... and might not. It took 3 painfull, grueling, days, and I'm still not sure what I did. But, it works. What works? I installed qmail on Linux 5.1 using the Memphis RPM. I had tried this once before with the html version of the install docs: http://yoda.cs.ru.ac.za/~keith/redhat.html#memphis. That didn't work. I read at least 3 mails in this group that read that it works. So, I tried again. This time I followed the directions in the ftp directory: ftp://moni.msci.memphis.edu/pub/qmail/README There was a part in there that read The daemontools and ucspi-tcp packages install with /usr/local prefix. and Make sure that you are installing the daemontools and ucspi-tcp package from this directory!! I'm not too sure what this means. But, I moved to /usr/local, and did the rpm -Uvh's from there. Can't say if this made any difference, but it worked. I also followed the advice from Stewart - See Stewart's advice below - to get pop3 working. I can't send mail from a mail client (Eudora) on my mac with my new mail server. But, I'm betting I can figure out why. (If anyone know's why, please let me know.) I also set up maildir. Don't know what that really means. But, it all works as expected. WHAT A RELIEF! Thanks for all the help directly and indirectly. It would have taken much much longer without you folks!! Gene Campbell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Stewart's advice ---- Stewart Jeacocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Some people seem to have had problems getting the qmail-pop3d daemon to work using the qmail-pop3d.init script which the qmail srpm on www.qmail.org installs. I have successfully got this to work as follows First off you must install the checkpassword rpm Now you have to make qmail-pop3d run at boot Go to /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/ (or whatever runlevel you normally boot into) You should find that in this directory there is a link called K<n>qmail-pop3d.init , where <n> is a two digit number Now look for the link S<N>qmail.init, where <N> is another two digit number Rename K<n>qmail-pop3d.init to S<a>qmail-pop3d.init , where <a> is any two digit number you like as long as it is larger than <N> Restart or equivalent To summarize the rpm installs symbolic links to the qmail-pop3d.init script in the rc.d subdirectories. However it gives them numbers lower than the qmail.init script. This means that the pop3d script executes before the rest of qmail. Since it depends on other parts of the qmail system it fails. I am relatively new to Linux so any comments are welcome Stewart
