Re: FLUSH QUEUE

2000-01-27 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 10:51 27/01/00 +0200, the wonderful TAG said: HI ALL, IS there a way of flushing the qmail queue - PLEASE HELP!!! kill -ALRM qmail-send or, if you're using memphis RPMS: /etc/rc.d/inet.d/qmail.init alrm all explained at http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/admin.html#queuerun peter -- peter at

Sending Host's IP Address

2000-01-06 Thread Peter Gradwell
Hi, qmail-command defines a whole bunch of really useful environment variables which are set, like HOST, SENDER, USER, LOCAL, etc. We want to capture the sending host's IP address in a perl script, invoked from a .qmail file, as we want to look it up in the MAPS lists and do some stats and

Re: Delivering mail into a SQL table

2000-01-05 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 21:29 03/01/00 -0800, you wrote: Are there any patches that let me deliver mail messages into a SQL database (mysql preferrably) instead of Maildir ? you should deliver all mail to a single user e.g. in virtualdomains domain.com:saver domain1.com:saver and then create the user 'saver' and

Re: big rcpthosts file

1999-12-29 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 23:43 28/12/99 +0100, bert hubert wrote: Rule of thumb for large sites: Put your 50 most com- monly used domains into rcpthosts, and the rest into morercpthosts. ah, but does it matter? I have nearly 900 in my rcpthosts file and I'm not noticing

Re: big rcpthosts file

1999-12-29 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 12:03 29/12/99 +0100, you wrote: rcpthosts is scanned every time an email comes in (by qmail-smtpd). But then again, if you need to administer a file with like 900 significant lines, you'd like to use some automatic tool for that. It's easy to adapt that tool to work with morercpthosts

Re: Secondary mail Q

1999-12-07 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 07:32 PM 06/12/99 -0500, Bob C. Ruddy wrote: I'm looking to set up a secondary mail server for when my primary is unreachable. I don't want qmail to deliver the email though just queue it up till the primary mail server comes online. I looked through the faq but did not see anything. Can

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-07 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 08:12 PM 06/12/99 -0500, Jay Soffian wrote: I presume you've read the qmail instructions and are familiar with the basics of setup. I did leave out a pretty important step though... you need to add the virtual domains (the LHS in the virtusertable) to either /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts on

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-07 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 07:32 AM 07/12/99 -0800, you wrote: I don't believe this deals with mail relaying? (SMTP queuing) well how do you mean. By putting a domain into the rcpthosts file, qmail will effectively accept the mail, queue it and deliver it to the better preference MX hosts. [1] So, if you wanted to

Re: begging for mercy, I am swallowing pride.

1999-12-07 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 11:27 AM 07/12/99 -0500, you wrote: Did you in fact reply to the unsubscribe confirmation message? I don't see your response or the final unsubscribe message enclosed. Yeah. I got the "not in list' message. Thanks. I've never seen people work so hard at getting rid of me before.

RE: QMail an MySQL or similar

1999-11-02 Thread Peter Gradwell
Hi, At 5:52 pm +0800 2/11/99,the wonderful Michael Boman wrote: It's something simmular I just set up here. You need to grab the QMail+mySQL patch from www.qmail.org and follow the instructions. If you need more help from there feel free to contact me. i'm interested in this patch... i've just

On-Demand Mail Relay (ODMR)

1999-10-21 Thread Peter Gradwell
Hi, has anyone got an implementation of ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2645.txt It's On-Demand Mail Relay (ODMR) - SMTP with Dynamic IP Addresses by Randall Gellens of Qualcomm. for qmail maildirs? - guess it would be kinda like serialmail, but not, IYSWIM. thanks peter -- peter at

forward and environment variables

1999-10-09 Thread Peter Gradwell
Hi ya, I'm considering improving my mail forwarding service (I take mail for @custdomain.co.uk and forward it). Currently, mail for domains is rewritten using fast forward. However, this is not as flexible as i would like, so I was considering some different ways for forwarding mail. My

Re: Selective forwarding using .qmail

1999-09-10 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 3:01 pm -0400 10/9/99,the wonderful Dave Sill wrote: Damon Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone use their .qmail files to selectively forward messages to different addresses? Say "if from=??? or subj=???" How about passing the messages to a script for processing? Sure. These are

Re: Alias Manipulation by CGI Script

1999-09-02 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 1:05 pm -0700 2/9/99,the wonderful Kai MacTane wrote: I'd like to set up a CGI script that allows certain users to modify certain aliases from a Web form. This would include creating and deleting a few, which would require write access to the alias directory. Looking at the permissions on

Re: ezmlm+idx in italian !!

