Re: Sendmail vs Qmail?

1999-12-17 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16 Dec 99, at 20:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would list a few things in sendmail's favor: 1) The ability to rewrite headers "up front" without requiring double delivery (once to a rewriting program, then again to the destination). Nice -

Re: Virus scanning

1999-12-17 Thread Hans Sandsdalen
"Shawn P. Stanley" wrote: I've seen lots of mail on this list about patching to get various virus scanners to work, and the goofy things they do once they do work. Is there a recommended virus scanner for qmail that's not too difficult to set up? Been working on this, and got it working.

local address used as spam sender

1999-12-17 Thread Gil Prudente
Hi, Someone used a non-existent address in our domain ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) to send spam and we're getting hundreds of bounced messages, which in turn are double-bounced because the mailbox does not exist. I have temporarily redirected these bounced messages to a file by creating an alias, to

Fwd: Re: Is there an update on the qmail book

1999-12-17 Thread Eckehard Schulze
Has anyone heard about the release date of the O'Reilly qmail book? I'm really looking forward to this book as I am having trouble finding good documentation on the Net. Wow, I haven't heard anything about a qmail book... if there is truly one in the makings, anyone know who the author might

Re: local address used as spam sender

1999-12-17 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17 Dec 99, at 17:13, Gil Prudente wrote: Someone used a non-existent address in our domain ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) to send spam and we're getting hundreds of bounced messages, which in turn are double-bounced because the mailbox does not exist.

Re: local address used as spam sender

1999-12-17 Thread reservations
Petr Novotny wrote: That looks like a reasonable way to do. The even more reasonable way would be to find out the recipient of the bounce, and point _that_ account to bit hell (/dev/null). You don't have to generate the second bounce, and you're not missing some (more important) double

Re: local address used as spam sender

1999-12-17 Thread Hans Sandsdalen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Petr Novotny wrote: That looks like a reasonable way to do. The even more reasonable way would be to find out the recipient of the bounce, and point _that_ account to bit hell (/dev/null). You don't have to generate the second bounce, and you're not missing

qmail Digest 17 Dec 1999 11:00:00 -0000 Issue 852

1999-12-17 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 17 Dec 1999 11:00:00 - Issue 852 Topics (messages 34406 through 34462): More troubleshooting a new qmail installation 34406 by: Mike Payson 34414 by: Dave Sill DUL list and smtproutes 34407 by: Subba Rao 34430 by: cmikk.uswest.net Re: Allow

Re: local address used as spam sender

1999-12-17 Thread Paulo Jan
Not much to do. It's a feature (agruably weakness) of SMTP protocol. You can only trace further 152.200.184.186, and undertake legal action or something, but you need to live with the bounces. If my trace is right, it is from an AOL dialup. Do you think they will be cooperative in

Re: sendmail to qmail

1999-12-17 Thread Russell P. Sutherland
* Yamin Prabudy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [17 Dec 1999 01:28]: How to convert the mbox format to Maildir format I need to convert my sendmail format to qmail with Maildir Go to the qmail WWW site (www.qmail.org) and fetch either the convert-and-create (for many users) or convert a single user

Re: Forward all but one address ?

1999-12-17 Thread Robin Bowes
John Grant (Concordant Networks) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 000301bf4824$aead9fe0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:000301bf4824$aead9fe0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Well after a successful installation that receives email for a domain and just sends it on to the real server I have hit a snag. Current

Re: local address used as spam sender

1999-12-17 Thread Gil Prudente
Thanks for the tip. I just wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] to report their abusive tenant. sigh The onslaught of bounce messages (which now goes to bit hell) still continues as I write. What a terrible waste of bandwidth :( Thanks for all those who helped! --Gil Prudente Paulo Jan wrote: Not

Re: local address used as spam sender

1999-12-17 Thread Ari Arantes Filho
Hi, My customer is using an other isp where this domain is hosted. Now it wants to change to my isp. He is using a dialup connection with the other isp and has a Lotus Notes Server in its local network. The NT, where Notes runs, makes a dialup connection from time to time and receive

Help with Lotus Notes

1999-12-17 Thread Ari Arantes Filho
Hi, Sorry about last message, I didn't change the subject... My customer is using an other isp where this domain is hosted. Now it wants to change to my isp. He is using a dialup connection with the other isp and has a Lotus Notes Server in its local network. The NT, where Notes runs,

Re: Help with Lotus Notes

1999-12-17 Thread Alexander Jernejcic
Hi Ari, be carefull with this: make sure, the customer has the pop3 module for his lotus notes server. this is a rather expensive addon! standard lotus notes is AFAIK only smtp. so your customer needs his own IP address for ETRN or you will mangle around with some autoturn solutions. alex

control

1999-12-17 Thread Stephan Weaver
hello good day. im getting alot of trouble sendmail mail with qmail. i am on a dial up and it keeps trying to sendmail to -localhost-.my.fqdn.com. and i dont got SOA on the fqdn so i cant make localhost., can someone please help me out? Dec 17 09:09:36 weaver qmail: 945436176.584467 delivery 25:

Re: Sendmail vs Qmail?

