Starting the OKS SMTP gateway
To accept requests using different protocols, the OpenKeyServer uses gateways connected to a database server and translating its replies into a format understandable by remote clients. One of those gateways is the SMTP gateway providing access to the database server through the SMTP protocol. It acts by polling a mail box stored on a mail server at a specified interval through the POP3 protocol and transfers these emails to the OKS database server for processing.
To start the OKS SMTP gateway, you must first be sure that your mail server is up and running and you will just needto execute the following commands:
# cd /usr/local/oks/bin
# ./oks_smtp /usr/local/oks/etc/oks_smtp.conf
This gateway will automatically run into the background and will use the configuration file /usr/local/oks/etc/oks_smtp.conf. Error messages will be printed on the standard error stream or through the syslog service.