custom RBLSMTPD message... (was: Sublist (Was: Virus...)

2001-08-01 Thread Roger Merchberger
Rumor has it that Russell Nelson may have mentioned these words: Smithj writes: Use GIMP :) Yup. Anybody who uses an email client that they didn't write themselves (in assembly language) is just a poseur. Altho I've never really stopped programming in assembly, I do *very* little with it

Re: custom RBLSMTPD message... (was: Sublist (Was: Virus...)

2001-08-01 Thread Roger Merchberger
Rumor has it that Peter van Dijk may have mentioned these words: [snip] file: 195.219.116.19 195.219.91.3 198.30.222.8 tool: perl -ne 'chomp(); print $_:allow,RBLSMTPD=/-yuck fou./\n;' ;-) I'd *love* to use that as my default text, but

virus perl script I wrote before was easy to modify...

2001-07-26 Thread Roger Merchberger
Well, I can't do much about the virus scanner replies, but I wrote a perl script to sort out that darned Snowhite virus to keep them from coming in my box... it seems the beginning of the attachment is only a few characters different from the new virus, so a mod to that program was trivial.

Spam IP master list?

2001-06-20 Thread Roger Merchberger
Kindof an offtopic question, but is there a Master List of IP's that send spam regularly, with which I could use to update my tcprules deny list? I really don't want to patch reinstall qmail with the RBL... (and it seems ORBS went away...) Besides, I'm really only looking to stop the big chunks

W32.Hybris double-bounce clobber perl script...

2001-06-12 Thread Roger Merchberger
(I tried sending this once before - methinks there's some filtering going on at cr.yp.to, so I'll change a few things try again...) Hello all... I finally got deeply disturbed about all the double-bounces coming into my email box (sometimes 2500 after a weekend... :-( ) from the Hybris virus

Hahaha (hybris) clobber perl script...

2001-06-11 Thread Roger Merchberger
Hello all... I finally got deeply disturbed about all the double-bounces coming into my email box (sometimes 2500 after a weekend... :-( ) from the Hybris virus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and I figured I needed to create a personal filter for my mailbox to filter these thingies out... So I did. The

Re: ms-outlook bug

2001-06-08 Thread Roger Merchberger
Rumor has it that Xavier Quesada may have mentioned these words: Hi... Does anybody know of any POP3 server that I can use with qmail+vmailmgr that doesn't have the Microsoft Outlook problem? Or is there a solution to this problem (that doesn't involve stop using outlook)? The

Re: Vulnerable MUAs ...

2001-04-23 Thread Roger Merchberger
Rumor has it that David Talkington may have mentioned these words: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Charles Cazabon wrote: I daresay the majority of people on this list are clueful enough to not run vulnerable email clients. In a quick not-quite-scientific survey of 6,757 messages in my

Mostly OT: New qmail server security concerns

2001-03-22 Thread Roger Merchberger
This is mostly off-topic so I apologize for any lost bandwith whatnot, but here goes: We're looking at building a new qmail server at my ISP (running Linux) and we may be implementing software raid for the home directories the qmail queue to help reduce I/O latency, which unfortunately

Re: WARNING: Worm (?) sending from root@microsoft.com to *@anon.lcs.mit.ed

2001-02-08 Thread Roger Merchberger
On or about 06:18 PM 2/8/01 -0700, Sean Reifschneider was caught in a dark alley speaking these words: On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 05:02:06PM -0800, Aaron L. Meehan wrote: I'm pretty sure this is the work of the W95.Hybrid email worm (the sexyfun.net one), sending copies of itself to the mail2news

Re: how do I block this SPAM?

2001-01-01 Thread Roger Merchberger
On or about 08:50 PM 1/1/01 +0100, Piotr Kasztelowicz was caught in a dark alley speaking these words: On 1 Jan 2001, Mark Delany wrote: badmailfrom won't work on this. See the archives for discussions on why not (it checks Return-Path). Not good idea on ORBS spamer's list can be found

Re: thoughts for future qmail

2001-01-01 Thread Roger Merchberger
On or about 03:56 PM 1/1/01 -0500, Russell Nelson was caught in a dark alley speaking these words: Henning Brauer writes: I've implemented qmtp for all domains we are hosting (a lot), and according to Russell, I was the first one ;-)) Even with implemneting this in our managemnt system

OT: SNR on this list (was: RE: AntiVirus!)

