Re: qmail and Lotus Notes

, then you have problem elsewhere. Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have a Notes MTA server running R5.0.6 on Windows 2000. We have a Sun server running the latest qmail on Solaris 8 as our Internet Mail Gateway. The qmail server is sending and receiving emails from Internet, and is also

Re: rblsmtpd and mail-abuse.org's DNS servers

: Please see: http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/rblsmtpd.html Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I'm having a problem with my qmail smtpd server becoming unresponsive when rblsmtpd cannot communiate with the RBL nameservers. Has anyone else had this problem? I'd like to blindy accept e-mail

Re: New ways for email DoS

. Now, for each delivery, a check is performed to ensure that 'user@domain' doesn't have more than x number of messages in y seconds. If the limit is exceeded, the sender gets a bounce with warning. So, basically this is a throttle. It should give some relief to your situation. Regards, Chin Fang

Re: Which RBL replacement?

database without the help of unpaid contributors. After July 31, 2001, who knows? Anyways, thanks again for the pointer. I will stop here and think about the impact to our setup of rblsmtpd, and our options. This piece of news certainly is not a pleasant one. Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Which RBL replacement?

I just checked out http://www.mail-abuse.org/rbl, but didn't see any mentioning of charges to the direct mode of using RBL. Would appreciate it if anyone could post a pointer that leads to more detailed announcement of this new policy. Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Jul 24

Netgear RP114 Router doesn't work well with Qmail POP daemon?

a Netgear RP114 router handy, so I wonder whether anyone has experienced this and has insight into why this symptom is there. Any hints/tips are appreciated. We use qmail 1.03. Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Netgear RP114 Router doesn't work well with Qmail POP daemon?

a Netgear RP114 router handy, so I wonder whether anyone has experienced this and has insight into why this symptom is there. Any hints/tips are appreciated. We use qmail 1.03. Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netgear RP114 Router doesn't work well with Qmail POP daemon?

connection Thanks for the suggestion however.. Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED] could be reverse DNS checking... -davidu I recently installed a Netgear RP114 Router, to provide multiple computers access to the internet via a single cable modem from ATT. Since then, my

Re: reverse DNS?

, no. Although I've been sorely tempted to implement both of these. 8-) Likewise. I wish I could, it would make spam filtering a much easier (if less fun : job to do. Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok

Re: QMail DOS

life can become somewhat difficult. I have experienced the above situation once. Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: system v style init script for svscan

"Have you looked at LWQ?" its practically a FAQ. Please excuse my ignorance, but: what is LWQ? Linux World headQuarter? ;-) Nope. He most likely meant Dave Sill's "life with qmail". Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Felix

Re: Sender domain verification ...

up by Markus Stumpf [EMAIL PROTECTED], who is also active in this mailing list. He stated that other than the one I pointed out below, he is also aware of rolemail.internic.net lists.internic.net So, think about such before you take further actions... Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ESMTP AUTH and qmail

. ^^^ To avoid this potential trouble, rsync + openssh - NFS Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charles -- -- Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] QCC Communications

Re: qmailanalog ideas?

Put such a stats collection utility in a pipeline in your qmail init script. Such an arrangement avoids the need to deal with multilog rotation. You may wish to write such as utility in C/C++ for efficiency if your servers are busy. Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to set up

Re: Russ' rblsmtpd test robots.

, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just implemented rblsmtpd using the MAPS DUL. I sent a message off to Russ' testing bot and received the following reply: MAPS has recently dropped the TXT entries from their zones due to zone size problems; perhaps that's the problem? -- Russ Allbery

Re: ucspi w/ crypto.

Tunnel through ssh is one way. Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED] In that case, I'm planning a client/server tool however I want all network traffic to be encrypted. I'd also like to sign requests to the server that a client may make so that I can trust that the message is authentic

Re: inetd vs. ucspi-tcp

I will paraphrase what's in your signature as an answer to your question: ucspi-tcp ... life's too short for the obsolete inetd! See http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcpserver.html for details. Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED] is there a difference in using qmail-pop3d with either inetd

Re: Rumours (was: Re: Recipe For A Good Book On Qmail)

"speculation" before you can verify the accuracy yourself. Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED] \Maex -- SpaceNet GmbH | http://www.Space.Net/ | Stress is when you wake Research Development| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | up screaming and you Joseph-Dolli

Re: Rumours (was: Re: Recipe For A Good Book On Qmail)

ot;. I look forward to seeing your observations, and I won't immediately jump in and label them as "speculation" either ;) Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED] let's see here. 63 characters is an enormously long domain name and you're saying in effect that each domain has an AV

Re: Recipe For A Good Book On Qmail

level of effort and understanding. The latter of course is much more demanding. So, what audience the book intends to address? Once the scope of the book is defined, no one can come back and say "this is a lousy book, it doesn't talk about this or that... etc". Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL

Re: Recipe For A Good Book On Qmail

the source code of both qmail-smtpd.c and control.c, and see what control_readfile() (a linear search) does. But, how many people would run into this, and whether it's fruitful to cover such topics need to be carefully considered. Compromises have to be made somewhere.. Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL

Re: SMTP SIZE command?

get a production web server on line which went down a while ago (caused by a bad memory module :( Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are there any patches available that will make qmail support the RFC 1870 SMTP SIZE extension? (I tried searching the ORNL list archive but since the word

Re: Setting up qmail for university

n. Agreed. Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: Doing logging from qmail-pop3d without going thru syslog?

ms : To me, qmail-pop3d is much compact and cleaner. I will patch it so it does logging that betters qpopper. Thanks for your feedback. Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- clemens [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Doing logging from qmail-pop3d without going thru syslog?

it just "partially" works - for the first strerr_warn1 anyways. Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^L [1] Incidentally, there's a program in an old daemontools distribution that does exactly the same thing, which I only realized after I wrote mine. You can get the s

Re: Doing logging from qmail-pop3d without going thru syslog?

completely. Thanks for the fruitful exchanges so far. Best Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Doing logging from qmail-pop3d without going thru syslog?

ciative for any tips. Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Metering POP related email traffic?

metering POP traffic difficult. We don't have control of our router, so I would be appreciative for any hints for an alternative. Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Metering POP related email traffic?

, that POP traffic is consuming about 30% of the total email bandwidth usage. I would like to find a way to make this metering more precise. The -v flag of tcpserver prints error messages and status messages, not sizes. Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED] so analysing the smtp logs will show you how

Re: Metering POP related email traffic?

requires application level data. Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED] any size info, and this makes metering POP traffic difficult. We don't have control of our router, so I would be appreciative for any hints for an alternative. Perhaps your OS kernel supports IP firewalling with accounting

Improving queue performance using the noatime mount option in Solaris?

, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Improving queue performance using the noatime mount option in Solaris?

I know that atime is referenced. The source of my unsureness is "except when they coincide with updates to the ctime or mtime." Actually, after looking at for instance, maildir.c further, I am not sure tunning on the noatime would really buy any gain. Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL

Re: spool vs individual files

DEC/Compaq ADVFS handles huge directories without trouble, using a hashed directory table that grows as needed. Sun Solaris 8 uses a similar strategy too. That's a main reason I am upgrading our mail servers to Solaris 8. Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Prevent/counter spams from selective relays?

t approach, not to mention it will eat into our already busy schedule. I wonder whether there are some efficient/light weight approaches that I might have missed? Any hints are appreciated. Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: qmailanalog examples

is just as easy to use as well. The log rotation control using multilog script is pretty easy too. The documentation is very clear. Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is what I have in qmail.init (correponding to cyclog): | setuser $LOGUSER cyclog $FILESIZE $FILENO $LOGDIR