[cobalt-users] RE: POP before SMTP Behavior

[John Violette <jviolette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have noticed this also on my RaQ4 since applying OSUpdate 2. You have to
go in and uncheck and save and recheck and save in order to turn it on
again. Somehow it turns itself off but the GUI says it's on. There is
something else in the admin UI that causes it to do this once in a while but
I can't find a pattern (editing DNS or adding a site or something).
Sometimes I will make changes in the admin UI not related to the SMTP
config, and then the next day get reports on this.

>Something that I, and at least one other list member, have noticed. On
>some RaQ4's, regardless whether POP before SMTP in the email control
>panel is checked or not, it's running. On my recently rented RaQ4 it was
>not checked, yet I discovered that the server was responding with the
>"Relaying denied. Please check your mail first" message." Removing my IP
>from the list of IPs allowed to relay, it would still relay for me. I
>changed the window to 1 minute and sure enough it would stop letting me
>relay, but would again for 1 minute after I checked my mail. I then
>checked the box to "enable" POP before SMTP, saved changes. I unchecked
>the box, saved changes again and finally, it's turned off. Now the
>server only replies "Relaying denied" with no warning to check your mail
>first.

>Another list member tried this on their server with no luck. POP before
>SMTP remains turned on regardless of what was done via the GUI. I'm not
>sure if this is a common bug.