On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 08:11 +0000, Mark Tinka wrote:
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of course, Maildir can only be used with MTA's that support Maildir delivery, which i think, at the moment, are Postfix and Qmail...
Yes, qmail introduced the Maildir format to escape the deficiencies in the traditional mbox format (especially when used over NFS). But there are quite a few programs supporting Maildir (admittedly not all of them are MTAs or POP servers): the qmail suite (of course), mutt, procmail, cclient (a library used by pine, imap-uw, postilion, tkrat, and maybe others plus a Perl module p5-CClient is available), courier-imap (see www.inter7.com) are the ones I could come up with after one minute of searching. Looking at the benefits (the description used to live at http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html) and remembering the fact that libraries are available mail software authors should head for supporting this format. Since users should require this feature once they learn that mbox is not a given. :)
i still need some ideas on qmail-pop3d logging and TCP Wrapper behaviour, though...thanks..
You talk about the delay when using tcpd? I would shoot into the dark by pointing to some kind of reverse DNS mapping or ident lookup. But since you didn't give a single detail about your setup it's rather hard to help here. But why don't you use the tools from the ucspi-tcp suite when you already have DJBware running? Since tcpserver won't scan and parse text files every time a connection is made it should serve somewhat faster. Plus updating the ruleset only succeeds when the description is syntactically correct (unlike a text editor where the user is free to save broken configs at any time he pleases) and will be done atomically. Rate limiting is available, too. What do you need inetd and tcpd for? Regarding the qmail-pop3d logging you don't specify your setup either. But you definitely should read the doc for the software you run (not only the qmail doc but administering a UNIX machine you should have a general idea of what *every* component of your system does and how it gets configured plus which logs to look at and which tools to use for diagnosis should problems bubble up). You don't seem to have figured yet which tool serves what purpose in your setup, but I assume you run the service under supervise's control which logs into the multilog program (both of which are part of the daemontools suite). That's when fiddling with syslog's config won't help you much ... Again, go to the cr.yp.to site and look at the doc for the programs you use!
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Feel free to do your homework and solve your problem with the help of people who know qmail or by using the resources I pointed you to in the above paragraphs. But please don't reply to the list on this topic since "my network is slow", "I cannot find my services' logs", and the like are _not_ appropriate for a list like suse-security. Please use a forum which better (not to say "at all") fits your problem. I'm sorry myself for contributing to this OT thread but I hope to help its immediate death this way. Thank you for not cluttering the security list with "how do I setup my mail system?" questions in the future. virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you.