Re: Help! qmail-pop3d not liking maildir!!

2001-02-01 Thread tony
Peter van Dijk writes: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 04:56:22PM -0600, Tony Harris wrote: >> It shows NO messages. >> I manually move the messages from new to cur, re-connect, re-issue a list >> request, and it shows all of the messages. > > What are the rights and ownerships of new, cur and tmp? >

qmail.sh & Mailbox/Maildir

2001-02-01 Thread David Ondřich
Hi all. When my friend set up some gateway/proxy/mailserver/whateverelse, he found little strange thing in script file qmail.sh located @ /etc/profile.d/ in his system (and other ones too, as we've seen later). SNIP if grep -q './Mailbox' /var/qmail/defaultdelivery/rc; then MAIL="$HO

qmail under NAT

2001-02-01 Thread Boris Krivulin
Hi, I would like to run qmail behind NAT. The local machine is called 'galois', with ip number 192.168.1.6. The router is locally called 'euler', and globally is accessible by 'hypervolume.com'. I have set up port forwarding (port 25) from euler to galois. I have ^not^ declared an MX -- do

qmtp and spammers.

2001-02-01 Thread Faried Nawaz
QMTP may be faster than SMTP for sending mail, but it seems less powerful in our spam-happy Internet era. How would one go about rejecting incoming QMTP mail? The protocol suggests that there is no way of writing some equivalent of rblsmtpd. The shipped qmail-qmtpd.c in qmail 1.03 doesn't even

Re: qmtp and spammers.

2001-02-01 Thread Vincent Schonau
Faried Nawaz writes: > QMTP may be faster than SMTP for sending mail, but it seems less > powerful in our spam-happy Internet era. I think you mean Dan's implementation is 'less powerful'; it has nothing to do with the protocol. Has anyone seen spam enter their network via qmail-qmtpd? Vi

qmail with qmail-ldap patch ?

2001-02-01 Thread dennis
Hi all... Being a newbie to qmail and ldap I am wondering if there is a qmail with the qmail-ldap patch already applied.

[OT] Re: Newbie: Which Dist Linux, Best?

2001-02-01 Thread Vincent Schonau
SF writes: > I have access to pretty much any dist and wanted to know what the opinion is > on the most recommended distribution... I've heard Debian, FreeBSD, etc in > other areas, but wasn't sure. > I intend this box to be super secure with qmail (for multiple domains) and > bind/dns running,

retr problem

2001-02-01 Thread pratibha
dear all, i have faced a problem regarding retreival of mails from mail browsers.. the problem is that the mails in my 'new' folder are automatically transfered to 'cur' folder and the message id gets attached with ":2,". and it gets appended again and again. the mails are readable using cat

qmail Digest 1 Feb 2001 11:00:00 -0000 Issue 1262

2001-02-01 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 1 Feb 2001 11:00:00 - Issue 1262 Topics (messages 56400 through 56456): need help 56400 by: zhonghua dai 56425 by: Ian Lance Taylor Re: Clean out /var/qmail/queue/pid + send automatic reply 56401 by: Peter van Dijk backup 56402 by: Takayuki Mur

Re: Newbie: Which Dist Linux, Best?

2001-02-01 Thread Chris Johnson
You'll get a zillion different answers to this question. I won't answer it directly, but I'll throw in my two cents on a few points. On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 04:56:40PM -0600, SF wrote: > I've been working for about 4 weeks now at setting up qmail on my RH 7.0 > box. I'm somewhat new to linux (my

Security issue: SMTP and qmail

2001-02-01 Thread Marcus Korte
Hi, I have set up an internal mailserver based on qmail and RH6.2 behind a firewall. There are some security aspects in which I am not sure about. If SMTP is opened in the firewall, the machine could easily be hacked I assume. Are there any recommendations how to secure smtp on qmail? Thx! Marc

Re: qmtp and spammers.

