Free documentation for beginners about mail server basis ?

Hello, I agree that the installation and configuration documentation are well made. But It is not really helpful for a Mail Server beginner like me. Do you know some Documentation that explains the whole, that is, how does a mail server work, whre the concept are explained , other than

Can't connect to port 110 and 25

This is the path that I followed when I installed Qmail: 1. I took out sendmail first by running "rpm -e sendmail" 2. I installed Qmail when I typed ps -auxww |grep qmail, the following are running: qmaill5797 0.0 0.3 1096 408 ? S Nov 5 0:00 splogger qmail qmailq5800 0.0 0.

qmail-MicrosoftSQL

Hi I have been able to succesfully able have IMAP users authenticated from Microsoft SQL database, I have used a authodbc code which i compiled with courier files and used easysoft bridge which incorporates odbc-odbc bridge , but I have some more requirements . I hope somebody can help me in this

[OT] Vatican blesses qmail

Just wanted everyone to know that I happened to be looking through my logs tonight and noticed the following: michael.vatican.va - - [07/Nov/2000:04:28:45 -0500] "GET /qmail/qmail-howto.html HTTP/1.0" 200 35537 Looks like the Vatican has blessed qmail. Apparently they are also fond of MSIE and

Re: Free documentation for beginners about mail server basis ?

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 09:37:37AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > But It is not really helpful for a Mail Server beginner like me. Do you > know some Documentation > > that explains the whole, that is, how does a mail server work, whre the > concept are explained , other than the Qmail book

Re: Free documentation for beginners about mail server basis ?

my recommendation would be slightly different...download the relevant RFCs. For SMTP try RFC 822...and you'd get an insight into SMTP. Joost van Baal wrote: > On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 09:37:37AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > But It is not really helpful for a Mail Server beginner like m

Re: Free documentation for beginners about mail server basis ?

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:08:03PM +0300, Mbarak M. Ittiso wrote: > my recommendation would be slightly different...download the relevant RFCs. > For SMTP try RFC 822...and you'd get an insight into SMTP. The RFC's are required to get a proper understanding; you're right. However, LWQ suggests th

who can help me?

i want to use the openldap+qmail,but when i do the follow steps,somethings is wrong 1.i tar -zxf openldap ./configure make depend make make test make install 2.tar qmail patch the qmail+ldap-patch 3.make setup check but the follow error occured. ./load qmail-lspawn spawn.o prot.o

smtp-auth and smtp after pop

Hello all, I installed qmail 1.03 and vpopmail 4.9.4 with the "enabled roaming users" feature on my system. But now I got big problems with my Outlook Users. They can´t catch their Mail before sending. Now I need them to authenticate with the in Outlook included smtp authentication possibility. D

qmail + throttling (limit bandwidth)

How can I throttle the Bandwidth Usage with qmail ? I have High Volume Server sending 3 Mio. e-Mails / weekly out. My ISP bills in Bandwidth Consumation and that 3 Mio. e-Mails Send produce very high Bandwidth Usage Peeks!! Who can help? PS: I'm on Sun Solaris 7 Box -- With best Regards, Micha

SMTP Server test failed

I tested SMTP on my qmail installation (installed with "life with Qmail") with TEST.receive 1. SMTP server test: Forge some mail locally via SMTP. Replace ``me'' with your username and ``domain'' with your host's name. % telnet 127.0.0.1 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connecte

Re: Free documentation for beginners about mail server basis ?

* Mbarak M. Ittiso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001107 05:12]: > Joost van Baal wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 09:37:37AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > But It is not really helpful for a Mail Server beginner like me. > > > Do you know some Documentation that explains the whole, that is, > > >

qmail Digest 7 Nov 2000 11:00:00 -0000 Issue 1176

qmail Digest 7 Nov 2000 11:00:00 - Issue 1176 Topics (messages 51660 through 51713): SMTP-Autenticating without being root 51660 by: Christopher Suarez Re: SPAM - Help! - my solution 51661 by: Petr Danecek tcpserver dying? 51662 by: Hubbard, David 51668 by:

Re: Free documentation for beginners about mail server basis ?

"Robin S. Socha" wrote: > http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/ }:-> For qmail Beginners I did a good All Purpose Installation Mini HOWTO... http://www.octlabs.de/linux/docu/qmail_howto.shtml CU, Michael..

