My suggestions for qmail 2.0

1999-01-11 Thread Russell Nelson
1) The function of bouncing messages doesn't fit solely into the mail transport layer. It should be implemented as a separate program. Open the bounce information on one fd, the bouncing email message on another, a pipe to qmail-inject on stdout, and search the path for qmail-bounce, an external

Re: upgrade to RH 5.2

1999-01-11 Thread Kai MacTane
Dude! I heard Peter C. Norton wrote all this: On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 01:57:36PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: Ps: this is ridiculous. Agreed. It installs sendmail if you tell it not to. Indeed. It reminds me of one of the versions or releases of M$ Windows 95, which will install IE 4.0 no

Re: upgrade to RH 5.2

1999-01-11 Thread Pavel Kankovsky
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Kai MacTane wrote: Dude! I heard Peter C. Norton wrote all this: On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 01:57:36PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: Ps: this is ridiculous. Agreed. It installs sendmail if you tell it not to. Those of us who are made nervous by such extremely tight

.qmail problems

1999-01-11 Thread Thomas Parsli
We have a strange (strange until somone tells me I'm clueless) problem with our .qmail-fname-lname files. The setup control/defailtdomain: riddlers.com control/locals: riddlers.com control/me: ugleriddlers.com control/rcphosts: riddlers.com control/virtualdomains:riddlers.com:alias Files in

REPOST: Qmail 1.0.3 and logging SMTP

1999-01-11 Thread Mahlon Smith
Ack, I apologize for the repost. Not sure if this got through the first time. --- I've got a few machines here running qmail. One machine is running version 1.01, and it is logging incoming smtp IP's correctly to the maillog. The 2 other machines were just recently

locals in virtualdomains

1999-01-11 Thread Russell Nelson
Sam writes: First of all, you should never have the same domain in both locals, and virtualdomains. For God's sake, Dan, fix this in qmail 2.0! -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://crynwr.com/~nelson Crynwr supports Open Source(tm) Software| PGPok | There is good evidence 521

qmaild and tcpserver processes?

1999-01-11 Thread Bill Parker
Hello All, I was wondering if someone could explain exactly what is happening when i issue a ps aux | grep "qmaild"...here is the output for your examination: qmaild 196 0.0 0.6 828 208 ? S Dec 8 8:17 /usr/local/bin/tcpser qmaild 24056 0.2 0.6 824 216 ? S

Re: qmaild and tcpserver processes?

1999-01-11 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
- Bill Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | I was wondering if someone could explain exactly what is | happening when i issue a ps aux | grep "qmaild"...here is the output | for your examination: | | qmaild 196 0.0 0.6 828 208 ? S Dec 8 8:17 | /usr/local/bin/tcpser | qmaild 24056

Re: upgrade to RH 5.2

1999-01-11 Thread Mate Wierdl
Generally, having the machine plugged into the network while you're upgrading is a big no-no anyway. You either unplug the coax, or deactivate the eth0 interface doing the upgrade. When you rebuild a box that way, you better isolate it from the outside world. Otherwise,

Re: upgrade to RH 5.2

1999-01-11 Thread Mate Wierdl
At 13:57 11/01/99 -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: It installs sendmail even if you do NOT tell it to install sendmail in an INSTALL process. It does this for outbound mail, but doesn't actually set the daemon for running after boot. Whoever is maintaining the Sendmail RPM should be

Re: upgrade to RH 5.2

1999-01-11 Thread Cris Daniluk
"Peter C. Norton" wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 01:57:36PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: Ps: this is ridiculous. Agreed. It installs sendmail if you tell it not to. Bummer. -Peter This is because RedHat feels it pretty much won't function without a mailer of some sort. Which is

Re: upgrade to RH 5.2

1999-01-11 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 05:53:39PM -0500, Cris Daniluk wrote: This is because RedHat feels it pretty much won't function without a mailer of some sort. Which is relatively true, a lot of things go through mail in Redhat (or any *nix for that matter) like cron logs, warnings, etc. I figured

Re: upgrade to RH 5.2

1999-01-11 Thread Sam
--Forwarded message -- Received: (qmail 8056 invoked by uid 501); 11 Jan 1999 23:00:06 - Received: (qmail 8046 invoked by uid 0); 11 Jan 1999 23:00:06 - Received: from geocities.com (mail11.geocities.com [209.1.224.139]) by beasley.concentric.net (8.9.1a/(98/11/18

