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

2001-08-02 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Derek Callaway wrote: > Right, I guess I should have said that I already read those pages before I > posted this message. I'm looking for a _free_ workaround to this problem. > > TIA There is no workaround. The resolver is going to wait for the connection to time out, thus c

OT - ezmlm site down?

2001-07-23 Thread Michael Geier, CDM Systems Admin
http://www.ezmlm.org Does anyone know what happened to the site? Is there a mirror up? --- Michael Geier CDM Sports, Inc. - Systems Administrator email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 314.991.1511 x 6505 pager: 314.318.9414

RE: orbs

2001-07-19 Thread Michael Geier, CDM Systems Admin
There are three new ORBS forks. http://www.orbl.org/ http://www.orbz.gst-group.co.uk/orbs/ http://www.ordb.org/ -Original Message- From: Vincent Schonau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 11:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: orbs On

RE: php-qmail-sendmail...cjk

2001-07-18 Thread Michael Geier, CDM Systems Admin
also, -t is not a valid flag for qmail-inject. see docs http://www.qmail.org/man/man8/qmail-inject.html probably don't want to be using -i either. -Original Message- From: peter green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 9:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: php

Re: mailbombed

2001-07-17 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Jon, we recently had a similar problem (but not exactly) and ran into a cool python util we found on the qmail homepage: It goes through the queue and moves the files into a filter dir, and you can do what you want with them from there.. http://www.redwoodsoft.com/~dru/programs/mailRemove.py Yo

getting more verbose error messages from qmail

2001-07-03 Thread Michael Geier, CDM Systems Admin
preface: qmail 1.03 with big-concurrency multilog need: link to information (or information) on producing more verbose, or detailed information in qmail logs for error messages like #4.4.1 or #5.1.1 would like to see the email address the error is talking

Re: ReiserFs and qmail

2001-06-19 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Nick (Keith) Fish wrote: > I am not sure about the recommendation to lower the conf-split, since, > again, I am not in any way familiar with ReiserFS's operation. Generally > you want a large split since filesystems perform better with many > directories with a couple of fil

Badmailfrom for entire domain/sub_domain

2001-05-07 Thread admin
Hi Guys; I am getting annoying emails comming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and this guys change the address the next week to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] I really want domain.com blocked!! and badmailfrom only handles individual emails how can I block *@domain.com. RBL is solution but some of this guys are not

Re: NAKEDWIFE.EXE Virus - Filter available (Peter's problem solved:)

2001-03-08 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Hrmm, i wonder how you would go about adding scanning ability to every "virtual" user with vmailmgr? Say, every virtual account under the user 'usermail' for example. On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Peter Peltonen wrote: | | I got it finally working vmailmgr. Here's what I did: | | Opened the script in pi

Qmail-1.03 and/or Majordomo problems (mostly Majordomo! )

2001-03-05 Thread admin
Hi Folks; I have been using Majordomo-1.94.5 and Qmail-1.03, for a while now using the mjinject mini script, but just recently I noticed everytime a mail is sent to one list there are several child processes that seem to be polling even though the mail is delivered to list members. ps -ax shows:

Re: Inter7 introduces new software: vQregister

2001-02-23 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Inter7 writes alot of qmail software that is very ontopic for much of this list. I for one dont have a problem with them posting announcements If your opinion differs from his, thats fine. If you dont like his attitude, thats fine. But please dont suggest that his post is off topic and wasti

Re: deny huge attaches

2001-02-19 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Yes, /var/qmail/control/databytes man qmail-smtpd On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Sumith Ail wrote: | Hi | | Isn't there something like, which can deny messages on size rather than type. | | - Sumith -- John Gonzalez / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tularosa Communications, Inc. (505) 439-0200

Re: help needed

2001-01-08 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
You probably need to setup your machine to relay properly, it sounds like you are using the rcpthosts as a substitute for this. If i'm wrong, did you kill -HUP the qmail-send process after you added this to rcpthosts? If im right, see: http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html#relaying On Mon, 8 J

