Re: OT: e-mail question

2002-10-24 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Rodney Green wrote: Example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If the accounts are dependent on a system user account there can only be one webmaster account. Of course, an alias can be setup that points [EMAIL PROTECTED] to a different local system user like webmaster2. With some e-mail systems I've seen (Wind

Re: OT: e-mail question

2002-10-24 Thread Rodney Green
TED]> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 12:05 PM Subject: Re: OT: e-mail question : Rodney Green wrote: : > Example: : > : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] : > : > If the accounts are dependent on a system user account there can only be one : > webmaster account. Of course, an alias :

Re: OT: e-mail question

2002-10-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 24 October 2002 07:08, Rodney Green wrote: > Hello! Does anyone know of a mail server package that allows user accounts > to be the same as the e-mail address? So, [EMAIL PROTECTED] would both be the > e-mail address and the username to download mail. > > Thanks, > Rod that's pretty mu

Re: OT: e-mail question

2002-10-24 Thread Rodney Green
TED]> To: "Rodney Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 10:24 AM Subject: Re: OT: e-mail question : High, : : On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Rodney Green wrote: : : > Hello! Does anyone know of a mail server package that allows user :

Re: OT: e-mail question

2002-10-24 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Rodney Green wrote: > Hello! Does anyone know of a mail server package that allows user > accounts to be the same as the e-mail address? So, [EMAIL PROTECTED] would > both be the e-mail address and the username to download mail. > > Thanks, Rod erm, sorry if I misunders

OT: e-mail question

2002-10-24 Thread Rodney Green
Hello! Does anyone know of a mail server package that allows user accounts to be the same as the e-mail address? So, [EMAIL PROTECTED] would both be the e-mail address and the username to download mail.   Thanks, Rod

Re: Spam mail question

2002-06-05 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 02:34:01PM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: | | Hi all, | How to reject mail with from like this: "<>" at a Debian GNU/Linux | box and Exim? What you mean by "from"? There are two meanings of it 1) the envelope This is specified in the

Re: Spam mail question - yuppers

2002-06-04 Thread irado furioso com tudo
Em Tue, 4 Jun 2002 11:10:39 -0700 Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, conhecido dependente de drogas (Coke e BigMac's), wrote: > * prover ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020604 10:56]: > > I'M NOT MEMER OF YOUR MAILING LISTS. > > (...ad nauseum) > [some snipping done] > > Surely, I can change the scores

Re: Spam mail question - yuppers

2002-06-04 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020604 12:53]: > In the same vein, a question: What's the easiest way to remove this > joker from my AWL? Nevermind. I had spamassassin(1p) open in another xterm as I was writing this email; I should have finished reading it first! -R Remove all email a

Re: Spam mail question - yuppers

2002-06-04 Thread Vineet Kumar
* prover ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020604 10:56]: > I'M NOT MEMER OF YOUR MAILING LISTS. (...ad nauseum) I gotta say, I'm disappointed in spamassassin's default config in this case. I blacklisted the moron and the mails keep coming through. It seems he's managed his way into my auto-whitelist, and eve

Re: mail filtering / qmail - tangent to "spam mail question"

2002-06-04 Thread prover
From: "Paul Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 6:46 AM Subject: Re: mail filtering / qmail - tangent to "spam mail question" > Cool! I got it to work! Thanks!!! > -Paul > > # cat .qmail > |maildrop .

Re: mail filtering / qmail - tangent to "spam mail question"

2002-06-04 Thread prover
From: "Paul Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 6:20 AM Subject: Re: mail filtering / qmail - tangent to "spam mail question" > Do you know if maildrop can use qmail's variable

Re: Spam mail question - yuppers

2002-06-04 Thread prover
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Alvin Oga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 4:33 AM Subject: Re: Spam mail question - yuppers > Noah Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 06:25:40PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > >>

Re: Spam mail question - yuppers

2002-06-04 Thread prover
AIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 5:45 AM Subject: Re: Spam mail question - yuppers > > hi ya noah > > yes.. thanx for the warnings ... > > > have fun > alvin > > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 06:2

Re: mail filtering / qmail - tangent to "spam mail question"

