Re: QMail DOS

2001-01-22 Thread Dave Sill
"Andy Abshagen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We are in the midst of a security audit performed by Ernst & Young. >They are claiming something about a DOS situation. What I need to >find out is whether there are any known DOS situations out there. If >so what needs to be done to take care of the

Re: QMail Queue

2001-01-19 Thread Dave Sill
"NDSoftware" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Where i can get log for QMail Queue because i have '451 qq Temporary Problem >(#4.3.0)' when in send a mail after install AVP. How did you configure your logging? -Dave

Re: LWQ - Which log contains what?

2001-01-19 Thread Dave Sill
Clemens Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want to evaluate the logs that are generated within ma LWQ-Setup. I am >not really sure which log directory contains what. > >/var/loq/qmail >/var/log/qmail/smtpd > >As one might guess the smtpd directory might contain any message that >enters or leav

Re: unable to read tcp.smtp.cdb: protocol error

2001-01-19 Thread Dave Sill
Martin Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello Dave > >On 19-Jan-01, you wrote: > >> Did you skip the step where you do: >> >> /usr/local/sbin/qmail cdb > >No, did that twice. When I did a vi /etc/tcp.smtp I found two identical >entries of 127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" >had to dd one of t

Re: unable to read tcp.smtp.cdb: protocol error

2001-01-19 Thread Dave Sill
Martin Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This is a new install on OpenBSD V2.8 following LWQ...thanks Dave. You're welcome. >From /usr/local/sbin/qmail > > > >cdb) >tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.tmp < /etc/tcp.smtp >chmod 644 /etc/tcp.smtp* >echo "Reloaded /etc/tcp.smtp. >echo "Rel

Re: how manipulate header

2001-01-19 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >i've the follows configuration: >[POP-Client] <-> [qmail-intern] <-> [qmail-extern] <-> [Internet] > >when the POP-Client send an email, this goes to qmail-intern, then >qmail-extern (I'd like here manipulate the qmail header, put out the header >lines from POP-Client an

Re: why so few qmail-remote processes ...

2001-01-19 Thread Dave Sill
"Jacques WERNERT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Can you tell me much more about that please? > >From: "Dave Sill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> "Jacques WERNERT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >I'd like to know w

Re: Mailer error

2001-01-19 Thread Dave Sill
"Boz Crowther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a DOS command-line mailer that doesn't correctly construct >mail, it seems. I've used recordio to get exactly what's coming from >the mailer in the logs and what I see is that the mailer doesn't >include header information specified on the comman

Re: Multiple instances of qmail...

2001-01-19 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >My question is, is it possible to run multiple instances >of qmail, sharing the same disk structure, configuration, etc.. No. The queue cannot be shared by multiple instances of qmail. -Dave

Re: who rotates the logs?

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Sill
Clemens Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >yes I have and it is *exactly* what I need, but if I did not misread the >docu, isoqlog uses syslog and I really would like to keep this away from >syslog. Argh. You're right. I assumed it was based on multilog since syslog sucks so bad... -Dave

Re: Qmail and Syslogd?

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Sill
Piotr Kasztelowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In my /etc/rc2.d file the rc file for tcpserver has such >syntax: > >#!/bin/sh ># ># Piotr Kasztelowicz, skrypt uruchamiajacy tcpserver i sshd ># ># >sleep 1 ># >if [ -f /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -a -f /etc/tcp/tcp.ftp.cdb ]; then > /usr/local/

Re: Qmail and Syslogd?

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Sill
Piotr Kasztelowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Dave Sill wrote: > >> Why use syslog when there's a more reliable, secure, efficient, and >> functional alternative? (Hint: multilog) > >Dave, > >I use qmail and at qmail the logs are gen

Re: why so few qmail-remote processes ...

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Sill
"Jacques WERNERT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'd like to know why I have messages in the queue (ie given by >qmail-qstat) and I don't have as many qmail-remote processes as I've >defined (verified by chkspawn). One obvious possibility is that the messages in the queue failed temporarily on the

Re: why so few qmail-remote processes ...

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Sill
"Jacques WERNERT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'd like to know why I have messages in the queue (ie given by >qmail-qstat) and I don't have as many qmail-remote processes as I've >defined (verified by chkspawn). I answered this yesterday. Check the list archives. -Dave

Re: Qmail and Syslogd?

