Portable RPM for qmail

2001-06-27 Thread John Newbigin
I am probably going to start a flame war with this but I have created a patch for qmail 1.03 which removes the need for compiled in user and group id's. The patch works by replacing the auto_uida variables with #defines which call functions to return the correct uid. Once the user id has been

RE: Portable RPM for qmail

2001-06-27 Thread Charles Warwick
Title: RE: Portable RPM for qmail 1. That HAS been done before, Bruce Guenter has created a similar patch 2. Q-Mail's license does NOT allow distribution of binary packages including Q-Mail. P.S. Please forgive the signature and HTML that this e-mail has in it, unfortunately due to the

Re: Portable RPM for qmail

2001-06-27 Thread Vincent Schonau
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 04:33:43PM +1000, John Newbigin wrote: My second question is about the licence for qmail. Despite all my looking I can't find it. Can someone point me to the licence or summarise what I can do with a binary RPM. URL:http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html Vince.

Re: Problem with conf-split config

2001-06-27 Thread Vincent Schonau
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:42:26AM +0530, D Rajesh wrote: Hi there, I have done the conf-split configuration and after make setup It created directory /var/qmail. I have moved the original /var/qmail to /var/qmail2 before the make setup. After finishing the installation, I have started

Re: Problem with conf-split config

2001-06-27 Thread D Rajesh
I have followed the below steps to run separate qmail's at /var/qmail and /var/qmail2 My system is a Linux 6.2 kernel 2.2.14, ext2fs 1.. # killall qmail-send ( stopped qmail daemon. ) 2.. # mv /var/qmail /var/qmail2. 3.. # cd /usr/src/qmail-1.03 4.. # vi conf-qmail ( Changed

qmailAdmin

2001-06-27 Thread pat moffatt
Hi, I came across a web based administration tool for qmail called qmailadmin on www.inter7.com/qmailadmin . Has anyone any experience of this?? Is it any good?? P.

Re: Problem with VAR directory during install

2001-06-27 Thread Adrian Ho
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 02:43:15PM +1200, Steve Reed wrote: So, I'm stumped. Why is config (or config-fast) unhappy? Because it's expecting dirs and stuff in /var/qmail that aren't there. Run strings - install | grep / and look for a fully-qualified path (ie. starting with a slash) that

badmailfrom

2001-06-27 Thread brett
Hi, I have the following in control/badmailfrom as shown by qmail-showctl: badmailfrom: [EMAIL PROTECTED] not accepted in MAIL FROM. Hahaha [EMAIL PROTECTED] not accepted in MAIL FROM. Yet messages with the following headers still get through: --- Below this line is the original bounce.

Re: badmailfrom

2001-06-27 Thread Vincent Schonau
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:09:00AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have the following in control/badmailfrom as shown by qmail-showctl: badmailfrom: [EMAIL PROTECTED] not accepted in MAIL FROM. Hahaha [EMAIL PROTECTED] not accepted in MAIL FROM. Yet messages with the following

RE: $HOME problem

2001-06-27 Thread GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI
2.- I've tried checkpassword but it did't work ;( I could't auth users ... You didn't configure it properly, then. But with an error report like that, not even Russell can help you :). you are right .. qmail-1.03 checkpassword-0.90 I tried the auth examples of the checkpassword

RE: setting quotas. . .

2001-06-27 Thread Norvell Spearman
I think you're confused. From the man page for quotacheck: Quotacheck should be run each time the system boots and mounts non-valid file systems. This is most likely to happen after a system crash. qmail won't be running that early in the boot, so it's not an issue.

Re: Peter from the Dike and Security

2001-06-27 Thread Alan Clegg
Unless the network is lying to me again, peter green said: * Brett Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010626 21:49]: Chris == Chris Bolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: perl -e 'while(){$_=~tr/A-Za-z/N-ZA-Mn-za-m/;print}' Then paste the email :-) Or, a bit shorter, $ tr 'a-zA-Z'

Re: Peter from the Dike and Security

2001-06-27 Thread peter green
* Alan Clegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010627 09:22]: Unless the network is lying to me again, peter green said: * Brett Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010626 21:49]: Chris == Chris Bolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: perl -e 'while(){$_=~tr/A-Za-z/N-ZA-Mn-za-m/;print}' Then paste the email

Re: Peter from the Dike and Security

2001-06-27 Thread Robin S. Socha
* peter green [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010627 08:32]: (pcg@pcg2) ~ rot13 bash: rot13: command not found (robin@mail1):(~)$ man caesar | head -n4 CAESAR(6) OpenBSD Reference Manual CAESAR(6) NAME caesar - decrypt caesar cyphers

RE: Qmail SMTP timing out.

