administrative copy of qmail mails

2001-06-19 Thread Raymond Hui
Dear Sir/Madam, I have read the Life With Qmail in the web. I have found it very interested and i have set up my mail server using Qmail and i found it is very great!! I have a problem here about Qmail, would you please kindly help me to find out the answer..?? I have set up my qmail

Re: Virtual domain How-to

2001-06-19 Thread Jörgen Persson
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 02:24:47PM +0800, Alex Tsang wrote: Do any one have some documents talking about creating virtual domain? It's described in Bernsteins FAQ[1] Jörgen [1] http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/incominghost.html#virtual

Re: administrative copy of qmail mails

2001-06-19 Thread Jörgen Persson
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 03:42:55PM +0800, Raymond Hui wrote: [snip] I need to configure the qmail server which can automatically keep a copy of in and out mail of some specified address in some domains. [snip] For incoming email, i think it can easily handled by .qmail files. However, for

Connection difficulties

2001-06-19 Thread Thomas Rokamp
Hi! I'm using Qmail with vpopmail as pop3-server, but most of the time when clients connect to the server, it takes like forever before they are allowed to check for mail. Both external and internal. Internally I thought I had solved it, by putting my local hosts into the /etc/hosts file,

Re: restart without rebooting

2001-06-19 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Dave Sill([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.06.18 16:20:49 +: Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HUPing only makes qmail reread locals and virtualdomains. (And there is no process called qmail, so killall -HUP qmail won't do anything on any system.) Except possibly on Solaris: ..and AIX

Re: restart without rebooting

2001-06-19 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Virginia Chism([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.06.18 15:34:10 +: But I don't think BSDi knows the killall command. That is exactly correct. I was able to find the PID and restart the qmail-send. Thanks to all who responded. I am working on the Unix books, but find some of them are

automatic forwarding of msgs in folder

2001-06-19 Thread Massimo Quintini
My mail user ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) partecipate in many mailing list... I want automatically redirect the msgs in right folder and no in INBOX folder (for example the msgs of qmail mailing list MUST go in qmail folder, the msgs of sqwebmail in sqwebmail folder..and so on...) How can I do ??? (Can

Re: automatic forwarding of msgs in folder

2001-06-19 Thread Jörgen Persson
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:31:42AM +0200, Massimo Quintini wrote: My mail user ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) partecipate in many mailing list... I want automatically redirect the msgs in right folder and no in INBOX folder (for example the msgs of qmail mailing list MUST go in qmail folder, the msgs

Re: automatic forwarding of msgs in folder

2001-06-19 Thread Ahmad Ridha
Massimo Quintini writes: My mail user ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) partecipate in many mailing list... I want automatically redirect the msgs in right folder and no in INBOX folder (for example the msgs of qmail mailing list MUST go in qmail folder, the msgs of sqwebmail in sqwebmail folder..and

Re: Connection difficulties

2001-06-19 Thread Ahmad Ridha
Thomas Rokamp writes: Hi! I'm using Qmail with vpopmail as pop3-server, but most of the time when clients connect to the server, it takes like forever before they are allowed to check for mail. Both external and internal. Internally I thought I had solved it, by putting my local hosts

Re: automatic forwarding of msgs in folder

2001-06-19 Thread Jörgen Persson
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:55:35AM +0200, Jörgen Persson wrote: For example: $ echo ./Maildir-qmail/ ~/.qmail-qmail and change your adress on the qmail list to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry I forgot... $ maildirmake ~/Maildir-qmail/ Jörgen

Re: automatic forwarding of msgs in folder

2001-06-19 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
Massimo Quintini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can I do ??? (Can I use condredirect program with 822mess package...but how???) It's a job for maildrop or procmail. You will find maildrop here: http://www.flounder.net/~mrsam/maildrop/ Regards, Frank

ReiserFs and qmail

2001-06-19 Thread Paco Gracia
Hello everyone, We're going to install a new production server with the lastest linux kernel (2.4.5) and ReiserFS. Is there any issue regarding qmail? I have done some research and I found a Qmail and ReiserFS integration and optimization HOWTO in http://www.jedi.claranet.fr How accurate is

