Re: qmail.org down?

2001-02-04 Thread Vern Hart
Today, Matthew Hunter wrote: www.qmail.org is refusing my connections to port 80. I *was* planning to set up a qmail server this weekend with some of the patches on that site. Since it seems to be down, does anyone know why? And, ideally, know where a working mirror is? Off the top of my

How to delelte the mail in the queue?

2001-02-04 Thread lyndon
all, I have a problem. I find there are some mail in the queue. I want to delete them, How to do it? Thanks. == lyndon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to delelte the mail in the queue?

2001-02-04 Thread Jörgen Persson
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 04:33:52PM +0800, lyndon wrote: all, I have a problem. I find there are some mail in the queue. I want to delete them, How to do it? There are utilities for this but I prefer to change the time for the relevant file under /var/qmail/queue/info/ with $ touch -d '1

Re: How to delelte the mail in the queue?

2001-02-04 Thread Robin S. Socha
* lyndon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I find there are some mail in the queue. I want to delete them, How to do it? http://www.io.com/~mick/soft/qmhandle.html

qmail Digest 4 Feb 2001 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 1265

2001-02-04 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 4 Feb 2001 11:00:01 - Issue 1265 Topics (messages 56586 through 56607): bind qmail-smtp to one IP-adress 56586 by: Clemens Hermann 56587 by: Greg Cope Prepend message before forward to indicate original recipient 56588 by: Sean Brown 56591 by:

Re: qmail.org down?

2001-02-04 Thread Antonio Dias
Matthew, On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Matthew Hunter wrote: www.qmail.org is refusing my connections to port 80. I *was* planning to set up a qmail server this weekend with some of the patches on that site. Since it seems to be down, does anyone know why? And, ideally, know where a working mirror

RE: retr problem

2001-02-04 Thread Andrew Richards
Hi Pratibha, 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

Re: qmail with qmail-ldap patch ?

2001-02-04 Thread Henning Brauer
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:20:25AM -0500, Dave Sill wrote: 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 qmail-ldap. Right. And we all are aware of Dan's licensing, so this

How can I delete mail from queue in qmail?

2001-02-04 Thread bc201
If there are a lot of mails in queue of qmail , how can I delete mails from queue securely? Thanks! -- »¶Ó­Ê¹Óà 21CN µç×ÓÓʼþϵͳ http://www.21cn.com Thank you for using 21cn.com Email system

Re: bind qmail-smtp to one IP-adress

2001-02-04 Thread Ricardo Cerqueira
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 12:28:54PM +, Greg Cope wrote: tcpserver [ opts ] host port prog Port being an IP address (or 0 for all) to bind to. Ert? Almost there. "Host being the address blablabla" is more accurate. RC -- +--- | Ricardo Cerqueira | PGP Key fingerprint

High MEM Usage??

2001-02-04 Thread Sumith Ail
Hello, We have just received our server which is a Dual PIII with 512 MB RAM , RH Linux 6.2 Box. I have installed qmail on this with tcpserver, Now the meminfo showscat /proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:Mem: 529530880 364380160 165150720 72847360 300982272

High Mem usage??

2001-02-04 Thread Sumith Ail
Hello, We have just received our server which is a Dual PIII with 512 MB RAM , RH Linux 6.2 Box. I have installed qmail on this with tcpserver, Now the meminfo shows cat /proc/meminfo total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 529530880 364380160 165150720 72847360

High Mem usage??

2001-02-04 Thread Sumith Ail
Hello, We have just received our server which is a Dual PIII with 512 MB RAM , RH Linux 6.2 Box. I have installed qmail on this with tcpserver, Now the meminfo shows cat /proc/meminfo total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 529530880 364380160 165150720 72847360

High Mem Usage??

