Re: do I need to log

2001-06-03 Thread Mark Delany
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:28:31AM +, NewBiePortal allegedly wrote: > > Hi > > I'm wondering, do I really need to log anything. Is this must or is it extra for >debugging purpose. I just feel that there would be much improvement with the sending >mail if my cpu did not have to bother with

Re: qmail on SCO OpenServer

2001-06-03 Thread Mark Delany
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 02:16:20PM +1000, Jason Heskett allegedly wrote: > Hi there, > > I am probably opening a long-running topic here, but here goes... > I have just successfully compiled qmail on SCO OpenServer. However, it seems > that my outgoing mail queue is getting "stuck". Is that tru

Re: What about www.mail-abuse.org ?

2001-06-03 Thread Mark Delany
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 09:04:22PM -0700, Tupshin Harper allegedly wrote: > My test of your server indicates that you appropriately block relaying. (Let me say beforehand that I don't know anything about mail-abuse.org and whether they do or do not have this address listed, or indeed whether they

Re: expn

2001-06-02 Thread Mark Delany
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 09:02:08AM -0700, Rob Genovesi allegedly wrote: > Hello List, > > Is this "expn" (expand) command completely disabled in Qmail (1.03)? If > so, are there any patches out there to enable expn from certain hosts on a > Qmail server? It's not disabled as such, it's merely

Re: Oops,I guess Sendmail wasn't secure after all...

2001-06-02 Thread Mark Delany
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 05:20:01PM +0200, Boris allegedly wrote: > Hello Johan, > > > JA> Not quite. More like "someone inspects your free car and finds a button > JA> that can make it explode. Maybe he pushes the button, maybe not. Maybe he > JA> pushes the button on someone else's car". Are yo

Re: Oops,I guess Sendmail wasn't secure after all...

2001-06-01 Thread Mark Delany
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 05:01:57AM +0200, Boris allegedly wrote: > bugs are fixed fast. Its just some C-Code, everyone knows this. This is a troll, right? I have a lock on my front door that I know can be opened with a paperclip, but heck, those nice people who make the locks will supply me wit

Re: recipient limit for qmail-inject?

2001-05-31 Thread Mark Delany
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 06:59:07PM -0600, Roger Walker allegedly wrote: > On InterMail systems we use their mass mail program to send out > some 650,000 newsletters to customers. The application batches them into > a single message with a BCC containing somewhere between 40 and 100 > recipie

Re: Limiting bandwidth usage

2001-05-31 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:38:04AM +0200, Karsten W. Rohrbach allegedly wrote: > Mark Delany([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.05.31 22:32:26 +: > > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:13:56PM +0200, Roger Svenning allegedly wrote: > > > Ok I see, so traffic shapers like altq and dummynet

Re: Limiting bandwidth usage

2001-05-31 Thread Mark Delany
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:13:56PM +0200, Roger Svenning allegedly wrote: > Ok I see, so traffic shapers like altq and dummynet are made by people that > don't understand the basics of tcp/ip ? :-) > I didn't mean "blocked" literally, what I want is to make sure that smtp > traffic, when qmail get

Re: Vpopmail+qmail pop3 has lost it's mind!

2001-05-30 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:50:58PM -0400, Dave Sill allegedly wrote: > Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >You want to sync the clocks... qmail-pop3d won't list messages from the > >future. > > Somebody refresh my memory... Why does it care? Apart from the enigmatic "don't want to mi

Re: Qmail remote process never drops problem

2001-05-29 Thread Mark Delany
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 03:10:24PM -0700, Eric Wang allegedly wrote: > Nope, the response from those machine machine are pretty good, these qmail > connections are just never dead. the is really confusing though. Can you trace the qmail-remote processes? truss -p, ktrace -p, ?? Regards.

