Re: qmail package in bullseye
Dear Greg,
Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> writes:
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 09:58:11PM +0900, 황병희 wrote:
>> Hi, there is no qmail package in bullseye. what's wrong?
>
> If you wish to use qmail, the recommended way to do it is:
>
> 1) Install equivs, and use it to build the "mta-local" package.
> There's an example file for it:
> /usr/share/doc/equivs/examples/mail-transport-agent.ctl
> Read the instructions in /usr/share/doc/equivs/README.Debian .
>
> 2) Install the mta-local package (.deb file). If you've already got a
> different Debian MTA package installed, this should remove it. Or,
> you can use dpkg --force-depends to remove it manually, before
> installing mta-local.
>
> 3) Build and install qmail from your preferred source tree.
>
> 4) Set up the symlink from /usr/sbin/sendmail to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail
> or wherever you placed the qmail programs.
>
> 5) Set up whatever method you prefer to start qmail at boot time.
>
> The Debian packaging used to take care of those last two, but now it's
> up to us.
>
> Please note that the original qmail-smtpd is NOT good to use without
> patching or replacing. It was written in an era when spam was only
> beginning to be a threat. If you run qmail-smtpd on the Internet, you
> WILL become a joe-job spam bouncer, and we don't want that.
>
> If you're not up for the task of replacing qmail-smtpd, or restricting
> it solely to trusted internal LAN traffic, then please don't run qmail.
> It's not for everyone, and there are alternatives that would be a lot
> simpler to set up.
Thank you for very kind detail how-to, step-by-step. In honest, i did
want to do demonstration on QMTP with qmail. Anyway your article will
help me in the future!
Sincerely, QMTP fan Byung-Hee
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