Re: questions about performance and setup

2000-07-17 Thread markd
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 03:33:54PM +1000, Oliver White wrote: We're in a similar situation at the moment. However, we want to send out 100,000 UNIQUE emails per day, expanding to 500,000 or more in the near future. Also, our send window is only actually a couple of hours. Is that for your

Re: questions about performance and setup

2000-07-17 Thread Steve Wolfe
We're in a similar situation at the moment. However, we want to send out 100,000 UNIQUE emails per day, expanding to 500,000 or more in the near future. Also, our send window is only actually a couple of hours. That shouldn't be too hard. With a Pentium 233 (not a P-II, a regular

bounce management

2000-07-17 Thread Thomas Duterme
Hi folks, I'm new to managing bounces, so please bear with me. I've had a very tough time finding any good documentation which could guide me to building some scripts to parse through my bounces and semi-automate them. I do fairly large mailings at a time, and I'd like to properly manage my

ESMTP

2000-07-17 Thread Tobias Neubert
Hi, my ISP has changed the mailsystem so that I have to change my configuration too. They sent me an email in which they tell me to send my user-id and password when sending mail. They call it ESMTP. So far I used /usr/local/bin/maildirsmtp ~alias/pppdir alias-ppp- sendmail.neubert.com $IPADDR

sqwebmail cannot compile

2000-07-17 Thread Jia Rong
Hi all: I use vpopmail+mysql+sqwebmail,and have installed vopopmail+mysql. i think it is ok. then there is some problem when i install sqwebmail. i run ./configure --enalbe-authvchkpw --without-authpam

Re: ESMTP

2000-07-17 Thread Jedi/Sector One
Tobias Neubert a écrit : /usr/local/bin/maildirsmtp ~alias/pppdir alias-ppp- sendmail.neubert.com $IPADDR to send my mail. But if I try this now, I get the following error: maildirserial: info: new/963816027.832.chakoty bounced: 209.231.49.20 said: 553 To send mail, first check your mail

rc file problem

2000-07-17 Thread Georg Thoma
Hello, i have a problem i didn't find in the archive. I run qmail on solaris 2.6 and it works fine with one restriction. Every message sent with qmail or recieved with qmail gets a:" content length: 0" as body. I think the problem lies in the rc file i use but i can't find the mistake My rc

qmail Digest 17 Jul 2000 10:00:00 -0000 Issue 1065

2000-07-17 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 17 Jul 2000 10:00:00 - Issue 1065 Topics (messages 44836 through 44854): Re: Announcing qmail-autoresponder version 0.90 44836 by: Russ Allbery Re: Domain forwarding] 44837 by: Henry Baragar Qmail is *NOT* reliable with ReiserFS 44838 by: Jedi/Sector

special quota problem

2000-07-17 Thread Patrick Müller
Hi all I'm running the qmail package for some time now and I got now a special error when sending a message to a user in my virtualdomains (vpopmail): " Hi. This is the qmail-send program at turkey.rogatec.ch. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is

vpop: this user has no $HOME/Maildir

2000-07-17 Thread Davide Giunchi
Hi all I'm trying to use vpopmail to allow user that autenticate via pop3 the user of smtpd. I create a user with vadduser e vaddpasswd then i try to connect to the qmail-pop3d telnet localhost pop-3 i insert: user prova or user prova%virtualdomain pass prova -ERR this user has

Re: vpop: this user has no $HOME/Maildir

2000-07-17 Thread Jia Rong
- Original Message - Hi all I'm trying to use vpopmail to allow user that autenticate via pop3 the user of smtpd. I create a user with vadduser e vaddpasswd then i try to connect to the qmail-pop3d telnet localhost pop-3 i insert: user prova or user prova%virtualdomain pass

Re: Autorespond Forward Problem

2000-07-17 Thread Dave Sill
wolfgang zeikat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |/var/qmail/alias/autorespond 1 100 /var/tmp/autor.txt /var/tmp/autorespond/no-mailbox (that is one line, no matter how your email client wrapped it here) Actually, your e-mail client wrapped it. Mine doesn't wrap, and it came in on two lines.

RE: and yet another NEWBIE question

2000-07-17 Thread Próspero, Esteban
Try vpopmail in www.inter7.com for virtual accounts. All your accounts are reached through one entry in /etc/passwd Esteban Javier Próspero -Original Message- From: çééí äìôøï [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 11:36 AM To: Paul Jarc; Qmail Subject:

so much qmail-smtpd activity, so little qmail-send activity...

