Re: Limited SMTP Relay

2000-12-27 Thread asantos
From: Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >That should be RELAYCLIENT="", not RELAYCLIENT=" " (you shouldn't have a space >between the quotation marks). Also, as someone else pointed out, the IP address >should be a pattern, not a netmask (i.e. 192.168.1. instead of 192.168.1.0). I think that the

Re: Limited SMTP Relay

2000-12-26 Thread asantos
From: Aaron Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >This file contains 192.168.1.0:allow,RELAYCLIENT=" " The IP part isn't a netmask, it's a pattern. Try replacing the line above with 192.168.1.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" Armando

RBL gone crazy?

2000-12-14 Thread asantos
I think this is interesting for this list: http://slashdot.org/yro/00/12/13/1853237.shtml Armando

Re: Quality of this List

2000-12-06 Thread asantos
From: Robin S.Socha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >You forget the most important part: World Domination Fast(tm). QED. >> Now, would you be so kind as point which of my 5 points are personal >> opinion, true or not too important? > >They are all true. They are all very important. They are also very >rele

Re: Quality of this List

2000-12-06 Thread asantos
From: Chris Brick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >How about you and Dave take all your points off list. > Amazing. Since Feb 2000 this is exactly your second post, AFAICS. Very construtive. Armando

Re: Quality of this List

2000-12-06 Thread asantos
From: David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Most of the points were matters of personal opinion, or were true, or >were not too important. In this particular case, however, you are >accusing some of the most valuable contributors to the list of bad >faith, and misrepresenting their actions. I c

Re: A book about Spam

2000-12-06 Thread asantos
From: Roberto Samarone Araujo (RSA) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I would like to buy a good book about spam but, I don't know a good >book. can anyone sugest me one ? I need a book that talk about spam on >qmail. Maybe you don't need a book: http://www.palomine.net/qmail/relaying.html Anyway, t

Re: Quality of this List

2000-12-06 Thread asantos
From: Greg Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm curious if you'd post what you consider a clear attempt to make >it difficult to learn. I'm not a policeman for the list. Check the archives. Again, I'm not saying that this attitude applies to everyone in the list, and it sure doesn't. But it is a patte

Re: Quality of this List

2000-12-06 Thread asantos
From: David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >You are imputing motives from no evidence here. And since I've >watched newbies lean here and get help, you're filtering your >observations pretty hard. Obviously, one can't imput motives without having a imputable party. So, I'm not imputing. And I

Re: Quality of this List

2000-12-06 Thread asantos
From: David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 4) Badly disguised manouvers to create a qmail maintaners guild or two, that > > as all guilds profits from the seclusion of knowledge. Next stop is qmail > > certification, I bet, and then "redhatification". > >I think you've been smoking something

Re: Qmail and Large Scale Dynamic Mailings

2000-12-06 Thread asantos
From: Thomas Duterme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Well, I'm based out of China actually, and a large majority of our users are >using >email servers which are based in China... Yeah.. I suppose that makes it worst, right? I think I can assume that connectivity to China should be much lower than to the U

Re: Qmail and Large Scale Dynamic Mailings

2000-12-05 Thread asantos
From: Thomas Duterme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I'm running a Dell 4300 (512 RAM, 4*9GB of Disk - queue sits >on a 9GB partition, CPU=550Mhz PIII...) (snip) >We've got plenty of bandwidth at our colocation facility, >(4Mb/s) so I don't believe that is the holdup either. If you fill up a 9G partition

Re: Quality of this List

2000-12-05 Thread asantos
From: Amitai Schlair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I disagree. Newbies create newbie queries. At the risk of sounding like >a BOFH, I'll press further: if qmail were to become even easier to >install, more newbies would figure they could handle the job of running >it, and we'd have _more_ newbie queries f

Re: Quality of this List

2000-12-05 Thread asantos
From: Brett Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I don't have the resources to do it, but I would like it. Do you have Lots of lists for pros, that's all fine... I just expect that the newbie bashing and bad manners stop in *this* list... or is this list to continue to be a sink for frustrated personali

Re: long timeout after connecting

2000-12-03 Thread asantos
From: megadesign <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >in the end. ping between this machines is ok (<10s). why there is so big >timeout ? Try the -R and -H flags for tcpserver. You'll find more details in http://binarios.com/miscnotes/ucspi-tcp.html#ucspi_tcp Armando

Re: Minimum OS Requirement to run Qmail

2000-12-02 Thread asantos
From: Felix von Leitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Armando, please come back when you know what you are talking about. yaddayaddayadda. >There is no excuse for wasting resources, whether they seem to be >available when you install the system or not. If you think otherwise, >you are not a good admin

