Hi again I decided to go for the relay-ctrl idea suggested by Charles and James who responded to my last message. However, I've got a number of issues:- Instructions for installation suggest, sensibly, reading the man page for relay-ctrl-age. the 'make install-root' seems to install the man pages but 'man' ignores them. So i 'cat'ted the man pages to extract what I needed to know. where references were made to configs being stored in directorys that don't exist I created the directories (as root) and I've not changed the owner or permissions. I put the following in rc.local: tcpserver -v -u 2850 -g 32750 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \ 2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 & commented out the reference to smtp in inetd.conf and sent a kill- HUP to the process. Then ran the above from the command line as root. I can still send and recieve mail (phew!). I put */20 * * * * /usr/sbin/relay-ctrl-age into my crontab... and here's my first problem. Cron is now outputting:- /usr/bin/tcprules: No such file or directory the tcprules is in fact in /usr/local/bin what's the best solution? symlink? what's calling this... can I edit a variable somewhere to change this? Also, I tried to symlink as suggested /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/authlib/ to /usr/sbin/relay-ctrl-allow. but there is no /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/authlib/ on my system. I am using courier-imap but there appears to be no similar directory on my system except /usr/local/libexec/authlib but nothing courier-imap specific. All suggestions as to solutions gratefully recieved! Thanks gary
