how to use mess822

1999-08-25 Thread x
hi,all      Would you please tell me: How to start ofmipd ( mess822 ) at boot ?   thanks   wen   

Re: .deb installation anyone?

1999-08-25 Thread Ol.i Th.uns
>Hi all, > >I am sure this is a FAQ, so if there is a FAQ please just point me to >it, but can anyone point me towards a .deb installation of qmail >somewhere? There is a qmail-src 1.03 in potato (unstable) (I think 1.02 in slink / Debian 2.1). Just do a 'apt-get install qmail-src', 'build-qmail'

Question on big-todo patch

1999-08-25 Thread Yusuf Goolamabbas
Hi, My todo directory has grown to around 7000 files and I am considering using the big-todo patch. I have never used it Do I just stop qmail, apply the patch and reinstall or do I have to munge the queue. If I have to munge the queue, what is the magic incantation to keep exisiting messages safe

How do I route email?? smtproute??

1999-08-25 Thread kayleigh
Hi I had a spamming problem and there is a host that could not be protected so I block all smtp traffic to that server. Problem is that the server could not received emails, so I set qmail on my serverA so that it will receive emails for serverB. How do I route all emails to that serverB using

Re: Qmail dying

1999-08-25 Thread Sam
Fred Jones writes: > Qmail keeps dying completely, leaving no qmail processes running, or partly > dying where the processes look fine, but no mail is sent remotely. > > The logs show nothing out of the ordinary, and just stop when it stops. > > Can someone tell me what steps to take to find o

Qmail dying

1999-08-25 Thread Fred Jones
Qmail keeps dying completely, leaving no qmail processes running, or partly dying where the processes look fine, but no mail is sent remotely. The logs show nothing out of the ordinary, and just stop when it stops. Can someone tell me what steps to take to find out what's causing this? -- Fred

Re: Qmail relay.

1999-08-25 Thread Mirko Zeibig
Pardon me, of course it should better be sth. like this: your-domain.com:first.your-domain.com your-domain.com:secnd.your-domain.com Regards Mirko

Re: Qmail relay.

1999-08-25 Thread Mirko Zeibig
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 07:45:47PM +0200, Stefan Krantz wrote: > We have two identical internal mail servers (behind fw), and we've got > qmail machines (on a dmz) as relays. We want qmail to send every relayed > email to both internal servers, instead of one of them. > Is it possible? Maybe you c

Re: Patched source for pine 4.1 w/ Maildir support

1999-08-25 Thread Kai MacTane
Text written by James Smallacombe at 04:13 PM 8/21/99 -0400: > >After a coupla days of screwing around and a pointer from Ragnar Kjorstad, >I finally got the various patches to work with pine 4.1. If Russ still >wants to put it up on the qmail site, or if anybody else wants to check it >out, the

Re: Performance hack

1999-08-25 Thread Andre Oppermann
Oh well, I'm a little bit stupid today... Forgot to check the real patch into cvs. This is the actual working patch I used for my tests: % cvs diff -u -r1.1 qmail-remote.c Index: qmail-remote.c === RCS file: /usr/home/opi/CVS/qmail-

Re: hmm.. is this right?

1999-08-25 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Racer X ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm getting a lot of bounces to postmaster from some dumb mail client that > isn't setting the To: or From: headers. I tested this out: > > telnet localhost 25 > MAIL FROM: <> > RCPT TO: <> > DATA > blah > . > > qmail-smtpd accepts that, and then delivers

RE: hmm.. is this right?

1999-08-25 Thread Greg Owen
> I'm getting a lot of bounces to postmaster from some dumb > mail client that isn't setting the To: or From: headers. > I tested this out: > > telnet localhost 25 > MAIL FROM: <> > RCPT TO: <> I can't speak to the "RCPT TO", but "MAIL FROM: <>" is legal and is the method RFC 821 sugg

hmm.. is this right?

1999-08-25 Thread Racer X
I'm getting a lot of bounces to postmaster from some dumb mail client that isn't setting the To: or From: headers. I tested this out: telnet localhost 25 MAIL FROM: <> RCPT TO: <> DATA blah . qmail-smtpd accepts that, and then delivers a double bounce to postmaster. I'd rather it just not accep

.deb installation anyone?

