Re: How to copy outoging messages?

2001-08-13 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 10:01:24PM +0800, qmail wrote: > Can qmail manager each outgoing email? > if yes,then how to manager each email account that will send a copy of > message to his/her manager? FAQ 8.2. Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html

Re: pop3d question

2001-08-10 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 12:46:12PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is there any way to configure qmail-pop3d for not allow pop3 users > > to leave messages on server? > > Not in the way you're thinking. Instead, have a cron job run nig

Re: Solaris Delays?

2001-08-10 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 05:41:25PM +0100, Ken Corey wrote: [snip] > Any ideas or suggestions onwhat could be causing this initial annoying pause? Resolving problems. Check /etc/resolv.conf on the solaris box. Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html

Re: done qmail installation but can't telnet to port 25

2001-08-09 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 01:10:34PM +, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote: > >case, tail -f /var/log/qmail/smtpd/current and start qmail. > > @40003b728c052b1e1bdc tcpserver: fatal: no IP address for O You got an O ('oh') that should be a 0 ('zero'). Unless your hostname is O ('oh') in which

Re: removing sendmail in OpenBSD

2001-08-09 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 02:33:47PM +0200, Morten Liebach wrote: [snip] > This is news to me, I've been using mailwrapper (e.g. /etc/mailer.conf) > instead. > What's so bad about mailwrapper? It invokes the real sendmail when it gets in any kind of trouble. A fix for this is in a FreeBSD PR that h

Re: removing sendmail in OpenBSD

2001-08-09 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 12:02:47PM +, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote: [snip] > >Are you sure there is nothing in /usr/sbin/sendmail? > > There is. Missed it. Should it be a symlink too? Yes. > > > /usr/share/sendmail > > > >This one can stay just fine. > > Oops, it's a directory. Should hav

Re: removing sendmail in OpenBSD

2001-08-09 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:44:06AM +, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote: [snip] > Can anyone tell me which of the many sendmail files on my OpenBSD 2.9 system > I should remove and which I should symlink to qmail/bin/sendmail? > > My system contains the following sendmail files: > > /usr/libexe

Re: Is this correct?

2001-08-08 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:37:20PM +0200, Lukas Beeler wrote: > At 22:33 08.08.2001 +0200, Severin Olloz wrote: > >Is there a possibility to design the /etc/aliases-file that qmail sents > >directly to the user test2 without the virtualdomain-file? > i don't know, but fastforward & /etc/aliases is

Re: qmail-pop3d inbox messages limit

2001-08-08 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:22:14AM -0500, Alberto Alonso wrote: > I have noticed that if a user has more than about 5500 messages > in their inbox the server dies with the following error: > > -ERR unable to scan $HOME/Maildir > > I look at qmail-pop3d.c but couldn't see anything that would > ex

Re: dnscheck; Not logging Invalid SENDER

2001-08-08 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:17:42AM +0200, Lou Hevly wrote: > Greetings: > > I have dnschecking enabled: > > nodnscheck: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is checked for existing Domains. > > My problem is that some senders continue trying and my logs fill with > hundreds of Invalid SENDER lines for the

Re: Re: Can I use qmail for this purpose? (newbie)

2001-08-08 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 02:22:15AM -0500, Robin S. Socha wrote: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:59:06AM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: [snip] > > The manpages do install themselves automatically. You just have to > > tell man to check /var/qmail/man as well. (The way to do this is &

Re: Re: Can I use qmail for this purpose? (newbie)

2001-08-07 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 06:52:29AM +, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote: [snip] > I know. I took my chances and posted anyway. And I *did* read the FAQ, it's > pretty slim and the man pages didn't install themselves automagically when I > compiled the source. (Yes, I don't even know how to insta

Re: splogger / lwq

2001-08-07 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:13:40PM -0700, Will Yadley wrote: > Does anyone have an example of how to use splogger with daemontools (and how > to remove the multilog stuff)? leaving 'splooger qmail' at the end of the > /var/qmail/rc file was making qmail-send start an extra process at the > beginn

Re: COPY MAIL

2001-08-07 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:29:41AM +0200, Linux wrote: > Hi all. > > My need is to copy all the mail sended and received from and to a specific user. > I explain better > I have two users mail account, and to backup my e-mail, i need to send all > received and all sended mail to another local