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Sill
Stefan Laudat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Unfortunately it's not like they (djb) says in commercials :) >Use the - prefix in syslog.conf on mail logging facility and >it won't commit sync() after each line appended. That will improve syslog's performance, but it won't help the security, reliabil

Re: Qmail and Syslogd?

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Sill
"Collin B. McClendon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In light of my recent delivery issues, I was curious as to whether syslogd >may have anything to do with it? During a mail run of our mailing lists >syslogd is hitting 90% processor usage or more and staying there. Just >curious, Why use syslog w

Re: Conversion to Maildir Format

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Sill
"Manvendra Bhangui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you could tell me how to convert from unix mbox format to maildir, that >would be helpful. I already have mail agents to handle maildir format http://www.qmail.org/mbox2maildir -Dave

Re: Conversion to Maildir Format

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Sill
"Manvendra Bhangui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How do I convert from someother mail format to maildir format used by >qmail. That depends on the "someother mail format". >Basically I am currently having mails being delivered as files >with each mail being a single unix file. And these files a

Re: A firestorm of protest?

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Sill
Piotr Kasztelowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Dave Sill wrote: > >> DJB has very clearly expressed disdain for > >My question - should we not to wait for a DJB own opinion. Er, what do you think "DJB has very clearly expressed disdain"

Re: who rotates the logs?

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Sill
Clemens Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just use [multilog] because I want to stay as close as possible >with LWQ. I think it's more important to use a configuration that does what you want than to use any particular "standard" configuration. >My problem is, that I have to pipe the multil

Re: who rotates the logs?

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Sill
Clemens Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >who rotates the logs when using multilog? multilog >I did not find a manpage for multilog. There isn't one. See: http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html >I want to avoid the automatic rotation and rotate the logs my >own. That's hard to do wit

Re: Problems with the pop !

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Sill
"Desarrollo y Sistemas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I installed follling exactly LWQ, Oh, if I only had a nickel for every time I heard that... >I use Maildir and have the /home/user with >the 3 directories. When I send email, I donĀ“t have any problem, the messages >arrive to the correct place

Re: vsm to Maildir

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Sill
Dale Herring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay guys and gals. I see lots of utilities to convert from mailbox to >Maildir, but nothing to move from >vsm to Maildir. Has anyone written a utilitiy to do this? > >Or am I going to have to do it the hard way and copy everyones vsm to >mailbox

Re: Problems with POP, ???

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Sill
"Desarrollo y Sistemas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sorry I am new in this concepts of list. This in not spam. I just >want to get help. If I am doing something wrong tell me. This Email I >sended 30 minuts ago. You need to be more patient. Much more patient. -Dave

Re: need a howto, something i can follow step by step and get qmail installed..

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Sill
Sean Reifschneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there something wrong with the step-by-step instructions in the >"INSTALL" file which is included with the Qmail source? I've found >them to be quite useful. Yeah, they're out-of-date. They use inetd, for example, which will certainly work--more

Re: A firestorm of protest?

2001-01-17 Thread Dave Sill
Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I see exactly two patches which could be part of stock qmail: the AOL dns >patch and Russels qmtp/mxps-patch for qmail-remote. Forget about the DNS mods, DJB has very clearly expressed disdain for them. I'd vote for the MXPS and bigconcurrency mods. -D

Re: LWQ and timestamp

2001-01-17 Thread Dave Sill
Clemens Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I installed qmail as described in LWQ. As I try to evaluate the logs >with qmail analog I run into trouble because multilog does not have the >timestamps needed by qmailanalog. Can I just replace any multilog entry >with splogger or is this no good idea

RE: A firestorm of protest?

2001-01-17 Thread Dave Sill
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >As for updating qmail, I would be all for a new version of qmail with some >of the more useful (nearly mandatory) plugins already added. A couple I can >think of is the oversize DNS packet patch for qmail, Nowhere near mandatory. >and possibly >qmail-scanner ( with

Re: A firestorm of protest?

2001-01-16 Thread Dave Sill
"Robin S. Socha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >* Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> I vote for "source code plug-ins". :-) > >Ummm... Nope. Nope what? Nope, I don't vote for "source code plug-ins"? Or nope, "sour

Re: qmail help quick!