1999-08-25 Thread Sander Wissing
Hi all, I am sure this is a FAQ, so if there is a FAQ please just point me to it, but can anyone point me towards a .deb installation of qmail somewhere? Thanks Sander Sander Wissing Jaguar 22 #4039 - Dreamfar Summer is coming to South Africa!

Re: sendmail style virtual domains

1999-08-25 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 2:14 pm -0400 25/8/99,the wonderful Eric Davis wrote: >In sendmail 8.9 I can use the following line in sendmail Virtual Domains >:$1@ >This would basically redirect the mail from the first domain for the >user to the user account at the other domain that I want it forwarded >to. In browsing th

Re: sendmail style virtual domains

1999-08-25 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In sendmail 8.9 I can use the following line in sendmail Virtual Domains >:$1@ >This would basically redirect the mail from the first domain for the >user to the user account at the other domain that I want it forwarded >to. In browsing through the qmail docutmentation

sendmail style virtual domains

1999-08-25 Thread Eric Davis
In sendmail 8.9 I can use the following line in sendmail Virtual Domains :$1@ This would basically redirect the mail from the first domain for the user to the user account at the other domain that I want it forwarded to. In browsing through the qmail docutmentation I do not see anything to do tha

ezmlm/qmail sending multiple copies??

1999-08-25 Thread Theodore Cekan
Hi, I have an interesting problem. I have a client using ezmlm to email about 15,000 subscribers on a weekly basis. This is the second week they sent their email. The first week went fine, logs showed everyone received their email. Second week many ppl got this weeks, and a copy of last weeks

Performance hack

1999-08-25 Thread Andre Oppermann
Attached is a small performance hack to qmail-remote. It simply disables the delayed ack for tcp connections. Speeds the beginning of the data transfer phase up by about 0.5 seconds. The effect is a little bit depending on your platform. On FreeBSD it almost doubles the number of messages that ca

Qmail relay.

1999-08-25 Thread Stefan Krantz
Hi! Is it possible to configure qmail to send relay messages to more than one destination? We have two identical internal mail servers (behind fw), and we've got qmail machines (on a dmz) as relays. We want qmail to send every relayed email to both internal servers, instead of one of them. Is it

RE: tcpserver and qmail-pop3d

1999-08-25 Thread Michael Boyiazis
Title: RE: tcpserver and qmail-pop3d I do use it for my smtp to control relay, but is it actually used in pop3d?  It appears that it is ignored or not applicable to pop3d. mike b. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]  NetZero Mail/Sys/Network Admin > > man tcpserver > > No, you don't h

SQWebmail....compilation problems...(0.20)

1999-08-25 Thread Martin Paulucci
Hi, I'm sorry if this is out of the limits of the list, but I couldn't find any list for SQWebmail... After I ran the .configure like this: ./configure --with-vchkpw=yes --enable-maxpurge=30 --with-htmllibdir=/mail/webmail --enable-cgibindir=/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin --enable-hostname=webmail -

Case Sensitive

1999-08-25 Thread qmail
Subject: RE: Case Sensitive On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Daniluk, Cris wrote: Hi all of you, Thank you all very much for this discussion I learned a lot from that. The buttom line of it all is: I USE QMAIL and I cannot use capital letters in my local email accounts. I accept that as the way it all wor

Re: why does qmail eat my From headers?

1999-08-25 Thread Joel Uckelman
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Hmm. That is curious. I'm running 1.03, no patches. Is there any way I could > >have configured qmail to cause this? If not, do you have any > >suggestions about what could be happening here? > > Russ Nelson pointed out that fetchmail and sendmail had both had a

Re: qmail-pw2u doesn't work.

1999-08-25 Thread Dave Sill
"Hawke Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >When I run qmailpw-2u, it just sits there doing nothing, I have to CTRL-C it >to get back to the prompt, and it never modifies the assign file. >Suggestions please? qmail-pw2u operates on standard input and output, so do something like: qmail-pw2

qmail-pw2u doesn't work.

1999-08-25 Thread Hawke Robinson
When I run qmailpw-2u, it just sits there doing nothing, I have to CTRL-C it to get back to the prompt, and it never modifies the assign file. Suggestions please? -hawke

How to filter passing messages with procmail ..?

