Re: smpp instead of smtp

2001-05-10 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:18:14AM -0400, alexus wrote: whats smpp? It appears to be SMS related. They want my personal data for providing me the specs (www.smpp.org) so I didn't download those. Greetz, Peter.

no from imformation

2001-05-10 Thread Okan CIMEN
Hello, How can I block the senders whom from information is not available? I hope I am clear. Regards Okan

Re: no from imformation

2001-05-10 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:13:30AM +0300, Okan CIMEN wrote: Hello, How can I block the senders whom from information is not available? I hope I am clear. I'm sorry, you are not. Please elaborate. Greetz, Peter.

Re: smpp instead of smtp

2001-05-10 Thread Jeremy Suo-Anttila
Q: What is SMPP? A: The Short Message Peer to Peer (SMPP) protocol is an open industry standard messaging protocol designed to simplify integration of data applications with wireless mobile networks such as GSM, TDMA, CDMA and PDC. The protocol is widely deployed in the mobile telecommunications

qmail retry

2001-05-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, How can I set up the minimal retry time, the time for sending delivery failure notice and the time when qmail gives up delivering the message stay undelivered in the outgoing queue?? Also, how can I set up the email account for the qmail administrator? Thanks a lot! Please please

Fw:

2001-05-10 Thread Okan CIMEN
*** DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENT*** Our e-mail users receive lots of e-mails with no subject nor from adress but just an attachment. Below is an example I have received before. As you may see there are no from or subject information available. The only clue is the .exe attachment with a random

ScanMail Message: To Recipient virus found and action taken.

2001-05-10 Thread System Attendant
ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange has detected virus-infected attachment(s). Sender = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recipient(s) = [EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject = no subject Scanning Time = 05/10/2001 16:08:23 Action on virus found: The attachment EJAFKAEJ.EXE exists TROJ_HYBRIS.B virus.

Re: qmail retry

2001-05-10 Thread Okan CIMEN
You must go to $qmail_home directory (mostly /var/qmail) and then the control folder. As you can guess queuelifetime file contains the time information for trying to send the mail -in seconds-. Concurrency local is the max. simultaneous local deliverty tries. Concurrencyremote is the max

Re: Fw:

2001-05-10 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:02:14AM +0300, Okan CIMEN wrote: *** DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENT*** Our e-mail users receive lots of e-mails with no subject nor from adress but just an attachment. Below is an example I have received before. As you may see there are no from or subject information

Re: qmail retry

2001-05-10 Thread Jamyn
At 03:51 PM 5/10/01 +0800, you wrote: Hi, How can I set up the minimal retry time, the time for sending delivery failure notice I believe This is best left to Qmail's own logic. However, if you want to tell Qmail to reprocess the queue, send an alarm to qmail-send. If you followed the

Re: Fw:

2001-05-10 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Okan CIMEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010510 03:11]: *** DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENT*** If you are 99% certain that you're sending a virus, WHY DO YOU SEND IT? If you can be 99% sure that at least 5 administrators whose users are subscribed to this list are idiots with misconfigured virus scanners,

Re: Blocking relayed mail with no From field?

2001-05-10 Thread Jamyn
Though I understand you are providing an example of what you meant, perhaps it would have been better to rename it 16e547f1.w95-hybris-worm-exe or something similar, instead of sending a live copy of it unaltered to the mailing list. Then again, the majority here read from mutt etc, so risk is

qmail-clean

2001-05-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, When I try to qmail-clean the outgoing queue, isn't it supposed to flush all the messages in the queue for me? But nothing happened! Did I miss something since I simply gave the command, qmail-clean? Thank you! Evelyn Huang

Re: Omitting certain headers in outgoing mails?

2001-05-10 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Wolfgang Zeikat [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010510 00:05]: some MUA's add headers to outgoing mails: Netscape mail under Linux adds Sender: real_username@host Pine adds X-Sender: real_username@host which can be customized to Sender: real_username@host can i have qmail remove those headers

QMail Delivering Mail to Incorrect Addresses?

