Re: x_bit_set ... What is that?

2001-01-03 Thread George Patterson
Orjan, You have got it... :) .qmail can not be marked as executable. I remember reading about that in living with qmail but don't recall the reason. It has soemthing to do with security. try this chmod a-x .qmail for each of the popboxes. Likewise for the alias file. Have fun... George Patt

help for one docu

2001-01-03 Thread Rick Lu
hello, all who can give me that document originally located in http://qmail-docs.surfdirect.com.au/docs/qmail-antirelay.html. Your any help will be greatly appreciated. Rick Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Oracle + Qmail

2001-01-03 Thread Michael Maier
"Jonathan D. Poole" wrote: > I don't care to much about the front end of things, they can always be > written, I'm more intrested in a mirror of mysql+qmail setup, just > integrated with oracle instead. I don't know if anything has to be totally > rewritten, or if it's just DBA related configur

qmail pop no longer works

2001-01-03 Thread Justin Cunningham
Ok this is wierd. after new years eve, i can no longer receive mail that is sent to me remotely through my qmail server. i.e i can send myself and others on my network email, but noone can receive mail that is sent from elsewhere on the net, the mail just does not show up, and the person that s

qmail Digest 3 Jan 2001 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 1233

2001-01-03 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 3 Jan 2001 11:00:01 - Issue 1233 Topics (messages 54533 through 54603): *nix clients and Qmail server 54533 by: Subba Rao 54535 by: Jenny Holmberg I want a Rule Based SMTP Multiplexing. Help me. 54534 by: ¼­ÁØ¿ø 54549 by: Russell Nelson

Re: qmail pop no longer works

2001-01-03 Thread James Raftery
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:43:35AM -0800, Justin Cunningham wrote: > the person that sends it gets those "warning: message undelivered for > 4 hours" type messages Hi, It seems that something is blocking incoming SMTP traffic to your mail server. The warning messages you mention should give som

Re: qmail pop no longer works

2001-01-03 Thread Justin Cunningham
the domain is ac.d4a.net. I am just really confused because it only happened over new years eve, and the computer running qmail was not even touched over that period. it worked flawlessly before then and no, i don't have a firewall thanks for your help Justin >Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:58:00 +

Re: qmail pop no longer works

2001-01-03 Thread James Raftery
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 03:07:46AM -0800, Justin Cunningham wrote: > the domain is ac.d4a.net. I am just really confused because it only > happened over new years eve, and the computer running qmail was not > even touched over that period. it worked flawlessly before then ac.d4a.net is being anno

Re: qmail pop no longer works

2001-01-03 Thread Claudio Nieder
Hi, > ac.d4a.net is being announced in the DNS as 203.164.92.195. Is that > correct? > I can't get a connection to port 25 on that machine -- something is With tcpdump running and telnetting to port 25 of that address I see: 12:37:54.262380 ubr1-pos1-0.mirnd1.nsw.optushome.com.au > dog.eschle.c

Re: Qmail on SunOS 5.8

2001-01-03 Thread Charles Cazabon
Rakesh Tiwari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem is when i send a blast of mails say 15 from both the > boxes. The Qmail on the sun box takes ages to send while the Linux box > does it in a giffy. [...] > One thing i saw was that during the mail blast the "iowait" on the sun > box is

RE: Alias problem with "-" before "."

2001-01-03 Thread oliver bender
Back to work, still have this problem! First of all, I hope you all enjoyed your holidays and have a Happy New Year! You asked for logfiles and the reply message: Here you are: I've modified the example to add a true dummy user paul-john.doe (you don't really thought, we have a real user John

relaying by domain

2001-01-03 Thread ksemat
Hello everyone, Sorry for putting this on the list if it has already been answered however I checked the archives and failed to get an answer to it and although I have read 5.4 in the FAQ it does not help me much. I am using tcpserver and I have set up qmail and done relaying as instructed

Re: relaying by domain

2001-01-03 Thread meric
Have U tried the rcpthosts file, that shld do the trick. E ksemat writes: > Hello everyone, > Sorry for putting this on the list if it has already been answered however > I checked the archives and failed to get an answer to it and although I > have read 5.4 in the FAQ it does not help me much.

