() from September 14, 2000), or
that [0.0.0.0] thing.
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation.
blackhole, and it might even massacre all
your family with a chainsaw. Use at your own risk.
P.S. I wonder whether we will see any reaction from DJB himself.
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare
-send won't
do anything stupid.
Is it clear now?
(*) This is no official (DJB's) terminology, just an ad hoc name
invented to label the concept in question in this text.
(**) Arguments against multi-RCPT SMTP are not applicable here.
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http
program (qmail) as small and clean as possible
to avoid bugs etc., I should not force other people to make their programs
bloated, should I?
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation.
languages might include an implementation of an oracle
able to figure out spamalicious- should be stripped off as well...
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation.
to 1. verify the reason why those messages got stuck in
the queue is gone, 2. calm lusers before they decide to lynch you for
delaying their precious email (I am exaggerating here...a little bit).
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
Resistance is futile. Open
should repeat the test for different supported
unix-like systems.
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation.
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Pavel Kankovsky wrote:
Using a prime number for k eliminates this risk for a very small price.
After all the set of primes is quite dense for reasonable values (1000)
and you can always find a prime close to the number you want to use.
If course I assume the prime number
sendmail with a 10,000 message queue. Or rather, don't,
unless you wish to spoil an otherwise beautiful Sunday night / Monday
morning.
Was that supposed to scare me? Once upon a time, I spent a week modifying
Sendmail's code! :)
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com
and the queue
is cleared out in a natural way. ;)
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation.
or not by sending a
real short message (making the difference between early and late refusal
irrelevant from their pov).
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
.c?r1=1.31r2=1.32
[2]
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=connectapropos=0sektion=0manpath=OpenBSD+Currentarch=i386format=html
[3] http://www.openbsd.org/plus25.html
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
, 1997. Was there any
handling for 0.0.0.0 in qmail 1.00?
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Adam McKenna wrote:
The author of PINE flat out refuses to support Maildir.
Umm...doesn't it sound familiar? ;)
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source
c messages...this is not modularity but
onion-style bloat).
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
is not very impressive
compared to what could be accomplished with "Microsoft monoculture" or any
other monoculture (hmmm...a devil's advocate question: what would happen
if qmail was the only MTA in the known universe?).
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcn
copy me'' label (for the same
reasons the mere fact I neglected to close and lock the door of my house
does not give you the right to enter and take my stuff).
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and pr
) and programs correspond to
proofs.
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
see
that on Solaris, VSZ is always RSS, while on OpenBSD, it is vice versa,
ergo the meaning must be different.
Anyway, it is a well known fact that Solaris processes consume quite a lot
of memory.
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is f
olaris 2.6 sh_exit(1)
HP-UX 10.20 sh_exit(1)
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
frivolous.
Yes. He also put this comment into his own code: /* XXX: could bind s */
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
n) is left as an exercise for the reader.
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
, I am not sure it
will pay off tomorrow in the more QoS-aware Internet).
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
: hfield_valid() should probably refuse any line whose "field
name" (sans trailing spaces before a colon) contains a space.
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
Files" to "nogroup" and suddenly I get the
error
Are you sure all gids used by qmail were registered in /etc/group?
What the heck is "mutex?"
/var/qmail/queue/lock/sendmutex? (qmail-send locks it to make sure not
other instance operates on the queue)
--Pavel Kankovsky aka P
e
part of X" when they say "X". :)
Flame off.
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
(*)) or incidentally (as a side effect of making
your code simpler)?
(*) If yes, what extra functionality was provided? (Apparently, it was not
an ability to transfer non-English plaintexts because you do not know how
to interpret bytes you receive without MIME (or MIME-like) metadata.)
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak
the footer was not there?
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
the charset is specified with MIME headers)
but qmail accepts these characters (as well as bare CRs)...because it can
transport them transparently.
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
. But...shouldn't
qmail-remote detect this and say something like "Oops. I am the top
priority MX but this domain is not in my control/locals?"
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
eeds no less than 50 % of X's CPU time to do its
work. DoS attack waiting to happen? It depends. Unless you network link is
slow...
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
would probably be delivered.
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
that the process should commit suicide
rather than just exiting, perhaps by sending itself a SIGSEGV or
SIGABRT.)
Every dynamic linker I know (and I have seen having fatal problems during
startup) commits suicide with SIGKILL. This is probably the best thing you
can do.
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Russell Nelson wrote:
Pavel Kankovsky writes:
Damned omnipotent root. I hate unix.
Well, my feeling is that Unix is well designed.
