Qmail and Request Tracker

2001-05-11 Thread Chris Jackman
Hello, We're running qmail (1.03) on a Freebsd box and are trying to use Request Tracker (www.fsck.com/projects/rt). We're using procmail as the local delivery agent. We're using Maildir/ style mailboxes, and procmail has been compiled with support for them. We're going to go into some

Re: Fw:

2001-05-11 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:03:51PM -0600, Scott D. Yelich wrote: [snip] wasn't this one written in .nl as the ak was? anyway, I welcome posting of viruses... mainly because I laugh at those who are aflicted with ms. I laugh twice when those virus software things send messages back to an

Re: Case in email address

2001-05-11 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:04:17PM -0500, Stephen Berg wrote: I always thought that qmail converted the user part of an incoming email to lowercase and then handled it appropriately. That is correct. Therefore, a user with an uppercase letter in his username won't ever get any mail. Greetz,

Re: Newbie with tcpserver

2001-05-11 Thread Pablo Buenaventura
You are right, I know very well I did wrong without reading the information I needed for (I didn´t read the condition´s information that you need before to subsrcibe to a list). As you can realise for my writting, English is not my primery language (I am Spanish) and for that reason I

Re: weird

2001-05-11 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:55:16PM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote: 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,

reboot

2001-05-11 Thread colette tostivint
Hi Qmail doesn't run when i reboot my system. I make a link : ln -s ../init.d/qmail /etc/rc2.d/S88qmail I must start manually /etc/rc2.d/S88qmail . What is the problem? Thank you Colette Tostivint

Re: reboot

2001-05-11 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 10:09:52AM +0200, colette tostivint wrote: Hi Qmail doesn't run when i reboot my system. I make a link : ln -s ../init.d/qmail /etc/rc2.d/S88qmail Perhaps you mean rc3.d? Perhaps you didn't tell us anything about your OS/distribution so we have no idea what you are

Re: reboot

2001-05-11 Thread Robin S. Socha
* colette tostivint [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010511 03:42]: Qmail doesn't run when i reboot my system. Uh-huh... I make a link : ln -s ../init.d/qmail /etc/rc2.d/S88qmail I must start manually /etc/rc2.d/S88qmail . SuSE? What is the problem? Several: * No meaningful input from your part

Re: ezmlm and announce-only lists...?

2001-05-11 Thread Jeff Gordon
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 06:26:25PM -0400, audit wrote: You can make it a moderated list. If you'd like, I can send you the scripts that I use for all my lists from creating them, subing people, deleteing people, etc audit (Hi, 'audit'.) That's a kind offer; thank you. :-) I gather from

Re: ezmlm and announce-only lists...?

2001-05-11 Thread Jeff Gordon
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:47:15PM -0400, peter green wrote: [http://www.ezmlm.org/] is decent; it covers ezmlm-idx, NOT stock ezmlm. I think the site gives an apt description as to what the -idx part adds...basically, you want the -idx version. Anyway, the FAQ there is pretty extensive,

Re: qmail-inject and Perl

2001-05-11 Thread Tonix
Hi Kevin, I use this simple PERL code that (for me) works nicely. $from, $to, $reply, $subject, $body are the variables you have to feed. The way of filling Reply-to, Return-Path, From lines, depends on your needs, this is only an example. open (MESSAGE, | /usr/sbin/sendmail

RE: reboot

2001-05-11 Thread Neil Whittington
That's a coincidence - I logged the same query this morning. 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 If I go into the /etc/rc.d/init.d directory and type ./svscan start

Re: qmail-inject and Perl

2001-05-11 Thread Kevin Smith
The only problem with that it doesn't report back to me any failed emails... or does it and I'm not looking in the right place??? Thanks, Kevin - Original Message - From: Tonix [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kevin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 10:02 AM

reason for problem found: connection reset after 1 minute

2001-05-11 Thread Jens Hassler
Hi there, I've posted some messages concerning this strange pop3 connection reset after 1 minute. I just discovered the reason for the problem, but I still don't have a solution. I'm using checkpasswordnt for my authentication issues (so that all users can be authenticated with our NT PDC). I

RE: remote smtp problem

2001-05-11 Thread Jonathan . Coker
Many Thanks Dave, you were spot on. -Original Message- From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 May 2001 18:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: remote smtp problem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When ever a remote client tries to send mail thru my qmail box, qmail appends a

Re: ezmlm and announce-only lists...?

