Re: deleting messages from the queue

2001-08-09 Thread Dave Sill
Todd Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >dave, all, > >> "It's ridiculous because if pigs had wings, they could fly." >> >> Pigs don't have wings, and qmail-smtpd can't do the lookups. You >> either need to stop wishing your pig could fly or trade it for a bird. >> > >this comment has the obv

Re: deleting messages from the queue

2001-08-09 Thread Dave Sill
"eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It's ridiculous because if qmail-[smtpd] could do the lookup and >reject for invalid users, I would not have hardly any bounced >messages. "It's ridiculous because if pigs had wings, they could fly." Pigs don't have wings, and qmail-smtpd can't do the lookup

Re: Re: Can I use qmail for this purpose? (newbie)

2001-08-09 Thread Dave Sill
"Jean-Christian Imbeault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[Mike Hodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote] > >>Another great resource is 'Life With Qmail' at www.lifewithqmail.org. > >Got that already. But as I found out it's Linux-centric. I'll be installing >on OpenBSD and worse for me is that I don't kno

Re: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)

2001-08-07 Thread Dave Sill
Jason Haar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It is absolutely necessary. Why can't you just run qmail-tcpok and send qmail-send an ALRM? -Dave

Re: Sporadic preprocessed queue backlog

2001-08-06 Thread Dave Sill
"Matt Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Fairly frequently throughout an average day, my preprocessed queue will >begin to grow steadily and not get processed. In most cases, if this is >ignored, it resumes processing eventually. Sometimes after 15 or so minutes, >sometimes after a couple of ho

Re: virtualdomains vs. VERP and Delivered-To

2001-08-06 Thread Dave Sill
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Russell Nelson wrote: > Charles M. Hannum writes: > > > > Uhhh, did you *read* my first piece of email? If I get a VERP address > > of `[EMAIL PROTECTED]', > > how pray tell is my mailing list software supposed to know that the > > mail was actually sent to `[EMAIL PROT

Re: Serialmail send problem

2001-08-06 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have installed qmail and serialmail and everything is working. Cool. Thanks for letting us know. >My setup is as follows > >metta.lk > __ >| | -to the InterNet. >|__| > | >modem dial-up to my Internet box > | > | > __ >| |

Re: host file and qmail

2001-08-03 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >zmailer distributes mail in our internal network using host file. >can qmail do the same? > >i dont like to but internal ip:s in dns. > >what would be the best solution to this problem? control/smtproutes -Dave

RE: SMTP+SSL

2001-08-01 Thread Dave Sill
"Per-fredrik Pollnow (EPK)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >But how to you do when you are using stunnel + smtpd ? > >This is some of the tings I have tried: >-- >#!/bin/sh >QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` >NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` >MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincomi

Re: qmail won't start

2001-08-01 Thread Dave Sill
"Marenbach, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just build and set up qmail for the first time (according to the >installation description in Life with qmail) on a Solaris 5.8 box. > >I tried to start qmail by invoking > qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail >and nothing at all did happen. No

Re: Stunnel + qmail-smtpd

2001-07-30 Thread Dave Sill
"Per-fredrik Pollnow (EPK)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have been trying this in some desperate moments to get it to work(and some other >things) :=) : > >#!/bin/sh >QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` >NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` >MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` >exec /usr/local/bin/

Re: Converted

2001-07-27 Thread Dave Sill
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello list, my name is Jon and I am a new convert to qmail and just wanted >to introduce myself. I hope to get up to speed and be able to contribute to >this list soon. Welcome, Jon. -Dave

Re: New ways for email DoS

2001-07-27 Thread Dave Sill
Stathakopoulos Giorgos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Yesterday, I came up to a strange situation: >I was receiving thousands of bounces to >@. >Since is in my rcpthosts/locals file, I was accepting these >messages. But didn't exist so these >messages were going to postmaster. >My mailserver had

Re: Stopping server relays

2001-07-23 Thread Dave Sill
Greg White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You really have to try to make qmail relay. Possible sources of relay: > >1. control/rcpthosts empty. >2. RELAYCLIENT set for all/wrong addresses in /etc/tcp.smtp[.cdb] >(or wherever you keep that file) if using tcpserver >3. RELAYCLIENT set for all addresse

