Re: ORBS and other relay blockers

1999-08-19 Thread John R Levine
ORBS probes come from a single IP address so it's easy just to block them with tcpserver rules. While you're at it, you might as well block some of the other SMTP relay scanners: Before you do, you should make sure blocking them isn't going to get you put on their lists. Unless you do

former user

1999-08-19 Thread aw
One of our former user was playing in many Internet-casinos. All these casinos send plenty of e-mails on the guy address up to now. This is bounced back and they bounce it too. I would rather let the first message to us die in /dev/null. Need advice how to do it. Should I make a .qmail-user file?

Re: former user

1999-08-19 Thread Klaus Wissmann
aw wrote: One of our former user was playing in many Internet-casinos. All these casinos send plenty of e-mails on the guy address up to now. This is bounced back and they bounce it too. I would rather let the first message to us die in /dev/null. You could use the antispam patch from

qmail Digest 19 Aug 1999 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 733

1999-08-19 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 19 Aug 1999 10:00:01 - Issue 733 Topics (messages 29153 through 29198): Can not get with Netscape or Outlook. 29153 by: "Thomas M. Sasala" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29162 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29170 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Relaying large attachments

Setting maximum attachment sizes

1999-08-19 Thread Bongo
Hi, Probably a simple answer to this - I want to set a limit of 10Mb for incoming emails - anyone? Toby.

IMAP, PAM... and the home directory?

1999-08-19 Thread admin
Hi all: Okay, this is offtopic, sorry, but given the amount of gurus here and the fact that related subjects have been popping up lately, I thought that I would ask: I'm trying to set up a mail server that can handle several virtual domains and allow IMAP access without

Re: Setting maximum attachment sizes

1999-08-19 Thread Dave Sill
"Bongo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably a simple answer to this - I want to set a limit of 10Mb for incoming emails - anyone? See: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#databytes -Dave

Re: former user

1999-08-19 Thread Dave Sill
aw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of our former user was playing in many Internet-casinos. All these casinos send plenty of e-mails on the guy address up to now. This is bounced back and they bounce it too. I would rather let the first message to us die in /dev/null. Need advice how to do it.

RE: humble suggestion from a confused boy

1999-08-19 Thread Daniluk, Cris
Title: RE: humble suggestion from a confused boy A lot of people also make functionally equivalent. Perhaps just a central table that has each patch, its latest revision date, its current status, etc. so people can differentiate between them. Cris Daniluk MicroStrategy -Original

Qmail-queue wrapper (spam filter)

1999-08-19 Thread Ben Heilman
Hello all, I have been trying to write a SPAM filter which is a wrapper for qmail-queue, so that it may act on information in the actual email message. Unfortunately, my C skills are not the best. I realize that qmail-smtpd will first feed the email via file desciptor 0 to qmail-queue,

SQWebMail or IMP?

1999-08-19 Thread Martin Paulucci
Hi everybody, Here I am deciding which webmail I'm going to use, because of functionality that I have seen, the IMP seems better, but I just read that there's no way to use it with vchkpw or something simillar. Also, I need to implement some kind of page that the user could fill and get himself

Re: Qmail-queue wrapper (spam filter)

1999-08-19 Thread Russell Nelson
Ben Heilman writes: Hello all, I have been trying to write a SPAM filter which is a wrapper for qmail-queue, so that it may act on information in the actual email message. Unfortunately, my C skills are not the best. I realize that qmail-smtpd will first feed the email via file

Re: SQWebMail or IMP?

1999-08-19 Thread Michael Wand
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Martin Paulucci wrote: Hi everybody, Here I am deciding which webmail I'm going to use, because of functionality that I have seen, the IMP seems better, but I just read that there's no way to use it with vchkpw or something simillar. Also, I need to implement some kind

Re: SQWebMail or IMP?

1999-08-19 Thread Thomas M. Sasala
Do you like splashing your passwords all over the Internet? I was checking around with these programs in my own attempts to find a suitable web mail solution, and I just dumped them after somebody showed me this site: http://www.mollymail.com It's free and it connects to any

Re: SQWebMail or IMP?

1999-08-19 Thread Martin Paulucci
Hi, What I'm actually looking for is a webmail -hotmail like- server to be installed in my qmail server and use it to give free webmail to my ISP users. So I need to implement some kind of start registration web page so the user can fill and automatically -as hotmail or yahoo- gets an email

RE: SQWebMail or IMP?