Strange SMTPd behaviour

2001-06-19 Thread Sebastien Monassa
I could not find this problem in the FAQ or in the mailing list: SMTPD behaves differently from the inside network and from the internet. INSIDE: $ telnet mail.netsecurity.fr 25 Trying 172.16.3.4... Connected to nss0501510sr.netsecurity.fr. Escape character is '^]'. 220

Re: Strange SMTPd behaviour

2001-06-19 Thread Jörgen Persson
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 01:53:32PM +0200, Sebastien Monassa wrote: I could not find this problem in the FAQ or in the mailing list: SMTPD behaves differently from the inside network and from the internet. You've got some kind of SMTP proxy between the MTA and the internet (most probably a

Re: Strange SMTPd behaviour

2001-06-19 Thread peter green
* Sebastien Monassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010619 07:53]: I could not find this problem in the FAQ or in the mailing list: SMTPD behaves differently from the inside network and from the internet. Is this actually causing a problem? INTERNET: # telnet mail.netsecurity.fr 25 Trying

RE: Strange SMTPd behaviour

2001-06-19 Thread Moutsos Georgios
Your host is probably behind a Cisco PIX firewall with fixup protocol smtp 25 enabled. J. -Original Message- From: Sebastien Monassa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 2:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Strange SMTPd behaviour I could not

spam/other custom bouncing

2001-06-19 Thread Mike Culbertson
I am attempting to figure out the best way to set up an auto-response (bounce, in a manner of speaking) triggered by sender domain, in order to facilitate not just rejecting specific domains, but auto-answering mail from them. The situation is as follows: My company receives mail from vary

RE: Strange SMTPd behaviour

2001-06-19 Thread Sebastien Monassa
Thanks a lot to you all. Disabling the command fixed it. I didn't know about that proxying feature of the firewall. I have to check wether it's worth or not leaving it enabled. I read in the smtp paper of DJB that some smtpd may not send mail to a host refusing the VRFY command. Though, I would

Re: Strange SMTPd behaviour

2001-06-19 Thread Jörgen Persson
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 02:39:49PM +0200, Sebastien Monassa wrote: Thanks a lot to you all. Disabling the command fixed it. I didn't know about that proxying feature of the firewall. I have to check wether it's worth or not leaving it enabled. I read in the smtp paper of DJB that some

Slow Connection with LVS

2001-06-19 Thread Mehul Choksi
We have a couple of Qmail servers in a cluster (LVS), co-existing with Sendmail. The qmail servers take half and one minute each for establishing the connection with client when connecting thru the LVS. The tcpserver option I am using is R and t 0 with which, direct connection happens with

FW: Slow Connection with LVS

2001-06-19 Thread Mehul Choksi
Why do I get this message? Any suggestions? Thanks. -Original Message- From: Mailer-Daemon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 9:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NDN: Slow Connection with LVS Importance: High Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: test

Re: FW: Slow Connection with LVS

2001-06-19 Thread peter green
* Mehul Choksi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010619 09:35]: Why do I get this message? Any suggestions? lesoleil.com's mail servers suck rocks. Their admins seem unresponsive to fix the problem. Feel free to block 'em with your tcpserver rules. /pg -- Peter Green : Architekton Internet Services, LLC :

RE: Strange SMTPd behaviour

2001-06-19 Thread Moutsos Georgios
Thanks a lot to you all. Disabling the command fixed it. I didn't know about that proxying feature of the firewall. I have to check wether it's worth or not leaving it enabled. I read in the smtp paper of DJB that some smtpd may not send mail to a host refusing the VRFY command.

Re: FW: Slow Connection with LVS

2001-06-19 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:38:18AM -0400, Mehul Choksi wrote: Why do I get this message? Any suggestions? lesoleil.com's mailserver is broken. It's been discussed about 20 times over the past few months. Check the archives. Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex!

