Re: Conversion to Maildir Format

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Sill
"Manvendra Bhangui" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I convert from someother mail format to maildir format used by qmail. That depends on the "someother mail format". Basically I am currently having mails being delivered as files with each mail being a single unix file. And these files are in

Re: Conversion to Maildir Format

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Sill
"Manvendra Bhangui" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you could tell me how to convert from unix mbox format to maildir, that would be helpful. I already have mail agents to handle maildir format http://www.qmail.org/mbox2maildir -Dave

Re: Qmail and Syslogd?

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Sill
"Collin B. McClendon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In light of my recent delivery issues, I was curious as to whether syslogd may have anything to do with it? During a mail run of our mailing lists syslogd is hitting 90% processor usage or more and staying there. Just curious, Why use syslog when

Re: Qmail and Syslogd?

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Sill
Stefan Laudat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately it's not like they (djb) says in commercials :) Use the - prefix in syslog.conf on mail logging facility and it won't commit sync() after each line appended. That will improve syslog's performance, but it won't help the security, reliability,

Re: why so few qmail-remote processes ...

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Sill
"Jacques Frip' WERNERT" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to know why I have messages in the queue (ie given by qmail-qstat) and I don't have as many qmail-remote processes as I've defined (verified by chkspawn). I answered this yesterday. Check the list archives. -Dave

Re: why so few qmail-remote processes ...

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Sill
"Jacques Frip' WERNERT" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to know why I have messages in the queue (ie given by qmail-qstat) and I don't have as many qmail-remote processes as I've defined (verified by chkspawn). One obvious possibility is that the messages in the queue failed temporarily on

Re: Qmail and Syslogd?

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Sill
Piotr Kasztelowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Dave Sill wrote: Why use syslog when there's a more reliable, secure, efficient, and functional alternative? (Hint: multilog) Dave, I use qmail and at qmail the logs are generated by splogger but at tcpserver logs are created

Re: Qmail and Syslogd?

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Sill
Piotr Kasztelowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my /etc/rc2.d file the rc file for tcpserver has such syntax: #!/bin/sh # # Piotr Kasztelowicz, skrypt uruchamiajacy tcpserver i sshd # # sleep 1 # if [ -f /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -a -f /etc/tcp/tcp.ftp.cdb ]; then /usr/local/bin/tcpserver

Re: who rotates the logs?

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Sill
Clemens Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes I have and it is *exactly* what I need, but if I did not misread the docu, isoqlog uses syslog and I really would like to keep this away from syslog. Argh. You're right. I assumed it was based on multilog since syslog sucks so bad... -Dave

RE: A firestorm of protest?

2001-01-17 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for updating qmail, I would be all for a new version of qmail with some of the more useful (nearly mandatory) plugins already added. A couple I can think of is the oversize DNS packet patch for qmail, Nowhere near mandatory. and possibly qmail-scanner ( with the

Re: LWQ and timestamp

2001-01-17 Thread Dave Sill
Clemens Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed qmail as described in LWQ. As I try to evaluate the logs with qmail analog I run into trouble because multilog does not have the timestamps needed by qmailanalog. Can I just replace any multilog entry with splogger or is this no good idea?

Re: A firestorm of protest?

2001-01-17 Thread Dave Sill
Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see exactly two patches which could be part of stock qmail: the AOL dns patch and Russels qmtp/mxps-patch for qmail-remote. Forget about the DNS mods, DJB has very clearly expressed disdain for them. I'd vote for the MXPS and bigconcurrency mods. -Dave

Re: A firestorm of protest?

2001-01-16 Thread Dave Sill
"Chris Garrigues" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: "David Dyer-Bennet" [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Upgrade" suggests adding features, rather more than "patch" does; patches are often released to fix bugs. How about "addition" or "extension"? I vote for "source code plug-ins". :-) -Dave

Re: Life With Qmail

2001-01-16 Thread Dave Sill
"Keith Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I followed the directions to the T in Life with Qmail - http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html. At the end of the install, chapter 2, I re-booted. After my system booted I type ps and there was only 2 processes running: 1) bash 2) ps You're not seeing

Re: qmail help quick!

