Re: What about www.mail-abuse.org ?

2001-06-03 Thread Mark Delany
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 09:04:22PM -0700, Tupshin Harper allegedly wrote: My test of your server indicates that you appropriately block relaying. (Let me say beforehand that I don't know anything about mail-abuse.org and whether they do or do not have this address listed, or indeed whether they

Re: qmail on SCO OpenServer

2001-06-03 Thread Mark Delany
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 02:16:20PM +1000, Jason Heskett allegedly wrote: Hi there, I am probably opening a long-running topic here, but here goes... I have just successfully compiled qmail on SCO OpenServer. However, it seems that my outgoing mail queue is getting stuck. Is that true for

Re: do I need to log

2001-06-03 Thread Mark Delany
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:28:31AM +, NewBiePortal allegedly wrote: Hi I'm wondering, do I really need to log anything. Is this must or is it extra for debugging purpose. I just feel that there would be much improvement with the sending mail if my cpu did not have to bother with

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

2001-06-02 Thread Mark Delany
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 05:20:01PM +0200, Boris allegedly wrote: Hello Johan, JA Not quite. More like someone inspects your free car and finds a button JA that can make it explode. Maybe he pushes the button, maybe not. Maybe he JA pushes the button on someone else's car. Are you willing

Re: expn

2001-06-02 Thread Mark Delany
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 09:02:08AM -0700, Rob Genovesi allegedly wrote: Hello List, Is this expn (expand) command completely disabled in Qmail (1.03)? If so, are there any patches out there to enable expn from certain hosts on a Qmail server? It's not disabled as such, it's merely not

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

2001-06-01 Thread Mark Delany
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 05:01:57AM +0200, Boris allegedly wrote: bugs are fixed fast. Its just some C-Code, everyone knows this. This is a troll, right? I have a lock on my front door that I know can be opened with a paperclip, but heck, those nice people who make the locks will supply me

Re: Limiting bandwidth usage

2001-05-31 Thread Mark Delany
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:13:56PM +0200, Roger Svenning allegedly wrote: Ok I see, so traffic shapers like altq and dummynet are made by people that don't understand the basics of tcp/ip ? :-) I didn't mean blocked literally, what I want is to make sure that smtp traffic, when qmail gets

Re: Limiting bandwidth usage

2001-05-31 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:38:04AM +0200, Karsten W. Rohrbach allegedly wrote: Mark Delany([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.05.31 22:32:26 +: On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:13:56PM +0200, Roger Svenning allegedly wrote: Ok I see, so traffic shapers like altq and dummynet are made by people

Re: recipient limit for qmail-inject?

2001-05-31 Thread Mark Delany
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 06:59:07PM -0600, Roger Walker allegedly wrote: On InterMail systems we use their mass mail program to send out some 650,000 newsletters to customers. The application batches them into a single message with a BCC containing somewhere between 40 and 100 recipients

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

2001-05-30 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:50:58PM -0400, Dave Sill allegedly wrote: 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? Apart from the enigmatic don't want to mix up the

Re: Advanced masquerading

2001-05-29 Thread Mark Delany
I'm not sure its relevant. The whole address-rewriting thing is a sendmail-ism that should just go away; it must have originated in an effort to compensate for other, unrelated sendmail design flaws. It's all a historical thing. The problem that sendmail was designed to solve back in

Re: Qmail remote process never drops problem

2001-05-29 Thread Mark Delany
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 03:10:24PM -0700, Eric Wang allegedly wrote: Nope, the response from those machine machine are pretty good, these qmail connections are just never dead. the is really confusing though. Can you trace the qmail-remote processes? truss -p, ktrace -p, ?? Regards.

