Re: vpopmail account question...

2000-03-21 Thread Eric Lalonde
The only solution to this is if you have an ip address for each domain. then users can have their login be 'user' instead of their email address. You can also have one local domain with vpopmail where users can login with 'user'. The problem arises because POP wasn't meant to handle virtual

Re: tcpserver is not performed.

2000-03-19 Thread Eric Lalonde
Try including the full path to tcpserver. try /usr/local/bin/tcpserver Hope this helps Eric - Original Message - From: Hong Taeki To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 10:40 PM Subject: tcpserver is not performed. I installed qmail, fastforward,

Re: Logs accesible via web

2000-03-13 Thread Eric Lalonde
qmailanalog does a good job of logging what the qmail system does. as for putting them on the web..you could have a weekly cron job copy the processed logs to some web accessable directory. - Original Message - From: "Andrés" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 13,

patching pine 4.10

2000-03-12 Thread Eric Lalonde
im not sure how I should patch the pine 4.10 source so that it handles Maildir delivery. I have downloaded the pine4.10-redhat.patch from ftp://ftp.vestdata.no/pub/linux/c-client/src-1.0/ but I am not sure how to execute the patch so that it modifies the source files to handle Maildir delivery.

moving from mbox to maildir.

2000-03-06 Thread Eric Lalonde
my users currently get email in mbox format in /var/spool/mail, and i want to switch to /Maildir/ format. i know there are three subdirectories under the user's Maildir, but where do i copy currently unchecked email in /var/spool/mail, so that this mail will be listed under Maildir as 'unchecked'

trouble getting mail

2000-03-06 Thread Eric Lalonde
having trouble getting mail for my virtual domain. settings are as follows: daylightfading.org:daylightfading.org in virtualdomains daylightfading.org in rcpthosts =daylightfading.org-tom:popuser:523:100:/var/qmail/popboxes/daylightfading.o rg/tom::: in users/assign tom:(encrypted

How to impliment qmail-pop3d?

2000-02-28 Thread Eric Lalonde
In Paul Gregg's "Single-UID based pop3 box HOWTO" He says: When using Qmail with Maildir format, you will need to use qmail-popup - checkpasswd - qmail-pop3d. I'm not sure how to impliment this in my startup scripts. I am using his 'checkpoppasswd'. Its located in /var/qmail/users. my passwd

Re: Use of symbolic links under qmail

2000-02-17 Thread Eric Lalonde
I am going to give you the answer that was given to me. It is my understanding that if you export the MAILPATH in your system wide shell config file, it is not necessary to have symbolic links to /var/spool/mail/user. This is my understanding from my experiences with qmail, but I am not very

no mail notification (WAS: streamlining symbolic links)

2000-02-17 Thread Eric Lalonde
I have added the following to /etc/bashrc: export MAIL="$HOME/Mailbox" Then i sent mail to the user. Waiting at least sixty seconds, the default time for new mail to be recognized by bash, I logged the user in and got "No mail." However, when I ran pine, there was one message waiting for the

Re: no mail notification (WAS: streamlining symbolic links)

2000-02-17 Thread Eric Lalonde
a message that they have mail when they're already logged in, if they log out without checking mail, and log back in, they still get "No mail." Any ideas about why its not saying anything about new mail upon login? Eric - Original Message - From: "Jack O'Toole" [EMAIL PROTEC

strange emails for pop accounts.

2000-02-16 Thread Eric Lalonde
folder data? Any help is appreciated. Eric lalonde

Re: strange emails for pop accounts.

2000-02-16 Thread Eric Lalonde
ubject: Re: strange emails for pop accounts. Eric Lalonde wrote: however, sometimes a very strange thing happens: If mail is sent to the user on my system, and the user uses pine to read the mail, and then deletes it, and then later checks their mail from the pop server using outlo

streamline symbolic links?

2000-02-16 Thread Eric Lalonde
symbolic links when new users are added to the box? Make it so whenever a new user is added to the box, a symbolic link from /var/spool/mail/user is also created? any ideas are appreciated. eric lalonde

Cannot remotely send mail.

2000-01-25 Thread Eric LaLonde
since my last post, I've now set up qmail on a different box that doesn't have port 25 blocked. i've set up a pop server to receive email from a remote location (vie outlook or whatever other client the user has), but I am unsure of how to send mail from a remote client. It simply fails

problems with 'mail' (procmail?)

2000-01-25 Thread Eric LaLonde
I've moved the file /var/spool/mail/user to ~user/Mailbox and made a symbolic link back to /var/spool/mail/user, but it doesn't seem to stay. It will say that I have new mail in /var/spool/mail/user, and then when i go to view that mail via 'mail', it gives me this message: This text is

Re: problems retrieving email

2000-01-24 Thread Eric LaLonde
this problem? :) - Eric - Original Message - From: "Stig Sandbeck Mathisen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 2:32 PM Subject: Re: problems retrieving email * Eric LaLonde (Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 02:20:39PM -0800) I will definately email my

a little confusion regarding ~user/Mailbox

2000-01-23 Thread Eric Lalonde
I've been reading the INSTALL.mbox and am a little confused on exactly how to change from using /var/spool/mail/user to ~user/Mailbox. My understanding is that I create a symbolic link called Mailbox in the user's directory that links to /var/spool/mail/user. Then I tell pine (or whatever

problems sending local email with qmail

2000-01-22 Thread Eric Lalonde
I am trying to set up qmail on the network twilight.daylightfading.org. I am at the point in the INSTALL files where I am trying to send an email to myself via qmail-inject. However, this is failing. When I try echo to: Mason | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject the following error lines appear in