qmail Digest 10 Mar 2001 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 1299

2001-03-10 Thread qmail-digest-help


qmail Digest 10 Mar 2001 11:00:01 - Issue 1299

Topics (messages 58713 through 58798):

sending a newsletter
58713 by: Jon
58719 by: Charles Cazabon
58728 by: Jon
58733 by: Charles Cazabon
58741 by: Jon
58746 by: Charles Cazabon
58747 by: Peter Green

Traffic measurement
58714 by: Qmaillist
58757 by: Markus Stumpf

Re: NAKEDWIFE.EXE Virus - Filter available
58715 by: Erwin Hoffmann
58793 by: Kari Suomela
58794 by: Kari Suomela
58795 by: Todd Finney
58796 by: Kari Suomela

Re: Qmail Queue is out of control 
58716 by: Frédéric Beléteau
58720 by: Charles Cazabon
58723 by: Frédéric Beléteau
58724 by: Charles Cazabon
58730 by: Frédéric Beléteau
58735 by: Charles Cazabon
58752 by: Sean C Truman

Re: My qmail could not send to another host
58717 by: Charles Cazabon
58760 by: Edward J. Allen III

Re: mailer-daemon: editing error messages ?
58718 by: Charles Cazabon
58740 by: José Carreiro
58745 by: Charles Cazabon

Slowing down for Exchange servers
58721 by: Michael T. Babcock
58722 by: Charles Cazabon

OK I give up!!!
58725 by: Kirti S. Bajwa
58727 by: Charles Cazabon
58729 by: Kurth Bemis
58731 by: Kirti S. Bajwa
58732 by: Charles Cazabon
58734 by: Peter Green
58737 by: Kirti S. Bajwa
58753 by: Adam McKenna

Strange DNS problem
58726 by: Karl Monaghan

Re: apop and authenticated smtp
58736 by: Kris Kelley

CHECKATTATCH  -  qmail-inject...
58738 by: jsunday.parview.com
58749 by: Erwin Hoffmann
58750 by: Jesse Sunday

Re: Recommended patches for high-volume ezmlm server
58739 by: Mate Wierdl
58743 by: Don Rose

Re: qmail postfix
58742 by: Mate Wierdl
58754 by: Markus Stumpf

Re: Selective relaying -Nonstandard style, tough one.  Anyone got any ideas? A 
challenge!
58744 by: Michael T. Babcock

What is so sad... Re: OK I give up!!!
58748 by: Choz Sun
58751 by: Kurth Bemis
58761 by: Sean C Truman
58772 by: Kurth Bemis
58776 by: Sean C Truman

Is there anyway to have CHECKATTATCH delete the attatchment before rejecting it???
58755 by: Jesse Sunday

Q-Mail - pop3d log script
58756 by: Sean Coyle

Bare linefeeds not accepted by Qmail? - Vendor agrees
58758 by: Cameron Childress
58770 by: Cameron Childress

Re: Error 554 from hotmail
58759 by: Tim Hunter
58775 by: James R Grinter

News server
58762 by: Peter Mitev
58764 by: Charles Cazabon
58766 by: Aaron L. Meehan

traffic
58763 by: Qmaillist
58781 by: Sean Coyle
58791 by: Qmaillist

Re: Yet another weird POP3 problem
58765 by: Sean Coyle

logrotation
58767 by: Qmaillist
58768 by: Greg White
58769 by: Tim Hunter
58771 by: Edward J. Allen III

OK - I did not GIVE up - POP3 Problem!!
58773 by: Kirti S. Bajwa

Re: Connections Deferred
58774 by: James R Grinter

Fastforward not using users/assign (two questions)?
58777 by: Leander Berwers
58798 by: Gerrit Pape

supervised pop3d
58778 by: Todd A. Jacobs
58780 by: Tim Hunter
58782 by: Kris Kelley

pop3d needs SUID root?
58779 by: Todd A. Jacobs
58783 by: Chris Johnson
58784 by: Ricardo Cerqueira
58785 by: Aaron L. Meehan
58786 by: Mark Delany
58787 by: Mark Delany
58788 by: Aaron L. Meehan

Please help!!!
58789 by: Avery Brooks
58792 by: THCI Billing Department

qmail-scanner handoff to qmail-queue not going well
58790 by: Chris Garrigues

question with qmail-remote
58797 by: Rick Yang

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Hey,

Background - we have been running a simple newsletter on our site for over a
year now - we coded the adding/remove of people on the list ourself, as it
very customised for the site.  Up to now we have been sending the newsletter
by using qmail-inject for every email address on the list.  Now its got to a
stage which is too much (50,000 email addresses on the list).

