Re: rblsmtpd and mail-abuse.org's DNS servers

2001-08-07 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Derek Callaway wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem with my qmail smtpd server becoming unresponsive when rblsmtpd cannot communiate with the RBL nameservers. Has anyone else From the manual page at http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/rblsmtpd.html: -C: (Default.) Handle RBL lookups

New qmail spam-fighting script added

2001-08-06 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
http://www.codegnome.org/scripting/showscript.php?script=qacct.sh -- Work: It's not just a job, it's an indenture.

Re: Im not sure if this is normal?

2001-06-09 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
qmail? -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Re: mail not process

2001-06-05 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
running the qmail scripts under csh instead of some other shell. Better yet, start over with the www.lifewithqmail.org directions, instead of the ones that come with qmail itself. -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Re: basic question

2001-06-05 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
a FAT partition to be reliable. How many times have you needed to run scandisk? Think about it. -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Re: How can i resolve THIS ?

2001-06-05 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
/concurrencyincoming. -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Re: How can i resolve THIS ?

2001-06-05 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Adam McKenna wrote: Increase your concurrency limit in /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming. Uh, the last time I checked that was not a valid control file. /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming is a control file used by the supervise scripts outlined in LWQ. -- Todd

Re: How filter a special mail address or subject when receiver allmail.

2001-06-04 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
-cooperative users, since they can more or less bypass your global configs. -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Re: whether original sender can receiver a notic mail when mailcan't send?

2001-06-04 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
, or qmail-local error . The same. qmail handles this automatically. -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Re: /var partition, queue size, and sendmail

2001-06-01 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
), and the number of available filehandles on your system (defined in /proc/sys/fs/file-max). You didn't say whether you were running out of space, inodes, or filehandles, but if you're going to tackle the problem in a comprehensive way, these items should be considered as well. -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome

virtual + real users in same domain

2001-03-19 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
of accounts using the same daemon. Does anyone know of a useful tutorial or how-to that would explain how to configure such a system, or have some sample configs that I could work off of? -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Re: Alias not forwading to .qmail-foo-default

2001-03-18 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Nick (Keith) Fish wrote: Are your other aliases working properly (ie. root, postmaster, mailer-daemon, etc.)? Yes. Any alias pointing to a real user (either local or remote) works fine. It's only a problem with forwarding to .qmail-ext names. -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome

virtual users without virtual domains?

2001-03-17 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
to codegnome.org. I'm also interested in setting up virtual users (i.e. users without a login account) that are still part of the same domain as the real users (e.g. codegnome.org). Is this possible, and if so, can the virtual users and real users all get their pop mail from the same pop daemon? -- Todd

Alias not forwading to .qmail-foo-default

2001-03-17 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
thing like this to work? -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Re: Alias not forwading to .qmail-foo-default

2001-03-17 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
extension. -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

rotated multilogs are u+x?

2001-03-15 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I was noticing that all the saved multilog files have the following permissions: -rwxr--r-- The "current" log does not have this bit set. Why do the old logs need the executable bit set? -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Re: filtering

2001-03-15 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
as your default delivery method, or add '|preline procmail' to your user's dot-qmail file. -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Confused about virtual users and pop3

2001-03-14 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
interfaces seem to be focused on virtual users, so I'm not sure what my alternatives are for a web front-end. Any suggestions? -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Re: Starting qmail from /etc/init.d/...

2001-03-12 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
;daemon ${qmail}" with "csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc'" and see what happens. The fact that qmail doesn't run right from sh/bash is mentioned in the docs. -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Re: How to use qmailanalog?

2001-03-12 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
it does. -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

file descriptors

2001-03-11 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
the system, will I run into any problems if more than 4,000 messages are in the queue? -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

concurrency

2001-03-11 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
the queue is filled (out of descriptors, inodes, or blocks). Maybe it doesn't--enlightenment is always welcome. -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

RE: Redirect email!

2001-03-11 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
(I often am, since they aren't very extensive), but it helps to at least have a foundation to understand the answers people give you. -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

RE: Redirect email!

2001-03-11 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
e any mail application on it. ns2.mydomain.com does have qmail. You can't. If you don't have an MTA on the system (qmail, sendmail, postfix, whatever), mail will never leave the localhost. -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Re: About splogger's fac? 2? 3?

