Miguel Sarmiento writes:
> If [...] qmail does not start or gets kill for some reason, then if
> I login su and start the script manually (i.e. scriptqmail start)
> qmail does start but if I logout puff! qmail exits.
...
> the faq mentions that if upon rebooting qmail exits to use the NOHUP to
> s
Sam writes:
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
> charbuf[8192];
...
> }
>
> [mrsam@ny mrsam]$ time ./a.out >/dev/null
> Command exited with non-zero status 255
If you'll notice, this one bombed, so its timing results are useless.
You probably hit stack overflow with that 8192-byte array.
Sam writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > On Solaris an empty program issues some 19 system calls including
> > 2 opens. A write() of 1 byte surely gets lost in the noise.
>
> After I cleaned up the typos, I averaged .11 seconds in ten sample runs
> (versus .14).
But with what kind of distribu
Sam writes:
> The reason that I had the redundant buffer clear in the "one write"
> version is so that both benchmarks had the same setup overhead.
But that's not the way it happens in reality. The fill-buffer,
single-write way *doesn't* have that overhead, and so neither should
the test version
Sam writes:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Len Budney wrote:
> > 1. In my benchmark, I ganged 1,390 runs using actual, distinct email
>
> If you can't be bothered to properly interpret the results of the write()
> system call,
He *is* properly interpreting the results. He's just making the
interpretati
Rawlinsons (Qld) Head Office writes:
> I'm running Linux 5.2
Linux 5.2 doesn't exist yet. Perhaps you meant Red Hat 5.2, which
probably means you're running Linux 2.0.36 or thereabouts.
> I downloaded qmail 1.03 to a Windoze machine on my intranet,
> unzipped (WinZip 7.0) it into a directory ca
Rawlinsons (Qld) Head Office writes:
> I've printed the text files from the Windoze box, but haven't saved
> them back anywhere, so it's not a CR/LF issue.
I suspect it might be exactly that. WinZip may have changed the line
endings from LF to CRLF, which would certainly break qmail's Makefile.
WL writes:
> I'm new to the list and Qmail - is there anyway of adding an email address
> to a "spammers" file to be deleted before it gets to my mailbox?
One possible way to do this is by putting something like this at the
top of your ~/.qmail:
|grep -f .spammers &>/dev/null && exit 99; exit 0
Tony Mai writes:
> #cd /home/tmai
> #/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake /home/tmai/Maildir
I assume from the `#'s that you did this as root. Your Maildir needs
to be owned by tmai. (Assuming Linux; tweak the following commands as
necessary for your system.)
# chown -R tmai.tmai ~tmai/Maildir
WL writes:
> From: Paul Jarc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > One possible way to do this is by putting something like this at the
> > top of your ~/.qmail:
> > |grep -f .spammers &>/dev/null && exit 99; exit 0
>
> How about having something like this in
Kristina writes:
> I want to configure qmail-local to deliver mail to /var/spool/mail/username/
> Maildir.
You might try putting
'/var/spool/mail/$LOCAL/Maildir/'
in /var/qmail/rc (or whatever you use to start qmail), in place of the
default delivery method (probably ./Maildir or '|preline procma
Henri J. Schlereth writes:
> My question is why cant I send and receive mail to root.
man qmail-getpw:
qmail-getpw considers an account in /etc/passwd to be a
user if (1) the account has a nonzero uid, (2) the
account's home directory exists (and is visible to qma
Henri J. Schlereth writes:
> the man pages dont install unless I missed a step
They should be in /var/qmail/man. man won't know to look there unless
you put it in $MANPATH or (in my case, I don't know how portable this
is) in `/etc/man.config'.
> why is this a security issue?
Simply because do
Michael Boman writes:
> Situation:
> Users send and recive emails in English, Chinese and Japanise etc.
>
> Problem:
> The problem is how to generate the correct Content-type header on
> HTML pages.
Why not just copy the Content-Type header that's in the email itself?
paul
Closing the gap slightly between qmail-local and procmail... I've
implemented a flow control feature in qmail-local for .qmail files.
If you have a sequence of lines like:
?label command arg ...
...