I have been reading this list and some people has been talking about sending
the messages stright into qmail-queue and not qmail-inject.

Would this speed up everything for me - less load on the server, faster send
time?

Also someone else mentioned using qmail-remote to send the message, if it
was sent ok move onto the next email, if not put into queue - and 

Re: Recommended patches for high-volume ezmlm server

2001-03-10 Thread Peter van Dijk

On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 10:24:11AM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote:
 On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:48:22PM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote:
  On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:16:52PM -0800, Don Rose wrote:
   I am building a server to house several very high volume mailing lists
   (2-4M users each) and wanted to know which patches were recommended for
   use with ezmlm and ezmlm-idx, as well as qmail itself.
   
   I have read about the big-concurrency patch and that seems relevant, but
   I'm not sure about the others.
  
  No others are.
 
 I am theorizing: having millions of users means lots of bad addresses.
 So now, when ezmlm-warn sends out its gripes, it may mean a few
 hundred thousand separate messages in the queue.  Is that a load in
 the queue not to worry about?  

Those don't get send out all at the same time.

And your theory is broken - ezmlm subscriber lists are almost by
definition high-quality.

Greetz, Peter.



Re: Recommended patches for high-volume ezmlm server

2001-03-10 Thread Peter van Dijk

On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:40:53AM -0800, Don Rose wrote:
 Actually the lists are only announcement-type lists so users won't be
 posting, so the only messages that should be queued are like you said
 the bounce probes, and the messages the mods post to it.
 
 I was thinking of setting up 2 or 3 QMQP servers on a LocalDirector to
 handle the actual sending of the messages, so the original machine isn't
 too busy to recieve new mail.

Using a LocalDirector for QMQP is overkill. If one of your QMQP
servers is down, the 'clients' will use another one automatically.
This just means a slight delay, and nothing to worry about.

Greetz, Peter.



Re: logging

2001-03-10 Thread Pawel Garbowski

Hello,

* Kari Suomela [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010308 21:28] wrote:
 Thursday March 08 2001 19:27, Pawel Garbowski wrote to All:
 
   # Start Qmail-smtpd
   env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/bin" \
   tcpserver -v -p -x /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u514 -g512 0
   smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21  /dev/null 
 
  PG in this way for example:
 
  PG echo "connect from $TCPREMOTEHOST ($TCPREMOTEIP)" |
  PG /var/qmail/bin/splogger qmail
  PG exec /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
 
 Sorry, if this is a dumb question, but *where* would I add those lines? 
 /var/qmail/rc?

Check it out ;-)


Running qmail with tcpserver:

/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -x /etc/tcpserv.smtp.cdb -u 82 -g 81 0 smtp
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtp-wrapper

where qmail-smtp-wrapper is:

#!/usr/local/bin/bash
echo "connect from $TCPREMOTEHOST ($TCPREMOTEIP)" |
/var/qmail/bin/splogger qmail
exec /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd

greets,

pawel

-- 
pawel garbowski
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



Quota Exceeded and Procmail

2001-03-10 Thread Todd A. Jacobs

I applied the "permanent failure" quota patch from jhayward yesterday, and
realized that if the qmail-start is calling "|preline procmail" the patch
doesn't come into play. Does anyone know of a way for qmail to trap the
procmail "quota exceeded" error, and immediately bounce the message? I'd
like to avoid having these messages age in the queue, if possible.

-- 
Todd A. Jacobs
CodeGnome Consulting, LTD





Re: OK I give up!!!

2001-03-10 Thread Martin Randall

Hello Kurth

On 09-Mar-01, you wrote:


 
 yeppers - you forgot to read life with qmail. :-)
 
 
 Thanks for everybody's help. All of you folks are very helpful.
 
 thats why were here :-)
 
 
 
 Kirti


Don't just read it, print it out !!!

