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Grex > Helpers > #138: Grex System Problems - Winter 2004/2005 |  |
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keesan
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response 280 of 870:
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Jan 7 17:24 UTC 2005 |
How do I turn on mail size limits in Pine? All I could find in Setup was
sorting by size. I just got a 176K 'file.zip' attachment purportedly from
China. In the old grex the per-mail limit was 100K and anything larger would
bounce then people would write to complain and be instructed to send me plain
text, or just one small jpeg not a 3MB one.
Thanks to whoever got the load averages back from 3 to 1. Speedy!
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mcnally
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response 281 of 870:
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Jan 7 17:35 UTC 2005 |
> How do I turn on mail size limits in Pine? All I could find in Setup
> was sorting by size.
You don't. By the time Pine (or any other mail reader) gets to see
how large a message is it's too late; the message has already been
delivered to your mailbox and then read by your e-mail program.
If you want to reject all mail above a certain size you can easily
do that with procmail before it gets delivered to your inbox.
A recipe like "* > 100000" will match messages over 100,000 bytes.
Once you match them you can decide what you want done with them.
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keesan
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response 282 of 870:
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Jan 7 17:59 UTC 2005 |
You mean something like:
* > 100000
/dev/null
(I am not sure if the :0: on my first line got into this response).
Why is grex no longer placing a limit on mail size? Someone else complained
recently about having to empty spams from his mailbox several times a day or
it would fill up with junk like this. Or maybe it is a virus.
I only know how to filter on headers (:0:) or message body (:0B:).
If grex is going to allow these large mails to get through now, could someone
possibly write up a script to simplify rejecting them with procmail, which
is not for beginners?
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other
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response 283 of 870:
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Jan 7 19:26 UTC 2005 |
For some reason, the script in #274 didn't work for me until I added a
line:
#!/bin/sh
for a in `find /dev/tty[a-s]? -user $1 -print`
do
b=`basename $a`
echo "
$b:"
a=${b:3}
ps -xt$a
done
(Apprently, in ps -t, the 'tty' is implied, so including it in the
variable results in the shell attempting to parse 'ps ttytty[a-s]?'
rather than 'ps tty[a-s]?')
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mfp
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response 284 of 870:
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Jan 7 20:10 UTC 2005 |
Heh.
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cross
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response 285 of 870:
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Jan 7 20:44 UTC 2005 |
This response has been erased.
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keesan
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response 286 of 870:
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Jan 7 21:18 UTC 2005 |
I cannot telnet to grex. I type my login and then nothing happens, or
sometimes I can get as far as typing my password. I had to use backtalk
(vanilla, lynx) to post this.
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keesan
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response 287 of 870:
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Jan 7 21:22 UTC 2005 |
The telnet problem just fixed itself (or someone fixed it).
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drew
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response 288 of 870:
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Jan 7 23:29 UTC 2005 |
Grex is now immediately disconnecting when I dial in direct.
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keesan
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response 289 of 870:
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Jan 8 00:22 UTC 2005 |
I just dialed in direct 45 minutes later.
How do I change Pine's behavior back to letting me decide whether to forward
a message as an attachment? I usually say 'no' so that I can remove most of
the message by leaving it as message body (such as all the email addresses
in it). I searched on 'forward' in Setup with no luck. Could this be put
back to default behavior, along with 100K mail limit?
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cross
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response 290 of 870:
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Jan 8 02:26 UTC 2005 |
This response has been erased.
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cross
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response 291 of 870:
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Jan 8 03:48 UTC 2005 |
This response has been erased.
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gelinas
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response 292 of 870:
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Jan 8 04:23 UTC 2005 |
Sooner or later, we'll get the configuration of exim right. When we do, a
limit on size will probably be included. Asking for it repeatedly will not
make it happen any sooner.
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keesan
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response 293 of 870:
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Jan 8 05:10 UTC 2005 |
Okay, I will try to clean out my mailbox more often until it happens. Do we
still have a 1MB mailbox limit? 176K spams or viruses fill that fast.
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keesan
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response 294 of 870:
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Jan 8 05:35 UTC 2005 |
I cannot access 7 or 8 ftp sites in a row including ftp.slackware.com.
I am a paid member which means I should have ftp access and these sites are
accessible from another shell account elsewhere. Do I need to change
something in lynx.cfg or somewhere?
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tod
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response 295 of 870:
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Jan 8 05:46 UTC 2005 |
DITTO
Looking up ftp.slackware.com
ftp.slackware.com
Making FTP connection to ftp.slackware.com
Alert!: Unable to connect to FTP host.
Looking up ftp.slackware.com
ftp.slackware.com
Making FTP connection to ftp.slackware.com
Alert!: Unable to connect to FTP host.
Can't Access `ftp://ftp.slackware.com/'
Alert!: Unable to access document.
lynx: Can't access startfile
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petercon
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response 296 of 870:
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Jan 8 14:56 UTC 2005 |
resp:291 Thanks for installing _some_ of the GNU stuff. If we don't
have mc (Midnight Commander) how about installing git (GNU Interactive
Tools) as a file manager. Of course mc from "ports" would be better,
hint :-)
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keesan
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response 297 of 870:
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Jan 8 17:48 UTC 2005 |
I can now do a Kermit telnet to another shell account but kermit file transfer
between them does not seem to work. I had to exit the telnet connection and
do ftp instead. I think it used to let me kermit telnet and then file
transfer between these accounts. (I had gone off to another account to get
a file at an ftp site because lynx won't work now to get files from ftp
sites).
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cross
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response 298 of 870:
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Jan 8 17:59 UTC 2005 |
This response has been erased.
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rksjr
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response 299 of 870:
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Jan 8 18:03 UTC 2005 |
Re. #119: remmers wrote:
"Got to oldgrex and looked;"
How does one get to oldgrex?
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cross
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response 300 of 870:
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Jan 8 20:54 UTC 2005 |
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gelinas
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response 301 of 870:
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Jan 9 00:33 UTC 2005 |
I don't know why ftp wasn't working before, but is now:
] Respond, pass, forget, quit, or ? for more options? !ftp ftp.slackware.com
] Connected to ftp.slackware.com.
] 220 207.173.172.131 FTP server ready
] Name (ftp.slackware.com:gelinas): ^C!
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] Respond, pass, forget, quit, or ? for more options?
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tsty
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response 302 of 870:
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Jan 9 08:49 UTC 2005 |
ftp to grex and (binary) get seems to have *really* screwed up ...
staff has mail ....
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keesan
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response 303 of 870:
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Jan 9 15:07 UTC 2005 |
ftp to ftp.slackware.com works but I am trying to use lynx
lynx ftp.slackware.com
That still does not work. I will try to figure out how to
use straight ftp (login anonymous password Enter?).
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keesan
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response 304 of 870:
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Jan 9 15:09 UTC 2005 |
login anonymous, enter your complete email address as password, worked.
But ls does not work - Entering extended something-or-other mode.
It is easier to fetch files with lynx/google from anonymous sites like this.
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