Re: problems with qmail-pop3d

2000-03-06 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Mate Wierdl wrote: You are probably not on the net directly, or your DNS is messed up. In the qmail-pop3d.init script, change the HOST line to HOST=your.host Did that and it works perfectly now. Got rid of the hard error that was coming up each time as well. If you

Re: problems with qmail-pop3d

2000-03-06 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Mate Wierdl wrote: Did you run maildirmake as the user, or as root? maildirmake has to be run as the user. Also, if you want qmail to deliver to maildir, not only you need to change defauldelivery, but you need to restart qmail (not qmail-smtpd). Yup, did this. Since

New to Qmail: Questions

2000-03-02 Thread Vincent Danen
think I should be able to switch over to Qmail fulltime shortly and really like the program. -- Vincent Danen, ICQ: 54924721 . telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org BBBS/LiI . Internet Rex for Linux Beta . Freezer Burn BBS Linux Information and other Goodies at Freezer Burn: www.freezer-burn.org

Re: New to Qmail: Questions

2000-03-03 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Dave Sill wrote: Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the messages he writes on a per-user basis? Ie. I have a robot that sends mail to a mailing list and I don't want mail going back to it because it'll just resend it to the list and I've got a vicious circle

problems with qmail-pop3d

2000-03-04 Thread Vincent Danen
I have a few problems with qmail-pop3d that I'm not sure how to solve. I followed the instructions to the letter, and when I start it with /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail-pop3d.init it starts but says "hard error" before it starts. Any idea what this might be? Also, I switched to using maildir and

Re: New to Qmail: Questions

2000-03-04 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Chris Johnson wrote: On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 08:47:52AM -0700, Vincent Danen wrote: But that means I have to leave the list open for anybody to send to, right? It can't be a members-only list then? I'd prefer not to do that, but if I don't have a choice then I don't

Re: qmail as a outgoing mail server

2000-03-04 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Bufnea Darius wrote: I have a private network who use a server called myhost.mydomain, connected to internet to a ppp line. The server is use as mail server, proxy, gateway and so on for the private netowork... The problem is that the MUA that runs on the windows machines

problems with qmail-pop3d (fwd)

2000-03-04 Thread Vincent Danen
: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 10:50:10 -0700 (MST) From: Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Qmail Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: problems with qmail-pop3d I have a few problems with qmail-pop3d that I'm not sure how to solve. I followed the instructions to the letter, and when I start it with /e

regarding my qmail-pop3d problems

2000-03-05 Thread Vincent Danen
Regarding the qmail-pop3d problem I posted about yesterday, I looked in the /var/log/qmail logfiles and I see this which might help someone track down my problem perhaps: delivery 20: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ Could this have something to do with my pop3 problem?

Re: regarding my qmail-pop3d problems

2000-03-05 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Vincent Danen wrote: Regarding the qmail-pop3d problem I posted about yesterday, I looked in the /var/log/qmail logfiles and I see this which might help someone track down my problem perhaps: No worries, I figured it out... it was the DNS lookup thingy in qmail-pop3d.init

Re: problems with qmail-pop3d (fwd)

2000-03-05 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Bob Rogers wrote: Not sure if anyone got this, but as an update I re-created the Maildir's for all of my users. I think I had originally done "maildirmake ~/Maildir" which might have been the problem... did it this time as "maildirmake $HOME/Maildir" and now

Bad reading of headers?

2000-03-23 Thread Vincent Danen
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lines: 9 Organization: Freezer Burn X-Mailer: BBBS/LiI v4.01 Flag-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Vincent Danen To: All last one for sure

delivery speed very slow

2000-04-14 Thread Vincent Danen
Hi there. Is there a way to increase qmail's delivery speed? I've had a message sitting in the /var/qmail/queue/mess directory tree for over 15 minutes. There is the appropriate files in the /var/qmail/queue/todo. It's currently 12:21am and the earliest file sitting in that directory is from

new RPMs for ucspi-tcp and daemontools

2000-04-15 Thread Vincent Danen
Are there new RPMs for ucspi-tcp and daemontools? I looked on the site and there doesn't seem to be anything there. I used the RPM method to install them in the first place, so I'd like to continue doing so as opposed to using the tarballs. If there are none, who can I contact regarding them

Re: DO NOT TRY INSTALLING QMAIL ON MANDRAKE

2000-04-21 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, MiGhi wrote: I tried and tried to install QMAIL 1.03 on Mandrake7.0 with NO SUCCESS! Something seems to work wrong on Mandrake, and qmail gives CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE. I'm using Qmail under Mandrake right now, and have installed it a few times, both via RPM and by

