Re: /var partition, queue size, and sendmail

2001-06-01 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Joshua Nichols wrote: > Are there performance concerns here? The main performance issue that springs to my mind is that you might not be able to optimize the partition for qmail (i.e. sync, noatime) if you're running it on a non-dedicated partition. You can try resizing ext

Re: Oops,I guess Sendmail wasn't secure after all...

2001-06-01 Thread List Monkey
> I like sendmail, its slow - yes, but it is powerful and this silly > bugs are fixed fast. Its just some C-Code, everyone knows this. Yeah, it is only a few hundred thousand lines of code, and you should have looked through it for bugs or exploits before you compiled it, right? It is just some

two question about qmail

2001-06-01 Thread David
Hi everyone. I'm using Qmail + VPOPMail. now i have two question, 1, How to setup qmail with ESMTP, each time a client wanna use smtp server, smtp server ask him pop3 user&pass to check if right. and only allow mail from is that user's mail can be sent. 2, Can I count how many mails one day th

Re: Oops,I guess Sendmail wasn't secure after all...

2001-06-01 Thread Russell Nelson
Boris writes: > I really can´t hear the "qmail is the most secure bla bla" anymore, > really. Why? It's true. > At the moment I am evaluating qmail, and there > are some things I am missing from sendmail. Like what? -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells

Re: Oops,I guess Sendmail wasn't secure after all...

2001-06-01 Thread Mark Delany
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 05:01:57AM +0200, Boris allegedly wrote: > bugs are fixed fast. Its just some C-Code, everyone knows this. This is a troll, right? I have a lock on my front door that I know can be opened with a paperclip, but heck, those nice people who make the locks will supply me wit

Re: Oops,I guess Sendmail wasn't secure after all...

2001-06-01 Thread Boris
Hello Dave, DS> Anyone want to takes bets on whether qmail has unsafe signal handlers? DS> -Dave I really can´t hear the "qmail is the most secure bla bla" anymore, really. I like sendmail, its slow - yes, but it is powerful and this silly bugs are fixed fast. Its just some C-Code, everyone kn

RE: MailDir stopped working

2001-06-01 Thread Robert Schmid
Yes, mail is still being delivered properly, to the ~user/Mailbox. However, I had to add symlinks to get it recognized. The rc script I use is the default --> from /usr/local/qmail/rc: #!/bin/sh # Using splogger to send the log through syslog. # Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Mail

host masquerading / qmail-remote problems

2001-06-01 Thread Phil Schwartz
I've scanned through the archives and FAQ and I *think* I have qmail set up properly, however masquerading isn't working for me. I have my FQDN in control/me, and then just the domain name in control/defaulthost and control/defaultdomain. After reading the man page for qmail-remote (where I beli

Re: Netscape Messenger Configuration

2001-06-01 Thread Nick (Keith) Fish
Lye On Siong Johnny wrote: > > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me how do I configure netscape to talk to my qmail/vpopmail > server? > I can retrieve mail. But I cannot get it to authenticate to send out mail... > > many Thanks. > > Johnny There is also a patch for qmail that will make it require aut

Re: headers in failure notice

2001-06-01 Thread John Hogan
>I've never seen anyone else ask for this type of control, and have a difficult >time imagining why it would be necessary (or even desirable). Probably no one >else has written such a patch or add-on; you'd need to do it yourself. Note >that this would then require parsing the original message

Re: headers in failure notice

2001-06-01 Thread Russell Nelson
John Hogan writes: > this is a post-search-the-archive question: > > i want control over the headers available in the body of the qmail-send > bounce notices > > is this at all configurable? No. What problem are you trying to solve? -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnels

Re: headers in failure notice

2001-06-01 Thread Charles Cazabon
John Hogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i want control over the headers available in the body of the qmail-send > bounce notices > > is this at all configurable? I assume you mean you want to restrict which headers from the original message qmail includes in the bounce message if delivery fa

RE: MailDir stopped working

2001-06-01 Thread Tim Hunter
Actually my guess is that mail is still being delivered properly, but the popper configuration has changed. -Original Message- From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 5:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MailDir stopped working Robert Schmid <[

headers in failure notice

2001-06-01 Thread John Hogan
this is a post-search-the-archive question: i want control over the headers available in the body of the qmail-send bounce notices is this at all configurable? - hogan

Re: MailDir stopped working

2001-06-01 Thread Charles Cazabon
Robert Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For some reason I can no longer get my mail (pop or IMAP) using > > > ~user/Mailbox. In order to access my mail again I had to add a symbolic > > > link to users mailbox in /var/mail. > > > >The server configuration changed, then. > > > > > I thought

qmail-qfilter logging?

