anonymous mailing lists

2000-01-20 Thread Albert Hopkins
What's the easiest way to set up an "anonymous" mailing list? What I mean is that the recipients do not know who the sender is. I want the "From:" header to be the name of the list, etc. -- Albert Hopkins Sr. Systems Specialist Dynacare, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Negatives in grammar

2000-01-20 Thread Len Budney
Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, if you boast, ``I can build a Linux mail server in under an hour,'' I might reply, ``So can't my mother.'' Which most of the English speaking world would interpret as "My mother can't do that", Perhaps. But who cares about ``most of the

RE: anonymous mailing lists

2000-01-20 Thread Matthew B. Henniges
echo "from" DIR/headerremove echo "From: Listname" DIR/headeradd ought to do it under ezmlm idx Matthew B. Henniges Axl.net Communications http://www.axl.net (203) 552-1714 -Original Message- From: Albert Hopkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 2:41 PM

Re: anonymous mailing lists

2000-01-20 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 02:56:15PM -0500, Matthew B. Henniges wrote: echo "from" DIR/headerremove echo "From: Listname" DIR/headeradd ought to do it under ezmlm idx Better add sender, reply-to, return-path, return-receipt-to, and errors-to, and possibly message-id and received to

qmail sending multi messages

2000-01-20 Thread BoB Hope
I am having a problem with qmail sending the same messages to the same person 3 or more times. The messages are not all being sent at the same time and it does not happen to all the users. The logs show that it is the same from, to and the same message ID.. Could anyone give some thoughts

RE: Negatives in grammar

2000-01-20 Thread Scott D. Yelich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Which most of the English speaking world would interpret as "My mother can't do that", possibly with an implied "(but just about anyone else can)". This type of idiom leads to ambiguity, and is a barrier to communication--its only purpose is to be cute.

TimeZone patch

2000-01-20 Thread Dave Stites
Hi List, Sorry but I became a little lost here in following the gentle roasting and the only reason I found was one of those if you don't already know why not - don't do it variety which, since I do *not* already know causes me to raise the question. Is there any valid technical reason for

Re: TimeZone patch

2000-01-20 Thread Dave Sill
Dave Stites [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: html Hi List,br br Hi. brr It's cold here, too. Sorry but I became a little lost here in following the gentle roasting and the only quot;reasonquot; I found was one of those quot;if you don't already know why not - don't do itquot; variety which, since I do

Oslo training reminder, and discount

2000-01-20 Thread Russell Nelson
Reminder: I will be giving a two-day training session on qmail and BIND in Oslo on February 14 and 15. That's a little under a month now. I've decided to offer a 20% discount for three or more people billed to the same address, and a 10% discount for payment received prior to February 1. I'm

ORBS + MAPS + DUL

2000-01-20 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Is it possible to use rblsmtpd to check more than one source at a time? For example, I'd like to set it up to consult all of the above services before accepting incoming mail. At the moment, I've got the following in inetd.conf: smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /usr/sbin/tcpd \

Re: TimeZone patch

2000-01-20 Thread Dave Stites
For the List, My apologies for inadvertently injecting HTML into this list. That will *not* happen again For Dave Sill, Thank you for your response. It is now perfectly clear that for me to install said patch would be very inadvisable. Also, THANK YOU, for "Life with qmail" which

Cannot creating user account with an in qmailadmin

2000-01-20 Thread john
Hi, I am trying to create user account in qmail using qmailadmin and I am unable to create a user for example fb. Why does this have so much restriction ? Can I create it? Regards John

How to - Japanese version of Qmail

2000-01-20 Thread john
Hi, I need to setup English and Japanese version of qmail. How do I go about installing for Japanese version. Your reply would be much appreciated. Thanks Regards John Francis

Re: Cannot creating user account with an in qmailadmin

2000-01-20 Thread iv0
john wrote: Hi, I am trying to create user account in qmail using qmailadmin and I am unable to create a user for example fb. Why does this have so much restriction ? Can I create it? Regards John fb is not a valid user name. I think. Ken Jones

RE: Cannot creating user account with an in qmailadmin

2000-01-20 Thread Stephen Mills
Title: RE: Cannot creating user account with an in qmailadmin never used qmailadmin, just use the shell. to do this, create an alias like this : useradd fb passwd fb (set the passwd) echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-fb get your user to check mail on fb account,

Re: High-load servers...

2000-01-20 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 12:36:15PM +0800, Michael Boman wrote: I've seen someone post a question like this but didnt get a decent answer. I am looking into hosting a mailservice that will handle around 1-3 million SMTP transactions per day. What kind of hardware do I need to manage that?

Help,-ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir?