2001-02-01 Thread Faried Nawaz
Vincent Schonau wrote: I think you mean Dan's implementation is 'less powerful'; it has nothing to do with the protocol. With SMTP, you get S: 220 hi, it's me! C: mail from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> S: 551 go away With QMTP, you get C: S: 7:Dgo away, Has anyone seen spam enter their net

Re: qmail under NAT

2001-02-01 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:09:09AM -0800, Boris Krivulin wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to run qmail behind NAT. The local machine is called 'galois', > with ip number 192.168.1.6. The router is locally called 'euler', and > globally is accessible by 'hypervolume.com'. > > I have set up port

Re: Security issue: SMTP and qmail

2001-02-01 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:53:48PM +0100, Marcus Korte wrote: > Hi, > > I have set up an internal mailserver based on qmail and RH6.2 behind a > firewall. > There are some security aspects in which I am not sure about. > If SMTP is opened in the firewall, the machine could easily be hacked I > as

qmail speed improvement

2001-02-01 Thread Michael Maier
Hi, I'm running qmail on Solaris 7 (SUN Netra T1) and I am trying to send out 500.000 e-Mails for Testing. I setup a Remote Concurrency of 400 and have queue Directory Split + Big Todo Server Patches. Why are there just average of 4 concurrent qmail-remote Processes ? How to improve it ? -- Thanks

mail loops back to me (MX problem?)

2001-02-01 Thread Michel Boucey
SYSERR(the_sender_on_the_machine): the_virtual_vpopdomain_on_the_machine. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) Feb 1 14:56:28 yoda sendmail[23266]: OAA23264: to=toto@the_virtual_vpopdomain_on_the_machine, ctladdr=the_sender_on_the_machine (50011/50012), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00

Re: qmail speed improvement

2001-02-01 Thread Charles Cazabon
Michael Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm running qmail on Solaris 7 (SUN Netra T1) and I am trying to send out > 500.000 e-Mails for Testing. I setup a Remote Concurrency of 400 and have > queue Directory Split + Big Todo Server Patches. Why are there just average > of 4 concurrent qma

Re: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)

2001-02-01 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 03:51:07PM +, Michel Boucey wrote: > > SYSERR(the_sender_on_the_machine): the_virtual_vpopdomain_on_the_machine. config > error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) > Feb 1 14:56:28 yoda > sendmail[23266]: OAA23264: to=toto@the_virtual_vpopdomain_on_the_machine, > ct

Re: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)

2001-02-01 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 03:51:07PM +, Michel Boucey wrote: > SYSERR(the_sender_on_the_machine): the_virtual_vpopdomain_on_the_machine. config > error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) > Feb 1 14:56:28 yoda > sendmail[23266]: OAA23264: to=toto@the_virtual_vpopdomain_on_the_machine, > ctlad

Re: qmail speed improvement

2001-02-01 Thread Michael Maier
Sorry, I'm using multilog for logging. And here is a Cut from Logs... -- 2001-02-01 16:07:00.591559500 status: local 0/250 remote 4/400 2001-02-01 16:07:01.136160500 new msg 709520 2001-02-01 16:07:01.176806500 info msg 709520: bytes 5581 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 25704 uid 101 2001-02-01 16:07:

Re: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)

2001-02-01 Thread Vincent Schonau
Michel Boucey writes: > SYSERR(the_sender_on_the_machine): the_virtual_vpopdomain_on_the_machine. config > error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) > Feb 1 14:56:28 yoda > sendmail[23266]: OAA23264: to=toto@the_virtual_vpopdomain_on_the_machine, > ctladdr=the_sender_on_the_machine (50011/5001

Re: mail backup

2001-02-01 Thread Dave Sill
"Kris Kelley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Incoming messages are first stored in ~/Maildir/tmp. They are only moved to >~/Maildir/new once the file write is complete. Therefore, as long as you >are only backing up ~/Maildir/cur and ~/Maildir/new, you shouldn't have any >risk of incomplete file b

Re: qmail speed improvement

2001-02-01 Thread Michael Maier
> How? 500,000 separate messages or one message with 500,000 recipients? > If the former, have you tried stopping qmail-send until the messages > are injected--and do you really need to send each recipient a > different message? They are seperate messages and Yes it's needed because those are per

Re: qmail speed improvement

2001-02-01 Thread Justin Bell
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 05:12:36PM +0100, Michael Maier wrote: # > mean airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? # # Dunno, gonna search on Google! :-) the correct response would be 'African or European?' -- Justin Bell

Re: qmail speed improvement

2001-02-01 Thread Dave Sill
Michael Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, I'm running qmail on Solaris 7 (SUN Netra T1) and I am trying to >send out 500.000 e-Mails for Testing. How? 500,000 separate messages or one message with 500,000 recipients? If the former, have you tried stopping qmail-send until the messages are in

Re: logging is sent to console, not to logfiles

2001-02-01 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 05:15:02PM +0100, Filip Sneppe (Yucom) wrote: > I have set up a second mailrelay on a linux box. Mailrelaying appears to be > working fine. However, I don't get any loggings in the logfiles. Instead, > logging info is sent to the console that was used to start the qmail > d