2001-06-01 Thread Jon Rust
I've just installed a small filter using Bruce Guenter's qmail-qfilter package. I have a print statement or 2 when i reject a message: # from header filter(s) (sexyfun easy to spot here) } elsif (/^From:/) { if (/haha\@sexyfun/io) { print "mail refused, suspected Hybris (aka,

Re: MailDir stopped working

2001-06-01 Thread Robert Schmid
This is what I'm using to start qmail - exec env - PATH="/usr/local/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail This has not changed since it was installed and the MailDir worked until recently. At 6/1/2001 02:21 PM -0600, you wrote: >Robert Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: MailDir stopped working

2001-06-01 Thread Charles Cazabon
Robert Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For some reason I can no longer get my mail (pop or IMAP) using > ~user/Mailbox. In order to access my mail again I had to add a symbolic > link to users mailbox in /var/mail. The server configuration changed, then. > I thought this was a result of a

MailDir stopped working

2001-06-01 Thread Robert Schmid
For some reason I can no longer get my mail (pop or IMAP) using ~user/Mailbox. In order to access my mail again I had to add a symbolic link to users mailbox in /var/mail. I thought this was a result of a bug in Eudora - but since it's happening to other users too, I have to look at the serve

Re: Oops,I guess Sendmail wasn't secure after all...

2001-06-01 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Dave Sill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Anyone want to takes bets on whether qmail has unsafe signal handlers? I've been looking for a sucker.. OK I'll bet a six pack is doesn't. (or, if Bud, I'd demand a case) Aaron

Re: Question about supervise and tcpserver behaviour

2001-06-01 Thread Charles Cazabon
Renato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > No. tcpserver shouldn't randomly die. > > > > > Is there a way to tune up supervise ? (time-out, any other parameters ?) > > > > Perhaps you're running it with memory or other process limits, or its > > hitting a system-wide limit? Without specific

Re: smtp on a specific IP

2001-06-01 Thread Kourosh Ghassemieh
At 12:36 PM 5/31/2001 -0700, you wrote: >My server is running vpopmail. I also have Multiple IP address' aliased off >of one network card. > >I can do traffic analysis through my router by IP address and this works >fine for incoming mail. The problem that I have is the outgoing mail all is >goi

Re: qmail-popbull used w/ imap

2001-06-01 Thread Antonio S. Martins Jr.
I had bulletins on my site, I simply create a shell script that hardlink the bulletin into the ~/Maildir/new of all users! On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Russell Nelson wrote: > Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 09:16:10 -0400 (EDT) > From: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: q

Re: smtp on a specific IP

2001-06-01 Thread Greg White
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 08:48:42AM -0700, Ross Davis - Data Anywhere wrote: > >> > >> here is my smtpd run from the supervise directory > >> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 > >> env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \ > >> tcpserver -v -p -u vpopmail -g vchkpw 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smt

Re: Question about supervise and tcpserver behaviour

2001-06-01 Thread Renato
Hi Charles, Thanks for your answer. > Renato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm monitoring the behaviour of tcpserver for the pop service ( simple 'ps - > > aux | grep tcpserver | grep pop' and I get, obviously, just one is > > running ). Sometimes, supervise tries to restart tcpserver a

RE: qmail-popbull used w/ imap

2001-06-01 Thread michael
Scott, you rock! I was just feeling good about myself because I figured out what imaplogin was passing along and was munging checkpassword to account for the slightly different file descriptor 3. Then would have been the fun of figuring out what imapd needed. It never hurts to really look close

Re: Question about supervise and tcpserver behaviour

2001-06-01 Thread Charles Cazabon
Renato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm monitoring the behaviour of tcpserver for the pop service ( simple 'ps - > aux | grep tcpserver | grep pop' and I get, obviously, just one is > running ). Sometimes, supervise tries to restart tcpserver and I see 2 > tcpservers. Then the second dies ( p

Re: qmail-popbull used w/ imap

2001-06-01 Thread Scott Gifford
Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > michael writes: > > This question I suppose is directed at Russell since he is the > > writer of qmail-popbull... > > > > We're trying to get courier-imap running and the desire is to > > also have bulletin ability. Since qmail-popbull is calle

Oops,I guess Sendmail wasn't secure after all...

