Thanks for responding and, yes - years ago I followed the Qmailrocks how-to and the thing has been humming along for years. It's far past time that I did some updating. I did add the call to spamhaus.org and that helped things. But - to answer your question - this is, essentially the Qmailrocks install on Slackware 12.1 (with the latest ver. of Clamav and a somewhat dated version of Spamassassin) and...well, it works fine. I also changed the bounce directive in all of the domain's .qmail-default files because I am using Comcast and the bounces were putting my smtp output into the stratosphere. I created an email account called "j...@mydomain" and send emails to non-existant accounts there (which does not create an external SMTP session). I need to add J. Simpsons validrcptto patch - that's next. My point in all of this is that - to a very large extent - this is a qmailrocks install (with a couple of minor modifications).
I tarred the files in question before jerking around with them. I simply reconstituted the working files when this failed. ps -aux gives readproctile errors with something about tcp - as I said, I'm something of an idiot with this stuff. All I know is that when I read the docs they said, at minimum, I could do ./configure & make, copy the binary to /usr/local/bin, and add a line to my smtpd-run file and it would work...to a limited extent. It didn't. I am on this mailing list using my mail server. Thanks again.. Guy Merritt Flint, MI _______________________________________________ spamdyke-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