Re: relaying by domain

2001-01-03 Thread James Raftery
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 06:32:14PM +0300, ksemat wrote: > instructed in the FAQ however the /etc/tcp.smtp file only accepts realying > by ip address yet I would like to do it by domain name i.e As you have noted, it's a terrible idea but if you insist http://www.palomine.net/qmail/relaymailfrom

qmail/syslog problems please help

2001-01-03 Thread clydem
Can someone tell me why my syslog is going crazy with all this stuff? Am I under attack or what? How do I stop ths? It has been going on for a couple of days and sucks the processor time on my qmail box. thanks in advance cm... Jan 3 08:28:27 mail last message repeated 3 times Jan 3 08:28:27 mail

Re: relaying by domain

2001-01-03 Thread Charles Cazabon
ksemat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using tcpserver and I have set up qmail and done relaying as instructed > in the FAQ however the /etc/tcp.smtp file only accepts realying by ip address > yet I would like to do it by domain name [...] > I know the dangers but I really have no choice in this

Re: qmail/syslog problems please help

2001-01-03 Thread Charles Cazabon
clydem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone tell me why my syslog is going crazy with all this stuff? > Am I under attack or what? How do I stop ths? It has been going on > for a couple of days and sucks the processor time on my qmail box. Not sure why its happening in the first place (could

Re: relaying by domain

2001-01-03 Thread OK 2 NET - André Paulsberg
> Sorry for putting this on the list if it has already been answered however > I checked the archives and failed to get an answer to it and although I > have read 5.4 in the FAQ it does not help me much. > I am using tcpserver and I have set up qmail and done relaying as > instructed in the FAQ ho

multiple messages recieved

2001-01-03 Thread B . Negrão
  Hy all,   All my virtual e-mail account clients are complaining about recieving multiple messages sometimes. They don't recieve the same amount of multiple messages, and not all the time. It seems to happen "randomly".  I use vpopmail to administrate my virtual accounts.   I by myself got

qmtpd

2001-01-03 Thread Justin Bell
Add epignosis.com to the qmtpd list

Local users can clog qmail local queue

2001-01-03 Thread Mark-Jason Dominus
A local user, eric, can set up .qmail-slow like this: | sleep 3600 If Eric then sends a few hundred pieces of mail to eric-slow, qmail's local queue will fill up, and local mail delivery will be stopped. Incoming mail will not be delivered until Eric's 'sleep' processes time out. This

RE: Local users can clog qmail local queue

2001-01-03 Thread Greg Owen
> Has this been a problem for anyone in practice? It appears to > constitute a security problem that a single local user can shut down > all local mail delivery indefinitely. In theory, you are correct, although this is a Denial-Of-Service attack rather than a strict security breach.

Re: Local users can clog qmail local queue

2001-01-03 Thread James Raftery
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 12:52:49PM -0500, Greg Owen wrote: > In theory, you are correct, although this is a Denial-Of-Service > attack rather than a strict security breach. > In practice, a local user has many other avenues of attack similar > to this, and for all of them the fix is qu

Re: Local users can clog qmail local queue

2001-01-03 Thread Kris Kelley
Greg Owen wrote: > Consider instead a user who puts a stupid filter in his .qmail that > will execute commands listed in an email with COMMAND as the subject line. > NOW you have a real security hole. ...which is why .qmail commands are executed as the user, instead of as root or as one of the q

RE: Local users can clog qmail local queue

2001-01-03 Thread Greg Owen
> ...which is why .qmail commands are executed as the user, > instead of as root or as one of the qmail users. Assuming > you don't have any other local holes, the worst that user > can do is machine gun himself in the foot, and he > doesn't need qmail to do that! ...you should always a

Re: Local users can clog qmail local queue

2001-01-03 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 12:39:43PM -0500, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote: > > > A local user, eric, can set up .qmail-slow like this: > > | sleep 3600 > > If Eric then sends a few hundred pieces of mail to eric-slow, qmail's > local queue will fill up, and local mail delivery will be stopped

Re: Local users can clog qmail local queue

2001-01-03 Thread Mark-Jason Dominus
Says "Mark Delany" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/1998/02/msg00662.html The 1998 discussion was just what I was looking for. (I searched for something like that before I sent my message, but didn't find it.) Specifically, I was wondering about the fe

Re: Alias problem with "-" before "."

