Return-Path header set by qmail?

2000-06-26 Thread wolfgang zeikat
our redhat linux machine mira's sendmail is using our redhat linux qmail server luzifer as smarthost when users on that mira send mails, the mails contain a return-path containing the full hostname mira.webseek.de which is not fully qualified (just for internal LAN use) and thus causing problems

autoreplies in dot-qmail or fastworward?

2000-06-26 Thread wolfgang zeikat
how would i set up an autoreply for incoming messages in qmail? with a .qmail-* file? and if so, what should it contain exactly? or is there a way to do it with the fastforward tool? wolfgang

Re: autoreplies in dot-qmail or fastworward?

2000-06-26 Thread wolfgang zeikat
i found a rather easy way to do it at http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/1999/04/msg00134.html now i wonder if i could quote the original message? is there a variable like $msg or something that can be used for that? wolfgang

Re: Return-Path header set by qmail?

2000-06-27 Thread wolfgang zeikat
i wrote: >our redhat linux machine mira's sendmail is using our redhat linux qmail >server luzifer as smarthost >when users on that mira send mails, the mails contain a return-path >containing the full hostname mira.webseek.de which is not fully qualified >(just for internal LAN use) and thus cau

strange problem with t-online

2000-09-28 Thread wolfgang zeikat
in the course of some mailing list activity i keep getting this error: Sep 29 02:53:41 luzifer qmail: 970188821.500534 starting delivery 142187: msg 582933 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sep 29 02:53:41 luzifer qmail: 970188821.500693 status: local 1/10 remote 1/20 Sep 29 02:53:41 luzifer qmail: 9701

Re: strange problem with t-online

2000-10-01 Thread wolfgang zeikat
there is no user t nor a user t-online but still mail to t-online is *not* handled by ~/alias/.qmail-default but just creates that error message, how i can i "catch" it? wolfgang Also sprach Tim Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 28.09.2000: Check the permissions on your user t's Maildir - Ori

Re: strange problem with t-online

2000-10-01 Thread wolfgang zeikat
thanks, that solved my problem. Also sprach Alexander Pennace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 01.10.2000: The qmail-getpw program is responsible for telling qmail where .qmail files responsible for a given local address are; your problems could be caused by its confusion. What is the output of: $ qmail-

Re: Qmail Tshirts

2000-10-10 Thread wolfgang zeikat
would you add ash gray long sleeve too? cheers wolfgang Also sprach Vern Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 10.10.2000: >For what it's worth, cafepress.com now offers four new products >which I have made available with the qmail designs. They are: an >ash gray tshirt, a sweat shirt, a long sleeve ts

badmailfrom

2000-10-29 Thread wolfgang zeikat
is there a way to put all hosts from one domain into badmailfrom? not all users from one host of that domain as in @host.domain.com but all users from all hosts of domain.com ...

Re: netscape error

2000-10-31 Thread wolfgang zeikat
wild guess: try and set "Use SSL ..." in netscape preferences / mail servers to "Never" >On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 02:14:42PM +0800, shaolei wrote: >> >> my qmail system only support outlook receive email >> netscape can't,password error,why? >> how to correct it? > >Are you using POP or IMAP? Wha

accepting and delivering locally for a different IP ...

2000-11-14 Thread wolfgang zeikat
how can i make qmail accept mails for user@[123.123.123.123] when the machine 123.123.123.123 forwards all mails to our qmail server? wolfgang

Re: accepting and delivering locally for a different IP ...

2000-11-15 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
Dave Sill wrote: > Put 123.123.123.123 in control/locals and control/rcpthosts. > > -Dave ACK! i had mistyped the IP in both files, thanks for making me check once more :) wolfgang

Re: Forwarding all messages to local net behind masquerade

2000-11-17 Thread wolfgang zeikat
if your domain is tatrasoft.sk, remove tatrasoft.sk from ~/control/locals (if its there), and if the IP number of your server on the local network is 10.1.1.1, put this in ~/control/smtproutes: tatrasoft.sk:10.1.1.1 (that has to be the actual IP of your internal mail server of course) wolfgang

Handling To: entries (defaulthost?)

