ANNOUNCE: Mail2DB -- Store incoming mail in a PostgreSQL database.

2001-01-07 Thread Sean Reifschneider
Mail2DB is suitable for putting in a .qmail/.forward file and will archive e-mail to a SQL database. Currently, there is only the storage component. This was written because somone on a LUG list expressed interest in such a system, but he only knew PHP (which isn't an ideal language for calling

Newbie and permissions problem with qmail - please help

2001-01-07 Thread Roger Arnold
Roger Arnold wrote: I seem to have a problem with permissions and qmail. I have tried to make the users in my /etc/passwd file into qmail users but when I execute qmail-newu I get the following error: Fatal: unable to open users/assign Could someone please advise what the required permissions

Re: firewall question

2001-01-07 Thread Sean Reifschneider
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 06:45:06AM +, Andrew Alford wrote: 554 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recipient address rejected: Relay access denied. That means that you don't have "abcdefg.com" listed in your control/rcpthosts file. Sean -- A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and

qmail Digest 7 Jan 2001 11:00:00 -0000 Issue 1237

2001-01-07 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 7 Jan 2001 11:00:00 - Issue 1237 Topics (messages 54791 through 54823): Emailing database/manage bouncebacks 54791 by: John P etern 54792 by: Bill Hults 54794 by: up.3.am 54803 by: Markus Stumpf 54807 by: Jenny Holmberg Re: spam filter

Newbie question

2001-01-07 Thread Roger Arnold
Roger Arnold wrote: How do you make a users file using "qmail-pw2u" from your /etc/passwd file ? If I execute /var/qmail/qmail-pw2u with no extensions I would have thought that it would have created an assignments file from /etc/passwd, however all that happens is that it goes into never-never

Re: qmail-1.03-qmtpc-mailroutes.patch

2001-01-07 Thread Johan Almqvist
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 01:48:02AM +, Ricardo Cerqueira wrote: I made a few modifications to Russell's patch. You can now specify routes for QMTP just as you can for SMTP. Ths filename is changed to control/mailroutes and the format changed a tad, but the old file will still work if

Re: control/mailroutes (was: QMTP autoreply tester)

2001-01-07 Thread Johan Almqvist
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 10:28:26PM -0700, Andy Bradford wrote: Thus said Ricardo Cerqueira on Sun, 07 Jan 2001 01:50:16 GMT: Hmmm... OK, disregard my previous mail. Personally, I'd rather have one file for SMTP, and another for QMTP. Does anyone else here agree with me? I'd really like to

Re: qmail-1.03-qmtpc-mailroutes.patch

2001-01-07 Thread Johan Almqvist
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:03:30PM +0100, Johan Almqvist wrote: I think there may be a little glitch left: an explicit SMTP route may not be able to override MXPS-based QMTP routing. I'll look into this later today. Nope, that seems to work just fine... I will also look inte patching

Re: qmail pop3d

2001-01-07 Thread ksemat
TH HOWTOs, which are excellent on all other aspects, just say, oh TH stick TH in a line that says: TH tcpserver 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup YOURHOST \ TH /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir If you're using redhat or SuSE linux, a script in redhat

RE: spam filter

2001-01-07 Thread Brian Longwe
Your observation is correct, the text I pasted is an incoming message. The point is, the only reason it bounced and is being sent back to the user (and me, the postmaster) is because the address got messed up with control characters. There are probably many others with correct addresses going out

RE: control/mailroutes (was: QMTP autoreply tester)

2001-01-07 Thread Greg Owen
Andy Bradford said: Thus said Ricardo Cerqueira on Sun, 07 Jan 2001 01:50:16 GMT: Personally, I'd rather have one file for SMTP, and another for QMTP. Does anyone else here agree with me? This seems more logical to me as it allows finer control over the entire system.

RE: List archives.

2001-01-07 Thread Greg Owen
Where may I find them, (if they exist)? There are three archives linked to in the second paragraph at http://www.qmail.org/top.html. At least one is searchable. -- gowen -- Greg Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SoftLock.com is now DigitalGoods!

RE: List archives.