2001-06-27 Thread Mike Peppard
I had a similar problem. Without going into the details, mine was caused by the proxy dropping the connection. Have you tried snoop to watch the packets spray to test for errors with netstat? Just a thought... -Mike -Original Message- From: Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: Peter from the Dike and Security

2001-06-27 Thread peter green
* Robin S. Socha [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010627 09:42]: * peter green [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010627 08:32]: (pcg@pcg2) ~ rot13 bash: rot13: command not found (robin@mail1):(~)$ man caesar | head -n4 (pcg@pcg2) ~ caesar bash: caesar: command not found Next? :-) /pg -- Peter Green : Architekton

Re: Alter bounce messages?

2001-06-27 Thread Charles Cazabon
Amanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In particular I'd like to terminate with extreme prejudice the message that says something to the effect of, Hi. This is the [...] Please don't. That message has a very specific format, to allow it to be recognized and parsed automatically. The format is

Re: Anyone interested in IPv6 support for qmail?

2001-06-27 Thread mick
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Felix von Leitner wrote: I'm asking because I consider porting qmail to IPv6. Before someone tells me: I know KAME did a patch. I am not satisfied with their work. Felix I dread thinking about all the work IPv6 is going to cause. But we can't slow progress. Yes, I

Re: qmail-pop3 and vmailmgr

2001-06-27 Thread Charles Cazabon
pop corn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FQDN is very clear if the Unix host is serving a single domain. However, what is recommended if the host is serving multiple virtual domains? The POP3 server should identify itself by it's real/canonical name, not by one of its virtualdomains -- although

Re: SMTP Proxy

2001-06-27 Thread Charles Cazabon
Awie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I plan to have a SMTP proxy that using qmail. Our main mail server is MS Exchange that not secure enough for SMTP gateway. Would you give me suggestion what should I install ? and what configuration should I do? See Life with qmail, lifewithqmail.org. It's

[OT]: ROT13 [was: Re: Peter from the Dike and Security]

2001-06-27 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:47:26AM -0400, peter green wrote: * Robin S. Socha [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010627 09:42]: * peter green [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010627 08:32]: (pcg@pcg2) ~ rot13 bash: rot13: command not found (robin@mail1):(~)$ man caesar | head -n4 (pcg@pcg2) ~ caesar bash:

Re: Sending mail using qmail smtp

2001-06-27 Thread Charles Cazabon
eddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, when I used my qmail smtp for send an email it show error The connection to the server has failed. Account: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', Server: 'tiger.test.com', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10060, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E I take it this

Re: Peter from the Dike and Security

2001-06-27 Thread Johan Almqvist
* Chris Bolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010627 02:01]: perl -e 'while(){$_=~tr/A-Za-z/N-ZA-Mn-za-m/;print}' perl -pe'y/a-zA-Z/n-za-mN-ZA-M/' -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature

Re: Alter bounce messages?

2001-06-27 Thread peter green
* Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010627 09:56]: Amanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In particular I'd like to terminate with extreme prejudice the message that says something to the effect of, Hi. This is the [...] Please don't. That message has a very specific format, to allow it to

RE: Peter from the Dike and Security

2001-06-27 Thread Mike Peppard
http://www.samag.com/articles/1997/9706/9706d/9706d.htm I'm glad this is a slow week. (Yahoo search keywords - caesar, encryption, unix) -Mike -Original Message- From: peter green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:47 AM To: Qmail List Subject: Re: Peter

Re: Portable RPM for qmail

2001-06-27 Thread Charles Cazabon
John Newbigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am probably going to start a flame war with this but I have created a patch for qmail 1.03 which removes the need for compiled in user and group id's. The patch works by replacing the auto_uida variables with #defines which call functions to return

Re: Peter from the Dike and Security

2001-06-27 Thread Brian S. Craigie
Just open the email in Netscape Messenger, right-mouse on the body and click unscramble [ROT-13]. Brain. peter green wrote: * Robin S. Socha [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010627 09:42]: * peter green [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010627 08:32]: (pcg@pcg2) ~ rot13 bash: rot13: command not found

Re: Alter bounce messages?

