Yes, this is a bug in qmail's virtualdomains && VERP handling

2001-08-09 Thread Russell Nelson
Yes, this is a bug. Is Dan going to issue a qmail-1.04? He was very prompt in issuing qmail-1.03 when a bug was discovered in qmail-smtpd's handling of a null envelope recipient. -russ p.s. Apologies to mycroft. No, I didn't understand his description of the problem he was trying to solve. Pav

Re: Flame Bait: Using Qmail as a front-line mail server

2001-08-09 Thread Russell Nelson
Steve writes: > 1. Is it possible to list the Qmail server as the primary MX record and > still forward the mail to its final destination? All my research > says no, but I need to be certain. Use smtproutes. It essentially functions as an MX record with priority -1 (in other words, a strong

Re: Dan, how do we solve this problem?

2001-08-09 Thread Russell Nelson
Chris Hardie writes: > > After reading some initial responses to this, I thought it was worth > asking for clarification: (4) and (5) together would indicate that the > user wants to use his "ownership" of the slow connection's IP address as a > source for the mail, but wants to deliver it v

Re: virtualdomains vs. VERP and Delivered-To

2001-08-06 Thread Russell Nelson
Charles M. Hannum writes: > There is no way for the mailing list software to get from > `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to > `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' without having knowledge of virtualdomains. > That's not an acceptable solution. Why not? -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr se

Re: virtualdomains vs. VERP and Delivered-To

2001-08-06 Thread Russell Nelson
Charles M. Hannum writes: > > >> Also, that doesn't resolve my VERP problem. > > > > Sorry, I thought it did. Why doesn't it? > > Uhhh, did you *read* my first piece of email? If I get a VERP address > of `[EMAIL PROTECTED]', > how pray tell is my mailing list software supposed to know

Re: virtualdomains vs. VERP and Delivered-To

2001-08-06 Thread Russell Nelson
Charles M. Hannum writes: > > >Charles M. Hannum writes: > >> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> ... > >> > >> This seems very wrong. The Delivered-To: address here isn't even > >> correct; it should be something the actually exists -- either > >> `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' or `[EMAIL PROTEC

Dan, how do we solve this problem?

2001-08-05 Thread Russell Nelson
A user on this mailing list has a problem. He has a fast non-static IP ADSL connection, which is listed on the DUL. The non-default route was a slow second internet connection with a static IP and which was not listed on the DUL. He has several choices that I can see: 1) Try to get his fast con

Re: routing mail with user-specific tokens in addresses

2001-08-03 Thread Russell Nelson
Bela Lubkin writes: > Assuming qmail has been set up on a bastion host and is being used to > route incoming mail from the Internet to various internal hosts; > > and observing that in doing such routing, it is not honoring the > "user-token@domain" address extension delimiter; > > then:

RE: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly other s)

2001-08-03 Thread Russell Nelson
Richard Underwood writes: > My other suspicion is that there's a chance that my one server will > try a couple of dozen connections to the same remote host at the same time. > (This is an issue in itself!) Not really. It used to be an issue back in 1996 when qmail was first introduced.

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

2001-08-01 Thread Russell Nelson
Roger Merchberger writes: > Rumor has it that Russell Nelson may have mentioned these words: > >Yup. Anybody who uses an email client that they didn't write > >themselves (in assembly language) is just a poseur. > > Altho I've never really stopped prog

Re: Sublist (Was: Virus-infected listmembers)

2001-07-31 Thread Russell Nelson
Smithj writes: > Use GIMP :) Yup. Anybody who uses an email client that they didn't write themselves (in assembly language) is just a poseur. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925

Re: Sublist (Was: Virus-infected listmembers)

2001-07-31 Thread Russell Nelson
Dave 'Duke of URL' Weiner writes: > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:54:53PM -0400, Steve Reed wrote: > > > I think it would be very considerate of the list members if > > > whoever runs this mailing list would PLEASE wake up and ban the > > > living daylights out of Wilson and his barrage of viru

Re: Alter bounce messages?