2000-11-28 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
we have lately gotten tons of mails from external senders with weird To: entries based on various email client address books with commas, semicolons, whitespaces and such. so i now want to *stop* qmail from automatically expanding "To: whatever" into "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" so that only intact [E

Re: Handling To: entries (defaulthost?)

2000-11-28 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
Frank Tegtmeyer schrieb: > I doubt that the sender is really external - you wouldn't get the mail > through SMTP because of missing MX records. good point > I think there is a wild > running script or a buggy SMTP client inside your network. > > Regards, Frank you were right, i found the bad

smtproutes

2000-12-08 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
is it possible to have more than one smtproute for the same destination for the case that the first relay cannot be reached? if so, how? wolfgang

Re: MX records

2001-01-02 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
to check existing MX records, type # nslookup >server 212.121.128.10 >set type=mx then type the domain names you want to look the MX records up for, e.g. > xyz.com wolfgang

Re: smtproutes

2001-01-03 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
In the previous episode (03.01.2001), Steve Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I have set >smtproutes >to smtp:exchange. the syntax to send all mail (except for locals) to one host is: :that.one.host wolfgang

RE: RE: is there a filter to scan message header and reject accordingly

2001-01-28 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
In the previous episode (26.01.2001), Brian Longwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >If I knew how to write perl I probably wouldn't be askingthanks for the tip anyway here is an idea (not necessarily guru-approved but maybe worth a thought): a ~/.qmail file catches every mail for the user and send

RE: RE: is there a filter to scan message header and reject accordingly

2001-01-29 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
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$RECIPIENT.txt)" = "Subject: whatever" ] >>then >>cat "/tmp/to$RECIPIENT.txt" | qmail-inject devnul >>else >>

Re: SOMEONE GET ME OFF THIS LIST

2001-01-29 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
when you send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] you get a reply - sent to the address that you mailed from of course - to which you have to reply once more for confirmation (so that nobody can subscribe your adress by forging it) i just tried it ... wolfgang -- if it is there and you can see it

Re: blocking email address

2001-02-02 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
In the previous episode (01.02.2001), Matthew Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, KIM wrote: >>Hi to all, >> >>How can i block a specific email address in qmail? > >echo "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> >/var/qmail/control/badmailfrom >echo "@another.domain.name" >> /var/qmail/control/

newline in bouncesaying?

2001-02-04 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
is it possible to somehow use a newline command in the message that the bouncesaying command sends? so that the error mail from the sending smtp server back to the envelope sender would contain deliberate line breaks? wolfgang

defaultdomain and defaulthost

2001-02-09 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
we sometimes receive external mails with malformed addresses based on client-sided addressbook entries like Name; Firstname [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or something like that). qmail notifies the sender that Name;@webseek.de (which is our domain) does not exist. i would like to prevent that completion t

newlines in dot-qmail files?

2001-02-25 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
the program delivery lines in my dot-qmail files are beginning to get lengthy - for example with if ... elif statements and such ... is there a way to continue a line on the next line in order to keep an overwiew and make editing easier? thanks wolfgang

Re: Return-Path

2001-03-03 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
In the previous episode (03.03.2001), Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Anyway to control what the return-path is? with qmail you can also use the command sendmail -f to send mails. if your script uses that, you could thus define the "return-path", the smtp envelope sender, to be precise. qmail-i

Re: Spam from addresses harvested from message IDs

2001-03-03 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
In the previous episode (03.03.2001), Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >What I'd like to do is collect all of this mail in a Maildir, so I can >avoid >all the double bounces. What I propose to do is put this in >~alias/.qmail-default: > >|condredirect messageidspam sh -c "echo "$DEFAULT" |

How to move messages from ~/Mailbox to ~/Maildir/ ?

2001-04-02 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
Wolfgang Zeikat System Administrator - Technology WSI Webseek Infoservice GmbH & Co. KG - Herrengraben 3 - D-20459 Hamburg Phone (+49) 40-300 69 322 - Fax (+49) 40-300 69 399 http://www.infoseek.de - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Omitting certain headers in outgoing mails?

