Re : [cobalt-users] RaQ4-en-OSUpdate-2.0.pkg - maillogs etc not updating

[johnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

>> I finally got round to upgrading a RaQ4i this morning and now 
>> I have a 
>> client who is having some of his emails rejected as "relay 
>> not allowed". 
>> This I think I can sort out but looking at the server the 
>> maillog , auth 
>> and secure logs have not been updated since the server was restarted.
>> 
>> I've tried restarting the server again but with no joy. Has 
>> anyone else 
>> had this problem ?
>> 
>> Server had all the updates before the 2.0 upgrade in place - 
>> runs mysql, 
>> portsentry, logcheck and webalizer v2.01
>> 


Should have said that it was the os2 upgrade that I installed.

>While I'm not sure about fixing the log problem, you can run tail -f
>/var/log/maillog and send mail to the user to see what's happening. My
>guess would be, (without knowing the DNS or domain name), that somehow
>the virtual domain is missing from the relay mail for field in the email
>control panel.
>Lately I've been keeping that tail -f running and occasionally pasting
>the contents to a text screen to look it over and blocking lots of
>spammers based on dictionary attacks and some notorious open relays.

Hi Dan,

The problem isn't that the use can't receive emails but that he can't send 
to some external email addresses (for example he can send to an external 
address that I have but not to some of his customers addresses).

The tail only shows me that the last entries in the logs were at 08:58 
(GMT) this morning which is when the os2 package was installed.  The 
Access, adm_access, adm_error logs are being updated but not the maillog, 
messages, auth logs !!

Tried sorting out the mail problem by turning off pop-before-stmp (and 
found 4 entries for this in the sendmail.conf file).  This didn't make any 
difference though.

Any more ideas ?

John