Russ Allbery wrote:
Rather, it tries to bounce them and the bounce bounces as undeliverable.
The solution is for ORBS to stop probing systems from which no spam has
ever been sent and for which there is no reason to suspect a lack of
security.
they were a lot easier to igore when they
Oleg Polyakov wrote:
I'm not sure how qmail works if you are sending 100 messages
from server to another one.
Does it open 100 connections concurrently?
it opens maxconcurrency connections. It doesn't have per-site
concurrency limit, unles you patch it. It is reccommended, if
you are
Meuse, Andy wrote:
Hey all,
A few accounts on my qmail server recieve 1000 emails a day.
Sometimes these don't get checked for weeks. The mail is also kept on the
server for a few weeks so the CUR dir gets pretty massive.
It's all been running fine for months with no
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Which qmail process write the X-Sender field in the headers? I would like
to remove it, or to rewrite it, because it uses the name of my
host/domain, which are not real. BTW, how can i rewrite any header of my
outgoing mail?
David Gmez
"The question of
Tracy R Reed wrote:
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 01:08:47PM -0600, Herbie wrote:
Well the simplest way is to have one machine act as the gateway for all
mail and create alias files to forward the mail onto the second machine. I
used a simple perl script from a flat file to create the .qmail
I have a server called MLM and 4 servers called
MLM1,2,3,4
.
MLM is a central server with Qmail and EZMLM, and the other servers are
the RELAY
Run this to start your load balancing:
perl -e'chdir"/var/control/";while(1){sleep(1);system "echo :MLM${\(++$n%4 + 1)}sr_";
rename
the QMTP spec includes:
8. Examples
A client opens a connection and sends the concatenation of the
following strings:
"246:" 0a
"Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 0);"
" 29 Jul 1996 09:36:40 -" 0a
"Date: 29 Jul 1996 11:35:35 -" 0a
David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
Um, most reporting measured results from optimizing high-traffic
qmail-based mail servers have found that disk activity on the queue
disk is the first limit they hit.
How about, if the first delivery fails, pass it off to a server with
some disks. Why not
Chris Garrigues wrote:
"Upgrade" suggests adding features, rather more than "patch" does;
patches are often released to fix bugs.
How about "addition" or "extension"?
we need something that vaguely impugns the patch, without implying
that the patch is required, and we wish to keep
James R Grinter wrote:
"David L. Nicol" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What exactly is the threat this is supposed to guard against? Is
it directory descending on vms, or access to the .. directory somehow?
I think it's along the lines of something like 'user-/../foo@domain'
w
Johan Almqvist wrote:
man 5 dot-qmail
replace the dot (.) with a colon (:) in the name of the .qmail file, ie
.qmail-ar:rubin
-Johan
that man page says:
WARNING: For security, qmail-local replaces any dots in ext with colons
before checking .qmail-ext. For convenience,
o load up that
relay.
"Collin B. McClendon" wrote:
Hello,
Sounds good.
Thanks,
Collin
-Original Message-
From: David L. Nicol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 9:58 AM
To: Collin B. McClendon
Subject: Re: Qmail and Large Scale Dynamic Maili
Matt Harrington wrote:
Great! that does it. Any idea how to include a newline in the error
though?
along the lines of...
| bouncesaying '\nMy new address is:\n\[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
---Matt
how about
| bouncesaying [EMAIL PROTECTED] echo My new address is
More than that, opening up
Johan Almqvist wrote:
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:00:24PM +0100, BOFH wrote:
is there any patch, which add some text at the bottom of each sending
message?
It can be done using the QMAILQUEUE patch by Bruce G - but it's dangerous
as it may break MIME. Or complicated, as you'll have to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Michael Hornby wrote:
My ultimate goal is to have my home server accept any mail that is being
sent to any e-mail address being hosted on the main server, and to
indefinitely try to forward it to the main server. This way, when the main
Brett Randall wrote:
how to intercept mail that our users send through our mail server,
check the size of the mail, and if it exceeds a certain size (say,
5mb), then it relays the mail to another qmail relay, otherwise the
current relay treats it as normal outgoing e-mail.
Does anyone
if the newsletters are all the same, you could pre-process
the list, organizing by recipent domain and starting qmail-remote
processes with a few dozen recipients, and only give qmail
the ones that don't go through on the first attempt, and even then
after some back-off time. That way you won't
a pathologially selective listserv that needs to be replaced
brought to my attention the fact that my MUA has been inserting
a
Sender: david
line in the headers of my messages, out of accordance with rfc 850
which apparently specifies that the host-name is supposed to go there.
Rather than
Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:34:59 -0800
From: Greg White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I can't see any circumstances where any of Dan's sofware can be deemed
closed source.