Re: qmail on AFS

2001-08-07 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 09:44:36PM -0400, Rudy Zung wrote: [snip] > Hmmm. I hadn't thought of that possibility; however, I am hoping that I > wouldn't "casually" lose an email message because the file name is > constructed by the combination of the system time and the process ID, which > should be

Re: new message in queue

2001-08-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 06:39:58PM -0300, Henrique Pantarotto wrote: [snip] > But we're having trouble for the "new messages going to queue" graph. I > don't know what string I need to look for. I tried couting for the > string "new msg" or "from <" but they (also?) appear when Qmail is > simpli

Re: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)

2001-08-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 10:02:10PM +0200, Pavel Kankovsky wrote: > On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Peter van Dijk wrote: > > > Why are you kicking qmail-send? That should never be necessary in a > > production environment. > > Apparently, your "production environment" does

Re: qmail on AFS

2001-08-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 07:02:25PM +0200, Olivier Dupuis wrote: > Hi, > > I am testing log rotation with isolog on multilog. I can't understand why > after sending a ALRM signal to the multilog process, the "current" log is > not immediatly dumped into the "isolog" log. And what, exactly, does t

Re: qmail on AFS

2001-08-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:00:09AM -0400, Rudy Zung wrote: [snip] > I changed the link() in qmail-local.c to rename() and my mail delivery > now works. Anyone want to put in some input as to whether a rename() would > fail in some cases where a link() might not? Using rename() instead of link() t

Re: Prejudice and control

2001-08-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 01:26:34PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The qmail list does not accept messages from Microsoft Outlook Express. > > I get the above mesage whenever I send mail to the list nowadays. I've been > a member for quite a while and am curious why my i

Re: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)

2001-08-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 01:07:36PM +0100, Richard Underwood wrote: [snip] > Read what I wrote again. It IS qmail's fault. One role I use qmail > for is to accept mail which is then passed on to an exchange server on the > same network. Here's an example of what can happen ... > > If t

Re: Re: qmail-spawn_unable_to_fork._

2001-08-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 04:48:07PM +0530, Himanshu Kulkarni wrote: [snip] > More oftenly this problem occur due to exceeding max processes ..we are > not crossing 150 process where as limits of process is 512 on Redhat linux > .. we discussed this problem with developers and seems to be because

Re: Maildir/cur folder question

2001-08-05 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 08:35:05AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > I have noticed that sometimes email messages will appear in the > /Maildir/cur folder that have the format: > > ...;2, This is normal. > I believe they also have ownership set to root:root. This is not normal. You have a misc

Re: qmail-pop3d and /var/spool/mail

2001-08-05 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 02:28:39PM +0200, Severin Olloz wrote: > I want to migrate my sendmail-server to qmail. > > I have to decide to use /var/spool/mail with |/usr/sbin/qmail-procmail to > store the mails on the server. mbox or Maildir format? Both are perfectly possible in /var/spool/mail (

Re: no shell for qmail user (qmails, qmaill,...)

2001-08-04 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 04:28:51PM +, pop corn wrote: [snip] > >/bin/false is a very silly idea. /nonexistent is much better. > > Hi Peter, > > This is a post that I pulled out from the archives. I think /nonexistent > does seem better than /bin/false. It is. /nonexistent has no security i

Re: How-best-to: Secondary Queue for Mailing List

2001-08-04 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 05:56:46PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:45:00AM -0400, Jeff Hill wrote: > > When we e-mail a newsletter to our user list (10,000+ e-mail, twice a > > month), it holds up any other e-mail going into the send queue. What's

Re: How-best-to: Secondary Queue for Mailing List

2001-08-04 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:45:00AM -0400, Jeff Hill wrote: > When we e-mail a newsletter to our user list (10,000+ e-mail, twice a > month), it holds up any other e-mail going into the send queue. What's > the best way to avoid this? This question has been asked and answered less than a week ago.

Re: Qmail process under root...

2001-08-03 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:40:39PM +0200, NDSoftware wrote: > Hello, > It'sn normal this (qmail process under root): > > [root@ns207 /root]# ps -fe > UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD > root 8248 1 0 12:38 ?00:00:00 sh /command/svscanboot > root 8253 8248

Re: [Fwd: queue 'blocked' by large recipient list]

2001-08-02 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 02:52:01PM +0200, Christian Rotter wrote: > Hi Peter, > > yep, this works > > reconfigured conf-qmail for a new QMAILHOME and reinstalled the > package, added the second rc script to the qmail script in init.d > and got it running > > such a shame - missed that KISS appr

Re: queue 'blocked' by large recipient list

2001-08-02 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 01:07:58PM +0200, Christian Rotter wrote: [snip] > is there any way to 'split' the remote queue between different > applications (or users) sending mail to get rid of this problem ? > or are there any other solutions for this ? Run 2 qmail instances on your server - one f

Re: Qmail, sooo easy to exploit

2001-08-02 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 10:46:54AM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 09:41:56PM -, Steve Wozniak wrote: > > I'm a little Troll, > > You are. This "exploit" does not work on proper configured qmail servers, > only if you use the broken inetd. It is well known since years.