Re: limiting databytes per user

2001-05-28 Thread Mark Delany
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:55:38AM -0300, Eduardo Augusto Alvarenga allegedly wrote: If your users inject mail via SMTP from their workstations to your smarthost, and you can map IP addresses to usernames, it's trivial -- tcpserver's tcprules files can be used to set all environment

Re: Qmail remote process never drops problem

2001-05-28 Thread Mark Delany
Which OS? Not Solaris 2.8? On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 06:53:38PM -0700, Eric Wang allegedly wrote: Hi , Guys, I have a qmail server with very heavy load, and I noticed recently my qmail server have a bunch of outbound connection to some domains like outblaze.com, and the email send to

Re: changing concurrencyremote based on available bandwidth

2001-05-25 Thread Mark Delany
In general. It's very hard to use concurrency to control bandwidth usage. If your system is concurrently sending a 100 messages to one server that's on the other end of a modem link, does that use more of your bandwidth than one MP3 email going to a high capacity site like Yahoo? No. The single

Re: sending mail using qmail-inject

2001-05-24 Thread Mark Delany
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 05:55:44PM -0700, Qmail allegedly wrote: Is it possible to script qmail-inject to send a full bodied message from the command line? I'm trying something like this: ( echo to: alerts@XYZnet ; echo from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; echo subject: logs ; grep '@customer.com'

Re: Problems with SMTP connections

2001-05-24 Thread Mark Delany
qmail does this on its own -- if DNS isn't working, you shouldn't be able to send mail anywhere remote (well, except for those domains you've hardcoded This is where my question of a local DNS server came in. Do I have to run something like djb-dns on my machine? I figured that I would

Re: High Availability, High Volume and NFS

2001-05-23 Thread Mark Delany
I don't want to start an OS war, but if you want to use NFS on an Intel box, I strongly suggest one of the BSDs. I was in a situation where I had to use Linux NFS servers - that was until they failed miserabled. They were replaced with FreeBSD and the problems went away. Regards. On Wed, May

Re: Using fetchmail with qmail

2001-05-20 Thread Mark Delany
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:20:36AM +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote: David Talkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sun, 20 May 2001: There's really nothing special about such a configuration; fetchmail just delivers mail to whoever is listening on 25. As long as qmail will accept deliveries for

Re: Still want to use fetchmail with qmail

2001-05-20 Thread Mark Delany
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 06:26:36PM -0300, Alexandre Gonçalves Jacarandá wrote: Hi again!!! I follow some tips, but I can get fetchmail working with qmail. But now I will give more details... I installed qmail following Life with qmail and it's working. I configured Mailbox delivery in my

Re: help for show time zone

2001-05-19 Thread Mark Delany
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:42:12PM +0800, new wrote: hello, qmail uses GMT to show time zone,like this: Received: (qmail 9258 invoked from network); 19 May 2001 23:25:42 - How can I let it use GMT+8 or PRC to show time zone. Change to code. There is no configuration setting for

Re: unauthorized relay :-(

2001-05-18 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 06:55:59AM -0600, Roger Walker wrote: On 18 May 2001, Mark Delany wrote: So you are saying that you've checked the qmail-send logs and there is no injection that matches the headers of the bounce? Are you sure? If you found a match, then the uid trail will tell

Re: unauthorized relay :-(

2001-05-18 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 08:37:37AM -0600, Roger Walker wrote: UID != PID Sorry, I was distracted. The UID was for apache, further evidence that this was done through a formmail script. Ok... And what did your apache logs say at the time? They are logging IP addresses, right? Here's

Re: qmail-inject internals question

2001-05-18 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 10:16:41AM -0500, dan . kelley wrote: hi- I've started to hack around with qmail-inject.c a bit. i'm trying to modify the file to optionally look for a control/addmessage file, the contents of which will be appended to every locally generated message. Right.

Re: Lotsa messages with qmail-remote?

