Re: Debian GNU/Linux (potato) Packages: var-qmail

2000-06-19 Thread Neil Schemenauer
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 02:01:42PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote: > Without even looking at them, I can tell you the following: > > 1) *if* the packages comply with dist.html, they will _never_ get into > potato. > 2) If they don't comply with dist.html, you will not be allowed to > distribute them

Re: QMail Performance Question & Miscellaneous Issues

2000-05-11 Thread Neil Schemenauer
On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 10:54:37PM -0700, John White wrote: > If you're looking for queue speed, you want RAID 1+0 with a > NVRAM cache to accellerate the small block writes. zeroseek would be even cooler. Neil -- There are two rules for success in life: Rule 1: Don't tell people everythi

Re: QMail Performance Question & Miscellaneous Issues

2000-05-10 Thread Neil Schemenauer
On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 01:30:53AM -0700, Flemming Funch wrote: > So .. eh... would it likely be my disk I/O that slows it down > (how do I test that?), or should I be switching to FreeBSD, or > am I doing something stupid? You should find the bottleneck before you jump to any conclusions. What

Re: QMail Performance Question & Miscellaneous Issues

2000-05-08 Thread Neil Schemenauer
On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 01:17:13PM -0600, Steve Wolfe wrote: > Despite the docs at RedHat.com, saying how easy it is to > increase the file-handle limit on the new kernels, I found that > it simply didn't work. Editing the source and recompiling the > kernel (as you had to in older kernels) did th

Re: PERL filtering...

2000-05-05 Thread Neil Schemenauer
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 02:32:10PM -0500, John W. Lemons III wrote: [A whole pile of extensions cut] > Most of these will never need to be sent or received by a user and all can > contain malicious code. Any other suggestions? Yes. Fix the mail client or switch to one that does not execute untr

Re: hack for filtering "i love you" worm

2000-05-05 Thread Neil Schemenauer
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 12:19:09PM +0200, octave klaba wrote: > Hi, > I did setup your qmail-filter.py and test works > # echo "test 1" | mail -s okay myself > # echo "test 2" | mail -s ILOVEYOU myself > qmail-inject: fatal: mail server permanently rejected message (#5.3.0) > # echo "test 2" | mai

Re: hack for filtering "i love you" worm

2000-05-05 Thread Neil Schemenauer
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 01:59:39PM +0200, Jesper Hess Nielsen wrote: > When I try to run the script directly : > > [root@ns bin]# ./qmail-filter.py > > bash: ./qmail-filter.py: No such file or directory Try: $ python qmail-filter.py If that works then something is wrong with the first lin

Re: hack for filtering "i love you" worm

2000-05-05 Thread Neil Schemenauer
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 07:28:32PM -0400, Searcher wrote: > > exit(31) if /name="LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs"/o; > > Am I missing something here? Nothing except that fact that the real solution is to fix the broken mail clients. IMHO, virus scanners and the like are fundamentally broken.

Re: hack for filtering "i love you" worm

2000-05-04 Thread Neil Schemenauer
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 04:08:40PM -0600, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: > For anyone using this filter, i'd like to hear feedback before i modify a > production server. Also, should this interfere with vmailmgr? Its not too efficient so a C version of would be better on a high volume mail ser

hack for filtering "i love you" worm

2000-05-04 Thread Neil Schemenauer
| mail -s okay myself # $ echo "test 2" | mail -s ILOVEYOU myself # # You might have to modify the Python path at the top. This is a # temporary fix. Remove it after the dust settles: # # $ cd /var/qmail/bin # $ mv qmail-queue-real qmail-queue # # Neil Schemenauer <[EMAIL P