Re: logging is sent to console, not to logfiles

2001-02-01 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 05:15:02PM +0100, Filip Sneppe (Yucom) wrote: > I have set up a second mailrelay on a linux box. Mailrelaying appears to be > working fine. However, I don't get any loggings in the logfiles. Instead, > logging info is sent to the console that was used to start the qmail > d

Re: qmail speed improvement

2001-02-01 Thread Dave Sill
Michael Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How? 500,000 separate messages or one message with 500,000 recipients? >> If the former, have you tried stopping qmail-send until the messages >> are injected--and do you really need to send each recipient a >> different message? > >They are seperate me

Re: qmail speed improvement

2001-02-01 Thread Michael Maier
Justin Bell wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 05:12:36PM +0100, Michael Maier wrote: > # > mean airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? > # > # Dunno, gonna search on Google! :-) > > the correct response would be 'African or European?' > > -- > Justin Bell If you are Monty Python, yes! :-) -- Mi

Re: qmail with qmail-ldap patch ?

2001-02-01 Thread Dave Sill
"dennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Being a newbie to qmail and ldap Danger, Will Robinson! qmail-ldap is not for newbies. >I am wondering if there is a qmail with the >qmail-ldap patch already applied. Perhaps, but if you can't handle applying the patch, you're definitely not ready for qmai

Re: Security issue: SMTP and qmail

2001-02-01 Thread Graphic Rezidew
If security is a concern then you might not want to be running RedHat On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:53:48PM +0100, Marcus Korte wrote: > Hi, > > I have set up an internal mailserver based on qmail and RH6.2 behind a > firewall. > There are some security aspects in which I am not sure about. > If S

logging is sent to console, not to logfiles

2001-02-01 Thread Filip Sneppe \(Yucom\)
I have set up a second mailrelay on a linux box. Mailrelaying appears to be working fine. However, I don't get any loggings in the logfiles. Instead, logging info is sent to the console that was used to start the qmail daemons. I have the following: [root@yuclnx2 /root]# head -25 /etc/rc.d/init.

Re: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)

2001-02-01 Thread Andy Bradford
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 15:56:26 +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote: > > sendmail[23266]: OAA23264: to=toto@the_virtual_vpopdomain_on_the_machine, > > ctladdr=the_sender_on_the_machine (50011/50012), delay=00:00:00, > > xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, > > relay=the_virtual_vpopdomain_on_the_machine. [xxx.xx

Re: qmail under NAT

2001-02-01 Thread Rick Updegrove
"Boris Krivulin wrote" > Hi, > > I would like to run qmail behind NAT. The local machine is called 'galois', > with ip number 192.168.1.6. The router is locally called 'euler', and > globally is accessible by 'hypervolume.com'. I have an extremely similar setup. My router is called NS1.DOMAIN

Re: qmail speed improvement

2001-02-01 Thread Steve Kennedy
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 06:03:37PM +0100, Michael Maier wrote: > Justin Bell wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 05:12:36PM +0100, Michael Maier wrote: > > # > mean airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? > > # Dunno, gonna search on Google! :-) > > the correct response would be 'African or Europ

dns and databytes patch for ofmipd

2001-02-01 Thread Will Harris
Just in case anyone is interested... I have made a patch to support two features I sorely missed in ofmipd - DNS envelope sender checking, and databytes size limiting. I have adapted Nagy Balazs' DNS mfcheck patch to work with ofmipd, and added qmail's databytes checking mechanism. If anyone

Re: qmail speed improvement

2001-02-01 Thread Michael Maier
Dave Sill wrote: > OK, no need to get excited. So, have you tried stopping qmail-send > until the messages are injected? > > I think you're seeing the combination of two problems: the first is > disk bandwidth on the queue partition, and the second is the > single-threaded nature of qmail-send: i

Re: qmail speed improvement

2001-02-01 Thread Michael Maier
Steve Kennedy wrote: > what's your favourite colour ? > > Steve Blue! Uhmm... No Yellow! ;-) -- --^..^-- michael maier - system & development administrator flatfox ag, hanauer landstrasse 196a d-60314 frankfurt am main fon+49.(0)69.50

Re: qmail speed improvement

2001-02-01 Thread Jacques WERNERT
Hello I've exactly the same problem :)) I use U60.880 with a concurrency of 3000 but no more than 50 qmail-remote processes running I've built a solution with 10 qmail-queues and a dispatcher using the QMAIL-QUEUE patch Please feel free to contact me if u want any informations Regards Frip'

msntauth

2001-02-01 Thread john crawford
How does one integrate msntauth with qmail smtpd? I've downloaded the latest version of msntauth (v2.0) and have it running on my FreeBSD machine. It appears not to be a "checkpassword compatible" program. I'd like to be able to call its functionality to resolve accounts with an NT domain, as I cu

