html forms within messages

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? thx - eric

html forms within messages

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? thx - eric

Problem with me.

I've got an interesting problem. At work we manage the mail for several domains, which are all subcompanies of the parent company (We're yet another incubator). The parent company e-mail is outsourced. What should I use for the ../control/me domain under such a scenario? I don't want bounce

Sendmail help

in qmail. Anyone know how to do the same on sendmail 8.9.3-10? - Eric Dahnke P.S. I have been all over sendmail.org, and found the relative info, but look at this url (http://www.sendmail.org/m4/masquerading.html), and tell me if you could figure it out. I couldn't even find a mailing list

cyrus imapd w/ multiple server architecture?

Hello List, In order to support an unlimited number of virtual domains (and consequently lots of users), does anyone know of a way to utilize qmail w/ cyrus imap over a more than one server architecture? I'm keen on having front end qmail servers accepting mail and smtproute'ing it to back-end

Re: begging for mercy, I am swallowing pride.

sending to remove yourself. If not, you best switch to qmail, because you'll be on the list for life. Saludos Eric Dahnke Chris Santerre escribió: I hate when people keep posting stupid stuff on a list. I am on numerous lists like everyone else. When you get these newbies that ask the stupidest

Re: another qmail-clean question

In my experience and based on other input from the list the best way to eliminate messages from the queue is with the qmHandle script on the qmail website (I don't think it's listed on the site with that name). Works well for me. - Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Wed, 1 Dec 1999

Re: Serialmail

Read the TOISP file. - Eric Jose de Leon escribió: Would somebody kindly point me to a one page set of instructions on how to use SerialMail? The INSTALL that comes with serialmail simply says: 1. make 2. make setup check Now what am I supposed to do with the 2 files it apparrently

Re: Benchmarks

Hi, I manage a qmail server which serves about 5000 pop users. We do it on a PII, with about 16G of disk space. A PII, is plenty of machine, but would have added more disk space if I had to do it over again. That server does about 20,000 msgs per day, and load average rarely breaks 1. I think

OT: guestimate of number of MTA hosts worldwide

I'm searching as best I can, but can't find a site which lists the approximate number of MTAs permanently connected to the internet. Anyone care to venture a guess, or mention a site where I can find such data. I figure around 100,000??? TIA - Eric

ANSWER OT: guestimate of number of MTA hosts worldwide

Source: http://www.sendmail.com/text/press/index.html More than 1.5 million copies of the Open Source sendmail are installed, representing over 75 percent of all Internet mail servers. Eric Dahnke escribió: I'm searching as best I can, but can't find a site which lists the approximate

Re: qmail remote delivery logic

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: Dear Ol' DOS (and POP3 clients for same)

Hello. I've been down this road, and after trying mainly DOS pmail related solutions eventually settled on a packet driver, NCSA Telnet, and a maildir'd version of Pine. - Eric Barry Dwyer escribió: I've been asked to hang a DOS-based dialin PC on a client's LAN wherein we have a Linux

Re: Ipchains and smtp/pop3?

If your smtp and pop3 stuff is slow, I can almost guarantee that the problem is DNS and not ipchains. How slow is it? If you're talking 30 secs or more, it is most likely a reverse DNS misconfiguration. - Eirc Bill Parker escribió: Hello all In running OpenLinux 2.2, and using

Any thoughts on instant messaging vs. smtp

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

Re: **URGENT** MAILSERVER stops working!!!!

What is a red herring? - Eric This could be a red herring. Chris

Re: On-Demand Mail Relay (ODMR)

Looks to me a lot like UUCP, ETRN. I'd say it is a wrongly directed initiative as any business worth a damn will have some type of permanent access in the near future. - Eric Peter Gradwell escribió: Hi, has anyone got an implementation of ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2645.txt

Re: Qmail and DNS failures

If there is no MX record for a given domain is it not standard practice that an A record is tried? - Eric Eric Davis escribió: I have noticed that there are message for invalid domain names sitting in my mail servers queue. It's not a problem to have stuff in the queue, but is there a

