Qmail deployment questions

1999-01-08 Thread Andrew Richards
- Any offers on the largest Qmail installation to date (number of users' mailboxes etc.)? The Qmail web site mentions that Qmail is used for hotmail's *outgoing* E-mail, but there is no mention of what Hotmail use for delivering mail to user's mailboxes. Thanks in advan

Qmail's user database

1999-01-20 Thread Andrew Richards
tatic' database periodically? cheers, Andrew Richards.

Radius & Qmail

1999-04-22 Thread Andrew Richards
this user's password: xxx ok 2 not ok 3 ok 4 attr: name=1 value=lll attr: name=2 value=s{Ú »6>ÄWRr cheers, Andrew Richards.

Solaris and qmail-remote (was: RE: increasing qmail performance)

1999-01-21 Thread Andrew Richards
one looking at using Qmail on Solaris, what is the issue with Solaris alluded to above? cheers, Andrew Richards.

RE: relay for reserved IPs / proxy question

1999-01-24 Thread Andrew Richards
left behind in the mail queue - You'll need to edit /usr/local/etc/netperm-table for the above - You'll need your DNS setup too, with the real mail machine having a greater priority than the firewall For POP, you'll probably need to mess with the plug proxy (plug-gw) applicati

RE: Mail queueing in relay host.

2000-06-26 Thread Andrew Richards
Hi Jacob, At the risk of repeating something someone else has already said on this thread (I've just rejoined the list)... If it is fair to say that any mail coming from 'abc.local.net' is 'Trusted', then you can setup 'abc.valid.net' to accept *any* mail coming from there. This is dealt with by

NetApp-like-device for $3000??

2000-06-27 Thread Andrew Richards
Hi, I've just got back from a trade show, where I came across what seems to be a poor-man's NetApp: A RAID-5 box (4 drives) offering NFS connectivity (10/100 Ethernet) for $3000. This seems ideal for the SME wanting a NetApp style back-end. It's called a Quantum Snap Server 4000. Even for places

RE: sending mail outside local domain

2000-06-30 Thread Andrew Richards
John, Does the domain tester.samhill.com exist in the DNS? - and is there a PTR record for the IP address of your sending mail server? It sounds like the remote machine is checking for one of the above, and is alarmed that it can't determine who's sending mail, probably as part of spam or relayi

RE: delivery

2000-06-30 Thread Andrew Richards
Kimberly, control/databytes or the environment variable DATABYTES is used by qmail-smtpd to check the size of the message, so qmail does not accept the message in the first place. man qmail-smtpd for more details or see "The Big Qmail Picture" by Andre Opperman somewhere on www.qmail.org to see

RE: Building very large Qmail instalations...

2000-06-30 Thread Andrew Richards
Greg, I concur with the others who've replied to this message - there's no reason you can't run the size of userbase you propose on Qmail - two of the installations I've worked with are already happy at the half-a-million-users mark and should scale into the millions (these run on Solaris and Lin

RE: Slow Server

2000-09-29 Thread Andrew Richards
Miguel, >My qmail server is extremely slow after I changed the ip address on my >server, what is going on? My ISP had to make changed in the DNS. I'am using >qmail 1.03 with Redhat 6.0. You normally need to give a lot more information in order for people on the list to be able to help (logs, val

RE: fixcrio

2000-10-28 Thread Andrew Richards
Jay / Alexander, No!! Don't use fixcr (ucspi-tcp-0.84 and others), because fixcrio (ucspi-tcp-0.88 and others), its replacement, is *much* nicer: fixcr needs a shell call (as per Alexander's post), whereas fixcrio uses an exec call, much like the qmail-popup/checkpassword/qmail-pop3d sequence fo

RE: pop3 isn't finding Maildir

2000-11-14 Thread Andrew Richards
Ruprecht, /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake home_directory_of_user/Maildir and as seen often on this list, "What do the logs say?" (TM) - in particular, if the user you're having problems with doesn't have a Maildir, perhaps they're not able to receive mail anyway... cheers, Andrew. -- F

RE: removing Delivered-To header...?

