Re: Three solutions for spam

1999-02-01 Thread Dave Sill
"Racer X" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, his real problem is that he continues to patronize an ISP who doesn't provide him with adequate services. The ISP is not at fault here. ISP's don't grow on trees, at least outside of U.S. metropolitan areas. It's easy for you to say "use a

Re: Three solutions for spam

1999-02-01 Thread Dave Sill
"Racer X" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Find another ISP. Not an option. If there were a real need for people to send outbound email directly to their recipients, I'm sure we would offer such a service, and I'm sure we'd have a contract restricting use appropriately. The simple fact is that there

Re: var-qmail

1999-02-05 Thread Dave Sill
Mate Wierdl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, what if UID 794 1794 2794 are taken? If none of the UID/GID sets is available, the installation will fail. Surely failed installation is acceptable, e.g., due to insufficient disk space. -Dave

Re: installing qmail on a free mail server

1999-03-01 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, prev. sysadmin in my company left for me a server of free mail that uses sendmail ( Doh! ) The server has ~30k of users soo this is the right place for the qmail. the 1[Q] is: is there any patches I should apply. qmail works fine for me right out of the box. Others

Re: Redhat qmail

1998-12-29 Thread Dave Sill
Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: judgement-callBasically, Dan has hacked off Donnie Barnes one too many times. He has some technical issues, such as the difficulty of moving a qmail queue from one machine to another, and that qmail doesn't log enough to make configuration problems

Re: Redhat qmail

1998-12-29 Thread Dave Sill
"Peter C. Norton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 10:50:37AM -0500, Dave Sill wrote: but what I've seen of Red Hat Linux doesn't overly impress me. ObCuriousity: Relative to what? IMO redhat, debian, freebsd, etc are all pretty much neck-and-neck for installati

Re: Why Red Hat is not distributing qmail

1998-12-29 Thread Dave Sill
Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The basic problem is that [Dan doesn't] trust Redhat. Good for him! He'd be a fool to trust them. There's no basis for trust between them. If [he] trusted them, then [he] would give them the freedom to distribute modified binaries. If pigs had wings...

Re: Why Red Hat is not distributing qmail

1998-12-29 Thread Dave Sill
Bill Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dave Sill wrote: Sendmail is *the* UNIX mailer. Everyone knows how to work it. It's well documented, well proven, and hopefully most of the major bugs have been found. We can tweak the source any way we see fit. Not many (paying) customers

Re: Why Red Hat is not distributing qmail

1998-12-30 Thread Dave Sill
"Peter C. Norton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only part right. Those I've talked to at redhat say that they give their work back to the community, and for free, because they believe it's a valid business model, but also because it makes them feel good. They were and are bucking the pointy-haired

Re: dot-qmail security

1999-03-15 Thread Dave Sill
Brad Shelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All you have to do is create it as root and make it readable by the mail process for the user. They can read it, but they can't replace it. Not true. If the user can write the directory, they can replace it. -Dave

Re: dot-qmail security

1999-03-16 Thread Dave Sill
Joel Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Dave Sill wrote: Brad Shelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All you have to do is create it as root and make it readable by the mail process for the user. They can read it, but they can't replace it. Not true. If the user can write

Re: dot-qmail security

1999-03-18 Thread Dave Sill
Joel Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That has nothing to do with the suggestion though, that the _home-directory_ of the user should be owned by root. Perhaps you thought it was Maildir which should be owned by root?.. No, I thought the assertion was that making .qmail files owned by root

Re: Why Red Hat is not distributing qmail

1999-01-04 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Dave Sill wrote: Let me try again. Licensing alone could conceivably explain why Red Hat doesn't ship qmail. But it does't explain why they don't ship exim, smail, zmailer, or any other OSS sendmail equivalent. So, there has to be another reason

Re: one email with cc creates multiple messages - oh dear.