1999-12-17 Thread cmikk
On 17 Dec 1999 08:10:26 - , "Petr Novotny" writes: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16 Dec 99, at 20:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would list a few things in sendmail's favor: 1) The ability to rewrite headers "up front" without requiring double delivery (once

Re: Sendmail vs Qmail?

1999-12-17 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17 Dec 99, at 7:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The inability to do header rewriting without making two trips through the queue causes a severe performance hit, if you are doing anything other than low volume. Rewriting headers of all messages is

Re: local address used as spam sender

1999-12-17 Thread cmikk
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 17:13:09 +0800 , Gil Prudente writes: Someone used a non-existent address in our domain ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) to send spam and we're getting hundreds of bounced messages, which in turn are double-bounced because the mailbox does not exist. I have temporarily

Re: Sorry, but new here

1999-12-17 Thread Stephan Goldenberg
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 12:08:18PM -0500, Dave Sill wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I start without going in trouble too much? Are there any tips to start? Start with "Life with qmail": http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/qmail.html German translation coming soon. -Dave

Re: Sendmail vs Qmail?

1999-12-17 Thread cmikk
On 17 Dec 1999 13:34:39 - , "Petr Novotny" writes: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17 Dec 99, at 7:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The inability to do header rewriting without making two trips through the queue causes a severe performance hit, if you are doing

question about hotmail and envelop sender

1999-12-17 Thread Li Hong
Greeting all! here got 2 problem about qmail-send. 1.i setup my own email server several month ago but now some weird problem when Isend email to [EMAIL PROTECTED],following is error info return back my mail damon: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:216.33.151.135 failed after I sent

Re: question about hotmail and envelop sender

1999-12-17 Thread Nguyen Dang Phuoc Dong
I'm too! Don't know how Hotmail can serve millions account! Dong -Original Message- From: Li Hong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, December 17, 1999 8:54 PM Subject: question about hotmail and envelop sender

Re: Forward all but one address ?

1999-12-17 Thread Martin A. Brown
John, I'm not sure this is exactly what you are looking for, but I have an alternate solution to your problem. If you remove the smtproutes entry, and enter the following into virtualhosts: domain_to_relay.com:relaydomain Then all mail bound for domain_to_relay.com can be forwarded by

Re: control

1999-12-17 Thread Li Hong
Well,the fqdn means Full Qualified Domain Name,please take a look at Dave Sill's Life With Qmail file which you could find via www.qmail.com/top.html and it will solve this problem and further one. - Original Message - From: Stephan Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: c Sent: Friday,

Re: Help with Lotus Notes

1999-12-17 Thread qmail
On 17 Dec 99, at 13:06, Alexander Jernejcic wrote: Hi Ari, be carefull with this: make sure, the customer has the pop3 module for his lotus notes server. this is a rather expensive addon! Since Notes Release 4.5 there will be Servertasks for smtp, pop3, imap and ldap. Notes is also able

Re: Help with Lotus Notes

1999-12-17 Thread qmail
On 17 Dec 99, at 16:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mailservices. A Problem regarding this solution would be that Notes will send all outgoing mail directly with queuing it for a later delivery! Sorry typo!!! Notes send all mail directly **without** queuing it for later delivery. It

Re: dumping msgs to the BBBB

1999-12-17 Thread Timothy L. Mayo
a .qmail file that only contains comments will achieve what you are after. .qmail: # works very nicely. :) On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Keith Warno wrote: == "Big Black Bit Bucket", AKA, /dev/null I remember seeing something on the list about how to do this; apologies in advance. I would

Re: dumping msgs to the BBBB

1999-12-17 Thread cmikk
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 11:18:32 -0500 , "Keith Warno" writes: I remember seeing something on the list about how to do this; apologies in advance. I would like to send a user's mail (either a real user or non-existant user) silently to /dev/null. I'm assuming that an appropriately-named .qmail

Re: Sendmail vs Qmail?

