Re: mail-bombing

2004-12-12 Thread Robert Brockway
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Marek Podmaka wrote: So is there any solution for this? We can't use safe_mode in php, it's too restrictive for most customers. We use postfix (default version in woody) A couple of thoughts: 1. Transparently proxy SMTP to your an MTA you control, which limits the number o

Re: Mail Delivery (failure jcoo...@planetz.com)

2004-10-26 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 03:55, "John Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand your guys' point, and I appreciate it.What you describe > here sounds nearly identicaly to my auto-responder. But, that may be my > lack of knowledge of how the mail system works in general. Something about Be

Re: Mail Delivery (failure jcoo...@planetz.com)

2004-10-26 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 03:11, Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Spam does not justify spam. I have come to this realization myself only > recently (I am, unfortunately still, a TMDA user). I can understand that You should cease using TMDA. For reference I never respond to TMDA type mes

Re: Mail Delivery (failure jcoo...@planetz.com)

2004-10-26 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 06:29, "John Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John C has requested that > > the following message be removed from the archives. > > My apologies that my autoresponder spammed the list. I've never posted to > the debian-isp list. Apparently someone's machine is infected w

Re: Mail Delivery (failure jcoo...@planetz.com)

2004-10-26 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:58, "John Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >...spammers drown you in water? > > http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=metaphor > > >..you want respect? Earn it. > > If earning respect in this crowd requires being disrespectful, then I'm not > interested. Earning res

RE: Mail Delivery (failure jcoo...@planetz.com)

2004-10-24 Thread John Cooper
>...spammers drown you in water? http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=metaphor >..you want respect? Earn it. If earning respect in this crowd requires being disrespectful, then I'm not interested. The list admins will either remove my private address from this thread, or they won't. Eithe

Re: Mail Delivery (failure jcoo...@planetz.com)

2004-10-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 10:55:01 -0700, John wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > He could easily have shared his idea with the list, and mailed me > separately at my new address, without (in his words) publically > archiving my private address for spammers to harvest. Do you not > agree that th

RE: Mail Delivery (failure jcoo...@planetz.com)

2004-10-24 Thread John Cooper
> The smarter way to let people know that your email address has > changed is by > rejecting the message. You can reject the message (in postfix) > by using the > relocated table, that will reject the message giving the error "User has > moved to johnc at planetz.com" (or whatever you'd like the >

Re: Mail Delivery (failure jcoo...@planetz.com)

2004-10-24 Thread Fraser Campbell
On Saturday 23 October 2004 16:29, John Cooper wrote: > Clearly I've touched a nerve with Mr. Coker!  The virtiolic nature of his > response here, and the public posting of my private email address which I > was trying to protect, is simply inane and immature.    Next time, Mr. You are sending un

RE: Mail Delivery (failure jcoo...@planetz.com)

2004-10-23 Thread John Cooper
> John C has requested that > the following message be removed from the archives. > My apologies that my autoresponder spammed the list. I've never posted to the debian-isp list. Apparently someone's machine is infected with an email-worm, which has used my jcooper address (which I stopped using

Re: Mail Delivery (failure jcoo...@planetz.com)

2004-10-23 Thread Russell Coker
For the benefit of interested people. John C has requested that the following message be removed from the archives. Auto-responders ARE spam. They will hit innocent people. Just because most victims of auto-responders don't complain does not mean that the auto-responder is not causing proble

Re: Mail Delivery (failure jcoo...@planetz.com)

2004-10-23 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 02:27:24PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Due to the unprecedented amount of spam I've been receiving, I'm forced to > > change my email address yet again. My new address is johnc at planetz.com. This is silly reasonin

Re: Mail Delivery (failure jcoo...@planetz.com)

2004-10-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Due to the unprecedented amount of spam I've been receiving, I'm forced to > change my email address yet again. My new address is johnc at planetz.com. Please don't be stupid. Such auto-responders will get you added to all the spam lists aga

