Re: TMDA not replying, not logging

[Jeff Tupper / Pedagoguery Software Inc]

Tim,

Thanks again for the ongoing help.


I played around a bit more with my dot-qmail file, which resulted in me finding that if I replaced

|preline /usr/home/USER/tmda-0.68/bin/tmda-filter

with

|preline /usr/home/USER/tmda

where tmda is the following shell script:

#!/bin/csh
/usr/home/USER/tmda-0.68/bin/tmda-filter >>& /usr/home/USER/mail/tmdalog

then TMDA starts working. I now have it set up watching for key words and several lists of from: and to: addresses. One problem I'm having now is that I have, in my incoming filter:

to-file -autodbm /usr/home/USER/.tmda/lists/acceptto ok

with

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

in /usr/home/USER/.tmda/lists/acceptto , but the tmda list mail is not coming through automatically. My incoming filter only has "ok" rules.

 > I do know that I can use "mail" to send out mail directly from the
 > command line (and via a cron job I run). Looking at the headers of
 > mail from "mail" states that it was sent using qmail from the machine
 > running TMDA.

'mail' uses the 'sendmail' program, which is either a copy of
/var/qmail/bin/sendmail or a link to it.  If you're on a *BSD system,
it may be hooked up through /etc/mail/mailer.conf.  The Sendmail
version of 'sendmail' and the clones that all of the other MTAs have
written interact with the mail queue directly.  They do not send the
mail using SMTP.  So you might be perfectly able to use the 'sendmail'
program ('mail' does so on your behalf) and still not be able to use
SMTP.

Thanks for the info.

TMDA, on the other hand, sends using SMTP.  It may be blocked.  Try
the following to test this.

Set the OUTGOINGMAIL variable in your config file.  If you already
have this variable set, make sure it is "sendmail" and *not* "smtp".

OUTGOINGMAIL = "sendmail"

I tried this before trying the shell script, and it didn't change observed behaviour (no confirmation request sent out, dot-qmail file being retried over and over, no TMDA logs).

 > I can't see processes other than mine running on the system.

Ouch.

It was a surprise to see such a short list come from "ps -aux" as I haven't encountered the restriction before. But it seems reasonable on a commercial web host.



Best wishes,
Jeff
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