svc won't shutdown supervised pop3d...

2001-08-14 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello, I've added supervising of qmail-pop3d and POP3S support via stunnel and qmail-pop3d to what is a pretty standard LWQ+vpopmail based setup. I added the following files to the LWQ setup: /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3d/run #!/bin/sh

Re: Security Check generated by AXENT Netrecom 3.0 points security flaw in qmail-smtpd

2001-08-14 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello Agnaldo, Tuesday, August 14, 2001, 1:59:47 PM, you wrote: Questions: Anybody know anything about this? Where can I get additional information about this? This Results checks is True or false? Someone should PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong but my

Re: qmail + Courrier-IMAP vs just Courrier-IMAP server (newbie)

2001-08-14 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello Jean-Christian, Tuesday, August 14, 2001, 5:13:34 AM, you wrote: My original plan was to install qmail - VMailMgr - Courrier-IMAP. But after a little reading I find out that Courrier-IMAP has it own email server implementation. So it seems that qmail

#4.4.2: Connected_to_[...]_but_connection_died._

2001-03-08 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello, I'm seeing an increase of #4.4.2: Connected_to_[...]_but_connection_died._ error messages recently (which I attribute to the fact that some new client tries to send quite a lot messages to server located in Asia, primarily HK which haven't got an exactly

Re: Where is sqwebmail in courier-imap?

2000-07-03 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Kristina writes: The sqwebmail page says that courier-imap includes sqwebmail so there is no need to download sqwebmail if you have courier-imap. I cannot seem to find sqwebmail in my courier-imap-0.31 installation! Anyone know where it could be? Though I never worked with Courier I'm

Re[4]: The most secure POP server

2000-07-03 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello Scott, Monday, July 03, 2000, 5:54:00 PM, you wrote: May anyone explain me what sense a SSL tunnel for POP3 does have (I've been wondering about that for long...)? [ ... ] To protect the POP password. But wouldn't it be way easier to just use APOP? Or does that one have its own

Re[2]: The most secure POP server

2000-07-02 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
It works exactly the same as SSL and IMAP. You can encapsulate any TCP connection in an SSL tunnel. This includes IMAP, POP3, telnet, or even ssh or another SSL session, although the last two are pretty pointless. May anyone explain me what sense a SSL tunnel for POP3 does have (I've been

Re[2]: Web front-end to mail service

2000-05-02 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello Tim, Tuesday, May 02, 2000, 6:53:44 PM, you wrote: I stand corrected. Dave Sill also pointed out that any web front end tool, like sqwebmail, requires the use of mbox format in a central spool directory which is not too desirable to me. If anyone has any information on a more robust

svscan doesn't clean up dirs during shutdown...

2000-05-02 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello list (sorry if this is already out, I thought I already posted it, but my mailclient isn't able to find it), I've got a little problem with my qmail installation on my new FreeBSD 4 Stable box: everything is working really well, but during shutdown, supervise (or svscan, whatever is

Re[2]: Multi-RCPT vs. Single RCPT delivery - logic error?

2000-04-29 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello Chris, if you're a Mac user and have a (free) account on mac.com, you can mount a folder from there on your desktop to drop things on and any other mac.com user can mount it to read your files. That's more convenient than sending email, Windows users should take a look at FTP

svscan doesn't clean up dirs during shutdown...

2000-04-29 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello, My qmail installation is working as it should but only as long I don't do any reboots or shutdowns: during the following bootup, svscan complains that it couldn't create lockfiles and such stuff in /var/qmail/supervise/ and it's descendants. If I manually remove the lock, status and ok

Qmail installation on FreeBSD 4 following LWQ didn't work out

2000-04-26 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello, I just attempted to install qmail on a FreeBSD 4 box following LWQ (which did always work for my SuSE Linux boxes). I installed qmail, daemontools and ucspi-tcp using the respective ports but when I try root@beta 14:20:58 /etc/init.d # qmail start # (I put it there as I couldn't find

Re[2]: backup mail server

2000-04-18 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
This is a bad idea. Why? Because you're setting yourself up for the situation a friend was just in. His main server went down, and the secondary kicked in. Unfortunately, the secondary server had become misconfigured (or was never configured correctly in the first place) and his email

Re: Read and Delivery Receipts

2000-04-17 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello Scott, Monday, April 17, 2000, 11:09:11 PM, you wrote: Is there a way to make qmail send a "Read Receipt" and/or a "Delivery Receipt" when it is requested by the sender? Hard thing to implement. The only thing which would be possible is a 'I sent the mail to the client' from qmail-pop3d

Re[2]: Qmail on FreeBSD 4.0

2000-04-17 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello Peter, code and not part of the stable branch, I'd avoid using it for any production servers till it's migrated to the stable tree. 4.0 went STABLE a couple of weeks ago. So should I go for 4.0 stable directly instead of 4.0 Release? Best regards, Gabriel

Re: Messages don't get deleted

2000-04-11 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello System, can anybody help me delete around 25000 messages from Maildir/cur , please also when rm -f * comamned is ececuted it says /bin/rm Arguments list too long. What stops you from using, say rm 91* rm 92* rm 93* and so on? That should help (I'm not sure about the naming, is it simply

Re[2]: Messages don't get deleted

2000-04-11 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Or just: find . -type f -exec rm -f {} \; Thanks for showing me once again that my decision of using NT as desktop was right... Best regards, Gabriel

Running supervised pop server?

2000-04-10 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello, I'm currently running qmail-pop3d under tcpserver (til yesterday, it run under inetd) and as it crashedtoday just one hour after a reboot, I'd like to let it run some kind of supervised. tcpserver is start in /var/qmail/rc but what do I have to do in order to get the supervision? TIA

MX records changed, but mails still go through old mailserver...

2000-03-24 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello, I changed the MX records for buz.ch on Thursday from mail.buz.ch.INA 209.15.28.27 mail.buz.ch.INMX 10 mail.buz.ch. to mail.buz.ch.INA 195.49.62.125 mail.buz.ch.INMX 10 mail.buz.ch. Bind accepted the changes and all DNS servers outside our own

How can I operate two identical qmail servers?

2000-03-16 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello, I'm searching for an easy solution to operate two servers using qmail that have both the exact same mails on them (so some kind of mirroring) to ensure the mails don't get killed when one server fails. I understand, that this is normally done with RAID 1 or 5 systems, but since we use just

Re: How can I operate two identical qmail servers?

2000-03-16 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Presuming you want to mirror the queue and the mail store then this is a hard problem of which I have not heard of a bullet-proof solution. I don't want to mirror the queue, just the contents of the maildirs... CU Gabriel

Why do I get that many 4.4.3 errors?

2000-03-12 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello, I just browsed through my qmail logs and noticed, that I get a lot of deferrals: CNAME lookups are temporary unavaible (#4.4.3). Does anybody know how to solve this problem, as qmail just puts all of the mails it couldn't deliver into the queue and if let it do the queue, it just returns

Re: problem with mail delivery to nonlocal domains...

2000-03-11 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
But outgoing mails piped to /usr/lib/sendmail addressed to nonlocal domains are not delivered. Instead of delivery, /var/log/qmail/current only notes that qmail wasn't able to do an smtp connect. OK, so qmail wasn't able to connect to the remote sites. Do you have evidence that these sites

problem with mail delivery to nonlocal domains...

2000-03-08 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello, I'm using qmail on a Linux 2.2.14 box configured following Life with qmail together with vpopmail (www.inter7.com) to handle several virtualdomains (autoresponders and ezmlm are installed in order to get qmailadmin to work). Handling incoming mails works fine. But outgoing mails piped to