anybody using smtp-auth with qmail ? (NOT smtp after pop)

1999-11-12 Thread Olivier M.
Netscape Outlook allow to setup a login/passwd pair for smtp outgoing mails : I saw a kind of patch on http://www.nimh.org, but I can't understand how it work : it doesn't call any "checkpasswd" program. Is anybody using this (or other smtp-auth) patch ? If possible with vmailmgrd. Regards,

Benchmark of Qmail SMTPD

1999-11-12 Thread Hotdog
"qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent. It is meant as a replacement for the entire sendmail-binmail system on typical Internet-connected UNIX hosts", yeah,yeahbut in my feeling, it is not so fast at all.(I have use qmail for nearly 1 year!) And following

qmail Digest 12 Nov 1999 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 818

1999-11-12 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 12 Nov 1999 11:00:01 - Issue 818 Topics (messages 32818 through 32918): Re: qmail, Linux, and NetApp/NFS 32818 by: Pedro Melo 32819 by: Pedro Melo more mailq questions 32820 by: scott f. lanes 32833 by: Dave Sill 32844 by: Anand

Message is looping .. why ?

1999-11-12 Thread Puck
Hi there, i have the following domains in control/virtualdomains : 4ofborg.net just-kidding.de n-online.net in ~justkidding/.qmail-bs-klasse i have : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Benchmark of Qmail SMTPD

1999-11-12 Thread Stuart Harris
"qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent. It is meant as a replacement for the entire sendmail-binmail system on typical Internet-connected UNIX hosts", yeah,yeahbut in my feeling, it is not so fast at all.(I have use qmail for nearly 1 year!) And following

Re: Benchmark of Qmail SMTPD

1999-11-12 Thread Curtis Generous
According to Hotdog: "qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent. It is meant as a replacement for the entire sendmail-binmail system on typical Internet-connected UNIX hosts", yeah,yeahbut in my feeling, it is not so fast at all.(I have use qmail for nearly 1

Re: Maildrop samples

1999-11-12 Thread Keith Burdis
On Thu 1999-11-11 (22:10), Subba Rao wrote: I know this question has been asked quite a few times on this list. Currently, I am using "deliver-maildir" MDA to get my email. I have installed "Maildrop", since for "Procmail" there is a lot of work around. I am not able to find any good

Re: Stop Delivery of Incoming Mail Temporarily

1999-11-12 Thread Russell Nelson
Carl Perry writes: I'm having a problem with my NIS server dying now and then and all my user's are complaining of lost mail. qMail returns a "no mailbox here by that name" message. Use users/assign (man qmail-users). It doesn't rely on stat'ing the user's home directory. It'll try to

Re: pop3 How To

1999-11-12 Thread Keith Burdis
On Fri 1999-11-12 (12:32), john wrote: Hi, Is there anyone who can clearly specify how to start pop3 and smtp services ? Does anyone have a clear document. I'd suggest taking a look at Dave Sill's "Life With Qmail", specifically sections "2.8. Start qmail" and "5.2.

Re: Benchmark of Qmail SMTPD

1999-11-12 Thread Russell Nelson
Hotdog writes: "qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent. It is meant as a replacement for the entire sendmail-binmail system on typical Internet-connected UNIX hosts", yeah,yeahbut in my feeling, it is not so fast at all.(I have use qmail for nearly 1

Re: pop3 How To

1999-11-12 Thread Benjamin de los Angeles Jr.
The scripts are now in http://members.surfshop.net.ph/~bench/qmail/ On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Doug Lumpkin wrote: Please do post... -- Doug Lumpkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Benjamin de los Angeles Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: john [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL

Re: Mail abuse in syslog

1999-11-12 Thread Subba Rao
On 0, Markus Stumpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 10:53:45PM -0500, Subba Rao wrote: Nov 11 22:43:51 starsys qmail: 942378231.489619 delivery 34: deferral:

Re: Ricardo Cerqueira and qmail-1.03-maxrcpt.patch

1999-11-12 Thread Ricardo Cerqueira
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 09:54:56PM +0100, Andres Mendez wrote: The patch 1.01 doesn't work if you have qmail 1.03. Ricardo Cerqueira posted a new one which worked with 1.03, but the file was corrupted or truncated. I've just tried to use that patch (I extracted it from the mail, just to be

Re: Mail abuse in syslog

1999-11-12 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 07:56:14AM -0500, Subba Rao wrote: How can my Qmail server relay to my ISP's mail server to avoid this problem? I tried to set the environment variable like MAILHOST and MAILUSER to point to my ISP account. It still doesn't work. create a file control/smtproutes

Re: Message is looping .. why ?

