Re: How to copy outoging messages?

2001-08-13 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 10:01:24PM +0800, qmail wrote: Can qmail manager each outgoing email? if yes,then how to manager each email account that will send a copy of message to his/her manager? FAQ 8.2. Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html

Re: Solaris Delays?

2001-08-10 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 05:41:25PM +0100, Ken Corey wrote: [snip] Any ideas or suggestions onwhat could be causing this initial annoying pause? Resolving problems. Check /etc/resolv.conf on the solaris box. Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html

Re: pop3d question

2001-08-10 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 12:46:12PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to configure qmail-pop3d for not allow pop3 users to leave messages on server? Not in the way you're thinking. Instead, have a cron job run nightly

Re: removing sendmail in OpenBSD

2001-08-09 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:44:06AM +, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote: [snip] Can anyone tell me which of the many sendmail files on my OpenBSD 2.9 system I should remove and which I should symlink to qmail/bin/sendmail? My system contains the following sendmail files:

Re: removing sendmail in OpenBSD

2001-08-09 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 12:02:47PM +, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote: [snip] Are you sure there is nothing in /usr/sbin/sendmail? There is. Missed it. Should it be a symlink too? Yes. /usr/share/sendmail This one can stay just fine. Oops, it's a directory. Should have noticed

Re: removing sendmail in OpenBSD

2001-08-09 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 02:33:47PM +0200, Morten Liebach wrote: [snip] This is news to me, I've been using mailwrapper (e.g. /etc/mailer.conf) instead. What's so bad about mailwrapper? It invokes the real sendmail when it gets in any kind of trouble. A fix for this is in a FreeBSD PR that

Re: done qmail installation but can't telnet to port 25

2001-08-09 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 01:10:34PM +, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote: case, tail -f /var/log/qmail/smtpd/current and start qmail. @40003b728c052b1e1bdc tcpserver: fatal: no IP address for O You got an O ('oh') that should be a 0 ('zero'). Unless your hostname is O ('oh') in which

Re: splogger / lwq

2001-08-08 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:13:40PM -0700, Will Yadley wrote: Does anyone have an example of how to use splogger with daemontools (and how to remove the multilog stuff)? leaving 'splooger qmail' at the end of the /var/qmail/rc file was making qmail-send start an extra process at the

Re: Re: Can I use qmail for this purpose? (newbie)

2001-08-08 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 06:52:29AM +, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote: [snip] I know. I took my chances and posted anyway. And I *did* read the FAQ, it's pretty slim and the man pages didn't install themselves automagically when I compiled the source. (Yes, I don't even know how to install

Re: Re: Can I use qmail for this purpose? (newbie)

2001-08-08 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 02:22:15AM -0500, Robin S. Socha wrote: On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:59:06AM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: [snip] The manpages do install themselves automatically. You just have to tell man to check /var/qmail/man as well. (The way to do this is OS-dependent). :s/OS

Re: dnscheck; Not logging Invalid SENDER

2001-08-08 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:17:42AM +0200, Lou Hevly wrote: Greetings: I have dnschecking enabled: nodnscheck: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is checked for existing Domains. My problem is that some senders continue trying and my logs fill with hundreds of Invalid SENDER lines for the each

Re: qmail-pop3d inbox messages limit

2001-08-08 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:22:14AM -0500, Alberto Alonso wrote: I have noticed that if a user has more than about 5500 messages in their inbox the server dies with the following error: -ERR unable to scan $HOME/Maildir I look at qmail-pop3d.c but couldn't see anything that would explain

Re: Is this correct?

2001-08-08 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:37:20PM +0200, Lukas Beeler wrote: At 22:33 08.08.2001 +0200, Severin Olloz wrote: Is there a possibility to design the /etc/aliases-file that qmail sents directly to the user test2 without the virtualdomain-file? i don't know, but fastforward /etc/aliases is

Re: qmail on AFS

2001-08-07 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 09:44:36PM -0400, Rudy Zung wrote: [snip] Hmmm. I hadn't thought of that possibility; however, I am hoping that I wouldn't casually lose an email message because the file name is constructed by the combination of the system time and the process ID, which should be

