Re: maildir and "You have new mail"

1999-04-01 Thread Bruce Guenter
idea of checking the atime of new/ is a good idea and seems like the perfect analog of checking the atime of the mbox file. -- Bruce Guenter, QCC Communications Corp. EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (306)249-0220 WWW: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~bguenter/

Re: maildir and "You have new mail"

1999-04-01 Thread Bruce Guenter
ux, readdir is implemented with getdents, which returns multiple entries at once. However, it does not likely return more than one block's worth of entries, in which case there is no extra I/O being done anyways. IOW, yes the OS reads more than one but it doesn't really make a difference.

Re: checkpassword RPMs?

1999-04-05 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 04:40:07PM -0500, Chris Garrigues wrote: > Is there an existing RPM anywhere for checkpassword? Yes. I have one at http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~bguenter/distrib/checkpassword/ -- Bruce Guenter, QCC Communications Corp. EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (306)249-0

Re: qmail speed

1999-04-12 Thread Bruce Guenter
ter. Check the -a argument to qmail-inject. On the other hand, if your recipients list is larger than can fit on a single command line, it would be better to go the Bcc header field route to put all the recipients in. -- Bruce Guenter, QCC Communications Corp. EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone

Re: qmail speed

1999-04-12 Thread Bruce Guenter
s is for. Unless you want to have exactly one message for all the recipients. Having said that, using xargs would probably still give you at least 1000 recipients per message (assuming a conservative 32K space for command line arguments and ~30 character email addresses) which is lots for most p

Re: qmqpc reliability

1999-04-19 Thread Bruce Guenter
queues (for simplicity, but I see how queueing only on failure has its advantages). nullmailer does not use qmail-qmqpc to send mail but has its own set of agents to do QMQP and SMTP transmission. The queue and configuration are simpler than qmail and/because there is no local delivery. -- Bruce

Re: Qmail is not a replacement for Sendmail

1999-04-28 Thread Bruce Guenter
're just using some bits of > the qmail package. Things may get tricky when all the bugs arrive and you > need to update. I hope you're not referring to bugs in qmail. I've been using qmail 1.01 on some of my servers for over two years (I know, a short time). The upgrade to 1.03 was fairly minor in scope and for several of the servers was basically irrelevant. -- Bruce Guenter, QCC Communications Corp. EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (306)249-0220 WWW: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~bguenter/

QMAILQUEUE patch for qmail-1.03

1999-01-25 Thread Bruce Guenter
s always done before exec'ing the program. Does this look like a reasonable thing to do? -- Bruce Guenter, QCC Communications Corp. EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (306)249-0220 WWW: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~bguenter/ diff -u qmail-1.03-orig/Makefile qmail-1.03/Makefile --- qmail-

Re: LOTS of Orbs hits

1999-06-05 Thread Bruce Guenter
hat system, made a temporary hole, got the > email (innocuous), closed the hole again. Um, could you not just run tcpserver with "-v" which will log the connection? -- Bruce Guenter, QCC Communications Corp. EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (306)249-0220 WWW: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~bguenter/

Re: qmail-1.03+patches-8.src.rpm

1999-12-08 Thread Bruce Guenter
ad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.2 (%install) I have just put release 10 of the above SRPM onto my web site at: http://em.ca/~bruceg/qmail+patches/ It fixes this syntax error along with adding integration with the new daemontools package. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [vmailmgr] Summary: Netscape Authentication Problem

2000-01-10 Thread Bruce Guenter
eparator simultaneously (which I didn't know > before.) The default separators are '@' and ':', and the colon did work > with netscape without a recompile. You don't need to recompile vmailmgr to allow other seperators, it's a config file. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Re: Maildir format

2000-01-15 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 10:57:00PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: > Bruce Guenter writes: > > - message state storage (read, replied to, forwarded, flagged, etc.) > > seperate from content delivery (a "Status:" header line) > > I wonder if that couldn't be

