Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-08 Thread David L. Nicol
Peter Gradwell wrote: [1] Which is why, if your mail server is the best MX preference host How does qmail make this determination? Does it get the preference fields from the dns and choose the lowest one, or does it rely on a system call? qmail-remote.c refers to subroutined defined in

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 Richard Roderick
At 11:50 AM 12/7/1999 +, Peter Gradwell wrote: 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

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: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-07 Thread cmikk
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999 17:48:08 -0500 (EST) , "Michael T. Halligan" writes: qmail is very unlogical if you have been using sendmail for five years.. heck I know people who have been using qmail for 3 years and none of you can explain to me how to do the equivalent of /etc/mail/virtusertable ..

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-07 Thread Richard Roderick
At 03:45 PM 12/7/1999 +, Peter Gradwell wrote: 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

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-07 Thread Richard Roderick
At 10:05 AM 12/7/1999 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 6 Dec 1999 17:48:08 -0500 (EST) , "Michael T. Halligan" writes: qmail is very unlogical if you have been using sendmail for five years.. heck I know people who have been using qmail for 3 years and none of you can explain to me

Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-06 Thread Michael T. Halligan
How do I use the old virtusertable format? I'm migrating a sendmail server to a qmail server, and I can't feasibly create a .qmail-domain in each home directory..

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-06 Thread Daniel Mattos
You don't have to create all home directory for virtual users. The documentation suggests the you center in /var/qmail/alias using uid alias. Use /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains if you host different domains. There are other options also. You can use /var/qmail/user/assign tables or external

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-06 Thread Michael T. Halligan
the problem is i have about 500 stupid domains to get to work like this.. what's the procedure? if i have to make [EMAIL PROTECTED] forward to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in sendmail I have the proper rule in the .cf then i add [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] to virtusertables how do I

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-06 Thread Daniel Mattos
In this case, you better use an external package. I can't think of any one now. Someone? Otherwise on /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains put one line like: virtualdomain.com:user for each virtual domain where user may be a system user, forward address, or even a alias. If all 500 domains

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-06 Thread Daniel Mattos
Well, it is worth the change just to get rid of those stupid patches every few weeks because of security issues. But then again, if you are confortable with sendmail... On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Michael T. Halligan wrote: :qmail is very unlogical if you have been using sendmail for five years..

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-06 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Michael T. Halligan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, 06 Dec 1999: Otherwise on /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains put one line like: virtualdomain.com:user but that doesn't help me if i want to forward [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sure it does (or I don't understand your

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-06 Thread Ronny Haryanto
On 06-Dec-1999, Michael T. Halligan wrote: the problem is i have about 500 stupid domains to get to work like this.. what's the procedure? if i have to make [EMAIL PROTECTED] forward to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in sendmail I have the proper rule in the .cf then i add [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-06 Thread Richard Roderick
Yep. I appreciate the simplicity of it. Sigh. It might be the only thing I will miss though :) Richard At 06:44 PM 12/6/99 -0500, Michael T. Halligan wrote: in a virtual table you just have an entry for a virtualdomain in /etc/sendmail.cw to say "yes I do want to deal with this domain's

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-06 Thread tony cricelli
- From: "Richard Roderick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Michael T. Halligan" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Daniel Mattos" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 3:35 PM Subject: Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent? In answer to the original que

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-06 Thread Ronny Haryanto
On 06-Dec-1999, Michael T. Halligan wrote: in a virtual table you just have an entry for a virtualdomain in /etc/sendmail.cw to say "yes I do want to deal with this domain's e-mail" OK, add qmail.com to rcpthosts (or morercpthosts) for that. then say to forward [EMAIL PROTECTED] 's

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-06 Thread Jay Soffian
"Richard" == Richard Roderick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard In answer to the original question: It's not easy. I just Richard finished developing the tools to deal with all of it. I handled this conversion in 1 hour for over 30 domains. 300 or 3000 domains would have taken no

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-06 Thread Jay Soffian
"Jay" == Jay Soffian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jay [...] Jay Don't forget to turn the virtualaliases file into a cdb: Jay [...] 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

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-06 Thread Richard Roderick
AAAHHH. That's what I was looking for! The part about using the fastforward to do it was what I could not find, and I'm no expert. Someone needs to add this to the Qmail web site. All in all, I'm very happy with what I have now which is not dependent on the old method, but I can see advantages

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-06 Thread Jay Soffian
"Richard" == Richard Roderick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard AAAHHH. That's what I was looking for! The part about Richard using the fastforward to do it was what I could not find, Richard and I'm no expert. Richard Someone needs to add this to the Qmail web site. It is.

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-06 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Michael T. Halligan wrote: How do I use the old virtusertable format? I'm migrating a sendmail server to a qmail server, and I can't feasibly create a .qmail-domain in each home directory.. I'm working on a sweet little python script to do that conversion. Actually, I'm

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-06 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Michael T. Halligan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] to virtusertables how do I do this in qmail? I guess the question is whether or not they all need to keep their own home directories. Personally, I prefer the method I discussed earlier.

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-06 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Michael T. Halligan wrote: oh jesus. you people. You brag about qmail being secure and simple to configure.. yet it's so simple nobody can answer a simple question? I know i'm not the only one running a mailserver with customers who want to forward Y'know, I started

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-06 Thread Jay Soffian
"Richard" == Richard Roderick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard I saw fastforward, I just didn't have a clean Richard understanding of the capabilities and how it could be Richard used to solve this problem. :) Richard I thought you did a great job explaining the Richard

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-06 Thread Adam D . McKenna
On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 06:39:35PM -0800, Richard Roderick wrote: At 08:46 PM 12/6/1999 -0500, Jay Soffian wrote: "Richard" == Richard Roderick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard AAAHHH. That's what I was looking for! The part about Richard using the fastforward to do it was

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-06 Thread Richard Roderick
At 10:39 PM 12/6/1999 -0500, Adam D . McKenna wrote: I saw fastforward, I just didn't have a clean understanding of the capabilities and how it could be used to solve this problem. :) Then how's about downloading it and reading the README and man pages for it? Ouch :) To be honest, I