Re: Sublist (Was: Virus-infected listmembers)

2001-08-01 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 06:50:33PM +0200, Lukas Beeler wrote: [a lot of broken quoting] Please, learn how to correctly reply to messages. Your style makes it very hard to distinguish between your own words and these of the one you replied to. You also quoted a signature, which is bad style,

Re: Sublist (Was: Virus-infected listmembers)

2001-07-27 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 05:17:02AM -0500, Robin S. Socha wrote: Wilson isn't the problem. Windows is. Outlook is. I wish to add * virii scanners they produced three times to number of emails than wilson did. * lusers talking about nuisances, rather than ignoring and killfiling them.

Re: qmail-smtpd error?

2001-07-14 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 01:15:06AM -0700, Martin Bangieff wrote: smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env \ tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd leave out the (second) tcp-env argument. You might also want to consider using tcpserver instead of inetd. tcpserver is far

Re: OT: Re: Solaris vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-06-28 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:03:44AM -0400, Stuart Krivis wrote: I would choose Solaris first for a high-volume web server. Suns have been more reliable in my experience than any PC-based OS. Sun hardware, yes. Solaris, now. Solaris is slow, buggy and eats more resources than i could believe.

Re: Qmail Security

2001-06-26 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 09:12:21AM +0700, Suyanta Satria wrote: i still wondering which one is better tcpserver or tcpwrapper ? is there anything else is better ? that's not really a matter of security - i don't remember any security problems with the combination of inetd and tcpwrappers in

Re: Sending mail using qmail smtp

2001-06-26 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 09:16:35AM +0700, eddy wrote: Hi, guys. I have installed qmail on red hat 6.2 , but until now I still use my ISP smtp to send mail, cause I cannot use my qmail smtp. What should I do so I can use my qmail smtp? For information my qmail server using ISP DNS. please

Re: The Loss of Email Ghost

2001-06-21 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 03:53:01PM +0800, Roland Mathis wrote: We have a new ghost in our company. It's name is Loss of Email. We have qmail running since about 3 months on our mail server. Every now and then people are complaining that they haven't received this and that important mail. I

Re: qmail-newu: fatal: bad format in users/assign

2001-06-21 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 06:15:48PM +0800, Lye On Siong Johnny wrote: Can anyone help me on this?? Not without more information. Post users/assign if it's short or post an URL if not. You can also to use a trial-and-error method to find the problem. Regards, Uwe

Re: qmail-newu: fatal: bad format in users/assign

2001-06-21 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 08:18:14PM +0800, Lye On Siong Johnny wrote: My assign file is as follow [...] works for me. Did you copypaste it into eudora? Then it's quite likely that there's a space at the end of some line in the assign file. Regards, Uwe

Re: qmail-remote (cry wolf?)

2001-06-09 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:54:37PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: Perhaps something like a maxlifetime control file for qmail-remote and qmail-smtpd? At process startup, set an alarm for X seconds -- if the ALRM is received, abort the connection as gracefully as possible (i.e. try to send

Re: qmail-remote (cry wolf?)

2001-06-07 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 07:36:53PM +0200, Jörgen Persson wrote: http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/05/msg00558.html rethat 6.2, outblaze.com http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/05/msg01332.html rethat 6.2, outblaze.com

Re: Qmail can't varify user

2001-05-16 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 07:57:18PM +0800, liu zhi wrote: I installed Qmail use liuzhi. and I use liuzhi to receive .qmail-root .qmail-mail-deamon .qmail-postmaster But After I installed. Everyone except luizhi can't receive mail. please clarify what you did. _Exactly_. Including the

Re: OT - Problems with daemontools 0.70

2001-05-15 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:26:30AM -0500, Robin S. Socha wrote: But let's stick with the facts. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Please stop flaming lusers until you get your MUA to stop sending superfluous default information. Thanks. | People who are as

Re: OT - Problems with daemontools 0.70

2001-05-15 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 01:16:29PM +0200, Felix von Leitner wrote: know the difference between the compiler gave me an error message and my computer crashed?! Why are users supposed to know this if even * software vendors aren't able to label error messages appropriately? * the whole

Re: qmail-pop3d not handling enough messages

2001-04-24 Thread Uwe Ohse
, if you use daemontools. Regards, Uwe Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 18:20:01 + From: Uwe Ohse [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gary Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: qmail-pop3 problems with 'large' accounts