2001-05-10 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
We recently ran across a serious problem which seems to be QMail-related. We had to take quick action against the most recent batch of vbs-viruses going around at the moment by manually removing the virus mails from the QMail queue. Either because of this or simply at the same time several

Re: qmail retry

2001-05-10 Thread Jamyn
While I believe you are aware of this, your statement is perhaps a bit misleading, and may be misunderstood by Evelyn. $qmail_home/control/concurrencyremote The number you insert into this file determines how many remote sockets/connections at a time your mail server

Newbie with tcpserver

2001-05-10 Thread Pablo Buenaventura
Hi All, I´ve been reading Life with Qmail and I am trying to configurate qmail in my office. The first problem I found out was about tcpserver. 1. How to configurate it? 2. Where? In which file? Many thanks for your time, Pablo ___

RE:

2001-05-10 Thread Willy De la Court
. hmm Sending virus files to a mailing list. How stupid can you get. On Thursday, May 10, 2001 10:02, Okan CIMEN [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: *** DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENT*** Our e-mail users receive lots of e-mails with no subject nor from adress but just an attachment. Below is an

Re: QMail Delivering Mail to Incorrect Addresses?

2001-05-10 Thread Johan Almqvist
* Kalle Kivimaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010509 20:49]: We recently ran across a serious problem which seems to be QMail-related. We had to take quick action against the most recent batch of vbs-viruses going around at the moment by manually removing the virus mails from the QMail queue.

Re: qmail-clean

2001-05-10 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 04:34:35PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When I try to qmail-clean the outgoing queue, isn't it supposed to flush all the messages in the queue for me? But nothing happened! Did I miss something since I simply gave the command, qmail-clean?

Re: Newbie with tcpserver

2001-05-10 Thread Pablo Buenaventura
Sorry Vinient, what do you mean? --- Vinient [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: looking for small price give me off line list - Original Message - From: Pablo Buenaventura [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 2:26 PM Subject: Newbie with tcpserver

Re: Newbie with tcpserver

2001-05-10 Thread Pablo Buenaventura
I am running RH7.0 --- Vinient [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: looking for some commercial, we will setup and give you for small charge if you are running on redhat linux - Original Message - From: Pablo Buenaventura [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vinient [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL

Re: Newbie with tcpserver

2001-05-10 Thread Pablo Buenaventura
No, I am not interested to pay for it. I was waiting for free help. Regards, Pablo --- Vinient [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: intrested for small price we will do it - Original Message - From: Pablo Buenaventura [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 10,

Re: Omitting certain headers in outgoing mails?

2001-05-10 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
In the previous episode (10.05.2001), Robin S. Socha [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: * Wolfgang Zeikat [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010510 00:05]: some MUA's add headers to outgoing mails: Netscape mail under Linux adds Sender: real_username@host Pine adds X-Sender: real_username@host which can

Re[2]: Newbie with tcpserver

2001-05-10 Thread Barry Hill
Hi, First of all: This is the most arrogant list I have come across. All the other lists that I'm on help out beginners with a short answer (we were all beginners once ... ), but here the beginner is either told to RTFM or told to pay for support. If the beginner can't find the relevant section

RE: Fw:

2001-05-10 Thread Bill Andersen
Robin, How damn ironic! You preach and preach to these guys about send unadulterated, unedited examples to the list and the one frickin guy who actually DOES - sends a virus! I know you always try to make this list idiot proof, but I think we just _found_ that better idiot!. :)

Re: Newbie with tcpserver

2001-05-10 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Pablo Buenaventura [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010510 08:08]: --- Vinient [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: intrested for small price we will do it No, I am not interested to pay for it. Let me rephrase that: I am an idiot. I also want free support for an application which I intend to run in a

Re: Re[2]: Newbie with tcpserver

2001-05-10 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Barry Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010510 08:58]: First of all: This is the most arrogant list I have come across. All the other lists that I'm on help out beginners with a short answer (we were all beginners once ... ), but here the beginner is either told to RTFM or told to pay for support.

Re: Newbie with tcpserver

2001-05-10 Thread Henning Brauer
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:42:10PM +0100, Barry Hill wrote: Hi, First of all: This is the most arrogant list I have come across. All the other lists that I'm on help out beginners with a short answer (we were all beginners once ... ), but here the beginner is either told to RTFM or told

Sorry to all qmail list members

2001-05-10 Thread Pablo Buenaventura
Hi All, I really apologise for all the noise I could do for my mistake in the list. Next time I will be more carefull. Sorry again, Pablo ___ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger: Comunicación instantánea gratis con tus amigos -

Newbies vs. arrogant experts (was: Newbie with tcpserver)

2001-05-10 Thread Dave Sill
[Barry, the Re[2] syntax your mailer uses is non-RFC-compliant.] Barry Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all: This is the most arrogant list I have come across. All the other lists that I'm on help out beginners with a short answer (we were all beginners once ... ), but here the beginner

