qmail Digest 0 Jan 1900 00:00:00 -0000 Issue 759

Topics (messages 30173 through 30232):

Re: Return Receipts
        30173 by: Anand Buddhdev

        30187 by: Dave Sill


store&forward a message
        30174 by: Puck

        30176 by: Russell Nelson

        30177 by: Michel Geldenhuys


Re: Strange problems...
        30175 by: Mirko Zeibig


Vpopmail Config
        30178 by: Miguel Carvajal

        30180 by: Paul Farber

        30218 by: fbemgigjcdggcpeaicen Ken Jones


Qmail.org webpage [Was Re: Patches revisited]
        30179 by: Thomas M. Sasala

        30188 by: Fred Lindberg


Starting qmail; pop3d problem
        30181 by: Barry Dwyer

        30184 by: James Smallacombe

        30189 by: Dave Sill


Qmail server problem
        30182 by: Derek Harkness

        30183 by: James Smallacombe

        30186 by: Derek Harkness


footnote inject on server
        30185 by: qmail.col7.metta.lk

        30196 by: David Harris


qmail queue
        30190 by: Eric Dahnke

        30191 by: Dave Sill

        30192 by: Mark Delany

        30193 by: Eric Dahnke

        30195 by: Mark Delany

        30197 by: Russell Nelson


Re: Should qmail-103.patch be applied to ucspi-tcp?
        30194 by: Lyndon Griffin

        30214 by: Scott Schwartz


VMailMgr Question
        30198 by: Miguel Carvajal

        30200 by: Olivier M.


checkpoppasswd - ERR authorization failed
        30199 by: Stephane Morand

        30208 by: Stephane Morand

        30209 by: Dennis Duval

        30210 by: Dennis Duval


Re: Calendars (was Outlook Groupware Functions)
        30201 by: vogelke.c17mis.region2.wpafb.af.mil


multiple copies of email
        30202 by: Steve Tylock


qmail as secondary MX server
        30203 by: Fred Backman

        30204 by: James Smallacombe

        30205 by: Timothy L. Mayo


Re: vpopmail Problem
        30206 by: Ken Jones


dnsfq and pop3d
        30207 by: Damon Parker

        30228 by: jfllhdggcfdnnnkakjij Robert Varga


MUA client compatible with Maildir
        30211 by: Mark Parker

        30212 by: schinder.pobox.com

        30213 by: James J. Lippard

        30215 by: cljefhmdkkigcbemedjn James Smallacombe


Re: Problems while downloading E-Mails with Outlook-Express
        30216 by: fcadagkjnkcopfbmmehj harold.nb.com.sg ()


mail virus definitions ?
        30217 by: gdgolblghnbmpjbaiili Claudiu Balciza


I cannot access the FAQ
        30219 by: gjpddfajlkeeldfbmcag Lal, Vivian

        30220 by: paijilbggndejkpandih Daemeon Reiydelle

        30221 by: cbegcahipmafeiogfcjl Fredrick Backman


qmailanalog question
        30222 by: hdfnpjddiaefinehgjil Georgi Kupenov


Mail Server Problem
        30223 by: gjpddfajlkeeldfbmcag Lal, Vivian

        30225 by: hbjfmmpjidglolpkinfi Einar Bordewich


large companies using qmail?
        30224 by: bmohkhgknhablipjkgga Sven

        30230 by: oagigflcgldndaagkedd Anand Buddhdev


No Mail
        30226 by: gjpddfajlkeeldfbmcag Lal, Vivian

        30227 by: jebakjechngpbagmecgp Petr Novotny


rcpthosts logs
        30229 by: ickjjhdekihilkejpadj Jan Stanik

        30231 by: oagigflcgldndaagkedd Anand Buddhdev


Strange problem... please help.
        30232 by: bhipbafphlgipehldenp seiheng


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On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 10:04:56AM +0100, Bongo wrote:

man qreceipt

> I'm trying to setup qmail to handle delivery reports (return receipts,
> etc)
> 
> In "Life with Qmail"  it says to see ~~qreceipt
> 
> Anyone shed some light on what "~~qreceipt" is?

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"Bongo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I'm trying to setup qmail to handle delivery reports (return receipts,
>etc)
>
>In "Life with Qmail"  it says to see ~~qreceipt
>
>Anyone shed some light on what "~~qreceipt" is?

I use ~~ to mark places that need further attention. I thought I'd
cleaned all of them up before releasing LWQ, but I see I missed a
few.

-Dave




Hi folks,
 
i read a lot of qmail docs, how-tos and manpages , but i found no
info on how to solve this issue :
 
i have one adress e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
when a mail comes in, qmail should store the mail in the users maildir/
virtual maildir AND forward the mail to another adress.
 
How can i do this?
 
Thanks a lot,
  Thomas




Puck writes:
 > i have one address e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 > when a mail comes in, qmail should store the mail in the user's maildir/
 > virtual maildir AND forward the mail to another address.

cat <<EOF >~chris/.qmail
./Maildir/
&[EMAIL PROTECTED]
EOF

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Puck wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> i read a lot of qmail docs, how-tos and manpages , but i found no
> info on how to solve this issue :
>
> i have one adress e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> when a mail comes in, qmail should store the mail in the users maildir/
> virtual maildir AND forward the mail to another adress.
>
> How can i do this?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>   Thomas

Hi,

Just do the following in your $HOME/.qmail :
./Maildir/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Regards,

Michel






On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 01:27:07AM +0500, Dmitry Niqiforoff wrote:
> Hello!
> 
>   I'm using QMAIL and UW-IMAP patched for mailbox format. 
>   There are complaints from our users that they're unable to 
>   delete some messages using IMAP. They mark message as "deleted" 
>   in their mail agent, and when they do "folder compact" it remains 
>   undeleted and unmarked as deleted. When I look into their homedir 
>   where mailbox file resides, there are some files with long names 
>   which looks like temporary files (with "$" in filenames). When I 
>   delete them, all the problems disappear until next such situation.
>   Does anybody know what can be the source of this problem? Any 
>   suggestions about how to resolve the problem.