Re: Ban These Exchange Server Users

2001-04-24 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 06:50:52PM +0200, Ruprecht Helms wrote: If it is so, this mailinglist is the wrong place to say such things. In germany the isp have to cancel the internetconnection from a user if the hear that the user is providing neonazistic stuff and postings that contains

Re: QMail and PHP

2001-04-15 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 01:37:28PM +0200, Lukasz Felsztukier wrote: I'm using PHP ver. 4.03pl1 and latest qmail. I have to say I was pretty impressed the way this duo worked 'out of the box'. PHP uses sendmail to send emails - as far as I know 'qmail' sendmail behaves exactly like the

Re: SUMMARY(PARTIAL): tcpserver use of -B

2001-02-16 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:43:12PM -0500, Timothy Lorenc wrote: Feb 15 09:44:36 smtp01.load.com smtpd: [ID 748625 mail.info] 982259076.193065 tcpserver: warning: dropping connection, unable to print banner: broken pipe That usuable means that the remote site closed the connection before the

Re: I need to block IP Address

2001-02-16 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 11:33:12AM +0400, Antonio Ferri Charbone wrote: I need urgently to block IP Address in qmail, anybody knows what is the manner of make it ? use tcpservers functionality (1.2.3.4:deny). Regards, Uwe

Re: Qmail slow!

2001-02-15 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 04:00:58PM -0500, Curtis Generous wrote: Should it be that long before qmail-send checks the todo directory? 25 minutes. Regards, Uwe

Re: Q: tcpserver use of -B

2001-02-15 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:22:49AM -0500, Timothy Lorenc wrote: of tcpserver. I have tried -B/path to filename which just prints the /path to filename on the line preceeding the 220 FCN-hostname line. I have tried -B"Welcome to my mail system ", but I get error messages in /var/adm/messages

Re: Qmail slow!

2001-02-14 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 07:47:16AM -0500, Schiffbauer, Anthony wrote: I sound like a caveman in my subject line! whoa! Anyways I have a FreeBSD machine running qmail (but is not running DNS, I am running DNS on another machine) for some reason, whenever you send email , it doesnt get

Re: Do I need to restart anything in QMail if I make changes to the control files?

2001-02-08 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 04:42:29PM +1300, Martin Searancke wrote: [nothing but the subject] See the fine qmail-send manual page: CONTROL FILES WARNING: qmail-send reads its control files only when it starts. If you change the control files, you must stop and

Re: Relay only server

2001-02-08 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 08:57:08AM -0700, Dan Egli wrote: MX1 is down, so MX2 recieves a mail message. The users on MX1 do not exist on MX2, but I want MX2 to accept the message, then relay it to MX1 when MX1 is back up. How is this accomplished? Enter the domain name on MX2 in

Re: compiling qmail-1.03 under SCO Open Server 5.05 and the UDK from SCO.

2001-02-07 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 09:17:10AM -0500, Jocelyn Clement wrote: This is it: I ran the "make setup check" and it generates an error message on the "qmail-local.c" saying that there is no definition of the "timestruct_t" in the "stat.h" file. I am using the SCO development system.

Re: thanks for you answer my question!but it is none used.

2001-02-07 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:51:48AM +0800, dick wrote: i add these codes in the end of qmail-smtpd.c.but it won't work. can't you tell me how can i do it! (by the way, i don't know how to patch the qmail-queue.c or qmail-smtpd.c.only add these code into blast?) Yes, at the end of the blast

Re: multi-thread

2001-02-07 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 04:47:24PM +0100, Jacques Frip' WERNERT wrote: does anyone know if someone is working on a multithreaded release of qmail-smtpd and or qmail-rspawn? s/release/version/ As far as i know nobody does that right now. It might be fun, though. Regards, Uwe

Re: logging to console and log files

2001-02-07 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 07:16:59AM +, Tim Hassan wrote: I actually liked that very much (if server is physically restricted) but there is one draw back; nothing will be logged to log/current. Therefore, I wandered if there is a way to have supervise log to both console and to

Re: Supervise without multilog.