It is not the case that all software is either open source or closed
source. There is a
Felix von Leitner wrote:
At least: has anybody thought about implementing MXPS:
http://cr.yp.to/proto/mxps.txt
Several people have.
But it is not worth the bother until a noticable part of the Internet
uses it.
Felix
What is the advantage of MXPS over SMTP options? It seems like
Instead, it poses the question: do you have the legal right to use the
web, in the absence of explicit copyright notices on every document
element you encounter?
Laws are never about what is allowed. Laws are about what is prohibited.
to be the deliveree.
Andy Bradford wrote:
Thus said "David L. Nicol" on Mon, 20 Nov 2000 20:12:46 CST:
What about the "notification on delivery" stuff -- is that not
an MTA feature? Is it deprecated? Rather it would be a feature
of the MDA, has anyone added it to qmai
I see the question as, "How do I freeze IMAP so it
doesn't change anything?"
That's usually the backup issue, how to get the file system
to hold still while you back it up. OSF1 advfs has a "clone"
operation for this purpose, I do not know if other file systems
offer similar functionality,
Gerry Boudreaux wrote:
This is a MUA, not a MTA issue...
If the MUA honors the receipt request then the MTA will carry it.
Hope this helps
Gerry
What about the "notification on delivery" stuff -- is that not
an MTA feature? Is it deprecated? Rather it would be a feature
of the
Brett Randall wrote:
Under X? Try Gnus. It doesn't just work properly in strange
situations, it works properly in normal situations as well!
don't you have to learn all the saxophone-esque emacs keyboard
things to use it?
--
David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL
Paul Jarc wrote:
"Slider" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There is an easier solution!
If [EMAIL PROTECTED] wants all mail that goes to him to be copied to
another maildir as well as for him to get a copy to go to another maildir.
That doesn't cover my situation at all. This has nothing
NERvOus wrote:
Dear qmail gurus,
I have a pop3 server which has got 2 ip addresses and is connected
through 2 carriers.
Is there a way to let them choose a unique hostname and automagically have them
to use mail1.example.com when they connect through isp "X" and
mail2.example.com when
Since Dave Sill himself didn't come up with the answer to your question,
it looks like you're going to have to patch something to do that rewrite
for you.
What to patch? How to patch it? These are your questions now.
Soon, you too will be reading the qmail mailing list, accumulating for
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"Ihnen, David" wrote:
Maybe an extra-low-effort system would consist of a simply speaking a
keyword into a microphone
I would find this more troublesome than typing my passphrase.
- --
David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL
Is there an easy way to just send to all users in a linux group,
instead of having to use an alias file?
You mean group, as in, a line in /etc/group, right?
Lets say I have a message in a file called syl2000fall.txt and
I want to send it to everyone in the group called chem507.
I
I recall from an earlier discussion of a similar problem that a
perceived consensus was reached that a good way to do this kind
of thing is to patch qmail-remote so that if
the message is too big to send, it appears as a temporary error
without even attempting to connect.
also the definition of
Dave Sill wrote:
Geir Ove =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8ksnes?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My customers have paid for like 100 email accounts
and one postmaster account... how to i restrict him
from making more than 100 email accounts?...
this is on a virtual domain..
Run a cron job periodically
This just came in; submitted for your discussion:
Attention all List Members:
We are in the process of migrating all Red Hat lists from the current list
manager software/server running qmail/Smartlist to a new server running
postfix and GNU Mailman (*). Within the next week you will
It is true that qmail doesn't do anything with the inode-filename
mapping after it is made, besides have unique file names, and that
replacing that algorithm (which certainly succeeds in providing
insight into How The File System Works) with a different algorithm
that also guarantees uniqueness
You mean something like this?
cut -f6 -d: /etc/passwd | xargs -i echo grep "''" "{}""/.qmail-*" | sh
Ari Arantes Filho wrote:
Hi,
Is there some script to list all users including the content of each
qmail-user?
Thanks,
Ari
--
David Nicol
Susan Short wrote:
Next question, is there another way I can send this mail without getting
sendmail to work?
One way to proceed is to divide up the queue into messages, and then
feed each message into qmail-inject.
You will need to "crack" your sendmail's method of storing its queue,
but
Here I go stating the obvious again, but it seems what we are saying is
that the archives of this list, plus the documentation that already is
in existence, makes up a "book" for those who can access it, ergo
what is required might not be an _author_ to create a new, comprehensive
restatement
"John R. Levine" wrote:
This editor would preferably _NOT_ be someone who "knows a lot about qmail"
they would be a quality technical writer with perhaps gardening background.
Having written quite a lot of technical books, I can say that's not
likely to work, especially with an editor who
Does NetFiler let you run other programs on it? I would
put one instance of qmail on the netfiler, and insert little
tcp-server-protected relay pipes on the other machines to answer
port 25. Use maildir.
