Re: FORWARDING MAILl to aPO in sheltered Domain

1999-05-12 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Walter Danielsen wrote: hello, we started running a qmailer in a DMZ on a dedicated host to only forward Mail coming from the Internet to a Postoffice, set in the sheltered LAN on another host. (This PO uses a separate Domain). Whenever we mail from the outside, the

Re: how to delete messages from queue ?

1999-05-12 Thread Alex at Star
| "there are some messages waiting in the queue for a long time. | how can I delete them ?" | You can bounce them immediately by a sort of backwards FAQ 7.3: Just | make the message older than one week (GNU touch is handy for this). | - Harald I tried this (eg touch -d 1-jan-1999

Re: qmail-popup/qmail-pop3d logging patch?

1999-05-12 Thread Balazs Nagy
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Dan Peterson wrote: hi. at www.qmail.org(/top.html), there is a mention of a patch to qmail-popup and qmail-pop3d to make the log stuff to splogger, but the link is broken (it points to http://www.pharos.com.au/mbp/). anyone have any idea where i can pick this

Re: Fundamental flaws in List-Unsubscribe

1999-05-12 Thread Pavel Kankovsky
On 11 May 1999, D. J. Bernstein wrote: What the MUA should do is find the most recent subscription confirmation from the SOS list, and follow the instructions in _that_ message. This is why I proposed putting a List-ID field into every message; it lets the MUA reliably keep track of the

qmail Digest 12 May 1999 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 638

1999-05-12 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 12 May 1999 10:00:01 - Issue 638 Topics (messages 25436 through 25465): middleman for outgoing messages 25436 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25455 by: olli [EMAIL PROTECTED] smtproutes failover 25437 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lorens Kockum) help: adding reply-to

Re: qmail-popup/qmail-pop3d logging patch?

1999-05-12 Thread Andy Walden
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Balazs Nagy wrote: On Tue, 11 May 1999, Dan Peterson wrote: hi. at www.qmail.org(/top.html), there is a mention of a patch to qmail-popup and qmail-pop3d to make the log stuff to splogger, but the link is broken (it points to http://www.pharos.com.au/mbp/).

AutoTURN Startup Script Problem

1999-05-12 Thread Logics
Hi, I've just setup a new brand new box (very overspec'ed just for a relay box). Its job is purely to feed our smtp customers there mail, so i've installed qmail and ucpsi and serialmail. It says this: 3. Replace /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd with sh -c '

Re: qmail-popup/qmail-pop3d logging patch?

1999-05-12 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 5:48 am -0500 12/5/99,the wonderful Andy Walden wrote: It would be sweet to be able to log bad passwords when people try to get their mail like cistron radius does when they are trying to dial in. Paul Gregg's version of Checpassword does that http://www.tibus.net/pgregg/projects/ peter.

qmail and multiple interfaces

1999-05-12 Thread Claudiu Balciza
Given some multiple interfaced machine, I would like to know how can I restrict the qmail to send messages only on one of them. The real situation is that one interface has real ip address while the others can reach out through masquerade. Some mail servers use to check up the existence of the

Re: qmail-popup/qmail-pop3d logging patch?

1999-05-12 Thread Lars Uffmann
Balazs Nagy wrote: On Tue, 11 May 1999, Dan Peterson wrote: hi. at www.qmail.org(/top.html), there is a mention of a patch to qmail-popup and qmail-pop3d to make the log stuff to splogger, but the link is broken (it points to http://www.pharos.com.au/mbp/). anyone have any idea

Re: AutoTURN Startup Script Problem

1999-05-12 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 12:17:11PM +0100, Logics wrote: Unless there's a typo, you're missing a closing quote (') in your qmail-smtpd invocation, and that might cause a problem. Other than that, it looks just fine to me. Hi, I've just setup a new brand new box (very overspec'ed just for a

Re: AutoTURN Startup Script Problem

1999-05-12 Thread Logics
that was a cut and paste problo :) On Wed, 12 May 1999, Anand Buddhdev wrote: On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 12:17:11PM +0100, Logics wrote: Unless there's a typo, you're missing a closing quote (') in your qmail-smtpd invocation, and that might cause a problem. Other than that, it looks just

Re: qmail-popup/qmail-pop3d logging patch?

1999-05-12 Thread Balazs Nagy
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Lars Uffmann wrote: Balazs Nagy wrote: This tcpserver opens stderr to print its log messages and opens a pipe to stdin-stdout for qmail-popup's connection. In fact there isn't a way to do logging right now. Try commenting out line 91 in qmail-popup.c:

Startup line for qmail-smtpd and autoturn

1999-05-12 Thread Logics
Hi, Can anybody who is using autoturn please email there full startup line for tcpserver, qmail-smtpd. Thanks, Chris.

