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1999-09-10 Thread Herwin Jan Steehouwer
Hi, How can i log the messages that are bounced ( like spammer who what to use me as a rely ) ?? Tanx ! HJ Herwin Jan Steehouwer KPMG Management services/KPMG CT Churchilplein 6 2517 JW Den Haag (+31)70 338 2 471

Re: Still 533

1999-09-10 Thread Paulo Jan
Paul Farber wrote: Yeah, I know. But the binary .cdb file is pretty unreadable, don't you think? Paul D. Farber II Farber Technology Ph. 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Adam D . McKenna wrote: That's not a cdb, it's a flat textfile. You need

Re: Problems while downloading E-Mails with Outlook-Express

1999-09-10 Thread Paulo Jan
Cyril Bitterich wrote: Hi, I read the archieves but haven't foud anything apropriate. some of our Customers (we are a small non-profit ISP) come up with a Problem getting their e-mail via pop3. I use Qmail 1.03 and pop-Server from the qmail package. If there's a bigger amount of

Patches revisited

1999-09-10 Thread Lyndon Griffin
A while back, someone was trying to assemble a comprehensive patch list and archive. I would like to volunteer to host this. My only request - at least, initially - is that patch authors *only* submit to me their patches, along with a blurb of what the patch does and what requirements (outside

qmail-local performance

1999-09-10 Thread A.Y. Sjarifuddin
Dear All, How to increase qmail-local performance? (/var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal seems doesn't work) Thanks _Ayip. -- I THINK MAN INVENTED THE CAR by instinct. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.

qmail needs rcpt to own home dir ?

1999-09-10 Thread Chris McCarthy
I am setting up a webmail system on top of qmail. I thought once I had a /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow entry for a user, that would be sufficient to receive email. This is not the case, unless the user also has a valid home directory owned by that user, qmail says the user does not exist.

How to patch qmail?

1999-09-10 Thread Sven Veckes
Hi all, I want to use 'qmail-ldap' and also some 'anti-spam' patches, but if I aply a second patch to one file I got so many rejects. What is the way to go?? Bye Sven

Re: How to patch qmail?

1999-09-10 Thread Petr Novotny
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10 Sep 99, at 11:42, Sven Veckes wrote: I want to use 'qmail-ldap' and also some 'anti-spam' patches, but if I aply a second patch to one file I got so many rejects. What is the way to go?? a. Review the rejected hunks and apply them manually.

Re: Problems while downloading E-Mails with Outlook-Express

1999-09-10 Thread Ruben van der Leij
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 09:43:29AM +0300, Anand Buddhdev wrote: . . . . . some text This is a known and confirmed bug in various versions of outlook. To make things worse, the bug only bites if the last packet contains just dots. To make a sure way to cause trouble for LookOut ehr..

Anti-Spam

1999-09-10 Thread Carles Latorre
Hi everybody, I've installed qmail in a Red Hat 5.1 and I've been noticed that my server is used for spamming purposes. I've tried something in hosts.allow, putting parameters like tcp-env: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx : setenv = RELAYCLIENT where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP or IP range granted to

Re: Still 533

1999-09-10 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Paulo Jan wrote: Paul Farber wrote: Yeah, I know. But the binary .cdb file is pretty unreadable, don't you think? Paul D. Farber II Farber Technology Ph. 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Adam D . McKenna wrote:

Re: Patches revisited

1999-09-10 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Lyndon Griffin wrote: A while back, someone was trying to assemble a comprehensive patch list and archive. I would like to volunteer to host this. My only request - at least, initially - is that patch authors *only* submit to me their patches, along with a blurb of

RE: Patches revisited

1999-09-10 Thread Lyndon Griffin
Yeah, I went back, now that you mention it, and I see a lot of work has been done since I wrote it off as a dead-loss for information months ago. No offense, Russ, but the presentation of information there is about as good as any geoshitties site. And yes, that can be taken as an offer to help

Re: qmail needs rcpt to own home dir ?

1999-09-10 Thread Robin Bowes
Chris McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I am setting up a webmail system on top of qmail. I thought once I had a /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow entry for a user, that would be sufficient to receive email. This is not the case, unless the

Re: Patches revisited

1999-09-10 Thread Russell Nelson
Lyndon Griffin writes: Of course, if somebody knows of a site already doing this, that URL is welcome, and I may withdraw my offer. http://www.qmail.org/top.html#addons . You can argue that it needs improvement, but it's the canonical list. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Patches revisited

1999-09-10 Thread Russell Nelson
Lyndon Griffin writes: Yeah, I went back, now that you mention it, and I see a lot of work has been done since I wrote it off as a dead-loss for information months ago. No offense, Russ, but the presentation of information there is about as good as any geoshitties site. And yes, that

Re: qmail distro and UID

1999-09-10 Thread Russell Nelson
Kevin Waterson writes: I am putting together a redhat clone and have omitted sendmail entirely. of course exmh nmh fetchmail etc complain, but that can be remedied later. I have been looking and reading up on qmail-run and var-qmail packages. Ask redhat to change the dependency from

Re: Patches revisited

1999-09-10 Thread Greg Hudson
So, since you think you can do better, what would you do differently? Split the page up? That would waste people's time. Add more information? I'm fine with that -- "send code", as they say. There's always the approach of "one big page with an index at the top where the index links point

Re: qmail distro and UID

1999-09-10 Thread Mirko Zeibig
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 08:42:08AM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: Kevin Waterson writes: I am putting together a redhat clone and have omitted sendmail entirely. of course exmh nmh fetchmail etc complain, but that can be remedied later. I have been looking and reading up on qmail-run and