Hello Dmitry,
I had a similar problem, when having mail delivered to ~/Mailbox and a link
from /var/spool/mail/$USER to $HOME/Mailbox.

If you use ``mbox'' instead of Mailbox, imapd does not need the link in
/var/spool/mail and mail will hopefully deleted correctly. The problem
occured here with OE as imap-client when moving mails to folders.

Regards
Mirko




Hi There,
    Where can I get full documentation on how to configure
vpopmail with qmail?

Thank in advance,
Miguel Carvajal






In the documantation that comes with vmailmgr.  In the doc directory.

Paul D. Farber II
Farber Technology
Ph. 570-628-5303
Fax 570-628-5545
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Miguel Carvajal wrote:

> Hi There,
>     Where can I get full documentation on how to configure
> vpopmail with qmail?
> 
> Thank in advance,
> Miguel Carvajal
> 
> 
> 





Miguel Carvajal wrote:
> 
> Hi There,
>     Where can I get full documentation on how to configure
> vpopmail with qmail?
> 
> Thank in advance,
> Miguel Carvajal

I am attempting a document on that. There is a simple INSTALL
file with the distribution which explains (in cryptic sysadmin verse).
Releases are detailed on http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/

There is also a FAQ and a searchable mailing list archive at
http://vast.inter7.com/archives/

There is also spotty real time support on irc efnet #qmail channel.

Cheers
Ken Jones
Inter7





        I must say, as a qmail newbie (and an email administrator newbie),
the qmail homepage was/is a bit daunting.  Heck, I still have 
trouble finding things I am looking for.  My problem is there is just
too much information.  When I first got started with qmail I followed
the
great Internet strategy: find a suitable program from the net, download
it, read INSTALL, make, make install :).  In combination with the 
install files and lwq, I managed to get things installed and working.
However, I think the only reason I managed to get it all to work was
by following the procedure in lwq.  Most of the things I did I have 
no idea what they do.  Moreover, after every step, it seems I had to 
go and download yet another tool/ultility to get the overall job done.

        IMHO, there seems to be too much information on the main page.
For example, one of the first things I came across on the web page was
the documentation section.  In fact, the exact thing I was looking for.
However, the second link is how to configure selective relaying.  
Selective relaying; what the heck is that ;)  The next thing is 
the author's enhancement software.  Huh, where's the tar file.  Ah, it's
at the top of the page. okay.  Now, looking at the enhancement software,
what the heck is ezmlm?  Maildirs?  Where are the mbox's?  Get the point
here?  A lot of jargon for a newbie.  Heck, even if I had been an
administrator for the last 10 years, much of the information is very
qmail
specific (Maildir, checkpassword, daemontools, etc.).

        For the qmail gurus, the page is great.  You scan down a single
page, find the program you are looking for, and you run with it.  For
someone who doesn't know a Maildir from a rcpthosts file, it's a bit
much.  I commend Russel on a concise, informative web page, but 
us newbies need something a little less concise and with a little less
information.

        Thanks for listening.

        -Tom


Cris Daniluk wrote:
> 
> I've been using qmail for a few years now and I find the qmail.org site to
> be a comprehensive and very useful place to get what I need. It is all on
> one page (albeit in somewhat of chaos, the new gif makes it workable) and
> has exactly what I need. Certainly don't change it :)
> 
> However, I think Lyndon's point may have validity in a small sense. All this
> information is obfuscating to new people to qmail, it is confusing enough as
> it is for someone moving from sendmail's trashy system. I think it would be
> GREAT to have an alternative place in a nice simple layout that explains
> things to people. The easier you make it to use, the more people will use it
> (though that doesn't explain why people use Sendmail's cryptic system :).
> 
> As far as I'm concerned, make the new site. Just don't change the current
> one in the process! To compliment Russ, it *is* much nicer having it all on
> one page. Time saving. I can also search for what I'm looking for.


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On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:42:06 -0400, Thomas M. Sasala wrote:

>       For the qmail gurus, the page is great.  You scan down a single
>page, find the program you are looking for, and you run with it.  For

Exactly! Thanks, Russell!


-Sincerely, Fred

(Frederik Lindberg, Infectious Diseases, WashU, St. Louis, MO, USA)






First, my apologies for the length of the following. I've RTFM but,
frankly, the qmail stuff is mostly good tech info but a little short on
"cookbook" stuff. This is my first email system. I need cookbook.

I've got qmail installed and (sort of) running on a Caldera 2.2 (col
2.2.5) system. Hostname is bby.precisionsound.com. Internal ip is
192.168.0.7; also a web ip to the router but with no DNS entry on our
ISP's DNS yet.

