RE: qmail-queue question

2001-08-09 Thread Richard Underwood
after about 2-3 hours. I've put a patch on the web at http://www.duff.org/qmail/ Richard -Original Message- From: Edward McLain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On a side note, is there any reason that qmail-remote should start up and then just sit there connected t

RE: Can anyone explain this?

2001-08-09 Thread Richard Underwood
;t fix this problem. A work-around is to enable socket keep-alives which (at least for me) fixes the problem. I've put the patch on the web at: http://www.duff.org/qmail/ Richard P.S. Eric: ps -ef on modern RedHat distributions (and others) has a STIME column which will tell you when the process started running.

RE: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)

2001-08-06 Thread Richard Underwood
ving seen some of the other replies on this list, I thought it'd be more constructive to explain what I had meant. I still believe it's an issue. Richard

RE: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)

2001-08-06 Thread Richard Underwood
> From: Peter van Dijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 01:07:36PM +0100, Richard Underwood wrote: > > > When the exchange server comes back up, I kick the qmail-send > > process to get it to deliver the queue. At this point I should be able to go

RE: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)

2001-08-06 Thread Richard Underwood
> From: Henning Brauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:09:25AM +0100, Richard Underwood wrote: > > I've also noticed that if qmail tries to deliver (for example) 50 > > messages to one host concurrently, perhaps 2 will get through. The res

RE: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)

2001-08-06 Thread Richard Underwood
t efficient. I think qmail is great, don't get me wrong. I just thing there is room for improvement. Richard P.S. People here seem to be a little over-sensitive about this issue!

RE: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly other s)

2001-08-03 Thread Richard Underwood
th is mistaking the connection as a DOS attempt and responding weirdly, kicking off a bug with select. I'll let you know if the problems re-appear. Richard

Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly others)

2001-08-03 Thread Richard Underwood
inate normally. It all seems to be working, so if anyone else is having the same problem, you may like to try this fix too. I've included a patch for qmail-remote.c - it's not exactly beautiful code, but it works for me. Good luck, Richard *** qmail-1.03

RE: Problems with qmail-remote hanging

2001-07-31 Thread Richard Underwood
he SO_KEEPALIVE socket option - if it works (and there isn't a good reason not to use it) that is. What would be better is finding out why this happens, of course. Thanks, Richard P.S. If anyone is keeping track, Linux 2.2.19, concurrencyremote set to 200

Problems with qmail-remote hanging

2001-07-30 Thread Richard Underwood
ailed"); 226 227 substdio_puts(&smtpto,"HELO "); 228 substdio_put(&smtpto,helohost.s,helohost.len); 229 substdio_puts(&smtpto,"\r\n"); saferead() calls timeoutread() which calls select() and then read(). fd=-1 is a red-herring, it's not used by saferead in qmail-remote. Can anyone explain this, or has anyone experienced anything similar? Thanks, Richard

Re: LWQ/svscan question

2001-06-19 Thread Richard Zimmerman
I *DO* use svscan for djbdns and in every instance where I have installed djbdns and created the symbolic link in /service, dnscache has always started on it's own. FWIW Richard

forwarding.

2001-05-23 Thread richard morris
7;ve been told to go into the /vpopmail/domains/directoy and vi .qmail -username and enter &user_to_forward_to.co.za? richard.

qmail-send to use rcpthosts

2001-05-15 Thread Richard Roderick
ress is re-written to an offsite address and handled by qmail-send which then sees the catchall in virtualdomains and tries to deliver it locally. If someone has another solution, great. Thanks, Richard

forwarding

2001-05-09 Thread richard morris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Even if I change it as follows it still don't work, [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED], user Richard.

forwarding

2001-05-08 Thread richard morris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Even if I change it as follows it still don't work, [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED], user Richard.

aliases

2001-05-08 Thread richard morris
Hi all, how does one add multiple recipients to a user in /etc/aliases for forwarding? (format)? richard: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?? Many thanks, Richard.

forwarding

2001-05-08 Thread richard morris
Hi all, we need to complete forwarding. I have read the LWQ and they mention .qmail files? Our environment is qmail + vpopmail. Would fastforward or dot.forward be the best options? Best regards, Richard.