:label
it'll deliver the message to the command, and if the command exits
with status 9
??? writes:
> Then I send a message to the mailling list, does qmail+ezmlm
> 1.Send ONE message to "remote.host". And let the MTA of "remote.host"
> deliver the message to
> these 26 accounts?
> or
> 2.Send 26 message to "remote.host"?
2. Sending separate messages means bounces are han
Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 02:39:25PM -0500, Dave Sill wrote:
> > >So has any expert ever audited qmail or djbdns?
> >
> > No. Any audit worth doing would be prohibitively expensive for a
> > freeware project. $1000 wouldn't even begin to cover it, at least
Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So has any expert ever audited qmail or djbdns?
I imagine Dan has, and many would consider him an expert, but one is
rarely the best auditor of one's own work.
paul
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Whilst an audit is a good idea, I don't see how a competition and
> time in the field can actual make matters worse.
It can make people think a program is secure when no audit has been
done, reducing the likelihood that anyone will call for an audit,
leaving holes undi
Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 03:11:43PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
> > Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Not to mention that the whole point of freeware and open source
> > > software in general is to
Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 03:35:35PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > > Whilst an audit is a good idea, I don't see how a competition and
> > > time in the field can actual make matters wors
Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 08:18:29PM +1300, Chris K. Young wrote:
> > I say that dist.html should be considered authoritative. There are
> > references in the qmail and djbdns documentation that contain the
> > URL to their respective pages.
>
> That's wha
Ryan Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Mate Wierdl wrote:
> > Indeed, it would be interesting what kind of testing he is running on
> > qmail, say (he says there are over 100 tests), and how he is trying to
> > make sure his software is secure.
>
> If you want to see som
"Pavel Kankovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But there are ABSOLUTELY no references to dist.html or softwarelaw.html in
> the source tarballs.
So what?
> Moreover, softwarelaw.html is about using the software ``once you've
> legally downloaded [it]'', dist.html is about (re)distribution of qm
Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 09:05:04PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
> > : I don't know which of these theories will succeed in court. I also
> > : don't think you should have to care. So I promise I won't sue you
> >
"Michael T. Babcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Paul Jarc wrote:
> > "Pavel Kankovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > But there are ABSOLUTELY no references to dist.html or
> > > softwarelaw.html in the source tarballs.
> >
&
Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I want an unambiguous license included with the software that
> explicitly defines what I am allowed to do with it. If you don't
> need that then fine, but please don't argue that it's not needed,
> because there are clearly a number of people on this li
Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 01:58:13PM +0800, Eric Yu wrote:
> > the log directory for qmail-smtpd is /var/log/qmail/smtpd
>
> Yes, but the logdir for qmail-send is /var/log/qmail !!
But this should not cause problems. multilog (running in
/var/log/qmail) w
Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Maybe he'd think about changing dist.html. After he changed it,
> could I then continue distributing this package without fear of
> being sued?
If the new dist.html said no, then it would seem clear that you
couldn't. This is not an ambiguity in the cu
"Michael T. Babcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Paul Jarc wrote:
> > The GPL doesn't give you permission to get a copy of Emacs; it
> > only specifies what you can do once you have.
>
> For a lot of people, being able to obtain said software isn
"Michael T. Babcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Since the author gives no implicit license, we all come down to
> IANAL legal battles over what is implied by his other writings. A
> license would clear (most of) this up -- that's the issue.
A license has the potential to be just as ill-worded
"Michael T. Babcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Paul Jarc wrote:
> > ... I don't see ambiguity in them [dist.html or softwarelaw.html or
> > rights.html] ...
>
> Are you not as analytical as those who criticise the situation?
Not that I'm aw
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 10:34:23AM -0500, Michael T. Babcock wrote:
> > He wrote it all -- its all DJB's theories -- they may be right or
> > wrong, but he's not a lawyer so its not even really worth trusting his
> > theories at all.
>
> Except that
...
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 05:16:17PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
> > That's true of softwarelaw.html, but this bit of the thread was about
> > rights.html, which includes no such references.
>
> rights.html doesn't say a
"Al" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Here is a question: Does anyone know if the GPL and/or BSD license has ever
> been challenged in court? What were the results?