2002-06-04 Thread prover
2 5:18 AM Subject: Re: mail filtering / qmail - tangent to "spam mail question" > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 23:00:42 -0400 > "Paul Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm using qmail/rblsmtpd, qmailscanner, and spamassassin. All my > > incoming mail

Re: mail filtering / qmail - tangent to "spam mail question"

2002-06-04 Thread prover
, June 04, 2002 5:00 AM Subject: mail filtering / qmail - tangent to "spam mail question" > > Hey all, > I'm using qmail/rblsmtpd, qmailscanner, and spamassassin. All my incoming mail are marked with "X-Spam-Status:" and I'd like to have mail with spam statu

Re: Spam mail question - yuppers

2002-06-04 Thread prover
AIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 4:02 AM Subject: Re: Spam mail question - yuppers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Spam mail question - yuppers

2002-06-04 Thread prover
IL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 3:25 AM Subject: Re: Spam mail question - yuppers > > hi ya noah > > yes... it's possible to get dumped into the bl.. > ( havent yet ... sin

Re: Spam mail question

2002-06-04 Thread prover
ot;Noah Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Alvin Oga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Cc: "Paulo Henrique Baptista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 1:42 AM Subject: Re: Spam mail question > Hi, > I will not reject. I will only send them to /dev

Re: Spam mail question

2002-06-04 Thread prover
IL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Noah Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 1:02 AM Subject: Re: Spam mail question -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mail filtering / qmail - tangent to "spam mail question"

2002-06-03 Thread Paul Miller
Cool! I got it to work! Thanks!!! -Paul # cat .qmail |maildrop .mailfilter Maildir/ # cat .qmail-ext |maildrop .mailfilter mail/$EXT # cat .mailfilter if ( /^X-Spam-Status: Yes/ ) { to $HOME/mail/SPAM/ } else { to $HOME/$1 } On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 00:20:08 -0400 "Paul Miller" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: mail filtering / qmail - tangent to "spam mail question"

2002-06-03 Thread Paul Miller
Do you know if maildrop can use qmail's variables? I'd like to avoid separate filter files for every .qmail-ext I have. Thanks! -Paul On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 22:18:46 -0500 "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 23:00:42 -0400 > "Paul Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: Spam mail question - yuppers

2002-06-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya noah yes.. thanx for the warnings ... have fun alvin On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 06:25:40PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > and the From <> is a nuisance from some spammers is a > > good thing to reject ( ie ... <> and "is spammer" ) >

Re: mail filtering / qmail - tangent to "spam mail question"

2002-06-03 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 23:00:42 -0400 "Paul Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using qmail/rblsmtpd, qmailscanner, and spamassassin. All my > incoming mail are marked with "X-Spam-Status:" and I'd like to have mail > with spam status of "Yes" put into a separate maildir. I'm using qmail > mail

mail filtering / qmail - tangent to "spam mail question"

2002-06-03 Thread Paul Miller
Hey all, I'm using qmail/rblsmtpd, qmailscanner, and spamassassin. All my incoming mail are marked with "X-Spam-Status:" and I'd like to have mail with spam status of "Yes" put into a separate maildir. I'm using qmail maildirs, and I'd like to continue using maildirs. How can I filter my mai

Re: Spam mail question - yuppers

2002-06-03 Thread Jens Gecius
Noah Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 06:25:40PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: >> and the From <> is a nuisance from some spammers is a >> good thing to reject ( ie ... <> and "is spammer" ) >> - havent figured it out yet .. > > My point was th

Re: Spam mail question - yuppers

2002-06-03 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 06:25:40PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > and the From <> is a nuisance from some spammers is a > good thing to reject ( ie ... <> and "is spammer" ) > - havent figured it out yet .. My point was that if you configure your mail server to reject ma

Re: Spam mail question - yuppers

2002-06-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya noah yes... it's possible to get dumped into the bl.. ( havent yet ... since i haven't implmented spamfilters ( on some servers - and did get blacklisted by accident... when going to open relay test sites to test one of my servers...fixed the open r

Re: Spam mail question

2002-06-03 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi, I will not reject. I will only send them to /dev/null. :)) What procmail rule is it? TIA,Paulo Henrique Quoting Noah Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 03:44:43PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > sometimes ... ( lots )... more of