1999-12-17 Thread Mate Wierdl
According to the new book "Programming Internet Email" by Wood at O'Reilly, qmail does not satisfy the needs of a large company with complex needs---only sendmail does. See bottom of page 17. According to Dan's surveys, "everyone" is 65% and dropping. It seems that the droppage is due to

Re: Sendmail vs Qmail?

1999-12-17 Thread Shawn P. Stanley
I would think the needs of a large company would include the ability to prevent a mail server from being used as an open relay by spammers. I was unable to block spammers with the latest and greatest version of sendmail. A number of people use sendmail because: 1) It's more flexible than

Limit POP3 and SMTP service !

1999-12-17 Thread Seyyed Hamid Reza Hashemi Golpayegani
Hi , I have installed qmail 1.03 and it works fine ! but I want some feature that can't find it . 1- I want that relay mail based on the sender domain name . For example I have install this qmail server on morva.net domain and want to don't deliver mails that are not have [EMAIL PROTECTED] form

Re: 550 cannot route to sender

1999-12-17 Thread Nagy Balzs
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 12:35:42PM +0100, Nagy Balazs wrote: ;; ANSWER SECTION: col7.metta.lk. 3h21m IN NS server1.tradenetsl.lk. col7.metta.lk. 3h21m IN NS dhamma.metta.lk. col7.metta.lk. 3h31m35s IN MX 10 metta.lk. col7.metta.lk.

Re: Sendmail vs Qmail?

1999-12-17 Thread Mate Wierdl
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 10:35:09AM -0600, Shawn P. Stanley wrote: As for the intentions of RedHat when trying to purchase Corel, I thought it had more to do with WordPerfect and other related office tools. Such tools are everything in the Linux vs. Microsoft market share war. Sorry, I

Re: Sendmail vs Qmail?

1999-12-17 Thread Shawn P. Stanley
Why is postoffice so popular? - Original Message - From: Mate Wierdl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Shawn P. Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Qmail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 11:02 AM Subject: Re: Sendmail vs Qmail? On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 10:35:09AM -0600, Shawn P.

Re: local address used as spam sender

1999-12-17 Thread Kai MacTane
At 11:55 AM 12/17/99 +0100, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried putting /dev/null in the .qmail but I get this error: Error_while_writing_message._(#4.3.0) Any ideas? Haven't had time to search the docs/web though. make .qmail an empty file, or a file with only comments. I

Re: Sendmail vs Qmail?

1999-12-17 Thread Peter C. Norton
Post.Office is simple, it runs under NT, any idiot can set it up, and it's user interface is better then the current web-configurators for qmail/sendmail/anything else I've seen. It's also crappy. Delivery is slow, can't grow well past about 200 users, can't handle large volumes of email,

Re: local address used as spam sender

1999-12-17 Thread petervd
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 09:53:53AM -0800, Kai MacTane wrote: At 11:55 AM 12/17/99 +0100, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried putting /dev/null in the .qmail but I get this error: Error_while_writing_message._(#4.3.0) Any ideas? Haven't had time to search the docs/web

New worm virus: W32.NewApt.Worm

1999-12-17 Thread Delanet Administration
With all the talk about virus scanning on incomming mail/etc I thought I'd add this little piece. In the event that you do not scan incomming mail and are hit by this or another virus, the following little shell script will allow you to locate and remove the infected emails from a customers

RE: Sendmail vs Qmail?

1999-12-17 Thread Matthew Brown
According to the new book "Programming Internet Email" by Wood at O'Reilly, qmail does not satisfy the needs of a large company with complex needs---only sendmail does. See bottom of page 17. Don't just tease us: what's his reasoning? Not gonna go out buy the book right now just to find

RE: alert:unable to opendir mess/0

1999-12-17 Thread Matthew Brown
Dec 17 16:10:16 host1 qmail: 945414616.234284 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Dec 17 16:10:17 host1 qmail: 945414617.771422 alert: unable to opendir mess/0, sleeping... Sounds like either /var/qmail/queue/* doesn't exist or its ownership/permissions are wrong ... What's under there? -Matt

Re: Sendmail vs Qmail?

