Re: control/locals prolem

1999-04-08 Thread Uwe Ohse
[.domain hack in locals] > > btw: i think that kind of game is evil. > > What risks or problems are there in this game then? This will simply not work: @domain.example hosta IN MX 10 hosta IN MX 20 server-with-my-dotdomain-in-locals-hack * IN MX 10 server-with-my-dotdomain-in-locals-

Re: forwarding is BCC?

1999-01-20 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 01:14:27PM +0100, Mirko Zeibig wrote: > Does qmail do a BCC when forwarding messages like > above?. No. qmail does not rewrite the message in that stage (it does so only in the injection phase). It merely rewrites the envelope. But the mailing list software looks into th

again: maildir question: why chdir()?

1999-01-27 Thread Uwe Ohse
maildir.5 states: A program delivers a mail message in six steps. First, it chdir()s to the maildir directory. why? I'd like to avoid to have to do a chdir() inside a library or force a chdir() outside of that library. I assume this has to do something with NFS, but i don't under

Re: qmail-pop3d on system mbox files?

1999-05-21 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 08:27:28AM -, John Conover wrote: > Will qmail-pop3d work if mail is delivered in Unix mbox format? No way. qmail-pop3d knows about exactly one database format, that's maildir. Regards, Uwe

Re: qmail-inject: fatal: qq trouble ....

1999-12-05 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 01:19:19AM -0500, Guillaume Paquet wrote: > I installed qmail like it was explained in INSTALL and INSTALL.vsm and I > copied the proc file in /var/qmail/rc but when I test it out, like it's > written in TEST.deliver , it says: > > bash-2.03$ echo to: fou | /var/qmail/bi

Re: 2 Problems SMTP and Virtual

1999-12-31 Thread Uwe Ohse
> SERVER RESPONSE: '553: sorry, that domains isn't in my list of allowed > rcpthosts (#5.7.1) ( Account 'cdrinc.net', SMTP Server: 'cdrinc.net') "that domain". /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts doesn't contain the domain name of the recipient, and tcp-env or tcp-server (depending on how qmail-smtpd i

Re: Non_allowed_to_perform_deliveries_as_root

2000-01-12 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 11:49:29PM +0100, Lars-Åke Torlind wrote: > saying that "Not_allowed_to_perform_deliveries_as_root". The user is able to > send mails from the system. qmail-lspawn detects that it would start a qmail-local process with uid 0. It strongly dislikes that. this usually means

Re: Qmail crashing TCP/IP-stack

2000-01-28 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 11:29:01AM +0100, Henrik Öhman wrote: > 3Com 3c905B (Running in 100Mbit to the router) debug the driver for that one, or try another type of ethernet card. Regards, Uwe

Re: Attachments over 500K slow

2000-02-04 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 11:39:00AM -0500, Shakaib Sayyid wrote: > We are an ISP and whenever our dialup customer send an attachment > over 500K it returns with the error "SMPT timed out". > > Thanks for all the suggestions to find a solution. first: look into the ISPs mail server log files. se

Re: Maildir and procmail and safecat

2000-02-25 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 06:48:50PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > W. Richard Stevens did that benchmark in _Advanced Unix Programming_ quite > a while back; as I recall, the difference between single-character writes > and buffered writes in his data was an order of magnitude or two. of course.

Re: Lots of mails bouncing & Problem creating an account with an & symbol

2000-02-25 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 02:29:46PM +0800, john wrote: > I see that there are lots of mails that are getting bounced and are sitting in the >postmaster account. How can I resend these mails. this depends on your mail client. > Next I have a problem with the & symbol in qmail. One person posted

Re: [ log question ] - to all Qmail adm.