2001-05-11 Thread Johan Almqvist
* Jeff Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010510 23:08]: 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...? There is. Can't say how off-hand, though. (Pointers to any documentation on this would be appreciated; I

Re: reboot

2001-05-11 Thread Anton Pirnat
It is not the default init your system started up, depening from your distribution this maybe be a different one. Have a look at http://www.lifewithqmail.org and read the Life with Qmail doc there. You will get the needed ln -s´s and many other helpful information on how to start your qmail

Re: ezmlm and announce-only lists...?

2001-05-11 Thread peter green
[ No need to Cc: me, thanks. ] * Jeff Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010511 06:06]: [http://www.ezmlm.org/] is decent; it covers ezmlm-idx, NOT stock ezmlm. I think the site gives an apt description as to what the -idx part adds...basically, you want the -idx version. Anyway, the FAQ there

Re: Case in email address

2001-05-11 Thread Milivoj Ivkovic
If I read the RFCs correctly, case does not matter in the mailbox (left side) part, but should be preserved. I don't know of any mail server that fails to deliver mail if case changes. I never paid attention to see if case is preserved.

Re: ezmlm and announce-only lists...?

2001-05-11 Thread Jeff Gordon
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:37:28AM +0200, Johan Almqvist wrote: * Jeff Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010510 23:08]: 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...? There is. Can't say how off-hand, though.

users/assign handling

2001-05-11 Thread PHoman
Hello, I am currently experiencing serious troubles moving a large sendmail site to a another box with qmail. The sendmail configuration was rather chaotic; a mixture of /etc/aliases and virtusertable and lots of .forward-files. Of course I am planning to make all users virtual, but

Re: tcpserver blues

2001-05-11 Thread Joerg Lenneis
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 /var/lock/subsys/qmail echo

Re: ezmlm and announce-only lists...?

2001-05-11 Thread Jeff Gordon
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 07:54:56AM -0400, peter green wrote: [ No need to Cc: me, thanks. ] (Sorry -- found your name automagically in the 'to' field so CC'd the list; I'll get the hang of this in a minute. :-) If I'm understanding what I'm reading, it appears the thing to do [to change a

Re: ezmlm and announce-only lists...?

2001-05-11 Thread peter green
* Jeff Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010511 09:21]: The appropriate list is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thanks.) Fair enough -- but does it have a searchable archive? If I When in doubt, check [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/] and [http://www.mail-archive.com/]. (IIRC, ezmlm is archived and searchable

Re: qmail-inject and Perl

2001-05-11 Thread Charles Cazabon
Kevin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Case in email address

2001-05-11 Thread Charles Cazabon
Milivoj Ivkovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I read the RFCs correctly, case does not matter in the mailbox (left side) part, but should be preserved. No, that's not what 2821 says. The RFC defines the FQDN part of an email address to be case-insensitive, and says that the treatment of case

Re: Qmail and Request Tracker

2001-05-11 Thread Charles Cazabon
Chris Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] We noticed that there is no delivery 2: success message, nor is there ever for any other email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] If we kill all the alias processes first, and then kill the rt process (78014 above) that is doing perl -T

Re: reason for problem found: connection reset after 1 minute

2001-05-11 Thread Charles Cazabon
Jens Hassler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using checkpasswordnt for my authentication issues (so that all users can be authenticated with our NT PDC). I just changed this back to the normal checkpassword program and tried again with an appropriate account. Now it works. No connection reset,

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

2001-05-11 Thread alexus
i'm not a coder i can't program something like that .. but i thought someone already did code this kind of software.. and i'm asking if it's out there and what is it call if it is thanks - Original Message - From: Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

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

2001-05-11 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 I have a Python script I use for this purpose, which checks multiple Maildirs and presents a summary of current and new messages in each. Send me a

newbie question with concurrency remote

2001-05-11 Thread Michael Geier
I am running qmail on: RedHat 6.2 256 Mb Ram I set concurrency remote = 150... however, most of the time, it seems like only a handful of remote processes are running, even though the queue backs up (right now, over 14000 msgs in queue and only 20 remote processes running)...

