Re: [cobalt-users] POP Before SMTP

["Jonathan Michaelson" <michaelsonjd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just to add some more advice...

> I've found a "feature" in the official POP Before SMTP Cobalt release on
> both the RaQ3 and the RaQ4:
>
> > RaQ3-en-System-4.0.7-9229: POP Before SMTP Relaying (English)
> > RaQ3-ja-System-4.0.7-9229: POP Before SMTP Relaying (Japanese)
> > When activated, a client using a RaQ3 for a mail server will be denied
> > outgoing email relaying until the client checks the client's incoming
> email
> > first.  After authentication has been established when the client
checked
> > the client's incoming mail, outgoing mail relaying is then allowed.
>
> and
>
> > RaQ4-en-System-1.0.7-9229: POP Before SMTP Relaying (English)
> > RaQ4-ja-System-1.0.7-9229: POP Before SMTP Relaying (Japanese)
> > When activated, a client using a RaQ4 for a mail server will be denied
> > outgoing email relaying until the client checks the client's incoming
> email
> > first.  After authentication has been established when the client
checked
> > the client's incoming mail, outgoing mail relaying is then allowed.
>
> What the package fails to do is to create the necessary symlinks in the
rc.d
> hierarchy to actuall start the poprelayd daemon on reboot!
>
> If you want it to actually start on reboot - which is usually a god idea
> :-) - I've taken the settings from the unoffocial POP Before SMTP package:
>
> As root:
> cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d
> ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/poprelayd S90poprelayd
>
> The poprelayd daemon will now start on boot.

The package also doesn't even start the poprelayd daemon on installation, so
don't expect it to be working if you test straight away. You need to login
as root and:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/poprelayd start

That will get it up and running, but you will need to do the symlink
creation as mentioned above to have it restart on reboots.

Note: The first snippets assume that you either uninstalled the unofficial
package or are starting without POP Before SMTP, it's possible that the
symlink will exist if you simply install this official package over the
unoffocial one.

Regards,
Jonathan Michaelson