Re: custom RBLSMTPD message... (was: Sublist (Was: Virus...)

2001-08-01 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:00:08AM -0400, Roger Merchberger wrote: [snip] > >perl -ne 'chomp(); print "$_:allow,RBLSMTPD=/-yuck fou./\n";' > > ;-) > > I'd *love* to use that as my default text, but methinks I'll have to be a > bit more dip

Re: custom RBLSMTPD message... (was: Sublist (Was: Virus...)

2001-08-01 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 09:38:19AM -0400, Roger Merchberger wrote: [snip] > 195.219.116.19:allow,RBLSMTPD=/-You are banned from sending mail here; > known spam host./ > 195.219.91.3:allow,RBLSMTPD=/-You are banned from sending mail here; known > spam host./ > 198.30.222.8:allow,RBLSMTPD=/-You are

Re: Received: from unknown PROBLEM

2001-08-01 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 03:51:59PM +0530, Mustafa Mahudhawala wrote: > Hello, > My Qmail is working fine , smtp / pop et al. > BUT whenever I see Mail Headers I always have this ... > > I sent an email from indiatimes to my mail. > > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: SSH with Qmail

2001-07-31 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 09:51:39AM +1000, Brett Randall wrote: > > "Chris" == Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 04:02:31AM -0400, Dave Lewis wrote: > > >> Does anyone have documentation on how to setup Qmail to work with SSH ??? > >> I'm currently using

Re: qmail-pop3 server strange problem

2001-07-31 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 01:44:31AM -0700, Martin Bangieff wrote: [snip] > pop3stream tcp nowait root/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \ > qmail-popup borsabg /bin/password /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d \ > Maildir /bin/password should be /bin/checkpassword, I guess :) Greetz,

Re: Fastforward question (was Re: Mail Forwarding Service)

2001-07-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 12:42:14PM -0400, Philip Mak wrote: [snip] > I am not familiar with the internals of qmail, but from what I have seen, > this would make sense. Yes. This program could then just talk to /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue itself, or talk to /var/qmail/bin/forward. Greetz, Peter --

Re: Fastforward question (was Re: Mail Forwarding Service)

2001-07-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:36:02PM +, MarkD wrote: [snip] > It'll be interesting to see how you propose to atomically make such > queue changes while incurring a worthwhile queueing cost saving. I have no such proposal. I just feel that with some changes to the queueing structure, this might

Re: Fastforward question (was Re: Mail Forwarding Service)

2001-07-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 11:20:37AM -0400, Philip Mak wrote: [snip] > I'm also considering putting in my .qmail-default file: > > |forward `database-lookup $RECIPIENT` > > where database-lookup is a simple C program that connects to MySQL, looks > up the recipient in the database, and prints it t

Re: Fastforward question (was Re: Mail Forwarding Service)

2001-07-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:50:15PM +, MarkD wrote: [snip] > At this stage, periodic rebuilding of a fastforward file sure sounds > easiest - perhaps triggered by database changes. A 'select * from ...' followed by a fastforward cdb rebuild should pose no interesting load when executed, say, e

Re: Fastforward question (was Re: Mail Forwarding Service)

2001-07-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:44:08PM +, MarkD wrote: > > That's not what he means. This still reads the message and reinjects > > it. His proposal (which I have been pondering about for months already > > :) means that a program can tell qmail 'send this mail you are trying > > to give to me, to

Re: Fastforward question (was Re: Mail Forwarding Service)

2001-07-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 10:29:31AM -0400, Philip Mak wrote: [snip] > Upon activating this system, the load average of the machine has increased > from 1-2 to 10! I suspect most of the time is being spent compiling the > perl script and connecting to the MySQL database, though. If I switch to > fas

Re: Fastforward question (was Re: Mail Forwarding Service)

2001-07-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:35:32PM +0800, Adrian Ho wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 07:28:04AM -0400, Philip Mak wrote: > > I wonder if in the future, they'll make an "alias delivery" option in > > qmail; that is, it calls an external program, but instead of sending the > > entire message to the

Re: [OT] Is namezero.com's mail server broken?