2001-05-09 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
some MUA's add headers to outgoing mails: Netscape mail under Linux adds Sender: real_username@host Pine adds X-Sender: real_username@host which can be customized to Sender: real_username@host can i have qmail remove those headers in outgoing mails? thanks wolfgang

Re: Omitting certain headers in outgoing mails?

2001-05-10 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
In the previous episode (10.05.2001), Robin S. Socha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > * Wolfgang Zeikat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010510 00:05]: > > some MUA's add headers to outgoing mails: > > > > Netscape mail under Linux adds > > Sender: real_u

Re: tcprules, rcpthost, ip address problem

2000-07-03 Thread wolfgang zeikat
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 01:10:05PM -0700, Barry Dwyer wrote: > > 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" > 192.168.0.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" > :allow did you run tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.tmp < /etc/tcp.smtp after creating that /etc/tcp.smtp file? -- wolfgang ___

Re: qmail returns failure notices when local2remote

2000-07-04 Thread wolfgang zeikat
in the file rcpthosts you need to list all the hosts/domains, that you want to get mail FOR, not FROM. that means the hosts that your qmail server is "responsible" for. so it accepts mails from anyone for those domains and tries to deliver them directly to the users, virtualusers or recipients li

Re: qmail returns failure notices when local2remote

2000-07-04 Thread wolfgang zeikat
Also sprach Karl Voit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04.07.2000: >Ow. This is getting complicated now :( No its not. its logical: [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 - f

Re: spam and well known smtp servers

2000-07-05 Thread wolfgang zeikat
this is a bit off topic, but i consider it useful anyway ... http://spamcop.net offers handy online forms that process spam mails (do whois / dns lookups) and prepare a ready-to-send complaint emails with choices which ISP/Mail Server to send them to ... i use it a lot with spam arriving in our d

Re: Courier-IMAP

2000-07-08 Thread wolfgang zeikat
There is a courier-imap mailing list ... Subscribe to the courier-users mailing list from http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/courier-users, or send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and put "subscribe" in the subject line. This mailing list does not accept mail from non-subscribers. Y

Re: Help! Qmail tells me "domain not found in rcphosts"

2000-07-13 Thread wolfgang zeikat
Jochen E. Führing writes: > But in fact, the domain where the mail is coming > from IS in rcphosts! [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,

Re: Autorespond & Forward Problem

2000-07-14 Thread wolfgang zeikat
in /etc/aliases i added autortest: alias-autor then i created the file /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-autor it contains: |/var/qmail/alias/autorespond 1 100 /var/tmp/autor.txt /var/tmp/autorespond/no-mailbox (that is one line, no matter how your email client wrapped it here) not sure if you reall

Re: Announcing qmail-autoresponder version 0.91

2000-07-20 Thread wolfgang zeikat
i installed version 0.92. it sends the reply and ignores the message when repeated immediately, but it does not quote the original message. can it do that? and if so, can it shorten the original message to lets say 100 K or something? thanks, wolfgang Also sprach Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PR

Re: qmail: cannot mail to root

2000-07-22 Thread wolfgang zeikat
Also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 23.07.2000: from the qmail-1.0.3/INSTALL file: 5. Read INSTALL.alias. Minimal survival command: # (cd ~alias; touch .qmail-postmaster .qmail-mailer-daemon qmail-root) # chmod 644 ~alias/.qmail* from qmail-1.0.3/INSTALL.alias: * r

Re: r all these possible with qmail

2000-07-23 Thread wolfgang zeikat
see http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq.html and Life with qmail at http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html for answers to at least some of your questions.

user accounts and groups for the qmail binaries and such

2000-07-28 Thread wolfgang zeikat
i am about to install qmail in a fresh linux installation ... while looking at the qmail installation i currently have i noticed that all the qmail* users have /bin/bash as their login shell, same with the user alias ... is that necessary for the programm to work properly? i rather tend to have

qmail ident lookups

2000-07-31 Thread wolfgang zeikat
qmail seems to be doing ident lookups with each email a local user sends via SMTP. since the ident port has been disabled in our firewall, these lookups slow sending mail down on the users' client side. is there a way to run qmail without those lookups? wolfgang

