Re: AOL Cname lookup failure???

1999-04-05 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Well I say one thing here: it would be nice if AOL's TTL for the zone was a bit higher. An hour seems a bit low and not net-friendly since there are so many MX lookups, etc, for aol.com. Am I being unreasonable or just highly pedantic? :) I have a mind to gather some stats.. Aaron Quoting Keit

Re: Bounces and envelope sender <>

1999-04-06 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Is this the result of any particular mail-related RFC, or a > widespread but unofficial convention, or an unofficial convention which I > incorrectly assumed was widespread? > > -- > gowen -- Greg Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Please n

Re: 'number only' aliases

1999-04-08 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
xcept for one: > > .qmail-360 > > In theory, mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be delivered. Qmail spits > it back out and moans about it. -- Aaron L. Meehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Central Oregon Internet http://www.coinet.com/

Re: ESMTP problems with Qmail 1.03

1999-04-12 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Karl Lellman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have a customer who runs Qmail 1.03 on RedHat Linux 5.1 as a SMTP relay > between the internet and their internal MS Exchange server. > > They have started to encounter delivery and reception problems with a couple > of sites and the only thing I can

Re: Qmail quotas with mailquotacheck.sh

1999-05-26 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Hmm, yes that is strange, since we're using it here with 1.03. Aaron Quoting Brad Shelton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > It needs to be in system path, or specified with full path/filename, but I > had to quit using it when I upgraded to qmail 1.03 (unfortutnate. Worked > great). > > I have no real

Re: checkpasswd, eudora and shadow...

1999-06-07 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Stephane Morand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have set up qmail-1.03 on a server with linux 2.2.5-15 (RedHat 6.0) AND > shadow passwords (19990307). PLEASE NOTE - SHADOW PASSWORDS. [...] Did you uncomment the define in checkpassword's Makefile that reads like: SHADOWOPTS=-DPW_SHADOW Aaron

Re: checkpasswd, eudora and shadow...

1999-06-07 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Stephane Morand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have set up qmail-1.03 on a server with linux 2.2.5-15 (RedHat 6.0) AND > shadow passwords (19990307). PLEASE NOTE - SHADOW PASSWORDS. > The same WIN98 workstation can connect to the same server with netscape > communicator mail system using pop an

Re: unsuscribe

1999-06-29 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Robbie Walker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I may be very wrong... but something strikes me as odd about the first PTR > entry. I don't think it needs a period at the end. Since it denotes a host > on the domain, not a complete hostname. I wish I hadn't lent my DNS/BIND > book to my brother. IIRC

Re: cleaning out queue.

1999-07-12 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Tony D'Andrade ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I erased: > queue/mess/* > queue/info/* > queue/local/* > queue/intd/* > queue/todo/* > queue/remote/* Dave wrote [attribution added]: > > /usr/local/sbin/qmail stop > > find /var/qmail/queue/mess -type f -e

Re: mbox2smtp?

1999-07-14 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Adam D . McKenna ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Is there a script available to take a mbox and forward all of the messages to > another email account? > > I looked on www.qmail.org but nothing jumped out at me. I've always used formail to split up mbox-type files. Check its man page and look at

Re: DNS restart causes lost mail

1999-01-16 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Peter Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 02:23:57PM -, Lorens Kockum wrote: > > On the qmail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > <<< 553 sorry, envelope sender must have a valid domain name (#5.7.1) > > > > In my opinion and according to my experience, making that t

Re: Unknown hosts

1999-01-17 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Pieckiel, Kevin A ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Grrr... I appreciate your reply. My domain is smartrafficenter.net (it's > behind a firewall--internal E-Mail only) and E-Mail was unintentionally sent > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and got stuck in the queue. I fixed > the program sening this E-Mail, b

Re: Hotmail

1999-12-10 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Monte Mitzelfelt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > It looks like Hotmail may be cutting off messages that exceed their size > limit, by issuing a 500 error in the middle of the DATA session. This > doesn't seem right to me, but qmail doesn't seem to see it. This backs up > my clients outbound qu

Re: Hotmail

1999-12-10 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Sorry, correction. I meant that it would _not_ be deferred, but rather bounced. Oops. Quoting Aaron L. Meehan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I would think that if a 500 code were sent, then qmail would see it > and the email would be deferred. All queued messages are over 2Mb. > Looks l

Re: Hotmail

1999-12-13 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Monte Mitzelfelt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Aaron L. Meehan wrote: > > I would think that if a 500 code were sent, then qmail would see it > > and the email would be deferred. All queued messages are over 2Mb. > > Looks like anything larger than th

Re: Using mutt and qmail.