2000-11-17 Thread Andrew Richards
Peter, > 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. > I want to delete this line, and I understand that the -d option to > preline is the

RE: identd

2000-11-26 Thread Andrew Richards
>Does qmail require identd to be running to operate properly? No. The only component in a qmail setup that involves identd is tcpserver (if you're using it), which does ident lookups by default. Turn this behaviour off by using the -R option to tcpserver. See the tcpserver man page for more optio

RE: Problems with dnscache in Linux

2000-11-30 Thread Andrew Richards
Hi, On Cobalts giving the error >> dnscache: fatal: unable to read servers: out of memory when running dnscache... Thank you Dan and Clemens for your replies: (Dan's message) >Perhaps there's some new bloat in the latest libc. What does > > size /usr/local/bin/dnscache > >report? What if you

RE: Problems with dnscache in Linux

2000-11-30 Thread Andrew Richards
(Re: dnscache on a Cobalt running Linux) Just a PS to my last message for the benefit of anyone else struggling with Cobalts, so you know what I've tried: When I originally wrote the message I was using an un-upgraded Cobalt (Cobalt OS 1.0). As one of the things I tried, I upgraded to the latest

RE: Problems with dnscache in Linux

2000-11-30 Thread Andrew Richards
e it sinks in properly). Hopefully this thread helps some others on the list too. cheers, Andrew. -- From: clemensF[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 November 2000 18:40 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:Re: Problems with dnscache in Linux > Andrew Richards: &g

RE: What to do about these barelinefeeds?

2000-10-29 Thread Andrew Richards
Hi, Sorry to resurrect an old thread: I've just looked through the replies, and no-one seems to have mentioned fixcrio as an alternative solution. This changes any incoming SMTP bare LFs into CR-LFs. I've used it on a few systems and haven't heard any complaints yet, although there is some debate

Re: adding text to outgoing messages?

2000-12-05 Thread Andrew Richards
> Is there a way to add a common line to every outgoing message that > goes through at outgoing qmail SMTP server? This is almost a FAQ - just search the archives, you'll find plenty of material. In brief, adding text to a simple plaintext E-mail shouldn't present major problems, but most mail u

Re: 451 unable to exec qq (#4.3.0)

2000-12-06 Thread Andrew Richards
> Can anyone telling me why me SMTP do not works? >... > 451 unable to exec qq (#4.3.0) This one caught me too the other day. The message is a shorthand for "Unable to execute qmail-queue". In my case, (this was on a Cobalt Linux box), /var - under which qmail was installed, had "nosuid" set in

RE: More on relay problem, something to do with tcpserver

2000-12-19 Thread Andrew Richards
Boz, This is a FAQ - three options: - Inform the sysadmin of the offending remote machine that it's broken - Use fixcrio - Edit qmail-smtpd to return a permanent rather than a temporary error on receiving a bare-LF. Search the archive for more detail on any of the above. cheers, Andrew.

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: Stopping a single address

2001-01-08 Thread Andrew Richards
> Phil Barnett writes: > > > Is it outlined somewhere how to block a single mail address to a > > single mail address. > > > > I have a user who is being harrassed and I need to intervene. > > If someone is harrassing one of your users, then it would be reasonable to > presume that in doin

RE: badmailpattern

2001-01-09 Thread Andrew Richards
Hi, > > control/badmailpatterns (note spelling), is not part of the stock qmail build. > > This patch can be found ftp://ftp.mira.net/unix/mail/qmail/wildmat-0.2.patch > > This patch is only for qmail-1.02. Numerous people have asked whether > there is a 1.03 version. Nope. Anyone is of course w

RE: A firestorm of protest?

2001-01-15 Thread Andrew Richards
Hi Russ, I'd like to add my voice to the firestorm too... >I've found a couple of places where Dan decries patches: > >http://msgs.securepoint.com/cgi-bin/get/qmail9812/214/1/2/1/3/2/1/2/1.html (which says at the end) DJB>You are of course free to distribute patches---but you're hurting the comm

RE: Authenticate for default domain

2001-01-16 Thread Andrew Richards
>How do I authenticate for my default domain with just >the username ? ie If I use OE 5.0, I should give only >username and not [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have >about 25 domains , but need to authenticate only for my >primary domain this way !! >This is a little urgent !! Raghu, You haven't told us *an

RE: QMail DOS

2001-01-22 Thread Andrew Richards
>We are in the midst of a security audit performed by Ernst & Young. >They are claiming something about a DOS situation. What I need to >find out is whether there are any known DOS situations out there. >If so what needs to be done to take care of the problem. Andy, The standard DoS is to open

RE: slow connection init

2001-01-22 Thread Andrew Richards
>flys (very fast). After aprox one day, any >connection into this server (sshd, telnet , pop, >smtp, etc) takes a while to initiate. Sometimes >more than 60 seconds -- which of course times out >most POP connections. Once connected, everything seems to >act normal (connections initiated quickly).