2001-01-16 Thread Dave Sill
Dan Phoenix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am noticing all the mail going into the queue and maybe 10 qmail-remote processes whereas I have 250 set for concurrencyremote! You restarted qmail after you modified concurrencyremote? Grep for "status:" in your qmail-send logs to verify that qmail-send

Re: A firestorm of protest?

2001-01-16 Thread Dave Sill
"Robin S. Socha" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I vote for "source code plug-ins". :-) Ummm... Nope. Nope what? Nope, I don't vote for "source code plug-ins"? Or nope, "source code plug-ins" is not a good renam

Re: Dot in email adress

2001-01-12 Thread Dave Sill
"David L. Nicol" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that man page [dot-qmail] says: WARNING: For security, qmail-local replaces any dots in ext with colons before checking .qmail-ext. For convenience, qmail-local converts any uppercase letters in ext to lowercase. What exactly is the threat

RE: control/mailroutes (was: QMTP autoreply tester)

2001-01-09 Thread Dave Sill
Greg Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It also seems to me that one of the design traits of qmail is simplicity of config files - I can't find the reference, but I thought somewhere DJB said that having to parse complex config files is a cause of problems. See:

Re: How using IMAP with qmail??

2001-01-05 Thread Dave Sill
Ould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to use IMAP in a simple manner as I use actually pop3. Huh? You're currently using POP3 but want to switch to IMAP? I'm using strictly LWQ method of installation. No you're not. The snippet you posted from your qmail script is seriously bastardized. All

Re: How using IMAP with qmail??

2001-01-05 Thread Dave Sill
Ould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oui...s'il vous plait! I wont to use now IMAP instead of POP3 or using both (I want to let this choice to the end client, but want to setup the two possiblity on my server). As long as both servers (POP3 and IMAP) use the same mailboxes (format and location), you

Re: Virtual Domain equivalent problem

2000-12-22 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a very confusing thing I am trying to accomplish, but for reasons outside of my control it must be done. I have a main domain name of company..com in locals. I have a company.fi:alias-companyfi line in virtualdomains. The alias file looks like this: | forward

Re: Life w/qmail: multilog qmail link

2000-12-20 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get a better understanding of the interoperation and I have tried the archives but can't find the answer I am looking for. I have qmail working by using Sill's LWQ, but I don't understand how the programs qmail-send and qmail-smtp are linked to the

Re: odd problem...

2000-12-19 Thread Dave Sill
Jeremy Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ookay...mail being sent from users works just fine, however when a cgi script or other server program tries to send mail, this happens: - Transcript of session follows - 553 5.3.5 mail.mydarkness.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX

Re: Life With qmail -- INCOMPLETE ???

2000-12-19 Thread Dave Sill
[Please don't send the identical query to every qmail-related address you can find.] RAGHVENDRA SHUKLA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have followed the life with qmail for installing the qmail . But after that i run the qmail by qmail start -- following the script. But it

Re: How Using IMAP4/POP3

2000-12-19 Thread Dave Sill
Ould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use actually POP3 with tcpserver. I Want to use IMAP4 in order to dump users message's. I'm based on LWQ. But I don't know how to include togheter POP3/IMAP4? There's nothing to tricky about running POP3 and IMAP together. You just have to install an IMAP daemon

Re: how to ignore $HOME/.qmail ?

2000-12-18 Thread Dave Sill
Matt Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i put this line in /var/qmail/users/assign: =joe:alias:81:81:/var/qmail/alias:-:joe: but qmail-newu complains: msg# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-newu qmail-newu: fatal: bad format in users/assign what am i doing wrong? Did you forget to terminate "assign"

Bye

2000-12-01 Thread Dave Sill
I'm taking a vacation from this list until the level of newbie tolerance improves dramatically. Sorry, I just can't take it any longer. -Dave

Re: List Courtesy (was Newbie question)

2000-11-30 Thread Dave Sill
"asantos" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or that XEmacs is not an operating system. Actually, XEmacs is as much of an operating system--probably even moreso--than early versions of Windows. -Dave

Re: why didn't it send my msg?

