Re: Mass user email

1999-11-10 Thread James Smallacombe
. Thank you. popbull might work for you, or the virtual pop bull programs out there. If not, I have a program that will send an email out to a list of users in a file, individually addressed. If it's all local, use a popbull program. Ken Jones Inter7 James Smallacombe

Re: How is spam relaying done?

1999-10-31 Thread James Smallacombe
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, James wrote: Thanks for the replies.. one other thing I forgot to ask.. how would an administrator know if his server is being used by a spammer? By the way, I am not a spammer, just curious about how these things work. I'm having problemst getting my selective relaying

Re: Completely Off-topic: A good MUA for Windows?

1999-10-27 Thread James Smallacombe
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Rogerio Brito wrote: I know this is VERY off-topic, but do you know any "good" MUA for Windows? Pegasus is manual-ware. It's very solid, feature-rich, and powerful. Not the most user-friendly, though--but then,

Re: PINE Patched Source (fwd)

1999-10-25 Thread James Smallacombe
to make sure step 0 worked before going on to step 1 :( ) Upon inspection of the source, this is what is supposed to happen if drivers are used (mbox first, then something-else-I-can't-recall, etc.). Cavetat emptor (programmerus?) Thanks again, Larry Morley James Smallacombe wrote: You're the third

Re: qmail

1999-10-23 Thread James Smallacombe
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Peter Samuel wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Magnus Bodin wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 06:18:44PM -0200, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Neil Floris wrote: I think that is only one advantage on usign sendmail: you can program it to play the

Re: mail appliance

1999-10-19 Thread James Smallacombe
Didn't I hear that someone put together a webmid module for qmail? Anybody know anything about it? On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Jon Rust wrote: qmailadmin does not handle management of local accounts. It only handles management of virtuals. Not too bad really, but that requires you to have a pop

Re: mail appliance

1999-10-19 Thread James Smallacombe
Didn't I hear that someone put together a webmin module for qmail? Anybody know anything about it?^ On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Jon Rust wrote: qmailadmin does not handle management of local accounts. It only handles management of virtuals. Not too bad really, but that requires

alias header mods causing problems

1999-10-11 Thread James Smallacombe
I set up a simple alias something like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to forward to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which pages me) and it just seems to blackhole. Syslog shows a successful delivery to their smtp server, I get no bounce message, and they don't respond to any questions about it. The only thing I can

Re: Mail not being delivered to local users (was: Re: URGENT !!Strange Problem)

1999-10-04 Thread James Smallacombe
On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Rogerio Brito wrote: Just to add something that I rarely see discussed in this list, at least in some environments, I've seen qmail deliver a bounce message saying that there was "no mailbox here by that name" when the user (hard) quota limit is

Re: smtp server as a relay

1999-09-22 Thread James Smallacombe
:allow,RELAYCLIENT="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Of course, now ANYONE who puts that email address in their FROM (or is it envelope-sender?) field can relay through you. On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Ana [iso-8859-1] Belén Santos wrote: I want to allow selected clients to use my smtp server as a relay. I

Re: How good is RBL at filtering spam?

1999-09-21 Thread James Smallacombe
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Dave Sill wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (My pobox.com address, on the other hand, gets plenty of spam, because pobox's antispam methods are very poor. I only wish they used DUL, which would get rid of most of the spam from that direction.) It's not good enough

Re: How good is RBL at filtering spam?

1999-09-20 Thread James Smallacombe
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, David Harris wrote: I'm thinking of deploying RBL to try to cut down on spam, but before I did that I wanted to poke around and see how effective it might be. So, I gathered up some spam messages that I had received and looked up the mailserver's ipaddr in RBL using

Re: How good is RBL at filtering spam?

