RE: how to get off the mailing list?

2000-09-06 Thread Don Wright
-Original Message- From: Mike Glover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I always thought that the red flag on the mailbox meant that there was mail to be picked up... That refers to the little-known (and hard to achieve accidentally) "double down" position that means "No transport provider

tcpserver as an alternative to firewall?

2000-09-06 Thread John Conover
Is anyone using tcpserver on a few daemon sockets as an alternative to a firewall? Thanks, John -- John ConoverTel. 408.370.2688 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 631 Lamont Ct. Cel. 408.772.7733 Campbell, CA 95008 Fax. 408.379.9602 http://www.johncon.com

Re: how to get off the mailing list?

2000-09-06 Thread Eric Cox
Sam Carleton wrote: Can someone enlighten me as to how to remove myself from this mailing list? I don't know myself, but I know a guy that does. His email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Drop him a line, and I'm sure he'll be happy to help you... Good luck, Eric

Running qmail - by Richard Blum

2000-09-06 Thread Magnus Bodin
Short review: It may work as a thicker replacement for Adam McKennas (no offense Adam!) qmail-HOWTO. It basically is a book that let's you set up a FreeBSD-box with qmail. It's title should therefore have been "Installation description for FreeBSD/qmail MTA". It does NOT meet the

Monitoring Email

2000-09-06 Thread Leslie Bester [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there a way to have all incoming and outgoing emails (with attachments) sent to a secret user for later viewing? Les

Re: Monitoring Email

2000-09-06 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Leslie Bester [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000906 02:55]: Is there a way to have all incoming and outgoing emails (with attachments) sent to a secret user for later viewing? http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/admin.html#copies I sometimes wonder why so many people running this excellent

Re: Monitoring Email

2000-09-06 Thread Leslie Bester [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Being new to Qmail, and even after going to the url that you so politely provided, I still do not see the answer. Does that method you pointed to via url actually provide a pop-account where one can login and view all sent/received messages from any pop3 client? And, once viewing each individual

Re: Monitoring Email

2000-09-06 Thread Adam McKenna
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 02:47:14AM -0500, Leslie Bester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being new to Qmail, and even after going to the url that you so politely provided, I still do not see the answer. Read closer, or get glasses. Does that method you pointed to via url actually provide a

log database

2000-09-06 Thread Clemens Hermann
Hi now I have been running qmail fore a while. The logs keep on growing, the mail-traffic increases. It now becomes necessary to evaluate the logs to know who produced how much traffic. There will be some thousand pop users and so I guess it might be a really good idea to put all the logs in a

RE: Monitoring Email

2000-09-06 Thread Steve Carter
oooh! Hand-bags at dawn, ladies! -Original Message- From: Adam McKenna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 September 2000 09:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Monitoring Email On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 02:47:14AM -0500, Leslie Bester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being new

Re: Monitoring Email

2000-09-06 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Leslie Bester [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000906 04:04]: "Robin S. Socha" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leslie Bester [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000906 02:55]: [Message reformatted, cropped and trimmed. Thanks for the extra work, Leslie] Is there a way to have all incoming and

Re: Monitoring Email

2000-09-06 Thread Adam McKenna
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:12:45AM +0100, Steve Carter wrote: oooh! Hand-bags at dawn, ladies! It's bad enough when people ask questions that are in the FAQ, but to refuse to even read the answers after they are given is just inexcusable. --Adam

Re: Monitoring Email

2000-09-06 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Steve Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000906 04:25]: oooh! Hand-bags at dawn, ladies! More like "Look, Ma, it's clueless lusers on the prowl again. Lock away your sheep, folks...". Why don't you take your cheapo Wintendo back to your trailer park and cry yourself to sleep? So many lusers, so

Re: Monitoring Email - Clarified

2000-09-06 Thread Leslie Bester [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What a useful list. I would of thought that posting what I thought was a pretty basic question would yield something resembling an answer from someone. I hope the responses I received so far, both on and off list, are not examples of typical hospitality and support I hope to receive. I would

Re: file /users/assign

2000-09-06 Thread Marco
The file contains the following: +{domain.name}-:{domain.name}:{vpopmailUID}:{vpopmailGID}:/home/vpopmail/dom ains/{domain.name}:-:: . This looks correct. vadddomain will create a line exactly like the above. Hi Ken, Thank you for your explanation on how this file works (it wasn't so

Flame (Dont read if you hate this like I do)

