Ok, I've figured out how i broke the roaming users, but i still don't 
understand why i never see any log messages with smtp in them, ever.  I get 
delivery notices, but what exactly does qmail-smtpd do, and why don't i see 
anything in the logs when i telnet to port 25 ?

Thanks for your help. 

pb 

Peter Brezny writes: 

> My roaming users were working perfectly earlier today, then to try and 
> solve another problem, i reinstalled vpopmail, an identical reinstall over 
> the old system, and now my roaming users have stopped working. 
> 
> I'm stuck and my boss wants this working tomorrow morning.  
> 
> vpopmail-4.9.8.tar.gz
> qmail-1.03.tar.gz  
> 
> are the two programs i've reinstalled over their previous install.  The 
> only thing this appeared to overwrite is the rcpthosts file in 
> /var/qmail/controll, which i've restored to its original condition.  
> 
> now when a domain hosted on this machine tries to send mail outside of the 
> server (freebsd42) i get the famous.  
> 
> '553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)', 
> Port: 25,  
> 
> Here's the amazingly simple startup file i'm using (i had all kinds of 
> problems with supervise, or so i thought it was supervise until now).  
> 
> #!/bin/sh  
> 
> # Using splogger to send the log through syslog.
> # Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Maildir by default.  
> 
> exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
> qmail-start ./Maildir splogger qmail&  
> 
> # vchkpw and qmail-pop3d server config
> /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R 0 pop3 \
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup sysadmin-inc.com \
> /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &  
> 
> # config for tcpserver to enable roaming users
> /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -x /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \
> -c20 -u81 -g81 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | \
> /var/qmail/bin/splogger &  
> 
> what's more, i am yet to see any logging with any reference to smtp or 
> qmail-smtp, even when i telnet to port 25 on the box.  
> 
> 
> any help on these issues is greatly appreciated.  
> 
> Peter Brezny
> SysAdmin Services Inc.
 


Peter Brezny
SysAdmin Services Inc. 

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