Glad you got it working. You didn't happen to keep the bogus preline file
around, did you? I'd be curious to know if it was actually a binary or not.
I'd also want to have a look at the build messages for preline.
Unfortunately, I don't have a 64-bit machine to do any testing on.
Tek Support wrote:
> Well I decided to copy the preline file from a (CentOS 5) i386 machine
> which the preline was giving the correct messges on, and put it onto
> my (CentOS 5) x86_64 machine and it worked. My assumption was that
> preline would not work coming for a different architecture, but it did
> and I re-setup a test TMDA account and it too worked correctly.
>
> So, it was preline and this is now solved.
>
> Thank you for your help,
> John
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Tek Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi Eric, I can contact you off list but I want to be clear, the
>> problem isn't with TMDA, it's with preline. And preline is part of
>> the qmail-1.03 package. I need some help understanding if preline is
>> compatable with the 64bit OS and if (and how) I can recompile it to
>> work.
>>
>> We are in the situation where TMDA is going to be required. We were
>> using it on our last server in our "qmailrocks" setup. Now that I've
>> switched us over to qmailtoaster the install worked fine, but it
>> wouldn't run. I've narrowed it down to preline giving a weird error,
>> and it must be either incompatable with 64 bit or corrupted. In
>> addition I have tried using TMDA without the preline and it worked for
>> the initial incoming email. But after the sender gets the
>> confirmation, and returns the comfirmation, preline is required - (per
>> the TMDA website).
>>
>> If preline cannot do what I need, I'll have to find another option to
>> do what preline did.
>>
>> By the way, the currently installed spam filters do seem to block
>> emails to us that we would consider 'valid'. They also seem to let
>> through spam that we would not like to get. TMDA resolves both of
>> these issues. With TMDA we didn't have this problem, and the owner
>> wants it back. And as far as I know, there are no technical issues
>> with compatability or anything like that from installing TMDA.
>>
>> So I'm looking for some instructions on rebuiding preline? Or does
>> anyone know if preline is incompatable with CentOS 5 64bit? If it is,
>> I'll have to try something else.
>>
>> Thanks
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Eric Shubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I generally recommend not using TMDA for several reasons, but I realize that
>>> it can be useful in some circumstances. That being said, I have installed
>>> and configured TMDA on a toaster on a contract basis. Please contact me off
>>> list if you're interested.
>>>
>>> FWIW, I don't recall having to use preline at all. That might have been due
>>> to the way TMDA was implemented though.
>>>
>>> Tek Support wrote:
>>>> Hi all, I'm trying to run TMDA on my fresh (for a few months) x86_64
>>>> CentOS 5 install. I have had nothing but trouble and after many hours
>>>> I have finally tracked it down to '/var/qmail/bin/preline'. Or at
>>>> least it's part of the problem if not the whole thing.
>>>>
>>>> TMDA requires the usage of 'preline' in the .qmail-user file like such.
>>>>
>>>> | preline tmda-filter...blah blah...
>>>>
>>>> At first I thought the problem was in TMDA, but after much testing,
>>>> what's happening is that preline is spitting out this error:
>>>>
>>>> /var/qmail/bin/preline: line 1: hello: command not found
>>>>
>>>> I have received a bounce email from the intented recipient with this
>>>> error shown, and I have tried to run preline from the shell and got
>>>> the exact same error. So in trying to be diligent I have looked at
>>>> the preline.c source to see if I could figure out what might cause the
>>>> above error. I couldn't find anything related. So I greped the full
>>>> source tree for qmail-1.03 and still nothing came up. The source for
>>>> preline has nothing in it with 'line 1:', nor for 'hello", nor for
>>>> "command not found'. So that's why I greped the tree and no files
>>>> seemed to have those. The documentation for preline is very slim, but
>>>> it appears that there are 3 possible arguments (f, r, d). But those
>>>> don't do anything different for me, using them all produce the same
>>>> error.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone help me?
>>>>
>>>> Preline add's some headers to the email and then forwards it onto the
>>>> tmda-filter program. So I can't live without it. Could preline be
>>>> corrupt? Can I rebuild it by itself, and if so, what would be the
>>>> shell commands to use? I can read 'C' and even mess around a bit with
>>>> it, but I'm not a full blown C programmer.
>>>>
>>>> Or, is this something someone has seen before? I have searched the
>>>> toaster documention and googled for it but I'm not finding anything,
>>>> which is odd, as I'm rarely the first person to ever encounter a
>>>> problem.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> John
>>>>
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-Eric 'shubes'
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