tcpserver (ucspi 0.84) and status 256?

2000-12-22 Thread Matthew Harrell
of the usual status 0. Where can I find a listing of the status codes since I don't see one on the web page? Thanks - also I know there is a later version of the ucspi tools but since they don't look like drop-in replacements I just haven't had time to fix the scripts yet. -- Matthew Harrell

Re: tcpserver (ucspi 0.84) and status 256?

2000-12-22 Thread Matthew Harrell
ly looking for the 256 error code so I might have missed it. That's good to know since I was thinking I had broken something that was causing this machine to be unable to connect. -- Matthew Harrell If at first you don't succeed, Bit Twiddlers, Inc.

Re: badmailfrom

2000-12-05 Thread Matthew Harrell
that address. tcp.smtp seems to only deny mail from the machine directly sending to you - do you know a way to drop mail that's been passed through a trusted server? Thanks -- Matthew Harrell Preserve wildlife -- Bit Twiddlers, Inc. pickle

Relaying and rewriting or ignoring headers

2000-08-09 Thread Matthew Harrell
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Re: Two email addresses and the rest to a virtual domain

2000-04-14 Thread Matthew Harrell
Matthew Harrell was overheard saying: : : echo 'foo.bar:foo.bar' /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains : : echo 'joe' ~alias/.qmail-foo:bar-joe : : echo 'fred' ~alias/.qmail-foo:bar-fred : : echo 'john' ~alias/.qmail-foo:bar-default : : : did you really mean to create an infinite loop, where

Re: Two email addresses and the rest to a virtual domain

2000-04-14 Thread Matthew Harrell
. : It's documented in qmail-local.8. A dot gets changed into a colon : when qmail-local searches for .qmail filename matching the extension. Got it. Thanks. I was just checking the dot-qmail page. It seems to work well, though, so I'll have to remember that one in the future. -- Matthew

Two email addresses and the rest to a virtual domain

2000-04-13 Thread Matthew Harrell
to lose any email. -- Matthew Harrell You're just jealous because the Bit Twiddlers, Inc. voices only talk to me. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

smtproutes and MX aliases

1999-11-24 Thread Matthew Harrell
partner.aol.com or am I forced to edit the code and make it check for MX records also? Thanks -- Matthew Harrell All science is either physics or Bit Twiddlers, Inc. stamp collecting. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: smtproutes and MX aliases

1999-11-24 Thread Matthew Harrell
all my mail through one of them. It would be fine if I could do aol.com:mx1.aol.com,mx2.aol.com and I haven't tried it but I haven't see anything written about it. -- Matthew Harrell Programmer - a red-eyed mumbling Bit Twiddlers, Inc

Re: smtproutes and MX aliases

1999-11-24 Thread Matthew Harrell
] : PS: Can we all do that to get around AOL's filters, too? No, according to them they need the IP's of the machines which will be sending mail. Of course I haven't actually tested that so I don't know what it does. -- Matthew Harrell Another Month's End: Bit Twiddlers

Re: smtproutes and MX aliases

1999-11-24 Thread Matthew Harrell
that side. It would be nice for the inordinately large number of people who complain that they aren't getting our daily messages but yet have their filters so restrictive that we can't even reply to them. -- Matthew Harrell "Think of it as evolution in action&q

Re: smtproutes and MX aliases

1999-11-24 Thread Matthew Harrell
of something else I might want to try. Thanks -- Matthew Harrell To err is human, Bit Twiddlers, Inc. to purr feline. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

unprocessed messages

1999-10-15 Thread Matthew Harrell
would provide statistics and things but I don't know what would be useful. -- Matthew Harrell Programmer - a red-eyed mumbling Bit Twiddlers, Inc. mammal capable of conversing with [EMAIL PROTECTED] inanimate objects.