2000-12-04 Thread Roger Merchberger
[Sorry, John, for that immediate send -- I *wish* Eudora didn't map CTRL-E to that - Unix's "end of line" keystroke habit bites me in the backside again...] On or about 09:58 PM 12/4/00 -0600, John W. Lemons III was caught in a dark alley speaking these words: I do too, but only to a point.

RE: local delivery for 1 user only

2000-05-03 Thread Roger Merchberger
Rumor has it that Gregory J. Forkin may have mentioned these words: Tim-- I have a suggestion for you. But first, I think that you should look at the real implications of the request, that is if this starts for one employee you can be sure there will be others. I agree with Gregory on being

OT: Netscape Authentication Problem

2000-01-10 Thread Roger Merchberger
I apologize for the OT post, but I do need help *badly* if anyone else out there has run into this, I most certainly would appreciate a helping hand... I;m running qmail 1.03 and have set up vmailmgr correctly (well, it's working.. ;-) and have telnetted to port 110 and POP3 is working

Summary: Netscape Authentication Problem

2000-01-10 Thread Roger Merchberger
Rumor has it that Bruno Dalapicola Bergamaschi de Souza may have mentioned these words: Tha's because netscape doesn't accept a username containing a @ Try using test#virdomain.zzz instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] And Timothy Mayo mentioned on the qmail list: Replace the '@' with a '%'. Well,

Re: how to stop mail bombings

1999-12-09 Thread Roger Merchberger
Rumor has it that Albert Hopkins may have mentioned these words: I'm not sure what's going on, but we've been getting hit with repetitive emails for almost a week now. I have disabled the account on our side that is the recipient, but now I've been getting bounce messages. I've tried putting

Re: Completely Off-topic: A good MUA for Windows?

1999-10-27 Thread Roger Merchberger
Rumor has it that James Smallacombe may have mentioned these words: On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Rogerio Brito wrote: I know this is VERY off-topic, but do you know any "good" MUA for Windows? Pegasus is manual-ware. It's very solid,

Re: Qmail sets speed record!

1999-10-08 Thread Roger Merchberger
Rumor has it that Fred Lindberg may have mentioned these words: From qmail analog (always reliable in the past): Total delivery attempts: 362206 success: 269231 failure: 6035 deferral: 86940 Total ddelay (s): -229659590.223920 Average ddelay per success (s): -853.020604 Total xdelay (s):

Re: OT: saturating a T1 with e-mail

1999-10-02 Thread Roger Merchberger
Rumor has it that Todd A. Jacobs may have mentioned these words: On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Eric Dahnke wrote: A T1 would be ~ 80% utilized passing 22,000msgs/hr if the average msg size was 23K. Not really. You need to differentiate peak load from sustained. (average message size) * (number of

RE: Kurt's Closet on qmail

1999-09-15 Thread Roger Merchberger
Rumor has it that Lyndon Griffin may have mentioned these words: "A little extreme"? Perhaps. But there's a fine line between saying "X works" and saying "X is supported". DJB tends to say what he means, so when he says "X is unsupported", that shouldn't be interpreted as "X doesn't work".

Re: Corrupt Message Body

1999-09-14 Thread Roger Merchberger
Rumor has it that [EMAIL PROTECTED] may have mentioned these words: Hi All, This is my first time posting to this listserv so please bear with any etiquette faux-pas I might commit. I have been running qmail 1.03 on RedHat 5.2 (kernel 2.0.36) for the past year or so and it has been rock

Re: Modify bounce text

1999-06-10 Thread Roger Merchberger
Rumor has it that Jonathan W Herbert may have mentioned these words: Dave Sill wrote: And you think that's bad? It would be better if it "looked" like an error message? Well, in a way, yes. I like qmail, i couldn't care less about the bounce text either, but your average joe user seems to

Re: Qmail is not a replacement for Sendmail

1999-04-29 Thread Roger Merchberger
Once upon a midnight dreary, Justin Bell had spoken clearly: On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 04:35:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # Julian L.C. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 29 April 1999 at 17:20:29 -0400 # # Most companies have someone dedicated to the task of looking after # email - and

Err... that was stupid...

1999-04-23 Thread Roger Merchberger
Re: my Perl code... I found the problem -- funny what errors you see when you step away from the problem for a 1/2 hour!!! Thanks again, and if anyone's interested in what I did, just let me know. Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers

Need to get copies of 1 user's outgoing mail.