Re: Maildir format

2000-01-15 Thread Bruce Guenter
hanges. It would be interesting to compare the connection cost of SSH (as outlined above -- a user with no password running /bin/true for a shell) and SSL, both in terms of wall time (important for perceived responsiveness) and CPU cost (important for scalability). -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Coda and Maildir file store

2000-01-16 Thread Bruce Guenter
servers simultaneously is not a big deal, but ensuring that those two servers maintain their file store in sync is. This seems to be an ideal application of Coda, but I'd like to know if anybody else has had experience with it. Thanks. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Maildir format

2000-01-16 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 02:09:00PM +0100, Claus Färber wrote: > Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb/wrote: > > First place to start is to figure out what is actually necessary. In a > > lot of cases, POP3 with a few extensions should be perfectly adequate, > >

Re: Coda and Maildir file store

2000-01-16 Thread Bruce Guenter
> has now given up on it as being far, far too slow. Yes, Coda is similar in principle to AFS, and I had heard the same concerns raised regarding AFS. My question is specific to Coda, which purports to be, at least nominally, improved. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Maildir format

2000-01-16 Thread Bruce Guenter
channel. Inactive open connections do not cause significant bandwidth loss, and server processes should be simple enough to reduce memory pressure. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Re: Maildir format

2000-01-17 Thread Bruce Guenter
arching now touches even more files. Every message now uses at least 3 inodes now instead of just one, with the side effect of increasing the amount of wasted (slack) space. More disk accesses to examine a mailbox. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Re: Maildir format

2000-01-19 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 03:26:49PM -, Anthony DeBoer wrote: > Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The needs I am aware of include: > > - hierarchical multiple mailbox support > > That should include something that makes sense for a host that's behin

Re: Maildir format

2000-01-19 Thread Bruce Guenter
rate configuration info onto the server, like ACAP or IMSP tries to > do. All you should need to tell your client is you username, password, and > server; it'll go do the rest to the best of its abilities. Do you have an URL for a specification of ACAP or IMSP? I've never heard

Re: Maildir format

2000-01-19 Thread Bruce Guenter
ACAP is http://asg.web.cmu.edu/acap/. ACAP is > derived from IMSP; there's an RFC for the latter at > http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/rfc/imsp.html. So, then, if there is a defined spec for ACAP, that defines a link protocol and everything, why should it be added to the mailbox protocol? -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Re: Maildir format

2000-01-19 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 12:36:05PM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote: > > A good calendaring system requires that users receive requests for > > meetings and can answer them, and have trouble screwing them up (i.e. > > putting the metainfo in the subject line is easy to screw

Re: anonymous mailing lists

2000-01-20 Thread Bruce Guenter
-to, and possibly message-id and received to headerremove. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Re: relay-ctrl 1.2 problem

2000-01-21 Thread Bruce Guenter
ng why... maybe you > will have an idea ? It worked with the version 1.1. How do you know it isn't being run? Is it setuid? -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Re: High-load servers...

2000-01-21 Thread Bruce Guenter
out double delivery. Once I finish it I'll post it. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Re: High-load servers...

2000-01-21 Thread Bruce Guenter
mail-send assume that they have exclusive access to the queue. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

qmail-qfilter: generic qmail-queue filter front-end

2000-01-23 Thread Bruce Guenter
. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Re: Maildir format

2000-01-19 Thread Bruce Guenter
discuss issues related to building a simple internet message access protocol. I've made a web page at http://em.ca/~bruceg/simap/ but there's nothing there yet. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Re: Maildir format

2000-01-19 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 11:42:56PM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote: > I have started up two lists, actually: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] These are, of course, ezmlm lists, so to subscribe, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] res

Re: Red Hat sysV init rc.d script for qmail?

