Re: Outlook 'server pushed' mail notification

2000-09-26 Thread Eric Cox
John P wrote: I've seen some offices have new mail delivered 'instantly' to their Outlook users - I presume it's when done in conjunction with Exchange. That is, as soon as the server recieves the e-mail, it is put in the user's folder and they are notified with the little envelope (and

Re: dotqmail scripting

2000-09-23 Thread Eric Cox
Peter Samuel wrote: On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Eric Cox wrote: Mail is delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~alias/.qmail-user1 contains: |script that writes a username into ~alias/.qmail-user2 user2 It would work but it's a woefully inefficient way to do it. Especially as qmail comes

Re: List activity

2000-09-16 Thread Eric Cox
Mike Hodson wrote: Hey, im just wondering, is the qmail list activity oddly slow, or is my new email setup blocking 90% of all incoming messages? Without any numbers, how would you expect us to know? Eric

Re: Mypoints.com is not nice to us qmail admins (was: C API for queueing messages)

2000-09-14 Thread Eric Cox
"Aaron L. Meehan" wrote: Quoting Jay Balakrishna ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] Any help will be appreciated. Any other ideas are also most welcome Thanks and Regards, Wow, Mypoints! I think Mark is helping admirably with your question, but I will offer some help myself in another

FAQ Listbot? (was: Re: rcphosts)

2000-09-14 Thread Eric Cox
On 13-Sep-2000, Jerry Hsieh wrote: " The mail server responded: sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcphosts. Please check the message receipients and try again" If I add the xyz.com in the rcphosts and it works. My question is how can I edit this file (by addind all the

Re: Blocking certain mail with no From

2000-09-14 Thread Eric Cox
"Hubbard, David" wrote: Hi all, I've got a couple of places that like to subscribe non-existant email addresses to mailing lists without confirmation. One of these bastards is winvite.com. The problem I'm having is that they don't send their emails with a "From" header, so

Re: Monitoring Email - Clarified

2000-09-13 Thread Eric Cox
"Scott D. Yelich" wrote: Understand? There's just, what I perceive, as a growing tendency for people to answer a question with what they want, regardless of what they were asked. Or perhaps they just don't know the answer to that exact question, so they "nibble around the edges" a bit,

Re: Linuxluser thread (Was: linuxpeople thread)

2000-09-13 Thread Eric Cox
"Robin S. Socha" wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000913 04:32]: Hello I have documented each step up until they fail. Damn, you are *STUPID*. When someone tells you to post a *SHORT* and *PREGNANT* error message, why do you send 600 lines? /compile qmail-local.c

Re: sendmail equivalent command on qmail

2000-09-09 Thread Eric Cox
"Alfredo Batista Rguez, Dpto Informatica" wrote: Helo people: I have a bit question. What is the equivlent command on QMAIL of : sendmail -U -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] This commnd line are used by X daemon to send messaje to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with statistical

Re: Mass Mailout Performance Tips

2000-09-07 Thread Eric Cox
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you using multiple spindes? Can I recommend that you do. Do you mean separate hard disks for the queue? .. The queue resides on a RAID5 hardware controlled array. I seem to remember someone saying that RAID5 is exactly the wrong kind of RAID for a mail

Re: how to get off the mailing list?

2000-09-06 Thread Eric Cox
Sam Carleton wrote: Can someone enlighten me as to how to remove myself from this mailing list? I don't know myself, but I know a guy that does. His email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Drop him a line, and I'm sure he'll be happy to help you... Good luck, Eric

Re: I have a problem

2000-09-05 Thread Eric Cox
And then mail it to someone. Eric Fabio Pedrazzoli wrote: Please guru write down your problem. Ima Guru wrote: I have a problem with qmail. Can someone tell me how to fix it? Thanks!

