Re: Good qmail tutorial
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 16:27, Blake Covarrubias wrote:
> 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.
> >
>
This is going (hopefully) to be my last post in this thread. I wanted to
let you guys know that I got qmail working, and it successfully
transfers mail! :D Thanks to all of you who posted links, gave me tips,
yelled at me for not understanding, and so forth. :) I finally got it
running, and I learned something. :) Thanks again guys. ;) See ya
around.
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