On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Barry Dwyer wrote:
> Questions - starting:
> -----------------------
> 1) Does the SMTP daemon need the hostname (as opposed to an ip address)
> to work?
>From INSTALL.ctl:
There's one big exception. You MUST tell qmail your hostname. Just run
the config-fast script:
# ./config-fast your.full.host.name
> 2) If it needs a hostname, can that hostname be in our /etc/hosts *only*
> or must our ISP's DNS contain an entry for it (we use the ISP's DNS)?
I think the former should work; I know the latter does.
> 3) I want a *simple* system. Can I use the simple SMTP command line
> above to run SMTP or do I need the longer one used in the HOWTO
> (including rblsmtp, setuidgid, tai64n et al)?
AFAIK, you can't run the smtpd from the command line alone, just
qmail-send. The simplest way is to run qmail-smtpd from inetd. The best
way is using tcpserver.
> 3a) If I need the longer SMTP command line in my startup scripts, what
> do I need to do to fix it? I suspect the problem is with "supervise"
> which in the current version does *not* take a program name as an
> argument, therefore will likely choke on the syntax above. But oddly,
> there is no error message.
> 4) Ditto re: POP3 - is the simple command line above enough to run it?
> 5) With SMTP and POP3 running (verified by telnet to ports 25 and 110) I
> do a ps -e | grep 'qmail' but only see the four basic qmail processes
> (ie. no smtp or pop3). Why? Shouldn't the daemons show up in a ps?
Once again, AFAIK, you can't run them standalone (smtpd or pop3d). You're
likely running them under inetd, which is the process you'll see doing a
ps.
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>
> 1) I've got a couple of testbed Win9x PCs on our lan running Eudora. On
> one, I use Eudora to send an email from userfoo to userbar (both have
> valid accounts on our qmail server, set up to use Maildir). The sending
> system appears to send properly (and checks for userfoo's new mail
> properly). The receiving system accepts userbar's password and goes
> through the motions of checking mail but there is no mail from userfoo.
> There is nothing in either user's Maildir directory in *any* of the
> subdirs. Why didn't qmail deliver the message?
do you have a .qmail file in the user's directory?
# cd ~$USER
# echo ./Maildir > .qmail