So far just command-line starts using the following command lines:

Local delivery (from the HOWTO):
-----------------------------------------
csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &'

SMTP (from the qmail docs):
-----------------------------------------
tcpserver -u 535 -g 700 192.168.0.7 25 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd &
(wouldn't run with the hostname as I've not put the hostname in
/etc/hosts yet)

(This version *didn't* work (from the HOWTO; mod'ed for the new
daemontools):)
supervise /var/lock/qmail-smtpd tcpserver -v -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 535
-g 700 \
rblsmtpd qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | setuidgid qmaill tai64n | setuidgid qmaill \

multilog -s5000000 -n5 /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd &

POP3 (from the qmail docs):
-----------------------------------------
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup bby.precisionsound.com \
/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &
(this did run with the hostname after config with config-fast)

Questions - starting:
-----------------------
1) Does the SMTP daemon need the hostname (as opposed to an ip address)
to work?
2) If it needs a hostname, can that hostname be in our /etc/hosts *only*
or must our ISP's DNS contain an entry for it (we use the ISP's DNS)?
3) I want a *simple* system. Can I use the simple SMTP command line
above to run SMTP or do I need the longer one used in the HOWTO
(including rblsmtp, setuidgid, tai64n et al)?
3a) If I need the longer SMTP command line in my startup scripts, what
do I need to do to fix it? I suspect the problem is with "supervise"
which in the current version does *not* take a program name as an
argument, therefore will likely choke on the syntax above. But oddly,
there is no error message.
4) Ditto re: POP3 - is the simple command line above enough to run it?
5) With SMTP and POP3 running (verified by telnet to ports 25 and 110) I
do a ps -e | grep 'qmail' but only see the four basic qmail processes
(ie. no smtp or pop3). Why? Shouldn't the daemons show up in a ps?

Questions - Delivery
------------------------

1) I've got a couple of testbed Win9x PCs on our lan running Eudora. On
one, I use Eudora to send an email from userfoo to userbar (both have
valid accounts on our qmail server, set up to use Maildir). The sending
system appears to send properly (and checks for userfoo's new mail
properly). The receiving system accepts userbar's password and goes
through the motions of checking mail but there is no mail from userfoo.
There is nothing in either user's Maildir directory in *any* of the
subdirs. Why didn't qmail deliver the message?

Thanks for this,
Barry Dwyer





On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Barry Dwyer wrote:

> Questions - starting:
> -----------------------
> 1) Does the SMTP daemon need the hostname (as opposed to an ip address)
> to work?

>From INSTALL.ctl:

There's one big exception. You MUST tell qmail your hostname. Just run
the config-fast script:

   # ./config-fast your.full.host.name

> 2) If it needs a hostname, can that hostname be in our /etc/hosts *only*
> or must our ISP's DNS contain an entry for it (we use the ISP's DNS)?

I think the former should work; I know the latter does.

> 3) I want a *simple* system. Can I use the simple SMTP command line
> above to run SMTP or do I need the longer one used in the HOWTO
> (including rblsmtp, setuidgid, tai64n et al)?

AFAIK, you can't run the smtpd from the command line alone, just
qmail-send.  The simplest way is to run qmail-smtpd from inetd.  The best
way is using tcpserver.

> 3a) If I need the longer SMTP command line in my startup scripts, what
> do I need to do to fix it? I suspect the problem is with "supervise"
> which in the current version does *not* take a program name as an
> argument, therefore will likely choke on the syntax above. But oddly,
> there is no error message.
> 4) Ditto re: POP3 - is the simple command line above enough to run it?
> 5) With SMTP and POP3 running (verified by telnet to ports 25 and 110) I
> do a ps -e | grep 'qmail' but only see the four basic qmail processes
> (ie. no smtp or pop3). Why? Shouldn't the daemons show up in a ps?

Once again, AFAIK, you can't run them standalone (smtpd or pop3d).  You're
likely running them under inetd, which is the process you'll see doing a
ps.

> ------------------------
> 
> 1) I've got a couple of testbed Win9x PCs on our lan running Eudora. On
> one, I use Eudora to send an email from userfoo to userbar (both have
> valid accounts on our qmail server, set up to use Maildir). The sending
> system appears to send properly (and checks for userfoo's new mail
> properly). The receiving system accepts userbar's password and goes
> through the motions of checking mail but there is no mail from userfoo.
> There is nothing in either user's Maildir directory in *any* of the
> subdirs. Why didn't qmail deliver the message?

do you have a .qmail file in the user's directory?

# cd ~$USER
# echo ./Maildir > .qmail





James Smallacombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>do you have a .qmail file in the user's directory?
>
># cd ~$USER
># echo ./Maildir > .qmail

Should be:

  # cd ~$USER
  # echo ./Maildir/ > .qmail

-Dave




I've been having a problem with a new qmail box I setup.  It's running on 
RH6.0 with a 2.2.12 kernel, the box is a Pentium/133 with 64 megs of RAM
and 128 meg swap. The problem is the box runs great for about two to three
days, then starts complaining that there is no memory.  This leads to the
killing off of every process on the system.  The kernel doesn't hang but
it does require a reboot of the box.  The problem seems to occur while the
box is under a moderate to heavy load.  I've been running qmail on several
different boxes for a while and have never come across this problem.
I've killed off everything not vitial to the system and have even made a 
habit of watching the memory on this box.  Everthing on the box is stock 
other then the kernel and several updates from RH.  At this point I'm just
looking for suggestions as to where to look next.






What's using all the memory?  Did you do a top?  Sounds like a memory
leak.  Unless you'd done something horribly strange, it's not qmail...

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Derek Harkness wrote:

> I've been having a problem with a new qmail box I setup.  It's running on 
> RH6.0 with a 2.2.12 kernel, the box is a Pentium/133 with 64 megs of RAM
> and 128 meg swap. The problem is the box runs great for about two to three
> days, then starts complaining that there is no memory.  This leads to the
> killing off of every process on the system.  The kernel doesn't hang but
> it does require a reboot of the box.  The problem seems to occur while the
> box is under a moderate to heavy load.  I've been running qmail on several
> different boxes for a while and have never come across this problem.
> I've killed off everything not vitial to the system and have even made a 
> habit of watching the memory on this box.  Everthing on the box is stock 
> other then the kernel and several updates from RH.  At this point I'm just
> looking for suggestions as to where to look next.
> 
> 





