Subject: Qube 3 - relay,block email list & domain name GUI interface Sorry if I'm not posting to the correct list...
I'm having problems adding entries from within the GUI interface for the EMAIL SERVER. Trying to input block email from hosts/Domains & block email from Users, causes my email server to crash, i.e. it'll show status red then 15 mins. later back to green, I believe this has to do with the fact that the monitor only updates every 15mins from some reading somewhere... after each SAVE... but why does it go down at all, is sendmail being restarted or ? At any rate, I have numerous additions and find that it is somewhat cumbersome so in trying to perform the command line equivalents, I'm crashing the mail server and then all mail fails to be routed and comes back relay denied.. and/or user unknown and after a lengthy debug and restart session finally get mail working again, obviously not syncing up or restarting with the proper likings... Are there some particular steps which must be taken so that all stays in sync? i.e. do I need to shutdown smtp, pop, imap, then save or save then uncheck email server boxes and recheck to restart or ? Then I also get episodes where the SAVE goes away for 5mins or so and then comes back with a message that there is no file data to recognize updates/changes from, etc. On a couple occassions, I had thought that the Qube was in such a confused state that reboot would realign all the files, so when I tried to reboot it just hung and would not die after 10mins, so I pushed the on/off button, which is bad... Is there a GUI bug update which I'm missing or ? I've been trying the following manual command sequences... -vi access (input all that I need, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and b.com with appended 550 Mail rejected due to possible SPAM which is separated by a tab). -makemap hash access < access.db but this command is not 100% sucessful because it comes back with some errors about lines being too long when I tried the btree switch parameter is comes back with more errors and dbm does not seem to be recognized. -now not sure if my access.db is valid or not, since I don't know how to view it... reading further, I found out that virtusertable also is updated whenever I hit the GUI "Save" button after email address entries so next I tried adding -makemap hash virtusertable < virtusertable.db But upon checking the sizes with the originals, they are quite smaller, so my map updating/remake is obviously not correct, then when I go back to GUI method and hit save, all my intended entries go to access~ (which are lost) but it takes quite a while before access loads what is currently displayed in the GUI boxes which represents my prior to additions state and then ... finally creates updates from the files/formats which the email server likes again and all is back to normal, in the meantime, mail has been halted for 30mins-hours as I scramble to retry all the saving & restarts of sendmail in order to properly sync up all like before... since my sequences are all randomize, i.e. restart sendmail, re-SAVE, etc. it is unknown what is the correct sequence which brought everything back on line. I guess if the *.db fies are out of whack then the email server does not check properly or recognizes an invalid version of the file entries and therefore all the relaying denied & user unknown issues surfaces... as expected, but there has to be some easier way or series of proper steps which I can learn to achieve such without such downtime, especially since it appears that whenever I'm inside the GUI trying to add a bunch of entries 50+, then this also sometime brings down the email server, so it appeared... Any help in steps as to how to achieve manual updatings for the related /etc/mail/*.db files after vi of access file or alias, etc. equivalent files, by command lines, if such is possible would be greatly appreciated... trying to achieve SPAM blockings... and additions to blocked list grows everyday and would like to prevent all the down time, otherwise will have to continue putting up with the SPAM vs. down email routing times. Thank you! Waillie [EMAIL PROTECTED] 415-550-3020 _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