RE: secrets and lies

2000-11-21 Thread Qmail Admin
Why doesn't someone demonstrate their EZMLM prowess by conjuring up a list for this thread so that those of us who are uninterested (a majority, I would guess) don't have to hear about it anymore... And, before someone gives me the "use a filter if you don't want to read about it" crap, consider t

Outlook Express

2000-11-06 Thread admin
Hi everyone. I use the pop daemon from qmail (qmail-pop3d) and the Outlook Express program is making me crazy. I looked for a solution in the archives, but i didn't find it. My problem is: My clients use Microshit Outlook Express and i'm having a lot of error messages from qmail pop server: You

Relaying

2000-11-02 Thread net admin
Hi folks I have relaying enabled for a host by IP address as follow: in /etc/tcp.smtp 172.xxx.xxx.xxx:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" . . . :allow and did tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.temp < /etc/tcp.smtp also kill -HUP qmail-send but relaying still fails What could be missing here? Thanks

Re: 1019

2000-10-18 Thread admin
I responded in private to him, however fix should be simply to raise maxusers in your kernel and recompile. Use 'netstat -m' to check the status of the membufs and see if you are running out or how close you are during peak operation times both before and after you update the kernel. ---

Logging with checkvpw and qmail-pop3d problems?

2000-10-12 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
I just recently migrated all my customers over to a new machine with RAID. Everything _seems_ to be working fine. I have some users that are calling up telling me they cant connect to the pop3 server even though they havent changed anything. Any time i test it from here by telnetting to port 110

AMAVIS, others, stopping QAZ, and other "vbs" viruses?

2000-10-02 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Are the above virus scanners able to stop the new vbs type viruses, or only the traditional embedded exe/com payloads? -- ___ _ __ _ __ /___ ___ /__ John Gonzalez/Net.Tech __ __ \ __ \ __/_ __ `__ \/ __ /_ ___/ MDC Computers/netM

RE: Humorous

2000-09-20 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Your original post served no purpose. It had no point. This post here, serves no purpose and has no point. No one called him a moron. The original poster ruffled the feathers by posting what he posted on linuxpeople.cc -- not here. You rehashed his post here and 'backed' his argument. I am sim

RE: Humorous

2000-09-20 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Maybee it's not the peoples on the lists JOB to support users that are too lazy to try and help themselves. Maybee the person writing the article could have asked in a manner that would prompt list users to be more apt to reply to him. Maybee the person writing the article asked a simple questi

How to stop deinstalled Sendmail from checking queue

2000-09-18 Thread net admin
Hi Filks; I replaced sendmail with Qmail 1.03 and now SEndmail is sending too many error messages from cron jobs trying to check the queue every 30 mins. How to stop this madness? I get this error email message: cron: Sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail -q illegal option --q Daniel

Re: comparison vmailmgr - inter7

2000-09-15 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Clemens Hermann wrote: | Now I need to choose one of the two tools but I am not sure which would be | the better choice for my purpose. It would be great if someone could give me | a hint, I need the following things: | | virtual users We do this currently, with vmailmgr.

Re: Open relay test.

2000-09-08 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On 8 Sep 2000, John R. Levine wrote: | (Friendly hint: if you ignore the ugly blinking message and send me | mail anyway saying that the tester claimed that your system is an open | relay because it accepted the test message, I'll write back and call | you a moron.) | Hrmm.. i just ran the test

Re: Book: 'Running qmail'

2000-09-05 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Many have mentioned in the past that the author of this book has written other very poor books, and that they felt ashamed to throw it away. The grabage was too good for the book, IIRC. On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Russell Davies wrote: | I just saw my first qmail text in a local bookstore, entitled "Ru

List performance?

