Sending mail with bounces going elsewhere

1999-04-02 Thread Matthew Harrell
uot; line, and a "From:" field of $From. Is there any way to get the "Sender:" field in there (I already tried putting it in the message) and to get the "From " field to just show the sender and not a concatenation of the two strings? -- Matthew Harrell

Re: Sending mail with bounces going elsewhere

1999-04-02 Thread Matthew Harrell
lues of the QMAILS variables get put in the Return-Path and From fields and the other get's put in the From: field. -- Matthew Harrell Beauty is in the eye of the beer Simulation Technology Division, SAIC holder. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Inetd refusing connections under RedHat 5.2

1999-04-14 Thread Matthew Harrell
refused but in all other senses of the word inetd works fine. All it takes to get my smtp connection back is a HUP of inetd but this is rather annoying anyway. Any ideas what the problem could be or where I should look? -- Matthew Harrell Beauty is in the

Re: Inetd refusing connections under RedHat 5.2

1999-04-14 Thread Matthew Harrell
. Sorry about wasting bandwidth... -- Matthew Harrell Gravity is a myth, the Earth sucks. Simulation Technology Division, SAIC [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Queue limit question

1999-04-11 Thread Matthew Harrell
ng a serious load on my system. -- Matthew HarrellAnother Month's End: Simulation Technology Division, SAIC All Targets Met [EMAIL PROTECTED] All Systems Working All Customers Satisfied

Re: Queue limit question

1999-04-11 Thread Matthew Harrell
;t be foolproof to limit it to n messages but it's better than nothing. -- Matthew Harrell Beauty is in the eye of the beer Simulation Technology Division, SAIC holder. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Queue limit question

1999-04-11 Thread Matthew Harrell
bably write my own but if some kind of capability is already build in then I should probably use it. -- Matthew Harrell Gravity is a myth, the Earth sucks. Simulation Technology Division, SAIC [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Queue limit question

1999-04-11 Thread Matthew Harrell
three Linux boxes tasked with the large mail requirements for a client who primarily uses NT. For the most part they don't know how or what to do on the systems and they don't mind that at all. Almost everything they do is from some automated interfaces I set up. -- Matthew Harrell

Simple SMTP question

1999-05-12 Thread Matthew Harrell
ot get the same address but whatever it gets the DNS server will be updated with the new IP. Any pointers would be useful. Thanks -- Matthew Harrell Bill Gates is only a white Persian Simulation Technology Division, SAIC cat and a monocle away from being [

Re: Simple SMTP question

1999-05-12 Thread Matthew Harrell
nected catch your mail for you and suck it : from them on your schedule. It was just going to be on a temporary basis, but thanks. I think that mostly answers my questions. -- Matthew Harrell You're just jealous because the Simulation Technology Division, SAIC voices only talk to me. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

smtproutes and MX aliases

1999-11-24 Thread Matthew Harrell
y way I can get it to use partner.aol.com or am I forced to edit the code and make it check for MX records also? Thanks -- Matthew Harrell All science is either physics or Bit Twiddlers, Inc. stamp collecting. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: smtproutes and MX aliases

1999-11-24 Thread Matthew Harrell
t to force all my mail through one of them. It would be fine if I could do aol.com:mx1.aol.com,mx2.aol.com and I haven't tried it but I haven't see anything written about it. -- Matthew Harrell Programmer - a red-eyed mumbling

Re: smtproutes and MX aliases

1999-11-24 Thread Matthew Harrell
till have the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] : PS: Can we all do that to get around AOL's filters, too? No, according to them they need the IP's of the machines which will be sending mail. Of course I haven't actually tested that so I don't know what it does. -- Matthew Harrell

Re: smtproutes and MX aliases

1999-11-24 Thread Matthew Harrell
have an AOL account to test it on that side. It would be nice for the inordinately large number of people who complain that they aren't getting our daily messages but yet have their filters so restrictive that we can't even reply to them. -- Matthew Harrell

Re: smtproutes and MX aliases

1999-11-24 Thread Matthew Harrell
I can think of something else I might want to try. Thanks -- Matthew Harrell To err is human, Bit Twiddlers, Inc. to purr feline. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Two email addresses and the rest to a virtual domain

2000-04-13 Thread Matthew Harrell
't want to lose any email. -- Matthew Harrell You're just jealous because the Bit Twiddlers, Inc. voices only talk to me. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Two email addresses and the rest to a virtual domain

2000-04-14 Thread Matthew Harrell
oop, where [EMAIL PROTECTED] : gets forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? I assume that you mean john@`cat : /var/qmail/control/defaulthost`. Thanks. I guess this should have occurred to me but I was a little worn out last night. That's a strange format for the .qmail file names - where is that for

Re: Two email addresses and the rest to a virtual domain

2000-04-14 Thread Matthew Harrell
Matthew Harrell was overheard saying: : : echo 'foo.bar:foo.bar' >>/var/qmail/control/virtualdomains : : echo 'joe' > ~alias/.qmail-foo:bar-joe : : echo 'fred' > ~alias/.qmail-foo:bar-fred : : echo 'john' > ~alias/.qmail-foo:bar-default : :

