[xmail] Re: Starting Xmail as unprivelidged user

2003-07-25 Thread Patrick Andry
ml > > Hope it helps. > > Bye > Michael > > -Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Patrick Andry > Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 4:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [xmail] Starting Xmail as unprivelidged

[xmail] Starting Xmail as unprivelidged user

2003-07-24 Thread Patrick Andry
I'm sure that this question has been asked before, but is there a reason why Xmail runs as root, and does not drop to an unpriveledged account after starting? Just curious. -- Worlds are conquered, galaxies destroyed -- but a woman is always a woman. -- Kirk, "Conscience of t

[xmail] Re: spamassassin

2003-07-22 Thread Patrick Andry
If you have php installed, cut and paste this into a file. You'll have to do a bit of tailoring to your spamassassin call scripts to get it to use one file, or the php script to read many files, but it will give you a total breakdown of what has come into your mailserver and how spamassassin hand

[xmail] Re: spamassassin

2003-07-21 Thread Patrick Andry
Spamassassin, with a little tweaking, has cut the amount of spam my users have received. With no other filtering, we are correctly tagging about 80% of spam. Here's a couple months stats. SPAM: 5501 out of 24608 (22.35 percent) NOT SPAM: 13157 out of 24608 (53.47 percent) UNDETERMINED: 5950

[xmail] Re: local mail send

2003-07-18 Thread Patrick Andry
Sorry, my bad. Missed that one. Mailhost should be your domain name. Which returned 10.10.10.10 On July 18, 2003 12:12 pm, you wrote: > hrmmm > > C:\>nslookup work-internet.com > Server: dc1.work-internet.com > Address: 10.10.10.10 > > Name:work-internet.com > Address: 10.10.10.10 > > C

[xmail] Re: local mail send

2003-07-18 Thread Patrick Andry
Using Nslookup.exe, what does your MX record point to for work-internet.com? Quick nslookup for win : C:\> nslookup Default Server: ns.work-internet.com Address: 10.10.10.10 > set q=mx > mailhost it should returnsomething like this mx.work-internet.com MX preference = 0

[xmail] Re: local mail send

2003-07-18 Thread Patrick Andry
Where does your MX record point for the internet DNS? If you are using your DNS server for both internal and external resolution, then your clients are sending their mail via the internet instead of locally. This would explain why your connection has to be up for mail delivery and receipt (a

[xmail] Re: R: Re: Configuration

2003-06-17 Thread Patrick Andry
I've put together similar networks, but just for clarifications sake, what exactly are you trying to accomplish? Do you want to: 1) Use Xmail as a gateway for your exchange server? 2) Use your exchange server as a gateway for Xmail? 3) Have your exchange server forward certain email addresses to