From looking at the archives, I realize this is about the thousandth of these you've seen, but I couldn't find in there a solution to my problem.  I'm running Mandrake 7.1, qmail 1.03; I installed qmail following Adam McKenna's HOW-TO, and it works just fine from the localhost.
 
However, when I try to use it as an SMTP relay, it barfs.  From Outlook Express I actually get a message that tells me the mail host dropped the connection suddenly (but, if I hit retry a couple of times, eventually it goes through).  From a little DOS-based command-line mailer I've got, I get no message, but watching /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd/current while I'm trying to send shows that the connection is established and then dropped before I even start typing the body of the message.
 
I followed the HOW-TO's instructions on creating the smtp.tcp.cdb file, and when I check the tcpserver process using ps it shows that at least on the command line it is specified correctly.
 
Any suggestions?  In fact, the relay and all the clients are behind a firewall, so even having a completely open relay wouldn't be terrible, but I would like to know how to do it properly.  Thanks.

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