ssh and checkpassword

Has anyone successfully used ssh to provide a secure channel for POP3 authentication? Actually, I'm looking for a more general case of secure checkpassword authentication for any tcpserver app. -- John White johnjohn at triceratops.com PGP Public Key:

Re: Mass Mailign with Qmail vs. Sendmail

ue's? You can do that if your queue writer takes a significant amount of time to write out to the queue. -- John White johnjohn at triceratops.com PGP Public Key: http://www.triceratops.com/john/public-key.pgp

Re: Mass Mailign with Qmail vs. Sendmail

qmail-send's preprocessing? You'll probably want to get the messages into the queue as fast as possible, right? Or does your mailout process hang around for hours and hours? Is it structured to maintain state of it's processing in the case of a failure? -- John White johnjoh

Re: domain

town1, town2, etc with MX records pointing at your box. 2) virtualdomains you need a virtualdomains entry for town1, town2, etc. -- John White johnjohn at triceratops.com PGP Public Key: http://www.triceratops.com/john/public-key.pgp

Re: Howto

that that second statement indicates the first. -- John White johnjohn at triceratops.com PGP Public Key: http://www.triceratops.com/john/public-key.pgp

Re: Howto

you can think of that are worthwhile, particularly those > that might help with installing QMail. Essential System Administration TCP/IP Network Administration -- John White johnjohn at triceratops.com PGP Public Key: http://www.triceratops.com/john/public-key.pgp

Re: Lost my Qmail knowledge...Help.

s. :) I'm not saying it's better than Mail::Maildir or whatever is on CPAN, but it does have some cool examples on how to do what I just described. You'd just want to construct a key based on the recipient rather than the sender, but everything else should be the same. -- John White

Re: Lost my Qmail knowledge...Help.

; Looks real good John...if I can just figure out what is wrong with my > permissions...I think your package will work for lookups... Heh. The package is just for deliveries. The lookups are all in perl. And not even in pure perl, if I remember correctly. Is there cdb key lookup support in CPAN?

Re: Using qmail with CGI feedback form - needing reference

an't locate documentation referencing use of form mail > with qmail. It's pretty simple, actually. Send your text to a qmail-inject process. man qmail-inject -- John White johnjohn at triceratops.com PGP Public Key: http://www.triceratops.com/john/public-key.pgp

Re: Qmail::Queue

nto one. As someone who's looked at the code, I second that comment. -- John White johnjohn at triceratops.com PGP Public Key: http://www.triceratops.com/john/public-key.pgp

Re: cyclog, was *sigh* performance issues again. Please help!

o do that with cyclog. I specifically remember that there was a cyclog modification which allowed one to process a log file which was being rotated out rather than just unlinking it. -- John White johnjohn at triceratops.com PGP Public Key: http://www.triceratops.com/john/public-key.pgp

Re: baboo.smtp does not work by using qmail.

ed for sending > every where. It would help to see the exact relay settings you use, as well as a log of the smtp transaction when the relaying is dissallowed. I suspect your relaying isn't properly set up, so the former would be more important to see than the latter. -- John White jo

Re: Internet draft for VERP

omeone might want them for some unknown purpose leads to bloatware. VERPs have never worked well on my qmail servers due to the lack of an Internet Draft Standard. -smirk- -- John White johnjohn at triceratops.com PGP Public Key: http://www.triceratops.com/john/public-key.pgp

Re: mail volume

27;ing them? I'm sure you'll have people suggest that you call qmail-remote directly and only queue if that fails. The question then becomes, how robustly can you recover from the disasters the qmail queue is designed to be proof against... -- John White johnjohn at triceratops.com PGP Public Key: http://www.triceratops.com/john/public-key.pgp

Re: Qmail throughput

the difference between what qmail-inject does and what cat does. To solve this problem, use a SCSI controller which has a write-back cache. Generally, you have to look at low-end RAID controllers to get this. If you're sending idendical messages, it's better to use one qmail-inject w

Re: DNS 8.2.1 installed

a file for. And it's up to you to keep the file up to date. -- John White johnjohn at triceratops.com PGP Public Key: http://www.triceratops.com/john/public-key.pgp

Re: bad deliver

e offers for help that you're getting. -- John White johnjohn at triceratops.com PGP Public Key: http://www.triceratops.com/john/public-key.pgp

Re: Disconnected Qmail??? 3rd Try!

rsmtp using it. b) remote call via ssh. Much more secure (no passwords in the clear), though to be honest, I can't think of a way to capture the hosts dynamic IP off the top of my head. I'm sure someone else can help you there... -- John White

