> 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.) You can only send mail from a mail client (using SMTP) to the hosts listed in /var/qmail/rcpthosts. They are at least localhost and your hostname. Those are the hosts you will relay to when calling in from a remote client. I don't know how you allow a client to relay to the whole world. The problem with that is that if you do, a spammer can take advantage of that and use your computer for evil. There were some postings on selective relaying. I believe that is allowing certain trusted computers to have world send capability, but I'm not sure. So, when you have an ISP email account that let's you send mail from wherever you are, as long as you have the username and password, these ISP's are subjecting their computers to potential spam attacks. > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 11:41 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Important! FW: IT WORKS! - Anyone who is stuggling might > benefit from this ... > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: gene Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 3:12 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Stewart Jeacocke > Subject: IT WORKS! - Anyone who is stuggling might benefit from this ... > > > ... 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 > > > >
