Re: [cobalt-users] poprelayd

[Will DeHaan <will@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jack Lavender wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have spent a miserable weekend trying to solve a problem with poprelayd.
> 
> One of the upgrades to the OS on my RaQ3i changed the maillog output so
> that the older version of pop-before-relay would not work.  While I am not
> sure of all of the changes in maillog, the phrase "POP login by user" is
> now the correct one to match in order to add to the popip
> "relaying-is-ok-for-these-ips" database.
> 
> When I uninstalled the previous version of the product and put on
> RaQ4-RaQ3-POP-before-Relay-1.3pre2.pkg from the cobalt site, nothing
> worked.  I discovered by looking at the uninstall script that it did not
> modify the /etc/sendmail.cf file, but tried to edit the
> /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file.  Well I am slow, so discovering this took a
> while....a long while.
> 
> To fix this I uninstalled and copied the /etc/sendmail.cf to
> /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and installed again, then create a sumbolic link
> from /etc/mail.sendmail.cf to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
> 
> This seems to work.
> 
> So...I have a few of questions.
> 
> 1. how to I look at pkg file and figure out what they are doing?

tar -xzvf RaQ4-RaQ3-POP-before-Relay-1.3pre2.pkg
cat packing_list
cat upgrade_me

> 2. am I going to have other problems because of this symbolic link I just
> set?
> 3. how can I tell what version of qpopper is installed?

rpm -qa |grep -i qpop

> 4. what is a good expiration time to put on the ips in the database?

15 minutes

> 5. Did I miss a sendmail update that I should have done?

Don't know, check www.cobalt.com support->download

> 6. am I alone in this?
> 
> Jack Lavender



	-- Will