Re: notification of new email whenever user logs in on the shell

2001-05-10 Thread Charles Cazabon
alexus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: basically somehow i need to show to user that there is a new mail for him/her whenever user logs in does it matter that i no longer have /var/mail/$userid? and i have Maildir instead? Yes, that's it. $HOME/Maildir/ makes it trivial to see if you have new

RE: Newbie with tcpserver

2001-05-10 Thread Hubbard, David
It's arrogant to expect people to actually look at instructions before soliciting free help? I mean if he actually was able to get tcpserver installed, he obviously knows how to use a web browser since he must have downloaded it, and if that's the case, it is not much more trouble to go one

Re: qmail-clean

2001-05-10 Thread Charles Cazabon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to qmail-clean the outgoing queue, isn't it supposed to flush all the messages in the queue for me? No, that is not what it is supposed to do. `man qmail-send` Charles --

Virus Alert!

2001-05-10 Thread Rick Stanley
Attention! Virus Alert! USE QMAIL-SCANNER!!! From: Okan CIMEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intended Recipient (To): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Infected File: EJAFKAEJ.EXE Virus: W32/Hybris.gen@MM [Part of a from letter sent to all twits who allow

Re: QMail autostart problem

2001-05-10 Thread Charles Cazabon
Neil Whittington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem auto starting qmail. I am using v1.03 and Daemontools v0.7 on Open Linux 2.3 Not really a qmail question; it would be better suited to ask on a list dedicated to your OS, or one which uses the same SysV-like init scripts. In the

Re: Re[2]: Newbie with tcpserver

2001-05-10 Thread Jason Brooke
Thank you very much. 7 more Yahoo! sigs for my collection. You're *such* a tool, Barry... Your signatures are just as stupid, and you're an utter tool too. Send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and collect the whole set! But that's not all - if you subscribe in the next 20 minutes, you'll

Re: Newbie with tcpserver

2001-05-10 Thread Paulo Jan
Robin S. Socha wrote: * Pablo Buenaventura [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010510 08:08]: --- Vinient [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: intrested for small price we will do it No, I am not interested to pay for it. Let me rephrase that: I am an idiot. I also want free support for an application which

Re: mailing list

2001-05-10 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
ed lim([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.05.09 11:28:16 +: Hi, I need a mailing list to send to our millions of subscribers... I am already using ezmlm but I'm still open for suggestions on a much simpler or better one. ezmlm-idx with mysql support and the subscriber lists in a database.

qmail undeliverables - return to sender?

2001-05-10 Thread Joy Hundley
Hi - I am new to this mailing list and to qmail, so if my question is worded incorrectly - please be patient with me. I want to have e-mails with an incorrect recipient name/address to be returned to the sender immediately -- can this be done? If so, how? I would prefer not to alter the

Re: Re[2]: Newbie with tcpserver

2001-05-10 Thread Travis Turner
Can anyone get a burnt pot or just Robin. I have three at home but I am always looking to improve my collection. I don't know if it is the time I have spent on this list or what but the humor is *definitely* starting to improve. ./trav No one has landed on the moon, its a CIA conspiracy. At

Re: pop3 connection reset after exactly 1 minute

2001-05-10 Thread Jens Hassler
Hi Charles, I would certainly try updating the kernel (to 2.2.19, preferably). Okay, I even did something more 'complete'. I moved the whole thing to a completely new server. PIII 450, 128 Megs. Distribution is Suse 7.1 with Kernel 2.2.18. Network cards are of type 3Com 905b. Same problem.

remote smtp problem

2001-05-10 Thread Jonathan . Coker
When ever a remote client tries to send mail thru my qmail box, qmail appends a question mark to the end of the domain i.e Sorry, I couldn't find any host named rbi.co.uk?. (#5.1.2) It does this before qmail performs nslookup and so qmail cannot find anyname.com? because it obviously

Re: qmail undeliverables - return to sender?

2001-05-10 Thread Remo Mattei
Joy Hundley wrote: Hi - I am new to this mailing list and to qmail, so if my question is worded incorrectly - please be patient with me. I want to have e-mails with an incorrect recipient name/address to be returned to the sender immediately -- can this be done? If so, how? I would

Re: qmail undeliverables - return to sender?

2001-05-10 Thread Charles Cazabon
Joy Hundley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to have e-mails with an incorrect recipient name/address to be returned to the sender immediately -- can this be done? If so, how? I would prefer not to alter the queuelifetime, as a server down is a different problem altogether than an

Re: qmail undeliverables - return to sender?