1999-08-19 Thread Van Liedekerke Franky
look in the archives, a week or two ago their was a thread about webmail solutions. Franky -- From: Martin Paulucci[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 5:19 PM To: Michael Wand; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Deliveries failing but qmail thinks success.

1999-08-19 Thread C. R. Oldham
Greetings, Using qmail 1.02 on debian slink. Qmail was compiled and installed fromthe debian source package. Debian uses procmail, and furthermore we use UW's imapd with all mailboxes in mbx format. Thus deliveries are handed to procmail, which then hands it over to dmail for delivery in the

RE: IMAP, PAM... and the home directory?

1999-08-19 Thread David Harris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I'm trying to set up a mail server that can handle several virtual domains and allow IMAP access without requiring to add every user to /etc/passwd. My plan is to use David Harris' patched IMAP server with [[snip]] Somebody asked me

Re: SQWebMail or IMP?

1999-08-19 Thread kbo
Martin Paulucci wrote: Hi everybody, Here I am deciding which webmail I'm going to use, because of functionality that I have seen, the IMP seems better, but I just read that there's no way to use it with vchkpw or something simillar. Also, I need to implement some kind of page that the

Re: IMAP, PAM... and the home directory?

1999-08-19 Thread C. R. Oldham
David Harris wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I'm trying to set up a mail server that can handle several virtual domains and allow IMAP access without requiring to add every user to /etc/passwd. My plan is to use David Harris' patched IMAP server with

failure notice (fwd)

1999-08-19 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Has anyone patched either of these programs to work with each other? ___ _ __ _ __ /___ ___ /__ John Gonzalez/Net.Tech __ __ \ __ \ __/_ __ `__ \/ __ /_ ___/ MDC Computers/netMDC! _ / / / `__/ /_ / / / / / / /_/ / / /__

SQWebmail and vmailmgrd..

1999-08-19 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Doh, that's what i get for forwarding a bounce. Anyway, has anyone patched sqwebmail and vmailmgrd and got them working together properly? On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: Has anyone patched either of these programs to work with each other? ___ _ __

Re: Deliveries failing but qmail thinks success.

1999-08-19 Thread Dave Sill
"C. R. Oldham" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian uses procmail, and furthermore we use UW's imapd with all mailboxes in mbx format. Thus deliveries are handed to procmail, which then hands it over to dmail for delivery in the user's mbx-format INBOX. Aug 19 06:32:38 quark qmail: 935069558.423727

access denied to mailbox

1999-08-19 Thread Jan Stanik
Hi! I configured qmail with single uid based pop3 boxes as is described in Paul Gregg's HOWTO, but I got this error, when I tried to deliver a message: 935082160.737494 delivery 36: deferral: Unable_to_switch_to_/var/mailboxes/gusto :_access_denied._(#4.3.0)/ I checked configuration,

Pine4 and IMAP4 patches Re: humble suggestion from a confused boy

1999-08-19 Thread James Smallacombe
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 11:39:05PM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote: : As I was searching for various patches at ftp sites, I got struck by : how many different names patches get --- and how many different : versions there are. For example, there are 5 different versions of : the big-todo patch, and as

Re: SQWebMail or IMP?

1999-08-19 Thread Doug Lumpkin
I have been loking at web mail solutions for a long time now and I have found no better software than IMP, commercial or open-source. The current development tree includes POP support, which would allow you to interface with vchkpw (and avoids having to apply all of the necessary patches to IMAP

Re: Queue growing

1999-08-19 Thread Eric Dahnke
On what basis did you think a reboot would make a difference? I don't know I've heard of more stupid things to do. On what basis do you think the DNS might be related to your delivery problems? I have just been notified that there are DNS problems in this region. thx - eric

Re: SQWebMail or IMP?