Re: upgrade to RH 5.2

1999-01-11 Thread Andrzej Kukula
On 11 Jan 99 at 17:53, Cris Daniluk wrote: By not installing sendmail, you're just telling it not to configure it as an outbound mailer. It just configures it for internal mailing only. Don't forget that the problem is when you UPGRADE a RedHat system, not install it from scratch. I remind

checkpassword and Unixware

1999-01-11 Thread Hitesh Patel
Hi. I'm trying to get checkpassword working on my UnixWare 7.x box and for some reason I cant get it to do the authentication right. I have tried running it with a valid username and password through qmail-popup my_hostname qmail-pop3d pwd and it fails. I also tried running the test from the

Re: mail routing with qmail

1999-01-11 Thread Mirko Zeibig
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Russell Steffen wrote: Is there any way to set set qmail up so that it will accept all mail for somedomain.com, deliver mail for local accounts and then forward all the rest of the mail to another server? Maybe you could start by having a

RE: web-based mail

1999-01-11 Thread Ed Park
There are a number of free webmail packages, some of which allow the reading of mail stored in maildirs. (In fact, any IMAP-based webmail package should allow the reading of maildirs using the C-client patch). Here are two that I've found particularly promising: 1) IMP

Re: web-based mail

1999-01-11 Thread Joergen Persson
At 17:56 1999-01-11 +0100, Mirko Zeibig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] There is a perl-package called webmin or webadmin, which allows to administer your system via a web-browser. If you install SSLeay it is even possible to do this via https. [snip] http://www.webmin.com/webmin/ It's a nice

Re: Announce: Qmail-Maildir-0.31

1999-01-11 Thread johnjohn
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 12:54:58PM +, Peter Haworth wrote: I've written a perl module which provides maildir delivery to perl programs. Included are example mail sorting programs meant to be invoked from .qmail or .qmail-default How does this differ from Mail::Folder::Maildir?

Re: web-based mail

1999-01-11 Thread Chris Ulrich
I've written a cgi mua. It's about as feature-full as mailx, only knows how to deal with maildir formatted mailboxes, and is reasonably fast, even on my development system (a DECstation w/ultrix). It is written in bourne(ish) shell (tested with ash/pdksh/ksh88) but requires the program

Re: Starting qmail-pop3 with no logging

1999-01-11 Thread Mate Wierdl
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 07:12:43PM -0500, Peter C. Norton wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 07:10:17PM -0500, Paul Farber wrote: tcpserver still logs to the console with supervise $DIR \ tcpserver $VERBOSE -c$CONCURRENT -u$USERID -g$GROUPID 0 $PORT \

Receiving Mail

1999-01-11 Thread Tim Croppere
My host name is: mail.somewhere.org and is in control/me I want to be able to receive mail for: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is the proper way to accomplish this?

Re: Receiving Mail

1999-01-11 Thread Justin Bell
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 04:30:43AM +, Tim Croppere wrote: # My host name is: mail.somewhere.org and is in control/me # # I want to be able to receive mail for: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # What is the proper way to accomplish this? # by reading the documentation you need to install qmail,

Re: Receiving Mail

1999-01-11 Thread Russell Nelson
Tim Croppere writes: My host name is: mail.somewhere.org and is in control/me I want to be able to receive mail for: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is the proper way to accomplish this? Add somewhere.org to control/locals and control/rcpthosts. Restart qmail or send HUP signal to

Re: upgrade to RH 5.2

1999-01-11 Thread Sam
Mate Wierdl writes: On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Mate Wierdl wrote: 3) After the upgrade, I remove sendmail, rpm -e sendmail, and reinstall the Qmail RPM. I either reboot, or manually rerun the initscript to restart Qmail. But you have to make sure

Re: Starting qmail-pop3 with no logging

1999-01-11 Thread Paul Farber
tcpserver still logs to the console with supervise $DIR \ tcpserver $VERBOSE -c$CONCURRENT -u$USERID -g$GROUPID 0 $PORT \ qmail-popup $HOST $CHKPASS $COMMAND Maildir /dev/null 21 still logs to the console. ps -ax says: 25330 p1 S0:00

Re: Starting qmail-pop3 with no logging

1999-01-11 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 07:10:17PM -0500, Paul Farber wrote: tcpserver still logs to the console with supervise $DIR \ tcpserver $VERBOSE -c$CONCURRENT -u$USERID -g$GROUPID 0 $PORT \ qmail-popup $HOST $CHKPASS $COMMAND Maildir Are you possibly missing a

