Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]Mail is delivered hours later at times

2003-09-17 Thread Bill Moran
concurrency levels. If the mail server is exceeding those frequently (or at all) it can cause some mails to arrive much later than you would expect (due to timeouts and retry schedules, etc). -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]Worm.Sobig.F

2003-08-22 Thread Bill Moran
Matt wrote: How can I prevent the sobig worm from going out to people? Get it off your workstations. Sobig uses it's own SMTP engine, so it doesn't use your mail relay, so it bypasses qmail-scanner. You can prevent it from coming _in_, but not from going out, with qmail-scanner. --

Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]qq crashed/temporary failure/rights andPERL 5.8.0

2003-08-21 Thread Bill Moran
ic of perl not being able to run setuid/gid. Check the FAQ/troubleshooting information on the web site. I know FreeBSD (for example) ships with setuid/gid perl disabled by default. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtec

Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]a bit OT: why perl?

2003-06-29 Thread Bill Moran
uffers and things like that. And I don't have to worry about not malloc()ing enough memory! I don't know if that's the reason qmail-scanner was written in perl, but I probably would have written it in perl for that reason if I wrote it. -- Bill Moran P