config help needed

2000-12-28 Thread I. Herman
I just recently installed qmail and followed the how-to on life w/ qmail.  I am at the part where i start it for the first time, and i am getting the following error messages:   supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-send/supervise/lock: temporary failuresupervise: fatal: unable to acqui

RE: config help needed

2000-12-28 Thread I. Herman
all the permittions are correct, now it's giving me another error...   supervise: fatal: unable to start log/run: file does not exist supervise: warning: unable to rename log/supervise/status.new to status: file does not existsupervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-smtpd/supervise/lock: t

supervise

2000-12-29 Thread I. Herman
since most of my problems are with supervise, is there a way I can disable that?  and if so..how do i do it?

RE: supervise

2000-12-29 Thread I. Herman
is the root of your problems. Perhaps you can post to the list the troubles you are having, along with relevant logs and we can help you work through them. -Original Message-From: I. Herman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 8:02 AMTo: Qma

bigger and better error msg's

2000-12-29 Thread I. Herman
OK..even with the other thing going on w/ supervise, it appears that something is working..but now i have this error message.  I checked to see the control/locals and everything else had the proper domain info in there...but here is what it's saying:   Hi. This is the qmail-send program at

even stranger

2000-12-29 Thread I. Herman
OK..no longer getting the control/locals error.  When i send a test email to the dummy test user ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) i don't get an mail-daemon message back, but no mail shows up anywhere.  Here's part of the log from /var/qmail/log:   @40003a4c99bb144389c4 starting delivery 1: msg 40345

mail dissappearing

2000-12-29 Thread I. Herman
I got all this...but where is the mail going?  It didn't show up in any directories I have.  Does this piece of the log below show it's working?  I can mail out of qmail no prob...just when it comes in i get probs..   @40003a4cd3a901fbf134 starting delivery 8: msg 403449 to local [EMAIL

domain alias question

2000-12-29 Thread I . Herman
OKi finally got everything running..thanks to all that helped. Now..here's the next question: I am hosting my domain, madhorizons.com which is an alias of madart.myip.org. If i send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it gets here w/ no problem. But when I reply, it changes things to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

domain alias problem (again)

2001-01-02 Thread I. Herman
OK..here's what's going on:   I host my domain, domain.com.   It's aliased as:  me.otherdomain.com.   In qmail control...all the files only have domain.com, including: me, locals, defaultdomain/host, etc..   I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] comes out fine.  I can reply...but the person on

RE: dns question

2001-01-08 Thread I. Herman
there is a list archive for BIND/DNS at: http://www.isc.org/ml-archives/bind-users/ ALso on there you can join the list, which is a crossover to the newsgroup: comp.protocols.dns.bind (i think that is what it's called). As for the MX record. The MX record is what tells the world to send mail to

help needed

2001-01-08 Thread I . Herman
I am getting the following all of a sudden. My control files all have that domain in them. Here is what I'm getting. This is a normal user account. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: x.x.x.x does not like recipient. Remote host said: 554 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Recipient address rejected: Relay access denied

Messages Disappearing!

2001-01-09 Thread I. Herman
OK...i managed to stop the messages getting kicked back (for now).   Now when I send a message from anywhere other than my machine...it disappears into limbo.  If i use qmail-inject to test a message, it shows up w/no problem.  I cannot get the mail from outside my computer tho.   I am usin