Re: max concurrency for qmail is 500, what's it for sendmail?

2001-04-25 Thread richard
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, James Stevens wrote: > You are correct ;) Sendmail can only sustain one exsistance of it's > delivery object meaning it can't multithread like the newer MTA's soo > when sendmail runs a large q say 10k messages all those messages go into > q and get piped out through one t

Re: Tcpserver

2001-03-27 Thread Richard Zimmerman
e for it. AND before anyone flames me about not posting here, you are 100% correct! I don't post here, I answer emails to the newbies personally and individually so the problem or question GETS answered instead of being ignored which has happened on this list. Regards, Richard

pop3

2001-03-15 Thread richard morris
Hi all,   our server lost power, after it came up, it accepts smtp, but when checking mail, it connects but then the server terminates the connection (it's as if the pop service isn't running)? the logs don't show anything either.   Thanks, Richard.      

dns?

2001-03-07 Thread richard morris
pecify the server name we must use the ip address? our router does nat? any ideas? richard.

ETRN / SLOW

2001-03-06 Thread richard morris
queued mail waiting to come down? When the server is receiving mailo from the ISP is it normal for it to become extremely slow to the point where client cannot connect - it has plenty of hair under the bonnet? Thanks, Richard.

forward and groups

2001-03-06 Thread richard morris
hi all. how does one create groups / distribution lists and forward mail to another local user in qmail? thanx richard.

Password options

2001-03-01 Thread Richard Lyon
program in the NT environment for development. Thanks in advance, Richard Lyon Network Administrator AbsoluteFuture, Inc. NE 8th Street, Suite 1414 Bellevue, WA  98004

Re: Per-Domain Concurrency Patch

2001-02-19 Thread richard
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Lincoln Yeoh wrote: I'm on the list, please don't copy me directly. > At 04:53 PM 2/17/01 -0600, you wrote: > > > >For example, if I only have 40 outbound connect slots I might not want > >all of them to bet consumed sending mail to AOL, I might want dedicate > >some of my

Re: Concurrency questions

2001-02-18 Thread richard
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Lukasz Felsztukier wrote: > > I understand this code has to be executed in a loop for each > recipient...Can you explain what advantages I get doing it this way ? the code will spawn upto maxchildren processes all trying to deliver mail in parallel; it will try and keep tha

Re: Concurrency questions

2001-02-18 Thread richard
John P wrote: > All works great, however every so often (bi-weekly) I need to send an > e-mail to 40,000 customers (different e-mail for each one), generated > using MySQL and PHP's mail() command. On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Lukasz Felsztukier wrote: > I am here facing the same problem myself. We have

Re: Per-Domain Concurrency Patch

2001-02-17 Thread richard
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Charles Cazabon wrote: > Geoffrey Gussis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I saw a mention in the archives about a per-domain concurrency patch > > - which would help make sure that a qmail server would not overload a > > recipient smtp server when a higher volume of mail was

Re: [OT?] svscan restart - how???

2001-02-13 Thread richard
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, SNFettig Listserv wrote: > I know this may be off-topic, but since most of the people on this > list seem to be familiar with svscan, I thought I might try. I use > svscan to start all of my qmail daemons and can't figure out how to > restart it safely on my FreeBSD 4.0 sys.

Re: Syslog? [was Re: Detail logging of POP3D]

2001-02-12 Thread richard
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Bill Carlson wrote: > Ok, finally a mention of WHICH syslog. Is that most people's > experience, a problem with syslog on Solaris 2.x? I've run mostly > Linux boxen over the years and have had little trouble with sysklogd, > the daemon included with Redhat installations. But

Re: Syslog? [was Re: Detail logging of POP3D]

2001-02-12 Thread richard
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Bill Carlson wrote: > On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Peter van Dijk wrote: > > Syslog is unreliable. > We've heard this again and again. Any specifics? over the network the transport is UDP, and these are not acknowldged so if they are kost who knows? the same really applies to message

