Re: rss spam filtering problems

2001-06-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 01:17:24PM -0400, Brent B. Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't seem to be filtering out relay sites via relays.mail-abuse.org. The address that gets through is on the relay This should be in the archives. The RSS people dropped the text records, because of

Re: sending mail from scripts fails

2001-06-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 05:21:58PM +0200, Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I'm using qmail-1.03 I'm having problems sending mail from withing perl scripts. The scirpt I used worked perfectly on a linux server using sendmail. Now I'n using it on our news server with qmail. The scirpt

Re: list got quite

2001-05-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:01:05AM +0200, Jörgen Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:48:44PM -0700, Graham H. wrote: Wasn't just you. It seemed qmail was down. It was an electrical upgrade according to http://cr.yp.to/ If you get the messages of changes to the

qmail + mutt

2001-05-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
I finally got around to upgrading mutt to 1.25 and took another look at setting it up to work correctly with qmail. My solution (which you might want to mention in your qmail help) is: set sendmail=/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject -h set write_bcc=yes This lets qmail parse the message headers and

Re: OT: where are you from

2001-05-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
djb uses cr.yp.to only because it looks good and is easy to remember, however. He's not (AFAIK :) related to anybody in Tonga. .to domains are not controlled by NSI, which some of us perceive as being a big benefit. I also like their no spamming policy. The only thing I don't like, is that I

Re: Empty Mail From: command

2001-05-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:52:57AM +0200, Frank Tegtmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Additionally you will be the enemy of the admins who will get the double bounces instead. When a bounce is not deliverable it goes to an administrative account of the sending mailserver. This is something

Re: Handling high volume lists (was: Newbies vs. arrogant experts)

2001-05-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 10:18:45AM +0200, Robin S. Socha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: · dupes (like, I am on this list and only a complete retard would send me a Cc: (which makes approx. 31 retards per month which, in return, makes me wonder when the prices for anti-personnel ammo will

It's not my list but ... (AV Bots)

2001-04-24 Thread Bruno Wolff III
It isn't my list, but if it was I would add the IP addresses of any servers that sent a virus warning to my list into my tcp rules block list.

Re: It's not my list but ... (AV Bots)

2001-04-24 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:51:02AM -0600, Andy Bradford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 08:35:10 CDT, Bruno Wolff III wrote: It isn't my list, but if it was I would add the IP addresses of any servers that sent a virus warning to my list into my tcp rules block list

Re: reverse DNS?

2001-03-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:07:46AM -, John Conover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication? I don't think this buys you much in the way of spam protection and can block legitimate

Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]amavis or qmail-scanner ?

2001-02-28 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:23:20AM +0100, Jrmy Cluzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and wath about scanners ? which is the best one ? and why ? are they really needed for such antivirus ? I've heard that some AV (live avp) have their own scanner (which tends to replace amavis or qmail scanner).

Re: Return address for autoresponder

2001-02-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 04:21:07PM -0500, Leander Berwers [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am writing an auto-responder in Perl. I have been looking for the ones publicly available, but I was wondering to what address I have to respond to, namely: Do you need to look for Reply-To: first and if that

Re: Outlook Express Prank

2000-12-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 10:19:27PM +0100, "Robin S. Socha" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recommended reading for obvious newbies like yourself: http://learn.to/attribute/ I took a look at the attribute page because I had had a recent discussion with someone over whether or not date and/or time

Re: How to get Mail delivery in form cgi´s work

2000-12-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 06:20:32PM -0500, Peter Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Hans-Juergen Schwarz wrote: Hello all, when a form processing-cgi requieres a /path/to/mailprog I usually put the line /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject in it. But is some cases it doesn´t

Re: How to get Mail delivery in form cgi´s work

2000-12-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 09:20:07AM -0800, Jon Rust [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:10:59AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: No it does not. sendmail expects encoded email addresses in the argument list, while the qmail wrapper expects raw addresses. This cause problems

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 04:18:52PM -0600, "John W. Lemons III" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with this as well, but certainly you can see that there is some level of benefit from a two (or three) tier approach to virus detection/prevention. How does doing virus checking twice help? It

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 06:54:01PM -0500, "Nathan J. Mehl" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Um, ISTR that the Morris Worm did a pretty good job of spreading over heterogeneous UNIX-like systems over a variety of transports. And despite his father's connections, RTM himself was basically a bored

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 02:42:25PM -0600, "John W. Lemons III" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is true enough, but if the virus can be stopped some of the time before it even reaches the end user, why not? Because there are costs in doing so. Generally if a person needs antivirus

Re: RFC822 compliant?