Re: Two email addresses and the rest to a virtual domain

2000-04-14 Thread Matthew Harrell
helps sometimes. : It's documented in qmail-local.8. A dot gets changed into a colon : when qmail-local searches for .qmail filename matching the extension. Got it. Thanks. I was just checking the dot-qmail page. It seems to work well, though, so I'll have to remember that one in th

Re: badmailfrom

2000-12-05 Thread Matthew Harrell
that address. tcp.smtp seems to only deny mail from the machine directly sending to you - do you know a way to drop mail that's been passed through a trusted server? Thanks -- Matthew Harrell Preserve wildlife -- Bit Twiddlers, Inc.

tcpserver (ucspi 0.84) and status 256?

2000-12-22 Thread Matthew Harrell
ad of the usual status 0. Where can I find a listing of the status codes since I don't see one on the web page? Thanks - also I know there is a later version of the ucspi tools but since they don't look like drop-in replacements I just haven't had time to fix the scripts yet. -

Re: tcpserver (ucspi 0.84) and status 256?

2000-12-22 Thread Matthew Harrell
was actually looking for the 256 error code so I might have missed it. That's good to know since I was thinking I had broken something that was causing this machine to be unable to connect. -- Matthew Harrell If at first you don't succeed, Bit Twiddl

Relaying and rewriting or ignoring headers

2000-08-09 Thread Matthew Harrell
sts. Thanks for any tips -- Matthew Harrell Behind every great computer sits Bit Twiddlers, Inc. a skinny little geek. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Tcpserver and cyclog

1999-07-18 Thread Matthew Harrell
ccustamp | \ /usr/qmail/bin/setuser root /usr/qmail/bin/cyclog -s1000 -n5 \ /usr/qmail/log/smtp & and that correctly opens a log file but nothing ever seems to get logged. What am I doing wrong? -- Matthew Harrell The best way to accelera

Re: Tcpserver and cyclog

1999-07-18 Thread Matthew Harrell
t; and that correctly opens a log file but nothing ever seems to get logged. What : > am I doing wrong? : : Add a -v to your tcpserver invocation. Thanks. That's got to be the fastest mailing list response I've ever seen. -- Matthew Harrell I love

Re: Tcpserver and cyclog

1999-07-18 Thread Matthew Harrell
ng bounced, etc. I'll check for those patches. Thanks -- Matthew Harrell Every morning is the dawn of a Bit Twiddlers, Inc. new error. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trying to achieve maximum speed!

1999-07-24 Thread Matthew Harrell
nyone know how to modify queue-fix to deal with this kind of queue directory? It looks like the intd and todo directories changed but I'm not sure in what manner. Thanks -- Matthew Harrell The perversity of the universe Bit Twiddlers, Inc.

Load balancing / qmqp / transferring messages

1999-08-23 Thread Matthew Harrell
the queue size? For instance if there are three fast machines processing messages and passing those that had problems to another slower machine to send out when it can. Thanks -- Matthew Harrell You're just jealous because the Bit Twiddlers

Re: Load balancing / qmqp / transferring messages

1999-08-24 Thread Matthew Harrell
t. It would be nice if I could just have a distributed qmail or a distributed queue that multiple qmails could operate on. -- Matthew Harrell Never raise your hand to your Bit Twiddlers, Inc. children - it leaves your [

Re: Squashing 20,000 rumors...

1999-08-24 Thread Matthew Harrell
ls" in todo or intd, : so I guess it also took seconds for qmail-send and its children to find : files in there... I believe this is exactly what the big-todo patch does. Seemed to help on my systems when I have thousands of messages queued. -- Matthew Harrell

supervise questions

1999-08-25 Thread Matthew Harrell
starts up another and I keep getting the above messages. The only way I found to stop it was to kill the supervise command. I tried it also with named and ended up getting about ten instances of named before I killed it. What am I doing wrong here? thanks for any help -- Matthew Harrell

Re: supervise questions

1999-08-25 Thread Matthew Harrell
ks for you. Will do. Looks like I'm way out of date since I'm only using 0.53. Thanks for the help. -- Matthew Harrell Behind every great computer sits Bit Twiddlers, Inc. a skinny little geek. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Any ideas?

1999-09-02 Thread Matthew Harrell
are configuration just slated for this project but if I'm not able to get the rate much higher I'm probably going to have to consider this whole effort a failure. thanks -- Matthew Harrell Behind every great computer sits Bit Twiddlers, Inc. a skinny little geek. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any ideas?

1999-09-02 Thread Matthew Harrell
to slow qmail down badly. I personally haven't done time trials on it but I have noticed a change. Even with the patch I just assumed it must be detrimental to load it up that badly. I would be glad to hear that isn't the case, though. thanks for all the info. -- Matthew Harrel

Re: Any ideas?