Re: FW: Slow Connection with LVS

2001-06-19 Thread Russell Nelson
peter green writes: * Mehul Choksi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010619 09:35]: Why do I get this message? Any suggestions? lesoleil.com's mail servers suck rocks. Their admins seem unresponsive to fix the problem. Feel free to block 'em with your tcpserver rules. Wouldn't it be easier if Dan

Re: administrative copy of qmail mails

2001-06-19 Thread Charles Cazabon
Raymond Hui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to configure the qmail server which can automatically keep a copy of in and out mail of some specified address in some domains. This is in the author's FAQ. Please read it. Charles --

Re: FW: Slow Connection with LVS

2001-06-19 Thread peter green
* Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010619 10:06]: peter green writes: * Mehul Choksi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010619 09:35]: Why do I get this message? Any suggestions? lesoleil.com's mail servers suck rocks. Their admins seem unresponsive to fix the problem. Feel free to block 'em

Re: FW: Slow Connection with LVS

2001-06-19 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:04:54AM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: peter green writes: * Mehul Choksi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010619 09:35]: Why do I get this message? Any suggestions? lesoleil.com's mail servers suck rocks. Their admins seem unresponsive to fix the problem. Feel free

more spam bouncing

2001-06-19 Thread Mike Culbertson
After some thought, perhaps I shoud clarify what I am trying to do. I have looked and looked, and seems most every feature for filtering relies on .qmail files, or something like procmail. I would like to determine if there is a way to avoid both of these. Since the machines in question

Re: more spam bouncing

2001-06-19 Thread Charles Cazabon
Mike Culbertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be great would be to have qmail-smtpd catch the HELO or MAIL FROM address the sender gives (a la badmailfrom) and do something, like perhaps dump the mail to a local account for further processing, or initiate a bounce, anything other

Re: Spam Removal

2001-06-19 Thread Stephen Bosch
Roger Walker wrote: You Wrote: Please let know if you find a way to block all of the domains you mentioned. Also do you think someone like arin.net would have there blocks of ips on file and then we can just block them ? I believe IANA has the master list of IP blocks that

FW: Slow Connection with LVS

2001-06-19 Thread Mehul Choksi
Any suggestions / further reading? Posting this again since our internet link was down this morning and in the mean time if some one has (hopefully ..!!) responded, might be bounced. Thanks, Mehul. -Original Message- From: Mehul Choksi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Q: Queue-limit (was Re: Discarding mailer_daemon mail....)

2001-06-19 Thread Bernhard Graf
Greg Moeller wrote Hmmm, ok, what would a good split be for 7-10 in the queue? BTW... I wonder if there are any limits on how many files can be in the queue besides inodes and disk size? -- Bernhard Graf [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Could someone please send a test email to -

2001-06-19 Thread arnie
Roger Arnold wrote: Hello All, I am having difficulty checking a domain to see if it is receiving email from outside on the Internet. Could someone please send a test email to the following 2 addresses, so I can check that they are receiving mail properly: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL

RE: Could someone please send a test email to -

2001-06-19 Thread Hank Wethington
Since it is difficult to see whether you'd like us to flood them or not, I would suggest if you need an outside test, to use hotmail or some other free email service and send a message. Hank Wethington Information Logistics

Forwarding Question...

2001-06-19 Thread Jeffrey Austin Collop
Hi list, I've got qmail running, healthy on a 7.1 RH box. However, no matter what I try, I can't get the aliases to work right. I've got the user alias and if you run qmail-getpw alias it points to his home dir, however, if you run qmail-getpw info (or whatever alias you wanted to use) you get

Re: Q: Queue-limit (was Re: Discarding mailer_daemon mail....)

2001-06-19 Thread MarkD
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 07:13:42PM +0200, Bernhard Graf allegedly wrote: Greg Moeller wrote Hmmm, ok, what would a good split be for 7-10 in the queue? BTW... I wonder if there are any limits on how many files can be in the queue besides inodes and disk size? Memory. Read

Re: restart without rebooting

2001-06-19 Thread Drew Raines
* Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...stuff concerning Solaris killall command] (I haven't tried it to see what it does with unexpected options and an invalid signal name.) It still kills everything, including init. I made this mistake when I was a Solaris newbie. My users were not pleased.

Re: Forwarding Question...

2001-06-19 Thread Dave Sill
Jeffrey Austin Collop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: @40003b2f84460273a1d4 delivery 134: deferral: Home_directory_is_sticky:_user_is_editing_his_.qmail_file._ (#4.2.1)/ @40003b2f84a202a82724 delivery 135: deferral: Home_directory_is_sticky:_user_is_editing_his_.qmail_file._ (#4.2.1)/

Re: Forwarding Question...

