Re: alias and automated mail-news

1999-01-07 Thread Mate Wierdl
Mirko Zeibig writes: Hello, I now use this alias-definition to post every mail to a list to a newsgroup as well. Any ideas to do this more efficient? Thanx Mirko ** /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-all ** | { echo "Newsgroups: local.announce"; cat - } |

Re: /etc/aliases - fastforward question

1999-01-07 Thread Mate Wierdl
On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 10:08:14PM -, Russell Nelson wrote: [snip - what are you doing, writing a qmail book? ;-)] Caution: Once you create a users/assign file, and build the users/cdb database using qmail-newu, it stops deliveries based on /etc/passwd. When you add

Re: /etc/aliases - fastforward question

1999-01-07 Thread Mate Wierdl
It does not press on at all. I just tested it. It is also "documented" in the FAQ/4.9, last sentence. I now see that it is not what is documented in the FAQ; it is about the effect of qmail-pw2u. Mate

Re: Fw: Anonymous Qmail Denial of Service

1999-01-07 Thread johnjohn
On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 09:01:23AM -, D. J. Bernstein wrote: I've sent a response to bugtraq explaining how to identify the uid that filled up the queue. My message also explains a much more powerful series of four attacks against all MTAs, including the IBM Secure Mailer. These attacks

FW: mail attachment losing content type in delivery failures

1999-01-07 Thread Ramesh Panuganty
The problem was because the qmail files were not under /var/qmail/bin/ as expected. Otherwise, the fix works just fine. Thanks. Ramesh | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 08:29 PM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: /etc/aliases - fastforward question

1999-01-07 Thread Abel Lucano
On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Priit Poldoja wrote: If you running fastforward program , it not read the file /etc/aliases but read /etc/aliases.cdb file. Also you need create in /var/qmail/alias file .qmail-default . In this file you write only one line | fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb I hope

Re: /etc/aliases - fastforward question

1999-01-07 Thread Mate Wierdl
That's the way the code in qmail-lspawn is written, however qmail-pw2u insists on inserting an ``alias'' user which matches any address not otherwise found. This does not look bad default; Indeed, does not the inclusion of this alias makes sure that if a user is not in assign (and

Envelope-Test

1999-01-07 Thread Mirko Zeibig
Sorry, just a test for Envelope-To: in fetchmailrc Mirko -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] surfto:http://sites.inka.de/picard

Envelope-Test2 (Please ignore)

1999-01-07 Thread Mirko Zeibig
Sorry, but my provider told me to try envelope-to for delivery of this list via fetchmail -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] surfto:http://sites.inka.de/picard

Re: Fw: Anonymous Qmail Denial of Service

1999-01-07 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 12:52:25AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 09:01:23AM -, D. J. Bernstein wrote: I've sent a response to bugtraq explaining how to identify the uid that filled up the queue. My message also explains a much more powerful series of four

Hardware selection help

1999-01-07 Thread Sean Rietze
OK, little advice. Getting ready to order a Dell Poweredge 2300 machine to run qmail and about 35,000 pop accounts on. Like some advice on the setup of the disks: Base machine will be dual 400 with 512MB RAM running RH 5.2 My questions are about the mail spool and queue areas. My thoughts

Re: Hardware selection help

1999-01-07 Thread Patrick Greenwell
On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Sean Rietze wrote: OK, little advice. Getting ready to order a Dell Poweredge 2300 machine to run qmail and about 35,000 pop accounts on. Like some advice on the setup of the disks: Base machine will be dual 400 with 512MB RAM running RH 5.2 You'd be better off with

mailing list outage

1999-01-07 Thread D. J. Bernstein
Several messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] were incorrectly bounced today, thanks to a silly configuration error. I apologize for the inconvenience. It's safe to resend the messages now. ---Dan

Re: Hardware selection help

1999-01-07 Thread Erik Nielsen
Sean Rietze wrote: My thoughts have been dual-controller DPT card (32MB cache onboard) with 4 9GB drives on one channel for the mailboxes and operating system and on the other channel a really fast 2 to 4.5GB SCSI drive for the queue. Anyone see any problems with this? Well, how are you

Re: Hardware selection help

1999-01-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In what way would you break this into two separate machines? Would you be using NFS or Coda to do some network mounting scheme, or would you just split the users down the middle assigning half to one box and half to the other? At 03:13 PM 1/7/99 -0800, you wrote: On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Sean

Re: Hardware selection help

1999-01-07 Thread Sean Rietze
Let me explain a little more. We are planning in the next month on buying an Alteon switch for layer 4 load balancing and a Netapp filer for maildir storage. My plan is for 3 dell 2300 servers used as front-end machines running both pop/smtp. They will all NFS to the NetApp for the common

Re: Hardware selection help

1999-01-07 Thread Patrick Greenwell
On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In what way would you break this into two separate machines? Would you be using NFS or Coda to do some network mounting scheme, or would you just split the users down the middle assigning half to one box and half to the other? Well, since NFS +

Re: Hardware selection help

1999-01-07 Thread Sebastian Mindling
Sam wrote: On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Sean Rietze wrote: So, when I order these machines my question remains the same. Do we run the queue on one fast 10,000 RPM SCSI drive or do we go with mulitple heads by using a raid controller card running 3 disks on Raid 0? Does it matter? I figure