2000-09-05 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Has anyone else noticed that the list seems to be performing sluggishly today? Normally i send a message to the list and it comes back within 10 seconds (if that's believable, given the number of subscribers) Today it seems to be taking upwards of the 2-5 minute range. I know this is _more_ the

Re: You sure do (was Re: I have a problem)

2000-09-05 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
no no no, you've got it all wrong. He needs to have a close inspection of the quazidariarian, especially section 6.4.A of the manual. Surely, that will fix the problem. On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Stephen Bosch wrote: | Ima Guru wrote: | | > I have a problem with qmail. Can someone tell me how to f

RE: ORBS doesn't like me :(

2000-09-05 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Andy Meuse wrote: | Here is a recap of my situation. ORBS says I'm an open relay. I had no | rcpthosts file so there you go. When I create a rcpthosts file local users | can't send remote mail. You need to read LWQ, and specifically, the section on selective relaying. http:/

Re: xinetd and qmail-pop3d

2000-09-05 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Most of the people on the list either choose two methods: 1. The lazy method, use inetd. Works fine, and most systems are already setup for inetd. 2. The good method. Use tcpserver. tcpserver, also written by DJB is fast, stable, and can be secured much like inetd, but with more functionality.

Re: ORBS doesn't like me :(

2000-09-05 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Johan Almqvist wrote: | On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:42:45PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: | > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:37:32AM -0400, Andy Meuse wrote: | > > Hmmm. I removed my rcpthosts file. | > Put it back. Without an rcpthosts file, you are an open relay. | | That's alway

Re: Slightly Off Topic

2000-09-05 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
I think he's asking more of a way to supply two different gateways on his linux box. I have never messed with this, however, your idea is good. You can ping your gateway and if x number of packets are dropped, then you just rerun the route command and change the gateway/interface. fping should

Relaying and /control/rcpthosts

2000-08-30 Thread net admin
Hi; I am trying to setup selective relaying for a client who wants to send email through our Qmail server from his office LAN. I allowed his office IP block in my /etc/tcp.smtp file as follows xxx.yyy.zzz.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" . . . :allow This I assume this will let him relay as long as he come

Detailed log for SMTP transaction

2000-08-30 Thread net admin
Hi Folks; Where can I locate the detailed log/SMTP transaction record for a mail that was delevered to my mail server (qmail-1.03)? Need to track the sender by IP address Thanks Dan

Problems with rblsmtpd again..

2000-08-30 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
I'm sure it's something i'm doing, but for some reason, whenever i add rblsmtpd stuff to my qmail-smtpd startup script, it gets fubar'ed. I have the normal stuff commented out, which if i put it back it works fine. With the rblsmtpd stuff in there, when telnetting to port 25, it's just dead... I

Re: RBL/MAPS/DUL etc. without rblsmtpd?

2000-08-30 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Petr Novotny wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | On 30 Aug 2000, at 8:24, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: | | > Am i to understand that rblsmtpd's devlopment has ceased? I think | > DJB's page says some mention of that, and als

RBL/MAPS/DUL etc. without rblsmtpd?

2000-08-30 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Am i to understand that rblsmtpd's devlopment has ceased? I think DJB's page says some mention of that, and also instructs that the functionality has been introduced into tcpserver now. LWQ still makes mention of using rblsmtpd, and i'm trying to set this up on a new server i'm toying with. Anybo

SMTP and POP3 connections take too long

2000-07-28 Thread net admin
Hi Folks; I have qmail-1.03 running on FreeBSB and one of the virtual domains for which we handle mail for is a small company with some users on a local NT network connected to the net by DSL. They are using a Netscream DSL router/firewall combo. Connections from clients to our SMTP/POP server

How to set qmail to forward all email to mail hub

2000-07-24 Thread net admin
Hi Folks; What is the best way to set up qmail to handle mails from web forms and CGIs and send it to a mail hub for processing i.e a qmail install that does not do any mail processing even for locals but send all mail to another qmail server. I would want all mail ent to mail hub masquerade

Re: An unfortunate confluence of interfaces

2000-06-26 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Russ, would it be possible to have the email delivered to a different user and have that users .qmail file copy all the zone updates to tinydns's directory? Or even a 2 minute interval cron job that does basicly the same thing? On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Russell Nelson wrote: >Oops. I'm sure there

RE: Dare I ask this question....