Re: How to share adressbooks for LAN

Although it may not be completely related I think it wouldn't kill anyone to watch a thread like this go by. I would be particularly interested in seeing some comments about this. My 2 cents. Eric Magnus Bodin escribió: On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 12:46:45PM +0100, Jon Lurås wrote: I got

Re: qmail log (from field)

This has been discussed previously, and it is considered a bad idea to deny messages from , because that is the format used in many bounce messages. Something like that. - eric Edward Castillo-Jakosalem escribió: Hi again to all! I have a question about the log file. Please look at an

Primary and Secondary MXs

Hi, Assuming a domain's primary and secondary MXs are handled by two distinct servers. Is there a way to force mail into the secondary even if the primary is up and running without problems. Thx - eric + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Spark Sistemas - presentado por IWCC Argentina

Re: Primary and Secondary MXs

Thanks for the response, but I mean from the senders point of view. My guess is no, other than a DoS which would open up access to the secondary. Thx - eric Russell Nelson escribió: Eric Dahnke writes: Assuming a domain's primary and secondary MXs are handled by two distinct servers

Bandwidth usage, was [OT: saturating a T1..]

? Regards, Eric Dahnke PS: from previous posts, I'm assuming that the 1.6 fudge factor (bytes transfered more than bytes the msg contains) washes with compression at the router.

Re: OT: saturating a T1 with e-mail

On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, Eric Dahnke wrote: Someone will scold me for this post, but would appreciate any thoughts: A T1 would be ~ 80% utilized passing 22,000msgs/hr if the average msg size was 23K. Thx You're not taking into account how the router will handle the traffic. You can

OT: Average Internet e-mail size

Hello List, I'm curious as to the average size of an Internet mail. I know this is very subjective, but would like to hear what people think is the average size. My calculations based on qmailanalog over a long run give me 64K, and that seems big. Looking at my inbox, the average seems more

Re: OT: Average Internet e-mail size

Found what seems to be an answer at http://www.groupcomputing.com/Issues/1998/98SeptOct/98SOp32_EmailCrisis/98sop32_emailcrisis.html Looks like around 25K is the average. - Eric Eric Dahnke escribió: Hello List, I'm curious as to the average size of an Internet mail. I know

OT: saturating a T1 with e-mail

Someone will scold me for this post, but would appreciate any thoughts: A T1 would be ~ 80% utilized passing 22,000msgs/hr if the average msg size was 23K. Thx

Re: Auth. SMTP-after-POP

Sure just put fetchmail or your pop application before serialmail in your ppp/ip-up scripts. - Eric Andreas Fiedler escribió: Hi, I have a problem with sending mail (of course :-) My new provider uses SMTP-after-POP. This means I have to receive Mail via POP before I can send

Re: Warning message earlier than in 12 hours?

I believe that qmail does not produce such messages, rather they are generated by a third party application running in conjunction with qmail. I believe there are 2 such applications on the qmail site, and both are written in perl therefore making a change to the functionality rather simple if

qmail source and licensing question

Hello List, If a one modifies any of the code associated with qmail. Are they obligated to make available the modifications to the qmail community. OT: Is the above true of GPL when talking about GPLd sources? Regards - Eric

qmail queue

Hello list, DESCRIPTION qmail-queue reads a mail message from descriptor 0. It then reads envelope information from descriptor 1. In reference to this, I thought descriptor 0 was STDIN and descriptor 1 was STDOUT, How

Re: qmail queue

So how does the message pass between the various parts of the qmail structure (inject, queue, send), if not via STDIN and OUT? I want to write a wrapper for qmail-queue, but am a novice. This is a long term project. thx Dave Sill escribió: Eric Dahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Patches revisited

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

Re: Quick delivery question

Before fetchmail dumps any message to the listening smtp ports, it has options to completely rewrite both the user and domain part of the envelop recipient. I don't use multidrop, so can't say for sure, but the fetchmail options "is" and "smtpdomain" should fix your problem. - tah eric

Re: Disconnected Qmail??? 3rd Try!

