Re: RBLSMTPD

2000-12-28 Thread Piotr Kasztelowicz
Hello > Hi, > Can anyone please advise me if there is anyway of telling > an attacker if you like that they have been blocked via an email or > something similiar. I am having the problem that people are getting > blocked however it appears the mail goes through but is then not > re

qmail Digest 28 Dec 2000 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 1227

2000-12-28 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 28 Dec 2000 11:00:01 - Issue 1227 Topics (messages 54420 through 54447): Re: Limited SMTP Relay 54420 by: Chris Johnson 54439 by: asantos qmail news && RDF 54421 by: Russell Nelson "warning: unable to unlink local/9/3601004; will try again later" myste

Re: rblsmtpd - notification

2000-12-28 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 11:10:37AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > question is: Is there anyway of notifying the person who sent the > mail to you through the open relay, with a generic message that > they were blocked. Say "Your message could not be processed by > our server." If anyone coul

Re: What does "return address is refused" mean?

2000-12-28 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 05:04:32PM -0800, Dai Yuwen wrote: > Sometimes my mail will be bounced with the subject "return address is > refused". What does that mean? I'm using qmail-1.03. This is not a qmail error message. If these messages are bounces this may be caused by badly configured mail

Re: Re: checkpassword question

2000-12-28 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:13:56AM +0800, Rick Lu wrote: > as we all know, there are two super-user functions in checkpassword package: setuid >& > setgid. > > because qmaild is only a normal user in nofiles group, so he has no privilege to >call > these codes. it will show "-ERR authorizati

Re: alias system

2000-12-28 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 04:28:52PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a .qmail file in my home directory that is .qmail-user and > it contains the line: > /usr/home/drew/Maildir2/ where Maildir2 is a seperate Mail > directory setup than the one we use on the system. Is there >

How sending messages from web site

2000-12-28 Thread ouldm
Hello, I'm insttalling Qmail Relay server on Raq3i . I putting my web site, my http server on this machine. (only SMTP, no POP! is allowed here, since this machine lies in DMZ and used only to relaying mails to the qmail LAN server liying behind a fierwall). My question is: how I can use qma

Re: RBLSMTPD

2000-12-28 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:12:48AM +0100, Piotr Kasztelowicz wrote: > ORBS and like ORBS lists > there are stupid idea, which makes more evil than good. First of all > from such as ORBS 'insecure hosts' list" are using all presented on Net > hacers, who have directly listing of host, which potent

Re: RBLSMTPD

2000-12-28 Thread Piotr Kasztelowicz
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Markus Stumpf wrote: > This lists are irrelevant for attacks and security through obscurity is > no security at all. The peoples, who manages with RBL could inform admin of tested host prior to begin such tests. If test had presented insecurity or open relay possibilities, O

Re: Xinetd & Qmail & New Problem!

2000-12-28 Thread Jeff Lacy
Thank you very much Andrew! You helped me solve my problem! It couldn't have been simpler. I am a bozo. I was looking at a all the programs in /var/qmail/bin, and I learned that qmail didn't really lose my messages. I guessed that I hadn't started all of qmail correctly, so I ran '/var/qmail/

config help needed

2000-12-28 Thread I. Herman
I just recently installed qmail and followed the how-to on life w/ qmail.  I am at the part where i start it for the first time, and i am getting the following error messages:   supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-send/supervise/lock: temporary failuresupervise: fatal: unable to acqui

RE: config help needed

2000-12-28 Thread I. Herman
all the permittions are correct, now it's giving me another error...   supervise: fatal: unable to start log/run: file does not exist supervise: warning: unable to rename log/supervise/status.new to status: file does not existsupervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-smtpd/supervise/lock: t