Re: Maildir and procmail and safecat

2000-02-25 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 06:48:50PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: W. Richard Stevens did that benchmark in _Advanced Unix Programming_ quite a while back; as I recall, the difference between single-character writes and buffered writes in his data was an order of magnitude or two. of course.

Re: Transient non-fatal delivery errors

2000-02-25 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
When sending the mail through MDAEMON I get the following error message. What is this? and how to solve this ? Is it a problem with qmail or with MDaemon Read the message again and you will see that a) it is no error message, it's a WARNING MESSAGE ONLY b) the message comes from MDaemon, so

Re: Transient non-fatal delivery errors

2000-02-25 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself I overlooked this line. This means that the SMTP dialogue was already done and the timeout occured during transmission of the message. May be the receiver at 194.244.4.132 has a problem and doesn't report it to the sender. Regards, Frank

Re: Lots of mails bouncing Problem creating an account with an symbol

2000-02-25 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 02:29:46PM +0800, john wrote: I see that there are lots of mails that are getting bounced and are sitting in the postmaster account. How can I resend these mails. this depends on your mail client. Next I have a problem with the symbol in qmail. One person posted to

[ log question ] - to all Qmail adm.

2000-02-25 Thread Luka Gerzic
can anybody tell me where qmail store log files after few day's ? i can't find them in /var/log/qmail exept for past 2 day's. ls -la /var/log/qmail/ -r--r--r-- 1 qmaill nofiles 100031 Feb 24 21:51 @0951421431-r--r--r-- 1 qmaill nofiles 17 Feb 24 23:01 @0951425481-r--r--r-- 1

Re: qmail-smtpd password log

2000-02-25 Thread Krzysztof Dabrowski
I am trying to set up qmail-smtpd so that it requires a password. This is supported by many e-mail clients. I have already successfully setup tcprules so that only specific IPs are allowed in, but I would rather have it let any IP in and be password based so that when I travel I can use my own

Re: [ log question ] - to all Qmail adm.

2000-02-25 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 10:24:49AM +0100, Luka Gerzic wrote: can anybody tell me where qmail store log files after few day's ? i can't find them in /var/log/qmail exept for past 2 day's. reconfigure /service/qmail/log/run or whatever script starts the qmail system. I use something like that:

Re: Puzzling mail forwarding delay

2000-02-25 Thread Matthew Bloch
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Matthew Bloch wrote: Surely there should be no delay in simply forwarding a message on once fetchmail has delivered it? To add to the mystery, during this delay, I can see the bodies of the delayed test messages (however many there are) inside queue/mess but no control

qmail Digest 25 Feb 2000 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 922

2000-02-25 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 25 Feb 2000 11:00:01 - Issue 922 Topics (messages 37648 through 37743): Mailserver quotas 37648 by: TAG 37651 by: Anand Buddhdev Re: antirbl question 37649 by: cmikk.uswest.net 37689 by: up.3.am forwarding mail 37650 by: TAG

qmail behaving weird with virtualdomain

2000-02-25 Thread Mikael Schmidt
Hello, today when I rebooted my computer for the first time since I had added a virtualdomain on my qmail-machine, it didn't work. It wanted to transport the mail's that should, and had been before the reboot, be handled locally away to a remote server. So I began looking into the thing, and

Re: qmail behaving weird with virtualdomain

2000-02-25 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
here's my control/virtualdomains file; #cat virtualdomains [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmm. "An empty prepend means that domain is not a virtual domain" say the qmail-send manpage. What do you try with this setup? If you ony want to forward the mail delete

Re: Maildir and procmail and safecat

2000-02-25 Thread Len Budney
Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Paul Jarc wrote: Sorry, no. You're not looking at *the* putc macro; you're looking at *a* putc macro. One implementation need not resemble another at all However, since I'm using *MY* implementation, I'm going to look at *MY* macros,

rcpthosts and sender address

2000-02-25 Thread Oliver Frommel
Hi, after reading through the mailing list archives my understanding concerning qmail relaying is that: rcpthosts is used only for checking the recipients domain. What about the sender address then? Coming from a sendmail background I would like the following behaviour: 1. allow sending from

Re: rcpthosts and sender address

2000-02-25 Thread alexander . jernejcic
tpserver (part of daemontools) does exactly what you want. its a matter of setting RELAYCLIENT. there are also solutions for dynamic relay, where the client first authenticates through pop3. take a look at life with qmail: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html espacially chapter 3.2.3. its

