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A request for the Association For Free Software
by MJ Ray 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

Hi all, I'm involved with setting up the UK's Association For Free Software and we're having some difficulties locating the following items: * A tame lawyer who at least knows what GNU/Linux is and would be willing to do occasional work for reduced rate (or free!) in exchange for an honorary title. * A Free Software accountancy package suitable for use in the UK. * A moon on a stick. As you can see, we need at least two of these, so any assistance you can give us would be appreciated a great deal. If you don't know, please ask your LUGs. You can find some more about us at http://www.affs.org.uk/ but it is early days yet. You will doubtless hear when we are set up enough to start a recruitment drive... ;-) Thanks, -- MJR Anglian LUG http://www.alug.org.uk/ No ePatents http://petition.eurolinux.org/ FSF Europe http://www.fsfeurope.org/

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handbook for newbies
by Ricardo Campos 27 Feb '02

27 Feb '02

There's an interesting handbook on Linux that newbies may be interested in: http://rute.sourceforge.net/rute.html I had a cursory look (the server appears to be having problems tonight), and it seemed fairly informative. I understand that it came bundled with MDK8.1. It may be of interest to newbies and more experienced users alike. Anyhoo, I hadn't heard of it before and there may be a few lurking newbies out there.... ;) Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Another sendmail question....
by MJ Ray 27 Feb '02

27 Feb '02

Simon: > I was thinking of a .forward file but this sends > the message and removes it from the server.. Not if it's like: newuser(a)new.domain, \username where the one after the \ is their username on that host. It disables alias lookup on that local part. > Also, anyone know of an auto-responder for sendmail.. vacation? -- MJR

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Another sendmail question....
by Simon 27 Feb '02

27 Feb '02

Hi again.... I've got a user who wants a copy of all their received mail sending onto another account.. I was thinking of a .forward file but this sends the message and removes it from the server.. It's got to be a copy, so he can pick his mail from 2 different accounts..... Also, anyone know of an auto-responder for sendmail.. Simon

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Re: [Alug] Sendmail Questions....
by MJ Ray 26 Feb '02

26 Feb '02

Simon: > Is it possible to set the maximum recipients for an e-mail ? If so, any > pointers please... Just I've got users sending a half meg file to 200 or so > mail addresses!! Possible yes, but easy? No, not when I last tried. If your lucky, someone will have a quick HOWTO on that one, but I'm not sure that many people still use sendmail if they have a choice. Maybe I'm wrong. > Limiting mailbox size.. I believe it's done using quotas? Can anyone point > me to a good resource to figure this one out.... Is there any other way > other than with quotas..... If there is some support for it in the MTA, then you could do it that way, but that would probably be less certain than using quotas. To get started with quotas, try http://webdocs.essex.ac.uk/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Quota.html > I've been told that qmail does all of the above without any problems.. Any > views on this ? Sounds like the normal rubbish qmail apologists say without thinking. Any MTA will do quotas and you could force a limited number of recipients with any MTA. It just depends how many hoops one has to jump through. If you do use qmail, remember that it is restricted (non-free for Debian) and realise what you're getting into. -- MJR

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Sendmail Questions....
by Simon 26 Feb '02

26 Feb '02

Hi Guys, A few questions for Sendmail..... Is it possible to set the maximum recipients for an e-mail ? If so, any pointers please... Just I've got users sending a half meg file to 200 or so mail addresses!! Limiting mailbox size.. I believe it's done using quotas? Can anyone point me to a good resource to figure this one out.... Is there any other way other than with quotas..... I've been told that qmail does all of the above without any problems.. Any views on this ? Simon

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 25 Feb '02

25 Feb '02

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.openprojects.net in the #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more info on the openprojects network. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server uk.openprojects.net" or "/server eu.openprojects.net" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Re: [Alug] Meeting in Norwich, UEA, Sunday 24th Feb
by MJ Ray 24 Feb '02

24 Feb '02

> 5 2----------1 > | | > | | > 4--------3 > > > 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 ? 2. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Meeting in Norwich, UEA, Sunday 24th Feb
by MJ Ray 24 Feb '02

24 Feb '02

John wrote: > The next meeting will be taking place in Common Room A, Nelson Court > at the University of East Anglia on Sunday between 2pm and 5pm. nb this is the other "front corner" to the last UEA meeting. Thanks to John for sending the announcement. I'm travelling in from King's Lynn, so if someone needs a lift, please email me offlist. -- MJR

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Meeting in Norwich, UEA, Sunday 24th Feb
by John Billings 24 Feb '02

24 Feb '02

Hi all, The next meeting will be taking place in Common Room A, Nelson Court at the University of East Anglia on Sunday between 2pm and 5pm. Directions to the uea are available from www.uea.ac.uk, and there are mapboards on the campus near the main car park that should get you to the common room easily enough. Post meeting drinks will happen in the Union bar, 5pm - 6pm, altho this is not a hard limit, and may well go on longer.. Rumour is that some beer in the Union is current £1 a pint... not that that should effect whether you turn up or not... ;-) Label your kit, if you're bringing it along, and post here to let us know what to look forward too... I will almost certainally be there, hangover from saturday permitting, and will be bringing my Pico Laptop, running debian unstable, and possibly my other Linux machine, if i've failed to get adsl going on it by then. It'll be my first meeting, and hey, this is my first meeting announcment... firsts all around.. Hope to see you there... J. PS.. please post this to other relevent places, if you can think of any.

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