2001-05-17 Thread Mark Delany
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:29:37AM +, Greg Cope wrote: I used IO::select to handle running multiple qmail-remotes at the same time. qmail-remote has a really small footprint so you can run 1000s of them concurrently on a modest sized server. It takes a fair amount of code to manage

Re: Problem due to prepend in virtualdomain file

2001-05-17 Thread Mark Delany
Do you have a user called ttk? Remember, ~alias is the *last* place that qmail looks for instructions. If a user exists with that name, it delivers to that user. The man page for qmail-lspawn is a good place to start. Regards. On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:36:00PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lotsa messages with qmail-remote?

2001-05-17 Thread Mark Delany
Can you shed any more light on this. I am very interested as I may write something similar soon, and any ideas / help would be much appreciated. Well, that's more a perl/Unix issue than a qmail one so this isn't the right place to discussed it. If you're asking about the benefits

Re: qmail ignores my sorry ass part II...

2001-05-17 Thread Mark Delany
be useful to have this knowledge in the archives. Thanks again. -Original Message- From: Mark Delany [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 6:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: qmail ignores my sorry ass... You need to tell us a little more. Well

Re: qmail ignores my sorry ass part II...

2001-05-17 Thread Mark Delany
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:57:11PM -0700, Brett wrote: Here's how I'm calling qmail-inject: $mail_prog = '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject'; $mail = To: $to_name $to_email\r\n; $mail .= From: $from_name $from_email\r\n; if ($bcc) { $mail .=

Re: unauthorized relay :-(

2001-05-17 Thread Mark Delany
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:32:41PM -0600, Roger Walker wrote: I understand completely. I administer mail servers for a major ISP, so the principles are not a problem. I run qmail on my own servers, but there could always be something that I'm overlooking in the config. I know it sure

Re: Lotsa messages with qmail-remote?

2001-05-16 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:38:38PM -0400, John R Levine wrote: I have a spam-like application that will be sending out thousands of customized single-recipient messages. (It's spam-like because it says you wrote to us about on , but unlike spam, they really did write and I have the

Re: failure notice

2001-05-16 Thread Mark Delany
SMTP traffic is completely forgeable. You need to check the logs on your dialin bank to find out who the real identity is. Your modem bank does authenticate and log logins doesn't it? Regards. On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 03:27:17PM -0400, Kirti S. Bajwa wrote: Hi: Somebody is using our

Re: failure notice

2001-05-16 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 09:14:57PM +, Mark Delany wrote: SMTP traffic is completely forgeable. Er, sorry everyone. I didn't realise the original quote had a whole lot of crud in it. On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 03:27:17PM -0400, Kirti S. Bajwa wrote: VEXI78D6Z4DYZC9IVKXQNKPMFW9AR85UF

Re: qmail ignores my sorry ass...

2001-05-16 Thread Mark Delany
You need to tell us a little more. Well, actually a lot more. How are you trying to send them? qmail-inject, smtp, qmail-queue? If you are running a command such as qmail-inject, what sort of exit code are you getting? Any error message? Do you mean 5600 emails or an email to 5600 addresses?

Re: tcpserver -p and smtpd and DNS

2001-05-14 Thread Mark Delany
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:10:21AM -, David Killingsworth wrote: I have narrowed this to one simple item. Could someone, possibly you Gerrit I know you have answered one way to get around this I just wanna understand why I have to get around it, explain to me why qmail has delivered an

Re: queue life time

2001-05-14 Thread Mark Delany
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:54:30AM +, Walid Kassab wrote: Dear All I would like to modify failure notice time queuelifetime to be 14400 ( 4 hours) instead of 604800 ( 7 days) should i just create a file named queuelifetime under /var/qmail/control directory and restart qmail or is

Re: qmail does not handle timezones properly?

