Re: Qmail - Startup and POP3 Problems

1999-11-07 Thread dd
1º - The POP3 service is not initializing on startup, a have to go to the /etc/rc.d/init.d and manually start qmail-pop3d.init (./qmail-pop3d.init start) errm, are You sure You added the command starting qmail-pop3d in Your startup script? 2º - When I test the POP3 service, after I start

Re: quick question re: starting with rblsmtpd

1999-11-07 Thread dd
|here's the whole script...short answer is csh: | |#!/bin/sh | | That's the problem: you're using Bourne shell syntax in the C Shell. | My csh skills are rusty; I can't remember how to redirect stderr. In his case, I think he needs to replace: 21 | with: | i had the

silly question? maybe...

1999-11-07 Thread dd
hi errm, why does qmail let EVERY user has his/her own mailing list (the [EMAIL PROTECTED] thing i mean). whatif every user creates a mailing list and floods the server with thousands of mail this way? is there a way to prevent this? thanks, love peace and stuff, dd

Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem

1999-11-07 Thread Jørgen Skogstad
Kindest, I am having some problems with the setup provided from Paul Greg. I get these errors in the log when trying to get incoming mail routed to the users mailbox; Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.322851 new msg 708801 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.323160 info msg

qmail Digest 7 Nov 1999 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 813

1999-11-07 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 7 Nov 1999 11:00:01 - Issue 813 Topics (messages 32580 through 32597): Re: mailquotacheck and quota.patch 32580 by: Andres 32581 by: Benjamin de los Angeles Jr. 32590 by: Andres Web Interface 32582 by: J. Adams Re: qmail in SCO 32583

Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem

1999-11-07 Thread Jørgen Skogstad
Kindest, I am having some problems with the setup provided from Paul Greg. I get these errors in the log when trying to get incoming mail routed to the users mailbox; Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.322851 new msg 708801 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.323160 info msg

Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem

1999-11-07 Thread Jørgen Skogstad
Kindest, I am having some problems with the setup provided from Paul Greg. I get these errors in the log when trying to get incoming mail routed to the users mailbox; Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.322851 new msg 708801 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.323160 info msg

Can't access localmail

1999-11-07 Thread Subba Rao
Hello, I am trying to access my mailbox on one of my Linux systems. I had installed Qmail on it and later decided to move back to Sendmail. At first, all qmail related material was deleted and later I went as far as reinstalling Linux. The /home is on a different partition so the user data was

Re: silly question? maybe...

1999-11-07 Thread
dd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : hi : errm, why does qmail let EVERY user has his/her own mailing list (the : [EMAIL PROTECTED] thing i mean). whatif every user creates a mailing : list and floods the server with thousands of mail this way? is there a way : to prevent this? What if the user

Re: Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem

1999-11-07 Thread Chris Johnson
What's in control/virtualdomains? Chris On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 12:06:34PM +0100, Jørgen Skogstad wrote: Kindest, I am having some problems with the setup provided from Paul Greg. I get these errors in the log when trying to get incoming mail routed to the users mailbox; Nov 7

Re: Usage of /var/qmail/users/assign

1999-11-07 Thread Joerg Lenneis
Todd A Jacobs: I'm not 100% sure I understand the difference in intended usage between setting up a ~/alias/.qmail-whatever file and setting up a virtual user in /var/qmail/users/assign. As far as I can tell, the former uses forwarding, whereas the latter is acting like a true alias. Am I

SV: Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem

1999-11-07 Thread Jørgen Skogstad
Hi there Chris.. Here's what I have in my control/virtualdomains file; enterprise:/var/qmail/control# more virtualdomains test.net:test-net enterprise:/var/qmail/control# .. not sure if the way I start qmail has anything to do with this?? Shouldn't be, but here is the content of that rc

Qmail .qmail file.

