[xmail] Re: Hide password in log

2003-09-29 Thread Andreas Hansson
> > > I have enabled POP logs. Is there any way to hide passwords in that log? > > What about setting the correct permissions to MAIL_ROOT ? > Setting correct permissions works fine for the case you think of. I prefer not having cleartext passwords in log files because if I'm debugging someone's

[xmail] Re: dnsreport question

2003-09-18 Thread Andreas Hansson
> Hello Andreas, > > Thursday, September 18, 2003 you wrote: > AH> mail.briljant.se claims to be host > AH> **0***02*2*0*0. > AH> How do I fix that?Andreas > > > I think that may be your firewall. > Ah, is this well known behaviour from some particular firewal

[xmail] dnsreport question

2003-09-18 Thread Andreas Hansson
Hello I tried the dnsreport tool and it gave some warnings, one of them was: WARNING: One or more of your mailservers claims to be a host other than what it really is (the SMTP greeting should be a 3-digit code, followed by a space or a dash, then the host name). This probably won't cause any ha

[xmail] Re: how i change the smtp /pop and ctrl welcome message

2003-04-01 Thread Andreas Hansson
> > >can i change the welcome message "220 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [XMail 1.12 (Win32/Ix86) ESMTP Server] service ready; > > Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:05:41 +0800 " to others?? > > you can't - or you must change the code (and read tha gpl). It's easy to change the code, you can go ahead and d

[xmail] Re: imap roadmap

2003-01-23 Thread Andreas Hansson
Davide wrote: > > I started by trying to do a separate module but became a mess and required > also the standard XMail to be heavily changed. About 4 months ago a > changed route towards a single package. I can't give you an ETA because > the time I can dedicate in doing so widely changes. The fac

[xmail] Re: Bug in command line parsing

2003-01-23 Thread Andreas Hansson
> However you titled your email "Bug in command line parsing" and it is NOT a "bug". In my opinion, freezing up due to an invalid command line option instead of printing/logging an error message or at least refusing to start IS a bug. It's not what well-behaving software should do. Unfortunately

[xmail] Re: Full partition, Frozlist

2003-01-15 Thread Andreas Hansson
> > > >Does this use/support the X-Loop: message header as used by other > >autoresponding scripts? > Not exactly, it checks the whole message for ProgramName and version > number . > Autoreply places 'X-mailer:' to the header of > the message wich will be send to the receipient , > If autorepl

[xmail] Re: Full partition, Frozlist

2003-01-15 Thread Andreas Hansson
> > There;s currently another version available of autoreply wich was > written in Perl , this version has a better mail loop check than > earlier releases . Does this use/support the X-Loop: message header as used by other autoresponding scripts? Andreas - To unsubscribe from this list: send

[xmail] Re: [ANNOUNCE] xmailstats v1.6

2002-12-18 Thread Andreas Hansson
When trying to generate a year report, the perl script allocated ~1 GB memory and brought the system to a crawl. I only have 256 MB physical memory in the system so it was swapping a lot. I used the command line: F:\Inetpub\xMailRoot\stats>e:\perl\bin\perl xmailstats.pl 2002 HTML 2002.html Gener

[xmail] Re: mail-sorting-fowarding

2002-09-24 Thread Andreas Hansson
> > What eventually I am saying here is that I tried a telnet session > on port 25 from a node on the legit lan network to the Xmail > box which sits on the DMZ. You see, I thought that the f/w > would block the connection but it didn't. > > Why should I telnet to port 25 on the hotmail site ? >

[xmail] Re: mail-sorting-fowarding

2002-09-24 Thread Andreas Hansson
> > Just to be on the safe side I tried to telnet on the ISPs' pop3 > server via telnet through my xmail box. The reason I did this is > because I checked everything except making sure the box can telnet > out to the real world. The reason being that xmail sits in the DMZ > behind a linux ipchain

[xmail] Re: greeting banner

2002-09-05 Thread Andreas Hansson
> 220 I'm XMail 1.6 > > or : > > 220 stealth mode active > > What kind of difference should make in my mind these two responses. I tell > you what ... by exlicitly saying "I'm XMail" you at least will avoid to be > shot with sendmail, exim, postfix,... exploits. > The difference is that if you h

[xmail] Re: greeting banner

2002-09-04 Thread Andreas Hansson
A search for xmail vulnerability turns up two cases, one in the ctrl protocol and one in the pop3 server. Both are pretty old, from versions 0.58 and 0.67. You should have seen them both though if you started in 0.5 ;) Andreas - Original Message - From: "Shawn Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[xmail] Re: greeting banner

2002-09-04 Thread Andreas Hansson
Since there is no effective security, every small thing we can do is valuable, right? I don't hide my banners, I keep up to date instead. Still, not having advertised your version and got on someone's "hit list" might be a good thing when suddenly en exploit pops up for xmail version <= x.xx and

[xmail] Repost: Exemptions from CustMapsList and logging of blocked messages

2002-08-29 Thread Andreas Hansson
Since this message seems to have passed by without anyone noticing it, I'm trying it one more time. To find out which valid messages are being blocked by CustMapsList, I want them logged in the smtp logs. From what I understand this is a new feature in 1.10, but it only seems to work when using

[xmail] Exemptions from CustMapsList and logging of blocked messages

2002-08-17 Thread Andreas Hansson
Hello. To find out which valid messages are being blocked by CustMapsList, I want them logged in the smtp logs. From what I understand this is a new feature in 1.10, but it only seems to work when using CustMapsList with a block mode of 1, not for 0 ? I also want to implement exemptions from Cu

[xmail] Re: security hole, configuration error, or rfc compilance?