2001-06-27 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:01:44AM -0400, peter green wrote: [snip] What is actually parsing that format these days? I can appreciate forward-looking policies like qsbmf, but that doesn't exactly fly with customers all of the time. What can I point to as a definite reason (*now*) to keep

RE: Alter bounce messages?

2001-06-27 Thread Mark Douglas
Title: RE: Alter bounce messages? I'm looking for this same information, and although it has been answered earlier (edit the qmail-send.c file), I'll state what problem I'm trying to solve. I have a lot of users who are not English speaking, and I get a lot of replies to my bounce messages

Re: Databyes

2001-06-27 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 04:06:16PM +0200, Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: Hi there, Is it possible to override the databytes value in the control/databytes file based on the _destination_ of the email. I know how to change the DATABYTES environment variable using tcpwrappers or tcpserver based on

Re: qmailAdmin

2001-06-27 Thread Erich Zigler
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:42:40AM +0100, pat moffatt wrote: I came across a web based administration tool for qmail called qmailadmin on www.inter7.com/qmailadmin . Has anyone any experience of this?? Is it any good?? It is very good. We give all of our webhosting clients access to it,

Re: Peter from the Dike and Security

2001-06-27 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
peter green([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.06.27 09:47:26 +: * Robin S. Socha [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010627 09:42]: * peter green [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010627 08:32]: (pcg@pcg2) ~ rot13 bash: rot13: command not found (robin@mail1):(~)$ man caesar | head -n4 (pcg@pcg2) ~ caesar bash:

RE: Peter from the Dike and Security

2001-06-27 Thread Bill Andersen
You guys are making this way too hard... Copy the text, go to http://world.altavista.com/tr and paste it in the translate to... box. Then choose Garbage to English and click on Translate Poof! You get it back translated into English garbage :) -Original Message- From: Mike Peppard

Re: setting quotas. . .

2001-06-27 Thread Adrian Ho
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 08:07:35AM -0500, Norvell Spearman wrote: I'm probably confused; I've never set quotas on a Linux server before. Did you check out the other man pages listed in the SEE ALSO section of the quotacheck man page? If you didn't, you should have -- you would then have

RE: sender_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:____/

2001-06-27 Thread Alfonso Armenta
That didn't seem to do, apparently, I checked the correct functionality of our DNS and so on. Although in my log quote I used fake addresses those were just slightly changed. The usual protect the innocent (not from the regulars from this list, of course). Actually I do remember obtaining one

Re: Alter bounce messages?

2001-06-27 Thread Charles Cazabon
peter green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please don't. That message has a very specific format, to allow it to be recognized and parsed automatically. The format is documented at: http://cr.yp.to/proto/qsbmf.txt What is actually parsing that format these days? I can appreciate

RE: setting quotas. . .

2001-06-27 Thread Norvell Spearman
If the filesystem isn't mounted, then qmail isn't going to be delivering mail to it, is it? So if I umount /home while qmail is up, will qmail barf or simply wait for /home to be remounted? To run quotacheck, you should probably go to single user mode, unmount all unnecessary filesystems,

Re: Alter bounce messages?

2001-06-27 Thread Adrian Ho
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:43:07AM -0400, Mark Douglas wrote: If I leave the original bounce message in place, and just translate it and add my comments at the bottom, would that still be acceptable for QSBMF? Only if you append it to the intro paragraph (ie. no blank lines in between). As

Re: Alter bounce messages?

2001-06-27 Thread Charles Cazabon
Mark Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a lot of users who are not English speaking, and I get a lot of replies to my bounce messages from them to MAILER-DAEMON asking what the hell the message says. I'd like to include a translated version of the message in the bounce message, as well

custom bounce text

2001-06-27 Thread Mike Jackson
Hi, The qmail-ldap patch contains support for a control/custombouncetext. $ cat custombouncetext This is a test, your message bounced. SSH Communications Security This will produce bounces like so: - Hi. This is the qmail-send program at ssh.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver

Re: sender_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:____/

2001-06-27 Thread Charles Cazabon
Alfonso Armenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although in my log quote I used fake addresses those were just slightly changed. The usual protect the innocent (not from the regulars from this list, of course). Actually I do remember obtaining one of those messages and log entries when I tried

RE: Alter bounce messages?

