Re: qmail not starting....
The file /etc/qmail/control/me should contain the FQDN of your machine as it wants to be known to other machines on the internet, e.g.:
exchange.tallan.com
I am surprised to hear you say that you have exim and that it's starting. dpkg should prevent you from having two MTAs installed since it doesn't work. If exim starts then qmail can't start since they both want to listen on the SMTP port. There can be only one! This may actually be the reason qmail won't start.
"W. Crowshaw" wrote:
> After a bit of luck, I managed to build debs for qmail 1.0.3 and its
> counterpart ucspi-tcp for the powerpc. Installing was generally
> successful except towards the end when the install told me that I
> needed to set up /etc/qmail/control/me on my own. It is the absence
> of this file which I believe is causing qmail not to start on boot (
> /etc/init.d/exim exists and does atttempt to start).
>
> So the installer told me that I should read qmail's docs
> /usr/doc/qmail in order to find out how to configure 'me.' I have
> also read posts on debian-user which claim that these docs are very
> informative. However, I have read them all and I can't find out how
> to write 'me' manually, nor does it supply any examples. One file
> (either INSTALL or INSTALL.ctl) refers to two scripts intended to
> configue qmail: config and config-fast. The debs themselves fail to
> supply these scripts anywhere. I did however manage to find them
> (config.sh and config-fast.sh) when I unpacked the tar file of the
> original sources. However, these scripts fail to work too.
>
> So any tips, pointers, howtos, or examples anyone could pass on to me
> would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise, its back to exim.
>
> p.s. I have already searched www.exim.org's mailing list and found no
> discussion of a similar problem among debian users.
> --
> W. Crowshaw
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