1999-01-04 Thread Dave Sill
"Brian S. Craigie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Say for example I send an email with a 3Mb attachment to my home address and CC: it to my family members, it's going to be sent, say, 5 times over a 33kBPS modem link, and take maybe 1 hour per message, so 5 hours instead of 1 hour. qmail is designed

Re: Why Red Hat is not distributing qmail

1999-01-04 Thread Dave Sill
This'll be my last word on the topic. OK, stop cheering. :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Dave Sill wrote: Question: *Why doesn't* Red Hat ship zmailer, exim, smail, or any other OSS sendmail equivalent? Because they are not as well tested don't scale and do not offer

Re: Emacs MUA's and sendmail errors

1999-01-19 Thread Dave Sill
"D. J. Bernstein" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Sill writes: sendmail-send-it looks for a list of undeliverable recipients in the combined stdout/stderr from sendmail. That will catch most errors, with either sendmail or qmail, but it's not reliable. Many current operati

pipelining

1999-01-19 Thread Dave Sill
Discussion of pipelining on the Postfix list got me thinking. I know qmail supports pipelining on the SMTP server side because qmail-smtpd says so in response to HELO/EHLO. But does it support it on the client side? I don't see any reference to pipelining in qmail-remote.c. -Dave

Re: MD5 in djb-c?

1999-04-05 Thread Dave Sill
[I replied to Russ, but others might be interested in this, too. -Dave] Russ Nelson wrote: Has anyone coded MD5 (message digest 5) in djb-style C? DJB has. Back in '93/'94 he wrote a package called "fingerprint" that included it. Unfortunately, he seems to have orphaned it. From the README:

Re: the IBM Secure Mailer license

1999-01-06 Thread Dave Sill
"D. J. Bernstein" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The license demands that you stop using the IBM Secure Mailer upon IBM's request. You are explicitly required to destroy every copy you possess of the IBM Secure Mailer. Jeeze! I must have been half asleep when I read the license. I completely missed

Re: .qmail-list question

1999-01-06 Thread Dave Sill
Mark E Drummond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Hi. I have a mailing list set up using the .qmail-listname feature. I have email addresses listed one per line like I'm supposed to and it works fine. My question is, can the lines of email addresses take any normal SMTP form or does it have to

Re: qmail speed

1999-04-08 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Current speed is 20,000-40,000/hour on a PPRO200/PII350 Which is it? PPRO200 or PII350? How's your qmail configured? What does qmail-showctl say? What kind of connectivity do you have? Running a local nameserver? with SCSI drives. Anybody know a better/faster way?

Re: Why does ~alias/.qmail-sim.hamp do nothing?

1999-04-08 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fetchmail passes mail over as simon.hampton@localhost and I can teach users/assign to tackle simon.hampton and deliver it linux user sim, but why cannot I set up a .qmail file in ~alias to do this? For security reasons, qmail replaces "."'s with ":"'s in .qmail

Re: qmail speed

1999-04-09 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 03:59:18PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Current speed is 20,000-40,000/hour on a PPRO200/PII350 Which is it? PPRO200 or PII350? 20K/hour for PPRO200 40K/hour for PII350 Well, you can get 60k/hour using both. Frankly

Re: qmail speed

1999-04-09 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to find a way of doing 100K/hour. Ideally with one machine. I vaguely seems to recall that the author of qmail was claiming something like 100K/hour performance? I can't find anything like on the web page. The closest claims are: Efficient: On a Pentium under

Re: qmail speed

1999-04-09 Thread Dave Sill
David Villeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As long as some messages are waiting to be "preprocessed" (see INTERNALS for explanation), qmail does not achieve 255 simultaneous qmail-remote. Besides, as you inject the messages into the queue, qmail-send spends a huge amount of time cleaning up (via

cyclog vs. syslog (was: Queue limit question)

1999-04-12 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the advantages/disadvantages of cyclog over syslog? Advantages: performance, automatic rotation, predetermined maximum size, ability to filter for unusual messages using "usually", no remote access and associated security problems, timestamps are more precise.

