On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 06:28:02PM +0200, Paulo Jan wrote:
> I've just installed Bruce Guenter's system to allow mail relaying after
> checking mail (http://em.ca/~bruceg/relay-ctrl/), and it doesn't work.
> Basically, what happens is:
>
> 1) The "relay-ctrl" file, that the program uses to cache the IPs of the
> people who have checked their mail, doesn't get updated.
/var/spool/relay-ctrl is a directory, not a file. It should contain a
single entry for each host that successfully authenticates.
Unfortunately the makefile does not currently set this directory up.
You may need to do this yourself.
> 2) The instructions tell me to put an invocation to "relay-ctrl-age",
> the program that has to update said file, in the crontab and run it
> every 5 minutes. I put it, and after half an hour or so, I see several
> zombie "relay-ctrl-age" processes with ps -auxw.
Could you run "strace -o strace -ff relay-ctrl-age" and send me the
resulting strace files (there should be two).
> I start my POP service with:
>
> tcpserver 0 pop3 /usr/local/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail.ddnet.es
> /bin/checkpassword \
> /usr/local/bin/logpop /usr/local/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d ./Maildir &
You need to add relay-ctrl-allow before qmail-pop3d here, as stated in
the README file.
> Anything else...? Oh yes: qmail 1.03, Slackware Linux 3.5 with several
> packages upgraded... Tell me if you need to know anything else.
--
Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/