Re: Bogus Popularity claims (sendmail.org's reply)

2001-02-04 Thread richard
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Sam Trenholme wrote: > I love their claims of scalibility with their mail server. "UNIX-like > scalability at a fraction of the cost". Hurrumph. How much does it cost > to put Linux and Qmail on an old Pentium or Pentium II? I would guess at around $10,000 for the installa

Re: Hi

2001-01-29 Thread Richard Zimmerman
imap-4.5-3mdir4.i386.rpm The above is the UW-IMAP server w/ the Maildir patches alreayd applied. I'm trying to locate the site I downloaded it from but I'll email it to you if you like. http://www.davideous.com/imap-maildir/ Found it It works a lot better for me then the Courier-Imap progr

Re: control/mailroutes (was: QMTP autoreply tester)

2001-01-07 Thread richard
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Andy Bradford wrote: > Thus said Ricardo Cerqueira on Sun, 07 Jan 2001 01:50:16 GMT: > > > Hmmm... OK, disregard my previous mail. > > Personally, I'd rather have one file for SMTP, and another for QMTP. Does > > anyone else here agree with me? > > This seems more logical to

Re: "Backup" Qmail Server

2000-12-27 Thread richard
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Michael Hornby wrote: > My ultimate goal is to have my home server accept any mail that is being > sent to any e-mail address being hosted on the main server, and to > indefinitely try to forward it to the main server. This way, when the main > server returns, it will receive

Re: smtp issues - plus log entries

2000-12-25 Thread richard
On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Bruce Lane wrote: > At 22:23 25-12-2000 -0600, richard (at) illuin.org wrote: > > @40003a47c89e21c16544 starting delivery 1: msg 57443 to > local @willy.bluefeathertech.com ^^ not good. > @40003a47c89e220962f4 status: local 1

Re: smtp issues

2000-12-25 Thread richard
On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Bruce Lane wrote: > BUT... and this is the kicker... No matter what I try, I can't seem to get > the system to pass the SMTP tests in TEST.receive! No matter how many test > messages I pass it, none ever get to the maildirs I've set up. The log > shows an odd entry ever

Re: list

2000-12-23 Thread richard
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Kurth Bemis wrote: > i have a text file that that contains a list of email addresses...i want to > create a dot qmail to send a mail to all the addressescan i just have a > .qmail-users file contain /etc/usausers.lst? How can i do this as a quick > and dirty hack.. :-

Re: Relaying only

2000-12-23 Thread richard
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Andy Furnell wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a specific way of configuring qmail so that it will only > act as a relay/spooling server for backup MX. (ie. when the main > server goes down, this one has the next highest DNS MX Pref and > holds the mail until the destinat

?

2000-12-20 Thread richard morris
bout spawn dying. sorry to be so brief but have not had time focus on it. any ideas? richard morris.

ETRN

2000-12-19 Thread richard morris
Has anyone tried to use the ETRN command from behind a router using NAT. Our problem is we can send out the ETRN command to port 25 on the ISP's box but they cannot come in? Thanks, Richard.

?

2000-12-19 Thread richard morris
Hi, I'm seem to be having a local delivery problem, yet external mail? The server accepts mail but does not deliver? Thanks, Richard.

Re: mail-abuse Setups

2000-12-15 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Aaron Goldblatt wrote: > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x /etc/tcprules/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 1004 -g 2108 0 > smtp /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -r "blackholes.mail-abuse.org > dialups.mail-abuse.org 'relays.mail-abuse.org:Open relay problem - see > http://www.mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/nph-r

slow?

2000-12-14 Thread richard morris
hanks, richard morris

speed please

2000-12-13 Thread richard morris
Hi All,   I'm a newbie at Linux and qmail. The problem I'm having is when doing a send / receive from outlook express it connects to the server instantly but takes about 60 seconds plus to complete the action?     any suggestions? please.   Richard.  