2000-02-02 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 03:46:47AM -, John Conover wrote: > Does anyone have a URL for a Red Hat SysV init rc.d script for qmail? http://em.ca/~bruceg/qmail+patches/sources/qmail-rhinit.tar.gz Requires my supervise-scripts and daemontools RPMS to work. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Linux Patch for fsync of metdata

2000-02-03 Thread Bruce Guenter
k you're referring to explicitly fsync's the directories after syncing the files. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Re: multilog datestamping

2000-02-03 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 08:26:33AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > If I remember correctly, Bruce Guenter wrote a patch to allow one of the > loggers to do exactly this, by having it close and reopen its log upon > receipt of a HUP or some such signal. However, I don't reme

Re: qmail logging tools

2000-02-03 Thread Bruce Guenter
just rotate the file over and filter the (now unchanging) rotated file. - Only syslog can (currently) log from programs that use the syslog interface. I suppose one could build a compatible front end that reads from /dev/log, but it doesn't exist yet... I think that's it.

Re: courier-imapd + vmailmgr

2000-02-09 Thread Bruce Guenter
st it yet. I'll put out a snapshot of the current code base on the web site. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Re: Big and/or famous sites using qmail?

2000-02-09 Thread Bruce Guenter
E (European research organiziation, I believe) xoom.com (heavily modified) USA.net MatchLogic Algonet (Sweedish ISP with 50,000+ users) gmx.de (German ISP) NetZero Critical Path -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Re: Big and/or famous sites using qmail?

2000-02-09 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 12:44:16PM +, Blaine Lefler wrote: > For the record. USA.Net uses qmail for all of our outbound traffic. Could you clarify what you mean by "outbound traffic"? Thanks. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Re: Big and/or famous sites using qmail?

2000-02-09 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 11:55:04AM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote: > > Wouldn't it great if there was a list of big/famous sites that uses qmail > > as their MTA? > I just compiled a list of these from searching through the qmail mailing > list archives: I've made a web

Re: Any tool for mbox to Maildir conversion?

2000-02-24 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 10:36:25AM +1300, Jason Haar wrote: > Here's my cut on this script. And I'll throw in mine as well. It handles all three states of the "read" flags -- new, unread, and read. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http:/

Re: can't stop qmail (supervise-scripts)

2000-03-03 Thread Bruce Guenter
ust run tcprules (or maketcprules, which rebuilds everything in /etc/tcpcontrol). -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Redundant email system delivery synchronization question

2000-03-13 Thread Bruce Guenter
igured out. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Re: ucspi-tcp 0.86 available

2000-03-13 Thread Bruce Guenter
ade a set of RPMs available at: http://em.ca/~bruceg/rpms/ucspi-tcp/ I have also started a new mailing list to announce and discuss these RPMs. To subscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Re: Running qmail on a 4x Xeon 550MHz system

2000-03-25 Thread Bruce Guenter
mpletely idle CPUs. A load average of 4 would mean all 4 CPUs are 100% busy. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Re: Re^3: Running qmail on a 4x Xeon 550MHz system

2000-03-25 Thread Bruce Guenter
bound. And, with the way qmail writes its queue files, it becomes mostly seek-time bound as well (due to running many fsync's). -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Re: Machine Specs

2000-04-11 Thread Bruce Guenter
cases be adequate, but you could also use the current time to pick a new one to execute every second (or every sub-second, using gettimeofday). If you code this in C, it can happen very fast, and doesn't take up extra IPs (which can be a rare commodity if you have to use Internet

Re: qmail's sendmail

2000-05-02 Thread Bruce Guenter
r versions of RedHat (I suspect not -- it looks like it is in > 6.2 on a i386). > > Generally I recommend staying away from linuxconf. Or at least fixing the above file to remove the permissions changes. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Re: hack for filtering "i love you" worm

2000-05-04 Thread Bruce Guenter
y line in smtpd.rules and rebuild the smtpd.cdb file: ,QMAILQUEUE="/path/smtpd-queue" (Replace "/path" with some appropriate path to where you want the scripts to go). -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Re: hack for filtering "i love you" worm

2000-05-04 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 05:31:04PM -0600, Neil Schemenauer wrote: > On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 04:21:45PM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote: > > If you are using qmail patched with the QMAILQUEUE patch, you can use > > qmail-qfilter and the following two scripts to achieve the same effect.

