old system: irix, sendmail, /bin/mail, pine, qpopper, homedirs on
flaky NFS disks.
new system: FreeBSD, qmail, maildir, mutt, qmail-pop3d, less flaky
NFS, qmail-users, quotas.
i lose power about every 6 weeks in this building. the network is
flaky. i want to test qmail by flooding it with
my system: FreeBSD 3.4, qmail, Maildir, daemontools,
tcpserver.
i want to move /var to RAID (software RAID with
FreeBSD's "vinum"). i'd like a sanity check on what i
plan to do:
- bring /var2 online. /var2 = RAID
- reboot into single user. don't start qmail & MySQL
since they use /var.
- co
Has anyone successfully installed qmail on Mac OSX public beta? i get
this far:
auto-str.c: In function `main':
auto-str.c:15: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'
./load auto-str substdio.a error.a str.a
/usr/bin/ld: can't use -s with input files containg indirect symbols
(output file
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 01:08:15PM +1300, Jason Haar wrote:
> At the very least give maildrop a go. I was a die-hard procmail user for
> many years, but was beginning to have too many occassions of procmail
> swallowing all the RAM on my workstation to process a large mail message
> (procmail does
You have to edit maildir.c in imap/src/osdep/unix (i think; recalling from
memory). There are 3 options as "#define" in the C source. one of them
needs to be switched to "#undef" to enable reading from a directory which
contains "Maildir" in the path. I don't know why this option is there.
re: qmail not notifying you of temporary failures. the default time to
sit in the queue is 1 week. you can run a script from cron to examine the
queue at regular intervals and send email to those concerned if email
hasn't been delivered.
search www.qmail.org for Matt Ranney or Brian Wightm
with sendmail, if an entry like this:
joe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
is in /etc/aliases then any message sent to joe will be bounced back with
a helpful note about joe's new email address. this way you don't have to
forward email to joe's new address for years after they leave. eventually
joe's
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 01:42:26AM -0500, Alex Pennace wrote:
> Use bouncesaying. bouncesaying in a .qmail file causes a QSBMF-style
> bounce to be sent with the supplied string used as the failure
> indication for that recipient.
Great! that does it. Any idea how to include a newline in the er
i'd like ~joe/.qmail to be ignored by qmail. i don't want qmail to check
if ~joe exists at all. instead, i'd like /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-joe to
be the only file consulted.
i put this line in /var/qmail/users/assign:
=joe:alias:81:81:/var/qmail/alias:-:joe:
but qmail-newu complains:
msg
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 10:22:26AM -0500, Dave Sill wrote:
>
> Did you forget to terminate "assign" with a '.' line?
nope, that was my problem. thanks for pointing me in the right
direction.
---Matt
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