2000-11-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 08:05:20AM -0800, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean "someone@domain" as the complete address with no dots on the right-hand side? Bear in mind that RFC 822 contains *no* address canonicalization provisions; if you're expecting your local domain to

Re: SpamKiller - a /interesting/ product

2000-10-24 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 06:13:11PM +1100, Brett Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Configured with the ability to manually send a complaint back to the sender, or the postmaster/abuse account there, it could serve as a I would be shocked if it actually analysed the received headers using a

Re: Sender address rejected because of trailing

2000-10-24 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 08:36:06PM -0400, Francis Abella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Return-Path: "\"joeuser\" joeuser"@mybox.com From: "joeuser" [EMAIL PROTECTED] What looks like is happening is that the address feild on the from line is being used as the envelope sender address. This is not

Re: Site down?

2000-10-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 11:16:38AM -0400, Nick Lekic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that http://cr.yp.to site is down. Anyone knows where I can download qmail, uscpi-tcp and daemontools from? Thanks Nick My guess is that the transformer fire in Chicago may have had an effect. It

Re: qmail list reply-to

2000-10-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 05:33:34PM -0400, Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles McLagan writes: Now, one can trash Microsoft, or Netscape, or whoever makes the MUA, but the bottom line is, this is how they work and this is how 99% of users would use them even if there

Re: xinetd vs. tcpserver

2000-10-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 10:27:42AM +0200, Martin Jespersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with tcpserver is that it doesn't use libwrap and this is absolutely nescessry since i have automated hosts.allow and hosts.deny generation by programs that i haven't written and are not a good

Re: html forms within messages

2000-10-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 06:22:51PM -0300, Eric Dahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we can send html formatted messages. can we send an html email which includes a form or link that when submitted would contact a web server and refresh the original html message with new cgi generated content?

Re: double bounce policy

2000-09-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
By far most double bounces I see are spam with bogus return addresses listed for old email addresses here. Those I ignore. Some are for broken list servers, some of which don't accept bounce messages. Sometimes I write filter rules for those to forward future crap to their postmaster and list

Re: daemontools

2000-09-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:33:21PM +0200, Frans Haarman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see constant disk activity when using daemontools to monitor qmail. Is this bad for my hd ? Someone told me changes of my disks dying with constat disk activity are much higher! If they are making noise

Re: FAQ Listbot? (was: Re: rcphosts)

2000-09-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 01:22:40AM -0700, Eric Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, is there a downside to this that I just can't see? Am I asking for trouble by having a bot listen in on this list? You have probably thought of this already, but make sure it doesn't reply to answers to

Re: UUCP addressing?

2000-09-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 06:44:58PM -, John Conover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I receive email for a domain via uucp, and send out mail via smtp to a commercial relay host, (why, is a rather complicated issue,) which is the default in smtproutes for non-local domain delivery. Incoming

Re: duplicate messages

2000-09-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:53:20PM -0700, Christopher Taranto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jamie, My post of a couple of days ago has a similar problem - but no one has responded to my message. I don't think I have the answer to your problem, but one thing you should be aware of is that

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

Re: Acceptable Characters?

2000-08-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 01:29:02PM +0200, Magnus Bodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that qmail folds letters to lower case, which actually is correct -- but only for the postmaster address. No. Except for postmaster and the null address 'local' parts of the address can be treated

Re: open port 113 ?

2000-08-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 04:00:42PM +0200, Fat Toolz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi qmail, I just opened the firewall on port 113, the logon is quite faster and I'm quite lucky to miss this dumb Outlook Express-Screen "Your Server has not responded for 60 seconds" :-) . I want to enable

Re: Acceptable Characters?