Re: qmail-inject and Perl

2001-05-11 Thread mi
I use Mail:Sendmail, which sends through SMTP. Early errors are caught by the module (syntactically wrong email address, broken communication with the server). Later errors (User unknown, ...) are reported as usual by a bounce from the server to the From: address. Not exactly what you asked

RE: Case in email address

2001-05-11 Thread Milivoj Ivkovic
Was it 822 that said this? Or is there a different RFC I should also look at? I went back to check the new RFC 2821. My previous interpretation was not exact. It is not that case should be preserved, it must; even though taking case into account is discouraged. RFC 2821 / 2.4: ... The

Re: Case in email address

2001-05-11 Thread Milivoj Ivkovic
local-part is up to the receiving system, and so intermediate MTAs must preserve the case of local-part. It then recommends that MTA implementors treat local-part as case insensitive when they are the final destination MTA, but does not require this. You are correct of course, I should have

Re: qmail retry

2001-05-11 Thread Dave Sill
Jamyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $qmail_home/control/concurrencyremote The number you insert into this file determines how many remote sockets/connections at a time your mail server will open. Yes. $qmail_home/control/concurrencylocal The number you insert

RE: QMail autostart problem

2001-05-11 Thread Dave Sill
Neil Whittington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 So you're starting svscan at runlevel 3. Is it running after the system

Using vchkpw (vpopmail) with qmail-pop3d?

2001-05-11 Thread Steven Katz
Excellent list people, I'm trying to get the smtp after pop authentication part of vpopmail to work. I followed the LWQ instructions to install qmail and I'm using qmail-pop3d. Where should the below startup line for vchkpw be placed? Thanks! Steven 12. How to use vchkpw with qmail-pop3d

Re: weird

2001-05-11 Thread Mate Wierdl
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 09:56:10AM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: [note: section 2.4.1 doesn't exist in RFC2821, nor in RFC821] The author means section 2.4. Mate

Re: reason for problem found: connection reset after 1 minute

2001-05-11 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 08:17:47AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: I don't understand this. I thought that in a normal setup, tcpserver forked qmail-popup, which exec's checkpassword Not quite. qmail-popup forks and exec's checkpassword, in order that if checkpassword fails qmail-popup can

Re: newbie question with concurrency remote

2001-05-11 Thread Dave Sill
Michael Geier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running qmail on: RedHat 6.2 256 Mb Ram I set concurrency remote = 150... however, most of the time, it seems like only a handful of remote processes are running, even though the queue backs up (right now, over 14000 msgs in queue and

Re: newbie question with concurrency remote

2001-05-11 Thread Charles Cazabon
Michael Geier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I set concurrency remote = 150... however, most of the time, it seems like only a handful of remote processes are running, even though the queue backs up (right now, over 14000 msgs in queue and only 20 remote processes running)... Most likely you

RE: Case in email address

2001-05-11 Thread Matt Simonsen
I always thought that qmail converted the user part of an incoming email to lowercase and then handled it appropriately. Based on other emails, it seems clear that the RFC standard is to preserve case for the user part of the email address. Qmail does this from what I can tell, as far as how

Re: reason for problem found: connection reset after 1 minute

2001-05-11 Thread Charles Cazabon
Bruce Guenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 08:17:47AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: I don't understand this. I thought that in a normal setup, tcpserver forked qmail-popup, which exec's checkpassword Not quite. qmail-popup forks and exec's checkpassword, in order

config for stand-alone box

2001-05-11 Thread john gennard
I've installed v.1.03 from a src.deb package onto Debian Potato. There is a large volume of literature which I've spent some days reading and can't find explanations for a number of points (entirely due to my semi- computer literate state). I connect to an ISP by dialling with a modem and have

Re: SMTP_AUTH

2001-05-11 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had some instructions on how to test the server with the AUTH cmd through checkpasswd ( I only tested plain at the time) which I can no longer find - it work as outlines and put me in my home dir. Since I have upgraded I need to retest the server. Right now under AUTH

Re: Case in email address

2001-05-11 Thread Charles Cazabon
Matt Simonsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to bypass this (not that I will, I just am curious) to have [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] be delivered separately? Yes, the qmail-users mechanism can be used to do this. And is the below process correct? There was nothing

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Re: config for stand-alone box