2001-05-13 Thread Mark Delany
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 05:47:46PM +0200, Patrick Starrenburg wrote: Code bloat?? Doesn't seem like an excuse to me to (**possibly** we haven't determined this yet) have a fundamental error in a system because someone doesn't feel like adding code to internationalise something. Why do you

Re: qmail does not handle timezones properly? - More Info

2001-05-13 Thread Mark Delany
Your problem is almost certainly not qmail related. First off you may want to learn how Unix/Linux keeps time. Believe it or not, Unix/Linux don't know anything about timezones. They all keep time internally in UTC (nee GMT). Yes, every Unix server on the planet current has the same time. To

Re: html based email

2001-05-09 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:33:56AM -0500, John Hogan wrote: i was, in a former life, a sysadmin for a major-league list-hosting outfit... no way, no how - don't believe them... it's not possible to float two 'copies' of the message, with reception being dependent on the user's MUA Well,

Re: mailing list

2001-05-09 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:28:16AM -0700, ed lim wrote: Hi, I need a mailing list to send to our millions of subscribers... I am already using ezmlm but I'm still open for suggestions on a much simpler or better one. Any specifics on what constitutes simpler or better? You'll be hard

Re: Mail Stuck in Queue

2001-05-02 Thread Mark Delany
Is qmail running? What does ps aux | grep qmail show? (Or whatever ps is appropriate for your OS?) Regards. On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:30:17PM -, Aaron Goldblatt wrote: After resolving the POP slowdown issue with the help of some of the more polite folks here, I have developed a new

Re: I messed up my QMQP Client Config...

2001-05-01 Thread Mark Delany
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 10:12:36PM -0700, Tyrone Mills wrote: Hello All, I made a stupid mistake and left a QMQP Client machine with a bad IP in the qmqpservers file. I'm re-reading the Installing mini-qmail doc on http://cr.yp.to/qmail/mini.html and if I am reading it correctly, I'm

Re: qmail-pop3d not working?

2001-04-27 Thread Mark Delany
The zero seconds for qmail-pop3d/log is your problem. The logging output of qmail-pop3d is ultimately filling up the pipe buffer and then wedging since the pipe is never drained by qmail-pop3d/log. The zero seconds is telling you that qmail-pop3d/log is repeatedly being started and is exiting

Re: Oracle eMail Server

2001-04-25 Thread Mark Delany
Mlocal, P=/email01/oracle/OraHome1/bin/ofcuto, F=rlSsDCFMPpmn, S=10, R=20, A=ofcuto - /email01/oracle/OraHome1 emailsvr -f unx.cfg - $g $a $b You need to find out what all the F= flags do, what ruleset 10 and 20 do the the envelope addresses, find out what $a, $b and $c are and then make a

Re: svscan on linux

2001-04-25 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:32:12PM +, Subba Rao wrote: I have followed the instructions on DJB's site to install and start svscan. On Linux and other SVR4-based systems with /etc/inittab, add SV:123456:respawn :env - PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin svscan /service /dev/null

Re: qmail-pop3d not working?

2001-04-22 Thread Mark Delany
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 12:08:54PM -0700, Steven Katz wrote: I've installed qmail according to the LWQ instructions, and qmail-pop3d according to faqts instructions (http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/8225/fid/223). At this point, I'm able to send mail only from the clients

Re: qmail-pop3d not working?

2001-04-22 Thread Mark Delany
exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R 0 POP3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \ idma.com /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21 4. Oh, and you haven't told us whether you followed instructions exactly when setting up

Re: qmail-pop3d not working?

2001-04-22 Thread Mark Delany
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 08:49:27PM -0700, Steven Katz wrote: -Original Message- From: Mark Delany [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 7:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: qmail-pop3d not working? exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr

Re: qmail-pop3d not working?