1999-12-27 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Magnus Bodin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 05:57:30PM +0100, Arne Hanssen wrote: > > Anyone who wants to comment on this (and perhaps explaing "things" > > to me)? ;-) Perhaps there are better ways to set the correct > > Return-Path. > > In your .muttrc: > > set hostna

Re: Odd.

2000-01-08 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Dustin Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Why is that, every now and then, I receive messages that Outlook just seems > to bungle up? All of the message's headers appear in the body of the > message, and the "From:" header seems to be missing. If just happened with > the last message that jus

Re: qmail vs. sendmail weirdness

2000-01-11 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting jay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I added that pop user to my mail client, and sent out a few > messages to test. When I send a message to a domain that > uses sendmail, I get a bounce saying: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... Domain must exist Well, it can't be mydomain.com, because that exists: m

Re: SetEnv QMAILSUSER not working in Apache conf

2000-01-25 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Chris Hardie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi. I'm tackling the old problem of having "Return-Path" headers > generated by CGI scripts set to something other than "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". > I believe I understand what needs to be done, after reading these: > And yet, qmail-inject is seemingly

Re: pop3 email access for root?

2000-01-31 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Liu Zehua ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've setup qmail to provide pop3 serves. > I can access emails of all accounts except root.. > can any body tell me why? Perhaps your checkpassword denies root logins? You didn't mention anything about your setup. In any case, it's not a good idea, perha

Re: workaround for port 25 block?

2000-02-04 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Racer X ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > if you mean the ISP blocks inbound port 25 connections to your machine: yell > at your ISP. they're being too nazi with their firewall rules. if they > don't open the port find a new ISP. this is assuming, btw, that you have a The reason they took this dr

Re: workaround for port 25 block?

2000-02-04 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Aaron L. Meehan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > sanctions. @home: scourge of the internet. Bleh, of course we're talking about road runner! I get all these mega cable co's confused, I guess. Perhaps they learned from @home's problems and took proactive measures. Aaron

Re: dos attacks

2000-02-10 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Marek Narkiewicz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Would it be possible to lmit the number of spawns that tcpserver can > make from one ip address concurrently to preven one ip spawning up > to the limit of concurrent daemons and denying access to that > daemon? I can't think of a way to do it from w

Re: Encryption and t-shirts

2000-02-29 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Mullen, Patrick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... > "Send mail with Q-Mail." I think it's generally accepted that qmail is spelled "qmail." No caps, no hyphens or other extraneous characters. Aaron

Re: users/assign Bad format?

2000-02-29 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Daniel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > qmail-newu says "fatal: bad format in users/assign" > when users/assign has a single line reading > "=tech:daniel:1000:100:/home/daniel:-:tech:" The file's last line needs to contain a dot (".") and only a dot. That's in the man page for qmail-users(5) ...

Re: Effective anti spamming

2000-03-01 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Mark E. Drummond ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am currently using rblsmtpd to block spammers on the RBL. I may add ORBS as > well. Think I'll wait, gather some stats on how much is being blocked by RBL, > and then compare with RBL+ORBS. My anti-spam mantra is "RSS+RBL+DUL" I hardly ever get s

Re: AOL Problem - Looked in archive ....

2000-03-10 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Kevin Kling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > @400038c91e48127f580c delivery 591: success: > 205.188.157.3_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_OK/ AOL's mail server accepted the message. qmail did its part. There's no help anyone here can provide, except condolences that your message has e

Re: AOL Problem - Looked in archive ....