2001-06-01 Thread Dave Sill
From: Gregory Neil Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: sendmail 8.11.4 and 8.12.0.Beta10 available Sendmail, Inc., and the Sendmail Consortium announce the availability of sendmail 8.11.4 and 8.12.0.Beta10. 8.11.4 revamps signal handling within the MTA in o

Re: smtp on a specific IP

2001-06-01 Thread Ross Davis - Data Anywhere
>> >> here is my smtpd run from the supervise directory >> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 >> env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \ >> tcpserver -v -p -u vpopmail -g vchkpw 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 >^ >this is the address to bind to. >h

Re: Netscape Messenger Configuration

2001-06-01 Thread Charles Cazabon
Lye On Siong Johnny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can anyone tell me how do I configure netscape to talk to my qmail/vpopmail > server? Just plug in the appropriate IP address or hostname, username, and password for the POP3 server, and the right IP address or hostname for the SMTP server. >

Question about supervise and tcpserver behaviour

2001-06-01 Thread Renato
Hi, My server has strange behaviour and I don't know if this is by design or if there is something wrong. It has around 60.000 pop accounts, load average is around 12-13, but response time is around 2 seconds. I run Linux, lastest Redhat kernel 2.2.19-6.2.1 and Bruce's rpm + daemontools + s

Re: dot qmail problem

2001-06-01 Thread Lye On Siong Johnny
>On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 09:48:41PM +0800, Lye On Siong Johnny wrote: > > Hi, thanks for your reply. > > > > But i need to have the .qmail-test cause it's use to forward it to another > > email > >remove .qmail-test-default. Or create .qmail-test-c with "|bouncesaying >[params]" in it. I have re

Re: Quick tcpserver question - Thanks

2001-06-01 Thread Gordon-Nildram
Thanks for that, I didn't think you did - Original Message - From: "Peter van Dijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 4:09 PM Subject: Re: Quick tcpserver question > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:49:30PM +0100, Gordon-Nildram wrote: > > Hi > > > > If y

Re: Quick tcpserver question

2001-06-01 Thread Russell Nelson
Gordon-Nildram writes: > If you edit the tcp.smtp file then reload the tcp.smtp.cdb file > using tcprules do you need to restart qmail for these changes to > take effect? No. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Microsof

Re: Quick tcpserver question

2001-06-01 Thread Andrea Cerrito
No. --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 744 5441330 Fax. +39 744 5441372

Re: Quick tcpserver question

2001-06-01 Thread Kurth Bemis
As far as i know i don't think that you do. I've been known to be wrong tho.. ~kurth Kurth Bemis Senior Network Admin/Owner: USAExpress.net Owner: Ozone Computer http://kurth.hardcrypto.com PGP Key Avail. - Uh!.Uh!.Uh!

Re: Quick tcpserver question

2001-06-01 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:49:30PM +0100, Gordon-Nildram wrote: > Hi > > If you edit the tcp.smtp file then reload the tcp.smtp.cdb file using tcprules do >you need to restart qmail for these changes to take effect? No. Greetz, Peter.

Netscape Messenger Configuration

2001-06-01 Thread Lye On Siong Johnny
Hi, Can anyone tell me how do I configure netscape to talk to my qmail/vpopmail server? I can retrieve mail. But I cannot get it to authenticate to send out mail... many Thanks. Johnny

Re: dot qmail problem

2001-06-01 Thread Ahmad Ridha
From: "Lye On Siong Johnny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi, thanks for your reply. > > But i need to have the .qmail-test cause it's use to forward it to another > email > Delete you .qmail-test-default not .qmail-test. By having .qmail-test-default you're accepting every mails sent to test-whatever (

Quick tcpserver question

2001-06-01 Thread Gordon-Nildram
Hi   If you edit the tcp.smtp file then reload the tcp.smtp.cdb file using tcprules do you need to restart qmail for these changes to take effect?