Re: COPY MAIL

2001-08-07 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:29:41AM +0200, Linux wrote: Hi all. My need is to copy all the mail sended and received from and to a specific user. I explain better I have two users mail account, and to backup my e-mail, i need to send all received and all sended mail to another local

Re: Re: qmail-spawn_unable_to_fork._

2001-08-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 04:48:07PM +0530, Himanshu Kulkarni wrote: [snip] More oftenly this problem occur due to exceeding max processes ..we are not crossing 150 process where as limits of process is 512 on Redhat linux .. we discussed this problem with developers and seems to be because

Re: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)

2001-08-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 01:07:36PM +0100, Richard Underwood wrote: [snip] Read what I wrote again. It IS qmail's fault. One role I use qmail for is to accept mail which is then passed on to an exchange server on the same network. Here's an example of what can happen ... If the

Re: Prejudice and control

2001-08-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 01:26:34PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The qmail list does not accept messages from Microsoft Outlook Express. I get the above mesage whenever I send mail to the list nowadays. I've been a member for quite a while and am curious why my input

Re: qmail on AFS

2001-08-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:00:09AM -0400, Rudy Zung wrote: [snip] I changed the link() in qmail-local.c to rename() and my mail delivery now works. Anyone want to put in some input as to whether a rename() would fail in some cases where a link() might not? Using rename() instead of link()

Re: qmail on AFS

2001-08-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 07:02:25PM +0200, Olivier Dupuis wrote: Hi, I am testing log rotation with isolog on multilog. I can't understand why after sending a ALRM signal to the multilog process, the current log is not immediatly dumped into the isolog log. And what, exactly, does this have

Re: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)

2001-08-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 10:02:10PM +0200, Pavel Kankovsky wrote: On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Peter van Dijk wrote: Why are you kicking qmail-send? That should never be necessary in a production environment. Apparently, your production environment does not involve situations when you need

Re: new message in queue

2001-08-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 06:39:58PM -0300, Henrique Pantarotto wrote: [snip] But we're having trouble for the new messages going to queue graph. I don't know what string I need to look for. I tried couting for the string new msg or from but they (also?) appear when Qmail is simpling trying

Re: qmail-pop3d and /var/spool/mail

2001-08-05 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 02:28:39PM +0200, Severin Olloz wrote: I want to migrate my sendmail-server to qmail. I have to decide to use /var/spool/mail with |/usr/sbin/qmail-procmail to store the mails on the server. mbox or Maildir format? Both are perfectly possible in /var/spool/mail (we

Re: Maildir/cur folder question

2001-08-05 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 08:35:05AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: I have noticed that sometimes email messages will appear in the /Maildir/cur folder that have the format: number.number.machine.domain-name;2, This is normal. I believe they also have ownership set to root:root. This is

Re: How-best-to: Secondary Queue for Mailing List

2001-08-04 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:45:00AM -0400, Jeff Hill wrote: When we e-mail a newsletter to our user list (10,000+ e-mail, twice a month), it holds up any other e-mail going into the send queue. What's the best way to avoid this? This question has been asked and answered less than a week ago.

Re: How-best-to: Secondary Queue for Mailing List

2001-08-04 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 05:56:46PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:45:00AM -0400, Jeff Hill wrote: When we e-mail a newsletter to our user list (10,000+ e-mail, twice a month), it holds up any other e-mail going into the send queue. What's the best way to avoid

Re: no shell for qmail user (qmails, qmaill,...)

2001-08-04 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 04:28:51PM +, pop corn wrote: [snip] /bin/false is a very silly idea. /nonexistent is much better. Hi Peter, This is a post that I pulled out from the archives. I think /nonexistent does seem better than /bin/false. It is. /nonexistent has no security issues.

Re: Qmail process under root...