Re: Advanced masquerading

2001-05-29 Thread Mark Delany
> > I'm not sure its relevant. The whole address-rewriting thing is a > > sendmail-ism that should just go away; it must have originated in an effort to > > compensate for other, unrelated sendmail design flaws. > > It's all a historical thing. The problem that sendmail was designed to solve >

Re: Qmail remote process never drops problem

2001-05-28 Thread Mark Delany
Which OS? Not Solaris < 2.8? On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 06:53:38PM -0700, Eric Wang allegedly wrote: > Hi , Guys, > > I have a qmail server with very heavy load, and I noticed recently my > qmail server have a bunch of outbound connection to some domains like > outblaze.com, and the email send to

Re: limiting databytes per user

2001-05-28 Thread Mark Delany
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:55:38AM -0300, Eduardo Augusto Alvarenga allegedly wrote: > > If your users inject mail via SMTP from their workstations to your > > smarthost, > > and you can map IP addresses to usernames, it's trivial -- tcpserver's > > tcprules files can be used to set all environmen

Re: changing concurrencyremote based on available bandwidth

2001-05-25 Thread Mark Delany
In general. It's very hard to use concurrency to control bandwidth usage. If your system is concurrently sending a 100 messages to one server that's on the other end of a modem link, does that use more of your bandwidth than one MP3 email going to a high capacity site like Yahoo? No. The single e

Re: Problems with SMTP connections

2001-05-24 Thread Mark Delany
> > qmail does this on its own -- if DNS isn't working, you shouldn't be able to > > send mail anywhere remote (well, except for those domains you've hardcoded > > This is where my question of a local DNS server came in. Do > I have to run something like djb-dns on my machine? I > figured that

Re: sending mail using qmail-inject

2001-05-24 Thread Mark Delany
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 05:55:44PM -0700, Qmail allegedly wrote: > Is it possible to script qmail-inject to send a full bodied message from the > command line? > > I'm trying something like this: > > ( echo to: alerts@XYZnet ; echo from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; echo subject: logs ; > grep '@customer

Re: High Availability, High Volume and NFS

2001-05-23 Thread Mark Delany
I don't want to start an OS war, but if you want to use NFS on an Intel box, I strongly suggest one of the BSDs. I was in a situation where I had to use Linux NFS servers - that was until they failed miserabled. They were replaced with FreeBSD and the problems went away. Regards. On Wed, May 23

Re: Still want to use fetchmail with qmail

2001-05-20 Thread Mark Delany
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 06:26:36PM -0300, Alexandre Gonçalves Jacarandá wrote: > Hi again!!! > I follow some tips, but I can get fetchmail working with qmail. But now > I will give more details... > I installed qmail following Life with qmail and it's working. > I configured Mailbox delivery in m

Re: Using fetchmail with qmail

2001-05-20 Thread Mark Delany
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:20:36AM +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote: > David Talkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Sun, 20 May 2001: > > There's really nothing special about such a configuration; fetchmail > > just delivers mail to whoever is listening on 25. As long as qmail > > will accept deliver

Re: help for show time zone

2001-05-19 Thread Mark Delany
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:42:12PM +0800, new wrote: > hello, > qmail uses GMT to show time zone,like this: > > Received: (qmail 9258 invoked from network); 19 May 2001 23:25:42 - > > How can I let it use GMT+8 or PRC to show time zone. Change to code. There is no configuration setting

Re: qmail-inject internals question

2001-05-18 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 10:16:41AM -0500, dan . kelley wrote: > > hi- > > I've started to hack around with qmail-inject.c a bit. i'm trying to modify > the file to optionally look for a "control/addmessage" file, the contents of > which will be appended to every locally generated message. R

Re: unauthorized relay :-(

2001-05-18 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 08:37:37AM -0600, Roger Walker wrote: > > UID != PID > > Sorry, I was distracted. The UID was for apache, further evidence > that this was done through a formmail script. Ok... And what did your apache logs say at the time? They are logging IP addresses, right? > H

Re: unauthorized relay :-(

2001-05-18 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 06:55:59AM -0600, Roger Walker wrote: > On 18 May 2001, Mark Delany wrote: > > > So you are saying that you've checked the qmail-send logs and there is > > no injection that matches the headers of the bounce? Are you sure? > > > > If yo

Re: unauthorized relay :-(

2001-05-17 Thread Mark Delany
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:32:41PM -0600, Roger Walker wrote: > I understand completely. I administer mail servers for a major > ISP, so the principles are not a problem. I run qmail on my own servers, > but there could always be something that I'm overlooking in the config. I > know it sur

Re: qmail ignores my sorry ass part II...