2001-01-16 Thread Dave Sill
Dan Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am noticing all the mail going into the queue and maybe >10 qmail-remote processes whereas I have 250 set for >concurrencyremote! You restarted qmail after you modified concurrencyremote? Grep for "status:" in your qmail-send logs to verify that qmail-se

Re: Life With Qmail

2001-01-16 Thread Dave Sill
"Keith Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I followed the directions to the T in Life with Qmail - >http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html. At the end of the install, >chapter 2, I re-booted. > >After my system booted I type ps and there was only 2 processes >running: > >1) bash >2) ps You're not

Re: A firestorm of protest?

2001-01-16 Thread Dave Sill
"Chris Garrigues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> From: "David Dyer-Bennet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> "Upgrade" suggests adding features, rather more than "patch" does; >> patches are often released to fix bugs. > >How about "addition" or "extension"? I vote for "source code plug-ins". :-) -Dav

Re: tcpserver

2001-01-16 Thread Dave Sill
Martin Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have noticed stuff like Dan says mkdir /supervise whereas LWQ has >references to /var/qmail/supervise. Still I'd like to follow Dan's >methodology. mkdir /supervise ln -s /var/qmail/supervise/* /supervise Optionally, replace "/var/qmail/supervise" wi

Re: Dot in email adress

2001-01-12 Thread Dave Sill
"David L. Nicol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >that man page [dot-qmail] says: > >> WARNING: For security, qmail-local replaces any dots in ext with colons >> before checking .qmail-ext. For convenience, qmail-local converts any >> uppercase letters in ext to lowercase. > > >What exactly is

RE: control/mailroutes (was: QMTP autoreply tester)

2001-01-09 Thread Dave Sill
Greg Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It also seems to me that one of the design traits of qmail is >simplicity of config files - I can't find the reference, but I thought >somewhere DJB said that having to parse complex config files is a cause of >problems. See: http://cr.yp.to/qmail/

Re: How using IMAP with qmail??

2001-01-05 Thread Dave Sill
Ould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Oui...s'il vous plait! I wont to use now IMAP instead of >POP3 or using both (I want to let this choice to the end >client, but want to setup the two possiblity on my server). As long as both servers (POP3 and IMAP) use the same mailboxes (format and location),

Re: How using IMAP with qmail??

2001-01-05 Thread Dave Sill
Ould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want to use IMAP in a simple manner as I use actually >pop3. Huh? You're currently using POP3 but want to switch to IMAP? >I'm using strictly LWQ method of installation. No you're not. The snippet you posted from your qmail script is seriously bastardized.

Re: Virtual Domain equivalent problem

2000-12-22 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is a very confusing thing I am trying to accomplish, but for >reasons outside of my control it must be done. I have a main domain name >of company..com in locals. I have a company.fi:alias-companyfi line in >virtualdomains. The alias file looks like this: > >| forw

Re: Life w/qmail: multilog qmail link

2000-12-20 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I am trying to get a better understanding of the interoperation and I >have tried the archives but can't find the answer I am looking for. > >I have qmail working by using Sill's LWQ, but I don't understand how >the programs qmail-send and qmail-smtp are linked to the mu

Re: How Using IMAP4/POP3

2000-12-19 Thread Dave Sill
Ould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I use actually POP3 with tcpserver. >I Want to use IMAP4 in order to dump users message's. > >I'm based on LWQ. But I don't know how to include togheter >POP3/IMAP4? There's nothing to tricky about running POP3 and IMAP together. You just have to install an IMAP

Re: Life With qmail -- INCOMPLETE ???

2000-12-19 Thread Dave Sill
[Please don't send the identical query to every qmail-related address you can find.] RAGHVENDRA SHUKLA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have followed the life with qmail for installing > the qmail . But after that i run the qmail by > qmail start --> following the script. > >

Re: odd problem...

2000-12-19 Thread Dave Sill
Jeremy Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >ookay...mail being sent from users works just fine, however when a cgi >script or other server program tries to send mail, this happens: > > > - Transcript of session follows - > > 553 5.3.5 mail.mydarkness.com. config error: mail loops back to

Re: how to ignore $HOME/.qmail ?