2001-06-19 Thread jcollop
Dave, Thanks for the help! Yes that was an obvious fix, but I'm new to qmail and getting it working and healthy all in one day (yesterday) must have fried my little brain! RTFM is great but sometimes you need some help :) Jeff Jeffrey Austin Collop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: LWQ/svscan question

2001-06-19 Thread Richard Zimmerman
Dave can probably give a more detailed answer to this, but you don't symbolicly link the directories into /service until you're ready to run them. And even then, svscan won't start them until you do a svc -u (or -o) /service/servicename . Everything I've read about svscan says that once

LWQ/svscan question

2001-06-19 Thread Kris Kelley
I looked at the new version of Life with qmail for the first time today, so forgive me if this is a little late. I didn't see anything in the archive to suggest it had already been talked aobut. Since the new LWQ sets up svscan to run independently of the qmail control script, would it not be a

Re: LWQ/svscan question

2001-06-19 Thread Dave Sill
Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave can probably give a more detailed answer to this, but you don't symbolicly link the directories into /service until you're ready to run them. That's not how LWQ's qmailctl works. The links in /service are permanent. And even then, svscan won't

Re: LWQ/svscan question

2001-06-19 Thread Charles Cazabon
Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And even then, svscan won't start them until you do a svc -u (or -o) /service/servicename . Sure it will, unless there's a down file. Of course, I received several corrections immediately after sending this. Mea culpa. Charles --

Re: LWQ/svscan question

2001-06-19 Thread Kris Kelley
I wrote: Since the new LWQ sets up svscan to run independently of the qmail control script, would it not be a wise idea to include a down file in each supervise directory, so that qmail and any other services would not start up when svscan is run? Dave Sill replied: That was my original

Re: qmail-remote (cry wolf?)

2001-06-19 Thread James R Grinter
On Tue 19 Jun, 2001, Mark Jefferys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 08:56:13PM +0100, James R Grinter wrote: Go look at timeoutread(), which *is* in your path. The select is in the line right before where you wedge. sorry, yes. You're right. It doesn't. (Don't know about other

Re: Forwarding Question...

2001-06-19 Thread Charles Cazabon
Jeffrey Austin Collop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, Don't post new subjects by replying to an existing thread. It screws up the threading in our MUAs and in the list archives. It's also considered rude. @40003b2f84460273a1d4 delivery 134: deferral:

Re: Connection difficulties

2001-06-19 Thread Nick
I've also noticed these sypmtoms with Oversize DNS packets. there is a few patches that address this issue : http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#patches Nick - Original Message - From: Thomas Rokamp To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 1:20 AM

Re: Connection difficulties

2001-06-19 Thread Oden Eriksson
onsdagen den 20 juni 2001 01:02 skrev Nick: I've also noticed these sypmtoms with Oversize DNS packets. there is a few patches that address this issue : http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#patches Nick - Original Message - From: Thomas Rokamp To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ReiserFs and qmail

2001-06-19 Thread Nick (Keith) Fish
Paco Gracia wrote: I have done some research and I found a Qmail and ReiserFS integration and optimization HOWTO in http://www.jedi.claranet.fr How accurate is the information on that web? Anything else to take care of? Thanks in advance === Paco Gracia

[Q] Supervise

2001-06-19 Thread YOON, Joo-Yung
Hi, I just installed qmail, daemontools, ucspi-tcp. Many strange things were cleared with help of qmail lists. Now ps shows following things. $ ps ax |grep svscan 299 ?S 0:00 svscan 4558 ttyp0S 0:00 grep svscan $ ps ax |grep qmail 315 ?S 0:00 supervise

Re: ReiserFs and qmail

2001-06-19 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:15:11PM +, Nick (Keith) Fish wrote: [snip] I'm not sure on the statement that qmail is unreliable under Linux due to its assumptiopn that link is a synchronous operation. I've never read anything about it. Anyone else? This is true. I'm not sure, however, if

Re: ReiserFs and qmail

2001-06-19 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Nick (Keith) Fish wrote: I am not sure about the recommendation to lower the conf-split, since, again, I am not in any way familiar with ReiserFS's operation. Generally you want a large split since filesystems perform better with many directories with a couple of files