2001-08-03 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:40:39PM +0200, NDSoftware wrote: Hello, It'sn normal this (qmail process under root): [root@ns207 /root]# ps -fe UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 8248 1 0 12:38 ?00:00:00 sh /command/svscanboot root 8253 8248 0

Re: Qmail, sooo easy to exploit

2001-08-02 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 10:46:54AM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 09:41:56PM -, Steve Wozniak wrote: I'm a little Troll, You are. This exploit does not work on proper configured qmail servers, only if you use the broken inetd. It is well known since years. It

Re: queue 'blocked' by large recipient list

2001-08-02 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 01:07:58PM +0200, Christian Rotter wrote: [snip] is there any way to 'split' the remote queue between different applications (or users) sending mail to get rid of this problem ? or are there any other solutions for this ? Run 2 qmail instances on your server - one for

Re: [Fwd: queue 'blocked' by large recipient list]

2001-08-02 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 02:52:01PM +0200, Christian Rotter wrote: Hi Peter, yep, this works reconfigured conf-qmail for a new QMAILHOME and reinstalled the package, added the second rc script to the qmail script in init.d and got it running such a shame - missed that KISS approach :-)

Re: Received: from unknown PROBLEM

2001-08-01 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 03:51:59PM +0530, Mustafa Mahudhawala wrote: Hello, My Qmail is working fine , smtp / pop et al. BUT whenever I see Mail Headers I always have this ... I sent an email from indiatimes to my mail. Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: custom RBLSMTPD message... (was: Sublist (Was: Virus...)

2001-08-01 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 09:38:19AM -0400, Roger Merchberger wrote: [snip] 195.219.116.19:allow,RBLSMTPD=/-You are banned from sending mail here; known spam host./ 195.219.91.3:allow,RBLSMTPD=/-You are banned from sending mail here; known spam host./ 198.30.222.8:allow,RBLSMTPD=/-You are

Re: custom RBLSMTPD message... (was: Sublist (Was: Virus...)

2001-08-01 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:00:08AM -0400, Roger Merchberger wrote: [snip] perl -ne 'chomp(); print $_:allow,RBLSMTPD=/-yuck fou./\n;' ;-) I'd *love* to use that as my default text, but methinks I'll have to be a bit more diplomatic.

Re: qmail-pop3 server strange problem

2001-07-31 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 01:44:31AM -0700, Martin Bangieff wrote: [snip] pop3stream tcp nowait root/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \ qmail-popup borsabg /bin/password /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d \ Maildir /bin/password should be /bin/checkpassword, I guess :) Greetz,

Re: SSH with Qmail

2001-07-31 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 09:51:39AM +1000, Brett Randall wrote: Chris == Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 04:02:31AM -0400, Dave Lewis wrote: Does anyone have documentation on how to setup Qmail to work with SSH ??? I'm currently using Qmail+vpopmail

Re: Fastforward question (was Re: Mail Forwarding Service)

2001-07-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 05:34:59AM -0400, Philip Mak wrote: [snip] My question about fastforward is: Will my existing .qmail-* files stop working? If so, how can I make the ezmlm aliases still work? e.g. one of Yes, they will work. fastforward will just sit in .qmail-default and handle

Re: [OT] Is namezero.com's mail server broken?

2001-07-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:01:19AM -0400, Philip Mak wrote: When I send message to this mailing list, I keep getting the following bounce message from namezero.com's mail server. Apparently, someone who's e-mail address is a namezero domain that forwards to a Yahoo account is causing these

Re: Fastforward question (was Re: Mail Forwarding Service)

2001-07-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:35:32PM +0800, Adrian Ho wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 07:28:04AM -0400, Philip Mak wrote: I wonder if in the future, they'll make an alias delivery option in qmail; that is, it calls an external program, but instead of sending the entire message to the program,

Re: Fastforward question (was Re: Mail Forwarding Service)

2001-07-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 10:29:31AM -0400, Philip Mak wrote: [snip] Upon activating this system, the load average of the machine has increased from 1-2 to 10! I suspect most of the time is being spent compiling the perl script and connecting to the MySQL database, though. If I switch to

Re: Fastforward question (was Re: Mail Forwarding Service)

2001-07-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:44:08PM +, MarkD wrote: That's not what he means. This still reads the message and reinjects it. His proposal (which I have been pondering about for months already :) means that a program can tell qmail 'send this mail you are trying to give to me, to this

Re: Fastforward question (was Re: Mail Forwarding Service)

2001-07-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:50:15PM +, MarkD wrote: [snip] At this stage, periodic rebuilding of a fastforward file sure sounds easiest - perhaps triggered by database changes. A 'select * from ...' followed by a fastforward cdb rebuild should pose no interesting load when executed, say,

Re: Fastforward question (was Re: Mail Forwarding Service)

