Re: [cobalt-users] Qube2 SMTP issues....

["Jason Aspinall" <jaspinall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Lasman" <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Jason Aspinall"
<jaspinall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 2:50 AM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Qube2 SMTP issues....


> At 09:18 AM 1/12/00  Jason Aspinall wrote:
> >Further to my "Bcc" messages of last week, I'm still no closer in forcing
my
> >Qube2 to only connect to demon through SMTP :|
> >
> >Any kind soul out there able to help me force the damn little blue box to
> >only speak SMTP?  I looked at doing this :
>
> I've been told by several people who connect daily through dialup accounts
> at <demon.co.uk> that demon automatically sends email via smtp as you
> log-in.  So I'd think all you have to do is make sure your Qube is
> listening on the IP# that demon assigns, and that you've got sendmail
> running, and that you've got at least one catchall account set up in
> virtusertable for the domain you're answering for.
>
> Then just turn off fetchmail.
>
> In case I've missed something, I'm forwarding this to a friend (named
> "Ben") in the UK who as I recall uses both demon and unix (though neither
> Linux nor a Qube); I hope he can add whatever I've missed.

Thanks Jeff for your continued support on this matter...

I must add that while we do pick our mail up from Demon, we do not dial-up
to Demon.  We have a leased line provided by British Telecom(BT), and
therefore Demon would not neccessarily be assigning us an IP address, as
they are incapable of doing so.  We have static IPs provided by BT.

This little mod you pointed me to:

>[root@mail fetchmail]# vi multidrop:localdomain
># last modifed Wed Jan  5 09:29:14 2000
>poll "pop3.demon.co.uk" proto pop3 aka mailstore no dns:
>localdomains lion-breath.demon.co.uk lion-breath.com
>user lion-breath is * fetchall
>username "lion-breath"
>password "************"
>to *

I thought would do the trick, although I have no way of verifying what I've
done is correct or not?  I'm completely clueless in this area :(

--
Jason Aspinall
Lion Laboratories Limited, Barry, UK, CF63 2BE
Tel +44(0)1446 744244 Fax +44(0)1446 720937
An almost satisfied Cobalt Qube2 Administrator http://www.cobalt.com