2001-02-07 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 11:57:34AM -0500, Peter Brezny wrote: I'd like to run supervise, but i would prefer the logging still take place in /var/log/maillog. you are mistaken. For example, could i just leave my /var/qmail/rc file as is and omit the portions regarding multilog in the

Re: anybody can't help me insert some text in the end of every message my mailserver relay for?

2001-02-06 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 01:35:52PM +0800, dick wrote: Subject: anybody can't help me insert some text in the end of every message my mailserver relay for? This is possibly an evil idea, but anyway: Either patch qmail-queue.c or qmail-smtpd.c (depending on what you want to achieve). In the

Re: chrooting qmail...

2001-02-06 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 02:40:59PM +, Thomas Ackermann wrote: delivery 1: deferral: CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._(#4.4.3)/ [...] am i missing something ??? /etc/resolv.conf Regards, Uwe

Re: newline in bouncesaying?

2001-02-04 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 05:40:19PM +0100, Wolfgang Zeikat wrote: is it possible to somehow use a newline command in the message that the bouncesaying command sends? try |bouncesaying "`cat filename`" or |bouncesaying "`printf 'line1\nline2'`" you can also try some other

Re: bouncesaying and maildrop

2001-02-04 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 10:28:16PM -0800, David Benfell wrote: I see the error message printed out, but watching the log, I don't see the bounce going out. Looking at some old mail, I see that bouncesaying doesn't, by itself, bounce anything. bouncesaying exits with 100, which qmail

Re: What is the matter?

2001-02-04 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 02:25:54PM +0800, lyndon wrote: Feb 5 14:19:17 mail qmail: 981353957.038669 warning: trouble marking remote/11/127109; message will be delivered twice! Feb 5 14:19:17 mail qmail: 981353957.038881 warning: unable to unlink remote/11/127109; will try again later

Re: Delay in POP and SMTP response

2001-02-04 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 12:13:45PM +0530, Jagadish.N wrote: I even telneted to 110 and 25 specifing the mail server's ip address but it takes quite a long time to respond. try starting tcpserver with the -R option. Regards, Uwe

Re: smtproute logging

2001-02-02 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 07:00:24AM -0500, Steve Woolley wrote: I am about to use smtproute to route some email to another email server. Does using smtproute log any messages when used? no, but you might add some logging to qmail-remote.c between these lines: if (relayhost) { i =

Re: 502 unimplemented

2001-01-23 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 05:20:56PM +0100, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: We use qmail on one of our systems (How do I find out what version it is? Did not install it myself...). Version: 1.03 has /var/qmail/bin/bouncesaying 1.02 qmail-send logs "status:" lines. 1.01 supports

Re: Alias problem with - before .

2000-12-22 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:13:19PM +0100, oliver bender wrote: hm, a strange subject, isn't it? So let me explain, what I mean: I tried to create an alias file for a user i.e. John-Paul Doe. I named that file .qmail-john-paul:doe I found out, that mails to such a user will be is there a

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-06 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:58:41AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: c) reminding users that, like the Canadian Inuit, who have 500 different words for "snow", that the German language has 1000 different words for "stupid". it hasn't, but it has thousands of ways to express ones stupidness.

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:22:43PM -0600, John W. Lemons III wrote: Then ignore that minority group and don't prolong their agony by giving them access to non-solutions like virus scanners. I disagree with the assertion that virus scanners are non-solutions. me too. On the mail

Re: Last message!

2000-11-24 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 08:54:58AM -0300, Fernando Barreto wrote: ./compile dns.c dns.c:11: parse error before `int' make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1. delete that line or fix your systems include libraries. Regards, Uwe

Re: Last message!

2000-11-24 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 01:14:51PM -0300, Fernando Barreto wrote: tai64nlocal.c:60: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1. I checked the include file sys/time.h and I didn't the structure that tai64nlocal.c calls. try

Re: meaning of the log files

2000-11-13 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 02:19:29AM +0800, Mark Lo wrote: In my /var/log/qmail/current file, I got some error messages that i would like to know what is the meaning. That is, "warning: trouble opening local/8/16131; will try again lager." qmail-send either failed to open the file

Re: qmail and local mail under Red Hat linux 6.2

2000-10-21 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:32:00PM -0400, Doug wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 20 10:48:02 2000 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status: RO X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 685 how does the file on the mail server look like? A=procmail -Y