2000-09-06 Thread Leslie Bester [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please excuse my rash comments, but yes I'd like to bite off my nose to spite my face. I'm quite surprised that after joining the list about... 1 hour ago? That I raised the (over-used) Signal to noise ratio. For anyone who despises the seemingly inevitable flame wars that occur on

Re: Monitoring Email

2000-09-06 Thread Leslie Bester [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So your answer is no then. Okey, thanks for your "help". - Original Message - From: "Robin S. Socha" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 3:24 AM Subject: Re: Monitoring Email * Leslie Bester [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000906 04:04]:

qmail 25 port problem

2000-09-06 Thread kapil sharma
Hi, I have a strange problem. I am using qmail on redhat linux 6.0. I am running tcpserver. My /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/allow.deny files are empty. I am not using any firewall. I have following lines in my /etc/tcprules.d/qmail-smtp file and then i made a cdb files from it

Re: [Qmail]Can qmail be used with procmail?

2000-09-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:58:31AM +0800, Hazy Xu wrote: Hi, I like the procmail. It can deliever my mail to many separate mailbox. It is useful when I subscribe many mailing list. Check out FAQ in the qmail source tree (probably /usr/src/qmail-1.03/), especially section 4.4. Greetz,

Re: Monitoring Email

2000-09-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 03:32:03AM -0500, Leslie Bester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So your answer is no then. Okey, thanks for your "help". I don't flame very often (actually haven't flamed in a long time), but your complaints about us not helping you are false. The email you are sending this

Re: Flame (Dont read if you hate this like I do)

2000-09-06 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Leslie Bester [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000906 05:09]: You call that a flame? You've got to be joking... I'd like to bite off my nose to spite my face. Why don't you just blow out your brains and make this all end? I'm quite surprised that after joining the list about... 1

qmail Digest 6 Sep 2000 10:00:00 -0000 Issue 1115

2000-09-06 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 6 Sep 2000 10:00:00 - Issue 1115 Topics (messages 47951 through 48105): Email to SMS 47951 by: rod.poptel.net 47952 by: Brett Randall 47953 by: Johan Almqvist 47958 by: Gerrit Pape 47961 by: Steve Kennedy 48076 by: Eric Cox

maildirmake command is not found

2000-09-06 Thread Mark Lo
Hi, I am using Maildir format, now I want to create the Maildir box under the user's directory by using "Maildirmake Maildir". But I got the error messages stating that bash: maildirmake: command not found. Do anyone knows what the problem is?? Thank you in advance. Mark Lo

multiple mail servers - design issue!

2000-09-06 Thread Linux Curry
hi everyone! what i have here is this, __ MX -- | host.domain.com | -- with qmail-ldap with pr. dns with openldap (common for h1,h2,h3,

multiple mail servers - design issue!

2000-09-06 Thread Linux Curry
hi everyone! what i have here is this, __ MX -- | host.domain.com | -- with qmail-ldap with pr. dns with openldap (common for h1,h2,h3,

RE: Monitoring Email

2000-09-06 Thread Steve Carter
That's not the only problem. If you take a look at http://msgs.securepoint.com/qmail/ you'll find that the Steves and Leslies of this world - in using software that simply is not meant to be used outside an asylum - also wreck archives: the threading is totally fscked up there.. I've just

Re: maildirmake command is not found

2000-09-06 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
I am using Maildir format, now I want to create the Maildir box under the user's directory by using "Maildirmake Maildir". But I got the error messages stating that bash: maildirmake: command ... Include /var/qmail/bin in your PATH environment variable. And please don't use over-long

Re: maildirmake command is not found

2000-09-06 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Mark Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000906 06:02]: I am using Maildir format, now I want to create the Maildir box under the user's directory by using "Maildirmake Maildir". But I got the error messages stating that bash: maildirmake: command not found. (root@purgatory):(~)# locate maildirmake |

Re: maildirmake command is not found

2000-09-06 Thread Marco
Hi Mark, maildirmake is not a shell command. Givehim the path (it should be in /var/qmail/bin/ ). Anyway, most docs suggest to create Maildir in /etc/skel. Have a look at the interesting http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/OS/Qmail.html and "Life with Qmail". Ciao. Marco - Original