2000-06-26 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
What's sad is that even under those circumstances, qmail would probably be more secure and stable/speedy then any NT MTA :) On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Chris Tolley wrote: >Download (and pay $$$) VMWare for NT and run Qmail under Linux in a virtual >machine...nasty but it would work ;) -- ___

Re: ip address

2000-06-23 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Vince, i would love to help you out but i'm not sure i understand your problem. This message and the following message are very confusing... from what i gathered, when you remove your 'gateway' on the machine, your mails stop flowing? Is this correct? As for only seeing ip addresses in the logs

Re: Too load ! (fwd)

2000-06-22 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Just curious as to wether this persons argument about qmail not complying with RFC 821 is correct or not? Anyone? -- ___ _ __ _ __ /___ ___ /__ John Gonzalez/Net.Tech __ __ \ __ \ __/_ __ `__ \/ __ /_ ___/ MDC Computers/netMDC!

How to increase the MAX hop count

2000-06-21 Thread net admin
Hi Folks; I am seeing a bunch of message delivery failed bounces that says: Too many hops 27 (MAX 25) ... since almost all the bounces were just a couple of hops more than the max I would like to increase my max hop count to, say .. 30, how do I do this and what are the gotchas if any? Dan Th

Re: Why not inetd?

2000-06-06 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
I'm not following??? On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, clemensF wrote: >> John Gonzalez/netMDC admin: > >> On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Peter Samuel wrote: >> >I've never seen this. How? What operating system? What version of >> >inetd? You've got me curious now. >

Re: Why not inetd?

2000-06-06 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Peter Samuel wrote: >I've never seen this. How? What operating system? What version of >inetd? You've got me curious now. > >Regards >Peter >-- man inetd pop3 stream tcp nowait.120 root /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env.. -- ___ _ __ _

Re: Help Please!

2000-06-06 Thread net admin
On Tue, 30 May 2000, yavuz wrote: > Hello > > I have installed qmail1.03 under the FreeBSD3.4 > > I can log in pop3 and smtp ports in telnet > > But I can not putting any user in mailbox Try su -c /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake ~/Maildir is the local user you want to add and create a .qma

Upgrading fron sendmail to Qmail, queue problems

2000-06-05 Thread net admin
Hi Folks; I am upgrading a FreeBSD sendmail server to Qmail, did go through the FAQ and docs extensively, qmail runs and I see all the processes running but when I try to send mail to local user I get the following errors: qmaili delivery 1: defferal: fastforward:_fatal:_ qq:_trouble_creating_fil

Re: Why not inetd?

2000-06-05 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Peter Samuel wrote: >It has a rate limiting "feature" whereby it will stop servicing a port >for 10 MINUTES if it thinks the rate of incoming connections is too >high (I have flat lined a remote inetd with qmail-remote from a 14k4 >modem). tcpserver doesn't care about rate, it

Web interface for POP administration

2000-06-03 Thread net admin
setup to replace my sendmail box. My web server and mail server are two seperate machines the admin tools has to work across multiple machines. If anybody has done this kind of work before, I would like to hear from you. Thanks Dan

Qmail startup script install for FreeBSD

2000-06-01 Thread net admin
Hi folks; I am in need of example startup script for Qmail on a FreeBSD system, I am assuming the script will be in: -- /usr/local/etc/rc.dand "Qmail.sh" will do for filename I also have /usr/local/etc/rc.d/tcpserver.sh which will start tcpserver smtp on startup and contains: #!/bin/sh

Migrating to Qmail, Maildir issues

2000-05-30 Thread net admin
Hi Folks; I just spent a day and half preparing my heavly used Sendmail mailserver to migrate to Qmail. Compiled and configured: -- Qmail-1.03 -- ucspi-tcp-0.88 -- fastforward-0.51 -- checkpassword-0.81 all the above tested OK (except checkpassword because Qmail is not running yet). Also I set

