Re: tcpserver problems? or is it qmail? or BOTH! Help? (fwd)

2001-08-04 Thread robr
Possibly the reason you were "blasted" is that this is incorrect. You _cannot_ make inetd or xinetd use tcpserver. Your xinetd script doesn't use tcpserver; it uses tcp-env. tcp-env was originally designed to allow you to do tcpserver-like operations from inetd, but is now deprecated. There

Re: Anti-relaying

2001-08-04 Thread Hansi Bierdo
Charles Cazabon wrote: > > You're an open relay. Stop qmail-smtpd, and change that line to > > :allow > > instead. Hi Charles, thanks for your advice. I changed my /etc/tcpcontrol/smtp.rules to 127.0.0.1:allow :allow and now everything is working fine. :-) I also reread some of that smtp

RE: tcpserver problems? or is it qmail? or BOTH! Help? (fwd)

2001-08-04 Thread Charlie Chrisman
How do you get tcpserver to run the qmail-smtpd daemon? When I run it as in the faq, it runs and I see the process running, but it doesn't accept connections. I then changed it to use inetd using tcp-env and qmail-smtpd accepts connections. Could someone get me starting in the right direction?

Re: rblsmtpd and mail-abuse.org's DNS servers

2001-08-04 Thread Chris Hardie
I list some alternatives to MAPS's RBLs, along with some other spam-prevention techniques, here: http://www.summersault.com/chris/techno/qmail/qmail-antispam.html http://www.summersault.com/chris/techno/qmail/qmail-antispam.html#resources Chris On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Derek Callaway wrote: > On T

Re: How-best-to: Secondary Queue for Mailing List

2001-08-04 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:45:00AM -0400, Jeff Hill wrote: > When we e-mail a newsletter to our user list (10,000+ e-mail, twice a > month), it holds up any other e-mail going into the send queue. What's > the best way to avoid this? This question has been asked and answered less than a week ago.

Re: How-best-to: Secondary Queue for Mailing List

2001-08-04 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 05:56:46PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:45:00AM -0400, Jeff Hill wrote: > > When we e-mail a newsletter to our user list (10,000+ e-mail, twice a > > month), it holds up any other e-mail going into the send queue. What's > > the best way to avoi

Re: tcpserver problems? or is it qmail? or BOTH! Help?

2001-08-04 Thread Charles Cazabon
Scott Zielsdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My thanks to Lukas Beeler who asked me to run 'ps auxf' and behold! > I found errors coming from readproctile telling me it couldn't find > /usr/local/bin/setguidid. [...] > So did I 'fat finger' setguidid somewhere in a script or did my daemonto

Re: tcpserver problems? or is it qmail? or BOTH! Help? (fwd)

2001-08-04 Thread Charles Cazabon
Please quote properly; your original text was after a sig delimiter, and you had no attribution for my text. I wrote: > > There are precisely zero advantages to using inetd/xinetd in this > > manner, and several disadvantages (when compared to a simple > > tcpserver installation). [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: tcpserver problems? or is it qmail? or BOTH! Help? (fwd)

2001-08-04 Thread Charles Cazabon
Charlie Chrisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you get tcpserver to run the qmail-smtpd daemon? When I run it > as in the faq, it runs and I see the process running, but it doesn't > accept connections. I then changed it to use inetd using tcp-env and > qmail-smtpd accepts connections. Co

Re: no shell for qmail user (qmails, qmaill,...)

2001-08-04 Thread pop corn
>On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:41:29AM -0200, MassimoQuintini wrote: >>For security reason, can I disable shell in /etc/passwd for qmail >users >>(qmails, qmaill, ...ect,) setting the shell to /bin/false ? > >/bin/false is a very silly idea. /nonexistent is much better. > >Greetz, Peter. Hi Peter,

Re: no shell for qmail user (qmails, qmaill,...)

2001-08-04 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 04:28:51PM +, pop corn wrote: [snip] > >/bin/false is a very silly idea. /nonexistent is much better. > > Hi Peter, > > This is a post that I pulled out from the archives. I think /nonexistent > does seem better than /bin/false. It is. /nonexistent has no security i

Re: no shell for qmail user (qmails, qmaill,...)

2001-08-04 Thread rmo
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 04:28:51PM +, pop corn wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:41:29AM -0200, MassimoQuintini wrote: > >>For security reason, can I disable shell in /etc/passwd for qmail >users > >>(qmails, qmaill, ...ect,) setting the shell to /bin/false ? > > > >/bin/false is a very s

RE: tcpserver problems? or is it qmail? or BOTH! Help?