Re: Announcing qmail-autoresponder version 0.93

2000-08-05 Thread wolfgang zeikat
i use qmail-autoresponder in .qmail-default to send a message back to senders who send to invalid users on our server. now i would like to know a few things: - is it possible to include only like the first 50 KB of the original message? so that for example bigger attachments would simply get trunc

Re: Announcing qmail-autoresponder version 0.93

2000-08-05 Thread wolfgang zeikat
Also sprach Olivier M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 05.08.2000: Isn't the subject (%S) enough ? the subject sure is good to have in the response, but i think of people who spend some time typing their mail, mistype the address, send without keeping a copy ... and have to retype it all in or

Re: Announcing qmail-autoresponder version 0.93

2000-08-05 Thread wolfgang zeikat
Also sprach David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 05.08.2000: So if you want to do your own bounce with your own message, *please* take the trouble to do it in a common enough bounce format that most tools that handle bounces will be able to figure it out. what w

Re: Announcing qmail-autoresponder version 0.93

2000-08-05 Thread wolfgang zeikat
well, i have decided to truncate the bounced message, and i simply added |head -c 50k >> /var/tmp/no-mailbox.txt to that .qmail-default, where /var/tmp/no-mailbox.txt is a temporary file that qmail-autoresponder finally uses for the message to the sender. wolfgang

Re: Announcing qmail-autoresponder version 0.93

2000-08-07 Thread wolfgang zeikat
Also sprach Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 07.08.2000: > - is it possible to include only like the first 50 KB of the original > message? I'll add that feature. great (i achieved by using the head command) > - is it possible to exclude local users from th

Re: Announcing qmail-autoresponder version 0.93

2000-08-07 Thread wolfgang zeikat
Also sprach Olivier M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 07.08.2000: >i achieved by using the head command) >and what about attachments ? head could cut one in the middle... it does cut them off, thus my autoreply says: --- Below this line is a copy of the message. (Note that this copy has been trunc

Re: filters

2000-08-09 Thread wolfgang zeikat
can't you filter on To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? wolfgang Also sprach Chris, the Young One <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 09.08.2000: Filter on Delivered-To, or Mailing-List. If hotmail can't do that, use another email service.

deleting messages from the queue

2000-08-14 Thread wolfgang zeikat
i have a few messages sitting in the qmail queue that will never get delivered - for example because the recipients' addies are on fully-unqualified hosts. can i just delete those messages to save qmail the retries and to save me the final "sorry wasn't able to deliver" mail to postmaster@ ? or d

Re: How is this damn spam getting through.

2000-08-18 Thread wolfgang zeikat
the correct syntax would be: @indianatimes.com no wildcard * wolfgang Also sprach Duane L. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 18.08.2000: I have '*@indiatimes.com' in badmailfrom

Cc: recipient list not shown: ;

2000-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
when i use the line: qmail-inject -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] < ~wzeikat/spamchecker1 the mail that is sent contains a line Cc: recipient list not shown: ; why is that? and, more important: how do i avoid it? wolfgang

Re: from field in envelop

2000-08-25 Thread wolfgang zeikat
a possible workaround: if you use the elm program (that can also be used in scripts with options and such), the headers for the outgoing mail can be specified in ~/.elm/elmheaders wolfgang Also sprach Darrell Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 25.08.2000: Hello, I was just curious. I've browsed

Re: IMAP with Qmail

2000-08-25 Thread wolfgang zeikat
i am content with courier-imap together with qmail. for more details see http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/ wolfgang

Re: Cc: recipient list not shown: ;

2000-08-26 Thread wolfgang zeikat
using the -a / -h options appropriately fixes the problem (in case someone is interested). Also sprach Wolfgang Zeikat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 25.08.2000: when i use the line: qmail-inject -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] < ~wzeikat/spa

Re: maildir with imap and more than 1Gb mailbox

2000-08-26 Thread wolfgang zeikat
once you have the IMAP account added to the outlook setup, you should be able to drag/drop folders/messages from one account into the other. (might be the right time to clean a few out) you dont have to do them all at once do you. once the messages are stored on the imap server: if you dont use

Re: Open relay test.