Re: Lobby mail.com

e that the block was based on the relay test, but it says so very clearly. :) -- John White johnjohn at triceratops.com PGP Public Key: http://www.triceratops.com/john/public-key.pgp

Re: Any ideas?

ite clearly point out both the local and remote concurrency which qmail is reaching: 936506732.264512 starting delivery 780: msg 179819 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] 936506732.264626 status: local 1/5 remote 0/50 ^ I'm wondering how "directly&

Re: RAID 5 and queue restore

ing. You're covered at the inode level. But that doesn't mean the RAID 5 is good to use. Use 1+0 instead. -- John White johnjohn at triceratops.com PGP Public Key: http://www.triceratops.com/john/public-key.pgp

Re: RAID 5 and queue restore

OTECTED] > > Subject: Re: RAID 5 and queue restore > > > > But that doesn't mean the RAID 5 is good to use. Use 1+0 instead. RAID 1+0 is provides more redundancy AND io speed than RAID 5. -- John White johnjohn at triceratops.com PGP Public Key: http://www.triceratops.com/john/public-key.pgp

Re: Where to start?

On Thu, Dec 24, 1998 at 02:48:28PM +0900, Sean Grskovich wrote: > There are two very good places to start (besides from the install file). > > For a source installation try Alan McKenna's how to at > > http://www.flounder.net/qmail/ > > If you are using Redhat, the best bet is to forget the so

xdelay and multi-queue'ing

Over the last few weeks, I've been setting up relaying for a few high traffic lists of over 1K recipients. As that has moved into a production phase, it struck me that there is quite a demarkation when looking at xdelay stats. I grabbed the approx 10MB of logs I had on hand and ran it through q

Re: Performance

On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 03:35:26PM -0500, David Villeger wrote: > > My questions: > > - event though the concurrencyremote is set to 120, the number of > qmail-remote never gets higher than 40. If some other program runs at the > same time (like a bouncer handler, or a mail generator), the numbe

Re: Three solutions for spam

On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 04:28:04PM -0500, Len Budney wrote: > > I for one would be glad to pay at least .37 US dollars per email, if > it helps to reduce spam. This, then, is my proposal: > I'd like to chime in and say that I too would be glad for Len to pay $US .37 per email. -- John White [

Re: virtual domains and then some. (offline servers who are the actual vdoamins)

On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 01:36:45AM -0500, Adam H wrote: > > I can receive the mail fine to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > well my question is how to get the [EMAIL PROTECTED] to then send > 'queue' the mail so when the offline server connects it can put the mail > in the proper Maildir's

Re: Redirecting or Copying bounced mail

On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 05:34:07PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > johnjohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > No. This is after the embedding of a perl interpreter in qmail-local. > > Ooo, bizarre. Yeah, that'd make Perl scripts faster. What? Did I forget my

Re: TCP Rule

On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 10:02:21AM +0700, Moh. Deny Kurniawan wrote: > > Thanks for your reply Mr Johnson, > > Actually what I want is: > > # first step: > deny every host to use smtp server on smtp.x.x.x, except 209.134.x.x > so every computer with IP 209.134.x.x can send e-mail to everywh

Re: How to slowly drain Maildir via maildirsmtp ?

On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 12:48:48AM -0500, Sam wrote: > On 5 Feb 1999, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote: > > > maildirsmtp to send the mail back out. However, I would like to not > > flood the remote machine and send some messages, wait for (a little > > while) the remote machine to clear its queue etc >

Re: PATH and related things at installation

On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 08:28:43AM +, Chris Green wrote: > > 1 - The default installation directory is /var/qmail, do most > installations actually use this? If you do use this do you add > /var/qmail/bin to the qmail administrator's (usually root) path > or what? After install

var-qmail

Dan says precompiled var-qmail packages are allowed if: 1) installing the package produces exactly the same /var/qmail heirarchy as a user would obtain by downloading, compiling, and instlaling qmail-1.03.tar.gz, fastforward-0.51.tar.gz, and dot-forward-0.71.tar.gz; 2) the package behave

Re: var-qmail

On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 06:39:46AM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: > >Can someone explain to me why it would be bad to include >multiple sets of binaries with differeint UID/GID combos, >and install one based on which UIDs/GIDs the system had >open? With, say, 5 sets of UIDs/GIDs, o

Re: Best way to check for new mail in Maildir?