Re: unprocessed messages

1999-10-15 Thread Matthew Harrell
- I think. Unfortuantely, the remote ones left to deliver are undeliverables because the remote machines aren't answering so this takes a while. -- Matthew Harrell To err is human, Bit Twiddlers, Inc. to purr feline. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unprocessed messages

1999-10-15 Thread Matthew Harrell
t before. I changed it and I'll watch it to see how it goes. I wonder how it got to "600" in the first place. -- Matthew Harrell The perversity of the universe Bit Twiddlers, Inc. tends to a maximum. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: big-todo patch +queue-fix

1999-09-30 Thread Matthew Harrell
: just wondering if, after I applied the big-todo patch, I can still use the : queue-fix program? : Matthew Harrell gave me the following patch. I have not tried it. Yeah, I use that patch and it seems to work fine for me. Let me know if you have any problems. -- Matthew Harrell

Concurrent deliveries

1999-09-28 Thread Matthew Harrell
Can I get some pointers as to why I'm only getting somewhere between 25 and 50 concurrent deliveries even though I have 120 in concurrencylocal. Attached is the qmailanalog output. Basically, I seem to get horrible transfer rates on this machine and I'm trying to figure out why. -- Matthew

Re: cannot start: unable to switch to queue directory

1999-09-21 Thread Matthew Harrell
.qmail.org and run that on your queue directory. It should detect and fix any permission problems. -- Matthew Harrell You're just jealous because the Bit Twiddlers, Inc. voices only talk to me. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any ideas?

1999-09-03 Thread Matthew Harrell
634 871 17 27 56 -- Matthew Harrell Smile, it's the second best thing Bit Twiddlers, Inc. you can do with your lips [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any ideas?

1999-09-03 Thread Matthew Harrell
Next step is to run iostat or equivalent during a peak period. I don't seem to have iostat on my machine. What's a good replacement? -- Matthew Harrell Programmer - a red-eyed mumbling Bit Twiddlers, Inc. mammal capable of conversing wit

Any ideas?

1999-09-02 Thread Matthew Harrell
but if I'm not able to get the rate much higher I'm probably going to have to consider this whole effort a failure. thanks -- Matthew Harrell Behind every great computer sits Bit Twiddlers, Inc. a skinny little geek. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any ideas?

1999-09-02 Thread Matthew Harrell
with the patch I just assumed it must be detrimental to load it up that badly. I would be glad to hear that isn't the case, though. thanks for all the info. -- Matthew Harrell Nondeterminism means never Bit Twiddlers, Inc. having to say you are wrong

Re: Any ideas?

1999-09-02 Thread Matthew Harrell
to check CPU but I would guess it's not the real problem. -- Matthew Harrell Behind every great computer sits Bit Twiddlers, Inc. a skinny little geek. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any ideas?

1999-09-02 Thread Matthew Harrell
he systems. -- Matthew Harrell The perversity of the universe Bit Twiddlers, Inc. tends to a maximum. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any ideas?

1999-09-02 Thread Matthew Harrell
on : the same segment to free memory - nameservers are memory hogs. They're on the same machine. Memory didn't seem to be my limitation and I thought a remote nameserver might cause more latency. I might try it and see what happens, though. -- Matthew Harrell Quantum

Re: Any ideas?

1999-09-02 Thread Matthew Harrell
what to read out of this. -- Matthew Harrell I used to have a handle on life, Bit Twiddlers, Inc. then it broke. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any ideas?

1999-09-02 Thread Matthew Harrell
to determine what to do with unanswered connections. I guess I could jut ignore them and assume they were going to be bounces. It's an option. Have you tried it and noticed much of a speedup over normal qmail processing? -- Matthew Harrell You're just jealous because

Re: Any ideas?

1999-09-02 Thread Matthew Harrell
informative to run "vmstat 10" while it's peaking. These are : the cumulative-since-boot stats. : What OS is this? Linux. I'll get peak results next time a big message has to go out. -- Matthew Harrell Quantum Mechanics: Bit Twiddlers, Inc.

Re: Any ideas?

1999-09-02 Thread Matthew Harrell
, quiet time, and heavy use time - if they stay the same, : then it isn't actually actively swapping. Yep, this describes the way my systems have always run. The swap never really changes on any of these machines. If it ever did change radically then I know something bad is up. -- Matthew Harrell

Re: Any ideas?

1999-09-02 Thread Matthew Harrell
. Odds are I screwed up somewhere. It wouldn't surprise me with the last couple of days I've been having. I'll swear I did it right, though. Now I'll just go sulk in my corner... -- Matthew Harrell The Earth is like a tiny grain of Bit Twiddlers, Inc

supervise questions

1999-08-25 Thread Matthew Harrell
p another and I keep getting the above messages. The only way I found to stop it was to kill the supervise command. I tried it also with named and ended up getting about ten instances of named before I killed it. What am I doing wrong here? thanks for any help -- Matthew Harrell

Re: supervise questions

1999-08-25 Thread Matthew Harrell
. Will do. Looks like I'm way out of date since I'm only using 0.53. Thanks for the help. -- Matthew Harrell Behind every great computer sits Bit Twiddlers, Inc. a skinny little geek. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Load balancing / qmqp / transferring messages

1999-08-24 Thread Matthew Harrell
be nice if I could just have a distributed qmail or a distributed queue that multiple qmails could operate on. -- Matthew Harrell Never raise your hand to your Bit Twiddlers, Inc. children - it leaves your [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Squashing 20,000 rumors...