Re: maildirmake command is not found

2000-09-06 Thread Brian Baquiran
Mark Lo wrote: Hi, =20 I am using Maildir format, now I want to create the Maildir box = under the user's directory by using "Maildirmake Maildir". But I got = the error messages stating that bash: maildirmake: command not found. = Do anyone knows what the problem is?? Thank you in

Re: Monitoring Email

2000-09-06 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Steve Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000906 06:22]: would anyone care to explain what precisely M$Outlook does wrong to break the threading? Can you see any references in your header? And while we're at it: | Subject: RE: Monitoring Email ^^ WTF? | MIME-Version: 1.0 Oh yeah? For

Qmail DNS

2000-09-06 Thread Jonathan Fanti
I am setting up a mail router here at work, I realise that the box I am running qmail on needs also to be running DNS. Is it okay for this to be a name-caching only server with forwards to my ISP's DNS server? TIA Jon.

* in /var/qmail/info/9

2000-09-06 Thread John Conover
What does the '*' mean in ls -alR /var/qmail/info/9: -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root0 Aug 9 17:26 * drwx-- 2 qmails qmail1024 Sep 5 00:42 ./ drwx-- 25 qmails qmail1024 Mar 20 21:21 ../ I was just browsing, and found it. What's it do?

Re: file /users/assign

2000-09-06 Thread James Raftery
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:41:31AM +0200, Marco wrote: I checked the syntax on man pages, and it seems OK to me, either. I wrote a little perl to do some checks on a users/assign file and sent it to the list a while back. Look in the archives for "assign-lint". Regards, james -- James

Ok, a stupid question about logs...

2000-09-06 Thread Goran Blazic
I am thinking of writing a small utility that would scan the log file qmail creates and output... something... :-) Now I wonder. My system stores all qmail log entries through syslogd (ending up in /var/log/messages). I kind of like this, but am still wondering: Is there another way than through

Re: QMTP

2000-09-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 02:06:00AM +0200, Claus Färber wrote: Austad, Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb/wrote: I am glancing over qmtp.txt and it's mostly quite clear to me, except the stuff about 'safe messages'. If none of the bytes in a safe message can be 0a, when the hell *do* we see a

Re: Qmail DNS

2000-09-06 Thread James Raftery
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:35:38AM +0100, Jonathan Fanti wrote: I am setting up a mail router here at work, I realise that the box I am running qmail on needs also to be running DNS. Is it okay for this to be a name-caching only server with forwards to my ISP's DNS server? Hi Jon, The DNS

Re: * in /var/qmail/info/9

2000-09-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:38:31AM -, John Conover wrote: What does the '*' mean in ls -alR /var/qmail/info/9: -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root0 Aug 9 17:26 * drwx-- 2 qmails qmail1024 Sep 5 00:42 ./ drwx-- 25 qmails qmail1024 Mar

Re: how to get off the mailing list?

2000-09-06 Thread Kris Keele
If you are able to get off the damn thing let me know. I have tried multiiple times to get off and it has confirmed that I was removed, but the mails just keep on coming. Kris

Re: * in /var/qmail/info/9

2000-09-06 Thread Ricardo Cerqueira
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 01:03:11PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:38:31AM -, John Conover wrote: What does the '*' mean in ls -alR /var/qmail/info/9: -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root0 Aug 9 17:26 * drwx-- 2 qmails qmail

Re: how to get off the mailing list?

2000-09-06 Thread Ricardo Cerqueira
Kris... It has been said before... Look at your headers. Mine have this on them: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^ which means I am subscribed as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", and will have to unsubscribe using that particular mail address. And I mean use

Re: Qmail DNS

2000-09-06 Thread calocen.tec
Hola Jon If you haven`t a reliable connection, better use a slave DNS server on your box. It will fetch the DNS tables from your ISP. - Original Message - From: "James Raftery" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 1:02 PM Subject: Re: Qmail DNS

Re: Qmail DNS

2000-09-06 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
running qmail on needs also to be running DNS. Is it okay for this to be a name-caching only server with forwards to my ISP's DNS server? Install dnscache on localhost. You can get it at http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html Regards, Frank

Re: * in /var/qmail/info/9

2000-09-06 Thread Chris K. Young
Quoted from Peter van Dijk: On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:38:31AM -, John Conover wrote: What does the '*' mean in ls -alR /var/qmail/info/9: Trust me, it's not something qmail put there. My suspicion was that someone typed something like: sudo touch /var/qmail/info/9/* instead

Re: Ok, a stupid question about logs...

