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August 24, 2004
Starting Over
Been busy getting acquainted with my new position but finally figured out a few things here locally. Turns out upgrading to the latest Gallery isn't such a hot idea if you've been hacking around with the HTML code. Seems the initial picture frames were borked for a short while. Finally figured out how to correct them, mostly by just re-generating the alterations in the new default files.
One of the bigger problems I've been having is email forwarding. One of the users local to this system has a real email address on a Verizon Online site. All his email is sent through a virtuser entry locally, and that forwards to his Verizon account. For a long time this hasn't been working as suspected, mainly because Verizon has added some really harsh anti-spam rules. A friend suggested trying the SRS utility. After installing it via FreeBSD ports, I discovered a few things.
First the port install doesn't check your version of Perl. If you happen to be running the default version of Perl (v.5.005) you will find nothing works. Why? Because you need the warnings.pm file to exist. This is easily fixed by upgrading your version of perl to something usable and then doing a "use.perl ports" to ensure everyone is happy. The port though should check for this.
Second, despite having everything working, none of this solved anything for forwarding to a Verizon email address. Anyone know why that might be? The most common reason cited in the postmaster emails is:
(reason: 550 You are not allowed to send mail:sc004pub.verizon.net)
UPDATE: finally figured out what was wrong with the SRS install. To make things right, I followed the directions by Mark @ asarian, which went rather easily. The catch was building from the m4 file. It seems that when being rebuilt by FreeBSD's make command, some of the lines were not inserted into the proper place. By copy and pasting them to the locations as specified in the document above, it works fine.
[EDIT: corrected some grammar mistakes]
Posted by Dan at August 24, 2004 08:20 PM