2001-05-17 Thread Mark Delany
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:57:11PM -0700, Brett wrote: > Here's how I'm calling qmail-inject: > > > $mail_prog = '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject'; > > $mail = "To: $to_name <$to_email>\r\n"; > $mail .= "From: $from_name <$from_email>\r\n"; > if ($bcc) { >

Re: qmail ignores my sorry ass part II...

2001-05-17 Thread Mark Delany
ow. > Nevertheless, I'm sure I won't be the last qmail user to run into this > problem and therefore it'll be useful to have this knowledge in the > archives. Thanks again. > > > -Original Message- > From: Mark Delany [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent:

Re: Lotsa messages with qmail-remote?

2001-05-17 Thread Mark Delany
> > > Can you shed any more light on this. I am very interested as I may > > > write something similar soon, and any ideas / help would be much > > > appreciated. > > > > Well, that's more a perl/Unix issue than a qmail one so this isn't the > > right place to discussed it. If you're asking abou

Re: Problem due to prepend in virtualdomain file

2001-05-17 Thread Mark Delany
Do you have a user called ttk? Remember, ~alias is the *last* place that qmail looks for instructions. If a user exists with that name, it delivers to that user. The man page for qmail-lspawn is a good place to start. Regards. On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:36:00PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Lotsa messages with qmail-remote?

2001-05-17 Thread Mark Delany
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:29:37AM +, Greg Cope wrote: > > I used IO::select to handle running multiple qmail-remotes at the same > > time. qmail-remote has a really small footprint so you can run 1000s > > of them concurrently on a modest sized server. It takes a fair amount > > of code to m

Re: qmail ignores my sorry ass...

2001-05-16 Thread Mark Delany
You need to tell us a little more. Well, actually a lot more. How are you "trying to send" them? qmail-inject, smtp, qmail-queue? If you are running a command such as qmail-inject, what sort of exit code are you getting? Any error message? Do you mean 5600 emails or an email to 5600 addresses?

Re: failure notice

2001-05-16 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 09:14:57PM +, Mark Delany wrote: > SMTP traffic is completely forgeable. Er, sorry everyone. I didn't realise the original quote had a whole lot of crud in it. > On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 03:27:17PM -0400, Kirti S. Bajwa wrote: > > VEXI78D6Z4DYZC9I

Re: failure notice

2001-05-16 Thread Mark Delany
SMTP traffic is completely forgeable. You need to check the logs on your dialin bank to find out who the real identity is. Your modem bank does authenticate and log logins doesn't it? Regards. On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 03:27:17PM -0400, Kirti S. Bajwa wrote: > Hi: > > Somebody is using our com

Re: Lotsa messages with qmail-remote?

2001-05-16 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:38:38PM -0400, John R Levine wrote: > I have a spam-like application that will be sending out thousands of > customized single-recipient messages. (It's spam-like because it says > "you wrote to us about on ", but unlike spam, they really did > write and I have

Re: queue life time

2001-05-14 Thread Mark Delany
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:54:30AM +, Walid Kassab wrote: > Dear All > > I would like to modify failure notice time "queuelifetime" to be 14400 ( 4 > hours) instead of 604800 ( 7 days) > should i just create a file named queuelifetime under /var/qmail/control > directory and restart qmail or

Re: tcpserver -p and smtpd and DNS

2001-05-14 Thread Mark Delany
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:10:21AM -, David Killingsworth wrote: > I have narrowed this to one simple item. Could someone, possibly you Gerrit > I know you have answered one way to get around this I just wanna understand > why I have to get around it, explain to me why qmail has delivered an e

Re: qmail does not handle timezones properly? - More Info

2001-05-13 Thread Mark Delany
Your problem is almost certainly not qmail related. First off you may want to learn how Unix/Linux keeps time. Believe it or not, Unix/Linux don't know anything about timezones. They all keep time internally in UTC (nee GMT). Yes, every Unix server on the planet current has the same time. To see

Re: qmail does not handle timezones properly?