Re: Mail Delivery (failure jcoo...@planetz.com)

2004-10-21 Thread john
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Automatic reply- John's address has changed Due to the unprecedented amount of spam I've been receiving, I'm forced to change my email address yet again. My new address is johnc at planetz.com. If you're not sending me spam, please update your records and ***res

Re: Mail Delivery (failure frit...@compilager.de)

2004-09-19 Thread fritzek
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Re: Mail Delivery (failure rest.love.eros-un...@subscribe.ru)

2004-04-13 Thread Subscribe . Ru Почтовый робот подписчиков
Добрый день Кто-то, возможно вы, написал письмо с адреса debian-isp@lists.debian.org на адрес робота управления подпиской по почте [EMAIL PROTECTED] Такое письмо означает, что требуется ОТПИСАТЬ адрес debian-isp@lists.debian.org от дискуссионного листа "Флюиды Лолиты: Расслабьтесь, поговорим о се

Re: Mail Delivery (failure rest.love.eros-unsub@subscribe.ru)

2004-04-13 Thread Subscribe . Ru Почтовый робот подписчиков
Добрый день Кто-то, возможно вы, написал письмо с адреса [EMAIL PROTECTED] на адрес робота управления подпиской по почте [EMAIL PROTECTED] Такое письмо означает, что требуется ОТПИСАТЬ адрес [EMAIL PROTECTED] от дискуссионного листа "Флюиды Лолиты: Расслабьтесь, поговорим о сексе.". Если это так

Re: mail from Fatima Iyesa Ismiana

2004-03-28 Thread Guerrino Meneguzzi
Meneguzzi Guerrino INSERM U634 Faculté de Médecine 27, Ave de Valombrose 06107 Nice Cedex 2 France Tel.: 33 (0)493 37 77 79 Fax.: 33 (0)493 81 14 04 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mail from Fatima Iyesa Ismiana

2004-03-28 Thread Guerrino Meneguzzi
Meneguzzi Guerrino INSERM U634 Faculté de Médecine 27, Ave de Valombrose 06107 Nice Cedex 2 France Tel.: 33 (0)493 37 77 79 Fax.: 33 (0)493 81 14 04 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mail Delivery System

2004-01-30 Thread GeneralInq
>This is a multi-part message in MIME format. >=_NextPart_ST_11_51_35_Friday_January_30_2004_31092 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="Windows-1252" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Mail transaction failed. Partial message is available. >=_NextPart_ST_11_51_35_Friday_January_3

Re: Mail Delivery System

2004-01-30 Thread GeneralInq
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Re: Mail Queue timeouts

2003-10-23 Thread Jernej Horvat
Thursday 23 October 2003 06:12, Lauchlin Wilkinson > > What are other people doing? sticking to RFCs. O:-) i would not lower it under 3daysjust in case the remote mail server brakes on weekend. -- Only a fool fights in a burning house. -- Kank the Klingon, "Day of the

Re: Mail Queue timeouts

2003-10-23 Thread Tomasz Papszun
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 at 15:12:55 +1100, Lauchlin Wilkinson wrote: > Hi, > > what are peoples thoughts on the length of time mail should sit in the > mail queue? Due to the rise in the amount of spam and viruses that > seems to be going around lately I throttled back the delivery warning > back

Re: Mail Queue timeouts

2003-10-23 Thread Jernej Horvat
Thursday 23 October 2003 06:12, Lauchlin Wilkinson > > What are other people doing? sticking to RFCs. O:-) i would not lower it under 3daysjust in case the remote mail server brakes on weekend. -- Only a fool fights in a burning house. -- Kank the Klingon, "Day of the

Re: Mail Queue timeouts

2003-10-23 Thread Tomasz Papszun
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 at 15:12:55 +1100, Lauchlin Wilkinson wrote: > Hi, > > what are peoples thoughts on the length of time mail should sit in the > mail queue? Due to the rise in the amount of spam and viruses that > seems to be going around lately I throttled back the delivery warning > back