2000-02-25 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 10:24:49AM +0100, Luka Gerzic wrote: > can anybody tell me where qmail store log files after few day's ? > i can't find them in /var/log/qmail exept for past 2 day's. reconfigure /service/qmail/log/run or whatever script starts the qmail system. I use something like that:

Re: Problem locating large email

2000-02-29 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 02:11:59PM -0800, Bill Parker wrote: > Some insane person at my company attempted to e-mail a very large > file attachment from a Macintosh (around 10megs)...I know ...how > can I locate this monster on my linux box if I need to prevent the mac > from trying

Re: Forward Messages to a secondary Mail Server

2000-02-29 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 05:27:04PM -0500, Jeff Russell, AIT wrote: > This is a question regarding forwarding mail to a secondary server. We need to >forward email on a per user email basis. Is there a way that when qmail receives >email, and does not find that specific address for the user,

Re: Qmail Howto by Adam McKenna

2000-03-01 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 03:46:41PM +1100, David Uzzell wrote: > #supervise /var/lock/qmail-smtpd tcpserver -v -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u71 -g100 > rblsmtpd qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | setuser qmaill accustamp | \ > setuser qmaill cyclog -s500 -n5 /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd & > > It the responds with > A

Re: I spoke too soon.

2000-03-01 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 02:06:17AM -0700, Stephen Bosch wrote: > Meaning that the operative variable is the RELAYCLIENT portion, not just the > allow. The server will only relay if the RELAYCLIENT variable is set, > correct? But I need the allow all at the end to ensure that I can receive > mail

Re: Lost Mail

2000-03-01 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 05:47:25PM -0700, Tom Reinertson wrote: > The mail log shows the sendmail on my workstation processing the messages just > fine, I think, but I really don't know how to read output from sendmail. indeed. Something like: Feb 29 16:42:33 thecanyons sendmail[7437]: QAA07436

Re: Qmail bounce... please help?!

2000-02-22 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 10:00:59AM +0100, Johannes Angeldorff wrote: > Q: Doesn't the error message "User_is_over_quota_email_returned" seem to well, that message has not been generated by qmail, but by some other program (possibly called from a .qmail file). > regard the quota for _returned_ m

Re: pop3 and checkpassword

2000-02-16 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 10:33:10PM +1300, kiwitp wrote: > Escape character is '^]' > +ok <573.950693006@INIT VERSION=sysvinit-2.74 the qmail-popup command (more precisely the "main" function) was started with a garbled command line and environment. That is, it thinks "INIT VERSION=sysvinit-2.74"

Re: Problem compiling qmail

2000-02-21 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 04:01:07PM +0100, Niall Dalton wrote: > Can someone point me in the direction of the problem? i can't imagine what's happening. > ./auto-str auto_qmail `head -1 conf-qmail` > auto_qmail.c > make: *** [auto_qmail.c] Error 139 i had a look into auto-str and that simple s

Re: logging ?

2000-02-21 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 12:49:52PM +, John P. Looney wrote: > So, it looks like the getpw program I hacked is having problems...what > could cause this ? i don't see that. > What does qmail-lspawn write to fd 0 ? log entries. > What's supposed to be accepting this ? logger / splogger /

Re: [re-post] qmail-pop3d not timing out?

2000-02-21 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 12:37:07PM +, Fred Backman wrote: > int timeout = 1200; > > in qmail-popup.c and qmail-pop3d.c? If not, how do I go about? in qmail-pop3d you have to change two lines, in saferead() and safewrite(). Other than that, yes. > (2) I did just that, changing it from 120

Re: qmail slow down

2000-02-21 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 05:31:24PM +0200, kailash oswal wrote: > I have a database of 2000 customers on my qmail servernow a days my > customers are experiencing slow connectivity when they download thier > mails...what can be the problem ...how can I correct this. almost everything can b

Re: dumping messages based on subject

2000-02-22 Thread Uwe Ohse
> is there a way to dump a message that contains a certain string of words in > the subject line, or in the message body?? > > i.e. take any message with the string"pretty park" contained in it and send > it to /dev/null?? .qmail: # the next two lines must be one ... unless sent by email

Re: Qmail bounce... please help?!