2001-05-13 Thread Mark Delany
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 05:47:46PM +0200, Patrick Starrenburg wrote: > Code bloat?? Doesn't seem like an excuse to me to (**possibly** we haven't > determined this yet) have a fundamental error in a system because someone > doesn't feel like adding code to internationalise something. Why do yo

Re: mailing list

2001-05-09 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:28:16AM -0700, ed lim wrote: > Hi, > > I need a mailing list to send to our millions of subscribers... I am already >using ezmlm but I'm still open for suggestions on a much simpler or better one. Any specifics on what constitutes "simpler or better"? You'll be

Re: html based email

2001-05-09 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:33:56AM -0500, John Hogan wrote: > i was, in a former life, a sysadmin for a major-league list-hosting outfit... > > no way, no how - don't believe them... it's not possible to float two > 'copies' of the message, with reception being dependent on the user's MUA Well

Re: Mail Stuck in Queue

2001-05-02 Thread Mark Delany
Is qmail running? What does ps aux | grep qmail show? (Or whatever ps is appropriate for your OS?) Regards. On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:30:17PM -, Aaron Goldblatt wrote: > After resolving the POP slowdown issue with the help of some of the more > polite folks here, I have developed a ne

Re: I messed up my QMQP Client Config...

2001-05-01 Thread Mark Delany
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 10:12:36PM -0700, Tyrone Mills wrote: > Hello All, > > I made a stupid mistake and left a QMQP Client machine with a bad IP in the > qmqpservers file. I'm re-reading the Installing mini-qmail doc on > http://cr.yp.to/qmail/mini.html and if I am reading it correctly, I'm >

Re: qmail-pop3d not working?

2001-04-27 Thread Mark Delany
The zero seconds for qmail-pop3d/log is your problem. The logging output of qmail-pop3d is ultimately filling up the pipe buffer and then wedging since the pipe is never drained by qmail-pop3d/log. The zero seconds is telling you that qmail-pop3d/log is repeatedly being started and is exiting imm

Re: svscan on linux

2001-04-25 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:32:12PM +, Subba Rao wrote: > > I have followed the instructions on DJB's site to install and start svscan. > > On Linux and other SVR4-based systems with /etc/inittab, add SV:123456:respawn > :env - PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin svscan /service >/de

Re: Oracle eMail Server

2001-04-25 Thread Mark Delany
> Mlocal, P=/email01/oracle/OraHome1/bin/ofcuto, F=rlSsDCFMPpmn, S=10, > R=20, A=ofcuto - /email01/oracle/OraHome1 emailsvr -f unx.cfg - $g $a $b You need to find out what all the F= flags do, what ruleset 10 and 20 do the the envelope addresses, find out what $a, $b and $c are and then make a .

Re: qmail-pop3d not working?

2001-04-22 Thread Mark Delany
> > Now change "POP3" to "pop3" and run it again. Go on... humor me. It's > > only the third time I've told you what your problem is. > > > Yes, that did it! Just received 200+ messages. Thanks for all your > help, everyone. You might want to feed this back to the faqts people. Let's others ben

Re: qmail-pop3d not working?

2001-04-22 Thread Mark Delany
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 08:49:27PM -0700, Steven Katz wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Mark Delany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 7:23 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: qmail-pop3d not working? > > >

Re: qmail-pop3d not working?

2001-04-22 Thread Mark Delany
> > > exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ > > > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R 0 POP3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \ > > > idma.com /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1 > > 4. Oh, and you haven't told us whether you followed instructions > >exactly when settin

Re: qmail-pop3d not working?

