You need to have the Matt's patch if you want to use mysql otherwise compile
vpopmail to have tcp.xxx under vpopmail/etc directory that will work fine.
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> From: "Tom Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 18:07:46 -0500
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: [vchkpw] tcprules can't write to /etc/tcp.smtptmp.xxxxxx
>
> The problem is actually related to the permissions on the /etc dir.
>
> Now if you want to go with the database patch that Matt Simerson has... You
> need to use the -X option in your tcpserver line instead of the -x which
> uses the tcp.smtp file.
>
> The patch is applied to tcpserver, but not to vpopmail which still
> recompiles tcp.stmp.cdb on each iteration... So I believe that is what is
> causing your problem.
>
> REF:
> http://matt.simerson.com/computing/mail/qmail/qmail.toaster.open-smtp_writeu
> p.txt for further information.
>
> If you want to have proper permission control on your tcp.smtp file...
> create a subdirectory under /etc (perhaps something ultra clever like
> ./vpopmail or other) and set the permissions so vpopmail can write to that
> directory.
>
> Tom Walsh
> Network Administrator
> http://www.ala.net/
>
> ::Clearly it's trying to dump the database and re-write tcp.smtp
> ::based on the
> ::values in mysql, but I'd prefer to use the tcpserver hack that queries the
> ::same database and defines RELAYCLIENT instead of looking at a
> ::tcp.smtp.cdb.
> ::
> ::Does anyone know why this is happening?
> ::
> ::Can I disable it and just use mysql for relaying instead of constantly
> ::recompiling the CDB file? (I'm letting users SMTP from one
> ::machine and pop
> ::from another)
>
>
>
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