2000-09-06 Thread Chris K. Young
Quoted from Goran Blazic: Now I wonder. My system stores all qmail log entries through syslogd (ending up in /var/log/messages). I kind of like this, but am still wondering: Is there another way than through syslogd? Easy. Use multilog (http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html). If so: Could anone

offtopic: alien threads

2000-09-06 Thread Chris K. Young
Quoted from Robin S. Socha: Oh. And *don't* use reply if you want to start a new thread. Oooh, this reminded me of a thread in my Linux users group's list: http://cloud9.hedgee.com/archives/netiquette/msg0.html The relevance is in point 4. To put things into context, [Kooler] is a tag the

Re: Slightly Off Topic

2000-09-06 Thread Dave Sill
Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wut? qmail supports fallback smtp hosts. If you're referring to alternate MX's, that's not the same thing as Sendmail's fallback host. With Sendmail, if the first delivery attempt fails, the message can be passed off to a fallback host for subsequent

Re: Slightly Off Topic

2000-09-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 08:26:54AM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wut? qmail supports fallback smtp hosts. If you're referring to alternate MX's, that's not the same thing as Sendmail's fallback host. With Sendmail, if the first delivery attempt fails,

Re: offtopic: alien threads

2000-09-06 Thread Chris K. Young
Quoted from Chris K. Young: There was also another debate on that list, about why I think mail client authors should make hierarchical threading the default. By this, I mean making the mailbox view look a bit like: (I know this looks like mutt; I haven't used too many other mailers) Thread

Re: daemontools 4 linux

2000-09-06 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just curious if daemontools works under linux (my question may occur to you stupid but I'd like to have certainty because I read that it is only for unix). Linux is functionally UNIX. It's only not-UNIX in a legal or genetic sense. And BTW what do I gain (or rather

Re: Slightly Off Topic

2000-09-06 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6 Sep 2000, at 8:26, Dave Sill wrote: Wut? qmail supports fallback smtp hosts. If you're referring to alternate MX's, that's not the same thing as Sendmail's fallback host. With Sendmail, if the first delivery attempt fails, the message can

Re: Running qmail - by Richard Blum

2000-09-06 Thread Sean C Truman
Magnus, I had a chance to stop by the book store the other day.. I picked the book up and scanned the first couple of chapters and put the book back in the kids coloring book section. Sean - Original Message - From: Magnus Bodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: qmail list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

qmail log analysis

2000-09-06 Thread Brian Baquiran
I've got qmailanalog installed, and the zoverall,zrhosts etc. reports are ok. Problem is, I can't figure out how to get it to report the number of messages sent versus the number of messages recieved. Is it possible to do this with qmailanalog? TIA, Brian

Re: timestamp error

2000-09-06 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a question about qmail's timestamp. See: http://www.faqts.com/knowledge-base/view.phtml/aid/1167/fid/208/lang/en -Dave

Re: Qmail DNS

2000-09-06 Thread Dave Sill
Jonathan Fanti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am setting up a mail router here at work, I realise that the box I am running qmail on needs also to be running DNS. No, it only needs *access* to the DNS (i.e., /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/nsswitch.conf, etc.) -Dave

Re: Monitoring Email - Clarified

2000-09-06 Thread Jason Brooke
Otherwise, I would really appreciate anyone who can provide me with relevant information (minus the flames, and non-answer yielding responses) (Send those off-list) Thanks, Les. Great reply - I hope your experience with some of the people on the list doesn't inhibit your experience with

Re: log database

2000-09-06 Thread Bill Carlson
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Clemens Hermann wrote: Hi now I have been running qmail fore a while. The logs keep on growing, the mail-traffic increases. It now becomes necessary to evaluate the logs to know who produced how much traffic. There will be some thousand pop users and so I guess it

Re: Monitoring Email

2000-09-06 Thread Dave Sill
"Leslie Bester [EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being new to Qmail, and even after going to the url that you so politely provided, I still do not see the answer. You don't see it, or you don't understand it? If you don't see it, it's the last question on the page. If you don't

Re: offtopic: alien threads

2000-09-06 Thread Chris K. Young
Quoted from Robin S. Socha: And don't start a new thread if you're changing the subject... Like, if you were using Gnus, you could be using this: Actually, I usually do use the ``(was Re: foo)'' convention, keeping within the thread. I started a new thread because I thought that the topic