2000-12-18 Thread Dave Sill
Matt Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i put this line in /var/qmail/users/assign: > >=joe:alias:81:81:/var/qmail/alias:-:joe: > > >but qmail-newu complains: > >msg# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-newu >qmail-newu: fatal: bad format in users/assign > > >what am i doing wrong? Did you forget to termi

Bye

2000-12-01 Thread Dave Sill
I'm taking a vacation from this list until the level of newbie tolerance improves dramatically. Sorry, I just can't take it any longer. -Dave

Re: Thank you very much

2000-11-30 Thread Dave Sill
Louis Mushandu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >...cerebrally...sphincter...petulant...commensurate...intelligentsia... Wow, Louis, you sure do use some purdy fancy words for a newbie. -Dave

Re: List Courtesy (was Newbie question)

2000-11-30 Thread Dave Sill
"Barley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I cannot get over this attitude. Can it really be that the majority of the >qmail community feels like old Felix here? If I say "yes" can we kill this thread? -Dave

Re: why didn't it send my msg?

2000-11-30 Thread Dave Sill
QBA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How can I check if I have qmail-smtpd enabled on my host? $ telnet 0 25 Trying 0.0.0.0... Connected to 0. Escape character is '^]'. 220 sws5.ctd.ornl.gov ORNL/WS ESMTP help 214 qmail home page: http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html quit 221 sws5.ctd.ornl.gov ORNL/WS Co

Re: List Courtesy (was Newbie question)

2000-11-30 Thread Dave Sill
"asantos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Or that XEmacs is not an operating system. Actually, XEmacs is as much of an operating system--probably even moreso--than early versions of Windows. -Dave

RE: List Courtesy (was Newbie question)

2000-11-29 Thread Dave Sill
Jamin Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >As for the statement you claim I made "the docs are all so bad because i >couldn't install qmail with >them", I did not say this. I simply stated that I was unsuccessfull in my >attempts to install qmail using them. I did not state they were bad, I eve

Re: List Courtesy (was Newbie question)

2000-11-29 Thread Dave Sill
Warren Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have not tried to install using LWQ but I couldn't >help but notice some differences in the way things are installed using LWQ >versus the INSTALL files. Now which is right? Question: Which of the following is the right way to remove a file in the curr

Re: List Courtesy (was Newbie question)

2000-11-29 Thread Dave Sill
Jamin Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I may be out of line here. However, this is not the first time I've seen >snappy rude responses from people in response to others asking for help. I >am simply quoting this message as it is the most recent. I'm not a big fan of newbie smackdowns, thoug

Re: changing to tcpserver

2000-11-27 Thread Dave Sill
"Neil Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >went through Dave Sill's "Life with qmail" and have ended up with a very >non working qmail system Sorry to hear that. >in /var/log/qmail/current: >@40003a22b5be2fde3044 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 That's normal. >in /var/log/qmail/smtpd/curren

Re: necessary patches?

2000-11-27 Thread Dave Sill
Clemens Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So my question is: Which patches should one not miss. I don't install any patches unless I know I need them. Only two of the dozens of qmails I've installed have been patched: - my list server has the big-concurrency patch, and - a pop/imap/smtp

Re: Starting qmail: problem with svscan

2000-11-22 Thread Dave Sill
Joao Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> /usr/local/sbin/qmail stat > >/var/qmail/supervise: does not exist But obviously is does, since (1) everything is working, and (2) you recently posted the output of "ls -lR /var/qmail/supervise". Sounds like your /usr/local/sbin/qmail script is corrupt

Re: Problems starting qmail

2000-11-22 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I've just re-installed qmail following the procedures in 'Life with qmail'. >When I use the command /usr/local/sbin/qmail start I get :- > >Starting qmail: svscan. >:No such file or directory >:No such file or directory >:No such file or directory >:No such file or direc

Re: lot of problems

2000-11-22 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I installed qmail, tcpserver, vpopmail, but it do not deliver mail well, it >put mails sended by the server well, but when you try to send something from >any server outside it, it fails, it don't show something in the maillog. What does the following do: telnet 0 2

Re: Starting qmail: problem with svscan

2000-11-22 Thread Dave Sill
Joao Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >I have installed qmail by following the steps that Dave Sill provides >> >in his web-site (http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html). Still, when >> >I try to start qmail I get the following error message continuously: &