Re: Security issue: SMTP and qmail

2001-02-01 Thread Vincent Schonau
Marcus Korte writes: > Hi, > I have set up an internal mailserver based on qmail and RH6.2 behind a > firewall. > There are some security aspects in which I am not sure about. > If SMTP is opened in the firewall, the machine could easily be hacked I > assume. Since you assume that, what's the f

SMTP Question

2001-02-01 Thread Chris McCoy
I provide free hosting and have a large amount of users everyday. I only have relaying from 127.0.0.1 because of I send an email out for verification from my php signup script. I have this one issue. Someone was trying to send 1000's of emails from a script on the web making the machine thinking i

Re: user+foobar@domain.com

2001-02-01 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 08:38:00PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I have a user asking about the [EMAIL PROTECTED] addressing > scheme. I guess this would allow the user to pass foobar as a argument > to procmail, etc. It works in sendmail.. Is this implemented in > qmail-ldap? Yes, the

Re: SMTP Question

2001-02-01 Thread Mark Delany
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:46:22PM -0500, Chris McCoy wrote: > I provide free hosting and have a large amount of users everyday. I only > have relaying from 127.0.0.1 because of I send an email out for > verification from my php signup script. I have this one issue. Someone was > trying to send 10

Re: Security issue: SMTP and qmail

2001-02-01 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:04:03AM -0600, Graphic Rezidew wrote: > If security is a concern then you might not want to be running RedHat At least, not an unmodified RedHat. My typical post-install procedure is to either remove or disable anything that doesn't need to be running (in terms of netw

user+foobar@domain.com

2001-02-01 Thread jacksonm
Hi, I have a user asking about the [EMAIL PROTECTED] addressing scheme. I guess this would allow the user to pass foobar as a argument to procmail, etc. It works in sendmail.. Is this implemented in qmail-ldap? Regards, Mike

Hostname

2001-02-01 Thread NDSoftware
Hi, I want force to qmail to use hostname mail.ndsoftware.net. In the qmail's configuration i have the host of my computer :( ! I have edit all files in /var/qmail/control for mail.ndsoftware.net ! My DNS loookup and the host of my computer is not mail.ndsoftware.net. I think of edit source :)) h

RE: SMTP Question

2001-02-01 Thread Matt Simonsen
OK, I'm new here, but I'll reply anyway. Couldn't you use IPChains to filter incoming mail to you machine that says it is from 127.0.0.1? If this is not a good idea, why? -Original Message- From: Mark Delany [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 11:53 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: SMTP Question

2001-02-01 Thread Greg White
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:46:22PM -0500, Chris McCoy wrote: > I provide free hosting and have a large amount of users everyday. I only > have relaying from 127.0.0.1 because of I send an email out for > verification from my php signup script. I have this one issue. Someone was > trying to send 10

Re: qmail speed improvement

2001-02-01 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Steve Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 06:03:37PM +0100, Michael Maier wrote: >> Justin Bell wrote: >> > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 05:12:36PM +0100, Michael Maier wrote: mean airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? >>> Dunno, gonna search on Google! :-) >>> the

Re: Security issue: SMTP and qmail

2001-02-01 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:04:03AM -0600, Graphic Rezidew wrote: >> If security is a concern then you might not want to be running RedHat > At least, not an unmodified RedHat. My typical post-install procedure > is to either remove or disable anythi

RE: SMTP Question

2001-02-01 Thread Matt Simonsen
I took this message to mean that the script was a hacker located just "on the web" trying to relay with a spoffed IP address, not a user on his own box. If it were the latter I'd certainly start by giving the user the boot... which is it, though? I'm just curious... -Original Message- Fr

Re: qmail w/ reiserfs on linux 2.4.1

2001-02-01 Thread Arjan Filius
Hello, On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Matthew Patterson wrote: > I know it is still very early to be asking this question, Why early? # mount |grep qmail /dev/vg_3/lv_qmail on /var/qmail type reiserfs (rw) # uname -a Linux sjoerd 2.4.1-pre12 #5 Tue Jan 30 19:46:26 CET 2001 i686 unknown > but here goes.