Re: Mail architecture for up 30.000 accounts

2003-06-01 Thread Stefan Neufeind
JawMail: Give the free JawMail A try. I'm using it here and it's great. Also, if you have any problems, the programmer will assist you quite quickly. It's worth trying. It directly connects to the IMAP- Server, supports folders etc. as well. On 30 May 2003 at 10:33, Carlos L.M. wrote: > I need

Re: Mail architecture for up 30.000 accounts

2003-06-01 Thread Stefan Neufeind
JawMail: Give the free JawMail A try. I'm using it here and it's great. Also, if you have any problems, the programmer will assist you quite quickly. It's worth trying. It directly connects to the IMAP- Server, supports folders etc. as well. On 30 May 2003 at 10:33, Carlos L.M. wrote: > I need

Re: Mail architecture for up 30.000 accounts

2003-05-30 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 30 May 2003 19:34, Bart Matthaei wrote: > > For software, I would use this: > > > > SMTP: Postfix > > Postfix works fine. Sendmail or qmail would do the trick as well. Depends > on your personal preference. If you want to run a machine for years on end without needing an urgent securit

Re: Mail architecture for up 30.000 accounts

2003-05-30 Thread Bart Matthaei
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 10:33:14AM +0200, Carlos L.M. wrote: > Hi all, > > I need a sample of mail architecture for up 30.000 > accounts. Can you help me ?? > > For software, I would use this: > > SMTP: Postfix Postfix works fine. Sendmail or qmail would do the trick as well. Depends on you

Re: Mail architecture for up 30.000 accounts

2003-05-30 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 30 May 2003 19:34, Bart Matthaei wrote: > > For software, I would use this: > > > > SMTP: Postfix > > Postfix works fine. Sendmail or qmail would do the trick as well. Depends > on your personal preference. If you want to run a machine for years on end without needing an urgent securit

Re: Mail architecture for up 30.000 accounts

2003-05-30 Thread Bart Matthaei
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 10:33:14AM +0200, Carlos L.M. wrote: > Hi all, > > I need a sample of mail architecture for up 30.000 > accounts. Can you help me ?? > > For software, I would use this: > > SMTP: Postfix Postfix works fine. Sendmail or qmail would do the trick as well. Depends on you

Re: Mail folders and Postfix

2003-04-24 Thread Duane Powers
I would check /etc/login.defs, you can specify the Mail drop there. You can further customize the default adduser options in /etc/adduser.conf (i think it is...) ~duane Splash Tekalal wrote: I've found an interesting, if annoying bug in my system and was wondering if anyone could suggest a fix.

Re: Mail folders and Postfix

2003-04-22 Thread Christoph Löffler
Hi Splash Tekalal wrote: [...] When I create a new user account, according to logcheck e-mails, the system is setting new users' e-mail boxes to /dev/null.. Doing a first time run of pine with each user fixes the problem, but I'd like to try and fix the defaults.. Where would I find this setting

Re: Mail server

2003-03-11 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, Am 19:16 2003-02-24 +0100 hat Russell Coker geschrieben: > >On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:34, Colin Ellis wrote: >The fastest drives (15000rpm) will take an average of 4ms for the disk to spin >to the correct location to start a transfer in addition to the seek times for >moving the heads. Th

Re: Mail server

2003-03-11 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, Am 19:16 2003-02-24 +0100 hat Russell Coker geschrieben: > >On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:34, Colin Ellis wrote: >The fastest drives (15000rpm) will take an average of 4ms for the disk to spin >to the correct location to start a transfer in addition to the seek times for >moving the heads. Th

RE: Mail Server Authentication

2003-03-06 Thread Gregory Wood
l Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 4:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-isp@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Mail Server Authentication Hi Teun, had a look at the link Postfix is compiled with SASL, and Cyrus with SAS