On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 01:14:17PM +, Robin Bowes wrote: > > I'm looking at implementing serialmail and am delivering out-going mail > to a maildir. > > I'd like to run maildirsmtp as a cron job but only if any outgoing mail > exists, ie; > > if then run maildirsmtp > > What's the "

Re: var-qmail

On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 08:06:05AM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: > On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 04:59:10AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 1) What if you have partial overlap with the existing UIDs GIDs? > > > I'm talking about using brute force: > > > > Here are 5 sets of binaries. > > The first h

Re: var-qmail

On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 08:57:07AM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: > On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 09:19:35AM -0500, Dave Sill wrote: > > Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >Again, what if > > > > > >UID 794 1794 2794 are taken? > > > > If none of the UID/GID sets is available, the installatio

Re: var-qmail

On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 07:39:09PM +0100, Matthias Pigulla wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The install should prequalify the system's user/group name space AND > > alternate UID/GID space. How can it be otherwise? My goal here is > > to install binaries which can be MD5 checksum'd, so ided

Re: var-qmail

On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 11:26:31AM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: >Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>But then there is no way to install the binary---unless the installer starts >>moving uids around. > >Right. Like when there's not enough disk space, there is no way to

Re: var-qmail

On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 01:33:51PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: > > Understandably, John wants to put as little burden on the installer as > possible, and saving a known good copy of the qmail binaries in a > "safe" place is a burden. He wants the CD hold the known good > copies. That is a safe pl

Re: var-qmail

On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 01:06:51PM -0800, Racer X wrote: > - Original Message - > > >So what if I include 30 different UID/GID combinations? > > If I'm understanding correctly what you want to do, which is include > separate binaries for each UID configuration, at some point it's going t

Re: var-qmail

On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 08:34:00PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: > BTWY, if John wants to make rpm, perhaps he may want to consider the > idea I wrote down about two weeks ago about how to make an rpm that > would use idedit, but rpm could also be used to verify the whole > package (including the "bad

Re: Announce: Qmail-Maildir-0.31

On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 12:54:58PM +, Peter Haworth wrote: > > I've written a perl module which provides maildir delivery to perl > > programs. Included are example mail sorting programs meant to be > > invoked from .qmail or .qmail-default > > How does this differ from Mail::Folder::Maildi

replacing .qmail-* with cdb?

Is it possible to use a cdb in place of a large number of .qmail-* files? In general, it looks like any qmail-command style delivery is re-injecting a message into the queue for delivery. It seems that building a database who's purpose was looking up delivery instructions based upon EXT2 would

qmail-specific io benchmarking

I was thinking that it would be a good thing to come up with a scripted set of tests to benchmark the following: 1) How many messages/sec can qmail-send handle before it becomes ``serialized''? 2) A plot of max_maildir_deliveries/minute vs pop3d_sessions/minute In essense, the disk is a bott

Re: Qmail for NT again

On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 06:37:51PM -0800, Racer X wrote: > > That said, there are some places where Linux comes up short as compared to > NT. I don't want to get into a holy war over this so if you disagree with > the preceeding statement mail me privately, Of course you don't want to start a

Re: qmail employment in SF, CA

On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 01:20:38PM -0800, Postmaster wrote: > Critical Path was also featured on a News Hour story on PBS when they > were spotlighting forthcoming spam legislation. > > This is cool to see. Qmail creating jobs. I just hope it never gets to > the point of something like "Qmail cer

Re: Why Red Hat is not distributing qmail

On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 02:52:50AM +0100, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote: > >>Qmail does not support RBL, right out of the box. > > > Nor should it. There's an add-on to do that. > >RBL support, these days, in a world that isn't as perfect as qmail was > designed to view it, is not an option

relay control: selective qmail install

I was just contemplating the problem of offering relay services to a customer without being able to configure a separate queue, concurrencies, etc. To have split outgoing mail into multiple delivery priorities, one needs to have multiple installations of qmail. That's not a problem. There's sti

Re: Queue in tmpfs

ync as quickly as possible, I'd look into SSD from Quantum as /var/qmail/queue. Under $10K. -- John White johnjohn at triceratops.com PGP Public Key: http://www.triceratops.com/john/public-key.pgp

Re: Strange Phenomen with virtualdomains-file

rspawn, > lspawn, clean a.s.o). And the qmail logs said ... what? > Read all docs again...go through all again and again... Do the docs ever say to read the logs? :) -- John White johnjohn at triceratops.com PGP Public Key: http://www.triceratops.com/john/public-key.pgp

Re: qmail bandwidth usage versus other MTAs

On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 01:42:50AM +, Richard Letts wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Dax Kelson wrote: > > Has anyone (Dan?) done real-world bandwidth measurements of how qmail > > compares bandwidth wise to sendmail/zmailer/exim/postfix? > > > > A common complaint I hear is "qmail would use way

Re: Three solutions for spam

On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 02:55:12PM -, Russell Nelson wrote: > Len Budney writes: > > It was quite standard at each company to send email direct through > > dialup, w/valid return address of company email, to save phone costs > > and company bandwidth. > > > > Are you suggesting there is

