> > I've been trying for 2 days now to install relay-ctrl-2.5.
>
> You may want to ask this question on the author's bgware mailing list if
you
> don't get an answer here -- this isn't strictly a qmail issue.
I've already did that (no response, the list looks empty)
> > Everyting goes well (I see no errors in compiling), but the dir's are
> > normally not created (once I saw a /var/spool/relay-ctrl, but don't know
for
> > sure), all the other times I created the dirs myself.
>
> How did you compile? "make"? Did you do "make install"? Did you do it
as
> root? Why did you think it would work if part of the installation failed?
Everytime as root, make followed by make install, also tried make
root-install
> > This is how I start my tcpserver:
> > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \
> > ns4.pi-group.net /bin/checkpoppasswd /usr/sbin/relay-ctrl-allow \
> > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &
>
> What is "checkpoppasswd"? Normally, relay-ctrl is used with either a
vanilla
> checkpassword or with vmailmgr's replacement (checkvpw). Perhaps it does
not
> implement the full checkpassword interface? relay-ctrl relies on this
> interface to work.
checkpoppasswd is a patch from Philip Jacob to put the user in a different
file insteadof /etc/passwd
http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/pop3.html
I've seen users in the lists that actualy use both.
> > O yeah, I tried the RPM: --> error: relay-ctrl-2.5-1.i386.rpm cannot be
> > installed
>
> Why? RPM gives better error messages than that.
# rpm -i -vv relay*rpm
D: counting packages to install
D: found 1 packages
D: looking for packages to download
D: retrieved 0 packages
D: New Header signature
D: Signature size: 149
D: Signature pad : 3
D: sigsize : 152
D: Header + Archive: 18342
D: expected size : 18431
error: relay-ctrl-2.5-1.i386.rpm cannot be installed
D: found 0 source and 0 binary packages