Re: Email to SMS

2000-09-05 Thread Eric Cox
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: Is there a add on for qmail to enable email to SMS. Nothing specifically for qmail (that I know of), but for general Unix, it shouldn't be too hard to cobble up a script or two using sms_client: http://freshmeat.net/projects/smsclient/?highlight=sms_client I

Re: You sure do (was Re: I have a problem)

2000-09-05 Thread Eric Cox
Stephen Bosch wrote: Ima Guru wrote: I have a problem with qmail. Can someone tell me how to fix it? Thanks! Sure! Reconfigure your frombulator and make sure that the permissions are correct on your flarm scripts. Also, don't forget to thoroughly grease your muffler bearings and

Re: Open relay test.

2000-09-03 Thread Eric Cox
Sean C Truman wrote: I am adding the non-colors, table feature.. I do not like the colors or tags. GUI people like it.. I will add a Bool for the Graphics and table format.. so that you can switch from either mode.. however as you reported at the bottom it is not considered a open relay..

Re: Open relay test.

2000-09-03 Thread Eric Cox
"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: I imagine that more than one person on this list has spoken to ORBS about their misleading relay test? How many people have ended up on the ORBS list simply because their qmail installations accepted emails with "%" or "!" in the To: field? None. ORBS doesn't

Re: Anyone know how to intercept mail?

2000-09-01 Thread Eric Cox
Wilson Henriquez wrote: Hey all! I really need to intercept mail coming from outside users that are trying to contact an unknown user on my mail system. Does anyone know how to do it? If i understand you correctly, you should be able to do: echo "wilson" ~alias/.qmail-default

Re: Sending an email to all users of my system

2000-09-01 Thread Eric Cox
Roberto Samarone Araújo (RSA) wrote: I would like to know how can I create an email , so when I send a message using this email it will send a copy of it to all users in my email system including virtual emails but , if an user try to make a reply of this email , it only

Re: user getting mailing list

2000-09-01 Thread Eric Cox
Petre Rodan wrote: Hi folks! I have the following dilema: peter is a user on my system. peter subscribes to this mailing list. how can I make sure peter getts the messages from this list? I ask this because the 'TO:' field doesn't point to the local user but to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Timezone

2000-08-29 Thread Eric Cox
"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: Daniel Augusto Fernandes wrote: Yes, I agree with the MUA being responsible for doing the translation. But some doesn't do that. Like Mickeysoft's Outlook Excess, for example. Outlook is not standards compliant. What you're essentially asking for a way to

[Fwd: Re: Timezone]

2000-08-29 Thread Eric Cox
00 X-UIDL: 967605652.8716.dream Eric Cox wrote: "Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: Daniel Augusto Fernandes wrote: Yes, I agree with the MUA being responsible for doing the translation. But some doesn't do that. Like Mickeysoft's Outlook Excess, for example. Outl

Re: Weird Problems.

2000-08-27 Thread Eric Cox
Sean C Truman wrote: Hey guys, Ok I am to my wits end on a problem. 1) tcpserver hangs for 2-4 min after 4-10 min of operations. Looking at the problem it looks like the TCPSERVER hangs and svscan restarts it after 2-4 mins. If I Kill the tcpserver processes ever 5 min I

Re: Qmail starts dropping email all of a sudden and SLOWWWW attachment upload

2000-08-25 Thread Eric Cox
Daniel Ceregatti wrote: Chris Johnson wrote: On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:37:15AM -0700, Daniel Ceregatti wrote: Recently, some weird stuff has been happening. All of a sudden, mail to certain users gets dropped (i.e. /dev/null). It simply vanishes. No bounce, nothing. But other

Re: Qmail starts dropping email all of a sudden and SLOWWWW attachment upload

2000-08-25 Thread Eric Cox
Daniel Ceregatti wrote: Yes, it was delivered to the Mailbox file in their directory. Thing is, this is a spool type file, mails are concatenated. Do you know a way to make this available to the user without parsing it and placing it into their regular directory? I tried simply placing

Re: Queue Time

2000-08-18 Thread Eric Cox
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Eric Cox wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you only go to an hour granularity and assume a queuelifetime of no more than seven days, then you only need 168 instances. I was kinda thinking of something a little more elegant than

Re: Is This Annoying Enough?

2000-08-18 Thread Eric Cox
From: Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 5:43 AM Subject: Re: Is This Annoying Enough? Bruno Prior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A short while before the self-righteous thread on How To Annoy People Whose Help You Need, I posted a request

Re: qmail prefered platform??