You're talking about batch processing of mail via dial-up. I believe your only options are fetchmail, UUCP, ETRN or serialmail. All of which will move the mail in one form or another. Look at the different features of each package and figure out which one to install. Personally I use fetchmail

Re: Queue growing

On what basis did you think a reboot would make a difference? I don't know I've heard of more stupid things to do. On what basis do you think the DNS might be related to your delivery problems? I have just been notified that there are DNS problems in this region. thx - eric

more queue help,

Hello, I thought I had this licked, but our queue is at 1200. ps ax shows the following: 387 ? S0:00 qmail-remote bna.com.ar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 388 ? S0:00 qmail-remote BNA.COM.AR [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 389 ? S0:00 qmail-remote bna.com.ar

Re: HELP! queue not sending

check that you've got enough smtp ports available. I've seen our queue build like that when we hit tcpservers default 40 smtp sessions limit. (On a side note am i correct in saying that tcpservers 40 default is not the same as concerrency remote)? is port 25 slow to respond? and how about

comments on virus scanning

hola qmailers, I've been in the archives for a while looking at this previously discussed topic and would like to make some comments on the typical responses: No virus scanning package would be very efficient without continual updates. This is the norm for all anti-virus packages and has been

Re: Outlook Express and remove message after X time

Shouldn't be like that unless their copy of Outlook is broken. What's the acronym ULID? Ken Jones escribió: Does anyone know if the qmail pop3 server (or any patches) support the Outlook Express features to: 1) Leave a copy on the server 2) Delete copy after X days Not surprisingly,

sending a message to all users

Hello Kind List, I know this has been asked before, but couldn't come up with anything in the archives. This is for a system with about 5000 users. I've got a perl script which will deliver the message to every user on the system who has a Maildir. But can't figure out the best mechanism for

OT, quitting mailsubj from within a script

Hello List, We have the following script on our mailserver to catch telnet attempts: #!/bin/sh logger "WARNING!!! Somebody wants to log into the system!!!" /var/qmail/bin/mailsubj "Login attempt at Mail Server!" [EMAIL

Qmailanalog, want per msg information

I'll try this again, I'm looking to provide a daily report which shows who sent what and to whom. perhaps something like this: 10:01FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10:01FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14:02FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Serialmail won't run from cron

Hello, I'm using serialmail-70 over a ppp link for outgoing mail on a linux box. From the ip-up scripts it runs perfectly. However, if the conection stays up, I call serialmail from a crontab on the hour. I have the path to tcpclient set as a system wide path, and call serialmail from the

alias problem (no mailbox here by that..)

Can't figure this one out. Here is the .qmail file in ~alias: -rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 7 Jun 29 12:18 .qmail-centroculturald elacooperacion-educacion and here is the bounce: Hi. This is the qmail-send program at

repost: alias problem (no mailbox here by that..)

Can't figure this one out. Here is the .qmail file in ~alias: -rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 7 Jun 29 12:18 .qmail-centroculturaldelacooperacion-letras and here is the bounce: Hi. This is the qmail-send program at nmail.rcc.com.ar. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message

Re: Netscape mail problem

It doesn't have anything to do with inetd or tcpserver. Check the file /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts and check out the FAQ about relaying jinfeng escribió: The FAQ seems to assume that I run qmail-smtpd under tcpserver. That's not the case for me. And I really don't like to install a

scan a maildir for msgs w/attch

Hi, Only messages which contain attachments, contain the following line: Content-Disposition: true or false If I'm off tack, how else do you determine when a msg contains an attahment? Many thx eric

qmailanalog - get sender and recipient?

Hello Qmailers, I currently use qmailanalog in conjunction with some zscripts. Works fine, but was wondering if it is possible to get sender and recipient on a per msg basis. Perhaps something like this? [EMAIL PROTECTED]== [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]== [EMAIL PROTECTED]

headers in other languages (simple Y/N)

Hello qmailars, Sorry to bother, but would appreciate the help. Do the Subject: From: and To: lines within message headers always read Subject: From: and To: without being translated into another language? I see that the headers are occasionally translated into other languages, but I'm

Re: local delivery. different domain, different user (fwd)

There is something called virtualdomains to do this. See the FAQ and search the archives. It's very easy. - eric Joao Paulo Pagaime escribió: Hello all Sorry if this is a repetition but I suppose I goofed up sending the message yesterday... I would like to have qmail setup to receive

keep copy of all outgoing mail

Hi, Will what is explained in the FAQ work if the qmail server in question uses serialmail for outgoing mail? cheers - eric

Re: Mailing lists on dial-up box

I don't think any of you are understanding his problem. The problem is that singular e-mail is not sent out singularly, but that it is separated in to 500 separate messages, creating 500 times the traffic load. I have the same problem with a few customers. I know that is how qmail is designed.