Re: Minimum OS Requirement to run Qmail

2000-12-02 Thread asantos
From: Felix von Leitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For this setup, using mysql is even more stupid than in general. >mysql adds tons of unnecessary complexity to the system and wastes system >resources. > Don't whine. Be consistent. Grow up. Have your mama spank you, it's good for the soul (tough *yo

Re: "unable to locate alias user"

2000-12-01 Thread asantos
From: Matthew Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Any ideas where to look? > Check the /var/qmail/users/{assign,cdb} stuff. Maybe someone played with the alias. Armando

Re: Minimum OS Requirement to run Qmail

2000-12-01 Thread asantos
From: Felix von Leitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Good luck to you, then. >You will need it. No luck involved. >If your servers never crash and you never have unexpected hardware >failures, mysql may be for you. I've had hardware failures on the servers, and power failures. No problem with MySQL.

Re: Minimum OS Requirement to run Qmail

2000-12-01 Thread asantos
From: Felix von Leitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >If you run mysqsl, stability and reliability are obviously not important >to you. You should be running sendmail, Postfix or Exim. > >Felix I find MySQL to be reliable and stable. I only keep logs for 6 months, so in the last 6 months I've had MySQL 3

Re: HELL, STOP IT (was: Re: List Courtesy (was Newbie question))

2000-11-30 Thread asantos
From: Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Isn't it interesting that Stumf, Leitner and Socha all come from Germany? >> Just a coincidence, I suppose. > >What about writing a rule for your mailer: if ( $sender =~ /.de$/ ) { kill >mail; }. Then you can happily read all the lusers bullshit without

Re: HELL, STOP IT (was: Re: List Courtesy (was Newbie question))

2000-11-30 Thread asantos
From: Markus Stumpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >STOP THIS BULLSHIT. NOW! IT'S ALREADY MORE THAN ENOUGH. "...a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than a riot. T

Re: List Courtesy (was Newbie question)

2000-11-30 Thread asantos
From: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Actually, XEmacs is as much of an operating system--probably even >moreso--than early versions of Windows. Me, I'd say that neither is an operating system ;) Anyway, I think that a good rule of thumb to qualify a software piece as a operating system is "does

Re: Newbie Question

2000-11-29 Thread asantos
From: Louis Mushandu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that host, >it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't treat it as local. (#5.4.6) > >I have done rtfm bit, hones,t but now I seem to be going round in circles. Follow the thread starting at

Re: List Courtesy (was Newbie question)

2000-11-29 Thread asantos
From: Barley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Robin, you are decidedly an asshole. > >I can't believe how abusive you feel the need to be. Must stem from some >geek-angst I don't understand. You feel like you're so bloody smart because Robin's no geek. He's just a kid, and fairly ignorant at that. For examp

Re: Still getting CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily errors

2000-07-31 Thread asantos
From: Jens Hafsteinsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Did you install qmail from source or using a binary package? >> > >From source, but compiled on a different machine (the user and group match). Right. A ldd qmail-remote on my machine gives me: libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x40019000) lib

Re: Still getting CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily errors

2000-07-30 Thread asantos
From: Erwin Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Can't get your MX-Record ... I can get it. dnsmx axon.is retrieves triton.axon.is. dnsq mx axon.is triton.axon.is also works. As does dnsq mx axon.is sprettur.isnet.is. Even dig @triton.axon.is axos.is mx does. However, all of this only tells us that th

Re: Still getting CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily errors

2000-07-30 Thread asantos
From: Jens Hafsteinsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >named does recursive queries by default according to the docs. Well.. is your installation the default one? ;) >Sorry, no luck with that one. This strongly suggest some local configuration >problem, but I just can't put my finger on it. Sure, it is

Re: Still getting CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily errors

2000-07-30 Thread asantos
From: Jens Hafsteinsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >What I would like to know is what exactly qmail is trying to do. Why is it >doing a CNAME lookup in the first place? Why doesn't it just use the >designated server in the MX records and be done with it? How does a DNS >setup look like that works (the re

Re: recordio + awk

2000-07-25 Thread asantos
From: Jim Breton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sorry, I should have clarified that. Until I get this working I'm >binding tcpserver to 127.0.0.1 -- in case I screw something up I don't >want any mail coming in from the outside. Normally I bind it to "0" so >connections from the outside are still permitt

Re: recordio + awk

2000-07-25 Thread asantos
From: Jim Breton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Is there something wrong with the pipes I've set up? If I take out the >"awk..." part and replace it with "cat" then everything works as >expected (iow, I get _all_ the smtp output). On the "Before" you had bound to 0, on the "After" you bound to 127.0.0.1.

