Re: Large posting

2001-05-18 Thread Faried Nawaz
Manuel de Ferran wrote: I was wondering if it s better to use an ezmlm list or a .qmail-smth which contains the list of the users. ezmlm. It's what it was designed for.

Re: Error 127: qmail-local.o

2001-03-13 Thread Faried Nawaz
Eric Pretorious wrote: When compiling qmail, the compiler returns the message "make: *** [qmakil-local.o] Error 127" and exits. type rm -f `cat TARGETS` make and paste the output here (or put it on a web site and mail us the url).

Re: deny huge attaches

2001-02-19 Thread Faried Nawaz
Kornyakov Yevgeniy wrote: How I can deny incoming mail whith huge attaches as mp3 mpg bmp? I did something similar just a few days ago. Go to http://www.qmail.org/ and grab qmail-qfilter. Install that, and use the deny-filetypes filter to deny .mp3, etc files.

Re: dot in e-mail address e.g. j.doe@test.org

2001-02-19 Thread Faried Nawaz
Jankok, Lucio wrote: do I need to rewrite the dot in the e-mail address by something else ?. Yes. Read the man page for dot-qmail.

qmtp and spammers.

2001-02-01 Thread Faried Nawaz
QMTP may be faster than SMTP for sending mail, but it seems less powerful in our spam-happy Internet era. How would one go about rejecting incoming QMTP mail? The protocol suggests that there is no way of writing some equivalent of rblsmtpd. The shipped qmail-qmtpd.c in qmail 1.03 doesn't

Re: qmtp and spammers.

2001-02-01 Thread Faried Nawaz
Vincent Schonau wrote: I think you mean Dan's implementation is 'less powerful'; it has nothing to do with the protocol. With SMTP, you get S: 220 hi, it's me! C: mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S: 551 go away With QMTP, you get C: message and sender and recipients sent before the server

Re: qmail on Mac OSX?

2000-11-09 Thread Faried Nawaz
Matt Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone successfully installed qmail on Mac OSX public beta? i get this far: Remove "-s" from conf-ld, or try changing it to "-x". I ran into that on OpenStep 4.1, of all places. Faried. -- self name.

Re: Clustering Qmail

2000-10-06 Thread Faried Nawaz
I think coda came up on this list a while ago, and someone said it was, like afs, slow. I don't think actual statistics were posted, though. Try the archives. Faried. -- self name. i want to live/to see the earth turn one more time

Re: POP3 Slowdown solved (I think)

2000-03-01 Thread Faried Nawaz
"Jose de Leon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I soved the problem I was having earlier with POP3 authentication going very slow (30 secs to more than minute) or sometimes timing out. Server reboot. Not just a stop and start of the qmail-pop3 or tcpserver daemon. Just a plain cold

Re: migrating virtuals from sendmail

2000-03-01 Thread Faried Nawaz
"Mark E. Drummond" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am moving a client from a sendmail box to a qmail box. I am not terribly familiar with sendmail, but they host over 100 domains, and email for many/most of those is handled by, I presume, sendmail's virtual domain capability. Whoever set

Re: Databytes and users?

2000-02-10 Thread Faried Nawaz
Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TAG writes: Is it possible to set a databytes file for a specific user that will overide the system wide databytes file?? Only if that user has a fixed IP address. There's another way around that problem -- the pop-before-you-send-mail

Re: re-mapping incoming email

2000-02-06 Thread Faried Nawaz
Manfred Bartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to have the system look at the ``X-Envelope-To:'' header (which is kindly provided by the hosting company) and redirect email accordingly to various different local accounts. What would be the best way of doing this? Run it through

Re: Hanging of qmail SMTP

2000-02-05 Thread Faried Nawaz
"Md. Sifat Ullah Patwary" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all! Hi dude! I found my qmail server has been hanging time to time. At hang situatin, it receives mail from any smtp client but does not delever it to destination. All mails are queued. I have to restart the machine to get life

Re: How to stop this from occuring?

2000-02-02 Thread Faried Nawaz
Bill Parker wrote: How can I stop this from occurring, or remove the messages? Create the maildir properly, or change the .qmail file to write to a mailbox file. What's in your /var/qmail/rc?

Re: Unix GUI MUA For Qmail Maildirs ?

2000-01-30 Thread Faried Nawaz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been looking through repositories of OPEN SOURCE software looking for a Mail User Agent for Unix machines that runs natively in a Unix XWindow environment. I can't seem to find one that allows the usage of Qmail's Maildirs. Does anyone know of one that is

Re: Sleeping qmail

2000-01-28 Thread Faried Nawaz
Alok Bhatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to solve this problem. cd to your qmail source directory, and do "make check".