2001-02-04 Thread Sumith Ail
Hello, We have just received our server which is a Dual PIII with 512 MB RAM , RH Linux 6.2 Box. I have installed qmail on this with tcpserver, Now the meminfo shows cat /proc/meminfo total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 529530880 364380160 165150720 72847360

Re: bind qmail-smtp to one IP-adress

2001-02-04 Thread Greg Cope
Ricardo Cerqueira wrote: On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 12:28:54PM +, Greg Cope wrote: tcpserver [ opts ] host port prog Port being an IP address (or 0 for all) to bind to. Ert? Almost there. "Host being the address blablabla" is more accurate. Thanks for the correction. Whops,

Re: High MEM Usage??

2001-02-04 Thread Brett Randall
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is hardly anybody using this server...please let me know how can I find out which process is using so much of memory. This is really a LUG question, but try `ps auxw' -- "Pascal, n.: A programming language named after a man who would turn

Re: High MEM Usage??

2001-02-04 Thread Mark Delany
Well, this is hardly a qmail question. It's more a system administration/Linux question. Have you got the 'top' command? Try that? Have you got the 'ps' command? Try that. I don't know about Linux so much, but some Operating Systems use memory that has never had anything placed in it in

Re: High Mem usage??

2001-02-04 Thread Mark Delany
Er, one copy of this email to the list is more than enough. Three is clearly excessive. Regards. On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 06:31:44AM -0800, Sumith Ail wrote: Hello, We have just received our server which is a Dual PIII with 512 MB RAM , RH Linux 6.2 Box. I have installed qmail on this

Which is better - tcpserver running as root or checkpassword setuid root?

2001-02-04 Thread Mark Delany
From a security perspective, checkpassword is very much like the 'su' program. If a user/password matches, it changes to the permissions of that user. The major difference is that checkpassword is normally not setuid root - it inherits root, originally from tcpserver. Similarly, checkpassword is

Re: How can I delete mail from queue in qmail?

2001-02-04 Thread Olivier M.
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 10:01:18PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there are a lot of mails in queue of qmail , how can I delete mails from queue securely? Thanks! I would use qmHandle http://www.io.com/~mick/soft/qmhandle.html Regards, Olivier --

getting qmail-spawn unable to create pipe. (#4.3.0)/ on solaris. HELP.

2001-02-04 Thread Ian Matyssik
Hello, I am using qmail on solaris with some patches includin high concurrency and getting this error whenever concurrency jumps high. Any ideas why could that happen. Example of the log: " Feb 5 00:18:04 smtp1 splogger: [ID 748625 mail.info] 981299884.297969 delivery 821: deferral:

Re: How do I keep a copy of all incoming and outgoing mail messages?

2001-02-04 Thread Charles Cazabon
Yee Siew Chin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can i put this "/var/spool/mail/logadmin" in ~alias/.qmail-log if i use qmail with /var/spool/mail instead of Maildir or Mailbox? Yes. That mbox will become very large if you have any significant mail traffic. Charles --

Re: getting qmail-spawn unable to create pipe. (#4.3.0)/ on solaris. HELP.

2001-02-04 Thread Charles Cazabon
Ian Matyssik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using qmail on solaris with some patches includin high concurrency and getting this error whenever concurrency jumps high. Any ideas why could that happen. Example of the log: " Feb 5 00:18:04 smtp1 splogger: [ID 748625 mail.info]

Re: Which is better - tcpserver running as root or checkpassword setuid root?

2001-02-04 Thread Claudio Nieder
Hi, b) have tcpserver run as a nobody, thus have qmail-popup run as a On all Unix I know, you couldn't do that, because tcpserver has to bind to port 110 for pop, and only root has the permission to bind to ports below 1024. claudio -- Claudio Nieder, Kanalweg

Re: Outbound sending..

2001-02-04 Thread mbailey
OK I hate answering my own e-mail but I figured it out.. I am an idiot.. :) On Sun, 4 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All of my users when trying to send to aol or other off system sites are getting this error. sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts(#5.7.1) Well

Re: Which is better - tcpserver running as root or checkpassword setuid root?