Re: DO NOT TRY INSTALLING QMAIL ON MANDRAKE

2000-04-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, MiGhi wrote: I tried and tried to install QMAIL 1.03 on Mandrake7.0 with NO SUCCESS! Something seems to work wrong on Mandrake, and qmail gives CNAME LOOKUP FAILURE. I'm using Qmail under Mandrake right now, and have installed it a few times, both via RPM and by

Qmail behind firewall question

2000-04-23 Thread Vincent Danen
Hello. I just setup a server for my father and I installed qmail because I use it here and it works great. His situation is a little different from my own, however. POP3 works great starting from inetd, but qmail gives errors. The error I get is: tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out port

Re: Qmail behind firewall question

2000-04-24 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Jason Brooke wrote: In my experience, that error is caused when the value you enter for the port isn't listed in /etc/services That's kinda what I thought, which is why I explicitly defined port 25 in there... but that doesn't seem to be the issue... =( -- [EMAIL

Re: Qmail behind firewall question

2000-04-25 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Peter Samuel wrote: Hello. I just setup a server for my father and I installed qmail because I use it here and it works great. His situation is a little different from my own, however. POP3 works great starting from inetd, but qmail gives errors. The error I get

Re: Qmail behind firewall question

2000-04-25 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Dave Sill wrote: tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out port number for geceventures.com I'm starting qmail-smtpd with: #!/bin/sh QMAILUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x

RE: Qmail behind firewall question

2000-04-25 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Dave Kitabjian wrote: What about removing the "exec" completely? I don't see why exec is necessary, and I don't know if your script variables will be passed into the new process created by the exec. No, the exec part is ok. I had put a type-o in one of the variables.

archive to the web

2000-04-28 Thread Vincent Danen
Is there a utility or program to place the archive for my mailing list on a web site? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer Burn: http://www.freezer-burn.org

Re: ezmlm-make -em, -r and -s not supported

2000-05-20 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Peter Schuller wrote: (ezmlm ML archive is down, and I find no mention of where the list is located so I cannot subscribe to it or send to it; hence I am asking here) Hello, I want to make an ezmlm managed mailinglist moderated (it's an announce list). It is stated

Qmail and conf-spawn

2000-05-20 Thread Vincent Danen
I'm trying to build an RPM for myself so when I do upgrades and such to my system I can just install the RPM and make life easy on myself. My question has to do with conf-spawn. In Bruce's RPM, it uses this to define the conf-spawn value: fds=`ulimit -n` # let spawnlimit='(fds-6)/2' echo

Re: Qmail and conf-spawn

2000-05-20 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sat, 20 May 2000, Peter Green wrote: On my system, this gives me a value of (1024-6)/2 or a value of 509. In the conf-spawn file that comes with qmail it defaults to 120 and says it can't be set about 255, so the value that comes out of Bruce's RPM is way too high... I fixed this by

ucspi-tcp and daemontools licenses?

2000-06-28 Thread Vincent Danen
I've looked at the web pages for both tools and in the archives themselves, but I can't find anything having to do with licensing issues for these two programs. I know they're not GNU, but I was wondering about distribution for them. I've made Mandrake RPMs for them would like to know if I can

manpages for ucspi-tcp

2000-06-28 Thread Vincent Danen
Before I make some unecessary work for myself, I was wondering two things: Are there manpages for ucspi-tcp 0.88 somewhere? None are in the package. Also, is there a html2man program or something I can use to make this easier? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net

ucspi-tcp man pages

2000-06-29 Thread Vincent Danen
You can obtain the manpages for ucspi-tcp from: ftp.freezer-burn.org/pub/custom/ucspi-tcp/ucspi-tcp-0.88-man.tar.bz2 These are basically taken direct from cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html and converted into manpages. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net Freezer Burn BBS:

Forwarding entire domain

2000-06-29 Thread Vincent Danen
Hi there. I have a virtual domain defined as: linuxgiant.com:raja And in /home/raja/.qmail I have: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today I got a bounce message from qmail saying no mailbox found for [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm assuming the case didn't generate the error. Is there a "catch-all" to send

Re: Forwarding entire domain

2000-06-29 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 02:16:01PM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote: Never mind. .qmail-default did it... sheesh... Sorry folks. Hi there. I have a virtual domain defined as: linuxgiant.com:raja And in /home/raja/.qmail I have: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today I got a bounce message from

Re: manpages for ucspi-tcp

2000-07-06 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 01:34:01PM +0200, Magnus Bodin wrote: Before I make some unecessary work for myself, I was wondering two things: Are there manpages for ucspi-tcp 0.88 somewhere? None are in the package. Also, is there a html2man program or something I can use to make

