host name re-writing?

1999-01-09 Thread anoah
i have a mail server, ares.pfeiffer.edu i do not wish it to accept mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] i wish it to accept mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] this works very well, control/me says: pfeiffer.edu control/rcpthosts says: localhost pfeiffer.edu i use tcpd and the RELAYHOSTS env. var to fight spam.

Re: pine and qmail-inject

1999-01-09 Thread Justin Bell
On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 10:19:19AM +0530, Mohanan P G wrote: # Hi, # # Well.. # I thought sendmail in /var/qmail/bin was only a temporary measure # or so and I was supposed to use qmail-inject finally. I could not # figure out how. I might not have understood the design well. # Please correct

Re: pine and qmail-inject

1999-01-09 Thread Mohanan P G
Hi, I will leave the things as they are then, and just drop the idea. :) Thanks --pgm On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Justin Bell wrote: -On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 10:19:19AM +0530, Mohanan P G wrote: -# Hi, -# -# Well.. -# I thought sendmail in /var/qmail/bin was only a temporary measure -# or so and I

Re: MRTG?

1999-01-09 Thread Peter Samuel
On 8 Jan 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: Is anybody using MRTG to track the performance of qmail? Any code they wish to share? I use it just to track the number of message sent in the last 5 minutes (the MRTG cycle time). I use qmailanalog-0.70 to grok the log. I also use daemontools to monitor

simple check of attachment ?

1999-01-09 Thread Sigi
Hello has anybody a simple check if a mail comes with an attachment? I need a dotqmail way to bounce mail with attachment. Thanks. Sigi.

Re: Is it safe to change virtualdomains on dialup

1999-01-09 Thread Lars Uffmann
On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 11:58:27PM +0100, Mirko Zeibig wrote: Hello, Hello yall, first I want to thank DJB for his great packages. I recently installed qmail to a server connected to the ISP via ISDN-dialup. To deliver mail I installed serialmail as well, having the ISP mailer as smarthost

Re: host name re-writing?

1999-01-09 Thread Mirko Zeibig
anoah wrote: i fixed this by making DNS say that this machines fqdn is jfh.pfeiffer.edu, and made ares.pfeiffer.edu the cname instead now all is well. why do smtp mails re-write the hostname? I think you have to have a MX record pointing to both ares.pfeiffer.edu and jfh.pfeiffer.edu

Re: queue for remote site

1999-01-09 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 02:30:03PM -0500, Sam wrote: On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Graphic Rezidew wrote: I have a friend that want's me to queue mail for him as a secondary MX for when he has to reboot his machine is offline. Where do I get info on doing this for him? Nowhere. Put his domain

Re: simple check of attachment ?

1999-01-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
Probably the easiest thing to do is to check for a content-type of multipart/.* . This would be good at stopping things that might get executed by MUAs. It won't stop large messages that may have encoded binaries included as text. On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 12:04:07PM +0100, Sigi [EMAIL

install problem

1999-01-09 Thread bob
I get the following error installing qmail-1.03-6.i386.rpm (rpm -U /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/qmail-1.03-6.i386.rpm) failed dependencies: sendmail conflicts with qmail-1.03-6 I have read FAQ's ,various install docs and searched qmail archives. I found 1 reference to this

Re: building a free mail service

1999-01-09 Thread phil
Alejandro Flores arranges the bits to say: Im interested in build a free mail service just like hotbot or Rocket mail i heard that qmail can help me on this ... Does anybody know how can i begin to build this application. If you don't have an initial idea how to go about building a given

Re: building a free mail service

1999-01-09 Thread bob
checkout the following url:www.profuso.com/EN/products.html Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alejandro Flores arranges the bits to say: Im interested in build a free mail service just like hotbot or Rocket mail i heard that qmail can help me on this ... Does anybody know how can i

Re: install problem

1999-01-09 Thread Mark Luntzel
try rpm -U --force /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/qmail-1.03-6.i386.rpm the force is cool. On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 11:14:39AM -0500, bob wrote: -} -} I get the following error installing qmail-1.03-6.i386.rpm (rpm -U -} /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/qmail-1.03-6.i386.rpm) -} -} failed dependencies:

Re: install problem

1999-01-09 Thread bob
--force command results in same error message. Bob Mark Luntzel wrote: try rpm -U --force /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/qmail-1.03-6.i386.rpm the force is cool. On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 11:14:39AM -0500, bob wrote: -} -} I get the following error installing qmail-1.03-6.i386.rpm (rpm -U -}

selective relaying

1999-01-09 Thread Karellen
Hello. I just installed qmail after promoting it wherever I went on IRC, even freshmeat.net. Yes I had a good reason to do that. Now I got a real problem. How can I allow selective realying *without* blocking ports as sugested in the FAQ and *without* moving the smtpd to a "secret" port as DJB