2000-09-03 Thread wolfgang zeikat
i tested your tester, thanks :) (*erm*, wouldnt it be easier if you could copy/paste from the results page without having to open the page source and seeing those *tons* of color/font tags? :) however, your test claims i am running an open relay due to these results: MAIL FROM:([EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Open relay test.

2000-09-03 Thread wolfgang zeikat
oops sorry, that was rather a temporary netscape problem that didnt let me copy/paste. Also sprach wolfgang zeikat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03.09.2000: (*erm*, wouldnt it be easier if you could copy/paste from the results page without having to open the page

Re: Open relay test.

2000-09-03 Thread wolfgang zeikat
Also sprach Sean C Truman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03.09.2000: But if ORBS runs the test and it fails then you are added to the ORBS database.. i doubt that. my server has repeatedly been tested by ORBS and is considered clean. wolfgang

Re: Open relay test.

2000-09-03 Thread wolfgang zeikat
*duh* - telnetting into the world from our mail server is prohibited by the firewall hehe. mail-abuse.org accepts mail from me via that server tho (relay reports). wolfgang Also sprach Sean C Truman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03.09.2000: From your mail server just telnet to mail-

Re: Shouldn't rcpthosts be empty to ward off spam?

2000-09-05 Thread wolfgang zeikat
Also sprach David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04.09.2000: >If a spammer sent that message with an envelope recipient of >[EMAIL PROTECTED], it would be accepted because newmediaone.net is in >rcpthosts. does that mean: the message is accepted *and* the mails to the Cc: header recipients

Re: Shouldn't rcpthosts be empty to ward off spam?

2000-09-05 Thread wolfgang zeikat
Also sprach David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04.09.2000: >If a spammer sent that message with an envelope recipient of >[EMAIL PROTECTED], it would be accepted because newmediaone.net is in >rcpthosts. does that mean: the message is accepted *and* the mails to the Cc: header recipients

RE: Blocking Spam, badmailfrom not working

2000-07-30 Thread wolfgang zeikat
to contact spammers' mail server administrators i have found it very useful to have signed up with http://spamcop.net via http://spamcop.net/anonsignup.shtml they provide a form to paste the spam mail into and have all the necessary DNS/whois lookups done wolfgang

IP numbers in rcpthosts / locals ?

2000-09-07 Thread wolfgang zeikat
our qmail server has a local IP number in our LAN and a DNS entry for another IP number. our firewall passes smtp connections for the official IP to the local IP, works alright, except for the problem that mails to user@[officialIP] first didnt get accepted: - Transcript of session follows

Re: Does Qmail support MUA on Win9x?

2000-09-10 Thread wolfgang zeikat
actually, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP servers do *not* care which operating system you are running, as long as your clients use protocol compliant commands. or in other words: yes, you can use qmail as your SMTP / POP3 server (and as an IMAP server too, with addons) (you can *not* install qmail on windo

Re: rcpthosts

2000-09-13 Thread wolfgang zeikat
rcpthosts only lists the domains that your server accepts mail for (to deliver it to the user for example) ... to reach other domains, you use relaying. for more info see: http://www.palomine.net/qmail/relaying.html http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/servers.html#authorized-relay http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~d

Re: Strange Problem

2000-09-15 Thread wolfgang zeikat
Also sprach Gadoury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 14.09.2000: >tcpserver: pid 32442 from 64.83.0.22 this one is *not* allowed by your /etc/tcp.smtp, so you deny (:deny) >tcpserver: deny 32442 www.graycastle.com:210.228.3.165:25 >mail02.cavtel.net:64.83.0.22::2377 >tcpserver: end 32442 status 25600 >

