[cobalt-users] Re: [cobalt-announce] POP Before SMTP

["Jonathan Michaelson" <michaelsonjd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

X-posted to cobalt-users.

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.

Regards,
Jonathan Michaelson