Re: [Q] qmail speed again

1999-04-12 Thread Dave Sill
Silver CHEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The mail reason that I can't switch to qmail is that I'm NOT familiar with qmail in early days, so I chose sendmail. You can install qmail without removing/breaking sendmail, so you can revert to sendmail easily. I've read all the articles about the

Re: [Q] qmail speed again

1999-04-12 Thread Dave Sill
Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 'qmail for outgoing' claim is correct. The 'zmailer for incoming' claim is very ridiculous. See: http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/1997/08/msg01208.html

Re: [Q] qmail speed again

1999-04-12 Thread Dave Sill
Samuel Dries-Daffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Dave Sill wrote: You can install qmail without removing/breaking sendmail, so you can revert to sendmail easily. On our server (SGI Indy -- IRIX 6.5) this was mostly true, with one exception-- BSD mail users. We had

Re: [Q] qmail speed again

1999-04-13 Thread Dave Sill
I'm replying to several messages here (see References), but I'm not going to bother attributing each quote. qmail will always be faster than sendmail [unless you send one message to a large number of addresses on the same remote host]. No, qmail will usually win here, too, because sendmail

Re: [Q] qmail speed for 'bulk' mails - thanks for the response!

1999-04-13 Thread Dave Sill
Silver CHEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone said that qmail is weaker if I send many 'RCPT TO:' in one SMTP transactions than sendmail. Well, I don't know the inside story, but I do worry about that statement. Don't worry. There are very rare situations in which sendmail can be faster

Re: [Q] qmail speed again

1999-04-13 Thread Dave Sill
Marc Slemko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...Please give me an example of how to set it up so that a remote site can open as many connections as it wants (which you think it should be able to do) without monopolizing the system. I don't care if a remote site uses all available SMTP connections if:

Re: talk on qmail

1999-04-13 Thread Dave Sill
Greg Owen {gowen} [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Marlon Anthony Abao wrote: could anyone give me their reasons why they switched to qmail from sendmail or any other mail server? anything convincing enough for most of you would most likely be convincing for most other ppl

Re: [Q] qmail speed for 'bulk' mails - thanks for the response!

1999-04-13 Thread Dave Sill
Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Sill wrote: ...with sendmail, one process delivers to all recipients, and only one connection is ever open to a remote site. ... Hmm very untrue in fact. Sendmail will under several circumstances [none of which I will explain here but some

Re: qmail and juno.com

1999-04-14 Thread Dave Sill
Peter Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a list that, when it goes out, pushes our mail server's qmail-remote processes to its max, 180. At points, almost every single one is "connecting" to juno.com, effectively disallowing any other mail from getting through. juno.com, meanwhile, is timing

Re: .qmail-

1999-04-22 Thread Dave Sill
Andy Walden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would assume not go through the hassle of telling dixie why her alias all of a sudden stopped working. I assume you meant "as soon". it would be nice if I could just render it useless before the confusion begins I guess. Did you read Sam's response? On

Re: Batch loading qmail remotes

1999-04-22 Thread Dave Sill
Blaine Lefler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is my first message to the group. I was wondering if there is a way to make qmail open a single qmail connection per domain not per rcpt? No. -Dave

Re: rcpthosts logging.

1999-04-22 Thread Dave Sill
Doug McClure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Qmail's logs are much more difficult to track than sendmail's where before everything was two lines or three, it's five or six, and I'm not able to see things that could be potential configuration problems with Qmail (at least not clearly!). Grab

Re: integrating patches into the distribution

1999-04-22 Thread Dave Sill
"Racer X" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so we can all see the huge number of patches that are listed on www.qmail.org, and i'd be willing to bet that anyone who has used qmail for more than a day or so has had to use at least one of those patches. You'd lose. I've used qmail heavily for three years

Re: .qmail-

1999-04-22 Thread Dave Sill
Andy Walden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I never argued that this didn't work, tried it, and it did. That wasn't the question either. Its more of a control issue that it makes me nervous a user can create addition email addresses for themselves. Why didn't you just say "How can I disable extension

Re: integrating patches into the distribution

1999-04-22 Thread Dave Sill
Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with that theory is that, when someone complains to Dan, he dismisses their concern as trivial and frivolous. Given the choice between being insulted, and actually getting your problem solved by installing a patch, which would you choose? C:

Re: .qmail-

1999-04-22 Thread Dave Sill
Andy Walden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I'm still fumbling around trying to get a grip on this. I have to feel insanely confortable before I move my userbase over to this new server using qmail. So you're a fascist neophobe. :-) I can live with that. The main reasons I'm being pulled in

Re: Linux qmail lost - help dummy!