1999-11-07 Thread Bob ross
I have a question and have never seen it asked or answered. I would like to set up a filter in the .qmail file that is in every user /home/userdir on my system. I use a badmailfrom filter for the spam that each user maintains, but I would like to setup a filter to only allow mail from

qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-07 Thread Jim B
Can someone point me at the location of a document that explains why qmail would deliver, for example, a msg to 5 recipients at the same remote domain with 5 individual smtp connections instead of one smtp connection and multiple RCPT TOs? I just spotted it the other day and meant to go back

Re: Can't access localmail

1999-11-07 Thread Marco Leeflang
are there .qmail files in the homedirs marco leeflang Subba Rao wrote: Hello, I am trying to access my mailbox on one of my Linux systems. I had installed Qmail on it and later decided to move back to Sendmail. At first, all qmail related material was deleted and later I went as far

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-07 Thread Russell Nelson
Jim B writes: Can someone point me at the location of a document that explains why qmail would deliver, for example, a msg to 5 recipients at the same remote domain with 5 individual smtp connections instead of one smtp connection and multiple RCPT TOs? Because it's faster. -- -russ

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-07 Thread Sam
Russell Nelson writes: Jim B writes: Can someone point me at the location of a document that explains why qmail would deliver, for example, a msg to 5 recipients at the same remote domain with 5 individual smtp connections instead of one smtp connection and multiple RCPT TOs?

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-07 Thread Jeff Hayward
On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: Because it's faster. For the average message... :-) -- Jeff

RE: SV: Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem

1999-11-07 Thread ari
Hi, I think the wrong is in the .qmail file, the correct is /Maildir/ not ./Maildir/ Check also if the uid and gid of popuser is 888. Best regards, Ari Mensagem Original De : "J=F8rgen Skogstad" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assunto : SV:

RE: RE: RE: SV: Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem

1999-11-07 Thread ari
Sorry, /Maildir/ Mensagem Original De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assunto : RE: SV: Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem Hi, I think the wrong is in the .qmail file, the correct is /Maildir/ not ./Maildir/ Check also if the uid and gid

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-07 Thread Eric Dahnke
Could someone explain how qmail manages to be faster for average msgs. I can't see how it would be. - Eric Jeff Hayward escribió: On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: Because it's faster. For the average message... :-) -- Jeff

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-07 Thread Russell Nelson
Sam writes: Russell Nelson writes: Jim B writes: Can someone point me at the location of a document that explains why qmail would deliver, for example, a msg to 5 recipients at the same remote domain with 5 individual smtp connections instead of one smtp connection and

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-07 Thread Russell Nelson
Eric Dahnke writes: Could someone explain how qmail manages to be faster for average msgs. I can't see how it would be. The most-oft used MTA fiddles with hostnames while the DNS burns. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software |

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-07 Thread Jim B
Ummm.. yeah thanks. But I want to know *why* it's faster. I know there's a doc that explains 3 different methods, this being one of them... and it shows situations why one may be preferable over the other. Do you know what doc I'm talking about? - Original Message - From: Russell

Re: SV: Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem

1999-11-07 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 05:41:39PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think the wrong is in the .qmail file, the correct is /Maildir/ not ./Maildir/ No, it's ./Maildir/ Chris

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-07 Thread Sam
On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: Sam writes: Russell Nelson writes: Jim B writes: Can someone point me at the location of a document that explains why qmail would deliver, for example, a msg to 5 recipients at the same remote domain with 5 individual smtp

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-07 Thread Russell Nelson
Sam writes: Yes. Even off a T1, there's a measurable difference between ~10 MB and ~1 MB worth of traffic. And?? Don't hold us in suspense. What was the difference in delivery times? -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok

Allow only certian domains or emails

1999-11-07 Thread Bob ross
Is there a way to change this code from a user .qmail to only allow users or domains listed in the file. |if test -n "`fgrep -x $SENDER badmailfrom`"; then echo Go Away;exit 99; else exit 0; fi Thanks Bob Ross

date stamps

1999-11-07 Thread Keith Warno
Hi all -- excuse me if this has been discussed before. New to the list and this is my first post! : My coworkers use IMAP (curse them!) for retrieving email from our qmail-1.03-based linux box via Outlook Express 5.something. The box is running imapd from the pine4.10 package. In any case, at

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-07 Thread Jason Haar
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 04:21:20PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: Sam writes: Yes. Even off a T1, there's a measurable difference between ~10 MB and ~1 MB worth of traffic. And?? Don't hold us in suspense. What was the difference in delivery times? I was going to keep quiet but how

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-07 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Jason Haar on Mon, 08 Nov 1999 10:36:38 +1300: We have a 64Kb Frame Relay link with burst to 128Kb. We have users here sending their current favourite 3 Mb MP3 file to 30 friends - effectively taking our Internet link offline for the next several hours. Qmail being the great

Qmail on a firewall?

