Re: fastforward, redirection and truncating messages

2000-06-30 Thread Giles Lean
Anyway-for the brief question. Has anyone ever seen the problem of emails being delivered with without the body of the message? I would try to check that the mail actaully arrives at your system in the format the users sending it believe it should. I have had users of one PC mailer (Eudora)

Re: Newbie question

2000-06-30 Thread Giles Lean
"home qmail: 962410407.609427 delivery 33: deferral:unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)/" Presumably your delivery instruction says "./Maildir". For maildir delivery you need a trailing slash: "./Maildir/". Regards, Giles

Re: Qmail on HP

2000-06-27 Thread Giles Lean
is there any body know how to install on HP UX 11.0 if any body here please send some docs What's the problem? Where do the standard installation instructions fail to work? Regards, Giles

Re: How to increase the MAX hop count

2000-06-21 Thread Giles Lean
Someone who can't be replied to "net admin admin" wrote: I am seeing a bunch of message delivery failed bounces that says: Too many hops 27 (MAX 25) ... What mailer is creating this bounce? I'll bet it is sendmail, and there is nothing you can do about it; the site(s) involved have to

Re: Issues with qmail pop3d and $HOME/Mailbox

2000-06-21 Thread Giles Lean
I have been unable to find out why I cannot get past the error: * ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir Does the user have a Maildir directory? Are the permissions correct on it and on the home directory? What output is logged from qmail-pop3d? Regards, Giles

Re: Qmail taking too long??

2000-01-29 Thread Giles Lean
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000 11:25:30 +0200 TAG wrote: Hi ALL I have an urgent problem - why does the stock standard installation of qmail-1.03 take long (30 sec)when answering an pop3 request Are you using tcpserver? Assuming that you are, look at the -R option to suppress ident lookups, and if

Re: Qmail taking too long??

2000-01-29 Thread Giles Lean
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000 13:19:38 +0200 TAG wrote: OK - thanks for the reply - but it still is not working even with the -R option - the -M gives an error - what version of the tcpserver is that - I am using ucspi-tcp-0.84?? Who said anything about -M? I mentioned -R and -H. Also you

Re: qmail aliases

2000-01-26 Thread Giles Lean
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 10:02:47 -0800 "Mike Denka" wrote: Turns out that the solution to this problem was to make sure that the ampersand, '', is in front of each line followed by each additional recipient address. ... ... However the documentation makes it sound as

Re: Funny but sad...

2000-01-26 Thread Giles Lean
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 20:24:27 - "Petr Novotny" wrote: I have recently spoken to a guy who said me something along these lines: "I have considered qmail once. I found it easy to install and configure. But I had to write all the top-level domains to some file, can't remember which

Re: Funny but sad...

2000-01-26 Thread Giles Lean
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 06:47:07 +1100 Giles Lean wrote: It sounds like the person you were talking to had some sort of DNS problem he or she failed to solve. Or maybe I misunderstood. If your correspondant was concerned about rcpthosts and locals like Russell Nelson's reply suggests

Re: remote root qmail-pop with vpopmail advisory and exploit with patch (fwd)

2000-01-24 Thread Giles Lean
On 24 Jan 2000 05:38:20 -0800 Russ Allbery wrote: That's just for starters. To be fair, current syslog on *most* Unix systems is now pretty solid except for occasionally losing messages. But among the problems I've seen or heard of in different implementations: Also, depending on the

Why many .qmail files in $HOME?

2000-01-10 Thread Giles Lean
[I'm sure this has been discussed before. If someone is better than I am at nagivating the archives and can find a discussion, please point me at it. Thanks.] One regular sticking point for user (rather than administrator) acceptance of qmail is that all the .qmail-* files a user creates go

suggestion for qmail 2.0

2000-01-08 Thread Giles Lean
I find some of the error messages from qmail to be quite terse. This one perplexed me this morning: Jan 9 11:19:14 nemeton qmail: 947377154.120073 delivery 9: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ In this case I'd left a domain listed in 'locals' when I added it to virtualdomains

Re: FAQ for envelope/header fields

2000-01-07 Thread Giles Lean
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000 14:17:12 PST Bill Ataras wrote: Is there a good faq somewhere that talks about how to handle the various envelope and header fields from a MUA point of view? I like: http://cr.yp.to/immhf.html Giles

Re: new list.cr.yp.to DNS software

1999-12-28 Thread Giles Lean
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999 00:37:59 -0700 Andy Bradford wrote: So, any hints as to what this new software is??? :) http://cr.yp.to/dnscache.html

Re: vacation program's envelope sender

1999-11-29 Thread Giles Lean
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 17:05:24 -0600 "Chris Garrigues" wrote: I'm using Peter Samuel's qmail vacation program and a user complained because she got a bounce when it tried to tell a spammer that she was on vacation. Would it be a bad thing for vacation to set the envelope sender to

Re: qmail/maildir/procmail ?