2001-07-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 11:20:37AM -0400, Philip Mak wrote: [snip] I'm also considering putting in my .qmail-default file: |forward `database-lookup $RECIPIENT` where database-lookup is a simple C program that connects to MySQL, looks up the recipient in the database, and prints it to

Re: Fastforward question (was Re: Mail Forwarding Service)

2001-07-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:36:02PM +, MarkD wrote: [snip] It'll be interesting to see how you propose to atomically make such queue changes while incurring a worthwhile queueing cost saving. I have no such proposal. I just feel that with some changes to the queueing structure, this might

Re: Fastforward question (was Re: Mail Forwarding Service)

2001-07-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 12:42:14PM -0400, Philip Mak wrote: [snip] I am not familiar with the internals of qmail, but from what I have seen, this would make sense. Yes. This program could then just talk to /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue itself, or talk to /var/qmail/bin/forward. Greetz, Peter --

Re: unable to opendir mess

2001-07-27 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:32:23AM -0400, alexus wrote: that's because you manually delete some of messages that were in queue.. don't worry 'bout it.. it'll go away within next few days... No, it won't. He's missing the directory /var/qmail/queue/mess/5. THe correct procedure is: - stop

Re: deferral: Sorry,_I_couldn't_find_any_host_by_that_name

2001-07-26 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:38:01AM +0200, zyrtaf wrote: Your domain vol.vnn.vn doesn't have a MX record, so I think that's the problem. You may also add a smtproute. PS : Please quote correctly mails sent to this list. Please don't use HTML when it's needless. Please don't quote my private

Re: Which RBL replacement?

2001-07-25 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 10:19:59AM +0200, Johan Almqvist wrote: [snip] Thanks for the pointers... I have a slight memory that rfc-ignorant also planned to do ip blacklists att the outset, but whatever... It will, probably, for any type of rfc-violation that makes IP blacklisting a valid

Re: Which RBL replacement?

2001-07-25 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 10:28:07AM +0200, Johan Almqvist wrote: * Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010725 10:22]: On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 10:19:59AM +0200, Johan Almqvist wrote: [snip] Thanks for the pointers... I have a slight memory that rfc-ignorant also planned to do ip blacklists

Re: Auto CC

2001-07-24 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:09:27PM -0600, Nathan Cook wrote: Thank you. After reading the mail from Peter I was able to solve my problem by putting this in the .qmail file in the home directory. RTFM in it's finest form. Great :) Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex!

Re: Inode allocation / qmail-queue?

2001-07-24 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:41:22PM -0600, Mike Hodson wrote: Hello there. I have been noticing slightly out of the ordinary things happening in my qmail-send logs after changing the queue filesystem over to reiserfs. I am seeing the same inode used for multiple messages. Is this normal? Yes,

Re: Which RBL replacement?

2001-07-24 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:04:15AM -0600, Roger Walker wrote: Starting Jul 31 RBL will start charging for using their services. Which of the free RBL replacement do people recommend? I have read so far about ORBL and ORBS... I check them all. I am still discussing with my partner

Re: Which RBL replacement?

2001-07-24 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:45:57AM -0700, Chin Fang wrote: I just checked out http://www.mail-abuse.org/rbl, but didn't see any mentioning of charges to the direct mode of using RBL. Would appreciate it if anyone could post a pointer that leads to more detailed announcement of this new

Re: Is Qmail MAPI Compliant?

2001-07-24 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:48:29PM -0700, Ramsey, Mike wrote: Is qmail mapi compliant? Probably not, since MAPI is a M$-standard as far as I know. However, you have provided no details of what you want or what you are trying to accomplish. Perhaps MAPI is not even what you need? Greetz, Peter

Re: QSBMF -

2001-07-24 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:41:29PM +0100, John P wrote: Pretty much the whole trick is to go into qmail-send.c, around line 708 (search for Hi), and just change the message that is output. As with any source change, you'll want to test it first, and make sure the message is reasonably

Re: Auto CC

2001-07-23 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:51:57PM -0600, Nathan Cook wrote: Is there any way that I can make it so all inbound messages to a specific account will deliver to that inbox and CC another specific account? man dot-qmail Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex!

