Re: [qmailtoaster] QMT-ISO-1.2 Released

2007-05-07 Thread Vince Callaway
Michael H wrote: Unfortunately, BitTorrent is often used for less noble ventures. Here at my ISP, I play seek-and-destroy with any P2P traffic. It is a good way for an ISP to get in trouble. Mine did not disclose that they are blocking p2p traffic. They are looking at some trouble from our

Re: [qmailtoaster] Messages to hotmail are lost

2007-04-23 Thread Vince Callaway
Hotmail and msn have been an issue with me since day one. I can send mail to an msn.com address, but rarely receive anything. I routinely just blame microsoft. msn does not like my use of dynamic hostnames. Since my reverse dns does not match my hostname they have issues. I use my ISP

Re: [qmailtoaster] QMT-ISO

2007-03-13 Thread Vince Callaway
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 11:18 -0700, Ed Morrison wrote: Has anyone tested this? I get an error of CD Not Found. I had the same error. I sent an email to Jake and he said he would look into it. I was testing it on an older Sony Vaio. A regular Centos server CD installed fine.

Re: [qmailtoaster] Fedora Core 6 error

2007-02-12 Thread Vince Callaway
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 21:40 -0800, Gabriel Lai wrote: I was doing dependecy check with QT FC script. I'm curious as to if you did a yum update after doing the OS install. It's been my experience that it is required before installing toaster.

Re: [qmailtoaster] Installation on Ubuntu

2007-02-10 Thread Vince Callaway
I attempted it once. Frankly it is more trouble than it is worth. So far my best results are with FC6. That is probably because I work with it the most. - QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted http://www.vr.org

Re: [qmailtoaster] reverse dns

2007-02-10 Thread Vince Callaway
I'm running several servers on dynamic IP's. The reverse DNS is not important for those. Your upstream provider should be able to provide you with a mail server you can relay through. QT is setup to do that with no issues. As for DNS I use http://xpertdns.com It is $6.95 a year for 1 to 5

Re: [qmailtoaster] DKIM Status failed

2007-02-09 Thread Vince Callaway
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 20:20 +0700, David J. wrote: Well if it has to be on private than it's fine, but how to make my DKIM status recognized ..?? I checked your dns and everything looks correct. I suggest visiting this site: http://senderid.espcoalition.org/ To test. It provides an address

Re: [qmailtoaster] Disable RBL cheks for authenticated senders

2007-02-08 Thread Vince Callaway
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 07:15 -0700, Eric Shubes wrote: You'll probably want to turn on authentication for submission. If you don't the spammers will (if not yet, eventually) start trying/using port 587, and you'll be a target. In /var/qmail/supervise/submission/run, export REQUIRE_AUTH=1 will

[qmailtoaster] Stupid ISP's.

2007-02-05 Thread Vince Callaway
Today is my day for dealing with stupidity. First item is my ISP (centurytel) has decided to do header re-writes on outbound mail. Every piece of mail leaving my server had the from address re-wrote to be from my fully qualified server name. So much for having virtual domains on my box. When I

Re: [qmailtoaster] Stupid ISP's.

2007-02-05 Thread Vince Callaway
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 19:47 -0700, Eric Shubes wrote: Good luck finding a good ISP. There are some out there, in some areas. I sold my ISP business almost 10 years ago. If one of my employees had talked to someone the way this guy at clearwire talked to me I would have fired him on the spot.

Re: [qmailtoaster] Sending of message failed

2007-02-02 Thread Vince Callaway
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 10:12 -0500, Warren (mailing lists) wrote: Anyone know what is up with the blacklist servers or if we should be moving to different ones? I'm about ready to start my own. A few days ago tqmcube.com blacklisted lists.sourceforge.net. I've not had time to dive into it,

Re: [qmailtoaster] Banned from using RulesDuJour?

2007-01-26 Thread Vince Callaway
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 11:49 -0500, Jake Vickers wrote: He's moving the ruleset to a Verizon IP address and will be phasing out the Comast server. This makes more sense. The way I read it was he was not allowing downloads from anyone that was ON comcast. I've removed it from all of my

Re: [qmailtoaster] spf and domainkey settings in bind zone....newbie question probably

2007-01-24 Thread Vince Callaway
I'm coming into this conversation a bit late. My clueless ISP has had me offline since last wed. Having nameservers outsourced is good if you have redundant servers out there. If you have everything running on a single connection it does not really matter if your dns stays up, you are already

Re: [qmailtoaster] compile errors

2007-01-17 Thread Vince Callaway
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 08:34 -0700, Eric Shubes wrote: CentOS is a much better choice for a toaster distro than Fedora in terms of stability. You'll have far fewer OS upgrades to do once it's up and running, and you'll also run into fewer hurdles installing and upgrading the toaster software.