2001-06-26 Thread Russell Nelson
Amanda writes: > Who can tell me how to alter the bounce messages in the qmail-send > file without blowing it up? Recompile it. > In particular I'd like to terminate with extreme prejudice the > message that says something to the effect of, "Hi. This is the The problem with this idea is tha

Re: GHOSTS SECURITY AND OVER CONFIDENT NAZI'S

2001-06-26 Thread Russell Nelson
Frank Tegtmeyer writes: Thanks, Frank. Worms die in the sunlight. > I think most of you assholes are looking for potential pay for > support candidates anyway, so you use this list to make people feel > stupid, so they pay you for consulting services. Na. It's bad business practice to

Re: deferral: /bin/sh:_./Maildir/:_is_a_directory/

2001-06-26 Thread Russell Nelson
Stephen Froehlich writes: > I have a couple of users who aren't receiving mail with the following error > message > > delivery XX: deferral: /bin/sh:_./Maildir/:_is_a_directory/ Sounds like they have a .qmail file that looks like this: ./Maildir That would be fine if you wanted email deliv

Re: Is it possible to use qmail-pop3d with mailbox format

2001-06-25 Thread Russell Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi all, > > I am using qmail-1.03-30 and its working fine as far as SMTP connection is > concern. > But i am using ipop3d for for pop daemon, which is very slow. > Is it possible to use qmail-pop3d with Mailbox format ??? No. Switch to Maildir format. It's muc

Re: [Q] difference between rcpthosts and locals

2001-06-25 Thread Russell Nelson
YOON, Joo-Yung writes: > Can anynone explain me about the difference between > rcpthosts and locals? The difference is subtle and confusing. Many qmail users have identical contents in both. rcpthosts lists the hostnames you will accept via smtp. locals are the hosts by which your machine is

Re: courier-imapd, folders and delivery

2001-06-24 Thread Russell Nelson
Peter Schuller writes: > I want to switch from POP3 to IMAP (finally). I cannot imagine why any enterprise would want to switch from POP3 to IMAP. They are designed to do completely different things. POP3 exists to get the email the heck off your server as quickly as possible, whereas IMAP is

Re: mailq

2001-06-23 Thread Russell Nelson
Jörgen Persson writes: > The ''destroy mail'' option is a neat idea but I fail to see a valid > need for such a feature. It's handy if one of your users has sent out a bunch of spam. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok |

Re: mailq

2001-06-22 Thread Russell Nelson
KIM writes: > well is safe if i delete all contents of queue/info? No. If you want to clear out your queue completely, do this: # You *did* install as per LWQ, didn't you? svc -d /service/qmail-send rm -rf /var/qmail/queue # You *did* compile qmail from source,

Re: GHOSTS AND ASSHOLES

2001-06-22 Thread Russell Nelson
Robin S. Socha writes: > I'd buy your support any day, Russel. And I mean it. Once, just once I'd like to see people mis-spel my name as "Rusell". Just once. Why does anybody think that a trailing 'L' is optiona? You don't ever see your name spelled "Robi Socha", do you? Huh? Betcha don't, do

RE: GHOSTS AND ASSHOLES

2001-06-22 Thread Russell Nelson
Bill Andersen writes: > Russ, I'm not saying they shouldn't give us the information needed > to help them. I'm just of the opinion we shouldn't jump down every > newbie's throat just because they are a little over cautious. We don't jump down every newbie's throat. Just every fifth one, to s

RE: GHOSTS AND ASSHOLES

2001-06-22 Thread Russell Nelson
Bill Andersen writes: > I know, I know. You have to give out enough info to get help. > But some people are a little more cautious than others. Remember, > they DON'T know YOU. And with all the inflated news propaganda > about the Internet and how people can "steal you blind", we should >

Re: Java and Qmail - building a large mailmerge server - plain text version

2001-06-22 Thread Russell Nelson
manav writes: > I really appreciate you took some time out to reply. Thanks. And not flame you? :-) Not everybody on the list is a flamer, and besides you supplied us with all the necessary information. You *did* confuse us by mentioning 10 lakh recipients and 128kbps in the same paragraph, bu