Install it from source as per the directions.

Regards...Martin
-- 
---
A guy sees a fat lady carrying a duck. The guy says, 
"What are you doing with that pig?" 
The fat lady snorts, "That's not a pig, it's a duck." 
The guy says, "I'm not talking to you, I'm talking to the duck."

 == Jack Carter





Virtual hosts

2001-03-10 Thread Joe



I have a qmail system running on RH6.2. User 
accounts are in a mysql database.I'm  using Ianpatterson's 
checkpassword-mysql-2.0.0pre1patch and 
takeshi'sqmail-1.03-mysql-0.6.6 patch. However, I have been trying 
to implement virtual domains by putting the domains name in the virtualhosts 
table( as per ians instructions) without success. Any mail sent to the virtual 
domain bounces with the error "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)". Anybody got an idea where i could be going 
wrong?

Joe


Re: What is so sad... Re: OK I give up!!!

2001-03-10 Thread Michael T. Babcock

Sean C Truman wrote:

 I can download Redhat for free and so can you. They sell support for the
 product so they
 can have funding to continue the development. Just as OpenBSD sells t-shirts
 and CD's to help fund the project.
 only difference is that OpenBSD hasn't started selling support yet.

We actually download it before installing it on clients machines, then inform
them of their options for support from us as well as from RedHat.

OpenBSD may not sell support, but I know several companies that do.  I hope
those companies donate some of that profit back to OpenBSD either as cash or by
hiring developers.

--
Michael T. Babcock (PGP: 0xBE6C1895)
http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/






Re: Quota Exceeded and Procmail

2001-03-10 Thread Greg White

On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 05:06:42AM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
 I applied the "permanent failure" quota patch from jhayward yesterday, and
 realized that if the qmail-start is calling "|preline procmail" the patch
 doesn't come into play. Does anyone know of a way for qmail to trap the
 procmail "quota exceeded" error, and immediately bounce the message? I'd
 like to avoid having these messages age in the queue, if possible.

Just a quick idea or two off the top of my head, but:

1. Modify procmail to exit status 100 on quota exceeded.

2. (Untested, but logically sound, methinks...) Use a shell conditional
to exit 100 on a procmail failure -- this depends on how likely other
procmail failures are, I guess -- if procmail fails for any reason, mail
will bounce 

Here's a slick little item from the qmail archives, that I found while
making sure I wasn't off base here:

http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/1998/04/msg00487.html

HTH,


-- 
Greg White
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent
revolution inevitable.
-- John F. Kennedy



Re: Virtual hosts

2001-03-10 Thread Pawel Garbowski

Hello,

* Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010310 16:53] wrote:
 I have a qmail system running on RH6.2. User accounts are in a mysql database.I'm  
using Ian  patterson's checkpassword-mysql-2.0.0pre1patch and takeshi's  
qmail-1.03-mysql-0.6.6 patch. However, I have been trying to implement virtual 
domains by putting the domains name in the virtualhosts table( as per ians 
instructions) without success. Any mail sent to the virtual domain bounces with the 
error "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)". Anybody 
got an idea where i could be going wrong?

Wrap yours lines...

put all yours virtualdomains in control/locals file

greets,

p.

-- 
pawel garbowski 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]




Re: Virtual hosts

2001-03-10 Thread Joe

Actually, i would like to put everything in a database.
Any ideas?
- Original Message -
From: "Pawel Garbowski" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: Virtual hosts


 Hello,

 * Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010310 16:53] wrote:
  I have a qmail system running on RH6.2. User accounts are in a mysql
database.I'm  using Ian  patterson's checkpassword-mysql-2.0.0pre1patch and
takeshi's  qmail-1.03-mysql-0.6.6 patch. However, I have been trying to
implement virtual domains by putting the domains name in the virtualhosts
table( as per ians instructions) without success. Any mail sent to the
virtual domain bounces with the error "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)". Anybody got an idea where i could be going wrong?

 Wrap yours lines...

 put all yours virtualdomains in control/locals file

 greets,

 p.

 --
 pawel garbowski
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]






qmail-pop3d bug

2001-03-10 Thread John R Levine

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 the RFC that it's supposed to report the wire size of each message,
i.e., the size using cr/lf as a line terminator, so the sizes it reports
are too small.