1999-08-30 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 4:18 pm +0200 30/8/99,the wonderful Dimitri SZAJMAN wrote: Hi, I just installed ezmlm-idx. I did evrything in the 'INSTALL.idx' and the 'make fr' in order to get french messages. But I get italians msg ! I did a 'make clean; make; make man; make fr' then I did 'rm -rf DIR' and 'rm -rf

colons-dots in fastforward [was: Re: ISP Needs Qmail for *thousands*of third-level (foo.bar.com) domains!]

1999-08-29 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 5:44 pm -0400 26/8/99,the wonderful John R. Levine wrote: Then make a .qmail-alias-default that uses fastforward to look up the actual address. (Remember that dots turn into colons when it looks up the address.) - do you need to turn dots into colons for /etc/aliases with fast forward? I

Re: sendmail style virtual domains

1999-08-27 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 09:26 27/08/99 -0400, you wrote: Okay, I understand what you're saying ,but my questions would now be that I have to double relay this message through a domino mail server... My boss told me that he needs it to go to like: "$[EMAIL PROTECTED]"@dominioserver So how would this work in qmail?

Re: sendmail style virtual domains

1999-08-25 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 2:14 pm -0400 25/8/99,the wonderful Eric Davis wrote: In sendmail 8.9 I can use the following line in sendmail Virtual Domains domain.com:$1@otherdomain.com This would basically redirect the mail from the first domain for the user to the user account at the other domain that I want it

qmail-faq [WAS: Re: New qmail list et al]

1999-07-01 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 1:52 pm -0400 1/7/99,the wonderful [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quick help: Send mail with subject "minifaq" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] not sure if there is a faq attached though.. peter. -- peter at gradwell dot com; http://www.gradwell.com/ gradwell dot com Ltd.

pop3 - no $HOME/Maildir

1999-05-25 Thread Peter Gradwell
Hi, I've just restarted my mail server, (having not got the origional pop3d boot up script) using this line in /etc/inetd.conf pop3 stream tcp nowait root /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup ice.gradwell.com /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir (all one line) and when I try a pop3

Re: pop3 - no $HOME/Maildir

1999-05-25 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 2:56 pm -0700 25/5/99,the wonderful Mahlon Smith wrote: Your permissions for your Maildir appear to be incorrect. Should read: drwx-- 5 peterusers1024 Mar 28 19:51 Maildir/ Always best (and easiest) to create Maildirs with the supplied maildirmake command.

.. a few hours with qmail-pop3d

1999-05-25 Thread Peter Gradwell
Hi, I've just had a few hours with qmail-pop3d and I'd like to highlight a few things i've learn't... I started out with this in inetd.conf and a broken Maildir permissions. Fixing the permissions was easy, but this still was reporting a 'no home/maildir found' pop3 stream tcp nowait root

Re: Q: RedHat 6.0 and qmail RPMs

1999-05-15 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 1:50 pm +0200 14/5/99,the wonderful Christian Wiese wrote: Q: Are the qmail RPMs good, or should I use the "normal" way (compile the qmail sources) to setup my qmail server ??? they're excelent. (the memphis ones) peter. -- peter at gradwell dot com; http://www.gradwell.com/ gradwell dot

Re: qmail-popup/qmail-pop3d logging patch?

1999-05-12 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 5:48 am -0500 12/5/99,the wonderful Andy Walden wrote: It would be sweet to be able to log bad passwords when people try to get their mail like cistron radius does when they are trying to dial in. Paul Gregg's version of Checpassword does that http://www.tibus.net/pgregg/projects/ peter.

Re: Qmail as an IMail replacement

1999-05-10 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 9:29 am -0700 10/5/99,the wonderful Jonathan W Herbert wrote: My problem is that the majority of these users are `real' users, in that they need to pop for their mail, as well as be able to send mail through this new host. I'm having trouble understanding if this is possible, although i

Re: User forcing bounce?

1999-05-08 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 9:37 pm + 7/5/99,the wonderful John Conover wrote: Is there a way for a user to force a bounce out of ~/.qmail, with an unknown error? yeah, if you send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I bounce it. the contents of /qmail-pete is: peter@ice:~$ cat .qmail-gradwelldotcom-pete |bouncesaying

Re: FW: Web Interface to Qmail on Linux

1999-04-13 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 11:11 am -0700 13/4/99,the wonderful Matthew Kaing wrote: Hi, I like users to be able to access and manage their email via a browser. Does anyone know of a web-based interface to Qmail or other similar packages for Linux that is freeware? www.endymion.com/products/mailman -- peter at

Re: Mail Message Replication.