Re: hack for filtering "i love you" worm

2000-05-04 Thread Bruce Guenter
to do this for my employers, so I'm not just being facetious. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Re: qmail-qfilter stangeness

2000-05-10 Thread Bruce Guenter
st item in the pipe returns, which should be 0 if your perl is working. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Re: is content level blocking possible

2000-05-15 Thread Bruce Guenter
Sure take a look at qmail-qfilter: http://em.ca/~bruceg/qmail-qfilter/ You can use it to run all mail through one or more content filters of your chosing. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Re: qfilelog...

2000-05-15 Thread Bruce Guenter
s init functions > . $INITDIR/daemontools.functions It looks like this file defines a function stop() that causes cyclog to stop. You'll need to modify it to make qfilelog to stop. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Re: Modifying qmail-remote

2000-05-31 Thread Bruce Guenter
112 May 31 08:11 qmail-remote* > -rwx--x--x 1 root root21796 May 30 14:34 > qmail-remote.real* IIRC, qmail-remote is executed as user "qmailr", which doesn't have read permission on your new shell script. Shell scripts require read permission to execute. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Announcing qmail-qfilter version 1.3

2000-06-02 Thread Bruce Guenter
re than 1000 anyways. - Removed some GNU-specific constructs from the source and Makefile. - Included a sample MIME filename extension scanning filter. ------- -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/

Re: Security warning: using linuxconf(RedHat 6.2) and permissions of /usr/sbin/sendmail

2000-06-08 Thread Bruce Guenter
e's what /usr/lib/linuxconf/redhat/perm/mail should read: /usr/sbin/sendmail rootqmail f 755 /etc/mail rootrootd 755 -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: Unable to read controls

2000-09-27 Thread Bruce Guenter
x27;t set. Do a `chmod 755 /var/qmail/control` > and everything should work. Just to be pedantic, The 'r' bit is for listing the directory, but the 'x' bit controls access to the files in the directory. So, qmail would have been able to list the files but not open them.

Re: Unable to read controls

2000-09-28 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 10:49:52AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > Mea culpa. Thanks for the correction. I suppose I should have realized > that, as qmail shouldn't need to list files -- the filenames are hardcoded, > correct? Yes. -- Bruce Guenter <

Re: Unable to read controls

2000-09-28 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 12:25:06PM -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 10:41:03AM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote: > > Just to be pedantic, The 'r' bit is for listing the directory, but the > > 'x' bit controls access to the files in the directory.

Re: comparison vmailmgr - inter7

2000-09-28 Thread Bruce Guenter
have any luck in the limited time I had to muck around > with it. When I first looked at it, sqwebmail used compiled-in authentication modules, and included the code for vpopmail and not vmailmgr. I've heard, but haven't had time to investigate, that sqwebmail now uses the same auth

Re: relay control -is this possible problem

2000-09-29 Thread Bruce Guenter
essages. Your best bet is to use a qmail-queue shim that checks the sender address before accepting the message. Using my qmail-qfilter package would probably simplify that task, especially if you want to scan the headers of the message. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: benchmark programs

2000-10-07 Thread Bruce Guenter
Does anybody else have more authoritative forecasts on that front other than just hearsay? -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: VMailMGR & hostname based access

2000-10-12 Thread Bruce Guenter
> not with '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' or 'user:virtdom.net'. > My /etc/vmailmgr/separators contains '@:%' > > Is there a setting required to permit hostname based access? Nope, unless you mean IP-based virtual domains. > I've > looked through the d

Re: Logging with checkvpw and qmail-pop3d problems?

2000-10-12 Thread Bruce Guenter
ailmgr/checkvpw-postsetuid, and make it executable: #!/bin/sh echo "Login OK: $VUSER $MAILDIR $USER $HOME" -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: [vmailmgr] Some question

2000-10-15 Thread Bruce Guenter
well, that's the vpopmail or vmailmgr which will do that : you don't > have to create the directory by yourself... vmailmgr has a directory hashing feature that can evenly distribute the directories into multiple other directories, if enabled before the accounts are created. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: SMTP Authorization

2000-10-22 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:11:24AM +1100, Colin Humphreys wrote: > Is there a package for doing imap before smtp with courier-imap and > qmail? The same relay-ctrl package works for both POP3 with qmail-popup/pop3d and for IMAP with Courier IMAP. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL

Re: SSL POP3

2000-10-23 Thread Bruce Guenter
from doing things like relay-ctrl as well. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: QMAILQUEUE patch - how to apply?

