On Wednesday, October 24, 2001, at 11:43 AM, eddie karam wrote:
> well guys i have bee having alot of problems getting qmail to relay, > now i have noticed that everytime i try to send email, i see the ip on > the open-smtp file, but it still does not work, now what is the > open-smtp file? and how does it relate to the tcp.smtp? I just have not > been able to relay, i have setup relay control, but i'm still having > the same problem...i have posted to the qmail, and relay-ctrl list, but > still no answers, i know i'm getting to be anoying in these lists > asking so much, but i need to get this, and i just cant affoer to pay > for support, i have been fighting with all this for over 3 weeks, and > i'm on my 5 coplete new set up, i have tried freebsd, redhat 7.1 and > 6.2 and i'm yet to get this stuff working the way its supposed to:( > thanks, open-smtp is where "roaming" users' relay information is put. tcp.smtp is for "static" relay information: i.e. IPs that can always relay. When a user is authenticated via vchkpw (with roaming users compiled in), their ip is entered in the open-smtp file, and then then tcprules compiles the contents of both open-smtp and tcp.smtp into tcp.smtp.cdb. Regards, Bill Shupp