2000-03-10 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Jim Arnott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I had this problem once. It had nothing to do with qmail. AOL, earthlink ... > check the From: and/or Reply-To: domain to make sure it is valid. In which case the mail would be blocked after MAIL FROM, as in: 250 rly-yg04.mx.aol.com OK mail from:<[EMAIL

Re: Qmail Relay Question

2000-03-17 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Lee Trotter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am also on an IIS list and not once has someone been put down for not ^^^ Well, that explains it. > searching the archives or reading one of the manuals, which are not nearly > as cryptic as the liunx/qmail documentation. Frankly I do

Re: relay question

2000-03-17 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Jonathan Fortin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Ive read webwave qmail faq and another qmail faq, and i was wondering how to > i setup relay so only > users can send email thru our smtp if its going to a user from our domain... Hey, looks like you have been reading that thread :) > edit /etc/tcp.

Re: Problem: 552 max. message size exceeded

2000-03-30 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Dave Sill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Locally I get: > > > >03-29-2000.00:19:27.702631 delivery 4: deferral: >Connected_to_192.168.1.1_but_connection_died._(#4.4.2)/ > > Looks like the remote MTA is sending that 552 message while qmail is > still transmitting data,

Re: Problem: 552 max. message size exceeded

2000-03-31 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Peter van Dijk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:17:16AM -0800, Aaron L. Meehan wrote: > [snip] > > > > Yes, this same thing happens when sending messages larger than 1Mb to > > hotmail.com nowadays. There was a good thread about it, if I > >

Vapormail (was: Re: Problem: 552 max. message size exceeded)

2000-04-07 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Jeremy Hansen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > This is true, yet I don't understand why Wietse claims so many more people > are using Postfix. I don't have the link to the thread off hand, but I > remember reading something along the lines of "No one uses qmail, a few > people are using Postfix" wh

Re: locking out mail accounts ...

2000-04-07 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Shaun Gibson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > - lock a mailbox (without deleting it or the mail contained in it) How do you normally lock an account on your particular flavor of unix? What's your authentication scheme? > - if a user tries to access a mailbox locked like this all they get back > w

Re: locking out mail accounts ...

2000-04-07 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Aled Treharne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Ok, here's a random idea that suddenly occurred to me: > > When the account is locked, the POP daemon recognises this, and when a > user tries to get their mail, only send 1 message, which is a standard > message from tech Support telling the user that

Re: Sender domain must resolve error for some sites...

2000-04-14 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
2. certain types of firewall needs (yours) > 3. basically anything past a certain level of complexity. > > Who is doing the bouncing? > > /Duncan > > -- > Duncan Watson > nCube -- Aaron L. Meehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] System AdministratorCentral Oregon Internet http://www.coinet.com/

Re: Sender domain must resolve error for some sites...

2000-04-15 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Anthony White ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Duncan Watson wrote: > > >From my point of view the bouncing programs are broken. Having no address > > record for a domain but having MX records as you do is 100% valid. I have > > > > That is what I thaught... You're not getting it, dude. Your D

Re: "You have mail" problems...

2000-04-15 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting John W. Lemons III ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > (If I'm being stupid, just slap my hand and put me to bed without my dinner) > > "You have mail." appears every time I log into my server. This would > normally be no big deal, except that the only mail message is the "Mail > system internal data

Re: temporary failure warning message

2000-04-26 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Russell Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Chris Hardie writes: > > Unfortunately, that link appears to be broken. Brian Wightman, please > > pick up the nearest courtesy phone. > > It's also temporarily available as > http://www.qmail.org/qmail_bounce-0.0alpha6.tar.gz . If Brian doesn't

Re: Disable telnet to port 110

2000-05-15 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Daniel J. Zaccariello ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > You could: > > 1. Disable telnetd telnetd listens on port 23, by default. > 2. Make the user's shell /usr/nologin or something (depends on your OS). If you think about this some more, you'll realize this isn't going to do anything for this

Re: Virtual Domain User not receiving mail

2000-05-15 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have finally been able to get Qmail to work with local users and > receiving mail from outside my server. My next step is to try to get mail > to my virtual domain users. I am using Mandrake 7.02. > > Here are the steps I have taken, but still cannot get m

Re: Does someone knows what is this about?