Re: Qpopper 2.53 remote problem, user can gain gid=mail (fwd)

2000-05-30 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On 30 May 2000, Russ Allbery wrote: >John Gonzalez/netMDC admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Qpopper works fine for us, there is also a server-mode directive to >> change this default behavior to be more like a regular pop server, it >> will NOT copy the fil

Re: Qpopper 2.53 remote problem, user can gain gid=mail (fwd)

2000-05-25 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Thu, 25 May 2000, listy-dyskusyjne Krzysztof Dabrowski wrote: >There is realy no point in using qpopper. I have used it in isp enviroment >and i can say that it sucks. >It doesn't do any mailbox locking, it just copies the whole thing to temp >dir back and forth. this kills the performace. (

Re: Qpopper 2.53 remote problem, user can gain gid=mail (fwd)

2000-05-24 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Unknown. The advisory specifically mentions 2.53 -- i can tell you this. 2.53 _was_ safe from the PREVIOUS exploits (ie. the ones that worked on the 2.51, etc) but this appears to be a new exploit in a different function of the program. Also, the advisory suggests upgrading to 3.1b1 (which i did)

Qpopper 2.53 remote problem, user can gain gid=mail (fwd)

2000-05-24 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Havent seen this forwarded to the list, and it probably applies to quite a few people. Just in case someone isnt on bugtraq. BTW, in my source (2.53) i couldnt find any lines similar to what he suggests changing, perhaps he was looking at the FBSD ported version and it has been modified slightly,

Re: qmail IRC Channel

2000-05-23 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Since the qmail list delivers mail so quickly, it's almost like real time! :) On Tue, 23 May 2000, kapil sharma wrote: >Is there any qmail IRC channel or chat? > > > -- ___ _ __ _ __ /___ ___ /__ John Gonzalez/Net.Tech __ __ \ __ \

SV: DNS and qmail problem

2000-05-17 Thread Admin for OK 2 NET
> hi, all. > here is my situation: > qmail 1.03 on redhat 6.1 linux. I also installed tcpserver, checkpassword. > 2 machines. >head.paic.com ( IP: 10.16.103.100) , running DNS, qmail1.03, tcpserver, >checkpassword. > >alpha.paic.com ( IP: 10.16.103.102), qmail 1.03, tcpserver, checkpasswo

Re: FW: Help with overwhelmed system

2000-05-09 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
His disk has plenty of physical capacity left, but is out of inodes. He's asking if it's possible to increase the amount of inodes, since he still has space left. On Tue, 9 May 2000, Johan Almqvist wrote: >Hi! > >On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 04:02:39PM -0400, Brad Johnson wrote: >> Hi; I'm running qm

Re: How do you do it?

2000-05-09 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Tue, 9 May 2000, Steve Wolfe wrote: > Back in the day when I did tech support, that sort of thing wasn't >uncommon at all. We were all pretty good at doing things like carrying on >conversations with other techs, playing hackysack, etc., while helping >customers, unbeknownst to them. Every

Re: How do you do it?

2000-05-09 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Tue, 9 May 2000, Len Budney wrote: >At FORE systems we had a phone support person who would shout those >things, so loud that everybody in building one could hear it. He was >astoundingly imaginative and colorful, and many of his remarks are not >printable. > >Eventually, somebody spied on his

Re: hack for filtering "i love you" worm

2000-05-04 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
For anyone using this filter, i'd like to hear feedback before i modify a production server. Also, should this interfere with vmailmgr? On Thu, 4 May 2000, Neil Schemenauer wrote: ___ _ __ _ __ /___ ___ /__ John Gonzalez/Net.Tech __

Re: Backing up HUGE Maildir systems

2000-05-04 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Brian Johnson wrote: >sends them off to a secondary server whenever they come in.. but nightly backups >just don't cut it for e-mail.. >-Brian As stated in previous email, rsync, 15 minute intervals ___ _ __ _ __ /___ __