2001-04-22 Thread Mark Delany
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 12:08:54PM -0700, Steven Katz wrote: > I've installed qmail according to the LWQ instructions, and > qmail-pop3d according to faqts instructions > (http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/8225/fid/223). > At this point, I'm able to send mail only from the clien

Re: Sticky question about qmail-queue and qmail-smtpd interactions

2001-04-19 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 02:06:02PM +1200, Jason Haar wrote: > Hi there > > I'm the author of Qmail-Scanner - an Email scanning harness that can be used > to block attachments, scan for viruses, etc. It's hooked in as a replacement > for qmail-queue. > > The installation of a rather slow virus sc

Re: "Too many Cc: patch" ?

2001-04-17 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 08:55:05AM +0200, Van Liedekerke Franky wrote: > there's a maxrcpt patch on the qmail page > > F. But beware - many UAs play poorly with maxrcpts in that they view a rejection at the (say) 101th recipient as a rejection of all recipients and proceed to subsequently retran

Re: TCPServer Error

2001-04-17 Thread Mark Delany
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 03:43:48AM -0300, Martin Marconcini wrote: > Hello: > > I have followed www.lifewithqmail.org instructions. The server is OpenBSD > 2.8. This was my first qmail installation. At the office I installed OpenBSD > and Qmail and followed instructions and have had no pr

Re: qmail-pop3d and supervise

2001-04-14 Thread Mark Delany
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 01:38:03PM -0400, Rehan Zaidi wrote: > Hi, folks. > > Thanks to the mailing list archives, I've been able to configure qmail-pop3d > to run under supervise...almost. I have one remaining problem: I still get > "Connection refused" when I telnet to port 110. > > These are

Re: Maildir file naming convention

2001-03-28 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:24:48PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > accompanying I/O delays), I'm not particularly worried. Sure, an attacker > could spawn a lot of short-lived processes in an attempt to cause a > collision in mail delivery, but they'd need local access to the box to even > have

Re: faster than bcc

2001-03-28 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:47:25PM -0800, Brett wrote: > I remember reading that the fastest way to send one email to a large number > of people is through bcc. Well, the fact that it's Bcc: vs To: is not important wrt speed. The reason for Bcc: over To: is to ensure that the recipient list isn't

Re: Maildir file naming convention

2001-03-28 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:09:00AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > Mark Delany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I disagree. To quote from the webpage: "A unique name can be anything > > that doesn't contain a colon (or slash) and doesn't start with a

Re: Maildir file naming convention

2001-03-28 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:52:58AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > The right way to do it is clearly spelled out at: > http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html That's true. > It's necessary for all agents to use the same rules to prevent > collisions. Ok as far as it goes, but.. > > The format is li

Re: Delivered Messages staying in queue

2001-03-26 Thread Mark Delany
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:17:13PM -0500, Nick (Keith) Fish wrote: > Peter van Dijk wrote: > > > > qmail-queue doesn't run as root. It runs as user qmailq. What group > > this user is in, or what his homedir is, doesn't matter. Permissions > > on the binary are relevant indeed. > > > > Greetz, P

Re: Delivered Messages staying in queue

2001-03-26 Thread Mark Delany
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:49:15PM -0800, Bill Crowley wrote: > Hi, > > It seems that delivered messages as staying in the queue. 7 days later queue > mail is giving up "I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the > queue too long." > > I know that 99% of these messages have been de

Re: redundant mail servers

2001-03-23 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:09:01PM +0100, Vincent Schonau wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:01:51AM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: > > Gopi Sundaram writes: > > >> I'm reluctant to move to Maildir until we can get more MUAs to support > >> them (specifically Pine and Netscape). > > > Wrong idea.

Re: Connection unexpectedly terminated

2001-03-22 Thread Mark Delany
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 04:43:09PM -0600, Carey Jung wrote: > Hi, > > We have a sporadic problem with qmail hanging and eventually timing out when > popping certain messages. tcpdump shows that qmail is apparently not > handling the RETR command properly (see below). Everything is fine until it

Re: heavy traffic on port 25

2001-03-21 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 11:30:26PM +0100, Krzysztof Wychowalek wrote: > Dear friends, > I have a server running Qmail as as MTA and about 300 mail > accounts. I realized that I'm experiencing huge amount of incoming > traffic to the port 25, it's like 1 MB per minute, so it slows down my > Inte