Re: qmLogsort

So where is it? cheers - eric Mads E Eilertsen escribió: On 27 May 1999, Monte Mitzelfelt wrote: I think this one is ready for primetime. It groups mail log records by message and delivery. It eliminates all of that scrolling up and down in the log file looking for outcomes.

Limit max msg size per virtual dom - SOLVED (i think)

Halo halo, To create different max message size limits per virtual domain, would the following work? in virtualdomains domain.com.ar:admin-domain-databytes in ~admin-domain-databytes/.qmail-default | bouncesaying "message too big" [wc -c -gt 10] admin-domain in ~admin-domain all

databytes max msg per domain

Hello qmailers, I am in need of setting message size limits on a per virtual domain basis. I've got a system wide /control/databytes limit, and can see that I can limit on a per user basis via: |bouncesaying 'Message too big' [ `wc -c` -gt 1 ] in the users .qmail file. What would be

Re: DSN

I got around this problem with my users by telling them that MDN is a better read reciept technology. It provides a true read reciept. DSN is just a delivery reciept. However, I understand that there are a lot of e-mail clients which don't support both forms of read reciepts. - eric "Ferri

Bad domain is not bounced back immediately?

Hello List, With other mailers upon sending a message with a bad domain, the sender receives a rather quick return message saying that the mailer was unable to deliver the message, but will continue trying for a predetermined number of attempts/time. Qmail does this, but does not kick a message

Re: checkpassword is the problem.

We maintain a linux mailserver that uses PAM and Shadow and has about 4000 users. We have had no problems with checkpassword-0.81. The problem must be somewhere else. BTW when you compiled checkpasswd did you change the encrypt function in the Makefile to -lcrypt? That is necessary for linux.

feedback when message cannot be delivered immediately

Hello List, Is there a way to get qmail to deliver those messages which say (more or less): Your message could not be delivered to xxx. Do not send it again, your message will remain in the mail queue and will be attempted to be delivered for 7 more days. Qmail obviously does that, but doesn´t

serialmail/qmail workaround needed

Hello List, I've got a dialup client with a qmail/fetchmail/serialmail instalation acting as their mailgateway. The client wants to restrict some of the accounts to internal mail use only. Question is, how can I keep such restricted users' messages from ending up in serialmail's outgoing

Re: Back-up scheme, 2 qmail servers

Andy Walden escribió: - an identical qmail installation on a backup machine - daily copy of /home /control and /alias to backup machine - in the event of a massive failure unplug the ethernet from the main server and plug into the backup machine. (I realize we will lose the queue

Re: Back-up scheme, 2 qmail servers

Cris Daniluk escribió: Eric Dahnke wrote: Hello List, We have a server moving about 9000 msgs per day and want to have a second qmail server waiting on our network to take over in the event of a failure. Our current thinking is: - an identical qmail installation on a backup

usernames with dashes

Hello, Is it true that the only way to deliver messages to usernames that contain dashes is to recompile qmail telling it to use a different escape character than - cheers - eric

Re: root mail problem

Hello, qmail won´t deliver to root. make a .qmail-root file in ~alias and within that file put user to deliver root´s mail to user. - cheers eric Hi ! Since I reinstalled (upgraded) FreeBSD to 3.1 I can get mail for root. I can send mail or get mail at any of addresses, but not as root.

locals and virtual domains

Sorry folks, I realize this is one of the questions you all really hate hearing. I appologize, I´ve been in the archives, man pages, and FAQ for hours. The Virtual Domians portion of the FAQ only mentions the files rcpthosts and virtualdomains, but not locals. So, don´t scream that I´m asking