2000-10-24 Thread Bruce Guenter
+patches/sources/qmail-1.03-queuevar.patch The above is a program that can be used to take advantage of the patch. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: Where did this BOGUS file come from.

2000-10-24 Thread Bruce Guenter
eration ? and if so, what might help > to prevent this problem in the future. The BOGUS files almost certainly came from procmail, when it discovered that something was odd (in its opinion) with directory permissions or some such. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

multi-rcpt for qmail

2000-11-01 Thread Bruce Guenter
good deal more complex, as well as not altering the data structure of the remotes lists. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: multi-rcpt for qmail

2000-11-01 Thread Bruce Guenter
y defer one recipient and not another? -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: multi-rcpt for qmail

2000-11-01 Thread Bruce Guenter
oesn't this currently happen with qmail anyways, because each recipient is > handled as a separate message and can be deferred, while others go through? My question was in the course of a single SMTP conversation. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: multi-rcpt for qmail

2000-11-01 Thread Bruce Guenter
ograms that talk smtp > don't handle it - especially MUAs. > > But how is that relevant to qmail-queue sorting the recipients? It has nothing to do with the sorting question, but everything to do with the range of communication necessary between qmail-send and qmail-rspawn. -- B

Re: [vmailmgr] New Mail Notification (with VMailMgr, advanced, not qbiff etc)

2000-11-08 Thread Bruce Guenter
xternal script > each time new mail comes in. Put it into vdeliver-postdeliver. See configuration.html for more details. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: rbl users beware: MSN blocked

2000-11-15 Thread Bruce Guenter
t spam (for research and investigation purposes): http://em.ca/~bruceg/spam/ -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: qmail enhancements

2000-11-21 Thread Bruce Guenter
synchronous directory operations (like http://em.ca/~bruceg/syncdir/) or else you lose reliability. Everything else should wait until you know you need it. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: Open Relay questionnaire

2000-12-04 Thread Bruce Guenter
her than that all the ones I'm aware of do the same thing. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Bruce Guenter
ht do (driving, operating equipment, making sales calls for a company, etc.) requires a significant level of instruction. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: reg. qmail-qmqpd and qmail-qmtpd

2000-12-06 Thread Bruce Guenter
a subset of QMTP. In fact, the QMQP module should work with QMTP servers (if I'm reading the protocol spec right), just on a different port number. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: qmtpd

2001-01-03 Thread Bruce Guenter
a split horizon DNS server. The firewall running the mail relay does transparent proxying on port 25 for all connections, and is then free to forward on the the "real" mail server without interference. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

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

Re: [vmailmgr] Re: Help the qmail vmailmgr novice, receive free good karma --

2001-01-18 Thread Bruce Guenter
ntication, if the domain is local, or virtual authentication if the domain is virtual. > can it be shut off so that only virtual auth is done? Only by patching the source currently. On line 150 of authenticate/checkvpw.cc, add an extra "true" paramenter to the call to "authe

Re: qlogtools compile - error

2001-01-22 Thread Bruce Guenter
t not under FreeBSD Did you remove the "qlogselect" program while trying to build it? Please direct further messages on this topic to the bgware mailing list, as this is off-topic for this list. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: Re: Qmail and GFS

2001-01-26 Thread Bruce Guenter
syscall as usual, but after making the call do a fsync on the directory leading up to the given filename. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: Security issue: SMTP and qmail

2001-02-01 Thread Bruce Guenter
terms of network services) down to the minimum necessary. Then I replace the borken bits (sendmail, BIND, telnet) with more appropriate solutions. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: Security issue: SMTP and qmail

2001-02-01 Thread Bruce Guenter
So, I take it you don't believe in anything other than top-down software control? -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: multi-thread

