On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Richard A Downing wrote:
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> I found xmail by a short search on freshmeat. It seems to be just what I=
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> need. I have a small network at home, and want to use my Linux box to fe=
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> pop3 mail for all the users (me and my wife!).
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> The 'clients' will be pop3 mail clients, hers is Microsoft Outlook, mine =
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> Kmail. Our mail is delived via pop3 accounts help by our ISP, using 'CLR=
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> authentication.
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> I have compiled and installed xmail, but am having real trouble seeing ho=
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> configure it. I've read the readme.txt file over and over.
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> sendmail complains that I don't have the right permissions - so I don't g=
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> local mail working. And despite putting in a pop3links.tab '@' entry, I =
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> no line activity or logs for attempts to access the ISP pop3 accounts.
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> Is there a step by step configuration guide out there somewhere? Or can=20
> someone tell me what I need to set up.
> The readme.txt file is great for explaining the formats, but doesn't say =
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> you need to get started.
Did you follow the "Confiuration" section of the documentation ?
If yes you must have a running ( with test domain/account ) XMail.
About logging you have to enable it by editing the SysV XMail's startup
script ( /etc/rc.d/init.d/xmail ) XMAIL_CMD_LINE. For options value please
look at the doc, section "Command line". To see verbosu messages you can
run it in debug mode :
# export MAIL_ROOT=/var/MailRoot
# /var/MailRoot/bin/XMail -Md ...
where ... means your extra command line options. To stop it running in
debug mode inside the console simply press CTRL-C
In this mode you'll be able to see if it tries to connect to the remote
POP3 server correctly.
To setup sendmail correctly edit the file sendmail.sh to contain ( dashed
lines are not inclueded :-) ) :
---------------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/sh
if [ -z $MAIL_ROOT ]; then
export MAIL_ROOT=/var/MailRoot
fi
/usr/bin/sendmail.xmail $*
---------------------------------------------------------------
then run these commands ( from root ) :
# mv /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail.orig
# cp sendmail.sh /usr/sbin/sendmail
# cp sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail.xmail
# chmod +s /usr/sbin/sendmail.xmail
- Davide
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