RE: Mail Server Authentication

2003-03-06 Thread Gregory Wood
l Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 4:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mail Server Authentication Hi Teun, had a look at the link Postfix is compiled with SASL, and Cyrus with SASL2 I

Re: Mail Server Authentication

2003-03-05 Thread andrew
Hi Teun, had a look at the link Postfix is compiled with SASL, and Cyrus with SASL2 I dont want to use 2 'db' files to store the same usernames and passwords, and as I said, I dont want them in Mysql or /etc/passwd - hmmm... was hoping to find a package that I wouldnt have to mainta

Re: Mail Server Authentication

2003-03-05 Thread andrew
Hi Teun, had a look at the link Postfix is compiled with SASL, and Cyrus with SASL2 I dont want to use 2 'db' files to store the same usernames and passwords, and as I said, I dont want them in Mysql or /etc/passwd - hmmm... was hoping to find a package that I wouldnt have to mainta

Re: Mail Server Authentication

2003-02-28 Thread teun
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 10:03 PM Subject: Mail Server Authentication > Hi all, > > I am currently working on installing a new mail server for a small number of > users (50-100). > > I do NOT want the user

Re: Mail Server Authentication

2003-02-28 Thread teun
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 10:03 PM Subject: Mail Server Authentication > Hi all, > > I am currently working on installing a new mail server for a small number of > users (50-100). > > I do

Re: Mail server

2003-02-25 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 10:16, Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) wrote: > [disclaimer: I am not a specialist in mail servers at all] > > I have installed James (check www.apache.org) on one machine and its > developers claim, if I remember correctly, to send several millions of > mails during their performan

Re: Mail server

2003-02-25 Thread Thomas Lamy
Russell Coker wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:34, Colin Ellis wrote: > > Email doesn't really need much processing, but does take > > surprisingly large amounts of disk space. > > Obviously such things differ depending on exactly who is > using the service and what they are doing. > > But my

Re: Mail server

2003-02-25 Thread Lacoste (Frisurf)
[disclaimer: I am not a specialist in mail servers at all] I have installed James (check www.apache.org) on one machine and its developers claim, if I remember correctly, to send several millions of mails during their performance testing. I found it really easy to administrate and I am using MySQL

Re: Mail server

2003-02-25 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 10:16, Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) wrote: > [disclaimer: I am not a specialist in mail servers at all] > > I have installed James (check www.apache.org) on one machine and its > developers claim, if I remember correctly, to send several millions of > mails during their performan

Re: Mail server

2003-02-25 Thread Thomas Lamy
Russell Coker wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:34, Colin Ellis wrote: > > Email doesn't really need much processing, but does take > > surprisingly large amounts of disk space. > > Obviously such things differ depending on exactly who is > using the service and what they are doing. > > But my

Re: Mail server

2003-02-25 Thread Lacoste (Frisurf)
[disclaimer: I am not a specialist in mail servers at all] I have installed James (check www.apache.org) on one machine and its developers claim, if I remember correctly, to send several millions of mails during their performance testing. I found it really easy to administrate and I am using MySQL

Re: Mail server

2003-02-24 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:27:56AM -0600, Asher Densmore-Lynn wrote: > Can anyone give me any figures on how much machine I need to serve as a > mail server for N users? > > I appreciate that every server is unique, but I can't judge these things > for the life of me, and if I had baseline numbe

Re: Mail server

2003-02-24 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:27:56AM -0600, Asher Densmore-Lynn wrote: > Can anyone give me any figures on how much machine I need to serve as a > mail server for N users? > > I appreciate that every server is unique, but I can't judge these things > for the life of me, and if I had baseline numbe

Re: Mail server

2003-02-24 Thread Amaya
Lauchlin Wilkinson dijo: > As I said, the most cpu hungry app is the spam filtering. Try Amavis on top of that! ;-) -- .''`. Girl, you gotta change your crazy ways, you hear me? : :' :Crazy by Aerosmith `. `'Proudly running Debian G

Re: Mail server

2003-02-24 Thread Lauchlin Wilkinson
We have one machine that is currently handleing about that many users. It runs Debian 3.0 stable, sendmail, spamassassin (if anyone has a better spam fillter let me know), imap and pop, and the load average is rarely above 0.7. Most of the load comes from spamassassin. Which seems to be normal.