2001-07-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:01:19AM -0400, Philip Mak wrote: > When I send message to this mailing list, I keep getting the following > bounce message from namezero.com's mail server. Apparently, someone who's > e-mail address is a namezero domain that forwards to a Yahoo account is > causing these

Re: Fastforward question (was Re: Mail Forwarding Service)

2001-07-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 05:34:59AM -0400, Philip Mak wrote: [snip] > My question about fastforward is: Will my existing .qmail-* files stop > working? If so, how can I make the ezmlm aliases still work? e.g. one of Yes, they will work. fastforward will just sit in .qmail-default and handle anythi

Re: unable to opendir mess

2001-07-27 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:32:23AM -0400, alexus wrote: > that's because you manually delete some of messages that were in queue.. > > don't worry 'bout it.. it'll go away within next few days... No, it won't. He's missing the directory /var/qmail/queue/mess/5. THe correct procedure is: - stop q

Re: deferral: Sorry,_I_couldn't_find_any_host_by_that_name

2001-07-26 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:38:01AM +0200, zyrtaf wrote: > Your domain vol.vnn.vn doesn't have a MX record, so I think that's the > problem. You may also add a smtproute. > PS : Please quote correctly mails sent to this list. Please don't use HTML > when it's needless. Please don't quote my private

Re: Which RBL replacement?

2001-07-25 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 10:28:07AM +0200, Johan Almqvist wrote: > * Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010725 10:22]: > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 10:19:59AM +0200, Johan Almqvist wrote: > > [snip] > > > Thanks for the pointers... I have a slight memory that rfc-ign

Re: Which RBL replacement?

2001-07-25 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 10:19:59AM +0200, Johan Almqvist wrote: [snip] > Thanks for the pointers... I have a slight memory that rfc-ignorant also > planned to do ip blacklists att the outset, but whatever... It will, probably, for any type of rfc-violation that makes IP blacklisting a valid metho

Re: QSBMF -

2001-07-24 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:41:29PM +0100, John P wrote: > > Pretty much the whole trick is to go into qmail-send.c, around line > > 708 (search for "Hi"), and just change the message that is output. As > > with any source change, you'll want to test it first, and make sure > > the message is re

Re: Is Qmail MAPI Compliant?

2001-07-24 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:48:29PM -0700, Ramsey, Mike wrote: > Is qmail mapi compliant? Probably not, since MAPI is a M$-standard as far as I know. However, you have provided no details of what you want or what you are trying to accomplish. Perhaps MAPI is not even what you need? Greetz, Peter

Re: Which RBL replacement?

2001-07-24 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:45:57AM -0700, Chin Fang wrote: > I just checked out http://www.mail-abuse.org/rbl, but didn't see any > mentioning of charges to the "direct" mode of using RBL. Would > appreciate it if anyone could post a pointer that leads to more > detailed announcement of this new

Re: Which RBL replacement?

2001-07-24 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:04:15AM -0600, Roger Walker wrote: > > Starting Jul 31 RBL will start charging for using their services. Which > >of the free RBL replacement do people recommend? I have read so far > >about ORBL and ORBS... > > I check them all. I am still discussing with my

Re: Inode allocation / qmail-queue?

2001-07-24 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:41:22PM -0600, Mike Hodson wrote: > Hello there. > I have been noticing slightly out of the ordinary things happening in my > qmail-send logs after changing the queue filesystem over to reiserfs. > I am seeing the same inode used for multiple messages. Is this normal? Y

Re: Auto CC

2001-07-24 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:09:27PM -0600, Nathan Cook wrote: > Thank you. After reading the mail from Peter I was able to solve my problem by > putting this in the .qmail file in the home directory. RTFM in it's finest form. Great :) Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/

Re: Auto CC

2001-07-23 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:51:57PM -0600, Nathan Cook wrote: > Is there any way that I can make it so all inbound messages to a specific > account will deliver to that inbox and CC another specific account? man dot-qmail Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.ht

Re: weird qmail-popup behaviour?