1999-09-20 Thread James Smallacombe
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Vern Hart wrote: to stay away from .gov addresses. So, we finally have THE universal solution against spam! what about opening .forward accounts to everyone ? -- no kidding! They also seem to stay away from .org addresses as well (for the most part). A .org

Re: Qmail server problem

1999-09-13 Thread James Smallacombe
What's using all the memory? Did you do a top? Sounds like a memory leak. Unless you'd done something horribly strange, it's not qmail... On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Derek Harkness wrote: I've been having a problem with a new qmail box I setup. It's running on RH6.0 with a 2.2.12 kernel, the

Re: qmail as secondary MX server

1999-09-13 Thread James Smallacombe
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Fred Backman wrote: Is there anything specific I need to keep in mind or do in order to set up qmail as a secondary MX server, as opposed to a "normal" qmail setup? I've installed qmail before but never on a secondary MX server so I'd appreciate any advice you may have.

Re: Strange open relay problem with qmail due to bad configuration.

1999-09-12 Thread James Smallacombe
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Sebastian Andersson wrote: I just got a nasty letter from ORBS telling me that one of my SMTP servers was an open relay. The host was a secondary mailserver for some of our domains and it had no hosts in locals and a correctly configured rcpthosts. Its virtualhosts

Re: Still 533

1999-09-09 Thread James Smallacombe
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Paul Farber wrote: Yeah, I know. But the binary .cdb file is pretty unreadable, don't you think? unreadable by you, but it's what tcpserver reads. AFAIK, tcpserver can't read unhashed plaintext. The command to do this changed in recent tcpservers; You now use tcprules

Re: Maildir and Pine-4.10

1999-09-07 Thread James Smallacombe
and always got "can't open /home/kmactane/Maildir: not a selectable folder". I checked in with James Smallacombe about it, too, but he didn't have any ideas aside from making sure the .qmail file has a trailing slash (which it does). In case it will help, here are a few more details

Re: Maildirmake

1999-09-07 Thread James Smallacombe
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone- I am just ready to put my Qmail server running under FreeBSD 3.2-Stable on line, but I'm having one minor problem. I created an account for myself and used "maildirmake" to created my home directory's maildir- but now I am trying to

Re: Qmail dying

1999-08-26 Thread James Smallacombe
If you're running it from inetd, you have to comment it out and send inetd a HUP, just like any other inetd process. If you're running it from tcpserver, you need to kill that tcpserver process. On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Thomas M. Sasala wrote: Is there an easy way to kill pop3d when it

Re: pinq

1999-08-23 Thread James Smallacombe
there are patches to pine 4.1 to make it work with Maildir, although it's not clear without guidance which patches to use, and in which order. I have a patched source of Pine 4.1 for Maildir at http://3.am/pine4.10.maildir.tar.gz It built fine under Solaris 2.6 and FreeBSD 3.2 (you're soaking

Patched source for pine 4.1 w/ Maildir support WAS Re: pine patches

1999-08-21 Thread James Smallacombe
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Mate Wierdl wrote: What you wrote about patches and nonprogrammers was exactly my point; for nonprogrammers (and I assume many mail administrators may not be), it is hard to figure out which patches they need to get for what they want. www.qmail.org is a great help, but

Re: pine patches

1999-08-20 Thread James Smallacombe
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 11:25:57AM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote: : If you want, I can extract the patches from the src rpm for you. I didn't see an SRPM anywhere...if I had I would have extracted it on my Linux box, but I sure appreciate it :) : What you wrote about patches and nonprogrammers was

Re: Copy of all messages from host xxxx

1999-08-20 Thread James Smallacombe
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 07:38:27PM -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote: : Completely off topic, but I find it interesting that Outlook 98 decided that : this particular thread was of an obscene nature and marked it as an "Adult", : filtering it into my trash folder... : : Perhaps Redmond doesn't like any

Pine4 and IMAP4 patches Re: humble suggestion from a confused boy

1999-08-19 Thread James Smallacombe
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 11:39:05PM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote: : As I was searching for various patches at ftp sites, I got struck by : how many different names patches get --- and how many different : versions there are. For example, there are 5 different versions of : the big-todo patch, and as

Re: poor documentation example

1999-03-23 Thread James Smallacombe
to say). Okay, okay, you've said it. That being said, tcpserver is the quickest and easiest piece of software I've ever built and installed. YMMV James SmallacombeInternet Access for The Delaware [EMAIL PROTECTED]Valley in PA, NJ and DE PlantageNet

Re: sorry!!!