2000-08-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:27:24AM -0400, Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruno Wolff III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 01:29:02PM +0200, Magnus Bodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that qmail folds letters to lower case, which actually is correct -- but only

Re: starting smtpd with tcpserver question

2000-08-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 02:44:49PM -0400, Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: =?windows-1255?B?5+np7SDk7PT47w==?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why does it say in all the qmail manuals and LWQ to start smtpd with tcpserver with the -p switch to check dns addresses? Just being cautious. A bad

Re: tcpserver return codes

2000-08-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 04:39:52PM -0400, John Steniger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having an issue which I believe is tcpserver; I've searched the archives and haven't found anything. I have qmail up and running under tcpserver, and using a client like Outlook I am able to both send

Re: SPAM From (was Re: Re: from: ???)

2000-08-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 04:46:32PM -0700, "Aaron L. Meehan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How they can allow their users to send lots of mail--to such places as AOL, any network for that matter that has external mail gateways that forward to internal hosts--and when it bounces NOT know about it

Re: updated load balancing qmail-qmqpc.c mods

2000-08-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 05:08:28PM +, JuanE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did not think of that. Good suggestion. It seems like it would be a good compropmise if you can take your down server out of the rotation relatively quickly. If not, then you'll waste considerable time polling

Re: local-test sends to internet

2000-07-28 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 11:05:54PM -0700, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks ... Nice page. Not sure I understand why qmail strips out the `^From ' line though. Necessitating hacks and add on guff, like `preline'. You don't want to use the from line anyway. There isn't a

Re: IPCHAINS and slow POP/SMTP access

2000-07-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 01:08:36AM -0700, Doug Oucharek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've searched the archives on this topic and though there are a lot of people who have reported this issue, I have not really seen a solution yet. I have a Linux box (Redhad 5.?) which I use as a

Re: RBL list

2000-07-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 12:04:59PM +0200, TAG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way of keeping a local copy of the RBL lists and using those instead of trying to get it from the remote site - should this not speed things up - I also know that the list is updated all the time - but can

Re: RBL list

2000-07-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 10:44:49AM -0400, Paul Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, RBL onlt requires that you do that if you want certian levels of filtering (namely DNS). uscpi-tcp-88 has RBL built in.. www.qmail.org But this program does a remote lookup each time. The original question

Re: Announcing qmail-autoresponder version 0.90

2000-07-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 06:10:45AM -, Bruce Guenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Version 0.90 of qmail-autoresponder is now available at: http://em.ca/~bruceg/qmail-autoresponder/ I took a look at it any it seems pretty nice. However around here we still use reflectors on the main

Re: Announcing qmail-autoresponder version 0.90

2000-07-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 09:07:19AM -0600, Bruce Guenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 09:08:45AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: I took a look at it any it seems pretty nice. However around here we still use reflectors on the main mailservers and having a check

Re: qmail-inject not fully RFC822 compliant.

2000-07-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
This is because qmail-inject expects to be passed unencoded email addresses and mutt passes rfc 821 encoded email addresses. They do this because sendmail treats addresses as being rfc 822 encoded, and some unencoded addresses won't work. If you want these addresses to work you can modify the

Re: qmail-inject not fully RFC822 compliant.

2000-07-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 04:22:11PM +0200, Magnus Bodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you mean that mutt encodes the addresses? It passes the address like this: "address with spaces"@x42.com nothinge else. Most likely you the address you are really referring to is: address with [EMAIL

Re: RFC822 and qmail-inject

2000-07-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
As I see it, qmail-inject does not like quoted-strings in local-part on the command line. No, it treats the addresses on the command lines as raw addresses. If there are quotes in the raw address (and almost certainly there won't be), then they would be included on the command line. The

Re: OT: Re: RFC822, mutt and qmail-inject

2000-07-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
OK. It's just that I can't really find the guilty part. When using a perl wrapper with mutt, mutt sends -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "address with spaces"@x42.com on the command line to the mail queuer. Doing this manually works. But letting mutt do it directly to qmail-inject fails by

Re: bouncing unknown addresses

2000-06-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 10:35:41AM -0500, Eric Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a domain name similar to another domain name registered by another company. It appears that their users have no regard for how to correctly type their own domain name, so they forget one letter and end up

Re: bouncing unknown addresses

2000-06-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 10:49:54AM -0500, Positive it's not happening. People sending from legit addresses don't get a bounced message saying the message could not be delivered to xyz user on my system. It just delivers to the postmaster account and the person that wrote the message hasn't