RE: Return receipt

I don't think that this notification is based on DNS. It is notification form the host SMTP server. This returned mail gives you info which you can read from log. "Remote host said OK " or something like this Daniel POGAC Tech. Support TatraSoft Group s.r.o Sibírska 4 83102 Bratislava tel: +

Multiple Mail to Single domain

Hi All!! 1. I got a point to ask the experts about sending multiple mail to a single domain. Say I am sending a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and cc to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] to only xyz.com. OK. When I send the mail, I find that qmail breaks the mail separately for e

Re: Error Code

Wesley Darlington wrote: > > Hi Adrian, > > On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 12:07:19PM +0200, Adrian Turcu wrote: > > I have this problem only when I use what it's called "DRBD" device. > > This device is like NBD and RAID-1 (mirroring) if it sounds you familiar. > > > > Well, when I mount this device,

Error: Nov 7 19:13:52 planet2 checkpassword: pop3checkpasswd: exit 2 at point 6

I guess the subject line explains all : The error is logged in the /var/log/messages. (syslog??) What is an exit code 2? Where is point 6? It only occurs when a user with an invalid password attempts to retive mail form the server. Running ethereal on the network segment reveals that OK <[EMAI

Re: smtp-auth and smtp after pop

Yor problem is not with qmail setup, but the users. thay can get thair mail befor sending outgoing messages, if they select "recieve" first from the drop-down menu in right of the button - tell them to read the help. Milen - Original Message - From: Schwarz Hans-Juergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: smtp-auth and smtp after pop

Milen Petrinski wrote: > Yor problem is not with qmail setup, but the users. thay can get thair mail > befor sending outgoing messages, if they select "recieve" first from the > drop-down menu in right of the button - tell them to read the help. > > Milen Users must check before they can send ou

Re: Return receipt

I don't thik the problem is in qmail. I tryed this: send two messages from Netscape 4.7 with Return Receipt checked thgrow my qmail. The first message I read with Outlook Express and it did not ask me to send receipt, althow in the header there was line Disposition-Notification-To: Biliana Galabov

Moving the qmail directory

I'm running short on space on my /var partition, which limits the size of my qmail queue in a rather unpleasant manner. This is a Bad Thing, obviously, and I thought I'd solve the problem temporarily by moving the qmail directory. If I move /var/qmail to /export/qmail, and replace it with a symbo

Re: Moving the qmail directory

Filip Salomonsson wrote: > If I move /var/qmail to /export/qmail, and replace it with a symbolic > link pointing to the new location, is there anything that might cause > things to explode into my face? Hmm, if you place symlink and then move nothing should happen. But to be sure I would wait un

Re: Moving the qmail directory

it is no problem moving qmail, with the exception of the queue dir. So just.. stop qmail move qmail set symlinks start qmail should work .. hth Anton Am Die, 07 Nov 2000 schrieb Michael Maier: > Filip Salomonsson wrote: > > > If I move /var/qmail to /export/qmail, and replace it with a symb

Re: Can't connect to port 110 and 25

Andrew Buenaventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is the path that I followed when I installed Qmail: [...] > 2. I installed Qmail Well, that's informative. > when I typed ps -auxww |grep qmail, the following are running: > > qmaill5797 0.0 0.3 1096 408 ? S Nov 5 0:00 splog

Re: qmail + throttling (limit bandwidth)

Michael Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I throttle the Bandwidth Usage with qmail ? To reduce peak bandwidth usage, reduce your concurrencyremote value. There's no way to specify something like "never go over 30kbps", but as a general rule, if you reduce your concurrencyremote by half

Re: Multiple Mail to Single domain

Md. Sifat Ullah Patwary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But someone (who dont use qmail) told me that it shouldn't be like this. It > should be a single mail to xyz.com and then xyz.com mailserver will break > this. There's two ways to do it; qmail does it one way, and some other MTAs happen to d

Re[2]: smtp-auth and smtp after pop

Hello all, Tuesday, November 07, 2000, 1:49:46 PM, you wrote: > Milen Petrinski wrote: >> Yor problem is not with qmail setup, but the users. thay can get thair mail >> befor sending outgoing messages, if they select "recieve" first from the >> drop-down menu in right of the button - tell them

Re: qmail + throttling (limit bandwidth)