Re: Spam mail question

2002-06-03 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 03:44:43PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > sometimes ... ( lots )... more often than not... > i get tons of "spams" from <> ... which i too would like to bounce/reject OK, but if you reject mail from <> you're likely to be blacklisted. I certainly won't accept mail from doma

Re: Spam mail question

2002-06-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya noah... > http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/policy-dsn.html for more info. By rejecting very true ... but... sometimes ... ( lots )... more often than not... i get tons of "spams" from <> ... which i too would like to bounce/reject - and any email that is outgoing that bounced is usually ca

Re: Spam mail question

2002-06-03 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 02:34:01PM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > How to reject mail with from like this: "<>" at a Debian > GNU/Linux box and Exim? With procmail? Don't do that! It's in violation of an RFC. See http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/policy-dsn.html for mo

Re: Spam mail question

2002-06-03 Thread Keith Winston
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 02:34:01PM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi all, > How to reject mail with from like this: "<>" at a Debian GNU/Linux box > and Exim? > With procmail? > TIA,Paulo Henrique. Well, I am biased, but you can get a n

Spam mail question

2002-06-03 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, How to reject mail with from like this: "<>" at a Debian GNU/Linux box and Exim? With procmail? TIA,Paulo Henrique. -- Paulo Henrique B de Oliveira Gerente de Operações - Linux Solutions - http://www.linuxsolutions.com.br O maior conteúdo de L

Re: *EASY* mail question

2001-04-01 Thread Rolf Kutz
*Matheson Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > exim doesn't even ask me what my POP and STMP servers > are. Please help. exim doesn't do pop. fetchmail does pop. Run eximconfig with option "(2) Internet site using smarthost" or "(3) Satellite system" to use a smarthost smtp-server, - Rolf

*EASY* mail question

2001-04-01 Thread Matheson Cameron
Hey, I finally got a decent proxy server that supports POP and SMTP, so now I want to have mail (w/ out going on Yahoo!). Anyway, I have Mozilla set up so that it can send and receive messages through the proxy, but mozilla didn't seem to great, because it's slow, a little buggy, and it takes a w

Re: Mail question

2001-03-12 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 08:34:00AM +0100, Marko Simendic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello! > > > Hello all! > >=20 > > I have two computers running Potato and Windows. What should I set for the > > "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]" to work on host2 and vice versa?=20 > > Km> Say you have two compu

Mail question

2001-03-12 Thread Marko Simendic
Hello! > Hello all! >=20 > I have two computers running Potato and Windows. What should I set for the > "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]" to work on host2 and vice versa?=20 Km> Say you have two computers on your network, potato and mswin. Km> Are you asking how to send mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mail question

2001-03-10 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:22:00AM +0100, Marko Simendic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello all! > > I have two computers running Potato and Windows. What should I set for the > "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]" to work on host2 and vice versa? Say you have two computers on your network, potato and mswi

Mail question

2001-03-09 Thread Marko Simendic
Hello all! I have two computers running Potato and Windows. What should I set for the "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]" to work on host2 and vice versa? Local mail delivery is working fine. Also, what I need to set if I want to enable recieving and sending mail from Windows to Linux too? Could someone poi

Re: Perhaps strange mail question

2000-05-25 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:21:13AM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote > I would like to accept mail for many domains and put them in > separate spool directories. IE mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > would go in /var/mail/foo/user and mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > would go in /var/mail/bar/user. > > Q1: Is this

Perhaps strange mail question

2000-05-25 Thread Dan Brosemer
I would like to accept mail for many domains and put them in separate spool directories. IE mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] would go in /var/mail/foo/user and mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] would go in /var/mail/bar/user. Q1: Is this possible? Q2: Is this possible with exim? Q3: How could I authenticate

mail question

2000-01-07 Thread aphro
I can't seem to figure this one out. What can i do to get the mail system on one machine to send a mail to the mail server? ok, i know its worded weird so i'll explain whats going on i have 2 main servers at this isp, 1 does mail and secondary Domain name serving, the other does web, primary dom

Re: simple mail question

1999-10-04 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 01:21:45PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > can I, armed with exim, specify myself as the sender, and use somthing like The typical setup would be to have exim as your mail transport agent. So, you would specify "localhost" as your smtp sender. You would then configure exi

RE: simple mail question

1999-10-04 Thread Paul McHale
load cucipop or qpopper or some other POP3 server. This is actually the POP3 interface over exim ... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 6:22 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: simple mail question simple mail que

simple mail question

1999-10-04 Thread hmf
simple mail question Hey guys, In most email clients, you can specify a pop and a smtp server to connect to, like pop.server.com smtp.server.com can I, armed with exim, specify myself as the sender, and use somthing like smtp.me.whatever ?? thanks!

