"Alex Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>The file REMOVE.binmail says that I should NOT remove binmail if I installed
>QMAIL to use binmail. That sounds like sage advice.
>
>The problem is that I don't KNOW wether I installed QMAIL to use binmail or
>not. I have no recollection of that but is that the default?
No. binmail is only used if you're delivering to a central spool
(/var/spool/mail) and *not* using procmail as your delivery agent.
>I followed all the instructions including the recommendation to use Maildirs
>(which meant I had to change a number of the steps in the rest of the
>install since the doc is written assuming you ignore that particular
>recommendation).
:-)
>So I just don't know if binmail should be removed or not.
Probably, but it won't break anything. The reason Dan recommends
removing it it because it's a potentially vulnerable setuid-root
binary that's probably unnecessary.
>I can't recieve mail from a remote site but I don't know if having binmail
>still active is the cause of the problem.
Probably not. How about telling us what happens when you try to send
mail from a remote system?
-Dave