Re: qmail behind a firewall

On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 05:54:50PM -0600, Randy Cain wrote: > However, we have a slight problem. We have between our email server and > the Internet a firewall. Someone sent an email to a remote destination > that has multiple MX records. The preference 10 machine does not accept > a connection on

qmail <-> rpm integration question

Just thinking about this. RPM is distributed under the GPL. That means there's nothing stopping anyone from modifying the source to do whatever checking needs to be done in order for someone to rpm --verify a /var/qmail package? Why isn't that the answer to distributing qmail binaries? If the

Re: qmail <-> rpm integration question

On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 02:52:27PM -0500, Sam wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Just thinking about this. > > > > RPM is distributed under the GPL. That means there's nothing stopping > > anyone from modifying the source to do whatever checking needs to be > > done in o

Re: qmail <-> rpm integration question

On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 03:41:04PM -0500, Sam wrote: > > That's not an answer, that's an evasion. > > No, that's your answer right there. This proposed feature is not going to > benefit anything else except Qmail. You do not stick features into system > management tools unless there's a clear b

Re: qmail <-> rpm integration question

On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 01:28:08AM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote: > > No that's a great idea. Have rpm spawn an external -_possibly_tampered_with_- > binary to verify qmail. That's just silly. Do an md5 checksum of the verification binary as a preamble to verifying the qmail binaries. > Then ha

Re: qmail <-> rpm integration question

On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 12:13:10AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > johnjohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You're confusing RedHat with djb. RedHat can't do anything to stop > > anyone from forking rpm. > > But doing so is considered quite rude in the fr

Re: More Kings Notes, 1/3/98

On Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 10:41:15PM -0800, Stephanie Thompson wrote: > At 07:22 PM 1/3/99 -0800, Mike Mc Gill wrote: > >Courtnall is going to be out three more weeks than they originally predicted > >and McKenna could have known that his tear wasn't going to heal on its own. > >Oh, well. > > Didn'

Re: More Kings Notes, 1/3/98

On Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 11:05:24PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [a bunch of stuff to the wrong list] sorry 'bout that. Hmmm... munge reply-to? Hmmm... -- John White [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: http://www.triceratops.com/john/public-key.pgp

Re: Need qmail to reload smtproutes

On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 05:03:21PM +, Stuart Ballard wrote: > I am attempting to configure qmail to handle mail queueing for multiple > domains, each of which will dial up with _dynamically assigned_ IP > addresses. The servers themselves use exchange, so I can't rely on any > features from th

Re: Fw: Anonymous Qmail Denial of Service

On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 09:01:23AM -, D. J. Bernstein wrote: > I've sent a response to bugtraq explaining how to identify the uid that > filled up the queue. > > My message also explains a much more powerful series of four attacks > against all MTAs, including the IBM Secure Mailer. These att

Re: Hardware selection help

On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 10:12:03PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: > On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 03:57:03PM -0700, Sean Rietze wrote: > > OK, little advice. Getting ready to order a Dell Poweredge 2300 machine > > to run qmail and about 35,000 pop accounts on. > > Is this Hardware RAID? Our sysadm could

Announce: Qmail-Maildir-0.31

I've written a perl module which provides maildir delivery to perl programs. Included are example mail sorting programs meant to be invoked from .qmail or .qmail-default I've made the module available at: Any and all feedback

Re: replacing .qmail-* with cdb?

On Sat, Dec 26, 1998 at 04:58:02PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it possible to use a cdb in place of a large number of .qmail-* > files? > > In general, it looks like any qmail-command style delivery is > re-injecting a message into the queue for delivery. > > It seems that building a d

Re: replacing .qmail-* with cdb?

On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 10:56:39PM -0500, Len Budney wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 26, 1998 at 04:58:02PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Is it possible to use a cdb in place of a large number of .qmail-* > > > files? > > > > > > In general, it looks like any qmail-comma

Re: Qmail is not a replacement for Sendmail

reading the documentation? -- John White johnjohn at triceratops.com PGP Public Key: http://www.triceratops.com/john/public-key.pgp

Re: Building new mail system

On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 10:28:23PM -0500, Robert Adams wrote: > We're putting together a new box to handle mail.. thought I would pick your > brains a little for advice. Hopefully someone has done this already. > > We are planning on using 4x9gig Cheetahs in a RAID 0+1 configuration.. > Currently

Re: Building new mail system

On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 02:42:45PM -, Brian S. Craigie wrote: > On 22-Jan-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 1) RAID 0+1 is creating two stripes, and mirroring one onto another. > >RAID 1+0 is mirroring each drive to another, and striping across > > the resulting volumes. > > > >The