RE: Auth. SMTP-after-POP

1999-10-01 Thread Roger Wrethman
not at all. You just want to check for mail, before you send mail. -Original Message- From: Paul Gilmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 5:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Auth. SMTP-after-POP Of course you might have to send _your

Re: Auth. SMTP-after-POP

1999-10-01 Thread Paul Gilmore
Of course you might have to send _yourself_ a message so that you are guaranteed to always have mail to receive. *wink* - Original Message - >From: Eric Dahnke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sure just put fetchmail or your pop application before serialmail in > your ppp/ip-up scripts. > > - Eric

Blocking large mails

1999-10-01 Thread Diego Puertas
Greetings to everyone How can I make qmail stop receiving large mails. Thanks

Re: Qmail permissions

1999-10-01 Thread Darren Foo
Oct 2 00:52:18 ult qmail: 938825538.614975 delivery 13: deferral: Unable_to_open_.qmail:_access_denied._(#4.3.0)/ Oct 2 00:52:18 ult qmail: 938825538.615167 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 This is what I get in my logs. Is 4.3.0 error a read execution permission error? Scott Schwartz w

Re: Qmail permissions

1999-10-01 Thread Scott Schwartz
Darren Foo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I get this error: qmail-inject: fatal: read error. It's too bad that it doesn't print useful context with error messages, but you can probably find out where it is failing by running qmail-inject and /usr/lib/sendmail under ``truss -f''.

Re: Using form to send through qmail

1999-10-01 Thread Sam
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Darren Foo wrote: > I assume /var/qmail/bin/sendmail the same as qmail-inject. Everytime I No, they're slightly different. I haven't yet been buggered enough to be motivated into looking what the differences are, but there are some differences in addition to different

Qmail permissions

1999-10-01 Thread Darren Foo
I'm running qmail on a solaris box. For some reason users other than root can't send mail. I followed the INSTALL.ids file but to no avail. Also, I've setup qmail twice on FreeBSD boxes with no problems at all. The only thing I noticed that was weird was that the solaris box doesn't have a

Re: Bad return-path header, majordomo-inject, and rabid monkeys

1999-10-01 Thread Giles Lean
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999 14:01:16 -0500 (EST) Chris Hardie wrote: > Hi. We're having some problems with qmail and majordomo. I've read the > FAQs on using the two together, the docs on majordomo-inject, the man > pages for qmail-inject and qmail-header, and I still don't quite know what > to do. H

Re: the ERROR: "SMTP Connection closed by foreign host."

1999-10-01 Thread Timothy L. Mayo
The problem is your first line in tcp.smtp.cdb. Remove the :deny. You want to allow the connections but NOT set the RELAYCLIENT environment variable which is the default behaviour. On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Ed Weinberg wrote: > I am trying to run qmail on my firewall. Until now we were picking up >

the ERROR: "SMTP Connection closed by foreign host."

1999-10-01 Thread Ed Weinberg
I am trying to run qmail on my firewall. Until now we were picking up the mail by pop using fetchmail. qmail on the sending machine tells me that the firewall started to respond, then dropped. When I telnet from inside the firewall to port 25 it works fine. When I telnet to port 25 from outs

Re: Auth. SMTP-after-POP

1999-10-01 Thread Eric Dahnke
Sure just put fetchmail or your pop application before serialmail in your ppp/ip-up scripts. - Eric Andreas Fiedler escribió: > > Hi, > > I have a problem with sending mail (of course :-) > > My new provider uses SMTP-after-POP. This means I have to receive Mail via POP > before I can send o

Auth. SMTP-after-POP

1999-10-01 Thread Andreas Fiedler
Hi, I have a problem with sending mail (of course :-) My new provider uses SMTP-after-POP. This means I have to receive Mail via POP before I can send outgoing mail. The provider uses it to reduce spammers. Is there any way I can realize that with Qmail/serialmail? I didn't find a authenticatio

RE: Is inetd really unreliable?

1999-10-01 Thread David Harris
I didn't think I'd evoke such a response. Here goes... I'm happy with my inetd service and tcpserver for my qmail-smtp. I'm running a few low-load services through inetd and it's doing fine. Perhaps if pop3 or imap become a larger load when I deploy web based email, I'll run them with tcpserver

Re: Is inetd really unreliable?