2000-08-17 Thread Eric Cox
TAG wrote: Hi ALL, What is the prefered platform for qmail to run on - say I have a 100 000 mailboxes that are VERY busy - what do I want to run this on . Your advise is greatly appreciated... Unix. Badoomboom-Crash! *roaring laughter* But, seriously folks I've heard that

Re: Queue Time

2000-08-17 Thread Eric Cox
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you only go to an hour granularity and assume a queuelifetime of no more than seven days, then you only need 168 instances. I was kinda thinking of something a little more elegant than that... How about using Netscape's X-Priority header to set the queue

Re: Filtering Spamming

2000-08-16 Thread Eric Cox
Baltazar Quinterno wrote: Can anyone give me some tips for filtering incomming mails from certain hosts or e-mails adresses. Tons of info on the qmail site. Search for "rblsmtpd". Once that is installed, check out www.mail-abuse.org, and www.orbs.org. Im running Qmail+tcpserver,

Re: converting tai64n to something readable

2000-08-16 Thread Eric Cox
Ben Beuchler wrote: Since I do not know C, I do not have the luxury of using libtai. So I guess I would need a way of converting a specific time to it's tai64n equivalent. First, like some people have already said, learn C. If you ever need to write something that handles large amounts

Re: Someone have a bad experience with qmail once.

2000-08-14 Thread Eric Cox
Sean, my friend, you are venturing into dangerous waters :) Check the mailing list archives to find out why... Eric Sean C Truman wrote: This was taken straight from the www.orbs.org site. http://www.orbs.org/otherresources.html "Qmail admins: Qmail's current version is insecure by

Re: local email stuck in que until i restart qmailsend?? help

2000-08-14 Thread Eric Cox
J wrote: For some odd reason... one of my qmail machines is "blind" to mail going to the same domain! smtpd just places them in the que and qmailsend doesn't see them until I kill/restart qmailsend. After I restart, it sends them and then becomes stupid again and doesn't send any

Re: Protection

2000-08-10 Thread Eric Cox
Brett Randall wrote: Set up an automatic revenge flood? Maybe not... : It depends if it is mailing lists or spam. First start by unsubscribing from REAL mailing lists. Then the mailing-list admins will never learn to use authenticating managers. Slider: Mailing lists, I say bounce

Re: spambot subscribed to qmail list recently

2000-08-10 Thread Eric Cox
Charles Cazabon wrote: Hi, all, I think someone has recently subscribed an email harvester to the qmail list. Two messages I've sent today have both resulted in almost immediate spam with subject "Have a GREAT day on me.". The mail appears to be forged to look like it was relayed

Re: one SMTP Server Backup

2000-08-08 Thread Eric Cox
Luis wrote: Hello Everyone, I have a pretty situation in my ISP: I Have to SMTP Server for one domain: the first has de MX=1 the second has the MX=2 I need to create one solution where when the second server is up, all the incoming messages on the first server would be moved to

Re: tai64n -- why?

2000-08-05 Thread Eric Cox
Ben Beuchler wrote: On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 07:11:52PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: syslog timestamps are amazingly annoying to try to parse. TAI64 is trivial to parse. This is a significant improvement. ISO date/time format would also have been easy to parse, and I would have

Re: tai64n -- why?

2000-08-05 Thread Eric Cox
Ben Beuchler wrote: On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 11:54:41AM -0700, Eric Cox wrote: Have you looked into using libtai in your app? It's Dan's library for using tai, and could be linked with your application. I currently trying to write a Python wrapper for it so I can use it from my

Re: Editing error messages

2000-08-04 Thread Eric Cox
Bryan Ischo wrote: The people who read bounce mails are typically those who sent it, which, 99% of the time, is a person who is completely unfamiliar with mail systems. To them, something like, "You cannot sent mail to that site using this mail server", or somesuch, would be less

Re: Anti Virus

2000-08-03 Thread Eric Cox
Alexander Pennace wrote: Not all binary attachments are bad. PGP/MIME signed messages (such as this one) put the PGP signature in a MIME attachment, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2015.txt. I would be very unhappy if someone was removing the PGP signatures from my messages. What