Michael Maier wrote: > > How can I throttle the Bandwidth Usage with qmail ? > I have High Volume Server sending 3 Mio. e-Mails / weekly out. > My ISP bills in Bandwidth Consumation and that 3 Mio. e-Mails Send > produce very high Bandwidth Usage Peeks!! > Who can help? > PS: I'm on Sun Solaris 7

Re: qmail + throttling (limit bandwidth)

Charles Cazabon wrote: > To reduce peak bandwidth usage, reduce your concurrencyremote value. There's > no way to specify something like "never go over 30kbps", but as a general > rule, if you reduce your concurrencyremote by half, your typical network > bandwidth will go down by a similar amoun

Re: smtp-auth and smtp after pop

Hans-Juergen Schwarz wrote: > I agree with everybody of you. The problem is that the customer is a > reseller who is hosting quit a few domain on my server and he told > me he can´t do this thing to his customers, because they would not > like it. So I got to find a way to please him. I told my c

Re: QMail and Win NT user auth

Actually you can use Samba.. They supply a API that can be used to write a NT authenication/checkpassword. Sean Truman www.prodigysolutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Kris Kelley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "QMail Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, Novem

Re: QMail and Win NT user auth

Actually you can use Samba.. They supply a API that can be used to write a NT authenication/checkpassword. Sean Truman www.prodigysolutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Kris Kelley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "QMail Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, Novem

Re: QMail and Win NT user auth

Actually you can use Samba.. They supply a API that can be used to write a NT authenication/checkpassword. Sean Truman www.prodigysolutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Kris Kelley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "QMail Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, Novem

concurrency problems

im having a slight problem with my concurrency. i set my max concurrency in conf-spawn file to 250, and compiled qmail. after that i set the control/concurrencyremote file to 250. when i send out about 30,000 messages, my concurrency only goes up to like 90, but i check the load average and its no

Re: qmail + throttling (limit bandwidth)

Michael Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charles Cazabon wrote: > > > To reduce peak bandwidth usage, reduce your concurrencyremote value. > > Hmm, so I think the best would be to run 2 qmail Installation? (One for the > normal e-Mails with high concurrency and one for the Mailing Lists with

unable to_establish_an_SMTP_connection

I tried on Qmail a SMTP connection with : telnet 127.0.0.1 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. 220 domain ESMTP helo dude 250 domain mail 250 ok rcpt 250 ok data 354 go ahe

minor bug report

Found a slight incompatibility by qmails (1.03) fake sendmail and the real thing. If you do /usr/lib/sendmail -t [EMAIL PROTECTED] which means take the To field from the headers in message, then normal sendmail ignores the [EMAIL PROTECTED] but qmails sendmail sends the message twice.

qmail and secure smtp relay?

I am building a mail server for some people, the only problem though is they got a dynamic ip address assigned to them when connection their dsl line (mail server is off site on static ip). Their isp won't assign static ip and won't tell me which block they are assigned from. I could put in an

Re: unable to_establish_an_SMTP_connection

[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I tried on Qmail a SMTP connection with : [...] >250 domain >mail >250 ok >rcpt >250 ok Please don't sanitize the domain names. It makes it more difficult for the list members to figure out your proble

Re: concurrency problems

Alex Khanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > im having a slight problem with my concurrency. > i set my max concurrency in conf-spawn file to 250, and compiled qmail. > after that i set the control/concurrencyremote file to 250. when i send out > about 30,000 messages, my concurrency only goes up to l

Re: unable to_establish_an_SMTP_connection

is nse-int.de in your control/locals and control/rcpthosts? if not put it there, and restart qmail. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 7:38 AM Subject: unable to_establish_an_SMTP_connection > > > > I tried on Qmail a

Re: qmail and secure smtp relay?

What you mean is SMTP after POP so checkout http://www.octlabs.de/linux/docu/qmail_howto.shtml It has nothing to do with SSL so far!! CU, Michael..

ERR authorization failed ...

Hi you all... I'm using : - RedHat - Qmail - QMailAdmin - vpopmail - vqsignup - sqwebmail All of them are working, except the last one, I every time receive the error : ERR authorization failed, even if I try since my QMail server [root@ jmorquec]# telnet localhost 110 Trying 127

Re: qmail and secure smtp relay?