2000-11-30 Thread Dave Sill
QBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I check if I have qmail-smtpd enabled on my host? $ telnet 0 25 Trying 0.0.0.0... Connected to 0. Escape character is '^]'. 220 sws5.ctd.ornl.gov ORNL/WS ESMTP help 214 qmail home page: http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html quit 221 sws5.ctd.ornl.gov ORNL/WS

Re: List Courtesy (was Newbie question)

2000-11-30 Thread Dave Sill
"Barley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot get over this attitude. Can it really be that the majority of the qmail community feels like old Felix here? If I say "yes" can we kill this thread? -Dave

Re: Thank you very much

2000-11-30 Thread Dave Sill
Louis Mushandu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...cerebrally...sphincter...petulant...commensurate...intelligentsia... Wow, Louis, you sure do use some purdy fancy words for a newbie. -Dave

Re: List Courtesy (was Newbie question)

2000-11-29 Thread Dave Sill
Jamin Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I may be out of line here. However, this is not the first time I've seen snappy rude responses from people in response to others asking for help. I am simply quoting this message as it is the most recent. I'm not a big fan of newbie smackdowns, though a

Re: List Courtesy (was Newbie question)

2000-11-29 Thread Dave Sill
Warren Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not tried to install using LWQ but I couldn't help but notice some differences in the way things are installed using LWQ versus the INSTALL files. Now which is right? Question: Which of the following is the right way to remove a file in the current

RE: List Courtesy (was Newbie question)

2000-11-29 Thread Dave Sill
Jamin Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for the statement you claim I made "the docs are all so bad because i couldn't install qmail with them", I did not say this. I simply stated that I was unsuccessfull in my attempts to install qmail using them. I did not state they were bad, I even

Re: necessary patches?

2000-11-27 Thread Dave Sill
Clemens Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my question is: Which patches should one not miss. I don't install any patches unless I know I need them. Only two of the dozens of qmails I've installed have been patched: - my list server has the big-concurrency patch, and - a pop/imap/smtp

Re: changing to tcpserver

2000-11-27 Thread Dave Sill
"Neil Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: went through Dave Sill's "Life with qmail" and have ended up with a very non working qmail system Sorry to hear that. in /var/log/qmail/current: @40003a22b5be2fde3044 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 That's normal. in /var/log/qmail/smtpd/current

Re: Starting qmail: problem with svscan

2000-11-22 Thread Dave Sill
Joao Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed qmail by following the steps that Dave Sill provides in his web-site (http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html). Still, when I try to start qmail I get the following error message continuously: -n Starting qmail: svscan /etc/init.d/qmail

Re: Problems starting qmail

2000-11-22 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just re-installed qmail following the procedures in 'Life with qmail'. When I use the command /usr/local/sbin/qmail start I get :- Starting qmail: svscan. :No such file or directory :No such file or directory :No such file or directory :No such file or directory

Re: Starting qmail: problem with svscan

2000-11-22 Thread Dave Sill
Joao Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/local/sbin/qmail stat /var/qmail/supervise: does not exist But obviously is does, since (1) everything is working, and (2) you recently posted the output of "ls -lR /var/qmail/supervise". Sounds like your /usr/local/sbin/qmail script is corrupt. You

Re: smtp service being flooded

2000-11-21 Thread Dave Sill
Travis Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is happening to my server any clues. Nov 19 13:53:49 mail inetd[516]: smtp/tcp server failing (looping or being flooded) stopping service for 10 minutes$ Your SMTP service is busy, either with legitimate traffic or some illegitimate flood (an

Re: Backing up IMAP Maildir's ?

2000-11-21 Thread Dave Sill
"Dennis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I'm asking the question again... Why? If you didn't like the first answers, you should say why. Is there a formal way of backing up IMAP Maildir's ? There's nothing magic about maildirs. Your normal backup utilities (tar, dump, etc.) will handle them

Re: Host name not found

2000-11-21 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 12:42:13PM +0530, Kiran wrote: The following are the files present in the /var/qmail/control directory and their contents: concurrencyincoming:20 Bogus file. concurrencylocal and concurrencyremote are the real files.