1999-08-19 Thread Adam H
We were going through the same process about a week ago. IMP is great, and the features that are in the prerelease-3 are excellent (with PHPLIB support, and future persistant IMAP connections) Only problem is that IMP is a damn resource hog, and probaly wont scale well above about 200 users (at

Re: Queue growing

1999-08-19 Thread Dave Sill
Eric Dahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: messages in queue: 607 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 I've sent qmail-send and ALRM, but no help. Hmm. The ALRM should have scheduled immediate delivery attempts, and the log should show them either succeeding or failing. Nothing catches my

Re: Queue growing

1999-08-19 Thread Mark Delany
And your answer to the earlier questions regarding interpretation of the delivery attempts? At 02:22 PM Thursday 8/19/99, Eric Dahnke wrote: On what basis did you think a reboot would make a difference? I don't know I've heard of more stupid things to do. On what basis do you think the DNS

Performance issues

1999-08-19 Thread Paul Farber
Hello all... I am running qmail-1.03 RH 5.2 AMD 400 128 Mb / on 2GB IDE /home on 6GB IDE D-Link 530 TX PCI 10/100 NIC 1 qmail-smtp 1 qmail-pop3 (for normal pop3) 1 qmail-pop3 (for virtual domains using vchkpw) At most I can have 180 users connected to the modems. I am getting a lot of

RE: Performance issues

1999-08-19 Thread Daniluk, Cris
Title: RE: Performance issues That sounds like something completely unrelated to qmail on first hearing, but what message does the mailer give? For example sometimes my mailer will say cannot find the address but I click on details and it will give a completely and totally different response.

Re: SQWebmail and vmailmgrd..

1999-08-19 Thread Ol.i Th.uns
Doh, that's what i get for forwarding a bounce. Anyway, has anyone patched sqwebmail and vmailmgrd and got them working together properly? I don't think so, but it would be great. Why doesn't sqwebmail use checkpassword? So you could use vmailmgr's checkpassword... Oliver

Re: Performance issues

1999-08-19 Thread Dave Sill
Paul Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1 qmail-pop3 (for normal pop3) 1 qmail-pop3 (for virtual domains using vchkpw) I am getting a lot of complaints from people saying they get "cannot find mail.f-tech.net" when they check their mail (pop3). Are these normal or virtual users? What happens

Re: Performance issues

1999-08-19 Thread Brad Shelton
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 03:20:48PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: Paul Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or even turn off logging? Are you using syslog (splogger)? Is it gobbling CPU time and/or I/O? If so, switch to cyclog from daemontools (see LWQ). If not, it's probably not a problem (yet).

I've been doing some relay testing.

1999-08-19 Thread Ben Kosse
I just got this little note from our ISP saying that qmail is allowing this backdoor relay method through. Instead of relaying (which I don't want), it tries to deliver the message to our internal server. This isn't so good. I'd like to refuse outright anything like this, so how would I go about

Re: I've been doing some relay testing.

1999-08-19 Thread Ben Heilman
Hello, I believe if you remove control/percenthack and SIGHUP qmail-send it will correct your problem. On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, you wrote: I just got this little note from our ISP saying that qmail is allowing this backdoor relay method through. Instead of relaying (which I don't want), it

Re: I've been doing some relay testing.

1999-08-19 Thread Russell Nelson
Ben Kosse writes: I just got this little note from our ISP saying that qmail is allowing this backdoor relay method through. Instead of relaying (which I don't want), it tries to deliver the message to our internal server. This isn't so good. I'd like to refuse outright anything like

RE: I've been doing some relay testing.

1999-08-19 Thread Ben Kosse
Actually, ORBS hasn't listed us. That e-mail touched precicely 3 systems: the client, the one I'm building, and our internal Exchange box. It ended up in our *INTERNAL* e-mail server as an undeliverable message. qmail tried to send it to someone inside our network who didn't exist. What I'd like

POP takes 20sec to connect ???

1999-08-19 Thread Mark
When connecting to my pop server, it takes between 20-30 seconds to connect. After connecting, everything is fast. I have tested my client with pop servers on other machines and I don't experience this delay (i.e. it is a server problem). The server is on a T1 line through MCI. My client

Re: POP takes 20sec to connect ???

1999-08-19 Thread kbo
Mark wrote: When connecting to my pop server, it takes between 20-30 seconds to connect. After connecting, everything is fast. I have tested my client with pop servers on other machines and I don't experience this delay (i.e. it is a server problem). The server is on a T1 line through

RE: I've been doing some relay testing.