2001-07-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 11:00:12PM +0200, Arjen van Drie wrote: [snip] > >You will see this if you use `cat -ve' on the file. > > Thanks all. It works now. How does one read hexdumps? Is there > a howto or a table somewhere? On FreeBSD I like hexdump -C a lot, which gives output like: bash$ he

Re: FreeBSD: /etc/mailer.conf

2001-07-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:58:23PM +0200, Moritz Schmitt wrote: > Hello, > > could anybody please post the content of the mailer.conf file? It's /etc/mail/mailer.conf, and these are the contents on my box: # $FreeBSD: src/etc/mail/mailer.conf,v 1.2 1999/12/29 18:24:06 peter Exp $ # # Execute th

Re: How can i get the mail size in qmail-local.c

2001-07-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:06:55PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > qftang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > now i am doing some development based on qmail,and i want to get the mail > > size in the file qmail-local.c,how can i do that. > > If you mean you're writing a program called for delivery

Re: weird qmail-popup behaviour?

2001-07-05 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 05:20:54PM +0200, Arjen van Drie wrote: [snip] > This is the 'run' script started by supervise: > > #!/bin/sh > exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.pop3.cdb -v -R -H -l 0 0 110 \ >/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup ids.trivial.3va.net /bin/checkpassword \ >

Re: weird qmail-popup behaviour?

2001-07-05 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 08:48:11AM +0200, Arjen van Drie wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 10:01:49AM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 08:17:13AM +0200, Arjen van Drie wrote: > >[snip] > >> > >> Any ideas? > > > >Hmm, no clue

Re: Speed up injecting

2001-07-04 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 08:17:36AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: [snip] > qmail-queue takes multiple recipients for a single message; extending it to > handle multiple messages would be complicated and pointless. And would *only* benefit Solaris users who are too lazy to migrate to something that

Re: Speed up injecting

2001-07-04 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:16:41PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: [snip] > Someone posted a perl module called "qspam" or so calling qmail-remote > directly and only injecting into the queue if this fails. This should speed > up things dramatically. Only when done massively parallel, ofcourse. Gre

Re: Speed up injecting

2001-07-04 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:53:02AM +0200, Gianni Campanile wrote: > > For 1): use a real OS. > No chance, it's not my choice and it is a constraint. > > > For 2): divide your list in 10 parts of 1000 emails (for example) and > > handle these normally, but all at the same time. > As I said there i

Re: Speed up injecting

2001-07-04 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:29:58AM +0200, Gianni Campanile wrote: [snip] > 1) Solaris (Slowlaris); > 2) Only one process can injects the mails, so there is > no concurrency on the injection phase. > > I've tried to use qmail-queue directly, but I gained very little. > > It seems that the bottle

Re: weird qmail-popup behaviour?

2001-07-04 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 08:17:13AM +0200, Arjen van Drie wrote: [snip] > > Any ideas? Hmm, no clue. Tried stracing? Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html

Re: Home directory is sticky ??

2001-07-03 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:44:36PM +0200, Arno Slatius wrote: [snip] > Whenever I send an email to an unknown user the log states: defferal: > Home_directory_is_sticky:_user_is_editing_his_.qmail_file. I think it spells 'deferral'. Next time, be sure to copy verbatim. Sometimes these small differ

Re: High Volume....

2001-07-03 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:45:09PM +, Jost Krieger wrote: [snip] > I thought it would be better to take a number about the square root of the > top queue size, which minimizes search length on a classical file system. > > For 23000 your on the order of 151, which happens to look prime. Searc

Re: conf-spawn and FD_SET SUCCESS

2001-07-03 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:55:59PM +0530, D Rajesh wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Thanks again for your reply > > I am actually trying to send 200,000 mails and > not 1 mail to 200,000 people... !!! > > PL suggest me on what parameters should I use ... Then set your conf-split to somewhere near 200. A

Re: conf-spawn and FD_SET SUCCESS

2001-07-03 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:27:21PM +0530, D Rajesh wrote: [snip] > >conf-split should be prime for optimal performance. What's wrong with > >the default 23? > > I thought a large conf-split only makes sense if we have more than 20.000 > messages *in the queue* . I guess this does not happen even

Re: conf-spawn and FD_SET SUCCESS

2001-07-03 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 03:15:36PM +0530, D Rajesh wrote: [snip] > My qmail parameters are as follows on a redhat Linux 6.2 > kernel 2.2.14 :- Upgrade to the most recent. Now. > qmail + DNS patch + big - todo patch + big - concurrency patch > silent concurrency --- 1000 > conf-split --- 15 con