2001-04-22 Thread Mark Delany
Now change POP3 to pop3 and run it again. Go on... humor me. It's only the third time I've told you what your problem is. Yes, that did it! Just received 200+ messages. Thanks for all your help, everyone. You might want to feed this back to the faqts people. Let's others benefit from

Re: Sticky question about qmail-queue and qmail-smtpd interactions

2001-04-19 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 02:06:02PM +1200, Jason Haar wrote: Hi there I'm the author of Qmail-Scanner - an Email scanning harness that can be used to block attachments, scan for viruses, etc. It's hooked in as a replacement for qmail-queue. The installation of a rather slow virus scanner

Re: TCPServer Error

2001-04-17 Thread Mark Delany
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 03:43:48AM -0300, Martin Marconcini wrote: Hello: I have followed www.lifewithqmail.org instructions. The server is OpenBSD 2.8. This was my first qmail installation. At the office I installed OpenBSD and Qmail and followed instructions and have had no

Re: qmail-pop3d and supervise

2001-04-14 Thread Mark Delany
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 01:38:03PM -0400, Rehan Zaidi wrote: Hi, folks. Thanks to the mailing list archives, I've been able to configure qmail-pop3d to run under supervise...almost. I have one remaining problem: I still get "Connection refused" when I telnet to port 110. These are the

Re: Maildir file naming convention

2001-03-28 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:52:58AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: The right way to do it is clearly spelled out at: http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html That's true. It's necessary for all agents to use the same rules to prevent collisions. Ok as far as it goes, but.. The format is listed

Re: faster than bcc

2001-03-28 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:47:25PM -0800, Brett wrote: I remember reading that the fastest way to send one email to a large number of people is through bcc. Well, the fact that it's Bcc: vs To: is not important wrt speed. The reason for Bcc: over To: is to ensure that the recipient list isn't

Re: Delivered Messages staying in queue

2001-03-26 Thread Mark Delany
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:49:15PM -0800, Bill Crowley wrote: Hi, It seems that delivered messages as staying in the queue. 7 days later queue mail is giving up "I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long." I know that 99% of these messages have been

Re: Delivered Messages staying in queue

2001-03-26 Thread Mark Delany
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:17:13PM -0500, Nick (Keith) Fish wrote: Peter van Dijk wrote: qmail-queue doesn't run as root. It runs as user qmailq. What group this user is in, or what his homedir is, doesn't matter. Permissions on the binary are relevant indeed. Greetz, Peter.

Re: redundant mail servers

2001-03-23 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:09:01PM +0100, Vincent Schonau wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:01:51AM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: Gopi Sundaram writes: I'm reluctant to move to Maildir until we can get more MUAs to support them (specifically Pine and Netscape). Wrong idea. Never

Re: Connection unexpectedly terminated

2001-03-22 Thread Mark Delany
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 04:43:09PM -0600, Carey Jung wrote: Hi, We have a sporadic problem with qmail hanging and eventually timing out when popping certain messages. tcpdump shows that qmail is apparently not handling the RETR command properly (see below). Everything is fine until it

Re: redundant mail servers

2001-03-21 Thread Mark Delany
There will be 2 mail servers, mail1 and mail2 Any email that is received by mail1 should automatically be forwarded to mail2, and any email that is received by mail2 should be forwarded to mail1. The only exception to the rule is when they receive messages from each other. Thus a user

Re: redundant mail servers

2001-03-21 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:58:06AM -0500, Gopi Sundaram wrote: On 21 Mar 2001, Mark Delany wrote (quoting me): Thus a user can check their email via IMAP or (shudder) POP from Why shudder? POP is by far the most reliable service of the two and much simpler and supported by more

Re: redundant mail servers

2001-03-21 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:41:27PM -0500, Gopi Sundaram wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Peter van Dijk wrote (quoting me): http://www.imap.org/papers/imap.vs.pop.brief.html And what is your *own* opinion? I prefer POP because IMAP makes users leave mail on server, amongst others. That

Re: handling bounces

2001-03-21 Thread Mark Delany
You can use VERP without using ezmlm. Checkout QMAILINJECT=r as discussed in the qmail-inject manpage. Regards. On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:33:18PM -0800, Brett wrote: In qmail-inject, I'm Bcc-ing a LOT of people. What's the best method for handling bounces? I want to be able to extract a

