make sure its not something as simple as your firewall blocking port 25
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 19:33 +0530, Arther Martin wrote:
>> Thnx for your reply...
>> i have checked it ...
>> I there is no port listening on 25.
>> Please guide me what should i do now....
>>
>
> First of, I would suggest that you read the complete document at:
>
> http://www.qmail-ldap.org/wiki/Lwql
>
> To keep things simple, I'll quickly run over some simple steps to get
> qmail-smtpd up and running.
>
> I'll assume that you have 'daemontools' and 'ucspi-tcp' packages
> installed and also that you've successfully patched, compiled and
> installed qmail-ldap in '/var/qmail'.
>
> * Edit the run file in /var/qmail/boot/qmail-smtpd/run as per your
> requirement. Here is mine (only for reference):
> #!/bin/sh
> exec 2>&1
>
> QMAIL="/var/qmail"
> ME="`head -1 $QMAIL/control/me`"
> QUSER="qmaild"
>
> PATH="$QMAIL/bin:$PATH"
>
> # enforce some sane defaults
> QUSER=${QUSER:="qmaild"}
> CONCURRENCY=${CONCURRENCY:=20}
> SMTPPORT=${SMTPPORT:=25}
> export LOGLEVEL="1024"
>
> exec tcpserver -u $QUSER -vv -l $ME -x
> $QMAIL/control/tcp.smtp.cdb \
> ${CONCURRENCY:+"-c$CONCURRENCY"}
> ${BACKLOG:+"-b$BACKLOG"} 0 $SMTPPORT \
> $QMAIL/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1
> * Edit /var/qmail/boot/qmail/run file as per your requirement.
> Here is mine:
> #!/bin/sh
> exec 2>&1
>
> QMAIL="/var/qmail"
>
> ALIASEMPTY=`cat $QMAIL/control/defaultdelivery 2>
> /dev/null`
>
> ALIASEMPTY=${ALIASEMPTY:="./Maildir/"}
>
> PATH="$QMAIL/bin:$PATH"
> export LOGLEVEL="1024"
>
> # limit to prevent memory hogs
> ulimit -c 204800
>
> exec qmail-start "$ALIASEMPTY"
> * Now create the following links to have the qmail-smtpd (SMTP
> service) and the qmail-start (mail delivery service) supervised:
> # ln -s /var/qmail/boot/qmail /service/qmail-send
> # ln -s /var/qmail/boot/qmail-smtpd /service/qmail-smtpd
> * Check the status of the above services by running the command:
> # svstat /service/qmail-s*
> (sample output..)
> /service/qmail-send: up (pid 3487) 40204 seconds
> /service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 3507) 40204 seconds
> If any of the above lines say "/service/qmail-*: down...", then
> you need to do the following (assume qmail-smtpd is down):
> # svc -d /service/qmail-smtpd
> # cd /service/qmail-smtpd
> # ./run
> See if it complains about something. Rectify the problem and
> check once again by running "./run". If everything is fine, then
> bring up the service (after pressing Ctrl+c) by running:
> # svc -u /service/qmail-smtpd
>
> Now if you try to telnet to port 25, you should see a response. On my
> machine:
>
> # telnet localhost 25
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 deeproot.co.in ESMTP Welcome to Srindhi's Mail server
>
> (For you the last line will be different)
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Srinidhi.
>
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