"Matthew S. Crocker" wrote:
Hello,
I'm building a new mail server/pop server
Brad Johnson wrote:
The other section that doesn't exist (or does it? It's not easy to find) is
"Qmail for users" which would talk about qmail just from the perspective of
the *nix user, with the userland commands, without mixing it all in with the
admin info.
there's man dot-qmail
--
Peter van Dijk wrote:
this [hypothetical] architecture could result in something similar
to usenet
Do note that usenet was never designed to guarantee message delivery.
Usenet was designed for non-reliable wide-scale messaging.
I just meant, it is another architecture where you have
Make sure you have round-robin turned on in your DNS, assuming
that both POP servers have the same name.
If that doesn't work, bother half your users and have them change
their settings to point to the second machine.
I don't see what is saved by this arrangement, over having all
the users
How about a really short time-out? Automated POP3 clients
waste no time typing at the prompt -- Mark could analyze the
delay his MUAs have between connection and sending auth commands;
and patch pop3d accordingly. Or he could patch pop3 to require
(not just accept) encrypted
Michael Boman wrote:
A server goes down [and the mail should been taken care of by
another server, automatically and samlessly.]
A single point of failure is not an option.
Best regards
Michael Boman
At the cost of more WAN traffic, you could add patches so
that on delivery failures,
Dave Sill wrote:
Large mbox mailboxes are huge, unwieldy files. Large maildir mailboxes
are huge, unwieldy directories--most filesystems don't handle them
efficiently after they grow to a few thousand files.
DEC/Compaq ADVFS handles huge directories without trouble, using
a hashed
Peter van Dijk wrote:
[the 821] definition is incorrect, in that it allows stuff like
[10.10.10.1].vuurwerk.nl
I think this was superseded in a later RFC.
Thanks, all!
I wonder if Postel meant for constructions such as Peter's error
to signify numeric addresses internal to private
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 referring to hosts by anything other than names within 821.
--
"Lord Macbeth
Kai MacTane wrote:
At 5/5/2000 11:54 AM -0600, ANTIGEN_HOUSTON wrote or quoted:
Antigen for Exchange found LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs matching
=love-letter-for-you.txt.vbs file filter.
The file is currently Detected. The message, "Re: hack for filtering "i
love you" worm", was sent from
Keith Warno wrote:
there should be no need to "hack" qmail
And there isn't! Why do people persist on insecure MUAs?
__
David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Lord Macbeth knew he was
Dave Kitabjian wrote:
Regarding: http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html#multi-rcpt
Dave S,
I'm having trouble accepting this logic. You mention 3 options:
"Say you're an MTA, and one of your users sends a message to three
people on hostx.example.com. There are several ways you could
Anyone got any
.mai conversion tools?
__
David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Lord Macbeth knew he was approaching the SITE of the rout
from the SIGHT of odd body parts scattered on the
Madhav wrote:
This setup actually provides protection from any failure.
Once it's running, pull the plug on the nfs server...
Peter van Dijk wrote:
On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 07:08:39PM -0400, Len Budney wrote:
"Luis Bezerra" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[edited out]
Or are you an autoresponder? If so, are you available under the GPL?
Maybe I can run you from procmail, to annoy people who annoy me.
If not GPL,
Not tested. May provoke unpleasent censure. Use at own risk.
open (LIST,"/home/justin/www/cgi-bin/lovely_people.list");
foreach (LIST) {
#send mail to "$_"
}
2)this list has about 1000 people, and it takes more than a couple minutes
for perl to go through that
I'd like to think it's my fault, for altering smtpd.c to have cute
messages, but this has never happened before, so it could mean that
MDaemon got confused by the non-standard 250 code, saying more
than "250 ok" like others do, and returned the buffer in a
rcpt to: command.
I'm looking at these
Greg Owen wrote:
Or how about
Front: "Don't queue mail with sendmail"
Back: "Send mail with qmail"
ROTFL.
I'd buy that one.
If someone else can do the art I can get them printed
___
Michael Boman wrote:
Problem with the solution:
How the heck can I in a email see if I need to display it as english,
chinese or japanise text?
This question has ZERO to do with the operation of the MTA (beyond
if it is passing 8-bit unicodes cleanly or suchlike.)
I'd ask
Anyone have any reiserfs stories?
___
David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
e is one key to the right from w
Director tecnico del Nodo Nicarao -- Juan Navas wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if any of you know of any qmail feature that allows
restrict E-Mail checking at a specific time of the day
Juan Navas
System Administrator
Managua, Nicaragua
The general solution to this kind of thing is to
"Chris L. Mason" wrote:
Perhaps Corel is planning to use qmail in future versions and it just wasn't
ready for 1.0? I've been waiting awhile for a Linux distribution to come
out that uses qmail as the default MTA (or at least offers the choice of
using it over sendmail in the installation.)
what keeps spammers from faking envelope-from and using
include-in-bounce features to relay spam content?