Re: AutoTURN Startup Script Problem

1999-05-12 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 01:31:00PM +0100, Logics wrote: Then perhaps some more information from the logs would help. Also, have you tried to run maildirsmtp manually, to see if it works OK? that was a cut and paste problo :) On Wed, 12 May 1999, Anand Buddhdev wrote: On Wed, May 12, 1999

Re: Fundamental flaws in List-Unsubscribe

1999-05-12 Thread Fred Lindberg
On Wed, 12 May 1999 10:53:32 +0200 (MET DST), Pavel Kankovsky wrote: What the MUA should do is find the most recent subscription confirmation [...] Murphy's laws, this means some change WILL happen.) What happens if the instructions in the most recent message the user has received (!= the

Re: qmail-popup/qmail-pop3d logging patch?

1999-05-12 Thread Lars Uffmann
Balazs Nagy wrote: On Wed, 12 May 1999, Lars Uffmann wrote: Balazs Nagy wrote: This tcpserver opens stderr to print its log messages and opens a pipe to stdin-stdout for qmail-popup's connection. In fact there isn't a way to do logging right now. Try commenting out line 91

Re: qmail-popup/qmail-pop3d logging patch?

1999-05-12 Thread Balazs Nagy
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Lars Uffmann wrote: Balazs Nagy wrote: Why DJB put this line in? If you run this program from command line, 0,1,2 are open. If you run from inetd, it dups 2 and 1 fom 0 (eg. 2 is alive). Tcpserver does a good emulation of command line. I don't know why this line

Re: Simple SMTP question

1999-05-12 Thread Matthew Harrell
: This is a simple SMTP question but I'm not sure if it's defined the same for : all SMTP servers. : : It looks to me to have more to do with DNS... Well, I knew what the DNS servers did, but I was mainly curious as to whether the SMTP server cached the address the first time it looked it

General mail/dial-up question

1999-05-12 Thread Wade
I know this isn't qmail specific and I apologize, but I know a LOT of people on this list will know the answer. I have looked through several RFCs (probably the wrong ones!) and still can't find a definite confirmation of how I think this works. (Can anyone recommend a good overview of the

Re: General mail/dial-up question

1999-05-12 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 09:38:18AM -0500, Wade wrote: My very fuzzy understanding of how this works: Windoze connects to the dial-up server and uses the dial-up server's port 25 to connect to the qmail server's port 25 to send/receive mail. Is that it, or am I missing the big picture -

interesting bounce

1999-05-12 Thread Pavel Kankovsky
no comment -- Forwarded message -- Return-Path: Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 29893 invoked from network); 12 May 1999 11:26:25 - Received: from kerberos2.troja.mff.cuni.cz (195.113.28.3) by argo.troja.mff.cuni.cz with SMTP; 12 May 1999 11:26:25 -

Re: how to delete messages from queue ?

1999-05-12 Thread Alex at Star
I tried this (eg touch -d 1-jan-1999 /var/qmail/queue/mess/15/26902) and also restarted qmail (for luck) but the file is still there. I also checked the log - sure enough, it had tried to send but failed: May 12 08:34:14 1999 926494454.122750 delivery 17: deferral:

RE: General mail/dial-up question

1999-05-12 Thread Wade
Duh... That's what I started out thinking, and I let someone convince me that 25 was bi-directional and handled both on a LAN. Excuse me while I go Snipe hunting. :) -Original Message- From: Peter van Dijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] The users connect thru the dial-up server (which

Re: interesting bounce

1999-05-12 Thread Russell Nelson
Actually, it's completely uninteresting. It's the typical mail-loop prevention message that you'll get from qmail. It happens whenever someone tries to download mail from a server using POP3, and deliver the mail by re-injecting it. Works fine whenever the RFC822 addresses match the RFC821

Somebody please help!

1999-05-12 Thread Damir Cosic
I am running Red Hat 5.2 and tried to replace sendmail with qmail but experienced some problems. Installation went pretty smoothly, but when it came to test, it failed. Well, maybe failure is not correct word, since I didn't get an error message, but I didn't get what I expected either. I

QMAIL definitely violates PIPELINING specification ...