2000-02-22 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 02:48:08AM +0100, Johannes Angeldorff wrote: > Does anyone know why? I enclose part of the qmail log. In the first mail > the incoming mail is sent from an SMTP directly to the server. > In the second mail the incoming mail is sent from our local SMTP server via > another

Re: buggy interaction with VisualMail

2000-02-22 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 12:33:59PM -0500, Dave Kitabjian wrote: > But when using qmail as the smtp server for VM, AND subsequently reading > the mail in VM, there are two problems: you mean VM -> qmail-smtpd -> qmail -> qmail-pop3d -> VM ? > 1) Date corruption example? > 2) Missi

Re: Low Priority: Qmail SMTP Dialogue

2000-02-23 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 01:01:41PM -0500, Aled Treharne wrote: > This might be a weird question, but I need to change the text in the > responses that qmail gives to the remote MUA when in an SMTP/ESMTP dialogue. > I just want to be able to edit the text, not the numeric codes. Is there an > eas

Re: Sorry,_message_has_wrong_owner._(#4.3.5)/

2000-02-23 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 10:49:49PM -0500, Mark E. Drummond wrote: > Anyone tell me what that message means? I just installed qmail on a > SPARC5 running solaris 7. This is the first time I have come across this > error. a file in /var/qmail/queue/mess doesn't belong to the user qmailq. This is u

Re: hosts?

2000-03-02 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:42:23AM -0500, MooNDoGGie iS wrote: > :mail.server > > This tells qmail to direct my outbound mail to my ISP. > However when ever I have any local mail it also gets sent to my ISP's > server and because it has no QDM it gets bounced back. I would like to > make all l

Re: New to Qmail: Questions

2000-03-03 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 12:01:53AM -0700, Vincent Danen wrote: > SMTP daemon is listening to port 1025. My old SMTP server forward > *@bbs.freezer-burn.org to bbs.freezer-burn.org:1025 (basically the same > as localhost:1025). Is there a way to do this with Qmail? Can I do a See the qmail-re

Re: More RBL

2000-03-03 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 04:42:02PM -0500, Mark Tippetts wrote: > Would I need to modify the Vpopmail source to add the RBLSMTPD="" > assignment? Am I imagining bogymen and there's no problem? Or is there a > problem, but with a simple solution I've missed? /* possibly-skip-rblsmtpd.c *

Re: qq failure on HP-UX

2000-03-08 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 05:06:20PM +0100, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > I got this bounce mesage today: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > crt0: ERROR: mmap failed for dld (data) errno:00012 > Unable to forward message: qq permanent problem (#5.3.0). this can only happen "if ((exitcode >= 11) && (e

Re: unable to open mutex

2000-03-08 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 11:05:42AM +0800, Jason Huang wrote: > Every file is the right mode and owner that it should be. > Is it possible that qmail remeber the uid number ? it does. They are compiled in. Regards, Uwe

Re: qmail-pop3d and tcpserver

2000-03-08 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 10:04:31PM -0700, Andy Bradford wrote: > Just a quick question about using tcpserver to start qmail-pop3d. When > setting up qmail-smtpd it is possible to use tcpserver to accept > relaying by setting RELAYCLIENT="" in the tcprules database file. Is > there any simila

Re: qmail and /bin/mail

2000-03-09 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 11:55:35AM -0800, Donald R. McGregor wrote: > /bin/mail -f "${SENDER:-MAILER-DAEMON}" -d "$USER"' > > But the linux /bin/mail complains about both -f and -d > args. What's a better way to get this done? What are the > magic args to /bin/mail to get this to work? /bin

Re: Early aborts (Was: qq failure on HP-UX)

2000-03-09 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 05:57:23PM +0100, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > I assume this happened before the program entered main(). me too. > Which brings up a natural question: What, in general, is supposed to > happen if a program is unable to proceed before it enters main(), 1003.1, 3.2 "P

Re: inetd.conf and qmail

2000-03-13 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 01:30:59PM -0500, clifford thurber wrote: > smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /opt/ucspi/bin/tcpserver -R > -x/etc/tcp.sm > tp.cdb -c400 -uUID -g GID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd doesn't work. tcpserver is an inetd replacement, not an inetd add-on. And anyway, y