1999-04-23 Thread Dave Sill
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dave Sill writes: No entries containing the string "delivery"? Sounds they're still in the queue. What do qmail-qstat and qmail-qread say? NOPE just those three lines, on every attempt qmail-qstat and qmail-qread only report a few 17 Apr mails, stu

Re: old popdeamons don't do ~user/Mailbox

1999-04-23 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, I wondered why qmail is not compliant to fsstnd? Because qmail runs on many platforms, not just Linux, and because Dan does things His Way. However, His Way, in this case, is flexible enough to be made nearly fsstnd compliant. All the config files should reside at

Re: ezmlm + mail2html ?

1999-04-26 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder what software to use to have a qmail mailing list indexed online in html format ? I use MHonArc, http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html, to convert to HTML, and OpenText (commercial) for the index and search engine. -Dave

Re: Outgoing mail problems

1999-04-26 Thread Dave Sill
"Durham, Kenneth J" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ive been trying to setup my mail server to send and recieve mail. I set a mail message out to my self from pine to another server outside of my network. this is a snip of the log sending it out. OK, you sent a message to two remote systems, or one

Re: Reinstall

1999-04-26 Thread Dave Sill
"Durham, Kenneth J" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think im just going to go through the whole setup agian from scratch. Can someone give me a good place to get documantation from start to finish to get this thing up and working. I also have to let you know Im very new at this. So any help you

Re: old popdeamons don't do ~user/Mailbox

1999-04-27 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the filetree organized that much different on different Unices? Yep. The ~/.qmail files I'd suggest to put into ~/etc/qmail, rather than hiding them among the lots of various other `dotfiles' that you encounter in users' homes. I can't agree with you there.

Re: strange problem with qmail

1999-04-27 Thread Dave Sill
Eric Shafto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russ, your criticism is valid, but not helpful. It would have taken less effort for you to tell Kyle what info he should be providing. If people doesn't know how to solve the problem themselves, they may well not know what information is important or

Re: Help! Queue file getting VERY large

1999-04-27 Thread Dave Sill
"Guenthner, Ralf DIRZ 612" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using qmail for a year now with no problems. But now the HD of the Linux system is filling up and by means of find I found a 91 MB (!) file in the directory /var/qmail/queue/mess/46458. What the hell is this file and how can I

Re: Procmail and assign?

1999-04-27 Thread Dave Sill
Andy Walden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can procmail be used with an assign db? Each entry in assign points to a directory where qmail looks for .qmail files. Put the "| procmail" line in the appropriate file. -Dave

Re: vacation progam

1999-04-27 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been reading the manpages for qmail and either I've missed something simple or done something stupid, I can'tget the vacation program to work. my .qmail file is: ./Maildir/ |/usr/local/bin/vacation multics messages keep getting delivered over and over again and

Re: old popdeamons don't do ~user/Mailbox

1999-04-28 Thread Dave Sill
Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # ln -s /usr/bin /var/qmail ln -s /usr/bin /var/qmail/bin, I suppose? :) Same thing since /var/qmail is a directory. I'm lazy, so the shorter one appeals to me. -Dave

Re: qmail not fsstnd (Was: old popdeamons ...)

1999-04-28 Thread Dave Sill
"Sam" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's why I prefer to install qmail from the directions in INSTALL. Sure, the rpm's make it easier to *install*, but, IMHO, they make it harder to *maintain* since you don't know exactly what they did. Yes you do. rpm -q -l -vv $PACKAGE That only tells you

Re: DSN

1999-04-28 Thread Dave Sill
"Ferri Andy Ch." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted this DSN issue last week, and not a single response to it. Is there any body care about this feature? Apparently not. There aren't any MUA's that I'm aware of that do anything special with DSN's. Dan considered DSN too cumbersome, so he created

Re: Qmail is not a replacement for Sendmail

1999-04-28 Thread Dave Sill
Pike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Qmail claims it's a replacement for sendmail. It is. It's just not a 100% compatible sendmail replacement. It performs the same high-level functions, but almost all of the details differ. They say 'after installing, read the docs,there are some minor differences'

Help for newbies (was: qmail is not a replacement for sendmail)

1999-04-29 Thread Dave Sill
"Jay D. Dyson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, either I'm seriously underestimating my skill set or a lot of other people are seriously overestimating the skill set necessary to install Qmail without inflicting self-injury. Which is it? I consider myself competent, but by no means

Re: qmailanalog?