Re: poor performance under tcpserver

2000-07-23 Thread asantos
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >compared to time taken by qmail-smtpd running under tcpserver may be i >have done some bad config of tcpserver as i dont know much about tcpserver Add -R to tcpserver. Probably its taking that much time because it is trying to ident the remote host.

Re: procmail preline acting like a local user - again, sorry

2000-07-22 Thread asantos
From: Jeff Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I tried the suggestion [thanks John] below but alas. > >_|[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ah, the Americisms... :) Jeff, note the underline before the pipe ( _| ). Delete the space at the *start* of the line, *before* the pipe. Armando

Re: "Filters have been made for Sendmail and Postfix to deal with this issue" : and qmail ???

2000-07-22 Thread asantos
From: Olivier M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >is it an add-on to qmail-smtpd, or something to add in the .qmail-xxx ? >It should be something system-wide... It replaces qmail-smtpd. Check http://cr.yp.to/mess822.html , download the package and read ofmipd.8 inside. Note that this does not prevent the MI

Re: "Filters have been made for Sendmail and Postfix to deal with this issue" : and qmail ???

2000-07-22 Thread asantos
From: Olivier M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Well, these filters are quite simple : but how could I setup such a workaround >on my old qmail server ? What about a /var/qmail/regexpreject ? What do you >think ? Could be a feature for a qmail 1.04... :) Probably ofmipd from the mess822 package repairs t

Re: another broken mailer

2000-07-22 Thread asantos
Yep, same thing here. I think someone (probably <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, since it appears in the bounces tough the original message was no addressed to said individual) has a mail forwarder that gags with semicolon separated addresses in the To: field. Armando

Re: Permissions Dilemma?

2000-07-21 Thread asantos
From: Tony Campisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Will I have to remove all my users and add them as regular users? Only users mentioned in /etc/passwd can own directories, AFAIK. Also, dots in the user's name may give problems with qmail. I'd suggest vpopmail (http://www.inter7.com) as a perhaps simpler

Re: IDENTD timeout

2000-07-21 Thread asantos
From: Enrique Vadillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Is there a config somewhere so i can decrease identd timeout to something >less than 30 seconds? my qmail server is attempting to connect to identd >ports of every remote host that opens a port 25 connection to it, and >frequently these hosts are behind

Re: minifaq

2000-07-21 Thread asantos
From: Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: minifaq I think that what Mick want's is obvious, and sorely needed in ezmlm... tough it would be expressed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] or as [EMAIL PROTECTED] :) Why should FAQs be standard only in Usenet? Armando

Re: Unable to send a huge file

2000-07-20 Thread asantos
From: Ismal Hisham Darus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >When somebody send files exceeding 2.5mb, he get a bouce mail stating >that : Is that 2.5 mb before or after encoding? Depending on the encoding, 2.5mb can well become 15 mb... difficult, but possible. Test it the other way around: if you lower data

Re: How to grab the envelope contents while filtering?

2000-07-19 Thread asantos
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I've toyed with trying to pipe fd 1 into a file without success. I know >that this has to be doable with a small C program, but quite honestly, I >don't have the familiarity with C to do it. Can it be done with Perl? In >the shell? Is it as simple as re

Re: Urgent Help Needed

2000-07-19 Thread asantos
From: Steven M. Klass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Now every once in awhile a really slick idea comes about... Great idea, >because then you can telnet in to any port and verify functionality of the >pop checkpasswd Cool :o) Well, thank you for the appraisal! :) In fact, I was thinking not strictly i

Re: Urgent Help Needed

2000-07-18 Thread asantos
From: Tony Campisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Thanks guys for answering. Armando, I'm gonna try to write 110 instead of >pop3 or pop-3 next time. No prob. May I suggest you keep sendmail up and run the smtp and pop services on other ports for testing purposes? Armando

Re: Urgent Help Needed

2000-07-18 Thread asantos
From: Gavin Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >According to /etc/services on a FreeBSD box... > ># Updated from RFC 1700, ``Assigned Numbers'' (October 1994). All ports ># are included. > >pop2109/tcppostoffice #Post Office Protocol - Version 2 >pop3110/tcp#Post Offic

Re: Urgent Help Needed

2000-07-18 Thread asantos
From: Tony Campisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup Shouldn't that be /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R 0 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup ? Notice the dash in the name of the service. Armando

Re: .qmail file does not work (this is right one ,first i made some mistake in it)

