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cejohnsonsr (TechnicalUser)
20 Sep 10 20:38
THIS MAY BE RELATED TO MY LAST QUESTION:


Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)
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I've been having some problems getting qmail to run properly. It won't deliver to anything outside of my local network. One thing I just noticed that may be a problem is the running processes. Particularly: how many & who owns them. Output from ps waux | grep qmail is:

root      1055  0.0  0.0   3872   396 ?        S    19:03   0:00 supervise qmail-smtpd
root      1057  0.0  0.0   3872   392 ?        S    19:03   0:00 supervise qmail-pop3d
root      1059  0.0  0.0   3872   392 ?        S    19:03   0:00 supervise qmail-send
qmaill    1062  0.0  0.0   4016   456 ?        S    19:03   0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/pop3d
qmails    1063  0.0  0.0   4056   484 ?        S    19:03   0:00 qmail-send
root      1065  0.0  0.0   3908   424 ?        S    19:03   0:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H -l 0 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup cuttinej.ath.cx /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir
qmaill    1066  0.0  0.0   4016   460 ?        S    19:03   0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd
qmaill    1067  0.0  0.0   4016   456 ?        S    19:03   0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail
qmaild    1069  0.0  0.0   6140   692 ?        S    19:03   0:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l cuttinej.ath.cx -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 20 -u 5002 -g 5001 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
root      1132  0.0  0.0   4016   416 ?        S    19:03   0:00 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/
qmailr    1133  0.0  0.0   4012   416 ?        S    19:03   0:00 qmail-rspawn
qmailq    1134  0.0  0.0   4004   436 ?        S    19:03   0:00 qmail-clean
root      2283  0.0  0.0   7628   900 pts/0    S+   19:20   0:00 grep --color=auto qmail

I installed qmail & qmail-pop3d per Dave Sill's Life with QMail. I installed password per the instructions on DJB's site.

As I said, I can't get mail to deliver outside my local network. My queue looks like this:

messages in queue: 6
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0
20 Sep 2010 01:46:51 GMT  #7606905  542  <>
    remote    alpine-count@docserver.cac.washington.edu
19 Sep 2010 21:40:49 GMT  #7610888  803  <>
    remote    cejohnsonsr@cableone.net
19 Sep 2010 22:31:24 GMT  #7610842  216  <papa@cuttinej.ath.cx>
    remote    cejohnsonsr@cableone.net
20 Sep 2010 19:34:57 GMT  #7611055  628  <papa@cuttinej.ath.cx>
    remote    cejohnsonsr@cableone.net
19 Sep 2010 21:20:38 GMT  #7610832  812  <>
    remote    c_johnsonsr@yahoo.com
19 Sep 2010 22:24:12 GMT  #7610837  213  <papa@cuttinej.ath.cx>
    remote    c_johnsonsr@yahoo.com

And just for grins, my tcp.smtp looks like this:

127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
192.168.1.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
cuttinej.ath.cx:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""

Yeah. I know. It's been a long time. I don't have a good reference & I'm shooting in the dark sometimes. I've ordered The QMail Handbook (again). In the mean time, can anyone help me try to sort this out, please? I really need some help.

Thanks,

Ed

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