1999-05-12 Thread DUGRES Hugues, I.T. manager at C.Q.E.
What do you think of that ??? As I complained to sorena (the editor of ZMailer) of errors 500 generated when there was a connection in between Qmail and Zmailer, here was their answer... Any idea ? Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: QMAIL definitely

Re: interesting bounce

1999-05-12 Thread Pavel Kankovsky
On 12 May 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: Actually, it's completely uninteresting. It's the typical mail-loop prevention message that you'll get from qmail. It happens whenever someone tries to download mail from a server using POP3, and deliver the mail by re-injecting it. Works fine

Re: qmail and multiple interfaces

1999-05-12 Thread Michael Graff
"Claudiu Balciza" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Given some multiple interfaced machine, I would like to know how can I restrict the qmail to send messages only on one of them. The real situation is that one interface has real ip address while the others can reach out through masquerade. Some

Re: QMAIL definitely violates PIPELINING specification ...

1999-05-12 Thread Dave Sill
"DUGRES Hugues, I.T. manager at C.Q.E." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you think of that ??? I don't believe it. yep, it is definite, QMAIL violates RFC 2197, and should *NOT* claim support for PIPELINING. MAIL From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] BODY=8BITMIME RCPT To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 ok 250 ok

rcpthosts

1999-05-12 Thread jasonf
Ok, I sort of asked this question before, but I'm going to try again, this time with a little more info. I try to use fetchmail to download mail from another server. While running fetchmail, it dies saying "fetchmail: can't even send to user!" (user being whoever I'm logged in as. Later, I

a question on repacking queue

1999-05-12 Thread olli
Hi. If I need to repack immediately send mail I should killall -ALRM qmail-send. I do this then I got dialup user that wish to get mail via smtp. But what about big ISPs that have many dialup clients a big spool? Is it possible anyhow (I know that it is possible w/ sendmail) not to repack all

Re: rcpthosts

1999-05-12 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I sort of asked this question before, but I'm going to try again, this time with a little more info. Good idea. :-) I try to use fetchmail to download mail from another server. While running fetchmail, it dies saying "fetchmail: can't even send to user!" (user

Re: a question on repacking queue

1999-05-12 Thread Dave Sill
olli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I need to repack immediately send mail I should killall -ALRM qmail-send. I do this then I got dialup user that wish to get mail via smtp. But what about big ISPs that have many dialup clients a big spool? You should use AutoTURN from the serialmail package.

More Info (was Re: rcpthosts)

1999-05-12 Thread jasonf
You still haven't given enough information. What's in rcphosts, locals, and your .fetchmailrc (less passwords, of course)? How about a sample of one of those fetchmail-daemon bounces, including the complete header? -Dave For the time being, my system only has a dialup connection, so all

Re: qmail-popup/qmail-pop3d logging patch?

1999-05-12 Thread Scott Schwartz
Lars Uffmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | To be compatible with inetd qmail-popup HAS to dup STDERR 2 STDIN. Or, it can be called from a trivial wrapper that does the dup for it.

Re: More Info (was Re: rcpthosts)

1999-05-12 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the time being, my system only has a dialup connection, so all that's in my rcpthosts and locals is localhost.localdomain. You should add "the-i.net" to rcphosts and put "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:jason" in virtualdomains. Also, create a ~jason/.qmail-jasonf or

Re: rcpthosts

1999-05-12 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 12:41:48PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I sort of asked this question before, but I'm going to try again, this time with a little more info. I try to use fetchmail to download mail from another server. While running fetchmail, it dies saying "fetchmail:

Re: More Info (was Re: rcpthosts)

1999-05-12 Thread Sam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As for the fetchmail bounce, I've attatched the complete message. [ snip ] --om-mani-padme-hum-2139-2123-926460989 Content-Type: MESSAGE/DELIVERY-STATUS; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Description: Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost

Re: More Info (was Re: rcpthosts)

1999-05-12 Thread jasonf
[ snip ] --om-mani-padme-hum-2139-2123-926460989 Content-Type: MESSAGE/DELIVERY-STATUS; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Description: Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost Final-Recipient: rfc822; jason Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 16:16:29 -0600 (MDT)

forwarding question

1999-05-12 Thread Praniti Lakhwara
I have a question regarding forwarding. I ahve a mailing address set up which is supposed to forward to 230 accounts. but when I ad dthe 230 email addresses in its forward to box...and submit it comes back and says Value for "flags" is too large how do I set up teh FLAGS value to take all

Re: [PATCH] MAIL FROM:... 2nd. ed

1999-05-12 Thread Jason Welsh
sorry to be ignorant, but how exactly do i install this patch? It is supposed to stop spammage, right? im using the rpms for qmail 1.03 from the main qmail web page. -- === | Jason Welsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If you think

RE: setting relay clients

1999-05-12 Thread Wilson Fletcher
I think this may be your problem. See the following from the man page for hosts.allow ? The access control software consults two files. The search stops at the first match: o Access will be granted when a (daemon,client) pair matches an entry in the

RE: setting relay clients

1999-05-12 Thread Wilson Fletcher
On Tuesday, May 11, 1999 1:15 PM, Dave Sill [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Jari Tenhunen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone succesfully configured selective relay with tcp_wrappers ?? Yes, but it's not supported. One problem is that tcp_wrappers has to be built with a certain

RE: rcpthosts

1999-05-12 Thread Wilson Fletcher
There is a Newbie's guide to relaying that answers questions relating to this problem. All people with the rcpthosts problem should read it. http://www.palomine.net/qmail/relaying.html Also FAQ point #5.4 is most important for using tcp-wrappers and inetd On Wednesday, May 12, 1999

Re: qmail-popup/qmail-pop3d logging patch?