RE: retr problem

2001-02-04 Thread Andrew Richards
Hi Pratibha, > i have faced a problem regarding retreival of mails from mail browsers.. > the problem is that the mails in my 'new' folder are automatically > transfered to 'cur' folder and the message id gets attached with ":2,". > and it gets appended again and again. the mails are readable

RE: tcpserver use of -B

2001-02-17 Thread Andrew Richards
Hi Timothy, Looks like no-one answered this... orphan message. Here goes, Hmm, I don't get this problem. Perhaps you're putting the -B option too late (the arguments are - from the man page) tcpserver [ opts] host port prog Just to test this I tried tcpserver -B 'pwd is ' ip_address 999 p

RE: deny huge attaches

2001-02-19 Thread Andrew Richards
>How I can deny incoming mail whith huge attaches as mp3 mpg bmp? >I aware than it possible if use mail filters as procmail maildrop etc >But I need't get all message for parsing by local mail filter i want >bounce it use only qmail-smtpd... >I want do it for save incoming traffic. Perhaps us

RE: Mail delivery problems.

2001-02-20 Thread Andrew Richards
dir called "Maildir"). cheers, Andrew Richards.

RE: Bare linefeeds not accepted by Qmail?

2001-03-08 Thread Andrew Richards
> I'm in communications with a fairly well established/recognized software > company who's product generates email whose lines end in bare linefeeds. Ick!! Anyway, this is an FAQ. Checkout the fixcrio program, provided as part of Dan's ucspi package. This is a wrapper to go in front of qmail-smtp

RE: Slow SMTP and POP3 response (sorry, it's a long one)

2001-03-13 Thread Andrew Richards
Ahmad, Without reading your message in detail, this sounds like one of the FAQs - checkout the -H, -R and -l (That's a lower-case L) options to tcpserver: Your system is probably failing on ident or DNS lookups. Dig around in the archives for more info (keywords: slow, tcpserver). cheers, Andr

RE: MAXIMUM NUMBER OF RECIPIENTS/MAIL

2001-03-13 Thread Andrew Richards
> How do I restrict the maximum number of > recipients/mail and how do I restrict > maximum number of mails/transaction ? Raghu, Take a look at the tarpit patch - find this on www.qmail.org. This will give you functionality *similar* to what you desire - it should be possible to alter it to suit

RE: newbie: relaying

2001-03-28 Thread Andrew Richards
Michal, > I dont want open relay. > I red on the http://www.palomine.net/qmail/relaying.html page that > is important put only (in my case egarden.cz domain) allow domain > to the /etc/qmail/rcpthosta. So I putted the only egarden.cz domain > to the rcpthosta, then restart qmail but open relay is

RE: Update on qmail/Outlook hang

2001-03-28 Thread Andrew Richards
> Just a quick update on a problem I queried the list on a few days ago, in > which Outlook sometimes hangs on a message. Doing some extensive tcpdump > tracing and analysis, we've found that Outlook hangs in at least the > following situations: > > 1) Periods (.) in a message that end up at the

RE: Solaris / DoS / Broken bare LF mailers / thousands of qmail-smtpd&qmail-queue procs

2000-07-25 Thread Andrew Richards
Hi All, Just to say thank you to everyone who replied to this: The replies have been very helpful and I feel have clarified the issues - it seems that 'Fixing' bare LF issues is likely to be more productive (i.e. use fixcr or fixcrio) than messing around with Solaris patches. And that's the solu

RE: client nslookup

2000-07-25 Thread Andrew Richards
Philippe, >When a client connects to qmail to send a mail, a DNS lookup is >performed by qmail to get the logical name of the client. >My question is : how to disable this lookup ? Take a look at the -R and -H options to tcpserver. See http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcpserver.html for the 'ma

RE: qmail-1.03 on Solaris is broken

2000-07-28 Thread Andrew Richards
(This post also relevant to the "bare LFs and fixcrio ramifications" thread) Toens, Hmm, I've been watching this thread with interest. I did post a similar message a week ago, which you may like to take a look at in the archive, entitled "Solaris / DoS / Broken bare LF mailers / thousands of qma

RE: Sort maildir and send smallest first

2000-08-18 Thread Andrew Richards
(Picking up a thread running from 26th July to 9th August) Jacob, >I find that qmail is taking my maildir and sending > >I would like to have qmail changed to do a >sort mailbox by seize and >send the smallest first. I've not got round to replying to this one: There may be an easy solution f