1999-08-19 Thread Russell Nelson
Ben Kosse writes: Actually, ORBS hasn't listed us. That e-mail touched precicely 3 systems: the client, the one I'm building, and our internal Exchange box. It ended up in our *INTERNAL* e-mail server as an undeliverable message. qmail tried to send it to someone inside our network who

Mail Filter of my own

1999-08-19 Thread Samar Vijay
I am thinking of writing a Mail Filter of my own. Can I use the CDB file that Qmail uses for user authentication? Is there any API dicumented ot something?

more queue help,

1999-08-19 Thread Eric Dahnke
Hello, I thought I had this licked, but our queue is at 1200. ps ax shows the following: 387 ? S0:00 qmail-remote bna.com.ar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 388 ? S0:00 qmail-remote BNA.COM.AR [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 389 ? S0:00 qmail-remote bna.com.ar

Wildmat

1999-08-19 Thread Elric of Melnibone
Has anyone updated the Wildmat patch to work with qmail 1.03? -- "Try not the patience of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger." --- Elric, Babylon 5 Public PGP Available by Finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint16 = FC F6 32 8D 9A CC 2A E5 02 FD 54 0F 35 9F 27 C2

Re: POP takes 20sec to connect ???

1999-08-19 Thread Sam
Mark writes: When connecting to my pop server, it takes between 20-30 seconds to connect. After connecting, everything is fast. I have tested my client with pop servers on other machines and I don't experience this delay (i.e. it is a server problem). Either you have forward/reverse DNS

Re: Mail Filter of my own

1999-08-19 Thread Chris Johnson
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 04:34:30PM +0100, Samar Vijay wrote: I am thinking of writing a Mail Filter of my own. Can I use the CDB file that Qmail uses for user authentication? Yes. Download ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/software/cdb-0.55.tar.gz. According to the README file, "The C source

Re: POP takes 20sec to connect ???

1999-08-19 Thread Mark Delany
At 05:32 PM Thursday 8/19/99, Scott D. Yelich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Sam wrote: Mark writes: When connecting to my pop server, it takes between 20-30 seconds to connect. After connecting, everything is fast. I have tested my client with pop

Re: POP takes 20sec to connect ???

1999-08-19 Thread Scott D. Yelich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Sam wrote: Mark writes: When connecting to my pop server, it takes between 20-30 seconds to connect. After connecting, everything is fast. I have tested my client with pop servers on other machines and I don't experience this

Re: access denied to mailbox

1999-08-19 Thread A.
Jan Stanik wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 19 17:21:36 1999 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Jan Stanik" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Telenor Internet Slovakia

Re: access denied to mailbox

1999-08-19 Thread A.
Jan Stanik wrote: Hi! Hi, first off, appologies for the previous email :P I checked configuration, permission, and owners of home directory, but still I don't see, where is a problem. My users/assign: =gusto:pop:63:6:/var/mailboxes/gusto::: . I take it from this uid 63 is pop and gid

daemontools binaries (was Re: binaries)

1999-08-19 Thread dave
Mate, do your RPMs include daemontools binaries? I have looked for the license to daemontools, but it is not in the daemontools tarball, and it is not on the daemontools web page. What is the license for redistributing daemontools? Dave

daemontools binaries (was Re: binaries)

1999-08-19 Thread dave-mlist
Mate, do your RPMs include daemontools binaries? I have looked for the license to daemontools, but it is not in the daemontools tarball, and it is not on the daemontools web page. What is the license for redistributing daemontools? Dave

Re: I've been doing some relay testing.

1999-08-19 Thread Russell Nelson
John R. Levine writes: Incidentally, the full version of that tester lives at http://www.abuse.net/relay.html and if you're a registered abuse.net user, it will send a test message for you so you can see whether it actually relays or not. Don't get cute, everything's logged and

Re: daemontools binaries (was Re: binaries)

1999-08-19 Thread Kevin Waterson
Ira Abramov wrote: readme files in the packages or on DJB's site. Russ? could there be a little note about licensing on qmail.org? it's very confusing to a lot of people, especially now that GPL is in the news, it should be strictly mentioned on the page that Qmail and friends are not. This

e-mail daemon timezones

1999-08-19 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
How do I tell qmail (or maybe it's fetchmail) what time zone I am in? My hardware clock is on UTC (clock -au is run a boot time). The date command reports the correct time zone. This is on my laptop, so UTC seems the best choice for the hardware clock. My ISP is in Texas (CDT). Some part of