1999-08-24 Thread Matthew Harrell
n todo or intd, : so I guess it also took seconds for qmail-send and its children to find : files in there... I believe this is exactly what the big-todo patch does. Seemed to help on my systems when I have thousands of messages queued. -- Matthew Harrell I don't

Load balancing / qmqp / transferring messages

1999-08-23 Thread Matthew Harrell
the queue size? For instance if there are three fast machines processing messages and passing those that had problems to another slower machine to send out when it can. Thanks -- Matthew Harrell You're just jealous because the Bit Twiddlers, Inc

Re: Tcpserver and cyclog

1999-07-18 Thread Matthew Harrell
but nothing ever seems to get logged. What : am I doing wrong? : : Add a -v to your tcpserver invocation. Thanks. That's got to be the fastest mailing list response I've ever seen. -- Matthew Harrell I love defenseless animals, Bit Twiddlers, Inc

Re: Tcpserver and cyclog

1999-07-18 Thread Matthew Harrell
. I'll check for those patches. Thanks -- Matthew Harrell Every morning is the dawn of a Bit Twiddlers, Inc. new error. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Simple SMTP question

1999-05-12 Thread Matthew Harrell
em on your schedule. It was just going to be on a temporary basis, but thanks. I think that mostly answers my questions. -- Matthew Harrell You're just jealous because the Simulation Technology Division, SAIC voices only talk to me. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Inetd refusing connections under RedHat 5.2

1999-04-14 Thread Matthew Harrell
on refused but in all other senses of the word inetd works fine. All it takes to get my smtp connection back is a HUP of inetd but this is rather annoying anyway. Any ideas what the problem could be or where I should look? -- Matthew Harrell Beauty is in the eye o

Re: Inetd refusing connections under RedHat 5.2

1999-04-14 Thread Matthew Harrell
. Sorry about wasting bandwidth... -- Matthew Harrell Gravity is a myth, the Earth sucks. Simulation Technology Division, SAIC [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Queue limit question

1999-04-11 Thread Matthew Harrell
. -- Matthew HarrellAnother Month's End: Simulation Technology Division, SAIC All Targets Met [EMAIL PROTECTED] All Systems Working All Customers Satisfied All Staff

Re: Queue limit question

1999-04-11 Thread Matthew Harrell
to limit it to n messages but it's better than nothing. -- Matthew Harrell Beauty is in the eye of the beer Simulation Technology Division, SAIC holder. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Queue limit question

1999-04-11 Thread Matthew Harrell
write my own but if some kind of capability is already build in then I should probably use it. -- Matthew Harrell Gravity is a myth, the Earth sucks. Simulation Technology Division, SAIC [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Queue limit question

1999-04-11 Thread Matthew Harrell
with the large mail requirements for a client who primarily uses NT. For the most part they don't know how or what to do on the systems and they don't mind that at all. Almost everything they do is from some automated interfaces I set up. -- Matthew Harrell Hackers

Re: Sending mail with bounces going elsewhere

1999-04-02 Thread Matthew Harrell
nd From fields and the other get's put in the From: field. -- Matthew Harrell Beauty is in the eye of the beer Simulation Technology Division, SAIC holder. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Capitals in user mailing lists?

1999-01-12 Thread Matthew Harrell
Hi, Is it possible to have capitals in the user-defined mailing aliases? I tried to create a couple of aliases ".qmail-Test" and ".qmail-test" and the one with the capital had a bounce. Is this correct or do I have something wrong in my setup? -

Re: Capitals in user mailing lists?

1999-01-12 Thread Matthew Harrell
: : qmail preserves case in the local part, but ignores case when matching : against usernames or filenames. Okay, I guess that makes sense and it really doesn't matter in my case since I can fix the script that's sending out mail to lowercase all the names. I just thought it was weird. -