Re: question about local mail and fqdns

2001-07-23 Thread Dave Sill
"Dahnke, Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... On the numerous development and production web servers it >is always nice to put qmail on them and I configure it with the >./config-fast nextsource.com because receiving mailers want a fqdn when they >receive messages from these hosts. But the etern

Re: disallowing certain remote recipients

2001-07-20 Thread Dave Sill
"Joshua Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a box (lwq + qmail-verh basically) that runs a number of opt in >lists. Recently, a user sent a bunch of UCE, and though that problem has >been solved, I'd like to be able to enforce the request of those who >complained and asked "to never rece

Re: qmail reliance on passwd file

2001-07-20 Thread Dave Sill
Al Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there a way to get qmail to deliver email to an account that's >not in /etc/passwd (or its shadow equivalent)? Sure, lots of them. >In other words, can I set up a separate database (e.g. MySQL) >that qmail can access for account information? Yes, there

Re: Procmail

2001-07-20 Thread Dave Sill
"Xavier Pegenaute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Please, i need that Qmail exec "procmail" for every user in mine >system, this procmail is a little different than normal procmail, >this one, zip all messages and store the messages in his own folder >... A better solution to your problem, which is

Re: multiple qmail-send

2001-07-18 Thread Dave Sill
"Daniel BODEA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Can there be, in the normal flow of qmail, multiple instances of >qmail-send running at the same time (?) because multithreaded it's >not, and I haven't seen any locking mechanisms for the ressources >qmail-send accesses directly. one queue == one qmai

Re: Multiple recipients to single box on local machine

2001-07-18 Thread Dave Sill
Martin Edlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a maillist running on one server (majordomo/sendmail) > and a domain mailbox for domain.com on another server > (qmail). There are three addresses from domain.com subscribed > to the list (eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROT

Re: Large queue and iowait

2001-07-17 Thread Dave Sill
Jake Roersma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would check to see if qmail-send has a defunct process.. You will need to >restart it or restart qmail altogether and make sure there are no stray >proceses that may interfere. I've had multiple instances where the queue >becomes abnormally large because

Re: Remote DoS

2001-07-17 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >We we're attacked this weekend and attackers were able to crash SMTP without >affecting any others services in the machine. What does "crash SMTP" mean? -Dave

Re: autoresponce...cjk

2001-07-13 Thread Dave Sill
"Constantine Koulis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In order to activate the AUTORESPONCE do i have to install any EXTRA >package? You don't *have* to install anything else, but it's not trivial to write a good autoresponder, and Bruce Guenter's qmail-autoresponder is nice. -Dave

Re: remote relay, multiple forwarding

2001-07-13 Thread Dave Sill
Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This is the way to do it. What you could do is make a domain virtual, >and create a couple of .qmail files to handle it. In virtual domains, >do > > defaultdomain:alias-defaultdomain > >then have ~alias/.qmail-defaultdomain-jim, which forwards to two

Re: Monitoring MX spools -- is it possible?

2001-07-11 Thread Dave Sill
[Please don't CC me.] "David U." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 11:38 AM 7/11/2001 -0400, Dave Sill wrote: >>"David U." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >I would like the ability to give all clients backup mail service for 7 d

Re: Monitoring MX spools -- is it possible?

2001-07-11 Thread Dave Sill
"David U." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would like the ability to give all clients backup mail service for 7 days >and no more then say 10 megs -- whichever comes first. > >Since I am just accepting mail in my rcpthosts and not delivering it >locally to a Maildir, how can I enforce such quotas

Re: Request for advice (qmail-remote)

2001-07-11 Thread Dave Sill
Greg Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >b) The script would look at the domain of the intended recipient and if > it matched maildomain.com (for example) it would then look at the > username being sent to. > A small(ish) text file would be kept on the mail server with a list of > userna

Re: how can I unsubscri...

2001-07-11 Thread Dave Sill
Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From the archives: > >From: Lukasz Gogolewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: hi,how to unsubcribe? >Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sigh. This has become such a FAQ that I'm reposting the detailed >instructions: > >First, as

Re: Qmail error messages.