Re: Java and Qmail - building a large mailmerge server - plain text version

2001-06-22 Thread Russell Nelson
manav writes: > I have been using qmail for the last year and a half and have been closely > following the mailing list at securepoint, and didn't find anything related > to my query, hence I took the liberty of posting it. > > The objective is to build a high-volumer server capable of doing

Re: mailq

2001-06-22 Thread Russell Nelson
Jörgen Persson writes: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 03:48:10PM +0800, KIM wrote: > > how can i delete the mail queue in qmail? pls help i really need it. > > There are several tools mentioned on ''the qmail home page''[1] but > I prefer to make it reach the queuelifetime by touching the relevan

Re: OT: POP3

2001-06-21 Thread Russell Nelson
Lars Hansson writes: > Since he tends to leave all his mail on the server (gah) and also travel a > lot I was thinking it might be better to switch him over to IMAP since he > sure wouldnt be getting duplicates then, unless someone actually sent him > duplicates. > Any ideas? POP3 is designe

Re: Why conf-split prime?

2001-06-21 Thread Russell Nelson
Stephen Froehlich writes: > Its not an issue for me as I have 10 users and don't expect queues larger > than 2 or three messages (i.e. performance is not an issue). I wanted qmail > for the security, though I am more than pleased to have the scalability and > speed. However, why should this

Re: qfilter to add disclaimer (samples anyone?)

2001-06-20 Thread Russell Nelson
Jeff Newton writes: > > The list archive indicates many people are using qfilter to add > an email disclaimer. Does anyone have sample scripts they are > willing to share with me? I looked for a qfilter list to ask but > there doesn't appear to be one. Email disclaimers are evil. Resist

Re: Spam IP master list?

2001-06-20 Thread Russell Nelson
Roger Merchberger writes: > 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? > > I really don't want to patch & reinstall qmail with the RBL... (and it > seems ORBS went away...) Besides, I'm

Re: [Q] CPU usage -- Too busy

2001-06-19 Thread Russell Nelson
YOON, Joo-Yung writes: > I just installed qmail, ucspi-tcp, and daemontaols under directions > of lwq. > > Now the system shows 100% of CPU usage on the window of wmcube (a small > display application in WindowMaker, which shows the CPU rate.) > > And the load average is also full on the

Re: FW: Slow Connection with LVS

2001-06-19 Thread Russell Nelson
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. Feel free to block 'em with your tcpserver rules. Wouldn't it be easier i

Re: restart without rebooting

2001-06-18 Thread Russell Nelson
Virginia Chism writes: > I need to learn how to restart qmail on my BSDi system. I have not been > able to locate a qmail-restart in any of the qmail directories. > > Whenever I make changes in qmail, I have had to resort to `shutdown -r now` > thus rebooting the entire system. I don't lik

Re: rss spam filtering problems

2001-06-16 Thread Russell Nelson
Stephen Bosch writes: > Chris Johnson wrote: > > > > I tried the above *with* the patch, and it didn't work either. I don't > > > think it's working right anymore. My system fails the RSS test at Russ > > > Nelson's site. > > > > Which is because the RSS people removed Russ's IP address f

Re: How to accept e-mails to addresses like user@foo.bar%mail.foo.bar?

2001-06-16 Thread Russell Nelson
Adam Nealis writes: > For reasons I am not too clear about, a user with > a POP3 vpopmail account on my qmail server appears > to let out his reply address as > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]%mail.foo.bar This is wrong, and bad. It's a construct from a pre-MX days, when there were smtp clients that d

Re: Queue corrupted???

2001-06-15 Thread Russell Nelson
Now *this* is a bug report. I don't have to go back and ask you questions because you've told us what happened, and what you expected to see happen, and what you did and what happened when you did it. Good job, Paulo! Muy bien! Paulo Jan writes: > When I later stopped qmail again to delet

Re: vscan

2001-06-15 Thread Russell Nelson
Tim Rainier writes: > Okay, here's a better look at the problems we're having: > the vscan daemon is running, but it just sits there and does nothing, until > I touch the lock files, and then off she goes. Doesn't make sense to me. > Why would a touch fix something like this? What's "vscan"?