Re: log database

2000-09-06 Thread Sean C Truman
Here are a couple of benefits for throwing the logs into a database. 1) You can be dumb and create killer reports using Crystal Reports. (IE your BOSS who dont know anything about qmail or unix) 2) If you have more then one server then you have a central repository for all your logs. Sean

Re: Slightly Off Topic

2000-09-06 Thread Michael T. Babcock
- Original Message - From: "Petr Novotny" [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 6 Sep 2000, at 8:26, Dave Sill wrote: Wut? qmail supports fallback smtp hosts. If you're referring to alternate MX's, that's not the same thing as Sendmail's fallback host. With Sendmail, if the first delivery

Re: Monitoring Email - Clarified

2000-09-06 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Jason Brooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000906 09:34]: Otherwise, I would really appreciate anyone who can provide me with relevant information (minus the flames, and non-answer yielding responses) (Send those off-list) Cool quoting style, honey... Great reply - I hope your experience with

Re: Slightly Off Topic

2000-09-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:06:59AM -0400, Michael T. Babcock wrote: [snip] Hmm...maybe if you set queuelifetime to 0 and redirect bounces to another host somehow you could achieve the same effect. A better way seems to try qmail-remote yourself, and if it fails, inject the mail to

Re: outgoing mail

2000-09-06 Thread Matthew Patterson
this is done entirely through DNS. Just point the MX record for sss.ddd.com to the sss.ddd.com box, and the mmm.ddd.com, ddd.com and ccc.ddd.com to the mmm.ddd.com box. MHP - Original Message - From: Stano Paka To: qmail Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 5:07 AM

Possibly dum pop3 question, but hey... :-)

2000-09-06 Thread Goran Blazic
Ok, reading the Monitoring Email / Monitoring Email - Clarified thread is nice, not really productive, but still nice... ;-) Just a question... Ok, the admin.html#copies says more than enough, so no arguing there... Its just that in this document the messages get delivered to admin-something

Re: log database

2000-09-06 Thread Clemens Hermann
Hi sean, Here are a couple of benefits for throwing the logs into a database. 1) You can be dumb and create killer reports using Crystal Reports. (IE your BOSS who dont know anything about qmail or unix) this is one of the reasons. I want to be able to query the database and generate

Re: Monitoring Email

2000-09-06 Thread Michael T. Babcock
To help discussion: -x- How do I keep a copy of all incoming and outgoing mail messages? Answer: Set QUEUE_EXTRA to "Tlog\0" and QUEUE_EXTRALEN to 5 in extra.h. Recompile qmail. Put ./msg-log into ~alias/.qmail-log. You can also use QUEUE_EXTRA to, e.g., record the Message-ID of every message:

Re: I have a problem

2000-09-06 Thread Russell Nelson
Ima Guru writes: I have a problem with qmail. Can someone tell me how to fix it? Thanks! echo ':127.0.0.1' /var/qmail/control/smtproutes That's been known to cure many a problem. If, on the other hand, you're short on problems, try this one: rm /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts -- -russ nelson

Re: Monitoring Email - Clarified

2000-09-06 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Seeing as you so enjoy being sarcastic, lets ask a few extras: - Original Message - From: "Robin S. Socha" [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Jason Brooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000906 09:34]: Cool quoting style, honey... The URL http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/admin.html#copies that someone posted does

Re: Monitoring Email

2000-09-06 Thread Russell Nelson
Leslie Bester [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to have all incoming and outgoing emails (with attachments) sent to a secret user for later viewing? Yes, but you have to do this in order to find out how: sed -n '672,684p' /usr/local/src/qmail-1.03/FAQ -- -russ nelson [EMAIL

Re: Monitoring Email - Clarified

2000-09-06 Thread Russell Nelson
Leslie Bester [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What a useful list. I would of thought that posting what I thought was a pretty basic question would yield something resembling an answer from someone. Nope. Never. Asking basic questions without first reading the documentation is another way

Re: Monitoring Email

2000-09-06 Thread Charles Cazabon
Steve Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meantime, while I am compelled to use this client software, with all its satanic perversities, would anyone care to explain what precisely M$Outlook does wrong to break the threading? It fails to generate In-Reply-To: headers, which quote the message

Re: tcpserver as an alternative to firewall?