Re: How to increase the MAX hop count

2000-06-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 01:10:51PM -0700, David Benfell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He's right. If you do a traceroute to just about anything, you'll see that 25 hops is ample. When it takes more than 25 hops, it's getting lost. The kind of hops counted by traceroute aren't the ones that

Re: 501 Syntax Error

2000-06-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 04:13:44PM -0500, Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone familiar with any weirdness betwixt qmail and webboard mail servers? My experience with webboard mail servers is that they are broken. They don't accept as a valid envelope sender address. As far as I

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 02:36:24PM -0700, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruno Wolff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think I will be able to use them again as I only want to block inputs and outputs, since the ORBS seems to catch sites faster than the RSS. That's because RSS

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
- ORBS blocks "unfriendly" sites criticising ORBS Is there a site with documentation on this? I'd like to check it out for myself. There is a bit more to it then that. Some people who disagree with how the ORBS is run block their relay tests. The ORBS considers this grounds for being

Re: Sender domain must resolve

2000-06-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 12:27:49PM +0200, Pablo Martínez Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having some problems sending mail to a specific domain... When qmail tries to send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from our mail server (212.49.139.237) and the sender is [EMAIL PROTECTED], bt.es mail

Re: Sender domain must resolve

2000-06-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 03:37:30PM +0200, Pablo Martínez Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruno Wolff III wrote: There isn't any MX or A record associated with hidratel.com. Some sites check for the existance of an A record or MX record and refuse email if there isn't one. Not all sites

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 09:13:24AM -0700, Ryan Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It makes perfect sense, from a certain point of view. The ORBS guys want to list relays. The run across an address block that has a number of open relays, and the adminitrators of that block aren't responsive

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 07:09:57PM +0200, Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That depends on your filtering software. It seems djb's rblsmtpd does not have an option to change this. That sucks. Your choice is hereby reduced (by DJB, not by any people at ORBS) to 'block everything ORBS

Re: I want to leave this list

2000-05-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 07:33:08AM -0500, Troy Frericks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody given an explanation as to why this simple change has not been implemented on this list. Kinds of seems silly that it has not been done, especially given the extra messages not having it

Re: sending bulk personalized email

2000-05-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 07:41:39AM +1000, Michael Waples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a client that needs various mailing lists and needs to send around 100,000 messages a day - he needs to handle bounces and subscriptions automatically- ezmlm-idx seems perfect but for one thing - he

Re: How do you do it?

2000-05-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 04:58:58PM -0300, Rogerio Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave is impressive, indeed. But Dan's got to get the prize. Let's see. The man is a teacher, active researcher writing papers about Number Theory (that's what I want to be when I grow

Re: Future of qmail: will it care about viri/worms/etc?

2000-05-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 05:14:46PM -0600, Steve Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there should be no need to "hack" qmail And there isn't! Why do people persist on insecure MUAs? I'll chime in on this, even though my view may not be the same as everyone else's. The problem

Re: Future of qmail: will it care about viri/worms/etc?

2000-05-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 05:14:46PM -0600, Steve Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I sent my analysis of the "iloveyou" virus to BugTraq, I was deluged with email - all of them bounces. Because my message started with "ilove you", many, many mail servers had blocked it. That was

Re: origins of Bracketed Quad notation

2000-05-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 04:35:01PM -0500, "David L. Nicol" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone point me to the IETF RFC describing e-mail addresses of the form david@[10.10.10.10] Although web pages refer to this construction as a "821-compliant address" I found no discussion of

Re: hack for filtering i love you worm

2000-05-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 02:56:38AM -0600, Neil Schemenauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 07:28:32PM -0400, Searcher wrote: exit(31) if /name="LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs"/o; Am I missing something here? Nothing except that fact that the real solution is to fix

Re: Recipient MTA is rejecting bounces

2000-04-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
Also, Do people see the benifit in doing resolvable name checks. Doesn't it hurt in the above scenario It encourages spammers to abuse real domain names so that someone can sue them. There have been a couple of successful law suits over sending spam with someone else's domain name. It keeps

Re: HTML mail considered harmful

2000-04-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 09:42:10AM +0100, Horses for courses, PGP has its place but not on mailing lists for example. I disagree. It can be important to establish you always sign messages to lend credibility for when you want to deny posting/sending some message. PGP signed messages will

Re: HTML mail and this list...