2000-07-17 Thread Dave Kitabjian
I recently started monitoring qmail-smtpd's activity via "tcpserver -v", and at the moment it's burning through a steady 15-20 concurrencies, scrolling by beyond readability. Meanwhile, as I "tail -f maillog" for qmail-send's activity, it sits predominantly idle, with an occasional message to

Re: qmail accepting mails for unknown rcpt to

2000-07-17 Thread Charles Cazabon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: qmail server is accepting mails for unknown users, users who do not exists on my mail server ( users whose entries r not there in my LDAP directory server ) [...] i cant understand why to accept mail for unknow users ( just to

RE: questions about performance and setup

2000-07-17 Thread Austad, Jay
With all of the emails I recieved, I get the impression that I'm going to I/O bound instead of processor or memory bound. How much disk will be sufficient for the queue? 1GB? More? I'm just grasping here to figure out the best solution, so bear with me... What if I only needed a 1GB queue,

Re: questions about performance and setup

2000-07-17 Thread markd
In other words you'll need to pump out 5+ megabits per second, which means a connection of around double that, say 10 Mbits per second. Is that what you have available? In theory, yes. In practice... remains to be seen. I did some similar calculations and came up with a similar

Re: questions about performance and setup

2000-07-17 Thread markd
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 10:29:03AM -0500, Austad, Jay wrote: With all of the emails I recieved, I get the impression that I'm going to I/O bound instead of processor or memory bound. How much disk will be sufficient for the queue? 1GB? More? I'm just grasping here to figure out the best

MTA bounce message codes

2000-07-17 Thread Thomas Duterme
Hi everyone, Anyone know where there's a list of standard MTA bounce messages? I have 70,000 bounced messages which have been sitting on an imap account and gathering dust over the past 2 months. My job: to sort these through and get an approximate picture of which are fake, which are due to

Mail to user@localhost.mydomain.com

2000-07-17 Thread Ryan Hayle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm using qmail 1.03 on a Debian 2.1 system with the vchkpw/vpopmail programs. Whenever I try to send mail to user@localhost, qmail interprets this as [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is not in the DNS at all. Is there a way to fix this? "localhost"

Re: questions about performance and setup

2000-07-17 Thread John White
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 10:29:03AM -0500, Austad, Jay wrote: With all of the emails I recieved, I get the impression that I'm going to I/O bound instead of processor or memory bound. Ahhh... someone who gets it. How much disk will be sufficient for the queue? 1GB? More? What if you did

RE: questions about performance and setup

2000-07-17 Thread Jason Murphy
I overlooked that when I posted this message; I totally forgot about the write penalty. Sorry about that. -Original Message- From: John White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 7:08 PM To: qmail mailing list Subject: Re: questions about performance and setup On

Re: bounce management

2000-07-17 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Thomas Duterme ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm new to managing bounces, so please bear with me. I've had a very tough time finding any good documentation which could guide me to building some scripts to parse through my bounces and semi-automate them. I do fairly large mailings at a time,

qmail-date-localtime.patch

2000-07-17 Thread grant
I have a question about the qmail-date-localtime patch written by John Saunders. What files does this patch modify exactly? I have a rpm based install, and would like to see if it's possible to just replace the files that this patch modifies.. any help would be appricaited thanks Grant

Re: Mail to user@localhost.mydomain.com

2000-07-17 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 12:56:25PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: Hi, I'm using qmail 1.03 on a Debian 2.1 system with the vchkpw/vpopmail programs. Whenever I try to send mail to user@localhost, qmail interprets this as [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is not in the DNS at all. Is there a way to fix

Re: Qmail is *NOT* reliable with ReiserFS

2000-07-17 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 06:55:21PM +0200, Jedi/Sector One wrote: ReiserFS does not commit link() synchronously (mounting with "sync" doesn't change anything). Therefore, if there is a power outage during the Maildir delivery or if qmail-smtpd answered the final "queued" message without

how to check if mails queued in ~alias

2000-07-17 Thread michael . renner
Hello, I want to write a simple script to check if mails are queued in /var/qmail/alias/pppdir/new to decide, wheter the PC should go online or not. Is there a spezial command like 'qmail-queue' to decide if the computer should dial (isdn) to the provider and send the queued mails using

Re: Qmail is *NOT* reliable with ReiserFS

2000-07-17 Thread Greg Hudson
It is DJB's view that all directory operations (creating, removing, linking, etc.) sould be synchronous, just like BSD does. For the record, FFS with soft-updates does not guarantee synchronous directory operations; you have to open and fsync() the file you just moved to be sure the operation

Re: qmail-date-localtime.patch

2000-07-17 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 07:31:22PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a question about the qmail-date-localtime patch written by John Saunders. What files does this patch modify exactly? exactly the one www.qmail.org states; date822fmt.c $ grep "^+++" qmail-date-localtime.patch +++

Re: Qmail is *NOT* reliable with ReiserFS

2000-07-17 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 03:59:00PM -0400, Greg Hudson wrote: It is DJB's view that all directory operations (creating, removing, linking, etc.) sould be synchronous, just like BSD does. For the record, FFS with soft-updates does not guarantee synchronous directory operations; you have to

