Clearing out your sendmail queue This article tells you how to clear your outgoing mail queue. I had a message that wasn’t going away. And I didn’t want to wait for it to time out after the standard 5 days of trying. Here’s the message that was filling up my logs: Mar 16 14:38:04 ns […]
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Upgrading to sendmail 8.9.3 This article describes how I upgraded from sendmail 8.9.2 to sendmail 8.9.3. The process is like to be much more complicated if you have a much earlier version of sendmail. The main reason for upgrading was it fixed a a headers Denial of Service attack as well as other minor problems.
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Installing a mailing list server – majordomo The mailing list is a great way to communicate with a large group of people. It forms the basis of many support groups. This article will tell you how to install majordomo, arguably the most robust mailing list server around. The main website for majordomo is http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/ and
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Forwarding mail in one mailbox to another This article will tell you how to move the mail in one user’s mailbox to another user’s mailbox. The mailboxes are assumed to be on the same machine. This procedure will only work once. It is not an automatic procedure. If you want mail to be forwarded all
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Installing a mailing list server – majordomo The mailing list is a great way to communicate with a large group of people. It forms the basis of many support groups. This article will tell you how to install majordomo, arguably the most robust mailing list server around. The main website for majordomo is http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/ and
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Join the FreeBSD Diary mailing list If you’ve been following the Diary lately, you’ll see that I just installed majordomo. I actually installed it to create a mailing list for an IRC channel in which I’m an op. We needed a way for the ops to communicate, given that they aren’t often online at the
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upgrading sendmail This section describes my upgrade of sendmail from version 8.8.8 to version 8.9.2. The main reason for the upgrade was to obtain the anti-relay mechanism which is in place by default and to the new and improved anti-spam rules which are available. Installation Here’s what I did to install the new sendmail: cd
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divert(-1) # # majordomo alias file # Copyright 1999-2003 DVL Software Limited # # Available from http://www.freebsddiary.org/samples/hendrix.mc # # # Copyright (c) 1998 Sendmail, Inc. All rights reserved. # Copyright (c) 1983 Eric P. Allman. All rights reserved. # Copyright (c) 1988, 1993 # The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. #
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upgrading sendmail This section describes my upgrade of sendmail from version 8.8.8 to version 8.9.2. The main reason for the upgrade was to obtain the anti-relay mechanism which is in place by default and to the new and improved anti-spam rules which are available. Installation Here’s what I did to install the new sendmail: cd
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installing qpopper (a POP server) see also Getting local names to resolve (DNS) Note: several people have contacted me to say qpopper is subject to some exploits. The information I have says that these problems have been corrected in recent versions. 31 August 1998 I’m installing a POP server so I can access the mail
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