Re: rblsmtpd

2000-08-02 Thread Eric Cox
Jon Rust wrote: See 'man rblsmtpd'. :-) No man page for rblsmtpd, at least on my 6-month old package. Docs are actually on the rblsmtpd download page. [snip.] Some rather basic questions How do I set the $RBLSMTPD environment variable in order for rblsmtpd to block incoming

Re: Asking again: rcpthosts, relaying, and tcp-env 7.6

2000-07-30 Thread Eric Cox
Todd Finney wrote: Hi again, No one seems to have an answer on this, which leads me to believe that my question is either (1) a dumb question well covered in a doc somewhere, or (2) an extremely difficult question that has everyone stumped. Could someone at least clue me in on which

Re: How to requeue messages?

2000-07-27 Thread Eric Cox
Albert Hopkins wrote: How do I requeue message files that are in a users Maildir. I had changed the user's .qmail file to forward to another address and I want the items in the user's Maildir/new to be requeued. If the messages have already been delivered to a Maildir then you need not

Re: Returned mail: User unknown * from this list!

2000-07-27 Thread Eric Cox
Yeah, I've gotten about 10 of these. I put them into my RBL domain with a message that should (hopefully) let the admin of this busted mailer know something is wrong. 'Course now his mailer is constantly beating on mine trying unsuccessfully to deliver all those bounces. I hope this guy

Re: orbs.org accuses qmail of mailbomb relaying!

2000-07-23 Thread Eric Cox
Russ Allbery wrote: David Dyer-Bennet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And either ORBS is blowing *amazing* clouds of smoke or MAPS is really putting the boot in in their private way, in ways I can't approve of. ORBS is blowing *amazing* clouds of smoke. Either that, or Alan Brown has

Re: problem with virtual user

2000-07-23 Thread Eric Cox
Jens Georg wrote: hi, i have a little confusing problem with qmail: i can send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (where bob is a real user), but i cannot send email to i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] where bobby is a virtual user. somebody can help me please ? this works sometimes, but after

Re: orbs.org accuses qmail of mailbomb relaying!

2000-07-23 Thread Eric Cox
Russ Allbery wrote: Eric Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But in the last one, when ORBS listed in the RBL, ORBS was totally in the right. I saw grown men, (admins!) trying to defend the position that by ORBS sending up to 16 messages through their servers a few times a _year_, ORBS

Re: orbs.org accuses qmail of mailbomb relaying!

2000-07-22 Thread Eric Cox
"Michael T. Babcock" wrote: You've just missed a point of Qmail though. If a major point of Qmail's existence is to provide reliable E-mail delivery, then this _must_ include cooperating with other MTAs (without violating standards) at least enough to keep from crashing / giving them

Re: qmail died again... 3x in 3 weeks

2000-07-22 Thread Eric Cox
Paul Farber wrote: telnetting to port 25 and 110 just timed out. This usually means (when it has happened to me anyway) that the server is listening on the port you're telnetting to, but is stalled doing a reverse DNS lookup of the client's IP address. Perhaps a munged reverse DNS

Re: many mails to same user

2000-07-19 Thread Eric Cox
Henrik Gemal wrote: What is the easiest way to acomplish this forwarding in qmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] @gemal.dk - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do I really have

Re: qmail accepting mails for unknown rcpt to (fwd)

2000-07-16 Thread Eric Cox
qmail doesn't do VRFY/EXPN. It just says: eric@dream:~ telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mail.erictech.com ESMTP VRFY 252 send some mail, i'll try my best Irwan Hadi wrote: At 01:43 AM 7/16/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: logging

2000-07-15 Thread Eric Cox
Steffan Hoeke wrote: On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 07:38:52PM -0700, Eric Cox wrote: P.s. I would love it if someone would modify it to read tai timestamps, (i.e. splogger logs) looks like I'm not going to get back to it for awhile. Don't you mean multilogger logs ;) Uh, yeah, somethin

Re: Domain forwarding

2000-07-15 Thread Eric Cox
From the qmail server's point of view, it's outgoing mail. The message comes in from outside, sits in the queue for a few hundred milliseconds, then it needs to know where to send it, either local or remote. If it finds a smtproute (to the MS server) for the destination, it sends it

Re: a new kind of spam?