If unix was well designed... (in random order)
- access to network ports and devices could be controlled
as easily as access to files
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Russell Nelson wrote:
Pavel Kankovsky writes:
The question is: do you prefer to LOSE old messages or new messages when
you run out of space? Syslog says "new messages", cyclog says "old
messages". I have to admit I do not understand why s
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Russell Nelson wrote:
Pavel Kankovsky writes:
Ever heard of disk quotas? It might be a bit of overkill to create a
special user for every logfile (or group of thereof) but it works.
You've tried it? But syslog runs as root. Oops.
Oh, you got me. I have mis
understand why some people think one
of the strategies is inherently better than the other...explanation?
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Ilya wrote:
Pavel Kankovsky wrote:
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Ilya wrote:
From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Qmail generate:
Return-Path: " Gusp"@ufatel.ru
Are you sure this piece of junk was generate
ain name. And I hope it
will never be a valid name.
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
eaking it in the end).
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
single-purpose MTA (or quasi
MTA) that does never save messages to disk. Should it be thrown away
etc.? :)
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
? What if the message has already been processed
by some program? Why should MTA bother making sure a copy of the message
has been saved to the disk in these situations?
Qmail's design has advantages but it is not the only way to design MTA in
the universe.
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott
ope; see Section 3.6 of RFC-821.
Yes, all mailers should allow this, even though many spammers abuse it.
Perhaps I am not spammed by the right set of spammers but the amount of
spams having a null return-path I have ever received is less than 1 % of
the the total.
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak
shell. Therefore my login shell is run as root. Right? :)
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Russell Nelson wrote:
Pavel Kankovsky writes:
And it bounces to "user-bounce-@hostname"
Yup. When the VERP part is empty, then you know that it's an QSBMF,
but Qmail's Bounce Message Format is Simple to Parse. What's the big
deal?
1. QSBMF may be Simpl
contradict qmail documentation (it
depends on your interpretation of the docs). Anyway, the "feature" is a
nasty suprise to anyone deluded to think qmail VERP support makes it
completely unnecessary to parse the bounces in order to figure out the
recipient address.
Fix it or document it,
figure out what the
recipient systems are? Intriguing. :)
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Dave Sill wrote:
Pavel Kankovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
To start with, you have to do a HUGE number of extra DNS
lookups to determine what the recipient systems ARE.
As opposed to the "one SMTP transaction per r
ernal hosts? It
works for sendmail, so it should work for everything, right?"
This is irrelevant. Qmail has no problem with this particular product of
ignorancy unless it can somehow connect to the internal host and get
disconnected (or get a temporary error during the conversation).
--Pavel
in the most recent message the user has received (!= the most
recent message sent) are out of date? :)
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"NSA GCHQ KGB CIA nuclear conspiration war weapon spy agent... Hi Echelon!"
invoked by uid 501); 12 May 1999 08:53:32 -
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:53:32 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Pavel Kankovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Fundamental flaws in List-Unsubscribe
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type
.
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"NSA GCHQ KGB CIA nuclear conspiration war weapon spy agent... Hi Echelon!"
it should be a PERMANENT error when qmail-rspawn
can't execute qmail-remote for WHATEVER reason. Indeed, it is a serious
configuration error if qmail-remote is corrupted, deleted, or having bad
permission but it seems to be a bit harsh not to give an administrator a
chance to fix the problem.
--Pavel
* about spam is
almost a lost cause.
Complain loudly about EVERY SINGLE piece of spam you receive.
They will change their mind. Sooner or later. :)
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"NSA GCHQ KGB CIA nuclear conspiration war weapon spy agent... Hi Echelon!"
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Mark Delany wrote:
Then what will you match on? The content? How much code does it take to
randomize the content?
You (as a spammer) can't randomize the contents beyond the point where an
average reader would stop being able to understand it.
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak
-enabled MTA
if such MTA existed).
Of course, it needs to figure out whether a particular MTA supports VERP.
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"NSA GCHQ KGB CIA nuclear conspiration war weapon spy agent... Hi Echelon!"
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Mark Delany wrote:
This sounds like a job for an ESMTP option.
It seems like a logical solution. Unfortunately, it is qmail-send that
needs to know it can group deliveries, not qmail-remote.
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
&quo
.
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"NSA GCHQ KGB CIA nuclear conspiration war weapon spy agent... Hi Echelon!"
"browser/OS
integration" may find this very disturbing to see during an install.
However, I personally find it much more disturbing to see Red Hat behaving
in any manner reminiscent of Microsoft at all.
Has any of you whiners tried submitting a bug report to Red Hat? ;)
--Pavel Kankovsk
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