2000-06-06 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Peter van Dijk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 10:48:24AM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote: > > > > > More evidence that the person running ORBS is incompetent. > > He's not. I've spoken to him on several occasions and he is quite clueful. I don't believe Alan Brown incompetent,

Re: 501 Syntax Error

2000-06-09 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Ben Beuchler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Connected to 209.46.71.115 but sender was rejected. > Remote host said: 501 Syntax Error They are rejecting the NULL ("<>") sender address. Tell 'em to go read RFC 821 and 1123! > However, when I manually try it, it works:

Re: 501 Syntax Error

2000-06-09 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Ben Beuchler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 02:23:22PM -0700, Aaron L. Meehan wrote: > > They are rejecting the NULL ("<>") sender address. Tell 'em to go > > read RFC 821 and 1123! > > Ah HA! And I'm assuming qmail o

Re: Open Relay

2000-06-12 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Bolivar Diaz Galarza ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Thanks for the tip, I read everything in the links you gave me, but still > doesn't work. > > I checked the tcprules using tcprulescheck: > > tcprulescheck /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb 200.38.239.65 > > and the response is: > > rule 200.38.239.: > set e

Re: Preline Help

2000-06-26 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > email comes in: > in .qmail-default I have > | preline /usr/bin/check.py > ./Maildir/ > > But what I really want is this: > Only go in the Maildir if check returns a certain result code. > Basiaclly check checks if the email to address is in a cert

Re: How to do a reverse DNS lookup in Qmail ?

2000-06-28 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > If you use tcpserver (ucspi package), simply add the -p parameter to > tcpserver command line. This will force the "paranoid" mode and > tcpserver will do a reverse DNS check. This will force tcpserver to make sure the A and PTR records are a matc

Re: Auto Responder

2000-09-25 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Mike Jimenez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Is there anyone that can help us out? > Thanks I don't know, what did you do, set up an auto-sender instead to flood the list with requests? It seems like your auto-sender defaults to sending the same thing every 15 minutes if no reply is received, so

Re: Mailbox file problems

2000-09-29 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Rob Hines Jr. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I am running qmail on a Solaris system, and have had nothing but good > luck with it. I installed Mrs. Brisby's smtp_auth patch, and all is good > delivering to homedir Mailboxes. I am having a problem though. > Occasionally users will retrieve their

Re: Qmail not sending to Certain Servers

2000-10-03 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Kathleen Farber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Here's the log: > @400039da1c2001c01114 delivery 329: success: > 154.11.89.182_accepted_message. > /Remote_host_said:_250_ok_970598885_qp_18301/ This is very unambiguous. Delivery 329 was successful to 154.11.89.182 (mx.total.net). The remote

Re: problems ... again

2000-10-11 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Neil Grant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > hi, > > next problem is: >The message will show up immediately in your mailbox, and syslog ... Based on what you said below, I don't get it. You said below it *does not* show up in your mailbox. Are you stating what is *supposed* to happen? Yes, t

Re: Redhat 7

2000-10-11 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Graphic Rezidew ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 02:20:22AM +0800, Mark Lo wrote: > > Should I run qmail under Redhat Linux 7 or Redhat Linux 6.2?? > No. After reading this, I would have to agree (re: redhat 7.0 buggy daemon causing crash after 3 weeks): http://slashdo

Re: smtp speed limit??

2000-10-11 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Austad, Jay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > We have a little script that sends 5 different messages in rapid succession > to one email address. When it gets pointed at our mailserver running MS > Exchange, it works fine, however, when pointed at the qmail box, only the > first message makes it thr

Re: smtp speed limit??

2000-10-12 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Austad, Jay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm looking here: > http://cr.yp.to/docs/smtplf.html > > Maybe one of the messages contains an not preceded by a . Where > would this be logged on the qmail box? Unfortunately, in the stock qmail, nowhere. However, you may start up your favorite pack

Re: Relaying test on abuse.net postive!?

2000-10-13 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Leonard Tulipan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Now the thing ist, that relay test number six still goes thru. Is this some > issue? Did I do something wrong? Yes, you did. You failed to read the web page, especially the bold blinking text. Aaron - THIS MAY OR MAY NOT MEAN THAT

Re: Wildcard MX Obsolescence

2000-10-31 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > i am installing qmail on my linux 6.1 machine inside of the company What is "linux 6.1?" (did you mean Redhat 6.1 by chance, hmm?). A minor point, but be careful if you slip up like that on a list devoted to linux. > i work for. it is currently r

Re: Wildcard MX Obsolescence

2000-11-02 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > i know that the problem is at my machine, and not on the remote email server. ( > i xxx'd out the relevant things as i'm a contractor, and the company has very > specific policies of my using their name... i like to work, if you know what i > mean )

