Only every 20 min. (stupid Question)?

1999-10-06 Thread Andre Anneck
I have a strange problem... maybe its not a problem, but a feature... but I still have to ask because I simple cant find any pointer in the manuals. Now... since I installed qmail-idx with mysql-enabled (no this is not ezmlm related), qmail is sending emails not as they come in... but in a

qmail-smtpd log question

1999-10-06 Thread Van Liedekerke Franky
Can anybody explain the following in my qmail-smtpd logfile: 939075841.506429 qmail-smtpd 2410: connection from 192.168.100.1 ( unknown ) to zeus.telenet-ops.be 939075956.824641 qmail-smtpd 2410: message queued = 939075956 qp 2411 939075956.824970 qmail-smtpd 2410: read error, connection

qmail Digest 6 Oct 1999 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 781

1999-10-06 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 6 Oct 1999 10:00:01 - Issue 781 Topics (messages 31252 through 31292): Re: Question 31252 by: Frank D. Cringle 31254 by: Claus Färber Re: RCPTHOSTS error 31253 by: Chris Johnson 31256 by: Russell Nelson Re: qmail as secondary MX 31255

User Masquarading via pop

1999-10-06 Thread Geoff Roberts
Hi, Under sendmail I can setup a genericsdomain and genericstable to allow me to do user masquarading: mehere [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can see how to do this when mailing from the Unix machine with qmail on it (with the use of environment variables). But I would like all mail

Re: POP3 locking

1999-10-06 Thread Peeter Pirn
Thanks for the suggestion! The following works great on my server: tcpserver -c 70 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mailsrv.fwi.com \ /bin/checkpassword /usr/contrib/bin/setlock -nx Maildir/.poplock \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir The second and subsequent concurrent POP3

Re: User Masquarading via pop

1999-10-06 Thread Geoff Roberts
Russell, But I would like all mail that goes into the ppp alias Maildir to have the from field modified from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there a way for this to happen for those that are connecting to qmail via pop or imap? I don't understand this question. Are you

Re: User Masquarading via pop

1999-10-06 Thread Russell Nelson
Geoff Roberts writes: I would like serialmail to look at the From: field of mail in the ppp Maildir and replace the From field which contains my own local pretend domain name with my username and the domain name of my ISP. So - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes - From: [EMAIL

Frontpage and Qmail?

1999-10-06 Thread Jeff McNeil
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 First off, my apologies if this has already been asked, I searched the archives and checked the FAQ, but didn't see anything of this nature. I seem to be having a bit of a problem with qmail, and some web based programs. Frontpage 2000 is a prime

Re: Frontpage and Qmail?

1999-10-06 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 01:04:19PM -0400, Jeff McNeil wrote: The problem is, whenever somone submits a web form from one of these Front Page NT machines, the form just hangs. Doesn't submit, doesn't error out, just hangs. The Qmail server is not slammed, and has plenty of resources

Renaming SMTP server

1999-10-06 Thread Robert
Hello, Is there a way to rename my qmail server without damaging the current file structure? This is an excert from my maillog file: Oct 6 03:16:00 mail qmail: 939197760.820006 new msg 310277 I'd like to change the name of that server if possible. Is there a way to do that? I think I can

Too many hops??

1999-10-06 Thread Robert
Hello again.. I have a second question now. Is there a way to increase the maximum number of hops a message can take before qmail gives up? Thanks

Re: Too many hops??

1999-10-06 Thread Russell Nelson
Robert writes: Hello again.. I have a second question now. Is there a way to increase the maximum number of hops a message can take before qmail gives up? qmail doesn't count hops. What problem are you trying to solve? -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr

upper limit

1999-10-06 Thread Nagendra Mishr
Anyone know whats the upper limit in emails per hour that qmail can do? I need to spec out a system and I need some numbers for high perf qmail serves Nagendra

Re: upper limit

1999-10-06 Thread Robbie Walker
That question has no answer. qmail's performance is ENTIRELY dependent on system configuration. It can be safely said that qmail CAN be one of the fastest MTA's out there. At 02:52 PM 10/6/99 , you wrote: Anyone know whats the upper limit in emails per hour that qmail can do? I need to spec

Re: Renaming SMTP server

1999-10-06 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 01:06:59PM -0500, Robert wrote: Is there a way to rename my qmail server without damaging the current file structure? This is an excert from my maillog file: Oct 6 03:16:00 mail qmail: 939197760.820006 new msg 310277 I'd like to change the name of that server if

A second strange problem.

1999-10-06 Thread Jeff McNeil
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry about all the list clutter, I just seem to be having a bad day ;-) The company I'm with uses Webtrends professional suite for our website reporting. Webtrends is supposed to send an email responce containing a website report. The software

Re: A second strange problem.

1999-10-06 Thread Fred Lindberg
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:08:02 -0400, Jeff McNeil wrote: The software generates my report fine, connects to the qmail server, and says it's successfully sent the message, but guess what? No Email. Email just never shows up.I can send an email though the same server via netscape without any

Re: A second strange problem.

1999-10-06 Thread Thomas M. Sasala
Jeff McNeil wrote: I had a CR/LF problem with a JavaMail implementation. I used recordio to track down the problem. I first noticed the problem in the logs, whem smtpd would exit with a status of 256. The remote unit would think the mail was delivered because smtpd said OK when

Re: Too many hops??

1999-10-06 Thread phil
Russell Nelson wrote: Robert writes: Hello again.. I have a second question now. Is there a way to increase the maximum number of hops a message can take before qmail gives up? qmail doesn't count hops. What problem are you trying to solve? I would be led to believe by the man page

Re: A second strange problem.