1999-12-17 Thread Dave Sill
"Peter C. Norton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Post.Office is simple, it runs under NT, any idiot can set it up, and it's user interface is better then the current web-configurators for qmail/sendmail/anything else I've seen. Those are the pluses. It's also crappy. Delivery is slow, can't grow

Re: mail queue statistics

1999-12-17 Thread Dave Sill
clifford thurber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read all the docs and tried to get this to work so please forgive the sophmoric nature of this question but I am new to qmail and this list has been quite helpful. What is the qmail command(under bin) to generate a report of all the mail that

Re: (no subject)

1999-12-17 Thread Dave Sill
"Stephan Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i really like qmail. Me too. I was wondering how to disable somethings. if i telnet localhost 25 and i type 'help' i get a response with a link to the qmail's homepage. i dont want that, for security reasons. mabee you guys can help me out? Modify the

Re: Problems sending to local virtual domains

1999-12-17 Thread Dave Sill
Oscar Arranz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed qmail with tcpserver and vpopmail. When I send a message from a local address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to an external account, it works fine but when I send a message to other address in the same server it doesn't work and puts a message like

Qmail daemon messages

1999-12-17 Thread Dustin Miller
I was wondering if there is a place where I can change the default daemon messages. Things like "sorry it didn't work out" bounces, and things like that. Are these configurable? Or do I edit source code to change them? Thanks in advance! Dustin

Re: Qmail daemon messages

1999-12-17 Thread Russell Nelson
Dustin Miller writes: I was wondering if there is a place where I can change the default daemon messages. Things like "sorry it didn't work out" bounces, and things like that. Are these configurable? Or do I edit source code to change them? Source code. Plus, the "Hi, this is

Re: Qmail daemon messages

1999-12-17 Thread Fabrice Scemama
And why the hell would someone ever want to change them ? Many people expect them to have that form. Anyway, RFCs-1891,1892,1893,1894 explain what the messages 'SHOULD' contain, exactly. Russell Nelson wrote: Dustin Miller writes: I was wondering if there is a place where I can change the

RE: Qmail daemon messages

1999-12-17 Thread Dustin Miller
I'm really getting sick of replies like this. First of all, is there any reason for you to say "Why the hell [snip]", any reason at all for the vulgarity? Second of all, I don't want my server saying. "Sorry it didn't work out." People in general don't get those messages, and if there is

RE: Qmail daemon messages

1999-12-17 Thread Dustin Miller
I'll need to look into the bounce parsing standard to ensure compatibility. The default messages can be confusing to newbie e-mail users, and changing them would reduce the tech support calls I receive here. -Original Message- From: Russell Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday,

RE: Qmail daemon messages

1999-12-17 Thread Greg Owen
I'll need to look into the bounce parsing standard to ensure compatibility. The default messages can be confusing to newbie e-mail users, and changing them would reduce the tech support calls I receive here. If you're going to change them, may I suggest trying to change the source

qmail appending mail machines name to recipients

1999-12-17 Thread clifford thurber
Hello, I made a post earlier to this list open a PERL program I have written which basic opens one file handle ot a CSV file containing usernames and email adresses parses them and then sends users mail by writing to a file handle opened to qmail. Here is the snippet of code that achieves this:

Re: qmail appending mail machines name to recipients

1999-12-17 Thread Russell P. Sutherland
* clifford thurber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [17 Dec 1999 17:08]: I made a post earlier to this list open a PERL program I have written which basic opens one file handle ot a CSV file containing usernames and email adresses parses them and then sends users mail by writing to a file handle opened

Re: qmail appending mail machines name to recipients

1999-12-17 Thread Martin A. Brown
Hello Clifford, I must admit that your bounce looks very peculiar... Have you tried either of these instead? I have used qmail-inject in scripts like this before, and never had any difficulties open(MAIL, "|$mailprog -h "); open(MAIL, "|$mailprog -a $email"); Do you get the same

Re: Qmail daemon messages

1999-12-17 Thread Racer X
- Original Message - From: Greg Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 17 Dec 1999 14.12 Subject: RE: Qmail daemon messages opinion The problem you are having is not the default messages - it is newbie email users. I am consistently amazed how many people have

bouncesaying

1999-12-17 Thread Keith Warno
Hello all. I would like to filter incoming messages, on a per-Mailbox basis, via a user's .qmail and various calls to bouncesaying in that .qmail. Each call to bouncsaying will run a program that checks for a particular condition, and perhaps bounce the message if such a check fails. This is

off-topic: include file des.h

1999-12-17 Thread Ari Arantes Filho
Hi, I'm trying to work with a crypt system and the program is asking for include des.h. Can anyone send this file to me? Best regards, Ari

Cannot Telnet localhost 25

1999-12-17 Thread Bora Kaing
Hi, I am trying to telnet to my qmail server and test the configuration. I am able to get all the TEST.deliver functions working and things seems to be working. However, the connection closes when I telnet to myhost on port 25. I am running Qmail on Solaris 2.6. For example, bora-bora%

Re: off-topic: include file des.h

1999-12-17 Thread Racer X
From your address I can see that you aren't in the US or Canada, and despite the recent changes in encryption law, I don't think I could send this to you. But besides just that, you haven't specified what OS or version you're using. You'll also need the library that contains those crypt

RE: Cannot Telnet localhost 25

1999-12-17 Thread Bora Kaing
Hi Luka, I am sure which log files, however this is one of the syslog and the /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd. I found a "fatal error saying unable to bind: address already used." Is this referring to port 25 and how do i find out what is using it? Sendmail is disabled. Can you help me make

Vitual domains?

