Strange sendmail behaviour

2000-11-29 Thread Schlomo Schapiro
Hi, I am having sendmail 8.9.3 as a mail server and users complain that if they forward a letter with an attachment, the attachment gets garbled. Funnily this happens only for the Windows users. I tried increasing the MIME header parameters to no avail. This very version of sendmail is serving o

Re: How Do I Create Simplest Network: Win98 <-> Linux?

2000-11-29 Thread Moses Ellias
Hello All, I finally fixed my problem with help from someone on this newsgroup. Anyway, quite a few people from this newsgroup privately wrote me and extended an offer of help - and I want to express how much gratitude I have to them. Thanks again to all of you! Moses -Original Message--

Re: A better Linux based firewall installation?

2000-11-29 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Aviram Jenik wrote: >> Any attacker which is after your stuff and is able to penetrate a GSM >> exchange and send an unauthrized message without anyone noticing >> (remember that banks rely on the number as a ID good enough to identify >> you and divolge your account details on SMS) > > > Hey

Re: OT: To: & Cc:

2000-11-29 Thread Ely Levy
more people then in kmail:-) what happened to the vote btw?can I readd the replay header? Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Herouth Maoz wrote: | On Tuesday 28 November 2000 22:15, Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote: | | > You answer your own question.

Re: OT: To: & Cc:

2000-11-29 Thread Alex Shnitman
Hi, Ely! On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 09:20:13PM +0200, you wrote the following: > what happened to the vote btw?can I readd the replay header? I've posted the vote results on linux-il some time ago. You can see them at http://www.egroups.com/surveys/iglu?id=374380 . It's 11 to 8 against having the

Re: A better Linux based firewall installation?

2000-11-29 Thread Aviram Jenik
> > Any attacker which is after your stuff and is able to penetrate a GSM > exchange and send an unauthrized message without anyone noticing > (remember that banks rely on the number as a ID good enough to identify > you and divolge your account details on SMS) Hey... Gilad, I expected better fr

Re: A better Linux based firewall installation?

2000-11-29 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:50:32PM +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > >> Other methods of configuration could be very well added. How about >> attaching an GSM phone to the machine and accepting instruction only >> from SMS messages coming from a certain phone number

Re: OT: To: & Cc:

2000-11-29 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Nadav Har'El wrote: > But let's face it - we'll never agree on what is the "proper" way to handle > replies to mailing-lists... And so we prove my original point: using vi+sendmail, I'll stay by my opinion on the proper way to handle mailing-list -- the while "it's the fault

Re: A better Linux based firewall installation?

2000-11-29 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:50:32PM +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > > Other methods of configuration could be very well added. How about > > attaching an GSM phone to the machine and accepting instruction only > > from SMS messages coming from a c

Re: Different ISPs with ADSL

2000-11-29 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 06:32:23PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > BTW, in my case, I have an account with barak-online (not ADSL) and all my > e-mail is sent via that account's POP mail. I also have a few other accounts > (aquanet, netvision, etc.) and I receive e-mail at all of the accounts. I

Re: A better Linux based firewall installation?

2000-11-29 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:50:32PM +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > Other methods of configuration could be very well added. How about > attaching an GSM phone to the machine and accepting instruction only > from SMS messages coming from a certain phone number. That's a rather insecure way, BTW

RE: Different ISPs with ADSL

2000-11-29 Thread solomon
I wasn't sure I should answer this on the list since it's slightly off-topic, but there is a **LINUX perspective** here, so The current situation with ADSL under LINUX is that Bezeq allows you to choose from a list of ISPs and you can change whenever you want. As I wrote before, two of them

RE: Yngvi is a LOUSE! (was: Re: A better Linux based firewall installation?)

2000-11-29 Thread פופוב יבגני
1. I did not mean that bridge answers the ARP requests - sorry for my incorrect fraise construction. 2. We have all-Hebrew company, My Mailer is MS Outlook which I have to keep open during the working day. I do not know how to configure it not to send my name in Hebrew and the Exchange administrat

Yngvi is a LOUSE! (was: Re: A better Linux based firewall installation?)

2000-11-29 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Yngvi(*) wrote: > Seems you can transparently define your external router IP ( ISP router ) > sitting on the other side of your bridge/firewall as default gateway for all > the protected machines. The bridge cares to provide you with ARP responce > for routers's MAC. Right on the first sentenc

Re: A better Linux based firewall installation?

2000-11-29 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Alex Shnitman wrote: > Hi, Gilad! > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:50:32PM +0200, you wrote the following: > > >> The second is to NOT configure your firewall as a router, but rather as >> a layer 2 bridge with IP firwalling rules(*2) and not give it an IP at >> all (bridges don't need to ha

Re: GTK and apache problems ...

