Re: what can be done about 'in order to have your advice...'

2001-07-25 Thread Jost Krieger
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:58:10AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone help me figure out a way to handle this recent virus? It typically tags email in body: '...in order to have your advice...' and sends random attachments .2 to 2Mb in size. We're getting a lot of these

Re: High Volume....

2001-07-03 Thread Jost Krieger
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 09:11:33AM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:37:03AM +0200, Xavier Pegenaute wrote: Hi all.. i can try any prime number for hashing ..? ( is limited?) You can try any number, but anything over 1/1000th of your queuesize is overkill. I

Re: Why conf-split prime?

2001-06-22 Thread Jost Krieger
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:25:52PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: speed. However, why should this number be prime, why not have 12 or 16 directories? Because it's a hash. If your hash isn't prime, you fill your hash buckets unevenly. I think we are spreading urban legends here. AFAIK,

Re: smtp auth failures

2001-06-20 Thread Jost Krieger
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:38:37PM +, Nick (Keith) Fish wrote: joc wrote: There it is. any wise thoughts here? Thanks John Encourage your customers to use non-broken MUA. Our company refuses to support anything other than Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger, and our own

Bug? in qmail-inject: QMAILINJECT=f ruins resent mails

2001-05-03 Thread Jost . Krieger
As old unix MUAs have the habit of providing a from line of [EMAIL PROTECTED] and, even with new MUAs, user can't be bothered to configure them correctly, we set up the following environment variables in /etc/profile and such: QMAILHOST QMAILUSER QMAILINJECT=f This usually works nicely for the

Re: Where is tai64nfrac

2001-04-17 Thread Jost . Krieger
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 04:17:47PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For instance at: http://sunsite.dk/qmail/tai64nfrac or http://qmail.sst.com.br/tai64nfrac AFAIK, (this version) of tai64nfrac is broken, because printf("%lu.%lu ", seconds, nanoseconds); suppresses leading zeroes

Re: double bounce policy

2000-09-26 Thread Jost Krieger
On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 12:06:13AM +0300, Jos Okhuijsen wrote: What is your policy for double bounces? Users come and go, and always seem to leave subscriptions open, and produce bounces. Most of these bounces doublebounce. Do you write to the postmaster of these domains? (Seems to have

Re: qmail syntax problem

2000-09-20 Thread Jost Krieger
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 12:39:31PM +0200, Magnus Bodin wrote: Show us your contents of /var/qmail/control/me and (if it exists) cat /var/qmail/control/helohost And (wild guess) make sure there are no CRs in them like after transferring from a windoze machine in binary mode. Jost --

Re: Questions...

2000-09-13 Thread Jost Krieger
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 04:32:52PM -0400, Michael T. Babcock wrote: For the sake of answering the original questionner w.r.t. reasoning, from RFC974 (which is standard 0014): Note that the algorithm to delete irrelevant RRs breaks if LOCAL has a alias and the alias is listed in the

Re: Why qmail can not receive hotmail messages?

2000-09-07 Thread Jost Krieger
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:48:00AM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote: 2) It is *not* the frigging MX record. That has nothing to do with it. Any mailer that breaks when there is only an A record is a broken mailer. And who says so? I'm sure every mailer SHOULD fall back to the A record, but the

Re: Mail Protocol Issue: BCC only?

2000-08-30 Thread Jost Krieger
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 08:10:29AM -0400, Scott Sharkey wrote: I asked a few weeks ago about known issues with qmail not delivering BCC messages. I don't think that there is such a problem *in general*. Unfortunately, I don't have your previous message handy. After investigating further,

Re: SPAM From (was Re: Re: from: ???)

2000-08-22 Thread Jost Krieger
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 04:46:32PM -0700, Aaron L. Meehan wrote: Yes, well, in my experience the cons of blocking null senders far outweigh the pros. The vast majority of spam is sent with forged addresses, or take-your-pick blasted free email provider addresses. I've been trying to convice

(spam-) Tagging incoming mail (was: Pass on tcpserver environment variables to qmail-queue, possible?)

1999-03-01 Thread Jost Krieger
"Peter" == Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about something like FAQ 5.5? Here there be dragons. (Also known as "Been there, done that"). For various reasons I can't reject spam on the incoming mailhost, but I'd like to tag likely Mails with something like X-Spam-Tag: type

Re: MAILHOST and envelope sender

1999-01-20 Thread Jost Krieger
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 05:41:06PM +0100, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:  In other words, it basically runs /usr/lib/sendmail -oi -f USER -oem -edb -t where USER is your login name.  Right, from the manpage of qmail-inject: -fsender Pass sender to qmail-queue as the