Re: [qmailtoaster] smtproutes and domainkeys, spf, srs

2007-01-17 Thread Vince Callaway
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 14:30 -0800, Trung Pham wrote: So in my case, I am forwarding my mail through Yahoo. I should not bother setting up SPF, SRS, and Domainkeys since I won't see any benefit at all. EVERYONE should use SPF. Forwarding mail through yahoo does not negate the benefits. My own

Re: [qmailtoaster] djbdns and domain keys

2007-01-16 Thread Vince Callaway
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 08:12 -0800, Ed Morrison wrote: Hi All: I'm trying to setup djbdns with domain keys for my server using these instructions from the wiki: DJBDNS - in /var/djbdns/tinydns/root/data (make from your-domain-dk.txt): '_domainkey.your-domain.com:o=-;

Re: [qmailtoaster] smtproutes and domainkeys, spf, srs

2007-01-16 Thread Vince Callaway
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 16:43 -0800, Trung Pham wrote: Any idea guys? Is it worth it setup SPF, SRS, and domainkeys if I am gonna use my ISP SMTP server for outgoing emails? This is exactly how I'm setup. I have a dynamic IP and host my mail at home. I use xpertdns.com to host my dns. My

Re: [qmailtoaster] smtproutes and domainkeys, spf, srs

2007-01-16 Thread Vince Callaway
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 18:11 -0800, Trung Pham wrote: SPF records alone cut way down on the backspam I was getting. I was up to about 80 bounce messages a day that had my domain as a return, but were not sent by anyone here. Isn't that the work of SRS and not SPF? No. SPF tells the

Re: [qmailtoaster] smtproutes and domainkeys, spf, srs

2007-01-16 Thread Vince Callaway
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 21:10 -0500, slamp slamp wrote: How did you get domainkeys working in this setup?? When I set my domainkeys awhile ago, gmail or yahoo always said bad keys. and I was told here on the list that it wont work because the headers are changed/updated by the smtp server in

Re: [qmailtoaster] spam on the wiki?

2007-01-14 Thread Vince Callaway
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 13:26 -0500, South Computers wrote: Was browsing the wiki this morning, noticed various casino related sites on the help page of the wiki... I assume this is spam? I hope so, because I delete them when I run across them.

Re: [qmailtoaster] Invalid recipient bounces

2007-01-12 Thread Vince Callaway
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 10:48 -0800, Nathan Grennan wrote: I switched it to bounce. This should give me the desired recipient checking without any more backscatter? Problem now is backspam. Spammers use bogus addresses all the time. I have a couple of domains that have been the victim of

[qmailtoaster] Centos4 = fubar

2007-01-12 Thread Vince Callaway
Another poster asked about issues with Centos. I did a quick install a few weeks ago and everything appeared to be ok. Turns out I was wrong. The issue is with Spamassassin and perl modules. I started with a clean install yesterday to check things out and finally gave up. During the CPAN

Re: [qmailtoaster] Centos4 = fubar

2007-01-12 Thread Vince Callaway
Probably did not need the whole thing :) [See notes below] On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 19:56 -0500, South Computers wrote: [16097] dbg: diag: module not installed: IP::Country::Fast ('require' failed) [16097] dbg: diag: module not installed: Razor2::Client::Agent ('require' failed) [16097] dbg:

Re: [qmailtoaster] How to prevent email deletion via POP3

2007-01-10 Thread Vince Callaway
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 13:02 -0800, Trung Pham wrote: Hi all, My company wants to prevent people from deleting email via POP3. I assume this is for archival (fascist government regulation) purposes? If so the easiest way I know of is when you setup a mailbox you also set a user.archive

Re: [qmailtoaster] No Spamassassin on new toaster.

2007-01-10 Thread Vince Callaway
type sa-update And then spamassassin -D --lint and check the output for things missing. - QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted http://www.vr.org - To

Re: [qmailtoaster] Sending mail suddendly slooooow!!!

2007-01-09 Thread Vince Callaway
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 08:57 -0500, Jake Vickers wrote: I did write a script that checks the response times on blacklists and I've used your script and it works great. I don't use it to do an automatic update, but use it to debug. For those that don't know, the blacklists use a modified DNS

Re: [qmailtoaster] problem sending mail..hep me plz

2007-01-08 Thread Vince Callaway
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 21:39 -0600, David Milholen wrote: I found it a link in the blacklist was not responding.. I think it was relay.orbs or somin like that. I am going to goto jays site and read about how to annihilate evil spam:) Thanks This is the contents of my blacklist file: -r

Re: [qmailtoaster] problem sending mail..hep me plz

2007-01-08 Thread Vince Callaway
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 20:25 -0800, Erik Espinoza wrote: Hey Vince, That saupdates.openprotect.com site is great for blocking spam. Thank you for that gem. Erik Just trying to help. My goal is to live in a spam free world. Back when I started using the net my email address had !'s in

Re: [qmailtoaster] SURBL usage

2007-01-05 Thread Vince Callaway
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 17:18 +0530, Stanley Robins wrote: Hi Jake, right now i have my spamassassin running, which scans all the incoming messages, is that different from SURBL ? I think some of the answers are a bit confusing. qmail-toaster is setup so that the RBL's are checked before