1999-10-01 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:39:06AM -0700, Johannes Erdfelt wrote: > Also, the fact qmail's binaries are so light weight, it would take ALOT > of connections to effectively do that. They'd probably run out of port > space on the IP they're attacking from before it really started to > seriously affe

Re: Is inetd really unreliable?

1999-10-01 Thread James J. Lippard
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999 12:58:15 -0600 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It also goes against "the UNIX way" -- each task does one small and > easily definable task. Why else have programs like "sort" or "uniq"? > Why not build those into "ls" as well? Oh, and "cat".

Re: Is inetd really unreliable?

1999-10-01 Thread Adam D . McKenna
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:54:25AM -0700, Johannes Erdfelt wrote: > Umm, you mostly reinvented inetd. Why not add the features you want to > inetd instead of reimplenting inetd in tcpserver? > > Seriously, there's reasons for using either program. The point I'm > trying to make is, for 90% of the

Bad return-path header, majordomo-inject, and rabid monkeys

1999-10-01 Thread Chris Hardie
Hi. We're having some problems with qmail and majordomo. I've read the FAQs on using the two together, the docs on majordomo-inject, the man pages for qmail-inject and qmail-header, and I still don't quite know what to do. The problem occurs when a message sent to a mailing list bounces on one

Re: Is inetd really unreliable?

1999-10-01 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 02:39:44PM -0400, David Harris wrote: > I use tcpserver for qmail - that only makes sense to me because of the load > issues. > > But about the other services? I'd perhaps like to use tcpserver for them too.. > and I've heard that others have had success with this. But I d

Re: Is inetd really unreliable?

1999-10-01 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999, David Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bruce Guenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] write: > > And what happens when somebody tries to actively attack your system? > > With these limits, I expect that a remote user could make your system > > run out of FDs in a few minutes,

Re: Is inetd really unreliable?

1999-10-01 Thread Racer X
> But about the other services? I'd perhaps like to use tcpserver for them too.. > and I've heard that others have had success with this. But I don't like the > idea of a whole bunch of programs all configured with command line directives > running in the background just for these rarely used serv

Re: Why "virtual"domains?

1999-10-01 Thread phil
Dave Kitabjian wrote: > Please pardon my ignorance just for a moment, and permit a question that > may have a very simple answer... > > What is "virtual" about a "virtualdomain"? > > We host many domains on a single qmail POP server, and they are all very > real. Their MX records all point to

RE: Is inetd really unreliable?

1999-10-01 Thread David Harris
Bruce Guenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] write: > And what happens when somebody tries to actively attack your system? > With these limits, I expect that a remote user could make your system > run out of FDs in a few minutes, not to mention memory. With a limit of > 1, I could probably open

Re: Is inetd really unreliable?

1999-10-01 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999, Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:09:10AM -0700, Johannes Erdfelt wrote: > > Both work for me fine. I dunno what people's big gripes against inetd > > are. It works damn well for almost every service that doesn't have high > > loads. In 99%

Using form to send through qmail

1999-10-01 Thread Darren Foo
I assume /var/qmail/bin/sendmail the same as qmail-inject. Everytime I try to send from my forms I the the following error. I've tried to read the error report mail but I don't receive any. qmail-inject: fatal: read error qmail-inject: fatal: read error ions have

Re: Is inetd really unreliable?

1999-10-01 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:09:10AM -0700, Johannes Erdfelt wrote: > Both work for me fine. I dunno what people's big gripes against inetd > are. It works damn well for almost every service that doesn't have high > loads. In 99% of people's cases who use mail, then won't get more than > 40 hits a s

Re: Is inetd really unreliable?

1999-10-01 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999, Markus Stumpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 05:26:38PM +0100, Fred Backman wrote: > > * inetd is unreliable under high loads. It cuts off service for 10 minutes > > if it receives ``too many'' connections in 1 minute. > > * inetd does not provide effect

Re: Is inetd really unreliable?

1999-10-01 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 05:26:38PM +0100, Fred Backman wrote: > * inetd is unreliable under high loads. It cuts off service for 10 minutes > if it receives ``too many'' connections in 1 minute. > * inetd does not provide effective resource management. It will happily use > up all your memory if yo

Re: Is inetd really unreliable?

1999-10-01 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 05:26:38PM +0100, Fred Backman wrote: > I'm reading the web page about ucspi-tcp and see the last three lines which > say: > > * inetd is unreliable under high loads. It cuts off service for 10 minutes > if it receives ``too many'' connections in 1 minute. In its default

Is inetd really unreliable?