2001-06-27 Thread Mark Douglas
Title: RE: Alter bounce messages? peter green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please don't. That message has a very specific format, to allow it to be recognized and parsed automatically. The format is documented at: http://cr.yp.to/proto/qsbmf.txt What is actually parsing that format

Re: setting quotas. . .

2001-06-27 Thread Charles Cazabon
Norvell Spearman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the filesystem isn't mounted, then qmail isn't going to be delivering mail to it, is it? So if I umount /home while qmail is up, will qmail barf or simply wait for /home to be remounted? You still don't get it. Running quotacheck is something

Re: setting quotas. . .

2001-06-27 Thread Greg White
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:38:28AM -0500, Norvell Spearman wrote: I know single user mode would be best; I could do the quota stuff late at night. But what would happen if mail comes to the server and qmail isn't running? Does it simply bounce back to the sender, does the originating smtp

RE: SMTP Proxy

2001-06-27 Thread Lukas Beeler
-Original Message- From: Awie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 3:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SMTP Proxy Hi all, hi I plan to have a SMTP proxy that using qmail. good idea Our main mail server is MS Exchange that not secure enough for SMTP gateway. yes

RE: setting quotas. . .

2001-06-27 Thread Norvell Spearman
Did you check out the other man pages listed in the SEE ALSO section of the quotacheck man page? If you didn't, you should have -- you would then have discovered exactly what creates the quota.{user,group} files. (Hint: They're created when you turn quotas on.) - Adrian I must be reading

Bruce Guenter's relay-ctrl

2001-06-27 Thread Todd Grimes
when i run relay-ctrl-age from cron or command line, i get # /usr/local/bin: Permission denied I've checked the permissions, from cron its run as root. The only files it should be using in /usr/local/bin is tcprules is this behavior normal? or have I got a few things screwed up? Thanks in

Re: sender_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:____/

2001-06-27 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:33:32AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: Alfonso Armenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although in my log quote I used fake addresses those were just slightly changed. The usual protect the innocent (not from the regulars from this list, of course). Actually I do

Re: qmail-getpw

2001-06-27 Thread Andrew J Herbert
No unfortunately I do not, it would make life a lot easier if that was all that was wrong. The way the system is set up the admins have logins in a real /etc/passwd on the machine, then there is an ldap server that provides information on the 'users'. The admins in the /etc/passwd file can

Can't send mail using SMTP on qmail 1.03 - Follow-up

2001-06-27 Thread Perry Macdonald
I had posted a question earlier regarding a problem sending mail to SMTP. I have a snippet below from recordio when I send a message body containgn 123 . The last few lines of the SMTP transaction produced by Outlook .. Jun 26 07:42:33 fs1 smtpd: 993566553.076015 13548 X-MimeOLE:

RE: Bruce Guenter's relay-ctrl

2001-06-27 Thread Lukas Beeler
-Original Message- From: Todd Grimes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 7:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bruce Guenter's relay-ctrl when i run relay-ctrl-age from cron or command line, i get # /usr/local/bin: Permission denied probably trying to

RE: setting quotas. . .

2001-06-27 Thread Norvell Spearman
IMHO, single-user mode, unmount filesystem, set up quotas, back to multiuser mode is probably your best bet. Your odds of losing any mail during this transaction are extremely low, unless the sending mail servers are totally useless... Greg White Thanks very much. I would like to

[OT] rackmount chassis?

2001-06-27 Thread Mike Cathey
I realize this is slightly off topic (relates to qmail indirectly), but I though some of the people on this list might be able help me a bit. I'm attempting to setup a failover nfs server with 2 machines. They will have a shared scsi bus between them with 2 raid controllers for redundancy.

