Re: blocking a user

2000-03-19 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 05:38:18PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need to block a user from sending internal e-mail. Ive tried using > tcprules to deny them but it dosent seem to be workingis there any way i > could do this through qmail-queue or anythign else. This is a particularly go

FYI: FreeBSD 4 and alternate MTAs

2000-03-18 Thread Chris Johnson
FreeBSD 4 is starting to play nice with alternate MTAs. Maybe other systems have had this feature for hundreds of years, but FreeBSD has a new thing that lets you define your MTA and related programs in /etc/mail/mailer.conf; it no longer assumes that everyone uses sendmail. /usr/sbin/sendmail, /u

Re: qmail smtp

2000-03-18 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 04:46:03PM -0300, wilke wrote: > How can i configure the qmail smtp daemon??? I found in qmail directory, > some files " qmail-smtpd" to change and configure smtp, but they donĀ“t make > any changes in system FAQ 5.1. Chris

Re: qmail spawn

2000-03-18 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 04:14:02AM +0800, Spades wrote: > How do i change and restart this to use ./Maildir? > I have changed all users' dir to have /Maildir > > > (current) > 247 ?? I 0:09.34 qmail-lspawn ./Mailbox Change ./Mailbox to ./Maildir/ (note the trailing slash) in your qma

Re: Getting pop3d to work

2000-03-17 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 06:51:08PM +0800, TEK-KEE WANG wrote: > The inetd.conf line reads : > > pop3 stream tcp nowait root /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup > /bin/checkpassword \ > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir I don't use inetd for this kind of thing, but I think it wants the first argument of

Re: Getting pop3d to work

2000-03-17 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 06:21:52PM +0800, TEK-KEE WANG wrote: > 7). configured pop3d as described in FAQ. > > Could not make connection from pop3 client. > > Debug using telnet : trace follows : > > -> telnet0110 > <- +OK ^^ How are you running q

Re: Deferral when host doesn't exist

2000-03-17 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 09:46:15AM +, Chris Green wrote: > Well this doesn't seem to agree with what I'm seeing, the incorrectly > addressed mail was sent to @enterprises.net, whereas it > should have been sent to @enterprise.net and I was > definitely getting the deferral message. If you do

Re: qmail-pop3d says '502 unimplemented (#5.5.1)

2000-03-16 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 10:08:53PM -0800, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > I got qmail (SMTD + POP3) running, but when I tried testing POP3 server I was >surprised to see this response from the server: > > [root@nmlinux1 alias]# telnet localhost 25 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost. > Esca

Re: Slow SMTP

2000-03-05 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 09:13:26AM -0700, Michael Anderson wrote: > SMTP is VERY slow responding to client requests. It sits there for about 60 > seconds before the server seems to take hold, the e-mail (even a 20K one) > shoots out like a rocket. I'm using vpopmail and single user id with this

Re: qmail as a outgoing mail server

2000-03-04 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 05:09:10PM +0200, Bufnea Darius wrote: > I try to change sendmail with qmail step by step. I steel use inet. Chris's > soltion helps with tcpserver... I need something like this for inet... If you're making the change to qmail, you're going to want to use tcpserver. inetd

Re: qmail as a outgoing mail server

2000-03-04 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 04:21:44PM +0200, Bufnea Darius wrote: > > I have a private network who use a server called myhost.mydomain, connected > to internet to a ppp line. The server is use as mail server, proxy, gateway > and so on for the private netowork... The problem is that the MUA that run

Re: SPAMCONTROL patch

2000-03-03 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 06:24:39PM +0100, Erwin Hoffmann wrote: > qmail is by construction an open relay?? > ==> See RFC 2505. If you install qmail as per the included documentation, you won't be running an open relay. How will looking at RFC 2505 convince anyone otherwise? > For the next vers

Re: New to Qmail: Questions

2000-03-03 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 08:47:52AM -0700, Vincent Danen wrote: > But that means I have to leave the list open for anybody to send to, > right? It can't be a members-only list then? I'd prefer not to do that, > but if I don't have a choice then I don't have a choice. Or perhaps > there's an acce

Re: removing a list

2000-03-03 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 09:30:06AM -0500, Dan Barber wrote: > I'm new to Qmail (bet you get that alot). Just wondering if > there is a command to remove a list, or if it is as simple as > removing the directory? You mean an ezmlm list? Remove the directory and the associated .qmail-* files. Chr

Re: qmail-pop3 spins

2000-03-03 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 08:45:36AM -0500, Uncle George wrote: > using the mbox2maildir routines, I converted myself. During that process I > ran outta disk space - oh well. > turned off the machine, I went to sleep. > This morning I turned on the machine. Saw that there were some 3 msgs > of a

Re: vpopmail and Netscape

2000-03-02 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 12:05:34AM -0600, Erich Zigler wrote: > Im having several complaints from people using Netscape 4.7's email client. > Seems when they are trying to log into the server that Netscape is only > sending user@ not [EMAIL PROTECTED] So the user then cannot get their mail. Netsc

Re: list server and rcpthosts file

2000-03-01 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 12:37:53PM -0500, clifford thurber wrote: > Sorry I just didn't want to post the IPs etc. But it looks like this: > > 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" > :allow,RELAYCLIENT="" > :allow > > I did try telnet localhost 25 > Mail From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 250 ok > Rcpt To: [EMAI

Re: list server and rcpthosts file

2000-03-01 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 12:06:26PM -0500, clifford thurber wrote: > The only entries listed in the /etc/tcp.smtp file are the loopback address > and the boxe's IP address. > The invocation of qmail is done with: > > tcpserver -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u1120 -g1142 -c200 0 smtp > /path/to/qmail/qmail

Re: list server and rcpthosts file

2000-03-01 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 11:32:46AM -0500, clifford thurber wrote: > Hello, > We are running a lyris list server on a web machine. We run qmail(under tcp > server) on this same box as well. In the /etc/smtp.tcp file I listed the IP > of the machine as well as 127.0.0.1. When I look at the SMTP con

Re: Greetings and a dopey question:

2000-03-01 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 09:34:04AM -0500, Bennett wrote: > Hi all, i just joined the list and wanted to say Holla.Also I had a > quick (if somewhat dopey) question. Is there currently available a book > on Qmail? I've just recently completed a standard install of qmail, and > now that it's b

Re: Making an smtproute to nowhere

2000-03-01 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 03:12:42PM +0100, torben fjerdingstad wrote: > Will the following line in smtproutes silently throw away all > outgoing mail to portal.mdr.net? > > portal.mdr.net: > > If not, how do I do it? > > The problem is that I have thousands of error messages queued > for that ho

Re: mail with improper addresses

2000-02-29 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 10:40:48AM -0800, Bill Parker wrote: > I cleaned out a bunch of email from under the postmaster account > which was mis-addressed to various actual users on my system (mispelled > email names, etc)...How can I make the system bounce these messages, rather > than havin

Re: Getting host not listed in rcpthosts - locally

2000-02-29 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 10:56:43AM -0500, Kevin Kling wrote: > The only reason I used that term is that outside hosts connecting with smtp get > mail to me properly, but inside workstations trying to send can't - wrong term > I'll admit... > > exact contents of my /etc/tcp.smtp > 127.:allow,RELAY

Re: can't stop qmail (supervise-scripts)

2000-02-29 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 12:56:24PM +0100, Smoerk wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:15:35 -0500, Chris Johnson wrote: > > >On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 12:28:34AM +0100, Smoerk wrote: > >> 2. qmail-smtpd does not care about /etc/tcprules/smtp.cdb. I cannot > >> send mail

Re: Mail delivered instead of bounce

2000-02-29 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 10:07:09AM +0100, Dimitri SZAJMAN wrote: > A mail is delivered while it should bounce.. I dont' understand why > > Can you look at that : > > [root@mumbly ds]# cat /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts |grep xtremself.com > > xtremself.com > > [root@mumbly ds]# cat /var/qmail/co

Re: can't stop qmail (supervise-scripts)

2000-02-28 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 12:28:34AM +0100, Smoerk wrote: > 2. qmail-smtpd does not care about /etc/tcprules/smtp.cdb. I cannot > send mails localy via smtp, because the smtp does not relay. I put > 127.0.0.1:allow, RELAYCLIENT="" ^ Take the space out of there. Chris

Re: qmail/ezmlm question

2000-02-27 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 03:08:26PM +, John P. Looney wrote: > I'm justing installing/setting up ezmlm, but it's not working, and I just > wanted some clarification as to how the .qmail-* files work. > > After installing ezmlm, there are the following new .qmail files in my > jplooney accoun

Re: Virtual domains - central location

2000-02-26 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 02:20:58PM -0800, Doug Peterson wrote: > I recently got Qmail installed, and functional for the basic tests, > however, I ran into a problem while trying to setup virtual domains. It > appears the only way to setup qmail with virtual hosts is to have all the > mail to a dom

Re: relaying

2000-02-26 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 09:47:55PM -0700, Michael Anderson wrote: > 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. http

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: rcpthosts and sender address

2000-02-25 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 01:12:38PM +0100, Oliver Frommel wrote: > 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

Re: deleting a mail from the queue

2000-02-23 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 04:37:37PM -0600, Guillermo Villasana Cardoza wrote: > which command is used to delete a message manualy from the queue? This question comes up about every six hours. The best way to remove something from the queue is to allow time to pass. Eventually, qmail will bounce t

Re: HELP HELP HELP--SMTP server timed out (fwd)

2000-02-20 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 11:39:11AM -0500, Shakaib Sayyid wrote: > > Users have been constantly complaining that they get a message > > 'SMTP server timed out, do you wish to wait for 60 seconds' > > in a window with the buttons 'Wait' and 'Cancel' while using the > Microsoft Outlook Express to

Re: INSTALL.maildir Question

2000-02-20 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 12:28:07PM -0300, Marvel Carvalho wrote: > I read the information in INSTALL.maildir in qmail documentation > executing maildimake $HOME/Maildir for each one users. > and now the POP3 authentication is working. > > But I couldn't do the steps described there to make qmail

Re: Enabling Identd using Tcpserver

2000-02-17 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 10:32:23PM -0500, James Timberlake wrote: > well how do i go about re-enabling inetd. inetd.conf no longer loads upon > startup. i realized this once i installed and wasn't able to telnet or ftp > in (good thing i also use ssh). i got both telnet and ftp working under >

Re: Enabling Identd using Tcpserver

2000-02-17 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 09:44:05PM -0500, James Timberlake wrote: > hi. i recently installed qmail via rpm and it replaced inetd with tcpserver. > now all my services that i had running under inetd.conf are no longer > available. i was able to get ftpd and telnetd back up and running because > q

Re: maxrcpts patch and user groups?

2000-02-10 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 11:48:11AM +0200, TAG wrote: > I have used the maxrcpts patch and I want to configure it so that certain > user groups can have different settings to others. > > The problem is I do not want them to be set by IP as we assign IP's to > dial-up users If you don't disinguish

Re: Pop and systems accounts

2000-02-04 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 06:39:10PM -0600, Director tecnico del Nodo Nicarao -- Juan Navas wrote: > I'm still having problems setting up a pop account without a system > account.Everything has been ok so far. I can send mails from anywhere and > qmail redirect everyone to the non system pop accoun

Re: additional info (was workaround for port 25 block?)

2000-02-04 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 05:51:16PM -0500, Brian R wrote: > My isp is Time-Warner (roadrunner), they block incoming only. I am assuming > this is to avoid the problems that @home has(had) with open mail relays and > spamming, though i could be wrong. Yes, they do offer to open it for an > additiona

Re: rcpthosts

2000-02-04 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 01:03:00PM -0500, clifford thurber wrote: > I am trying to configure qmail so that I may send mail from our domain to any > other domain. Does this require an empty RCPTHOSTS file? I currently have > .mydomain.com in out rcpthosts file as well as 127.0.0.1. When telnetting

Re: Virtual Domains & Aliases

2000-02-04 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 05:05:21PM +0100, Robert Sander wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 11:02:09AM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote: > > Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is delivered locally as virtual-vdomain-user. If that > > ends up being handled by ~alias/.qmail-virtual-vdomain-default

Re: Virtual Domains & Aliases

2000-02-04 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 04:40:34PM +0100, Robert Sander wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 03:01:11PM -, Petr Novotny wrote: > > > > Set up an ~alias/.qmail-virtual-vdomain-default that contains > > > > > > |/var/qmail/bin/forward `echo $LOCAL | cut -f 4- -d "-"` > > > > > > That cuts the fir

Re: 'goodmailfrom' ?

2000-02-03 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 01:12:59PM +0800, Michael Boman wrote: > I know that this is not a real solution, but it needs to be done. > > I need a 'goomailfrom' ie: people or domains that exist in the list is > allowed to relay. I suppose it is something opposit for 'badmailfrom' that > dont allow c

Re: How do I create a Maildir directory when I am adding a user?

2000-02-03 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 06:03:40PM -0800, Max wrote: > How do I create a Maildir directory when I am adding a user? > > I am running FreeBSD 3.4 with qmail 1.03 and it's various goodies installed > from the ports collection. I want to use the $HOME/Maildir with qmail. How > do I create this direc

Re: Broken tcp_wrappers (resulting in selective relaying not work ing)

2000-02-03 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 12:16:28PM +1100, Stephen Mills wrote: > [root@proxy /]# cat /etc/tcp.smtp > 203.17.254.:allow, RELAYCLIENT="" ^ Remove the space before RELAYCLIENT. Chris

Re: qmail-clean does not work

2000-02-03 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 04:22:00PM -0800, DeChavez , Andrew wrote: > I meant: > > Which file/process does qmail compare the files in queue/info/* against? That's exactly what you said the first time. > You suggested that I do touch -t 0101 so that files in the subdirs > queue/info/* will be

Re: qmail-clean does not work

2000-02-03 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 04:11:07PM -0800, DeChavez , Andrew wrote: > Which file/process does qmail check the files in queue/info/* against? I don't know what this means. > How about files under queue/mess/* queue/remote/* queue/local/* ? Don't worry about them. When the message is bounced, they

Re: qmail-clean does not work

2000-02-03 Thread &#x27;Chris Johnson'
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 03:32:20PM -0800, DeChavez , Andrew wrote: > I need to clean out obsoleted emails that are spooled, because, for some > non-qmail reason, didn't get sent right away. Why do you need to remove them from the queue? qmail will do that itself once they're in there for longer t

Re: qmail-clean does not work

2000-02-03 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 02:07:43PM -0800, DeChavez , Andrew wrote: > When I tried running qmail-clean, both when all other qmail daemons are > stopped and when the daemons are running, it seems to hang. i.e. as you hit > the carriage return, it will just keep running. Don't run qmail-clean. It's

Re: Error on startup

2000-02-03 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 01:20:39PM +0100, Andreas Altenburg wrote: > my script: > > env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \ > tcpserver 0 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup orbital.inter7.com \ > /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir > > The paths are o.k.,

Re: QMail SMTP Woes?

2000-02-02 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 05:45:57PM -0800, Jose de Leon wrote: > A user has reported a problem receiving attachments from anybody outside our > network. At first I brushed him off as crazy. But the problem can be > duplicated on other pop3 accounts. > > Some people not in our network (AOL is one

Re: Broken tcp_wrappers (resulting in selective relaying not work ing)

2000-02-02 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 12:44:25PM +1100, Stephen Mills wrote: > I am using tcpserver, what I dont understand is that tcp_wrappers _makes_ > (contains) tcpd. > > [root@proxy tcp_wrappers_7.6]# ls tcpd* -al > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root18933 Jan 17 14:57 tcpd > > This is why Im puzzled

Re: Broken tcp_wrappers (resulting in selective relaying not working)

2000-02-02 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 11:24:41AM +1100, Stephen Mills wrote: > Im running Redhat 5.1 on our main server here, and I read an article on the > front page of qmail.org about hosts_options not compiled into tcp_wrappers > which results in tcpserver not working properly and looking up the remote > ho

Re: mqueue

2000-02-02 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 05:07:52PM -0500, clifford thurber wrote: > What is the equivalent of /usr/bin/mailq in qmail. > I need to check the queue and also run it manually so I am also wondering > what the equivalent of /usr/lib/sendmail -q is. /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread. I symlink /usr/bin/mailq

Re: HELP:cannot telnet but deliver and not receive

2000-02-02 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 10:25:11PM +0100, Bolmehag, Peter wrote: > HI > > Well I can use: > > echo to: me@wherever | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject > > to send to an outside adress. > > I can use: > > echo to: peter| /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject > > to send directly to a local user id. > > >

Re: multilog datestamping

2000-02-02 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 11:20:30AM -0800, A Hoffman wrote: > On that note, what is an example of a startup script that includes useful > datestamping for multilog? I used the examples set forward in section 2.8.2. > 'System start-up files' in LWQ, and it is not working as I had hoped. Thanks! Don

Re: Logging information about each email.

2000-02-02 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 09:33:50AM -0800, Bill Parker wrote: > Do you see any time stamps in there, Peter (unless i'm blind, > I sure don't) > 949439132.351131 info msg 51564: bytes 1545 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp That's a time stamp. Pipe this output into tailocal (from dae

Re: Sending to an IP address

2000-02-01 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 05:01:02PM +1100, Wilson Fletcher wrote: > hmmm no square brackets I might try removing them. All this bracket talk is nonsense. And you don't have to restart anything after making a change to rcpthosts--it's reread for every incoming smtp connection. If the brackete

Re: Sending to an IP address

2000-02-01 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 03:25:58PM +1100, Wilson Fletcher wrote: > I tried to send to wilson@[203.26.11.154] but it failed. Can someone tell me > why ? I doubt it, unless you provide a detail or two. In what way did it fail? Chris

Re: Two smtpd/databytes?

2000-02-01 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 09:30:44AM +0800, Brian Baquiran wrote: > Is it possible to run two versions of qmail-smtpd (say, on different port > #s), with different control/databytes files? Boss is asking whether we can > set a limit on the size of incoming mail (easy, use databytes) but have no > li

Re: php3 and qmail

2000-02-01 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 04:52:12PM +0100, Andreas Altenburg wrote: > in php there is a function called "mail()". In the docs it is described how > to use it with sendmail. Does anybody know how to use this with qmail?? Probably the same way, as long as you've linked /usr/sbin/sendmail to /var/qma

Re: a Questing

2000-01-31 Thread Chris Johnson
> Does qmail support ETRN, then how? Check the list archives at (for one) http://msgs.securepoint.com/qmail/. The topic has been discussed at great length. Chris

Re: tcpserver

2000-01-31 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 05:07:27PM +0100, Andreas Altenburg wrote: > hi, > > i installed ucspi-tcp and i am running qmail under the tcpserver. My basic > problem: I added the line > > tcpserver -v -u 7770 -g 2108 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \ 2>&1 | > var/qmail/bin splogger smtpd 3 & > > to

Re: queue time

2000-01-31 Thread Chris Johnson
> How long qmail can queue a messages? Is there any control to > change it? RTFM qmail-send Chris

Re: DNS

2000-01-27 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 07:25:09PM -0500, Juan E Suris wrote: > Thanks. > > My problems is that remote mail is not arriving. The qmail logs shows no > SMTP acitivity what so ever, so this lead me to think that the MX is wrong, > but to my untrained eye it seems right. > > [suris@domain qmail]# h

Re: Annoyance

2000-01-27 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 10:39:46AM -0500, Tim Hunter wrote: > I just noticed in my logs that a specific host, mrelay0.starwave.com keeps > opening a smtp connection every minute or so. Should I just outright deny > this connection from connecting or is there a way to find out what is going > on?

Re: remote root qmail-pop with vpopmail advisory and exploit with patch (fwd)

2000-01-23 Thread Chris Johnson
> Keywords are three or four characters long. Each argument > may be up to 40 characters long. qmail-popup's accepting arbitrarily long arguments doesn't constitute "nonconformance to the pop3 specification." A client sending more than a 40-character argument is non-conformant; qmail-popup has on

Re: Big Problem with virtualdomains, qmail mustn't rewrite recipient !

2000-01-21 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 09:08:33AM +0100, Puck wrote: > Hi Folks, > > i have come across a big problem : > > my virtualdomains file : > > schock-bad.de:schockbad > burgbad-service.de:schockbad > > Well, when i send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] , qmail rewrites the header to : > > Delivered-To: [

Re: SMTP From MSN.COM ?

2000-01-20 Thread Chris Johnson
> > The employee and I tried setting the SMTP server to > > msn.com in the outgoing SMTP server setting in Eudora > > without success at sending out email. We then tried > > email.msn.com and then smtp.email.msn.com and were also > > not successful at sending out email. > > So why don't you simply

Re: one user/many pop accounts: best solution?

2000-01-18 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 02:39:59PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I have several domains that I am in the process of transferring > to one machine with my qmail mailserver. I've gotten in the habit > of accessing my pop mail for different domains at different times > depending on what I'

Re: MX, ETRN and QMAIL

2000-01-18 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 08:43:57PM +0100, J.M. Roth iip" wrote: > Ok, sorry I meant virtualdomains. > > As I said I would like a backup in case example.com AND the queue for it > fail. This I've done with the MX records. > > One disadvantage is, since the domain must be in rcpthosts on the 3rd

Re: MX, ETRN and QMAIL

2000-01-18 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 04:51:49AM +0100, J.M. Roth iip" wrote: > Hi there. > > I have 3 MXs for a domain. The lowest preference MX is the local server. The > other 2 are the customer's internal server as well as an SMTP queueing > machine (ETRN etc.). The local machine is there in case the custo

Re: problems with dropped network packets

2000-01-07 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 09:45:33PM -0700, Theodore Cekan wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 3.3 with a pn0 network card. When I have qmail send > out large amounts of email to a subscriber list (about 100k addresses) I > often get errors in my message log about dropped packets and 'Out of mbuf > clust

Re: receiving mail

2000-01-07 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 11:23:39PM -0500, Kurt R. Hoehn wrote: > Hello, > > I seem to be having an erratic email system. I get email from some locations >and not from others. I can send out and the internal work fine. > > Case One: my friend sent me an email from aol and it arrived. >

Re: q-mail relay responses (revisited)

2000-01-02 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 10:40:59AM -0600, Dustin Miller wrote: > I was going over the qmail pictures to see if I could get a little more > insight into the hows and whys of qmail's failure to throw an exception of > some kind the moment someone unauthorized attempts a relay. As it is, it > doesn'

Re: Virtual Domain Problems

1999-12-20 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 03:15:26AM +1100, J Torres wrote: > I have attempted to setup a virtual domain for a customer of ours... below > is a list of files and their contents. After the changes were made to the > control files qmail-smtpd was hupped using svc -h > /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtp

Re: Allow RELAY by MAIL FROM

1999-12-16 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 12:35:59AM -0800, Mark Maggelet wrote: > That page also mentions running smtp on a non-standard port > as en extra security measure, but doesn't smtp have to run > on port 25 in order to receive incoming mail from other hosts? > forgive me if this is a dumb question. You'd

Re: Allow RELAY by MAIL FROM

1999-12-15 Thread Chris Johnson
> My qmail only allow some IP addrs to relay messages on > system, but now i need to people out of mine ipaddrs > can relay based on MAIL FROM. How i can do it? It's a bad idea, but you can do it with the patch you'll find here: http://www.palomine.net/qmail/relaymailfrom.html Chris

Re: Please- qmail stopped delivering mail

1999-12-12 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 03:07:46AM -0600, James Blackwell wrote: > Greetings, > > We're running qmail with vchkpw and qmail-popup on a debian box and are in > despirate need of assistance. > > Here are the steps leading up to my problems: > - We did a backup of the main directories > - There was

Re: issues w/ rem2local

1999-11-30 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 11:29:54AM -0800, A Hoffman wrote: > > I installed qmail, and am running into problems getting email from > outside. Locally mail delivers okay, and aliases work locally. However I > get errors about name lookup trying to send, even though I have found no > issues with th

Re: Configuration problem, same name, multiple domains

1999-11-30 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 12:19:22PM -0800, Adam Roberts wrote: > Hello, > > This is my first posting to the list. If this problem has been > answered recently please > point me to the right message numbers so I can retrieve them. Thanks > > My dilemma: > > I have 5 domains on one system. > An e

Re: relay logging

1999-11-30 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 05:34:58PM -0800, Noah Sutherland wrote: > OK, I am using tcpserver to do selective relaying. Is logging done of the > connections that are rejected? If so, how do I find them. Is there something > I can grep my log file for? For reference, here's my startup line: If you h

Re: qmail + sslwrap

1999-11-29 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 09:24:42AM +0100, Van Liedekerke Franky wrote: > Hi, > > has anyone succeeded in using sslwrap together with tcpserver for qmail-pop? > And would that person mind sharing his experience? I've been using it for ages. I followed the sslwrap documentation to create the certi

Re: AW: Relay Problem

1999-11-25 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 12:08:30AM +0800, Ang Sei Heng wrote: > Err... I don't think he is crazy. I did almost what he does, (except for > 127.), and my qmail can send and receive all incoming and outgoing mail from > any remote machine. > > I think by doing what he say, we will be able to disall

Re: Maildir as link

1999-11-25 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 07:13:41PM +0800, DOODS wrote: > I'm sorry if I gave incomplete details. I have executed maildirmake > /var/spool/mail/doods and then linked this one to ~doods. So now, ~doods > contains Maildir -> /var/spool/mail/doods. I have also set 700 permissions to > this directory

Re: Qmail Send sleep time..

1999-11-24 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 07:49:38PM -0700, Philip Gabbert wrote: > > I've noticed looking at my mail logs qmail-send run every 25 minutes. I was > wanting to know is there a way to decrease that sleep time? 25 minutes is a > rather long time especially is I'm trying to figure out the workings of >

Re: smtproutes and MX aliases

1999-11-24 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 02:20:53PM -0500, Matthew Harrell wrote: > > : If you can get them to give you an IP address you're set. Use the IP > : address in smtproutes instead of the name. > > Actually, I should have mentioned something about this. The MX address > actually points to four addre

Re: Maildir as link

1999-11-24 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 10:21:44PM +0800, Edward Castillo-Jakosalem wrote: > > Great! Thanks a lot guys! It worked. > BTW, is there an available list of Windoze MUA that support Maildir? I > have tried Eudora2.x and Netscape Communicator so far and it seems ok. > (Yeah, I have to accept that many

Re: remote users sending mail prob

1999-11-23 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 07:17:38PM +1000, Cameron Arnott wrote: > > I've read the docs on relaying but still can't get it to work > > My members can be anywhere in the world.. and use various isp's , but > they have an email account here. > > I want them (the people who have email accounts here

Re: Remote users not able to send messages anywhere but here

1999-11-22 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 09:31:47AM +1000, Cameron Arnott wrote: > Hi, > I need some help.. I have qmail setup with tcpserver and procmail > with mail going successfully to /var/spool/mail/ > > I can send messages anywhere from the local machine and on the local > network. > However I wish to

Re: Help! I am still a open relay!!

1999-11-22 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 11:23:26AM +0800, Michael Boman wrote: > I have been following the instructions in > http://qmail-docs.surfdirect.com.au/docs/qmail-antirelay.html but it seems > like I am still an open relay! What is wrong?! > > What I want to do is allow any user on my C-net / LAN to sen

Re: relaymailfrom

1999-11-20 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 10:19:18PM +0100, Andres Mendez wrote: > Hello. > > I've installed the relaymailfrom patch. > > I want to deny any relay except for the domains listed in > control/relaymailfrom. > > I'm using the tcpserver. How do I do this? This question should really have gone to me,

Re: Archiving all incoming and outgoing mail... Quite an unusual problem.

1999-11-17 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 11:18:20PM -0800, Denis Voitenko wrote: > My client has demanded a very strange thing. He wants to archive all > incoming and outgoing mail that goes thru the qmail server (installed and > configured by me). He has a small LAN of 20+ people but the mail traffic is > pretty

Re: Starting POP3 - Get Error Message

1999-11-14 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 01:12:28PM +0800, john wrote: > Hi, > > When I start qmail-pop3d from > > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d start Why are you doing this? What do you expect it to do? You should expect this to happen when you try to run qmail-pop3d all by itself from a command line. It's not m

Re: sorry to bother again!

1999-11-14 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 04:59:39PM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: > Hi everyone, > > sorry to bother you all again. > > today i decided to monitor incoming pop connections. you know.. so the > support guys can see if people are typing in their > username incorrectly. > > In /etc/init.d/qmail

Re: tcpserver starting problem

1999-11-14 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 01:07:16PM +0800, john wrote: > Hi, > > I tried putting this script in inetd.conf file to start the tcpserver service > but I dont seem to be starting the service. I am using Red Hat 6.1 > > > tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup domainname \ > /bin/checkpassword

Re: Global .qmail file

1999-11-11 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 11:54:29AM -0500, Derek Callaway wrote: > I need to have a .qmail file that is read for each and every user (including > virtual domains). Currently, I am creating a symbolic link from $HOME/.qmail > to the .qmail file that contains the commands that I want. I'm sure there

Re: Queuing question...

1999-11-11 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 02:14:36PM +, John P. Looney wrote: > > For some reason, qmail seems to be taking a long time (perhaps forever) to > deliver certain mails. Some mails seem to sit in the queue for ages, and I > can't work out how to discern why they are being delayed. It may be that

Re: Stopping local delivery temporarily

1999-11-10 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 02:54:30PM -0600, Adam Michaud wrote: > > This seems like a question that should be easily answered, yet the answer > I came up with on my own seems almost *too* easy, so I thought I'd ask. > :-) > > I'm going to be doing some minor maintenance on the mail server and > ch

Re: telnet on 25 works but qmail cant connect to it!

1999-11-10 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 04:11:49PM +0100, Markus Wuebben wrote: > HI! > I have a strange problem here. > > QMail cant send mails to some domains because I get this message: > > > Nov 10 16:08:00 medusa qmail: 942246480.704387 delivery 21: deferral: > Connected_to_131.246.137.51_but_greeting_fa

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