Re: tcpserver starting problem

1999-11-14 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 01:07:16PM +0800, john wrote: Hi, I tried putting this script in inetd.conf file to start the tcpserver service but I dont seem to be starting the service. I am using Red Hat 6.1 tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup domainname \ /bin/checkpassword

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-14 Thread Frederik Lindberg
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Bruce Guenter wrote: 1. message queued. 2a. if -l: compare host name of envelope recipients. If same as local host name, deliver locally with qmail-local. 2b. deliver multi-recipient message remotely (concurrent with 2a). If -l: remove all recipients with host part

qmail Digest 14 Nov 1999 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 819

1999-11-14 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 14 Nov 1999 11:00:01 - Issue 819 Topics (messages 32919 through 33006): Message is looping .. why ? 32919 by: Puck 32930 by: Markus Stumpf Re: Benchmark of Qmail SMTPD 32920 by: Stuart Harris 32921 by: Curtis Generous 32925 by: Russell

mx on machine but machine should no treat it as local

1999-11-14 Thread Markus Wuebben
Hi! Imagine this. You have a proxy and that proxy is mx for a couple of domains but that proxy should not treat any mail as local. All mail should be routed to a mailserver that is behind the proxy in a private network. How would I do that without using maildir2smtp. I know I can use the

Re: mx on machine but machine should no treat it as local

1999-11-14 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Markus Wuebben wrote: Hi! Imagine this. You have a proxy and that proxy is mx for a couple of domains but that proxy should not treat any mail as local. All mail should be routed to a mailserver that is behind the proxy in a private network. How would I do that without

deffered delivery instead of bouncing it back

1999-11-14 Thread Medha Sabharwal
I did my first installation of qmail today. The installation went through like a charm and I can now send mails locally. I was doing the tests as per TEST.deliver and was testing a bounce back mail. Because of no aliases a bounced mailed went into deffered mode. I updated the aliases file for

dot-qmail files and running programs

1999-11-14 Thread Geoff Roberts
Hi, I am not too sure what is supposed to happen when I run a program in a dot-qmail file using |program_name. I am writing mail to a maildir so that I can send them via PPP when I connect to the network. To do this I have just followed D. L. Vander Woude's "Mail Queue with qmail" how

Re: tcpserver starting problem

1999-11-14 Thread qmail
I tried putting this script in inetd.conf file to start the tcpserver service but I dont seem to be starting the service. I am using Red Hat 6.1 tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup domainname \ /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir tcpserver -c 400 -v

the cyclog patch by Bruce Guenter

1999-11-14 Thread Oden Eriksson
Hi! (I'm sorry if this is not the right list...) Regarding the cyclog patch by Bruce Guenter. I would appreciate a sample of how to use this feature. Thanks. -- Webhosting: http://www.kvikkjokk.com Oden Eriksson (CNE+MCSE+Linux) UIN: 952113 0971-554 52, 070-346 43 02

Re: mx on machine but machine should no treat it as local

1999-11-14 Thread Markus Wuebben
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Markus Wuebben wrote: Hi! Imagine this. You have a proxy and that proxy is mx for a couple of domains but that proxy should not treat any mail as local. All mail should be routed to a mailserver that is behind

Re: deffered delivery instead of bouncing it back

1999-11-14 Thread Russell Nelson
Medha Sabharwal writes: I did my first installation of qmail today. The installation went through like a charm and I can now send mails locally. I was doing the tests as per TEST.deliver and was testing a bounce back mail. Because of no aliases a bounced mailed went into deffered mode. I

Can't start: unable to read controls { was: Re: deffered delivery instead of bouncing it back}

1999-11-14 Thread Medha Sabharwal
Thanks for the comments but the directory is world readable. With root as owner of the same. Could permissions be the problem? Should it be root: qmail? I have root:root for all the files under controls. - Original Message - From: Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Medha Sabharwal

Re: Can't start: unable to read controls { was: Re: deffered delivery instead of bouncing it back}

1999-11-14 Thread Medha Sabharwal
The program instcheck is reporting permission errors on /var/qmail/alias. The permission right now is 644. Any clues as to what should be the exact permissions? Also is there a place which tells you the permissions of the files and directories. I see different ownership*some for root and some for

Re: dot-qmail files and running programs

1999-11-14 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 02:00:29AM +1100, Geoff Roberts wrote: To test this I wrote a little sed line that searches for the first from field and changes it to the from address I want. The dot-qmail file looks like the one below: |sed -e 's/^From:.*mailaddress/From: newmailaddress/1'

Re: the cyclog patch by Bruce Guenter

1999-11-14 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 04:50:50PM +0100, Oden Eriksson wrote: Hi! (I'm sorry if this is not the right list...) Regarding the cyclog patch by Bruce Guenter. I would appreciate a sample of how to use this feature. What would you like to know? The (patched) man file now includes this:

How to track qmail's mail handling of a given address

1999-11-14 Thread Ed Overton
Hi, Apologies if this has been answered before - I poked around a bit and didn't find any information that described what I'm trying to find. In the hopes that someone else has done the work I'm considering doing, I'm curious if there's a way to request that qmail verbosely describe how it

qmailanalog.