Re: ALRM signal and the queue

2000-03-13 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 12:51:59PM -0500, clifford thurber wrote: > How can I process the queue since the ALRM signal doesn't seem to > be working? it works as designed. Maybe you should call /var/qmail/bin/qmail-tcpok: it's quite likely that qmails retry backoff mechanism is getting in your w

Re: smart relay host

2000-03-17 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 05:09:36AM -0800, Don Owens wrote: > relay.host instead of to one of relay.host's mail exchangers. Does > anyone know how to make qmail use multiple relays for outgoing mail? changing this line in qmail-remote.c: switch (relayhost ? dns_ip(&ip,&host) : dns_mxip(&ip,&hos

Re: Maildir Scalability Question

2000-03-18 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 02:06:11AM -0800, David E. Weekly wrote: > my Maildir has 5086 messages in it to be precise. Recently (i.e., in the > last 500 messages or so) retreiving mail has become *painfully* slow. > Looking at "top," I find that imapd is choking the CPU, taking 97% of the > CPU ju

Re: Maildir Scalability Question

2000-03-18 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 11:59:39AM -0500, andy huhn wrote: > I thought linear was O(n)? What are some more modern file systems linear is O(n). But the programs are not reading the directories once, they open every file once - n*(n/2). > that speed this up, and how do they do it? Do they us

Re: Error 1

2000-03-22 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 03:55:58PM +0800, Philip Mores wrote: > ./compile sig_alarm.c > In file included from /usr/include/signal.h:294, > from sig_alarm.c:1: > /usr/include/bits/sigcontext.h:28: asm/sigcontext.h: No such file or > directory > make: *** [sig_alarm.o] Error 1 >

Re: MX records changed, but mails still go through old mailserver...

2000-03-25 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 08:51:25PM -, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > but mails are still handled by the old mailserver. If I use the new one as > SMTP server directly, the mails are delivered locally (using qmail and > vpopmail). Has anyone got an idea what's going on here? Yes. Your MX record for

Re: qmail-pop3d: connection closed by foreign host

2000-03-25 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 07:01:07PM -0800, Juara Com wrote: > What am I doing wrong? Don't know. Try running strace -vs 512 -o out -f \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup juara.com /usr/sbin/logpopauth-pre \ /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir there may be a hint around

Re: How I delay the sending of a message?

2000-03-25 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:46:22PM +0100, Eduardo Calderón Chao wrote: > Is it posible to inject a message, but that the qmail does not try to > send it until within two days, for example? It's possible to get this behaviour through some hacks (FAQ 5.3 plus serialmail, for example). You can use

Re: help qmail + fastforward + mailing list

2000-03-25 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 07:50:02PM +0100, G.Z. wrote: > when I write to listar@mydomain the alias reads > listar: "|/home/listar/listar" > but mail is delivered to the Mailbox of the listar account This is how the alias mechanism is designed to work: mail gets delivered to alias (and fastforwar

Re: Compilation error

2000-03-25 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 04:55:59PM -0300, Erico Augusto Bettoni wrote: > I'm trying to compile qmail-1.03 on a solaris 2.5.1 with gcc-2.95.2 and > bintuils-2.9.1 (ld). I've adjusted conf-cc and conf-ld: > > conf-cc: > gcc -02 typo. -O2, not -02. > Users and groups are created and /var/qmail

Re: Another (slightly different) cr lf question

2000-03-25 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 04:47:18PM -0800, thomas wrote: > Is there an easy way to have qmail either not do the crlf -> lf translation > on files it delivers locally, or is there any easy way to undo this? No. No. > We have IMAP clients accessing these files directly off the unix box, > and th

Re: qmail not delivering to ./Maildir/

2000-03-25 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 04:20:14AM -0800, John Conover wrote: > Now, I have the same problem on a new machine-Debian 2.1, qmail 1.03. > > qmail-inject DOES deliver to ./Maildir/, but normal mail does not. > > Any suggestions on how to track down the problem, (I'm at my wits end > on it)? Read

Re: New install...