Re: How can i get the mail size in qmail-local.c

2001-07-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:06:55PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: qftang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: now i am doing some development based on qmail,and i want to get the mail size in the file qmail-local.c,how can i do that. If you mean you're writing a program called for delivery from a

Re: FreeBSD: /etc/mailer.conf

2001-07-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:58:23PM +0200, Moritz Schmitt wrote: Hello, could anybody please post the content of the mailer.conf file? It's /etc/mail/mailer.conf, and these are the contents on my box: # $FreeBSD: src/etc/mail/mailer.conf,v 1.2 1999/12/29 18:24:06 peter Exp $ # # Execute the

Re: weird qmail-popup behaviour?

2001-07-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 11:00:12PM +0200, Arjen van Drie wrote: [snip] You will see this if you use `cat -ve' on the file. Thanks all. It works now. How does one read hexdumps? Is there a howto or a table somewhere? On FreeBSD I like hexdump -C a lot, which gives output like: bash$

Re: weird qmail-popup behaviour?

2001-07-05 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 08:48:11AM +0200, Arjen van Drie wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 10:01:49AM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 08:17:13AM +0200, Arjen van Drie wrote: [snip] Any ideas? Hmm, no clue. Tried stracing? Yeah, but that doesn't tell me much

Re: weird qmail-popup behaviour?

2001-07-05 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 05:20:54PM +0200, Arjen van Drie wrote: [snip] This is the 'run' script started by supervise: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.pop3.cdb -v -R -H -l 0 0 110 \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup ids.trivial.3va.net /bin/checkpassword \

Re: weird qmail-popup behaviour?

2001-07-04 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 08:17:13AM +0200, Arjen van Drie wrote: [snip] Any ideas? Hmm, no clue. Tried stracing? Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html

Re: Speed up injecting

2001-07-04 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:29:58AM +0200, Gianni Campanile wrote: [snip] 1) Solaris (Slowlaris); 2) Only one process can injects the mails, so there is no concurrency on the injection phase. I've tried to use qmail-queue directly, but I gained very little. It seems that the bottleneck

Re: Speed up injecting

2001-07-04 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:53:02AM +0200, Gianni Campanile wrote: For 1): use a real OS. No chance, it's not my choice and it is a constraint. For 2): divide your list in 10 parts of 1000 emails (for example) and handle these normally, but all at the same time. As I said there is only

Re: Speed up injecting

2001-07-04 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:16:41PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: [snip] Someone posted a perl module called qspam or so calling qmail-remote directly and only injecting into the queue if this fails. This should speed up things dramatically. Only when done massively parallel, ofcourse. Greetz,

Re: Speed up injecting

2001-07-04 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 08:17:36AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: [snip] qmail-queue takes multiple recipients for a single message; extending it to handle multiple messages would be complicated and pointless. And would *only* benefit Solaris users who are too lazy to migrate to something that

Re: High Volume....

2001-07-03 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:37:03AM +0200, Xavier Pegenaute wrote: Hi all.. i can try any prime number for hashing ..? ( is limited?) You can try any number, but anything over 1/1000th of your queuesize is overkill. The default of 23 is therefore suitable for about 23.000 messages. and, is

Re: High Volume....

2001-07-03 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:18:12PM +0100, Jose Celestino wrote: http://www-archive.ornl.gov:8000 If you have nothing to say, don't say it. And if you insist on saying it, at least learn how to quote correctly. Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html

Re: child crashed

2001-07-03 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:44:23PM -0700, newbieportal wrote: Hi everyone for some reason I'm getting this error on my qmail-send log file @40003b40ca153456a8a4 delivery 1594225: deferral: Aack,_child_crashed._(#4.3.0)/ Showing us all lines pertaining to 'delivery 1594225' and then

Re: Extremely slow after move/IP change

2001-07-03 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:03:39AM +0200, Petter Sundlöf wrote: [snip] Any ideas? Could this be DNS problems? Shouldn't be, as everything else in that regard seems to be working in the server. It's DNS problems. The resolver listed in /etc/resolv.conf is probably unable to resolve the reverse

Re: Aliases with -

2001-07-03 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:50:36AM +0200, Peter Klingeberg wrote: Hi ! Is there any special capital like : for dots to use - in aliasnames ? (.qmail-user-name-name) No, - works just fine. Only dot is special. Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html