Re: [qmailtoaster] whitelisting

2007-01-05 Thread Vince Callaway
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 11:54 -0600, Guillermo Villasana wrote: whitelist_from ssb.com.mx whitelist_from canfield.com.mx whitelist_from wellbox.com.mx whitelist_from yperion.com.mx whitelist_from equiposesteticos.com.mx whitelist_from centrofrances.com.mx whitelist_from endermologia.com.mx I

Re: [qmailtoaster] CentOS 4.4

2007-01-05 Thread Vince Callaway
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 22:20 -0800, Gabriel Lai wrote: Anyone tested QT on CentOS 4.4 before? I set it up to check it out. I used the ServerCD version (single disk). I don't recall having any issues. - QmailToaster hosted

Re: [qmailtoaster] smtp hanging up

2007-01-04 Thread Vince Callaway
Is your webserver SMTP host set to localhost or 127.0.0.1 ? One of the issues I've run into with the FDR60 installs is that localhost is defined with an ipv6 address. Attempting to connect to localhost will fail. -

[qmailtoaster] Domainkeys, mailing lists and rejects

2007-01-03 Thread Vince Callaway
I think I narrowed down the issue. It's with mailing list programs. All of my dk failures are list related. The one that was the most troublesome shows up now with the new logging features: 2007-01-03 01:48:44.455021500 qmail-smtpd: qq hard reject (DomainKeys verify status: bad format

Re: [qmailtoaster] Some notes on fdr60

2007-01-02 Thread Vince Callaway
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 15:24 +, Mark Piekos wrote: Vince, I have just about given up on FC6 and decided it will be less difficult (for me)to solve the seperate problem of installing CentOS 4 on my SATA drive... I would be very interested in hearing what you have to do to get it

Re: [qmailtoaster] Some notes on fdr60

2007-01-02 Thread Vince Callaway
Harry Zink wrote: Any particular reason to prefer fdr6 over Centos 4, considering all the problems with fdr6, and the extreme ease with Centos, I was just wondering. In my case it is application driven. I have a software package I wrote for the Intermodal Trucking business. The systems

Re: [qmailtoaster] DEVEL PACKAGE: qmail-toaster-1.03-1.3.9.src.rpm

2007-01-02 Thread Vince Callaway
Thanks for posting these. I've installed them on my test box (fdr60). Will post if I see any oddities. - QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted http://www.vr.org

Re: Re[2]: [qmailtoaster] postfix end of data error

2006-12-30 Thread Vince Callaway
Thanks for the update and patch. I've installed them and also set DKDEBUG. I looked through qmail-dk code (and did searches) but I don't seem to be able to find where to control the scope of my outgoing signatures. Is that something that is just not implemented yet?

[qmailtoaster] Some notes on fdr60

2006-12-30 Thread Vince Callaway
Don't know if anyone else is using Fedora Core 6, but here are some notes. The install docs say to do a yum update after installing toaster. My experience so far is to do that right after installing the OS. For some reason the fdr60-install-script.sh has vqadmin-toaster commented out. I fix

[qmailtoaster] postfix end of data error

2006-12-29 Thread Vince Callaway
Not sure where to start looking for this. Here is a copy of the error that a sending system received: Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host dbserver.ezdray.com[69.29.246.116] said: 554 mail server permanently rejected message

Re: [qmailtoaster] Toaster at School

2006-12-24 Thread Vince Callaway
You could add an expiration date to the user record in mysql. You would still have to delete the account on your own, but simple script would take care of the issue. - QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted http://www.vr.org

Re: Re[4]: [qmailtoaster] Can anyone

2006-12-20 Thread Vince Callaway
On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 13:17 -0500, Kyle Quillen wrote: So i am correct in stating that I need to setup a record in dns for the domain key. Do I use the private key that is in the /var/qmail/control/domainkeys/hwy39.net or do I have to create a public one. Further more do I just insert this

Re: Re[4]: [qmailtoaster] Can anyone

2006-12-20 Thread Vince Callaway
On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 13:59 -0500, Kyle Quillen wrote: _domainkeyIN TXT o=-\; [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can remove the \ and it needs to be enclosed in quotes. private._domainkey IN TXT k=rsa;p=MEwwDQYJKoZI Only the second line would be with the full key and the quotes closed?

Re: [qmailtoaster] Qmail Toaster on the internet

2006-12-13 Thread Vince Callaway
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 10:44 -0700, Eric Shubes wrote: The only significant problem I've come across is that some domains black list servers on dynamic addresses. I get around this by using dyndns's mailhop service. Both customdns and mailhop are very affordable. I cheat. I'm going to

Re: [qmailtoaster] Qmail Toaster on the internet

2006-12-12 Thread Vince Callaway
That's pretty cool. I'm at least responsible for a couple of those. I've managed to convince some of my friends that handling your email at home is the best policy. I use a company called xpertdns.com to handle the DNS because they are cheap, do dynamic dns and support the txt records for