Re: install problem

1999-01-09 Thread Mark Luntzel
its stuff like this that bugs me, about rpm. and its why I always compile from source.yeah, I gave you the wrong answer. my apologies. On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 12:50:12PM -0500, bob wrote: -} --force command results in same error message. -} -} Bob -} -} Mark Luntzel wrote: -} -} try rpm -U

Re: selective relaying

1999-01-09 Thread Chris Johnson
FAQ: ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/qmail/faq/servers.html#authorized-relay On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 08:16:43PM +0200, Karellen wrote: Hello. I just installed qmail after promoting it wherever I went on IRC, even freshmeat.net. Yes I had a good reason to do that. Now I got a real problem.

Re: install problem

1999-01-09 Thread bob
Wrong answers, I have lots of those ;-) The reason I install rpms instead of source is because I use RedHat and in the past since I'm new to Linux I have had problems understanding what the source really wants me to. I have many years of experience with OS's and networks but after working

Re: selective relaying

1999-01-09 Thread Karellen
On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 01:35:43PM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote: FAQ: ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/qmail/faq/servers.html#authorized-relay Already did that. As I said before, I *don't* want to block the smtp port with tcp_wrappers or ucspi-tcp or whatever.

Re: selective relaying

1999-01-09 Thread Lars Balker Rasmussen
On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 09:28:47PM +0200, Karellen wrote: On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 01:35:43PM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote: FAQ: ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/qmail/faq/servers.html#authorized-relay Already did that. As I said before, I *don't* want to block the smtp port with tcp_wrappers or

Re: install problem

1999-01-09 Thread Luca Olivetti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I get the following error installing qmail-1.03-6.i386.rpm (rpm -U /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/qmail-1.03-6.i386.rpm) failed dependencies: sendmail conflicts with qmail-1.03-6 Well, english is not my native language, but this message

Re: selective relaying

1999-01-09 Thread Karellen
There's an example in the FAQ that states I can use tcp wrappers. I don't know where I'm mistaken: /etc/hosts.allow tcp-env: 193.230.247.73, 192.168.221.0/255.255.255.0: export RELAYCLIENT="" /etc/hosts.deny ALL:ALL man 5 hosts_access *snip* daemon_list : client_list [ : shell_command ] *snip*

Re: selective relaying | fixed

1999-01-09 Thread Karellen
On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 10:03:52PM +0200, Karellen wrote: Ok. Thank you for your support. I managed to fix it and it seemed to be my tcp_wrappers misdocumentation. In case anyone is intersted here are the examples: /etc/hosts.allow tcp-env: 193.230.247.73, 192.168.221.0/255.255.255.0: export

Re: elm

1999-01-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Vince Vielhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A look at the man page doesn't show a variable for the mailbox location. It appears that it's compiled in. It does, however, accept a command line switch to the mailbox. elm uses $MAIL. Things could have changed, this man page is for an older

host names- cont.

1999-01-09 Thread m. allan noah
many thanks to those who responded. i have made the non-existant host have an mx record for my mail server. the prob now is that all users who had the non-existant host as their smtp gateway will fail, since it no longer exists in dns. oh well, i hate the stand-alone windows environment that

Re: install problem

1999-01-09 Thread Mate Wierdl
You have to remove sendmail b/c there are files in the qmail rpm which conflict with files in the sendmail package. If you want, you can save your /etc/aliases, but unfortunately, the sendmail executable in /usr/sbin would be overwritten by the qmail rpm if you use the --nodeps option to

Re: install problem

1999-01-09 Thread Mate Wierdl
You missed the step in the README which says: stop sendmail, and remove the sendmail rpm. (I am talking about the readme in the ftp dir where you got the qmail rpm from). On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 12:50:12PM -0500, bob wrote: --force command results in same error message. Bob Mark Luntzel

Re: install problem

1999-01-09 Thread Mate Wierdl
On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 10:26:11AM -0800, Mark Luntzel wrote: its stuff like this that bugs me, about rpm. and its why I always compile from source.yeah, I gave you the wrong answer. my apologies. I know, it is really horrible that rpm tells you that the rpm you are about to install would

problem with local-local test

1999-01-09 Thread sammon
I'm trying to install qmail on a home LAN with no nameservers and hostnames hardcoded. I've done most of the installation and now I'm working my way through the TEST.deliver instructions. When I try to do "echo to: brian | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject", it uses a destination address of [EMAIL