Re: Starting qmail: problem with svscan

2000-11-21 Thread Dave Sill
Joao Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have installed qmail by following the steps that Dave Sill provides >in his web-site (http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html). Still, when >I try to start qmail I get the following error message continuously: > >-n Starting qmail

Re: Starting qmail: problem with svscan

2000-11-21 Thread Dave Sill
Joao Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Should the service directory have any file? My service directory has >none. /var/qmail/supervise should have qmail-send and qmail-smtpd subdirectories. -Dave

Re: Problem with rblsmtpd test I dont'have tcp.smtp.cdb

2000-11-21 Thread Dave Sill
Ould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I cam just to install rblsmtpd all tests mentionned in INSTALL file >works fine. >But my problem Is about haw to include: >"tcpserver -p -v -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u1007 -g1007 0 25 \ >rblsmtpd qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | setuser qmaill accustamp | \ >setuser qmaill c

Re: How insall qmail relay server in an DMZ

2000-11-21 Thread Dave Sill
Ould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I Installed in my LAN qmail server, but I want that this server access >to internet >via another qmail server installed in an DMZ zone. Can you explain what >I must on >this server to relaying sendin/receiving mails to my local qmail server? Sure, just put someth

Re: Host name not found

2000-11-21 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 12:42:13PM +0530, Kiran wrote: > >> The following are the files present in the /var/qmail/control >> directory and their contents: >> >> concurrencyincoming:20 >Bogus file. concurrencylocal and concurrencyremote are the real fil

Re: Backing up IMAP Maildir's ?

2000-11-21 Thread Dave Sill
"Dennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Yes, I'm asking the question again... Why? If you didn't like the first answers, you should say why. >Is there a formal way of backing up IMAP Maildir's ? There's nothing magic about maildirs. Your normal backup utilities (tar, dump, etc.) will handle them

Re: smtp service being flooded

2000-11-21 Thread Dave Sill
Travis Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What is happening to my server any clues. > >Nov 19 13:53:49 mail inetd[516]: smtp/tcp server >failing (looping or being flooded) stopping service >for 10 minutes$ Your SMTP service is busy, either with legitimate traffic or some illegitimate flood (an i

Re: Qmail repeating system name in address

2000-11-16 Thread Dave Sill
Jamin Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >As it stands currently I've been stuck at testing local delivery. Every >test message I tried would result in a bounce. In the bounced message I >could see that for some reason qmail was adding additional information to >the addresses. For example if I

Re: how to set the rights for maildir to be secure

2000-11-16 Thread Dave Sill
martin langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >pd: what distro are you using that sets users directories to 755? Solaris, IRIX, TRU64 UNIX, etc. 755 is traditional for UNIX. -Dave

RE: Duplicate messages.

2000-11-16 Thread Dave Sill
"Andy Abshagen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >OK. And what if there is not a .qmail- for each user??? There's *always* a .qmail file, even if it's just the one specified on the qmail-start command line. I don't know exactly how vpopmail sets things up, but there's some difference between the con

Re: User Unknown

2000-11-16 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Following the instructures given on Life with qmail, I am trying to >install qmail using the source codes. So far I a have downloaded qmail >and the two add-ons (daemontools and ucspi-tcp), and followed the steps >up to building (Section 2.5.5 in Life with qmail). > >In

Re: Duplicate messages.

2000-11-16 Thread Dave Sill
"Andy Abshagen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Duplicate delivery: >Nov 15 21:24:27 mail qmail: 974341467.158027 delivery 34992: success: >did_0+0+2/ Single delivery: >Nov 15 21:24:28 mail qmail: 974341468.155358 delivery 34993: success: >did_0+0+1/ See the difference? The +2 vs. +1? That is the

Re: Delivering mail locally

2000-11-16 Thread Dave Sill
Oliver Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So if my server's domain is domain.com, and I try to send >mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from my own local account (ie: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED]), qmail complaints that in the >MX list for domain.com, the first MX record points back to the orig

Re: how to set the rights for maildir to be secure

2000-11-16 Thread Dave Sill
Brett Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm not sure you actually understand how unix works. All the folders >in /home shouldn't be accessible to other users anyhow. I'm not sure you're aware of how systems are actually configured. All the user directories on my systems are world readable/exec

Re: adding an outgoing-only smtp server?