2001-01-03 Thread Markus Stumpf
Cc adjusted. On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 03:29:24PM +0100, oliver bender wrote: > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > There is a user account "paul" existing on that system, having a .qmail > file in his home directory /home/paul. This .qmail (or even .qmail-john (as > I've read in s

Re: thoughts for future qmail

2001-01-03 Thread David Benfell
[Cross-posted from qmail mailing list] On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 10:12:43PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: > > David Benfell writes: > > In theory, I have QMTP up on parts-unknown.org. I had already > > configured the startup for it when I installed qmail in the first > > place, and I've added a

RE: thoughts for future qmail

2001-01-03 Thread Greg Owen
David Benfell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 10:12:43PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: > > You also need to have an MX record with priority 12801 > > pointing to the host running qmtp. Right now, you only have > > parts-unknown.org. 1D IN MX0 mx.parts-un

smtproutes

2001-01-03 Thread Steve Hammond
Hi, I have a redhat 7 \ qmail installation. I want to use this as a smtp frontend to send all messages to our exchange server. I have set smtproutes to smtp:exchange. When I send a message it gets delivered locally to me using the procmail rc and when trying to use binmail rc nothing seems to ha

Re: thoughts for future qmail

2001-01-03 Thread Timothy Legant
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 10:12:43PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: > David Benfell writes: > > In theory, I have QMTP up on parts-unknown.org. I had already Also in theory, so do I. Russ, please add catseye.net to your list. > Don't worry about that. I'll send a confirmation message to all 20+

RE: smtproutes

2001-01-03 Thread Greg Owen
> I have a redhat 7 \ qmail installation. I want to use this > as a smtp frontend to send all messages to our exchange > server. I have set smtproutes to smtp:exchange. When I send > a message it gets delivered locally to me Make sure that the domain you are sending mail to is not li

RE: x_bit_set ... What is that?

2001-01-03 Thread Russell Nelson
Ørjan Vøllestad writes: > I found something that seems right. > I will check if the .qmail - alias files has executable rights, or the > alias domains directory. > I believe that is the case here? > Uh-oh:_.qmail_has_prog_delivery_but_has_x_bit_set._(#4.7.0)/ God dag. The error message sho

Re: smtproutes

2001-01-03 Thread Henning Brauer
Am Mittwoch, 3. Januar 2001 21:48 schrieben Sie: > Hi, > > I have a redhat 7 \ qmail installation. I want to use this as a smtp > frontend to send all messages to our exchange server. I have set smtproutes > to smtp:exchange. When I send a message it gets delivered locally 1) Do NOT add the af

Re: qmtpd

2001-01-03 Thread Russell Nelson
Justin Bell writes: > Add epignosis.com to the qmtpd list Got enough, thanks. Am currently trying to figure out how to get qmail-qmtpd to return a 'Z' error. It seems to drop the connection instead of ever returning 'Z'. Probably the best thing to do. Too bad about this, though: nelson@desk

Re: thoughts for future qmail

2001-01-03 Thread David Benfell
Thanks! It should now be done, for both parts-unknown.org and greybeard95a.com. On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 03:58:56PM -0500, Greg Owen wrote: > > David Benfell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 10:12:43PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: > > > You also need to have an MX r

Re: qmtpd

2001-01-03 Thread Markus Stumpf
While you're on it, will there be support for specifying qmtp connects via the smtproutes file? Maybe try qmtp first if the port is set to 209? Thanks, \Maex -- SpaceNet AG | http://www.Space.Net/ | Stress is when you wake Research & Development| mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: qmtpd

2001-01-03 Thread Russell Nelson
Markus Stumpf writes: > While you're on it, will there be support for specifying qmtp connects > via the smtproutes file? Maybe try qmtp first if the port is set to 209? I'm not sure it's necessary. smtproutes is only for misconfigured hosts. Since everyone running qmtpd has a CLUE, nobody's

Re: qmtpd

2001-01-03 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 3 January 2001 at 16:48:03 -0500 > Markus Stumpf writes: > > While you're on it, will there be support for specifying qmtp connects > > via the smtproutes file? Maybe try qmtp first if the port is set to 209? > > I'm not sure it's necessary. sm

