Re: Future of qmail: will it care about viri/worms/etc?

2000-05-06 Thread Mrs. Brisby
Steve Wolfe writes: The problem isn't MUA's. The problem is that users were duped into executing a program of a malicious intent. And until the MUA is fixed, this will happen again, and again and again and again. Replace your MUA with something that's secure and you have solved the

Re: Can somebody explain aliass? or .qmail contents?

2000-05-06 Thread Mrs. Brisby
On Sat, 6 May 2000 15:23:08 -0700 (PDT), James wrote: Dale wrote: :In the ~alias directory you should have among others a .qmail-root :by default it will have nothing in it. Where exactly is the ~alias directory? ~username is a convention used by most UNIX(ish) shells. it means "username's

Re: local delivery for 1 user only

2000-05-03 Thread Mrs. Brisby
What you're asking is not very difficult -- especially if you use tcpservers. First however, it's important to note what your current network looks like. In the case of a local network that's firewalled to the internet, you can simply use RELAYCLIENT= and a shellscript . simply change your

Re: send mail to remote hosts...

2000-05-01 Thread Mrs. Brisby
On Mon, 1 May 2000 08:31:30 -0400, Paul Schinder wrote: At 10:35 PM -0400 4/30/00, Mrs. Brisby wrote: 2) pop3 command XTND XMIT. obvious PRO: no second connection necessary! obvious CON: needs a custom client. I am looking for one of these (preferably

Re: Understanding How To Use qmail In My Product

2000-05-01 Thread Mrs. Brisby
On Mon, 01 May 2000 17:17:11 -0400, Mike Flynn wrote: [ blah blah blah ] Q01. Is it true that I can get an enormous increase in the number of messages I could mail per hour using qmail? I don't know, can you? Can is a question of ability, and it has been my experience that

Re: send mail to remote hosts...

2000-04-30 Thread Mrs. Brisby
your problem is that msm.cl isn't in your rcpthosts file. the contents of the "from" field are completely vague; and more importantly, easily forged. it is my belief, that this is the reason qmail provides no option to enable the behavior of some broken mailers that actually look at the from:

anti spam prevention

2000-04-29 Thread Mrs. Brisby
I was thinking: pidentd encrypts the normal tap information before sending it to the requesting device. this is largely to prevent forgeries (your machine hacked my box, etc, etc, etc) and if you haven't gotten some little boy to cry wolf to you; chances are you're just lucky. but

Re: Configuration question behind a firewall

2000-04-27 Thread Mrs. Brisby
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 17:58:12 PDT, Susan Short wrote: I am a qmail newbie. I have qmail installed and working in our dmz behind one Cisco pix. Our network design requires that I forward all the mail currently coming into my dmz back to our inside secure network to host email02 behind another