2001-05-11 Thread Charles Cazabon
john gennard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed v.1.03 from a src.deb package onto Debian Potato. There is a large volume of literature which I've spent some days reading and can't find explanations for a number of points (entirely due to my semi- computer literate state). Please do

Re: reason for problem found: connection reset after 1 minute

2001-05-11 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:02:47PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: Bruce Guenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 08:17:47AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: I don't understand this. I thought that in a normal setup, tcpserver forked qmail-popup, which exec's checkpassword

Re: config for stand-alone box

2001-05-11 Thread Robin S. Socha
* john gennard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010511 15:25]: I connect to an ISP by dialling with a modem and have just two user accounts. So you need serialmail. Get and install it. There are many hints on how to do this in this list's archive. I've never really understood the concept of a FQDN and so

RE: newbie question with concurrency remote

2001-05-11 Thread Michael Geier
thanks for the tips Dave... to those that had replied: I had rebooted qmail (frequently)... I installed djbdns, killed splogger, and rebooted server things seem to be much better. -Original Message- From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May

RE: Case in email address

2001-05-11 Thread Matt Simonsen
There was a statement made that Qmail converts an email to lower-case, but judging by the fact that Qmail can handle those seperately I am guessing this is incorrect. -Original Message- From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 12:32 PM To: Qmail@List.

qmail-smtpd-chkusr: (reject unknown users at smtp level) patch updated

2001-05-11 Thread Tonix
qmail-smtpd-chkusr is a patch for qmail-smtpd (with vpopmail 4.9.x) and permits rejecting non existing users/aliases/mailing-lists in the smtp acceptance phase. I've just updaded this patch, with the following changes: - changed the error code emission (550 instead of 553) - added check for

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

2001-05-11 Thread alexus
can you suggest one that widely used and most popular or 'cause i didn't find any there (i guess i'm blind or something) - Original Message - From: Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 11:21 AM Subject: Re: notification of new email whenever

MASS mailing

2001-05-11 Thread Kuriger, Michael
Title: MASS mailing Hi, My name is Mike and I am the UNIX admin at WB online. Anyway, I was tasked with rolling out a new mailing list server because our ListServe box is too slow and easy to hack. I set up qmail on a small 450mhz SUN netra and it seems to also be too slow. I need to be able

Subject Line Manipulation

2001-05-11 Thread Inthereal
Hello, I would like to control (or add) to a subject line text. This is for a server that virt hosts approx 20 domains. I would like to be able to add information to all incoming mail for one particular domain. Is there a qmail trick for this, or do I need to go through a pl script? Thanks in

Re: Newbie with tcpserver

2001-05-11 Thread Russell Nelson
Robin S. Socha writes: * 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

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

2001-05-11 Thread Russell Nelson
Dave Sill writes: Second, the offer of commercial support made to Pablo was sent privately, not to list. Pablo's reposting it publicly is at least as rude as trolling the list for clients. The best way to troll the list for clients is to answer people's questions. Answering FAQ's is

Re: Case in email address

2001-05-11 Thread Charles Cazabon
Matt Simonsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was a statement made that Qmail converts an email to lower-case, but judging by the fact that Qmail can handle those seperately I am guessing this is incorrect. By default, qmail takes the users from /etc/password which have valid home directories

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

2001-05-11 Thread Charles Cazabon
alexus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, many Maildir-checkers exist. There are half a dozen or more listed in the User-contributed Maildir support section of qmail.org. can you suggest one that widely used and most popular or 'cause i didn't find any there (i guess i'm blind or something)

Re: MASS mailing

2001-05-11 Thread Charles Cazabon
Kuriger, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My name is Mike and I am the UNIX admin at WB online. Anyway, I was tasked with rolling out a new mailing list server because our ListServe box is too slow and easy to hack. I set up qmail on a small 450mhz SUN netra and it seems to also be too

Re: Subject Line Manipulation

2001-05-11 Thread Charles Cazabon
Inthereal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is for a server that virt hosts approx 20 domains. I would like to be able to add information to all incoming mail for one particular domain. Is there a qmail trick for this, or do I need to go through a pl script? One way would be to use Bruce

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

2001-05-11 Thread alexus
ok thanks for that script it works just fine:) two more questions though first if i'll put it in /etc/profile will it work for all users? i'm using FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE and another question how do i notify user when e-mail arriving while he's on shell? - Original Message - From: