Re: HELP! queue not sending

1999-08-17 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 03:14:06PM -0400, User JAMES wrote: qmail v 1.03 with the "AOL patch" and Maildir support...was working fine for months and then: It's acting very strangely...the queue started out a a couple hundred emails this morning and is up to about 730 now, for no apparent

Re: checkpassword

1999-08-14 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 12:13:21PM +0200, Maria Zevenhoven wrote: What is the most standard checkpassword - program? The qmail author's checkpassword, which checks just system accounts, is at ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/software/checkpassword-0.81.tar.gz. I get to this www.qmail.org and

Re: bounced email

1999-08-14 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 04:12:16PM -0400, Sienna wrote: When someone sends an email to an invalid address, it's getting bounced back to us and we are getting a lot of email link this. What do you all do with them? Is there any way to set up an auto reply that sends the message back to the

Re: DNS 8.2.1 installed

1999-08-14 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 12:52:55PM -0700, Bill Parker wrote: Thanks to the help of some guys on here and IRC, I have installed bind 8.2.1 from a tarball which I got from isc.org, now I am ready to try to implement a caching DNS server, it appears to be working, now I have a question, since I

Re: recipient not acceptable to SMTP server??

1999-08-13 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 02:10:55PM -0400, Mark wrote: I can't send from a pop client a message to someone outside my box. It says that the recipient [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not acceptable to my SMTP server. Don't paraphrase. What does it really say? I'll go out on a limb and guess that FAQ 5.4

Re: POP newbie issues, almost fixed (but not quite)...

1999-08-12 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 10:53:16AM -0600, Hawke Robinson wrote: Thanks to everyone's helpful suggestions, I'm now able to fully get and send email properly, except for one other item... From the time I send an email (whether it's from the same server I'm retrieving email, or if from a host

Re: Qmail Options

1999-08-08 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 03:37:23PM +1000, Waterfront Internet Service wrote: Just wondering where the options file is for Qmail? I have searched for it but can't seem to find one. Sendmail's equilivent is /etc/sendmail.cf qmail isn't sendmail. Have you read *any* of the documentation? You're

Re: Backward Alias System

1999-08-05 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 06:41:46PM +1000, Daniel Callan wrote: Hi Magnus, Thanks for your reply. At 08:21 5/08/99 +0200, you wrote: I know that the archive is full of alias problems but so far I cannot seem to find someone mentioning the simplest (and worst) problem of them all: If

Re: Backward Alias System

1999-08-05 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 06:41:46PM +1000, Daniel Callan wrote: Hi Magnus, Thanks for your reply. At 08:21 5/08/99 +0200, you wrote: I know that the archive is full of alias problems but so far I cannot seem to find someone mentioning the simplest (and worst) problem of them all: If

Re: can 'alias' run programs?

1999-08-04 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 08:15:06PM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote: I must be utterly misunderstanding the documentation. I"m trying to create a system-wide alias to catch pager requests. So, I created: # cat ~alias/.qmail-page | /usr/local/bin/sendpage -B -S -c Subject: -f "$EXT"

Re: Unable to open message

1999-07-29 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 05:29:29PM +0200, Henrik Johansen wrote: Hi all. I have posted this before, but recieved no responses what so ever. That's probably because you've left out too much important information, and nobody felt like coaxing it out of you. How is this message delivered? From

Re: Who can tell me how to speed up my qmail system?

1999-07-28 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 01:40:08AM +, Sam wrote: Xiaoxia Zhao writes: The results is much more slow than described in author's homepage, who can tell me why and how can I speed up my test. A) Use SCSI disks. B) Use an array of small SCSI disks, and stripe them. C) Use a

Re: Null

1999-07-26 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 04:13:28PM +0200, Tony Wade wrote: Hi there, How does one dump mail to /dev/null , say i want the user [EMAIL PROTECTED] to dump the message. i have edited the .qmail-null and put /dev/null in it. this as i can see from the qmail mail logs tried to deliver to

Re: Aliases / Locals

1999-07-26 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 04:54:59PM -0300, Nelson Ferreira Jr. (listas) wrote: (sorry about sending the message twice) I want qmail working with several domains, in the following way: If there's a incoming message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it will be delivered to user, whatever

Re: supervision of tcpserver qmptd

1999-07-25 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 12:13:48PM -0400, Alex Miller wrote: I have noticed that my hard disk light clicks on every 2/3 second or so. It seems that a new process that supervises the tcpserver is created, then destroyed and created again with a new process number. the "status" file in

Re: supervision of tcpserver qmptd

1999-07-25 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 12:47:05PM -0400, Alex Miller wrote: [Quoted text which has been butchered beyond recognition by MS Outlook omitted] Having installed the memphis rpm the invocation of the tcpserver is controlled by the following file /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail-qmtpd.init which is as

Re: koobera's /pub/software empty??

1999-07-24 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 10:39:26PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: Anybody else notice that koobera's /pub/software is empty?? ftp://ftp.qmail.org/pub/koobera.math.uic.edu still has the expected files, however. Doesn't he put everything in /www/software? Chris

Re: relaying redundancy

1999-07-22 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 08:48:52AM -0500, Ken Jones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a qmail server set up such that it's being used as a relay (all incoming mail just gets dumped to whatever is in smtproutes). anyway, sometimes the machine that my qmail box is relaying to goes

Re: relaying setup

1999-07-19 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 03:46:10AM -0400, Denis Voitenko wrote: I am in a process of setting up my linux box to relay mail for clients on a 192.168.0.X LAN. I am trying to follow the directions from http://www.palomine.net/qmail/selectiverelay.html and here is something that gives me trouble.

Re: Logging tcpserver in.pop3d and cyclog

1999-07-19 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 03:35:10PM -0400, Tim Hunter wrote: I am having problems using tcpserver to log messages I use this command to start my pop server supervise /var/supervise/qmail/pop3d tcpserver -v 0 pop-3 /usr/sbin/in.pop3d | setuser qmaill cyclog /var/log/qmail/pop3d/ This

Re: Tcpserver and cyclog

1999-07-18 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 02:15:59PM -0400, Matthew Harrell wrote: I've been able to get cyclog to work fine with qmail-start but I'm trying to get it to work with tcpserver. I'm presently using this line: /usr/qmail/bin/tcpserver -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 65001 -g 65000 0 smtp \

Re: cleaning out queue.

1999-07-12 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 04:43:30PM -0400, Tony D'Andrade wrote: The last time I got this error. I re-installed qmail. Now Im going to re-install it again. However I think the mailq is filling up because I have cronjobs running and root is not getting the mail. I su to root and ran:

Re: Double Bounces

1999-07-03 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 09:25:47AM -0400, Andrew Beebe wrote: Is there a way to have double bounce messages deleted instead of delivered to the Postmaster (me)? In control/doublebounceto, put something like: doublebounce And in ~alias/.qmail-doublebounce, put a single '#' See the qmail-send

Re: info

1999-07-03 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 02:27:23PM -0400, Alex Miller wrote: It seems then that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not the name you subscribed with. The message back from ezmlm should have said: Acknowledgment: I have removed the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] from this mailing list. NOT

Re: Problems with tcpserver for relaying

1999-06-26 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 04:07:10PM -0400, Diego Puertas wrote: I am trying to implement selective relay for a range of IP adresses, so when I execute the following command: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -x/etc/tcprules.d/qmail-smtpd.cdb \ -c100 -u81 -g80 0 smtp

Re: Handling mail for @domain.com and @sub.domain.com to different users

1999-06-09 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 01:54:25PM +0200, Joaquim Homrighausen wrote: [qmail 1.03] I have domain.com and sub.domain.com Mail for anyone at "@domain.com" should be mapped to "user1" Mail for anyone at "@sub.domain.com" should be mapped to "user2" I've tried putting: sub.domain.com

Re: disallowing certain users?

1999-06-09 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 09:43:09AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to cause certain email addresses to be denied by qmail? for instance i have a user [EMAIL PROTECTED] whom I do not want to receive ANY smtp email. I guess what im looking for is something like a

Re: sender error in qmail 1.03

1999-06-09 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 08:58:57AM -0700, Brandon Dudley wrote: Hi! I'm experiencing an interesting error with an account on my RH6.0 box. When he tries to send email to anyone remotely (to anyone from his account), he gets the following error at the time he types in send: aphrael at

Re: DNS and MX record question

1999-06-04 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 12:40:38AM -0600, Anthony Mutiso wrote: This question has come up before on this list but I have not been able to find a clear answer in the archives. I tried to mail a friend at domain that only had an MX record. i.e. #nslookup -query=A site1.com

Re: Problem with virtual domains and mx-records

1999-06-03 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 11:37:03PM +0200, Michael Legart wrote: Hi! I'm trying to setup a virtal domain called "cryos.wiktor.dk", with some emails. The domain is in control/rcpthosts and control/virtualdomains I the dns-zone: cryos A 212.97.129.68 MX

Re: Automated vmkpasswd from vchkpw

1999-05-22 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 03:09:06AM -0400, Adam H wrote: Hi all: I have a question. Anyone have an idea how to automate the creation of virtual users thru a shell script.. So I can supply the password on the command line? like ./vadduser account password instead of it having to prompt me?

Re: Getting error when starting qmail.

1999-05-20 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 12:59:12AM +0200, Victor Regnér wrote: I get this error when I start qmail Starting qmail local services Starting qmail stmp service Starting qmail pop3 service [root@dns qmail]# tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used You've already got something

Re: bcc fields

1999-05-18 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 10:43:30AM +0200, Eike Kiltz wrote: Hi, for some stuipid reason a customer sent out a message containing 1500 (!) ','-seperated entries in the bcc: header using AK-Mail with a qmail 1.03 smtp server for outgoing mail. qmail-header(5) says qmail-inject deletes

Re: bcc fields

1999-05-18 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 02:27:58PM +0200, Thomas Neumann wrote: Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When you say "with a qmail 1.03 smtp server for outgoing mail," do you mean that this message was injected with SMTP? If so, then qmail-inject never saw the message. q

Re: Home Directory Sticky?

1999-05-18 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:58:57PM -0500, Eric Berg wrote: Hi, folks, I've got qmail installed on one of my Linux boxes which is intermittently connected via ppp. I've just got things set up, and there are a few more things to work out (such as the ficticious domain name for my 192.168.

Re: POP3 accounts qith q-mail

1999-05-15 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 03:26:27PM +, Per Birkeby wrote: Where do I find info on how to setup pop3 user accounts with qmail ? I assume you mean POP3-only accounts, in which case you should read http://www.tibus.net/pgregg/projects/qmail/single-uid-howto.txt. Chris

Re: Embedded linefeed epidemic

1999-05-13 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 05:03:01AM -, D. J. Bernstein wrote: Chris Johnson writes: I'm seeing more and more of qmail-smtpd exiting with status 256, which usually indicates that the remote host is trying to send mail with bare linefeeds. Maybe, maybe not. I didn't realize anybody

Re: Email sending problem

1999-05-13 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 11:23:41AM +1000, Michael Mansour wrote: I have a client who attempts to email email addresses (he says any address he tries) and gets the following responses: The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by the server. The rejected e-mail

Re: rcpthosts

1999-05-12 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 12:41:48PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I sort of asked this question before, but I'm going to try again, this time with a little more info. I try to use fetchmail to download mail from another server. While running fetchmail, it dies saying "fetchmail:

Re: Error 500 when qmail talks to windows SMTP relay through a firewall...

1999-05-11 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 06:25:49PM +0200, DUGRES Hugues, I.T. manager at C.Q.E. wrote: I have a very strange bug using qmail... Here is a very breif description of my configuration. In my lan, I use 3 qmail servers running under Linux. It works great ;-) ! Whenever an e-mail is not

Re: Impossible?

1999-05-11 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 09:06:38AM -0700, Jonathan W Herbert wrote: Hello, I could be entirely wrong, but do the limitations of pop3 make virtualhosting mail somewhat impossible? The difficulty seems to come from the lack of a suitable identifier from which to discern the corresponding

Re: qmail doesn't accept any connections on port 25

1999-05-10 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 05:00:21PM +0200, Achim Gosse wrote: hello, i've installed qmail like it is described in the qmail faq. internal mail deliviery is running fine, but qmail doesn't get any emails from outside and doesn't accept any connections per telnet on port 25 (telnet localhost

Re: fastforward not working??

1999-05-07 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 10:02:10AM -0400, Jason wrote: ive got it installed and it was working.. im using qmail to forward everything via hosts listed in smtproutes. and i dont have a locals file, so everything gets forwarded.. but now fastforward doesnt work for the aliases I have

Re: ofmip and rcpthost

1999-05-06 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 12:16:55PM +0200, Fre de Vries wrote: Question, Doesn't use ofmip /control/rcpthost??? When i use qmail-smtpd a non-allowed rcpthost generates a: ""553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts "" Using ofmipd instead of qmail-smtpd this doesn't

Re: tcpserver control on domain name

1999-05-06 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 12:15:16PM +0200, Bart van Kaathoven (DSN) wrote: Hi, The problem however is that mydomain.com contains a LOT of ip-ranges which makes it unrealistic to add all the ip-ranges. Previously when using tcpserver 0.50 there was a patch which allowed dns-based access

Re: qmail cant find host.

1999-05-06 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 11:38:18AM -0400, Jason wrote: all we want it to do is forward incomming smtp mail to our lotus notes mail servers.. ive got it set up and ive got in my /var/qmail/control/smtproutes :notesbox.qrtp.quintiles.com and in my /etc/hosts i have 10.1.1.1

Re: qmail cant find host.

1999-05-06 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 03:04:09PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: qmail uses DNS only--it won't look at /etc/hosts. Change your control/smtproutes file to: :10.1.1.1 Make that: :[10.1.1.1] You don't need the brackets. It'll work without them

Re: qmail cant find host.

1999-05-06 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 04:00:49PM -0400, Timothy L. Mayo wrote: According to the qmail-remote man page, the brackets ARE required. "host can be either a fully-qualified domain name: silverton.berkeley.edu or an IP address enclosed in brackets: [128.32.183.163]" The bit

Re: Acting as a middleman

1999-05-06 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 04:59:20PM -0400, Brett Borger wrote: Unfortunately, qmail-smtpd does not *make* any log entries. This is a huge defect, as you can see. You'll have to rely getting the bounce messages, whereever they wind up. Can someone please explain what these messages in

Re: Configuring a qmail gateway

1999-05-05 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 04:03:01PM -0400, Russell P. Sutherland wrote: I have configured a qmail machine to be a pure email gateway/relay (no local delivery in terms of deliverying a message to a local mailbox) using virtualdomains. All incoming email gets routed based upon the recipient

Re: Read flag on message.

1999-05-04 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 11:49:09AM -0500, Andy Walden wrote: Andy Walden writes: What marks a message as read or new? I'm trying to reinstate the "You have new Mail" when people login and figured I would write a program to do it since I couldn't find one. I also need a program

Re: rblsmtpd error redirection?

1999-05-03 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 05:12:28PM -0500, Barton wrote: Hi, I am running rblsmtpd under tcpserver, and I would like the error messages to be saved to a log file instead of being directed to stderr. Is there a way that I can do this? Pipe the output to splogger or cyclog (which comes

Re: Why did I get this???

1999-05-01 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 12:15:35PM -0400, Paul Farber wrote: Below are the headers from an email from Outlook 5.0, it ended up in my mailbox, but I do not see why. I am not the reciepient, nor is thier a cc list, unless OE 5.0 is not properly sending it?? You got it because you were

Re: qmailanalog?

1999-04-29 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 11:07:28AM -0700, Henrik Holmberg wrote: My qmailanalog programs don't work :( They just hang and do nothing at all, what can be wrong?? Did you read the documentation, or did you just try running the programs to see what happens? If the latter, then you found out

Re: qmail 1.03 and RH5.2

1999-04-28 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 04:15:09PM +1000, Michael Mansour wrote: Hi, I have an issue where I installed the qmail rpm into my Redhat 5.2, all installed well and is working. However, my issue is when I try to use ".qmail-default" in the users home directory to accept ALL addresses for his

Re: Procmail and Maildir?

1999-04-28 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 09:23:47AM -0500, Andy Walden wrote: Is there anyway to fudge procmail into writing things to a Maildir? I would think that just giving each message a different name based on some variable that could be captured would work. Is anyone doing anything like this? Thanks,

Re: qmail-qmtpd

1999-04-27 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 12:05:00PM +0100, Robin Bowes wrote: Doug McClure wrote: Is there a practical application where this is used? Yes. Consider the following setup: Internet | Bastion Host | = Firewall, eg Router

Re: Message headers expose local net

1999-04-27 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 06:32:32PM -0500, d. divine wrote: Messages sent from the local network show the host's IP address and name in the header. What setting will prevent internal network information being sent over the internet (sending only the qmail host name, address and

Re: qmail-qmtpd

1999-04-26 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 08:40:32PM -0400, Doug McClure wrote: Is there a practical application where this is used? So far the only client that talks qmtp (that I know of) is serialqmtp, which comes with Dan's serialmail package. There's been a lot of discussion on the list of ways that mail

Re: pop3

1999-04-25 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 05:49:01PM +0300, Claudiu Balciza wrote: Hi, I'm quite new to qmail I've managed to install and configure it (1.03) for smtp. The trouble is with pop3 (which is started :-)). I'd like to have all mail addreses like user@domain There is an MX record in the DNS

Re: *@domain1.com to *@domain2.com

1999-04-25 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 12:35:17PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would I can I get all the mail to any user at domain1.com to be sent to domain2.com? I have tried: control/virtualdomains domain1.com:alias-test alias/.qmail-test-default | forward "$[EMAIL PROTECTED]" But I get

Re: stupid question...

1999-04-24 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 12:32:18PM +0200, Oden Eriksson wrote: Hi there all, My Name is Oden and I'm new to this list and a Linux newbie, but I'm very enthusiastic!. I have run a small web hotel (more of a "private" solution) for months now using Linux Mandrake v5.3 (RedHat v5.2 + KDE

Re: inetd-smtp/tcp problem

1999-04-23 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 08:26:53AM -0700, Brian D. Kohl wrote: Hey all, So I have a new qmail install here at my new company. Threw out Exchange before it was even set up, though after they had paid for it. No worries. I have Qmail running as it should, been great since last Friday when

Re: Restricting Qmail's SMTPd to come form @host.com only.

1999-04-23 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 01:22:43PM -0400, Duncan, Eric A. wrote: I am setting up several domains and hundreds of pop3 boxes using Qmail and . My question is about the smtp daemon. I need to be able to allow all users the ability to access the mail server for the smtp feature (Imagine an

Re: Reply from TCPSERVER

1999-04-23 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 07:28:01PM +0200, Holger wrote: Hello all! I got my qmail running quite well with single user ID POP and relaying controlled with tcpserver. Is there any possibility to force the tcpserver to send a special message, when denying a connection?? I thought of something

Re: MX, IPs and QMail

1999-04-23 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 01:08:01PM +0100, Bret Van Horn wrote: Hello All- Okay, for starters, I'm relatively new to Unix administration (Solaris 2.6/sparc, more specifically) and Qmail, so please bear with me here. Be warned, verbose=on. The Setup: We have a Solaris box,

Re: This looks bad. Any ideas?

1999-04-22 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 02:38:14PM -0700, Doug Lumpkin wrote: I'm new to linuxand picked up qmail a few months ago and haven't had to touch it... But now I need the patch below. I have tried the 1.03 patch with a cleanly tarred qmail tree and all of the hunks fail... Does anyone have any

Re: Encrypted secure POP3 and VPNs

1999-04-21 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 11:57:41AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently, I found two utilities to be of enormous value while looking into setting up a secure encrypted POP3 server and an encrypted irc server/client. The following two utilites can be applied to secure many different

Re: Sending messages

1999-04-19 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 11:14:38AM -0700, Adamo UNIX wrote: Hi all! I'm starting to use qmail today and get a trouble (the first trouble :): When I use Netscape to send an e-mail, it doesn't ask me the user password, and the e-mail goes to the target without problems. How

Re: Another q about open relaying

1999-04-19 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 09:38:17PM -0300, olli wrote: But if I've domain in rcpthosts this domain is able to relay via my host.Thus I think that rcpthosts should contain only hostname aliases for it. Am I wrong? You're wrong. rcpthosts has nothing at all to with who can relay. It is a list

Re: Already delivered to instead of bounce problem.

1999-04-19 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 12:53:39PM -0500, Greg Moeller wrote: I'm still working the last of my problems with integrating the mailserver here. I setup a default forward for our main domain and made that domain a virtual domain so that I could control the order of delivery. (alias check

Re: Help: Avoiding qmail-smtp do a DNS-Lookup

1999-04-19 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 05:24:41PM +0200, Joerg Toellner wrote: a) can i somehow disable the DNS-Lookup from qmail-smtp? qmail-smtpd doesn't do the DNS lookup; whatever you start it from does. If you're starting it from tcpserver, investigate the -H option. Chris

Re: aol.com bounces... our problem or their problem?

1999-04-19 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 09:35:29AM -0600, David A Galbraith CIRT wrote: I'm getting a bunch of these in the logs... 921710651.349026 starting delivery 46759: msg 2501 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 921710651.378220 delivery 46759: deferral: CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._(#4.4.3)/

Re: Bad domain is not bounced back immediately?

1999-04-19 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 03:58:58PM +, Sam wrote: Chris Johnson writes: On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 12:08:23PM -0300, Eric Dahnke wrote: Hello List, With other mailers upon sending a message with a bad domain, the sender receives a rather quick return message saying

Re: Bad domain is not bounced back immediately?

1999-04-19 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 12:08:23PM -0300, Eric Dahnke wrote: Hello List, With other mailers upon sending a message with a bad domain, the sender receives a rather quick return message saying that the mailer was unable to deliver the message, but will continue trying for a predetermined

Re: qmail anti-SPAM relaying support ???

1999-04-19 Thread Chris Johnson
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 03:00:01PM +, Erwann CORVELLEC wrote: I have a local network (PC Win9x) and a qmail server (Linux) both connected to the Net. I want to allow only the local network to use the qmail SMTP server to relay mail. This to avoid spam relaying... So I read the "Selective

Re: SMTP Delivery Problem from Outlook to Qmail

1999-04-16 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 07:20:59PM +0100, Robert Harrison wrote: The story: -- I've set up a mailserver RH Linux 5.1 running Qmail as my MTA. The idea being to use OUTLOOK on the PC's to deliver mail to the LINUX mailserver. The mailserver then dials-up my ISP and delivers all the

Re: Another q about open relaying

1999-04-16 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 11:12:35AM -0400, Stanley Horwitz wrote: I am having trouble preventing Qmail from doing open relaying without stopping mail service entirely. This is on a system that runs Listserv(R) from the L-Soft Corporation. When I put the system's name (and aliases) in a

Re: extra fields in users/assign?

1999-04-16 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 09:55:57PM -0600, Theodore Cekan wrote: Hello, I notice there extra field delimiters in the users/assign file. Are these used for anything? If I start putting data in them will it mess anything else up? Can I add fields? There aren't any extras. This is from the

Re: Suggestions for Mailing Lists

1999-04-15 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 03:08:35PM -0400, Subba Rao wrote: I want to setup a mailing list. The current limitation I have is, I do not have a dedicated connection. Are there any low cost services to setup a mailing list? Try: http://www.listbot.com http://www.egroups.com Chris

Re: Fastforward?

1999-04-15 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 01:52:01PM -0500, Andy Walden wrote: On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Adam D. McKenna wrote: From: Andy Walden [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I installed fastforward per the instructions, built a /etc/aliases that : looked like: : : root: andy : postmaster: andy : webmaster:

Re: another dumb question...

1999-04-15 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 10:01:16PM -0500, Jim Beam wrote: Can anyone tell me what this means? - I am simply going through the instructions in the INSTALL file, and I get to the TEST.deliver file, follow the instructions, and this is all I get in my messages log. Apr 15 20:50:55 smtp qmail:

Re: users/assign file format

1999-04-15 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 09:57:50PM -0500, Jim Beam wrote: Ok - I know this will probably sound silly, but can someone give me some examples of the users/assign file format. I cannot for the life of me figure out how the heck the format works. Have you looked at the qmail-users man page? It's

Re: [Q] qmail speed again

1999-04-12 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 05:35:19PM -0400, Craig I. Hagan wrote: As for those bulk senders, a relatively painless solution is to randomize the order of the domains and/or pull out the top 5 and serially send those. Your tools *do* talk smtp, don't they? qmail-remote will handle multiple RCPT

Re: ESMTP problems with Qmail 1.03

1999-04-12 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 10:55:43AM +1200, Karl Lellman wrote: I have a customer who runs Qmail 1.03 on RedHat Linux 5.1 as a SMTP relay between the internet and their internal MS Exchange server. They have started to encounter delivery and reception problems with a couple of sites and the

Re: mailman mail list and rcpthosts

1999-04-11 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 05:38:24PM -0400, Bob Ruddy wrote: I am setting up the mailman mail list on my system. It looks like it will work very well. I'm only having one trouble. Here is a clip from my mailman smtp-failure log Apr 11 17:19:32 1999 TrySMTPDelivery: To [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: qmail-smtpd from inetd or standalone?

1999-04-10 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 08:08:40AM +0200, Antonio Messina wrote: I have a little question: i was thinking that running a program from inetd introduces an overhead; on a high traffic smtp server this implies many many forks. Is there a way to setup qmail-smtpd to run standalone, as we can do

Re: Tcpserver echoing?

1999-04-08 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 07:45:08PM -0400, MountaiNet Tech Support wrote: I start all my qmail stuff with this in /etc/rc.d/rc.local: csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc ' /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -v -u 1002 -g 101 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd

Re: QMTP suggestion

1999-04-07 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 08:53:29AM -0500, Fred Lindberg wrote: Since SMTP and QMTP are linked anyway, the advertizing of QMTP by the SMTP server could easily be linked to QMTP being up. Thus, a working smtpd with a failed qmtpd (admin forgot to start?) would not advertize QMTP. This would

Re: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)

1999-04-07 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 05:01:23PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am setting up pop3 deliveries, and keep getting this message in the logs, it obviously means that the program that actually tries to deliver (qmail-local ??) has no access to the Maildir directory. # pwd

Re: rcpthosts questions

1999-04-06 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 10:25:59AM -0500, Sean Brown wrote: I apologize in advance for the newbie question. I've got qmail up and running, and all's well so far. However, I'm a bit confused about the rcpthosts file. From the FAQ: snip How do I allow selected clients to send outgoing

Re: realying in two directions

1999-04-06 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 11:44:15AM +0200, Anders Fristedt wrote: Hi, sorry for any newbie errors (better safe than sorry!). I'd like to configure qmail to relay incoming AND outgoing mailconnections. To configure it to do either of these two services is simple enough. But I can't see

Re: Forwarding messages to a unknown host to a pre determinated mail server.

1999-04-04 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 08:14:01PM -0300, Gustavo Zambon Rozatti wrote: Hi, I had just installed a qmail server (couple days) but I need to make it works by the end of this week, so I would appreciate any help to solve one question I have. The server is just working fine in the intranet (it

Re: AOL Cname lookup failure???

1999-04-03 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 02:21:31PM -0800, Bill Parker wrote: Hello All, I get a message from AOHell users in my /var/mail/log which states the following: Apr 3 13:36:19 odie qmail: 923175379.711394 starting delivery 1798: msg 356449 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apr 3 13:36:19

Re: user masquerading.

1999-03-31 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 11:40:43AM -0500, Mark Swanson wrote: Hello, I've looked at the FAQs, the websites, and searched the qmail list archive for information on user masquerading and am a bit stumped. What I'm looking for is a fast way to automatically rewrite the From address for local

Re: Mail, CNAME, A records, and MX

1999-03-31 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 04:43:13PM -0500, Greg Owen {gowen} wrote: From FAQ 2.5: Answer: The SMTP standard does not permit aliased hostnames,... I'm trying to do something with DNS alias involved, but I think it should still work. If someone could just sanity check me here, I'd

Re: Mail, CNAME, A records, and MX

1999-03-31 Thread Chris Johnson
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 05:31:19PM -0500, Greg Owen {gowen} wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Chris Johnson wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 05:12:26PM -0500, Greg Owen {gowen} wrote: rcpthosts and locals on 'list.scansoft.com' do contain 'list.scansoft.com', but not on 'hunin' or 'munin

Re: revalias equivalent / perl to read cdbs

1999-03-30 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 08:23:09PM -, Efgé wrote: On a related note, has anyone written perl code to read (maybe write) a cdb ? It's easy to write something that puts the data into the right format and pipes into cdbmake (which comes with the cdb package). From the cdbmake man page:

Re: pop3 password rejected

1999-03-27 Thread Chris Johnson
Hi, well I've got smtp relay working fine, but when I give a user a log in account on this box, to enable them to grab their mail, with a windoze client their password gets rejected, (although I can telnet in with it). ? please point me at some docs, as I don't recall seeing anything

Running an alternate program from tcpserver

1999-03-26 Thread Chris Johnson
Below is a very simple patch to tcpserver that lets it run the program specified in the environment variable PROG rather than the one named on the command line. I vaguely recall the idea of doing this coming up on the list several months ago, but I can't find the thread now. The idea is that

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