2000-04-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 01:53:39PM -0400, "Timothy L. Mayo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please do NOT use HTML on this list. :) Quite a few of us use pine or mutt to read our mail. But we're the lucky ones, the people who are probably going to get hosed are the ones reading their mail with

Re: forwarding maildir messages

2000-04-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 12:54:08PM +1000, Manfred Bartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the easiest way to forward a whole bunch of messages in a maildir to a different user account on a different system? Tag all of the messages and then mass bounce or forward them to the other user. This

Re: Mail Headers

2000-04-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 02:59:51PM -0400, "Vaz, Len" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More of a email format rather than a qmail question, so I apologize for posting this here up front. Could not get the answer in Dan's pages. If I were to get a bounced message, is it possible to re-direct the

Re: qmail initiating identd lookups?

2000-04-07 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 12:12:24AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any component of qmail/ucspi-tcp that would initiate identd lookups on a remote host? A network admin has complained that his server has been receiving a large amount of identd queries to his server coming from our

Re: dumb ezmlm question

2000-04-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 05:37:19PM -0500, Erich Zigler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 03:19:10PM -0700, Joel Dudley wrote: How does one set up ezmlm so that when someone replies to a message they recieved from the list it is replied to the list, and not the author of

Re: qmail-smtpd on SCO OSR5.0.5

2000-04-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
This sounds a little like a problem that was reported to the bugtraq list last week. There are some places that are sending back broken packets. From memory, it was in response to pactkets setting socket options and these options were sent back as data. This primarily affects linux systems. On

Re: How does one unsubscribe from this list?

2000-03-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 06:57:18AM -0600, Troy Frericks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it would be nice if it were part of the displayable portion of each post. Almost all other mailing lists do it. This list is being run on qmail, and qmail has the ability to attach a footer (part of the text

Re: Addition was Weird

2000-03-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 06:09:09PM -0700, Irwan Hadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After waiting for long time, the SMTP banner then up again how this could be happened ? so when I telnet localhost 25, I must wait about 3 minutes to wait until the SMTP banner up. (qmail is ready) how to fix

Re: Bad reading of headers?

2000-03-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
ezmlm looks at the envelope sender address, not the from header, and not the nonstandard errors-to header, when checking for subscribed addresses. You can manually add other addresses that are allowed to post messages, and that is probably the easiest solution to your problem. On Thu, Mar 23,

Re: Error 1

2000-03-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 09:14:34AM -0600, Chris Garrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I actually intercept outgoing traffic to point 25 and send it to my own server. I've only had one person notice this and when I explained why, he decided that he could see how that might be useful and

Re: Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:33:11 zTo: header

2000-03-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 09:58:33PM -0500, stanislav shalunov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A (clueless) relative of my wife sent her an "animated Purim greeting card." She showed me the message asking how she can stop seeing such mail or somesuch. I have the same problem and have been trying to

Re: Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:33:11 zTo: header

2000-03-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 12:22:21PM -0500, Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruno Wolff III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same problem and have been trying to educate my relatives. What education do people sending you cards need? Apparently I need it, too. That I don't read

Re: Qmail accepting spawm

2000-03-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 03:13:19PM +, Jorge Rocha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 ok Anybody know a way to solve this problem? Tell the people doing the testing to fix their test. There is nothing wrong with accepting that email as long as you don't blindly

Re: Unknown recipients

2000-03-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 10:47:00AM +0100, Claus Färber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the question here is, what's better: A security hole allowing remote attackers to find out which email address is valid without waiting for the bounce (and giving a valid return address in advance) or

Re: Slow SMTP

2000-03-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 04:41:44AM +0100, Markus Stumpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 10:17:22PM -0500, andy huhn wrote: What is the difference between ident-lookups and DNS? And why would either one affect incoming mail? Ident lookups try to gather information about

Re: Slightly OT: Bcc - who is repsonsible

2000-03-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 03:29:06PM +0100, Markus Stumpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hoi folx, just had a discussion with a support person. Their MUA is not deleting Bcc: Lines from the header. They claim it's within the repsonsibility of the MTA to look at the headers and "do the right

Re: Slightly OT: Bcc - who is repsonsible

2000-03-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 10:03:33AM -0600, Chris Garrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Back in the 80's, when I was a Lisp Machine administrator, the Symbolics email system would send bcc'd mail *with* the bcc header to those who were on the BCC list and without it to those who weren't.

