guymerritt2 at aol
Aug 5, 2010, 9:30 PM
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Qmail with popular patch returns error 5.7.1
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I installed Qmail from the Qmailrocks guide - years ago - and, subsequently, have spent considerable time at the Life With Qmail site to actually get a grasp of what all that copying and pasting was actually doing (and I was 50-years-old when I first started fiddling with *Nix or, for that matter, computers in general). Recently I endeavored to upgrade my Qmail installation using some patches and run scripts from John Simpson; my presumption is that numerous people on a list, such as this, are probably familiar with John and some of his contributions to Qmail and Unix. At any rate, I have spent about 6 weeks trying to implement his most recent patch in conjunction with his supervisory scripts and I keep getting a host of errors - most notably, the 5.7.1 "not in my list of valid rcpthosts" error when I try to send mail globally (from a desktop email client - Thunderbird, specifically). I don't think the email client program has anything to with this, by the way. It almost seems like a DNS sort of thing because I get a telnet error when I endeavor to do telnet localhost 25 (under certain conditions - that is, if the IP number in the smtpd run file is set to the network box number - as John suggests is optimal).
This issue may be well beyond the scope of this list. I have been fighting with this thing for so long (about 7 weeks, off and on) that I actually bought a domain and posted a page which explains, in great detail, every step I took and every problem I've encountered. I thought that it might be easier for someone to see my mistake if they saw the "whole picture". For a complete look at what I've done you can go to http://www.qmailquestions.info. There's even a PHP comment form (yep - I am really desperate to add some of these features and get this thing working). And I must tell you....I've just about given up.
I noticed that there were copious warnings and proscriptions regarding what was acceptable on this list in terms of, well, pretty much everything - from bad thinking to bad spelling. Noticeably lacking, to my delight, were any warnings regarding posture or religion; I'm a very bad Catholic with horrible posture. I have had 2 short stories published so perhaps, if nothing else, this was a good read. Seriously, if anyone could point me in the right direction I would be very grateful.
Regards,
Guy Merritt
Flint, MI
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Qmail with popular patch returns error 5.7.1