Re: linuxpeople thread

2000-09-13 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 01:32:16AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: qmail-local.c:1: sys/types.h: No such file or directory qmail-local.c:2: sys/stat.h: No such file or directory /usr/include/sys/stat.h (types.h) is missing. This is an developement environment installation problem. You are

Re: qmail aliases like melanie.desaive

2000-08-26 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 11:12:35AM +0200, Melanie Desaive wrote: I tried to set up qmail aliases via .qmail-alias and it worked well with single names. But all aliases like .qmail-melanie.desaive etc. did not work. I tried to escape the dot with \ # "" but nothing worked. man dot-qmail:

Re: need qmail-inject help

2000-08-22 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 12:52:41AM +, J!M wrote: I must be dim. How can I make qmail-inject not rewrite my From headers? Even when I call /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject -f "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject [EMAIL PROTECTED] the hostname is rewritten with my server's

Re: Happy Meal ERROR

2000-08-17 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 11:05:51PM -0300, Ricardo Albano wrote: Hello, I was installed a NETRA T1 Server with RH6.2/sparc and QMAIL-1.03, When I put my new box in production I get tons of errors in my console like this : check your ethernet configuration. "Happy Meal" is the name for the

Re: How to Annoy People Whose Help You Need

2000-08-10 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 09:29:10AM -0600, Scott D. Yelich wrote: On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Dave Sill wrote: There are others, but these are easiest, most common, and most effective techniques. I suggest printing off a copy and taping it next to your screen. It says my print error occurred.

Re: TCPserver error (fwd)

2000-07-31 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 03:31:07PM -0500, Z wrote: something else is already running on that port, and after doing an nmap it seems to be smtp. i checked my inetd.conf but it says nothing of smtp being started there. is sendmail still hanging around/running? try "lsof | grep smtp" or

Re: POP delete mail on 2 places...

2000-07-29 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 06:53:56PM +0200, Magnus Löfqvist wrote: Have looked a bit at qmail-pop3d.c code but dosent relise where it really delete the msg. pop3_quit(), look for unlink(). Regards, Uwe

Re: dot-qmail deliver help

2000-07-29 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 08:38:11PM +0200, Einar Bordewich wrote: i think you don't want the `;' after "env". -snip- Are you sure? Not any more. Regards, Uwe

Re: dot-qmail deliver help

2000-07-28 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 06:46:25PM +0200, Einar Bordewich wrote: |TEST=`echo $EXT | cut -d"-" --output-delimiter="." -f1-4` ; if [ -d "$HOME/postmaster/Maildir/.$TEST" ]; then maildirdeliver $HOME/postmaster/Maildir/.$TEST/ ; else env ; maildirdeliver $HOME/postmaster/Maildir ; fi The

Re: nfs for qmail users

2000-07-15 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 02:52:42PM +0530, kapil sharma wrote: 50,000 users on this server currently. There is heavy load on the sun system. Now, I want following information: processor load or I/O load? 1: Will I be able to mount the ext2 partition on Sun system thriugh NFS? Yes. 2:

Re: I crashed a qmail server

2000-07-02 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 12:17:14PM +, george wrote: I bring this up for one BIG reasons: I read one of qmail's features was built-in looping control. Apparently, I am doing something wrong with my QMAIL configuration. Yup: You are forwarding postmaster mail. This is a guarantee for

Re: big-* patches and FD_SET()

2000-06-14 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 11:58:20AM +0200, Toens Bueker wrote: ./chkspawn Oops. Your system's FD_SET() has a hidden limit of 1024 descriptors. edit qmail-1.03/conf-spawn, set the value to a number less then or equal to 509. How can I increase this 'hidden limit'? You can try what is

Re: doc tarballs

2000-06-01 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:44:04PM +0200, Felix von Leitner wrote: Is anyone willing to help port the djb docs to man pages? fix "man". Do not duplicate information/confusion. Yeah, i know, "man" is a big monster nobody really likes to touch. I can understand that, i just had a look into

Re: 553, version 0

2000-05-24 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 07:00:43AM +0200, clemensF wrote: + // changed Wed-24.05.00-03:29 -ino: because fetchmail hickups when 553 + // arrives out-of-band after recipient has been checked! + // following line moved up from it's place in smtp_rcpt + if (flagbarf) { err_bmf(); return;

