Post #191,458
1/24/05 11:13:33 PM
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Email request
Can everyone who reads this send me a test email at:
broom
@
cpeincmail.com
For you email / network gurus, feel free to poke at it (dns, etc)
This system has been in place a while, whipped up my me a LONG time ago.
I don't pretend to know squat about email or hosting, etc.
I followed the qmail cookbook.
It seems that a particular pair of servers (1 in the UK, 1 in CA) are
unable to email to me, claiming they get timeouts. Both owned by
the same company.
Of course they are blaming me.
We seem to be able to get a continuous stream of email from the
rest of the world, though.
I assume I'll throw ethereal up to watch the traffic when they try again,
the next time I'm available.
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Post #191,459
1/24/05 11:21:19 PM
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Email sent
Tom Sinclair
"This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here."
-- The Bursar is a man under a *lot* of stress
(Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies)
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Post #191,460
1/24/05 11:21:58 PM
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Thanks, got
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Post #191,462
1/24/05 11:37:37 PM
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Sent 2
one from gmail.com, other from frii.com
--
Steve
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Post #191,464
1/24/05 11:50:18 PM
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Thanks, got 2
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Post #191,466
1/24/05 11:56:30 PM
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Would have sent
But SBC seems to have changed their system again. I can no longer send mail from Evolution. [sigh]
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Post #191,468
1/25/05 12:11:27 AM
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Thanks anyway
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Post #191,470
1/25/05 2:06:38 AM
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done
Have fun,
Carl Forde
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Post #191,483
1/25/05 6:50:42 AM
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Got it.
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Post #191,474
1/25/05 2:41:21 AM
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Sent one, a few hours back.
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Post #191,482
1/25/05 6:50:07 AM
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Got it
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Post #191,476
1/25/05 3:09:50 AM
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2 sent
from @serco.com and @ntlworld.com (might come out as @guildenstern.dyndns.org in envelope sender)
Peter
[link|http://www.ubuntulinux.org|Ubuntu Linux]
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Post #191,477
1/25/05 3:28:59 AM
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Feh, slap 'em.
If one particular company cannot email you from their servers which are in disparate physical locations, tell them to sort out their presumably broken DNS infrastructure and THEN call you.
Peter
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Post #191,481
1/25/05 6:49:49 AM
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Thanks, got yours
I can't slap'em. They are a "partner".
If I slapped, I'd have to back it up with enough technical advise to be helpful.
They claim they are connecting and then timing out.
Something tells me the only thing I can do is monitor attempted connection, check the logs, watching in ethereal, etc.
After that, what?
If they were Linux, I could ssh to their box, then telnet back to mine on port 25 to see what is happening. I doubt that is the case.
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Post #191,488
1/25/05 7:11:14 AM
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Does your mailserver require reverse DNS?
If their DNS ain't set up right, that could clobber them right there.
Peter
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Post #191,603
1/25/05 7:04:53 PM
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Damned if I know.
It has been a LONG time since I set it up.
Care to point me into the direction to figure it out for qmail?
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Post #191,605
1/25/05 7:15:24 PM
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qmail?
Not a clue. Horrible, horrible software.
My only advice about qmail would be to rip it out and replace it with something (a) sane and (b) much faster, like for example a dead squirrel set in concrete.
Exim and Postfix are both much better.
Peter
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Post #191,606
1/25/05 7:25:21 PM
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Hey, it was a good choice at the time
Was setup in Y2K!
It had a great security history, and my email admin at my employer had setup a few recently (at that time), so was helpful.
I anticipate a system rebuild in a few months, which will give me the option to move to something else, but this one has served me well.
Not one outage in 5 years!
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Post #191,794
1/26/05 6:24:04 PM
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There's one good thing in Qmail
And that is the Maildir format.
Wade.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #191,795
1/26/05 6:25:03 PM
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Yes. but...
...Exim can deliver to Maildir.
Quite honestly, the completely unsupportable nature of any non-trivial qmail installation renders it useless in my eyes.
Peter
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Post #191,931
1/27/05 9:49:47 AM
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Amen, brutha!
I have been using exim4 to deliver to Maildir format for years now. Using Courier-Imap to get access to that.
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwethey[link|http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134485&cid=11233230|"Microsoft Security" is an even better oxymoron than "Miltary Intelligence"] No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp|source]
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Post #191,933
1/27/05 9:54:49 AM
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Word up.
Peter
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Post #191,484
1/25/05 6:51:17 AM
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Got Yendor's
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Post #191,485
1/25/05 6:58:02 AM
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Sent
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail ... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
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Post #191,547
1/25/05 12:48:10 PM
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And another from work
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail ... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
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Post #191,486
1/25/05 7:00:14 AM
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on the way
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Post #191,489
1/25/05 7:46:42 AM
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You've got mail!________________________________from me too.
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Post #191,490
1/25/05 8:20:04 AM
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Sent!
[link|http://forfree.sytes.net|
] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #191,493
1/25/05 8:57:45 AM
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Sent 1 from work account
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"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
-- H. L. Mencken
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Post #191,496
1/25/05 9:17:09 AM
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Sent one
I sent one from my work account.
Jay
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Post #191,521
1/25/05 11:14:01 AM
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sent from Flex
Darrell Spice, Jr. [link|http://spiceware.org/gallery/ArtisticOverpass|Artistic Overpass]\n[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
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Post #191,529
1/25/05 11:40:46 AM
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Sent.
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Post #191,548
1/25/05 12:59:04 PM
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One from Euroland - no troubles
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Post #191,554
1/25/05 1:29:12 PM
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Sent
--
- I was involuntarily self-promoted into management.
[link|http://kerneltrap.org/node/4484|Richard Stallman]
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Post #191,556
1/25/05 1:30:39 PM
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Sent from work
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #191,561
1/25/05 2:03:46 PM
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Sent another
from my whacky old sendmail box...
[link|http://forfree.sytes.net|
] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #191,580
1/25/05 5:50:56 PM
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sent from verizon.net
Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape: Samuel Butler
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Post #191,586
1/25/05 6:10:34 PM
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Sent.
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Post #191,604
1/25/05 7:06:08 PM
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Thanks all
Got a pile of messages.
Much appreciated.
Also, nice to see some names to associate with "handles".
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