Re: conf-spawn and FD_SET SUCCESS

2001-07-03 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 03:15:36PM +0530, D Rajesh wrote: [snip] My qmail parameters are as follows on a redhat Linux 6.2 kernel 2.2.14 :- Upgrade to the most recent. Now. qmail + DNS patch + big - todo patch + big - concurrency patch silent concurrency --- 1000 conf-split --- 15

Re: conf-spawn and FD_SET SUCCESS

2001-07-03 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:27:21PM +0530, D Rajesh wrote: [snip] conf-split should be prime for optimal performance. What's wrong with the default 23? I thought a large conf-split only makes sense if we have more than 20.000 messages *in the queue* . I guess this does not happen even if I

Re: conf-spawn and FD_SET SUCCESS

2001-07-03 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:55:59PM +0530, D Rajesh wrote: Hi Peter, Thanks again for your reply I am actually trying to send 200,000 mails and not 1 mail to 200,000 people... !!! PL suggest me on what parameters should I use ... Then set your conf-split to somewhere near 200. A nice

Re: High Volume....

2001-07-03 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:45:09PM +, Jost Krieger wrote: [snip] I thought it would be better to take a number about the square root of the top queue size, which minimizes search length on a classical file system. For 23000 your on the order of 151, which happens to look prime. Search

Re: Home directory is sticky ??

2001-07-03 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:44:36PM +0200, Arno Slatius wrote: [snip] Whenever I send an email to an unknown user the log states: defferal: Home_directory_is_sticky:_user_is_editing_his_.qmail_file. I think it spells 'deferral'. Next time, be sure to copy verbatim. Sometimes these small

Re: Problem with qmail-remote during Delivery

2001-06-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:25:16AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Try running a real MTA like Iplanet messaging server, Sendmail, Notes or Exchange server. Even Exchange 4.0 is more advanced than qmail. Qmail was an attractive option when we had less than 300 users, because it was

Re: Maildir directory layout

2001-06-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:34:36PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] My question: Is this a sensible layout for Maildir? Are there any docs about preferred layouts, etc.? I have ~/mail/INBOX/, ~/mail/lists/qmail/, ~/mail/lists/ezmlm/ etcetera. Works like a charm. Do whatever pleases you

Re: $HOME problem

2001-06-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 11:45:10AM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: [snip] 1. how should I start qmail-pop3d. I found two ways (qmail info and lifewithqmail) but I don't know which is the standar way. Go with lifewithqmail. 2. [ot] is possible to use mutt with Maildirs? Yes, mutt

[OT]: ROT13 [was: Re: Peter from the Dike and Security]

2001-06-27 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:47:26AM -0400, peter green wrote: * Robin S. Socha [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010627 09:42]: * peter green [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010627 08:32]: (pcg@pcg2) ~ rot13 bash: rot13: command not found (robin@mail1):(~)$ man caesar | head -n4 (pcg@pcg2) ~ caesar bash:

Re: Alter bounce messages?

2001-06-27 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:01:44AM -0400, peter green wrote: [snip] What is actually parsing that format these days? I can appreciate forward-looking policies like qsbmf, but that doesn't exactly fly with customers all of the time. What can I point to as a definite reason (*now*) to keep

Re: Databyes

2001-06-27 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 04:06:16PM +0200, Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: Hi there, Is it possible to override the databytes value in the control/databytes file based on the _destination_ of the email. I know how to change the DATABYTES environment variable using tcpwrappers or tcpserver based on

Re: sender_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:____/

2001-06-27 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:33:32AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: Alfonso Armenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although in my log quote I used fake addresses those were just slightly changed. The usual protect the innocent (not from the regulars from this list, of course). Actually I do

Re: GHOSTS SECURITY AND OVER CONFIDENT NAZI'S

2001-06-26 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:22:38PM -, Frank Tegtmeyer wrote: [snip] We see above that he is a little paranoid about security as well. I know his QMAIL server (213.61.218.3)is vulnerable to a root exploit, but here is what he had to say about it: As I said before: Shut up and go away.