2002-07-10 Thread Andreas Hansson
> but i would prefer that xmail server forces smtp auth if the MAIL_FROM and > RCPT are local and the same. > > the rcpt accout is local, so you can think we don't need auth, but the > sender is also local, and so there xmail could force auth. I send lots of mail from other places using my work

[xmail] Version numbering

2002-06-03 Thread Andreas Hansson
>From what I understand, xmail 1.8 is broken on Win32 because of some issue with handle inheritance. Wouldn't it be better to call the fixed version 1.8b and make that available as the default download from www.xmailserver.org ? I think the product number should go something like 1.8, 1.8b, 1.8

[xmail] Re: SMAIL and binding ip

2002-03-27 Thread Andreas Hansson
My exact setup is this: We have one Win 2000 Server, hosting web, ftp and mail services. It has the ip 172.26.13.34 which is mapped to the external ip 213.187.208.241 by the ISP (they're using a cisco pix firewall). There is also a number of workstations at the office mapped to that ip. We have p

[xmail] Re: SMAIL and binding ip

2002-03-27 Thread Andreas Hansson
If XMail doesn't pick an interface, then the system will decide on one depending on the routes set up yes. XMail can pick an interface by binding the socket to an interface ip before attempting an outbound connection. There is as far as I know no way to make the system always pick a specified inte

[xmail] Re: SMAIL and binding ip

2002-03-26 Thread Andreas Hansson
In your case it might be the routing table but in my case it's not. I have two interfaces on the same subnet, both can be used to send to any destination except localhost but only one *should* be used my xmail. Andreas - Original Message - From: "Sönke Ruempler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[

[xmail] Re: SMAIL and binding ip

2002-03-25 Thread Andreas Hansson
If you have rate limitations in your router based on the ip used, you will want to bind an outbound connection too. I would like to see that feature in XMail, but I can live without it for now. I have a separate rate limitation for the IP used by XMail so that the mail traffic will not take up mor

[xmail] Re: SMail command line settings

2002-03-21 Thread Andreas Hansson
From: "DOLIST Technical Center" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 4:12 PM Subject: [xmail] Re: SMail command line settings > Bonjour Andreas, > > Thursday, March 21, 2002, 3:47:09 PM, Andreas Hansson wrote: > > > 480

[xmail] Re: SMail command line settings

2002-03-21 Thread Andreas Hansson
>From memory the formula to calculate sum a**k for k = 0 .. n-1 is (a**n - 1) / (a - 1) thus the total delay should be something like tot = t * i * ((1 + 1/i)**n - 1) Xmail might be rounding off intermediate values a little so it might not get this exact time but at least you can calculate it

[xmail] Re: Is it possible?

2002-03-20 Thread Andreas Hansson
ent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 6:48 PM Subject: [xmail] Re: Is it possible? > On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Andreas Hansson wrote: > > > Try binding to ip 0.0.0.0 maybe? That usually means listen on all IPs. > > It might work something like 0.0.0.0:PORT > But you cannot do something

[xmail] Re: Is it possible?

2002-03-20 Thread Andreas Hansson
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 5:16 PM Subject: [xmail] Re: Is it possible? > That works for all Ips but not all ports :) SMTP is port 25 by > default... > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Behalf Of Andreas Ha

[xmail] Re: Is it possible?

2002-03-20 Thread Andreas Hansson
Try binding to ip 0.0.0.0 maybe? That usually means listen on all IPs. Andreas - Original Message - From: "John Kielkopf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 4:43 PM Subject: [xmail] Re: Is it possible? > You could look at the command line: > -SI

[xmail] What does "tentatives" mean?

2002-01-17 Thread Andreas Hansson
I see the word "tentatives" in the failure reports, but I don't know what it really means. I looked it up in websters dictionary which said: 1 : not fully worked out or developed 2 : HESITANT, UNCERTAIN But neither makes sense in a failure report like: The maximum number of tentatives has be

[xmail] Re: (No subject)In-Reply-To: <047401c19942$5dd5f9c0$0900a8c0@cloverpoint.int>

2002-01-10 Thread Andreas Hansson
> > I'm just lazy ; ). I don't really have the time to put much effort into > this. > I wound up just setting up a email client with all the addresses and just > forward them by hand when needed. Not very creative, but hay it works. You could use pop3links.tab to do the forwarding automatically.

[xmail] Re: filtering outgoing mails

2002-01-09 Thread Andreas Hansson
> > Also I had a lot of trouble today with filters, until I realized that they > > fail if they print to standard output. I just wanted a simple filter to make > > a copy of every mail to another directory so I wrote a .bat file to do that, > > but the copy command wrote a line to stdout and then

[xmail] Re: filtering outgoing mails

2002-01-08 Thread Andreas Hansson
Isn't starting a process a very slow operation in Win32? Since it's not recommended to start threads or even to use too many thread in a high performance program, starting extra processes should be very bad? I haven't tested this with xmail since I have a very low volume server but it should be no

[xmail] Re: Aliases to external domains ...

2001-12-18 Thread Andreas Hansson-2
> exim and sendmail just forward them because t-online.de is not handled > locally. > i think that is a standard function for a full featured mail server (?!). This sounds like you're talking about relaying? If you want to relay mail for a few specific domains only you should probably use custdom