[xmail] Re: something wrong with my xmail running on Linux, help!

2002-07-18 Thread Scott Ritchie
How did you install? tarball or rpm What distro are you running? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[xmail] OpenSSH vulnerability

2002-06-27 Thread Scott Ritchie
Just in case those of you who use SSHDa security flaw has been made public two days ago: http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?id=11031 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line

[xmail] Re: Issue with recieved from header

2002-04-03 Thread Scott Ritchie
> > you cannot display _only_ the server IP. > get 1.7 and read the doc about : > > ReceivedHdrType > So the only for me to jig this would be to include the firewall IP as somedomain.com? So that it appears that the mail originates from that domain? Yes/No Scott - To unsubscribe from this lis

[xmail] Issue with recieved from header

2002-04-03 Thread Scott Ritchie
Hopefully I didn't miss this in the readme file. In the Recieved From portion of the header the computer that is sending the email is shown, then the mail server. How do I only show the mail server name and ip. The reason is a Sun mail server out there refuses to accept mail originating from th

[xmail] Syslog error message

2002-03-28 Thread Scott Ritchie
I've been noticing an error message in the syslog (linux:slackware8.0) the states: "XMail[pid]: Server does not like Your IP" and is sometimes followed on the same time stamp by: "in.identd[pid]: request_thread: read(10, ..., 1023) failed: Connection reset by peer" I've gone throught the XM

[xmail] Re: XMail and Errors

2002-03-27 Thread Scott Ritchie
> And not All admnistrators have the skills, or care to be programmers. Your right, only the good ones do : p Just kidding. Xmail while being a great mail server, has little documention for a novice mail admin. I can be really confusing even after reading the rfc's. A few of us started to redo

[xmail] Re: Setting the MAIL_ROOT enviroment varialbe

2002-03-12 Thread Scott Ritchie
export MAIL_ROOT=/var/MailRoot Though if your running xmail via rc.d, it should already be set. - Original Message - From: "HonkyHonk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 2:29 PM Subject: [xmail] Setting the MAIL_ROOT enviroment varialbe > Hi >

[xmail] OT: linux XMaill and security measures

2002-02-27 Thread Scott Ritchie
Quick question, though I should know this When securing a XMail host running 'nix. How is allow/deny access to XMail ports controlled outside of XMail? hosts.allow/deny is only for deamons, right? so implying rules in hosts.* have no effect on access to Xmail ports. If above is true, what a

[xmail] Re: OT: Perl and filters

2002-02-01 Thread Scott Ritchie
> > I should mention all email sent/recieved to one user to be sent to another > > Why ? You can use mailbox+redirect in mailproc.tab ... > > Would that cover the outgoing mail as well? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTE

[xmail] Re: OT: Perl and filters

2002-02-01 Thread Scott Ritchie
I should mention all email sent/recieved to one user to be sent to another - Original Message - From: "Scott Ritchie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 12:05 PM Subject: [xmail] OT: Perl and filters > Hopefully this is

[xmail] OT: Perl and filters

2002-02-01 Thread Scott Ritchie
Hopefully this is a simple question for all you perl mongers. Actually a request for an existing script. I need to be able to copy email sent to one user to another. Is this easy to do? Thanks for any pointers Scott - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in th

[xmail] Re: random bounces

2002-01-31 Thread Scott Ritchie
I had a user with a simular problem. Half my fault and half his. Ok it was my fault ; ) He simply had the wrong address and I didn't setup the server to check to see if the destination exsisted for relayed messages. So the email just spun around in the server until it gave up. - Original M

[xmail] Re: Xmail server confusion

2002-01-24 Thread Scott Ritchie
Xmail server confusion > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Scott Ritchie wrote: > > > > > > Are you receiving email with a 10 hours delay or the date is 10 hours > > > shited ? > > > XMail does not change the Date: field at all, so it's something else. > > &

[xmail] Re: Xmail server confusion

2002-01-24 Thread Scott Ritchie
> Check your smail log file for message : > > id Doh! I wasn't logging it, I will try some more tests and probably pick this up later. say in 6 to 10 hours. Thanks - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help

[xmail] Re: Xmail server confusion

2002-01-24 Thread Scott Ritchie
om <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 13:47:52 -0800 Message-ID: <022201c1a458$17bd8c20$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Scott Ritchie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: test2 Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 13:51:20 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: tex

[xmail] Re: Xmail server confusion

2002-01-24 Thread Scott Ritchie
> Are you receiving email with a 10 hours delay or the date is 10 hours > shited ? > XMail does not change the Date: field at all, so it's something else. > Its a 6 to10 hour delay, the header shows the correct time it was sent and the correct time it was recieved.. I didn't think it was an XMai

[xmail] Re: Xmail server confusion

2002-01-23 Thread Scott Ritchie
Now I'm really confused. Not that I think this is a Xmail issuse. I am recieving the emails, 10+ hours later! Anyone have any ideas, the system clocks and timezones are fine. What a weird day. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMA

[xmail] Re: Xmail server confusion

2002-01-23 Thread Scott Ritchie
> What ? custdomains or mailproc ? > Hmm I think "relay" was a bad choice of words on my part. I sent the from the first server to a user on the second, and it of course was never recieved. Though as far as Outlook see's it, it was. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe x

[xmail] Re: Xmail server confusion

2002-01-23 Thread Scott Ritchie
> how did you setup the 1st server to send emails to the 2nd one ? > I used an account on the first one to relay to a user on the second. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in

[xmail] Re: Xmail server confusion

2002-01-23 Thread Scott Ritchie
al Message - From: "Davide Libenzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "XMail mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 3:32 PM Subject: [xmail] Re: Xmail server confusion > On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Scott Ritchie wrote: > > > Since I've c

[xmail] Xmail server confusion

2002-01-23 Thread Scott Ritchie
Since I've change to a fully qualified domain, I seem to be missing the odd email. I'm using two different Xmail servers with different domains/subnets/users to explain this. email is relayed through the first server to the second. In the logs of the first I get RCPT=OK and RECV=OK In the log

[xmail] Re: SMTP auth via pop3

2002-01-13 Thread Scott Ritchie
> You do not need to explicitly set SMTP auth, but if your MUA does not do a > POP3 fetch before SMTP send, you'll get an error the first time you send. > I'm just getting dumber and dumber today. I just didn't make that obvious connection. Ginko-Bibola anyone? Thanks again Scott - To unsu

[xmail] Re: SMTP auth via pop3

2002-01-13 Thread Scott Ritchie
One last minor thing.. Its more of an Outlook question. It seems that I don't have to set the Outgoing Mail Server Auth at all. It seems it will do the smtp-pop3 auth without the consent of the user. Can anyone confirm this? Scott - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xma

[xmail] Re: SMTP auth via pop3

2002-01-13 Thread Scott Ritchie
> If your smtprelay is empty and if you can relay from different IPs without > doing a previous POP3 login the only way to explain it is that your MUA > are using authentication. > > Ahhh, your right. In my last tests I was only using Outlook, Pine no-longer relays. Did a few tests on Outlook5.

[xmail] Re: SMTP auth via pop3

2002-01-13 Thread Scott Ritchie
> > Are you sure your smtprelay.tab is empty ? > yep - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[xmail] SMTP auth via pop3

2002-01-13 Thread Scott Ritchie
I've configured(?) Xmail for smtp auth via pop3, though it doesn't seem to be functioning. Thus I must have made an error in my config. If I understood the doc and listserv right. In the server.tab "EnableAuthSMTP-POP3"1 "AllowNullSender"1 "AllowSmtpVRFY"1 "AllowSmtpETRN"1 resta

[xmail] Re: (No subject)Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 20:23:38 +0100

2002-01-09 Thread Scott Ritchie
> another way for what? do you want an secure mail server or not :-) > > if so, your users have to autenticate even if they sendmail into the > internet. > > i don't understand your problem :-). > If you don't understand thats fine, I find very people on this planet that do and coincidently(?) th

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

2002-01-09 Thread Scott Ritchie
> I don't know, it depends on the server. > Why are you keeping the old ( bogus ) server ? > Just make the XMail's machine to have multiple IPs ( aliasing ) and you'll > be fine 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 clien

[xmail] Re: (No subject)Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 20:23:38 +0100

2002-01-09 Thread Scott Ritchie
> what do you mean with "external users"? xmail allows email that comes from > the outside and is for a domain handled by the xmail server, that is the > sense of an email server (imho :-)). External users = just meant users from untrusted domains or ip's > so with the the pop3/smtp auth (and th

[xmail]

2002-01-09 Thread Scott Ritchie
Hey all, I know this question gets asked alot... I don't what the server to be used by spammers. I know one answer is to smtp auth via pop3, is there another way while still allowing any ip (external users)? If I use pop3 auth in order to step , will this impede mail destined to this domain fro

[xmail] Re: Relay Failure - error msg

2001-12-29 Thread Scott Ritchie
> On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Scott Ritchie wrote: > > > Oops, forgot to add the error from Outlook express > > > > The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by > > the server. The rejected e-mail address was '[EMAIL PROTECTED]&#x

[xmail] Relay Failure

2001-12-29 Thread Scott Ritchie
Hey all, I'm upgrading 1.0 to 1.3 and adding a .int to my domain name (M$ domain) running linux (slackware8.0). Everything is working up to relaying mail through it. The smtprelay.tab has the my subnet and was working before. Have I missed something? Scott - To unsubscribe from this list: sen

[xmail] Relay Failure - error msg

2001-12-29 Thread Scott Ritchie
Oops, forgot to add the error from Outlook express The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by the server. The rejected e-mail address was '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Subject 'test', Account: 'Scott Ritchie', Server: 'mail.somedomain.in

Re: Doc Project questions

2001-10-24 Thread Scott Ritchie
Here's a few that I have good intentions of reading some day : ) 821 - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol 1725 - Post Office Protocol - Ver3 2045 - MIME I'm sure Davide could give a more comprehensive list. Link to alot of email related rfc's. http://www.tac.nyc.ny.us/mail/rfc-index.html Scott -

