I am currently in the process of setting up qmail on a SoHo system
running RedHat 5.2 Linux. While following the INSTALL document(s) has
lead me through most things fairly easily I am left with a couple of
queries:-
1 - The default installation directory is /var/qmail, do most
installations actually use this? If you do use this do you add
/var/qmail/bin to the qmail administrator's (usually root) path
or what? After install unless you do something manually none of
the executables are accessible and nor are the man pages.
2 - Related to the above (and I know there's a checkpasswd list)
checkpasswd has / as its default installation root. It works
OK there but sets the permissions on / to 0700 which is a bit
disastrous! It took me quite a while to fathom out what had
happened.
3 - The INSTALL.maildir file says: "Here's how to set up qmail to use
maildir for your incoming mail:
% maildirmake $HOME/Maildir
% echo ./Maildir/ > ~/.qmail
Make sure you include the trailing slash on Maildir/.
The system administrator can set up Maildir as the default for everybody
by creating a maildir in the new-user template directory and replacing
./Mailbox with ./Maildir/ in /var/qmail/rc."
Two things - firstly 'maildirmake' won't work unless you've
previously added to your path as I've asked about above. Secondly
what's this bit about "creating a maildir in the new-user template
directory"? A bit more help would be welcome here.
As a general comment, since qmail is often suggested as the easiest to
install mail system for Linux/Unix it will often be chosen by
relatively inexperienced newcomers to Linux. Thus the rather basic
things like paths and so on need to be spelt out a bit better I think.
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