2001-02-04 Thread Mark Delany
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 05:06:13PM +0100, Claudio Nieder wrote: Hi, b) have tcpserver run as a nobody, thus have qmail-popup run as a On all Unix I know, you couldn't do that, because tcpserver has to bind to port 110 for pop, and only root has the permission to bind to ports below

Migrating from sendmail to qmail... help

2001-02-04 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, I am a dial-up user currently running sendmail and am planning to migrate to qmail. This is my current setup: Outgoing Mail: * clients either run sendmail for connect to port 25 and send mail. Sendmail queues the mail but does not send immediately. * every 10 minutes I have a cron job

newline in bouncesaying?

2001-02-04 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
is it possible to somehow use a newline command in the message that the bouncesaying command sends? so that the error mail from the sending smtp server back to the envelope sender would contain deliberate line breaks? wolfgang

How can I delete all unsended mails in /var/qmail/queue?

2001-02-04 Thread bc201
There are so many garbage mails in /var/qmail/queue. Is there a good and simple way to delete all mails in the queue? Can I use OS commands as "mv" or "rm" ? Thanks. -- »¶Ó­Ê¹Óà 21CN µç×ÓÓʼþϵͳ http://www.21cn.com Thank you for using 21cn.com Email

Re: How can I delete all unsended mails in /var/qmail/queue?

2001-02-04 Thread Mark Delany
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 12:41:20AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are so many garbage mails in /var/qmail/queue. Is there a good and simple way to delete all mails in the queue? Can I use OS commands as "mv" or "rm" ? Sure. Here they are: 1. # Stop qmail 2. # rm -rf

amavis and qmail

2001-02-04 Thread Bill Parker
Hi All, Has anyone run NAI's anti-virus package via amavis on a system which has qmail, vpopmail, tcpserver, as it's MTA and supporting packages. I run a Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 box (pent 133 w/32MB, and the ./configure states: Sorry, you need to install metamail or reformime now, in

Re: amavis and qmail

2001-02-04 Thread Rainer Link
Bill Parker wrote: Has anyone run NAI's anti-virus package via amavis on a system which has qmail, vpopmail, tcpserver, as it's MTA and supporting packages. I run a Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 box (pent 133 w/32MB, and the ./configure states: Sorry, you need to install metamail or

RE: Outbound sending..

2001-02-04 Thread Alexander Jernejcic
hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well why should aol.com or msn.com or anything off site be in rcpthosts? What am I missing on my qmail server to do this.. you propably should take a look at tcprules ;) alexander

Re: Migrating from sendmail to qmail... help

2001-02-04 Thread Clemens Hermann
Am 04.02.2001 um 16:31:12 schrieb Ross Burton: Hi Ross, I have installed qmail alongside sendmail and have tested it according to the install documents. However, I do not know how to stop it sending mails to remote addresses every time it gets a message. How can I make qmail replicate the

posted on amavis, but wanted more info

2001-02-04 Thread Bill Parker
Hi All, I am a rookie at adding anti virus scanning software to my SMTP/POP3 (which is qmail 1.03), and I have a few questions. I run OpenLinux 2.3 by Caldera), and the packages maildrop and tnef were not available in rpm format for my system, so I downloaded tarballs of

Re: Bogus Popularity claims (sendmail.org's reply)

2001-02-04 Thread richard
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Sam Trenholme wrote: I love their claims of scalibility with their mail server. "UNIX-like scalability at a fraction of the cost". Hurrumph. How much does it cost to put Linux and Qmail on an old Pentium or Pentium II? I would guess at around $10,000 for the

Re: Bogus Popularity claims (sendmail.org's reply)

2001-02-04 Thread Scott D. Yelich
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would guess at around $10,000 for the installation, and then around $1000/month ? I'll do it for $7500 and $750 a month. Whatabargain! Scott

Disposition-Notification-To

2001-02-04 Thread Sashka
Hi, When I was using sendmail on my server and e-mail had in headers something like this: Disposition-Notification-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Everytime, when e-mail was delivered to recepient mailbox I was getting e-mail saying that message was delivered. How to make qmail to do same thing?