Re: heavy traffic on port 25

2001-03-21 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 11:30:26PM +0100, Krzysztof Wychowalek wrote: Dear friends, I have a server running Qmail as as MTA and about 300 mail accounts. I realized that I'm experiencing huge amount of incoming traffic to the port 25, it's like 1 MB per minute, so it slows down my Internet

Re: qmail large usuage

2001-03-20 Thread Mark Delany
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:31:37PM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 08:32:29AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, we do a mailout of about 40,000 - 50,000 emails per day to our clients and there clients (not spam). I have been trying to get qmail to work on getting up

Re: Control files

2001-03-19 Thread Mark Delany
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 01:22:30PM -0800, Brad Dameron wrote: Is there a better description of what each file does in the /var/qmail/control directory? Better than what exactly? Better than "man qmail-control" which identifies all control files and the relevant program in turn each have an

Re: qmail-pop* and interface link

2001-03-15 Thread Mark Delany
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 05:23:19PM +, Subba Rao wrote: I have qmail-popup and qmail-pop3d running on my system. Is it possible to dedicate this service to selected interfaces only? If it can be done, could you please point me to that URL? Read up on tcpserver. That's the program that

Re: qmail reusing msg numbers - is this normal ?

2001-03-14 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:14:43PM +, Greg Cope wrote: Dear All I.e msg no 325819 has been reused twice. Everything appears ok - is this something to worry about ? No. It's entirely normal. The msg number is the inode. inodes get reused by Unix when a file is deleted. Regards.

Re: no local delivery???

2001-03-14 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:27:14AM -0800, George Georgalis wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:38:07AM +, Mark Delany wrote: The output of qmail-showctl will tell you (and us) a lot more. that's what I like about qmail, so many programs to do just what you need! Just need to learn them

Re: How to interpret the Delivered-To: header

2001-03-13 Thread Mark Delany
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:46:19AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: Norbert Bollow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you interpret the Delivered-To: header [...] [...] Note: in the following, '**CENSORED**' replaces the localpart of If you want answers, don't hide the evidence that we may

Re: How to interpret the Delivered-To: header

2001-03-13 Thread Mark Delany
Well, there are very good reasons for avoiding to publicly post personal data about a subscriber to an infertility support group. Fine. If it needs to remain confidential, buy support from someone identified on www.qmail.org and have them sign an NDA. Problem solved. If you pay for support -

Re: no local delivery???

2001-03-13 Thread Mark Delany
The output of qmail-showctl will tell you (and us) a lot more. I guess is that you have worldsite.ws in /var/qmail/control/me and something other than this domain in /var/qmail/control/locals Western Somoa huh? I had a lot of fun trying to register a domain there, oh, 8 years ago. Regards.

Re: qmail-pop3d bug

2001-03-12 Thread Mark Delany
A more sensible strategy might be to introduce a new "info" flag (say '3' equals POP wire size) on the filename, eg, a 10,000 byte email has a name something like this: Maildir/new/980195114.16740.geex:2,RS3,1 From reading URL:http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html, it is not clear

Re: Please help!!!

2001-03-12 Thread Mark Delany
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 01:52:00AM -0800, Sean Coyle wrote: Also, Another good thing to note: I was having a serious problem with qMail delivering mail to end users, however, mail was being stored in the queue (this was quite some time ago now). I had made a few changes to a

Re: qmail-pop3d bug

2001-03-11 Thread Mark Delany
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 01:12:13PM -0500, John R Levine wrote: The usual mailbox vs. maildir war has flared up on inet-access, and points out a bug in qmail-pop3d. When you do a LIST command, it gives you the size of each message. Pop3d just reports the file sizes, while it's clear from the

Re: qmail-pop3d bug

2001-03-11 Thread Mark Delany
Yes. This behaviour is known. Fixing it, however, involves a *huge* performance downgrade of qmail-pop3d. Not if it's calculated as the file is written to the Maildir. 'Usually, during the AUTHORIZATION state of the POP3 session, the POP3 server can calculate the size of each message in