Re: preline: _Not_enough_space

2000-05-19 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 01:53:35PM -0700, Lidia Marchioni wrote: Is perl being started by one qmail users (qmails, qmaill, etc)? No, not really - it's started by whoever own that .qmail. But the ulimit is inherited from the shell that started qmail. /nofiles(descriptors)_64

Re: preline: _Not_enough_space

2000-05-18 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 08:48:21PM -0700, Lidia Marchioni wrote: |preline /var/qmail/alias/forums.ezmlm/filter.pl [...] I always get the following error: deferral: ld.so.1:_/usr/bin/perl:_fatal:_/usr/lib/libc.so.1:_mmap_failed: _Not_enough_space/preline:_fatal:_child_crashed/ The system is

Re: tcpserver problem

2000-05-17 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 02:31:09AM +0200, Federico Barbazza wrote: i am receiving lot of mail in my server. Tcpserver write me on terminal: "warning: dropping connection, unable to fork: temporary failure" What can i do to resolve this problem??? Use top and/or ps to see if you have too

Re: Disable telnet to port 110

2000-05-14 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 05:48:50PM +0800, Mark Lo wrote: I would like to know how to disable telnet to port 110, but still let my user to retrive mail via mail client at port 110?? (using tcpserver) telnet and your mail client do exactly the same things. That means: if you disable

Re: dnscache, multilog

2000-05-13 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 09:44:42PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: exec setuidgid root multilog t s2 n2 -\*cached\* ./main '-* cached *' ./main multilog doesn't use traditional unix/dos shell wildcards. A star stands for "ignore everything up to the next instance of the character

Re: fastforward?- new to qmail

2000-05-13 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 12:40:51PM -0600, Aaron Reynolds wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Again. My qmail server is not on b.com domain. It is on a.com. I have b.com is neither in virtualdomains nor in locals, right? Then qmail doesn't treat it as local. There are ways

Re: Backing up HUGE Maildir systems

2000-05-04 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 01:14:25AM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote: Anyone have any tips on how to effeciently backup Maildir systems with millions of files? don't do it. Nobody likes getting duplicate mail. I am pondering switching the company mail server over to Maildir. It's a very large and

Re: redirecting some email

2000-05-04 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 10:04:58AM +1000, Jason Brooke wrote: Is it possible to have qmail forward email destined to one address, to another address instead, if it contains certain file attachments based on file extension? yes. Use some magic inside the .qmail file. man dot-qmail man

Re: POP or SMTP

2000-05-03 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 06:32:58PM +0300, R.Ilker Gokhan wrote: My branch offices have slow links about 24.4 kbit. clear. So i have to use lots effective their net link. You mean "i have to use the bandwidth efficiently"? i will install mail server on brach office to communicate main

Re: Interesting scenerio

2000-05-03 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 11:57:11AM +0300, Mulindwa Eric wrote: I have an interesting scenerion, whereby I send mail to user and the mail is not in the user's mailbox, what do U think could be the problem, and also when I check in the maillog I see an error msg saying :

Re: POP or SMTP

2000-05-03 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 11:41:47AM +0300, R.Ilker Gokhan wrote: Thanks for replies. which protocol should i use to establish communication between branch office and the main office so that using the bandwith becomes more effectively? It does not really matter. The bandwidth requirements are

Re: Three questions...

2000-05-02 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 09:35:47AM +0100, Gareth Harper wrote: 1) His first requirement was to only allow relaying if the user had one of his hosted domains as the From: line of an email. I've told him what a bad idea this is but there's no persuading. So is there anyway to do this but only

Re: qmail-inject

2000-05-02 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 09:23:44PM -0700, Mike Perks wrote: How do I tell qmail-inject to send email thru a particular virtual domain name? man qmail-inject Currently it just gives the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is my defauldomain The reason why I am asking is I have a cgi script

Re: how to keep junk rejected by rblsmtpd

2000-05-02 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 07:19:29PM +0800, Martin Dougiamas wrote: So, I would love to have a solution that: - collects the whole message - sends a bounce to sender (as rblsmtpd is already doing) No. rblsmtp sends an error code ("5xx do not send junk" or so). It's the sending