2000-07-14 Thread Eric Cox
Mate Wierdl wrote: On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 01:28:17PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: Mate Wierdl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do run rblsmtpd with dul. The IP (207.100.21.156) does not exist---this is why I thought it is a dynamic IP. How do I figure out which domain owns it?

Re: logging

2000-07-14 Thread Eric Cox
I wrote one of these in python - it's rough and the only documentation is the source. I keep meaning to get back to it but, well, you know how it is. I threw together a simple web page for it at: http://www.ericcox.com/projects/mailstat/ Eric P.s. I would love it if someone would modify

Re: rblsmtpd

2000-07-11 Thread Eric Cox
Aaron Nowalk wrote: On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Peter Green wrote: also sprach amnowalk: root@xx:/usr/local/bin# env TCPREMOTEIP=127.0.0.2 rblsmtpd -r maps.vix.com echo whoops whoops The zone is ``rbl.maps.vix.com'', NOT simply ``maps.vix.com''. :) Tried that with no luck.

Re: please help

2000-07-10 Thread Eric Cox
TAG wrote: Hi, Does anyone have an idea: I am running qmail-mysql - also the home directory does exist - and the user is valid. [ID 748625 mail.info] 963244334.794925 delivery 32: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ Please help!! If you're seeing this in your

Re: rblsmtpd

2000-07-10 Thread Eric Cox
Aaron Nowalk wrote: Hi! I'm in dire need of some help here. I've been working on getting rblsmtpd up and running with tcpserver and am having no luck at all. I've searched the mailing list back and fourth and still can't find a thing. Heres what I got: tcpserver invocation:

Re: Not receiving from all domains - is it DNS?

2000-07-07 Thread Eric Cox
Barry Dwyer wrote: Would this reverse-DNS entry (apparently there for the convenience of the ISP's reseller) be preventing some mail servers from forwarding to ours? I noticed that your provider is a backup mailserver for you: dream:/usr/src # nslookup -type=MX nethan.com nethan.com

Re: spam and well known smtp servers

2000-07-07 Thread Eric Cox
clemensF wrote: wolfgang zeikat: http://spamcop.net offers handy online forms i have used all sorts of anti-spam tricks, but presently i just look at the headers of a spam-mail trying to spot from which domain it really originated by scanning the recieved-lines and use "[EMAIL

Re: Not receiving from all domains - is it DNS?

2000-07-07 Thread Eric Cox
Barry Dwyer wrote: I don't know what server software our ISP is using. Doesn't matter - what matters is if the sending domains are running MS Echange, and the backup mailserver isn't properly setup to relay... I have to admit to being new to this, which is frustrating. I need to do

Re: OT: can't unsubscribe

2000-07-07 Thread Eric Cox
I notice all of these people have uppercase letters in their usernames. Could this be related? Eric "Hand, Brian C." wrote: I have the same problem. I did this over two weeks ago and I am still getting messages. Can someone make the bad list stop!!! :) Brian [snip.]

Re: mail flood

2000-07-06 Thread Eric Cox
Hi! Do a web search on "tiergrubing" (Something like that anyway - the german term for "tar pit"). I've never done it before but it involves slightly slowing down the connection the more messages that are sent, thereby tieing up the spammer. I think I remember reading some people talking

Re: spam and well known smtp servers

2000-07-04 Thread Eric Cox
Markus Stumpf wrote: On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 01:17:46PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: This would block a lot of valid mail as well. I frequently send mail from a given machine using a different (but valid) envelope sender -- and I will sometimes use my Hotmail address if I am afraid

Re: Qmail performance question...