Re: SMTP in distributed DOS

2000-03-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 11:34:11AM -, Lorens Kockum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the qmail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:04 AM 2/20/00 -0800, Dirk Harms-Merbitz wrote: Just imagine what happens when some script kiddie uses a few ten thousand trojaned cable/dsl connected home

Re: SMTP in distributed DOS

2000-03-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 02:53:41PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're missing a point: the message is sent with a couple of 100 recipients. All these recipients will bounce the message - separately. There's your amplification :) This is a gain if you are sending the original message

Re: SMTP in distributed DOS

2000-03-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 03:06:16PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 08:03:04AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 02:53:41PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're missing a point: the message is sent with a couple of 100 recipients

Re: qmail-smtpd and multilog

2000-03-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
The tcpserver options I copied over included -q. I should know better than to ask questions late at night. On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 12:43:46AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am setting up qmail on a new box and am trying to use multilog (which I wasn't on my old box

Re: [qmail] Unix as it should be

2000-03-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 03:44:44PM -0500, ari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, i believe that running files as their own separate user is not good enough; if at all possible, services should be in their own chroot()'ed environment. There is no excuse for named to run either as root or

Re: Effective anti spamming

2000-02-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 03:27:17PM -0500, "Mark E. Drummond" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently using rblsmtpd to block spammers on the RBL. I may add ORBS as well. Think I'll wait, gather some stats on how much is being blocked by RBL, and then compare with RBL+ORBS. Also look at the

qmail-smtpd and multilog

2000-02-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
I am setting up qmail on a new box and am trying to use multilog (which I wasn't on my old box). It seems to work OK for qmail, but I also was going to try to use it for qmail-smtpd. I think the multilog stuff is set up correctly, but I am not getting anything logged. Is this normal? Is there a

Re: address translation

2000-02-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 08:02:24AM +0100, Hans Sandsdalen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to remove the "host!" part of the string. I could of course use .qmail files, but this will be a lot of work. There is not a fixed number of hosts nor users at each host. You can use the catch

Re: address translation

2000-02-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 10:50:46AM +0100, Hans Sandsdalen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi How do I make qmail understand addresses like host!user@domain? I have installed HP jetadmin on a Solaris 7 system, and when there are printing errors it sends a mail to the user with addresses like

Re: OT: fsync semantics (was Re: Linux kernel ....)

2000-02-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 10:43:37AM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True; but if you're modifying existing files, the directory data to locate it is already safely on disk; only the timestamp might be wrong. This isn't the qmail situation, but it's an important real

Re: workaround for port 25 block?

2000-02-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 07:46:17AM -0500, Brian R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My isp blocks port 25, I was looking for suggestions to get around this. The only thing I can come up with is: setting up a relay from an outside box to another port on my machine. Is this plausible? I am assuming

Re: Sending to an IP address

2000-02-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 12:29:03AM -0500, Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Wilson Fletcher wrote: I ried to send to wilson@[203.26.11.154] but it failed. Can someone tell me why ? Because this form of addressing is obsolete and deprecated. Once upon a time MX records

Re: Maildir format

2000-01-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
There is a new GNU project starting up called GLUE that seems to be concerned with at least some of the same things you are (plus other stuff). You can start looking at their goals at: http://www.gnu.org/software/glue/glue.html On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 12:46:16PM -0600, Bruce Guenter [EMAIL

Re: What MUA do you use?

2000-01-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 09:53:49PM -0500, "Mark E. Drummond" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Communicator. Spawning a browser to view some goofballs HTML mail, which I receive a lot of, is a pain in the ass. Lacks some of the features I was used to in mutt and pine, not nearly as configurable,

Re: Using mutt and qmail.

1999-12-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 05:57:30PM +0100, Arne Hanssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Some days ago on this list, some guys were discussing whether Return-Path is set by the MUA or the MTA. This is an issue for me as I have (had?) problems with this, using mutt. Even if I try to include a

Re: Oops, someone tried to send you a virus

1999-12-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 01:55:19PM -0500, Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Brown writes: Actually, in this case, it was a completely automated system. I don't believe malice here. Yes, and it did the right thing in this case -- to send email to all likely receipients

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