duplicate messages

2000-09-11 Thread James T. Perry
Hi all, I apologize if this was covered before. I am having probles after my fresh qmail install, and being new to all of this I am a little confused with what is going on. BTW, qmail is working great and I think its awesome. Situation: In my lan I am testing qmail on my two LINUX boxes.

qmail-smtpd-auth crashes!!!

2000-09-11 Thread Manuel Gisbert
Hi there, I want to enable authenticated smtp between server and mua. Therefor I installed either mrs.brisbys qmail-smtp patch or the advanced version from http://members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth/ As I use vpopmail I applied all modifications mentioned in

Re: Monitoring Email - Clarified

2000-09-11 Thread Adam McKenna
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 02:18:05AM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: Scott D. Yelich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 10 September 2000 at 21:14:31 -0600 The favorite is always: Q: I would like to do "XYZ" A: WHY do you want to do "XYZ" Who cares why? STOP trying to think for

Re: Does Qmail support MUA on Win9x?

2000-09-11 Thread Steve Wolfe
Steve Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 10 September 2000 at 18:52:00 -0600 It seems that Qmail supports only Unix's MUA.I'm using win9x on my client PC,does it mean I can't use Qmail as my SMTP/POP3/IMAP server? Thank you! qmail supports any MUA that adheres to the pop3 and

qmail Digest 11 Sep 2000 10:00:00 -0000 Issue 1120

2000-09-11 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 11 Sep 2000 10:00:00 - Issue 1120 Topics (messages 48374 through 48386): daemontools problem 48374 by: QBA Does Qmail support MUA on Win9x? 48375 by: big_qmail.email.com.cn 48376 by: Steve Wolfe 48377 by: wolfgang zeikat 48383 by: David

list down ?

2000-09-11 Thread Jens Georg
hi, didn't get message from this list since days now. is it down ? -- regards, jens --- department computer science, university of dortmund linux ... life's too short for reboots! begin:vcard n:Georg;Jens

RE: list down ?

2000-09-11 Thread Próspero, Esteban
If you get this message, it's not... if you don't get it... you won't notice anyway!! ;-) Esteban Javier Próspero -Original Message- From: Jens Georg [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 7:57 AM To: qmail mailinglist Subject: list down ? hi,

Reject it during the SMTP dialogue

2000-09-11 Thread J.J.Gallardo
I'm surprise today with a test that i've do it on my smtp server (qmail 1.03): I send an e-amil (1Mb) to an invalid user and qmail accept it a then, send a reply to the sender (another megabyte) saying that the user is unknown. Total = 2Mb of my lines used for no actions. Is there a way to reject

Re: daemontools problem

2000-09-11 Thread Dave Sill
QBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed daemontools on my linux. But I didn't find any documentacion within it. See: ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/daemontools.html And to be honest with you I don't know what is this program about. I thought that it is for qmail to better working

Re: qmail-smtpd-auth crashes!!!

2000-09-11 Thread Dave Sill
"Manuel Gisbert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now when I connect to the server using outlook or outlook express (both are mentioned on the above website as working) qmail-smtpd exits with "421 out of memory (#4.3.0)". snipp from qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild`

nofiles not no files?

2000-09-11 Thread Raul Miller
I'm trying to understand the recommendation of INSTALL.ids, which corresponds to the following line from qmail-1.03/CHANGES: 19961117 change: qmail-start sets logger gid to GID_NOFILES. Shouldn't the gid be named something like logfiles (GID_LOGFILES)? I don't understand the point of creating

SVSCAN not starting qmail

2000-09-11 Thread Jimmy Newell
Well I first installed qmail on my RH6.2 box as a test. When I was ready to go live. I decided to copy over the scripts that I hacked on for hours. My problem now is that svscan doesn't seem to start the the services automatically. I can't start qmail at all. I check the scripts and they

Questions...

2000-09-11 Thread James Stevens
Okaycouplequestions.. 1. In qmail how can I force it to go by both MX and A records as opposed to just A records?? I have found that qmail seems to have a problem when it can't resolve the A record even though the MX is fully resolveable to an IP... 2. Is there any way to view whats

Re: Questions...

2000-09-11 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:36:07AM -0700, James Stevens wrote: 2. Is there any way to view whats actually in queue as oppsed to just seeing numbers.. My boss likes being able to actually see the queue like in the old Sendmail. qmHandle from the qmail home page (you did look there, didn't

Re: Questions...

2000-09-11 Thread Steven Rice
James Stevens wrote: Okay couple questions.. 1. In qmail how can I force it to go by both MX and A records as opposed to just A records?? I have found that qmail seems to have a problem when it can't resolve the A record even though the MX is fully resolveable to an IP... Every MX

RE: Questions...