Re: Newbie - Mail question and other odds and ends

1999-08-30 Thread Marc Mongeon
If you're only interested in retrieving your POP mail from your ISP account, and sending mail out to the Internet (i.e., no local delivery to machines on a home network), then the only thing you need to configure is Netscape Mail. In your Netscape preferences set both your incoming and outgoing ma

Re: Newbie - Mail question and other odds and ends

1999-08-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 02:53:01PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > >A Debian specific one: when installing from discs one is presented > >with a nice package that allows you to install various components > >like mice and CDROMs and such. Is that tool still accessible after > >you've ins

Re: Newbie - Mail question and other odds and ends

1999-08-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Barry Rueger" wrote: >A couple of quickies as well: I gather that there are configuration >files for most of the things that I've installed. Is there a convention >for naming these (like ending them in .conf), and where are they >likely to be kept? Config files are named however the s

Newbie - Mail question and other odds and ends

1999-08-29 Thread Barry Rueger
Wow - linux is not for the faint of heart. After a number iterations of deselect I have both Xwindows and netscape happening. I have to say that dselect seems to be pretty good at keeping track of what has and hasn't been installed, and making sure that it gets fixed the next time around. Th

Re: Mail-question; Quick One!

1999-08-18 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 09:43:30PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Ok let me get this straight: > I use a total of three (four) apps to read my mail: (pppd(pon) connects to > my ISP,) fetchmail gets the mail, passes it on to exim, which sends it to > the (one and only) user: me, and I finally invo

Re: Mail-question; Quick One!

1999-08-17 Thread Michael Merten
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 04:08:02PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Ok let me get this straight: > > I use a total of three (four) apps to read my mail: (pppd(pon) connects to > > my ISP,) fetchmail gets the mail, passes it on to exim, which sends it to > > the (one and o

Re: Mail-question; Quick One!

1999-08-17 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ok let me get this straight: > I use a total of three (four) apps to read my mail: (pppd(pon) connects to > my ISP,) fetchmail gets the mail, passes it on to exim, which sends it to > the (one and only) user: me, and I finally invoke for example "mail" to read > and ed

Mail-question; Quick One!

1999-08-17 Thread vw
Ok let me get this straight: I use a total of three (four) apps to read my mail: (pppd(pon) connects to my ISP,) fetchmail gets the mail, passes it on to exim, which sends it to the (one and only) user: me, and I finally invoke for example "mail" to read and edit mail. "mail" is (basically) an edit

Internet and Mail Question.

1998-12-17 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey All, At home I connect to the net using a freenet with a firewall and all that lovey security stuff that I know nothing about. It's non graphical and uses lynx. I can not receive e-mail there because it a general mass account no individuals. I use web based mail such as netscape.net and coolma

Re: Mail Question

1998-11-27 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, >> I want to put a couple of lines in ip-up, so that everytime my >>ppp is on, it will automatically contact my mail server, send out ... > 'fetchmail' will do the trick. Others have used it with good success. I'm using it, if you need a hand with setup. Jiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mail Question

1998-11-26 Thread dpk
On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: Hi all, I want to put a couple of lines in ip-up, so that everytime my ppp is on, it will automatically contact my mail server, send out my username and passwd, retrieve all the mails from the server, and append them to my local INBOX

Mail Question

1998-11-26 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi all, I want to put a couple of lines in ip-up, so that everytime my ppp is on, it will automatically contact my mail server, send out my username and passwd, retrieve all the mails from the server, and append them to my local INBOX(.incoming-mail). Could anyone please teach me h

Help with a Mail Question.

1998-01-08 Thread Kevin J Poorman
Hi, I have installed the latest fetchmail/smail/procmail from Hamm and I use Pine as my mail reader/composer... When I start pine as a normal user I get a little message at the bottom of the screen telling me that it couldn't open the Mailbox normaly and that it is now READONLY so that I can't del