[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, >prev. sysadmin in my company left for me a server of free mail that uses >sendmail ( Doh! ) >The server has ~30k of users soo this is the right place for the qmail. >the 1[Q] is: is there any patches I should apply. qmail works fine for me right out of the box. Others have added/changed functionality to suit their needs. Browse www.qmail.org for descriptions of the most popular patches. >I simply can`t think of any decent strategy I should follow ... If you've never run qmail before, you should set it up on a test system. Once you've got it behaving there, you can start migrating it to the production system. You can run both qmail and sendmail on the system during the swap. Leave sendmail in /usr/lib/sendmail and run qmail-smtp on a non-standard port. Once that's working, you can configure qmail to handle the "sending" side by pointing /usr/lib/sendmail at /var/qmail/bin/sendmail. Complete the transition by killing the sendmail daemon and switching qmail-smtpd to port 25. Continue to run "sendmail -q" periodically until the sendmail queue is flushed. You should practice this on your test system to make sure things will go smoothly, especially delivering to the right place in the right format and handling .forward files. >the server is >already listed at ORBS hehe >I do what to fix that situation and make it more difficult for spummers to use >the server ... >any advises? qmail disables relaying by default. You can turn it back on for selected hosts, if necessary. Once qmail-smtpd is handling port 25, you can verify that relaying is disabled and petition the ORBS people to remove your server from their list. >the 2[Q] is: has anybody managed to launch imp using qmail? Never heard of it. -Dave