I've been running top for two days now and havn't noticed any process
sucking memory.  Petr Novotny mentioned that it could be a kernel problem,
I guess there is a memory leak in 2.2.11.  Which after checking is the
kernel I'm using on that box.  So I'm going to up the kernel and see what
happens

Thanks!!!
Derek

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, James Smallacombe wrote:

> 
> What's using all the memory?  Did you do a top?  Sounds like a memory
> leak.  Unless you'd done something horribly strange, it's not qmail...
> 
> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Derek Harkness wrote:
> 
> > I've been having a problem with a new qmail box I setup.  It's running on 
> > RH6.0 with a 2.2.12 kernel, the box is a Pentium/133 with 64 megs of RAM
> > and 128 meg swap. The problem is the box runs great for about two to three
> > days, then starts complaining that there is no memory.  This leads to the
> > killing off of every process on the system.  The kernel doesn't hang but
> > it does require a reboot of the box.  The problem seems to occur while the
> > box is under a moderate to heavy load.  I've been running qmail on several
> > different boxes for a while and have never come across this problem.
> > I've killed off everything not vitial to the system and have even made a 
> > habit of watching the memory on this box.  Everthing on the box is stock 
> > other then the kernel and several updates from RH.  At this point I'm just
> > looking for suggestions as to where to look next.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 






Hi all,

I run a freemail domain in Sri Lanka called "metta.lk"
with a few sub-domains for mail.

We would like to put a notice at the buttom of all mail 
passing our server 

How do I do that in qmail.


Thanks in advance
Jacob





[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I run a freemail domain in Sri Lanka called "metta.lk"
> with a few sub-domains for mail.
>
> We would like to put a notice at the buttom of all mail
> passing our server
>
> How do I do that in qmail.

Why would you want qmail to do that? Seems to me that the web-mail program
should insert the footnote for you. Most free web-mail programs are capable of
inserting the footnote.

 - David Harris
   Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services






Hello list,

DESCRIPTION                                                       
       qmail-queue  reads  a  mail message from descriptor 0.  It 
       then reads envelope information  from  descriptor  1.

In reference to this, I thought descriptor 0 was STDIN and descriptor 1
was STDOUT, How can qmail-queue read envelop information from descriptor
1.

- thx eric




Eric Dahnke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>       qmail-queue  reads  a  mail message from descriptor 0.  It 
>       then reads envelope information  from  descriptor  1.
>
>In reference to this, I thought descriptor 0 was STDIN and descriptor 1
>was STDOUT, How can qmail-queue read envelop information from descriptor
>1.

qmail-queue doesn't use stdin/stdout/stderr, so those descriptors are
available for other uses.

-Dave




At 01:59 PM Monday 9/13/99, Eric Dahnke wrote:
>Hello list,
>
>DESCRIPTION
>        qmail-queue  reads  a  mail message from descriptor 0.  It
>        then reads envelope information  from  descriptor  1.
>
>In reference to this, I thought descriptor 0 was STDIN and descriptor 1
>was STDOUT, How can qmail-queue read envelop information from descriptor
>1.


STDIN and STDOUT are just conventions adopted/supported by most shells and
the standard C library.

That they are bound to fd 0 and 1 respectively is likewise a convention. In
fact, there is nothing magic about the first 3 descriptors (there is STDERR
as well) and they are created in the same way as any other descriptors. That
is via an open() or socket() type system call.

There is nothing stopping any program or set of co-operative programs for
using an description in any way they see fit. DjB tends to have a number of
descriptor conventions for co-operative programs. Witness qmail-queue and
qmail-popup (which uses 4 descriptors).



Mark.






So how does the message pass between the various parts of the qmail
structure (inject, queue, send), if not via STDIN and OUT? 

I want to write a wrapper for qmail-queue, but am a novice. This is a
long term project. thx



Dave Sill escribi�:
> 
> Eric Dahnke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >       qmail-queue  reads  a  mail message from descriptor 0.  It
> >       then reads envelope information  from  descriptor  1.
> >
> >In reference to this, I thought descriptor 0 was STDIN and descriptor 1
> >was STDOUT, How can qmail-queue read envelop information from descriptor
> >1.
> 
> qmail-queue doesn't use stdin/stdout/stderr, so those descriptors are
> available for other uses.
> 
> -Dave




At 02:22 PM Monday 9/13/99, Eric Dahnke wrote:

>So how does the message pass between the various parts of the qmail
>structure (inject, queue, send), if not via STDIN and OUT?
>
>I want to write a wrapper for qmail-queue, but am a novice. This is a
>long term project. thx

Eric. These are more "How do I use Unix file descriptor" questions rather than
"How do I use qmail" questions. If this sort of thing is new to you, which
your question suggests, a good place to start would be a book or discussion
forum on how to program on a Unix platform.

Whilst many people on this list are expert at Unix, it's probably not the
most appropriate forum for a novice discussion on file descriptor usage on
Unix.


Regards.



>Dave Sill escribi�:
> >
> > Eric Dahnke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >       qmail-queue  reads  a  mail message from descriptor 0.  It
> > >       then reads envelope information  from  descriptor  1.
> > >
> > >In reference to this, I thought descriptor 0 was STDIN and descriptor 1
> > >was STDOUT, How can qmail-queue read envelop information from descriptor
> > >1.
> >
> > qmail-queue doesn't use stdin/stdout/stderr, so those descriptors are
> > available for other uses.
> >
> > -Dave





Eric Dahnke writes:
 > DESCRIPTION                                                       
 >        qmail-queue  reads  a  mail message from descriptor 0.  It 
 >        then reads envelope information  from  descriptor  1.
 > 
 > In reference to this, I thought descriptor 0 was STDIN and descriptor 1
 > was STDOUT, How can qmail-queue read envelop information from descriptor
 > 1.