Re: [Fwd: Strange queue behaviour]

2000-01-27 Thread Faried Nawaz
Chris Readle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chris Readle wrote: I'm having a bit of strand queue behaviour. Basically I've got 50+ (I think 54, without looking) local-bound messages in the queue that I cannot get to flush no matter what I try. I've tried sending an ALRM, a HUP,

Re: Getting proper mail notifications

2000-01-27 Thread Faried Nawaz
"Scott Schappell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am using qmail with FreeBSD 3.3, and when my users telnet in, ssh in or login from a terminal, it does not tell them they have new mail, when they do (in the case of ssh, it says "no mail" regardless). I am using /home/user/Mailbox for

Re: Unique domain, several mail server

2000-01-26 Thread Faried Nawaz
Andrea Verni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have one domain and several departmental mail servers and all users must have the same domain in their email address. I want to avoid that when "user a" sends and email to "user b", both on the same dempartmental mail server, the email goes

Re: qmail aliases

2000-01-26 Thread Faried Nawaz
"Mike Denka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have searched all the faqs and all the literature that I can stomach in one sitting. I have read and re-read the dot-qmail man page. But I'm still missing something: it seems that to alias root, for example, you put the real address you want

Re: Funny but sad...

2000-01-26 Thread Faried Nawaz
Please...let's not bring that up again.

Re: big fat qmail-command hole

2000-01-26 Thread Faried Nawaz
Stig Hackvän wrote: qmail invokes commands with /bin/sh regardless of the user's login shell, so even if a user has /bin/false for a shell, that user's .qmail file can be used to gain shell access. And how does someone with /bin/false as their shell put commands in their .qmail files? i

Re: big fat qmail-command hole

2000-01-26 Thread Faried Nawaz
Russell Nelson wrote: Faried Nawaz writes: And how does someone with /bin/false as their shell put commands in their .qmail files? The sysadmin put /bin/false into /etc/shells, and now ftp lets them deposit files in their home directory. Well, yes -- that's what I imagine

Re: Configuration for high volume qmail box

2000-01-21 Thread Faried Nawaz
"Max" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) What configuration options should I use with qmail (i.e. should I use maildirs?) Yes, definitely use maildirs. 2) Are there tuning/performance options I should change? Look on http://www.qmail.org/ for the patches targeted to big servers. Be sure to

Re: Mail queue

2000-01-12 Thread Faried Nawaz
Tonino Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way of viewing the e-mail queue?? As others have mentioned, qmail-queue and qmail-stat. Somewhere (qmail's unofficial web page?) there something that you can use to provide a "mailq"-like interface. Run tcpserver as tcpserver -u U -g G -H

Re: What MUA do you use?

2000-01-04 Thread Faried Nawaz
Bill Ataras wrote: Just curious what people are using to read/send mail from X. XEmacs. It'll do all you want and more (much, much more).

Re: Sore it for y2k and then resend it

1999-12-30 Thread Faried Nawaz
Thomas Foerster wrote: one of our customers shut down their mailservers from 31.12.1999 to 1.1.2000 I have to exchange the forward to a Maildir delivery. On 2.1.2000 i have to send all the stored mail to their mailserver. How can i do this ? serialmail and maildirsmtp.

Re: tcpserver logging

1999-12-21 Thread Faried Nawaz
"Keith Warno" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All seems well tho I can't seem to figure out why things are getting logged to my terminal rather than to a log file somewhere. [...] tcpserver -v -u 7770 -g 2108 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \ 21 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger

Re: Problem solver. Thanks! Now: long user names...

1999-08-23 Thread Faried Nawaz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dmitry Niqiforoff) writes: Then, there is another question: is it possible to handle usernames longer than 8 symbols? If your operating system won't allow you to have more than 8 characters, try the qmail-users mechanism. See the man pages for qmail-users and

Re: controls/databytes

1999-08-16 Thread Faried Nawaz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dimitri SZAJMAN) writes: Please where can I find a documentation about how does the controls/databytes file works ? See the man page for qmail-smtpd. In general, read the man page for qmail-control to find out about control/* files. Faried.

Re: Maildir support for Pine 4.10

1999-08-01 Thread Faried Nawaz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes you do if you are using vchkpw and all popusers Maildirs are owned/groupped via vchkpw's UID. Which, by the say, is a somewhat atypical setup depending on your environment. If you're using vchkpw, you'd not only need an IMAP server with Maildir support, but

Re: Maildir support for Pine 4.10

1999-07-31 Thread Faried Nawaz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hate replying to a mailing list just to correct someone, when it has nothing to do with the mailing list. But oh well. [...] Pine can not read Maildir which is the format "I" am using on my system to be compatible (and stable). The original person

Re: recordio hack

1999-07-11 Thread Faried Nawaz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Nabil) writes: Makes recordio only record I/O if RECORDIO is in the environment. I like the idea, but shouldn't you make recordio not record if something like NORECORDIO is in the environment, as opposed to making it record only if RECORDIO is in the environment? I

Re: qmail newbie question

1999-06-06 Thread Faried Nawaz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerald Willmann) writes: BINMAIL.remove told me to remove /bin/mail but link it to some other mailer, eg mailx. Since I don't have mailx, what are other options? Can I somehow use qmail-inject? What is your operating system? Under sendmail I could mail people at

Re: probs. compiling

1999-05-25 Thread Faried Nawaz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (smurf) writes: Then you'll get this error: ./compile auto-str.c ./load auto-str substdio.a error.a str.a cc: auto-str: No such file or directory cc: language -o not recognized cc: language -o not recognized cc: language -o not recognized cc: language -o not

Re: Melissa Virus

1999-03-30 Thread Faried Nawaz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Russ Allbery) writes: Bruno Wolff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This isn't the same thing. They don't run commands imbedded in the the documents. emacs does. Emacs is a bad example -- it explicitly asks before executing code.