Re: How insall qmail relay server in an DMZ

2000-11-21 Thread Dave Sill
Ould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I Installed in my LAN qmail server, but I want that this server access to internet via another qmail server installed in an DMZ zone. Can you explain what I must on this server to relaying sendin/receiving mails to my local qmail server? Sure, just put something

Re: Problem with rblsmtpd test I dont'have tcp.smtp.cdb

2000-11-21 Thread Dave Sill
Ould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cam just to install rblsmtpd all tests mentionned in INSTALL file works fine. But my problem Is about haw to include: "tcpserver -p -v -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u1007 -g1007 0 25 \ rblsmtpd qmail-smtpd 21 | setuser qmaill accustamp | \ setuser qmaill cyclog \

Re: Starting qmail: problem with svscan

2000-11-21 Thread Dave Sill
Joao Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should the service directory have any file? My service directory has none. /var/qmail/supervise should have qmail-send and qmail-smtpd subdirectories. -Dave

Re: Starting qmail: problem with svscan

2000-11-21 Thread Dave Sill
Joao Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed qmail by following the steps that Dave Sill provides in his web-site (http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html). Still, when I try to start qmail I get the following error message continuously: -n Starting qmail: svscan /etc/init.d/qmail: /var

Re: how to set the rights for maildir to be secure

2000-11-16 Thread Dave Sill
Brett Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure you actually understand how unix works. All the folders in /home shouldn't be accessible to other users anyhow. I'm not sure you're aware of how systems are actually configured. All the user directories on my systems are world

Re: Delivering mail locally

2000-11-16 Thread Dave Sill
Oliver Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if my server's domain is domain.com, and I try to send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from my own local account (ie: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED]), qmail complaints that in the MX list for domain.com, the first MX record points back to the original

Re: Duplicate messages.

2000-11-16 Thread Dave Sill
"Andy Abshagen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Duplicate delivery: Nov 15 21:24:27 mail qmail: 974341467.158027 delivery 34992: success: did_0+0+2/ Single delivery: Nov 15 21:24:28 mail qmail: 974341468.155358 delivery 34993: success: did_0+0+1/ See the difference? The +2 vs. +1? That is the

Re: User Unknown

2000-11-16 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following the instructures given on Life with qmail, I am trying to install qmail using the source codes. So far I a have downloaded qmail and the two add-ons (daemontools and ucspi-tcp), and followed the steps up to building (Section 2.5.5 in Life with qmail). In the

RE: Duplicate messages.

2000-11-16 Thread Dave Sill
"Andy Abshagen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK. And what if there is not a .qmail- for each user??? There's *always* a .qmail file, even if it's just the one specified on the qmail-start command line. I don't know exactly how vpopmail sets things up, but there's some difference between the

Re: how to set the rights for maildir to be secure

2000-11-16 Thread Dave Sill
martin langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pd: what distro are you using that sets users directories to 755? Solaris, IRIX, TRU64 UNIX, etc. 755 is traditional for UNIX. -Dave

Re: Qmail repeating system name in address

2000-11-16 Thread Dave Sill
Jamin Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As it stands currently I've been stuck at testing local delivery. Every test message I tried would result in a bounce. In the bounced message I could see that for some reason qmail was adding additional information to the addresses. For example if I

Re: Alias - .qmail-default

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
"Expert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My .qmail-default have the line: | /var/qmail/bin/fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb. The /etc/aliases have the line: MAILER-DAEMON: admin . I'm receiving a lot of emails from someone trying to spam me but, the accounts that the spamer is trying to spam

Re: accepting and delivering locally for a different IP ...