Re: handling bounces

2001-03-21 Thread Mark Delany
You can use VERP without using ezmlm. Checkout QMAILINJECT=r as discussed in the qmail-inject manpage. Regards. On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:33:18PM -0800, Brett wrote: > In qmail-inject, I'm Bcc-ing a LOT of people. What's the best method for > handling bounces? I want to be able to extract a li

Re: redundant mail servers

2001-03-21 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:41:27PM -0500, Gopi Sundaram wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Peter van Dijk wrote (quoting me): > > > > http://www.imap.org/papers/imap.vs.pop.brief.html > > > > And what is your *own* opinion? I prefer POP because IMAP makes > > users leave mail on server, amongst others

Re: redundant mail servers

2001-03-21 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:58:06AM -0500, Gopi Sundaram wrote: > On 21 Mar 2001, Mark Delany wrote (quoting me): > > > > Thus a user can check their email via IMAP or (shudder) POP from > > > > Why shudder? POP is by far the most reliable service of the two > >

Re: redundant mail servers

2001-03-21 Thread Mark Delany
> There will be 2 mail servers, mail1 and mail2 > > Any email that is received by mail1 should automatically be forwarded > to mail2, and any email that is received by mail2 should be forwarded > to mail1. The only exception to the rule is when they receive messages > from each other. > > Thus a

Re: qmail large usuage

2001-03-20 Thread Mark Delany
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:31:37PM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 08:32:29AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, we do a mailout of about 40,000 - 50,000 emails per day to our > > clients and there clients (not spam). I have been trying to get qmail to > > work on getti

Re: Control files

2001-03-19 Thread Mark Delany
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 01:22:30PM -0800, Brad Dameron wrote: > > Is there a better description of what each file does in the > /var/qmail/control directory? Better than what exactly? Better than "man qmail-control" which identifies all control files and the relevant program in turn each have a

Re: qmail-pop* and interface link

2001-03-15 Thread Mark Delany
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 05:23:19PM +, Subba Rao wrote: > I have qmail-popup and qmail-pop3d running on my system. Is it > possible to dedicate this service to selected interfaces only? > If it can be done, could you please point me to that URL? Read up on tcpserver. That's the program that ac

Re: no local delivery???

2001-03-14 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:27:14AM -0800, George Georgalis wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:38:07AM +0000, Mark Delany wrote: > >The output of qmail-showctl will tell you (and us) a lot more. > > that's what I like about qmail, so many programs to do just what you > n

Re: qmail reusing msg numbers - is this normal ?

2001-03-14 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:14:43PM +, Greg Cope wrote: > Dear All > > I.e msg no 325819 has been reused twice. > > Everything appears ok - is this something to worry about ? No. It's entirely normal. The msg number is the inode. inodes get reused by Unix when a file is deleted. Regards.

Re: no local delivery???

2001-03-13 Thread Mark Delany
The output of qmail-showctl will tell you (and us) a lot more. I guess is that you have worldsite.ws in /var/qmail/control/me and something other than this domain in /var/qmail/control/locals Western Somoa huh? I had a lot of fun trying to register a domain there, oh, 8 years ago. Regards. O

Re: How to interpret the Delivered-To: header

2001-03-13 Thread Mark Delany
> Well, there are very good reasons for avoiding to publicly > post personal data about a subscriber to an infertility support > group. Fine. If it needs to remain confidential, buy support from someone identified on www.qmail.org and have them sign an NDA. Problem solved. If you pay for support

Re: How to interpret the Delivered-To: header

2001-03-13 Thread Mark Delany
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:46:19AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > Norbert Bollow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How do you interpret the Delivered-To: header [...] > [...] > > Note: in the following, '**CENSORED**' replaces the localpart of > If you want answers, don't hide the evidence that we

Re: Please help!!!