Re: qmail-pop3d bug

2001-03-11 Thread Mark Delany
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 06:05:47PM -0500, John R. Levine wrote: Putting the linecount in there makes more sense. Some MUAs might be happy about that, and it still allows easy calculation of wiresize (add number of lines to physical size). More info, less bytes :) Optimally the wire-size is

Re: [Fwd: Administrivia: Mailing List Software]

2001-03-10 Thread Mark Delany
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 11:49:08PM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote: Hey guys, lets make this poor man happy and let us all tell him about how well qmail/ezmlm works! This guy is Elias Levy (aleph1) and he runs the Bugtraq mailing list. Please send an email directly to him if you want to

Re: pop3d needs SUID root?

2001-03-09 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:26:58PM +, Ricardo Cerqueira wrote: On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 03:06:08PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: When running pop3d, I get an error saying "no $HOME/Maildir" which may be caused by the directory permissions of 0700 on both the home directory and Maildir.

Re: pop3d needs SUID root?

2001-03-09 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 03:33:17PM -0800, Aaron L. Meehan wrote: Quoting Todd A. Jacobs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): When running pop3d, I get an error saying "no $HOME/Maildir" which may be caused by the directory permissions of 0700 on both the home directory and Maildir. qmail-pop3d is run

Re: running qmail from /supervise

2001-03-05 Thread Mark Delany
is svscan. For example, here's my /service directory on my server: axfrdns dnscache ftpd msql2dqmail rsyncdsshd bray etrn httpd pop3d qmtpd smtpd tinydns Most of these are obvious. "bray" is not a service name but instead the name of a

Re: Qmail and time zone

2001-03-04 Thread Mark Delany
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 09:43:28AM -0500, Kari Suomela wrote: Sunday March 04 2001 05:36, Mark Delany wrote to Kari Suomela: MD As others have said, qmail only puts a Date: header in if one MD isn't MD already present, That's probably what it should be doing, except it's

Re: New qmail version request

2001-03-03 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:14:20PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: Mark Delany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But why does qmail have to be patched to use LDAP? Why not use a script which extracts user information from the LDAP database, puts it in passwd format, and feeds it to qmail-pw2u

Re: Qmail and time zone

2001-03-03 Thread Mark Delany
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 11:28:30PM -0500, Kari Suomela wrote: Thursday March 01 2001 22:41, David Dyer-Bennet wrote to All: No, it's not! That's how I noticed it. Someone was blaming my client for it, but the problem is the same with all of them. I have tested it with various

Re: New qmail version request

2001-03-02 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 05:17:01PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: Chris Garrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Much of the common patches that are around fail in one of the tests above, at least when using the author's stringent tests. There's nothing wrong with this; he keeps qmail

Re: Lost the Battle

2001-03-01 Thread Mark Delany
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 10:19:34AM -0500, Dave Sill wrote: My qmail project, only 1 week away from implementation, was canned, we are now moving to Lotus Notes. Well, it's not a total loss. At least you learned something about qmail. And maybe you can convince your company to use qmail as

Re: qmail-conf-054 / multilog

2001-02-23 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 12:13:37PM -0500, Paul Farber wrote: I have drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 21 01:40 service and under that drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 21 01:40 . drwxr-xr-x 13 root qmail4096 Feb 20 23:20 .. drwxr-sr-x 5 root

Re: cyclog line?

2001-02-23 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:02:57PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: Bill Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now according to the man page for cyclog: cyclog [ -ssize ] [ -nnum ] [ -mmargin ] dir [...] Is there a space needed between the -s or not? No. You don't believe TFM? And...