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
wolfgang zeikat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how can i make qmail accept mails for user@[123.123.123.123] when the machine 123.123.123.123 forwards all mails to our qmail server? Put 123.123.123.123 in control/locals and control/rcpthosts. -Dave

Re: running daemontools on qmail with large locals and rcpthosts files

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd upgraded my daemontools on qmail from version 0.53 to 0.7. The file size for both /var/qmail/control/locals and rcpthosts exceeds 1M (this incl. around 65000 cobrands). However using the new daemontool with svscan somehow prevent qmail from running with big locals

Re: tcpserver virtual domain

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
"Kiran" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. I am able to send receive mails, but i need to start qmail manually even though i have written the init scripts. This is the error i get in the nohup.out which is created when starting qmail file : nonup env - PATH="$PATH" svscan ./run: Can't reopen pipe

Re: how to set the rights for maildir to be secure

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
Brett Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the maildir in their home folder? Then that is all that matters. Nope. The mode on the home directory matters, too. Set the numbers to whatever you like (777 if you really want to). Since the parent folder ($HOME) is readable only by the owner (if you

Re: adding an outgoing-only smtp server?

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
"James T. Perry" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I would like to do is this: host1 - primary MX for incoming and outgoing host2 - outgoing only host1 will be used for "regular" email traffic, with legit user accounts, while host2 will be mainly used for pumping out big loads of outgoing email

Re: AUTOMAILDIRMAKE

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
"suresh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: any knows what is automaildirmake No, but but I'm sure if you keep asking about it, someone will. -Dave

Re: secrets and lies

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
"David Dyer-Bennet" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan is probably right that no special permissions are needed to make normal uses of his code (which is what he says on his web pages), but if the corporate lawyer isn't in agreement with him, he's going to say "no". That's a corporate lawyer's job,

Re: secrets and lies

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think "select few" as you have used it needs clarification -- even if only one half of one percent of all advanced C programmers are part of the "select few", that's still hundreds or thousands of people, and many of those people are part of the open

Re: secrets and lies

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
Bennett Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And a case could be made that the charming and personable way qmail has been represented in various public fora makes this audit-by-fire even better: at this point, there are enough people around the world who hate djb's guts and would never touch anything

Re: secrets and lies

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 01:21:40PM -0500, Dave Sill wrote: An audit by some random "security firm" might not mean anything, but an audit by a recognized authority would. It might. It also might not, because even the best auditors could miss

Re: resend incoming mail to specific doamin

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
Shakaib Sayyid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to resend all the incoming mail for an account to all the receipents in the header having a specific domain. For instance if I have the following in the header: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to resend mail

Re: adding an outgoing-only smtp server?

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sill
"James T. Perry" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering whether to include host2 also as an MX in the dns records although host1 is the only MX handling incoming and part of outgoing (none from host2). No, only SMTP servers should be listed in MX's. If I'm correct, I don't need an MX entry

Re: reg. qmail-qmqpd and qmail-qmtpd

2000-11-14 Thread Dave Sill
"RamKumar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would like to know what qmail-qmqpd and qmail-qmtpd are used for? and where i could get more information about the same. QMQP is the Quick Mail Queueing Protocol. QMTP is the Quick Mail Transfer Protocol. QMQP is used by clients of smart hosts to pawn off

Re: secrets and lies

2000-11-14 Thread Dave Sill
Mate Wierdl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am reading this book by B. Schneier, in particular, the section `Cracking and hacking contests'. He thinks that contests (like offering $1000 for finding a security hole in a product) are bad for four main reasons, the first reason being that the contests

Re: how to send out local and remote mail immedately

2000-11-13 Thread Dave Sill
"Mark Lo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 3 messages in remote queue and 1 message in local queue. I would like to know how to send out those messages immediately ? Send qmail-send and ALRM signal. If that doesn't work, check your logs. -Dave

Re: SMTP Server test failed

2000-11-10 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tested SMTP on my qmail installation (installed with "life with Qmail") with TEST.receive ... Everything worked fine at the shell but I couldn't find the test email in the gast Mailbox ? Why could be the reason ? Most likely, you're looking in the wrong place. But

Re: qmail and secure smtp relay?