Re: dot-qmail: write to mbox named after current year month

2000-05-02 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 09:47:07PM -0700, lewst wrote: manually adjust the .qmail each month? For example, "mbox.2000-05". I've tried the following: % cat .qmail ./mbox.`date +%Y-%m` |cat ./mbox.`date +%Y-%m` Usually this is not what you want: there is no protection against

Re: Mail purge

2000-05-02 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 04:02:39PM +0300, Mulindwa Eric wrote: Is there any script I can Use to free up disk space i.e deleting someold mails of clients.Am using qmail. that's a simple find job of you are using maildirs: ( for i in `awk -v FS=: '{print $1}' /etc/passwd` ; do

Re: Limit file size--HELP HELP HELP

2000-05-01 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 10:52:15PM -0400, Shakaib Sayyid wrote: Is there a way to limit the file size for attachments by user name. Currently I have no. # cat /var/qmail/control/databytes 500 and there is one user who wants to send a file thats ~20M. Is there a way to do this?

Re: problems with mercur/wsendmail/qmail

2000-04-08 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 12:57:34AM -0700, Dale Anderson wrote: I have a utility on my web server called wsendmail.exe that's used for wsendmail is a piece of bad software. exist at all. Is there any known reason for this? I thought it might have something to do with the way that the

Re: qmail-remote processes

2000-04-07 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 07:06:39PM -0300, Ricardo D. Albano wrote: I can't set my qmail server to maximize the number of simultaneous qmail-remote procs. I can't get more than 20 simul. procs., I was created the file /var/qmail/control/concurrencyremote with the value 60. you need to

Re: slow mail (sends when qmail restarted)

2000-04-06 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 10:12:19PM +0200, Markus Stumpf wrote: For quick queue inspection I use: #!/bin/sh qmail-qread \ | grep -v done \ add -w | grep -E '(remote|local)'

Re: MAIL FROM qmail question...

2000-04-05 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 08:56:24PM +0200, Christophe Lesur wrote: okay, so add 'if my domain is' mydomain.com... no, just add useful information. btw: echo /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts then look into FAQ 5.4 if you haven't done this already. Regards, Uwe

Re: Perl regex patch for badmailfrom envelope -- Re: Poor documentation of anti-spam options?checks

2000-04-04 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 10:47:38AM +0100, Will Harris wrote: /172.(?:1[6-9]|2[0-9]|31).[0-9]+.[0-9]+$/ One line, nice and simple. add "wrong". 1.172.31.111 You should really use \. and ^ Regards, Uwe

Re: Need a little insite please

2000-04-03 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 01:57:02PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: See http://www.ohse.de/uwe/misc/backupmx.txt for why i dislike backup mail servers. 'file not found.' Ugh. Fixed. Regards, Uwe

Re: qmail-pop3 problems with 'large' accounts

2000-03-28 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 09:25:26AM -0800, Gary Richardson wrote: I'm having problems with a pop user checking their. There are around 12000 emails in their MailDir directory and I get the following error when I try to download them: -ERR unable to scan $HOME/Maildir Connection

Re: Need a little insite please

2000-03-28 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 10:22:05AM -0800, michael M. Honse wrote: I have a qmail server up and running GREAT.. all is well.. BUT... I want to bring up another that will Que up mail should the real mail server crash, need rebooting, Melt down to slag, or ETC.. Anyone have a how-to for

Re: New install...

2000-03-27 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 05:41:13PM -0600, Andy Walden wrote: Nothing ever appears in /var/spool/mail. I have done this plenty of times so I know its something stupid. Any thoughts would be appreciated. a) an empty .qmail file b) a program in a .qmail file exits 99. c) "fastforward -p"

Re: MX records changed, but mails still go through old mailserver...

2000-03-25 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 08:51:25PM -, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: but mails are still handled by the old mailserver. If I use the new one as SMTP server directly, the mails are delivered locally (using qmail and vpopmail). Has anyone got an idea what's going on here? Yes. Your MX record for

Re: qmail-pop3d: connection closed by foreign host

2000-03-25 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 07:01:07PM -0800, Juara Com wrote: What am I doing wrong? Don't know. Try running strace -vs 512 -o out -f \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup juara.com /usr/sbin/logpopauth-pre \ /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir there may be a hint around

Re: How I delay the sending of a message?