Re: Wildcard MX Obsolescence

2000-11-02 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 1.2.3.4 does not like recipient. > > > Remote host said: 554 : Client host >rejected: Will not relay via wildcard MX records - reference >http://www.server.domain.com/DNS/wildmx.html > > > Giving up on 1.2.3.4. > >

Re: Yahoo delivery failure - short test and proposal

2000-11-02 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Peter van Dijk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 06:47:43PM +1100, Brett Randall wrote: > [snip] > > I am putting forward a proposal that, to help ourselves, our staff, > > and the hundreds of thousands of Yahoo Mail patrons, we should contact > > Yahoo and pester them to get

Re: Fwd: Re: More trouble

2000-11-03 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Howard Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >Oh and I posted this to the mailing list as well. I am sure everybody > >will be interested! in your behaviour!! Excuse me, Howie, but STOP posting private messages to the list just to spite people. We have some real work to do here. Goodness.

Re: Am I relaying?

2000-11-07 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
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: removing Delivered-To header...?

2000-11-15 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Peter Cavender ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi- > > I have a qmail server hosting several virtual domains, and all mail > delivered to recipients in the virtual domains have a Delivered-To > header line indicating the "main" domain name of the server. Fascinating. Is that a government secre

Re: removing Delivered-To header...?

2000-11-17 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Peter Cavender ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > haha - no, I just host several domains for third parties, and the > people on domain3 ask why domain1 shows up in their mail headers... > Just trying to make my mail services *completely* virtualized. > > People at local-bapist-church.org wouldn't w

Re: List Courtesy (was Newbie question)

2000-11-30 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting John W. Lemons III ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've seen this over and over and over. Someone joins the list, probably > because they are having problems (the same reason I joined), posts a > question Back in the day, it was prudent and _neccessary_ to do thorough checking of the forum's arch

Re: I'm SO AFRAID!!, NO BODY KNOW RBLSMTPD WORKS????

2000-12-01 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm asking the following several time the following > questionNO RESPONSE NO RESPONSE. > Is there is really somebody already using rblsmtpd? Allright, I'm _not_ going to touch that.. but tempting. > I'm running rblsmtpd, according to the respo

Re: Quality of this List

2000-12-05 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Michael Maier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The Quality of this List Service dramaticly decreased. > All I see are Messages containing Newbie Questions already solved about > at least ten times. Gz!! Enough already! My .procmailrc is starting to get bloated, and the next person I see bitch

Re: HELP! Error of File Descriptos

2000-12-07 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Federico Edelman Anaya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > /proc/sys/fs/file-max: 4096: > /proc/sys/fs/file-nr: 1009 246 4096: > /proc/sys/fs/inode-max: 16384: > /proc/sys/fs/inode-nr: 16385 13846: Looks like you may be running out of inodes. Try increasing them, and read Documentati

Re: problems with GMT vs. local time

2000-12-08 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Brian Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Well, after searching for sometime to see if anyone else was having > this problem, I came to the conclusion that maybe it's just me. I'm I think it is just you, since we have literally hundreds of OE and Outlook users, unfortunately, and they hav

Re: problems with GMT vs. local time

2000-12-08 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Brian Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Wrong assumption--the "From" mbox message delimiter isn't passed to > > pop3 clients, so you're definitely looking in the wrong place. > > You don't mention exactly how your clients' software is incorrectly > > parsing the date. > > > > The "From" mb

Re: Outlook Express Prank

2000-12-12 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting James Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Without going into a 20 page technical look at every bug here's some > simple tips even biggeners should know. > > 1. Don't use the 'Preview' plane. > 2. Don't let or set Outlook to open messages automatically. > 3. Don't open any executable or any ot

Re: [OT] do you know this MTA(not qmail) error msg?

2000-12-15 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting martin langhoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > sorry for being OT. I need help to diagnose an errormsg I'm receiving > from a remote MTA -- mainly to show it's the other admin who's in fault. > Or else repair my error and be humble about it :). To make matters > worse, the errormsg is unknow

Re: www.abuse.net test and mail Qmail server - Help

2000-12-19 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Vince Vielhaber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Russell Nelson wrote: > > > Michael Boyiazis writes: > > > Perhaps Russ can make "SEARCH THE ARCHIVES" appear in large > > > blinking text on www.qmail.org so people will see it. > > > > We have the technology, but ... do you r

link for qmail users at abuse.net (was: help!! percenthack??)