Re: Security issue: SMTP and qmail

2001-02-01 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 09:03:30PM +0100, Robin S. Socha wrote: > OK, so after the next GNOMEified update, you start from scratch. Who puts GNOME on a server? Who puts server software on a GNOME desktop? To my mind they're seperate. Besides, I generally ignore updates to critical systems until

Re: qmail speed improvement

2001-02-01 Thread Boz Crowther
But you presumably consider it perfectly appropriate to create a browser-bomb as your homepage and publish it to a mailing list? Given that one might visit another's homepage as published on a list to get some insight into the other person's personality, I guess it works. Ok, now bag on me for t

bsmtp

2001-02-01 Thread Frans Haarman
Hi some people asked me if I could set up some sort of bsmtp service for them. I had the idea to set up a second qmail daemon listening to a `bsmtp' ip. I was thinking of increasing the queue lifetime a bit and run a cron every 10 minutes which does a qmail-tcpok and sends an ALRM signal to the b

Re: bsmtp

2001-02-01 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:09:03AM +0100, Frans Haarman wrote: > Hi some people asked me if I could set up some sort of bsmtp service for them. > > I had the idea to set up a second qmail daemon listening to a `bsmtp' ip. I > was thinking of increasing the queue lifetime a bit and run a cron ever

RE: SMTP Question

2001-02-01 Thread Chris McCoy
hes gone. i just wanna prevent this in the future. On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Matt Simonsen wrote: > I took this message to mean that the script was a hacker located just "on > the web" trying to relay with a spoffed IP address, not a user on his own > box. If it were the latter I'd certainly start by

QMTP protocol spec question

2001-02-01 Thread David L. Nicol
the QMTP spec includes: > 8. Examples > >A client opens a connection and sends the concatenation of the >following strings: > > "246:" <0a> > "Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 0);" > " 29 Jul 1996 09:36:40 -" <0a> > "Date: 29 Jul 1996 11:35:35

QMail Front Ending Exchange

2001-02-01 Thread John Hamill
I was wondering if I could get a bit of help with qmail configuration. I didn't setup either of the servers so I am trying to find my way around a tad blindly. We have a qmail server as our primary mail server and it automatically forwards email onto our Exchange server for internal users to col

Re: QMTP protocol spec question

2001-02-01 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 05:23:07PM -0600, David L. Nicol wrote: [snip] > >The server sends the following response, indicating acceptance: > > > > "21:Kok 838640135 qp 1390," > > "21:Kok 838640135 qp 1391," > > "21:Kok 838640135 qp 1391," > > > >The client closes the con

Re: QMTP protocol spec question

2001-02-01 Thread Dan Peterson
Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Two recipients, two responses. Looks like a bug in the document. There are three recipients across two messages. The first has one, the second has two. -- Dan Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://danp.net

blocking email address

2001-02-01 Thread KIM
Hi to all, How can i block a specific email address in qmail?

Re: QMail Front Ending Exchange

2001-02-01 Thread Charles Cazabon
John Hamill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I would like to do, is to be able to reject mail on the qmail server > for users who don't exist at our site. This is people who leave the company > etc and various spammers who send to any address at our domain. Is there a > "simple" way I can have

Re: blocking email address

2001-02-01 Thread Matthew Patterson
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, KIM wrote: >Hi to all, > >How can i block a specific email address in qmail? echo "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> /var/qmail/control/badmailfrom echo "@another.domain.name" >> /var/qmail/control/badmailfrom -- *** Matthew H Patterson Unix Systems Admi

Re: QMTP protocol spec question

2001-02-01 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 04:51:51PM -0800, Dan Peterson wrote: > Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Two recipients, two responses. Looks like a bug in the document. > > There are three recipients across two messages. The first has one, the > second has two. Thank you. That explain

SMTP SIZE not supported

2001-02-01 Thread Administrator
My initial posting was going to make some fairly pointed comments about qmail but it *appears* that this list server is also using that software and the problem doesn't happen there. Anyway, on with the story ... Some of my users have found that when they send e-mail to particular organisation

Re: SMTP SIZE not supported

2001-02-01 Thread Greg White
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 06:01:18PM +1100, Administrator wrote: > My initial posting was going to make some fairly pointed comments about qmail but it >*appears* that this list server is also using that software and the problem doesn't >happen there. Anyway, on with the story ... > > Some of my

Re: SMTP SIZE not supported

2001-02-01 Thread paul
Don't know about bad PR for qmail, but it's certainly bad PR for WebCentral/OzEmail. Administrator writes: > The ISP in question (WebCentral) is located in Australia and is part of the OzEmail >group of companies (I am led to believe). They say they have 30,000 domains >registered at their