1999-08-25 Thread peter . hrobar
Hi, I would like to use procmail with qmail for the following purposes : I'm using qmail only for relaying mail messages. [ thus no local mail users are exist, except the postmaster and some test users ] I would like to use procmail to filter the incoming [ actually passing ] mails and do differ

RE: Sending mail

1999-08-25 Thread William Johnson
Title: RE: Sending mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>In /var/qmail/control there is a file where you can put >>the domains you want to send mail. >WRONG! That's *RCPT*hosts: hosts you're willing to *receive* mail for. Misleading. The rcpthosts file dictates what domains are valid in a RCPT

Re: Modifying the queue: what is safe ?

1999-08-25 Thread Martin Ouwehand
Peter van Dijk writes: ] kill -9 qmail-send IS a bad thing tho.. Well, isn't it what would happen at shutdown if qmail-send takes to much time to exit after the SIGTERM ? On most systems I know of, shutdown sends a SIGKILL (signal 9) to all processes a measly 5 seconds after sending them SIGTER

Re: Modifying the queue: what is safe ?

1999-08-25 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 10:25:32AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Peter van Dijk wrote: > > [snip] > > Removing messages from under qmail-send's ass should not give any problems > > theoretically, just lots of warnings in the logs. > > > > kill -9 qmail-send IS a bad thi

Re: Modifying the queue: what is safe ?

1999-08-25 Thread thomas . erskine-dated-dd2c94bfc8abe2e3
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Peter van Dijk wrote: [snip] > Removing messages from under qmail-send's ass should not give any problems > theoretically, just lots of warnings in the logs. > > kill -9 qmail-send IS a bad thing tho.. you should always just kill > qmail-send and _wait_ for it to exit. If y

Re: Rejecting selected users

1999-08-25 Thread Dave Sill
Dmitry Niqiforoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it possible to configure qmail to reject mail from selected >(outside) users. For example, I have 'kraft-s.ru' domain and I'd >like to deny user [EMAIL PROTECTED] to send any messages to our >users. Any suggestions? Yes, see: http://Web.In

Re: Rejecting selected users

1999-08-25 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 07:19:01PM +0500, Dmitry Niqiforoff wrote: > Hello! > > Is it possible to configure qmail to reject mail from selected > (outside) users. For example, I have 'kraft-s.ru' domain and I'd > like to deny user [EMAIL PROTECTED] to send any messages to our > users. Any sugges

Rejecting selected users

1999-08-25 Thread Dmitry Niqiforoff
Hello! Is it possible to configure qmail to reject mail from selected (outside) users. For example, I have 'kraft-s.ru' domain and I'd like to deny user [EMAIL PROTECTED] to send any messages to our users. Any suggestions? Regards, Dmi

Re: supervise questions

1999-08-25 Thread Dave Sill
Matthew Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >: >: 2. Check out Dan's new daemontools-0.60 package and see if >: >: ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/daemontools/fghack.html >: >:works for you. > >Will do. Looks like I'm way out of date since I'm only using 0.53. No, 0.60 just came out to

New daemontools (0.60)

1999-08-25 Thread Martin Paulucci
Hi! Somebody know how to change the init script for qmail to use daemontools .60, because they way they work changed a lot...and I'm having trouble moving from the old one. Thanks!..

virtualdomain, .qmail and signals

1999-08-25 Thread david . jorrin
Hi qmail users, I have configured a virtual domain for processing the messages through a filter and then re-send them. I used a classic solution with a .qmail file: virtualdomains: debug:debug .qmail-debug-default: | myfilter | qmail-inject -f "$SENDER" -- "$DEFAULT" This solution

Re: supervise questions

1999-08-25 Thread Matthew Harrell
: : 1. Check if you can prevent your syslogd from daemonizing; see the manpage. Got it. That didn't even occur to me when I was looking at it. : 2. Check out Dan's new daemontools-0.60 package and see if : : ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/daemontools/fghack.html : :works for you.