Re: can't send mail to aol

2000-02-25 Thread Russell Nelson
Michael Boman writes: On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 12:28:42PM +0200, kailash oswal wrote: hi there, I have a problem with aol domain...My customers cannot send mail to aol.com (american on line)domain.Is there any seetings to be amde at our end ...please tell if somebody has come

Re: qmail-pop3d slowness

2000-02-25 Thread Juan E Suris
S Ashok Kumar writes: Juan E Suris wrote: At 10:40 PM -0500 2/24/00, Juan E Suris wrote: Hello All, Like a good qmail user, I changed qmail-pop3d from inetd to tcpserver, but now it's really slow. It takes about 10 secs to respond. Is this usual. Following are my start scripts.

Re: Safecat challenge

2000-02-25 Thread Len Budney
Just for fun, why not put your money where your mouth is? I'll give you $250 if you can write a program which 1) Exactly conforms to the maildir protocol (including fsync()), and 2) runs 50 times faster than safecat, in an independent benchmark using actual emails, and 3) runs at least 20 times

Re: qmail-pop3d slowness

2000-02-25 Thread Juan E Suris
Everything seems to be alright in the DNS entries. Is there a way that I can trace or follow tcpserver's execution to see where it is getting stuck? JES Soffen, Matthew writes: Check your DNS entries/server. Is all working properly there ? Matt Soffen -Original Message-

RE: Safecat challenge

2000-02-25 Thread James Park
this is a public e-mail forum. maybe you guys should take your private war private. peace, gentlemen. -Original Message- From: Len Budney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Safecat challenge Just for fun, why not put

Off topic about mailling list

2000-02-25 Thread Henri J. Schlereth
Is there a digest version? Henri -- - "All data leaves a trail. The search for data leaves a trail. The erasure of data leaves a trail.The absence of data, under the right circumstances,can leave the clearest trail of all- Dr. Kio

Re: Maildir and procmail

2000-02-25 Thread Tracy R Reed
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 01:29:26AM +0200, Mikko Hänninen wrote: Or, 3) you use the latest version of procmail which supports maildirs natively. (I've yet to hear this confirmed working, but the version announcement said it supports them, so...) Hi Mikko/Wizzu! I got the latest version of

Re: Safecat challenge

2000-02-25 Thread Henri J. Schlereth
While I understand that this is a heated technical arguement well over my head by miles, have you two considered the impression you are making on a public list? I like a good debate as much as anyone else but this is pretty much degenerating into a brawl. Cant you gentlemen take outside at fifty

Re: qmail-pop3d

2000-02-25 Thread Juan E Suris
Thanks Fred! I had -H and -R, but not -L. I put it in and it did the trick. JES Fred Lindberg writes: Read the tcpserver man page, expecially -hH/lL/-rR. Skipping the lookups saves lots of time. The auth/identd lookup times out after about 30s. That was a problem here, since clients didn't

RE: Safecat challenge

2000-02-25 Thread Paul Farber
actually it's quite interesting. I 'specially liked the code and benchmarks.. it's interesting to see how 'real' programmers do it. (that didn't come out right...) Paul Farber Farber Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545 On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, James Park wrote: this

Time zones? Qué?

2000-02-25 Thread Stephen Bosch
Hello, everyone: Okay -- I know that this question has been asked before, and I know it's been answered before, but I've sifted through all the the FAQs I could find, heeded some of the advice, looked through the archives, and I'm no closer to a clear answer or a solution. The question: How do

Re: qmail-pop3d slowness

2000-02-25 Thread Jose de Leon
I'm experiencing same problem. DNS is correct, I've turned off reverse name server lookups, using tcpserver and not inetd. I would like to see some suggestions also. - Original Message - From: Juan E Suris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 8:00 AM

Re: Time zones? Qué?