Re: ucspi-tcp man pages

2000-07-06 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 12:33:32PM +0200, Gerrit Pape wrote: You can obtain the manpages for ucspi-tcp from: ftp.freezer-burn.org/pub/custom/ucspi-tcp/ucspi-tcp-0.88-man.tar.bz2 These are basically taken direct from cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html and converted into manpages. Great, so

checking and fixing ownership of files

2000-07-16 Thread Vincent Danen
I know you can use instcheck to verify if the owners/permissions of files are correct, but is there something I can use to fix this? I'm sure there is a tool of some sort I can use to verify all permissions and fix them if incorrect (besides doing another make install). Reason I ask is I'm

Re: qmail-pw2u error

2000-08-01 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 05:34:36PM +1200, Chris, the Young One wrote: On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:12:54PM -0400, Vincent Danen wrote: ! In /etc/passwd I have this: ! ! alias:x:400:401::/var/qmail/alias:/bin/true Can you please run qmail-showctl and list the output of the line ``user ids

Re: qmail-pw2u error

2000-08-02 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 03:28:56PM +1200, Chris, the Young One wrote: ! How about running qmail-pw2u under trace/truss/strace/par? Yeah, that's something I'd suggest if include/exclude files aren't the obvious culprits. I think they are... going to send another email just to make sure, but

using fetchmail on qmail machine

2000-08-03 Thread Vincent Danen
I've got an interesting thing that I can't quite figure out. It works, but I'm wondering if this is normal. I've got a user who is reading/writing email on a machine with qmail as the MTA for the domain pellaria.com. Her email address belongs to the domain danen.net, which is run on another

Re: using fetchmail on qmail machine

2000-08-04 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:34:27AM -0400, Peter Green wrote: Can someone let me know if the adding localhost to control/locals is the "normal" behaviour? I think a lot of people would like to use qmail as their own MTA instead of sendmail or postfix, so knowing this would be of great

Re: using fetchmail on qmail machine

2000-08-04 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:37:03PM +1200, Chris, the Young One wrote: ! I don't know if it's the ``normal'' behavior, but I have localhost in my ! control/locals with the identical setup to you. $ grep localhost /var/qmail/control/locals localhost Yep, it's there. From a casual perusal

Re: using fetchmail on qmail machine

2000-08-04 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:03:07AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless you lack a loopback interface :-) I believe that localhost should be in control/locals, at least by default. Hmmm... it never put it in mine... wierd. Oh well, now I know that this is "normal". Thanks!

Linux Mandrake qmail packages available

2000-08-18 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Aug 14, 2000 at 07:55:46PM +0200, Gerrit Pape wrote: There are now Linux Mandrake qmail RPMs available for testing. They are not part of the Linux Mandrake distribution, which I hope will change (once I get DJB's blessing I hope!). The following packages are part of the package:

Re: Linux Mandrake qmail packages available

2000-08-20 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sun Aug 20, 2000 at 12:20:51AM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: Please, when testing, make sure they comply with http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html and http://cr.yp.to/qmail/var-qmail.html. This is the only way they will be approved by DJB, so if there are any discrepencies, please let

Re: Linux Mandrake qmail packages available

2000-08-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Aug 21, 2000 at 10:00:37AM +0200, Gerrit Pape wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:21:53AM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote: change (once I get DJB's blessing I hope!). The following packages are part of the package: qmail-1.03-7mdk.i386.rpm daemontools-0.70-3mdk.i386.rpm dot

cannot deliver to new sub-domain

2001-01-24 Thread Vincent Danen
553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) Giving up on 208.38.9.171. --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 14924 invoked by uid 501); 25 Jan 2001 04:52:38 - Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:52:38 -0700 From: Vincent Danen [EMAIL

Re: cannot deliver to new sub-domain

2001-01-24 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu Jan 25, 2001 at 12:38:18AM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote: I'm having some difficulty setting up a sub-domain on my machine. I'm trying to setup "lists.freezer-burn.org" and keep getting this result: [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 208.38.9.171 does not like recipient. Remote host said:

Re: Newbie: Which Dist Linux, Best?

2001-01-31 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Jan 31, 2001 at 11:09:17PM -0500, Phil Barnett wrote: I've been working for about 4 weeks now at setting up qmail on my RH 7.0 box. I'm somewhat new to linux (my real sys admin background is in WinNT, etc. - but I lost the desire to deal with their licensing schemes...) and I've

Re: qmail packaging

2001-02-05 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Feb 05, 2001 at 04:19:24PM -0500, Aaron Carr wrote: I read an article last week that was a comparison of all of the major Linux distros. The usual stuff, installation, features, ease of use. One of the categories was MTA. It was said in this comparison that Redhat Linux 7 Deluxe