2000-03-27 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 05:41:13PM -0600, Andy Walden wrote: > Nothing ever appears in /var/spool/mail. I have done this plenty of times > so I know its something stupid. Any thoughts would be appreciated. a) an empty .qmail file b) a program in a .qmail file exits 99. c) "fastforward -p" Rega

Re: qmail-pop3 problems with 'large' accounts

2000-03-28 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 09:25:26AM -0800, Gary Richardson wrote: > I'm having problems with a pop user checking their. There are around > 12000 emails in their MailDir directory and I get the following error when I > try to download them: > > -ERR unable to scan $HOME/Maildir > Connection

Re: Need a little insite please

2000-03-28 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 10:22:05AM -0800, michael M. Honse wrote: > I have a qmail server up and running GREAT.. all is well.. > BUT... I want to bring up another that will Que up mail should the real mail > server crash, need rebooting, Melt down to slag, or ETC.. > Anyone have a how-to for

Re: Need a little insite please

2000-04-03 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 01:57:02PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: > > See http://www.ohse.de/uwe/misc/backupmx.txt for why i dislike > > backup mail servers. > > 'file not found.' Ugh. Fixed. Regards, Uwe

Re: Perl regex patch for badmailfrom envelope -- Re: Poor documentation of anti-spam options?checks

2000-04-04 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 10:47:38AM +0100, Will Harris wrote: > /172.(?:1[6-9]|2[0-9]|31).[0-9]+.[0-9]+$/ > > One line, nice and simple. add "wrong". 1.172.31.111 You should really use \. and ^ Regards, Uwe

Re: MAIL FROM && qmail question...

2000-04-05 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 08:56:24PM +0200, Christophe Lesur wrote: > okay, so add 'if my domain is' mydomain.com... no, just add useful information. btw: echo >/var/qmail/control/rcpthosts then look into FAQ 5.4 if you haven't done this already. Regards, Uwe

Re: slow mail (sends when qmail restarted)

2000-04-06 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 10:12:19PM +0200, Markus Stumpf wrote: > For quick queue inspection I use: > > #!/bin/sh > > qmail-qread \ > | grep -v done \ add -w > | grep -E '(remote|loc

Re: qmail-remote processes

2000-04-07 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 07:06:39PM -0300, Ricardo D. Albano wrote: > I can't set my qmail server to maximize the number of simultaneous > qmail-remote procs. I can't get more than 20 simul. procs., I was created > the file /var/qmail/control/concurrencyremote with the value 60. you need to rest

Re: problems with mercur/wsendmail/qmail

2000-04-08 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 12:57:34AM -0700, Dale Anderson wrote: > I have a utility on my web server called wsendmail.exe that's used for wsendmail is a piece of bad software. > exist at all. Is there any known reason for this? I thought it might have > something to do with the way that the wsen

Re: Limit file size--HELP HELP HELP

2000-04-30 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 10:52:15PM -0400, Shakaib Sayyid wrote: > Is there a way to limit the file size for attachments by > user name. Currently I have no. > # cat /var/qmail/control/databytes > 500 > > and there is one user who wants to send a file thats ~20M. Is > there a way to do th

Re: Three questions...

2000-05-02 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 09:35:47AM +0100, Gareth Harper wrote: > 1) His first requirement was to only allow relaying if the user had one > of his hosted domains as the From: line of an email. I've told him what > a bad idea this is but there's no persuading. So is there anyway to do > this but o

Re: qmail-inject

2000-05-02 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 09:23:44PM -0700, Mike Perks wrote: > How do I tell qmail-inject to send email thru a particular virtual domain > name? man qmail-inject > Currently it just gives the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is my > defauldomain > > The reason why I am asking is I have a cgi sc