Re: Still 533

1999-09-10 Thread Paul Farber
The jist of the response was, no, I didn't use a plain text file for the .cbd file in tcpserver. Thanks. Paul D. Farber II Farber Technology Ph. 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, James Smallacombe wrote: On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Paul Farber wrote: Yeah, I

Re: qmail distro and UID

1999-09-10 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kevin Waterson writes: I am putting together a redhat clone and have omitted sendmail entirely. of course exmh nmh fetchmail etc complain, but that can be remedied later. I have been looking and reading up on qmail-run and var-qmail packages.

relay rules question

1999-09-10 Thread Patrick Berry
Okay, I have our smtp running under tcpserver and only machine in the office can send mail through it. But now, we have people dialing in from home and wanting to use our smtp server. They can't use the ISPs smtp server because they want to send mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and most people don't

Re: qmail relay detection

1999-09-10 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Mr. Christopher F. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 10 September 1999 at 13:45:29 -0500 Or given a list of valid usernames on one system, forge email to that user's associates elsewhere. Or spam in his name, etc... All of which can be done to anybody who posts in public (like, say,

Re: relay rules question

1999-09-10 Thread Tim Hunter
You make your users use the MSN smtp server, I have several users using our office mailserver remotely with MSN and no reported problems sending mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED] through MSN's smtp servers. I *assume* that MSN lets any of its IP addresses send mail regardless of hostname. Tim At

RE: Patches revisited

1999-09-10 Thread Lyndon Griffin
From the presentation of information perspective, the site is not all that good. Technically speaking, it is very good - fast loading, not a lot of BS graphics, accessible with all browsers, including the elite few of us who still use Lynx. I am concerned about the quality and quantity of

Re: Patches revisited

1999-09-10 Thread Eric Dahnke
Sorry for prolonging this most likely annoying thread, but I completely disagree with you. On the currentsite you've got simple access to qmail sources, man pages, list archives, patches, support, etc and it is well organized. What do you want animated gifs and sound? - eric Lyndon Griffin

RE: Patches revisited

1999-09-10 Thread Lyndon Griffin
What do you want animated gifs and sound? - eric Apparently, you neglected to read my previous post. Simply having a link to the list archive is not helpful. Lyndon Griffin escribió: From the presentation of information perspective, the site is not all that good. Technically

Re: Selective forwarding using .qmail

1999-09-10 Thread Peter Gradwell
At 3:01 pm -0400 10/9/99,the wonderful Dave Sill wrote: Damon Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone use their .qmail files to selectively forward messages to different addresses? Say "if from=??? or subj=???" How about passing the messages to a script for processing? Sure. These are

Re: qmail distro and UID

1999-09-10 Thread Kevin Waterson
Sam wrote: That has been the case at least since 4.0. The problem is that Red Hat's installer forces a sendmail install no matter what, even if another package provides smtpdaemon. Yes, but in this case I have removed the sendmail rpms from the distro Kevin

Re: qmail distro and UID

1999-09-10 Thread Kevin Waterson
David Harris wrote: If you are going to be installing a bunch of machines, you might invest in modifying the base package by modifying the installer's package groupings so that qmail is installed instead of sendmail. You see, sendmail is in the "base" group which is always installed. If

RE: Patches revisited

1999-09-10 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Lyndon Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 10 September 1999 at 13:53:56 -0700 Maybe it's subjective, but I disagree - I don't feel that the site is well organized. Yes, there are sections of seemingly related material, which I guess is what you deem to be well organized. I do agree with

Re: Patches revisited

1999-09-10 Thread Adam D . McKenna
I think that it would be really useful if qmail.org had an "apps" section similar to freshmeat.net or linuxapps.com. If I could search through names and decriptions of apps, that would be *very useful*. For instance, if I hear about this cool program called "vchkpw", that's an addition for

Re: qmail relay detection

1999-09-10 Thread Sam
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Dave Sill wrote: Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyhow, I realize that giving information "up front" on working usernames on the system is probably at least a small security risk, so I'd rather not do that, I've yet to see anyone make a

Re: qmail relay detection

1999-09-10 Thread James J. Lippard
I agree with Sam on this one. My experience supports his view. I've never seen any systematic attempts to grab usernames via SMTP. I've seen quite a few mailbombs with bounces, though. Jim Lippard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.discord.org/ Unsolicited bulk email charge:

Outlook Groupware Functions

1999-09-10 Thread Stephan Hadan
Hello everybody, I have already installed qmail on SuSE Linux 6.2 with Windows clients and it works really fine. We have almost 15 clients running Outlook 97/98/2000. Now my question is, if it is possible to use the groupware function of that MUA with qmail, or are there any questions to do so

Re: qmail relay detection

1999-09-10 Thread smithrod
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 07:55:52PM -0400, Sam wrote: Furthermore, you ignored the rest of my post, which compared whatever miniscule benefit you get from practicing security through obscurity weighed against your server now being a willing accomplice in a denial-of-service attack. The same

Re: Patches revisited

1999-09-10 Thread Ruben van der Leij
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 12:33:28PM -0700, Lyndon Griffin wrote: From the presentation of information perspective, the site is not all that good. imagine that you and Dan Bernstein and countless others want it to be an even more powerful force. One simple question. Have you *seen*, as in

Re: qmail distro and UID

1999-09-10 Thread mw
What should I use in the way of var-qmail. My understanding is that it needs to be compiled on each machine, but as this is a fresh install, but maybe used for upgrades, I am concerned about UID's. Should I simply create a .rpm from the source supplied or can someone recommend a better method.

Qmail dies over and over

1999-09-10 Thread Gustavo V G C Rios
Hi folks, my freebsd box (3.2-Stable) running qmail dies over and over, several about 1/2 times a week. Here is what i get at log: 937023957.591990 alert: oh no! lost spawn connection! dying... 937023957.617105 status: exiting I decide to trace qmail syscalls, using the utility truss, i got