2000-11-10 Thread Dave Sill
"Jack Barnett" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I heard you could do secure smtp, which would SSL the connection and ALLOW relaying, provided the username/password passed is correct, is this true? Yes. If so anyone got a pointer to some info on this? See www.qmail.org. Look for "starttls". Also is

Re: No Delivery via SMTP

2000-11-10 Thread Dave Sill
Ruprecht Helms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed the qmail via the Tutorial life with qmail. OK. Qmail have I started using the /var/boot/home by copying into /var/qmail and renamed to rc. What does this mean? An LWQ installation doesn't need or suggest anything like this. What have

Re: Qmail-pop3

2000-11-10 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm usign qmail on one of my mail server. I need an information about pop3 daemons. Now i'm using qmail-pop3d for delivering in Maildir, but there was another pop3 daemons fast and efficent workings with maildir? Any idea? Solid, which handles both maildirs and mboxes:

Re: assign config file question

2000-11-10 Thread Dave Sill
"Tony Ennis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My /var/qmail/users/assign file looks like this: +gv-:fred:1000:1003:/usr/local/squid/bin:-:gv: . Note that the 'gv-' line is a wildcard - I understand this to mean that any email received for any address that begins with 'gv-' will be processed by this

Re: Courier

2000-11-10 Thread Dave Sill
Jason Haar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The rest of Courier is great too - fully ESMTP support for DSN, TLS/SSL, AUTH along with all the goodies of Qmail we've come to love. But as the docs state - it's not the number-crunching monster Qmail is - it can't beat Qmail on throughput - but for site

Re: SMTP Port

2000-11-10 Thread Dave Sill
"Kiran" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. I am not able to telnet to port 25,though i am able to send mails. I belive this can be configured in one of the files. qmail-smtpd is not properly configured. How did you install qmail? 2. I want it to support other domains too. But the virtualdomains

Re: No delivery

2000-11-10 Thread Dave Sill
"Pierre-Yves Deslandes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I created some users recently with good passwords, with good directories e.g.~user/.qmail ./Maildir (like others users for whom it works) and a maildirmake Maildir (too) a qmail restart And when i send them mails,

Re: wildcards in assign config file question

2000-11-10 Thread Dave Sill
Paulo Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get all mail in the form xypattern@maydomain.com to be handled by a .qmail-default file. I've managed to get all mails starting with xy to be processed by that same .qmail-default, but imagine I would only want to catch the mails starting with

Re: qmail 1.04

2000-11-09 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Putting all (most needde parts) into a well documented one would be a great thing.. imho :) That won't happen. -Dave

Courier

2000-11-09 Thread Dave Sill
Sam Varshavchik has released his MTA, which is called Courier. See: http://courier.sourceforge.net (Is sourceforge always this slow?) Sam is the author of maildrop, courier-imap, and sqwebmail. Courier is still prerelease--though I don't know whether it's considered alpha or beta--but it

Re: unsubscribing from qmail list a project in itself

2000-10-27 Thread Dave Sill
"McGillicuddy, Dennis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been burnt again. This is the second list that I have subscibed to and it just so happens that it is also the second list I have had trouble unsubscribing from. Perhaps one of you knows the secret of how to do this and will be kind enough to

Re: installation Problems [WatchDog checked]

2000-10-26 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I followed the documentation "life with Qmail" but can not start the qmail Batch ( qmail start). I get a syntax error although I copied the Qmail file exactly as it is. This syntax error is: "unexpected end of file". Here is the Qmail Batch: (See attached file:

Re: Bounce configuration QUESTION..

2000-10-26 Thread Dave Sill
"Alex Khanin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lets say my mail server is mailserver.domain.com, and i am an MX record for subdomain.anotherdomain.com. I am wondering how would I set up a bounce rule so that *@subdomain.anotherdomain.com will bounce to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't want ANY mail to go

Re: Kernel Panic in regards to tcpserver

2000-10-26 Thread Dave Sill
"Andy Abshagen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK. So everything has been going along fine until this morning. All of a sudden I noticed that our new qmail server stopped responding. I went to the qmail server and noticed that there was a kernel panic message on the screen and then something about

Re: wildcards in virtualdomains

2000-10-25 Thread Dave Sill
Andy Bradford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:35:07 MDT, Andy Bradford wrote: thenewdawn.com:thenewdawn I think I made a mistake... I believe it should be: thenewdawn.com:alias-thenewdawn If "thenewdawn" is a user, the former is what you need. If "thenewdawn" is an alias,

Re: How to ignore .qmail-* files for given users?