Re: Mail server

2003-02-24 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 20:59, Rich Puhek wrote: > Russell Coker wrote: > > I have been considering modifying the Qmail and maildrop code to not use > > fsync() etc to allow more users per server (yes I know about the > > reliability issues, but there are lots of more important things to worry > > abou

Re: Mail server

2003-02-24 Thread Amaya
Lauchlin Wilkinson dijo: > As I said, the most cpu hungry app is the spam filtering. Try Amavis on top of that! ;-) -- .''`. Girl, you gotta change your crazy ways, you hear me? : :' :Crazy by Aerosmith `. `'Proudly running Debian G

Re: Mail server

2003-02-24 Thread Lauchlin Wilkinson
We have one machine that is currently handleing about that many users. It runs Debian 3.0 stable, sendmail, spamassassin (if anyone has a better spam fillter let me know), imap and pop, and the load average is rarely above 0.7. Most of the load comes from spamassassin. Which seems to be normal.

Re: Mail server

2003-02-24 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 20:59, Rich Puhek wrote: > Russell Coker wrote: > > I have been considering modifying the Qmail and maildrop code to not use > > fsync() etc to allow more users per server (yes I know about the > > reliability issues, but there are lots of more important things to worry > > abou

Re: Mail server

2003-02-24 Thread Maarten Vink
- Original Message - From: "Russell Coker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Colin Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 7:16 PM Subject: Re: Mail server > > If a message delivery tak

Re: Mail server

2003-02-24 Thread Rich Puhek
Russell Coker wrote: I have been considering modifying the Qmail and maildrop code to not use fsync() etc to allow more users per server (yes I know about the reliability issues, but there are lots of more important things to worry about). Are you using mboxes under /var/spool/mail, or are you

Re: Mail server

2003-02-24 Thread Markus Schabel
Asher Densmore-Lynn wrote: Can anyone give me any figures on how much machine I need to serve as a mail server for N users? I appreciate that every server is unique, but I can't judge these things for the life of me, and if I had baseline numbers I could modify them to suit. \: I'm looking at

Re: Mail server

2003-02-24 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:34, Colin Ellis wrote: > Email doesn't really need much processing, but does take surprisingly large > amounts of disk space. Obviously such things differ depending on exactly who is using the service and what they are doing. But my experience is that with modern disks a m

Re: Mail server

2003-02-24 Thread thing
Asher Densmore-Lynn wrote: Can anyone give me any figures on how much machine I need to serve as a mail server for N users? I appreciate that every server is unique, but I can't judge these things for the life of me, and if I had baseline numbers I could modify them to suit. \: I'm looking at

Re: Mail server

2003-02-24 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:27, Asher Densmore-Lynn wrote: > Can anyone give me any figures on how much machine I need to serve as a > mail server for N users? > > I appreciate that every server is unique, but I can't judge these things > for the life of me, and if I had baseline numbers I could modify

Re: Mail server

2003-02-24 Thread Gabriel Granger
If its of any help, at my last firm, we had 1000 email domains all using different setup's their were 900 pop accounts checking their mail every 5 - 10 mins our set up was Sendmail 8.11 Debian 3.0 kernel 2.4.18 intel 550Mhz 256Mb Ram 40Gb Hd Machine load never above 0.7 Asher Densmore-Lynn wrot

RE: Mail server

2003-02-24 Thread Colin Ellis
Your question is certainly quite vague, but here are a few things to think about.. What mail delivery program are you thinking of using and are you planning on providing pop3 and/or imap service? Imap requires more processing power to display the mail folders, but it depends on the software again