Re: how to keep junk rejected by rblsmtpd

2000-05-02 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 07:19:29PM +0800, Martin Dougiamas wrote: > So, I would love to have a solution that: > >- collects the whole message >- sends a bounce to sender (as rblsmtpd is already doing) No. rblsmtp sends an error code ("5xx do not send junk" or so). It's the sendin

Re: dot-qmail: write to mbox named after current year & month

2000-05-02 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 09:47:07PM -0700, lewst wrote: > manually adjust the .qmail each month? For example, "mbox.2000-05". > > I've tried the following: > > % cat .qmail > ./mbox.`date +%Y-%m` |cat >./mbox.`date +%Y-%m` Usually this is not what you want: there is no protection against

Re: Mail purge

2000-05-02 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 04:02:39PM +0300, Mulindwa Eric wrote: > Is there any script I can Use to free up disk space i.e deleting someold > mails of clients.Am using qmail. that's a simple find job of you are using maildirs: ( for i in `awk -v FS=: '{print $1}' /etc/passwd` ; do

Re: POP or SMTP

2000-05-03 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 06:32:58PM +0300, R.Ilker Gokhan wrote: > My branch offices have slow links about 24.4 kbit. clear. > So i have to use lots effective their net link. You mean "i have to use the bandwidth efficiently"? > i will install mail server on brach office to communicate mai

Re: Interesting scenerio

2000-05-03 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 11:57:11AM +0300, Mulindwa Eric wrote: > I have an interesting scenerion, whereby I send mail to user and the mail > is not in the user's mailbox, what do U think could be the problem, and > also when I check in the maillog I see an error msg saying : > Yikes!Could_create_

Re: POP or SMTP

2000-05-03 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 11:41:47AM +0300, R.Ilker Gokhan wrote: > Thanks for replies. > which protocol should i use to establish communication between branch office > and the main office so that using the bandwith becomes more effectively? It does not really matter. The bandwidth requirements ar

Re: Backing up HUGE Maildir systems

2000-05-04 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 01:14:25AM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote: > Anyone have any tips on how to effeciently backup Maildir systems with millions > of files? don't do it. Nobody likes getting duplicate mail. > I am pondering switching the company mail server over to Maildir. > It's a very large

Re: redirecting some email

2000-05-04 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 10:04:58AM +1000, Jason Brooke wrote: > Is it possible to have qmail forward email destined to one address, to > another address instead, if it contains certain file attachments based on > file extension? yes. Use some magic inside the .qmail file. man dot-qmail man qma

Re: dnscache, multilog

2000-05-13 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 09:44:42PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > exec setuidgid root multilog t s2 n2 -\*cached\* ./main '-* cached *' ./main multilog doesn't use traditional unix/dos shell wildcards. A star stands for "ignore everything up to the next instance of the character followi

Re: tcpserver problem

2000-05-17 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 02:31:09AM +0200, Federico Barbazza wrote: > i am receiving lot of mail in my server. > Tcpserver write me on terminal: > "warning: dropping connection, unable to fork: temporary failure" > What can i do to resolve this problem??? Use top and/or ps to see if you have too

Re: preline: _Not_enough_space

2000-05-18 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 08:48:21PM -0700, Lidia Marchioni wrote: > |preline /var/qmail/alias/forums.ezmlm/filter.pl [...] > I always get the following error: deferral: > ld.so.1:_/usr/bin/perl:_fatal:_/usr/lib/libc.so.1:_mmap_failed: > _Not_enough_space/preline:_fatal:_child_crashed/ The system

Re: preline: _Not_enough_space

2000-05-19 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 01:53:35PM -0700, Lidia Marchioni wrote: > Is perl being started by one qmail users (qmails, qmaill, etc)? No, not really - it's started by whoever own that .qmail. But the ulimit is inherited from the shell that started qmail. > /nofiles(descriptors)_64 > /memory(kbyt

Re: fastforward?- new to qmail

2000-05-13 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 12:40:51PM -0600, Aaron Reynolds wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Again. My qmail server is not on b.com domain. It is on a.com. I have b.com is neither in virtualdomains nor in locals, right? Then qmail doesn't treat it as local. There are ways aro

