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
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
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
"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
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
"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
"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,
"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
"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
[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
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
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!
"[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
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
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..
"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
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
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
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]
"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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
[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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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:
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
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
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?
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
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.
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
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:
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
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
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
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.]
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
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
[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
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
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.
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
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:
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
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
--
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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