Re: tmda-ofmipd in system-wide mode

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 09:35 -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> In system-wide mode, you'd need to actually invoke tmda-ofmipd as root,
> and it will detect that it was run as root, and switch user to tofmipd
> internally as appropriate.
> 
> I guess the HOWTO isn't clear on this point. I'll amend it.
> 
> Running tmda-ofmipd under the "tofmipd" account is actually equivalent
> to "personal mode" for the "tofmipd" user.

Aha, thanks for clearing that one up!

> RSET would be something your MUA sends to tmda-ofmipd. I guess your
> client is coded to send RSET upon successful completion of sending an
> email, and doesn't bother if the transmission isn't successful.
> 
> I guess unsurprisingly, tmda-ofmipd's processing of the message failed,
> because it was looking for the TMDA configuration files for user
> tofmipd, but could not find them. It seems the tmda-ofmipd isn't logging
> responses that are sent back to the MUA. I guess it'd be useful to add
> that! I *hope* that if you turn on SMTP logging in your MUA, you'd see
> the response to the "DATA" command would be some kind of error message
> indicating some kind of exception inside tmda-ofmipd.

This seems to be exactly what happened.

It's now working fine, many thanks, and I've been using TMDA all
evening.  I have very, *very* much enjoyed ``tail''ing the logs and
noting how many spams aren't getting to me :-D.

Apologies if anyone on this list got a confirmation request from me
earlier; from looking at the logs this //may// have happened.  I had
forgotten to add this list to my whitelist :-$.

Still, other than some minor adjustments I've had to make to fix my
set-up, I think things are going very well so far.  TMDA truly rocks!

best regards,


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Matthew T. Atkinson <[email protected]>