2000-09-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 06:23:47AM -, John Conover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone using tcpserver on a few daemon sockets as an alternative to a firewall? That isn't such a good idea. That will potentially protect those ports, but won't do much for other ports on the system. You can

Problem with forward and local

2000-09-06 Thread J.J.Gallardo
I'm testing a machine with QMail 1.03, VPopmail 4.8.7 and QMailadmin 0.33. I'm configured virtual domains with pop accounts (without problems), but now i'm trying to do this: An account must put the mail in his Maildir ""AND SO"", must be forwarded to another e-mail (for people who has worked

Re: log database

2000-09-06 Thread Bill Carlson
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Clemens Hermann wrote: Hi sean, Here are a couple of benefits for throwing the logs into a database. 1) You can be dumb and create killer reports using Crystal Reports. (IE your BOSS who dont know anything about qmail or unix) this is one of the reasons. I want

Problem setting up an Alias...

2000-09-06 Thread Jonathan Fanti
Hi, Sorry if this seems like a silly problem: I'm trying to setup a user and then an alias for that user.. vadduser jon vaddalias jon jonathan.fanti - or should it be [EMAIL PROTECTED]? at this point I get the error: "user 'jon' already exists." Is there something very obvious that I have

How Not To Annoy the qmail Mailng List Denizens (was: Re: Flame)

2000-09-06 Thread Charles Cazabon
A mostly polite rejoinder -- please read it all before responding. I'm quite surprised that after joining the list about... 1 hour ago? That I raised the (over-used) Signal to noise ratio. Technical quibble: you lowered the signal-to-noise ratio. Ask an electrical engineer how this

Re: logselect

2000-09-06 Thread Jeff Hayward
UT Austin/ACITS +1 512 471 2449 (f) On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Russell Nelson wrote: Yes. I've got four customers on support contracts with clustered SMTP servers who need/want better reporting. Need to get the log files over to another machine. Could use ssh, but

Re: We desire e-mail duplication

2000-09-06 Thread Russell Nelson
Ihnen, David writes: In order to test a backup set of servers with live traffic, we would like to duplicate the messages coming in and direct the copy to the backup servers. They will black-hole the messages after processing them. Do something like this: svc -d /service/*

Re: Monitoring Email

2000-09-06 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Michael T. Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 6 September 2000 at 10:43:28 -0400 To help discussion: -x- How do I keep a copy of all incoming and outgoing mail messages? Answer: Set QUEUE_EXTRA to "Tlog\0" and QUEUE_EXTRALEN to 5 in extra.h. Recompile qmail. Put ./msg-log into

Re: Monitoring Email

2000-09-06 Thread Olivier M.
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 01:39:53AM -0500, Leslie Bester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to have all incoming and outgoing emails (with attachments) sent to a secret user for later viewing? You can try dsniff : http://freshmeat.net/projects/dsniff/ (look at the "mailsnarf" tool)

Re: Monitoring Email

2000-09-06 Thread Chris K. Young
Quoted from Charles Cazabon: It fails to generate In-Reply-To: headers, which quote the message ID's of the original email and it's In-Reply-To: header. Totally broken. In-Reply-To isn't strictly necessary or useful (DJB has an article saying why: http://cr.yp.to/immhf/thread.html). The

Re: Problem with forward and local

2000-09-06 Thread Johan Almqvist
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 05:05:22PM +0200, J.J.Gallardo wrote: I'm testing a machine with QMail 1.03, VPopmail 4.8.7 and QMailadmin 0.33. I'm configured virtual domains with pop accounts (without problems), but now i'm trying to do this: An account must put the mail in his Maildir ""AND SO"",

SSL and qmail

2000-09-06 Thread Darrell Wright
Is there a patch available that will use SSL to encrypt qmail-smtp traffic. I know I can just use SSL-wrap, but that is not acceptable. If I were to use SSL-wrap I would loose much of my SPAM prevention based on host addresses. Also it is much cleaner to have it built in as I would not have to

Re: Flame (Dont read if you hate this like I do)

2000-09-06 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Robin S. Socha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * Leslie Bester [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000906 05:09]: You call that a flame? You've got to be joking... (90+ lines of truly uninspired ad hominem attacks deleted for brevity.) Well congratulations. On reading

Re: Debian GNU/Linux (potato) Packages: var-qmail

2000-09-06 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Adam, On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 02:01:42PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote: Without even looking at them, I can tell you the following: 1) *if* the packages comply with dist.html, they will _never_ get into potato. Right, since potato has been released (and was frozen since january). But I

statistics with qmailanalog

2000-09-06 Thread Gesner JEAN
Hello, Formely i used NT,now I have my server Linux Redhat 6.1 using already qmail, but Iwould like to make now statistics for mails outgoing, entering and numbers it connection per month of my utilisateurs.De this fact, I have downloaded qmailanalog, at which I estimate who can make it.The