2001-07-11 Thread Dave Sill
Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there documentation for each qmail error message? No. >i.e > >"Unable_to_open_/var/qmail/boxes/Mailbox.user:_access_denied._(#4.2.1)" That one's pretty descriptive, isn't it? The user running qmail-local can't open that file, probably due to file or directo

Re: Small LDAP support for qmail

2001-07-11 Thread Dave Sill
Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm not aware of another patch for qmail doing ldap lookups - maybe >qmail-ldap ist just to good to start coding another one ;-)) There's a PAM LDAP module, but I don't know much about it. Theoretically, it wouldn't require any qmail patching and would

Re: forwarding problem

2001-07-11 Thread Dave Sill
GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a problem with some messages that are not forwarded and I don't >know why. I have the following configuration: > >echo admin > ~alias/.qmail-root >echo admin > ~alias/.qmail-postmaster >echo admin > ~alias/.qmail-mailer-daemon >

Re: QUEUE_EXTRA problem

2001-07-11 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to store a copy of all incoming/outgoing > mails.so as per the qmail faq i have modified extra.h > and set the values for QUEUE_EXTRA="Tlog\0" and > QUEUE_EXTRALEN=5. > > #cat /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-log > &[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > no when i send a mail i get

Re: Mailing from One connection

2001-07-09 Thread Dave Sill
"Dave Sill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >-Dave That's bizarre. What I actually sent was: http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#multi-rcpt -Dave -Dave

Re: Mailing from One connection

2001-07-09 Thread Dave Sill
-Dave

RE: cannot start: hath the daemon spawn no fire?

2001-07-02 Thread Dave Sill
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >cannot start: hath the daemon spawn no fire? That means qmail-send was unable to talk to qmail-lspawn, qmail-rspawn, or qmail-clean, which means that qmail-start wasn't able to start them or they died immediately. -Dave

Re: custom bounce text

2001-06-27 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The qmail-ldap patch contains support for a control/custombouncetext. > >$ cat custombouncetext >This is a test, your message bounced. >SSH Communications Security > >This will produce bounces like so: > >- >Hi. This is the qmail-send program at ssh.com. >I'm

Re: Why conf-split prime?

2001-06-25 Thread Dave Sill
Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Suppose the input numbers are 2 4 6 8 10 12. Suppose the hash size is >8. Then the buckets are 2 4 6 0 2 4. Note the bad distribution. >Suppose the hash size is 7. Then the buckers are 2 4 6 1 3 5. Note >the good distribution. OK, thanks, that fi

Re: Wrong Server Name in Qmail Header?

2001-06-25 Thread Dave Sill
A A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Whenever my qmail server sends someone an email, the >following line appears in the header: > >"Received: from mail.mydomain.com >(old_name.mydomain.com [216.216.216.216] (may be >forged))" > >However, recently I changed my server name from >old_name.mydomain.com t

Re: GHOSTS AND ASSHOLES

2001-06-22 Thread Dave Sill
Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Once, just once I'd like to see people mis-spel my name as "Rusell". >Just once. Why does anybody think that a trailing 'L' is optiona? Blame Randal Schwartz...or his parents. Or maybe this guy: http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/r/russram/ -D

Re: Why conf-split prime?

2001-06-22 Thread Dave Sill
"Dave Sill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If the input numbers are not fairly random, then a modulo hash is not >a choice. Not a *good* choice. >>Unix file system inode numbers are not truly random. Therefore, it's >>wise to choose a prime conf-split. BTW

Re: Why conf-split prime?

2001-06-22 Thread Dave Sill
Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If the input numbers are truly random, then a modulos hash will >distribute well whether or not the hash size is prime. > >However, if the input numbers are not truly random, then a modulos >hash may pick out some regularity in the input, and preferent

Re: Why conf-split prime?

2001-06-22 Thread Dave Sill
"Dave Sill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >--IPiIw4QAe+ >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Description: message body text >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >etc. Argh. Forgot about my Emacs' broken MIME. Here's the program: #include

Re: Why conf-split prime?