Re: qmail-conf-054 / multilog

2001-02-23 Thread Mark Delany
Assuminmg you're running this all via svscan, the problem is that svscan only notices the +t flag when it first sees the directory in /service. You need to remove the service and re-add it. I believe the daemontools page at cr.yp.to has the sequence needed to do this. Regards. On Fri, Feb

Re: Inter7 introduces new software: vQregister

2001-02-23 Thread Mark Delany
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:30:53AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe what I said wasn't as clear as it could have been. Exactly what you requested below, is the feature we will be adding. PHP is inefficient BTW. :) Totally OT, but one user registration per second adds up to 86,400 new

Re: qmail-conf-054 / multilog

2001-02-23 Thread Mark Delany
For debugging purposes you might want to run svscan manually so the errors go to the screen/window you're on. On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 06:25:11PM -0500, Paul Farber wrote: Is there a specific kernel setting I need for supervise to log Not unless it's some wierd Unix. svscan writes errors to

Re: Concurrency questions

2001-02-18 Thread Mark Delany
In this way you'll make the first delivery attempt yourself for each recipient; avoiding any overhead in the qmail-send process or the queue management. if the first attempt fails then the message is passed off to qmail-send to handle, which should be a much lower volume of mail. I

Re: Concurrency questions

2001-02-18 Thread Mark Delany
pass the message off to qmail to deliver. As most message get delivered on the first attempt you'll save the overhead of writing the message to disk, And this is a large caveat. If, eg, your network happens to be down at the time you attempt delivery, you'll inject a huge number of emails into

Re: Syslog? [was Re: Detail logging of POP3D]

2001-02-12 Thread Mark Delany
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 12:17:47PM -0500, Paul Farber wrote: djb has several logging options... lately I believe it is multilog(?) in the new daemontools package. Indeed. And it's pretty triv to use too. The simplest is to replace your 'splogger qmai' with something like: multilog t n10

Re: multi-thread

2001-02-08 Thread Mark Delany
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 12:06:05PM -, Tim Goodwin wrote: ok, on my Solaris, the qmail distribution is "forking" almost 10 to 20 processes per second. This cost a lot in system ressources and system calls Yes. Unfortunately, Solaris isn't Unix, and qmail was designed to run on

Re: multi-thread

2001-02-08 Thread Mark Delany
Fifth, the interface is simple and clean, plug in the threaded qmail-rspawn and no one is any the wiser. With nonblocking sockets and select(), one could write a single-threaded qmail-rspawn/remote. Only need to find a way to do the dns lookups in parallel. Yes Virginia. There are at

Re: compiling qmail-1.03 under SCO Open Server 5.05 and the UDK from SCO.

2001-02-07 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 04:08:38PM +, Uwe Ohse wrote: On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 09:17:10AM -0500, Jocelyn Clement wrote: This is it: I ran the "make setup check" and it generates an error message on the "qmail-local.c" saying that there is no definition of the "timestruct_t" in the

Re: Perl checkpassword

2001-02-06 Thread Mark Delany
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:17:44PM -0600, Larry M. Smith is the BPFH wrote: Someone had asked for this some time ago... But I forget who or when. DJB, if you would, please archive locally to www.qmail.org. That would be [EMAIL PROTECTED], aka Russ Nelson, but I'm sure he'll see the message.

Re: no incoming mail from outside

2001-02-06 Thread Mark Delany
Well, usually the log files will tell you what's going on... what do they say? any ideas? Clean Redhat 7.0 install with all the latest qmail and vpopmail. I have followed the instructions to the letter 4 times and I can't seem to cat rc #!/bin/sh # Using stdout for logging # Using

Re: High MEM Usage??

2001-02-04 Thread Mark Delany
Well, this is hardly a qmail question. It's more a system administration/Linux question. Have you got the 'top' command? Try that? Have you got the 'ps' command? Try that. I don't know about Linux so much, but some Operating Systems use memory that has never had anything placed in it in

Re: High Mem usage??

2001-02-04 Thread Mark Delany
Er, one copy of this email to the list is more than enough. Three is clearly excessive. Regards. On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 06:31:44AM -0800, Sumith Ail wrote: Hello, We have just received our server which is a Dual PIII with 512 MB RAM , RH Linux 6.2 Box. I have installed qmail on this

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