Re: Mail relay attempts

2002-08-27 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 at 11:32:53PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > PS: actually, the only other thing you could do is set firewall rules > blocking inbound tcp port 25. if your mail server is the primary MX for > your domain then you would also need a secondary MX and open the > firewall for just tha

Re: Mail relay attempts

2002-08-27 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:12:51AM -0500, Daniel J. Rychlik wrote: > This is great, Just great. I run a mail server on dsl service > provided by mabell. I wrote a perl script that mails me some reports > on activities on my server everyday. I wake up this morning and I > have an alarm. > Obvious

Re: mail queue's, ext3 data=journal and sync-mount

2002-08-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 11:54, Philipp Schmidt wrote: > within this discussion, i got the idea to put an external journal for > the ext3fs on an raid1-volume the real data on a raid5, hopefully, when > writing the journal out to the disk having more data to be written an > once - this would be worth a

Re: mail queue's, ext3 data=journal and sync-mount

2002-08-20 Thread Philipp Schmidt
On Tue, 2002-08-20 00:42:31 +0200, Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:17, you wrote: > > True. Do you know why ext2 sync-mounted is so abysmally slow? I mean, > > our RAID was barely breaking a sweat, and bonnie++ was barely using 2-3%

Re: mail queue's, ext3 data=journal and sync-mount

2002-08-19 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:17, you wrote: > True. Do you know why ext2 sync-mounted is so abysmally slow? I mean, > our RAID was barely breaking a sweat, and bonnie++ was barely using 2-3% > CPU, and yet, things just wouldn't go any faster, what's the bottleneck? Write back caching is simply a great

Re: mail queue's, ext3 data=journal and sync-mount

2002-08-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 00:51, you wrote: > reply to my last email? I'm sorry to bother, but I'm trying to find a I missed that, but it seems you raise the same issues here. > suitable filesystem and mount options for a qmail queue. DJB says no to > ext2 unless it's sync mounted, but I found abysma

Re: mail queue's, ext3 data=journal and sync-mount

2002-08-17 Thread Jason Lim
> Rumour has it that data=journal can actually improve performance in some > situations. If a program is writing lots of small files synchronously (quite > common for a mail server that has one tiny control file for every message, > and the average message file isn't too big) then journalling the

Re: mail queue's, ext3 data=journal and sync-mount

2002-08-17 Thread Russell Coker
I decided that this message is better for Debian-ISP, so I replied to the list and BCC'd you. I hope you don't object. On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 01:20, you wrote: > I'm having some trouble finding info on this stuff and found a > knowledgeable-sounding post of yours on debian-isp. Please ignore if >

Re: mail-config?

2002-08-02 Thread Georg Lehner
Hello! El jue, 01-08-2002 a las 22:44, Donovan Baarda escribió: ... > courier-ssl, courier-base, courier-authdaemon. If you follow all the > dependancies, courier-imap-ssl includes all the dependancies of uw-imapd > except libc-client-ssl2001, which is 913kB... ... > However, I still feel a litt

Re: mail-config?

2002-08-01 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 12:12:43AM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Baarda) writes: > > > Though I use uw-imapd instead of Courier. The general consensus is Courier > > is better, but I went with uw-imapd because it was "lighter", and I had > > legacy non-Maildir mailboxes.

Re: mail-config?

2002-08-01 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Baarda) writes: > Though I use uw-imapd instead of Courier. The general consensus is Courier > is better, but I went with uw-imapd because it was "lighter", and I had > legacy non-Maildir mailboxes. > > Courier is nearly 1MB installed including ssl and support packages,

Re: mail-config?