2001-02-07 Thread Bruce Guenter
most modern UNIX-type OSs. It's also a rather large task, as the existing code likely relies heavily on globals. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: qmail compilation and optimization

2001-02-14 Thread Bruce Guenter
spends very little time in loops > without any I/O. I think the benefits would be small. This, however, is very true. It is very rare that any part of qmail will take significant amounts of CPU time. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: Text-mode web browser

2001-02-19 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:13:42PM -0500, Schiffbauer, Anthony wrote: > hey guys, this is another subject, but could any of you suggest a different > text web browser other than Lynx? Links. http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/ It even handles tables properly. -- Bruce G

qmail-send progress with large queue/todo

2001-02-27 Thread Bruce Guenter
s this, or is it an artifact of the I/O generated by qmail-send causing the other tasks to block? -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: qmail-qfilter question

2001-02-27 Thread Bruce Guenter
s on how I can use qmail-qfilter to screen incoming attachments > another way, or how to change my relaying setup to grab them? Add a final rule to your SMTP rules file with: :allow,QMAILQUEUE="/usr/local/bin/" This will force all non-relayclient users to be filtered as we

Re: Relay-ctrl and qmail

2001-02-28 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 06:46:49AM -, Bill Isaacs wrote: > Hi Bruce and Charles, > > No luck yet. I tried Bruce's suggestion with the same outcome as before: > --- > tcpserver -v -R -x /etc/smtp.cdb 0 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popu

Re: [OT] supervise sshd?

2001-03-28 Thread Bruce Guenter
-D > > #!/bin/sh > exec fghack /usr/local/sbin/sshd <&- > > I don't know what -D does. -D causes sshd to not background itself, without outputting debug information. If anybody (else) is interested, I have RPMs of OpenSSH running under svscan and tcpserver at:

Re: Maildir file naming convention

2001-03-28 Thread Bruce Guenter
parc a couple of years ago already. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: qmail-qread and qmail-qstat as suid root...

2001-04-10 Thread Bruce Guenter
n't even have to use up a TCP port. > $ nc localhost 82 or "tcpcat localhost 82", since tcpcat comes with ucspi-tcp. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: bounce messages

2001-04-26 Thread Bruce Guenter
g compiled C code instead of Perl, and is rather easier to configure (don't have to edit source code). The current development version can also include the original message as an attachment, if anybody's interested. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature

Re: reason for problem found: connection reset after 1 minute

2001-05-11 Thread Bruce Guenter
fails qmail-popup can report an -ERR message instead of just disconnecting silently. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ http://untroubled.org/ OpenPGP key: 699980E8 / D0B7 C8DD 365D A395 29DA 2E2A E96F B2DC 6999 80E8 PGP signature

Re: reason for problem found: connection reset after 1 minute

2001-05-11 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:02:47PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 08:17:47AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > > > I don't understand this. I thought that in a normal setup, tcpserver forked &g

Re: QMAILQUEUE patch for qmail-1.03

2001-06-10 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 03:37:21PM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote: > Appended is a patch to qmail-1.03 that causes any program that would run > qmail-queue to look for an environment variable QMAILQUEUE. If it is > present, it is used in place of the string "bin/qmail-queue" w

Re: how to use qmail-queue

2001-06-10 Thread Bruce Guenter
any external protocols. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ http://untroubled.org/ OpenPGP key: 699980E8 / D0B7 C8DD 365D A395 29DA 2E2A E96F B2DC 6999 80E8 PGP signature

Re: qmail-qfilter logging?

2001-06-10 Thread Bruce Guenter
ext filter or to qmail-queue to go into the mail spool. If you want to print an error, print to STDERR. BTW, the deny-filetypes catches virtually all current and future incidences of Snow White and similar viruses. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ http://untroubled

Re: qmail troubleshooting

2001-06-10 Thread Bruce Guenter
is of course not executable, so permission denied. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ http://untroubled.org/ OpenPGP key: 699980E8 / D0B7 C8DD 365D A395 29DA 2E2A E96F B2DC 6999 80E8 PGP signature

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