Re: Aliases with "-"

2001-07-03 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:50:36AM +0200, Peter Klingeberg wrote: > Hi ! > > Is there any special capital like ":" for dots > to use "-" in aliasnames ? (.qmail-user-name-name) No, "-" works just fine. Only dot is special. Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en

Re: Extremely slow after move/IP change

2001-07-03 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:03:39AM +0200, Petter Sundlöf wrote: [snip] > Any ideas? Could this be DNS problems? Shouldn't be, as everything else > in that regard seems to be working in the server. It's DNS problems. The resolver listed in /etc/resolv.conf is probably unable to resolve the reverse

Re: child crashed

2001-07-02 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:44:23PM -0700, newbieportal wrote: > > Hi everyone > > for some reason I'm getting this error on my qmail-send log file > > @40003b40ca153456a8a4 delivery 1594225: deferral: > Aack,_child_crashed._(#4.3.0)/ Showing us all lines pertaining to 'delivery 1594225' an

Re: High Volume....

2001-07-02 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:18:12PM +0100, Jose Celestino wrote: > http://www-archive.ornl.gov:8000 If you have nothing to say, don't say it. And if you insist on saying it, at least learn how to quote correctly. Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html

Re: High Volume....

2001-07-02 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:37:03AM +0200, Xavier Pegenaute wrote: > Hi all.. > > i can try any prime number for hashing ..? ( is limited?) You can try any number, but anything over 1/1000th of your queuesize is overkill. The default of 23 is therefore suitable for about 23.000 messages. > and,

Re: $HOME problem

2001-06-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 11:45:10AM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: [snip] > 1. how should I start qmail-pop3d. I found two ways (qmail info and > lifewithqmail) but I don't know which is the standar way. Go with lifewithqmail. > 2. [ot] is possible to use mutt with Maildirs? Yes, mutt su

Re: Maildir directory layout

2001-06-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:34:36PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > My question: Is this a sensible layout for Maildir? Are there any > docs about preferred layouts, etc.? I have ~/mail/INBOX/, ~/mail/lists/qmail/, ~/mail/lists/ezmlm/ etcetera. Works like a charm. Do whatever pleases you

Re: Problem with qmail-remote during Delivery

2001-06-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:25:16AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > Try running a real MTA like Iplanet messaging server, Sendmail, Notes or Exchange >server. Even Exchange 4.0 is more advanced than qmail. Qmail was an attractive option >when we had less than 300 users, because it was fr

Re: sender_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:____/

2001-06-27 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:33:32AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > Alfonso Armenta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Although in my log quote I used fake addresses those were just slightly > > changed. The usual protect the innocent (not from the regulars from this > > list, of course). > > > >

Re: Databyes

2001-06-27 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 04:06:16PM +0200, Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: > Hi there, > > Is it possible to override the databytes value in the control/databytes > file based on the _destination_ of the email. I know how to change the > DATABYTES environment variable using tcpwrappers or tcpserver base

Re: Alter bounce messages?

2001-06-27 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:01:44AM -0400, peter green wrote: [snip] > What is actually parsing that format these days? I can appreciate > forward-looking policies like qsbmf, but that doesn't exactly fly with > customers all of the time. What can I point to as a definite reason (*now*) > to keep q

[OT]: ROT13 [was: Re: Peter from the Dike and Security]

2001-06-27 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:47:26AM -0400, peter green wrote: > * Robin S. Socha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010627 09:42]: > > * peter green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010627 08:32]: > > > (pcg@pcg2) ~> rot13 > > > bash: rot13: command not found > > > > (robin@mail1):(~)$ man caesar | head -n4 > > (pcg@pcg2)

Re: Peter from the Dike and Security

2001-06-26 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:12:04PM -, Frank Tegtmeyer wrote: > >I doubt you do. I know you can find about just as much >about me > >(possibly more) with a simple google search. > > Oh, Yeah, that’s what I did. Okay Peter “from the dike,” I’ll sift through 37,700 >hits on your name and get ba

Re: GHOSTS SECURITY AND OVER CONFIDENT NAZI'S

2001-06-26 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:22:38PM -, Frank Tegtmeyer wrote: [snip] > We see above that he is a little paranoid about security as well. I know his QMAIL >server (213.61.218.3)is vulnerable to a root > exploit, but here is what he had to say about it: > > "As I said before: Shut up and go a

Re: Bounce-backs with attachments, log files. . .