Re: Bogus Popularity claims (sendmail.org's reply)

2001-02-04 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On 04-Feb-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love their claims of scalibility with their mail server. "UNIX-like scalability at a fraction of the cost". Hurrumph. How much does it cost to put Linux and Qmail on an old Pentium or Pentium II? I would guess at around $10,000 for the

RE: High Mem usage??

2001-02-04 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On 04-Feb-2001 Sumith Ail wrote: There is hardly anybody using this server...please let me know how can I find out which process is using so much of memory. This is perfectly normal. Linux stashes as much files as possible into its disk cache. When a process needs more memory, the cache is

Re: newline in bouncesaying?

2001-02-04 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 05:40:19PM +0100, Wolfgang Zeikat wrote: is it possible to somehow use a newline command in the message that the bouncesaying command sends? try |bouncesaying "`cat filename`" or |bouncesaying "`printf 'line1\nline2'`" you can also try some other

RE: failure notice

2001-02-04 Thread NDSoftware
:( It's my problem with exchange and my private network... Nicolas DEFFAYET, NDSoftware http://www.ndsoftware.net - [EMAIL PROTECTED] France: Tel +33 671887502 - Fax N/A UK: Tel +44 8453348750 - Fax +44 8453348751 USA: Tel N/A - Fax N/A --- Note: All HTML email sent to me can be deleted for

Re: Bogus Popularity claims (sendmail.org's reply)

2001-02-04 Thread Felix von Leitner
Thus spake Stefaan A Eeckels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The European Commission just installed a new mail system based on MS Exchange. If you ask me, they deserve it. Everyone deserves the software he is using. AFAIK, NATO is using Exchange, too. May their pain be barely sufferable. Felix

re : user Masq

2001-02-04 Thread Nick
Ok someone in English please. Where do i set in environment. ? what file I'm lost 1.2. How do I set up user masquerading? I'd like my own From lines to show [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED] Answer: Add MAILHOST=af.mil and MAILUSER=boss to your environment. To override From lines

Re: getting qmail-spawn unable to create pipe. (#4.3.0)/ on solaris. HELP.

2001-02-04 Thread Ian Matyssik
Thanks for the advice, I also forgot to mention that I use solaris 8 latest patchlevel release on Sparc. I tried to do this in my /service/qmail/run file: ulimit -Sn 4096 ulimit -Hn 16384 but still getting the same problem. This page :http://www.voicenet.com/~orcutt/tech/save.tcptune.htm

Qmail on FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE

2001-02-04 Thread Bruce Dang
What is wrong with qmail on FreeBSD 4.2? I installed it from the ports and it does not work. When I try to run it..the qmaill/q/r/p/s users don't even run the process, but instead some unknown uid running the qmail-send and other processes. Then when i try to connect to port 25, it says

Re: Qmail on FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE

2001-02-04 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 06:07:15PM -0800, Bruce Dang wrote: What is wrong with qmail on FreeBSD 4.2? Nothing. I installed it from the ports and it does not work. Ask the port's maintainer, or try installing it without the port, from the qmail tarball, according to the instructions in the

How does SVSCAN work ?

2001-02-04 Thread dennis
I must be as thick as two short planks but for the file of me I can't get my head around how SVSCAN works. Can someone please enlighten me, PLEASE !! Yes, I have read, what little there is of the docs. help !!

