Re: Good qmail tutorial
LifeWithQmail.org does have a lot of information about setting up Qmail,
but there's parts of it that I can't even get working. Here's the output
of qmail-showctl. You can see below that I'm having some problems.
qmail home directory: /var/qmail.
user-ext delimiter: -.
paternalism (in decimal): 2.
silent concurrency limit: 120.
subdirectory split: 23.
user ids: 64010, 64011, 64015, 0, 64016, 64014, 64013, 64012.
group ids: 65534, 64010.
badmailfrom: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is allowed.
bouncefrom: (Default.) Bounce user name is MAILER-DAEMON.
bouncehost: (Default.) Bounce host name is bouncehost.
concurrencylocal: (Default.) Local concurrency is 10.
concurrencyremote: (Default.) Remote concurrency is 20.
databytes: (Default.) SMTP DATA limit is 0 bytes.
defaultdomain: (Default.) Default domain name is defaultdomain.
defaulthost: (Default.) Default host name is defaulthost.
doublebouncehost: (Default.) 2B recipient host: doublebouncehost.
doublebounceto: (Default.) 2B recipient user: postmaster.
envnoathost: (Default.) Presumed domain name is envnoathost.
helohost: (Default.) SMTP client HELO host name is helohost.
idhost: (Default.) Message-ID host name is idhost.
localiphost: (Default.) Local IP address becomes localiphost.
locals: (Default.) Messages for me are delivered locally.
me: (Default.) My name is undefined! Uh-oh.
percenthack: (Default.) The percent hack is not allowed.
plusdomain: (Default.) Plus domain name is plusdomain.
qmqpservers: (Default.) No QMQP servers.
queuelifetime: (Default.) Message lifetime in the queue is 604800
seconds.
rcpthosts:
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at localhost.
morercpthosts: (Default.) No effect.
morercpthosts.cdb: (Default.) No effect.
smtpgreeting: (Default.) SMTP greeting: 220 smtpgreeting.
smtproutes: (Default.) No artificial SMTP routes.
timeoutconnect: (Default.) SMTP client connection timeout is 60 seconds.
timeoutremote: (Default.) SMTP client data timeout is 1200 seconds.
timeoutsmtpd: (Default.) SMTP server data timeout is 1200 seconds.
virtualdomains:
Virtual domain: my.domain.com:my.domain.com
users: I have no idea what this file does.
rcpthosts.bak: I have no idea what this file does.
virtualdomains.bak: I have no idea what this file does.
defaultdelivery: I have no idea what this file does.
concurrencyincoming: I have no idea what this file does.
Search these file names on the qmail tutorial to see what they do.Also,
here's a warning message I get when starting qmail.
Starting qmail
svc: warning: unable to control /service/qmail-send/log: file does not
exist
svc: warning: unable to control /service/qmail-smtpd/log: file does not
exist
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 16:01, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 02:32:09PM -0700, Blake Covarrubias wrote:
>
> [ please don't top post ]
>
> > On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 14:37, Mark Sprong wrote:
> > > Blake Covarrubias wrote:
> > > > Hi, I'm trying to setup a web and email server for our LUG. I've chosen
> > > > qmail for my MTA. I'm having a rough time getting it configured though.
> > > > There aren't too many tutorials around online on how to configure qmail,
> > > > so I'm pretty much stuck on where to even start. :( Does anyone know of
> > > > any good tutorials or HOWTOs that'll help me setup qmail under Debian
> > > > Woody? I'm using the qmail-src package from Woody BTW.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > http://www.lifewithqmail.org/
> >
> > Thanks Mark. I should have mentioned that I've already tried this
> > tutorial, and my attempts to get email working have failed. :( I'm not
> > sure what I've done wrong.
>
> No offense intended, but if you can't get qmail up and running after
> reading lifewithqmail.org, you probably ought to be running an MTA
> that's easier to configure. Debian installs exim by default; it's not
> too hard to get going.
>
> --
> Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
> Never tell people how to do things. Tell them WHAT to do and
> they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
> -- Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
>
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