2000-07-02 Thread Eric Cox
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 11:54:55AM -0500, Ian Layton wrote: Hello. Your solution is to put your queue on a disk subsystem that can sync at the rate you want to submit (and deliver). Some do this with a faster disk, some do this with a partition that is spread

Re: dial on demand (wvdial) and internal mails

2000-06-25 Thread Eric Cox
Make certain that your nameserver can resolve all of the domain names qmail might need to lookup (sender,recipient, etc) without going to an external namesever. You can see what queries are being sent to your nameserver like this: killall -WINCH named then your logs will show what domain

Re: For Qmail List Owner

2000-06-21 Thread Eric Cox
I suppose you're looking to do filtering, right? Netscape will filter messages for you, and put them into a different folder, etc. Just click on Edit-Message Filters, and create a filter that puts any message with "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the To: or Cc: headers into a different folder.

Re: Interesting disclosure of domains subscribed to qmail list

2000-06-17 Thread Eric Cox
I'm seeing the same thing here whenever I post to the list. I logged about 1000 hits to my nameserver in about an hour, and went slightly into "curious" mode because I never get that kind of traffic on my small home LAN. I wondered at first if it was some sort of stealth attack because the

Re: Help on qmail-qstat

2000-06-15 Thread Eric Cox
It means there are 760 messages currently in the queue, all of which have been preprocessed and are awaiting delivery. Eric System Administrator wrote: Hi can any anybody explain the following message by qmail-qstat : messages in queue: 760 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed:

Re: Maildir prob

2000-06-15 Thread Eric Cox
Ben Beuchler wrote: On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 04:24:47PM -0700, Eric Cox wrote: your ~/.qmail file must contain ``./Mailbox'' (relative to the user's home directory, or the full path, e.g. ``/home/username/Mailbox''. I think it's ./Mailbox/ (i.e. with the trailing slash) I

Re: Maildir prob

2000-06-14 Thread Eric Cox
Manfred Bartz wrote: Z [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want it send to ~/Mailbox your ~/.qmail file must contain ``./Mailbox'' (relative to the user's home directory, or the full path, e.g. ``/home/username/Mailbox''. I think it's ./Mailbox/ (i.e. with the trailing slash) Eric --

Re: Fixing open relay

2000-06-14 Thread Eric Cox
Dewald Strauss wrote: In /etc/qmail/locals I have just the domainname of the server. In /etc/qmail/control/rcpthosts I have the names of the 7 domains In /etc/tcpcontrol there are 2 files: pop-3.rules and smtp.rules both these files have all 7 domainnames with :allow,RELAYCLIENT="" after

Re: catch multiple mails

2000-06-12 Thread Eric Cox
Anzej Becan wrote: I would like to catch multiple mails of standard form... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] into one mailbox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes. Make mydomain.net a virtual domain. For instance: In /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains : mydomain.net:mydomain And

Psuedo-benchmarks?

2000-06-10 Thread Eric Cox
Hi All! Okay, here's a chance for all of you guys that run huge sites to brag a little. I run several smallish qmail installations and am trying to convince a couple of larger MS-Centric ISPs (that get ALOT of spam) to let me switch them over to qmail - and increase my cash-flow in the

Re: qmail inquiry

2000-06-09 Thread Eric Cox
Verna Vergara wrote: hi how can set up a quota to all my users mailbox? please help Seems to me you can just use the normal unix per-user quota mechanism. qmail-local runs _as_ the user to which it's delivering. Eric

Re: tcpserver: unable to bind

2000-06-09 Thread Eric Cox
if you telnet to port 25 of the machine, you might be able to figure out what is running on that port: telnet localhost 25 Eric Luca Zancan wrote: Thank you, Clemence, for your support, but I'm not automatically starting qmail... and no qmail process is visible with "ps -ef" before I

Re: No log??

