[Mailman-Users] Mailman on QMail with Closed Relay

[Al Sparks]

Another file to check is 
          /PATH/TO/qmail/control/locals

The "rcpthosts" file affects your smtpd process, and "locals" affects
qmail-send.
   === Al


--- Al Sparks <data345 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> When something like that happens, it occurs to me that qmail "thinks"
> it's more than one host.  This is also called virtual hosting.
> 
> Check 
>          /PATH/TO/qmail/control/rcpthosts
> and see if you have more than one entry.  Also see if you inadvertently
> wildcarded an entry.  For example, if you have
>          .heaven.af.mil
> then you've stated that you are receiving mail for any email message
> in that domain (such as somebody at hell.heaven.af.mil; assuming the account
> "somebody" is on your machine).
> 
> If rcpthosts doesn't exist, then the setting defaults to "me".
> 
> One other thing:  There are 2 separate logs on qmail, one for smtp
> and the other for local delivery.  With my configuration of qmail
> I have my logs located in
>          /PATH/TO/qmail/supervise
> There are 2 directories,
>      qmail-send  qmail-smtpd
> 
> I'm not sure if you're aware of mailman's logs, they are usually located
> in
>          /PATH/TO/mailman/logs
> 
>    === Al
> 
> --- Phil Grimpo <pgrimpo at inspirmedia.org> wrote:
> > I've been checking the qmail logs and it looks like it doesn't even try
> > to send messages off the server, I just see sending to local.  Any idea
> > what other logs I could check?
> > 
> > -Phil Grimpo
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Al Sparks [mailto:data345 at yahoo.com] 
> > Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 12:35 PM
> > To: Phil Grimpo
> > Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on QMail with Closed Relay
> > 
> > Actually, I was going by the documentation in "Life with qmail" by Dave
> > Sill.  His way to configures tcpserver a little different.  I hadn't
> > realized there was a more generic file structure for tcpserver in use.  
> > To ensure that tcpserver is accessing the right database file, do a 
> >    ps -auxw | egrep tcpserver
> > and see what the -x switch is set to.  If it's
> >    tcserver -x /etc/tcprules.d/qmail-smtp.cdb
> > and that's the name of your database file, then you're doing the right
> > thing.  I would also do a 
> >    man tcprules
> > to make sure the formatting and syntax of your tcprules file is correct.
> > 
> > Lastly (or firstly), check the qmail logs and see if there's any errors
> > in sending out messages.
> >    === Al
> > 
> > --- Phil Grimpo <pgrimpo at inspirmedia.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > I do not have a tcp.smtp file, but do have /etc/tcprules.d/ and did
> > put
> > > the entry in qmail-smtp and rebuilt the database.  Do I need to have
> > > tcp.smtp also?
> > > 
> > > -Grimps
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Al Sparks [mailto:data345 at yahoo.com] 
> > > Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 5:25 PM
> > > To: Phil Grimpo
> > > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on QMail with Closed Relay
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --- Phil Grimpo <pgrimpo at inspirmedia.org> wrote:
> > > > I recently closed my open relay in QMail and now Mailman will only
> > > send
> > > > to users who have mailboxes on the local machine.  It will not send
> > > > 'off-site'.  I have the IP of the local machine in the qmail-smtp
> > > file.
> > > > Any ideas on what might have gotten messed up that this no longer
> > > works?
> > > >  
> > > > -Grimps
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Just to confirm, you have placed the entry in
> > >     /etc/tcp.smtp
> > > and then ran
> > >     # tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.tmp < /etc/tcp.smtp
> > > to update the database file?
> > > 
> > > Also, it's "qmail" not "QMail"
> > >    === Al
> > > 
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