2001-03-12 Thread Mark Delany
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 01:52:00AM -0800, Sean Coyle wrote: > Also, > > Another good thing to note: > > I was having a serious problem with qMail delivering mail to end users, > however, mail was being stored in the queue (this was quite some time ago > now). I had made a few changes t

Re: qmail-pop3d bug

2001-03-12 Thread Mark Delany
> > A more sensible strategy might be to introduce a new "info" flag (say > > '3' equals POP wire size) on the filename, eg, a 10,000 byte email has > > a name something like this: > > > > Maildir/new/980195114.16740.geex:2,RS3,1 > > From reading http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html>, it is no

Re: qmail-pop3d bug

2001-03-11 Thread Mark Delany
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 06:05:47PM -0500, John R. Levine wrote: > >Putting the linecount in there makes more sense. Some MUAs might be happy > >about that, and it still allows easy calculation of wiresize (add > >number of lines to physical size). More info, less bytes :) > > > >> Optimally the wi

Re: qmail-pop3d bug

2001-03-11 Thread Mark Delany
> Yes. This behaviour is known. Fixing it, however, involves a *huge* > performance downgrade of qmail-pop3d. Not if it's calculated as the file is written to the Maildir. > 'Usually, during the AUTHORIZATION state of the POP3 session, the POP3 > server can calculate the size of each message in

Re: qmail-pop3d bug

2001-03-11 Thread Mark Delany
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 01:12:13PM -0500, John R Levine wrote: > The usual mailbox vs. maildir war has flared up on inet-access, and points > out a bug in qmail-pop3d. When you do a LIST command, it gives you the > size of each message. Pop3d just reports the file sizes, while it's clear > from

Re: [Fwd: Administrivia: Mailing List Software]

2001-03-10 Thread Mark Delany
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 11:49:08PM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote: > Hey guys, > > lets make this poor man happy and let us all tell him about how well > qmail/ezmlm works! > > This guy is Elias Levy (aleph1) and he runs the Bugtraq mailing list. > > Please send an email directly to him if you wa

Re: pop3d needs SUID root?

2001-03-09 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 03:33:17PM -0800, Aaron L. Meehan wrote: > Quoting Todd A. Jacobs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > When running pop3d, I get an error saying "no $HOME/Maildir" which may be > > caused by the directory permissions of 0700 on both the home directory and > > Maildir. > > qmail-pop3d

Re: pop3d needs SUID root?

2001-03-09 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:26:58PM +, Ricardo Cerqueira wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 03:06:08PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > When running pop3d, I get an error saying "no $HOME/Maildir" which may be > > caused by the directory permissions of 0700 on both the home directory and > > Mail

Re: running qmail from /supervise

2001-03-05 Thread Mark Delany
> is svscan. For example, here's my /service directory on my server: > > axfrdns dnscache ftpd msql2dqmail rsyncdsshd > bray etrn httpd pop3d qmtpd smtpd tinydns > > Most of these are obvious. "bray" is not a service name but instead > the name of

Re: Qmail and time zone

2001-03-04 Thread Mark Delany
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 09:43:28AM -0500, Kari Suomela wrote: > > Sunday March 04 2001 05:36, Mark Delany wrote to Kari Suomela: > > > MD> As others have said, qmail only puts a Date: header in if one > MD> isn't > MD> already present, > > That&#

Re: Qmail and time zone

2001-03-03 Thread Mark Delany
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 11:28:30PM -0500, Kari Suomela wrote: > > Thursday March 01 2001 22:41, David Dyer-Bennet wrote to All: > > >> No, it's not! That's how I noticed it. Someone was blaming my > > client > >> for it, but the problem is the same with all of them. I have tested > >> it wi

Re: New qmail version request

2001-03-03 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:14:20PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > Mark Delany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > But why does qmail have to be patched to use LDAP? Why not use a script > > > which extracts user information from the LDAP database, puts

Re: New qmail version request

2001-03-02 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 05:17:01PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > Chris Garrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Much of the common patches that are around fail in one of the tests above, > > > at least when using the author's stringent tests. There's nothing wrong > > > with this; he ke

Re: Lost the Battle

2001-03-01 Thread Mark Delany
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 10:19:34AM -0500, Dave Sill wrote: > >My qmail project, only 1 week away from implementation, was canned, we are > >now moving to Lotus Notes. > > Well, it's not a total loss. At least you learned something about > qmail. And maybe you can convince your company to use qma