2001-03-11 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
#define KERN_NOTICE "5" /* normal but significant condition */ #define KERN_INFO "6" /* informational*/ #define KERN_DEBUG"7" /* debug-level messages */ -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Re: concurrency

2001-03-11 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
slow the drive down, but I'm not really sure. Opinions, anyone? -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Re: About splogger's fac? 2? 3?

2001-03-11 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
messages (private) */ #define LOG_FTP (113) /* ftp daemon */ -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Re: Quota Exceeded and Procmail

2001-03-11 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
very fails. EXITCODE=100 Hope this saves someone an afternoon. :) -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Quota Exceeded and Procmail

2001-03-10 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
iately bounce the message? I'd like to avoid having these messages age in the queue, if possible. -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Re: Redirect email!

2001-03-10 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
. -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

RE: How to add big-todo and big-concurrency patch ?

2001-03-10 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I check whether the patch was successfully installed or not ? Patch will exit with no errors. -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

RE: How to add big-todo and big-concurrency patch ?

2001-03-09 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a text file, rite. But the 1st few lines looks like a readme. why ? Can i just save the file as 'big-todo.103.patch' in my qmail server and run the patch. Yes. Patch is pretty smart about that sort of thing. :) -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome

supervised pop3d

2001-03-09 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Does anyone have an example of calling pop3d from the supervise startup script (/etc/init.d/qmail) from LWQ? I'd really like to run it supervised, if possible. -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

pop3d needs SUID root?

2001-03-09 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
If I chmod the directories, what's the least privelege that will allow pop3d to run, without allowing users to clobber or access each other's Maildir files? -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

apop and authenticated smtp

2001-03-08 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
1.03, and which ones I should stay away from. -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Re: How to add big-todo and big-concurrency patch ?

2001-03-08 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
setup check' to recompile. -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Re: Problem with rss?

2001-03-03 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
only understands TXT records. See the second bullet at http://www.qmail.org/top.html#spam I applied the patch, ran 'make make setup check', and had exactly the same results as before. DUL and RBL work, RSS doesn't. Argh! -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

rblsmtpd not recognizing -R flag

2001-03-03 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
n/rblsmtpd \ -rblackholes.mail-abuse.org -rdialups.mail-abuse.org \ -rinput.orbs.org -routput.orbs.org \ -arelays.mail-abuse.org /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 And RSS and ORBS are still failing to block, but RBL and DUL work fine. -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Re: Problem with rss?

2001-03-03 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Chris Johnson wrote: rblsmtpd -r 'relays.mail-abuse.org:Open relay problem - see URL:http://www.mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/nph-rss?query=%IP%' Where are you invoking this? If I put it in /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run, I get an error. -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome

Re: rblsmtpd not recognizing -R flag

2001-03-03 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Chris Johnson wrote: If you're using the latest version of rblsmtpd--the one that comes with ucspi-tcp--there's no -R option. See http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/rblsmtpd.html I guess the new syntax didn't make it into the man pages. Thanks for the URL. -- Todd A. Jacobs

Re: Problem with rss?

2001-03-03 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
and outputs.orbs.org, and still didn't get a successful block from your auto-tester. The other address, relays.mail-abuse.org, doesn't work either, but that has nothing to do with the change of service on ORBS afaik. -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Problems with qmailanalog

2001-03-02 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
? 983523531.142123500 tcpserver: status: 0/20 But when I pipe it through any of the z* commands, I get nothing except the column headers from the z* command itself. What am I doing wrong? -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Re: New qmail version request

2001-03-02 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
on. It's not exactly qmail-related, but a rblsmtpd should be configured more sophisticated (eg. not from command line). sophisticated != GUI Since qmail doesn't have a controlling TTY, how can rblsmtpd be a non-CLI utility? Or did you have something else in mind? -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Re: Log

2001-03-02 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
/local/bin/rblsmtpd -rdialups.mail-abuse.org \ /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -rrelays.mail-abuse.org \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 This should take care of things for you. -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Re: Problems with qmailanalog

2001-03-02 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Dave Sill wrote: You're trying to analyze tcpserver's logs, not qmail-send's logs. You're right. I changed /var/log/qmail/smtpd/current to /var/log/qmail/current and it works fine. Thanks. -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Problem with rss?