The shell imposes the concept of stdin, stdout, and stderr.  Other
than that, you're free to use any uid for anything you want.

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Crynwr sells support for free software  | PGPok | Government schools are so
521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur
Potsdam, NY 13676-3213  | +1 315 268 9201 FAX   | can outdo them. Homeschool!




(oops - meant this to go to the list - Sorry, Peter)

My understanding of the problem was that QMail didn't do an MX lookup - it
did an ANY lookup.  That's why QMail has trouble, but other MTA's don't.
Can anyone speak to the validity of this assumption?

<:)  Lyndon Griffin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter van Dijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 1999 10:20 AM
> To: qmail list
> Subject: Re: Should qmail-103.patch be applied to ucspi-tcp?
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 10:19:07AM -0400, John K. Chester wrote:
> > I am running qmail-1.03, and have just applied the AOL patch which I
> > obtained from qmail.org (file qmail-103.patch).  I note that ucspi-tcp
> > has its own copy of dns.c (content identical to dns.c supplied with
> > qmail-1.03).  Should the patch also be applied to ucspi-tcp?  I can't
> > find any mention of this in the documentation.
>
> Since tcpclient and tcpserver only do A and PTR lookups, the chance of a
> DNS reply >512 bytes is much smaller than with qmail, which does MX
> lookups.
>
> But I think it should be possible, yes. It's not a bad idea anyway :)
>
> Greetz, Peter
> --
> | 'He broke my heart,      |                              Peter van Dijk |
>      I broke his neck'     |                     [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
>    nognikz - As the sun    |        Hardbeat@ircnet - #cistron/#linux.nl |
> http://www.nognikz.mdk.nu/ | Hardbeat@undernet - #groningen/#kinkfm/#vdh |
>





"Lyndon Griffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| My understanding of the problem was that QMail didn't do an MX lookup - it
| did an ANY lookup.  That's why QMail has trouble, but other MTA's don't.
| Can anyone speak to the validity of this assumption?

In src/qmail-1.03/CHANGES you'll find

19961003 portability problem: all pre-4.9.4 versions of bind barf,
         badly, on CNAME queries to lame servers. what a crappy system.
         even if the resolver doesn't barf, the next name server down
         the line may barf. impact: qmail can't get mail through to
         domains that are (1) lame and (2) running old versions of bind.
         fix: never, ever, do a CNAME query. dns_cname() now does an ANY
         query instead. this, like sendmail's analogous procedure, is
         unreliable when a CNAME is mixed with other records.

Other MTAs avoid problems simply because they don't pass an
unreasonably small buffer to the resolver.





Hi there!,
    I have a question how do I create a virual domain and user with
VMailMgr?

Thank in advance,
Miguel Carvajal







On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 02:28:09PM -0400, Miguel Carvajal wrote:
> Hi there!,
>     I have a question how do I create a virual domain and user with
> VMailMgr?

Sorry, but the answer is really RTFM : there are really a lot
of good docs for this program : look at http://em.ca/~bruceg/vmailmgr/docs/
(the HOWTO and FAQ).

If you have more questions after reading the docs, than you are
welcome on the vmailmgrd mailing list...

Good luck :)
Olivier





Hi,

I installed qmail with the Jedi's checkpoppasswd.

I am running the pop server by the command:

/usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup earth.care2.com
\
 /bin/checkpasswd /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &

/bin/checkpasswd is the jedi's programm compiled with -lcrypt.

The problem is that I can't get an authorization.
toto is a user that I added in users/poppasswd and users/assign (toto
is not a "system user" - I used the Paul Gregg Single UID mailbox Howto
( http://www.tibus.net/pgregg/projects/ ) ). I used a 2.2.12 kernel /
RedHAt with shadow passwd.
I refreshed the database with qmail-newu. There is no special messages in
the logfile(auth).

Here we go:

telnet localhost 110
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK <1500 [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
user toto
+OK 
pass titi
-ERR authorization failed
Connection closed by foreign host.


I also tried:
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup earth.care2.com /bin/checkpasswd
+OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
user toto
+OK 
pass titi
-ERR authorization failed



Does someone has any idea on this problem ?

Thanks and Thanks,


Stephane 








I try again ... If someone have any tips, let me know. I have more and
more users frustrated each second...

Subject: checkpoppasswd - ERR authorization failed


Hi,

I installed qmail with the Jedi's checkpoppasswd.

I am running the pop server by the command:

/usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup earth.care2.com
\
 /bin/checkpasswd /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &

/bin/checkpasswd is the jedi's programm compiled with -lcrypt.

The problem is that I can't get an authorization.
toto is a user that I added in users/poppasswd and users/assign (toto
is not a "system user" - I used the Paul Gregg Single UID mailbox Howto
( http://www.tibus.net/pgregg/projects/ ) ). I used a 2.2.12 kernel /
RedHAt with shadow passwd.
I refreshed the database with qmail-newu. There is no special messages in
the logfile(auth).

Here we go:

telnet localhost 110
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK <1500 [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
user toto
+OK 
pass titi
-ERR authorization failed
Connection closed by foreign host.


I also tried:
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup earth.care2.com /bin/checkpasswd
+OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
user toto
+OK 
pass titi
-ERR authorization failed



Does someone has any idea on this problem ?

Thanks and Thanks,


Stephane 







I'm also using the single-user method on a new mail service I just set up.
My system is up and running ok using this method.  I've noticed that nobody
seems to answer posts on this list which deal with the single-user method,
so I'm going to answer, even though I am not very experienced and this
probably won't help much.

Did you set the path to the popusers file in checkpoppassword.c before you
compiled it?

You might try using Paul Greg's hacked version of checkpoppassword at least
temporarily because it does extensive logging to syslog.  At least you will
find out this way if checkpasswd is being invoked ok.