2000-03-25 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:46:22PM +0100, Eduardo Calderón Chao wrote: Is it posible to inject a message, but that the qmail does not try to send it until within two days, for example? It's possible to get this behaviour through some hacks (FAQ 5.3 plus serialmail, for example). You can use

Re: help qmail + fastforward + mailing list

2000-03-25 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 07:50:02PM +0100, G.Z. wrote: when I write to listar@mydomain the alias reads listar: "|/home/listar/listar" but mail is delivered to the Mailbox of the listar account This is how the alias mechanism is designed to work: mail gets delivered to alias (and fastforward)

Re: Compilation error

2000-03-25 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 04:55:59PM -0300, Erico Augusto Bettoni wrote: I'm trying to compile qmail-1.03 on a solaris 2.5.1 with gcc-2.95.2 and bintuils-2.9.1 (ld). I've adjusted conf-cc and conf-ld: conf-cc: gcc -02 typo. -O2, not -02. Users and groups are created and /var/qmail too.

Re: Another (slightly different) cr lf question

2000-03-25 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 04:47:18PM -0800, thomas wrote: Is there an easy way to have qmail either not do the crlf - lf translation on files it delivers locally, or is there any easy way to undo this? No. No. We have IMAP clients accessing these files directly off the unix box, and they

Re: qmail not delivering to ./Maildir/

2000-03-25 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 04:20:14AM -0800, John Conover wrote: Now, I have the same problem on a new machine-Debian 2.1, qmail 1.03. qmail-inject DOES deliver to ./Maildir/, but normal mail does not. Any suggestions on how to track down the problem, (I'm at my wits end on it)? Read

Re: Error 1

2000-03-22 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 03:55:58PM +0800, Philip Mores wrote: ./compile sig_alarm.c In file included from /usr/include/signal.h:294, from sig_alarm.c:1: /usr/include/bits/sigcontext.h:28: asm/sigcontext.h: No such file or directory make: *** [sig_alarm.o] Error 1 As I

Re: Maildir Scalability Question

2000-03-18 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 02:06:11AM -0800, David E. Weekly wrote: my Maildir has 5086 messages in it to be precise. Recently (i.e., in the last 500 messages or so) retreiving mail has become *painfully* slow. Looking at "top," I find that imapd is choking the CPU, taking 97% of the CPU just

Re: Maildir Scalability Question

2000-03-18 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 11:59:39AM -0500, andy huhn wrote: I thought linear was O(n)? What are some more modern file systems linear is O(n). But the programs are not reading the directories once, they open every file once - n*(n/2). that speed this up, and how do they do it? Do they use

Re: smart relay host

2000-03-17 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 05:09:36AM -0800, Don Owens wrote: relay.host instead of to one of relay.host's mail exchangers. Does anyone know how to make qmail use multiple relays for outgoing mail? changing this line in qmail-remote.c: switch (relayhost ? dns_ip(ip,host) :

Re: inetd.conf and qmail

2000-03-13 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 01:30:59PM -0500, clifford thurber wrote: smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /opt/ucspi/bin/tcpserver -R -x/etc/tcp.sm tp.cdb -c400 -uUID -g GID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd doesn't work. tcpserver is an inetd replacement, not an inetd add-on. And anyway, you

Re: ALRM signal and the queue

2000-03-13 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 12:51:59PM -0500, clifford thurber wrote: How can I process the queue since the ALRM signal doesn't seem to be working? it works as designed. Maybe you should call /var/qmail/bin/qmail-tcpok: it's quite likely that qmails retry backoff mechanism is getting in your

Re: Early aborts (Was: qq failure on HP-UX)

2000-03-09 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 05:57:23PM +0100, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: I assume this happened before the program entered main(). me too. Which brings up a natural question: What, in general, is supposed to happen if a program is unable to proceed before it enters main(), 1003.1, 3.2

Re: qq failure on HP-UX

2000-03-08 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 05:06:20PM +0100, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: I got this bounce mesage today: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: crt0: ERROR: mmap failed for dld (data) errno:00012 Unable to forward message: qq permanent problem (#5.3.0). this can only happen "if ((exitcode = 11) (exitcode =

Re: unable to open mutex

2000-03-08 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 11:05:42AM +0800, Jason Huang wrote: Every file is the right mode and owner that it should be. Is it possible that qmail remeber the uid number ? it does. They are compiled in. Regards, Uwe

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