2000-01-20 Thread michael
I am using RH6.0 with qmail server! All other thing is OK, but pop3 service? I use Maildir format, I use maildirmake Maildir: drwx-- 2 sting users 1024 Jan 20 21:18 curdrwx-- 2 sting users 1024 Jan 21 00:21 newdrwx-- 2 sting users 1024 Jan 21 00:21 tmp Telnet result:

Re: Choosing a queue according to length - solution

2000-01-20 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19 Jan 00, at 14:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ugh... two seeks? Stat() is sooo much nicer ;-) #include stdlib.h #include unistd.h #include sys/stat.h #include sys/types.h int main(void) { struct stat st; if (fstat(0, st) 0)

Re: Choosing a queue according to length - solution

2000-01-20 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20 Jan 00, at 10:41, Petr Novotny wrote: Now I am trying to get rid of the mid-inserted Delivered-To: alias-mailsize-something@somewhere line. I wouldn't care about this line, but it matters for forwarding

SMTP From MSN.COM ?

2000-01-20 Thread hsilver
One of my clients has an employee that travels quite a bit with a notebook computer. That employee uses Windows 95 and Eudora Pro email client software. That employee also uses msn.com for his ISP. My client runs qmail-1.03. The pop3 services works very well for receiving email when the

Re: Maildir setup

2000-01-20 Thread Jose Pedro Pereira
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Kevin Waterson wrote: Jose Pedro Pereira wrote: Try /etc/skel ... The name says it all... hmm, there is nothing in this dir? What should be there? Could I be missing something? Kind regards Kevin Yap... This is the default directory for creating user

qmail Digest 20 Jan 2000 11:00:00 -0000 Issue 886

2000-01-20 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 20 Jan 2000 11:00:00 - Issue 886 Topics (messages 35708 through 35773): How to implement different outgoing queues according to size 35708 by: Petr Novotny 35711 by: Anand Buddhdev Qmail-Vpopmail-Qmailadmin Alias problem 35709 by: john

Re: SMTP From MSN.COM ?

2000-01-20 Thread Michael Boman
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 05:39:59AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of my clients has an employee that travels quite a bit with a notebook computer. That employee uses Windows 95 and Eudora Pro email client software. That employee also uses msn.com for his ISP. My client runs

Re: SMTP From MSN.COM ?

2000-01-20 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 07:11:43PM +0800, Michael Boman wrote: So what I am wondering is without having to recompile and re-install the entire qmail package with various patches, is there a relatively simple solution ? What are msn.com users doing with Eudora Pro that allows them to

[arb@anand.org: Re: SMTP From MSN.COM ?]

2000-01-20 Thread Anand Buddhdev
Some other people asked for my scripts, so I'm posting them to the list. -- See complete headers for more info On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 06:42:03AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. I'd like more details please. OK. The basic idea is to allow relaying from a certain IP, after the users

Corrupt to: header

2000-01-20 Thread Thies Edeling (Cessnalaan)
Hello all, I'm using qmail with ezmlm(-idx) on Redhat 6.1. Works excellent and stuff until a few days ago when I added a few more pop-accounts. Sometimes the to: header is totally corrupt, see below. This also happens with local deliveries, mail sent from a local to user to a local user. Anyone

how to improve mailing lists performance

2000-01-20 Thread Haifeng Guo
Hi: I use ezmlm+ezmlm-idx as our mailling lists server,I have a lot of mailing lists on my server,some lists subscribe is over 3,I use this lists to send our news,I found when I sent a message to the lists,the subscribe will take a long time to receive the mail(over serveral hours),I have

Timezone

2000-01-20 Thread Martin Renner
Hi. We are using qmail on Sun Solaris 7. When we are sending mails, the header of them is looking like this: -- Received: from a.b.c (mailsrvr [192.168.230.23]) by email.tiscon.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA03719 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:58:04 +0100

Re: SMTP From MSN.COM ?

2000-01-20 Thread Chris Johnson
The employee and I tried setting the SMTP server to msn.com in the outgoing SMTP server setting in Eudora without success at sending out email. We then tried email.msn.com and then smtp.email.msn.com and were also not successful at sending out email. So why don't you simply call

Re: SMTP From MSN.COM ?

2000-01-20 Thread hsilver
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Sam hath penned; On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, when the employee in on the road and dials into msn.com from various locations around the country, SMTP attempts at relaying through my client's server and the result in a #553 message.

forward returns hard error on DTLINE not set - why?

