Re: Subtle qmail bug? (was Re: Handling an MX record of 0.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1)

2001-01-23 Thread Matt Brown
Scott Gifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Keary Suska [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This would definitely be a bug of concern--even sendmail (yoiks!) knows how to handle 0.0.0.0. But shouldn't qmail bounce the message as a possible MX loop? It should, but does not. Putting it into ipme

Re: mail to newgroup utility?

2000-12-08 Thread Matt Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robin S.Socha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting montgomery f. tidwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): is there an easy way for me to set up an email account that will take incoming mail and send it out to a specific newsgroup? What's this

Re: List Courtesy (was Newbie question)

2000-12-01 Thread Matt Brown
"Aaron L. Meehan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've said enough. Pretty close to adding a rule for *Outlook* and *Inernet Mail Service* (heh, "Service!") into my .procmailrc, though, for mails to this list, with the SNR getting so bad among you all. The only problem with doing that is the

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-01 Thread Matt Brown
Felix von Leitner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Signature based detection can never catch current virii. Either s/current/new/ or s/catch/reliably catch/ There can be no argument that a signature based virus scanner can catch SOME viruses. The question is how reliably. The two issues are:

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-01 Thread Matt Brown
Felix von Leitner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If running a virus scanner would be free (i.e. does not reduce security, does not eat up CPU time on the email server, does not use memory, does not cost time and money to maintain) then I would not be against it. Nothing is free. All that is

Re: Using this list for QMail Support questions...

2000-11-30 Thread Matt Brown
Alex Pennace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: People who RTFM not only usually get help with their current problem, they learn about other nifty qmail features and find new ways of using qmail. People who don't RTFM and instead use the list to solve one problem at a time typically remain ignorant

Re: List Courtesy (was Newbie question)

2000-11-29 Thread Matt Brown
"John W. Lemons III" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The mind boggles at how important their work is that they are unable to help, yet they have plenty of time to post novella's about how busy they are and how lazy you are for not solving the problem without their help. This shows just how much

Re: List Courtesy (was Newbie question)

2000-11-29 Thread Matt Brown
Greg, he's not calling people stupid for what they don't know, but for what they couldn't be bothered to try, for the effort they couldn't be bothered to expend when it's just so easy to try and get someone else to do the hard work. -Matt -- | Matthew J. Brown - Senior Network Administrator -

Re: Courier or qmail

2000-11-22 Thread Matt Brown
Sean Reifschneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was kind of put off by the rejection of my message to the Courier mailing list. I detailed what all I had done and what the failure was. I wasn't interested in subscribing, sending the message, then unsubscribing. Whatever. I don't think

Re: Uh-oh:_.qmail_has_file_delivery_but_has_x_bit_set

2000-11-21 Thread Matt Brown
"Jon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks to everyone who solved my last qmail problem, it now works great! But on some POP accounts I get this error in my /var/log/qmail/current - delivery 5: deferral: Uh-oh:_.qmail_has_file_delivery_but_has_x_bit_set._(#4.7.0)/ It only happens on some POP

Re: Starting qmail: problem with svscan

2000-11-21 Thread Matt Brown
Joao Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know how to solve this problem? What is svscan suppose to do? How can I get the parameters of svscan (read svscan's instructions)? There are a set of man pages for daemontools on qmail.org. svscan takes one parameter, the service directory.

Re: high performance configs [was: Blocked pipe to qmail-queue]

2000-11-06 Thread Matt Brown
Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 04:52:50PM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote: [snip] The first thing to do about this if you want to implement it is to find out exactly WHY apache chose to do it that way. What were they hoping to resolve with that, and did

Re: Can I run multiple qmail-smptd on one install

2000-11-02 Thread Matt Brown
"Rob Hines Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I sent an email about problems with my users reaching my SMTP server via Earthlink dialup. Several responded and from that I found that Earthlink was blocking SMTP except to their mail server. My immediate idea for a solution was to run a second

Re: OT: Best Winbloze Mail Client?

2000-10-02 Thread Matt Brown
"Robin S. Socha" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gnus. http://www.gnus.org/. Groks maildir, scores like anything, has regexps for splitting and does PGP like a charm. Among many other things. On the downside, it's a hell of a beast to set up. Not for the weak. To be fair on Gnus, Gnus itself is

Re: Outlook 'server pushed' mail notification

2000-09-27 Thread Matt Brown
Eric Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Personally, just I have my MUA check the server every 10 minutes - most MUAs will check as often as 1 minute. I don't really see much difference between getting email notification instantly and getting it up to 59 seconds after it arrives. Besides,

Re: daemontools

2000-09-26 Thread Matt Brown
Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I haven't even ordered one myself. Their tshirt selection leaves something to be desired. The only have one color, white, and they don't have anything over XL. Eh? The page I'm looking at quotes 2x, 3x and 4x sizes for $3 more. -Matt