Re: Qmail DNS

2000-09-06 Thread Ken Jones
Jonathan Fanti wrote: I am setting up a mail router here at work, I realise that the box I am running qmail on needs also to be running DNS. Is it okay for this to be a name-caching only server with forwards to my ISP's DNS server? Sure that would work. It would also work to not forward to

Re: Problem with forward and local

2000-09-06 Thread Dave Sill
"J.J.Gallardo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (for people who has worked with sendmail -- joe:joe,[EMAIL PROTECTED]). Searching on this list (and so, man dot-qmail) I have tested: File in /home/vpopmail/domains/test.com/joe/.qmail with this cases: I'm not a vpopmail user, but depending upon how it

Re: Problem setting up an Alias...

2000-09-06 Thread Matthew Patterson
What is this vaddalias of which you speak? It looks like something that would be part of vchkpw, but its not part of my copy. If it is something from vchkpw, try sending a blank e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then sending your question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MHP - Original Message -

serialmail

2000-09-06 Thread Van Liedekerke Franky
Hi, I'm using the serialmail package to let some people initiate an smtp connection to their server whenever they make a pop connection, so all mail gets delivered. Now I don't use an alias for this user, so I have to rewrite the headers all the time for this user so that the prefix "alias-" is

Re: Debian GNU/Linux (potato) Packages: var-qmail

2000-09-06 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 01:35:09PM +0200, Gerrit Pape wrote: Getting the packages into debian is the easier part, I think, that is what lintian reports as errors by now: [...] E: qmail-run: binary-without-manpage sendmail I think there should be a manpage for sendmail since it might be

telltale sign of RBL DUL

2000-09-06 Thread Duane L.
I've been placed in charge of our mail servers, although its not my area.. I'm apparently the best candidate. (heaven help us) Question: I need to determine what, if any anti spam methods are set up eg; MAPS RBL - MAPS Realtime Blackhole List. MAPS TSI - MAPS Transport Security

Re: Debian GNU/Linux (potato) Packages: var-qmail

2000-09-06 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:30:57AM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: I don't understand why Debian doesn't have exceptions for packages which require cross-platform compatibility. Is the concept of a piece of software which uses the same pathnames no matter where you encounter it so strange?

Re: Debian GNU/Linux (potato) Packages: var-qmail

2000-09-06 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 04:38:35PM +1200, Chris K. Young wrote: I'm not even sure that ezmlm and ucspi-tcp are distributable at all. This has always confused me as ucspi-tcp atleast doesn't have unreasonable installation

Re: SSL and qmail

2000-09-06 Thread Dave Sill
"Darrell Wright" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a patch available that will use SSL to encrypt qmail-smtp traffic. I know I can just use SSL-wrap, but that is not acceptable. If I were to use SSL-wrap I would loose much of my SPAM prevention based on host addresses. Because SSL-wrap just

MORE INFORMATION OF VPOPMAIL

2000-09-06 Thread tigre21
Hello Again. I'm going to setup my qmail with vpopmail, but need have more information about it. I have most of 50,000 users POP3 and I will think have most Is it very good? And need translate their e-mails of format /var/spool/mail to /Maildir/ How can do it?

Re: telltale sign of RBL DUL

2000-09-06 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Duane L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 6 September 2000 at 09:24:26 -0700 I've been placed in charge of our mail servers, although its not my area.. I'm apparently the best candidate. (heaven help us) Question: I need to determine what, if any anti spam methods are set up eg; MAPS

Re: Problem with forward and local

2000-09-06 Thread J.J.Gallardo
Dave Sill wrote: Would work if ./Maildir/ was a valid maildir with the right owner/mode. When you say "Not work", what exactly do you mean? What was the error message or failure mode? Johan Almqvist wrote: The filename should be /home/vpopmail/domains/test.com/.qmail-joe OK=Tested.That's the

Re: Monitoring Email

2000-09-06 Thread markd
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:20:49AM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: This cannot be considered a good FAQ answer for beginners (and pointing that out in the FAQ itself would be nice). grep'ing for QUEUE_EXTRA in the sources only gives: Nothing about qmail is really suitable for

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