Re: Hop count problem in qmail-send

2000-11-20 Thread Richard van den Berg
got lost with the rest of the 100Mb I had to chuck. If I remeber correctly, there were a lot of MBOX lines and a lot of Received: lines inserted by my local qmail. This is how the remote smtpds counted the number of hops, I guess. Sincerely, Richard

Hop count problem in qmail-send

2000-11-19 Thread Richard van den Berg
ut I expect the mail system to prevent it from going on for ever. In case anyone cares; I removed the .qmail file, waited a few hours, received over 100Megs of mail, cleaned it up, and replaced the .qmail file with: | qmail-inject -a `some/script` Sincerely, Richard

yahoo/egroup servers

2000-11-17 Thread Richard Lyons
Is anybody having problems listening to yahoo/egroup servers, particularly those in 64.211.240/24, 208.50.144/24, and 208.50.144/24? Since about Thu Nov 16 07:00 GMT, I've had a lot of unsuccessful SMTP transactions. It goes something like this: egroup server makes a connection, qmail-smtpd send

Re: why my qmail install wrong?

2000-11-07 Thread richard
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, dick wrote: > i want to compile qmail with ldap > but when i make qmail,something is wrong. > > ./load qmail-lspawn spawn.o prot.o slurpclose.o coe.o control.o \ > check.o qldap-ldaplib.o qldap-debug.o sig.a strerr.a getln.a \ > wait.a case.a cdb.a fd.a open.a env.a stralloc.

Re: Forwarding

2000-10-22 Thread Richard Sjögårdh
Hi, hmm, I just contacted the user and she said, she told me the wrong address, with the right address it works :) Thanx for all help. /Richard

Re: Forwarding

2000-10-22 Thread Richard Sjögårdh
82.331236 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Oct 22 15:56:22 lix qmail: 97982.357498 delivery 2820: success: did_1+0+0/ Oct 22 15:56:22 lix qmail: 97982.357578 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Oct 22 15:56:22 lix qmail: 97982.357602 end msg 201364 Any ideas? TIA /Richard At 15:34 2000-10

Forwarding

2000-10-22 Thread Richard Sjögårdh
.7.0)/ Oct 22 15:13:06 lix qmail: 972220386.456717 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 How do I fix this? TIA /Richard

Re: fastforward

2000-10-18 Thread Richard Sjögårdh
That´s what i did, I just forgot the slash in te mail. At 18:41 2000-10-18 +1100, Brett Randall wrote: > >>>>> "Richard" == Richard Sjögårdh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Richard> Hi all, the problem still exists for me. I want the same >

Re: fastforward

2000-10-18 Thread Richard Sjögårdh
c all incoming mail to a local user to an extern address? Does anyone know how to set this up? ...it was so simple in sendmail. (!) /Richard At 13:43 2000-10-17 +0200, Carsten Mueller wrote: >sorry brett randalL :-) > > >At 23:29 16.10.00, you wrote: >>Carsten Mu

fastforward

2000-10-14 Thread Richard Sjögårdh
merging to qmail, this doesn't work anymore. My aliases ar quite many so I would like to use the old sendmail aliasfile. Has anyone an idea how this could work in qmail? /Richard

Re: ITU-T (Off Topic)

2000-10-09 Thread richard
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Peter van Dijk wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 03:21:33AM +0800, Mark Lo wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Offtopic Again !! Sorry !! Does anyone know ...Do I need a license to > > operate a mail server in Hong Kong.?? How about in US ? > > In US, definitely no. In Hong Kong, n

OT: Re: Volunteers for a multilog patch?

2000-10-05 Thread richard
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Dave Sill wrote: > Peter Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >- we're metric, the USA isn't (and Canada still hasn't quite made > > up its mind yet, even after almost 30 years. And if you think > > otherwsie, why do they sell coffee/meat by the pound here?) >

Re: URGENT: Oversized queue - no mail delivering...

2000-09-29 Thread richard
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Ihnen, David wrote: > > > 403 root 0 0 216 168 116 S 0 0.0 0.0 544:12 > syslogd > > > > Consider multilog instead. > > And svc to manage the processes too, yes. I'm seriously contemplating that. > syslog doesn't seem to be a performance problem at th

Re: where has holdremote patch gone?