2001-03-02 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
-c "$MAXSMTPD" \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd \ /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -rdialups.mail-abuse.org \ /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -rrelays.mail-abuse.org \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

rblsmtpd and inetd

2001-02-27 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
. What can I do? -- Todd A. Jacobs CodeGnome Consulting, LTD

Command + Delivery?

2000-11-21 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
a blocked IP, and 0 otherwise. It reads: |ck4spam nospam The problem is that the mail disappears into the bitbucket regardless of the errorlevel returned. What I'd like it to do is run the script, then deliver normally if the script doesn't return an error. How do I do that? -- Todd

Re: rblsmtp compilation error

2000-07-03 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Ronny Haryanto wrote: Installing the package kernel-headers will suffice. It's not necessary to install the whole kernel source tree just to compile. I have those, too: kernel-headers-2.2.16-3 -- Todd A. Jacobs Senior Network Consultant

Re: rblsmtp compilation error

2000-07-03 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
. :) -- Todd A. Jacobs Senior Network Consultant

qmail/rblsmtpd error

2000-07-03 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
exit(1) in subgetopt.3, and am not sure how this applies. Can anyone help? -- Todd A. Jacobs Senior Network Consultant

rblsmtpd error

2000-07-02 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
perhaps something in RHL had changed, it refused to compile. So, aside from the compiling issue, does this error means something was found in the RBL, or does it mean that the rblsmtpd program is failing? -- Todd A. Jacobs Senior Network Consultant

rblsmtp compilation error

2000-07-02 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
/param.h: No such file or directory In file included from /usr/include/errno.h:36, from txt.c:7: /usr/include/bits/errno.h:25: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory make: *** [txt.o] Error 1 -- Todd A. Jacobs Senior Network Consultant

Problem resolved

2000-07-02 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
messages are, though. -- Todd A. Jacobs Senior Network Consultant

ORBS + MAPS + DUL

2000-01-20 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
/qmail/bin/tcp-env /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd\ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd which only consults MAPS. Advice, please. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Re: Forwarding

1999-12-21 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Carsten Witt wrote: How can I forward a mail to another adress. Must I compile another modul. Or can I put this in /var/qmail/aliases/ ? echo forwardee ~alias/.qmail-forwarding:address -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Permissions problem

1999-12-21 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
ermissions are? -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Re: Permissions problem

1999-12-21 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: Read the source of instcheck. It'll point you to hier.c Or else just run install ("make setup") again. Any chance that re-running the installation could clobber something? -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Re: 3 quickies!

1999-12-21 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: 1. anyone have any suggestions as to what to use for anti-spam measures? there seems to be a number of options. http://cr.yp.to/rblsmtpd.html -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Re: Mail abuse in syslog

1999-11-24 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
the RBL. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

cdb owned by root?

1999-11-10 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
My /var/qmail/users/ files (assign and cdb) are owned by root:root. The system seems to work fine in that configuration, but I wanted to know if those were the proper permissions, or if those files are supposed to be owned by the qmail group instead. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Usage of /var/qmail/users/assign (fwd)

1999-11-09 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I thought I'd repost this, in case the original (or any replies) got lost in the bitstream. The gist if my question is: when would I need to use assign instead of an alias? -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 12:42:05 -0800

Re: ezmlm problem

1999-11-07 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, john wrote: I installed ezmlm and after finishing the installation when I tested like ezmlm-make command it gave me an error message file not found. How about posting the error? My guess is that ezmlm's files aren't in your path. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems

Re: Forwarding Root email

1999-11-07 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, G. Ryan Fawcett wrote: I was wondering if it was possible to forward root email to an out side address. For echo "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ~alias/.qmail-root -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Usage of /var/qmail/users/assign

1999-11-06 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
this correctly? If so, what are the practical implications? They seem almost interchangeable to me. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Re: /bin/mail, what exactly should one do to it?

1999-10-28 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
. YMMV. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Re: Completely Off-topic: A good MUA for Windows?