The GPL hasn't - so its meaning really isn't known yet - but the BSD
license has. I don't remember the case, but people are still usin
"Michael T. Babcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Paul Jarc wrote:
> > A license has the potential to be just as ill-worded, confusing, or
> > extremely technical as anything else. A clearly worded, easily
> > supportable legal document would be good, regard
Felix von Leitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thus spake Raul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Pulling something off of a web site involves creating a copy on your
> > local machine.
>
> Please enlighten me: who bullshitted you Americans into believing that
> one needs a license to use software?
Marc Koop writes:
> I was wondering if some of you could recommend a good, reliable email
> client that runs under X (Gnome) and supports IMAP to maildirs (qmail, of
> course!).
> A gui client would be nice, but is not necessary.
>
> What do you guys/gals use?!?
I'm big into emacs, so I use Gnus
Medi Montaseri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My hostname is 'samba.sc.prepass.com'
> control/me contains mail.sc.prepass.com as mail is a CNAME to samba
> control/locals contain 'sc.prepass.com' and '.sc.prepass.com'
I don't think locals lets you use wildcards like that. You have to
list every d
"Mark Delany" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:31:56PM -0500, Dave Sill wrote:
> > "David L. Nicol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >that man page [dot-qmail] says:
> > >> WARNING: For security, qmail-local replaces any dots in ext with colons
> > >> before checking .qmail-e
"Mark Delany" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Understand, but I can't seem to get past the OS wanting the first
> component to be a directory.
Right, it does - or rather, *every* component, except the last.
> I guess if people had a .qmail directory...
As I do.
> But is there a way without the r
Felix von Leitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thus spake Russell Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > In a perfect world, QMTP would require that a qmtpd accept
> > VERP-formatted envelope senders.
>
> Doesn't qmail-qmtpd accept VERPs?
Yes, but it's not required by the QMTP protocol. It's just an
"Robin S. Socha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> mutt is pretty nifty. Another good choice would be Gnus http://www.gnus.org/
> which also supports Maildir natively if you use nnmaildir.
Since Google doesn't find it, I'll say that nnmaildir lives at
http://multivac.cwru.edu/nnmaildir/>
> Otherwise
"Alex Kramarov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was thinking , why do alot of people here mention running
> tcpserver with multilog and storing it's logs apart from qmail logs:
Because things work that way.
> This is what I use for the startup string for tcpserver
>
> /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -
Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I see exactly two patches which could be part of stock qmail: the AOL dns
> patch
More likely, qmail will be updated to use the djbdns client library.
AIUI, this would solve the >512-byte-response problem.
paul
Durham David R CNTR AMC CSS/SAS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> /var/log/maillog says "Unable_to_open_./maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)"
You forgot the / at the end of the delivery instruction line.
"./maildir" means "deliver to an mbox called ./maildir"; "./maildir/"
means what you want.
pau
Alex Le Fevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> since I don't even know what an MUA is, I can't tell
> if my OS supports it.
"Mail user agent". I.e., the program you use to read your mail. It's
not especially closely related to your OS. Two MUAs I know of that
support maildirs are Mutt and Gnus.
Gavin McCord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've created the /service directory with the necessary permissions
> and added on one line
>
> SV:123456:respawn:env - PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin
> svscan /service /dev/console 2>/dev/console
This should all be on one line. Maybe it
Alex Le Fevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My question today comes after further reading of the included
> documentation. It says that Pine and Elm are both insecure and
> unstable, and that BSD mail is worse. However, it makes no mention
> of a good MUA. What would you all recommend, and where
Mario Thaten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What I depend on, are the services, that are considered internal by
> xinetd (daytime, time, echo, discard).
It's more likely that you don't depend on them, but since they're
turned on by default, you think something might break if you turn them
off. Bu
Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >My question is, is it possible to run multiple instances
> >of qmail, sharing the same disk structure, configuration, etc..
>
> No. The queue cannot be shared by multiple instances of qmail.
OTOH, everything else (binaries, conf
"Jacques WERNERT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> in fact I trying to know why I can see sometimes 100 qmail-remote processes
> and sometimes only 10 with many messages in my queue (ie 200).
>
> So why qmail-send is not asking rspawn to fork much more ...