I gather nobody's ever reported this as a bug, and I expect that the only
thing that uses the size is the "don't download bigger than size X" option
for which it's close enough, but it's still wrong.

I use courier-imap, and its POP daemon does get the sizes right,
presumably by reading the files and adding the number of \n characters.

Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
Finger for PGP key, f'print = 3A 5B D0 3F D9 A0 6A A4  2D AC 1E 9E A6 36 A3 47 




Which program?

2001-03-10 Thread Alex Le Fevre

I'm trying to set up some cgi scripts that send e-mail
via the localhost (i.e. FormMail.pl from
www.worldwidemart.com/scripts). Near the top, it has
"path to e-mail program", where I put
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject. However, this doesn't
seem to be working.

There are two possibilities as I see them. First, it
calls the program with a -t option, which I'm not
familiar with. Second, I've configured qmail to work
with tcpserver, so I'm not sure if I'm even sending
the script to the right binary.

Are either of these possibilities right? Or am I
totally off-base? Thanks in advance for any help you
may be able to provide.

Alex Le Fevre

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Re: qmail-pop3d bug

2001-03-10 Thread Peter van Dijk

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 the RFC that it's supposed to report the wire size of each message,
 i.e., the size using cr/lf as a line terminator, so the sizes it reports
 are too small.

Yes, this is known.

 I gather nobody's ever reported this as a bug, and I expect that the only
 thing that uses the size is the "don't download bigger than size X" option
 for which it's close enough, but it's still wrong.
 
 I use courier-imap, and its POP daemon does get the sizes right,
 presumably by reading the files and adding the number of \n characters.

Yes. This behaviour is known. Fixing it, however, involves a *huge*
performance downgrade of qmail-pop3d.

I have studied the wording in RFC1939 heavily (section 11 "Message
Format" specifically) and I think it is unclear. 

'Usually, during the AUTHORIZATION state of the POP3 session, the POP3
server can calculate the size of each message in octets when it opens
the maildrop. . simply counts each occurance of this character in
a message as two octets.'

The concept is obvious. The design decision made in qmail-pop3d
however, is understandable, and I (as one of a few users who are aware
of this 'bug') can perfectly live with it.

The only other maildir MDA+pop3 implementation that I have played with
is Cistron's. Their Maildir MDA counts the number of lines (it's
passing the message through anyway) and adds a Lines: header. The
pop3d opens each message (something qmail-pop3d doesn't have to do
right now) and reads the headers to find the Lines: line. It then uses
this to calculate the LF-CRLF overhead. This is not as expensive as
counting the number of lines from the pop3d itself, but it does take
away a lot of the performance benefit of Maildir.

Greetz, Peter.



Re: Which program?

2001-03-10 Thread Peter van Dijk

On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 12:20:01PM -0800, Alex Le Fevre wrote:
 I'm trying to set up some cgi scripts that send e-mail
 via the localhost (i.e. FormMail.pl from
 www.worldwidemart.com/scripts). Near the top, it has
 "path to e-mail program", where I put
 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject. However, this doesn't
 seem to be working.
 
 There are two possibilities as I see them. First, it
 calls the program with a -t option, which I'm not
 familiar with. Second, I've configured qmail to work
 with tcpserver, so I'm not sure if I'm even sending
 the script to the right binary.
 
 Are either of these possibilities right? Or am I
 totally off-base? Thanks in advance for any help you
 may be able to provide.

/usr/sbin/sendmail and /usr/lib/sendmail should be symlinks to
/var/qmail/bin/sendmail on your system. Pointing FormMail.pl to
/usr/sbin/sendmail or /usr/lib/sendmail should work just fine.

Greetz, Peter.



Re: qmail-pop3d bug

2001-03-10 Thread Peter van Dijk

On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 09:21:46PM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote:
[snip]
 'Usually, during the AUTHORIZATION state of the POP3 session, the POP3
 server can calculate the size of each message in octets when it opens
 the maildrop. . simply counts each occurance of this character in
 a message as two octets.'

Note that the lack of counting those extra line-terminators means some
progress bars will proceed slightly past 100% when downloading
messages from qmail-pop3d.