1999-11-14 Thread eric
I am just curious how a few of the listee's are using qmailanalog to generate reports. If you care to share your methods, I can make a summary for the list. Thanks.

single system user setup

1999-11-14 Thread Tong YU
I was using Paul Gregg's checkpoppasswd.c to authenticate POP3 users with a single-system-user id. The program used a linear search to find a user; this could become inefficient when the user base is large. Also, it could not resolve two different users at different domains using the same login

Re: Handleing French Messages

1999-11-14 Thread Nagy Balazs
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Nigel Berkeley wrote: This is a french message that was received by qmail. How do I fix this problem? Any info/urls/advice would be appreciated. Hm... C'est bien. The message appears to be well-written. If your mailreader doesn't handle it, just try another. Its

Re: Large message killing system

1999-11-14 Thread Florian G. Pflug
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 07:21:58AM -0600, Matthew Callaway wrote: 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

Re: 550 cannot route to sender

1999-11-14 Thread Nagy Balazs
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have set up Qmail on "metta.lk" (204.143.107.46) and use autoturn to get my mail to "col7.metta.lk" (172.16.1.1) Everything works quite well. This is not true. You assigned a local IP address to your computer. I can advice that use

Re: Large message killing system

1999-11-14 Thread nascheme
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 08:35:18PM +, Florian G. Pflug wrote: Under any good OS (not Win95, Winnt?), software running in userspace (that is, all programms, including init) should _never_ be able to crash the machine. If the machine crashed under heavy load and/or heavy IO, it seems that

Re: tcpserver starting problem

1999-11-14 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 14 Nov 1999 18:17:30 +0600: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#installation But NOTE: it requires daemontools 0.53 and WON'T WORK with 0.61. Actually, he has recently updated the page to work with 0.61... there might be a mistake or two in it but

Re: RCPT aggregation

1999-11-14 Thread Frederik Lindberg
On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 11:45:59PM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote: On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 01:08:20AM +0100, Florent Guillaume wrote: With all the recent discussion about aggregating RCPTs for the same MX, I took a look at qmail's code. It became clear quite fast that general aggregation

Re: Large message killing system

1999-11-14 Thread Jason Haar
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 08:35:18PM +, Florian G. Pflug wrote: Well, 10MB Message for 15 Users makes 150MB vs. 16MB Ram + 50 MB Swap makes 64MB. So if qmail tried to deliver all the messages simultaniously, it will run into trouble, and could make the machine *seem* to be crashed, while it

TCPSERVER RUNNING with manual keying in of Script But problem with VPOPMail

1999-11-14 Thread john
Hi, I finally managed to get the TCPSERVER running in my Qmail. But there is one thing that everyone should note. The script in the website and what is given in Dave Sills hardcopy is different. Most of the time I used to download the website script from the website and could never run it.

Re: qmailanalog question

1999-11-14 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
Just to add.. 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] |

Re: 550 cannot route to sender

1999-11-14 Thread qmail
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 10:01:29PM +0100, Nagy Balazs wrote: Hi I have set up Qmail on "metta.lk" (204.143.107.46) and use autoturn to get my mail to "col7.metta.lk" (172.16.1.1) Everything works quite well. This is not true. You assigned a local IP address to your computer. I can

Starting POP3 - Get Error Message

1999-11-14 Thread john
Hi, When I start qmail-pop3d from /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d start I get an error message saying "ERR $HOME/Maildir not found" What could be wrong I succesfully got the tcpserver working John

Re: How to track qmail's mail handling of a given address

1999-11-14 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 03:10:06PM -0500, Ed Overton wrote: Hi, Apologies if this has been answered before - I poked around a bit and didn't find any information that described what I'm trying to find. In the hopes that someone else has done the work I'm considering doing, I'm curious

sorry to bother again!

1999-11-14 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
Hi everyone, sorry to bother you all again. today i decided to monitor incoming pop connections. you know.. so the support guys can see if people are typing in their username incorrectly. In /etc/init.d/qmail i usually have: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -D -lcia.com.au -b40 -H -R -c100 0 pop3

Re: sorry to bother again!

1999-11-14 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 04:59:39PM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: Hi everyone, sorry to bother you all again. today i decided to monitor incoming pop connections. you know.. so the support guys can see if people are typing in their username incorrectly. In /etc/init.d/qmail i

Re: Starting POP3 - Get Error Message

1999-11-14 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 01:12:28PM +0800, john wrote: Hi, When I start qmail-pop3d from /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d start Why are you doing this? What do you expect it to do? You should expect this to happen when you try to run qmail-pop3d all by itself from a command line. It's not meant

Not receiving mails into the qmail server but the mail goes through

1999-11-14 Thread john
I started TCPSERVER AND POP3D services But I don't seem to receive mails. Look at my processes running and let me know why PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ? S 0:04 init [3] 2 ? SW 0:00 [kflushd] 3 ? SW 0:00 [kupdate] 4 ? SW 0:00 [kpiod] 5 ? SW 0:00 [kswapd] 6 ? SW 0:00 [mdrecoveryd]