Re: custom bounce text

2001-06-27 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The qmail-ldap patch contains support for a control/custombouncetext. $ cat custombouncetext This is a test, your message bounced. SSH Communications Security This will produce bounces like so: - Hi. This is the qmail-send program at ssh.com. I'm afraid I

Re: Bruce Guenter's relay-ctrl

2001-06-27 Thread Charles Cazabon
Todd Grimes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when i run relay-ctrl-age from cron or command line, i get # /usr/local/bin: Permission denied Do you have a space between /usr/local/bin and relay-ctrl-age or some other program in your cron script? Please post your script here (copy paste, NOT

Re: qmail-getpw

2001-06-27 Thread Charles Cazabon
Andrew J Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The admins in the /etc/passwd file can receive mail, but the users on the LDAP server can't. However if I run qmail-getpw from the command line it retrieves the users information no problem, same as with the admins. The permissions on the

Auth problems

2001-06-27 Thread Todd Grimes
I was running qmail-pop3d from inetd on FreeBSD 4.3 with no problems getting my mail. I took a suggestion and moved to running it under tcpserver. Now using the same username and password I get a -ERR authorization failed. qmail-pop3d start script: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit

Re: Can't send mail using SMTP on qmail 1.03 - Follow-up

2001-06-27 Thread Charles Cazabon
Perry Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had posted a question earlier regarding a problem sending mail to SMTP. I have a snippet below from recordio when I send a message body containgn 123 . The last few lines of the SMTP transaction produced by Outlook .. Jun 26 07:42:33 fs1

Re: Bruce Guenter's relay-ctrl

2001-06-27 Thread Todd Grimes
* * * * * root/usr/sbin/relay-ctrl-age At 01:43 PM 6/27/2001 -0600, you wrote: Todd Grimes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when i run relay-ctrl-age from cron or command line, i get # /usr/local/bin: Permission denied Do you have a space between /usr/local/bin and

Re: qmail-getpw

2001-06-27 Thread Henning Brauer
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:49:41PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: The fact the qmail-getpw seems to work is what confuses me. You said you're not using qmail-users. Does qmail-LDAP still use qmail-getpw then? If not, that would explain this, if you're actually using qmail-LDAP (I can't

Re: Java and Qmail - building a large mailmerge server - plain text version

2001-06-27 Thread Greg Cope
Russell Nelson wrote: The problem, simply enough, is that you should try very, very hard not to have a separate copy of the email on the disk. If you're running qmail-inject on each message, then yes, three machines aren't going to be enough. On the other hand, three machines of the

Re: Problem with VAR directory during install

2001-06-27 Thread Steve Reed
Well I think I may have located the source of the trouble but it's still puzzling. Both the Life With Qmail and the Running qmail book want the /var/qmail directory created while logged in as root. That gives ownership to the user root in the group root. Then, the qmail-specific groups and

Re: Problem with VAR directory during install

2001-06-27 Thread Steve Reed
Excuse me while I go bang my head against the wall. OK, there now that that's over withhas anyone else had trouble installing qmail on Mandrake 8? I'm following the instructions to the letter and the darn thing won't install. I'd much rather find the reason for it and fix it than

Solaris vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-06-27 Thread Federico Edelman Anaya
What's is the best OS for run Qmail (and/or Ezmlm)? What advantage and disadvantage has each one? I'll need send two millions mails per day and I don't know what hard can I buy? :) Thanks very much!

Re: RE: Problem with VAR directory during install

2001-06-27 Thread Steve Reed
Hi, I installed Mandrake using the 2 CDs, the latest distro (downloaded the ISOs and burned the CDs). It seemed to install perfectly fine. I want to use qmail because it seems to have the best reputation. Mandrake comes with Postfix, which I chose to not install. From what I've read

Re: Solaris vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-06-27 Thread Adam McKenna
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:22:02PM -0300, Federico Edelman Anaya wrote: What's is the best OS for run Qmail (and/or Ezmlm)? What advantage and disadvantage has each one? I'll need send two millions mails per day and I don't know what hard can I buy? :) go away, troll. --Adam

xinetd config file for qmail

2001-06-27 Thread Kenneth
I missed the original disucssion but I never saw a config file posted to the archive so here's one. Critiques of the following setup are welcome. However please note **This is a small qmail site and I am very familiar with tcpwappers already** So arguments about reliability at very high