Re: Backing up HUGE Maildir systems

2000-05-04 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Uwe Ohse wrote: >On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 01:14:25AM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote: >> Anyone have any tips on how to effeciently backup Maildir systems with millions >> of files? > >don't do it. Nobody likes getting duplicate mail. Doing backups has absolutely nothing to do with

Re: Backing up HUGE Maildir systems

2000-05-04 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Yes, use rsync, and update frequently. This will backup the system and only 'backup' changes that are taking place, thus not requiring you to do a FULL backup. With this method however, you will lose any information that has changed between your rsync updates. On Thu, 4 May 2000, Tracy R Reed wr

Re: Three questions...

2000-05-02 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Jeff Hayward wrote: >The only thing that sendmail logs which qmail does not is the >message-id. Of course, qmail doesn't write logs in sendmail format, which >may be what the PHB wants. Write a perl script to reformat >qmail/tcpserver logs in sendmail format. > >-- Jeff Haywa

Re: Web front-end to mail service

2000-05-02 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Please excuse my quoting down below, the message i am replying to is pretty munged, so i'm not sure who said what. Regardless, let me try and help out... On Tue, 2 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I stand corrected. Dave Sill also pointed out that any web front end tool, like >sqwebmail, req

Re: mua for unix to read qmail's maildir

2000-04-23 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
mutt.. http://freshmeat.net/search.php3?query=mutt On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Jonathan Fortin wrote: >Where can I get an Mua to read ~/Maildir, the qmail pine >patch is really outdated and it doesnt work, > >thank you > ___ _ __ _ __ /___ ___

Re: pop 110 / daemontools / tcpserver / MySQL

2000-04-18 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
the POP service shouldnt be run under supervise. It is started on a PER connection basis. You can either use /etc/inetd.conf to load your pop server, or use the (suggested method) and use tcpserver to invoke it. the LWQ web site is probably the best first stop for information. http://web.infoa

Someone else brought it up, and i noticed mine wasnt working :)

2000-04-18 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
My local deliver to postmaster/root/mailer-daemon isnt working either, now that i check it.. Here's the info. This machine is running vmailmgrd and is working perfectly. Neither mail delivered to postmaster@ the local machine name, or at the virtual domain are being delivered. :/var/qmail/alias$

Re: Newbie.....

2000-04-17 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
I've never tried this however, i have a couple ideas. You could setup 2 qmail machines or 2 qmail processes on one machine. Force one process/machine to use the other as a relay. Dont give the machine relay access for that IP, and it will only allow you to deliver mail to domains that are 'local'

SPAM-filtering!

2000-04-15 Thread Admin for OK 2 NET
Does anyone care to share ideas on how to implement the folowing: We are using RBLSMTPD to block mail from RBL/DUL/RSS/ORBS, but are on the brink of TAGing some of these mails. Our first plan is to remove ORBS from RBLSMTPD and add "unknown" methods to send a REALYCLIENT="@orbs.spam" causing all

RE: network connection dies randomly? <-- system hacked, its not QMAIL!

2000-04-05 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Unfortunately, plugging every hole can be more difficult then starting over. Plus, you'll always wonder. It's best to just start clean, and dont plug in the network until you get every hole patched. On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, John W. Lemons III wrote: >Thanks to all that have replied, but I think I've

Re: Still can't run qmail from init script

2000-03-29 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Stephen F. Bosch wrote: >Mikko Hänninen wrote: >> > What shell are you using? >> >> Judging from the output, bash. > >The "b" was missing, so I couldn't be sure. Ash could be a shell, who am I to say? >=) There is a shell called ash :) (ekool@ns1)(2/ttyp3)(05:26pm:03/29/00)