After a delivery attempt fails, qmail wai
Clemens Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If I want to generate statistics and I use only the
> logs in /var/log/qmail (and I skip the ones in the smtpd subdir) do I
> then catch any mail that comes to/leaves/passes my server?
Yes. The smtpd logs record only the arrival of messages through
q
Suppose my concurrencylocal and concurrencyremote will never be
greater than, say, 50. Is there then any penalty in setting
conf-spawn to 100? More to the point, is there any reason not to set
conf-spawn to the largest value possible, other than portability?
paul
"Jacques WERNERT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I know that well so I put "5" but I can't take too much time to send my
> mails ...
Reducing queuelifetime will not help you deliver mail faster. If you
really want to retry failed deliveries more often, send qmail-send
SIGHUP every once in a whil
"Hubbard, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was wondering if someone could tell me how to
> create a bounce message, or what would fool a remote
> mail server into thinking it was a bounce message?
You can use bouncesaying in your .qmail file if you know how to
programmatically detect
Greg White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 09:30:35PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
> > If you really want to retry failed deliveries more often, send
> > qmail-send SIGHUP every once in a while.
>
> I'm no wizard or anything, but isn
Scott Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It means that a user sending a steady stream of 10 (small)
> messages/sec over a dialup connection makes your system deal with
> 600 messages/sec, which would normally take a T1.
But this doesn't involve any real network connections - it's all on
loopba
Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So for safety, you either have to mount the filesystem with synchonous
> metadata (as I said above),
But AIUI, you can't mount the filesystem so that *only* metadata is
synchronous. The sync option makes *all* operations synchronous, so
performance s
Wolfgang Zeikat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In the previous episode (29.01.2001), Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> >>#!/bin/bash
> >>#~/filter
> >>cat > /tmp/to$RECIPIENT.txt
> >>if [ "$(grep 'Subject: whatever' /tmp/to$RECIPIENT.txt)" = "Subject: whatever" ]
> >>then
> >>cat "/tm
"Peter Brezny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What are the primary advantages of using supervise?
Among those already mentioned: reliability. You *can't* reliably
manage a service without cooperation from the parent process or the
process itself. Putting the management functionality into the pro
http://multivac.cwru.edu/qmail/>
The mess822-stricthome patch makes mess822 use conf-home for all
absolute filenames. This includes etc/leapsecs.dat. This is useful
for installing mess822 into its own directory (as in a slashpackage
system), for installation as a non-root user, or for easy inspe
Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i aready have qmail and ezmlm for maillist,
> i make [EMAIL PROTECTED] as maillist ,
> why if i send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] , qmail not found
> this mailbox ,
That should be test-subscribe, as someone else said.
> it's work only if i do with manually with ezmlm-s
Michael "T\." Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I realise that this is a misconfiguration, but wouldn't it be possible
> for svscan to add a 'lock' file to the services directory so it only
> starts once?
setlock -n /path/to/lockfile svscan /service
http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/setlock.html>
Eddie Greer writes:
> softlimit: fatal: unable to run : file does not exist
...
> Here is a copy of my /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-stmpd/run file
>
> #!/bin/sh
> QMAILDUID=`/usr/xpg4/bin/id -u =qmaild`
> NOFILESGID=`/usr/xpg4/bin/id -g =qmaild`
Those `='s aren't suppoesd to be there, are they?
Barry Dwyer writes:
> If I create a rcpthosts file with just the local domain in it (that's
> all I want), then every local client that tries to send mail out to the
> 'net gets a qmail error message saying the destination domain is not in
> the list of receipt hosts (or something to that effect).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> The other question that arises is that I'd quite like qmail *not* to
> accept SMTP mail from the outside world (my ISP delivers using SMTP
> but want it to continue to accept SMTP mail from other computers on my
> home LAN. How can I do this?
man tcprules. If you hav
Cerberus - the Guardian of Hades writes:
> i need to unsubscribe:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> from this list as he is no longer a user at this server. please help.
0. Arrange for mail to those addresses to be delivered somewhere where
you can get to it.
Dennis Robertson writes:
> Firstly as user when I open a term I get the message:
> env: qmail-start: Permission denied.