2001-06-22 Thread Dave Sill
--IPiIw4QAe+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: message body text Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> You're right. The "hashing" used here

Re: I'm not root, can I use qmail?

2001-06-22 Thread Dave Sill
Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You'll never be able to install and run qmail without root access because it >requires installing qmail-queue setuid, and it requires running various other >programs as users other than yourself. As a regular, non-root user, you can't >create a setuid pro

Re: qmail-local's environment settings?

2001-06-22 Thread Dave Sill
"Williams, Paul (OTS-EDH)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does anyone have a list of the environment variables qmail-local sets up and >what they map to? http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#environment-variables -Dave

Re: Why conf-split prime?

2001-06-22 Thread Dave Sill
Jost Krieger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think we are spreading urban legends here. > >AFAIK, the primality is for double hashing in conflict resolution. >Nothing of that kind is going on here. You're right. The "hashing" used here is a simple modulo. From fmtqfn.c: i = fmt_ulong(s,id % au

Re: QMail & XFS

2001-06-20 Thread Dave Sill
"Brano Vislocky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >someone was tested qmail with SGI's XFS on Linux? Are there some possible >problems ( as with ReiserFS ) ? As I mentioned in the concurrent ReiserFS thread, XFS requires the same "link sync" patch that ReiserFS requires: http://www.jedi.claranet.fr

Re: ReiserFs and qmail

2001-06-20 Thread Dave Sill
Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The problem comes from the fact that Linux does not adhere to BSD semantics >regarding the sync() system call. BSD semantics state that if you sync a >file, it's data and it's metadata are synced to disc. > >Linux, on the other hand, syncs only the dat

Re: long delays when sending mail

2001-06-20 Thread Dave Sill
"James Melliar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a fairly standard Linux (Mandrake 8) server with Qmail on a LAN >serving 10 Win 98 PCs. What is very odd is that when windows clients, using >a mixture of outlook express & Outlook 2000, send mail the SMTP connection >times out after 60 seconds.

Re: mail routing & and sanity

2001-06-20 Thread Dave Sill
Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Actually, he won't need to do anything. smtproutes is read by every invocation >of qmail-remote. You're right, of course. Sorry, that was a brain fart. Momentary qmail-rspawn/qmail-remote confusion. -Dave

Re: .qmail-everybody?

2001-06-20 Thread Dave Sill
David Gartner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >| /usr/bin/perlscript >username That causes a loop: the second line forwards a copy to the same .qmail file. >Is there anyway I can remove these .qmail files and run it on a global >level with one file? The "defaultdelivery" parameter to qmail-start wi

Re: tcprules

2001-06-20 Thread Dave Sill
"Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have 20 IP's on my server. Is there a way of saying : > >"Only assign QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qftest if the incoming email >is being sent to my IP address A.B.C.D". > >Because out of all the 20 IP's I have, I only want to filter mail coming >though th

Re: mail routing & and sanity

2001-06-20 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >put in $QMAILDIR/control/smtproutes > >myhost.com:notes.myhost.com > >make sure for the rest it is only in control/rcpthosts > >and SIGHUP qmail-send. No, smtproutes is a qmail-remote control file. HUP'ing qmail-send won't help. He'll need to completely restart qmail.

Re: login length...

2001-06-20 Thread Dave Sill
Daniel Fenert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there some strict login length defined in qmail? >I'm using qmail+mysql patches, and i'm transfering domains from M$ Exchange >(which dies ones a week :) and have user with 33 character login... I don't know diddly about qmail+mysql patches, but the s

Re: failure on control/locals

2001-06-20 Thread Dave Sill
"Erik Logan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that host, >it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't treat it as local. (#5.4.6) > >my control/locals file has my domain in it. I see at least three possibilities: 1) you're wrong, it's

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: 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: restart without rebooting

2001-06-18 Thread Dave Sill
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: NAME killall - kill all active processes SYNOPSIS /usr/

RE: how may i discard msgs

2001-06-18 Thread Dave Sill
Deslions Nicolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks but it doesn't seems to work >i think the problem maybe comes from the ":" character... It works. I just tested it. Did you remember to substitute the correct UID and GID in the assign entry? I suggested: >> +smtp:alias:aliasuid:aliasgid:/var