- Original Message - From: "Michael Maier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 11:21 AM Subject: Re: qmail and secure smtp relay? > What you mean is SMTP after POP so checkout > http://www.octlabs.de/linux/docu/qmail_howto.shtml > It has nothing

re: concurrency problems

Alex Khanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > im having a slight problem with my concurrency. > i set my max concurrency in conf-spawn file to 250, and compiled qmail. > after that i set the control/concurrencyremote file to 250. when i send out > about 30,000 messages, my concurrency only goes up to

Sendmail %1 Virtual Aliases -> Qmail?

Hello Everyone, I am in the progress of migrating a fairly large sendmail system to qmail. One of the problems I have run into is the differences in when aliases are resolved by the two programs. I have installed and am planning on using the fastforward program with qmail. The main issues are th

RE: ERR authorization failed ...

If your using vpopmail change your password checking program to be vchkpw not checkpassword -Original Message- From: Javier Morquecho Morquecho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 12:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ERR authorization failed ... Hi you all..

Install Questions

Hello all, I just trie to install qmail depending on LWQ. There are a few things I don´t really know to manage: 1. I´m running Suse 6.4 and I can´t find a directory called /usr/local/sbin. Shall I just creat one or what should I do? 2. There are some commands like ln -s ../init.d/qmail RCDIR/rc0.d

what is the process for adding a new user to qmail for Linux?

i issued "adduser" as root and filled in the appropriate info. then i issued "/var/qmail/bin/makemaildir Maildir" in the new user's home directory. mail is not getting delivered to the user, though. it's just sitting in the queue. thanks, pearse

RE: what is the process for adding a new user to qmail for Linux?

Logs? -Original Message- From: Robert Eric Pearse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 1:33 PM To: qmail Subject: what is the process for adding a new user to qmail for Linux? i issued "adduser" as root and filled in the appropriate info. then i issued "/var/qmail

Re: what is the process for adding a new user to qmail for Linux?

i've checked /var/log/syslog and /var/log/maillog. neither are coughing up messages from qmail-smptd. but, i am able to send messages to other users on that machine. so, it must be a problem with the user configuration. pearse - Original Message - From: "Tim Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> T

No Delivery via SMTP

Hi, I have installed the qmail via the Tutorial life with qmail. Qmail have I started using the /var/boot/home by copying into /var/qmail and renamed to rc. The test with qmail-inject have worked fine, lokaly and remote. But If I send a mail via smtp to the testuser on the localmashine in the

RE: what is the process for adding a new user to qmail for Linux?

ok you are confused. If the message is just sitting in the queue its past the smtp stage. There WILL be lines in the log that say something similar to: info msg 10247: bytes 1239 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 18994 uid 601 starting delivery 3579: msg 10247 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: local

Re: qmail and secure smtp relay?

Jack Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yea I looked at that, but if a user just wants to send mail, it will throw > an error sinces they didn't auth with the pop3 server. I think my user's > aren't bright enough to get the "you must receive email before you send" > concept. Then perhaps yo

Pop server

>Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 12:07:08 -0700 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Travis Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To All, > > Over the last month I have been trying to configure Qmail for the > office mail server. As of now I am half way there, meaning that all the > SMTP and relay controls ar

Re: what is the process for adding a new user to qmail for Linux?

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 12:56:38PM -0600, Robert Eric Pearse wrote: > i've checked /var/log/syslog and /var/log/maillog. neither are coughing up > messages from qmail-smptd. but, i am able to send messages to other users on > that machine. so, it must be a problem with the user configuration. If

Re: what is the process for adding a new user to qmail for Linux?

fixed! forgot this: "echo ./Maildir/ > /home/usr/.qmail" ;-) now, i get to track down that damn smtpd log! thanks, pearse - Original Message - From: "Robert Eric Pearse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 12:56 PM Subject: Re: what is the p

Re: what is the process for adding a new user to qmail for Linux?

yes. you are correct. the logs where in /var/log/qmail/qmail-send. thanks, robert - Original Message - From: "Tim Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 1:07 PM Subject: RE: what is the process for adding a new user to qmail for Linux? > o

RE: Pop server

hi, so many questions, and there could be so many different answers too... just two hints the handmade way: Single-UID based POP3 box HOWTO By Paul Gregg http://www.tibus.net/pgregg/projects/qmail/single-uid-howto.txt the automated way: vpopmail http://www.inter7.com/vchkpw/ (there is a handy we

Re: what is the process for adding a new user to qmail for Linux?