Re: Disable telnet to port 110

2000-05-14 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 05:48:50PM +0800, Mark Lo wrote: > I would like to know how to disable telnet to port 110, but still > let my user to retrive mail via mail client at port 110?? (using > tcpserver) telnet and your mail client do exactly the same things. That means: if you disable te

Re: 553, version 0

2000-05-24 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 07:00:43AM +0200, clemensF wrote: > + // changed Wed-24.05.00-03:29 -ino: because fetchmail hickups when 553 > + // arrives out-of-band after recipient has been checked! > + // following line moved up from it's place in smtp_rcpt > + if (flagbarf) { err_bmf(); retu

Re: doc tarballs

2000-06-01 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:44:04PM +0200, Felix von Leitner wrote: > Is anyone willing to help port the djb docs to man pages? fix "man". Do not duplicate information/confusion. Yeah, i know, "man" is a big monster nobody really likes to touch. I can understand that, i just had a look into thr

Re: big-* patches and FD_SET()

2000-06-14 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 11:58:20AM +0200, Toens Bueker wrote: > ./chkspawn > Oops. Your system's FD_SET() has a hidden limit of 1024 descriptors. edit qmail-1.03/conf-spawn, set the value to a number less then or equal to 509. > How can I increase this 'hidden limit'? You can try what is d

Re: I crashed a qmail server

2000-07-02 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 12:17:14PM +, george wrote: > I bring this up for one BIG reasons: I read one of qmail's features was > built-in looping control. Apparently, I am doing something wrong with > my QMAIL configuration. Yup: You are forwarding postmaster mail. This is a guarantee for

Re: qmail and local mail under Red Hat linux 6.2

2000-10-20 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:32:00PM -0400, Doug wrote: > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 20 10:48:02 2000 > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Status: RO > X-Status: > X-Keywords: > X-UID: 685 how does the file on the mail server look like? > A=pr

Re: meaning of the log files

2000-11-13 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 02:19:29AM +0800, Mark Lo wrote: > In my /var/log/qmail/current file, I got some error messages that i > would like to know what is the meaning. >That is, "warning: trouble opening local/8/16131; will try again lager." qmail-send either failed to open the file /va

Re: Last message!

2000-11-24 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 08:54:58AM -0300, Fernando Barreto wrote: > ./compile dns.c > dns.c:11: parse error before `int' > make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1. delete that line or fix your systems include libraries. Regards, Uwe

Re: Last message!

2000-11-24 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 01:14:51PM -0300, Fernando Barreto wrote: > tai64nlocal.c:60: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type > make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1. > > > I checked the include file sys/time.h and I didn't the structure > that tai64nlocal.c calls. t

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-04 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:22:43PM -0600, John W. Lemons III wrote: > >Then ignore that minority group and don't prolong their agony by giving > >them access to non-solutions like virus scanners. > > I disagree with the assertion that virus scanners are non-solutions. me too. > On the > mail

Re: AntiVirus!

2000-12-06 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:58:41AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > c) reminding users that, like the Canadian Inuit, who have 500 different > words for "snow", that the German language has 1000 different words for > "stupid". it hasn't, but it has thousands of ways to express ones stupidness.

Re: Alias problem with "-" before "."

2000-12-22 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:13:19PM +0100, oliver bender wrote: > hm, a strange subject, isn't it? So let me explain, what I mean: > I tried to create an alias file for a user i.e. John-Paul Doe. I named that > file .qmail-john-paul:doe I found out, that mails to such a user will be is there a

Re: 502 unimplemented

2001-01-23 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 05:20:56PM +0100, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: > We use qmail on one of our systems (How do I find out what version it > is? Did not install it myself...). Version: 1.03 has /var/qmail/bin/bouncesaying 1.02 qmail-send logs "status:" lines. 1.01 supports con

Re: smtproute logging

2001-02-02 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 07:00:24AM -0500, Steve Woolley wrote: > I am about to use smtproute to route some email > to another email server. Does using smtproute log any > messages when used? no, but you might add some logging to qmail-remote.c between these lines: if (relayhost) { i = st

Re: newline in bouncesaying?