1999-11-12 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 11:59:31AM +0100, Puck wrote: Everytime i send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] i get : Message-ID: md5:CD1D725D7232578BDB05104331CC14B9 Return-Path: Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 14114 invoked by uid 512); 8 Nov 1999 15:05:55 - Delivered-To:

Qmail log message

1999-11-12 Thread Subba Rao
Hello I have one other question about relaying to my ISP's mail server. Yesterday, while trying to send mail to a list, I found this in my syslog. Nov 12 07:58:17 caesar qmail: 942411497.876636 delivery 4: deferral:

Re: Mail abuse in syslog

1999-11-12 Thread Subba Rao
On 0, Markus Stumpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 07:56:14AM -0500, Subba Rao wrote: How can my Qmail server relay to my ISP's mail server to avoid this problem? I tried to set the environment variable like MAILHOST and MAILUSER to point to my ISP account. It still

Re: Large message killing system

1999-11-12 Thread Matthew Callaway
Dave Sill wrote: It's obvious that 150 MB of mail is a lot to process on such a pokey little machine, but it seems a bit odd for the machine to completely choke and die. If you push an underpowered system running antiquated software to the breaking point, don't be surprised if it breaks.

RE: Ricardo Cerqueira and qmail-1.03-maxrcpt.patch

1999-11-12 Thread Andres Mendez
I've just tried to use that patch (I extracted it from the mail, just to be sure) over a clean source and it applied perfectly! Where does it fail you? -- root@avalon (/tmp/tests/qmail-1.03) # patch -p1 ../qmail-1.03-maxrcpt.patch patching file `qmail-smtpd.c' root@avalon

Re: Ricardo Cerqueira and qmail-1.03-maxrcpt.patch

1999-11-12 Thread Peter Green
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 02:23:09PM +0100, Andres Mendez wrote: I've just tried to use that patch (I extracted it from the mail, just to be sure) over a clean source and it applied perfectly! Where does it fail you? -- root@avalon (/tmp/tests/qmail-1.03) # patch -p1

qmail on Linux

1999-11-12 Thread Joe Millay
Hello, I have installed Red Hat Linux 6.1 and included sendmail. Now, I think I want to go with qmail, and have read the installation FAQ and the docuemtn the FAQ instructed me to read about stopping sendmail. My question is: Would it be better to re-install Linux without sendmail and then

Re: qmail on Linux

1999-11-12 Thread Thorkild Stray
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Joe Millay wrote: Hello, I have installed Red Hat Linux 6.1 and included sendmail. Now, I think I want to go with qmail, and have read the installation FAQ and the docuemtn the FAQ instructed me to read about stopping sendmail. My question is: Would it be better to

Re: qmail on Linux

1999-11-12 Thread Simon Rae
Check out Dave Sill's excellent 'Life with qmail'. It fully explains how to switch from sendmail. http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html Si Joe Millay wrote: Hello, I have installed Red Hat Linux 6.1 and included sendmail. Now, I think I want to go with qmail, and have read the

Re: Large message killing system

1999-11-12 Thread Dave Sill
Matthew Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realize that the machine is old, and is running software that has updates, but the point is that a heavily loaded mail program shouldn't *kill* a machine. When you say "kill", do you mean the system actually crashes, or just slows to a crawl? If it

Re: qmail on Linux

1999-11-12 Thread Dave Sill
Joe Millay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be better to re-install [Red Hat] Linux without sendmail and then install qmail? That would be nice, but there are two problems with that approach: (1) it's almost(?) impossible to install RHL without getting sendmail, even if you don't select it,

Re: qmail on Linux

1999-11-12 Thread Brian Estes
I did this ... rpm -e sendmail BUT if you installed other rpms that rely on sendmail you must remove them first. - Original Message - From: Joe Millay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: qmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 9:06 AM Subject: qmail on Linux Hello, I have

