sendmail problems

2001-01-17 Thread Moran
hi, i setted up send mail with default configuration from mandrake 7 release. the mail works fine but there is small problem.. when users try to pull mail its not working so i did telnet to port 110 and what i get is: trying to connect xx.xx.xx.xx... when i do it from localhost it works fine. the

Re: Sendmail problems with large mailboxes

2000-08-22 Thread benavrhm
Evgeny is right - Use either qmail or Exim which both support maildir format instead of the outdated mailbox format. That's what we use. We have huge inboxes and no performance problems. Regards, - yba On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Evgeny Zemlerub wrote: > IMHO (and lot's of other people) sendmail is

Re: Sendmail problems with large mailboxes

2000-08-21 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Ariel Biener wrote: > On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: > > > Why? should I divide the linux-kernel to multiple folders so that > > searches will be less easy? There is no problem with 200MB or 20GB > > databases. > > A text mailbox is not a database. Try to remember

Re: Sendmail problems with large mailboxes

2000-08-21 Thread Ariel Biener
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: > Why? should I divide the linux-kernel to multiple folders so that > searches will be less easy? There is no problem with 200MB or 20GB > databases. A text mailbox is not a database. Try to remember that not all imap and pop servers know how to deal with

Re: Sendmail problems with large mailboxes

2000-08-21 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
> AFAIK, imapd copies the mailbox, not sendmail/procmail. Both qpopper and > imapd can be configured to copy the mailbox aside, deal with it, and then > replace it. That's what I said. But if the daemon access a maildir rather than a mailbox, no copying should occur. > 1). Handling 200MB of mai

Re: Sendmail problems with large mailboxes

2000-08-21 Thread Ariel Biener
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: AFAIK, imapd copies the mailbox, not sendmail/procmail. Both qpopper and imapd can be configured to copy the mailbox aside, deal with it, and then replace it. 1). Handling 200MB of mailbox is utterly stupid, no one should be keeping a mailbox this s

Re: Sendmail problems with large mailboxes

2000-08-21 Thread Evgeny Zemlerub
IMHO (and lot's of other people) sendmail is "outdated". There is so called "Second Generation MTA" like qmail, postfix, exim. My favorite is qmail. On of the nice things about it, it's that he makes use of so called maildir format. Instaed of storing all the messages in one big mailbox, each mes

Re: Sendmail problems with large mailboxes

2000-08-21 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
> I have encountered a huge drawback of Sendmail (or the default imap daemon > of RedHat). I use imap to access the e-mail box of mails that are handled by > Sendmail. Since the mailbox is plain text file and not some kind of database > it takes a long time to delete or edit messages. For example

RE: Sendmail problems with large mailboxes

2000-08-21 Thread Oved Blass
Dubrovsky Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 4:50 PM To: Oved Blass Subject: Re: Sendmail problems with large mailboxes I have much bigger mailboxes & folders with no problem Check your client and network configuration - backresolving issues can slow things down considerably , so can a bad netw

Sendmail problems with large mailboxes

2000-08-21 Thread Oved Blass
I have encountered a huge drawback of Sendmail (or the default imap daemon of RedHat). I use imap to access the e-mail box of mails that are handled by Sendmail. Since the mailbox is plain text file and not some kind of database it takes a long time to delete or edit messages. For example, for 200

Re: sendmail problems

2000-05-28 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Pavel Bibergal wrote: > Hi all > I changed the name of my machine, and not the sendmail don't want to > work.. > how to fix it? By changing the cf file By reading the sendmail operator's manual By reading the sendmail book By not solving it but claiming that it is solved =

sendmail problems

2000-05-28 Thread Pavel Bibergal
Hi all I changed the name of my machine, and not the sendmail don't want to work.. how to fix it? --  Pavel Bibergal "The Right Honorable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts."     -- Sheridan  

Re: Re[4]: Sendmail problems

1999-07-02 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Pardon me? Do you mean you prepared the /etc/virtusertable plain text > >file > >and that's all? Sure, you have to produce a db out of it (and this _is_ > >documented correctly :)). E.g.: > >makemap btree /etc/virtusertable.db < /etc/vi

Re[4]: Sendmail problems

1999-07-02 Thread odeda-linux-il
-- Original Message -- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Pardon me? Do you mean you prepared the /etc/virtusertable plain text >file >and that's all? Sure, you have to produce a db out of it (and this _is_ >documented correctly :)). E.g.: >makemap btree /etc/virtusertable.db < /etc/vi

Re[3]: Sendmail problems

1999-06-30 Thread Evgeny Stambulchik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >2. Make sure the cw parameter (or Fw file) contains betalfa.org.il, > >mail.betalfa.org.il and test.co.il > right. that fixed the looping error problem . Nice. BTW, the docs @sendmail.org are wrong about this issue - it's written there only the MX domain should be

Re[2]: Sendmail problems

1999-06-30 Thread odeda-linux-il
-- Original Message -- >Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have two domain names. I want to run them both using the same >machine, >> and the same sendmail using virtual user table. I configured it, >into the >> CF file, and got no error messages during the process,

Re: Sendmail problems

1999-06-29 Thread Evgeny Stambulchik
Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a small problem with sendmail (or is it my problem ?). > I have to domain names. I want to run them both using the same machine, > and the same sendmail using virtual user table. I configured it, into the > CF file, and got no error messages duri

Sendmail problems

1999-06-29 Thread Oded Arbel
Hi all.. I have a small problem with sendmail (or is it my problem ?). I have to domain names. I want to run them both using the same machine, and the same sendmail using virtual user table. I configured it, into the CF file, and got no error messages during the process, or while sendmail restart