1999-10-26 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Rogerio Brito wrote: I know this is VERY off-topic, but do you know any "good" MUA for Windows? Pegasus is manual-ware. It's very solid, feature-rich, and powerful. Not the most user-friendly, though--but then, that wasn't your question. :) -- Todd

Re: [OT] Any thoughts on instant messaging vs. smtp

1999-10-23 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
protocol. IM is not. QED. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Re: Problems with trigger? (was: Re: qmail only delivers whenrestarted)

1999-10-18 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: I copied the qmail installation basically by doing:- cp -R /oldvar/qmail/* /var/qmail Hmmm. I tarred my qmail directory and moved it to another partition. Doesn't tar preserve permissions by default? -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems

Re: Wrong date when qmail is called from /bin/mail

1999-10-17 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look at the end of the timestamps one is ZULU or GMT.. the other is your "local" time PDT (Pacific Daylight Time). So /bin/mail doesn't recognize the local time format? -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Re: qmail only delivers when restarted

1999-10-17 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
promise you'll be the second one to know. :) I couldn't find any info on the trigger file. Can you explain how qmail is using this named pipe, and why it has to be world-writable? -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Re: Wrong date when qmail is called from /bin/mail

1999-10-17 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
, instead of GMT? -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Re: Wrong date when qmail is called from /bin/mail

1999-10-17 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
with. :) Security is a big issue at my site, so anything that enhances security is okay by me. I just like having a reason. Thanks for the info. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Wrong date when qmail is called from /bin/mail

1999-10-16 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
-0700 (PDT) Any ideas as to what's wrong, and how I can fix it? -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

qmail only delivers when restarted

1999-10-16 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
For some reason, qmail has gotten into a state where it will only deliver mail when killed and then restarted. After a restart, it refuses to deliver local mail after the first batch has been processed. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Frequency of queue processing

1999-10-16 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
How can I modify the frequency at which qmail processes the queue? -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Directory permissions on /var/qmail?

1999-10-15 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I made a small goof when setting a new mount point for /var/qmail. Can anyone tell me what the default permissions of /var/qmail are? The subdirectories are unchanged; it;s just /var/qmail that might have been modified. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Re: Understanding virtual addresses

1999-10-15 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
was supposed to incant. :) -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Understanding virtual addresses

1999-10-14 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
? While I could set up everything with an ~/alias/.qmail-foo forward, I would really prefer not to have to do so. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

inetd

1999-10-11 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
prefacing it with tcpd, but that didn't do much good either. Suggestions? -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Re: virtual email problem

1999-10-11 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
setting up local aliases, and the incoming dots will get handled properly. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Re: inetd

1999-10-11 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
tcpserver for heavily-used environments, my needs aren't so great. I really don't want to have to run a seperate service for this. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

inetd

1999-10-11 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
The problem seems to lie somewhere with tcp-env. Here is a line from my logs: Oct 10 23:23:57 tjacobs tcp-env[1184]: refused connect from shell11.ba.best.com So, it seems like tcp-env is actually refusing the connection. Any ideas on how to debug this further? -- Todd

Yes, inetd DOES work!

1999-10-11 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
! :) -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Starting as a daemon in rc*

1999-10-10 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
such a beast? Is it even a good idea? -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Security considerations of chown qmaill

1999-10-10 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
qmaill is part of the nofiles group. Isn't security being compromised by allowing qmaill to own files? -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

No man pages installed?

1999-10-10 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
The man pages were not installed by default. How can I install them? -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Re: No man pages installed?

1999-10-10 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Markus Stumpf wrote: They probably are, but they go to /var/qmail/man Add this directory to your MANPATH environemt variable and the "man" command will find them. Thanks. It worked like a charm. :) -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Re: Address Substitution

1999-10-10 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Put your "real" email address into /var/qmail/control/defaultdomain. That should create all new emails as being from that domain. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Re: Address Substitution

1999-10-10 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
in your email. Just set up your MUA to write what you want in that header, and qmail shouldn't overwrite it. The default is just that: a default, in case nothing is specified. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Re: OT: saturating a T1 with e-mail

1999-10-02 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
) - = peak seconds 1544 So, assuming your numbers are accurate, you could clear 22,000 queued messages of that size is 327.72 seconds of maximum throughput. That's only an average sustained throughput of about 9.2%. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer