Re: [cobalt-users] POP before SMTP? where?

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"List" <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> sir  my raq4 does not have a setting that says turn on pop before smtp
> at least not in the email control panel, i have looked elsewhere but
> to no avail. i have set the relay to my local ip's like you said but i
> am puzzled where this pop before smtp setting is in the gui?

Control Panel, Parameters (next to Email Server), check POP Before SMTP
Relaying and set Relay Window to # of minutes you want the POP
authentication to keep relay privileges open.

> also i can find how to export the log files for sites but how do you
> export the logs for the home site or in other words the main system
> logs? the ones which tell the whole server traffic?

The server's apache log is at /home/log/httpd/access.  It gets rotated
pretty frequently so you may want to change that or add a new CustomLog line
to httpd.conf to generate another log that doesn't rotate or rotates however
you set it in logrotate.

> pss  using thebat email client i found that i have to send email using
> an att cable connection and account on one nic.  then set the incoming
> mail  as  the raq server. i have all that working with pop before smtp
> just  fine  but i think i have discovered that if you are your own isp
> and  you  are  not  sending  and  receiving email directly on the same
> server that is serving the email.  you are screwed, cause the only way
> you  can  use  another machine on the network to mail out is to enable
> (here's  that bad word) relay.

If you're the only user you're concerned about you can login via SSH to your
RaQ and add your IP to the file POP before SMTP writes to.  You can do that
with a single command from the commandline every time you want to send an
email (I call that a pain) or you can write a script run from cron every X
minutes that will do it for you (assumes your IP doesn't change).

> without relay you have to use a isp to
> send mail, though you can receive mail whoopee.

And if you have a rediculous ISP like me (Verizon) you can't even send out
through the ISPs SMTP unless your FROM address is a verizon.net address.
Nice.

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Steve Werby
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