1999-05-12 Thread Dan Peterson
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 02:30:28PM -0400, Scott Schwartz wrote: Lars Uffmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | To be compatible with inetd qmail-popup HAS to dup STDERR 2 STDIN. Or, it can be called from a trivial wrapper that does the dup for it. actually, what about a syslog solution? i

Re: Q: Is it possible to bind 2 diffrent qmail instances on 2 diffrent network interfaces

1999-05-12 Thread D. J. Bernstein
Connected to 199.246.67.190 but my name was rejected./Remote host said: 501 HELO requires a valid host name as operand: 'web1.cheetahmail.com' rejected from www.cheetahmail.com remote address [206.132.30.31]: Host name does not match remote address. That server is violating RFC 1123, section

Re: Is the double bounce's envelope sender wrong?

1999-05-12 Thread D. J. Bernstein
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However the choice of an "ilegal" address seems to me a little unfortunate, even more since it's hard coded. The address #@[] complies with RFC 822. It's used for notifications to the local postmaster. It isn't meant to be transmitted between machines. ---Dan

Re: [Q] qmail speed again

1999-05-12 Thread D. J. Bernstein
Marc Slemko writes: You put a limit of x connections in. One remote system uses all or nearly all of them. No one else can connect. Wrong again. New connections continue to be accepted and added to the kernel's (large) table of TCBs. Each of the old connections receives a message from the

Re: trouble opening info/8/

1999-05-12 Thread D. J. Bernstein
Michael Legart writes: After our crashed this comes in our log: Apr 10 23:32:06 penguin qmail: 923779926.882161 warning: trouble opening info/0/306659; will try again later (and like 15 of them) What does this meen? This probably means that you're using Linux and didn't mount your

Qmail 2.0

1999-05-12 Thread Gary Barnden
Connected to 199.246.67.190 but my name was rejected./Remote host said: 501 HELO requires a valid host name as operand: 'web1.cheetahmail.com' rejected from www.cheetahmail.com remote address [206.132.30.31]: Host name does not match remote address. That server is violating RFC 1123,

Re: Embedded linefeed epidemic

1999-05-12 Thread D. J. Bernstein
Chris Johnson writes: I'm seeing more and more of qmail-smtpd exiting with status 256, which usually indicates that the remote host is trying to send mail with bare linefeeds. Maybe, maybe not. I didn't realize anybody was trying to extract useful information from the exit code of

Re: OFMIP drives me crazy

1999-05-12 Thread D. J. Bernstein
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 12tocdbm /etc/name.txt | /cdb-0.5/cdbmake /etc/name.cdb name.tmp Don't do that. Use the ofmipname program in the mess822 package, and make sure you pass /etc/name.cdb to ofmipd as a command-line argument. ---Dan

Re: qmail/serialmail queue names

1999-05-12 Thread D. J. Bernstein
Note that there's a separate serialmail mailing list. Tom Furie writes: For readability and manageability I would prefer to create the queues by hostname, You can give the maildir whatever name you want, as long as you set up an appropriate symbolic link from the IP address. ---Dan

Re: Is this normail? (qmail-rspawn)

1999-05-12 Thread D. J. Bernstein
Silver CHEN writes: qmailr 2244 0.0 9.1 24048 23684 p0- I 8:14PM 3:06.28 qmail-rspawn No, it isn't normal. It shouldn't be possible for the RSS to go much higher than a megabyte. Exactly what OS are you using? ---Dan

Re: QMAIL definitely violates PIPELINING specification ...

1999-05-12 Thread D. J. Bernstein
DUGRES Hugues, I.T. manager at C.Q.E. writes: What do you think of that ??? I think that patches are a support nightmare. What you're using isn't qmail, so don't call it qmail, and don't ask the qmail list for help. ---Dan

Re: Fundamental flaws in List-Unsubscribe

1999-05-12 Thread D. J. Bernstein
Fred Lindberg writes: It should come with posts, as the info may change. If the information changes, there should be a new confirmation message. There's lots of useful stuff in a confirmation message. The user should be able to immediately pull up the latest confirmation message for each list.