Is it possible that a subject of "failure notice" will
some day not be sufficient to prevent this possibility?
I HEREBY PATENT THE METHOD!
Thinking about this situation over the weekend I concluded that
the sanest thing to do would be to hack qmail-remote so it
checks file-size and marks temporary failures for oversize mails during
peak times. This could be done by reading a file size from an external
file, and having the file
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, but did not CC everyone:
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 01:57:59 + , "David L. Nicol" writes:
Looking at the the qmail-remote.c program, I suppose the patch would
first define an error handler like all the other error handlers :
void temp_policy_size(
What ari appears to me to be asking for is a way to derail large e-mails
into a secondary queue: He wants email to flow 24/z for little memos,
but attachments above a threshold must wait until off-peak.
A variety of approaches come to mind. Disabling _all_ outgoing e-mail
until off-peak
Steve Vertigan wrote:
if it was really a lower priority why did the error
message begin "I am listed as the *primary mx* for this host"?
Because there's a bug in the way the determination of "primary MX"
is made. I have not looked at the source code of how the determination
is made.
$ dig
Peter Gradwell wrote:
[1] Which is why, if your mail server is the best MX preference host
How does qmail make this determination? Does it get the preference
fields from the dns and choose the lowest one, or does it rely on
a system call? qmail-remote.c refers to subroutined defined in
"Timothy L. Mayo" wrote:
domain.tld. 86400 MX 200 nnn.nn.nn.nnn
^
This is your problem.
An MX record may ONLY point to a A record machine name. Fix your DNS and
I can guarantee that
"Timothy L. Mayo" wrote:
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, David L. Nicol wrote:
And add a line in control/smtproutes too; otherwise you'll
bounce messages as qmail mistakenly interprets that it is supposed
to be the end recipient. This starts happening only after you
actually mod
I read the documentation of qmail-inject and it would do what I want
if I could filter out the old "Date" line.
I can't (almost) write in Perl. I can write a C program. But first I
wanted to know if there is some already done script/program which
would delete a chosen line from RFC822
We have the source; let's fix it.
What the people with the problem are asking for appears to
be for qmail to not split up identical mails intended for
multiple recipients at identical hosts. These are real problems
and poo-pooing them as degenerate cases or something produces nothing.
In
The situation is, that messages for certain (but not all) recipients
on a VMS-PMDF system do not get delivered from qmail. PMDF issues
odd error messages or drops the connections, on only these users.
Messages to other users go through fine.
I have a sloppy working fix of setting up a
Russell Nelson (apparently a xfmail user) wrote:
X-Face:
$K'YURj"g6ImvqTS_=]8)gqh!5;ElY[.Rao%j8r+]iUfE{%|v%F=mcq6l{K=~mf#:?"
nslS]U~|x{2V=Eex_I#"9K~9)?m7Lm={(j_)SX~fzgST~P%QUhc{1p]c3@Zn1u*PZlkHM**X^vV
lGkB5y^Kz%w5p~^uDue]hLke,N;+QImMCdCr~Kz--?|SS?DbZiaE;xPW/7k9u_cc(It%mvMNVk;
I have one user whose mailbox drops connections on a machine that
is up and generally accepting mail.
Currently this user has five messages waiting to be sent to
them, each one getting progressively longer retry times.
I would like to see the retry time for new message for a remote
address
Eric Dahnke wrote:
I understand the pros and cons of each, but am interested in knowing if
there is anyone on this list who thinks instant messaging has a chance
of upseating smtp.
- cheers Eric
"talk" is as least as old as SMTP. Did the appearance of
the telephone eliminate the postal
bin/mail on osf5 / DU5.0 / Compaq trucluster64.
tru64 binmail cannot take the -f switch, as -f means something
different here than it means to the system 7 syntax as given
in all the /var/qmail/boot examples.
I have determined that I can get a successful qmail delivery
using OS-proved
I'd like to play too -- is there an address to forward my trapped spam
to,
if I was to set up a couple clearly marked spam addresses and stick them
on my web pages? I have control over virtmaps and aliases files on
several domains right now
"John R. Levine" wrote:
The closest automated
mpack can be incorporated into your packing schemes, instead of
using one part of a larger higher=level abstraction
http://filewatcher.org/sec/mpack/
Jason Haar wrote:
Sending an attachment as you do requires something more sophisticated than
mailsubj. I'd use mutt - darn near the best
Theodore Cekan wrote:
I will be converting our NTMail installation to qmail. Does anyone know if
there is a way to extract passwords in plain text from NTMail?
Thanks,
Ted
Keep the NTmail server up during a transitional period, and write
a fallback script to your password database
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