1999-12-17 Thread Mark E. Drummond
I was just asked if qmail could do the fol, which I am sure it can, and I am sure this is a vitual domains thing, but I lack self esteem and need some reassurance ... ;-) I want to have email coming in to [EMAIL PROTECTED] redirected to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... possible? --

Re: IP based authentication

1999-12-17 Thread iv0
"David C. Maple" wrote: Hi, I have just subscribed to the list and I have a problem. What is your exact configuration line for vpopmail and what is your startup line for qmail-pop3d ? * here's forward lookup 4:36pm zephrey /home/dmaple %nslookup acgva.net Server: zephrey.methos.net

Re: Vitual domains?

1999-12-17 Thread Russell P. Sutherland
* Mark E. Drummond ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [17 Dec 1999 20:03]: I was just asked if qmail could do the fol, which I am sure it can, and I am sure this is a vitual domains thing, but I lack self esteem and need some reassurance ... ;-) Take a seat, or better still lie down on the couch over

How to control message ?

1999-12-17 Thread Jason Huang
Hi All ! My boss told me he wanna control outgoing and incoming mail. He want to allow or delete each mail. It seems terrible ,but ... How can I config my qmail ?? I tried to redirect all mail to someone by forward and tcp.smtp file. But It seems stupid if allowed mail will be

Re: How to control message ?

1999-12-17 Thread iv0
Jason Huang wrote: Hi All ! My boss told me he wanna control outgoing and incoming mail. He want to allow or delete each mail. It seems terrible ,but ... How can I config my qmail ?? I tried to redirect all mail to someone by forward and tcp.smtp file. But It seems

Re: Sendmail vs Qmail?

1999-12-17 Thread Sam
On 17 Dec 1999, Petr Novotny wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17 Dec 99, at 7:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The inability to do header rewriting without making two trips through the queue causes a severe performance hit, if you are doing anything other than low

Re: How to control message ?

1999-12-17 Thread Sam
On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Jason Huang wrote: Hi All ! My boss told me he wanna control outgoing and incoming mail. He want to allow or delete each mail. It seems terrible ,but ... How can I config my qmail ?? You can't. I suggest that you start looking for a new job.

Re: bouncesaying

1999-12-17 Thread Martin A. Brown
--I would say, why leverage condredirect for this purpose? And I suppose I should also have included my negation operator. Why not leverage condredirect for this purpose? Sorry, -Martin

Re: How to control message ?

1999-12-17 Thread iv0
Jason Huang wrote: yes!! -­ì©l¶l¥ó- ±H¥óªÌ: iv0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ¦¬¥óªÌ: Jason Huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think I agree with Mr Sam. Get a new job. If this is not the case, then you will have to pass all emails into a central account which keeps the header information, then a

RE: IP based authentication

1999-12-17 Thread David C. Maple
I am running FreeBSD 3.2 with the latest version of qmail and vpopmail. Qmail is installed in /var/qmail with vpopmail in /var/qmail/vpopmail. : in inetd.conf pop3stream tcp nowait root/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup acgva.net /var/qmail/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw

stat.pl

1999-12-17 Thread Yamin Prabudy
i have the convert.pl but it say it need stat.pl can anyone send it to me the stat.pl file thanks -- Yamin Prabudy [EMAIL PROTECTED] StarNET

Re: Sendmail vs Qmail?

1999-12-17 Thread Russell Nelson
Sam writes: Now, you can't run something like that with Qmail and ezmlm. http://www.qmail.org/eliminiate-dups . Run qmail-start as follows: qmail-start '|eliminate-dups Mailbox ./Mailbox' -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software |

.qmail question

1999-12-17 Thread Dax Kelson
What commands can I put in a .qmail file so that email from a specific email address is dropped (/dev/null'd), but all other email is delivered fine?

Message Footer

1999-12-17 Thread Damien Croarken
I am looking for a way to put a standard footer on each message that gets delivered to any remote address so that messages at localhost dont get the header, but remote ones do... I need this to work for boith messages with and without attatchments, and especially to work with MS outlook and