2000-07-12 Thread asantos
From: Paul Jarc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >No, concatenation takes precedence over selection (i.e., `|') in >regular expressions. Yes, according to the manual you are right, at least for egrep. I think the problem was that the .qmail file was in the bad place, as per Peter Green's post. Armando s

Re: .qmail file does not work (this is right one ,first i made some mistake in it)

2000-07-11 Thread asantos
From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >|egrep -qw '(word1|word2|word3)' && exit 99 || exit 0 >/Maildir/ First, its missing a dot before the /Maildir/... there's no Maildir in /, is there? Second, I'm not very familiar with egrep's regular expressions, but if I was to parenthise what you wrote it woul

Re: Mail queue

2000-07-04 Thread asantos
From: Colin Humphreys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I have a mail server with a large amount of mail in the queue for a >particualar host which was having nameserver problems. Those lookups are >resolved... Is there a quick way to get the mail in the queue to be sent >now, instead of delayed till wheneve

Re: tcprules, rcpthost, ip address problem

2000-07-03 Thread asantos
It may seem a bit stupid... have you tried to put a space between the -x and the path to the cdb file? If so, can you please post the relevant script line ? Armando

Re: The most secure POP server

2000-07-01 Thread asantos
From: Brett Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I was thinking of suggesting that one but it isn't very secure... > Ah, these guys can't take a joke :) However, again we find ourselves with the language problem. When Roberto Samarone Araujo says "secure", possibly he is associating the word "secure"

Re: multilog

2000-06-30 Thread asantos
From: Susan LB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I have this same exact setup on 3 machines. It works >fine on 2 of them (i.e. multilog starts up fine when >qmail is started) but the 3rd machine is exhibiting >this strange behavior. I've compared the machines and >I can not find any difference between them.

Re: host masquerading.

2000-06-29 Thread asantos
From: Russell Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I realise that, however I want to deliver to _real_ recipients in >some.domain, if I put some.domain in locals, then all mail going there >will be delivered locally. Also check http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/incominguser.html#luser-relay , the last FAQ there

Re: host masquerading.

2000-06-29 Thread asantos
From: Russell Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >; To be delivered locally, some.domain must be present in locals. > >I realise that, however I want to deliver to _real_ recipients in >some.domain, if I put some.domain in locals, then all mail going there >will be delivered locally. > I'm a bit confuse

Re: host masquerading.

2000-06-29 Thread asantos
From: Russell Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >that if you send mail to an unqualifed localuser, then it rewritten as >[EMAIL PROTECTED] and attempted to be delivered remotely, how do I >make such mail be delivered locally? To be delivered locally, some.domain must be present in locals. Armando s

Re: Sorry newbie question

2000-06-29 Thread asantos
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >"qmailsvc: warning: unable to chdir to /var/qmail/supervise/run: not a >directory" > >why is it trying to chdir to the that dir ?? is that a file for running >/var/qmail/rc ? > >i am at a stand still ... thanx in advance I think you didn't followe

Re: how do I resync two machines after MX confusion ?

2000-06-29 Thread asantos
From: Scott Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >And do you know of any reason why these queue-mucking techniques: > > Can I just move them into the remote directory, then run the queue? > > Or tar up the queue directory, move it onto the new machine in a temp > > directory, run qmail-qfix, and then ren

Re: how do I resync two machines after MX confusion ?

2000-06-28 Thread asantos
I'd copy all the messages from all the users to the ~alias Maildir, and then use djb's serialmail (the maildirsmtp util, to be exact) to blast'em to the original machine. After checking, delete the messages. This shouldn't work with mailboxes, tough. Armando -Original Message- From: An

Re: how do I resync two machines after MX confusion ?

2000-06-28 Thread asantos
File and directory ownership could give some headaches... If you have good bandwidth between the machines, I again recomend maildirsmtp. Armando From: Andre Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I do not see any specific qmail-precautions to take while I untar the >stuff, am I right ? smime.p7s

Re: condredirect does not appear to work correctly under Solaris

2000-06-21 Thread asantos
I'm not at all familiar with Solaris, but I'd rewrite that as | condredirect [EMAIL PROTECTED] test "$HOST" = omp.co.nz Armando -Original Message- From: Martin Searancke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: qmail list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Quinta-feira, 22 de Junho de 2000 5:07 Subject: condre

Re: qmail-clean does not work

2000-02-03 Thread asantos
This is what I do to clean the queue: find /var/qmail/queue -type f -name '[0-9]*' -exec touch -d 19900101 '{}' ';' Then, if I'm in a hurry, I kill -ALRM then qmail-send process. This is safe to do with qmail running, AFAIK. -o-o-