Re: P.O Upgrade Problem

[eyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric Yang)]

Glenn,

We had adjust Post.Office 3.5.3b20 to use Restrict Mail Relay by default.

The HTML docs indicated shutdown up Post.Office with:

/usr/local/post.office/post.office shutdown

For starting post.office, you may want to use

/usr/local/post.office/post.office

without any parameter.

However, we still recommend that you restart the system after a new

installation to make sure that there is no existing Pop program running

on your system.

regards,

Eric

On Wednesday, February 27, 2002, at 09:25 PM, Glenn A.Bookout wrote:

> Howdy:
>
>    Unfortunately, after my
> install of the recent P.O update ( 
> Post.Office-3.5.3b19 ) somehow the
> "Restrict Mail Relaying" settings got 
> wiped out, allowing a SPAMmer to sneak
> through.
>
>    I think we reset them to
> what they were before the install, but am not 
> sure, any suggestions?
>
>    Also, the
> "Pop-before-SMTP" setting was left on, but obviously was
> ineffective ( it didn't seem to work in
> the previous version either ).
>
>    Another thing I noticed,
> though it existed on the previous version of 
> P.O ( per my tests ) also, concerns the
> documented method for starting 
> P.O.
>
>    According to the HTML docs
> the following command should be executed 
> from root:
>
>        
> /usr/local/post.office/post.office startup
>
>    Unfortunately it results in
> the following:
>
> pop_before_smtp db
> =/var/spool/post.office/pop-before-smtp/PopHosts
> Startup Problem:
> Invalid command line option
> post.office Exiting!
>
>    Not good, no P.O
> running!
>
>    Fortunately, a complete
> system re-boot DOES successfully start 
> Post.Office, though the above may explain
> why Pop-before-SMTP doesn't 
> work.
>
>    Tenon's help in these
> matters would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Glenn
>
>

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