Re: dot qmail problem

2001-06-01 Thread Henning Brauer
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 09:48:41PM +0800, Lye On Siong Johnny wrote: > Hi, thanks for your reply. > > But i need to have the .qmail-test cause it's use to forward it to another > email remove .qmail-test-default. Or create .qmail-test-c with "|bouncesaying [params]" in it. -- * Henning Brauer

Outlook Express and qmail

2001-06-01 Thread Greg Harper
We have been having trouble getting qmail to communicate with certain Outlook Express customers. This is probably a problem with Outlook, but I thought maybe some of you might have had experience with this. The problem occurs when customers try to send mail out through are qmail server. If the

Re: disclaimer at end of outgoing msg

2001-06-01 Thread Charles Cazabon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i wanna append a disclaimer on every outgoing msg that contains > @mydomain.com. I looked at qmail-qfilter, but I cannot get the thing to > work. More details necessary. What part didn't work? How did you try? What error messages did you see?

Re: the same username and different of domain qustion?

2001-06-01 Thread Charles Cazabon
george <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to use virtual domain function in qmail1+mysql.I don't know how to > setup when have two users the same username and different domain. and how > flow qmail data ? > > Example:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your question isn't clear. Your examp

Re: recipient limit for qmail-inject?

2001-06-01 Thread Charles Cazabon
Roger Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1 Jun 2001, Mark Delany wrote: > > > There is no practical limit. Perhaps one qmail-inject per 50,000 > > recipients? I certainly would go a *lot* higher than your current > > 40-100. > > Hmm. That makes for a *VERY* long line *8-() I guess I sh

Re: Limiting bandwidth usage

2001-06-01 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Russell Nelson([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.05.31 23:41:05 +: > Karsten W. Rohrbach writes: > > qmail indirectly contains instrumentation for that. it is called remote > > concurreny. > > Alas, no. What it actually does is limit the number of connections, > in the hope that the machine will not

Re: Features

2001-06-01 Thread tom
www.qmail.org GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI schrieb: > > Hi all. > > I'm new to the list and new to qmail. > I had allways used sendmail, but I had heared that > qmail is better (more secure and reliable) than sendmail. > Where can I find documentation about advantages of qmail > over sendmail and i

Re: dot qmail problem

2001-06-01 Thread Lye On Siong Johnny
Hi, thanks for your reply. But i need to have the .qmail-test cause it's use to forward it to another email Any suggestion?? Thanks At 03:27 PM 6/1/2001 +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: >On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 09:09:59PM +0800, Lye On Siong Johnny wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am using qmail + vpopmai

Re: dot qmail problem

2001-06-01 Thread Henning Brauer
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 09:09:59PM +0800, Lye On Siong Johnny wrote: > Hi, > > I am using qmail + vpopmail. > Currently, I am facing this problem. I have email account like test, > test-a, test-b > everything works fine. However, when someone send a mail to test-c, it's > send to test instead.

Re: qmail-popbull used w/ imap

2001-06-01 Thread Russell Nelson
michael writes: > This question I suppose is directed at Russell since he is the > writer of qmail-popbull... > > We're trying to get courier-imap running and the desire is to > also have bulletin ability. Since qmail-popbull is called as > part of tcpserver startup for qmail I'm hoping i

dot qmail problem

2001-06-01 Thread Lye On Siong Johnny
Hi, I am using qmail + vpopmail. Currently, I am facing this problem. I have email account like test, test-a, test-b everything works fine. However, when someone send a mail to test-c, it's send to test instead. Is there anyway i can configure it such that if there isn't any valid account or .

Re: virtual users? aliases? what do I need?