Re: many mails

2001-06-15 Thread Russell Nelson
Gianni Campanile writes: > 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 qmail-queue only once. Have you read the qmail-queue source code? What are you

Re: Mime Encoding

2001-06-14 Thread Russell Nelson
Anstett, Brad writes: > Hi, > Does anyone know what the default length that qmail sets for a MIME encoded > string for attachments. I had a programmer set it at 4320 and the mail and > attachment can across corrupted. Is there anyway to increase the string > length that qmail will accept. Si

Re: qmail date sync prob?

2001-06-14 Thread Russell Nelson
Tim Rainier writes: > We have an extendnet box running Debian. Our qmail program has a problem > where it will stop functioning until we do something to modify the date. > simply running a touch command on it, gets it back up and running. > any ideas? This is not a problem I've ever heard of

Re: Long connect times

2001-06-14 Thread Russell Nelson
Jon Booth writes: > Hi all, > I am using QMail with xinetd. It takes ages for a PC internally (allowed > to relay) to connect to the server. Outside servers can connect instantly. > Where should I look to diagnose this problem Reverse DNS for your internal hosts. It's not optional. -- -ru

Re: warning: trouble opening remote

2001-06-13 Thread Russell Nelson
dgrer writes: > Jun 14 08:28:24 seic8 qmail: 992478504.218230 warning: trouble opening >remote/0/348013; will try again later > ... > > When I enter /var/qmail/queue/remote/0/, I con not find file 348381,348335 and >348013, > What I showld do to deal with this problem? thx! This might

Re: queue processing problem

2001-06-13 Thread Russell Nelson
David Gartner writes: > 4 machines (3 nodes, running qmail, mounting /home from NFS server. 1 NFS > server--running IDE RAID 5) Switch to SCSI drives and you can do it with one machine. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok

Re: yet more trouble with daemontools and supervise

2001-06-13 Thread Russell Nelson
Stephen Bosch writes: > > This is the old-fashioned way to log. > > But Dave... what's wrong with my setup? =) splogger is slow. It's incompatible between systems. > Should I just reconfigure everything according to the new LWQ? Yes. That's the first thing I do when I get to a new custom

Re: Hello , How to give Priority

2001-06-13 Thread Russell Nelson
RAGHVENDRA SHUKLA writes: > > Hello , > How i can give priority in the qmail and how i can set delay > factors for some mails/mailing lists . Please describe the problem you are trying to solve, rather than asking us how to do something. It may be that there is a better solu

RE: Multiple recipients to remote domain

2001-06-11 Thread Russell Nelson
Joshua Nichols writes: > > > 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-compatible smtp servers do not cooperate

Re: Multiple recipients to remote domain

2001-06-11 Thread Russell Nelson
Peter van Dijk writes: > qmail-remote would have to start saying EHLO ofcourse, in that case. > > Is VERP a registered EHLO tag? I'm sure it isn't. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315

Re: Multiple recipients to remote domain

2001-06-11 Thread Russell Nelson
Charles Cazabon writes: > Good clarification. Would you settle for "Making VERP work with per-MX > batched recipients of a message would require extensive core changes to > qmail?" No. VERP support has little to do with it. The problem is that qmail-send / qmail-rspawn are strongly oriented

RE: many mails

2001-06-11 Thread Russell Nelson
Roger Walker writes: > Here is my, possibly similar, situation: We have approximately > 650,000 customers/accounts and Marketing wants to send them a monthly > newsletter. Our mail system is Intermail running on some 25-30 Sun > Enterprise Servers (and there is no chance of it being repla

Re: Multiple recipients to remote domain

2001-06-11 Thread Russell Nelson
Charles Cazabon writes: > qmail never batches recipients to remote domains. One of the (several) > reasons for this is it would make VERP impossible. 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 lis

Re: many mails

2001-06-11 Thread Russell Nelson
Gianni Campanile writes: > I am setting up a mailing system that must send very very quickly a great number > of mails (5,000-10,000) with different text to different recipients. Hmmm... You could get them sent out in about ten seconds, but I don't think you could do any better than that. An