1999-04-29 Thread Dave Sill
"Henrik Holmberg" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My qmailanalog programs don't work :( They just hang and do nothing at all, what can be wrong?? Lots of things, but I'm not going to guess. -Dave

Re: new version of qmail

1999-01-21 Thread Dave Sill
Van Liedekerke Franky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just wandering when/if the next version is comming out? I see lots of patches and fixes that could be bundled together for a new qmail: ldap, uce, oversize dns, and many more. I always see "qmail 2" mentioned in the mailing list... If there was a

Re: Aliases..

1999-04-30 Thread Dave Sill
Andy Walden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to do [EMAIL PROTECTED] user. This was pretty painless in sendmail. Couldn't be much easier in qmail: echo vhost.com:user /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains echo vhost.com /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts I also tried the virtualhosts file,

Re: Help for newbies (was: qmail is not a replacement for sendmail)

1999-04-30 Thread Dave Sill
Chris Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 04:08:01PM -, Russell Nelson wrote: Dave Sill writes: People are overestimating the skill set necessary to install qmail without self-injury, which, IMHO, is: 1. Ability to read 2. Ability to think 3

Re: Email header

1999-05-03 Thread Dave Sill
"Jeff Lush" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been successfully using qmail for 2 weeks thanks to the great people and their advice on this list. My latest crusade is to change the line in my email headers that currently state that "qmail was invoked by uid ###" to "qmail was invoked by network".

Re: Virtual domain redirect for one user...?

1999-05-03 Thread Dave Sill
Doug McClure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, what I am trying to do is to have normal delivery (i.e,, [EMAIL PROTECTED], the virtual domain, would get delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED], our primary domain, for all users) excepting specific individuals whom [EMAIL PROTECTED] must get forwarded to

Re: new-user template as indicated in INSTALL.Maildir

1999-05-03 Thread Dave Sill
Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joel Griffiths wrote: Did you change your user's ~/.qmail file echo ./Maildir/ ~/.qmail Still creating a 'Mailbox' even after I deleted it when test mail arrives. Must have missed something in the config...but what ? Beats me. Do "ls -l ~/.qmail; cat

Re: about users/assign

1999-05-04 Thread Dave Sill
Yessure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing a web mail system based on qmail. For the security reason,i am using users/assign(and hash table users/cdb) instead of system /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. It works fine. But the problem is, if there is 10 or more users can it works fine

Re: why csh?

1999-05-04 Thread Dave Sill
Marlon Anthony Abao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: am running qmail as follows : /bin/csh -cf '/usr/local/bin/supervise /var/run/qmail /var/qmail/rc ' but why csh? why not use the default shell (in my case, bash)? just wondering... Bash will work, too. Dan recommends csh

Re: Capture domains

1999-05-04 Thread Dave Sill
"Tom Furie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, so I can set qmail to accept and queue mail for 'user@domain'. Good for you. :-) How do I allow mail to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to be captured by the same queue? What do you mean by "the same queue"? There's only one queue per qmail installation. Can't

Re: qmail and smtp error messages

1999-05-04 Thread Dave Sill
Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Connected to 207.69.200.126 but sender was rejected. Remote host said: 550-MindSpring mail servers are unable to deliver this e-mail. 550-Please contact your Internet Service Provider to find out how 550-to send e-mail using the proper SMTP

Re: Read flag on message.

1999-05-04 Thread Dave Sill
Andy Walden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use maildirs, but I don't see what you are refering to on the man page. How about: Each file in new is a newly delivered mail message. And: Files in cur are just like files in new. The big difference is that files in cur are no longer new

Re: Read flag on message.

1999-05-04 Thread Dave Sill
Andy Walden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except that using pine and mbox2maildir, the messages never hit the current directory and still maintain a read or unread flag. Sounds like mbox2maildir is broken, then. Pine uses the Status header field, as Sam said, in the mbox format mailbox. mbox2maildir

Reviewers/proofreaders wanted

1999-05-05 Thread Dave Sill
I've got enough of my qmail guide complete that it's worth reviewing: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html It's still less than half done, though, so don't bother telling me that section X.Y is empty. :-) Let me if like it, hate it, or don't care either way. If you think it needs

Re: qmail cant find host.