2001-05-10 Thread Greg White
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:45:45AM -0500, Joy Hundley wrote: Hi - I am new to this mailing list and to qmail, so if my question is worded incorrectly - please be patient with me. I want to have e-mails with an incorrect recipient name/address to be returned to the sender immediately -- can

RE: smpp instead of smtp

2001-05-10 Thread Brett
Yeah, sorry I didn't clarify what smpp was. Everyone here always seems so knowledgeable, I just assumed it was known. Anyway, now that it's been defined (below), does anyone see any way of using it instead of smtp with qmail? I can manually call qmail-smtpd to send a smtp message and feed it

Re: QMail autostart problem

2001-05-10 Thread Dave Sill
Neil Whittington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have created my svscan and qmail startup scripts (see below) in the = init.d directory and set their permissions. In the rcX.d directories, I have set up the link to svscan (eg ln =96= s ../init.d/svscan K12svscan ) Which links did you create=3F

Re: Newbie with tcpserver

2001-05-10 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Paulo Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010510 11:00]: Considering the guy's name, perhaps English isn't his primary language and he isn't fluent at all with it, which would also explain why he wasn't able to express himself politely enough when rejecting the offer from that consultant, and had to

Re: pop3 connection reset after exactly 1 minute

2001-05-10 Thread Charles Cazabon
Jens Hassler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would certainly try updating the kernel (to 2.2.19, preferably). Okay, I even did something more 'complete'. I moved the whole thing to a completely new server. PIII 450, 128 Megs. Distribution is Suse 7.1 with Kernel 2.2.18. Network cards are of

Re: remote smtp problem

2001-05-10 Thread Charles Cazabon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When ever a remote client tries to send mail thru my qmail box, qmail appends a question mark to the end of the domain i.e Sorry, I couldn't find any host named rbi.co.uk?. (#5.1.2) Check your tcpserver rules file; you're probably setting the

RE: Newbies vs. arrogant experts (was: Newbie with tcpserver)

2001-05-10 Thread Kirti S. Bajwa
Pointing newbies *politely* to the docs answering their question is OK--it at least helps teach them to help themselves--but it's tedious work and it also encourages other newbies to ask FAQ's. Telling a newbie to RTFM is a flame. Telling a newbie which M to F'ing R is not. I think pointing to

Re: remote smtp problem

2001-05-10 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When ever a remote client tries to send mail thru my qmail box, qmail appends a question mark to the end of the domain i.e Sorry, I couldn't find any host named rbi.co.uk?. (#5.1.2) Clients injecting messages via SMTP? Using selective relaying? I'd guess that

Re: pop3 connection reset after exactly 1 minute

2001-05-10 Thread Dave Sill
Jens Hassler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same problem. After exactly 1 minute the connection resets. Try strace'ing the qmail-pop3d process. I didn't recompile QMail though, just copied the binaries. Maybe there's a problem with one of my compiled files? What files are involved in a POP3 session?

Re: remote smtp problem

2001-05-10 Thread Greg White
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 05:21:48PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When ever a remote client tries to send mail thru my qmail box, qmail appends a question mark to the end of the domain i.e Sorry, I couldn't find any host named rbi.co.uk?. (#5.1.2) Doesn't setting 'RELAYCLIENT=?' do that?

RE: smpp instead of smtp

2001-05-10 Thread Tim Hunter
you might look into the work that was done near the beginning of this year to add the patches for qmtp support in qmail, since smpp is a different port that may work, pending the addition of the extra MX entry. Maybe we need new additions to DNS for these new protocols to work effectively. Who

Re: smpp instead of smtp

2001-05-10 Thread Charles Cazabon
Brett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, sorry I didn't clarify what smpp was. Everyone here always seems so knowledgeable, I just assumed it was known. Anyway, now that it's been defined (below), does anyone see any way of using it instead of smtp with qmail? I can manually call qmail-smtpd to

Re: mailing list

2001-05-10 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Karsten W Rohrbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ed lim([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.05.09 11:28:16 +: I need a mailing list to send to our millions of subscribers... I am already using ezmlm but I'm still open for suggestions on a much simpler or better one. ezmlm-idx with mysql support and

weird

2001-05-10 Thread Mate Wierdl
A bit offtopic: A subscriber regularly gets warning messages whenever a certain guy posts to the list. This poster has this From: Francisco Stefano Wechsler [EMAIL PROTECTED] The domain wechsler.fca.unesp.br is nonexistent, and the subscriber's ISP (TU-Berlin.DE) has the policy that if there

ezmlm and announce-only lists...?