Re: spam/other custom bouncing

2001-06-19 Thread Nick (Keith) Fish
Mike Culbertson wrote: Therefore, I would like to maintain a list of domains a la badmailfrom, but rather than doing an smtp reject, an autoreponse would result (your mail has been reject because blah, please contact blah etc. etc. ). This way, legitimate users on banned domains would have

smtp auth failures

2001-06-19 Thread joc
Hello. I received a fortune cookie today some here may like: It is harder to ask the right questions than to find answers for the wrong questions. Lucky # 6,8,38,40,45 A perceived problem I am trying to solve is that sending mail from eudora win 4.3 or 5.1 with AUTH enabled to a qmail

Re: smtp auth failures

2001-06-19 Thread Nick (Keith) Fish
joc wrote: There it is. any wise thoughts here? Thanks John Encourage your customers to use non-broken MUA. Our company refuses to support anything other than Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger, and our own web-based e-mailing service. You might try that: promoting a web-based e-mail

Re: Connection difficulties

2001-06-19 Thread Jeffrey Austin Collop
I have had to change from reverse lookup to host file entries and back and I can tell you from today's experiment that a host file lookup on my RH system is slower then the reverse DNS lookup method. Try a local DNS server, W2K has a easy one preinstalled with it if you don't like bind. Good

[Q] CPU usage -- Too busy

2001-06-19 Thread YOON, Joo-Yung
I just installed qmail, ucspi-tcp, and daemontaols under directions of lwq. Now the system shows 100% of CPU usage on the window of wmcube (a small display application in WindowMaker, which shows the CPU rate.) And the load average is also full on the window of wmload (WindowMaker App.). I

Re: [Q] CPU usage -- Too busy

2001-06-19 Thread Jeremy Suo-Anttila
You have something seriously wrong for it to be taking that many resources on my FreeBSD boxes i still have yet to reach 2% of my cpu usage. Lose the stupid app and open a console and use the top command instead it wont lie to you. Just my .02 jps From: YOON, Joo-Yung [EMAIL PROTECTED]To:

Re: [Q] CPU usage -- Too busy

2001-06-19 Thread Russell Nelson
YOON, Joo-Yung writes: I just installed qmail, ucspi-tcp, and daemontaols under directions of lwq. Now the system shows 100% of CPU usage on the window of wmcube (a small display application in WindowMaker, which shows the CPU rate.) And the load average is also full on the window

Re: ReiserFs and qmail

2001-06-19 Thread Brian Moon
We are running Qmail on Reiser and have been very happy. You can see one thread in this list from me where we got intermittent errors from qmail when doing a lot of mailings at a time. We discovered that the qmail patch for Reiser caused the error. Look for 'qmail-inject error' from me in the

Re: [Q] CPU usage -- Too busy

2001-06-19 Thread YOON, Joo-Yung
Dear russ, Thank you for your comment. Yes, my 'current' says @40003b301aa6292e9c34 tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used (I got this from /var/log/qmail/smtpd/current.) I do not understand why it makes this warning because there are no other mailers, and there is only

tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used ???

2001-06-19 Thread A A
Hello, I installed qmail by following LWQ to the very letter, and sendmail is disabled. However, on a new server (getting prepared but not serving web pages or sending or more than 20 emails a day yet) having dual p3 800 and 1 gig ram, I get the following load average: *VIA

failure on control/locals

2001-06-19 Thread Erik Logan
I just installed qmail and I have everything I would like working except receiving mail. My main interest is to get pop functions working on the machine. I can check mail and receive bounced messages but I cannot send a message without it getting bounced. The return email always says: Sorry.

Re: failure on control/locals

2001-06-19 Thread Oleg V. Konstantinov

Qmail Relaying

2001-06-19 Thread Eko Yulianto
Dear Netter, I use FreeBSD 4.3 Qmail 1.03 Checkpassword and tcpserver. How to make my SMTP cannot access form outside. Right now, I use tcpserver 202.171.1.0,allow,RELAYCLIENT= and I try to relay my SMTP from outside and work. How to block it, so only my user can use this SMTP... Please

Re: [Q] CPU usage -- Too busy

2001-06-19 Thread Jörgen Persson
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 12:45:34PM +0900, YOON, Joo-Yung wrote: Yes, my 'current' says @40003b301aa6292e9c34 tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used (I got this from /var/log/qmail/smtpd/current.) I do not understand why it makes this warning because there are no