RE: Solaris vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-06-27 Thread David T. Ashley
Just be careful about Linux because it has a maximum 2G file size (size for a single file). This can get in the way of some search engines which build large random-access files that exceed 2G. But it should not pose any kind of a problem for mail, especially if MAILDIR format is used. I

RE: RE: Problem with VAR directory during install

2001-06-27 Thread Tim Hunter
Just for the sake of argument I have a Mandrake 8 machine that runs qmail fine with the directions from LWQ I also have a Mandrake Cooker machine (pre8.1) that I installed qmail fine. Nothing wierd, just word for word from LWQ. Still I prefer debian but this was for a friend who likes the ease

Re: Solaris vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-06-27 Thread Sean Chittenden
What's is the best OS for run Qmail (and/or Ezmlm)? What advantage and disadvantage has each one? I'll need send two millions mails per day and I don't know what hard can I buy? :) Solaris is slow to fork and qmail makes liberal use of that call, so solaris is out of the question.

Re: RE: Problem with VAR directory during install

2001-06-27 Thread Steve Reed
Well I guess that kind of puts the nail in the coffin. Mandrake is supposed to be a top-notch distro - too bad they barfed all over version 8. I'll go snag the 7.2 ISOs and start all over again. Good thing, this mailing list! -Steve I downloaded the ISO's and burned CDS for 7.2. I

Re: RE: Problem with VAR directory during install

2001-06-27 Thread Steve Reed
Well I guess that kind of puts the nail in the coffin. Mandrake is supposed to be a top-notch distro - too bad they barfed all over version 8. I'll go snag the 7.2 ISOs and start all over again. Good thing, this mailing list! -Steve I downloaded the ISO's and burned CDS for 7.2. I

Re: RE: Problem with VAR directory during install

2001-06-27 Thread Steve Reed
Well I guess that kind of puts the nail in the coffin. Mandrake is supposed to be a top-notch distro - too bad they barfed all over version 8. I'll go snag the 7.2 ISOs and start all over again. Good thing, this mailing list! -Steve I downloaded the ISO's and burned CDS for 7.2. I

Re: SMTP Proxy

2001-06-27 Thread Awie
Thanks Lucas Charles ! I will try. Thx rgds, Awie - Original Message - From: Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:54 PM Subject: Re: SMTP Proxy Awie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I plan to have a SMTP proxy that using qmail. Our

Large messages terminated with error?

2001-06-27 Thread Matt Simonsen
Hello all- Some background. I have a Qmail server running RedHat 7.0 version 1.03, along with courier-imap 1.2.3 (just the IMAP part) + vpopmail 4.9.8. It is off-site from our office, and for 130 days the whole email system has been flawless, even through the 3 times our office has changed IPs.

Re: qmail-pop3 and vmailmgr

2001-06-27 Thread pop corn
1) Sounds good, I'll use the real, canonical name 2) I didn't realize the password replacement could do all that work by itself. It apparently doesn't need the vmailmgrd daemon to run? 3) I agree that the pop3 clients can be configured to leave things on the server. It's reassuring to know

Re: qmail-pop3 and vmailmgr

2001-06-27 Thread pop corn
1) Sounds good, I'll use the real, canonical name 2) I didn't realize the password replacement could do all that work by itself. It apparently doesn't need the vmailmgrd daemon to run? 3) I agree that the pop3 clients can be configured to leave things on the server. It's reassuring to know

Re: RE: Problem with VAR directory during install

2001-06-27 Thread Adam McKenna
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:03:37PM +1200, Steve Reed wrote: Well I guess that kind of puts the nail in the coffin. Mandrake is supposed to be a top-notch distro Er, since when? --Adam

Re: RE: RE: Problem with VAR directory during install

2001-06-27 Thread Steve Reed
Hmmm...I wonder why my Mandrake 8 install won't cooperate. I've reloaded the OS a half dozen times, each time more careful than the previous, and to make a long story short when you do the make absolutely nothing goes into the /var/qmail directory. The install basically goes nowhere. I

Re: RE: RE: Problem with VAR directory during install

2001-06-27 Thread Steve Reed
Hmmm...I wonder why my Mandrake 8 install won't cooperate. I've reloaded the OS a half dozen times, each time more careful than the previous, and to make a long story short when you do the make absolutely nothing goes into the /var/qmail directory. The install basically goes nowhere. I