Re: Peter from the Dike and Security

2001-06-26 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:12:04PM -, Frank Tegtmeyer wrote: I doubt you do. I know you can find about just as much about me (possibly more) with a simple google search. Oh, Yeah, that’s what I did. Okay Peter “from the dike,” I’ll sift through 37,700 hits on your name and get back to

Re: qmailanalog usage

2001-06-25 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 06:56:47PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: [snip] Yes -- each message has multiple log lines associated with it. You'll likely get some messages which cross over your arbitrary per-night boundaries. qmail won't be able to include those messages in its analysis if you

Re: Wrong Server Name in Qmail Header?

2001-06-23 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 11:31:19PM -0700, A A wrote: Hello, Whenever my qmail server sends someone an email, the following line appears in the header: Received: from mail.mydomain.com (old_name.mydomain.com [216.216.216.216] (may be forged)) However, recently I changed my server name

Re: Spam IP master list?

2001-06-20 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 12:15:04PM -0400, Roger Merchberger wrote: Kindof an offtopic question, but is there a Master List of IP's that send spam regularly, with which I could use to update my tcprules deny list? RBL? I really don't want to patch reinstall qmail with the RBL... (and it

Re: FW: Slow Connection with LVS

2001-06-19 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:38:18AM -0400, Mehul Choksi wrote: Why do I get this message? Any suggestions? lesoleil.com's mailserver is broken. It's been discussed about 20 times over the past few months. Check the archives. Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex!

Re: FW: Slow Connection with LVS

2001-06-19 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:04:54AM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: peter green writes: * Mehul Choksi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010619 09:35]: Why do I get this message? Any suggestions? lesoleil.com's mail servers suck rocks. Their admins seem unresponsive to fix the problem. Feel free

Re: ReiserFs and qmail

2001-06-19 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:15:11PM +, Nick (Keith) Fish wrote: [snip] I'm not sure on the statement that qmail is unreliable under Linux due to its assumptiopn that link is a synchronous operation. I've never read anything about it. Anyone else? This is true. I'm not sure, however, if

Re: smtp router

2001-06-18 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 05:14:48PM +0200, Federico wrote: I need to make this possible with qmail: I've this structure INTERNETQMAIL-EXCHANGE i need that ALL incoming mail from internet are sent directly to exchange and the outgoing mail are sent normally. it is possible?

Re: many mails

2001-06-15 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:20:46AM +0200, Gianni Campanile wrote: I've searched but I couldn't find it. In any case I like the queue, what I don't like is that to build a 5000 message queue I have to call 5000 times qmail-queue, instead of preparing a big 5000 messages file and call

Re: many mails

2001-06-15 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:35:28AM +0200, Gianni Campanile wrote: Are you sure ? Yes. The time for starting the qmail-queue will add to the I/O, so I'm trying at least to save a part. qmail-queue will still be in your kernel cache/buffers, so there is hardly any I/O involved in starting

Re: Fw: many mails

2001-06-14 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Gianni Campanile wrote: Can I qmail-queue more than one message at the time ? From the manual it seems that sender and message are only one, while recipients can be as many you wish. I would like to feed qmail-queue with a single file (or stdin)

Re: backup mail server help

2001-06-14 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 12:42:28PM -0700, Adam Jacob wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 06:03:41AM -0600, Jeff Palmer wrote: And if your NFS server goes down, both servers are useless. In which case, what was the point of having a backup server again? Which is why you deploy this with

Re: Multiple recipients to remote domain

2001-06-11 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:51:46AM -0600, Roger Walker wrote: I just ran a test where I created a single message file, with all headers, and the BCC list was 10,000+ copies of my own address on a remote domain. I used qmail-inject to send the message. What I expected to happen

Re: Multiple recipients to remote domain

2001-06-11 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:20:57AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: [snip] Is there only a single copy of the message sent to the remote host in a single transaction? No. Hmm, this confuses me. Every transaction contains one message. There are 10.000 transactions. This may or may not be a

Re: Multiple recipients to remote domain

2001-06-11 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 02:33:53PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: Charles Cazabon writes: qmail never batches recipients to remote domains. One of the (several) reasons for this is it would make VERP impossible. Not true. It simply means that the remote system would have to implement

Re: Multiple recipients to remote domain

2001-06-11 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:02:40PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: Roger Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Peter and Charles. Looks like I'll have to script a solution that telnets to port 25 on the remote host and issues 10,000+ (650,000+ actually) rcpt to: lines. Unnecessary.

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