2001-08-04 Thread Scott Zielsdorf
-Original Message- > From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > So did I 'fat finger' setguidid somewhere in a script or did my > daemontools > > install fail and I just didn't realize it? Or is there another problem? > > It's "setuidgid", not "setguidgid". Yeah, people keep tel

Re: tcpserver problems? or is it qmail? or BOTH! Help?

2001-08-04 Thread Charles Cazabon
First of all, I'm on the list, and I set Mail-Followup-To: appropriately. Please don't cc: me on your list messages; I hate duplicates and get 500-1000 messages a day already. Scott Zielsdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It's "setuidgid", not "setguidgid". > > Yeah, people keep telling me

Re: no shell for qmail user (qmails, qmaill,...)

2001-08-04 Thread pop corn
> The /nonexistent is meant to be the user's shell, not his home. You and Peter are absolutely correct. I lost my train of thought as I was typing out that question. Sorry! Thanks for the fast response. I hadn't created /nonexistent, but wanted to be sure that I wasn't overlooking something.

Re: Problem with routing (Again)

2001-08-04 Thread Cordell Bourne
Basically what I am needing to get back to is this scenario All of the domain names are representative names and do not reflect the real thing in my test lab. I have a client using my qmail server for outgoing smtp. 1) If I address the user as [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want the message delivered to

Re: Problem with routing (Again)

2001-08-04 Thread Charles Cazabon
Cordell Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Basically what I am needing to get back to is this scenario All of > the domain names are representative names and do not reflect the real > thing in my test lab. Please don't do this; it wastes everybody's time. Use real names or IP addresses. Obvio

RE: tcpserver problems? or is it qmail? or BOTH! Help?

2001-08-04 Thread Scott Zielsdorf
> -Original Message- > From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 1:52 PM > First of all, I'm on the list, and I set Mail-Followup-To: > appropriately. Please don't cc: me on your list messages; I hate > duplicates and get 500-1000 messages a day al

RE: tcpserver problems? or is it qmail? or BOTH! Help?

2001-08-04 Thread Scott Zielsdorf
Gadzooks In my previous reply to Charles Cazabon I was IMPRECISE. My rcpthosts file is NOT blank, it has localhost in it. Just wanted to clear that up before Charles could retort :) Scott Zielsdorf Senior Technical Support Consultant Computer Instruments 9901 W. 87th St. Overland Park, KS 66

Re: tcpserver problems? or is it qmail? or BOTH! Help?

2001-08-04 Thread Charles Cazabon
Scott Zielsdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please don't cc: me on your list messages [...] > > While learning anything necessarily about linux or qmail from > you may be dubious, I will definitely learn perfection :) > > My humblest apologies that I failed to remove your personal > address

RE: tcpserver problems? or is it qmail? or BOTH! Help?

2001-08-04 Thread Scott Zielsdorf
> -Original Message- > From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 6:26 PM > Despite the smiley, that first paragraph sounds supiciously insulting. > And why are you trying to turn this into a dicksize war? Oh, Charles...I'm feeling impetuous. Pleas

Re: Problem with routing (Again)

2001-08-04 Thread Cordell Bourne
My qmail server is jester.pain.teamp.com (In my former messages this was hostname.somedomain.com) When my client is using the qmail mta for outgoing smtp, I want the mail messages to stay on jester.pain.teamp.com, if they are addressed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] What I want is th

Re: Problem with routing (Again)

2001-08-04 Thread Tim Legant
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 07:03:36PM -0600, Cordell Bourne wrote: > When my client is using the qmail mta for outgoing smtp, I want the mail messages > to stay on jester.pain.teamp.com, if they are addressed as > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add pain.teamp.com to .../control/locals. Tim

Re: Problem with routing (Again)

2001-08-04 Thread Cordell Bourne
Thanks that worked! Tim Legant wrote: > On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 07:03:36PM -0600, Cordell Bourne wrote: > > When my client is using the qmail mta for outgoing smtp, I want the mail messages > > to stay on jester.pain.teamp.com, if they are addressed as > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug? Sorta urgent to figure this out; adding domains...

2001-08-04 Thread Jeff C.
I've been running qmail/vpopmail/sqwebmail forever. I have it running off mysql. I have about 70 domains added and have been doing the samething forever without a problem. That's why this confuses me; I added a new domain and I initially had the mail bouncing 5.4.6 (even after I hup'd) .. so th