2001-01-07 Thread kate
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Greg Owen wrote: Where may I find them, (if they exist)? There are three archives linked to in the second paragraph at http://www.qmail.org/top.html. At least one is searchable. Thanks all. Found what I was looking for. :) -- Kate http://www.katewerk.com

Local configuration error

2001-01-07 Thread Franco Galian
I have some problems with a qmail installed on OpenBSD 2.8, which is running tinydns as nameserver. Outside mail reaches with no problem to my Maildir (ie. if I mail from mail.yahoo.com), but when I try to mail from the localhost I get the following error: [From /var/log/maillog] Jan 7 13:22:32

Re: Local configuration error

2001-01-07 Thread Henning Brauer
Am Sonntag, 7. Januar 2001 17:36 schrieb Franco Galian: I have some problems with a qmail installed on OpenBSD 2.8, which is running tinydns as nameserver. Outside mail reaches with no problem to my Maildir (ie. if I mail from mail.yahoo.com), but when I try to mail from the localhost I get

Re: Local configuration error

2001-01-07 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 01:36:32PM -0300, Franco Galian wrote: I have some problems with a qmail installed on OpenBSD 2.8, which is running tinydns as nameserver. Outside mail reaches with no problem to my Maildir (ie. if I mail from mail.yahoo.com), but when I try to mail from the localhost

qmail, SMTP AUTH and vmailmgr

2001-01-07 Thread Lars Rusdorf
Hi :) has anybody a running system with qmail, SMTP AUTH patch and user management by vmailmgr ? I run into problems by using the checkvpw program of vmailmgr ... my first problem was that checkvpw wanted to change group and user ... as it was started by qmaild. I solved this one by setting

RE: Local configuration error

2001-01-07 Thread Franco Galian
Ok thanks Chris and Henning, the problem was that I have installed Qmail with OpenBSD2.7 and I have little or no testing at all, and then I've upgraded to OpenBSD 2.8 and started to notice that problem. Thank you very much I've missed that possibility Franco -Mensaje original- De:

Re: control/mailroutes (was: QMTP autoreply tester)

2001-01-07 Thread richard
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Andy Bradford wrote: Thus said Ricardo Cerqueira on Sun, 07 Jan 2001 01:50:16 GMT: Hmmm... OK, disregard my previous mail. Personally, I'd rather have one file for SMTP, and another for QMTP. Does anyone else here agree with me? This seems more logical to me as it

message numbers repeating?

2001-01-07 Thread Johan Almqvist
This is from my mail log: Jan 7 21:03:13 alpha qmail: 978897793.668139 end msg 26226 Jan 7 21:03:17 alpha qmail: 978897797.017629 new msg 26226 No, I didn't tinker with the clock. These lines are immediately after each other. And it's not syslog sync problems either, I believe: [johan@alpha

Re: message numbers repeating?

2001-01-07 Thread James Raftery
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 09:12:18PM +0100, Johan Almqvist wrote: This kinda worries me. Also makes log analysis a pest. What's wrong? Hi, Absolutely nothing. The message ID is the inode number of the messages queue file. These do get reused. See the qmail-log(5) man page for details of qmail's

Italian qmail howto

2001-01-07 Thread Davide Giunchi
Hi all. I've written an "Italian qmail HOWTO", this document (in italian language) explain how to install,configure and running qmail. This isn't a translation of the english "qmail howto" but is a new document write. It can be found in http://www.folug.cjb.net/qmail/qmail-HOWTO.html I hope that

RE: spam filter

2001-01-07 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
+ "Brian Longwe" [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | But I want to find a way to stop the culprit from sending all this | junk through my system. To me it looks like the "from" address that | shows in the outgoing messages is [EMAIL PROTECTED], how can I | block messages with this originating address (or

Re: Newbie question

2001-01-07 Thread Jeff Lacy
Hello Roger, qmail-pw2u wants the contents of /etc/passwd to be passed/piped to it. If you wanted to create an assignment file from the /etc/passwd, you might try something like cat /etc/passwd | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pw2u /var/qmail/users/assign If you do that though, be sure you delete

FIX! (was: qmail-1.03-qmtpc-mailroutes.patch)

2001-01-07 Thread Johan Almqvist
Hi! There patch I released earlier wasn't quite as careful about memory allocation (or rather, failures of memory allocation) as the rest of Dan's code. I have released a new version, available from http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ I'm still very eager to hear your comments. I'll stick