1999-09-02 Thread Matthew Harrell
27;s never a large amount of swap being used. I'm not really sure how to check CPU but I would guess it's not the real problem. -- Matthew Harrell Behind every great computer sits Bit Twiddlers, Inc. a skinny little geek. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any ideas?

1999-09-02 Thread Matthew Harrell
eck on and at least I know that I should be getting more out of the systems. -- Matthew Harrell The perversity of the universe Bit Twiddlers, Inc. tends to a maximum. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any ideas?

1999-09-02 Thread Matthew Harrell
rhaps it could be moved to a machine on : the same segment to free memory - nameservers are memory hogs. They're on the same machine. Memory didn't seem to be my limitation and I thought a remote nameserver might cause more latency. I might try it and see what happens, though. -- Ma

Re: Any ideas?

1999-09-02 Thread Matthew Harrell
;m not really sure what to read out of this. -- Matthew Harrell I used to have a handle on life, Bit Twiddlers, Inc. then it broke. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any ideas?

1999-09-02 Thread Matthew Harrell
ve to determine what to do with unanswered connections. I guess I could jut ignore them and assume they were going to be bounces. It's an option. Have you tried it and noticed much of a speedup over normal qmail processing? -- Matthew Harrell You're just jeal

Re: Any ideas?

1999-09-02 Thread Matthew Harrell
from different machines. : It's more informative to run "vmstat 10" while it's peaking. These are : the cumulative-since-boot stats. : What OS is this? Linux. I'll get peak results next time a big message has to go out. -- Matthew Harrell

Re: Any ideas?

1999-09-02 Thread Matthew Harrell
boot time, quiet time, and heavy use time - if they stay the same, : then it isn't actually actively swapping. Yep, this describes the way my systems have always run. The swap never really changes on any of these machines. If it ever did change radically then I know something bad is up. --

Re: Any ideas?

1999-09-02 Thread Matthew Harrell
mical, I suppose. Odds are I screwed up somewhere. It wouldn't surprise me with the last couple of days I've been having. I'll swear I did it right, though. Now I'll just go sulk in my corner... -- Matthew Harrell The Earth is like

Re: Any ideas?

1999-09-03 Thread Matthew Harrell
634 871 17 27 56 -- Matthew Harrell Smile, it's the second best thing Bit Twiddlers, Inc. you can do with your lips [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any ideas?

1999-09-03 Thread Matthew Harrell
tleneck. That's good. : Next step is to run iostat or equivalent during a peak period. I don't seem to have iostat on my machine. What's a good replacement? -- Matthew Harrell Programmer - a red-eyed mumbling Bit Twiddlers, Inc.

Re: cannot start: unable to switch to queue directory

1999-09-21 Thread Matthew Harrell
ue-fix from www.qmail.org and run that on your queue directory. It should detect and fix any permission problems. -- Matthew Harrell You're just jealous because the Bit Twiddlers, Inc. voices only talk to me. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Concurrent deliveries

1999-09-28 Thread Matthew Harrell
Can I get some pointers as to why I'm only getting somewhere between 25 and 50 concurrent deliveries even though I have 120 in concurrencylocal. Attached is the qmailanalog output. Basically, I seem to get horrible transfer rates on this machine and I'm trying to figure out why. --

Re: big-todo patch +queue-fix

1999-09-30 Thread Matthew Harrell
:> just wondering if, after I applied the big-todo patch, I can still use the :> queue-fix program? : Matthew Harrell gave me the following patch. I have not tried it. Yeah, I use that patch and it seems to work fine for me. Let me know if you have any problems. -- Matthew H

unprocessed messages

1999-10-15 Thread Matthew Harrell
econds. I would provide statistics and things but I don't know what would be useful. -- Matthew Harrell Programmer - a red-eyed mumbling Bit Twiddlers, Inc. mammal capable of conversing with [EMAIL PROTECTED] inanimate objects.

Re: unprocessed messages

1999-10-15 Thread Matthew Harrell
processes them - I think. Unfortuantely, the remote ones left to deliver are undeliverables because the remote machines aren't answering so this takes a while. -- Matthew Harrell To err is human, Bit Twiddlers, Inc. to purr feline. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unprocessed messages

1999-10-15 Thread Matthew Harrell
ed that before. I changed it and I'll watch it to see how it goes. I wonder how it got to "600" in the first place. -- Matthew Harrell The perversity of the universe Bit Twiddlers, Inc. tends to a maximum. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Capitals in user mailing lists?

1999-01-12 Thread Matthew Harrell
Hi, Is it possible to have capitals in the user-defined mailing aliases? I tried to create a couple of aliases ".qmail-Test" and ".qmail-test" and the one with the capital had a bounce. Is this correct or do I have something wrong in my setup? -

Re: Capitals in user mailing lists?

1999-01-12 Thread Matthew Harrell
in : > my setup? : : qmail preserves case in the local part, but ignores case when matching : against usernames or filenames. Okay, I guess that makes sense and it really doesn't matter in my case since I can fix the script that's sending out mail to lowercase all the names. I just th