Re: qmtpd

2001-01-03 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 04:48:03PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: > Markus Stumpf writes: > > While you're on it, will there be support for specifying qmtp connects > > via the smtproutes file? Maybe try qmtp first if the port is set to 209? > > I'm not sure it's necessary. smtproutes is only fo

Relaying on qmtpd

2001-01-03 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Is there any reason I should ever enable relaying of messages arriving via qmtp? All the smtp relay cases I have are for clients submitting mail; currently no clients that I know of can submit via qmtp. So no need? In the hypothetical future case where some client did submit outbound mail via q

Re: qmtpd

2001-01-03 Thread Johan Almqvist
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 04:48:03PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: > Markus Stumpf writes: > > While you're on it, will there be support for specifying qmtp connects > > via the smtproutes file? Maybe try qmtp first if the port is set to 209? > I'm not sure it's necessary. smtproutes is only for m

Re: qmtpd

2001-01-03 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 03:51:19PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 3 January 2001 at 16:48:03 -0500 > > Markus Stumpf writes: > > > While you're on it, will there be support for specifying qmtp connects > > > via the smtproutes file? Maybe try qm

Re: Relaying on qmtpd

2001-01-03 Thread Charles Cazabon
David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any reason I should ever enable relaying of messages arriving > via qmtp? All the smtp relay cases I have are for clients submitting > mail; currently no clients that I know of can submit via qmtp. So no > need? This may be jumping the gun

Re: Relaying on qmtpd

2001-01-03 Thread Charles Cazabon
Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This may be jumping the gun, but I imagine Bruce Guenter might just right > a qmtp module for nullmailer... ^ Sheesh, that should have been "write", obviously. Charles -- ---

Re: qmtpd

2001-01-03 Thread Russell Nelson
Mark Delany writes: > Really? How about DNS over-rides for, eg, firewall relays? IMHO (In my Most Holy Opinion), that's a job for a specialized DNS server. Ideally, you could tell dnscache "consult this server first". Sort of like a priority on an NS record. Instead, you tell dnscache "we're

Re: I want a Rule Based SMTP Multiplexing. Help me.

2001-01-03 Thread Andre Oppermann
Russell Nelson wrote: > > Henning Brauer writes: > > > If you wanted to be really clever, you could modify qmail-smtpd so > > > that it would run qmail-qmqpc to store the email on the proper > > > server(s). > > > > You might want to check qmail-ldap, it has native clustering support doing >

Re: smtproutes

2001-01-03 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
In the previous episode (03.01.2001), Steve Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I have set >smtproutes >to smtp:exchange. the syntax to send all mail (except for locals) to one host is: :that.one.host wolfgang

Re: smtproutes

2001-01-03 Thread Henning Brauer
Am Donnerstag, 4. Januar 2001 00:47 schrieb Wolfgang Zeikat: > In the previous episode (03.01.2001), Steve Hammond > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >I have set > >smtproutes > >to smtp:exchange. > > the syntax to send all mail (except for locals) to one host is: > :that.one.host Right, but this w

RE: mailbox format

2001-01-03 Thread Andrew Richards
Hi Omer, > How can I find pop3 daemon that supports mailbox format for Mailbox file > that resides user's home dir. LWQ(life with qmail ) says there is a > patch for qpopper but it is for 2.53 (which is old enough ).There is now > qpopper3.1.2.tar.gz version. > Any suggestions are welcome. > > A

Re: qmtpd

2001-01-03 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:55:35PM +, Mark Delany wrote: > Even so, split DNS still doesn't necessarily help a solitary firewall > relay. Teh relay needs to see the external view for outbound mail and > the internal view for inbound. Actually, I'm doing this without a split horizon DNS server

Re: Relaying on qmtpd

2001-01-03 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 04:13:09PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > This may be jumping the gun, but I imagine Bruce Guenter might just right > a qmtp module for nullmailer to go alongside the existing qmqp and smtp > modules. He's mentioned on this list once that it would not be an > enormous eff

help in patch

2001-01-03 Thread KIM
Hi guys, It s my first time to use some patches. I want to install the QMAILQUEUE patch how can i go about it i got his patch in qmail.org by BRUCE GUENTER. PLease give me an idea. Thanks in advance!