Re: Using qmail-queue

2001-06-11 Thread Russell Nelson
Jon writes: > So is there anyway of having the email address of the user being emailed in > the To: field without using qmail-inject for every message? You can use the following patch to qmail-remote, or if that's not sufficient, I have a proprietary patch which allows substitution of fields fr

Re: How can a user put comments into rcpt to address

2001-06-09 Thread Russell Nelson
K. F. Yim writes: > Our user put it in the To: address box of their MS outlook mail client Qmail doesn't parse that address. MS outlook does. If it's handing the wrong thing to qmail, point the finger at MS. > and I did it from command line as well. Running qmail-inject? Qmail-inject doesn

Re: qmail-remote (cry wolf?)

2001-06-09 Thread Russell Nelson
Greg White writes: > I think we may have red-herringed on the OS thing -- if RH6.2, as > deployed, had this sort of problem, I think we would have run across it > before this, no? Hmmm I wonder. I could do a denial of service attack on qmail-remote by receiving email very, very slowly, a

Re: How can a user put comments into rcpt to address

2001-06-09 Thread Russell Nelson
K. F. Yim - Netvigator writes: > Just right after the to address [EMAIL PROTECTED](comments). In what file? On what command line? -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | Joh

Re: How can a user put comments into rcpt to address

2001-06-08 Thread Russell Nelson
K. F. Yim - Netvigator writes: > My users previously put comments with his recipient address. e.g. > [EMAIL PROTECTED](comments). It worked for sendmail type system for message > handling. > > Now he is complaining that whenever he puts (comments) with the recipient > email address, qmail b

Re: qmailqueue patch

2001-06-07 Thread Russell Nelson
Joy Hundley writes: > How do I know/find out if my system has the qmailqueue patch that is > required to enable qmail to call a different qmail-queue program than the > one compiled in by default? Where would I find this information? strings /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd | grep QMAILQUEUE Or lo

Re: Line Feed

2001-06-07 Thread Russell Nelson
Marc Knoop writes: > I have been requested to make a change to one of my qmail servers [see > below], though I am unsure of how to do this. Probably the best thing to do, to minimize the possible corruption of email, is to add a /service/smtpdlf, bind to another IP address or port number, and p

Re: TCP Server Question

2001-06-06 Thread Russell Nelson
Peter van Dijk writes: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:27:49PM +0200, Duncan MacMillan wrote: > > I'm sorry if this is off topic for this list, but I'm assuming that there > > will be people here that can answer this question. > > > > I have a box that runs QMail & TCPServer. The box has multip

RE: qmail troubleshooting

2001-06-05 Thread Russell Nelson
Mark Douglas writes: > >Excellent, you show initiative. Most good qmail resources can be found by > >either following links from qmail.org, or by doing a Google search. > > qmail.org is down for me presently. qmail.org *was* down for you previously. See my message over in [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: qmail troubleshooting

2001-06-05 Thread Russell Nelson
Mark Douglas writes: > Now, my suspicion is that these are deliveries that failed the first time > and have been set to retry again at a later date. However, I can't find a > way of confirming this, apart from the "deferred" statements in the log > files. That *is* your confirmation. > What

Re: Virtual Domain

2001-06-04 Thread Russell Nelson
Lye On Siong Johnny writes: > Are there any other way to implement virtual domain apart from using vpopmail? There are many ways. qmail is in effect a tool for sending and receiving email. You can use it in many different ways, vpopmail being just one of them. You could use vmailmgr (http://w

Re: direct connection to qmqp or qmtpd server

2001-06-04 Thread Russell Nelson
Johan Almqvist writes: > BTW: Why is there still no link to my qmail page on www.qmail.org? Laziness. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Microsoft rivets everything. 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | Linu

Re: anyone using qmail-qfilter?