Funny, but not annoying.

Greetz, Peter.



traffic again

2001-03-10 Thread Estephano

Hello again

How can I make qmail log the bytes when a user fetches his mail?

Thanks in advance



RE: Recommended patches for high-volume ezmlm server

2001-03-10 Thread Don Rose

So having multiple QMQP machines as opposed to a single machine wouldn't
deliver the mail faster?  We've already got the LocalDirector in place
doing other things and we wanted to utilize it for this if we could.

For this usage, its not a matter of redundant failover, but more a
matter of load balancing, so that 3 machines can deliver millions of
emails faster than a single one could.

Am I wrong in my thinking here?

-Original Message-
From: Peter van Dijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 3:53 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: Recommended patches for high-volume ezmlm server


On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:40:53AM -0800, Don Rose wrote:
 Actually the lists are only announcement-type lists so users won't be
 posting, so the only messages that should be queued are like you said
 the bounce probes, and the messages the mods post to it.
 
 I was thinking of setting up 2 or 3 QMQP servers on a LocalDirector to
 handle the actual sending of the messages, so the original machine
isn't
 too busy to recieve new mail.

Using a LocalDirector for QMQP is overkill. If one of your QMQP
servers is down, the 'clients' will use another one automatically.
This just means a slight delay, and nothing to worry about.

Greetz, Peter.



Re: qmail-pop3d bug

2001-03-10 Thread Scott Gifford

Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 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 the RFC that it's supposed to report the wire size of each message,
  i.e., the size using cr/lf as a line terminator, so the sizes it reports
  are too small.
 
[ ... ]
 Yes. This behaviour is known. Fixing it, however, involves a *huge*
 performance downgrade of qmail-pop3d.

A solution I have considered is storing the messages in wire format.
Especially for POP/IMAP-only clients, seems like it could be a
medium-sized performance win, since the line-conversion is done only
once, regardless of how many times the message is downloaded.  If the
message were kept in wire-format from SMTP through delivery, no line
conversion would be required at either end, and a larger performance
gain would be possible.

Has anybody tried this, or anything like it?

-ScottG.



[Fwd: Administrivia: Mailing List Software]

2001-03-10 Thread Andre Oppermann

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 want to suggest qmail/ezmlm
for running a large mailing list with a secure piece of software. And
he also is sick of handling bounces...

-- 
Andre


Please ignore those RedHat advisories that got approved earlier. Someone
is looping the list onto itself and those slipped by.

As its painfully obvious to many we have reached a point were we have
outgrown LISTSERV. We are looking for alternatives. Ideally we would like
to find a well written and security mailing list management software.

One of the issues we are trying to address is that of diverging interest.
We'd like to give people the capability to filter mailing list content
to their taste. I am not agreeable to the idea of breaking up the list
into smaller more focused pieces.

What I'd like is to give subscribers the ability to filter messages server
side or client side. In either case I should be able to tag messages
as belonging to one or more topics (e.g. Advisories / Linux / RedHat
or Chat / Unix) during the moderating process. One way to do this is to
add a new mail header to the approved message (e.g. X-Bugtraq-Topic).
Subscribers would then be able to tell the mailing list software what
topics they were interested in or if the mailing list is not capable
of this, at the very least they can filter messages client side via
procmail or similar facilities.

Open Source software is preferred as we may wish to modify it and
audit it. We are tired of L-Soft not responding to our needs or
actively developing LISTSERV.

An emulation layer for LISTSERV command would also be nice, as well
a software than understood more than a handle of bounced message formats.

So do any of you have any suggestions as to a piece of software that
may meet our needs?

--
Elias Levy
SecurityFocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/
Si vis pacem, para bellum





Redirect email!

2001-03-10 Thread Kirti S. Bajwa

I have two LINUX servers. One server ns1.mydomain.com is a DNS server
(djbdns). The second server ns2.mydomain.com handles email (qmail), web,
etc.

When I am logging onto ns1.mydomain.com, I get a message on the screen that
"You have new mail", even though I have no email application installed on
it. I think the message is a "system" generated message that I have "news"
account missing on the server or something similar.