2000-01-20 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, why exactly does "forward" return a hard error when it finds no DTLINE in the environment? If forward is invoked from .qmail file, it probably means that qmail-local is mis-patched - then a temporary error is enough (admin notices and fixes,

Re: Timezone

2000-01-20 Thread Mads E Eilertsen
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Martin Renner wrote: [...] qmail is setting the time to "11:55:06 -". Yes, qmail always uses UTC. Mads

bounces

2000-01-20 Thread Abel Lucano
Hi all Why could be the cause of the bounces "doesn't bounce"?; I mean: all the bounces goes directly to ~alias/Mailbox without notify to sender. (TEST.deliver #4 give me a "success", not a "__#5.1.1_/" error message. All the bounces goes with a "success" to ~alias/Mailbox .qmail-mailer-daemon

Re: bounces

2000-01-20 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 11:07:18AM +, Abel Lucano wrote: Maybe you have a ~alias/.qmail-default. That traps mail for all unknown users. Hi all Why could be the cause of the bounces "doesn't bounce"?; I mean: all the bounces goes directly to ~alias/Mailbox without notify to sender.

Re: bounces

2000-01-20 Thread Abel Lucano
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Anand Buddhdev wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 11:07:18AM +, Abel Lucano wrote: Maybe you have a ~alias/.qmail-default. That traps mail for all unknown users. indeed! that's the answer; sorry! best regards

Re: Timezone

2000-01-20 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 02:54:00PM +0100, Mads E Eilertsen wrote: On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Martin Renner wrote: [...] qmail is setting the time to "11:55:06 -". Yes, qmail always uses UTC. But there's a patch available that will use your local timezone instead. Search on one the

Re: how to improve mailing lists performance

2000-01-20 Thread Dave Sill
"Haifeng Guo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use ezmlm+ezmlm-idx as our mailling lists server,I have a lot of mailing lists on my server,some lists subscribe is over 3,I use this lists to send our news,I found when I sent a message to the lists,the subscribe will take a long time to receive the

Re: Help,-ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir?

2000-01-20 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using RH6.0 with qmail server! All other thing is OK, but pop3 service? I use Maildir format, I use maildirmake Maildir: drwx-- 2 stingusers1024 Jan 20 21:18 cur drwx-- 2 stingusers1024 Jan 21 00:21 new drwx-- 2 sting

Re: Timezone

2000-01-20 Thread Dave Sill
Walt Mankowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 02:54:00PM +0100, Mads E Eilertsen wrote: On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Martin Renner wrote: [...] qmail is setting the time to "11:55:06 -". Yes, qmail always uses UTC. But there's a patch available that will use your local

MIME trouble or what?

2000-01-20 Thread Tony Gottfridsson
This is the first time qmail is giving me a headache Mail sent to my qmail server from 1 person in norway get stuck somehow. I'm sending along one of the replys this person got from qmail. But as I get it the problem is "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Johansson=2C_G=F6ran?= [EMAIL PROTECTED]" that should go

Re: Timezone

2000-01-20 Thread Mads E Eilertsen
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Walt Mankowski wrote: But there's a patch available that will use your local timezone instead. [...] Sure, but why tamper with qmail's approach? When tracking down delivery problems it's easier for humans and programs to read the Received:-lines when all time stamps are

RE: Timezone

2000-01-20 Thread Paul Trippett
But for Us European people EST stands for Eastern Summer Time and what is UTC and where is the time zone for that ? Regards Paul T -Original Message- From: Mads E Eilertsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 3:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Timezone

RE: Timezone

2000-01-20 Thread Scott D. Yelich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Paul Trippett wrote: But for Us European people EST stands for Eastern Summer Time and what is UTC and where is the time zone for that ? OIC, JIC, I use UTP at work at UPC which is in CET, ETC. I thought UTC was GMT... is that not

Re: Maildir format

2000-01-20 Thread Matthew Schnierle
On 15 Jan 2000, Russ Allbery wrote: RARussell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RA RA Because every such installation I've ever seen has used NFS. I'm not RA talking about what's good, or what's right. I'm talking about what's RA possible to do tomorrow. Yes, it might be that a specialized

Re: Timezone

2000-01-20 Thread Mark Delany
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 08:57:08AM -0700, Scott D. Yelich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Paul Trippett wrote: But for Us European people EST stands for Eastern Summer Time and what is UTC and where is the time zone for that ? OIC, JIC, I use UTP at work

RE: Timezone

2000-01-20 Thread Dave Sill
"Scott D. Yelich" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought UTC was GMT... is that not correct? Ah, two of my favorite peeves...and so concisely combined. First, UTC is not GMT. There're close, but not the same. See various net resources, if you're piqued. Second, the phrase "is that not correct",

RE: Timezone

2000-01-20 Thread Scott D. Yelich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Dave Sill wrote: So my point is, unless you like reading silly analyses of grammatical constructs in the qmail list, you should be careful to express yourself unambiguously. -Dave Oh, puhleeze do teach me how to be a pedantic asshole!