1999-04-22 Thread Roger Merchberger
I have received a request from one of my customers and she would like to have a copy of all *outgoing* mail from her (minor) son's account... From what I understand, her son is rather good with computers, so anything she does to her local machine (she's not a whiz-kid), he's good enough to undo,

Re: Need to get copies of 1 user's outgoing mail.

1999-04-22 Thread Roger Merchberger
Once upon a midnight dreary, Mike Holling had spoken clearly: From what I understand, her son is rather good with computers, so anything she does to her local machine (she's not a whiz-kid), he's good enough to undo, so this really needs to be a server-side solution. Wouldn't he be able to

Hey - Getting closer, methinks!

1999-04-22 Thread Roger Merchberger
Otay... lemme get this straight... I *think* I set up our dial-in box right to allow my special user "frazzlespork" the IP address of 12.15.88.19. Provided I actually did it right, how's this for the qmail end of things??? This is what I have in /etc/tcp.smtp:

Re: what is the proper way to stop a local user from mailing?

1999-03-31 Thread Roger Merchberger
Once upon a midnight dreary, XxEDGExX had spoken clearly: Honestly, I agree with you 100%, but pointy haired boss's get a strange look on their face when you give them the "we'll just get rid of them" answer. I had that problem, too... except my boss was one damn fine lookin' blonde woman who

Re: dot-qmail security

1999-03-14 Thread Roger Merchberger
On or about 06:30 PM 3/14/99 -0800, Mark Delany was caught in a dark alley speaking these words: Often admins (at ISPs especially) give users some form of write access to their home directories so they can fiddle with their ~user home page or plonk stuff down for remote ftp. [snip] It's really

Re: qmail employment in SF, CA

1999-02-24 Thread Roger Merchberger
Once upon a midnight dreary, Stefan Paletta had spoken clearly: Adam D. McKenna wrote/schrieb/scribsit: : This is cool to see. Qmail creating jobs. I just hope it never gets to : the point of something like "Qmail certification". : :Hey, I'll certify you, but only after you certify me. We

Re: [MAILER-DAEMON@muncher.math.uic.edu: failure notice]

1999-02-23 Thread Roger Merchberger
Once upon a midnight dreary, Mate Wierdl had spoken clearly: I got four messages like these. Can anybody tell me what is going on? [snip] Hi. This is the qmail-send program at muncher.math.uic.edu. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a

how to reduce traffic on list...

1999-01-26 Thread Roger Merchberger
Once upon a midnight dreary, Paul J. Schinder had spoken clearly: At 8:18 PM -0500 1/25/99, Peter C. Norton wrote: } A moderated list would be a good thing. Moderated how? About all I can think of is that the FAQ's and complaint about "no multiple RCPT" could be removed. That doesn't strike

ezmlm (and other) documentation redistribution

1999-01-08 Thread Roger Merchberger
Having run qmail ~3 years (and loving it) I've finally given up on the fact that I don't have time to finish re-inventing the wheel (my own list manager written in Perl), and am switching to ezmlm as well. My question is this: is there any licensing question on redistributing the HTML version of

Re: Question?

1999-01-02 Thread Roger Merchberger
On or about 12:01 AM 1/2/99 -0600, Mate Wierdl was caught in a dark alley speaking these words: BTW: Think about DJB, I seem to remember seeing many a message from him saying NOT to reply to him AND the list - which seems to be EXACTLY what you are saying to do Must have been

Re: qmail II request

1999-01-02 Thread Roger Merchberger
On or about 03:24 PM 1/2/99 -0500, Len Budney was caught in a dark alley speaking these words: Vince Vielhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...badmailto...I'm getting around 10 or 20 double bounces a day from these two addresses, and in the past we've had other problems with nonexistant

Re: Command-line mailer

1999-01-02 Thread Roger Merchberger
(Dang Eudora... CTRL-E means "send it now"... Anyone know how to disable this "feature" ??? :-/ Sorry, Giancarlo for the noise...) Rumor has it that Giancarlo Bonansea may have mentioned these words: I'm using QMail 1.03 and I need to send a .tar.gz file as an attached file on a scheduled

Re: List volume

1998-12-23 Thread Roger Merchberger
Once upon a midnight dreary, Dax Kelson had spoken clearly: On 23 Dec 1998, D. J. Bernstein wrote: Anyway, folks, thanks for participating in the mailing list volume test. On the mailing list machine, at concurrency 120, qmail sustained a rate of 1.5 million deliveries/day. Enjoy the