2002-08-01 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:49:25PM -0600, Lance Levsen wrote: > > > What should I install to get mail to work? > > I have a small network: > > -1 debian gateway > > -2 debian boxes > > -4 Win98 PC (sorry, the kids are teached at school with word, excel etc.) > > > Frank. > > I'd suggest Postfix/

Re: mail-config?

2002-08-01 Thread Lance Levsen
> What should I install to get mail to work? > I have a small network: > -1 debian gateway > -2 debian boxes > -4 Win98 PC (sorry, the kids are teached at school with word, excel etc.) > Frank. I'd suggest Postfix/Courier IMAP. If you have the mail hosted elsewhere on an POP or IMAP server then

Re: mail-config?

2002-08-01 Thread Todd Charron
Hi, For me a mix of qmail and fetchmail worked beautifully until I got a static (at which point fetchmail was no longer required). I did it all with one machine but if you really want you could use two (though I don't see the point). Fetchmail would retrieve the messages when connected and q

Re: Mail question

2002-07-18 Thread Joel Michael
On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 16:50, Craig wrote: > Hi Fellows > > Has anyone succeeded in setting up a multi-user mailbox that > exchange 2000 retrieves mail from using exim ?> I am having > the problem that when exchange retrieves the messages, its > resending them again which causes the recipients o

Re: Mail question

2002-07-17 Thread Joel Michael
On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 16:50, Craig wrote: > Hi Fellows > > Has anyone succeeded in setting up a multi-user mailbox that > exchange 2000 retrieves mail from using exim ?> I am having > the problem that when exchange retrieves the messages, its > resending them again which causes the recipients

Re: Mail Servers

2002-03-19 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 19:37, Jason Lim wrote: > > Some of my friends even take hidden tape recorders into meetings. > > I thought that, legally, one would have to actually warn the person being > recorded that a recording was taking place. I know that when I phone a > number of large companies, they

Re: Mail Servers

2002-03-19 Thread Jason Lim
> On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:46, Jason Lim wrote: > > Mmm... but then, what if you ARE speaking for your company, but don't want > > that person to then send it off to their internal mailing list or > > something like that? > > Tough luck. > > If a representative of vendor for a project I'm working o

Re: Mail Servers

2002-03-19 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:46, Jason Lim wrote: > Mmm... but then, what if you ARE speaking for your company, but don't want > that person to then send it off to their internal mailing list or > something like that? Tough luck. If a representative of vendor for a project I'm working on sends me an e

Re: Mail Servers

2002-03-19 Thread Jason Lim
> > Well, I guess that depends on how important the mail is, and how often > > people "download" their mail. Obviously in an IMAP situation where mail is > > stored on the server, it must be safe and secure. With clients (software, > > i mean) downloading their mail to the desktop, the most they

Re: Mail Servers

2002-03-19 Thread Jason Lim
> > Well, I guess that depends on how important the mail is, and how often > > people "download" their mail. Obviously in an IMAP situation where mail is > > stored on the server, it must be safe and secure. With clients (software, > > i mean) downloading their mail to the desktop, the most they

Re: Mail Servers

2002-03-19 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 06:18, Jason Lim wrote: > > RAID is mandatory for a mail server. Backups are difficult for mail > > servers > > > as the data is changing all the time, and they'll never be complete. > > > > Having a single drive failure lose all your data is unacceptable. > > Well, I guess th

Re: Mail Servers

2002-03-18 Thread Jason Lim
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:17, Chris Jenks wrote: > > I hadn't even thought of using a RAID set up. I haven't had any experience > > with them. Hmm.. looks like I asked the right question in the right place > > after all. > > RAID is mandatory for a mail server. Backups are difficult for mail ser

Re: Mail Servers

2002-03-18 Thread Chris Jenks
At 05:34 PM 3/18/02, you wrote: > > I hadn't even thought of using a RAID set up. I haven't had any >experience with > > them. Hmm.. looks like I asked the right question in the right place >after all. >Most of us work in ISP/hosting type environments, so all your >considerations have already be