Timestamps and message arrival times

Hi, I'm trying to figure out how the time stamping mechanism works for messages which propogate the internet. I have been looking for a tutorial but found none. The archives provided help, and man datetime did not. I'm in one timezone and my mailserver in another, so have been able to do some

SOLVED AGAIN HELP: NOT SOLVED ! ! looks like a SYN attack

Thanks Dave, That solved it. We're running Linux kernel 3.0.26, and I'm sure it is protected from SYN attacks. Here is a summary of what happened. - port 25 was not responding because /var was full. - I removed most of the old logs and rebooted. - port 25 came back, but only for a few minutes.

RELAYCLIENT and inetd

Hello list friends, First, there is no way set RELAYCLIENT (via inetd, tcpserver, or some patch) based on domain name rather than IP, correct? (I realize it would be weak) Second, with inetd it is not possible to set RELAYCLIENT with a wildcard * (24.232.12.*), but with tcpserver yes, correct?

Re: Maildir/cur ???

And if the user then switches his mail client to "not leave msgs on server" they are removed from cur, no? - eric Hello all, What is the meaning of the Maildir/cur directory? I have a user with 300 messages and they are not in the Maildir/new, they are in Maildir/cur. What puts

snapshot of qmail´s health

Hi, What is the best way to get a snapshot of qmail´s current health. Currently I use ps and top and a perl script to see the size of the queue. But there has got to be a better way. I looked at the archives, web site, and FAQ but didn´t see anything. What the hell is concurrency remote?

Re: Am I being exceedingly silly?

If his machine is on a home network behind a dial-up conection what the hell does it matter. - eric DO NOT do this, you will get blacklisted in one qucik hurry. Quoting Eric Dahnke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Remove the file rcpthosts from /var/qmail/control Qmail will then accept mail

Re: Am I being exceedingly silly?

If his machine is on a home network behind a dial-up conection what the hell does it matter. - eric DO NOT do this, you will get blacklisted in one qucik hurry. Quoting Eric Dahnke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Remove the file rcpthosts from /var/qmail/control Qmail will then accept mail

Re: syslog.mail

I believe fairly standard practice for syslog files is to do a cp to a new file cp maillog maillog.bak then cp /dev/null /var/log/maillog That is what I do at least. chau - eric Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can I move the syslog.mail file and make a new one safely?

Splogger w/ serialmail. More logging info?

Hello List, Splogger logs my outgoing serialmail connections as such. Jan 13 19:26:03 gateway splogger: 916266363.922180 maildirserial: info: new/916257200.459.gateway.godel.com.ar succeeded: 199.227.85.32 said: 250 ok 916269611 qp 4983 Is there anyway to get more information than this? I'd

Re: web-based mail

This is probably a case of Famous Last Words, but: How hard can it be to set up a web-based pop3 client? There are cgi web mail clients that set up in about 15 mins. People are big on Mailman, but I prefer Dmailweb. Given that all I want is to give my existing users access to their mail

Re: spambait?

Have any of you seen the spam prevention system Brightmail uses. I found it well thought-out, and is quite similar to what you folks are talking about. If what you have not looked at it, I would recommend it, as it may give this development some ideas. www.brightmail.com Adelante!!! - Eric

Re: Dear Ol' DOS (and POP3 clients for same)

this to the DOS variety of PINE? BD Russell Nelson wrote: Eric Dahnke writes: Hello. I've been down this road, and after trying mainly DOS pmail related solutions eventually settled on a packet driver, NCSA Telnet

Concurrency, and your average mail server

Hello List, A default qmail/tcpserver installation can do incoming and outgoing concurrency of about 255 each, no? How does this compare to the default configs of the best (or better) known e-mail servers like sendmail, Post.Office, Postfix, NTmail, Exchange, Netscape's mail server, etc...

Re: Command-line mailer

Mailsubj man mailsubj - Saludos Giancarlo Bonansea escribió: Hi, I'm using QMail 1.03 and I need to send a .tar.gz file as an attached file on a scheduled basis (crond) using a command-line mailer. I'm looking for one but I didn't find yet. What do you people recommend ? Thanks