1999-10-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 03:51:19PM -0400, "Thomas M. Sasala" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff McNeil wrote: I had a CR/LF problem with a JavaMail implementation. I used recordio to track down the problem. I first noticed the problem in the logs, whem smtpd would exit with a status

Re: Too many hops??

1999-10-06 Thread Russell Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russell Nelson wrote: Robert writes: Hello again.. I have a second question now. Is there a way to increase the maximum number of hops a message can take before qmail gives up? qmail doesn't count hops. What problem are you trying to solve?

Forwarding

1999-10-06 Thread Marek Narkiewicz
I've just set up a web based mail forwarding for users. My question is, how do I guard agianst idiots setting up a forwarding loop? eg [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwards to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which forwrds to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? -- Marek Narkiewicz, Webmaster Intercreations Reply to -marek @

Re: Too many hops??

1999-10-06 Thread phil
Russell Nelson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russell Nelson wrote: Robert writes: Hello again.. I have a second question now. Is there a way to increase the maximum number of hops a message can take before qmail gives up? qmail doesn't count hops. What

RE: Forwarding

1999-10-06 Thread Marek Narkiewicz
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:38:40 -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote: Can't you check for it in the CGI scripts? What are you using to store user information? I'm in the process of doing something similar, and I plan to store all user info in a MySQL database so I can check for just such problems. Although,

Re: A second strange problem.

1999-10-06 Thread Thomas M. Sasala
I wasn't checking the status of quit. As it turns out, the transport implementation did not check the status of any of command. It merely stuffed the whole message into the smtp server and closed the connection. It never waited for a response from the server. If the transport code

Re: Forwarding

1999-10-06 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 08:53:57PM +0100, Marek Narkiewicz wrote: I've just set up a web based mail forwarding for users. My question is, how do I guard agianst idiots setting up a forwarding loop? eg [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwards to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which forwrds to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? You

Re: Forwarding

1999-10-06 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 09:34:51PM +0100, Marek Narkiewicz wrote: Yeh I am doing the same using mysql to store user info etc but I was wondering if qmail had any built in way to stop mail loops. As I said before, qmail has such a feature. THe same problem arrises with autoresponder loops.

Re: A second strange problem.

1999-10-06 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 04:48:21PM -0400, Thomas M. Sasala wrote: In any case, why does smtpd return 256 and throw away the mail? I have records of a good transaction (all commands get a +OK) yet smtpd exits with 256 and the mail is eternally lost. What do you mean with "smtpd exits

Re: Too many hops??

1999-10-06 Thread phil
Markus Stumpf wrote: On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 03:43:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indeed. Once I get my little system going to collect and apply hacks to qmail, I'll probably go ahead and hack the hop count limit DOWN to 16 or so. If it has that many hops I don't want it. 16

Beware when patching Solaris machines

1999-10-06 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
Our sysadmin installed a bunch of patches on our Solaris machines today - basically, he just got a cluster of recommended patches and installed them all. Now, one or more of these patches "upgraded" /usr/lib/sendmail (was a symlink to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail, became a "real" sendmail). But not

qmailanalog fatal:

1999-10-06 Thread B. Engineer
Hello: I am running qmailanalog0.70. It dies with the error bin/matchup /tmp/q qoo matchup: fatal: unable to write fd 5: file descriptor not open It dies at the same size everytime rw-r--r-- 1 root other36934041 Oct 6 16:13 qoo I know I have enough space on the system and

Re: qmailanalog fatal:

1999-10-06 Thread Russell Nelson
B. Engineer writes: Hello: I am running qmailanalog0.70. Any ideas Yup. Read the documentation for matchup. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925

supervise and qmail

1999-10-06 Thread phil
Would there be any reason not to use supervise for qmail-start? I notice that much documentation (I'm still working on merging the various sources of documentation and resolving apparent conflicts) shows starting qmail-smtpd with supervise and tcpserver but just starts qmail-start by itself.

Suggestions requested

1999-10-06 Thread Steve Philp
We're currently using Qmail to host approximately 50 mailboxes for a single domain. The accounts have been created as system accounts on a Red Hat 6.0 machine. We're currently trying to find solutions to a couple problems: 1) Something that will allow an administrator to quickly create a

Re: qmailanalog fatal:

1999-10-06 Thread B. Engineer
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: B. Engineer writes: Hello: I am running qmailanalog0.70. Any ideas Yup. Read the documentation for matchup. Sorry! I did read the doc/MATCHUP carefully but it looks like I should have read the man page. It talks about opening descriptor

Re: Too many hops??

1999-10-06 Thread Russ Allbery
phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, OK, 20 it is. What specific number would you recommend, without trying to go beyond the imginable cases? I've had reasonably good luck with 30. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Supervise and qmail/tcpserver

1999-10-06 Thread Robert Wojciechowski Jr.
I am having a problem with supervise and tcpserver with the qmail-smtpd and qmail-popup modules. I start supervise like so: /usr/local/bin/supervise /var/supervise/qmail/qmail-smtpd and /var/supervise/qmail/qmail-smtpd/run contains: #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g

Re: Forwarding

1999-10-06 Thread
Markus Stumpf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 08:53:57PM +0100, Marek Narkiewicz wrote: : I've just set up a web based mail forwarding for users. My question is, how do I :guard : agianst idiots setting up a forwarding loop? eg [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwards to [EMAIL