1999-10-01 Thread Fred Backman
I'm reading the web page about ucspi-tcp and see the last three lines which say: * inetd is unreliable under high loads. It cuts off service for 10 minutes if it receives ``too many'' connections in 1 minute. * inetd does not provide effective resource management. It will happily use up all your

Re: How good is RBL at filtering spam?

1999-10-01 Thread Alex Rubenstein
Fyi, from mail.nac.net: tempest:/var/log/mail$ zcat maillog.0.gz |grep smtpd | grep " ok " | wc -l 111001 tempest:/var/log/mail$ zcat maillog.0.gz | grep smtpd | grep "BOUNCEMAIL" | wc -l 100 You must be aimed at for spam more often then we are. On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Peter Green

Why "virtual"domains?

1999-10-01 Thread Dave Kitabjian
Please pardon my ignorance just for a moment, and permit a question that may have a very simple answer... What is "virtual" about a "virtualdomain"? We host many domains on a single qmail POP server, and they are all very real. Their MX records all point to that server and for all intents and

Re: How good is RBL at filtering spam?

1999-10-01 Thread Peter Green
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Markus Stumpf wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 04:24:06PM -0400, David Harris wrote: > > > I'll run this for a few days and let the list know what I find. > > While we're on some statistics: I'll throw mine in, especially since I'm really happy with RBL: day tcpcont

Re: Problems with bulletins (popbull)

1999-10-01 Thread Stephen C. Comoletti
Another odd problem I just noticed..MS Outlook users do not receive bulletins. Netscape/pine(pop3 enabled)/Eudora all receive them fine. -- Stephen Comoletti Systems Administrator Delanet, Inc. http://www.delanet.com ph: (302) 326-5800 fax: (302) 326-5802 Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: > I'm using

Problems with bulletins (popbull)

1999-10-01 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
I'm using the "popbull" extension, and I'm having some problems - for no apparent reason the bulletin, send to all users, can be read only by several users, and not by all. I cannot find any difference between the accounts, that are receiving the bulletins, and the ones, that are ignoring them. Po

Re: 2) Triple Bounce

1999-10-01 Thread Dave Sill
"jarrid jeeby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >2. Correct a problem I have with local to local deliveries where the rcpt >to: field is only a the account name. ie. Mail to "joe" gets delivered as >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I'd like it to be delivered to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", >else fix my setup to allo

Re: Autoresponder Written by Eric Huss

1999-10-01 Thread Dave Sill
Tony Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Oct 1 12:56:30 thanatos qmail: 938775390.588017 delivery 69: deferral: >/bin/sh:_/bin/autorespond:_No_such_file_or_directory/ > >Any Idea where i have gone wrong ? Is /bin/autorespond a script? If so, what does the first line say? Apparently it points to t

qmHandle and supervise

1999-10-01 Thread Mirko Zeibig
Hello I am using qmHandle and Mate's old RPMs. To delete messages I now stop qmail and restart it after deletion. Would it be sufficient to pause (STOP) qmail instead and send an CONT afterwards? Regards Mirko -- mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] privat: http://sites.inka.de/picard commerce: http:/

sorted (Re: Aack child crashed on Solaris)

1999-10-01 Thread Fred Backman
I have sorted the problem myself now. Sorry for being too eager sending this post. (The problem turned out to be non-qmail).

Autoresponder Written by Eric Huss

1999-10-01 Thread Tony Wade
Hi all I have downloaded the Autoresponder and seem to be having a spot of trouble with it. my Qmail lives in /var/qmail/ I compiled the autoresponder on a RedHat 6 server and then copied it to a Jurix Server. My alias file looks like this |autorespond 1 5 /var/qmail/alias/AUTORESPOND

Aack child crashed on Solaris

1999-10-01 Thread Fred Backman
I've got another problem on my Solaris machine (5.7), and this time I get a "Aack child crashed" when I try to send to local users. Below is the trace output (truss) of qmail-lspawn. Please can anyone advice what this might be? There is no .qmail file so that can't be it.   officesun2{root}#

qmail Digest 1 Oct 1999 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 776

1999-10-01 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 1 Oct 1999 10:00:01 - Issue 776 Topics (messages 31077 through 31120): qmail-send single threaded 31077 by: Van Liedekerke Franky 31085 by: Dave Sill 31086 by: B. Engineer 31089 by: Dave Sill 31090 by: David Harris Filter mail from