Re: email is not going out - domain not in rcpthosts

[Lukas Beeler <lb-qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 12:12:42PM -0500, Mermaid140@aol.com <Mermaid140@aol.com> wrote:

> I am the only one who touches the server and 
> the only thing I remember changing (and I am not sure when I did it) was to 
> 'chown vpopmail new' in webmaster's Maildir when I saw that it was owned by 
> root.

when it was owned by root, delivery could'nt take progress.

> I checked my log file as Charles suggested, removed a big file to another 
> machine but that did not "unblock" qmail.  Then I tried 'strace/ktrace/truss 
> PID' trying to find out what was going on.  I got "command not found."

do you have one of those installed ? 
Use google to find them, and install one of them which are
suitable for you OS. strace is for Linux, truss PROBABLY for
FreeBSD, and also PROBABLY ktrace is for OpenBSD. But iam
only sure about the first one.

> OK, I did that part (although everything has been working just fine without 
> it up to yesterday)

probably you didīnt had anything in rcpthosts then.
-> you were an open relay

> I tried 'qmailctl cdb'  and 'tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.tmp < 
> /etc/tcp.smtp'  Both brought back "command not found"

where did you install ucspi-tcp ? If in defaults, is
/usr/local/bin in your $PATH ?

> Outside mail is coming in and we can email within the local network.  It is 
> just the outside world we cannot reach.

yeah, really looks like you are just missing your
tcp.smtp.cdb

> And I have stopped and restarted 
> email twice to no avail.  I used:  kill -TERM PID then  csh -cf 
> "/var/qmail/rc &"

this is just qmail-send. The only thing that is out of
interest for you is qmail-smtpd, because the other things
are working.

> Yes, I know the first sin was not installing ALL of LWQ, but someone else did 
> it and I am learning.  I don't know if my nerves could take trying to 
> reinstall right now!

Well, don't stress yourself to much. Nobody gets everything
at the first try. Give it one more try, and if it doesn't
work, leave it alone for a day, and then restart from
scratch according lwq.

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