1999-03-19 Thread James Smallacombe
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Daniel V. Pedersen wrote: but i can't find the man for setting up aliases :) - could someone throw me an url ? dot-qmail(5) in a nutshell: cd ~alias echo "mailbox" .qmail-aliasname James SmallacombeInternet Access for The Delaware [EMAIL

Re: ofmipd to rewrite return-path header

1999-03-02 Thread James Smallacombe
to post from envelope sender "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as well as [EMAIL PROTECTED] this has been driving alot of people nuts. James SmallacombeInternet Access for The Delaware [EMAIL PROTECTED]Valley in PA, NJ and DE PlantageNet Internet Ltd.

Re: ofmipd to rewrite return-path header

1999-03-02 Thread James Smallacombe
e envelope address anyways. Sorry, I just don't follow you here... BTWY, under ezmlm-idx, it is possible to use several envelope addresses using allow. This does not scale when you're admin'ing dozens of lists with thousands of subscribers, as I am. James SmallacombeInter

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE !!!!

1999-02-24 Thread James Smallacombe
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Jay D. Dyson wrote: Plaintext message follows... -- On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, KMJJKT wrote: UNSUBSCRIBE !! To unsubscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe if he just added a few more exclamation points... James

Re: Am I being exceedingly silly?

1999-02-11 Thread James Smallacombe
/ __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com James SmallacombeInternet Access for The Delaware [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: I'm stuck

1999-01-28 Thread James Smallacombe
on one line. Try putting a backslash \ at the end of the first line, or re-edit the file with an editor that won't wrap it, like vi. James SmallacombeInternet Access for The Delaware [EMAIL PROTECTED]Valley in PA, NJ and DE PlantageNet Internet Ltd

RE: Three solutions for spam

1999-01-27 Thread James Smallacombe
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Len Budney wrote: James Smallacombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Len Budney wrote: And all the crime I've experienced was perpetrated by "those people." That's why I ready my pepper spray whenever one of "them" comes near

RE: Three solutions for spam

1999-01-27 Thread James Smallacombe
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Len Budney wrote: (Forgive me! One last one...) Me too. :) James Smallacombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My suggestion to you would be to get a static IP. You're quite right. Please make your check payable to "Len Budney" and mail it c/o "Maya Des

Re: Pattern-matching and filtering

1999-01-27 Thread James Smallacombe
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Len Budney wrote: James Smallacombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selective filtering is ALL about pattern-matching. Correct, which is why it is flawed. If pattern matching were applied uniformly, then soon all spam will be 100% 822-compliant, and will originate only from

Re: Cool!

1999-01-22 Thread James Smallacombe
/Maildir/new/welcome.message And the useradd script will make the Maildir for me AND "email" them a welcome message! This is so cool! Been doing this for years...since the Mailbox days... :) James SmallacombeInternet Access for The Delaware [EMAIL

Re: file descriptors

1999-01-21 Thread James Smallacombe
a ulimit command to one of my rc files, because it had some kind of exceptionally low default for file descriptors. Check man ulimit James SmallacombeInternet Access for The Delaware [EMAIL PROTECTED]Valley in PA, NJ and DE PlantageNet Internet Ltd

Re: .qmail file oddities

1999-01-20 Thread James Smallacombe
great is the power of truth ----- James SmallacombeInternet Access for The Delaware [EMAIL PROTECTED]Valley in PA, NJ and DE PlantageNet Internet Ltd.

Re: HOw do I Stop this...

1999-01-03 Thread James Smallacombe
net.block 0.0.0.255 (assuming you have a /24) then on your border interface: ip access-group 102 in As a good netizen, you should also filter IPs other than yous from getting out of your network. This way, nobody on your network can spoof outward. James SmallacombeInternet

RE: Odd problems with MUA deleting server messages

1999-01-02 Thread James Smallacombe
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Scott Burkhalter wrote: I'm embarrassed to say that I'm not sure which POP server is being used. "ps ax" doesn't show any pop processes running It wouldn't, unless you were running the pop3d in standalone mode. the inetd.conf file has the following lines... # # Pop