2000-09-11 Thread Greg Owen
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:36:07AM -0700, James Stevens wrote: 2. Is there any way to view whats actually in queue as oppsed to just seeing numbers.. My boss likes being able to actually see the queue like in the old Sendmail. qmHandle from the qmail home page (you did look there,

Tcpserver

2000-09-11 Thread Jonathan Fanti
I'm trying to do selective relaying, and have tried to configure tcpserver as per the "selective relaying with tcpserver and qmail-smtpd" howto document. when I run the command: tcpserver -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u503 -g16 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd I get the following error: tcpserver:

qmail/mini.html

2000-09-11 Thread Raul Miller
http://cr.yp.to/qmail/mini.html says: * You don't need qmail entries in /etc/group or /etc/passwd. mini-qmail runs with the same privileges as the user sending mail; it doesn't have any of its own files. But, it also says: Here's what you do need: * qmail-qmqpc,

Maildir

2000-09-11 Thread Mike Jimenez
Im getting this error message with one of my domains How do I fix this. delivery 149: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1) Thanks

Re: Questions...

2000-09-11 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:55:27PM -0500, Steven Rice wrote: [snip] opposed to just A records?? I have found that qmail seems to have a problem when it can't resolve the A record even though the MX is fully resolveable to an IP... Every MX record should point to CNAME or an A record.

Re: Maildir

2000-09-11 Thread Steve Wolfe
Im getting this error message with one of my domains How do I fix this. delivery 149: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1) Make sure that the Maildir is set up correctly - correct location, ownership, and permissions. As a quick and dirty hack, try: chown -R {user.group}

Re: Questions...

2000-09-11 Thread Scott D. Yelich
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Peter van Dijk wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:55:27PM -0500, Steven Rice wrote: opposed to just A records?? I have found that qmail seems to have a problem when it can't resolve the A record even though the MX is fully resolveable to an IP... Every MX record

Re: Questions...

2000-09-11 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:03:01PM -0600, Scott D. Yelich wrote: On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Peter van Dijk wrote: Pointing to CNAMEs is close to forbidden. ok, I can't resist: "WHY" ? Because the behaviour of CNAMEs combined with MX or A on either side, when it comes to mail, is not

RE: Does Qmail support MUA on Win9x?

2000-09-11 Thread Ihnen, David
It seems that Qmail supports only Unix's MUA.I'm using win9x on my client PC,does it mean I can't use Qmail as my SMTP/POP3/IMAP server? Thank you! qmail supports any MUA that adheres to the pop3 and smtp protocols, which includes a wide variety of Unix and Windows

Mail que

2000-09-11 Thread Mike Jimenez
How do I clear out my mail que? Thanks Mike

Re: Mail que

2000-09-11 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:06:59PM -0700, Mike Jimenez wrote: How do I clear out my mail que? Thanks Mike FAQ 7.2 It's in your source tree. Ben -- Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAILER-DAEMON (612) 321-9290

Locals, rcpthosts, tcprules or other?

2000-09-11 Thread Andy Meuse
Good Day\Afternoon\Evening, I've a problem that I know I could figure out. However, because of restraints (non-physical) put on me I am being pressured to get this right the first time. (for some reason it takes "others" an hour to test this) Now that my ego feels better, here is my problem. I

Catch all boxes and ~/.qmail

2000-09-11 Thread Brian Moon
We want to have all unmatched mail delivered to a default box. The problem is that if I put a .qmail-default in /var/qmail/alias I must also put a .qmail-user for each user in /var/qmail/alias or all mail goes to .qmail-default. This was not a problem until we started allowing mail filters on

Re: Catch all boxes and ~/.qmail

2000-09-11 Thread Dave Sill
"Brian Moon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We want to have all unmatched mail delivered to a default box. The problem is that if I put a .qmail-default in /var/qmail/alias I must also put a .qmail-user for each user in /var/qmail/alias or all mail goes to .qmail-default. Huh? This was not a

bounce handling

2000-09-11 Thread ketan bajaj
Hi, I have a couple of questions: 1. How does qmail handle bounces? any pointers or documentation which describes this? 2. Can qmail's bounce handling be configured, i.e. the number of tries and the frequency. thanks, ketan

Re: Locals, rcpthosts, tcprules or other?

2000-09-11 Thread Alexander Pennace
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 03:12:33PM -0400, Andy Meuse wrote: I have a web server off-site, web.mydomain.com. A java process on this server sends mail using my local qmail server, qmail.mydomain.com. As seen in the header below, firewall.mydomain.com, which is the offsite firewall for the web

tcpserver problems

2000-09-11 Thread French, Michael
Hi, this is my first time posting, hope that you all can help me out. I running qmail 1.03 on an Alpha Personal Workstation 500, Redhat 6.2. I did just a standard server install of the OS, then untarred qmail. ucspi, daemon tools, and dot-forward. I compiled and installed all of the

virtualdomains (again)

2000-09-11 Thread ryan p bobko
Hi, I know this topic has been beaten to death, but I just can't get virtualdomainsto work in my setup. Hopefully some kind soul can help, especially since this seems to be the most vanilla setup I could have. Just like the FAQs say, I want to have all mail for the domain Y to be delivered to

