Russell Nelson wrote:
>
> It would sometimes be helpful if qmail-smtpd did some logging to
> stderr. As an example, if an ISP has added some IP addresses to its
> modem pool, and the sysadmin failed to add that network to
> /etc/smtp.txt, and he has gone off with a church group to play the
> bass guitar for two weeks (just as an example), it can be quite
> difficult to debug. You have to get a customer to record the IP
> address they've been assigned when they get the "... not listed in my
> rcpthosts" message. If they only have one phone line, and they've
> called to complain that they can't send email, well, they've already
> hung up the phone. And their stupid Windoze software hasn't logged
> anything like the IP address, it just pops up a dialog box explaining
> why it can't relay the email out. Yeah, you could try to educate your
> customers on diagnosing your own problem, but why bother? They don't
> want to be educated (that's what they pay you to do), they just want
> their probelm fixed.
>
> I modified qmail-smtpd to log that error message to stderr. That told
> me the new network, and I enabled many customers to have a happy Easter.
Sounds like you are running qmail-ldap... ;-)
--
Andre