2000-10-25 Thread Dave Sill
Cyril Bitterich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMHO /var/qmail/users/assign only works for mailadresses that are nor equal to the username. Whether or not qmail-users overrides users is a matter of fact, not a matter of opinion. In fact, qmail-users (users/assign) *does* override normal delivery to

Re: command not found??

2000-10-25 Thread Dave Sill
Goran Blazic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When issuing the following command: echo to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject I get a response like this: /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject: Subject:: command not found Hmm. I can't see where that "Subject:" is coming from. Do you have a wrapper

Re: SSL POP3

2000-10-25 Thread Dave Sill
Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SMTP is not secure. That's just the way it is. There is no reason to run SSL on your SMTP port. How about privacy? It's not as good as end-to-end, e.g. using PGP, but it's better than nothing. -Dave

Re: changing FROM header

2000-10-25 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to change the FROM header in mails with a special FROM. For example: The FROM header is postmaster@localhost and I want to change it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] while it is delivered to a users Maildir. Is it possible with a .qmail file? The preferred way to adjust

Re: Local mail problem

2000-10-25 Thread Dave Sill
"Don Johnson-freeuk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure if it has always been so, but it appears that when we address items to eachother within the company, e-mails are sent to our ISP and back again to reach the recipient. Although this does work, it seems very wasteful and time-consuming,

Re: .qmail-default file ignored, qmail working great otherwise -- help!

2000-10-25 Thread Dave Sill
Greg Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to set up a filter that reads incoming mail. I wrote the filter, tested it at the command line, then installed it in my .qmail-default file in my home directory: # .qmail-default |/bin/python mailfilter.py ./Maildir/ When I send mail to myself

Re: forwarding an entire domain

2000-10-25 Thread Dave Sill
"Barley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am managing a mail server for a company that has two domain names serving the same site. They want people to be able to send them mail at either domain but have all mail forwarded to the first domain, one account per user. Is there a way to configure qmail so

Re: how do I create a catch-all rule for a domain?

2000-10-25 Thread Dave Sill
"Barley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a given domain, if the system recieves mail to a username it does not know, I want that mail to be forwarded to a catch-all mail address. For local domains (control/locals), the catch-all is ~alias/.qmail-default. For virtual domains, the catch-all is

Re: any comment on this line

2000-10-24 Thread Dave Sill
"Yamin Prabudy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ORBS sez: ... As ! is a standard network addressing indicator, this can only be charitably described as yet another Qmail bug. qmail's handling of !'s in not in violation of any of the mail RFC's. Qmail is extremely network unfriendly and has been known

Re: wildcards in virtualdomains

2000-10-24 Thread Dave Sill
"ROD" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you wildcards in virtualdomains Yes. See the qmail-send man page. -Dave

Re: message forwarding

2000-10-24 Thread Dave Sill
"ROD" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to forward everything for [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately I'm rather confused as how to do this! I can't create a '.qmail' file in alias because both of them would need to be .qmail-info. How

RE: RBL

2000-10-24 Thread Dave Sill
Message- From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 8:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RBL Mike Jimenez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First I did this setup and it did not work . tcpserver -p -v -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u1007 -g1007 0 25 \ rblsmtpd qmail-smtpd 21

Re: repeated received

2000-10-24 Thread Dave Sill
"wheatly" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why do i receive the same two letter sometimes? Could be you're listed more than once on the envelope. Could also be that you have a .qmail file that generates duplicates. Closely examining the headers of a pair of duplicates should provide the necessary

Re: wildcards in virtualdomains

2000-10-24 Thread Dave Sill
"ROD" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read qmail-send but still i'm still a bit unclear to how to doit. See: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#man-pages Would info.@thenewdawn:ezmlm-test send anything with info.*@thenewdawn to the ezmlm-test? e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] No,

Re: Why is an alias not working?

2000-10-23 Thread Dave Sill
Jennifer Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have set up Postgres on our server and under /var/qmail/alias i placed a .qmail-postgres (the user account for postgreSQL is postgres), I then forward all mail to postgres to root .qmail-postgres contains root all root mail is aliased to our two

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