Re: virtualdomains (again)

2000-09-11 Thread Adam McKenna
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:34:19PM -0700, ryan p bobko wrote: ryan@Y: Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) Does ryan have a .qmail-default file in his homedir? --Adam

Re: Error invoking tcprules

2000-09-11 Thread Al Sparks
markd@x says, on Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:23:48 -0700 It's telling you the truth. Some other process is already using that address/port combination. What output do you get if you go: telnet localhost 25 That will probably give you a clue as to what has that port. Regards. Thanks

Re: virtualdomains (again)

2000-09-11 Thread Adam McKenna
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:43:16PM -0700, ryan p bobko wrote: I don't see why it should have anything to do with ryan's .qmail-default. Isn't the whole point that the mail gets forwarded to bronco15? I'd like all users (even the ones that don't exist) to be forwarded to the user bronco15

Re: virtualdomains (again)

2000-09-11 Thread Adam McKenna
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 08:47:58PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:43:16PM -0700, ryan p bobko wrote: I don't see why it should have anything to do with ryan's .qmail-default. Isn't the whole point that the mail gets forwarded to bronco15? I'd like all users (even

Spamming .....

2000-09-11 Thread Jerry Hsieh
Hi, I would like to get into the spamming business and I have a basic qmail server setup already. I have no idea how to send mail to 100k receiptents at one time. Can someone give me some hints? Thanks for your time. Regards, Jerry

Re: Spamming .....

2000-09-11 Thread James Stevens
Talk about a brain fart --JT - Original Message - From: "Jerry Hsieh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Qmail" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 6:40 PM Subject: Spamming . Hi, I would like to get into the spamming business and I have a basic qmail server setup

RE: Spamming .....

2000-09-11 Thread Rick Harris
Perhaps you should watch the list before you wish to declare yourself an evil spammer :) , but perhaps some other list members might have a viewpoint ? Rick -Original Message- From: Jerry Hsieh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 8:41 PM To: Qmail Subject:

RE: Spamming .....

2000-09-11 Thread Austad, Jay
There is no way to send to 100k recipients at a time. Most spammers hire minimum wage workers to cut and paste messages into Outlook Express and send them to each recipient. You can always point your Outlook Express client at your qmail machine, but it's more efficient to just point it at the

RE: Spamming .....

2000-09-11 Thread Brett Randall
Where did spamming come from anyway? The first spam that I consciously remember was the spicy ham that you buy at the supermarket down the street... Oh I get it. Maybe junk e-mail was called spam cos no one likes it! /BR Manager InterPlanetary Solutions http://ipsware.com/

RE: Spamming .....

2000-09-11 Thread shawn p . duffy
actually, most spammers don't put their real email address in there because they relayed it through a mail server that is an open relay and they don't want people to respond directly to them. at the ISP I work at, we spend a lot of time tracking down spammers. they connect to an mail server that

RE: Spamming .....

2000-09-11 Thread shawn p . duffy
one more thing... if you use your ISP's mail server to send unsolicited bulk or commercial email, I have no doubt that they will cancel your service... just thought you might want to know shawn On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, you wrote: actually, most spammers don't put their real email address in

RE: Spamming .....

2000-09-11 Thread Jerry Hsieh
Hi all, I am sorry for using the wrong word. Basically, I just wanna send the newsletter to those users who would like to receive the newsletter from us. I use this word because lot of people said this is "spamming". But if those people they want to receive mail for what they want, it's not

Thank you

2000-09-11 Thread Jerry Hsieh
I would like to thank those people who give me the advise. Regards, Jerry

RE: Spamming .....

2000-09-11 Thread Rick Harris
That being the case, you will probably need to look toward things like Ezmlm and do the whole mailing list thing. IMHO . YOu might notofy your ISP that you are running a listserv or going to email out that much. THe provider I work for , we monitor that kind of traffic and when you decide to

Setting a default local delivery agent

2000-09-11 Thread Ben Logan
Hi, Could someone please tell me how to configure qmail to use maildrop as the default LDA? (I uninstalled procmail instead of trying to get it to work with qmail.) Thanks, Ben Logan

subscribe qmail

2000-09-11 Thread Micah Abrams
subscribe qmail -- ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ Micah Abramsoffice: 480-317-2001 Network Operations mobile: 602-740-7550 Neoplanet dot com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Spamming .....

2000-09-11 Thread Steve Wolfe
if you use your ISP's mail server to send unsolicited bulk or commercial email, I have no doubt that they will cancel your service... just thought you might want to know Shhh, don't tell. If he's stupid enough to ask for advice, he might just be stupid enough to put his real email

RE: Spamming .....

2000-09-11 Thread Brett Randall
Shhh, don't tell. If he's stupid enough to ask for advice, he might just be stupid enough to put his real email address in... I'll agree that asking about bulk mailing on this list is a little suicidial, (especially since www.qmail.org/top.html talks about mailing lists with ezmlm) but