2000-02-25 Thread Charles Cazabon
Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I modify/configure qmail so that the messages I *receive* have the appropriate time stamp on them? All my incoming mail appears in UTC. The messages do have the correct timestamp on them. Of note is that if I am using Netscape Messenger to

single quotes in RCPT

2000-02-25 Thread Adam McKenna
I am investigating a problem on our local lan. The problem seems to stem from netscape sending RCPT TO: lines in the following manner: RCPT TO: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' The qmail server responds: Sorry, I couldn't find any host named flounder.net'. (#5.1.2) I am pretty sure that Netscape is

U.S. Lets Professor Put Encryption on Internet

2000-02-25 Thread hsilver
Source: New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/02/biztech/articles/25encryption.html February 25, 2000 U.S. Lets Professor Put Encryption on Internet By REUTERS WASHINGTON -- The United States will allow a computer scientist to put instructions for writing a powerful

Re: Safecat challenge

2000-02-25 Thread Racer X
minor corrections: the whole "challenge" was a marketing ploy by oracle (not novell), aimed at exercising some little used feature of both oracle and microsoft, but a feature which oracle had spent a boatload of time optimizing solely for this challenge. i don't recall the specifics of it, but

Re: U.S. Lets Professor Put Encryption on Internet

2000-02-25 Thread hsilver
Source: New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/02/biztech/articles/25encryption.html February 25, 2000 U.S. Lets Professor Put Encryption on Internet By REUTERS WASHINGTON -- The United States will allow a computer scientist to put instructions for writing a powerful

Re: single quotes in RCPT

2000-02-25 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 03:19:06PM -0500, Adam McKenna wrote: I am investigating a problem on our local lan. The problem seems to stem from netscape sending RCPT TO: lines in the following manner: RCPT TO: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' The qmail server responds: Sorry, I couldn't find any host

RE: Encryption and t-shirts

2000-02-25 Thread Greg Owen
Or how about Front: "Don't queue mail with sendmail" Back: "Send mail with qmail" ROTFL. I'd buy that one. -- gowen -- Greg Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Encryption and t-shirts

2000-02-25 Thread petervd
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 04:25:47PM -0500, Greg Owen wrote: Or how about Front: "Don't queue mail with sendmail" Back: "Send mail with qmail" ROTFL. I'd buy that one. Count me in too! Greetz, Peter. -- Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in

Re: Encryption and t-shirts

2000-02-25 Thread jacob
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 04:16:05PM -0500, Dave Kitabjian wrote: Let's face it. We're not just fans of qmail, we're fans of djb. I think we need some t-shirts printed. Let's see: "I'm with djb" "cr.yp.to" Front: "Don't queue mail with sendmail" Back: "Send mail

RE: Encryption and t-shirts

2000-02-25 Thread Chad Day
So instead of talking about how we all want one, what needs to be done? Will someplace like copyleft start printing these up if there is demand? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 4:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: Encryption and t-shirts

2000-02-25 Thread petervd
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 03:26:27PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 04:16:05PM -0500, Dave Kitabjian wrote: Let's face it. We're not just fans of qmail, we're fans of djb. I think we need some t-shirts printed. Let's see: "I'm with djb" "cr.yp.to"

Re: qmail-pop3d and vchckpasswd

2000-02-25 Thread iv0
Eric Lalonde wrote: I am trying to switch to set up virtual domains via vpopmail. In my startup script i have: env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \ tcpserver -uvpopmail_uid -gvpopmail_gid 0 pop-3 \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup daylightfading.org \ /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw

POP Toaster

2000-02-25 Thread Stephen Remillard
Hi, I just finished installing qmail on my Linux box. I would like to replace our NT mail server with qmail running on Linux. There are no local users on this Linux box so everyone will get their e-mail using POP3. I have a few beginner's questions for you. I am reading the FAQ on how to

Re: qmail-pop3d slowness

2000-02-25 Thread Juan E Suris
Sorry folks! My problem is not resolved. The -L option in fact did not work. Here's my init script setup under supervise like in lwq. #!/bin/sh VUID=`id -u vpopmail` VGID=`id -g vpopmail` exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -H -L -R -u $VUID -g $VGID 0

Re: qmail-pop3d slowness

2000-02-25 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 05:21:48PM -0500, Juan E Suris wrote: The -L option in fact did not work. Which isn't surprising, since the -L option doesn't exist. Chris

Re: Encryption and t-shirts

2000-02-25 Thread Tracy R Reed
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 04:16:05PM -0500, Dave Kitabjian wrote: Let's face it. We're not just fans of qmail, we're fans of djb. I think we need some t-shirts printed. Let's see: Brilliant though his software may be, his licensing forever dooms it to obscurity. :( What I wouldn't give for a