2001-02-04 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 05:40:19PM +0100, Wolfgang Zeikat wrote: > is it possible to somehow use a newline command in the message that the > bouncesaying command sends? try |bouncesaying "`cat filename`" or |bouncesaying "`printf 'line1\nline2'`" you can also try some other tr

Re: bouncesaying and maildrop

2001-02-04 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 10:28:16PM -0800, David Benfell wrote: > I see the error message printed out, but watching the log, I don't see > the bounce going out. Looking at some old mail, I see that > bouncesaying doesn't, by itself, bounce anything. bouncesaying exits with 100, which qmail inte

Re: What is the matter?

2001-02-04 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 02:25:54PM +0800, lyndon wrote: > Feb 5 14:19:17 mail qmail: 981353957.038669 warning: trouble marking >remote/11/127109; message will be delivered twice! > Feb 5 14:19:17 mail qmail: 981353957.038881 warning: unable to unlink >remote/11/127109; will try again later

Re: Delay in POP and SMTP response

2001-02-04 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 12:13:45PM +0530, Jagadish.N wrote: >I even telneted to 110 and 25 specifing >the mail server's ip address but it takes quite a long time to respond. try starting tcpserver with the -R option. Regards, Uwe

Re: anybody can't help me insert some text in the end of every message my mailserver relay for?

2001-02-06 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 01:35:52PM +0800, dick wrote: > Subject: anybody can't help me insert some text in the end of every message my >mailserver relay for? This is possibly an evil idea, but anyway: Either patch qmail-queue.c or qmail-smtpd.c (depending on what you want to achieve). In the la

Re: chrooting qmail...

2001-02-06 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 02:40:59PM +, Thomas Ackermann wrote: > delivery 1: deferral: CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._(#4.4.3)/ [...] > am i missing something ??? /etc/resolv.conf Regards, Uwe

Re: compiling qmail-1.03 under SCO Open Server 5.05 and the UDK from SCO.

2001-02-07 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 09:17:10AM -0500, Jocelyn Clement wrote: > This is it: I ran the "make setup check" and it generates an error > message on the "qmail-local.c" saying that there is no definition > of the "timestruct_t" in the "stat.h" file. > > I am using the SCO development sys

Re: thanks for you answer my question!but it is none used.

2001-02-07 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:51:48AM +0800, dick wrote: > i add these codes in the end of qmail-smtpd.c.but it won't work. > can't you tell me how can i do it! > (by the way, i don't know how to patch the qmail-queue.c or qmail-smtpd.c.only add >these code into blast?) Yes, at the end of the blas

Re: multi-thread

2001-02-07 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 04:47:24PM +0100, Jacques WERNERT wrote: > does anyone know if someone is working on a multithreaded release of > qmail-smtpd and or qmail-rspawn? s/release/version/ As far as i know nobody does that right now. It might be fun, though. Regards, Uwe

Re: logging to console and log files

2001-02-07 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 07:16:59AM +, Tim Hassan wrote: > I actually liked that very much (if server is physically restricted) but > there is one draw back; nothing will be logged to log/current. > Therefore, I wandered if there is a way to have supervise log to both > console and to qmail

Re: Supervise without multilog.

2001-02-07 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 11:57:34AM -0500, Peter Brezny wrote: > I'd like to run supervise, but i would prefer the logging still take place > in /var/log/maillog. you are mistaken. > For example, could i just leave my /var/qmail/rc file as is and omit the > portions regarding multilog in the

Re: Do I need to restart anything in QMail if I make changes to the control files?

2001-02-08 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 04:42:29PM +1300, Martin Searancke wrote: [nothing but the subject] See the fine qmail-send manual page: CONTROL FILES WARNING: qmail-send reads its control files only when it starts. If you change the control files, you must stop and restar

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