Doc Project questions

2001-10-24 Thread Scott Ritchie
hey all, Just a few thoughts on the doc -Should there be a planning section? #of users / disk space, etc -As far as the configuration section goes I'm assuming this meams the TAB files, doesn't Linux and Windows have the same configuration ? Or was it meant as system config? and the Admin sec

Re: Documentation lead

2001-10-19 Thread Scott Ritchie
I'd like to do the first two for Linux. Scott - Original Message - From: "Aaron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "XMail mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 10:27 AM Subject: Documentation lead > I will take the lead on this. > > I have it broken down lik

Re: Closing an Open Relay

2001-10-02 Thread Scott Ritchie
>case 2) > >smtprelay.tab == EMPTY ( or client connecting from not-listed IPs ) > >SmtpConfig != mail-auth > > > >No auth required for sending to local domains - auth required to > relay > > > >case 3) > >SmtpConf

Re: Closing an Open Relay

2001-10-02 Thread Scott Ritchie
same thing? Scott - Original Message - From: "Davide Libenzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Scott Ritchie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Tracy Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "XMAIL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2

Re: Closing an Open Relay

2001-10-02 Thread Scott Ritchie
I know this method will work but I'm looking for a "global" way so that I don't have enter each user/passwd twice and that only needs to be set once. Actually I'm suprised Xmail is an open relay by default. Then again I suppose its for inital flexablitiy. Thanks Scott - Ori

Re: Closing an Open Relay

2001-10-02 Thread Scott Ritchie
That won't work for me. User can be internal or external, meaning any ip must be able to use SMTP. - Original Message - From: "Davide Libenzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Scott Ritchie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "XMAIL" <[EMAIL PRO

Closing an Open Relay

2001-10-02 Thread Scott Ritchie
I've been trying to authenticate SMTP by user. Can anyone give an global example? Thnx

Re: XMail documentation project ...

2001-09-28 Thread Scott Ritchie
> Simply press the "Reply To All" button of your Outlook :) > > Then I get 2 messages. If this is the way you like it, then that's the way.

Re: XMail documentation project ...

2001-09-28 Thread Scott Ritchie
I'd like to contribute. My expirences with XMail are linux, bogus domains and simple filters. > Thank You Scott. > Please reply to the mailing list too, to have an account about how many > people can help. > > - Davide > Sorry Davide I didn't intend to send it directly to, seems

Re: Filters

2001-09-27 Thread Scott Ritchie
Try starting xmail in debugging mode Xmail -Md, and put a peice of mail through that should trigger the filter. This will tell you acutally is going on. - Original Message - From: "Emmanuel Gonzalez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001

Re: Filters

2001-09-20 Thread Scott Ritchie
I added /usr/bin/perl to the filter and still get the same error. Its perl 5.6.0 if it makes a difference - Original Message - From: "Davide Libenzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Scott Ritchie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "XMAIL" <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Filters

2001-09-20 Thread Scott Ritchie
#x27; Can I interpret that as a domain error (ie Gated is screwing up)?. And that there is nothing wrong with XMail? Scott - Original Message - From: "Davide Libenzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Scott Ritchie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "XMAIL" <[E

Filters

2001-09-20 Thread Scott Ritchie
I've been having some dificulty getting anything to filter. I'm using a perl script for virus detection, actually the one from Emmanuel Gonzalez , Thankyou :) Now I can use the filter by hand it works perfectly. ie. /var/MailRoot/filters/viruscheck.pl 1000855935072.19192859.ns me@somewhere [EM

Re: Upgrading

2001-09-20 Thread Scott Ritchie
Thanks Davide Kinda thought that was it, just needed some someone else's thoughts. Email was down for all of a few seconds. Incredable work Davide, my hat's off to you. Scott - Original Message - From: "Davide Libenzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "S

Upgrading

2001-09-20 Thread Scott Ritchie
I was hoping someone can give me a few pointers before I attempt this. I'm upgrading 0.70 to 1.0 and was wondering if all I need to do replace the binaries and update the tab files or do I need do a complete new install and redo all the tabs? If I have to do complete install how do I keep the

Re: Antivirus

2001-09-19 Thread Scott Ritchie
Would it be possible for you to post your script?. Scott - Original Message - From: "Emmanuel Gonzalez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 9:44 AM Subject: Antivirus > Hi Davide, > > We have installed Viruscan (from McAfee) on our linux box

[XMail]: Help needed with Filters

2001-06-08 Thread Scott Ritchie
Hey all, I have an external account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) with 3 aliases (tom, dick, harry)so that email can be sent to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED],etc What I want to happen is when the pop3 syncs to the internal domain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to move the mail to the appropriate staff member's mailbox (

[XMail] Need help with Pop3 sync

2001-05-28 Thread Scott Ritchie
Hi all, Is there a way to leave mail on the external mail server when syncing to the internal mail server via pop3? and also what is the timing interval when syncing accounts and hos is it altered? Thanks for any help Scott