Re: Encryption and t-shirts

2000-02-25 Thread Jos Backus
Front: "Don't queue mail with sendmail" Back: "Send mail with qmail" I'd buy one, too. -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never _/ _/ _/ having to say you're sorry." _/ _/_/_/

qmqp and local delivery

2000-02-25 Thread Tracy R Reed
I cruised the archives for this problem and the consensus seemed to be that there was no solution. My mailing lists are swamping the upstream on my DSL connection. I have a machine at work that I want to offload the queueing onto via QMQP. As I understand it my qmail-qmqpc uploads a copy of the

Re: Encryption and t-shirts

2000-02-25 Thread David L. Nicol
Greg Owen wrote: Or how about Front: "Don't queue mail with sendmail" Back: "Send mail with qmail" ROTFL. I'd buy that one. If someone else can do the art I can get them printed ___

concurrencyremote setting

2000-02-25 Thread DeChavez , Andrew
I just would like to find out the highest value anyone has set concurrencyremote conf file? Any impact on system performance as it gets higher? Thanks. Andrew De Chavez

RE: Encryption and t-shirts

2000-02-25 Thread Edward S. Marshall
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Dave Kitabjian wrote: Front: "Don't queue mail with sendmail" Back: "Send mail with qmail" All I need to know is where to send a money order. ;-) -- Edward S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nyx.net/~emarshal/

Re: single quotes in RCPT

2000-02-25 Thread Sam
Adam McKenna writes: I am investigating a problem on our local lan. The problem seems to stem from netscape sending RCPT TO: lines in the following manner: RCPT TO: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' The qmail server responds: Sorry, I couldn't find any host named flounder.net'. (#5.1.2) I am

Re: single quotes in RCPT

2000-02-25 Thread Adam McKenna
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 01:47:26AM +, Sam wrote: Adam McKenna writes: I am investigating a problem on our local lan. The problem seems to stem from netscape sending RCPT TO: lines in the following manner: RCPT TO: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' The qmail server responds: Sorry,

Re: qmail-pop3d and vchckpasswd

2000-02-25 Thread Steve Belt
Is that a typo. I thought it was: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve B. - Original Message - From: iv0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eric Lalonde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 1:56 PM Subject: Re: qmail-pop3d and vchckpasswd Eric Lalonde wrote: I am

Re: single quotes in RCPT

2000-02-25 Thread Juan E Suris
I had this exact problem and in my case it was user error. When you copy and paste an address, sometimes you can bring the quotes along. JES On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 01:47:26AM +, Sam wrote: Adam McKenna writes: I am investigating a problem on our local lan. The problem seems to stem

Re: Encryption and t-shirts

2000-02-25 Thread Martin Randall
Hello Dave On 25-Feb-00, you wrote: Front: "Don't queue mail with sendmail" Back: "Send mail with qmail" That ones great. You going to put that in the public domain so people can reproduce it ? Regards...Martin -- --- A man of genius makes no mistakes. His

Re: qmail-pop3d slowness

2000-02-25 Thread Juan E Suris
Woops! I discovered that before sending the message, but forgot to change the code in the message. My script looks like this: #!/bin/sh VUID=`id -u vpopmail` VGID=`id -g vpopmail` exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -H -R -l www.ypay4it.com -u $VUID \ -g

Re: U.S. Lets Professor Put Encryption on Internet

2000-02-25 Thread Russell Nelson
hsilver writes: Dan, Can Snuffle be integrated into a qmail system and do you know when you will be making the source for Snuffle available on qmail.org ? I'm looking forward to seeing Dan's crypto code, but I expect Dan will put it on his web site at http://cr.yp.to. I might put a

relaying

2000-02-25 Thread Michael Anderson
Strange question, got Qmail all up and running, and can't seem to get the silly thing to send mail out to the rest of the Internet. I can send mail to the server, send mail from one user to another, but nothing outside. I'm running tcpserver, vpopmail, and qmailadmin on a Mandrake Linux 7.0

Re: qmail-pop3d and vchckpasswd

2000-02-25 Thread iv0
No, the @ sign is normally stripped out by email clients. Hence we fool the email client by using the % sign. Ken Steve Belt wrote: Is that a typo. I thought it was: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve B. - Original Message - From: iv0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eric Lalonde [EMAIL