Re: Help ASAP: queued message, disk full, general chaos

1999-02-22 Thread Russell Nelson
Chris Hardie writes: Howdy; please help ASAP: We're running Qmail on FreeBSD 2.2.8. Someone sent a 17 MB message to one of our users. /var, where qmail is located, is only a 30 MB partition, and with that message sitting in the queue, only has about 3 MB left on it. In the

Re: Howto... disabled user, receiving mail

1999-02-22 Thread Allen Versfeld
Well, First thing that comes to mind is to disable their account by simply changing their password. This way, the account remains active, but no-one can get in. Then, use the vacation software (as discussed previously on the list) to send the relevant message. If they want to reconnect, ask

Re: vacation (again!)

1999-02-22 Thread Peter Samuel
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Samuel Dries-Daffner wrote: We had the "other" vacation working under IRIX 5.3 but since we have moved to 6.5 it doesn't work. Our qmail config is the same, so I can't really say why it doesn't work. I have read both the IRIX (sendmail) vacation and the Peter Samuel

Re: need some spam/relay help

1999-02-22 Thread Lorens Kockum
On the qmail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't recommend that anyone run an open relay and I'll continue to tell people not to and to refer them to FAQ 5.4, but I'm becoming increasingly sympathetic to people who think they need to. Whether the problem can be fixed without some kind of

Re: Qmail mailing list and ReplyTo:

1999-02-22 Thread Peter Haworth
Russell Nelson said: Tim Pierce writes: Sounds great! I'm all ears. Where do we submit bug reports for Microsoft Internet Mail, Microsoft Outlook, and WebTV? The problem (as I see it) is that there is no requirements or even guidelines for MUAs. How's about we get all the mailing

Re: Still subscribed?

1999-02-22 Thread Mate Wierdl
On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 06:45:10PM +, Robin Bowes wrote: Scott Schwartz wrote: Robin Bowes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I got a bounce message, and my feed of the list seems to have dried | up... | | Am I still on it? Hang on, I'll fly the Taelon shuttle to Chicago and

Re: jimbo@fake.com

1999-02-22 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | I'm running qmail on my little Linux box with a couple of folks using it | as there postoffice. I've noticed in the maillog a continueing entry | for messages to someone called "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". The qmail pop logs: |

Re: jimbo@fake.com

1999-02-22 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 04:13:13PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running qmail on my little Linux box with a couple of folks using it as there postoffice. I've noticed in the maillog a continueing entry for messages to someone called "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". The qmail pop logs:

SOLVED AGAIN HELP: NOT SOLVED ! ! looks like a SYN attack

1999-02-22 Thread Eric Dahnke
Thanks Dave, That solved it. We're running Linux kernel 3.0.26, and I'm sure it is protected from SYN attacks. Here is a summary of what happened. - port 25 was not responding because /var was full. - I removed most of the old logs and rebooted. - port 25 came back, but only for a few minutes.

Re: HELP: NOT SOLVED ! ! looks like a SYN attack

1999-02-22 Thread Sam
Eric Dahnke writes: And I've got 759 kernel warning possible SYN flood from (always unique IPs) on our.mail.server.com since sometime early on the 21st. Is this really a DoS attack, and if so how can we stop it? Make sure that your log files are cycled frequently enough to purge the logs,

Re: jimbo@fake.com

1999-02-22 Thread das
A little follow up. (David here again). I went back through my maillog files and found the first entry was a mail send to one of our domains users by [EMAIL PROTECTED] the qmail program responded with "Connected to our server but_sender_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:_551_[EMAIL

Re: jimbo@fake.com

1999-02-22 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have folks that use my service from other domains such as "att.net" and "bellatlantic.net" . These are the folks that are going to be doing "relaying"? If so how do I get their varying IP addresses to put in the tcp.smpt file since that

Re: Pine, Qmail, and time zones

1999-02-22 Thread Chuck Milam
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: Nor is it generated by qmail. Date: header fields are only generated in two places within qmail: In qmail-inject, which always uses time zone -, and in predate. Both of them print only the numeric time zone. So this is a pine and/or

Remote delivery per user

1999-02-22 Thread Philip Wall
What I have. I have a private LAN that uses Qmail as the mail server on Linux. What we would like to do is control who on this private LAN can send email outside of the network, say out onto the internet. But still allow all users to exchange email with the other users on this mail server.

Re: Pine, Qmail, and time zones

1999-02-22 Thread Fred Lindberg
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:17:24 -0600 (EST), Chuck Milam wrote: Of course, the guys over on the Redhat list insisted that this was neither a Redhat Linux nor a Pine problem. It may be configuration problem. Look at where /etc/localtime links. I use UTC on the computer and pine puts .. + (

Re: Help ASAP: queued message, disk full, general chaos

1999-02-22 Thread Robin Bowes
It says: "If the environment variable DATABYTES is set, it overrides databytes." ...which I knew already. I'm not sure where this would be set; presumably using a rule in the cdb file used by tcpserver? This would only set the limit based on IP address, would it not? I was wondering how it

Re: Help ASAP: queued message, disk full, general chaos

1999-02-22 Thread Russell Nelson
Robin Bowes writes: I was wondering how it could be done on a per-user basis? So are we. SMTP is an unauthenticated protocol. A number of people have devised ad-hoc methods for identifying users, but none of them are wholly satisfactory. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help ASAP: queued message, disk full, general chaos

1999-02-22 Thread Mark Delany
At 10:07 PM 2/22/99 +, Robin Bowes wrote: It says: "If the environment variable DATABYTES is set, it overrides databytes." ...which I knew already. I'm not sure where this would be set; presumably using a rule in the cdb No. You set the limit in the environment variable.

POP3 and SMTP Questions

1999-02-22 Thread MountaiNet Tech Support
I just finished installing Qmail on a new server and it seems to be running great, but I need to do a few more configuration things. My server is using Maildir. Is it possible for Qmail to spawn a users Maildir upon the first time they receive a message, or does it have to be created when the

From line processing.

1999-02-22 Thread rok
Hello! As you can all see my "From:" field is incorrect, my correct "From:" should be "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I have the following setup: 192.168.1.x LAN boxes with various OSes, only two of them run Linux, the server and my workstation. Server does mail exchange with LAN workstations via

Re: Qmail, Majordomo, and virtual domains

1999-02-22 Thread Chuck Milam
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, John R. Levine wrote: If this sounds interesting, let me know and I'll pack up my scripts. There's a perl script to handle the bounces, and a shell script that creates the lists and makes the .qmail files. John: Any luck with this? I'm in a state of eager

RE: POP3 and SMTP Questions

1999-02-22 Thread Stefan Paletta
MountaiNet Tech Support wrote/schrieb/scribsit: Is it possible for Qmail to spawn a users Maildir upon the first time they receive a message, or does it have to be created when the account is activated? With the following delivery instruction before the maildir delivery, the maildir will

qmail Digest 22 Feb 1999 11:00:00 -0000 Issue 559

1999-02-22 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 22 Feb 1999 11:00:00 - Issue 559 Topics (messages 22263 through 22270): Still subscribed? 22263 by: Robin Bowes [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22264 by: Scott Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22265 by: Robin Bowes [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22266 by: "Fred Lindberg" [EMAIL