Re: [Q] qmail and supervise

2001-06-18 Thread Dave Sill
Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I could be mistaken, but I believe this behaviour depends on the order of the >various lines in inittab -- if you put svscan before the stuff called in the >standard runlevels, it should work. Hmm, that could be it. If so, it's unfortunate that DJB's d

Re: how may i discard msgs

2001-06-18 Thread Dave Sill
Deslions Nicolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i'm currently receiving a lot of virus generated messages the "To:" looks >like : " SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] " >i've tried to discard those messages using some .qmail alias files like >.qmail-SMTP-default , .qmail-"SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" etc etc but non

Re: [Q] qmail and supervise

2001-06-18 Thread Dave Sill
Bernhard Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Gerrit Pape wrote > >> svscan should be started at boot time and never stopped until >> shutdown. That ensures your services are always running with the >> same (known and wanted) environment and limits. > >But I don't want to bypass run levels. > >Would

IMAP benchmarks

2001-06-15 Thread Dave Sill
I haven't seen it mentioned here, but Sam Varshavchik (Courier's author) benchmarked UW-IMAP and Courier-IMAP: http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/ This pretty much debunks the claims that maildirs don't scale. -Dave

Re: yet more trouble with daemontools and supervise

2001-06-15 Thread Dave Sill
Stephen Bosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So, is Charles right? He knows a thing or two about qmail... >Does this indicate somebody is reattempting delivery? Looks like it to me. >> No "supervise" directory... Further evidence that supervise isn't >> running. > >*rattles head* > >So... okay..

Re: multilog logs rblsmtpd into /var/log/qmail/smtpd instead of smtp traffic

2001-06-15 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >- >#!/bin/sh >QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` >NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` >MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` >exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c "$MAXSMTPD" \ >-u "$QMAILDUID" -

Re: yet more trouble with daemontools and supervise

2001-06-14 Thread Dave Sill
Stephen Bosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> my /var/log/maillog fills up with stuff like this: >> >> Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.411296 end msg 1005715 >> Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.507199 new msg 1005716 >> Jun 12 14:09:12 hotcube qmail: 992376552.507323 info msg 1005

Re: yet more trouble with daemontools and supervise

2001-06-14 Thread Dave Sill
Stephen Bosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Well, my logs are filling up with garbage Garbage or log entries? Sample, please? >(and I get that silly "file >does not exist" error when I run qmail stat) Sample? -Dave

RE: URGENT: Qmail-remote gone nuts

2001-06-14 Thread Dave Sill
"David U." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >now I just want to know why [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwarded to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] 6000 times (until /var filled I assume) instead >of just once. this is all via localhost, no other machines involved. I'd look at the logs, from the beginning of the incident. -

Re: URGENT: Qmail-remote gone nuts

2001-06-14 Thread Dave Sill
"Guillermo Villasana Cardoza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >actually queue-fix will do the job right... I know I have done it. I didn't mean to imply that it wouldn't work, just that it's preferable to use the rm/make method since it's definitive and doesn't require downloading/installing a third-

Re: URGENT: Qmail-remote gone nuts

2001-06-14 Thread Dave Sill
"Niles Rowland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> So I got rid of the support forward and now support seems to be >reiceving mail >> fine -- but how I do clear my queue when qmail-qstat reports: >> messages in queue: 5046 >> messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 >

Re: yet more trouble with daemontools and supervise

2001-06-14 Thread Dave Sill
Stephen Bosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dave Sill wrote: >> >> Logging via splogger (syslog). > >Which is deprecated in LWQ, now, correct? Yes. >> Sure that's qmail-smtpd/log/run? Looks more like qmail-smtpd/run. > >D'oh! > >#!/bin/

Re: warning: trouble opening remote

2001-06-14 Thread Dave Sill
Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you're running qmail configured as per >http://www.lifewithqmail.org, then the following commands will fix the >problem: > >svc -dx /service/qmail >setlock /service/qmail/supervise/lock sh -c >'/var/qmail/queue/*/0/{348381,348335,348013}' For LWQ,

