applications like this. Also does your system only send one message - the ones I deal

Re: qmail-rspswn

2000-11-02 Thread Erich Zigler
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 01:47:27PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which OS Erich? I've seen this once before - but it'll take my braincells a little while to recall which OS. The server I saw it on wasn't doing anything particularly different. FreeBSD 3.3. I'm really confused. Everything

Re: RCPTHOSTS Dilemma

2000-11-02 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Anthony Abby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 2 November 2000 at 16:37:43 -0500 I'm having a problem with RCPTHOSTS and relaying. Without RCPTHOSTS (or MORERCPTHOSTS) my mail server is an open relay, and yet I'm having difficulty setting it up so that my Listserv (Listar), which runs on the

Re: high performance configs [was: Blocked pipe to qmail-queue]

2000-11-02 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 02:54:10PM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote: That's the problem. It's relatively slow throwing a bunch of messages into QMail. It doesn't take a very powerful machine to completely swamp a fairly hefty QMail server, I've found. I think the main problem is within

RE: RCPTHOSTS Dilemma

2000-11-02 Thread Anthony Abby
How does the mailing list submit messages to qmail? Since you say this doesn't work, what symptom or error message do you see? And finally, What Do The Logs Say (TM)? David: Listar hands off list traffic directly back to Qmail via SMTP. The logs indicate QMail won't "relay" the mail

(Fwd) ezmlm response

2000-11-02 Thread teep
I am getting a recurring, off-and-on odd behavior when one of my users attempts to send email to sherwin.com (sherwin-williams the paint people), for all addresses within that domain. My other mailservers (exim and a proprietary piece of work, old BBS software from eSoft) *will* send mail to

Relaying

2000-11-02 Thread net admin
Hi folks I have relaying enabled for a host by IP address as follow: in /etc/tcp.smtp 172.xxx.xxx.xxx:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" . . . :allow and did tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.temp /etc/tcp.smtp also kill -HUP qmail-send but relaying still fails What could be missing here? Thanks

Re: Relaying

2000-11-02 Thread Brett Randall
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and did tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.temp /etc/tcp.smtp also kill -HUP qmail-send but relaying still fails What could be missing here? Are you calling tcpserver with -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb ? (From /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run if

Re: (Fwd) ezmlm response

2000-11-02 Thread Alex Pennace
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 07:36:47PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Nov 2 14:05:30 win95 qmail: 973191930.503701 delivery 628273: deferral: Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an _SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/ [snip] As well, port 25 on mail01.sherwin.com (the best MX record) is alive

Re: (Fwd) ezmlm response

2000-11-02 Thread cfm
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 07:37:09PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Received: from mail01.sherwin.com (HELO ehub1.sherwin.com) (148.141.15.156) Received: from cbdserv4.sherwin.com ([148.141.17.249]) by ehub1.sherwin.com (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.3) What is cbdserv4? Does that

(Fwd) failure notice

2000-11-02 Thread Phil Barnett
How did this happen? I'm not using a crap MUA and it wasn't spam... --- Forwarded message follows --- Date sent: 3 Nov 2000 02:18:38 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:failure notice Hi. This

Re: (Fwd) failure notice

2000-11-02 Thread Brett Randall
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How did this happen? I'm not using a crap MUA and it wasn't spam... Um, this is my spam protection system and...ummm...it has s slight bug :P I didn't know that some MUAs sent mail with In-reply-to instead of In-Reply-To (note caps)...I will make

documentation

2000-11-02 Thread Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios
Dear Gentleman/Madam, I am new to qmail and have my system just up and running, but i would like to have a better control over qmail configuration files(/var/qmail/control). Since i respectfully request your help in order to point to a source of information about each qmail configuration file

test

2000-11-02 Thread ljwsy
Say sorry to everyone: I send this mail just test that dose my mail can send out. If I can read this mail from qmail list. It mean my act is right! Say SORRY again. ljwsy

Re: documentation

2000-11-02 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 01:25:25AM +, Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios wrote: I am new to qmail and have my system just up and running, but i would like to have a better control over qmail configuration files(/var/qmail/control). Since i respectfully request your help in order to

Re: documentation

2000-11-02 Thread Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios
Markus Stumpf wrote: All you want to know is described in the man page named "qmail-control" There is a table control defaultused by badmailfrom (none) qmail-smtpd [ ... ] which means that you can find detailed information about the

Re: (Fwd) failure notice

2000-11-02 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Brett Randall on 03 Nov 2000 13:44:59 +1100: In-Reply-To (note caps)...I will make it case insensitive for future cases. Apologies to Phil and anyone else who has received this error... I believe all headers should be treated case insensitive... :-) Kind of nice that it's working

Re: qmail-rspswn

2000-11-02 Thread markd
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 04:37:41PM -0600, Erich Zigler wrote: On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 01:47:27PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which OS Erich? I've seen this once before - but it'll take my braincells a little while to recall which OS. The server I saw it on wasn't doing anything

TCPSERVER: Unable to Bind to Port

2000-11-02 Thread Anthony Abby
Methinks I spoke just a tad bit too soon earlier this evening. My problem with not be able to relay mail from my mailing lists should be solved by using TCPSERVER (http://www.palomine.net/qmail/selectiverelay.html) to set the RELAYCLIENT environment variable, but I had some problems and have one

Re: qmail-rspswn

2000-11-02 Thread Erich Zigler
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:11:49PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you saying that qmail-rspawn regrows to 30M (or thereabouts) fairly immediately? Or are you making a general observation that "things seem slow"? In the latter case you'll want to resort to the usual strategies of looking

QMail and Win NT user auth

2000-11-02 Thread xxx
Hello to everyone, My company has the mail server running on Exchange 5.0(needles to say it works like hell) and I would like to move all the accounts on Linux QMail: PROBLEM: Is it possible to authentificate the QMail users against the an NT station? --(at this time when the user logs on

Re: Me yet again - qmailadmin this time

2000-11-02 Thread Stanislav Grozev
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 11:34:50AM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote: On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 06:03:01PM +0200, Stanislav Grozev wrote: you can get the autoresponder from the same place you got qmailadmin (http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/) or if you want you can disable it with a configure

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