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
"James T. Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I was wondering whether to include host2 also as an MX in the >dns records although host1 is the only MX handling incoming and >part of outgoing (none from host2). No, only SMTP servers should be listed in MX's. >If I'm correct, I don't need an MX en

Re: resend incoming mail to specific doamin

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
Shakaib Sayyid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I need to resend all the incoming mail for an account to all the >receipents in the header having a specific domain. For instance >if I have the following in the header: > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >I want to rese

Re: secrets and lies

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 01:21:40PM -0500, Dave Sill wrote: >> >> An audit by some random "security >> firm" might not mean anything, but an audit by a recognized authority >> would. > >It might. It also mig

Re: secrets and lies

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
Bennett Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >And a case could be made that the charming and personable way qmail >has been represented in various public fora makes this audit-by-fire >even better: at this point, there are enough people around the world >who hate djb's guts and would never touch anyth

Re: secrets and lies

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think "select few" as you have used it needs clarification -- even if only >one half of one percent of all advanced C programmers are part of the "select >few", that's still hundreds or thousands of people, and many of those people >are part of the open

Re: secrets and lies

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
"David Dyer-Bennet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dan is probably right that no special permissions are needed to make >normal uses of his code (which is what he says on his web pages), but >if the corporate lawyer isn't in agreement with him, he's going to say >"no". That's a corporate lawyer's j

Re: AUTOMAILDIRMAKE

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
"suresh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >any knows what is automaildirmake No, but but I'm sure if you keep asking about it, someone will. -Dave

Re: adding an outgoing-only smtp server?

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
"James T. Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What I would like to do is this: > host1 -> primary MX for incoming and outgoing > host2 -> outgoing only > >host1 will be used for "regular" email traffic, with >legit user accounts, while host2 will be mainly used >for pumping out big loads of outg

Re: how to set the rights for maildir to be secure

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
Brett Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is the maildir in their home folder? Then that is all that >matters. Nope. The mode on the home directory matters, too. >Set the numbers to whatever you like (777 if you really want >to). Since the parent folder ($HOME) is readable only by the owner (if

Re: tcpserver & virtual domain

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
"Kiran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >1. I am able to send & receive mails, but i need to start qmail manually >even though i have written the init scripts. > This is the error i get in the nohup.out which is created when starting >qmail file : nonup env - PATH="$PATH" svscan & > >./run: Can't re

Re: running daemontools on qmail with large locals and rcpthosts files

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I'd upgraded my daemontools on qmail from version 0.53 to 0.7. >The file size for both /var/qmail/control/locals and rcpthosts exceeds >1M (this incl. around 65000 cobrands). >However using the new daemontool with svscan somehow prevent qmail from >running >with big loca

Re: accepting and delivering locally for a different IP ...

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
wolfgang zeikat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >how can i make qmail accept mails for >user@[123.123.123.123] when the machine 123.123.123.123 forwards all mails >to our qmail server? Put 123.123.123.123 in control/locals and control/rcpthosts. -Dave

Re: Alias - .qmail-default

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
"Expert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My .qmail-default have the line: | /var/qmail/bin/fastforward -d >/etc/aliases.cdb. The /etc/aliases have the line: MAILER-DAEMON: admin . I'm >receiving a lot of emails from someone trying to spam me but, the accounts >that the spamer is trying to spa

Re: secrets and lies

2000-11-14 Thread Dave Sill
Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am reading this book by B. Schneier, in particular, the section >`Cracking and hacking contests'. He thinks that contests (like >offering $1000 for finding a security hole in a product) are bad for >four main reasons, the first reason being that the cont

Re: Clear the queue of qmail

2000-11-14 Thread Dave Sill
"Pedro Pires" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Can anyone tell me how do i clear the queue of qmail? See: http://www.faqts.com/knowledge-base/view.phtml/aid/6567/fid/286/lang/en -Dave

Re: How do I route to another host?

2000-11-14 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >My qmail host, mail.sidell.org, is the MX host for domain sidell.org. >I have another host named lyris.sidell.org. (Actually, it's another >IP address on the same host, being handled by Lyris.) > >If I SMTP to mail.sidell.org and send a message addressed to >[EMAIL PROT

Re: Antispam with authorization from POP3 server.