Re: qmail on Linux

1999-11-12 Thread Chris Garrigues
From: Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:43:50 -0500 (EST) Joe Millay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be better to re-install [Red Hat] Linux without sendmail and then install qmail? That would be nice, but there are two problems with that approach: (1) it's

Re: Benchmark of Qmail SMTPD

1999-11-12 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent. It is meant as a replacement for the entire sendmail-binmail system on typical Internet-connected UNIX hosts", yeah,yeahbut in my feeling, it is not so fast at all.(I have use qmail for nearly 1

Re: vpopmail installation error

1999-11-12 Thread Mark Evans
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 08:44:50PM +0800, john wrote: When I was installing VPOPMAIL in RH 6.1 i issued the command immediately I got an warning message saying : Warning : Clock skew detected. Your installation may be incomplete. This is a warning from 'make'. Whenever I see

Re: Benchmark of Qmail SMTPD

1999-11-12 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 12 November 1999 at 10:02:55 -0500 Benchmarking is *very* hard to get right. I suggest you leave it to experts until you know how to do it properly. While I agree with the first sentence, I can't agree with the second. Trying to do benchmarking is

qmailanalog question

1999-11-12 Thread jkk
Hello, qmail-1.03, qmailanalog-0.70 I'm truing to make two quieries for a user: 1. Who the user sends mail to (and how many)? 2. Who the user receives mail from (and how many)? So, I do the folloing with my processed "mail.log": cat mail.log | xsender [EMAIL PROTECTED] | zrecipients cat

Re: RBL

1999-11-12 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Noah Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 11 November 1999 at 14:43:25 -0800 I am trying to set up the RBL for the first time. It just is *not* working. OK, first, here is the recommended startup line from the web site: tcpserver 0 25 tcpcontrol /etc/smtp.cdb /usr/local/bin/smtplog

log rotation

1999-11-12 Thread Brian Estes
could someone post their log rotation script I can use. The goal would be not to loose any data, short of shutding down the server Thanks Brian

Re: Mail abuse in syslog

1999-11-12 Thread Mark Evans
Hello, I saw this in my syslog file. Nov 11 22:43:51 starsys qmail: 942378231.489619 delivery 34: deferral:

Re: Mail abuse in syslog

1999-11-12 Thread Russell Nelson
Mark Evans writes: Nov 11 22:43:51 starsys qmail: 942378231.489619 delivery 34: deferral: Connected_to_189.9.90.12_but_greeting_failed./Remote_host_said:_553-See_URL:http://mail-abuse.org/dul//553-If_you_feel_we_mistreat_you,_do_contact_us./553_Ask_HELP_for_our_contact_information./ IIRC

Re: log rotation

1999-11-12 Thread farber
Is there a way to make cyclog use a bit more intuitive file name? @4937823749383 and @43948389393 just don't do it for me. Paul Farber Farber Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545 On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, waskita adijarto wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Brian Estes wrote:

thank you

1999-11-12 Thread Nicole Ron McIntosh
I finally got Qmail up and running without errors, thanx for all the help. Nicole Ron McIntosh

Re: Mail abuse in syslog

1999-11-12 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Mark Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 12 November 1999 at 16:22:40 + Someone at mail-abuse.org came up with the idea of creating a list to enable ISP's to "blacklist" their pools of dialups. Um, no. ISPs aren't expected to report this themselves. And the idea came about because they

deliverable message header parsing

1999-11-12 Thread Derek Callaway
Is there a way I can pipe the headers of each incoming message that is successfully delivered through a program? I wish to insert certain fields from the headers (From, Subject, To, etc.) into a MySQL database. -- Derek Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer; CE Net, Inc. (302) 854-5440 Ext. 206

Re: log rotation

1999-11-12 Thread Russell Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to make cyclog use a bit more intuitive file name? @4937823749383 and @43948389393 just don't do it for me. No. Logfiles are rolled over based on their size, not their date. Write a front-end. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: deliverable message header parsing

1999-11-12 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 11:56:19AM -0500, Derek Callaway wrote: Is there a way I can pipe the headers of each incoming message that is successfully delivered through a program? I wish to insert certain fields from the headers (From, Subject, To, etc.) into a MySQL database. If "successfully"