Control files

1999-01-07 Thread Seek3r
OK, I have a couple of questions. I want @anything.myvirtualdomain.com to get recieved, my virtualdomains file is like this myvirtualdomain.com:seek3r I read somewhere that I could put a . in front of it like this: .myvirtualdomain.com:seek3r and that would do what I want, but that doesnt not

Re: Control files

1999-01-07 Thread Todd Larason
On 990107, Seek3r wrote: I send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it was getting bouced, and saying that it could not deliver to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I dont know where the www came from. Any ideas about this? Bizarre. myvirtualdomain.com doesn't even seem to be assigned! -- ICQ UIN: 124151944

Re: Control files

1999-01-07 Thread Sebastian Mindling
Seek3r wrote: OK, I have a couple of questions. I want @anything.myvirtualdomain.com to get recieved, my virtualdomains file is like this myvirtualdomain.com:seek3r I read somewhere that I could put a . in front of it like this: .myvirtualdomain.com:seek3r and that would do what I want,

Re: Control files

1999-01-07 Thread Seek3r
ok fine, you want real details ;p I send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it was getting bouced, and saying that it could not deliver to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I dont know where the www came from. Any ideas about this? I didnt want to us the real address, because I made a fix my making my

Re: Control files

1999-01-07 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 05:50:20PM -0800, Seek3r wrote: ok fine, you want real details ;p I send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it was getting bouced, and saying that it could not deliver to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I dont know where the www came from. Any ideas about this? I didnt want to us

Control files take two!

1999-01-07 Thread Seek3r
Sorry for not including the real info, I have this domain in production, and you guys probably wouldnt be abot to test it properly because I had made a temp fix, by setting my virtualdomains file to read as follows: ntmasters.net:seek3r mail.ntmasters.net:seek3r www.ntmasters.net:seek3r I have

Re: Control files

1999-01-07 Thread Seek3r
@IN CNAME www.ntmasters.net. @IN MX 10 mail wwwIN A 209.85.33.100 IN MX 209.85.33.100 mail IN A 209.85.33.100 IN MX 10 mail OK, so your saying that the first line here needs to

Re: Control files

1999-01-07 Thread Chris Garrigues
From: "Seek3r" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 18:05:22 -0800 @IN CNAME www.ntmasters.net. @IN MX 10 mail wwwIN A 209.85.33.100 IN MX 209.85.33.100 mail IN A 209.85.33.100 IN

Re: Control files

1999-01-07 Thread Seek3r
I want @anything.myvirtualdomain.com to get recieved, my virtualdomains fil e is like this myvirtualdomain.com:seek3r I read somewhere that I could put a dot in front of it like this: .myvirtualdomain.com:seek3r Include both the line with the dot and the one without. OH I got it

Re: Control files

1999-01-07 Thread Ludwig Pummer
Umm...putting IPs in MX records is a big no-no. I have a little DNS experience, so here's what I'd change it to: @ IN A 209.85.33.100 @ IN MX 10 mail www IN CNAME ntmasters.net. IN MX 10 mail mailIN CNAME

Re: Control files

1999-01-07 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 06:05:22PM -0800, Seek3r wrote: @IN CNAME www.ntmasters.net. @IN MX 10 mail wwwIN A 209.85.33.100 IN MX 209.85.33.100 mail IN A 209.85.33.100 IN MX 10

FormMail

1999-01-07 Thread Graphic Rezidew
anyone know if FormMail from Matt's script archive, will with Qmail? I took a quick look and don't see why it wouldn't but I don't know. scripts archive = http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/ -- The word "spine" is, of

Re: Control files

1999-01-07 Thread Seek3r
Thanks for all the help everyone!!! I got everything working great now. Seek3r -Original Message- From: Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Seek3r [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Qmail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, January 07, 1999 6:31 PM Subject: Re: Control files On Thu, Jan 07, 1999

Re: FormMail

1999-01-07 Thread kbo
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 09:06:35PM -0600, Graphic Rezidew wrote: anyone know if FormMail from Matt's script archive, will with Qmail? I took a quick look and don't see why it wouldn't but I don't know. scripts archive = http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/ Yep, we use it here. It

Re: Hardware selection help

1999-01-07 Thread Mate Wierdl
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 03:57:03PM -0700, Sean Rietze wrote: OK, little advice. Getting ready to order a Dell Poweredge 2300 machine to run qmail and about 35,000 pop accounts on. Is this Hardware RAID? Our sysadm could never make RH work on our Dell server with RAID. Dell was less than

Re: Control files

1999-01-07 Thread Mate Wierdl
virtualdomains file read as follows: ntmasters.net:seek3rntmasters mail.ntmasters.net:seek3rntmasters www.ntmasters.net:seek3rntmasters Do the MX records for these domains point at your machine? (Is your machine mail.ntmasters.net? If it is, then why is it a virtualdomain; if it is

I was wrong.

1999-01-07 Thread Russell Nelson
A week or so ago, I argued that Dan Bernstein could and should have done more to help Redhat ship qmail. I thought about it some more, and I was wrong. I think the right principle to apply is the same one applied to traffic accidents: the last person who could have prevented the accident is at