Re: Mail Servers

2002-03-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:17, Chris Jenks wrote: > I hadn't even thought of using a RAID set up. I haven't had any experience > with them. Hmm.. looks like I asked the right question in the right place > after all. RAID is mandatory for a mail server. Backups are difficult for mail servers as the

Re: Mail Servers

2002-03-18 Thread Jason Lim
> > I hadn't even thought of using a RAID set up. I haven't had any experience with > them. Hmm.. looks like I asked the right question in the right place after all. > > Thanks > Chris Most of us work in ISP/hosting type environments, so all your considerations have already been considered by us

Re: Mail Servers

2002-03-18 Thread Chris Jenks
At 02:08 PM 3/18/02, Russell Coker wrote: >On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:12, Jason Lim wrote: > > > > 1 What is the max user limit that woody + exim will support > > > > > > It's WAY above 500. :-) > > > > It also seriously depends on what the hardware is. I think a 486/33 might > > have a bit of trouble

Re: Mail Servers

2002-03-18 Thread Chris Jenks
At 01:12 PM 3/18/02, you wrote: > > > 1 What is the max user limit that woody + exim will support > > > > It's WAY above 500. :-) > > > >It also seriously depends on what the hardware is. I think a 486/33 might >have a bit of trouble coping with 500 (or lets say 200-300) simultaneous >and concurr

Re: Mail Servers

2002-03-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:12, Jason Lim wrote: > > > 1 What is the max user limit that woody + exim will support > > > > It's WAY above 500. :-) > > It also seriously depends on what the hardware is. I think a 486/33 might > have a bit of trouble coping with 500 (or lets say 200-300) simultaneous > a

Re: Mail Servers

2002-03-18 Thread Jason Lim
> > 1 What is the max user limit that woody + exim will support > > It's WAY above 500. :-) > It also seriously depends on what the hardware is. I think a 486/33 might have a bit of trouble coping with 500 (or lets say 200-300) simultaneous and concurrent users trying to check their email at the

Re: Mail Servers

2002-03-18 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 02:28:12AM -0500, Chris Jenks wrote: > I hate asking this, but I thought that this would be the fastest > way to get the answer. > > I may be setting up a mail server for a factory. From what little > I know so far, it will be for all a mail server for all five hundred > e

Re: Mail

2001-11-20 Thread Asher Densmore-Lynn
Thanks for all your suggestions. Qmail and vpopper I was sort of familiar with... looking (much) harder I see that's what I need. Thanks a million. (: -- Asher Densmore-Lynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Mail

2001-11-20 Thread Asher Densmore-Lynn
Thanks for all your suggestions. Qmail and vpopper I was sort of familiar with... looking (much) harder I see that's what I need. Thanks a million. (: -- Asher Densmore-Lynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: Mail

2001-11-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Does anyone have the slightest clue how to host mail for multiple domains > such that every domain has a unique namespace? Thinking about the matter, > I realized I don't quite know how to accomplish this. Postfix virtual domains operate like this by default, however you can make it operate li

Re: Mail

2001-11-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Does anyone have the slightest clue how to host mail for multiple domains > such that every domain has a unique namespace? Thinking about the matter, > I realized I don't quite know how to accomplish this. Postfix virtual domains operate like this by default, however you can make it operate l

Re: Mail

2001-11-19 Thread Bao C. Ha
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 08:31:20PM -0600, Asher Densmore-Lynn wrote: > Does anyone have the slightest clue how to host mail for multiple domains > such that every domain has a unique namespace? Thinking about the matter, I > realized I don't quite know how to accomplish this. > I use qmail, vpopma

Re: Mail

2001-11-19 Thread Nick Jennings
I use exim, which has ample documentation on how to do this. Basically, I have a passwd. for several different domains, theres no need for a matching shadow (unless I plan to have "real" accounts for the people). Exim justmakes sure the user exists in the appropriate passwd file, and we have a di

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