Re: Qmail is *NOT* reliable with ReiserFS

2000-07-17 Thread Greg Hudson
Apologies for not catching this in my first reply to Bruce's message. There is also the discussion of ordered meta-data updates (OMDU) vs unordered (UMDU). Linux (with the exception of newer journalled file systems) does UMDU. With OMDU, the file meta-data (inode, indirect blocks, etc) is

Re: MTA bounce message codes

2000-07-17 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 12:07:52AM +, Thomas Duterme wrote: Hi everyone, Anyone know where there's a list of standard MTA bounce messages? I have 70,000 bounced messages which have been sitting on an imap account and gathering dust over the past 2 months. My job: to sort these through

Re: Qmail is *NOT* reliable with ReiserFS

2000-07-17 Thread Michael Babcock
The 'sane' response would be to buy high-end power protection equipment and use redundant drive configurations (RAID) and only worry about whether the kernel writes out data consistently or not (and good journalling takes care of many performance issues here). Reliability of gigabytes per minute

Re: Qmail is *NOT* reliable with ReiserFS

2000-07-17 Thread Greg Hudson
For the record, FFS with soft-updates does not guarantee synchronous directory operations; you have to open and fsync() the file you just moved to be sure the operation has been committed to disk. See http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2000/06/19/0011.html for a little more

Re: Qmail is *NOT* reliable with ReiserFS

2000-07-17 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 04:39:01PM -0400, Greg Hudson wrote: Which to me seems to be a more logical mode of operations: if you want the file data sync'd to disk, call fsync on the file; if you want the directory, fsync the directory. Perhaps. There are arguments for either model being

Re: questions about performance and setup

2000-07-17 Thread Jason Haar
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 09:51:22AM -0700, John White wrote: (I can put 2GB of ram in the box)? Linux has support for making a disk in memory, putting a filesystem on it and mounting it. Wouldn't this take care of I/O problems? I'd read up on ramdisks first. They aren't instant i/o.

Re: OK, I've install vpopmail, where is DJB test.delivertest.recieve...

2000-07-17 Thread Ken Jones
"Steven M. Klass" wrote: Does anyone know how I can test a vpopmail installation. I know this may probably be trivial, but I like DJB's instructions, especially since he always allows provisions for testing.. Thanks Steven M. Klass Physical Design Engineering Manager Andigilog Inc.

Save A Copy Of All messages

2000-07-17 Thread Christopher Tarricone
Is there a way that you can setup of the server to allow the user to check all of thier messages and then go to another location and then check them again? What I would like to happen is this.. A person sends me an e-mail when I check it that message stays on the server. If I were to check it

Re: Vpopmail - Installation - questions

2000-07-17 Thread Ken Jones
"Steven M. Klass" wrote: Hey all I just started working with vpopmail and I am in need of answers. 1. The install guide recommends that all domains be set up as virtual domains. In the qmail/control/locals file I have my domain already defined. How can I convert that to a

SMTP Question

2000-07-17 Thread Martin Searancke
Most mail packages have the ability to let a user log in when sending mail. (Outlook for example.) I was looking at this and had a couple of questions... Is this part of the SMTP standard? Can this be used to let authorised people relay through a server? Thanks Martin Martin Searancke CommSoft

Re: SMTP Question

2000-07-17 Thread Rogue Eagle
--- Martin Searancke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most mail packages have the ability to let a user log in when sending mail. (Outlook for example.) I was looking at this and had a couple of questions... Is this part of the SMTP standard? No. Can this be used to let authorised people relay

Re: questions about performance and setup

2000-07-17 Thread Steve Wolfe
With all of the emails I recieved, I get the impression that I'm going to I/O bound instead of processor or memory bound. How much disk will be sufficient for the queue? 1GB? More? It's not so much a matter of disk size (I don't think you'll have a 1 gig queue!), but of throughput.

Re: SMTP Question

2000-07-17 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 11:04:26AM +1200, Martin Searancke wrote: Most mail packages have the ability to let a user log in when sending mail. (Outlook for example.) I was looking at this and had a couple of questions... Is this part of the SMTP standard? It is not part of the original

Re: questions about performance and setup

2000-07-17 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 10:24:53PM -0600, Steve Wolfe wrote: With all of the emails I recieved, I get the impression that I'm going to I/O bound instead of processor or memory bound. How much disk will be sufficient for the queue? 1GB? More? It's not so much a matter of disk size (I

Re: questions about performance and setup

2000-07-17 Thread Oliver White
Steve Wolfe wrote: With all of the emails I recieved, I get the impression that I'm going to I/O bound instead of processor or memory bound. How much disk will be sufficient for the queue? 1GB? More? It's not so much a matter of disk size (I don't think you'll have a 1 gig queue!),