2000-12-21 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Alex Pennace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 03:03:33PM +, Thomas Ackermann wrote: > > > so whats up here, thought the percenthack is turned off by defualt if > > > the file's not here ?? > > > help fast!!! > > I give up. Why didn't you bother reading the blinking bold

Re: thoughts for future qmail

2001-01-05 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting David Dyer-Bennet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 5 January 2001 at 01:41:53 -0500 > > http://qmail.org/qmail-1.03-qmtpc.patch > > I can't get this via Lynx (so I had to download it on my windows > machine and move it over; trivial for a file this size

Re: Help decoding a bounce msg

2001-01-12 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Martin Langhoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > It's not clear to me if (66.60.1.118) is the originator of the msg or > the originator of the bounce. Could anyone be so kind as to give me some > hints on how should I read this? I'm getting so many double-bounces from this blasted worm, I co

Re: problem in delivering mails locally...

2001-01-12 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting vasudeva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > my host name is: vasu.domain.com > my main branch host name is: email.domain.com > domain name is: domain.com Last I checked (as in a few seconds ago) domain.com is registered to a US company, in Pennsylvania, that happens to be a domain registrar. You're i

Re: smtp to 371.net

2001-01-17 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Henning Brauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:33:06AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > > Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > dnsmx 371.net gives mx.371.net, so this one is reachable from outside. > > I meant that "smtp.371.net" might be an internal-only mail

Re: Sorry about the size of my prevous e-mail (I have beem flamed on this before).

2001-01-29 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Alex Kramarov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Markus Stumpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > >Why should anyone impose artificial limits on the size of messages > >to this mailing list, only because > >a) you use a broken MUA > >b) you are unable to configure it correctly > >c) you seem to be the onl

Re: Qmail with 'tcpserver'

2001-01-31 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Roger Walker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On 30 Jan 2001, Mark Delany wrote: > > =.rope.net:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" > > > > Right? Possibly using -P to avoid unauthorized relay usage by those > > who control their reverse lookups. > > I control my class C reverse lookups, also :-) so I would

Re: WARNING: Worm (?) sending from root@microsoft.com to *@anon.lcs.mit.ed

2001-02-08 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Sean Reifschneider ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Anyone else seeing thousands of messages filling up your queue, apparently > from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to addresses such as: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm pretty sure this is the work of the W95.Hybrid email worm (the sexyfun.net one), sending copi

Re: News server

2001-03-09 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Peter Mitev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > can you tell me if there is anything written for maintenance of a news > server. That is with automatic subscription/unsubscription and maybe > even web interface. Hey, you should check out news.software.nntp, or maybe Google. This is a list for qmail,

Re: pop3d needs SUID root?

2001-03-09 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Todd A. Jacobs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > When running pop3d, I get an error saying "no $HOME/Maildir" which may be > caused by the directory permissions of 0700 on both the home directory and > Maildir. qmail-pop3d is run as root by tcpserver, which is running as root. No suid bit is needed

Re: pop3d needs SUID root?

2001-03-09 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Aaron L. Meehan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Quoting Todd A. Jacobs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > When running pop3d, I get an error saying "no $HOME/Maildir" which may be > > caused by the directory permissions of 0700 on both the home directory and > > Maildir. >

Re: how do I check on a specific message delivery?

2001-03-12 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting william f guyton jr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am using multilog for logging qmail-smtp and qmail-send and would like > to know how to check the log files for a delivery date and time stamp > for a specific user. Maybe you need to be more specific :) Do you mean something other than: $

Re: Forwarding to AOL issue

2001-03-13 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Norbert Bollow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/dropped-mail.html How funny is it that an AOL user has written an unofficial FAQ on why his ISP loses mail? In fact, he continues to give them money? "Oh, you're losing mail. Go see http://www.coinet.com/

Re: delay before checking mail with outlook

2001-04-05 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
> Christian Dressend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Does anyone know why there is a long delay before Outlook checks and/or send > > mail through qmail? Yes, the delay is provided by Microsoft so that you have a bit more time to ponder whether you *really* want to risk automatically executin

Re: ScanMail Message: To Recipient virus found and action taken.