1999-04-07 Thread Peter Gradwell
The main issues are really "how to replicate imcoming messages" and "how to replicate POP3 transactions", though I'm sure it's a bit more involved than that. Think 'cluster' ! Rather than having a warm spare, for which you can just flip over to by changing an MX record, I think your time

Re: qmail Performance question

1999-03-22 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 12:02 am +0100 23/3/99,the wonderful Peter van Dijk wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 10:35:28PM +, Peter Gradwell wrote: At 9:16 pm + 22/3/99,the wonderful Russell Nelson wrote: Then tell them to poll the pop3 server every zero minutes. you would be wise to do it every 1 minute

Re: 500.000+ users mailserver

1999-03-03 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 2:13 pm -0500 3/3/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know much about proxies; is there some nifty way for a user to connect to a large mail-server, have the server tell the user's machine "your mail is actually on server03", and then redirect the POP/SMTP requests to the correct

Re: Remote addresses not getting processed

1999-02-24 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 5:30 pm -0500 24/2/99, Mark E Drummond wrote: Hi all. Qmail is delivering to local addresses from both local and remote senders. But it is not delivering to remote addresses, whether from a local or remote sender. Any ideas? yeah, it's not supposed to. You need to enable relaying, using the

Re: smtp relaying

1999-02-19 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 10:49 pm +0300 19/2/99,the wonderful Roman V. Isaev wrote: I see there are some pop3-before-smtp authentication patches. But using pop3 before sending mail is awkward. So... why nobody thought about a patch using a password in user's e-mail? :) Any MUA allows user to enter his e-mail.

Re: On demand?

1999-02-13 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 4:32 pm +0100 13/2/99, Peter van Dijk wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 02:35:10PM +, Richard Letts wrote: On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Peter van Dijk wrote: Err.. this is _very_ common practice, actually. I'm on a fixed-IP dialup, but I'm my own primary MX nonetheless. Any mailhost failing to

Re: MRTG qmail

1999-02-12 Thread Peter Gradwell
per user in graph form! That comes out from the qmailanalog report zsuids, I think. thanks peter -- gradwell dot com ltd - writing the bits of the web you don't see online @ http://www.gradwell.com/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow"

Re: Qmail, Majordomo, and virtual domains

1999-02-11 Thread Peter Gradwell
] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], I'm just going to create [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problem solved...well, problem looks easier now, anyway. Now, on to the implementation. you could of course alias [EMAIL PROTECTED] to username@virtdomain peter. -- gradwell dot com ltd - writing the bits

Re: Slow Queue Processing

1999-02-04 Thread Peter Gradwell
leaves it alone for an hour. -- Peter -- gradwell dot com ltd - writing the bits of the web you don't see online @ http://www.gradwell.com/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow"

Re: multiple receipents

1999-02-02 Thread Peter Gradwell
will be on the list to receive [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s mail just put [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (each on a new line) in the .qmail-info file for that domain. Peter. -- gradwell dot com ltd - writing the bits of the web you don't see online @ http

accustamp is a zombie

1999-01-31 Thread Peter Gradwell
hame. Also, looking at the logs, they don't seem to be terribly uptodate :-( I would like to have cyclog rotating my logs, with everything going into /var/log/qmail. Could some one confirm I've managed this? - Mail does appear to being getting through! Thanks Peter -- gradwell dot com ltd

Bouncing specific users

1999-01-28 Thread Peter Gradwell
in the .qmail-pete file? Thanks Peter -- gradwell dot com ltd - writing the bits of the web you don't see online @ http://www.gradwell.com/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow"

Re: Bouncing specific users

1999-01-28 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 7:51 am -0600 on 28/1/99, the great Mate Wierdl wrote: | bouncesaying "Pete is a bad boy, and cannot receive mail" more to the point - I hate being called pete and it amuses me no end that some spammers have picked up 'pete' rather than 'peter' g thanks Peter -- gradwell d

Re: Here's why mail to nonexistent users should be bounced.

1999-01-25 Thread Peter Gradwell
detached amusement. and what do us newbies need to do to achive this wonderful 'feature' as well? Many Thanks Peter. -- gradwell dot com ltd - writing the bits of the web you don't see online @ http://www.gradwell.com/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "To look back all the time is boring. Excitement