2001-06-04 Thread Russell Nelson
Charles Cazabon writes: > Another possibility (given that you're running on PC hardware) is hardware > problems; "it's worked fine for years" does not mean there wasn't a latent > problem all along. Yep; in fact "it's worked fine for years" and now doesn't is probably a very good indication of

Re: direct connection to qmqp or qmtpd server

2001-06-04 Thread Russell Nelson
Newbieportal writes: > Everyone knows that we can connect to smtp server directly using telnet or > simple socket connection script. > > Can I do the same for qmqp server or qmtpd server. Not using telnet. At least, not without counting every character you type before you type it and adding

Re: Slow smtp response

2001-06-04 Thread Russell Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Apologies in advance for this question, I have trawled the archives and the > various web pages but no joy. > The problem is my qmail box responds v.slowly to smtp request, taking an > average of 100 secs for a connection to be made. I am running qmail on a > redh

Re: Enquiry

2001-06-04 Thread Russell Nelson
Pavel Kankovsky writes: > Perhaps I should have been more specific: when I said ``clogged'' I meant > the queue had run out of disk space and no new messages could be injected. > (To make things better, it was even impossible to inject bounces.) Oh, well, a full disk always requires immediate

Re: Enquiry

2001-06-03 Thread Russell Nelson
Pavel Kankovsky writes: > On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Russell Nelson wrote: > > > Qmail doesn't need any queue management. > > Sure. Everything you need to do when your mail queue gets clogged with > 10,000 spam messages is to close your eyes and wait a week or two u

Re: smtp on a specific IP

2001-06-03 Thread Russell Nelson
Ross Davis writes: > I still can't believe that after all this time, I am the only one that wants > to control what ip a domain sends mail out on. Quoting from www.qmail.org: http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>Markus Stumpf has a http://www.lamer.de/maex/creative/software/qmail/";>pair of qmail patches,

Re: headers in failure notice

2001-06-02 Thread Russell Nelson
Charles Cazabon writes: > I personally don't see how this would help anything. As Russell Nelson has > aid a couple of times in the last 24 hours, "What problem are you trying to > solve?" It's a terribly useful question when a customer calls up and asks me how

Re: Re[2]: Oops,I guess Sendmail wasn't secure after all...

2001-06-02 Thread Russell Nelson
Boris writes: > If you will find 100 bugs in sendmail they are fixed then after > reporting them. The games is over, the problem is solved. The admin > updates, and thats all. Actually, the admin doesn't update. Or rather, some do, and some don't. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http:/

Re: Enquiry

2001-06-02 Thread Russell Nelson
Rohit Gupta writes: > Hi all guruz > > Is there any way out without using vpopmail.. that i can analysing > qmail queue and cleaning it manually without actually get into > queue directory and deleting the files manually You worry too much. Qmail doesn't need any queue management. What pr

Re: Oops,I guess Sendmail wasn't secure after all...

2001-06-01 Thread Russell Nelson
Boris writes: > I really can´t hear the "qmail is the most secure bla bla" anymore, > really. Why? It's true. > At the moment I am evaluating qmail, and there > are some things I am missing from sendmail. Like what? -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells

Re: headers in failure notice

2001-06-01 Thread Russell Nelson
John Hogan writes: > this is a post-search-the-archive question: > > i want control over the headers available in the body of the qmail-send > bounce notices > > is this at all configurable? No. What problem are you trying to solve? -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnels

Re: Quick tcpserver question

2001-06-01 Thread Russell Nelson
Gordon-Nildram writes: > If you edit the tcp.smtp file then reload the tcp.smtp.cdb file > using tcprules do you need to restart qmail for these changes to > take effect? No. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Microsof

Re: qmail-popbull used w/ imap

2001-06-01 Thread Russell Nelson
michael writes: > This question I suppose is directed at Russell since he is the > writer of qmail-popbull... > > We're trying to get courier-imap running and the desire is to > also have bulletin ability. Since qmail-popbull is called as > part of tcpserver startup for qmail I'm hoping i

Re: Limiting bandwidth usage

2001-05-31 Thread Russell Nelson
Karsten W. Rohrbach writes: > qmail indirectly contains instrumentation for that. it is called remote > concurreny. Alas, no. What it actually does is limit the number of connections, in the hope that the machine will not use a lot of bandwidth. But then, really, all you're doing is relying o

Re: Limiting bandwidth usage

2001-05-31 Thread Russell Nelson
Roger Svenning writes: > > Anyone have some advice on how to limit the bandwidth usage for qmail ? > > > > We have a mail/web server sitting on a 2mbit and several times a week we > > need to push out 3+ mails and don't want this to totally block the web > > traffic to the same server.

