Re: sending mail with a script question

2003-04-05 Thread Ken McGlothlen
David Banning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I am running a php program in a browser which eventually compiles some files | and emails them to a person of their choosing. The problem is that the system | identifies the browser user as nobody. | | I send the mail using a line something like; | | c

Re: Testtool for Sendmail

2003-02-25 Thread Ken McGlothlen
Andreas Widerøe Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I'm looking for a FreeBSD tool that will automatically test my smtp server | for relaying. I'm looking for something like the webpage described here: | http://www.freebsddiary.org/sendmail.php (Testing the relay). I tend to use external testi

Re: Removing emails from an email file automatically.

2003-02-19 Thread Ken McGlothlen
Dragoncrest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Is there a simple way to remove a single email from a mail file using an | automated script of some kind? Well, it's better to remove them on their way in, with a tool like procmail. I do have a set of tools I wrote to help one person get out from under

Re: procmail - unsafe for mailing to programs

2003-02-18 Thread Ken McGlothlen
David Banning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | david$ /usr/david/.forward: line 1: "| /usr/local/bin/procmail || exit 75"... |Address [EMAIL PROTECTED] is unsafe for mailing to programs and later | $ cat .forward | "| /usr/local/bin/procmail || exit 75" The manpage suggests "|exec /usr/l

Re: email addresses used for lists [was: L0phtcrack]

2002-12-24 Thread Ken McGlothlen
"Jimi Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | That way when I start getting Viagra or penis enlargment offers (and God | knows I need 'em ;)) addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I can voice a loud | and provable complaint. Well, unfortunately, you might be falsely accusing Best Buy, since it's li

Re: Getting Perl scripts to work as mail filters

2002-12-19 Thread Ken McGlothlen
| Bloated in the sense of complexity. My script is one file; I install it by | changing one line in /etc/mail/aliases. Procmail cannot compete with that. It's . . . an illusory simplicity, I suspect. But that's okay; it's something everyone has to learn once in a while. :) Procmail has some r

Re: Getting Perl scripts to work as mail filters

2002-12-18 Thread Ken McGlothlen
"Mxsmanic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | What about appending directly to the mailbox file under /var/mail/$USER with | the script? I'd recommend against that. Using the sendmail interface is just as easy programmatically as appending it to /var/mail/whatever, plus you don't run into any messy i

Re: Getting Perl scripts to work as mail filters

2002-12-18 Thread Ken McGlothlen
"Mxsmanic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | What do I have to do to make a simple Perl script filter incoming mail for a | mailbox? I wrote a script that just reads standard input and writes it to | standard output, then put it in my home directory, then changes | /etc/mail/aliases to point to it, l

Re: hosting more than one website on a cable connection (DHCP)... and using BIND

2002-12-13 Thread Ken McGlothlen
Bsd Neophyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I have a cable connection that uses DHCP, giving me a lease for about 2 | minutes. Usually the address stays the same, but at times it does change. | | I want to host two domain names to start. I also would like to have the | possiblity to host more.

Re: Returned message

2002-10-25 Thread Ken McGlothlen
Paolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | About changing ISP, it's very difficult in Italy because interbusiness is the | Internet provider of Telecom Italia, that's the last mile actual monopolist | and, to get ADSL connection, we all need to deal with it. | | Let's say you are excluding near 50% of i

Re: I need some help...

2002-09-27 Thread Ken McGlothlen
"C T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | [...] I am in the process of forming a non-profit organization that takes old | computers (286's etc...), setting them up for email, word processing, | internet browsing, spread sheets, and them giving them to people who can't | afford computers. | | One of my

Re: rmuser

2002-09-17 Thread Ken McGlothlen
"John Bolster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | After I was done the user's home directory was gone and the name was gone | from the system but now there are files that belong to "1002" (which was this | user's number) that show up in repquota. I don't know how to find these files | or why they were

scp and non-shell accounts.

2002-07-17 Thread Ken McGlothlen
I have one system where my users have shell accounts and hang out on. This has an Apache server installed as a staging server. I have another system which is the production webserver. I want my users to be able to transfer files to the production webserver using scp or sftp, but not to have she