Re: bounces from a spam filter

2000-03-29 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Derek B. Noonburg wrote: >defaultdomain foolabs.com >defaulthostfoolabs.com >idhost foolabs.com >locals localhost.localdomain >me adsl-63-197-235-82.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net >plusdomain foolabs.com >rcpthosts

Re: Using Mailbox under Pine

2000-03-28 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
We use pine here on this machine, what's needed is: ($:~)- cat /etc/pine.conf | grep -A 3 -B 3 MailBox # Path of (local or remote) INBOX, e.g. ={mail.somewhere.edu}inbox # Normal Unix default is the local INBOX (usually /usr/spool/mail/$USER). inbox-path=~/MailBox # List of incoming msg folder

RE: Forward and retain a copy

2000-03-09 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Yes, we do this for customers that want a copy of their email, plus a copy sent to a pager, or any other device :) Modify your .qmail file in the home directory, and just put each recipient on a seperate line in the file. &[EMAIL PROTECTED] ./Mailbox or whatever format you are storing in. On T

Re: Encryption and t-shirts

2000-03-02 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Vern Hart wrote: >The latest round of designs are at http://vern.com/tshirts/qmail/ > >They are the above quote, plus the anti-sendmail quote. Both with >each logo version. > >Let me know the latest round of critiques. Vern, those look great. I'll take one of each with the '

Re: Qmail Packages

2000-02-29 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Russell Nelson wrote: >Oh neat! A *new* gratuitious incompatibility! How clever! > > > 2) _IF_ we decide to distribute this its under gpl > > right? > >Nope. You can't distribute qmail sources or binaries with a modified >qmail-conf. > >-- >-russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: O-T: Announce: safecat-1.2 is available

2000-02-29 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
I never saw Len follow up this message later on with the correct address, and certainly localhost will not bring up the page for me =) for those that were too lazy to give it a shot, the following addresses worked: http://www.nb.net/~lbudney/linux/software/safecat/performance.html On Tue, 29 Fe

RE: Encryption and t-shirts

2000-02-28 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
I'll take two and make the bidness pay for them. But i would also like to have a few diff. choices, some of the other 'slogans' mentioned were also good. On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Vern Hart wrote: >Today, Dave Sill wrote: >> >> I've been kicking around the idea of a qmail t-shirt for some time, >>

RE: "shell-init: could not get current directory"

2000-02-03 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Sounds like it's time to modify your /etc/inetd.conf or tcpserver and add strace and make sure you dont have any typos. On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Mullen, Patrick wrote: >> I don't recognize "shell-init", but it's not part of qmail. > >Well, after grinding the heck out of my hard drive, I >finally foun

RE: Sending to an IP address

2000-02-01 Thread Roman Volf-RealShell Admin
Get rid of the brackets. Roman Volf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Realshell Internet Services http://www.realshell.com "We are all unique, just like everyone else" On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Wilson Fletcher wrote: > Well if you try mailing to it you will see. It is r

Re: virtual domain problem

2000-01-29 Thread Roman Volf-RealShell Admin
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Eric Lalonde wrote: > i have the domain yourmom.org pointed to my box. I want it to be set up as a > virtual domain. > i added the line [EMAIL PROTECTED]:yourmom This line should read: yourmom.org:yourmom you also need to put yourmom.org in rcpthosts > to /var/qmail/contro

Re: Alternatives to NFS-mounted Maildirs

2000-01-24 Thread admin
While I've never heard of these Nexsan boxes, I do know another approach to the problem along similar lines. Get a external raid box (server attached with built in differential raid controller). You can connect two pc's to one such device as long as each scsi controller in the pc has a different s

remote root qmail-pop with vpopmail advisory and exploit with patch (fwd)

2000-01-23 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
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Re: Good patches to apply to new installations?

2000-01-17 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Niall R. Murphy wrote: > >I personally use vanilla qmail. It is -not- necessary to patch > >it. > >I was under the impression bigdns allowed qmail to send to sites that it >would otherwise have problems resolving MX for? > >Niall This problem is very picky about the mac

Mail?