I tried the telnet methods below on my system:

>
> telnet localhost 110
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK <1500 [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> user toto
> +OK
> pass titi
> -ERR authorization failed
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
I was able to get this method to authorize on my system.

>
> I also tried:
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup earth.care2.com /bin/checkpasswd
> +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> user toto
> +OK
> pass titi
> -ERR authorization failed
>
 I was able to get this method to authorize, but had to add the path to
qmail-pop3 and the delivery type, i.e.:

/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup earth.care2.com /bin/checkpasswd
/var/qmail/qmail-pop3d Maildir

as per man qmail-popup.

Dennis Duval






Also, I believe that checkpoppasswd requires that the password in the
popusers file be encrypted.

Dennis Duval

>
> I installed qmail with the Jedi's checkpoppasswd.
>






>> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 02:54:58 +0200, 
>> Ruben van der Leij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

R> There's an open specification for a calendar file format, vCal, which is
R> used by Netscape^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HIplanet for their calendar-thingy.

   Some references for anyone interested in this:

   http://people.redhat.com/pbrown/korganizer/korganizer-1.1.tar.gz
   Has a vCard/vCalendar C interface in the directory ./src/versit

   http://www.imc.org/pdi/vcal-10.ps
   vCalendar Exchange Format version 1.0, 18 Sept 1996

   http://www.imc.org/rfc2445
   Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification, Nov 1998

   http://www.imc.org/rfc2446
   iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol (iTIP)
   Scheduling Events, BusyTime, To-dos and Journal Entries

   http://www.imc.org/rfc2447
   iCalendar Message-Based Interoperability Protocol (iMIP)

   http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Sanjay_Ghemawat/ical/
   Source for Tcl/Tk-based ical program

-- 
Karl Vogel
ASC/YCOA, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433, USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  or  [EMAIL PROTECTED]




I have had users complaining of multiple copies of mail...  After offering
'our mailer isn't doing it', I looked, and found logs that show my
mailer might be doing it...

The mail host is a Sun IPX w Solaris 5.5.1, and qmail 1.03 w fastforward
and smtp-after-pop-authentication.

I grepped out the lines with this id, and include from one end through
to the new msg after what looks to be a full message.
-----
Sep 13 00:24:08 hank.questra.com qmail: 937196648.684133 end msg 59632
Sep 13 00:24:11 hank.questra.com qmail: 937196651.796344 new msg 59632
Sep 13 00:24:11 hank.questra.com qmail: 937196651.798596 info msg 59632:
 bytes 7434 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 7639 uid 91
Sep 13 00:24:12 hank.questra.com qmail: 937196652.065865 starting delivery
 126922: msg 59632 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sep 13 00:24:17 hank.questra.com qmail: 937196657.023715 starting delivery
 126924: msg 59632 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sep 13 00:24:17 hank.questra.com qmail: 937196657.029265 starting delivery
 126925: msg 59632 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sep 13 00:24:18 hank.questra.com qmail: 937196658.368045 end msg 59632
Sep 13 00:24:21 hank.questra.com qmail: 937196661.923722 warning: trouble
 marking remote/16/59632; message will be delivered twice!
Sep 13 00:24:21 hank.questra.com qmail: 937196661.925484 warning: unable
 to unlink remote/16/59632; will try again later
Sep 13 00:24:21 hank.questra.com qmail: 937196661.982616 warning: trouble
 marking remote/16/59632; message will be delivered twice!
Sep 13 00:24:21 hank.questra.com qmail: 937196661.984385 warning: unable
 to unlink remote/16/59632; will try again later
Sep 13 00:24:51 hank.questra.com qmail: 937196691.555955 new msg 59632
-----
mail related processes:
    root 22091 22089  0   Aug 10 ?        0:00 qmail-lspawn ./Mailbox
  qmaill 22090 22089  0   Aug 10 ?       39:43 splogger qmail
  qmails 22089     1  0   Aug 10 ?       66:40 qmail-send
  qmailr 22092 22089  0   Aug 10 ?       16:12 qmail-rspawn
  qmailq 22093 22089  0   Aug 10 ?       18:17 qmail-clean
-----

So the question is - I don't see any system errors, and this is not
happening on every message, just some - what is going on here?

The only other odd thing I have noticed is that the inodes are reused
very quickly - as in almost immediately...

steve
[EMAIL PROTECTED]




Is there anything specific I need to keep in mind or do in order to set
up qmail as a secondary MX server, as opposed to a "normal" qmail setup?
I've installed qmail before but never on a secondary MX server so I'd
appreciate any advice you may have.

Cheers
Fred

--
Fred Backman
Lead Wizard
Binary Spells
www.binaryspells.com






On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Fred Backman wrote:

> Is there anything specific I need to keep in mind or do in order to set
> up qmail as a secondary MX server, as opposed to a "normal" qmail setup?
> I've installed qmail before but never on a secondary MX server so I'd
> appreciate any advice you may have.

Put the domain(s) that you want to do secondary MX for in rcpthosts but
*not* in locals.

Make sure you have enough space in /var for the primary MX's mail spool
for at least a week or two, on top of your own requirements.

That's it (other than the DNS MX record entry, of course).





Secondary MX is VERY easy.

Add MX record to DNS pointing to your qmail server.
Add domain for which you are a secondary to either rcpthosts or
morercpthosts.

done.