2000-06-05 Thread Eric Cox
Goran Blazic wrote: Hi... After installing qmail on my system, suddenly there was no logging activity anymore... Nothing new gets written into /var/log/messages anymore?!!? Does anyone have any ideas? What have you checked so far? Is syslogd still running? Friends are those who,

Re: qmail+maildrop+amavis

2000-06-05 Thread Eric Cox
Nuno Ferreira wrote: Hi, Two questions. Seems my ~/.qmail never gets executed by Qmail, so I am not able to have a functional maildrop or procmail. BTW, is ~/.qmail a script that gets executed by QMail or is it a file that is read by it to know how to perform to specific

Re: Qmail and conf-spawn

2000-06-05 Thread Eric Cox
clemensF wrote: David Dyer-Bennet: identical program invocations get to run their own copy of the program text. I don't believe this last bit is the case. It's clearly not the case on Linux, anyway, as displayed by the various size numbers in 'top'. but linux processes

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-03 Thread Eric Cox
Markus Stumpf wrote: - ORBS blocks "unfriendly" sites criticising ORBS Is there a site with documentation on this? I'd like to check it out for myself. - ORBS does not notify blocked sites about the blockage - ORBS has IMHO too much false positives I've experienced at least one

Re: Error message Q

2000-06-02 Thread Eric Cox
Judy Simon wrote: 4. if by manually editing the files, how to i return them to their previous state? [i did try to cp the older rcpthost~ back onto the rcpthosts file. I use a CVS server (http://www.cvshome.org/) for this - works really well too. I have it setup to automatically send a

Re: Purpose of this list

2000-05-17 Thread Eric Cox
Ralf Günthner wrote: My 2 cents: Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17.05.2000 16.25 Uhr not as "How would I know?". We deal with people whose experiences and abilities are all over the spectrum, from complete newbie to kernel hacker, and we don't know where you fall. Based on past

Re: Port 25

2000-05-12 Thread Eric Cox
James wrote: With some help from Jerry, I was able to narrow down a problem I am having with receiving mail from outside servers through Qmail. It's apparent that my port 25 is closed off to outside connections. I don't know how or why it's closed off.. TCPwrappers? Why would port 25 be

Re: Help me understand allowed rcpthosts

2000-05-12 Thread Eric Cox
James wrote: I've been mulling through various how-to's and qmail help pages.. but I still don't quite understand what rcpthosts is about. If I am wrong, correct me. rcpthosts is where you place the domain addresses of the people you want to allow relaying. If this is correct, then I

Re: qmail-smtpd problem

2000-05-11 Thread Eric Cox
Your qmail-smtpd doesn't seem to know that the client you are connecting from is a local machine, and therfore it should relay mail from from that client. (When the recipient's address is outside your local domain, that's relaying) To tell qmail-smtpd to automatically relay anything that comes in

Re: Manage QMail Queue manually

2000-05-11 Thread Eric Cox
I'm hope some of the gurus here will let me know if this is a bad idea, but perhaps you could delete the /var/qmail/queue/lock/trigger file? I read in Dave Sill's excellent "Life with qmail" that qmail doesn't react immediately when this file isn't correct, and will instead sweep through the

Re: location of Unsent messages

2000-05-11 Thread Eric Cox
Mark Lo wrote: Hi, I would like to know where is the location of unsent messages. As I have read this from the manual...it should be placed under /var/qmail/queue. But, in that directory, i couldn't find anything but i know i have some messages in the queue dir..by looking at my

Re: qmail script.....

2000-05-11 Thread Eric Cox
Hi All! Well, since we're posting scripts, I guess I'll post a simple one I whippedup to give me a quick idea of how many messages were delivered, bounced, deferred, etc. You need the HTMLGen python module if you want it to be fancy. Otherwise, just hack out the HTML stuff at the bottom and

Re: pop clients.

2000-05-10 Thread Eric Cox
Mark Lo wrote: Hi, I am using qmail as my MTA and qmail-pop3 as my MUA. For client to send and receive e-mail from my qmail server by using Netscape or Microsoft Outlook as their pop client. They have to fill out the incoming mail server and outgoing mail server. Does the incoming

Re: Emergency with the queue

2000-05-03 Thread Eric Cox
Why not just nuke the user? clifford thurber wrote: Hello, I have a user who is spamming. Is there a way to stop qmail and delete everything from the queue? Thanks. -- NEEDHAM'S ELECTRONICS Device Programmers (916) 924-8037 (Voice) (916) 924-8065 (Fax) 4630 Beloit Drive, #20 Sacramento, CA