How can I setup qmail so that any system message generated on the first
server ns1.mydomain.com are automatically directed to my mail server, which
is mail.mydomain.com (located on ns2.mydomain.com)?

Is this question for the dns mailing list??

Kirti 



Absolute path, plus a few other questions...

2001-03-10 Thread Avery Brooks

I am having a bit of confusion here,  is the absolute path to qmail:

/usr/sbin/sendmail

or

/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject


Thank you, I am still having an issue with qmail.  Qmail seems to be
running, but I can't send any email from a form.  If I send from PINE I am
ok.  There is NOTHING in the logs.

Does anyone know how to redirect the qmail log from the /var/log/message
file to maybe /var/log/qmail  ??

I do appreciate your time.

Avery Brooks




Re: Absolute path, plus a few other questions...

2001-03-10 Thread Brett Randall

On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject

This is more correct than /usr/sbin/sendmail

 Thank you, I am still having an issue with qmail.  Qmail seems to be
 running, but I can't send any email from a form.  If I send from
 PINE I am ok.  There is NOTHING in the logs.

Read http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ and setup your qmail with those
instructions. As to e-mailing from a form, try reading the code for
the form script and working out what it is doing. Try running a few of
the shell commands it calls by hand and seeing what the output of them
is.
-- 
"But what...is it good for?"

- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968,
commenting on the microchip



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 want to suggest qmail/ezmlm
 for running a large mailing list with a secure piece of software. And
 he also is sick of handling bounces...

Whilst bounce processing is indeed a sale point for ezmlm, much of
what Elias wants is above and beyond ezmlm. For example categorization
and subscription by category. Sure you can (painfully) make a sublist
for each category, as long as they don't invent and rename categories
on the fly.

Elias also talks about an emulation layer for LISTSERV. I've not heard
of anyone providing that for ezmlm.

This is not to under-rate ezmlm, as a base toolkit it would perform
admirably, but the BUGTRAQ dood wants a lot of value-adds that are not
part of ezmlm.


Regards.



Re: Redirect email!

2001-03-10 Thread Kurth Bemis

At 12:10 PM 3/10/2001, Kirti S. Bajwa wrote:

put the account on the second machine in your .qmail file...
did you read life with qmail yet?  i don't think that you did.as you'd 
know because its in there :-)

~kurth

I have two LINUX servers. One server ns1.mydomain.com is a DNS server
(djbdns). The second server ns2.mydomain.com handles email (qmail), web,
etc.

When I am logging onto ns1.mydomain.com, I get a message on the screen that
"You have new mail", even though I have no email application installed on
it. I think the message is a "system" generated message that I have "news"
account missing on the server or something similar.

How can I setup qmail so that any system message generated on the first
server ns1.mydomain.com are automatically directed to my mail server, which
is mail.mydomain.com (located on ns2.mydomain.com)?

Is this question for the dns mailing list??

Kirti




RE: How to add big-todo and big-concurrency patch ?

2001-03-10 Thread rthum

How can I check whether the patch was successfully installed or not ?

Rgds
Ronnie 
* qmail newbie *

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Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 5:38 PM
To: Thum Chee Weng, Ronnie
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Subject: RE: How to add big-todo and big-concurrency patch ?


On Fri, 9 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 It's a text file, rite. But the 1st few lines looks like a readme. why
 ? Can i just save the file as 'big-todo.103.patch' in my qmail server
 and run the patch.

Yes. Patch is pretty smart about that sort of thing. :)

-- 
Todd A. Jacobs
CodeGnome Consulting, LTD



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Re: Redirect email!

2001-03-10 Thread Todd A. Jacobs

On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Kirti S. Bajwa wrote:

 How can I setup qmail so that any system message generated on the
 first server ns1.mydomain.com are automatically directed to my mail
 server, which is mail.mydomain.com (located on ns2.mydomain.com)?

Put your desired address into your .qmail file.

-- 
Todd A. Jacobs
CodeGnome Consulting, LTD





RE: How to add big-todo and big-concurrency patch ?

2001-03-10 Thread Todd A. Jacobs

On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 How can I check whether the patch was successfully installed or not ?

Patch will exit with no errors.

-- 
Todd A. Jacobs
CodeGnome Consulting, LTD