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Fred Backman wrote:

> Is there anything specific I need to keep in mind or do in order to set
> up qmail as a secondary MX server, as opposed to a "normal" qmail setup?
> I've installed qmail before but never on a secondary MX server so I'd
> appreciate any advice you may have.
> 
> Cheers
> Fred
> 
> --
> Fred Backman
> Lead Wizard
> Binary Spells
> www.binaryspells.com
> 
> 
> 

---------------------------------
Timothy L. Mayo                         mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Senior Systems Administrator
localconnect(sm)
http://www.localconnect.net/

The National Business Network Inc.      http://www.nb.net/
One Monroeville Center, Suite 850
Monroeville, PA  15146
(412) 810-8888 Phone
(412) 810-8886 Fax





Miguel Carvajal wrote:
> 
> Hi there!,
>     I installed vpopmail in /home/vpopmail/. The problem I'am having
> is that when I send an email to one of the users like
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] the user never recieves it. How can I fix this?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Miguel Carvajal

Hi Miguel,

It's best to post your question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] vpopmail
mailing list.

Ken
Inter7




In mail script to start qmail (qmail-pop3d.init which came in the memphis 
rpm) $HOST was defined as : $(dnsfq $(hostname)).  Everytime I executed 
this it gave me a 'hard error'  and pop3d would never start 
correctly.  When I disabled the $HOME variable and hard-coded in my 
hostname to the tcpserver call everything seems to work fine now.

What does this dnsfq command do?  Does anyone know the correct syntax to 
use it to get the hostname?

Damon Parker

[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.siliconsys.com
voice 512.478.1669
data/fax 512.478.1627
mobile 512.750.9793






On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Damon Parker wrote:

> In mail script to start qmail (qmail-pop3d.init which came in the memphis 
> rpm) $HOST was defined as : $(dnsfq $(hostname)).  Everytime I executed 
> this it gave me a 'hard error'  and pop3d would never start 
> correctly.  When I disabled the $HOME variable and hard-coded in my 
> hostname to the tcpserver call everything seems to work fine now.
> 
> What does this dnsfq command do?  Does anyone know the correct syntax to 
> use it to get the hostname?

At first, is that dnsfq program installed on your system at all?

The name is probably the abbreviation of dns fully qualified, and probably
it needs a hostname or an ip address to work with. 

In debian there are some utilities like this in the dnsutils package. Do
you have something similar installed on your system?

Robert Varga





Could anyone please enlighten me as to a MUA on Solaris 2.7 which can run
with Maildir.

Many Thanks

MP




On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 10:27:08AM +0800, Mark Parker wrote:
} Could anyone please enlighten me as to a MUA on Solaris 2.7 which can run
} with Maildir.

mutt.  <http://www.mutt.org/>

} 
} Many Thanks
} 
} MP

-- 
Paul Schinder
[EMAIL PROTECTED]




Get yourself a copy of mutt.

                ftp://ftp.guug.de/pub/mutt/ 
                ftp://riemann.iam.uni-bonn.de/pub/mutt/ 
                ftp://ftp.gbnet.net/pub/mutt-international/ 
                ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/unix/mail/mutt/ 
                ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/unix/mail/mutt/international/ 

Jim Lippard       [EMAIL PROTECTED]       http://www.discord.org/
Unsolicited bulk email charge:   $500/message.   Don't send me any.
PGP Fingerprint: 0C1F FE18 D311 1792 5EA8  43C8 7AD2 B485 DE75 841C

On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Mark Parker wrote:

> Could anyone please enlighten me as to a MUA on Solaris 2.7 which can run
> with Maildir.
> 
> Many Thanks
> 
> MP
> 





On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Mark Parker wrote:

> Could anyone please enlighten me as to a MUA on Solaris 2.7 which can run
> with Maildir.

mutt supports it natively, and pine can be patched.  I have a pre-patched
source tarball of pine 4.1 at:    http://3.am/pine4.10.maildir.tar.gz

the mutt source is available at  http://www.mutt.org  or you can probably
find a Solaris binary at:  http://www.sunfreeware.com

HTH,





Ruben van der Leij ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

: I'm sorry if this sounds final, but you, from your side, cannot work around
: a bug which makes your clients mailprogram stop listening. About the only
: workaround is for to forward the message to the client's account using pine,
: mutt or the like, and hope the extra headers will shift the double dot away

There is perhaps a way.  If the last byte in the buffer is a dot,
save the dot for the next flush.  With the right socket options
and a small buffer size, this should work -most- of the time.

-harold





hi,

do you know where I can find mail virus definitions ? (for filtering
purposes)

TIA

Claudiu





I tired following the link to the FAQ and it does not seem to work.  I
wanted to see if my question had been already answered before I aksed it on
the list but this is making it a bit difficult.  Does anyone have the FAQ on
file?

Vivian Lal

http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail/faq.html




May have been a hiccup somewhere, the URL below works for me. If it
continues to fail, you may have a routing or firewall problem.



"Lal, Vivian" wrote:
> 
> I tired following the link to the FAQ and it does not seem to work.  I
> wanted to see if my question had been already answered before I aksed it on
> the list but this is making it a bit difficult.  Does anyone have the FAQ on
> file?
> 
> Vivian Lal
> 
> http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail/faq.html

-- 
Daemeon Reiydelle
Systems Engineer, Anthropomorphics Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]




The URL works for me too but I get the HTML as plain text :-P

Here's an alternative copy of the same FAQ:
http://www.qmail.org/man/misc/FAQ.txt

(Also don't forget there's actually _two_ FAQs!)

Daemeon Reiydelle wrote:

> May have been a hiccup somewhere, the URL below works for me. If it
> continues to fail, you may have a routing or firewall problem.
>
> "Lal, Vivian" wrote:
> >
> > I tired following the link to the FAQ and it does not seem to work.  I
> > wanted to see if my question had been already answered before I aksed it on
> > the list but this is making it a bit difficult.  Does anyone have the FAQ on
> > file?
> >
> > Vivian Lal
> >
> > http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail/faq.html
>





Running: qmail 1.03, qmailanalog 0.70

I'd like to find all senders for a recipient:

First I did:
cat /var/adm/maillog | awk '{$1="";$2="";$3="";$4="";$5="";print}' |
matchup >maillog1 5>maillog1.blah

Then:
cat maillog1|xrecipient [EMAIL PROTECTED]|zsenders

The result was:
---------------
Senders

One line per sender. Information on each line:
* mess is the number of messages sent by this sender.
* bytes is the number of bytes sent by this sender.
* sbytes is the number of bytes successfully received from this sender.
* rbytes is the number of bytes from this sender, weighted by recipient.

