> I have never setup any mail server of any form in my entire life.
Me either until about 6 months ago. Now I find myself mail admin on 3 qmail
machines --
>I was wondering where
> I could find info on basically setting up what I think is called a pop
> toaster? I want to be able to recieve mail for all my domains and let
their
> users use pop3 to check it.
I like and use the vchkpw package, currently available from inter7.com. I
believe many other people have had good success with this software. It will
do basically exacty what you need. The docs are'nt too bad, so go to inter7
and download the stuff.
You can also get qmailadmin, which is an easy way to assign "postmasters"
for your virtual domains, so they can admin the mail through a cgi. imo, it
is a step in the right direction, but still too underdeveloped for advanced
use. If all you want to do is add or delete pop users, then you are all
set. I find it lacking in some areas, but until I get around to patching it
or making my own I'll hold my gripes :)
>I don't want my users to be able to send mail.
Good idea. See faq 5.4. Only let i.p.'s you want to relay. In some cases,
this may be none.
> Also one more question, how large is the file size of qmail?
Never paid much attention, here is an unscientific claim, from my install:
[root@omni qmail]# du -h /var/qmail
.
.
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1.5M /var/qmail
Of course, there are man pages in /var/qmail/man, you could probably stand
to rip out some things to get it a little smaller.
>Reason I ask, is because I am
> running a different distro of linux that runs all apps and os stuff from
> ramdisk. This is killer for speed. I need to know how big to make my
> ramdisk. Thanks for all your help.
I use LRP at home (without a mailserver) so I am well aware of the benefits
of the micro-linux distros. But I mostly use full distros at work, because
our machines do so many different tasks. I have heard about people stuffing
sendmail onto LRP disks, and I'm sure it can be done with qmail. If it
someone has I haven't heard about it.
I guess one thing that makes me nervous about running a mailserver on a
ramdisk, is unless you have ALOT of memory, a few big messages could quickly
take over the whole system. You could get fancy and mount a physical disk
for the queue, keeping the main system files on ramdisk, but I think once
you get to that point, you may as well just use a full blown distro.