Re: Trouble starting qmail on boot

2000-09-17 Thread wolfgang zeikat
the K* symlinks kill the processes on shutdown, for startup you need the S* symlinks in /etc/rc.d/rc*.d, e.g. S95svscan wolfgang Also sprach Gadoury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 17.09.2000: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Sep 14 08:17 K30svscan -> ../init.d/svscan

Re: No Mail For Root

2000-09-19 Thread wolfgang zeikat
in the file INSTALL.alias in qmail-1.03.tar.gz it says: * root. Under qmail, root never receives mail. Your system may generate mail messages to root every night; if you don't have an alias for root, those messages will bounce. (They'll end up double-bouncing to the postmaster.) Set up an alias fo

Re: Are we acting as an open relay?

2000-09-19 Thread wolfgang zeikat
i telnetted into port 25 (not sure if this is the machine you wrote about tho) and got this: 220 info.load-otea.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca ESMTP mail from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 250 ok rcpt to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) if you telnet from a ma

Re: QMAILQUEUE patch

2000-09-19 Thread wolfgang zeikat
how would you apply more than one patch then? wolfgang Also sprach Jason Haar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 20.09.2000: Yes this is why it failed. As is usually the case, patches are against UNTOUCHED sources.

Re: qmail syntax problem

2000-09-20 Thread wolfgang zeikat
qmail announces itself to other SMTP servers with "HELO ..." and then it adds either with what is in your file /var/qmail/control/me or (if it exists) the file /var/qmail/control/helohost so make sure you have a hostname with a valid DNS entry in /var/qmail/control/me or at least in /var/qmail/c

Re: Users don't recieve mail...

2000-09-20 Thread wolfgang zeikat
from my sendmail days i remember creating aliases in /etc/aliases like UserName:username but here the problem seems to be the other way around, is there a way to fix it? (phew, luckily we only have lower case usernames here :) wolfgang Also sprach Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 20.09.2000:

spam processing

2000-09-21 Thread wolfgang zeikat
sadly, one of our domains seems to have gotten onto one or more of those "Buy * Million first class spam recipients' email addresses NOW" lists/CDs. so we keep receiving mails from all over this lovely planet for the non existent users michellep tonyak jenniferd barbik melindaa gabriellej barbis

Re: Maildir Mailbox Format!

2000-09-21 Thread wolfgang zeikat
the email clients Netscape Messenger and Outlook Express dont need to recognize the maildir format, cause they dont have anything to do with it. to fetch mail, these clients contact a POP3 server program or an IMAP server program on your incoming mail server, and those programs "present" them the

Re: ISP mail server.

2000-09-21 Thread wolfgang zeikat
Also sprach Mark Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 22.09.2000: > Does ISP mail server need to install mail virus scanner ?? I >personally don't think so, it is the job left to home or corporate users, >am I right ?? Suggestion is welcome. > i would think an ISP mail server doesn't have to run a run a

Re: Two MX records. Migrating from IMail on NT to QMail

2000-09-22 Thread wolfgang zeikat
Also sprach Deon Bredenhann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 22.09.2000: >OR > >Should I give QMail the higher priority and tell it to forward the >accounts >that does not exist to the other mail server. > to me, that sounds like the solution. wolfgang

Re: Help me please

2000-09-22 Thread wolfgang zeikat
Also sprach Gustavo Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 22.09.2000: >when the user request to receive his messages (pop3 requisition) >the qmail returns the following message: > > just to make sure you have not missed something in your setup: does the user have a directory called Maildir/ in their h

Re: Help me please

2000-09-22 Thread wolfgang zeikat
Also sprach Gustavo Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 22.09.2000: > >i've used the following command: ># maildirmake $HOME/Maildir ># echo ./Maildir/ >~/.qmail does the # at the beginning of the line mean you did that as root? if root types: $HOME the variable $HOME is expanded to root's home dir

Re: Unsubscribe Info

2000-09-22 Thread wolfgang zeikat
Also sprach Anand Saokar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 22.09.2000: >Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm in each mail from this list, in the header you find the email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] it will tell you that you just need to email [EMAIL PROTECTED] make sure to use your subscr