* Robert Eric Pearse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i issued "adduser" as root and filled in the appropriate info. then i > issued "/var/qmail/bin/makemaildir Maildir" in the new user's home > directory. Wrongo. The Maildir now belongs to root. > mail is not getting delivered to the user, though.

Am I relaying?

Background: I am running QMail 1.03 for several domains. I have a line in /etc/hosts.allow (tcp-env ...) to allow the local network to relay. The virtual domains are listed in rcpthosts and virtualdomains, as appropriate. This is a long time running system. 'locals' contains "localhost",

Re: Am I relaying?

Roger Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > 'locals' contains "localhost", the FQDN for the host, and the > domain portion of the FQDN for the host. [...] > Question(s): Am I being used as a relay? Difficult to tell, since you've removed your hostname. However, I checked "nylon.

Re: Am I relaying?

On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Charles Cazabon wrote: > Roger Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > 'locals' contains "localhost", the FQDN for the host, and the > > domain portion of the FQDN for the host. > [...] > > Question(s): Am I being used as a relay? > > Difficult to tell, since y

Re: Free documentation for beginners about mail server basis ?

On Tue, 7 Nov 2000 11:19:11 +0100, Joost van Baal wrote: >On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:08:03PM +0300, Mbarak M. Ittiso wrote: >> my recommendation would be slightly different...download the relevant RFCs. >> For SMTP try RFC 822...and you'd get an insight into SMTP. > >The RFC's are required to get

Re: what is the process for adding a new user to qmail for Linux?

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 08:46:32PM +0100, Robin S. Socha wrote: > > Yup. Do that in /etc/skel and also add a default .qmail there if you > like. or, even better, change your default delivry instruction to Maildir. -- Joost

Fix for Relaying through QMail using xinetd

I posed a question here in the past week or so about how to use xinetd to enable relaying using xinetd as apposed to the preferred method of using ucspi-tcp. I'm hoping that someone will post this to the QMail website in order to save others the long and laborious search I had to go through in or

Re: Am I relaying?

--- Roger Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I immediately added this host to my /etc/hosts.deny file for > tcp-env and the connections stopped after the first two refusals. A good security practice is to deny everything in your hosts.deny file, and make specific exceptions to that policy

Re: Am I relaying?

Quoting Al Sparks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I immediately added this host to my /etc/hosts.deny file for > > tcp-env and the connections stopped after the first two refusals. > > A good security practice is to deny everything in your hosts.deny file, > and make specific exceptions to that poli

Re: Am I relaying?

On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Al Sparks wrote: > --- Roger Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I immediately added this host to my /etc/hosts.deny file for > > tcp-env and the connections stopped after the first two refusals. > > A good security practice is to deny everything in your hosts.deny f

Some emails in my queue delayed more than 2 weeks, help?

Hi, I am newbie of qmail, but I noticed some emails in my qmail server queue have been there more than 2 weeks. I found some useful tools to check the delayed email in the queue from the qmail homepage, but I have no idea how I can force qmail deliver them right away or backup and delete them f

Re: minor bug report

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 03:56:02PM +, Mark Cheverton wrote: > Found a slight incompatibility by qmails (1.03) fake sendmail and the > real thing. If you do /usr/lib/sendmail -t [EMAIL PROTECTED] which means > take the To field from the headers in message, then normal sendmail > ignores t

Re: qmail: Nearly there....finally there

I'm not in the habit of talking to myself but Forget about it.. I've worked it out... mind you was up untill 3:00am working through it. Apparently htpasswd is was used for generating the encrypted passwords... Weird but it works... Also have a good reference of the error messages and what they

why my qmail install wrong?

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.a alloc.a \ substdio.a str.a qldap-errn

Re: why my qmail install wrong?

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.

Converting dates from seconds since epoch to readable dates

All- I am attempting to write a script which examines the qmail logs files for statistics on ezmlm mail lists. In order to make sense of the results I need a script or command which will turn the dates that come out of qmailanalog's matchup program into human readable form. Does anyone have a s

Re: Converting dates from seconds since epoch to readable dates

tai64nlocal, it's in the daemontools package from DJB. On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, James Morgenstein wrote: > All- > > I am attempting to write a script which examines the qmail logs files for > statistics on ezmlm mail lists. > > In order to make sense of the results I need a script or command whic

maildir script ?