2001-06-01 Thread Dave Sill
"Nate Pinchot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I apologize if this question has already been answered on this mailing list, >but I definately did not see it in the faq. No problem. Sometimes it's not obvious that a FAQ applies to one's situation. What you need is either a virtual domain or a virtual

Re: Features

2001-06-01 Thread Andrea Cerrito
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Re: Features

2001-06-01 Thread Dave Sill
GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm new to the list and new to qmail. Welcome. >I had allways used sendmail, but I had heared that >qmail is better (more secure and reliable) than sendmail. >Where can I find documentation about advantages of qmail >over sendmail http

Re: Limiting bandwidth usage

2001-06-01 Thread Dave Sill
"Karsten W. Rohrbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >qmail indirectly contains instrumentation for that. it is called remote >concurreny. The key word there is "indirectly". If you need direct control, concurrencyremote won't provide it. In some applications, lowering concurrencyremote might be g

Re: virtual users? aliases? what do I need?

2001-06-01 Thread tom
Hi, youst place a .qmail-user1 file wherever your .qmail files are placed in your system The content may be &user1 or /home/user1 For user2 do the same and insert as content of the .qmail file [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is in the man pages and in the faq and in thea archive. Tom Nate Pinchot sch

Features

2001-06-01 Thread GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI
Hi all. I'm new to the list and new to qmail. I had allways used sendmail, but I had heared that qmail is better (more secure and reliable) than sendmail. Where can I find documentation about advantages of qmail over sendmail and install/configure docs of qmail? thanks, and sorry for my english

virtual users? aliases? what do I need?

2001-06-01 Thread Nate Pinchot
I apologize if this question has already been answered on this mailing list, but I definately did not see it in the faq. I have this situation. user1 has a system account. when mail comes for [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like it to be delivered locally as it is now. when mail comes for [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Hy

2001-06-01 Thread hari_bhr
better you down load plesk its free for one domain - Original Message - From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: marco1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 3:30 PM Subject: Re: Hy Dear marco1, 1¡ê? here http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/ is web based interfa

Summary: locals question

2001-06-01 Thread MMP Wolfgang Rupp
Thank you for the quick response. After arjen's and Adam's suggestions, I did the following: - take the www-domains out of locals - virutaldomains: foo.com:alias-foo - created $QMAILDIR/alias/.qmail-foo-postmaster And I did not create a .qmail-foo-default with #, because I need valid bounces. I

Re: Hy

2001-06-01 Thread David
Dear marco1, 1£¬ here http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/ is web based interface to create users/aliases/forward ... you should install vpopmail for qmail first, vpopmail can be located at http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/ Http://www.inter7.com/vqadmin/ is a web based interface to cre

Hy

2001-06-01 Thread marco1
Hy I'me a new user of Qmail and Linux so i need some basic information, I'm sorry for my ignorance:-)   1)There is some free Gui or Web interface for administering Qmail? 2)I need client software or all I need is something like outlook express? 3)It is possible to read e-mail directly on the

Re: locals question

2001-06-01 Thread Adam McKenna
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:57:38AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, MMP Wolfgang Rupp wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > we have here a central mailhub, mail.mm-packaging.com. This host > > treats mail to mm-packaging.com and mail.mm-.. as local. Now I > > also listed it as pre

Re: locals question

2001-06-01 Thread arjen
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, MMP Wolfgang Rupp wrote: > Hi all, > > we have here a central mailhub, mail.mm-packaging.com. This host > treats mail to mm-packaging.com and mail.mm-.. as local. Now I > also listed it as preferred MX for two domains that are "www-only", > but since postmaster@ must work, I

locals question

2001-06-01 Thread MMP Wolfgang Rupp
Hi all, we have here a central mailhub, mail.mm-packaging.com. This host treats mail to mm-packaging.com and mail.mm-.. as local. Now I also listed it as preferred MX for two domains that are "www-only", but since postmaster@ must work, I put these domains into locals, as well. Now postmaster mai

Re: ORBS, and RFC-ignorant blacklists

2001-06-01 Thread Johan Almqvist
* David Talkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010601 09:29]: > Alex Pennace wrote: > >http://www.orbs.org/ says "Due to circumstances beyond our control, > >the ORBS website is no longer available." > That seems pretty abrupt. Anyone know why they vanished? Alan Brown, operator of ORBS, was served 2

Re: ORBS, and RFC-ignorant blacklists

2001-06-01 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Alex Pennace wrote: >http://www.orbs.org/ says "Due to circumstances beyond our control, >the ORBS website is no longer available." That seems pretty abrupt. Anyone know why they vanished? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with p