2001-04-23 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Alex Pennace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Am I the only one that finds it ironic that a list for a Unix MTA is > plagued by a Windows mail trojan and a mail scanner eager to tell > recipients about the disposition of the message? which is why I use the following procmail rules given to me at so

Re: Oops,I guess Sendmail wasn't secure after all...

2001-06-01 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Dave Sill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Anyone want to takes bets on whether qmail has unsafe signal handlers? I've been looking for a sucker.. OK I'll bet a six pack is doesn't. (or, if Bud, I'd demand a case) Aaron

Re: security issue

2000-07-05 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting John Steniger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Running a network test against my recent qmail installation, I get reports > on the mailto programs hole, which allows users to telnet to port 25 and > issue: > > MAIL FROM: root@this_host > RCPT: Huh. I've never heard of this exploit! Now, that do

Re: smtp forwarding works, but delivery fails.

2000-07-14 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Nathan Weyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... > I have the relaying up and running and the messages pass though, > but messages are bounced saying it couldn't find the host. This goes for > addresses within our subnet, the gateway/smtp server, and the outside > world. I've doubleckecked wi

Re: bounce management

2000-07-17 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Thomas Duterme ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm new to managing bounces, so please bear with me. I've had a very tough > time finding any good documentation which could guide me to building some > scripts to parse through my bounces and semi-automate them. I do fairly > large mailings at a tim

Re: Defining <> as local and not remote

2000-07-18 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Robert Spraggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have been successful stopping relaying to outside hosts using tcpserver, > but any message starting with a <> Message ID can be delivered to an Do you mean anything with a null return path? qmail doesn't give a whit what's in the message-id, nor

Re: Defining <> as local and not remote

2000-07-18 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Robert Spraggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am using the out-of-the-box configuration of qmail 1.0.3. > Jul 11 13:43:10 noif qmail: 963348190.748946 info msg 2654625: bytes 1426 > from <> qp 17024 uid 7774 > Jul 11 13:43:10 noif qmail: 963348190.760341 starting delivery 9163: msg > 2654625

Re: How do I stop this spam test from failing?

2000-07-18 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Robert Spraggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > But why does qmail allow for this type of address to be accepted as ok? > > RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[199.175.103.1]> > > What normal use would there be for such a message construct? Back in the day with sendmaul, this would send a message to [EMA

Re: from-adresse in bounce-mail

2000-07-19 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > all mails written or delivered to my server ruppert.terramenta.de > are adress masqueraded, that they have the form > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. That works fine. But when a mail bounce > because the adress is not existent (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) the >

Re: the bounce bounced!

2000-07-20 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello, > when I mail for an unknown user arraived a bounce > message is generated. But this message bounce, > my smarthost wont deliver that: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 195.20.224.204 said: 503 Valid RCPT TO must precede DATA Well, the way I read i

Re: Unable to send a huge file

2000-07-21 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Ismal Hisham Darus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > I don't know where the problem is .. but in my my case, we have two > qmail servers server0 and server1 (not using inetd.. of course :)). > When somebody send files exceeding 2.5mb, he get a bouce mail stating > that : > > Remote hos

Re: another broken mailer [MAILER-DAEMON@infoteen.com: Returned Mail: user qmail@list.cr.yp.to unknown!]

2000-07-22 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Peter van Dijk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > And my previous message about a broken mailer generated a bounce from > *another* broken mailer... > > - Forwarded message from Mail Delivery Subsystem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >- My mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] bounced, so I malleted them into badm

Re: Relaying dialup mail users for qmail.

2000-07-25 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Chris, the Young One ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > !How do I allow this to happen, if I dont know the IP address of > ! the user wishing to relay?? Yikes, I see I will have to modify my quoted text regexp. Oh, the heck with it... I'm not putting an exclamation mark in it. > Put rul

Re: Relationship between qmail and root named servers

2000-07-25 Thread Aaron L. Meehan
Quoting Luis Bezerra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Yesterday, when my international backbone goes down, my DNS goes down > too because the named root servers are located in USA. And I suspect > that exists one relationship between the problems. Actually, not all the root name servers are in the US. The

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