> I have followed both LWQ and the how-to and have checked permissions
> without finding what is wrong.
> Secondly, when I open a term I get a number like [1] 27087 in the top
>
Hand, Brian C. writes:
> How does one setup qmail and ezmlm to allow subscribes and unsubscribes to
> be done ONLY by command line.
If you remove listdir/public, ezmlm-manage will stop responding to all
administrative requests, including -subscribe, -unsubscribe, and -get.
If you want -get to kee
Eddie Greer writes:
> The problem is when I telnet to localhost 25 and follow the direction from
> the TEST.deliver, I connect to the port and run all the commands but the
> mail does not get delivered. I took a look at the log and it states the
> following:
>
> deferral: uh-oh:_first_line_of_.q
Dennis Robertson writes:
> Paul Jarc wrote:
> > /var/qmail/rc should be run as part of *system* startup, not user
> > login.
>
> Thanks. I'm going to uninstall qmail and try again. Where should
> the command be?
You probably don't need to reinstall. Just rem
Sylwester S. Biernacki writes:
> /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts
> here you define which machines you allow to be your relay clients.
No, that file lists the destination hosts and domains that qmail
accepts mail for via SMTP and QMTP. To allow certain senders to relay
though you to any destination,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> there is more than 25000 mail left on our mail queque, how can i
> remove them (only for one spec. user), there is some important mail
> (from other users) among them.
Wait a week, and qmail will give up on those messages.
paul
Mirko Koenig writes:
> i worte at least two messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> but i recieve messages again and again.
> how can i unsubscribe the list?
Look for Return-Path: in the header of the messages you get from the
list. Mine looks like this:
Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You'll see q
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Acknowledgment: The address
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> is not on this mailing list.
This is telling you that [EMAIL PROTECTED] wasn't subscribed to
begin with. (The text would be different if ezmlm had removed the
address from the list.) Apparently, you're subscr
J!M writes:
> [root@samurai /root]# /var/qmail/rc: default: command not found
What does your /var/qmail/rc look like?
paul
Ondrej Sury writes:
> Bruno Prior wrote:
> > (d) How important is it that I use maildir rather than mbox format? All
> > the info on the qmail sites seems to imply that it's very important, but
> > is maildir really necessary for my meager needs? And would it be more
> > complicated to use than mb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Test.recieve works to I enter data, and then I get
> 220 kerryb.basicq.com ESMTP
> helo dude
> 250 kerryb.basicq.com
> mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 250 ok
> data
> 503 RCPT first (#5.5.1)
>
> If I enter data, I get the following message.
> 502 unimplemented (#5.5.1)
"503
Tony Campisi writes:
> [root@# /var/qmail/bin]# ./qmail-qread
> [root@# /var/qmail/bin]# ./qmail-qsanity
> message has no entry in info: 50493
> message is neither local nor remote: 50493
>
> My question.. is there any way to look at this message and /or deliver it?
As root (or qmailq),
Jochen E. Führing writes:
> We have a site running about 100 users and now we want
> to move to qmail.Howto convert all the /var/spool/mail/user
> messages into the Maidir Format ?
See http://www.qmail.org/top.html#maildir>.
paul
James Lee Bell writes:
> Paul Jarc wrote:
> > Maildir also has no need for file locking.
>
> Does this mean that qmail-pop3d doesn't use pop-locks? IOW, I wouldn't
> have to deal with Netscape mail notification program and Messenger
> running into one another all t
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Now, where is the mailbox I am supposed to look in? I use pine, and
> even tried mutt, but no messages in either. I think I remember
> seeing something on making some cahnges in these to to make work
> with qmail.
The instructions you're looking for are in INSTALL.mbox
Jussi Salokangas writes:
> I have about 200 users on system. Everyone has a file called 'Mailbox' and
> I would like to change 'Maildir' so I could use qmail pop-3.
> Is this possible with some script, that root could change them to Maildir?
There may be something useful at
http://www.qmail.org/t
Jason L. Skoland writes:
> I want off of this D*MN List but it won't let me unsubscribe. can someone
> tell me how.. Thanks
It's explained in the message you get when you first subscribe: send a
message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe a
particular address (not necessarily the one you're sen
John van V. writes:
> I'm not sure who is moderating, but maybe a message at the bottom w/
> the escape clause...