1999-11-07 Thread John R. Dunning
Hi all. Parts of this have been discussed elsewhere, but I haven't seen anybody describing quite this setup. I'm reconfiguring a network to have a dedicated firewall machine, on which I want to run qmail. But, I don't want the firewall machine reaching in to the rest of the network to do

Queue details

1999-11-07 Thread Jim Gilliver
Is there a document somewhere that describes the structure and functionality of the /var/qmail/queue directory? I have 3 messages in the queue according to qmail-qstat, but qmail-qread only returns info for one message. I'd like to find out why these other two emails aren't 'complete'. I've

Re: Qmail on a firewall?

1999-11-07 Thread Chris Johnson
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 11:25:12PM -, John R. Dunning wrote: Hi all. Parts of this have been discussed elsewhere, but I haven't seen anybody describing quite this setup. I'm reconfiguring a network to have a dedicated firewall machine, on which I want to run qmail. But, I don't want the

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-07 Thread James J. Lippard
On Sun, 07 Nov 1999 15:11:29 -0700 in Andy Bradford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus said Jason Haar on Mon, 08 Nov 1999 10:36:38 +1300: We have a 64Kb Frame Relay link with burst to 128Kb. We have users here sending their current favourite 3 Mb MP3 file to 30 friends - effectively taking

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-07 Thread Fred Lindberg
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999 10:36:38 +1300, Jason Haar wrote: We have a 64Kb Frame Relay link with burst to 128Kb. We have users here sending their current favourite 3 Mb MP3 file to 30 friends - effectively [...] Fact: Sendmail would have used less bandwidth in this _specific_ situation. In general -

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-07 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said "James J. Lippard" on 07 Nov 1999 17:12:54 MST: Times are changing. Unified messaging is coming. Email, voice mail, faxes, video mail, all will be the same thing. "User education" will not be the answer--building the appropriate user interfaces and designing the appropriate

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-07 Thread Jason Haar
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 05:22:43PM -0700, Andy Bradford wrote: Thus said "James J. Lippard" on 07 Nov 1999 17:12:54 MST: Times are changing. Unified messaging is coming. Email, voice mail, faxes, video mail, all will be the same thing. "User education" will not be the answer--building

Re: ezmlm problem

1999-11-07 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, john wrote: I installed ezmlm and after finishing the installation when I tested like ezmlm-make command it gave me an error message file not found. How about posting the error? My guess is that ezmlm's files aren't in your path. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems

Re: Forwarding Root email

1999-11-07 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, G. Ryan Fawcett wrote: I was wondering if it was possible to forward root email to an out side address. For echo "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ~alias/.qmail-root -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-07 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 06:20:36PM -0600, Fred Lindberg wrote: You could also look into QMQP over your link. [...] AFAIK, Bruce Guenter's nullmailer does this and can use QMTP to the smarthosts. nullmailer can indeed use QMTP to smarthosts that support it, but it explicitly has no support for

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-07 Thread Frederik Lindberg
On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Bruce Guenter wrote: nullmailer can indeed use QMTP to smarthosts that support it, but it explicitly has no support for local delivery. You could set up qmail and nullmailer concurently and have qmail deliver all remote mail into a virtual domain that calls up nullmailer

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-07 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 04:13:25AM +, Frederik Lindberg wrote: nullmailer can indeed use QMTP to smarthosts that support it, but it explicitly has no support for local delivery. You could set up qmail and nullmailer concurently and have qmail deliver all remote mail into a virtual

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

1999-11-07 Thread Frederik Lindberg
On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Bruce Guenter wrote: Hard, but not impossible. How would you envision such hooks? Certainly, I am not going to add support to nullmailer to actually do the delivery, but giving it a way to call an external program that could is a reasonable option. How about a

Re: Allow only certian domains or emails

1999-11-07 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 02:24:52PM -0700, Bob ross wrote: Is there a way to change this code from a user .qmail to only allow users or domains listed in the file. |if test -n "`fgrep -x $SENDER badmailfrom`"; then echo Go Away;exit 99; else exit 0; fi At this stage, I'll go for a perl