2000-09-07 Thread richard
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > First of all, I have to apologize for bothering the list with what I now > found in the archives to be a frequently discussed question (sep 5, > variable mail delivery). After searching there, I think the holdremote > patch, updated for qmail-1.03,

Re: Queue Time

2000-08-20 Thread richard
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well spotted Richard. > > I haven't looked at this particular paper, but one of the benefits of all > the ATM development work that the Telcos have done over the last 5 or so > years is the intense focus on scheduling algorit

Re: Queue Time

2000-08-19 Thread richard
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Rogerio Brito wrote: > I was looking for more detains about the mathematical side of > the things (e.g., what is the measure of "hurt", in your words > or the cost to which Dan refers?) and like why the optimal > retry schedule is essentially independen

Re: Queue Time

2000-08-18 Thread richard
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Eric Cox wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > If you only go to an hour granularity and assume a queuelifetime of no > > more than seven days, then you only need 168 instances. I was kinda thinking > > of something a little more elegant than that... > > How about using

Re: Want to know your potential multiple recipient savings?

2000-07-30 Thread richard
off to (n) remote qmtp servers. Richard

remove

2000-07-25 Thread Richard White
Irwan Hadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 02:09 PM 7/25/00 -0500, David L. Nicol wrote: >This just came in; submitted for your discussion: I think this can be happened maybe because qmail is too greedy in bandwith consuming ? because redhat doesn't use EZMLM but SmartList so the single RCPT To

Re: inodes & maximum sub dir limit

2000-07-10 Thread richard
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > kapil sharma écrit: > > Now i want to ask the folowing questions: > > 1: What is the maximum no. of sub directories under a directories? > > 2: Is there any way to increase this numbers of maximum files/ sub dir > > under main dir? > > What ope

Re: Share queue between servers and other questions.

2000-05-13 Thread richard
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Michael Boman wrote: > What I want is to be able to share the queue between n+2 servers on > each loocation as well as be able to split a single domain's > mailstorage so each users doesn't need to download his/hers email from > the other end of the world. the queue itself c

Re: Poor documentation of anti-spam options?

2000-04-01 Thread richard
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote: > Hey, don't flame me. I said this is a personal choice. For my part I don't > filter anything out (yet) because spam is not enough of a problem for me at > this time. The only thing I am pointing out is that the choice of doing spam > filtering is a

Re: Email 101; place horse before cart

2000-03-08 Thread richard
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Dave Sill wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Im reading life with qmail as we speak. I really wish I could extend > >the deadline, but we are switching ISPs since our current ISP is > >going under. They had been doing mail relaying for us, so all CCmail > >had to do wa

Re: Slow delivery (part 2)

2000-02-28 Thread richard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Matthew Bloch wrote: > I've managed to narrow down my earlier problem, though I'm still confused. > > To reiterate, whenever I qmail-inject anything into the mail queue, it > sits in /var/qmail/control/mess/... without any control files

Re: Moving queued mail Was: forwarding outbound mail to hub

2000-02-12 Thread richard
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Mark E. Drummond wrote: > > Non-authoritative answer: > > pagenet.ca preference = 0, mail exchanger = mail.pagenet.ca > > pagenet.ca preference = 20, mail exchanger = mail2.pagenet.ca > > Some further investigation: trying to telnet to port 25 on either MX > FROM

Re: is there any way to redirect deferrals?

2000-02-12 Thread richard
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Jeremy Hansen wrote: > > Is there any way to have deferrals redirect to another system? Basically > I have a machine that I need to do a large amount of outgoing mail and I'd > like to keep deferrals away from the queue. The information on the type of message you are sendi

Re: mail-demultiplexing

2000-01-30 Thread richard
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Greg Andrews wrote: > Then you can use fetchmail to retrieve the messages via pop > and feed them to the users. As I recall, Fetchmail can be > configured to use qmail's Delivered-To: header (with a bit > trimmed off) to route the mail. I've been using fetchmail since I mov

Re: Qmail taking too long??