1999-11-16 Thread Giles Lean
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:59:27 + "John P . Looney" wrote: Nice one. I also had a look at: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#procmail Smeg, but this is going to be an evil one to get working. Seems I have to install the qmail-procmail error number, translation software,

Re: delivery to a directory

1999-11-10 Thread Giles Lean
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999 18:06:03 -0600 (CST) "Phil Howard" wrote: There will be hundreds of virtual domains and hundreds of userids in each. No, make that thousands. Maybe more. What's more, the user names will be created on the fly, so creating .qmail files in advance for every user name

Re: fetchmail question

1999-10-21 Thread Giles Lean
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 17:10:49 + Emmanuel PIERRE wrote: How can I set-up fetchmail to put downloaded mails in Maildirs ? Either deliver it to the local mail system via SMTP, or specify a mail delivery agent (mda line in .fetchmailrc) that writes mail to a maildir. Such a MDA is

Re: Concurrencyremote for a specific host

1999-10-19 Thread Giles Lean
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 15:39:28 -0400 (EDT) Dave Sill wrote: However, should you chose to attempt a band-aid for a key remote site, the approach would be to install a second qmail with a lower concurrencyremote and redirect messages for the swamped site from the primary qmail to the

Re: forward and environment variables

1999-10-09 Thread Giles Lean
On Sat, 9 Oct 1999 08:41:32 +0100 Peter Gradwell wrote: My best idea so far is to deliver all the mail for all the domains and deliver it to ~forwarder/.qmail-default. Then, that .qmail-default file would have two lines | rules.pl | forward $END_ADDRESS - now, the idea is that

Re: Beware when patching Solaris machines

1999-10-08 Thread Giles Lean
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999 00:35:51 +0200 Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: Now, one or more of these patches "upgraded" /usr/lib/sendmail I make my startup scripts remove /usr/lib/sendmail and re-create the symlink that I want, just in case. The introduction of a new startup file is harder to deal with,

Re: Bad return-path header, majordomo-inject, and rabid monkeys

1999-10-01 Thread Giles Lean
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999 14:01:16 -0500 (EST) Chris Hardie wrote: Hi. We're having some problems with qmail and majordomo. I've read the FAQs on using the two together, the docs on majordomo-inject, the man pages for qmail-inject and qmail-header, and I still don't quite know what to do. Hmm

Re: Qmail and HP Openmail

1999-09-21 Thread Giles Lean
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:51:43 +0200 "Stephan Hadan (E-Mail)" wrote: is there anybody who has Qmail working together with HP Openmail 6.0 for Linux ? Please tell me if it works and how it works. qmai interacts with Openmail just like it does with any other SMTP mail transport: it speaks SMTP.

Re: Spooling mail for ISDN Dialups

1999-07-23 Thread Giles Lean
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999 14:10:48 +0100 (BST) Simon Woodward wrote: We have many customers who have an ISDN lan connection, where every now and then their ISDN machine will connect and grab its mail from a mail spool. Basically we have sendmail configured so *anything*@blah.com is accepted by

Re: Holiday messaging: preventing loops?

1999-06-14 Thread Giles Lean
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:48:47 -0400 Dave Kitabjian wrote: I developed a script to support holiday messages. It appears to work very nicely with one important exception (that I expected): if a person on holiday sends a message to another person on holiday, they get an infinite loop of

Re: Messages reinjected to this mailing list

1999-06-11 Thread Giles Lean
On Sat, 12 Jun 1999 03:45:53 +0200 "Mark Weinem" wrote: D. J. Bernstein: This sort of idiocy happens much more often than most subscribers know, thanks to a broken piece of software by Eric Raymond called fetchmail. Is there a good fetchmail alternative? Fetchmail to pick up mail

Re: Autoreply for incoming email.

1999-04-09 Thread Giles Lean
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999 09:31:50 -0500 Bruno Wolff III wrote: It is very important that autoresponders not reply to certain addresses, such as . Also for most applications they should be rate limited to something like one message a day. ... It would be nice if there was an rfc for

Re: 'number only' aliases

1999-04-08 Thread Giles Lean
On Thu, 08 Apr 1999 16:15:41 -0500 Jerry Rose wrote: .qmail-360 In theory, mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be delivered. Qmail spits it back out and moans about it. 1.03 likse a ~alias/.qmail-360 file here just fine. No idea what your problem is, sorry. Giles

Re: Sendmail plus qmail

1999-03-22 Thread Giles Lean
On 21 Mar 1999 19:23:54 -0800 Russ Allbery wrote: The only major difference between qmail's sendmail and regular sendmail that I've seen, from the perspective of the typical Unix program (and discounting things like daemon mode), is that qmail when given a message missing a From header