New versions of daemontools (was: supervise questions)

1999-08-25 Thread Dave Sill
Note that there's a new version of daemontools available: >From: "D. J. Bernstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: daemontools 0.60 available >Date: 25 Aug 1999 02:31:14 - > >A new version of daemontools is available through > > http://pobox.com/~djb/daemontools.html >

Re: supervise questions

1999-08-25 Thread Sergei Kolobov
Matthew Harrell wrote: > created the directory /var/run/syslog and ran > > supervise /var/run/syslog /usr/sbin/syslogd > > An instance starts up but then I get a whole screen full of > > syslogd: Already running. Did you check to see if syslogd was already started from system startup scri

Re: supervise questions

1999-08-25 Thread Eric Lammerts
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Matthew Harrell wrote: > created the directory /var/run/syslog and ran > > supervise /var/run/syslog /usr/sbin/syslogd Syslogd puts itself in the background. Supervise then thinks the syslogd died and starts another. Use the -n switch of syslogd to avoid auto-backgroundin

supervise questions

1999-08-25 Thread Matthew Harrell
Hi, I'm having problems with supervise and I was hoping someone could offer me some quick advice on how to fix it. I have a machine where syslogd keeps dying so I'm attempting to use supervise to control keeping it up. As root I created the directory /var/run/syslog and ran supervise

Re: tcpserver and qmail-pop3d

1999-08-25 Thread Robbie Walker
man tcpserver No, you don't have to use the -x option to tcpserver. It's up to you. At 03:13 AM 8/25/99 , you wrote: >Is there a reason why I have the check of the rules.cdb in my pop3d >line of tcpserver other than to slow everything down? Theoretically >we allow pop from anywhere (and the rul

Re: Sending mail

1999-08-25 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> The message can not be sent because one of the recipient was >> rejected by the server >> Protocol SMTP, server response 553 sorry that domain isn't in my >> list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) . > >In /var/qmail/control there is a file where you can put

Re: why does qmail eat my From headers?

1999-08-25 Thread Timothy L. Mayo
As 2 others correctly pointed out, qmail-inject with remove and replace your From: header if you have certain options turned on in the QMAILINJECT environment variable. (My oversight earlier.) In addition to the fetchmail and sendmail hosts pointed out, do you have QMAILINJECT set in your enviro

Re: why does qmail eat my From headers?

1999-08-25 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hmm. That is curious. I'm running 1.03, no patches. Is there any way I could >have configured qmail to cause this? If not, do you have any >suggestions about what could be happening here? Russ Nelson pointed out that fetchmail and sendmail had both had a hand on the ex

Re: Sending mail

1999-08-25 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 04:03:01PM +0800, Joel Gatdula Pira wrote: > > I was able to set up pop3 and my students can get and read their email using > their POP client. > > However, they can not send to other host but mine. > > Below is the error message: > > The message can not be sent becaus

Re: Sending mail

1999-08-25 Thread Al Jul
> The message can not be sent because one of the recipient was rejected by the server > > Protocol SMTP, server response 553 sorry that domain isn't in my list of allowed >rcpthosts (#5.7.1) . In /var/qmail/control there is a file where you can put the domains you want to send mai

Re: [vmailmgr] Announcements on qmail mailing list?

1999-08-25 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:31:04AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I also agree entirely with this. vmailmgrd deserves more recognition and > use, the qmail home page description "IP based" wording does need to be > improved if possible, because I avoided vmailmgrd for many months think

RE: [vmailmgr] Announcements on qmail mailing list?

1999-08-25 Thread jj
Hi, I also agree entirely with this. vmailmgrd deserves more recognition and use, the qmail home page description "IP based" wording does need to be improved if possible, because I avoided vmailmgrd for many months thinking it irrelevant to my needs. I don't know if you get a word limit, but "whi

Re: Modifying the queue: what is safe ?

1999-08-25 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 10:03:32AM -, Martin Ouwehand wrote: > One of our user did something strange (and he wasn't available for comment, > as the press says), some kind of double loop, where each mail to him > would generate two replies (fresh ones, i.e. no way for qmail to detect > loops or

Modifying the queue: what is safe ?

1999-08-25 Thread Martin Ouwehand
One of our user did something strange (and he wasn't available for comment, as the press says), some kind of double loop, where each mail to him would generate two replies (fresh ones, i.e. no way for qmail to detect loops or to many hops) that would bounce, etc. Anyhow, the queue was full of mai

qmail Digest 25 Aug 1999 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 739

1999-08-25 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 25 Aug 1999 10:00:01 - Issue 739 Topics (messages 29359 through 29420): Creating aliases 29359 by: Joel Gatdula Pira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 29360 by: "Bongo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 29361 by: Chris McCarthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 29362 by: Joel Gatdula Pir