1999-05-06 Thread Dave Sill
Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: qmail uses DNS only--it won't look at /etc/hosts. Change your control/smtproutes file to: :10.1.1.1 Make that: :[10.1.1.1] -Dave

Re: US Crypto export limits ruled unconstitutional

1999-05-07 Thread Dave Sill
Anyone have a GIF or JPG of Dan? I'd like to have a face to place with the name. -Dave

RE: setting relay clients

1999-05-11 Thread Dave Sill
Jari Tenhunen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone succesfully configured selective relay with tcp_wrappers ?? Yes, but it's not supported. One problem is that tcp_wrappers has to be built with a certain non-default option for it to work. Or do I have to install tcpserver ?? That *will* work.

Re: QMAIL definitely violates PIPELINING specification ...

1999-05-12 Thread Dave Sill
"DUGRES Hugues, I.T. manager at C.Q.E." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you think of that ??? I don't believe it. yep, it is definite, QMAIL violates RFC 2197, and should *NOT* claim support for PIPELINING. MAIL From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] BODY=8BITMIME RCPT To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 ok 250 ok

Re: rcpthosts

1999-05-12 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I sort of asked this question before, but I'm going to try again, this time with a little more info. Good idea. :-) I try to use fetchmail to download mail from another server. While running fetchmail, it dies saying "fetchmail: can't even send to user!" (user

Re: a question on repacking queue

1999-05-12 Thread Dave Sill
olli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I need to repack immediately send mail I should killall -ALRM qmail-send. I do this then I got dialup user that wish to get mail via smtp. But what about big ISPs that have many dialup clients a big spool? You should use AutoTURN from the serialmail package.

Re: More Info (was Re: rcpthosts)

1999-05-12 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the time being, my system only has a dialup connection, so all that's in my rcpthosts and locals is localhost.localdomain. You should add "the-i.net" to rcphosts and put "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:jason" in virtualdomains. Also, create a ~jason/.qmail-jasonf or

Re: Mail Queue Just Keeps Growing....

1999-05-13 Thread Dave Sill
#!/bin/sh # Copyright (c) 1998 Software in the Public Interest http://www.debian.org/ # Written by Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Distributed under the GNU GPL # $Id: qmail-procmail,v 1.2 1998/03/24 19:31:27 phil Exp $ # modified by Dave Sill /var/qmail/bin/pr

Re: script to tail latest logfile in a directory?

1999-05-13 Thread Dave Sill
"Scott D. Yelich" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's wrong with something like: tail -f `ls -rt | tail -1` Doesn't notice when a new file is created, which cyclog is want to do. -Dave

Re: Could someone help, please?

1999-05-13 Thread Dave Sill
"Ralf Guenthner" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: System: SUSE Linux, qmail 1.03 Is it possible to set up qmail in such a fashion that it routes messages for certain recipients, eg. to my address [EMAIL PROTECTED], not to our normal mail server inside the LAN -whose IP address is in smtproutes- but

Re: help: tcpserver dies.

1999-05-13 Thread Dave Sill
Jhirley Fonte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tcpserver running from /var/qmail/rc using the following command line on one line, /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -v -u 504 -g 503 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 But It keeps

Re: script to tail latest logfile in a directory?

1999-05-13 Thread Dave Sill
"Scott D. Yelich" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Um... so is the trigger a new file has been created Yes. or no more input is being put into the file? Each one of those begs a question... the first is, do you want to "tail" or "cat" each and every new file that is generated Yes. Cyclog keeps a

Re: Qmail crashed....

1999-05-13 Thread Dave Sill
Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you describe "crash" in more detail? Are you using tcpserver or inetd? Dollars to doughnuts he's using inetd and "crash" means connections to port 25 are refused. Dan, is it time to declare inetd unsupported, yet? -Dave

Re: Mail Queue Just Keeps Growing....

1999-05-13 Thread Dave Sill
"Christopher Porreca" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be happening on my mail server? What do your logs say? Trace a single delivery in the logs, and see where the delay is occuring. Run some qmailanalog stats on the logs. What are your concurrencylocal

Re: Qmail crashed....