Re: RBL

1999-11-12 Thread Noah Sutherland
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: What method of RBL are you trying to use? The standard qmail method requires running rblsmtpd, which I don't see you doing. There were some old patches to integrate the functionality into qmail; were you using those instead? I was trying the

Re: deliverable message header parsing

1999-11-12 Thread Derek Callaway
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Markus Stumpf wrote: snip If "successfully" is an option and not a must, you can configure a extra delivery in extra.h in the qmail source tree. I use #define QUEUE_EXTRA "Tlog\0" #define QUEUE_EXTRALEN 5 wich causes a copy of *each* message to be delivered

Re: delivery to a directory

1999-11-12 Thread Phil Howard
Florian G. Pflug wrote: I'm not sure I find this or not. I didn't find something literally that, but I found many "virtual" things there. Part of the problem, I think, is that there isn't a precise meaning for "virtual". Well.. you are right - but "virtualdomain" ist quite precise, if

Re: qmail tuning question

1999-11-12 Thread Dave Sill
"scott f. lanes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stop qmail, delete queue files, restart qmail. There are tools on www.qmail.org to make this easier. is this just as simple as deleting the files within each one of the numbered directories in /var/qmail/queue/remote and /var/qmail/queue/mess? Yes.

RE: Newbie (if u could not tell)

1999-11-12 Thread Dave Sill
"Michael M. Honse" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ?? if the error is not from qmail any idea where its from ? Sendmail: de5@sws5$ telnet 208.129.195.197 25 Trying 208.129.195.197... Connected to 208.129.195.197. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mail.ablecompor.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.8/8.8.8; Fri, 12

Re: logging confusion..

1999-11-12 Thread Dave Sill
"Marc-Adrian Napoli" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm assuming that there aer two things coming up in my log: 1. The incoming smtpd connections that qmail-smtpd is dealing with, and 2. The qmail-send program which is deciding whether to spawn qmail-lspawn or qmail-rspawn for outgoing mails.

Re: qmailanalog question

1999-11-12 Thread Dave Sill
Warning: egregious use of "cat" ahead. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: qmail-1.03, qmailanalog-0.70 I'm truing to make two quieries for a user: 1. Who the user sends mail to (and how many)? 2. Who the user receives mail from (and how many)? So, I do the folloing with my processed "mail.log": cat

Re: Maildrop samples

1999-11-12 Thread Jay Swackhamer
From: Keith Burdis [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are some examples in the maildropex(5) man page. There are dozens more examples in the qmail-uce anti-spam package on Mr.Sam's page. http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/5799/qmail-uce.html -- Jay Swackhamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] WCi

Re: deliverable message header parsing

1999-11-12 Thread Fred Lindberg
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 13:55:19 -0500 (EST), Derek Callaway wrote: Thanks, but I need something that's reliable. :\ The described option is 100% reliable if done right. I assume you mean that you need to know with certainty if delivery was successful. qmail-send knows both the message and what

big todo patch

1999-11-12 Thread Racer X
doh, meant to send this to the list instead of just to russ :) disclaimer: some of what i'm talking about may be slightly off. if i'm not mistaken, the point of the big-todo patch is to keep the individual queue directories from containing a huge amount of files. the default qmail install uses

Sorting incoming mail.

1999-11-12 Thread Tristan Hannover
Hello, I was curious if anyone uses maildrop (or equivalents) to sort incoming mail to various folders (depending on subject, from, to), or even rewrite various headers on demand. And if so, would anyone please show me the correct to integrate maildrop into qmail? Maildrop's homepage shows its

RE: problems with multiple instances of qmail.

1999-11-12 Thread Dongping Deng
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 05:15:14PM -0800, Dongping Deng wrote: If I only inject to one of them (both qmail/qmail2 are running), it also works fine. It seems the two instances start to do something funny. Any ideas? You're running out of filedescriptors (either for that users (qmail*) or

[Slightly OT] OSS Best Practices

1999-11-12 Thread Jeff Taylor
Apologies to non-developers for a slightly off topic post. I am writing on Open Source Software Best Practices (e.g., peer review, source code management, ego-less programming, and defect tracking). The first draft is at muskrat.home.texas.net/oss_bp.html. I am looking for other examples. If