Re: Dynamic allow of relay

2001-05-31 Thread Russell Nelson
Charles Cazabon writes: > Mark Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a way to setup qmail such that it will dynamically allow relay > > hosts based on their previous login to the qmail-pop3d? > > Yes, and there's several implementations available. See qmail.org for > details, and

Re: forwarding msgs analyzing subject text

2001-05-31 Thread Russell Nelson
Massimo Quintini writes: > Excuse me, but I have tried your solution but it don't works! > |/var/qmail/bin/condredirect iauc `822field Subject | grep -q "IAUC"` Doh! Yes, of course that won't work. condredirect wants a program to run, not a string. Try it this way: |/var/qmail/bin/

Re: Vpopmail+qmail pop3 has lost it's mind!

2001-05-31 Thread Russell Nelson
Dave Sill writes: > Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >You want to sync the clocks... qmail-pop3d won't list messages from the > >future. > > Somebody refresh my memory... Why does it care? I can't see any reason why it skips files in the future. And it has an explicit check

Re: Qmail.org website

2001-05-31 Thread Russell Nelson
Frank Tegtmeyer writes: > There must have be something with his machine/network. Russells DNS > server and the MX are also not reachable. Network. "Hey, what's this 192.203.178 network? How come it's being routed to us??" Ring, ring. "Oh, it's YOUR network. Sorre! We'll get it fixed as

Re: tcpserver: Return 553 instead of 451?

2001-05-30 Thread Russell Nelson
Bruce Lane writes: > I'm using tcpserver with qmail and a local blacklist in the form of > tcp.smtp and tcp.smtp.cdb. In order to provide local logging, and a brief > description to a rejected source of why their connection attempt was > rejected, a typical line from my tcp.smtp file may

Re: forwarding msgs analyzing subject text

2001-05-30 Thread Russell Nelson
Massimo Quintini writes: > I must forward msgs from 1 sender to groups of users AFTER EXAMINING > SUBJECT TEXT > > example: > > the rcpt of msg is user1 > IF subject contains the char string "xxx" THEN the msg must be forwarded > to users user2, user3, user4 > IF subject contains the c

Re: "/did_1+0+0/ " meaning ?

2001-05-29 Thread Russell Nelson
george writes: > qmailI don't know understand the message "/did_1+0+0/" in /var/log/syslog file when >qmail success delivery > Example: > May 30 11:06:38 www2 qmail: 991191998.879928 delivery 9: success: /did_1+0+0/ > > Anyone can tele me? It's the count of dispositions that qmail-local m

RE: Maildir delivery problem

2001-05-29 Thread Russell Nelson
Daniel Bakken writes: > My Qmail rc script (/var/qmail/rc) reads like this: > > #!/bin/sh > > exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" qmail-start '|dot-forward .forward > ./Maildir/' > > delivery 4: deferral: dot-forward:_fatal: ./Maildir/:_is_a_directory Somehow the newline after ".for

Re: Maildir delivery problem

2001-05-29 Thread Russell Nelson
Daniel Bakken writes: > I am using Qmail with Maildir and pop3d. After Qmail receives a message, It > seems to not be able to deliver it. I usually see the following (roughly) in > my log: > > Starting delivery 4 . . . > > delivery 4: deferral: dot-forward:_fatal: ./Maildir/:_is_a_directo

Re: Installation of QMAIL

2001-05-29 Thread Russell Nelson
Constantine Koulis writes: > Anybody knows what should i do next.i mean i have to go to the BIND DNS of > the primary to say what?or to the secondaru to say what. Please explain the problem you are trying to solve. > No i think i have to go to qmail and to run ./config mail1.xxx.ro in order