Re: Starting qmail-pop3 with no logging

1999-01-11 Thread Paul Farber
I did look at the script and it (the \) was there, the cut/paste may have chopped it off. Still logs to console. Paul D. Farber II Farber Technology 717-628-5303 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Peter C. Norton wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 07:10:17PM -0500, Paul Farber wrote:

Qmail as a secondary MX

1999-01-11 Thread Graphic Rezidew
I have a domain (rezidew.net) with a dedicated 24/hr connection. I have a friend with a machine not on my domain (friend.someother.net). My question is this: Since his machine may be down for days at a time, how do I queue mail for him when he's offline? he has edited his MX record I have

Re: Qmail as a secondary MX

1999-01-11 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 11:26:52PM -0600, Graphic Rezidew wrote: I have a domain (rezidew.net) with a dedicated 24/hr connection. I have a friend with a machine not on my domain (friend.someother.net). My question is this: Since his machine may be down for days at a time, how do I queue

Re: MRTG?

1999-01-11 Thread Peter Samuel
On 10 Jan 1999, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote: On 09-Jan-99 06:12:52, Peter Samuel wrote something about "Re: MRTG?". I just couldn't help replying to it, thus: Attached is a PostScript dump of the web page. Wouldn't it have been much better with a URL to the page instead? No -

Re: some qmail questions...

1999-01-11 Thread Stuart Young
At 12:53 11/01/99 +0800, Shing-Gene Yung wrote: On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: | FreeBSD). The DU system started spawning a lot of qmail-smtpd and | ... | I should have ulimited the qmail daemons? Or was there something | else I could have done? Use the -c option to

Re: Announce: Qmail-Maildir-0.31

1999-01-11 Thread Peter Haworth
I've written a perl module which provides maildir delivery to perl programs. Included are example mail sorting programs meant to be invoked from .qmail or .qmail-default How does this differ from Mail::Folder::Maildir? -- Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft isn't the

Re: some qmail questions...

1999-01-11 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
- Shing-Gene Yung [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | Use the -c option to tcpserver to limit the number of incoming | connections. | | only snag is: I don't use tcpserver...or at least I can't. I tried | tcpserver at one time but it turned out that it would reject mail | forwarded from an MS exchange

Managing User Forward

1999-01-11 Thread Michael von Berg
Hi, i have installed Qmail 1.03 and Dot-Forward and Fastforward. Works fine but there is one problem left: I want the email for selected users to be sent local and to be forwarded to another host. I've tried following entry in /etc/aliases: sie: sie,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mayby there is another

Re: elm

1999-01-11 Thread Joerg Lenneis
Russ Allbery: Vince Vielhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A look at the man page doesn't show a variable for the mailbox location. It appears that it's compiled in. It does, however, accept a command line switch to the mailbox. elm uses $MAIL. Things could have changed, this man page is

Re: Managing User Forward

1999-01-11 Thread Timothy L. Mayo
If sie is a real user on your system, this line won't even be looked at. If qmail did look at this line, you just set up a nice forwarding loop. :) You need to add the extra delivery to ~sie/.qmail. On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Michael von Berg wrote: Hi, i have installed Qmail 1.03 and Dot-Forward

web-based mail

1999-01-11 Thread Allen Versfeld
This is probably a case of Famous Last Words, but: How hard can it be to set up a web-based pop3 client? Given that all I want is to give my existing users access to their mail through the web. Look at Web-pop (an add-on for MDaemon) to see what I mean. Admittedly, I am no programmer, but

Re: qmail/tcpserver/Eudora lite errors

1999-01-11 Thread Fred Lindberg
On Sun, 10 Jan 1999 22:56:55 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have to erase the msgs for mail to work agian. I remember reading on the list about some eudora problems, but this is a later version (not sure, We had problems with Eudora hanging on some messages. This was messages with bad

Re: web-based mail

1999-01-11 Thread Eric Dahnke
This is probably a case of Famous Last Words, but: How hard can it be to set up a web-based pop3 client? There are cgi web mail clients that set up in about 15 mins. People are big on Mailman, but I prefer Dmailweb. Given that all I want is to give my existing users access to their mail

Re: elm

1999-01-11 Thread Russell Nelson
Joerg Lenneis writes: We do something similar which is to set $MAIL="~/Mailbox-$USER" in the appropriate startup files. But we do delivery into Maildirs and the command elm is a shell script that converts the Maildir into "~/Mailbox-$USER" and then invokes the real elm. Come to think