Re: RE: RE: Problem with VAR directory during install

2001-06-27 Thread Steve Reed
Hmmm...I wonder why my Mandrake 8 install won't cooperate. I've reloaded the OS a half dozen times, each time more careful than the previous, and to make a long story short when you do the make absolutely nothing goes into the /var/qmail directory. The install basically goes nowhere. I

Re: RE: RE: Problem with VAR directory during install

2001-06-27 Thread Steve Reed
Hmmm...I wonder why my Mandrake 8 install won't cooperate. I've reloaded the OS a half dozen times, each time more careful than the previous, and to make a long story short when you do the make absolutely nothing goes into the /var/qmail directory. The install basically goes nowhere. I

Re: Portable RPM for qmail

2001-06-27 Thread John Newbigin
You may distribute a precompiled package if installing your package produces exactly the same files, in exactly the same locations, that a user would obtain by installing one of my packages listed above; My RPM produces exactly the same file and directory structure with the exception

Help with qmail-smtpd logging

2001-06-27 Thread Dave Fallon
I have qmail, qmail-smtpd, and qmail-pop3d running on my system, all in default configurations (in /var/qmail/*, using daemontools/tcpserver, etc.). Qmail-pop3d is nicely running and logging things, but qmail-smtpd is dumping all messages to the console (tty1) - can anyone help me fix this?

Re: Help with qmail-smtpd logging

2001-06-27 Thread pop corn
I'm no expert, but since I've just been setting up my own qmail, some of this is still freshly confusing for me! Did you remember to do all of the following? chmod +t /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd chown qmaill:nofiles /var/log/qmail/smtpd chmod 2700 /var/log/qmail/smtpd chmod 755 (both of

Integrating the logs

2001-06-27 Thread pop corn
I have my different daemons logging into the various log subdirectories via multilog. My problem now is integrating them so that I have a continuous line of activity from the beginning to end for a given email. For example, I can do a tail -f current log for qmail-pop3 while running tests.

Re: Integrating the logs

2001-06-27 Thread hari_bhr
look for ISOQLOG nice - Original Message - From: pop corn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 10:00 AM Subject: Integrating the logs I have my different daemons logging into the various log subdirectories via multilog. My problem now is integrating

Problem with qmail-remote during Delivery

2001-06-27 Thread D Rajesh
Hi there, Firstly, sorry for a long mail. I have sent 30,000 mails to different domains like yahoo, hotmail, rediff etc... Before mentioning the problem the configuration that I have used in qmailis as follows:- qmail config -- 1.) Two qmails running at /var/qmail and

Re: Solaris vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-06-27 Thread Niles Rowland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand that Free BSD and Linux are the overwhelming choices of the Internet pornography industry. That is a good technical figure of merit, because it means these servers are stable (for HTTP) when getting lots and lots of hits. Actually, Linux and FreeBSD

Re: Solaris vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-06-27 Thread Sean Chittenden
I understand that Free BSD and Linux are the overwhelming choices of the Internet pornography industry. That is a good technical figure of merit, because it means these servers are stable (for HTTP) when getting lots and lots of hits. Actually, Linux and FreeBSD are the systems of

Re: Solaris vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-06-27 Thread List Monkey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand that Free BSD and Linux are the overwhelming choices of the Internet pornography industry. That is a good technical figure of merit, because it means these servers are stable (for HTTP) when getting lots and lots of hits. Actually, Linux

svscan help

2001-06-27 Thread Kevin Roberts
Does any know how to fix this error starting svscan? env: invalid option - - P Try `env --help' for more information; #!/bin/sh PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/var/qmail/bincase "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting djb services: svscan" cd /service env - PATH="$PATH" svscan echo $!

Re: svscan help

2001-06-27 Thread List Monkey
What does echo $PATH say? On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Kevin Roberts wrote: Does any know how to fix this error starting svscan? env: invalid option - - P Try `env --help' for more information; #!/bin/sh PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/var/qmail/bin case $1 in start) echo

RE: Solaris vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-06-27 Thread John Doe
Umm..wasn't the 2G file limit fixed in the 2.0 kernels? --- David T. Ashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just be careful about Linux because it has a maximum 2G file size (size for a single file). This can get in the way of some search engines which build large random-access files that exceed