2000-01-11 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Has anyone else seen a MAJOR decline in qmail related mail since the DNS 'switchover' -- is it just me? ___ _ __ _ __ /___ ___ /__ John Gonzalez/Net.Tech __ __ \ __ \ __/_ __ `__ \/ __ /_ ___/ MDC Computers/netMDC! _ / / / `__/ /

Re: Anal-ness

2000-01-01 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
DJB emails the list plenty with support, but lets just put that side and think for a second here: You spend most of your day programming FOR FREE for people to use as they see fit (within limits) and then, you spend LOTS of time writing documentation for the software that you make available, FREE

RE: Sendmail vs Qmail?

1999-12-16 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
ndmail have any advantages over qmail? I'm >> trying to convince people to switch to qmail, but they're >> view is: Everyone uses sendmail, so we should too. > >Sendmail's biggest advantage is that pretty much every UNIX admin has at >least a passing familiarit

Re: Need help with direction to go (long)

1999-12-09 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Change that to "use the absolute latest version of NON BETA code available. ie. 2.53 (i believe)" An exploit just came out for the beta tree, dont know if they have a patch available to fix it yet tho'... On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Markus Stumpf wrote: >On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 12:44:33PM -0500, Vince

Re: mx on machine but machine should no treat it as local

1999-11-14 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Markus Wuebben wrote: >Hi! >Imagine this. >You have a proxy and that proxy is mx for a couple of domains but >that proxy should not treat any mail as local. All mail should be >routed to a mailserver that is behind the proxy in a private network. > >How would I do that witho

Re: URGENT: QMAIL problems!!! :(((

1999-08-22 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Qmail changes all dots to the : character ':' -- you might want to search all the documentation, including the LWQ (life with qmail) home page. It has what you need. http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html#dots-in-extensions specifically :) On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Dmitry Niqiforoff wrote: >Hello!

SQWebmail and vmailmgrd..

1999-08-19 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Doh, that's what i get for forwarding a bounce. Anyway, has anyone patched sqwebmail and vmailmgrd and got them working together properly? On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: > >Has anyone patched either of these programs to work with

failure notice (fwd)

1999-08-19 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
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IMAP, PAM... and the home directory?

1999-08-19 Thread admin
Hi all: Okay, this is offtopic, sorry, but given the amount of gurus here and the fact that related subjects have been popping up lately, I thought that I would ask: I'm trying to set up a mail server that can handle several virtual domains and allow IMAP access without requiring

Re: question about ip hosts and virtual hosts

1999-08-07 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
sure, very very simple. Make sure that the virtual domains are in the /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains file, and NOT in the locals file. Make a user on the box called 'user1' Now, in your /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains file, have this: www.virtualdomain1.com:alias-virtualdomain1 www.virtu

Re: OT, quitting mailsubj from within a script

1999-08-04 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
#!/bin/bash echo From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] echo To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] echo Subject: blah echo uptime uname -a Something like this will work if you pipe the output out to qmail-inject On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Eric Dahnke wrote: >#!/bin/sh

Re: Thanking Dave Sill

1999-08-04 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: >Dave Sill writes: > > What do your logs say? > >I want to take a moment to publicly thank Dave Sill. He's been *the* >man on the spot for qmail users, both with his Living With Qmail >document and asking the right questions of users who have a problem.

Re: unable to bind

1999-07-31 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
After you commented out the sendmail line in your inetd.conf file, you made sure that you also killed the sendwhale process as well, didnt you? ps auxw | grep sendmail should show you whats running. Also there is a utility that can tell you what program is using what port, but i cant think of th

Re: qmail-pop3d and Netscape

1999-07-26 Thread admin
Scott Moorhouse wrote: > > After recently changing from sendmail/qpopper setup to qmail 1.03 and > qmail-pop3d (with Maildir storage) for mail services, clients don't > get a progress meter in Netscape Messanger (4.5, 4.6) anymore while > downloading their mail using POP3. I have confirmed this

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