How do I change FROM filed of header.

2000-01-20 Thread Gustavo Arjones
Hi, Sorry by lammer question, but I need setup my qmail to change the outgoing FROM field to another mail, I'm using a simple announce list with .qmail, I use this: # begin .qmail file |/usr/bin/grep '^From:.*@osite.net' || (/usr/local/tools/nopost.pl; exit 100) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

RE: Timezone

2000-01-20 Thread Dave Sill
"Scott D. Yelich" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, puhleeze do teach me how to be a pedantic asshole! Looks like I'm halfway there already. ps: I book marked the url on writing good code. I want to see how much if the rules qmail breaks. The one Craig posted? It's pretty high-level; not like a

Re: Timezone

2000-01-20 Thread Russell Nelson
Mark Delany writes: I walk around http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/world.html might be instructive. Instructive, yes, but it says nothing about TAI. TAI is simply a counting of seconds, without UTC being taken into account. TAI + leap seconds == UTC. Unix machines claim to run on UTC

Re: Timezone

2000-01-20 Thread craig
Heh, great message about expressing yourself unambiguously. Now if only you could teach us (well, me ;-) how to do so *tersely*. ;-) tq vm, (burley)

Re: Timezone

2000-01-20 Thread Russell Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Heh, great message about expressing yourself unambiguously. Now if only you could teach us (well, me ;-) how to do so *tersely*. ;-) Easy. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | "Ask not

Re: Timezone

2000-01-20 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh, great message about expressing yourself unambiguously. Now if only you could teach us (well, me ;-) how to do so *tersely*. ;-) Simplify, but don't oversimplify. -Dave

Re: Timezone

2000-01-20 Thread petervd
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 01:32:53PM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: From: Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:22:56 -0500 (EST) Mark Delany writes: I walk around http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/world.html might be instructive. Instructive,

Re: Timezone

2000-01-20 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 19:42:49 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why? POSIX says 2000 is not a leap year :) What makes you say that? POSIX is incorrect because it says that 2100 is a leap year (just in case you were worried that there wouldn't be a Y2.1K problem). POSIX does not say

Re: Timezone

2000-01-20 Thread Russell Nelson
Ian Lance Taylor writes: From: Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:22:56 -0500 (EST) Mark Delany writes: I walk around http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/world.html might be instructive. Instructive, yes, but it says nothing about

RE: Negatives in grammar

2000-01-20 Thread Len Budney
Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UTC is GMT, right? Since the assertion is false, the answer is clearly negative ("no" or "wrong"). Throwing the "not" before the assertion reverses it: UTC is GMT, not right? You are being pedantic, are you not? Yes--and you're mistaken. This

Re: Timezone

2000-01-20 Thread petervd
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 01:48:35PM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 19:42:49 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why? POSIX says 2000 is not a leap year :) What makes you say that? I read something along those lines somewhere.. POSIX is incorrect because it says

checkpassword and ldap (was: Qmail with LDAP Auth)

2000-01-20 Thread Andrzej Szydlo
Hi, What bit of code was that? My checpassword still seems to take user and pass form commandline, which results in: parsing arguments: POP username is '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d' parsing arguments: POP password is 'Maildir' I use tcpserver for pop3: tcpserver -v 0 pop3

RE: Time zone

2000-01-20 Thread Paul Trippett
For those of you that have missed this. I asked a simple question about UTC and where it comes from and where now into POSIX not being Y2.1K Compliant, and there is also a variant about Negatives in Grammar. Don't you love it when this happens :) Regards, Paul Trippett -Original

RE: Negatives in grammar

2000-01-20 Thread Dave Sill
"Len Budney" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are being pedantic, are you not? Yes--and you're mistaken. I was clearly being pedantic. Next time I'll use a pedantic tag. This particular use of 'not' is purely idiomatic. Just because a particular grammatical butchery is in wide use and fits the

Re: checkpassword and ldap (was: Qmail with LDAP Auth)

2000-01-20 Thread Andre Oppermann
Andrzej Szydlo wrote: Hi, What bit of code was that? My checpassword still seems to take user and pass form commandline, which results in: parsing arguments: POP username is '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d' parsing arguments: POP password is 'Maildir' I use tcpserver for pop3:

Re: Negatives in grammar

2000-01-20 Thread petervd
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 02:23:54PM -0500, Dave Sill wrote: "Len Budney" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are being pedantic, are you not? Yes--and you're mistaken. I was clearly being pedantic. Next time I'll use a pedantic tag. This particular use of 'not' is purely idiomatic. Just