Re: Qmail on FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE

2001-02-04 Thread Mark Delany
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 09:12:05PM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote: On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 06:07:15PM -0800, Bruce Dang wrote: What is wrong with qmail on FreeBSD 4.2? Nothing. I installed it from the ports and it does not work. Ask the port's maintainer, or try installing it without the

Re: Qmail on FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE

2001-02-04 Thread Bruce Dang
Hmm, did you install from the ports or did you install from the tarball? btw, do you know what hte ERROR, CAN"T READ CONTROLS #4.3.0 mean? Bruce, - Original Message - From: "Mark Delany" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 6:40 PM Subject: Re: Qmail

Re: Qmail on FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE

2001-02-04 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
Slightly offtopic but are people allowed to distribute qmail in this manner? I thought there was a clause somewhere for most DJB software? I'm curious for cases like mass rollout, or maybe bundling as part of a product. For example I prefer /var/dns/cache vs /etc/dnscache. Or qmail spool

Re: Qmail on FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE

2001-02-04 Thread Mark Delany
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 10:55:26AM +0800, Lincoln Yeoh wrote: Slightly offtopic but are people allowed to distribute qmail in this manner? I thought there was a clause somewhere for most DJB software? In what manner? Ports downloads the sources on your behalf, applies patches as the ports

RE: Qmail on FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE

2001-02-04 Thread Laurence Brockman
Yup, just went through it again today in fact *grin* qmail works wonderfully well with 4.2 :) Laurence -Original Message- From: Gerry Boudreaux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 8:06 PM To: Bruce Dang; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Qmail on FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE

Re: bouncesaying and maildrop

2001-02-04 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 10:28:16PM -0800, David Benfell wrote: I see the error message printed out, but watching the log, I don't see the bounce going out. Looking at some old mail, I see that bouncesaying doesn't, by itself, bounce anything. bouncesaying exits with 100, which qmail

Delay in POP and SMTP response

2001-02-04 Thread Jagadish.N
- Original Message - From: Jagadish.N To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: cr.yp.to log list Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 10:54 AM Subject: Delay in POP and SMTP response Hello fellow qmailer's, I have a problem with my qmail system, I get frequent

Re: What is the matter?

2001-02-04 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 02:25:54PM +0800, lyndon wrote: Feb 5 14:19:17 mail qmail: 981353957.038669 warning: trouble marking remote/11/127109; message will be delivered twice! Feb 5 14:19:17 mail qmail: 981353957.038881 warning: unable to unlink remote/11/127109; will try again later

Re: Delay in POP and SMTP response

2001-02-04 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 12:13:45PM +0530, Jagadish.N wrote: I even telneted to 110 and 25 specifing the mail server's ip address but it takes quite a long time to respond. try starting tcpserver with the -R option. Regards, Uwe

Re: Qmail on FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE

2001-02-04 Thread Clemens Hermann
Am 04.02.2001 um 18:07:15 schrieb Bruce Dang: Hi Bruce What is wrong with qmail on FreeBSD 4.2? I don't know. I installed it from the ports. Before that I patched it with the smtp-auth patch. After installation I made some adjustments to have it run LWQ-like. I did not run into any

bouncesaying and maildrop

2001-02-04 Thread David Benfell
Hello all, I'm trying to get maildrop to invoke bouncesaying. This is what I have right now: if ( /lists.debian.org/ ) { `/var/qmail/bin/bouncesaying "Numerous attempts to unsubscribe from all Debian lists have failed."` to /dev/null } I see the error message printed out, but

What is the matter?

2001-02-04 Thread lyndon
Today, I get the following message: Feb 5 14:19:17 mail qmail: 981353957.038669 warning: trouble marking remote/11/127109; message will be delivered twice! Feb 5 14:19:17 mail qmail: 981353957.038881 warning: unable to unlink remote/11/127109; will try again later what is the matter?

Re: How does SVSCAN work ?

2001-02-04 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said "dennis" on Mon, 05 Feb 2001 13:23:55 +1100: I must be as thick as two short planks but for the file of me I can't get my head around how SVSCAN works. Can someone please enlighten me, PLEASE !! svscan ``scans'' the directory that you give it for other directories. For each

Re: Delay in POP and SMTP response

2001-02-04 Thread Rob Mayoff
I seriously doubt that this belongs on the log mailing list even once, let alone twice. Anyway, you don't provide enough information. You say you telnet to your mail server and it takes a long time to respond. Do you mean that it takes a long time to connect, or that after connecting the server