Memory error on OpenBSD-current

1999-07-01 Thread Evan Champion
Is anyone else getting memory errors on starting /var/qmail/rc (qmail-start) when compiled with egcs in OpenBSD-current? If I compile with -O2 I get the memory error; with -O1 it seems to work OK. Evan

Re: tcpserver control on domain name

1999-05-06 Thread Evan Champion
> If someone controlled the reverse mapping for a range of IP addresses and knew > your domain name, he could make one of his addresses reverse map to a name in > your domain and gain access you don't want him to have. You can compare the forwards and reverse nameservice to make sure that they ar

Re: Qmail is not a replacement for Sendmail

1999-04-28 Thread Evan Champion
> I don't see what this has to do with anything. Sendmail didn't come > with a pop3 program. You need checkpasswd only if you're going to use > qmail-pop3d. It's true that if you're going to continue to use > qpopper, as I have, you need to hack it a little to get ./Mailbox and > XTND XMIT work

Re: RBL, DUL, Shubs, woohoo

1999-04-22 Thread Evan Champion
Hi Doug, > What is the *best* means to use the RBL, DUL, Shubs, and others, with > qmail-smtpd and be able to allow our dialups to relay? tcpserver/tcprules will take care of the selective relaying, and rblsmtpd (available from ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/pub/software/) will handle RBL for you E

Re: POP security question

1999-04-14 Thread Evan Champion
> i thought about this one this weekend, if /bin/false is in /etc/shells > and you have ftp enabled, then a user could ftp in a .qmail file that > contains a expect script that runs chsh, and boom, they have a shell. how > to avoid this, options: /bin/false should never be in /etc/shells, period

Re: qmail-inject

1998-12-30 Thread Evan Champion
Well, I might as well add my voice to the chorus... >I wish to send the content of a text file to users on my system without >attaching it. What about a simple "mail user < file"? Evan

Re: Why Red Hat is not distributing qmail

1998-12-30 Thread Evan Champion
>It hasn't improved over itself much since 1.00, so the reasons >probably haven't changed since their last evaluation, which was >negative. qmail itself hasn't had terribly major changes, but a lot of things have been added along side qmail which make it much more attractive, such as dot-forward,

Re: Procmail type rules?

1998-12-30 Thread Evan Champion
>What I am trying to do is filter incoming mail... for example, for mail >coming in from the qmail mailing list, move the mail to the 'Qmail Mailing >List' IMAP folder in my directory. Also the same type of rule for the RedHat >mailing list, or for mail from a paticular person. Assuming you're us

Re: Procmail type rules?

1998-12-30 Thread Evan Champion
>Is there a way to get the qmail-smtpd to use some form of delivery rules, >similar to procmail 'recipies'? I am using IMAP and would like to filter the >mail on the server when it comes in. I think you mean "Is there a way to get qmail-local to use some form of delivery rules," because you want

Re: The qmail security guarantee

1998-12-24 Thread Evan Champion
>Agreed. That kind of message is issued when the file is there, but >isn't readable. I probably shouldn't have used my favorite example in >that example. :-) Ah! My apologies. Yes, that would be nice. Evan

Re: The qmail security guarantee

1998-12-24 Thread Evan Champion
>If it can't read a control file, it should say so, to stderr. >(e.g. "unable to read rcpthosts") Just a note that usually it is not an error for a control file to be missing. The control files mostly only override default settings. For rcpthosts in particular, my complaint would be that the de

Re: verifying system binaries, a la R*dh*t

1998-12-23 Thread Evan Champion
>That would be a waste of time. Dan doesn't trust Redhat; Redhat >doesn't trust Dan. Note that Redhat is not unique in this regard. Nor is Dan, I might add. I would rather gnaw off my arm than use something from Redhat. Personally I think that this has gone way too far. I agree with Dan that