Re: yet more trouble with daemontools and supervise

2001-06-13 Thread Dave Sill
Stephen Bosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Okay, here is what I have in /var/qmail/rc: > >#!/bin/sh > ># Using splogger to send the log through syslog. ># Using procmail to deliver messages to /var/spool/mail/$USER by >default. > >exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ >qmail-start '|preline p

Re: queue processing problem

2001-06-13 Thread Dave Sill
Shawn Estes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >First off, Im using concurrency patch and big-todo patch (from >qmail.org) with qmail-1.03. I've configured the conf-spawn to 400. We >are an ISP so we are not doing any kind of mailing lists, all >messages coming through our system are seperate messages se

Re: Nat problem

2001-06-13 Thread Dave Sill
Maciej Bogucki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In sendmail I can change this in sendmail.cf file. qmail isn't Sendmail. You could (1) modify the source to not include that info, or (2) filter messages to strip that info, e.g. using qmail-qfilter. -Dave

Re: yet more trouble with daemontools and supervise

2001-06-13 Thread Dave Sill
Frank Tegtmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Stephen Bosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> qmail-send/log: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist > >There is no need for qmail-send/log. Sure there is, if you want the logging supervised. >qmail-send starts up the logger >by itself as g

Re: bad gid being passed?

2001-06-13 Thread Dave Sill
Amanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I reassigned the "alias" user to its right group, How did you determine which GID is right? You *must* use the GID that was in place when qmail was compiled. Changing it requires recompiling qmail. >I attempted to reconfigure/reinstall qmail with no success: t

Re: Using qmail-queue

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Sill
"Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My company runs quite a large opt-in newsletter (around 60,000 members, >growing by about a 1000 every few days), up to a few months ago we sent the >newsletter by using qmail-inject for every email address on the list (which >was slow). So we started to use the

RE: New Broadcast Message!!!

2001-06-08 Thread Dave Sill
"Kirti S. Bajwa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... It does not matter when the >updates are done, the management still would like to inform people, several >times, before the system is re-booted. Just say good service. Any >suggestions. Tap, tap, tap. Is this thing on? You've received several sug

Re: New Broadcast Message!!!

2001-06-08 Thread Dave Sill
"Kirti S. Bajwa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Our company has a mail server. It has RH 6.2 and Qmail 1.3 and very much >else. This server serves to about 200 email addresses. We need to install a >patch which will require the system to be re-booted. Therefore, we would >like to send an email messa

Re: qmail-remote (cry wolf?)

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Sill
J=F6rgen Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There's been 4 similar reports of qmail-remote not behaving properly t= o >this list during the last month.=20 > >http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/05/msg00558.= html >http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/05

Re: better methods to install qmail on linux ( Redhat 6.2 or 7.0)

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Sill
Kalle Kivimaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In a mail server this fails when you get a mail which is larger than the >available size on /var. Thus, have AT LEAST 4GB for /var, then you SHOULD be >safe. Same goes with /home if you deliver mail locally. You really have users sending multigigabyt

Re: best patches to be apply for QMAIL

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Sill
"hari_bhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i would like to know , what are the patches to be patch with this. >for more secure and with out any holes >could some one guide me what are the patches to be apply Any patches you apply are more likely to decrease security than improve it. (No offense inte

RE: better methods to install qmail on linux ( Redhat 6.2 or 7.0)

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Sill
"Joshua Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> what is the space for / >> what is the space for /boot >> what is the space for /home >> what is the space for /usr >> what is the space for /var >> what is the space for /swap >> what is the space for /tmp How 20th century... >If you use Red Hat,

Re: Qmail-remote stopped up?

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Sill
"Troy Settle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >For the last several months, I've been having some severe problems with >qmail-remote. I've rebuilt from fresh sources and updated my system >(FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE) several times. Nothing seems to help. You can see >what I'm seeing at http://home.psknet.

