Well, dad, I hate it when your right! You sound like a man who has much
patience.
Ok, we got to tarball a greenhorn today ! I have to admit, I earned this
one!
You guys have to understand, I'm very new to Linux, but not to the game. I
feel like a hungry fella standing at a McDonalds in another country with
both hands behind my back and I can't speak the language. I'm hungry, but
I'm still having Funnnnnnn!
---)))A couple of comments below:
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 11:37 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: qmail-smtpd-wrapper error. -Reply
Mark Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I;m sorry, I failed to answer one of your questions.
>The remmed line. Nothing was remmed out at that point. I should have
>removed the line before posting. I had remmed the line about ulimit,
>because I was getting "502 unimplemented (#5.5.1)" when performing a
>telnet to 127.0.0.1 25 to test the mail server on port 25.
Hmm, that "502 unimplemented (#5.5.1)" message came from qmail-smtpd
when you entered and unrecognized command. So your SMTP service was
working fine.
----))) I thought it was going to tell me "helo dude"! I usually try to
refrain from ----))) getting too friendly with a computer. Until,it makes
me a cup of coffee, ----))) I'll just have to command /parameter it to
death.
>Well, I found out late last night/early this morning, that I did have
inbound
>mail working also, it was just that I was using 'mail' that evidently was
>looking in a different subdir (I think "/home/mcthomas/mbox) and the new
>inbound mail was sitting in (/home/mcthomas/Mailbox).
Did you look at /home/mcthomas/Mailbox with ls and more and see
the messages there? Or did you expect the mail command to find your
mailbox? As you've learned the hard way, the mail command has to be
told where to look.
----))))) I have to admit, I was a bit confused with the Qmail being of
Mbox
----)))))format, with Mailbox name and ./Mailbox default delivery shown as
----))))) ~user/Mailbox. It must be a Unix/Linux thing ~user/Mailbox to
mean
----))))) wherever your home user directory is/Mailbox. I'll have to admit,
I did
----))))) look for it, I did see it, but I expected it to be like a
queue/subdir ----))))) insead of a file full of messages. But, now, I dream
about it! <g>
>Of course I found
>this out after I had quit using the LWQ document and went back to the
>INSTALL document, and then nothing worked. I found the
>/var/adm/messages file with all of the previous mail that was inbound
>also. Oh well, I'm going to "Reload again and Retry" damn, that sounds like
>NT.
So everything you set up using LWQ worked? Your only problem was not
telling your mail reader where your mailbox was?
----))) Yep, and the bad thing about it (as I wipe the puppy prints from my
----))) forehead), I did do a "set", and saw where "mail" was pointing. I
couldn't ----))) find an Autoexec.bat to fix, and I forgot to go back and
find/fix it later.
>Sendmail came on my system by default (Slackware 3.6). The INSTALL
>document said to use some other mail system rather than 'mail' like 'mailx'
>but the symlink pointed to the same file. I was doomed anyway.
>Qmail must not have its own mail client.?
No, qmail doesn't have its own mail client. It's an MTA, not an
MUA. The standard MUA's work fine with qmail.
---))) Figured this out after I broke everything!
>I know this is not that complicated of an install, I just have to compile
my
>own instructions/fixes from both of the documents to get it to work.
>How did you guys get it installed?
I used the INSTALL directions, but, then, I'm an experienced system
administrator.
-----)))) Ouch!, Well, the INSTALL document looked alot different after
going
-----)))) through your LWQ. I felt like I could give it a run for the money.
You say you need to compile your own instructions/fixes to get it to
work. I'd be happy to work with you to incorporate any changes
necessary into LWQ.
-----)))) Thanks, I'll be happy to add comments that I would feel would
make LWQ -----)))) more newbie proof.
-----)))) I'll take another shot at it in a nite or two, Until then, stay
tuned for -----)))) part deux.. I think I'll have a beer!
Thanks to everyone for the support! I dare not say "Uncle"!! <G>
MarkT.