Hi all...Anyone know where I can find the "maildir" script as discussed in the qmailbook, page 196 ?It's not in the "/var/qmail/boot" dir as the book suggests or anywhere elsein the qmail src file.CheersDennis

Re: maildir script ?

On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 03:18:46PM +1100, Dennis wrote: > Hi all... > > Anyone know where I can find the "maildir" script as discussed in the qmail > book, page 196 ? > It's not in the "/var/qmail/boot" dir as the book suggests or anywhere else > in the qmail src file. Since many of us haven't r

Re: maildir script ?

On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anyone know where I can find the "maildir" script as discussed in > the qmail book, page 196 ? It's not in the "/var/qmail/boot" dir as > the book suggests or anywhere else in the qmail src file. Then its probably not a normal part of qmail. I have

RE: Converting dates from seconds since epoch to readable dates

Mr. Zajkowski- The dates that come our of matchup are not tai64n formatted. However, I was provided with following perl script by another list member which appears to do the job: #!/usr/bin/perl -n # chop; s/^[^0-9][^:]+://; ($time,$therest) = split(/\s+/,$_,2); print scalar localtime($time),"

RE: maildir script ?

check /var/qmail/bin   Anthony   -Original Message-From: Dennis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 11:19 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: maildir script ? Hi all...Anyone know where I can find the "maildir" script as discussed in the qmailbook,

Re: maildir script ?

Hi Brett It's just a startup script... exec env - PATH ="@PREFIX@/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail & I know I could just use it as is ? but I'm interested to know why it's missing from the qmail src. Then the question beckons, is this the best way to start qmail u

Re: maildir script ?

On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's just a startup script... Startup scripts for qmail generally start in the /var/qmail/rc file. > exec env - PATH ="@PREFIX@/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ > qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail & Don't use splogger, use multilog (see below) > I know I c

Re: maildir script ?

On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 03:41:02PM +1100, Brett Randall wrote: > > Then the question beckons, is this the best way to start qmail up ? By all accounts the book you are reading is not really top-notch. > If you're asking this, you should really read Life with Qmail >

Re: maildir script ?

To the NEW qmail admin, like myself, i'd say it's the best reference I've seen to date... very comprehensive On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 03:41:02PM +1100, Brett Randall wrote: > > Then the question beckons, is this the best way to start qmail up ? By all accounts the book you are reading is no

Re: maildir script ?

On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To the NEW qmail admin, like myself, i'd say it's the best reference > I've seen to date... very comprehensive I take it you mean LWQ? And you may want to fix your quoting so it doesn't appear as if you and mark are the same person: > Mark. > > D

Re: maildir script ?

There is no maildir script that the book lists. It should be in the same place as the binm1 and so on but it is not. I basically copied the script out of the book and then chmoded it and cp to the rc file manually. Though I should warn you that I am in the same place you are. I have every t

remove messages from mail queue

Hi, I have over 10,000 unsend messages in my mail queue, I would like to know how to remove those messages from my mail queue. What command should I use ? Thank you for your attention, Mark Lo

Pointers

I am almost there and having almost the same problem as the Maildir guy. for some reason when I send a message to the server for a local user it will not direct it to the correct mailbox. Is there some sort of pointer that I need to set up that says deliver local mail to the /home/user/maild

Install Questions important!

Hello all, I just trie to install qmail depending on LWQ. There are a few things I don´t really know to manage: 1. I´m running Suse 6.4 and I can´t find a directory called /usr/local/sbin. Shall I just creat one or what should I do? 2. There are some commands like ln -s ../init.d/qmail RCDIR/rc0.d

Re: Pointers

On Tue, 07 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am almost there and having almost the same problem as the Maildir > guy. for some reason when I send a message to the server for a > local user it will not direct it to the correct mailbox. Is there > some sort of pointer that I need to set up t

Re: Install Questions important!

On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. I´m running Suse 6.4 and I can´t find a directory called > /usr/local/sbin. Shall I just creat one or what should I do? Two options: a. Create /usr/local/sbin b. Use some other directory in your path (eg /usr/local/bin) > 2. There are some comma