LWQ Updated

2001-06-06 Thread Dave Sill
I finally found a few spare moments to update LWQ. Sigh. Sorry it took so long. There are lots of minor changes, of course, but also a few bigger ones: 1) Services go under /service 2) "qmail" script is now "qmailctl" 3) Improved qmail-pop3d installation instructions 4) Links to two more tran

RE: qmail is slow

2001-06-05 Thread Dave Sill
"Joshua Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This brings up an interesting question. If I'm sending a message to 100k >people, but I need a unique unsubscribe link at the end, can qmail be >convinced that it's only one message, and 100k recipients? Not stock qmail, but Russ Nelson has such a cr

Re: Same domain in two machines and forwarding messages between

2001-06-05 Thread Dave Sill
Sebastian Wain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have one domain domain.com and two machines (AAA and BBB), AAA >receives mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and depending on the user >forward it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in BBB. See: http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/1832/fid/205 -Dave

Re: qmail is slow

2001-06-05 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Well, when the Qmail of Central Server send a list (for example) about >45.000 email subscribers, the Mail Relay's servers send about of 20 >email at the same time. Its very slowly! But, when the Central Server >finish, the qmail of Mail Relay send 500 mails at the same

Re: mail queue getting bigger

2001-06-05 Thread Dave Sill
Cary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What do I need to change so it does run? When I restart the system, >qmail-send and qmail-stmp both show up with as being managed by >supervise, Says who? What Do The Logs Say? (tm) >but you and Charles both say it is not running. If it was running, messages

Oops,I guess Sendmail wasn't secure after all...

2001-06-01 Thread Dave Sill
From: Gregory Neil Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: sendmail 8.11.4 and 8.12.0.Beta10 available Sendmail, Inc., and the Sendmail Consortium announce the availability of sendmail 8.11.4 and 8.12.0.Beta10. 8.11.4 revamps signal handling within the MTA in o

Re: virtual users? aliases? what do I need?

2001-06-01 Thread Dave Sill
"Nate Pinchot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I apologize if this question has already been answered on this mailing list, >but I definately did not see it in the faq. No problem. Sometimes it's not obvious that a FAQ applies to one's situation. What you need is either a virtual domain or a virtual

Re: Features

2001-06-01 Thread Dave Sill
GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm new to the list and new to qmail. Welcome. >I had allways used sendmail, but I had heared that >qmail is better (more secure and reliable) than sendmail. >Where can I find documentation about advantages of qmail >over sendmail http

Re: Limiting bandwidth usage

2001-06-01 Thread Dave Sill
"Karsten W. Rohrbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >qmail indirectly contains instrumentation for that. it is called remote >concurreny. The key word there is "indirectly". If you need direct control, concurrencyremote won't provide it. In some applications, lowering concurrencyremote might be g

Re: Return receipts on an SMTP relay machine...

2001-05-31 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >After a mail had been relayed to the internet, sendmail sent a receipt back >to the sender. I can't get qmail to do that. Hmm. So Sendmail on your relay sent a message to the sender of each message it relayed informing them of the fact that it'd relayed the message? And

Re: OT? Please help me help someone else...

2001-05-31 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In a weak moment I promised a charity that I would look into how >difficult it would be for them to have their own web based email system. >I guess this shouldn't be too hard but as I'm not at all technical I'm >hoping you people can help me tell them what they need in t

Re: Forwarding some mail recipients to other machine.

2001-05-31 Thread Dave Sill
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How about if I have 500 local mailbox ? Do I need to create >.qmail-domain-users file for each one of them ? >And route the rest to other machine . > >Any better solution and how ? The qmail-users mechanism. See: http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#qmail-users

Re: Please tele me every sub-directory meaning in /var/qmail/queue/ .

2001-05-31 Thread Dave Sill
george <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It have some sub-directory in /ar/qmail/queue directory .But I > don't know every directory content and meaning . >Anyone can tele me? See: http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#file-structure -Dave

Re: mail queue getting bigger

2001-05-31 Thread Dave Sill
Cary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >However, when I try to check the mail that was sent, it has not been >delivered. I use bin/qmail-qstat to look a the queue, and it is growing >bigger and bigger: >---results of bin/qmail-qstat--- >messages in queue: 138 >messages in queue but not yet preprocessed

Re: Vpopmail+qmail pop3 has lost it's mind!

2001-05-30 Thread Dave Sill
Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You want to sync the clocks... qmail-pop3d won't list messages from the >future. Somebody refresh my memory... Why does it care? -Dave

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