RE: assign problem

2000-08-21 Thread Andrew Richards
Clemens, I think the answer to your problem is to change the line in your users/assign, +domain-com:username:uid:gid:userhomedir::: to, +domain-com:username:uid:gid:userhomedir:-:: I'm not completely sure, however... (over to the people who *really* understand users/assign...) cheers, Andre

RE: friends very urgent help required

2000-08-21 Thread Andrew Richards
Prashant, I'd echo Brett's sentiment - whatever advice you get from this list is free, so I think its readers don't appreciate message that hassle them. Anyway, another approach, depending on your setup (as Brett says, you're not helping by not telling us much about your setup), you may wish to

Re: qmail uses FQDN when sending from PHP

2000-08-21 Thread Andrew Richards
Jim, Hmm. It's not clear where your confusion lies. However, you may like to set control/defaulthost (that's normally /var/qmail/control/defaulthost); here's the section of the qmail-inject man page: . defaulthost .Default host name. Default: me, if that is supplied; .

RE: assign problem supplemental

2000-08-21 Thread Andrew Richards
Clemens, I think it must be .qmail files you're lacking - and that may be a better solution for you to use. Anyway, with your existing plan, with a users/assign as follows, +allesrabe-de-:usera:555:100:/home/usera:-:: =allesrabe-de-info:userb:666:100:/home/userb::: [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to /

RE: Lots of qmail-queue processes

2000-09-14 Thread Andrew Richards
>My mailserver running qmail-1.03 has started creating lots of >qmail-queue processes to the point where it chokes any incoming email. I >have gone through the log files and cannot find anything that looks >funny. I see a huge amount of zero size files in the queue/mess/* >directories with no corr

Migrating an outsourced webmail system to qmail

2001-07-24 Thread Andrew Richards
Hi, I hope list members will forgive my impudence: Leaving the list for a few months, then coming back asking big questions. Anyway: I'm looking at migrating an existing (outsourced) webmail system for a client. I need to migrate: - Messages (often arranged into folders by the mailbox owne

RE: Migrating a webmail system to qmail (Repost)

2001-07-26 Thread Andrew Richards
(Repost with a few alterations) Hi, I'm looking at migrating an existing (outsourced) webmail system for a client. I need to migrate: - Messages (often arranged into folders by the mailbox owner) - Settings (vacation message turned on etc.) - Address books This is obviously not so str

Re: Possible to drop instead of bounce (globally)?

2001-08-07 Thread Andrew Richards
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, eric wrote: > > I am wondering if it is possible to drop SOME of the normal bounce > > messages. What I would like to do is send bounce messages for all normal > > bounce situations EXCEPT for unknown user. If the user does not exist on > > the system, I'd like to just silen

Questions: Qmail pictures; Qmail lines-of-code comparisons

1999-01-11 Thread Andrew Richards
es anybody know where I might find these? cheers, Andrew Richards.

Checking 'From' address

1999-01-12 Thread Andrew Richards
refuse anything else? cheers, Andrew Richards.

new-user template directory

1999-02-16 Thread Andrew Richards
re is this 'new-user template directory'? Does it mean /var/qmail/new-user, /var/qmail/users/new-user or /var/qmail/control/new-user, or something else yet again? cheers, Andrew Richards.

RE: HELP: NOT SOLVED ! ! looks like a SYN attack

1999-02-22 Thread Andrew Richards
the application, upgraded the hardware for good measure, and nowadays the box handles twice the load with panache. I'd also suggest upgrading your kernel to the newest possible release, since sometimes this solves problems you didn't know you had. cheers, Andrew Richards.

RE: Parsing all OUTGOING messages

1999-03-02 Thread Andrew Richards
27; with anything else for fear of corrupting someone's mail. The fact that at the time I was looking at implementing this on a sendmail-based system meant that I never actually got anywhere. Qmail looks so much easier, however... cheers, Andrew Richards. -- From: Jacek Czerwinski[S

RE: qmail-smptd/tcpserver glitch?

1999-01-12 Thread Andrew Richards
m/library/weekly/aa122198.htm ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/docs/maildisasters/sendmail.html cheers, Andrew Richards.

RE: How do I ???

1999-01-14 Thread Andrew Richards
Todd, >We've got qmail up and running quite well. > >The rbl patch has been applied and we are using control/badmailfrom to >control the spam but quite a bit still slips through. > >How do I stop the spam mail where the domain don't resolve?? If you're using TCP wrappers (built into BSD inetd's;