2001-05-10 Thread Jeff Gordon
I've just barely got qmail, qmailadmin and vpop running, need to know if there's a method for making an ezmlm list announce only...? (Pointers to any documentation on this would be appreciated; I haven't found any that address this exact topic so far.) -- -- Jeff -- http://www.wellnow.com

qmail-inject and Perl

2001-05-10 Thread Kevin Smith
Hi All, I want to send mail using Perl, however, I want to use qmail to send it and for qmail to report any failed emails, i.e. bad email addresses, failed deliveries, etc. Would qmail-inject do this for me and if so, does anyone have any simple examples using this with Perl? Many thanks,

Anyone using qmail-remote_authenticated_smtp.patch ?

2001-05-10 Thread Wolfgang Käß
Hello, I have patched qmail-remote to auth against the ISP (exim) SMTP RFC 2554. But so far I'm still not able to auth - getting 550 back - so I need some help. There are no docs with the qmail-remote_authenticated_smtp.patch file. so I'm not sure that I only have to patch qmail-remote. Also

Case in email address

2001-05-10 Thread Matt Simonsen
How does Qmail deal with case in an email address? From Outlook at least, case does not appear to matter, for example, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] both deliver to me. Also, what is the official RFC standard for case in an email address. I read in section 3.4.7 of RFC 822 that at least

tcpserver blues

2001-05-10 Thread Chris Ochap
can anyone help me figure out why qmail-smtpd will not start. i have been following multiple peices of literature to complete the install...although they all differ slightly...i have had no trouble with any stage of the install except getting qmail to start listening for remote deliveries.

RE: Case in email address

2001-05-10 Thread Matt Simonsen
For additional information, I have read the man page for addresses. *SLAP* I should have done this first, sorry. It says that case does matter in Qmail (as most of you know probably), yet when I pipe mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] both get delivered to my real account, [EMAIL

Re: tcpserver blues

2001-05-10 Thread tc lewis
tcpserver runs in the foreground. that line: tcpserver: status: 0/40 is its [logging] output. when it accepts a new connection, it will output more. just run it in the background. maybe pipe stdout and stderr to a file for logging. or be elegant and use supervise and svscan (see daemontools

Re: tcpserver blues

2001-05-10 Thread Nick (Keith) Fish
Chris Ochap wrote: start() { # Start daemons. echo -n $Starting $prog: daemon /var/qmail/rc /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcprules/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 51 -g 50 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd RETVAL=$? [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] touch

Re: Case in email address

2001-05-10 Thread Nick (Keith) Fish
Matt Simonsen wrote: For additional information, I have read the man page for addresses. *SLAP* I should have done this first, sorry. It says that case does matter in Qmail (as most of you know probably), yet when I pipe mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] both get delivered

RE: QMail autostart problem

2001-05-10 Thread Neil Whittington
Thanks for the reply, Dave. The default run level is 3. The links created are: ln -s ../init.d/svscan S89svscan in rc3.d and rc5.d ln -s ../init.d/svscan K12svscan in rc0.d rc1.d rc2.d and rc6.d Yes, I made a mistake at the end of my email. It should read: If I go into the

RE: Case in email address

2001-05-10 Thread Stephen Berg
I always thought that qmail converted the user part of an incoming email to lowercase and then handled it appropriately. On Thu, 10 May 2001, Matt Simonsen wrote: For additional information, I have read the man page for addresses. *SLAP* I should have done this first, sorry. It says that

Re: Fw:

2001-05-10 Thread Scott D. Yelich
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Peter van Dijk wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:02:14AM +0300, Okan CIMEN wrote: *** DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENT*** Our e-mail users receive lots of e-mails with no subject nor from adress but just an attachment. Below is an example I have received before. As you may

qmail-remote remaining in ESTABLISHED phase

2001-05-10 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
We have a problem with qmail-remote connections staying open in the ESTABLISHED phase for very long periods of time, seemingly indefinitely. Our server, a very busy mailing list server, then becomes very slow since the number of functioning qmail-remote processes slowly reduces to a handful.

Re: SMTPAuth and mysql patch??

2001-05-10 Thread Mike A. Sauvain
The question still exists, becase these list i amazing small, maybe we should hang in the qmail-linglist... if you /or my, have any info, i'm happy if we share until now, i cant use, i tryed to patch smtpd, but it acts without prompting for any informations, so im not sure, if the