Hello,
I'm trying to reconstruct the changes that happened over the last
year to BQ, specifically in the pop realm. With a major update
several months ago it looked like poprealyd was depricated. Upon
reboot, my machine refused to accept all outgoing mail from my users
mail clients, but would allow mail to flow freely to them (they could
pop in). I did realtime trobleshooting -- using the gui (clicking,
unclicking pop/smtp auth and submission port, etc.) and command line
and eventually figured out that poprelayd wasn't running and outbound
mail started flowing again.
Several months go by and I need to reboot, mail stops again. I do a
chkconfig and notice that poprelayd is not enabled.
I also noticed that dovecot was installed, and now notice in my
logwatch that dovecot sessions are opened by users.
My question: how does this new stack behave. The old stack worked
like this:
client -- pop3 -- mail comes to client
client sends mail -- poprelayd checks to see if the ip is in the db
-- accepts connections
How does the new dovecot-integrated world work? And do I have
partial install or bad config if dovecot was a drop-in replacement
for the former config?
Help appreciated.
t(dot)jay fowler
tjay (at mark) lowbrow.com