Re: [cobalt-users] wife is irked at slow smtp....can ya help

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 03 March 2002 01:41 pm, Mark Huth wrote:
> Some background, our small home network is connected to our corporate
> network via a T1 and both sit behind a corporate firewall.  The only access
> allowed to the cube from the outside world is mail and web.  All other
> ports are closed.  We use the corporate dns, not the cube dns.
>

The Qube's SMTP server is attempting to use DNS to autenticate the user.
You either need to turn lookups off in the Qubes' sendmail configuration or 
allow DNS port 53 for the Qube.

> I've stopped and restarted the smtp server.  Indeed one note in the archive
> suggested rebooting and that didn't help.
>
> Where do I go from here?
>
> One last thing, running top shows a couple of things I don't recognize...
>
> I've got a user called nobody running thttpd-phoenix and several processes
> running called pafnanny.
>

Those are the Qubes firewall, since you are using a corporate firewall for 
the network the qube is on, you probably don't need the qubes firewall.

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Gerald Waugh