2000-11-14 Thread Dave Sill
"Michael A. Borisov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello. It is necessary to me to authorize everyone, who tries to send mail >through my SMTP server. I want to use for this purpose authorization of a >POP3 server. Sounds like you want SMTP-after-POP. I.e., users who successfully authenticate via

Re: reg. qmail-qmqpd and qmail-qmtpd

2000-11-14 Thread Dave Sill
"RamKumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i would like to know what qmail-qmqpd and qmail-qmtpd are used for? and >where i could get more information about the same. QMQP is the Quick Mail Queueing Protocol. QMTP is the Quick Mail Transfer Protocol. QMQP is used by clients of smart hosts to pawn o

Re: hello

2000-11-14 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >how do I erase the contents of the mailqueue! I put large mails by >mistake for sending. Since I'm paying my traffic, i would like to >erase all that is in the queue. How do i do that? See: http://www.faqts.com/knowledge-base/view.phtml/aid/6567/fid/286/lang/en -Dav

Re: how to send out local and remote mail immedately

2000-11-13 Thread Dave Sill
"Mark Lo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have 3 messages in remote queue and 1 message in local queue. I >would like to know how to send out those messages immediately ? Send qmail-send and ALRM signal. If that doesn't work, check your logs. -Dave

Re: wildcards in assign config file question

2000-11-10 Thread Dave Sill
Paulo Correia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm trying to get all mail in the form xy@maydomain.com to be handled >by a .qmail-default file. >I've managed to get all mails starting with xy to be processed by that same >.qmail-default, but imagine I would only want to catch the mails starting with >

Re: No delivery

2000-11-10 Thread Dave Sill
"Pierre-Yves Deslandes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I created some users recently with good passwords, with good directories > e.g. > ~user/.qmail > ./Maildir (like others users for whom it works) >and a maildirmake Maildir (too) > a qmail restart > >And when i send the

Re: SMTP Port

2000-11-10 Thread Dave Sill
"Kiran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >1. I am not able to telnet to port 25,though i am able to send > mails. I belive this can be configured in one of the files. qmail-smtpd is not properly configured. How did you install qmail? >2. I want it to support other domains too. But the virtualdomain

Re: Courier

2000-11-10 Thread Dave Sill
Jason Haar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The rest of Courier is great too - fully ESMTP support for DSN, TLS/SSL, >AUTH along with all the goodies of Qmail we've come to love. > >But as the docs state - it's not the number-crunching monster Qmail is - it >can't beat Qmail on throughput - but for si

Re: assign config file question

2000-11-10 Thread Dave Sill
"Tony Ennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My /var/qmail/users/assign file looks like this: > >+gv-:fred:1000:1003:/usr/local/squid/bin:-:gv: >. > >Note that the 'gv-' line is a wildcard - I understand this to mean that any >email received for any address that begins with 'gv-' will be processed by

Re: Qmail-pop3

2000-11-10 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I'm usign qmail on one of my mail server. >I need an information about pop3 daemons. >Now i'm using qmail-pop3d for delivering in Maildir, but there was another >pop3 daemons fast and efficent workings with maildir? >Any idea? Solid, which handles both maildirs and mbox

Re: No Delivery via SMTP

2000-11-10 Thread Dave Sill
Ruprecht Helms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have installed the qmail via the Tutorial life with qmail. OK. >Qmail have I started using the /var/boot/home by copying into >/var/qmail and renamed to rc. What does this mean? An LWQ installation doesn't need or suggest anything like this. >What

Re: qmail and secure smtp relay?

2000-11-10 Thread Dave Sill
"Jack Barnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I heard you could do secure smtp, which would SSL the connection and ALLOW >relaying, provided the username/password passed is correct, is this true? Yes. >If so anyone got a pointer to some info on this? See www.qmail.org. Look for "starttls". >Also

Re: SMTP Server test failed

2000-11-10 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I tested SMTP on my qmail installation (installed with "life with Qmail") >with TEST.receive > >... > >Everything worked fine at the shell but I couldn't find the test email in >the gast Mailbox ? Why could be the reason ? Most likely, you're looking in the wrong plac

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