1999-05-13 Thread Dave Sill
Ë÷Ò×µç×Ó¿¯Îï [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have apache 1.3.6? There is a benchmark program 'ab',and you can run it:(src/support/ab) ./ab -c 800 yourhost:25/abc.htm then qmail will crash(btw,yourhost:80 SOMETIME can cause apache crash ,but qmail ALWAYS... :( so I dont't think it is

Re: forwarding question

1999-05-13 Thread Dave Sill
"Praniti Lakhwara" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a question regarding forwarding. I ahve a mailing address set up which is supposed to forward to 230 accounts. but when I ad dthe 230 email addresses in its forward to box...and submit it comes back and says You've got too many unidentified

Re: qmail config questions

1999-05-13 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, I'm wanting to set up qmail so that it's rather unfriendly to people who telnet straight into it. I want to completely turn off help so that it doesn't display any version info etc., as well as turning off echo so they can't see what they're typing. How do I go

Re: script to tail latest logfile in a directory?

1999-05-13 Thread Dave Sill
"Robin Bowes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before I do a bit of coding, has anyone written a script to identify the most recent log file and tail it, preferably switching files when the log file turns over? Jeff Hayward's taildir does what you want. It's small, and I don't have a URL, so I've

Re: Q: RedHat 6.0 and qmail RPMs

1999-05-14 Thread Dave Sill
Christian Wiese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Q: Are the qmail RPMs good, or should I use the "normal" way (compile the qmail sources) to setup my qmail server ??? See URL:http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#Installation Issues. -Dave

Re: problems with autoturn

1999-05-14 Thread Dave Sill
I have serious problems with autoturn from the serialmail package. You might want to try the serialmail mailing list. -Dave

Re: daemontools

1999-05-15 Thread Dave Sill
"Chris Garrigues" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do I dig up info on daemontools? I can't find any links on either www.qmail.org or djb's qmail page. See http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#daemontools -Dave

Re: problems with autoturn

1999-05-15 Thread Dave Sill
Eike Kiltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 14 May 1999, Dave Sill wrote: You might want to try the serialmail mailing list. Yes I did so... You didn't say that. ... but nobody seemed to care :( That happens. Sometimes it's because nobody cares. It can also mean nobody understands

Re: problems with autoturn

1999-05-15 Thread Dave Sill
Eike Kiltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whenever the client involves the smtp-delivery of his autoturn-queue with the TURN signal the transfer of the mail hangs at a special position of the mail just right after the "mime header" of the secound attchmnt, see below. The original mail with all headers

Re: taildir won't compile...

1999-05-15 Thread Dave Sill
"Scott D. Yelich" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, taildir still doesn't "work" ... although it mostly compiles and stuff now. What's the next step? !block irony Demand a refund! Lobby your congressman to approve the Software Portability Act, which carries a mandatory life sentence for any

Re: Multiple outgoing messages

1999-01-28 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I was affraid of that. Drat! I finally got everything working together, too. Any suggestions for a package that would be good in this situation. The boss isn't going to let that fly. If qmail doesn't fit, try Postfix. It's still beta, though. See

Re: Mass migration off of qmail because of lack of DSNs?

1999-05-18 Thread Dave Sill
Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With VERP, if you receive a bounce, then it will be addressed in such a way as to completely specify what bounced. Period. Handling that automatically is certainly no trick. Well, actually, sometimes gateways send bounces

Re: Mass migration off of qmail because of lack of DSNs?

1999-05-18 Thread Dave Sill
Tasos Kotsikonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not a subscriber of this list so if you have any relevant comments please copy me too. Our company is looking around for qmail replacements that do DSNs, after having sent a couple of emails to Dan and received no replies on this issue. Dan's

Re: Mass migration off of qmail because of lack of DSNs?

1999-05-19 Thread Dave Sill
"Sam" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you have mailing lists that number in millions, you will usually have thousands of messages going to the same [domain]. Using VERPs will require a thousand times as much bandwidth. Each individual message will have to be transmitted separately, plus each

Re: Mass migration off of qmail because of lack of DSNs?

1999-05-19 Thread Dave Sill
Tasos Kotsikonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With so much volume of email going out we need to cut down on the number of bounces. As we expect megabytes of bounces each day coming back from each such list, we need to keep our lists as clean as possible. Nothing else other than DSNs will allow us

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