Re: smtp times out

2001-05-29 Thread Russell Nelson
kamesh jayachandran writes: > @40003b140df82d486e1c /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd: error in loading shared >libraries: libc.so.6: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory Are you running qmail-smtpd using the daemontools softlimit? If so, you've got the maximum memory

Re: switch from mailbox to maildir format

2001-05-29 Thread Russell Nelson
Franco Vecchiato writes: > what's the "new-user template directory"? (where is it?) Typically /etc/skel/, but every vendor seems to feel that it's crucial to reinvent every wheel, so there's no one definitive answer. man useradd (or perhaps it's adduser) will tell you more. -- -russ nelson <

Re: Selective queue processing

2001-05-29 Thread Russell Nelson
Gordon-Nildram writes: > Hi > > I have searched the archive for this, but only found someone asking the same > question, but no answers. > We have a server which acts as an smtp feed for customers using ISDN, is it > possible to process the queue for a certain domain? ie if example.com are

Re: How to patch ... ?

2001-05-28 Thread Russell Nelson
george writes: > Hello all: > I download qmail-1.03-mysql-0.6.7.patch.gz and I want to patch qmail. > But I can't how to do patch > Example: > > # patch -p1 < qmail-1.03-mysql-0.6.7.patch > Looks like a unified context diff. > File to patch: > Not every patch necessarily requires

Re: Newbies vs. arrogant experts (was: Newbie with tcpserver)

2001-05-12 Thread Russell Nelson
Chris Garrigues writes: > As it is, I consider unsubscribing several times a week (and it's not because > of the newbies). I send qmail list traffic into its own mailbox, and read it once a day. It's kind of handy, because I can see the questions which don't get answered, and sometimes I answ

Re: Newbies vs. arrogant experts (was: Newbie with tcpserver)

2001-05-11 Thread Russell Nelson
Dave Sill writes: > Second, the offer of commercial support made to Pablo was sent > privately, not to list. Pablo's reposting it publicly is at least as > rude as trolling the list for clients. The best way to troll the list for clients is to answer people's questions. > Answering FAQ's is

Re: Newbie with tcpserver

2001-05-11 Thread Russell Nelson
Robin S. Socha writes: > * Paulo Jan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010510 11:00]: > > Considering the guy's name, perhaps English isn't his primary language > > and he isn't fluent at all with it, which would also explain why he > > wasn't able to express himself politely enough when rejecting the > >

Re: qmail rewrite in progress

2001-04-12 Thread Russell Nelson
Dave Sill writes: > In comp.security.unix, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, DJB wrote: > >A complete rewrite is in progress. Several pieces have already been > >released. In the meantime, the current qmail version works. > > I wonder what pieces he's referring to. Maybe daemontools and > ucspi-tcp? dj

Re: unknown record type in ...

2001-04-07 Thread Russell Nelson
Smith, Lisa writes: > > My apologies if this has already been asked and answered, I've searched the > archives and haven't seen anything on it, I've looked thru the docs that I > have, and the only thing I have found is > "a serious bug in qmail-send or qmail-queue". Or your operating sy

Re: conf-spawn

2001-04-07 Thread Russell Nelson
Federico Edelman Anaya writes: > I compile the qmail with conf-spawn 509 value ... How can I setup a big > value? sample: 1000 ? http://qmail.org/top.html#large -- -russ nelson will be speaking at http://www.osdn.com/conferences/brie/ Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | T-568-B

RE: Some Hints?

2001-04-02 Thread Russell Nelson
Kitabjian, Dave writes: > > Second:how to insert new names into /var/qmail/control/rcpthost > > unless edit this file? > > Why not just: > > echo "newdomain.com" >> /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts > > ? Because it's the wrong thing to do (as it turns out). He's turning his server

Re: Some Hints?

2001-04-02 Thread Russell Nelson
Marco Calistri writes: > > On 02-Apr-2001 Russell Nelson wrote: > > Marco Calistri writes: > > > Hello,this is my first post on this mailing list. > > > I wonder if have I any chances to modify header lines > > > so that qmail reports hostnames ins

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