2000-11-29 Thread Oded Arbel
I've encountered a similar problem in my Mandrake 7.2 installation - if the computer can't reach the DNS assigned to it, some applications behave like you mentioned. Midnight Commander stuff, and I guess that most GTK application attempt to resolve their hostname by quering the DNS using gethostby

Re: GTK and apache problems ...

2000-11-29 Thread Guy Cohen
For your second question, see my post for the guy who asked how to configure the simplest win->linux network. i.e. if you would give us some details of how you configured the server, or what errors you are getting it might help us solve your problem. Just as a side wonder ... did you start the s

RE: A better Linux based firewall installation?

2000-11-29 Thread פופוב יבגני
Seems you can transparently define your external router IP ( ISP router ) sitting on the other side of your bridge/firewall as default gateway for all the protected machines. The bridge cares to provide you with ARP responce for routers's MAC.

Different ISPs with ADSL

2000-11-29 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Hi list, I haven't yet got ADSL. I use Linux exclusively here, and was wondering - is it possible at all to choose different ISPs and use them with your own username/password (on subscribtion basis) rather than use guest accounts and pay per-minute (as in a post I read here lately), without Bezeq

GTK and apache problems ...

2000-11-29 Thread Yoav Bornstein
1. When I'm tring to run GTK app (like xchat or gnapster) it seems to freeze, but after 4 mins it runs. why ? 2. I have apache 1.3. I can't access to the server with http://localhost or 127.0.0.1 . Thanks -- Yoav Bornstein. Listen to Weird Al and George Carlin, watch South Park, use Linux and

Re: A better Linux based firewall installation?

2000-11-29 Thread Alex Shnitman
Hi, Gilad! On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:50:32PM +0200, you wrote the following: > The second is to NOT configure your firewall as a router, but rather as > a layer 2 bridge with IP firwalling rules(*2) and not give it an IP at > all (bridges don't need to have an IP to function). Not having an I

Re: OT: To: & Cc:

2000-11-29 Thread Alex Shnitman
Hi, Nadav! On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 08:38:32PM +0200, you wrote the following: > 2. The lists mentioned on these directives have other side-effects besides > making "L" work. The most annoying side-effect (for me) is that for every > mailing list message, in the message list, you see the

Re: A better Linux based firewall installation?

2000-11-29 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Omer Zak wrote: > I have the following idea for a Linux based firewall, which will hopefully > make it safer to connect a LAN to the Internet. Not a bad shot at all, but here are two suggestion for improvements: The first is to disable CD-ROM and HD completely and use the LRP(*1) distributio

Re: OT: To: & Cc:

2000-11-29 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000, Moshe Zadka wrote about "Re: OT: To: & Cc:": > I use sometimes pine, sometimes mutt and sometimes MH. In each case, > I usually either reply to the person specifically, or reply to the > list in general and the person -- unless I remember that this > person does not like to r

Re: OT: To: & Cc:

2000-11-29 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Let's start a poll ;) > > I've moved pine->mutt->nmh elm -> pine -> vm -> gnus was my path, with OpenLook's mailtool somewhere in between, relatively briefly. We are not on egroups any more, are we? Is there a polling station on the ILUG site? -- Ol

Re: OT: To: & Cc:

2000-11-29 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000, Herouth Maoz wrote about "Re: OT: To: & Cc:": > > BTW, my e-mailer is KMail. It has reply and reply-to-all. How many > > people use Mutt anyway? > > Let's start a poll ;) I've moved pine->mutt->nmh I love the nmh design, and hate

Re: OT: To: & Cc:

2000-11-29 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Nadav Har'El wrote: > You sort-of missed the point - if people were using vi & sendmail to send > replies, then indeed almost nobody will reply to both the person on the > list (except the people who _deliberately_ want to do that, but most people > don't). Huh? I'm not sure

Re: OT: To: & Cc:

2000-11-29 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000, Herouth Maoz wrote about "Re: OT: To: & Cc:": > BTW, my e-mailer is KMail. It has reply and reply-to-all. How many > people use Mutt anyway? Let's start a poll ;) My mailer history was using mailx (a.k.a. Mail) until about 1992, when I switched to elm, and only about a yea

Re: OT: To: & Cc:

2000-11-29 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000, Moshe Zadka wrote about "Re: OT: To: & Cc:": > On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Guy Cohen wrote: > > > I been away from the list for a while and beed reading the list again > > for the last few days. I could not help but noticing pepoel reply > > to mails to the sender _and_ to the list