* recips is the number of recipients (success plus failure).
* tries is the number of delivery attempts (success, failure, deferral).

* xdelay is the total xdelay incurred by this sender.

mess  bytes  sbytes  rbytes  recips  tries  xdelay  sender
---------------

Any ideas? May be I am wrong somwhere ...?

--
Georgi Kupenov

[EMAIL PROTECTED]







I hope this is the right area to ask this question but I didn't see anything
listed in the FAQ.  I am tryiong to send mail to myself and I get the
following error message, I have my user setup so I thought qmail would just
look at /etc/passwd for the user:

---START

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at neptune.cyberscapes.com.au.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that host,
it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't treat it as local. (#5.4.6)

--END

By the way thanks to all those who replied to me about the FAQ.

Regards

Vivian Lal




Go to your qmail-control catalog and echo "cyberscapes.com.au" >> locals, then HUP the 
qmail-send process.

-------------------------------------------------------------------
IDG New Media     Einar Bordewich
System Manager   Phone: +47 2205 3034
E-Mail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-------------------------------------------------------------------

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Lal, Vivian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 8:39 AM
Subject: Mail Server Problem


I hope this is the right area to ask this question but I didn't see anything
listed in the FAQ.  I am tryiong to send mail to myself and I get the
following error message, I have my user setup so I thought qmail would just
look at /etc/passwd for the user:

---START

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at neptune.cyberscapes.com.au.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that host,
it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't treat it as local. (#5.4.6)

--END

By the way thanks to all those who replied to me about the FAQ.

Regards

Vivian Lal






for an article about qmail i'm looking for informations about large
companies
using qmail.
Any ideas?
are hotmail and onelist still using qmail?

Thanx

Sven





On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 09:12:23AM +0200, Sven wrote:

Hotmail uses qmail for outgoing mail. The following large sites also use
qmail (in my experience):

onelist
yahoo
egroups
InterNIC (incoming)
RIPE
xoom.com

> for an article about qmail i'm looking for informations about large
> companies
> using qmail.
> Any ideas?
> are hotmail and onelist still using qmail?

-- 
See complete headers for more info




I have sent mail to my account now and I don't have anything happening, the
mail is not coming through.

$ ls -l /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd
total 394
-r--r--r--   1 qmaill   nofiles        80 Sep 13 17:08 @00000937206534
-rw-r--r--   1 qmaill   nofiles    315864 Sep 14 13:18 @00000937274694
-rw-r--r--   1 qmaill   nofiles     81174 Sep 14 17:44 @00000937294100 

When I look in the last log file I get the following line repeated:

937294169.880911 tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out port number for
25rblsmtpd

Is there any other documentation I should be reading, I set up qmail exactly
as was set out in the qmail HOWTO.


Regards

Vivian Lal
---
Mr Vivian P. Lal
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

"I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety."
The Adventure of the Empty House
Sherlock Holmes - (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)





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On 14 Sep 99, at 2:49, Lal, Vivian wrote:
> I have sent mail to my account now and I don't have anything happening,
> the mail is not coming through.
[snip]
> When I look in the last log file I get the following line repeated:
> 
> 937294169.880911 tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out port number for
> 25rblsmtpd

use your imagination. This line says that on your tcpserver 
imagination file, you spelled "25" and "rblsmtpd" as one word. 
Insert a space between, and try again. 25 is port number, rblsmtpd 
is program.

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--
Petr Novotny, ANTEK CS
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.antek.cz
PGP key ID: 0x3BA9BC3F
-- Don't you know there ain't no devil there's just God when he's drunk.
                                                             [Tom Waits]




Hi,

        I need to log rcpthosts failures:
553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)
Is there any patch to qmail-smtpd?

        Thanks,




--
  Jan Stanik
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Telenor Internet,s.r.o




On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 11:13:14AM -0700, Jan Stanik wrote:

There's a patch on www.qmail.org that does this, and also adds checking
for validity of the sender's domain. If you don't want that, then you
could look at the patch, and only extract the part that logs the
relaying attempt. Or you could stick in recordio before your qmail-smtpd
invocation, and pass the result to an awk/sed/perl script to only log
the relaying attempt failure,something like:

...  recordio qmail-smtpd | filter.pl | splogger smtpd 3 &

I tried to do this myself, but I'm not very good with programming, and
didn't get very far, so I gave up.

> Hi,
> 
>       I need to log rcpthosts failures:
> 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)
> Is there any patch to qmail-smtpd?

-- 
See complete headers for more info




There is this remote mail server that can send email to one of my server
running Sendmail, but it just can't send email to servers running Qmail (I
tested 3 server running Qmail, all of them cannot received email from that
remote server).

I have been running Qmail for most of may mail server. They all run just
fine, until I encounter this server.

I use that mail server to send email to yahoo, asiamail, netscape, they all
works. But it just can't reach my mail servers.

I also tried sending email from other free email server, all could reach my
server.

Now, this may sound a bit confusing. But I am totolly run out of ideas.

That remote server is running  'Microsoft SMTP MAIL' when  I do a "telnet
<host> 25".

I'm running:

Qmail version: 1.03
OS: Linux Slackware 4.0

Sei Heng
ps: There is no entry in my servers mail logs



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