2000-01-29 Thread richard
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, TAG wrote: > Hi ALL > > I have an urgent problem - why does the stock standard installation of > qmail-1.03 take long (>30 sec)when answering an pop3 request - also is > it correct to have the following in an ps -ef (system is Solaris 7 - > Sparc ultra 450):, about 5-10 tcps

Re: qmail delivery slowdown under high load

2000-01-27 Thread richard
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Andras Tudos - Computronic, C3 wrote: > At 2000.01.24 20:58, Monday, you wrote: > >On 24/01 19:28, Andras Tudos - Computronic, C3 wrote: > > > > > I have an operational theory question: when the load in a qmail setup > > > [...snip...] > > > not occur in a sendmail or other M

Re: Choosing a queue according to length - solution

2000-01-19 Thread richard
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Petr Novotny wrote: > maildecide is a program I have written in C which counts the bytes, > rewinds stdin and invokes /var/qmail{2,3}/bin/forward. I didn't > succeed with condredirect - it fails to pass the $HOST to the > redirected address. > > maildecide.c looks like th

Re: passwd and user quota

2000-01-19 Thread richard
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > search is still linear. The BSDs on the other hand make a DB database > out of the /etc/passwd, and so it's much faster to lookup. really, one should qualify what version of BSD you mean here. if I dig up a system running BSD 4.2 or 4.3 will it really

Re: Guidelines for large mail installations

2000-01-17 Thread richard
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Brian Baquiran wrote: > Hi, > We're setting up a big Qmail installation. It is projected that the number of > users will be in the hundreds of thousands within a couple of months. > > Our current idea is to have one big NFS server, and a lot of lightweight > SMTP/POP3 serve

Re: Maildir format

2000-01-16 Thread richard
On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Bruce Guenter wrote: > On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 01:20:05AM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: > > What about asynchronous commands and > > notifications? I'd nuke 'em, myself. > > Which of course begs the question about what kinds of events are really > necessary for a mailbox a

RE: Odd.

2000-01-09 Thread richard
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Dustin Marquess wrote: > > I have a hard time believing that Outlook is just being > strict on RFCs, since it's usually M$ that breaks the RFCs in the > first place, and Anyways, why do you need a journal and scheduler > built into your MUA? because most people at w

Re: What MUA do you use?

2000-01-05 Thread richard
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Jedi/Sector One wrote: > Wotta stupid bandwidth starvation : the content is the same than a > plain text message, but with twice its size. I have to ask if email is a significant portion of most sites external bandwidth and so if this is really worth sysadmins time worrying

Re: Forcing the queue.

1999-12-27 Thread Richard Letts
vers. They should then attempt to deliver all of their outbound SMTP mail to your big server (thus emptying its queue). You'll then have tested your big server's ability to cope with large queues and sudden influxes of mail as well as moved the mail off the smaller machines. Hope this helps. Richard Letts

Re: Server cluster

1999-12-27 Thread Richard Letts
boxes over NFS, except we were using SMTP to move it to the pop mail servers which wrote locally. If qmtp had been built into the qmail-remote servers we would probably have used that too. Richard Letts, Austin, Texas

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-07 Thread Richard Roderick
called setforward, which records these in a hash >file. > >Then, in ~alias/.qmail-default, you put > >|fastforward > >This should do exactly what you want, if I understand correctly. Great info, thanks. More of these notes need to be so simple :) Richard

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-07 Thread Richard Roderick
uing. Not that anything didn't work in qmail. Get it? Richard

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-07 Thread Richard Roderick
t >use of (either) sed (or awk, I forget which) to generate an rcpthosts file >from a virtualdomains file, which when added to the bottom of your >"build" script adds one further level of marvelousness! I don't believe this deals with mail relaying? (SMTP queuing) Yes? No? Richard

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-06 Thread Richard Roderick
pages for it? Ouch :) To be honest, I did. "I was looking for the word 'virtusertable'" Perhaps I missed it? Either, I'm fine, it works. And I appreciate Jay's help! Richard