Re: etern

2001-01-07 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
hi, yup etern works if you patch a few of the qmail source files. (there is a patch floating around somewhere) we've done it, and when the customer has a static IP address it works not a problem. Regards, Marc-Adrian Napoli Network Admin Connect Infobahn Australia +61 2 9212 0387 On Sat, 6

Re: FIX! (was: qmail-1.03-qmtpc-mailroutes.patch)

2001-01-07 Thread melo
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 02:40:39AM +0100, Johan Almqvist wrote: Hi! There patch I released earlier wasn't quite as careful about memory allocation (or rather, failures of memory allocation) as the rest of Dan's code. I have released a new version, available from

dns question

2001-01-07 Thread Andrew Alford
Is it necessary, even if you can ping on the internet your "mail.xyz.com or smtp.xyz.com", to have your mx server listed with your registrar?

About Qmail Ldap

2001-01-07 Thread one
Hi : How I config qmailand ldap ? Why I cannot patch qmail-ldap and How ? Is error. Where I can find more info about qmail-ldap ? Can you help me ? Thank : you Someone

Re: FIX! (was: qmail-1.03-qmtpc-mailroutes.patch)

2001-01-07 Thread Ricardo Cerqueira
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:00:49AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 02:40:39AM +0100, Johan Almqvist wrote: Hi! There patch I released earlier wasn't quite as careful about memory allocation (or rather, failures of memory allocation) as the rest of Dan's code. I

Stopping a single address

2001-01-07 Thread Phil Barnett
Is it outlined somewhere how to block a single mail address to a single mail address. I have a user who is being harrassed and I need to intervene. -- Phil Barnett mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW http://www.the-oasis.net/ FTP Site

qmail pine

2001-01-07 Thread kat
Hello all, I am a newbie to both qmail and UNIX. Just a few days back I have installed qmail 1.03 on my home machine. I have followed all the standard instruction in INSTALL.* docs in the qmail package. I can send and receive messsages from one user to another

Re: Stopping a single address

2001-01-07 Thread paul
If someone is harrassing one of your users, then it would be reasonable to presume that in doing so, they give up the privilege to email *anyone* at your site. Therefore, adding the offender's email address to /var/qmail/control/badmailfrom will do the trick. Phil Barnett writes: Is it

Re: dns question

2001-01-07 Thread Al Sparks
--- Andrew Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it necessary, even if you can ping on the internet your "mail.xyz.com or smtp.xyz.com", to have your mx server listed with your registrar? Well, your question is vague. Are you pinging from outside or inside your intranet? You haven't done a

Re: qmail pine

2001-01-07 Thread Al Sparks
You weren't specific enough. Did you configure qmail to use the Maildir email format or the old INBOX format> Pine uses the INBOX format natively. If you're using the Maildir format then you'll have to set up a pop3 or imap daemon to still use pine. While I've never used it, I understand that

badmailpattern

2001-01-07 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
has anyone used this file with success? and if not why is it still in the docs? Regards, Marc-Adrian Napoli Network Admin Connect Infobahn Australia +61 2 9212 0387

Re: badmailpattern

2001-01-07 Thread Brett Randall
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: has anyone used this file with success? and if not why is it still in the docs? Do you mean badmailfrom? Yes I have used it with success, very easy to use. -- B r e t t R a n d a l l http://xbox.ipsware.com/ brett _ @ _ ipsware.com

Re: FIX! (was: qmail-1.03-qmtpc-mailroutes.patch)

2001-01-07 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 03:26:21AM +, Ricardo Cerqueira wrote: One comment: if smtproutes is compatible with mailroutes, why not use smtproutes instead of mailroutes? Because the name is too confining... It implies smtp. mail is more generic :) But I still prefer having smtp and

RE: spam filter

2001-01-07 Thread Brian Longwe
Harald I'm not running an open relay. I am using tcpserver and allowing relaying only for IP addresses that belong to my network (RELAYCLIENT). The problem here is that it's one of my customers who has an application that is sending out all this junk mail. How do I set up a filter to block until

Re: qmail pine

2001-01-07 Thread Irwan Hadi
At 10:08 PM 1/7/01 -0800, Al Sparks wrote: You weren't specific enough. Did you configure qmail to use the Maildir email format or the old INBOX format Pine uses the INBOX format natively. If you're using the Maildir format then you'll have to set up a pop3 or imap daemon to still use pine.