Re: qmail-conf-054 / multilog

2001-02-23 Thread Mark Delany
For debugging purposes you might want to run svscan manually so the errors go to the screen/window you're on. On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 06:25:11PM -0500, Paul Farber wrote: > Is there a specific kernel setting I need for supervise to log Not unless it's some wierd Unix. svscan writes errors to st

Re: Inter7 introduces new software: vQregister

2001-02-23 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:30:53AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Maybe what I said wasn't as clear as it could > have been. Exactly what you requested below, > is the feature we will be adding. > > PHP is inefficient BTW. :) Totally OT, but one user registration per second adds up to 86,400

Re: qmail-conf-054 / multilog

2001-02-23 Thread Mark Delany
Assuminmg you're running this all via svscan, the problem is that svscan only notices the +t flag when it first sees the directory in /service. You need to remove the service and re-add it. I believe the daemontools page at cr.yp.to has the sequence needed to do this. Regards. On Fri, Feb 23,

Re: cyclog line?

2001-02-23 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:02:57PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > Bill Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Now according to the man page for cyclog: > > > > cyclog [ -ssize ] [ -nnum ] [ -mmargin ] dir > [...] > > Is there a space needed between the -s or not? > > No. You don't believe

Re: qmail-conf-054 / multilog

2001-02-23 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 12:13:37PM -0500, Paul Farber wrote: > I have > > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 21 01:40 service > > and under that > > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 21 01:40 . > drwxr-xr-x 13 root qmail4096 Feb 20 23:20 .. > drwxr-sr-x 5 r

Re: Concurrency questions

2001-02-18 Thread Mark Delany
> pass the message off to qmail to deliver. As most message get delivered on > the first attempt you'll save the overhead of writing the message to disk, And this is a large caveat. If, eg, your network happens to be down at the time you attempt delivery, you'll inject a huge number of emails int

Re: Concurrency questions

2001-02-18 Thread Mark Delany
> > In this way you'll make the first delivery attempt yourself for each > > recipient; avoiding any overhead in the qmail-send process or the queue > > management. if the first attempt fails then the message is passed off to > > qmail-send to handle, which should be a much lower volume of mail. >

Re: Syslog? [was Re: Detail logging of POP3D]

2001-02-12 Thread Mark Delany
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 12:17:47PM -0500, Paul Farber wrote: > djb has several logging options... lately I believe it is multilog(?) in > the new daemontools package. Indeed. And it's pretty triv to use too. The simplest is to replace your 'splogger qmai' with something like: multilog t n10 s500

Re: multi-thread

2001-02-08 Thread Mark Delany
> > Fifth, the interface is simple and clean, plug in the threaded > > qmail-rspawn and no one is any the wiser. > > With nonblocking sockets and select(), one could write a > single-threaded qmail-rspawn/remote. Only need to find a way to do the > dns lookups in parallel. Yes Virginia. There ar

Re: multi-thread

2001-02-08 Thread Mark Delany
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 12:06:05PM -, Tim Goodwin wrote: > > ok, on my Solaris, the qmail distribution is "forking" almost 10 to 20 > > processes per second. > > > > This cost a lot in system ressources and system calls > > Yes. Unfortunately, Solaris isn't Unix, and qmail was designed to r

Re: compiling qmail-1.03 under SCO Open Server 5.05 and the UDK from SCO.

2001-02-07 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 04:08:38PM +, Uwe Ohse wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 09:17:10AM -0500, Jocelyn Clement wrote: > > > This is it: I ran the "make setup check" and it generates an error > > message on the "qmail-local.c" saying that there is no definition > > of the "timestruct_t" in

Re: no incoming mail from outside

2001-02-06 Thread Mark Delany
Well, usually the log files will tell you what's going on... what do they say? > any ideas? Clean Redhat 7.0 install with all the latest qmail and vpopmail. > I have followed the instructions to the letter 4 times and I can't seem to > cat rc > #!/bin/sh > > # Using stdout for logging > # Usin

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