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-06 Thread Richard Roderick
At 08:46 PM 12/6/1999 -0500, Jay Soffian wrote: > "Richard" == Richard Roderick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Richard> AAAHHH. That's what I was looking for! The part about > Richard> using the fastforward to do it was what I could not

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-06 Thread Richard Roderick
see advantages to what Jay is doing when it comes to simplicity. Thanks Jay! Richard At 08:07 PM 12/6/99 -0500, Jay Soffian wrote: > "Richard" == Richard Roderick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Richard> In answer to the original question: It's not easy. I j

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-06 Thread Richard Roderick
Yep. I appreciate the simplicity of it. Sigh. It might be the only thing I will miss though :) Richard At 06:44 PM 12/6/99 -0500, Michael T. Halligan wrote: >in a virtual table you just have > >an entry for a virtualdomain in /etc/sendmail.cw to say "yes I do want to &g

Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?

1999-12-06 Thread Richard Roderick
e similar tools were already available but didn't necessarily work with my data set ;) Richard PS. If you care: System: Multiple FreeBSD boxes behind a server iron. For SMTP I'm running qmail with these patches: big-todo, concurrency, tarpit, dns, etrn (modified patch from some ones

Re: qmail-smtp fails on RedHat 6.0

1999-09-20 Thread Richard George
| grep sendmail r.george 5026 0.0 0.6 1148 400 pts/2S19:56 0:00 grep sendmail Any other suggestions? Regards, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >I have just installed RedHat 6.0 onto my PC. In the previous incarnation I had > >5.2 run

qmail-smtp fails on RedHat 6.0

1999-09-20 Thread Richard George
ed by foreign host. r.george> I start qmail-smtp with the following (1) line in the inetd.conf smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /usr/sbin/tcpd /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd Anyone offer any help? Regards, Richard -- Richard George Carthaginem esse

Re: vchkpw + SQL

1999-08-12 Thread Richard Antecki
abase periodically, or use both and fallback on the db file if mysql goes down. Richard On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Ken Jones wrote: > Jonathan Herbert wrote: > > > > Hi there, > > > > I've ran into a strange situation where i'd like to be able to > > utili

Re: queue modification

1999-08-10 Thread richard
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, David Harris wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a queue full of messages to an SMTP server that is dead. I don't want > them all to be bounced, but rather, I want to have these messages sent to > another address and thus SMTP server than they are destined. Is there any way > to muck

Re: Qmail "stops"

1999-08-09 Thread richard
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Cris Daniluk wrote: > I found out the problem and its interesting at best. The messages are > being deferred by outgoing mail servers because we're sending mail *too* > fast :) For testing we're only using a select number of servers. Is there > a way to moderate qmail so it on

Re: Yet another question :)

1999-08-09 Thread richard
to be that > helpless :) man 5 tcp-environ gives you the environment variables so, I'd guess at starting it like you do qmail-smtpd under tcpserver (which sets the environment variables, and can enforce access control so only your MS servers can submit using it). obviously, use a different port than #25 Richard

Re: Performance

1999-08-06 Thread richard
listen IP address ('host') as an argument -- that gets your message into one of the queues. There is a patch on www.qmail.org which allows qmail-remote to bind to a specific local address Richard

Re: Qmail throughput

1999-08-06 Thread richard
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Victor Tavares wrote: > > How do you do this with Qmail? Isn't that what Sendmail does? > > > > Another way is to make an initial attempt to deliver the message > > directly, before queueing it. Since some fairly large proportion of > > messages go through on the first tr

Re: Qmail throughput

1999-08-06 Thread richard
ontroller with write-back cache > Run qmail-queue directly (qmail-queue does the fsync's though) +++ stop using splogger Richard

Re: HELP: Distributed mail system

1999-08-06 Thread richard
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Jason Brown wrote: > Hello, > > I have a very interesting situation here. I have two servers, > host1.mydomain.com and host2.mydomain.com. I have host1 as the primary > mail server in the DNS-MX record. Both the hosts have qmail-1.03 > installed in it. > > I have user mailbo

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