This list isn't moderated, and AFAIK, the list owner doesn't read it.
paul
Chris Tolley writes:
> sed s/\:1001\:/\:new_GUD\: assign. >assign.whatever
...
> Just in case you didn't know, you use \ to "escape" the character so
> that the command line doesn't try to interpret it. The : means "null" and
> is used in shell scripting for "doing nothing"
You don't need to esc
asantos writes:
> Second, I'm not very familiar with egrep's regular expressions, but if I was
> to parenthise what you wrote it would seem to me that egrep would read it as
>
> (word(1|w)ord(2|w)ord3)
No, concatenation takes precedence over selection (i.e., `|') in
regular expressions.
paul
Ihnen, David writes:
> I want to accept email either
>
> A. from a set of defined IP addresses
>
> or
>
> B. to a set of defined domains
See http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html#relaying> or
http://www.palomine.net/qmail/selectiverelay.html>. You'll set
it up so that tcpserver allows all c
Andrew Hill writes:
> "Brian D. Winters" wrote:
> > TCPREMOTEIP=203.34.190.170 tcprulescheck /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb
>
> Well, I don't know what parts you are carefully reading that indicate
> that you should use the above command, becuase to me, the page says to
> use the command:
>
> tcprulescheck
Hand, Brian C. writes:
> if a have a large list say 325000+ address to add or delete to a mailing
> list and have them in a text file. one address per line. can ezmlm-unsub
> or sub be made to patch them all at once.
ezmlm-sub accepts multiple addresses on the command line. Do:
$ ezmlm-sub lis
Hart, Neil writes:
> I plan to use qmail in a mail-server, using a dial-up ISP account and
> feeding Windows PCs with their mail. This Linux box, does not have an
> address that would be known by a DNS. Therefore, I am not sure what the
> 'full.host.name' is in my situation. Does it mean 'local
Steven M. Klass writes:
> I'm getting ready to press forward, and install vpopmail. Now I know that
> I have ucspi source files, but I don't know how to check to see if it's
> installed..
If you know you built it, and you still have the build directory, look
at conf-home to see where it would
Jochen E. Führing writes:
> If I try to mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to another domain, like
> list.cr.yp.to, my qmail refuses to take the mail with this message :
> "domain not found in rcphosts"
>
> I don't understand! pcsystems.de is in the rcphosts. I can't put
> every domain in this file I w
Jochen E. Führing writes:
> But in fact, the domain where the mail is coming
> from IS in rcphosts!
That doesn't matter; rcpthosts is checked against where the mail is
*going*. qmail will receive mail on behalf of whichever domains are
listed there. So it's useless for controlling who you rece
Jochen E. Führing writes:
> I just rechecked the alias Problem:
> /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains says
> stange.net:stange-stangenet
>
> But even if I setup ~stange/.qmail-stangenet-default
> I get this error:
qmail-send will not re-read virtualdomains until you send it a SIGHUP
or shut it dow
> im actually looking for a good source or explanation for installing a pop3
> daemon safely and easly like qmail...
> what about the qmail-pop3d?
> what is it and how do i make it work?
See http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html#pop-imap-servers>.
It's a good idea to consult "Life with qmail" be
wolfgang zeikat writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] connects to your qmail via SMTP
> with a mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> now qmail checks rcpthosts to find out if whatever.com is a host it
> accepts mail for - for delivery. if yes, it delivers them according to
> your qmail setup.
>
> if not, i
Federico Barbazza writes:
> i installed tcpserver to run for pop3.
> this is my code line:
> "tcpserver -u 0 -g 0 -c 100 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup hostname
> checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &"
> Is it rigtht to launch tcpserver as root???
tcpserver must be run as root init
> now, i dont want to have /home/dom1-sales/Mailbox and
> /home/dom2-sales/Mailbox but instead have /mailuser/dom1-sales/Mailbox
> and /mailuser/dom2-sales/Mailbox
> is this possible and if so, how?
You can make entries for these addresses in /var/qmail/users/assign,
and let the homedir field be
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