Topic: Remote SMTP in 5.6 (again)

[Upaboveit]

I'm trying to get the contrib at pagefault.org installed. However the page here:

http://www.pagefault.org/code/e-smith.shtml

...says we also need cvm-0.11-1.i386.rpm and provides the link to here:

http://untroubled.org/cvm/

Well, that rpm isn't there. Does anyone have it? It also says:

"- Make sure the latest version of bglibs from
  http://untroubled.org/bglibs/ is compiled and installed.
- Build the sources by running "make"
- Run the "instshow" command to see what will be installed (optional).
- After the package has been compiled, run the following commands as root:
   ./installer
   ./instcheck
  These commands will produce no output if there are no errors"

Can anyone repeat that in English? I just want to get authenticated SMTP going and don't want to learn how to read the mind of author or have to get a degree in programming.

[Nathan Fowler]

Looks like you are wanting to be spoonfed or you lack even the most basic of Internet navigational skills.  It was not very difficult for me to find the rpm you needed on a page I have never visited before.

http://untroubled.org/cvm/rh7/

There is no requirement for understanding the authors mind or programming language used to compile any of the necessary tools.

If you are unable to create or take the time to create your own solutions you may want to consider going back to a Microsoft product instead of indirectly flaming someone who took their own time to create a solution for free with no strings attached.

Nathan

[Upaboveit]

Well, I do have navigational skills and your insinuation that I was flaming someone is nothing short of complete rubbish. If you want to sit on a perch and recommend I go back to a MS product then I suggest you get your elitist attitude out of your arse and take it elsewhere.

I'm just looking for simple, easy to understand information. Something you, in your infinite wisdom, are incapable of providing without being an idiot about it.

[Upaboveit]

Further, the link you 'navigated' to, isn't the rpm I enquired about.

[Mike]

Do a Search on the this list for "Securing SME Mail Server" I put myself through this loop until I eventually found all the correct rpms and carefully read the small print on the install instructions and now have a mail server that does not have open relay! Hope this helps?

[Jon Blakely]

You can get cvm-0.11-1.i386.rpm here

http://khunjarnet.com/downloads/cvm-0.11-1.i386.rpm

Dont worry about the rest of the stuff in your post. You dont need it. Just keep following Damien's instructions

Jon

[Upaboveit]

Mike wrote:
>
> Do a Search on the this list for "Securing SME Mail Server" I
> put myself through this loop until I eventually found all the
> correct rpms and carefully read the small print on the
> install instructions and now have a mail server that does not
> have open relay! Hope this helps?

Thanks for that. It did help. I managed to get the packages installed but only required --nodeps. I didn't need to use the --force tag. I did the /sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade and the admin panel page is all present and appears to 'take' the settings I impose. However, external clients still cannot send via port 25 even if they are set to authenticate. SMTP authentication on the admin panel page is shown as 'Enabled (SMTP or SMTP over SSL)'. That means authentication in the plain over port 25 *should* work, right?

The other three settings;

(SMTP over SSL (465) server access
POP over SSL (995) server access
IMAP over SSL (993) server access

...are all disabled. (I'm not looking for secure remote access, just authenticated). Surely I don't have to reboot the server?

[Upaboveit]

Upaboveit wrote:
 
> Surely I don't have to reboot the server?


Well, after trying to get it working without rebooting the server another issue cropped up which definitely required a reboot. Upon reboot remote authenticated relay was working for the clients. Thanks for the help, folks.

However, I am curious as to exactly what the reboot achieved that the remote-access update did not (aside from getting it working - duh). It seems a bit drastic to need to reboot the server for a configuration change such as this. Can anyone shed some light?

[Pete Edwards]

I'm an e-smith n00b but I''ve been kicking around with various distros of Linux for a few years. A quick answer to the question - the re-boot helped because it re-started services, or more correctly stopped them at kill and started them at run.

If you are making changes to the way in which services are configured in particular daemons then you will always have to restart the service in order to see the changes. I've been caught a few times myself with it... staring at httpd.conf for 1/2 an hour wondering why my new virtual domains aren't being served... slap on the head and a quick /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart -

Now who is going to email me all the files and the Howto for the authenticated smtp...