2001-06-26 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 09:29:56AM -0500, Norvell Spearman wrote: > It seems when a user sends mail with an attachment and it bounces back, the > bounce-back has the attachment in-line with the mail text (as opposed to > something you can click on then save or open). This isn't a major problem >

Re: qmailanalog usage

2001-06-25 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 06:56:47PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: [snip] > Yes -- each message has multiple log lines associated with it. You'll likely > get some messages which cross over your arbitrary per-night boundaries. qmail > won't be able to include those messages in its analysis if you

Re: Wrong Server Name in Qmail Header?

2001-06-22 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 11:31:19PM -0700, A A wrote: > Hello, > > Whenever my qmail server sends someone an email, the > following line appears in the header: > > "Received: from mail.mydomain.com > (old_name.mydomain.com [216.216.216.216] (may be > forged))" > > However, recently I changed my

Re: Spam IP master list?

2001-06-20 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 12:15:04PM -0400, Roger Merchberger wrote: > Kindof an offtopic question, but is there a "Master List" of IP's that send > spam regularly, with which I could use to update my tcprules deny list? RBL? > I really don't want to patch & reinstall qmail with the RBL... (and it

Re: ReiserFs and qmail

2001-06-19 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:15:11PM +, Nick (Keith) Fish wrote: [snip] > I'm not sure on the statement that qmail is unreliable under Linux due to > its assumptiopn that "link is a synchronous operation". I've never read > anything about it. Anyone else? This is true. I'm not sure, however,

Re: FW: Slow Connection with LVS

2001-06-19 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:04:54AM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: > peter green writes: > > * Mehul Choksi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010619 09:35]: > > > Why do I get this message? Any suggestions? > > > > lesoleil.com's mail servers suck rocks. Their admins seem unresponsive to > > fix the problem

Re: FW: Slow Connection with LVS

2001-06-19 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:38:18AM -0400, Mehul Choksi wrote: > Why do I get this message? Any suggestions? lesoleil.com's mailserver is broken. It's been discussed about 20 times over the past few months. Check the archives. Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_

Re: smtp router

2001-06-18 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 05:14:48PM +0200, Federico wrote: > I need to make this possible with qmail: > > I've this structure INTERNETQMAIL-EXCHANGE > > i need that ALL incoming mail from internet are sent directly to exchange and the >outgoing mail are sent normally. > > it is possible

Re: many mails

2001-06-15 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:35:28AM +0200, Gianni Campanile wrote: > Are you sure ? Yes. > The time for starting the qmail-queue will add to the I/O, so > I'm trying at least to save a part. qmail-queue will still be in your kernel cache/buffers, so there is hardly any I/O involved in starting

Re: many mails

2001-06-15 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:20:46AM +0200, Gianni Campanile wrote: > I've searched but I couldn't find it. > > In any case I like the queue, what I don't > like is that to build a 5000 message queue I > have to call 5000 times qmail-queue, instead of preparing > a big 5000 messages file and call q

Re: backup mail server help

2001-06-14 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 12:42:28PM -0700, Adam Jacob wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 06:03:41AM -0600, Jeff Palmer wrote: > > And if your NFS server goes down, both servers are useless. In which > > case, what was the point of having a backup server again? > > Which is why you deploy this wi

Re: Fw: many mails

2001-06-14 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Gianni Campanile wrote: > Can I qmail-queue more than one message at the time ? > > From the manual it seems that sender and message are only one, > while recipients can be as many you wish. I would like > to feed qmail-queue with a single file (or st

Re: Mailbox or Conference is full

2001-06-12 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 11:21:56AM -0600, Guillermo Villasana Cardoza wrote: > Ok guys.. now I got it too... > Here are the headers and the body I got. > The server is a Sendmail 8.11.2 > I don't know what OS is running. We know that by now. Everybody gets it, some of us already block the offendi

Re: Multiple recipients to remote domain

2001-06-11 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:00:42PM -0400, Joshua Nichols wrote: > > > Not true. It simply means that the remote system would have to > > > implement VERP when qmail-remote tells the smtpd that the envelope > > > sender is list-@[]@host.example.com. Unfortunately, qmail-remote and > > > VERP-comp

Re: Multiple recipients to remote domain

2001-06-11 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:02:40PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > Roger Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, Peter and Charles. Looks like I'll have to script a > > solution that telnets to port 25 on the remote host and issues 10,000+ > > (650,000+ actually) "rcpt to:" lines. > > Unnec

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